rideforever

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  1. The Way of Understanding

    Then, if you cannot distinguish between the beginning and ending, then it is certain that you have not begun. But .... on my journey I realised that it is difficult to be sure about such things ... the only way to be sure is to try, and try with full force. Then you will know. If you enter the Indian path with full force soon you will see you leave the beginning then you know that it goes somewhere and you will not think there is nothing to do. And this is practical, it is good to try hard at things, then you know with your own eyes. Some people who are ordinary and not spiritual seem also to be holy right where they are. So I do not wish to discourage anyone. However I see many people who are spiritual (in all traditions) but do not practice and inwardly do not understand that they need to practice ; and they are in error.
  2. The Way of Understanding

    Yes they both end up in the same place. One did not change. One did change. The are both empty. One is empty and carries nothing. One is empty and carries everything.
  3. The Way of Understanding

    Yes the unintelligent and insincere modern-day non-people living in the plastic world have taken the idea of non-existence and turned it into a way to not do anything, whilst thinking themselves very clever and enlightened, whilst checking facebook and sitting on the couch. But this isn't what is meant by non-existence. If you read the life stories of all the great teachers, they took a long journey and they ended up somewhere very far away. Modern day people are indeed empty, but in the wrong way. Sorry, some details. A Buddha is a channel of Light, a little like an aqueduct. A channel is empty, nevertheless it has been built with a great deal of hardwork. A human is by default empty, meaning nothing. It carries nothing. It channels nothing. It is just meaningless, spirituality speaking. But it has the opportunity of a great journey to becoming an aqueduct. That journey involves first of all establishing a normal human life which is grounding, then discovering the source or god, then the personal identity or the son, and then surrendering. At which point you become a light channel and it is the light-channel that is immortal. There are other ways to live honourable lives as well. Being a good human being, productive, healthy and strong is of great service. Although I must say that I do not wish to discourage anyone in what they are doing understand or believe, or their efforts, or trajectory.
  4. The Way of Understanding

    Okay, I see.
  5. The Way of Understanding

    No I have no idea what you are talking about. Nisargadatta achieved realisation in the normal way for Indian sages.
  6. The Way of Understanding

    Why would retracing his steps be illusory ? It worked for him, it worked for his teacher. This is the way things work.
  7. The Brexit Thread

    Unfortunately she did not have a Christian upbringing. She had a Church of BS England upbringing, in other words a materialistic atheistic self indulgent self gratifying cowardly smirk.
  8. The Way of Understanding

    This type of explanation is of no use. It is highly technical coming from an awakened being, but nobody will understand it. It sounds fancy but the understanding is just illusory. In order to enter the same state as Nisargadatta you must follow his path, meaning retrace his footsteps. Reading his life you see that after a productive life (step 1), he was introduced to a guru who personally instructed him and in whom he had total faith (step 2), and then Nisargadatta coming home from work spent 3 or 4 hours every night contemplating / meditating what the guru had said for several years (step 3), finally leading to realisation (step 4). This is the way to do it. Reading fancy sounding passages is not the way to do it.
  9. The Brexit Thread

    She wants to be the martyr, it's like the pinnacle of her child-free life, her gift to the nation, to be a whipping girl for the unpopular brexit. Unfortunately as one can see from Christian history, being an uber victim is not quite the same thing as taking care of business, and can also be a comfortable little niche to lie in instead of dealing with hard cold facts, like negotiation strategy. Anyway, for the crowd it is convenient to blame it on her, and for parliament as well. Then all can return to their waking dream they call life.
  10. What you experience is quite typical, and so most systems cater for it including flying phoenix. You know the thing is to just get started with what you've got and do regularly and you'll see results. Over time the practices become stronger and you change. Daily practice is good. Fragrant, well you can just look up Fragrant Gong 1 and copy someone it's simple stuff. And see if you like it, likewise for grounding practices and breathing practices. Whatever looks good to you, just try it a few times, if you like it do it for a week. Keep it simple. This is a very good grounding qigong comes from Michael Winns Sexual Vitality course, however I am afraid it is not demonstrated very well by anyone on youtube, the energy should flow down and really flow deep into the Earth and just wait ... and the hand that rises only rises gently in order to pulse down, the movement is down and then down and then down. and this is good for the emotions, I like this one Zen sitting meditation and breathing (subtitles) https://youtu.be/SnBLZDKxTEg Cloud Hands from BK Frantzis (at 30secs) To be honest, it sounds like you would really benefit from sticking with something and do every day, so I hope I have not added more confusion. One rhythm I can suggest is that you do the same thing every day (like Fragrant, FP), and then on Fridays you can experiment with something new. Then you have a regular practice with a little break on Fridays for some explorations.
  11. Perhaps it would be good to know exactly what you need, what you mean by emotional healing, what disturbs you, what you mean by grounding, and are you a westerner or easterner? It might be quite simple to do Fragrant Qigong, or one of the systems like that. But for what it's worth my opinion is : "Emotional healing" actually involves a large amount of work, as many areas of the being contribute to that experience. For instance if you are not conscious in the head, there will be no control of emotions, likewise if your solar plexus is damaged (common) then there will be no control. Also, if you have a strong personality then it is also important to use psychology as well, as you are not "just energy" but the psyche is a system on top that won't be fixed automatically. For instance you cannot really fix the roof of a house by repairing the basement. So ... # 1 practice is Zen type practice of merging with the breathing at the belly. # 2 is strengthening the solar plexus # 3 could be something like BK Frantzis Cloud Hands, a simply qigong of left right alternation (it is enough) # 4 Atisha's heart meditation Each of these is a significant work. But it's probably too complicated, so doing Fragrant or Flying Phoenix will probably get you what you need.
  12. The Reality of Life & Death

    I wish to be.
  13. LHBF somewhat deceased thread

    . aaedoc.pub_fundamentals-of-dachengquanpdf.pdf
  14. The Reality of Life & Death

    Most of human thought and conception comes from looking out of the eyes seeing the world and making deductions. Unfortunately this does not work very well. The reason is that the subject is where the answers lie. In fact for humans the subject is in mid-formation and we are here to hone cultivate and finally complete the subject, through engagement with the world's difficulties (that's why in the Bhagavad Gita it says you must fight.) It is not a question of "what it is", or "what I am". It is a question of how can I complete myself, how can I evolve myself, how can I form myself. There is a relationship between the former type of questions, and the latter, but you must also see the great difference in intent of the two types of questions. Continuing to look out of the eyes and try to make deductions, like the philosophers who haven't answered a single question in thousandsd of years ... is very unintelligent. It is like watching the Brexit news and imagining it will lead to understanding. It will not. Spirituality is the rapid acceleration of your completion. Mostly extremely poorly explained. Most teachers who found "a way", had found "a way" but didn't really understand what it meant nor how it worked. Nevertheless they tried to teach something, that they knew worked ... even if they didn't know how it worked. What you can be sure of, is the dead stop breathing and stop facebooking and stop playing with their Nespresso machines. And that it is good to be alive. And that mankind is a mess, individually and collectively. And that suffering does actually quite a lot. So .... why not try, to be an eagle. What have you got to lose ?
  15. The Brexit Thread

    This fingbs is never going to end. The whole society is weak, degenerating through it's indulgent consumerism, they are the walking dead. Better disconnect yourself from it; let the dead bury themselves. Solution is always the sunshine of hard work and engagement. Who gives a f how fed up they f the country. Don't walk off the cliff with the zombie sheep, they just get weaker each day, and teach their childrenall their new sexual indulgences. What future is there for the country. This works for me; My Self Reliance on youtube. The Muslims are not a problem, after all it was the GlobalistsTransBillionaire Agenda that encouraged all this migration. Now everyone hates each other and it keeps them weak. Many empires did the same to mess up all the populace and keep them like slaves. Then 10 Billionaires control half the planet. It is not a Christian/Muslim/Jewish problem at all. It is also not a Man/Woman problem. All is sacrificed for the billionaires, who are billionaires by creating a system to siphon the work of normal people into their pockets .... and this is done with the help of politicians lawyers and bankers who get a cut.
  16. LHBF somewhat deceased thread

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