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Hello, Zork. What are your achievements with cultivation? If your are so interested about Damo, go ask himself personally and try his methods. This way i think you will change your opinion to knowledge. To me Damo just looks like an average guy. He is a little shy, calm. From my perspective there are too much stuff, like statues, flowers, symbols, paintings in public videos and so on...

Hello, i want to ask why do involuntary body movement in time of accupresure and meditation happens. for example arms, legs, head start moving. Accupressure to different meridians points give different muscle movements. i have read that it is some "blockages" in meridians, if so, how do this works? Thank you. Be well.

What if i do not suffer?

Why you cannot?

I did not understand, my main point was that our karma controls us, not we control our karma. What are the alternatives? From my humble experience, thoughts are "related" to heart. Thoughts produce thoughts. If so why did the first thought? It seems to me that thoughts have no compelling power of their own. Feelings compell. There is some mechanism by which thoughts are evaluated by some kind evaluator which then produces feelings.

If karma is action and is causal, doesn't this mean that karma produces karma? If so, we are not "agents" in reality, we have no choice, but are moving parts in a system, like: For example, scanning myself now i see: that i can choose infinite actions, but my only "compass" is feelings. The problem for me is that thoughts arise without my control and the same feelings i depend on in life are "given", i did not choose them...

Impressed by what changes?

Hello, I am sorry for the questions, but I choose to ask. Thank you for answers, even if there will be none(in post). How do you know that karma exist and is not a "illusion"? There are my questions in here too: Be well.

What is silver thread?

Hello, It seems to me that, celibate people, like priests, do not live much longer than average people, similarly to the thing, that athletes do not live much longer than average people. Can anyone elaborate on this? Thank you.

Hello, I search the way to regain, what I think I experienced as "true breathing", when breathing happened inside body - from dantian to lungs, but not from nose. This feature I experienced by accident, after intense thinking, which I think produced "change" in throat chakra. This was related to speech issue - to say truth or not. I concentrated on that spot(neck area) and soon I discovered that I can stop breathing from nose. Then I think I had microcosmic orbit, when energy descended to from head to(tongue to upper palate) the belly, then the belly was breathing all by itself. Interesting, but frightening experience. Did happen by accident. Last time was accident, but I believe there is a method to regain the practice. Today I did have some experience to think about. The only method I know about(but not its efficiency) is to reduce one's breathing to very subtle and minimal, then after a long time the true breath should manifest by itself. The problems arise: 1. If I try to reduce the breath artificially, I am short of breath. 2. The method to reduce the breath is still the mind. 3. It looks like this works, but how to still the mind? 4. I try to observe thoughts - this works that moment, but somehow concentration disperses and thoughts arise again. I am depressed and frustrated. I am into Daoism to improve my health... Anyway, today I reached conclusion that the method is to eliminate all desires and the intellectuality. This state was also accidental and short lived, but it did move things. First, I nearly stopped breathing, then I felt magnetically attached to the ground, like my feet would be pulled to the ground magnetically. Sexual arousal came in. Then I felt a little lightweight and started to fear that progress will be too fast, so I did stop.

accept it fully and make use of it, it will disappear when you will not need it anymore

hello. i did realize in this forum, that i am a fool. it is sad and very personal, my question is, what views do have different spiritual traditions about fools? i promise not to troll this time

i am rethinking your statement, can you say what is "wake up" and why i do have to "wake up"? can you tell me the method of letting go "the most cherished ideas"? what is honesty? Edit: Latin "honestus" from "honos", the deepest i did found with surface search - honour. Probably this is related to a public office a person held. i personally would say that honesty is behaving or saying what one think, by definition i am not honest, thank you for pointing that to me

i am rethinking what you did write, can you provide more detail to this statement?

my view...

i think that joke i did throw includes much of my view in one sentence, teaching can be given in many forms... are there superior things or there are simply different needs? i do judge very carefully the person, who is to provide the necessary experience for me to learn, teacher should take what is too much in me and give what is too little teachers are students too

if the post is valuable, make a copy of the post There are some posts, which i do copy and write notes to every sentence made...

i am sorry for the joke, i could not resist, but i see only bricks here, wish you be well.

it is strange, i was not moved by most of this thread answers, i do remember dwai's reason about "i", though, i did the mind exercise i have described earlier, that is to use mind to experience life situations and discover how i do feel about them, i did discover, that i do not want to change myself for the most part, perhaps i am a fool afterall, some say, that those who know, do not talk and vice versa, i do learn this from some teachers here, their reserved attitude, ironically, i am considered very silent, but i do want to talk a lot anyway, be well, all of you

thank you, manitou i do realize that i simply want to talk to people, to show myself, it is pity, because i felt this way from the childhood, i also did feel huge fear from childhood, which do separate me from others, this fear was and is "irrational", what rationality can be there when one is 6 years old? this fear manifests as shyness, but now, to my surprise, some people say that i am "brave", because i do try to clear myself... anyway, i think it is a preincarnate choice, so to say, to feel this superiority and fear at the same time...

you got me(me?) i direct my body to say this: i use mind to change body feelings

i am sorry, for me everything is a process... for now, i see mind as instrument, there is everyday life situations which require direction, and, to use mind to change myself

oh by the way, i will cite the material: Questioner: Can you tell me how you balance the ego? Ra: I am Ra. We cannot work with this concept as it is misapplied and understanding cannot come from it. Questioner: Thank you. I have a question here from Jim that I will read verbatim: “Much of the mystic tradition of seeking on Earth holds that belief that the individual self must be erased or obliterated and the material world ignored for an entity to reach ‘nirvana,’ as it’s called, or enlightenment. What is the proper role of the individual self and its worldly activities in aiding an entity to grow more into the Law of One?” Ra: I am Ra. The proper role of the entity is in this density to experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away. The orientation develops due to analysis of desire. These desires become more and more distorted towards conscious application of love/light as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience. We have found it to be inappropriate in the extreme to encourage the overcoming of any desires, except to suggest the imagination rather than the carrying out in the physical plane, as you call it, of those desires not consonant with the Law of One; this preserving the primal distortion of free will. The reason it is unwise to overcome is that overcoming is an unbalanced action creating difficulties in balancing in the time/space continuum. Overcoming thus creates the further environment for holding onto that which apparently has been overcome. All things are acceptable in the proper time for each entity, and in experiencing, in understanding, in accepting, in then sharing with other-selves, the appropriate description shall be moving away from distortions of one kind to distortions of another which may be more consonant with the Law of One. It is, shall we say, a shortcut to simply ignore or overcome any desire. It must instead be understood and accepted. This takes patience and experience which can be analyzed with care, with compassion for self and for other-self.

it such a pleasure in the heart to speak with reason, finally, please, do not think that i want to "troll" or something of similar nonsense, i have no intention of this, but to some people this might look like "trolling", it is my sincere opinion, i do not like the term "ego" and do not use it in my life and in contemplating, probably, because i am instructed in different material than the mainstream traditions, this time i did use it that people would understand me better, so, that "ego" is a system: it has a feeling in the middle of the chest and in the heart, it has a thought of "i am superior", it gives me a smile, it comes from experience: how the person looks, what is the voice of the person, what terms the person uses, what desires does a person have, it is a mix, i do compare myself and other person, the good question would be why i do compare?