liminal_luke

You might be right. Perhaps it was just that she was suspended and then decided not to come back.

What does that mean? Google suggests waste of time but that doesn´t sound right. I´m going with "who´d of thought." Please enlighten.

I reckon there are a few enlightened beings presently active on the board. One likely enlightened being @deci belle was kicked out several years back for bad behavior, but hey, nobody´s perfect.

stirling, I´d love to hear more about this if you´re willing. To me it sounds like prayer, simply asking the universe for what you want. Is this what you meant? I´ve never prayed regularly but I suspect this kind of thing is both effective and underutilized. Do you recommend people start an actual formal practice of prayer? Or just work asking for help or stating intention in on the fly during the day? Seems to me this could be a whole topic -- or class/book . Would love to hear stories of how prayer fits into people's lives.

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Entering the Kingdom of Heaven through Jesus is code for the same awakening the Buddhists talk about. It´s not so different. Christianity is nondualism for people who like singing and potlucks.

Aspiring beginners like me love the idea of oneness until it dawns on us what it really means: everything is chit.

Thanks but I´ll pass. I´ve been so many times already and once you´ve seen one fair maiden thrown into the ritual firepit you´ve seen them all.

It´s all good, Bindi. To clarify, my post referred to "subtle body work" as a general category. I do not claim experience or expertise with kundalini, which, reportedly, can indeed be dangerous. There´s a Bon practice of "hosting" emotional issues in silence, spaciousness, and stillness. When seen in the context of infinite spaciousness, difficulties that seemed overwhelming often resolve. To my mind, these "three pills" of silence, spaciousness, and stillness are attributes of the central channel. In this way, central channel work does have a connection with emotional processing. (Perhaps I´m posting in the wrong thread, but I hope the above ideas do not prove too unpopular. Rumor has it I´m a lock for this year´s unpopularity win and don´t want to "gild the lilly.")

The manifest and unmanifest world -- two great tastes that taste great together.

Apech predicted Steve might unseat me as winner of this season´s unpopular opinion award At the time, I´ll admit, I was skeptical -- but I´m starting to come around.

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You seem to think that my post about the central channel amounts to nothing more than parroting the views of others and that I have no direct experience of what I speak. I suspect that the larger Bum community won´t have much to say about your opinion one way or the other, but, speaking personally, I find it deeply unpopular.

Not at all -- stay! .

Here´s a potentially unpopular opinion. It´s good to develop fluency in both directions -- from manifestation to wuji, and from wuji to manifestion.

Subtle body work and nondual traditions need not be at odds. The central channel is the anatomical seat of nondual consciousness in the human body, imo. Bringing our awareness to the center, we become centered. Resting our awareness in the center continually, we enlighten. After enlightenment, there is no need to direct attention anywhere because everywhere is experienced as the center.

You might just be right about that. I didn´t get the award for most unpopular opinion last time but hey, I´m a fast learner.

I don´t know what the above means. Sounds like the women at the indigenous camp have a great system. Communal ties are everything.

Not really. The post you quoted was written in jest. But my heart does go out to those parents who have moments when they would like to retroactively abort their children. Our society doesn´t have much empathy for the parent who says "I deeply regret having had kids." Such a statement would make one unpopular in most mommy groups. And yet I´d wager that most parents, particularly new parents, feel ambivilent now and then. That´s a perfectly natural and to-be-expected feeling and I think we need to make space for it.

Scared of Bob judgement? Yeah, maybe a little.

Oh, nothing worth losing sleep over, I assure you. Here´s a sampling. You know how people argue about when life starts with pro-lifers arguing that it starts at conception and pro-choicers arguing that a fetus is not a human being? I´m something of an extreme pro-choicer. I believe life starts at 18.

Our most unpopular opinions will not appear in this thread because Bums are (rightly?) scared of mob judgement. Also, some unpopular opinions are sure to cause offense and some of us would rather conceal our opinions than hurt another´s feelings. Cowardice or compassion? You decide.

Self-deprecation can be a shrewd social move in the relational chess game of modern life, a masterful (if lonely) form of spiritual arrogance. It´s so hard to be a genuine person.

A meme I read on the Substack "Bad Catitude." ................................................................................................. Have you heard about the rising political tensions between yogurt and penicillin? One side is probiotic and the other side is antibiotic. They´re calling it a culture war.

The day that machines become human is the day that humans become machine. Deep down, we all know this. Is it any wonder that young people these days are so darn depressed and anxious?