rain

a quick glance through dream dictionary and I come up with the following

(I know you are looking for the: what happened to intention, but let that go for a sec)

rat dog : jealous untrustworthy friend

fear; if it was sudden it indicates success, or else uncertainty

gun, shooting; bad luck, envy

shoot; person unhappy due to anothers egoism

aim; sexual pleasures

balcony; bad news or a friend who's not there for you

throw; trying to get rid of

floating: overcome your troubles

air: good luck

maybe you will be able to see the actual mechanism of intent if you can identify the sequences in your wake life.

who or what is a friend?

shrug

The Dalai Lama spoke about this on Ustream from DC yesterday.

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What you share makes me reflect on the step wise unravelling of no self...

I believe reading Almaas I came across the insight;

you cannot loose something you never had.

when a character disorder is straightened out - a friction removed -

essence dawns on us

when one has lost all but the sense of self

one may gradually come to understand self is animated through mirror process

such a small world..

I am rain

what goes around comes around

we are all

water

simple plain as magic

where did the raindrop go?

why did the sun appear?

simple plain as wonders

for your bare feet..sensation

dusk

 

 

If you consider intent as a kind of energy, the more intent gets taken up in beliefs, the less you have available to do anything else. Beliefs capture and freeze a portion of intent-energy and beliefs require constant intent input to be maintained. If intent is cut off from the belief formation, then it begins to melt and lose shape and power.

marvellous. thnx for putting it in words <3

Thanks, Adishakti. I am a big believer in growth through play. It's a very different energy than discipline and struggle, and I manage to open up a lot without overwhelming my own system. And it's fun!

I don't get it. is really your homophobia so intense that you aren't able to let the practise overshadow your selfawareness?

thats...really...stuck...innit? no critic just...wow,..

I probably misunderstood

Practising outdoors in the fresh air! is lovely as long as my feet are dry and temperate and ther is no chill wind or rain.

Practising in public places can be very effective, the falling from and out of the constant hum of traffic and general noise is quite profound and fulfilling in itself. The dissapearing or silencing of surroundings may well be your own inner calm ovveriding everything else.

It is not that you stop hearing, because I remember clearly choosing to hear a little girl asking her mother what was I doing, sitting silent and motionless at an airport (flight delayed several hours and a perfect opportunity to tune in and drop out) the mother answered the little girl correctly "she is meditating" thus the kid and maybe also some adults had something fresh added to her repertoir. I practise wherever, in queues, as car passenger, waiting rooms, walking, talking with people while standing..it seems to me that people are so used to people practising something or other, or just having trouble with their legs or backs and generally exercising or stretching, so at most you,ll get a curious remark or even worse..an audience if you are halfgood. If you're good..you will be too absorbed in the practise to notice or bother..probably...or just feel a faint wellbeing with sharing.

Ah ... we meet again !!!!!

 

 

"Aren't you a TaoBum, ma'am?"

 

"Yes we are!"

eggnog royale

Color schmolor what's the difference?

Lord <3 Fineman;

Lord Drummond Pinky-Morford

 

... that was me next to the woman all dressed in yellow - I forget her name.

It was Lady Bera Borchgrevink Rimsky Monroe. Nickname; Henry Korsakov Jar.

And it was Cream.

C r e a m !

("Yellow"! )

Rain,

 

I am puzzled by this and am sure it is a mistake of some kind. I don't think any of us delete or edit personal practice - in fact its a self edit area. I can't think of a reason why anyone would do this.

 

A.

thaks for your help Apech

Why not give a member a message when you decide to delete everything they ever wrote in their privat discussion thread?

I don't hate to see it gone. In fact it felt clean. It's just the disrespect of not telling a member before you do. Surprisingly brutal

thanks again hagar for posting something that strikes chords..something to work with on various reflections

-"regret not bringing my son" reminds me of the moved & satisfied response my son had today remembering how he when visiting the Domkirkeodden at Hamar..after being encouraged by his mom got caught while making a massive sympony dangling those the huge bells.

Also remember meeting Arne Ness senior at Henie Onstad Art Museum, shortly before he passed away, I was so silently thrilled to see the old man that he broke off from his two younger comapnions to embrace the energy I emitted.

Ahh.

Pale. pale indeed. so very well observed.

Ahh and another malorrightplaced apropos;

the " when something really good or auspicious happens somewhere, something equally inauspicious also happens. Funny how that works." comment

Is this something one must make room for in ones life ? and learn to adapt to? I am asking because I seem to be whipped by some invisible force

to balance my expectations and reflections.

http://youtu.be/OyORcQFU6fU

blue sun?

I'll make more karma.

eh... it's really not that simple. it never is. i've articulated my stance on Muktananda and his "flaws" elsewhere, so i won't get into it much here, but i will say that it is unskillful to judge ANYONE solely in the light of their most obvious flaws. we are more than just the sum of those flaws. and "power vs love" is a bit of a false dichotomy. i think Baba's love and devotion is indisputable. and i think, as with ALL Siddhas, his power is undeniable. to seek the powers that awaken and break through the veils of ignorance & illusion, and to seek powerful masters that embody those powers does not in any way imply an abandonment of love.

 

besides, Ram Dass's 'brief encounter' doesn't even begin to trump Muktananda's lifetime of work.

 

and yes, Hard Light is totally open-door. anyone can come and attend a Thursday evening sit or one of the monthly intensives. and people who are unable to fly in can audio stream it over the internet. Mark doesn't have an Ashram in LA or anything, so he doesn't house visitors, but the people in the sangha are so friendly that by my 2nd or 3rd visit people were offering to let me crash at their place before heading back up to Sacramento. but for the most part, you're responsible for your own lodging unless or until you make some friends.

 

if you ever decide to go when i'm going to be there, i'll certainly see what i can do.

Set-han-Hundun..it is not difficult to fall in love with you

not not not

applause in all directions

reenter silence

My form of healing has more to do with looking inside a person from the inside out. I help them triangulate the memories, do an opposite imprint, on that which they have been manifesting, whether that thing is a physical malady or an undesirable situation.

I have found that doing it attached to ceremony is powerful to the person being worked on.

 

I also lay hands on - I used to do more of the quantum touch method, but I found that the most intense energy comes out of my hands directly on the skin, or my body touching theirs in some way, perhaps just sitting on a couch and touching arm to arm. Getting the person being worked on to be as open as possible, to think as little as possible, is the trick. I try to synchronize my breath with theirs, to become as one person.

 

Sometimes while in this state we will together do an inner smile on all their organs, one at a time. If there is something, such as a cancer, I talk directly to the spirit of the cancer. I always do it with love, always ask it nicely to move on down the road please...that it has no further business being in this body. I've worked with two cancer patients - one died, the one I'm working with now is iffy from day to day, but often responds to doses of positive energy. I try and talk to his body, to have his body manifest healthy cells rather than the cancer cells; my belief is that our bodies manufacture these things as a result of inner feelings that it's responding to, like guilt, shame, hate. From a holistic point of view I will try to address that as well, if the person is willing to discuss their ongoing feelings. The one I am working with now is not very receptive to the inner work - has never seen the necessity for 'going in'. But he does respond well to ceremony.

 

I am of the firm belief that what a person is manifesting today, at this time, is what he has actually 'wanted', whether they see it or not. It is the current manifestation of the person that gives the shaman one place to put a leg of the triangulation.

Reading your words I reflect. "Lookin inside the person from the inside out" .

I don't think I ever connected to another human without doing this. I thought this was common. Had to ask my husband. He says it probably isn't.

That said it is important to be able to see yourself from the inside to the outside equally posed with the other. Of course I am not able to do this unless I give myself some timespace and silence. A massage situation is ideal. If there is enough caritas in your soul.

In this issue of EnlighteNext Magazine, there is a dialogue between Wilber and Cohen having to do with Was the Buddha Only Half Enlightened? For those not familiar with these two men, Andrew Cohen is the publisher of EnlighteNext, and the article refers to him as a GURU, then defines guru as (n. Sanskrit): one who teaches spiritual liberation from his or her own direct experience or realization. The other man, Ken Wilbur, is described as the PANDIT within the context of the magazine, or (n. Sanskrit): a scholar, one who is deeply proficient and immersed in spiritual wisdom. He describes himself as an intellectual samurai.

 

Before I post part of the article, I just wanted to mention the above because it infers a big different in perspective of the two gentlemen. One is self-realized, one is learned by outer means.

 

 

WAS THE BUDDHA ONLY HALF ENLIGHTENED?

 

Question: Ken, I've heard you say that the Buddha wasn't as enlightened as an enlightened person today. In thinking about that, I've encountered a lot of different definitions of what enlightenment even is. Can you please explain what you mean?

 

 

KEN WILBER: Well, this is a controversial point, but there's a good reason why I continue to make it. What I've actually said is that Gautama Buddha was only half as enlightened as a modern sage has the potential to be. And to understand why that is, we have to look at a couple facts.

 

First, we have to understand that reality consists of two fundamental dimensions: the realm of emptiness and the realm of form. Emptiness is the timeless, unmanifest ground of being, and realizing that primordial emptiness has traditionally been what spiritual enlightenment is all about. That's what the Buddha called nirvana. It means nothing is arising. It's a state of consciousness essentially similar to deep dreamless sleep, in that there's no pain, no self, no suffering, no desire - none of that. It's a place of peace, stillness, and freedom beyond the turmoil of manifest existence. And discovering that unmanifest emptiness has always been seen as the one way to find liberation from samsara - the wheel of pain and suffering, birth and death.

 

Now, Gautama Buddha realized emptiness perfectly, so from the point of view of that traditional understanding, he was enlightened. He experienced a perfect oneness in consciousness that transcended the multiplicity of manifestation, time, and form. But about eight hundred years after the time of Gautama, an extraordinary gentleman by the name of Nagarjuna came along and pointed out that if you're serious about finding ultimate oneness, then you can't just be looking for nirvana divorced from samsara, because that's still dualistic. You have to be looking, instead, for the union of nirvana and samsara, the union of emptiness and form, the union of the unmanifest and the manifest, which Nagarjuna called Nonduality.

 

This realization ushered in the whole Buddhist Mahayana revolution, summed up in the famous declaration of the Heart Sutra: "That which is form is not other than emptiness; that which is emptiness is not other than form." And this dramatically changed the way liberation was thought of. No longer was it thought of as escaping half of reality and hiding in the other half, but uniting both halves, finding an enlightenment that included both the freedom of emptiness and the fullness of form. All of a sudden, you're no longer just enlightened to the nature of your own consciousness inside here, looking at a separate world outside there. You're no longer looking at a mountain, you are the mountain. You're no longer looking at the sun, you are the sun. You're no longer touching the earth, you are the earth. Galaxies circulate through your blood and stars light up the neurons of your night, and you are one with all of this.

 

So that's the first point - the Buddha realized emptiness, but as far as we can tell, he didn't realize the fullness of non-duality, or becoming one with all of form......."

 

 

Surely this can provide us with some cerebral jerky?

I find this presentation hard to believe, that is, is it self experienced or merely mentally constructed?

But,

I love the "galaxy" metafor. Remember the feeling you get in movies like "Contact" when you move through galaxy?

It is correct that the experience transcends duality through introducing continuum...through speedtravelling never before witnessed.

Core is silence. In such beauty og endless light silence. moving to ond fro..like a fluttering butterfly wing.

You loose everything glued to selfawareness

but

never loose your Sense of awareness

ask and you shall be given

what?

whatever asked when given

not?

Every one meditating can trandscend duality

Over the years I've accumulated waaaay too much written material on Taoism and Buddhism.

I've got hundreds of PDF's on my hard drive, books, magazines, cd's, vids, mp3's.

And where has it got me ?

Absolutely nowhere. I'm probably more mixed up now than when I first started my search for the answers to life's big questions.

This week I was forced to face life head on, where all the teachings of the long gone masters and sages had no impact or relevance to me whatsoever.

My wife had a miscarriage. It has been a terribly upsetting week for us and our family. Something that has changed me forever.

My heart goes out to anyone who has to experience this awful tragedy.

I started to question and re-examine everything I've read and learned.

I read some of my older posts on the forums and the replies I've given to others when I came across this post by Kali Yuga.

Something clicked straight away.

I really need to 'burn all my holy books' once and for all. Not literally of course. I'll give them away or sell them on.

I need to strike out on my own and forge ahead on my own path, and not rely on the words and teachings of others.

Back to basics. The simple things.

Qigong, Zhan Zhuang and Meditation. No books, no scriptures, no talks, no videos.

I need to find myself. Not another's interpretation of it.

I cry even more for your profoundness and your goodhearted sharing than your loss. Please forgive me.

This is how it is. Shed redundant, return to core.

Love.

So grateful to find a thread like this. Lately I've realized that the only place I find happiness, where I am totally unarmed, relaxed, open, trusting and fully alert..is when I am fully in the present.

It is like being cleansed. Stripped from the tension of expectance, unwind from the burden of remorse.

To fully praise it's love grace and beauty - is bliss.

There is no cleverness there..

))

no measurment what So ever

I agree with hagar

suffering aids

but the release from cobweb spun by idea/memory of the opposite is even mightier

In the past weeks I have gotten into a real rut in my practice, and I am open to suggestions as to how I should get throught this.

 

I'm as motivated as ever before these days, as I can feel the need for practice/qigong now more than ever, but at the same time, there's this really uncomfortable resistance towards just creating time and get down to business...

 

I know that its probably something to do with unresolved energetic issues that comes up as resistance, but I also feel that it has alot to do with expectations, and impatience towards what the practice will or should "bring". If I feel no real progress, or subjectively tell myself that there's nothing happening, I guess I get demotivated.

But at the core, this is like a real challenge in my practice, and I wonder what you guys have to say about it: Resistance reveals that you need to let go of illusions and ideals that has no reality, and are bound up with the ego.

 

So everytime I sit now, I get impatient and angry or atleast irritated, and everytime I do qigong I get frustrated and tell myself that I'm just waving my hands in the air.

 

Better get back to plundering and creating havoc like my ancestors instead. That, atleast brought real results. :twisted:

 

 

sigh...

 

h :evil:

asshole

get creative

<3

forresten kan du ikke slippe unna med dommedagshelvete om japanfaenskapet uten å fortelle meg HVA SKAL JEG GJØRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!skal jeg kjøpe potassium?????????? hvorfor skal vi ikke BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE????

faen her var det dato loop hehe. dårlig gjort. men jeg fikk iallefall bannet og spurt.

actually I stumbled upon this post looking for the post where shakti mammy has posted jennybaahs declaration

say when did shaktimum become bahbahs student.

everything here is disgusting today

Hit the beach to watch the moonrise, but it was cloudy, still I wasn't alone, many people were out to capture the moon.

 

The IMU had there Full Moon meditation. What a shame only 10 people there. 3 sets of 45 minutes silent meditation, then 15 minutes dance. Very nice. It ended at 12:15 and went for a long dark walk.

Meditation directly alone with an element is not meditiation of lesser value

all over this planet there are individuals connecting

the gates open and close by astronomical changes. Being receptive to destined experience is enough

following natural law, mother nature

are you telling us that meditating on the 19th can be fruitful for opening the vishuddi

I am very tired of this and that chat.