Gerard

Yes it is, but as I said it's a sign of what is coming in the year of the fire horse.

Plus being an incredible Full Moon. To me it felt like a Super Moon one. Very special practice. Can't wait for September's Blood Moon (Sun 7 Sept) which is a lunar eclipse. Start of spring in the southern hemisphere. Edited: TDDF doesn't like images!

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By attending a Vipassana retreat run by a Theravada Buddhist monastery. You'll be assigned a lay teacher, who'll have a minimum of ten years of experience. This is a mandatory baseline. Seated meditation is not the only way to practice meditation. Walking is a must and part of the practice Resources: https://retreat-infos.de/Download/RFAE2010.pdf https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/locations/directory Good luck! **EDITED Note: Here's some good advice from the abbot of the local Buddhist monastery close to where I live: https://www.dhammagiri.net/post/tips-for-new-meditators Maybe there is such a monastery in your location. Go have a look online.

You sound very ungrounded. Let me recommend you the best healer and doctor of them all which happens to be free: Nature. Go for a week walk in a mountainous region and disconnect from everything. No phones, no computers. Just you and your pack, food and a tent. You'll come back as a renewed individual. Good luck!

Yes the effect of religion on certain people. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc. have a long history of corruption and deviation. That monk is only today's example of the lure of materialism on people associated with those beliefs.

The Theravada tradition is a lot better in that regard. You won't see that in Thailand and Burma, for example...and as far as I know the Zen tradition in Japan is immune to that as well.

I don't follow the Buddha. Secondly, my point was that there are awful teachers out there that shouldn't be allowed to teach at all! Travelling that far and meeting a quack is a very costly mistake.

Obviously, but my point was that there is no need to travel to the far east to find a good teacher. When the student is ready... That's how I found mine, in a suburban park of Brisbane, Australia. I wouldn't travel to China even if they pay me to learn from an stranger plus the following: https://waqi.info/#/c/2.761/11.953/1z

Not only in the sacred mountains and adjacent areas like the Shaolin temple but in the big cities. For example my teacher saw one of the priests dressed up in smart clothes and waiting for the bus near the White Cloud Temple in Beijing. Two hours earlier he first saw him wearing robes in the temple. He approached him and asked why he was wearing casual clothes, his reply was: 'I have to go to work. The Chinese Gov. pays me a wage to wear robes in the temple!" Basically the are lay people payed to pose as fake priests. He wasn't impressed about what he saw in some of the sacred mountains he visited. It's all tourism and fake Taoism to lure naive Westerners.

i can see the divine 3-6 pattern plus 9 as the total. Trinity + yin & yang (3 x 2 = 6). Total of 9 (9 palaces - Luoshu square). So magic square: 4 9 2 3 5 7 8 1 6

By Eduardo Naranjo. 1978

Kind of like "Schrödinger's Cat" experiment. It depends on what is observed at the time as multiple states (colours) will exist simultaneously.

I have a rule: Anything with the SPIRITUAL tag attached to it is: 1. Suss 2. BS 3. Ungrounded 4. Scam 5. Stay away from it Use your common sense.

Saudis are implementing technology to turn the desert into a prosperous land. I saw a doc.on the Australian ABC channel, which you are very familiar with, about it. It was very good. I can't remember on top of my head but probably 3-4 years ago.

A scientific genius ahead of his time, even today. I'm keen for that technology to be implemented.

And the human androids mining all that gold will return to Earth for more life: Money can't buy that.