johndoe2012

It seems freeform is under some sort of delusion that spiritual teachers are saints, a direct manifestation of God and always are polite, always do the right thing etc. Who told you so? Nisargadatta got angry. So did Ramana Maharshi. So did Buddha Shakyamuni. If a Dao Bum met these today, they would be called "not ready, charlatans, fakes". Nobody can do anything different than they are doing right now. This moment is it. The problem is the thinking mind wants things to be different, it cannot accepts things as they are. Then suffering arises and the doer runs after it and gets upset "No! Things got to change! I cannot accept this!!!".

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Find the doer of action and see if anything changes.

This is seeing your own nature, you can recognize it from Harding's Headless experiments or from Dzogchen pointing-out instructions (just examples). Seeing this may satisfy you and rid yourself of all earthly desires in a full swoop if that is your destiny.

Seeing into your nature directly is one way of gaining certainty. Resting in Being (Heart) is another way. There is feeling-access to it behind the heart chakra and back, dive in and stay. There is feeling of Existence independent of everything else. For your actions just do whatever you feel like doing, not feeling like a slave, but what you really want.

That someone is not following the Dao is a incorrect idea. That at a certain point in your life you 'suddenly' turned away from Dao and followed not-Dao. It comes from believing the appearances we see in life and take them to be real. Since there is only the Dao nobody can follow the not-Dao. The not-Dao is just another name for Dao, it is an appearance. So nothing to worry about. Everything is already pure perfection right now.

Have no expectations of anything specific to happen, then how can things go wrong?

Thinking mind = automatic thoughts that cause suffering. Enlightenment = end of suffering in Buddhism. No suffering = end of that type of thinking. Anyone thinking of gaining lots of money in spirituality is obviously still under the influence of strong egoic desires. And desire is the root of suffering, so this person still has heavy suffering going on.

Imagine letting a deity or avatar fill your body, either as an overlay or in your body. Ask them to heal what you want fixed. Last step is to integrate your system. This can used on anything, an illness, chakras, meridians etc etc.

Not sure if this has been posted before, but this is a jewel, pure gold

Sounds new agey and like wishful thinking. An enlighted person cannot gain a million dollar instantly, an enlighted person is just a person with the thinking mind destroyed and they no longer believe in free will as normal people do.

I think his pain in the neck was the cause of his grumpiness http://www.bodysoulandspirit.net/mystical_experiences/read/notables/krishnamurti.shtml I seem to recall a Tai Chi teacher saying that the neck channels are extremely hard to open / purify. See also Actual Freedom where the founder found the nape of the neck instrumental to his version of enlightenment. http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/ My own opinion based on personal experience is the nape of the neck symptom is the end of the thinking mind and thus causes extreme grumpiness at times caused by triggers. So passing this will result in the elimination of the thinking mind and enlightenment = complete absence of suffering.

Probably was true according to her own lenses and filtering, a lot of people will make these things up because they have blindspots. If one is interested if it is true or not, meditate beyond the mind to get the answer or just sense into it.

Fake news.

It is always very interesting to see people demanding your time is worth zero ie your sessions should be free while they are fine earning money on a regular job. Double standard, anyone?

So far, in my own research, there are different ways to navigate life. 1. Accept suffering and negativity as part of life, embrace it, don't try to change it. 2. Look at how suffering starts a negativity cycle within you and actively root out beliefs that trigger negativity. My own experience is that I have felt best when there was zero self reflection aka no self concern at all. It also was received best by others so I guess there was something attractive to the state just like watching a funny comedian that makes you forget the grim world a few minutes. This morning I felt a bit crazy, ungrounded as internal dialogue was bouncing around. I began to investigate the belief that started it. It was 'I need to make a decision on the way forward'. Once seen I could let it go and my mind was calm again and the feeling of craziness disappeared.

Earl Grey I can understand what you are saying but bad and good is coupled together so nothing is 100% bad. Also everything is an appearance so it is basically Divinity disguised as bad. The book I have shared a link to in this thread is actually the opposite of McDonaldsization as the Reiki crystal that is imparted is handed down directly from the founder, Mikao Usui and is a way around the traditional Reiki schools. I am part of another lineage where the founder decided not to do only distance transmission due to wanting to build a community around the lineage. The community members can then help each other in both sharing stories and healing each other. I think this is a good approach.

Same and sameness is not the same. Manifested energy can have different properties. Meaning different lineages transmit different energies. Like a dog is not a cat. Though in the end it is from the Self to the Self.

Is that your perception? It depends on the method of energy exchange. I wouldn't be worried about this issue as clearing your field is so easy.

Video games (and movies) make an energetic imprint in your mental energy body which makes an impact but does not turn us into monsters. It can be easily cleared with the right healing tools. If it was video games that was the root cause then both Europe and Asia would have shootings like in the US. Gun ownership has gone down from 1973 to 2014 - 47% to 31% but mass shootings are up http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS Reports/GSS_Trends in Gun Ownership_US_1972-2014.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/05/more-deadlier-mass-shooting-trends-america/ I think there multiple reasons for the shootings, some are copy-cats, some are fed up of feeling rejected/useless resulting in rage attacks. I think the militarization of society plays a role together with drug use, bad education, societal breakdown https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-developing-nation-regressing-economy-poverty-donald-trump-mit-economist-peter-temin-a7694726.html etc etc.

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There is no fixed, separate self as a unit, but there is a selfing process that develops as part of growing up due to the self reflective nature of the thinking mind. This can be seen by noting one's experience moment by moment or just noticing the insistence of the thoughts claiming one to be 'someone'. This 'one' means the body unit. My experience so far.

Just say no to constant negativity. Opt out and start being happy right now.

1-3 are linked since thoughts can generate problems that do not exist in reality - other than as thoughts. So you can 'shadow box' the problems but they still appear until you remove the source of the thought. I have been working on my 'life sucks' attitude for some time and it can be difficult to root out. News act as confirmation bias that something is wrong but it is the background attitude that makes you feel that life sucks. Cleaning your own consciousness makes an impact on others but of course sometimes government intervention is needed in cases of environmental protection, movie regulations etc. If you want to help clear the need for watching such movies then there are Divine tools that one can use. Sometimes when I have used them on external issues then the tool used pointed back to my own source of irritation with the issue as the problem to work on.

Everything, you are right. It is better to root out the beliefs that make you feel bad including the belief 'the world is messed up' than to try to fix the world by external means.