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I tested just sitting with some tension in the stomach area. 

It didn't move at all. When I asked 'is this the self?' then the mind recognized it as tension and not self and then the tension disappeared. 

Try this 

Lack of sleep result in low energy and a general more primitive view of life and negative emotions, like depression, anxiety etc. 

Awakening to Reality starts with self inquiry and a doubtless sense of being as the first stage. Getting there requires lots of work. 

From Daoist Meditation by Si Ma Cheng Zhen

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'Good' is the balance between yin and yang, and 'bad' is the imbalance. If a friendship with a person of good character or a book of wisdom are considered good friendship and a good book, that is due to the fact that they have the chacteristic of balance. That is why they are good. They are neither yang nor yin; they are not in clarity, nor in obscurity: they are in a state of balance between the two. Daoism does not consider clarity as the 'good' and obscurity as the 'evil': good is the balance between natural opposites, and evil is the imbalance between them. This is the parameter adopted for all words and actions of a Daoist: rectitude is where opposites are at harmony. 

Depressing news from the Buddhists lately:

There is no self

Global nuclear war in the future 

Etc etc. 

5 hours ago, snowymountains said:

 

Shikantaza can't go as deep, it cannot and will not touch automatic reactions nor go deep into the unconscious, it simply lacks the tools for accessing these, nevermind working on them. Only therapy can do that.

Actually meditation practice is one of the most common means of avoidance for doing the deep work.

 

Shikantaza is a very good practice, I do it myself, but it should not be advertised for doing things it can't.

Not only therapy, but many other methods, eg

Energy healing 

Kiloby inquiries 

Methods like Core Transformation, Sedona Method, Release Technique

Etc etc. 

Just sitting is not enough to release unconscious stuff.

Scott Kiloby mentioned in one of his talks that the reason people fail to recognize the nature of mind is due to trauma which fires automatic reactions that cloud the system. 

From Original Perfection by Keith Dowman 

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To overcome what appear to be emotional and intellectual obstacles, people commit themselves to disciplines of lifestyle and morality, yoga and meditation, setting themselves the goal of freedom from attachment and rebirth, but the anxiety entailed by prostituting the moment for some future benefit and striving for a conceptual goal is resolved naturally in the relaxation of nonaction. The disease of calculated endeavor and goal orientation that is spiritual materialism is healed by the spontaneous and ineluctable intuition of the pure nature of mind.

On 7.4.2024 at 3:32 AM, manitou said:

 

 

I don't think it means this.  Any more than we can recall the past with 100% accuracy.  If you're speaking of predicting the future, there is no future.  It is now.  We're watching it unfold now.  

I like this one better, more accurate description of what is happening. 

The reason no one can predict what is happening, is because what is taking place is a dance of probabilities.

1 hour ago, manitou said:

 

 

There's another way to look at it too.   Non-action toward oncoming dynamics is the operative method, but also looking at it through the lens of time is helpful to me.

 

Science has discovered that time is not really linear.  It's really all here and now, only our limited brain band width is set up to experience everything sequentially, day after day.  If time is not really linear, this means that everything has already happened, but we are experiencing it in sequence.  For some reason, knowing that it's already happened, whatever it is, is pretty comforting.  It seems to replace anxiety about things in the future.  An inevitability of sorts.

 

Does anyone here ever wonder if 'god' and DNA are the very same thing?

 

 

If what you are saying is true, we could predict the future with 100% accuracy. 

Since we cannot do that, what you are saying must be false. 

Everything hasn't already happened. It just happens one event after another. 

https://sravastiabbey.org/karma-predestination/

My experience is there is good and and bad in the world, and it is foolish to abandon those ideas. Some non-dualists go too far.

From  "Approaching the Great Perfection" by Sam van Schaik.

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Great Perfection texts tend to speak of rejecting the distinction between good and bad in the sphere of one's own mind, rather than encouraging unrestricted behavior. In other words, they deal with the issue of moral relativity  in the realm of thoughts and emotions (rnam rtog) rather than activities. The identification of thoughts as either good or bad is seen as a barrier to the process of meditation mentioned earlier in which all thoughts, whatever their nature, are liberated as they arise (shar grol). This is stated in DTK [Vajra Verses on the Natural State]:

 

Not falling into the extremes of 

Good, bad, or neutral discursive thought,

You will not be a scholar who distinguishes arising and liberation

Likely some non-dualists read such texts, misunderstand them and then spread misinformation on the internet.

From 'Eye of the storm' by Keith Dowman 

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There is nothing to do! 'Nonaction' or 'undirected action' defines the nature, ethos and dynamic of the Great Perfection. The here-and-now is a field of immanent sameness, and any attempt to affect it or change it by any technique is counter-productive. Any engagement of effort diminishes it. Seeking it inhibits its discovery. Nonaction is the precept that defines the natural inclination, or lack of any inclination, of the nature of mind in order that the manifest dynamic of the field of reality is uncrystallized in gnosis.

13 hours ago, Apech said:

you would benefit from getting the empowerment from a qualified lama

My experience is you can get it from youtube recordings (eg Garchen Buddhist Institute) but maybe better live from a lama. 

The light gets attacked by the dark all the time. There is no choice involved. 

If one has the awareness one can stop the attack and progress to a higher level of peace. 

Why not just wait? 

There is no rush getting to where you already are. 

The impatience is part of the self that wants results right now but that actually has to go to see what is already the case. 

8 hours ago, manitou said:

 

 

Eliminate desire.

Figure out why they're there.  Look at the source and understand it.  It will resolve itself once you become aware, and the emotion will lessen more and more over time.

If someone has a problem with too much emotion, they're giving their power away.  Be like water.  Let all things flow through you, have no expectations on people, don't differentiate between good and bad behavior in another.

Eliminate desire is a bad strategy, without desire you are dead and have no energy due to shutting down your own system, suppression and repression. 

Eliminate grasping instead. Desire is natural, just look at life changing all the time. 

Edit: See what Buddhism says about desire https://www.buddhanet.net/4noble13.htm

On 5.3.2024 at 12:12 AM, S:C said:

If there’s a technique for oneself to do alone (!), I should have clarified the question!

And I don’t do insight meditation. I just focus a lot anyways (if life is kind to me) - and tried to improve it by sitting and focusing on just the moment and the feels and perceptions in essence.

 

and I hate it if one quotes me before I am done editing  but hey, thanks for your input. sigh.

 

Energy healing can do it. 

One of energies I have access to is a energy / consciousness that make it feel safe / more open to feel emotions, as if you are much bigger than the emotion, so no matter the intensity of the emotion you are always capable of containing it. Thus you can release it so easily compared to all the various meditation techniques I have tried. 

Basically you are accessing a higher state of consciousness than the state your current system can handle, so basically you are upgrading yourself that way. 

Level two and three are in the first Kunlun book. 

Could be, let's say suppressed sexuality, healing that makes you like a wild animal. 

My experience. 

Shadow self is just an energetic block, heal it and it becomes integrated.

We don't need a philosophy on top of it IMHO. 

Buddhism for some seems like a cult 'don't criticize the leader, don't think for yourself' 

The endless spamming of non Buddhist threads on how wonderful buddhism is is like watching Christians advocate Christianity? 

For me there is more to life. Relationships, male identity, passions like interests, hobbies some of which can help overcome suffering not just what Buddhism thinks of suffering. Eg say having no career that fullfills you can generate lots of suffering and steering you towards a more fulfilling life where you use your skills will decrease suffering and increase life satisfaction. 

The philosophy tends to attract people who think like kids, that life is just about Buddhism, like kids thinking life is just about playing games. Very shallow? 

Too much pop psychology and too little using your own intelligence and internal compass. 

Something for me and most likely others here

https://www.shinzen.org/how-to-be-comfortable-with-everyone/

2 hours ago, snowymountains said:

 

It's different to try something out of curiosity/interest etc and different to actively seek treatment, like the OP.

Whoever is actively seeking treatment needs to work with someone who is qualified to treat.

Those "cheap energetic transmissions" mentioned by a poster above don't sound qualified.

Says a person with zero interest or experience. 

On 7.1.2024 at 7:49 PM, snowymountains said:

Start psychotherapy, plenty of therapists have acquired expertise on this and will be able to help you.

It's a theme especially amongst the younger generation. There's literally a porn epidemic in younger ages which is turn has brought a masturbation epidemic, which prevents them from being able to enjoy a healthy sexual life.

 

In terms of efficiency and cost psychotherapy is pretty bad. 150 eur per hour and how many hours do you need? 10-20? 

Compared to cheap energetic transmissions for healing methods I have already provided a few times, approx 10 eur for a lifetime of healing. 

Bak Fu Sunn Yee Gong level 1 can replenish jing and is authentic and very easy compared to neidan methods in my humble opinion.