zazaza

i suspect that there is not a 100% success rate with any of the methods for kundalini activation, or perhaps there _is_ a 100% success rate but for some people it takes longer. for many different possible reasons, some people will probably have a kundalini activation much more quickly than others. i would suspect that if you want kundalini activation badly, then during your practice you will probably be focusing on wanting to have quick effects. in many cases, when people want things to happen nothing happens. when they adopt the attitude of "if this is all there is, i'll just accept it as it is" ...then stuff started to happen. when people r too focused on "wanting to get something out of their practice real fast", they they could easily miss the fact the very energy they want to come in contact with is already there, because they are looking at the finger instead of at the moon i would suspect that practices designed to activate kundalini can actually become a hindrance to kundalini activation for that reason. what i've written below is just some speculation of mine i have come to suspect the following as a possibility (i'm not sure, but i guess this is possible...) kundalini could be active in everyone, but not everyone gets the typical kundalini experiences... (?) in people where kundalini is experienced as dormant, this could be because their mind is too caught up in the mental fantasies, and for this reason they don't notice "all the energy" from their amreadu active kundalini which they believe is inactive? maybe in people with "inactive kundalini", the kundalini energy is unconsciously massively being wasted into thoughts and emotions. when they would stop unconsciously investing so much energy in thoughts and emotions, energy gets freed up and becomes more noticeable again.. and it can consciously be invested in new activities.

how can one be sure that his active kundalini is not caused by spontaneous shaktipat already? in the case of carcrash and anxiety related kundalini activations, maybe there was also a spontaneous shaktipat that preceeded the kundalini awakening?

According to some websites, the kundalini absolutely does not rise until one has had shaktipat. Do you men and women agree with this or not?

As there are masters at keeping the body healthy, making music, etc... there are those who have mastered the art of happiness. The masters of happiness have mastered the mind.. very often in the past, these are the ones who I have called enlightened people... because i adore the surpreme happiness so very much it is that i which i call LIGHT. others sometimes call it TAO or nirvana. i call it a lot of different names

Why do people continue smoking even though it kills them? Habits of the mind can be tough to break. I don't think that the "ultimate awareness" has any preference whether we dwell in illusion or abide in reality. That ultimate awareness is simply the pure state of our mind. When our mind is not pure we suffer. When we clean up the mess we can see the purity again, no suffering then. We, the ego, believe that pain is bad and pleasure is good, We continue to follow that road in attempt to be happy, as long as we have faith in following that road. When we have more faith in abandoning that road rather than following it, we will abandon it. Part of us wants to continue to follow, other part of us wants to abandon. I believe this is a battle between opposite qualities that live inside ourselves. Belief versus disbelief God versus demons Mindfullness vs mindlessness Detachment vs attachment The demons will try to make us believe we can not master ourself... Believing in the act of focusing our mind and being still - will allow us to master ourself. Another term i use for the act of focusing our mind and being still is "having faith in god" ... because when detaching the mind by focusing, our internal energy becomes apparent again, and this energy is The Master... it is The Mother... The Surpreme Reality... The Tao. if you believe in The Mother, you will focus. when the demons succeed in distracting and fooling you, you will let go of focus.

I agree. Psychedelics can be risky. If given the chance to redo my life, i might not do them again.. although i'm not sure, because maybe i benefited from them in the sense that they might have helped me to intuitively understand the process of dying better, as well as helped me to have faith in meditation (the process of taking back control by letting go) i think that if one uses them, one should better only use them for a short period intheir life and then move on. maybe one should not even use them at all, not sure. if you do end up doing them and having a positive experience, don't go out recommending to everyone how great they are... because i've recommended them to people who i thought were responsible and smart enough to get from them what i - at the time - thought i was getting out of them... and they really didn't react well to them. I think that if regular meditation doesn't work (fast enough) for someone, then that person could use some temporary spiritual experience to help strengthen the faith in meditation. I believe that faith in a certain method is the key to succes. Because faith is what will remember you to do the practice, and it is what will give you the energy to do the practice. Chanting mantras (power sounds), basic breathing practices, sexual orgasms and trance dancing can give similar spiritual experiences that psychedelics can. So maybe it's better to try those first before trying psychedelics. only if one allows paranoia to live inside oneself. "back in the day" i have had several totally paranoid bad trips, but i had many trips where i was just blissfully aware the whole time and did not allow any kind of fear or stress to go inside me. yes, this is probably the #1 arguments against psychedelics and it is a very good one. this is a myth i think before the trip, read some nisargadatta at http://www.nonduality.com/asmi.htm do some focusing/mindfullness/selfinquiry meditation before the trip, as taught in zen/vipassana/nisargadatta. during the trip: do that same kind of meditation make sure you have a sitter not too far away from you, but the sitter must be cool. you don't need a paranoid or scared sitter. preferably, even if the sitter is cool - it would be nice if he is not in the same room or house as you. this way it will be you by yourself which is optimal for meditaition. you can listen to the ambient or progressive channel at http://www.psychedelik.com in the beginning of the trip, it will keep you busy and help you go into the trip very smoothly. in the middle of the trip, you can try putting the music off and just focusing on yourself. you can let go of the "ego" very easily by simply focusing your mind and seeing that - in a sense - you are not your thoughts and not your body. if you encounter any thing that you are affraid off, just pray for - and have faith in - strength and love. the world of fear is a game of intimidation. it can start as something very little and innocent and very quickly grow into a very big monster that could potentially torture you with the most paranoid illusions. you can choose not to have any of that by believing in strength and love through focusing your mind. if you have faith in strength and love, fear can not in any way take hold of you. in case things do go awry, eating some benzo's will help smoothen things out. maybe ayahuasca is indeed better than LSD, i had better results with it than with LSD and mushrooms but that could also have been because i used the ayahuasca at a later point in life where i was a little more developed compared to when I'd done LSD and mushrooms. Salvia, like DMT, is too instant. With acid, mush and aya it happens fast but at leasts it goes slow enough to see what exactly is happening. I believe that ego-death happening naturally is a lot like ego-death during psychedelics. Some fear may arise i wouldn't go to such lenght's as to manipulate my brain to release more DMT than normal. i doubt such thing is healthy and also think it would become just another attachment. holding on to attachments keeps ego intact.

I think you can progress very well "spiritually" even if u keep the computer job, but i don't believe sitting in front of computer 8 hours per day is healthy. Other jobs may have other health risks, and the money you make with the computer job could be spent on making this world a better place. Maybe there are betters ways to earn money, and perhaps to earn more money. Good luck in solving your rubik's cube (=life)

At the time i read into him i found him to be confusing and vague, but that could have indeed been caused by my lack of intelligence

for those who don't have money for a stresseraser device: a cheap heart rate monitor will also show the difference in heartrate between different breathing methods and lengths. lower heartrate probably indicates better breathing. unless your heartrate is going TOO low, something i'm not sure of whether it can be easily done by changing the breath.

the people who don't recognize worth of a great free thing, will probably not recognize it if they paid for it either. depends on many factors such as where the money goes. it is by the actions of a person that we can see their true nature. often in a student - teacher relationship, the hidden details about a teacher could reveal controversial truth. In your first post, you didn't talk about things like tai chi specifically. You talked about "paths, truths, forms, styles, exercises, effects, gurus, teachers (though not locally), books, retreats, workshops, opnions, contradiction." Great teachers in buddhism, yoga(meditation) etc have teached and still teach for free. Usually they will receive donations because people recognize and value their greatness. All over the world you can learn vipassana meditation for free in meditation centers. You even get free food and accommodation. The teachings off nisargadatta are as far as i know uncopyrighted. They can be found here: http://www.nonduality.com/asmi.htm If they are copyrighted, then if he would be alive he would 100% be against it. Very often after a great teacher dies, the "disciples" turn the teaching into a commercial business. it is easier than the ego will try to make you believe. "this technique doesn't work" or "it will only work after 40 years" or "it does not work for me, i am too weak". these are all technique's the ego uses to sustain itself.

i didn't say that. i guess there are people who sell decent stuff... i just figure that if one has something really great which could theoretically be shared for free to the masses that they would do that. why repeat the same message over and over to different people at real life events, if you can put it for free on the internet? it would save the teacher a lot of time and energy that can be invested in a more useful way.

jiddu's a good guy, but not very suitable for receiving practical instruction in meditation

she's giving some quite good explanations, but she's very arrogant at times... for example when the girl at the 53.00' mark asks her a question, the nun doesn't let the girl ask 2 words without interrupting. terrible

I would add more but you can find them yourself, below. http://www.nonduality.com/asmi.htm Because of his razor sharp and very energetic way of teaching, Nisargadatta was sometimes referred to as "the tiger of bombay".

If an animal is dying and we don't know for sure if it's in strong physical pain and we don't know for sure if it would like to be put out of it's misery, what should we do?

You'll definately get something from it. Whether it was worth the money is a different question. I'm sure there are loads of people who spent much more money on things they got absolutely nothing worthwhile from. You bought the classes and you're going to take them now! Life is too short for regret And it's a bad choice to be sad if you can choose to be blissfull and happy. that's a bit harsh

Get the person I am that - by nisargadatta But it's better to download it from that website rather than buying the book. The book is too chaotic and that website has reorganized everything much better. In the book everything gets repeated even more often than in that summary, thus be sure: you're not missing on information with that summary i linked you to

I hardly know anything on taoist practices, i'm more of a bum than a toaist... yet, if this is the barefoot doctor's website http://www.schoolforwarriors.com/buynow then i must say it looks terribly commercial, and that is often a bad sign.

There is an awesome progressive psychedelic trance online radio at http://www.psychedelik.com The regular psytrance channel can be alright too... a bit energetic though It is best streamed with winamp and you can rip the stream to your harddrive with streamripper

wow! that's an awesome representation

powerful picture .broken. ! buddhism - shamanism - hinduism

i see, sorry for that. this thread wasn't even meant to be made. i typed that first post really fast, thought i had closed the window but apparently i have created this thread

I'm still having breath issues i think. My body used to hyperventillate the past few weeks, and i could somewhat control this by forcefully breathing shallow through the chest (thus preventing too much oxygen - this is called the buteyko method) The past 2 days, if i try to control my breath it feels forced, if i let go of control - the breath becomes very slow, deep and subtle... Through the belly by the way! It's so slow i think it is forgetting to breathe. Are there any warning signs by which i would be able to see if my breath has really become too slow? appart from the obvious sudden death

in that sense, we should let parents abuse their kids too? if the animal is obviously suffering, i think we should put it out of it's misery in the least painful way. i might be wrong