zazaza

The Dao Bums
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content count

    135

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by zazaza

  2. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    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 :P

  3. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    kundalini is quite well documented in many religions,

    and websites like: http://biologyofkundalini.com (i'm not sure how trustable this site is on information, or how important it is to read all of that)

     

    i'm wondering what is the name of the energy that comes from "the heavens" and enters our body downwards through the body?

    it's called "cosmic energy" or what?

     

    which religion or system has got some good information on it?

  4. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    One thing i dont understand is if underneath, im not my ego ,but ultimate awareness or w/e shouldn't i be able to stop the show on will? Or does my ultimate awareness just want the show to go on?I think i put the question right.

    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.

  5. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    I wouldn't if I were you, but if you really must.

    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.

    the last hours are filled with paranoia.

    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.

    If you have some unknown mental instability it can really bring it out.

    yes, this is probably the #1 arguments against psychedelics and it is a very good one.

    Acid stays in your body forever

    this is a myth i think

     

    Was wondering in the event that i do try acid what i might should know to get the most out of it spiritually/philosophically.

    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.

     

    Be very careful. Trust me you do not want it like that. If you are crazy enough to want instant ego death, Salvia is the tool.

    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 :)

     

    If you train right the internal processes or alchemy will eventually release DMT from the pineal when the Yin from below hits the Yang in your head. Patience is probably worth it.

    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.

  6. Posted

    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)

  8. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    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.

  9. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    But the world we live in is such that often people won't recognise the worth of a thing if it doesn't have a price tag.

    the people who don't recognize worth of a great free thing, will probably not recognize it if they paid for it either.

     

    Is it really reasonable to judge the worth of a teacher by whether they teach for free?

    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.

     

    Please, show me someone who can teach for free. I've read many books on tai chi for instance, and it's just not something you can learn that way. Even on video it's not much better.

    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.

    that itself is hard enough to learn. To quieten the mind. To find a means to achieve this.

    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.

  10. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    I don't really get why people are automatically 'false' for charging money for wisdom?

    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.

  14. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    Without it [self-realization], you will be consumed by desires and fears, repeating themselves meaninglessly in endless suffering. Most of the people do not know that there can be an end to pain. But once they have heard the good news, obviously going beyond all strife and struggle is the most urgent task that can be. You know that you can be free and now it is up to you. Either you remain forever hungry and thirsty, longing, searching, grabbing, holding, ever losing and and sorrowing, or go out wholeheartedly in search of the state of timeless perfection to which nothing can be added, from which nothing taken away. In it all desires and fears are absent, not because they were given up, but because they have lost their meaning. (331)

     

    The preparation is gradual, the change itself is sudden and complete. Gradual change does not take you to a new level of conscious being. You need courage to let go. [if you lack courage,] it is because you are not fully convinced. Complete conviction generates both desire and courage. And meditation is the art of achieving faith through understanding. In meditation you consider the teaching received, in all its aspects and repeatedly, until out of clarity confidence is born and, with confidence, action. Conviction and action are inseparable. (492)

     

    By looking tirelessly, I became quite empty and with that emptiness all came back to me except the mind. I find I have lost the mind irretrievably. I am neither conscious nor unconscious, I am beyond the mind and its various states and conditions. Distinctions are created by the mind and apply to the mind only. I am pure Consciousness itself, un-broken awareness of all that is. I am in a more real state than yours. I am undistracted by the distinctions and separations which constitute a person. As long as the body lasts, it has its needs like any other, but my mental process has come to an end. My thinking, like my digestion, is unconscious and purposeful. I am not a person in your sense of the word, though I may appear a person to you. I am that infinite ocean of consciousness in which all happens. I am also beyond all existence and cognition, pure bliss of being. There is nothing I feel separate from, hence I am all. No thing is me, so I am nothing. Life will escape, the body will die,

    but it will not affect me in the least. Beyond space and time I am, uncaused, uncausing, yet the very matrix of existence. (221-2)

     

    What is religion? A cloud in the sky. I live in the sky, not in the clouds, which are so many words held together. Remove the verbiage and what remains? Truth remains. (512)

     

    Until you are free of the drug [of self-identification] , all your religions ans sciences, prayers and yogas are of no use to you, for, based on a mistake, they strengthen it. (443-4)

     

    That which you are, your true self, you love it, and whatever you do, you do for your own happiness. To find it, to know it, to cherish it is you basic urge. Be true to your own self, love your self absolutely. Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realized them as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don't pretend to be what you are not, don't refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause. Without self-realization, no virtue is genuine. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

    When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection. But when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation causes fear, and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only self-realization can break it. (213)

    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". :mellow:

  15. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    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 :P

    And it's a bad choice to be sad if you can choose to be blissfull and happy.

    if you pay for something like this, you deserve to get ripped off.

    that's a bit harsh :huh:

  24. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    I want to loose my idea of self/ego from my subconscious and also loose alot of conditioning that iv inevitably gathered from birth till now. I figure meditation would be a really good tool for this but hardly know anything about it. Iv seen several post about meditation but none seem to touch on this topic(tryed tao google search too). So ye, if someone knows a good (preferably simple) meditation exercise for this plz share. However if someone has somthing els to help with this goal thats more than welcome too. and i think thats it.

    p.s. think it was alan watts that said somthin like "ego dosnt exist ,yet its hard to get rid of" or somthin like that heh

    I've gotten some good results in loosening up my tight ego

    through the advice of Nisargadatta Maharaj.

     

    Click to read nisargadatta's book for free (not 100% complete book but it contains everything that is already in the book. in the book, he keeps repeating himself over and over again because it's not actually a book he has written... they are recordings of talks that have been written down. That link contains the essence of nisargadattas teaching and it has arranged the content much more properly than in the real book.)

     

    It won't hurt to study and practice some zen or vipassana as well.

     

     

     

    Yesterday I have put some information about how to get rid of the ego in the post below:

    http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?showto...mp;#entry161507

     

    In yoga they talk about "the Self" in buddhism they talk about "no self",

    but i believe both states are very much like eachother - just a different terminology that is used.

     

    In both states, people get free from suffering... so they "lose the ego" so to speak.

  25. Posted · Edited by zazaza

    Your body will get oxygen no matter what (unless of course someone is strangling you or you're drowning :D ). The question I have for you is how are you breathing? Before one gets into the timing of the breath, one should learn belly breathing imo. Learn to relax the diaphram and breath deeply into the belly first.

    Thought i mentioned it, but now i'm belly breathing.

    Actually i'm not breathing, the body is breathing.

    When i try to control the breath, things get messed up.

     

     

    Earlier this month i had to stop breathing through the belly because i made me hyperventillate.

    But so far i haven't hyperventillated... breaths so subtle it feels like it's going to stop. :o:P

     

    I guess if my breath would be too slow, my heartrate will go up right?

    So i would be able to notice it by my heartrate... ?