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Certain meditation sounds like binaural beats that have slow binaural frequency does help me quite my mind in order to be more peaceful. I try to do it without though. So that I can do it everywhere. The quick way is not always the best path.

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Yeah, I totally agree with this. It is also a great example of boundaries. I see people stick together in relationships all the time, codependantly, and it only turns into violence. Especially between two partners who are overly jealous. Where as an independant relationship becomes dead after a while and drained of passion and love. Your balance of both (inter-dependant relationship) is a constant movement towards the perfect balance in the relationship where you take the best of two sides. A baby is born in your boundary, at 12 years old they gradually take steps out, at 18 or higher they have their own bubble or boundary, and the interaction between the boundaries should be mature if the example of the parents are one of mature boundaries. Accepting the individual life of your own child is usually a first step, the next is to love the child yet say no to unaccaptable behaviour and keep a knob on the door incase the child changes behaviour so that you may give love without being drained of love out of frustration first. I see this cognitive dissonance in parents alot. They don't want to hurt the "feelings" of the child, but they don't want their child to continue bad behaviour aswell. It is a huge struggle for them as they often say no to the point that the child cries and then suddenly say yes to unaccaptable behaviour. A lack of clear boundaries will result in more unaccaptable behaviour and codependent relationship. With partners, these kind of relationship have alot of "lies" or "fake boundaries" that they put out there to rationalize their messed up codependant relationship in order to prevent the passion from extinguishing. As you said, sometimes you must let the other be on their own. Take care of yourself so that you have more to give your child when the child really needs it. So that you can be generous continuesly and become impartial with your sharing of happiness. I always say, if you're not happy with the child, don't expect the child to become happy.

You're the reincarnation of 2Pac... Just kidding But you really rap it like you mean it, man. Nice poem. And finally a video that has not been editted! I hate those editting vlogs where people pretend they don't have lungs and don't take a second break to breath. If you want my advice: Seriously, dude. Buy a better mic for better clarity of voice, so that you can add a nice tune or rythm to it. Perhaps change the expression of the poem to any style you want to match a tune or rythm. Some good lightning and appropriate background. You can edit to a certain extend, but do keep it natural like it is now. If you ask me, you can go WAAAY slower with the poem. It is pretty complex, so allow everyone to really feel what you're trying to say. Not just have them engaged intellectually. Remember, you have to win the hearts of the people, not the minds. As Tao te Ching mentions: "use the light, but shed no light." Keep the wisdom for yourself, for wise do not speak. Unless someone genuinely requests your wisdom. Like in my case, I try to give you advice, and you don't even have to listen to me at all! A poem is not intellectual besides for its author. You have to analyze all your poems and abstract them to their core values and keep the poem as abstract as possible, so that people will find diffrent meanings in the same words over time. They will want to keep returning to your poems for self exploration. Your poems are abstract as they are right now, but you can take it even further try to shorten each poem even more without taking its core out. The better you get at it, the more universally understood/accepted your poems will become. Every word is a symbol and should be analyzed for its values and how it relates your core message. For example, You see a clip of a song, where the sun shines, alot of people hanging outside. The love is in the air, people give and receive happiness, but one of those people is the one for you. Thats kinda the intellectualy concept behind this summer song clip, the message we're trying to give. The rap begins in bed, as he steps outside the door seeing all the beautiful people walk on the beach suddenly the refrain starts. This piece of poem will be repeated over and over again and will be remembered by many people. So you have to keep it short but powerful. "Yellow bright... Horizon is in sight! You make me feeeeel SO right!" You choose the happy rythm and melody for this poem. Its just an example of how to abstract concepts and ideas or stories into short but powerful poems. You can say that refrain over and over again without getting sick of it, or having difficulties remembering it because of the rythm and rhyme. You already are great with the rhymes though. Wish you all the luck with your poems! Keep the world awesome.

Wow that sounds really nice. Can you take the patterns you notice in your own solving of difficult struggles and give an example of you go about solving a specific issue that is difficult? Like for example the inner struggle of wanting to be a vegetarian but enjoying meat alot. as a vegetarian you crave for meat and as you eat meat you become nausious. Also, do you personally think it is possible to change your inner nature? Change inner core values/boundaries/ideas/believe/identity. For example, if you think spiders are dangerous, deep down inside, you may feel divided and torn appart if you force yourself to take one into your hand. But I've turned this fear around into fascination towards these little creatures and can now take one into my hands without any fear and even find them cute, especially if they run when they sense your finger nearby.

I've always found this stuff interesting but extremely complex and chaotic. Think I don't understand a thing. When I think of energy, I mostly think about mental fitness, by good diet and sleep and workout. But lets say that I've not slept well, which is often the case, what would a Tibetan Buddhist do in such a case to get refreshed and regain energy? A regular guy would drink coffe or red bull, another would get some quick workout, some may take a cold shower or was their face with cold water. How does a Tibetan Buddhist become energised? He does understand energy afteral, right? Or is a Tibetan Buddhist not allowed to use such knowledge to his own advantage.

I have no idea why, but I would like to meditate in between the dream and waking. This blackness and senselessneas. Just your consciousness and thoughts. To translate that into a location: deep black cold pitchdark floating soundless space. In the middle of nowhere. Away from the earth to infinity. I find that idea peaceful. It is like my own core being shines brighter in such a place. In a lucid dream I was meditating while riding a bike and I entered this nothingness where I could hear my self thinking, continue dreaming or lying in bed. It is like witnessing the dualities, the relativness of reality. This detached mindset was powerful for me as it allowed for more emotional resilience. I could just block out all the negativity by making it conscious. Then refocus on the positive or diffrent more promising set of potentials. Without this detached mindset, the bigger sub conscious picture is not seen and the infinite potential of each moment just flows by like river, where it continues to form an endless waterfall, without you ever noticing this from happening.

When you seek truth, it does not mean information, it means the feeling of "understanding" everything. It is not easy to get in such a state of mind. One way is to die, yes. But there has to be a rebirth aswell. If you can experience the moment before death and survive it, you will feel this truth, understanding of all. It places you in a position of awe for every tiny detail in your life. With meditation this can be achieved aswell. It is the same with lowering your standards. Become aware of all the tiny lame uninteresting senses that is sub-conscious, make them conscious, become more sensitive, be more in the moment feel more alive and see more value in everything. Its like eating poop for 5 days and then a nice hot meal. Suddenly this meal is more valuable. Why? Because value is relative. We can increase the value of our life by increasing our sensitivity towards life. Increasing sensitivity towards life means you start slow first, closed eyes sitting meditation. Later your entire life becomes a meditation, your dreams become a meditation, even reading the newspaper becomes a meditation. You have total 100% control over the value of your reality, and thus have more freedom. Let us say that you read the newspaper and you have more control over your reality, or "focus of senses". Suddenly the bad news section turns your life in a living nightmare. Atleast thats something I personally expect would happen, but it does not have to be a common issue for everyone. I don't see the point in depriving yourself of food and water competetively. It is not something that is a game or battle. It is a personal journey, and you can begin it now. Simply by living at the edge of your own boundary, not someone elses like a master or guru you admire. The most important amount of days a person can last without food and water is the amount of days that you can last without food and water, not someone else. If you die of starvation, you will first loose your mind and not even recall the near death experience? ITs kinda usueless then don't you think? The experience of living at your edge gives you a more clear identity, purpose, values, etc. If you really seek the truth in terms of information I think the closest we can get is physics and mathematics. Those two make most progress towards a bigger more universal truth. How this truth is used by men is another story. But this kind of journey never ends, and some say that the beauty lies in this. You will never find the truth, for it will move away as you try to approach it, like your own shadow in summertime. Its like you finally know "everything" as in you know the entire universe and then suddenly you find out that there are more universes or something... Beautiful, isn't it?

Coulden't have said it better my self. It would be ideal if all students sucked up the wisdom of the sages and then ran away... Around the whole world... Spreading the message of freedom. It's a great thing being able to depend on all the generosity out there. Sometimes I feel like the generosity itself is tje biggest inner treasure one can find. I have yet to find mine. I don't think it is going to be money in my case

Taoist assignment: Seek the beauty in the women above... Her left eyeball (to my right) really brings out her youth, and reflects the inner soul of whomever looks upon it. Like an endless spiral of life within the eternal blackness of the pupil. The grey sprout of hair on the right side of her right eyebrow curves beautifully around her face like an inverse S shape and forms a nice contrast to her natural skin color. The palm of her left hand seems to be soft depending on what your standards are. Her tounge still has its original color if you can look beyond its shape. Oh yeah, I forgot... She has a huge smile on her face! The beauty of innocence, because her smile kinda gives away some shyness or naivite. Depending on which side of the spectrum with realism/idealism you find yourself in. You can witness this beauty to its fullest potential if you find your self being more idealistic of nature. Or maybe if you have schizophrenia or something, that would work too. I woulden't suggest using alcohol for this task though, your logics would then make even less sense then a schizoid patient. Unless you don't mind that... I got it! The beauty in this women is her attractiveness to every gorilla on the earth. She is obviously pre-selected and we should feel attracted to her spontaneously! There are alot of gorilla's out there! Or is that the beauty of nature? I'm sure she has a nature aswell... She is a human afterall... Right? Right?! Now I think I really got it... She caught the attention of the most brilliant photographer on planet earth. Thats sexy... I love her. Can anyone hook me up? No really, I like this women... My practice on here allows me to be really sincere when I do witness uncommon bauty in my life.

Hahaha Ruthless truth? ...This... is... TOOTHLESS RUTH!!!!

Suppression and Repression of Sexuality doesn´t sound positive to me. But it might have a purpose. Males have a feminine nature aswell, and females have a masculine nature aswell. Sometimes being too open about sexuality will lead to panda-like human behaviour like in japan. These males are very ripe, but now face the dilema of prefering to remain sexualy natural and thus have the population of japan shrink... If they do play the game, learn to submit into a certain role of sexuality then we will have some kind of new peace age or something. Which I do see sometimes in seduction communities, but never in the real world. Usually the most attractice men can be very destructive and most atractive female can be very disapointing in personal relationships, since they truely have no sense of maturity whatsoever, neither of them. For me personally, they are both gold for attraction. In sex, being unbalanced in your sexuality leads to attraction and balance leads to neutrality. Some even claim that a feminine male and masculine female might be attracted to eachother but I have to see that one for my self first. Would be interesting... A masculine male becoming feminine, feminine woman becoming masculine and vice versa. These people will have both, becoming natural. They make for great friends and partners, but not for sex and attraction. Where's the baby coming from then?

My interest for something similar came from a therapeutic effect called EMDR psychiatrists use for ptsd patients. I think people are told to focus on a specific emotion and idea that they call the traumatic event memory, then allow their mind to naturally think its way trough this memory while moving the eye balls from left to right. This eye movement somehow processes traumatic events in more useful ways allowing the patient to still remember the trauma but have its value reduced by atleast 70%, often more. It is pretty amazing, because this kind of physical things change the actual hardwiring of the brain or chemistry. Removing the root of the problem, the most significant and earliest trauma, will allow all the other problems to fade away like leafes of a broken tree. The video here reminded me of that. It seems similar to the effects of the eye movements in EMDR technique, My personal experience on this is that we can also just stay as present as possible, trough the use of the 5 senses and then observe our selfs through this present mindset, as if we are the starring character of the movie we call life. In cheap words: increase you awareness. As Taoist put it better then I ever could: "Deal with the past by using the present" or something similar. Notice that how you are emmediatly distracted and carried away into this imaginary dreamland of the past and future the moment you try to think about your memories. There is the ability to recall any moment in your life and still stay present, but it will require little effort on your part to keep yourself present trough the use of the 5 senses. One complex concept I made to help me with this is trying to "observe your perceptions". It's pretty deep, but it really keeps you as present and aware as possible. Works better for me, plus the amount of lucidity you get during sleep dreaming is tremendous this way. This does not cause direct happiness, but it reduces sadness, anger and fear by 70%. Sometimes it is scary how cool you can be. People will get confused and think you are not paying attention, but they're soon proven wrong given your strong energy and respone time when you are absolutely grounded in the present moment. Don't even need to process trauma's or anything like emdr or do weird movements like in the video. This de-switching your brain is not possible with some quick technique but will require some practice I think. Like the practice of "observing your perceptions." I got the concept from my lucidity practice. Recognizing our dreams, we can wake up or continue dreaming with this higher awareness. In dreams, everything is in us. Recognizing the dream in our waking life is a much more dificult one. We often confuse the environment for being the dream, while in a dream your own idea of the environment makes that dream. changing this idea changes the environment. In waking life things are diffrent. Your ideas can change, but the environment is not in your head so it will not directly effect the environment. But all of your perceptions of the environment is in your head. Only your personal reality might change. That is how I made the concept of "observing your perceptions." Where perceptions might be your own ideas and believes of everything, including the things in the environment. When you can see your self being afraid of spiders, you will laugh at yourself, literally. You might even challenge yourself to see what will happen, just for the curiousity of self-exploration. Many people think they're observing themself, but are they really? Are you really? Did you notice you're behind a screen? Where are you sitting on. When did you loose awareness of these perceptions. When you started reading this or earlier perhaps? How does it feel to sit here, how does it smell, taste. Can you observe what you perceive from the corner of your eye and how it is perceived compared to the center of your vision? All these things are gold for increasing awareness, changing brain chemistry, stimulating self-regulating brain parts, etc. TYou'll have to notice the benefits for yourself. It is not a pushbutton kind of technique, neither is it the coolaid.

Alot of people feel helpless for not being able to have any influence because of lack of information. You want to buy green products, but are mislead by "green" commercials that are not really that "green." I watched a video of Daniel Goleman that really brings alot of hope for this current issue. He is the author of emotional intelligence and currently also the author of ecological intelligence. It is basicly industrial ecology, sounds nice. Eventually, it is people that decide to actually buy the recommended products from such organisations of industrial ecologists. But if it is done, I'm sure we can provide more food and shelter for more people on the planet and have less need for warfare to improve economy. Economy is primarily based on resources, but economists often forget this, because consumers don't care either. If you want to see the video, but I must warn you that it is long and not everything may be equally interesting. The site goodguide.com is an example of what we might see more often in the future. Isn't that great? Leave a comment or opinion.

There is no problem with people wishing to get richer all the time. It is one phenomena that is currently taking place which we much accept for what it is. treating symptoms wont help, we have to find the root or cause of this. When we break it down into parts, it is basicly human nature. So not much we can do about that. There's alot of things wrong with the economy aswell. That wont change untill there is absolute chaos. Only then shall people demand change and demand a diffrent way. Just like the Venus Project. Sounds great, but wont happen untill this system collapses. A more slow , peaceful and gradual change is the one to look for. It can only be done if we buy ourselves some time. Reduce the rate at which we destroy the planet for example. Or destroy ourselves even. Industrial ecologists play a big role here. Perhaps we can even one day allow industrial ecologists to examine the proffits gained from war, and decide this way wether we should engage or not. Currently, any war will do and war naturally arises impulsively out of economic necessity. The benefits of war currently outweigh that of not making war. For example, some imaginary terrorist that kills 7 terrorists will be more proffitable for economic growth then a cure for all heart diseases which makes it so that people no longer need health care and have the entire economy collapse. It is not in the interest of health care systems to have a society where everyone is healthy. Neither is it for hospitals or doctors beneficial to have you be completely healthy. A dentist might profit from a slight mistake made in your filling, and having one dentist solve all the dental problems would mean certain collapse of the dentist industry. When you quickly pass for your car licenese exam, who is to proffit from giving you lame lessons that add nothing to the driving experience? It is not profitable for a company to make products that are durable and last longer. Products that die fast or have an artificial life expectancy of a few years (technology makes these kind of things possible) might produce more waste but is more proffitable for companies, because consumers are not informed about all the complex stuff underneath. Consumers are not industrial ecologists. Let them do the job of deciding which products to buy for wise investments. So no, green at the moment does not work because nothing is really green. But it might become green in every possible way. I personally believe that stuff like "venus project" has already failed. Such great ideas should have long been implemented by now, it just doesn't fit the current paradigm of a society ruled by fake political laws and an economic system based on debt. Maybe after a 3th world war the venus project will be considered and I don't even think it is wise for things to get that far. Thats why I see the most potential in this concept of ecological intelligence of daniel goleman. It is basicly a slow shift from current monetary economy towards a resource based economy, and the consumers them selves will help companies do it. On the other hand, postponing a 3th world war would mean that the war will take place on a future time with more technological advancement and thus having weapons of mass destruction become more available for everyone. Whatever happens, I hope for the best: no war at all. Goodguide.com , the site that keeps war in the zoo! ...Not funny? ...Well then, that one was for my own entertainment

Depending on what your defenition of optimism is, people sometimes denie their own sadness, anger or fear. While recognizing the useless negative emotions you can start working your way up. Sometimes the truth is what matters more, but having faith is the extent to which you can believe in positive constructive and sensible ideas so that the negative less useful ones die out or are reduced in value in your mind, eventually. I believethat people really do care if you look in to it. They just care in the wrong way. If information is made more transparant, consumers will not buy destructive products for ever. They just wont. Even Justin Bieber will buy constructive products and support companies that make toothpaste that is good for the environment. If all the processes that happened during the production of a single product is brought to light, people no longer have to shop blindly and frustrated not knowing what to buy. I find my self buying all sorts of weird things and having no idea wether or not it is true what the cover says... How can we know for sure? The things that we buy the most, like lamps, dishwashing products, soaps, clothes, etc... We buy all those things based on commercials made by companies who care about proffit or simply making their consumers and producers happy, since a "nice" purpose seem to work better for companies who would like to innovate. So if destroying the earth will make consumers and producers happy then they do that. When industrial ecologists make all the processes transparant for all to see, people will buy more constructive things eventually. and the purpose of companies will shift towards being more constructive with the health of consumers and health of the environment. The "green" products should be much more accurate and universal, like those with high ratings on goodguide.com. If this kind of thing becomes popular, and people will feel "good" about buying products that help them contribute to a better world, the least that can happen is creating a durable world and healthy society with more economic prosperity. Industrial ecologist are pretty advanced these days. It will require cooperation of the planet as a whole to keep them satisfied and have them rate your products high. So no need to be optimistic. The chances are high that the big companies already plan on developing their ways in order to be the first company that proudly has industrial ecologists walking down their offices when the trend arises. Rumor goes it will happen within the next 10 years already? There is not a better thing I would wish for the future generations. Hell... They might even compete on this specific concept of becoming truely "green" as a company. It is like a competition between the most generous/mercyful people on the planet, who cares what the outcome is. We're all winners with these kind of battles.

I also think that pain itself is not as mysterious as our perception of it. So I did an experiment on my self which prooves the fact that pain is the determined by the amount of focus you give it. Some things in my life requires extreme focus. For example, playing a dificult piece of music on the piano or playing a race simulation. One thought away means loosing 5 seconds of lap time. Another thing is trying to make sense of Bach music, especially fugue´s. The idea is that each fugue is a technique, not a musical piece. The technique teaches how we can evolve music from its current notes to harmonious compositions of several other notes playing harmonies that harmonize. With great focus you can try and follow all the diffrent melodies inside the one big melody and detect new harmonies that you have not yet noticed before. I hope this gives you an idea of how much focus it requires for me personally to follow bach´s music, even though it is not even music to me. The experiment itself: I had a swollen finger, put in hot water first. My limit temperature tolerance. then listening to bachs music, the initial shock distracted me, but having learned great concentration and focus, I was able to tolerate 2000% the usual time after removing my finger from the boiling water out of self pitty. Same experiments done with my small self surgery. The point where the knife cut the layer of the skin above the blood felt a short shock that distracted but afterwards I got my focus back. this time my focus was on my observings while doing the small surgery. So even though I'm looking at my finger being cut, the pain itself I did not feel that much because my focus was on the vision and not the feeling. Even when applying pressure to remove the pus. I did feel sick in the stomach, because I can not observe blood for too long, but the experiment was a succes and worth it. I was even able to control some points where I used to have a reflex, done this tiny surgery before. This idea came from the practice of observing my perception and experiments done with my consciousness. One notable thing is that we might switch from vision to hearing for example, very quickly, but it is almost impossible to hear and see at the same time. Just try out for your self. When you focus on what you see, you no longer focus on what you hear consciously and the other way around. It seems like that anyway... Unconsciously, yes, we do have a focus on all of our senses, but consciously only 1 at a time. It happens really quick, switching from vision to hearing or between any of the 5 senses that most neglect this switch and perceive their senses as if unified during conscious observing. No one ever stops to think, hey wait a minute, now that I am looking, I'm no longer hearing! Because the moment they say "hearing" or even before that moment, their consciousness has already made the switch from vision to hearing. That is why it is so fun to try and focus on 2 senses at the same time. This may vary from gender, not sure. I'm male.

I always laugh at my self when I observe the elusive obvious in any given moment. Just the thought of it. But even more amazing, have you ever pretended to play some comedic role in front of the mirror pretending there is an audience watching. If you do it for 1 hour in a row and like really keep trying and believe in yourself and stick with the character, the last 30 minutes you will choke yourself of laughter. It is an amazing experience that I recommend alot of people. How awesome to make your self laugh so much and continuesly! It really expanded my mind about how humor works.

This topic is an experiment. Everyone here is allowed to create any situation with the "me" character and have something done to him/her by the environment or having him/her do something to the environment. We can call this the Situation. Secondly we can all freely give replies to these given situations and call it our "Authentic Response". In this "Response" you describe a notable or remarkable thing about how you interact with the environment or your self in the given situation that you decided to reply upon. Notable things like thoughts, emotions that rise up, decisions made or a description of the senses. Give your own response to any situation you can pick from this topic, but keep an authentic self(without persona) in mind. A naked self as you will... Lastly, you can decide if your authentic self, natural self or naked self is in alignment with your own personal interpretation of the way, or the Tao. Note your personal interpretation of the way in the moment: "My Tao". I wish to keep as few rules as possible, allowing you to respond with any of these you want, seperate responses or tao's, combined with situations, just situations, in good order or wrong order... You make it up. Also: If no distinction can be made between My Tao and Authentic Response, you can still post the idea. So, lets give an example. ---Example--- Situation: Someone slaps your face, and calls you an A-Hole. Authentic Response: Feeling sadness. Thoughts: "This person hates me." I cry and walk away. My Tao: The action of this person has nothing to do with my personal status in contrast to the other person. I should set things straigth and beat the crap out of this person and send him directly to a nearby hostipal. ---End of example--- Example notes: Your personal interpretation of the way in any given moment does not have to be correct and is open for further discussion. The situation given in the example above is the first in this thread and is now open for replies. Have fun everyone, enjoy the cultivation and don't take it too seriously! If you cannot perfectly translate your thoughts it is completely natural. Now, get wild with your situations! I'm looking forward towards responding to them.

Haha, I did not expect that response at all! Had to laugh so hard, because it was such a surprise. Authentic response: Offer help and suggest we wait for monday. My Tao: Sounds like an intellectual challenge, so I guess we can remain our clarity by noticing that others can do our job, but remaining flexible by offering help to those who are going to do the wrong thing anyway. But I think this is really a personal one, so your Tao is probable the one to go for really.

My Tao: saying: "stop slapping me". Hitting the other person would indirectly lead to me receiving more slaps.

People are looking forward to the new year too soon! Way too soon... 2011 is not that old yet. The end of 2011 is not near yet, the beginning of 2012 is not near yet. 2012 is the beginning of a new age, and an ending of an old one. There is no old one for 2012 to occur yet, along with its fake threat. Thats my theory atleast... Since the future cannot be predicted, basing our decisions on observed patterns keep us less constricted. Lets get wet, cleansing our bodies from any fake threat. Do not fret... How can we regret that which has not even arrived yet! It is, as if one is riding a corvette... When the maximum speed is higher then that of light, you might have the right to regret that which has not even arrived yet. Maybe even forget? If our society is in great debt, all our people will labor and sweat. I'm sure you've heard about it on your radio set. I'd bet! Or you might have witnessed 2012 as some sort of silhouette. Not knowing what will become, once the light shines upon. Remember that which you can regret? Forgive thy self, even though you will never forget. Just don't break a sweat, and don't fret. Oh... And also forget about the corvette. Don't want you to get upset, just because it's not a cabriolet! But rather invest in your soul and buy a cornet. Dude... I'm really wandering of here.