konchog uma
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Falling in love and other spiritual tests
konchog uma replied to Nikolai1's topic in General Discussion
i dont think it sounds like "love".. more like infatuation or a crush agree with oldgreen, and strongly reiterate let it go its a sign that you need to reconnect with your partner, fresh it up a little, take a trip, get more open or honest, i dunno i dont know you two just throwing some typical ideas out there. Seems like its time to renew your appreciation for her tho -
Falling in love and other spiritual tests
konchog uma replied to Nikolai1's topic in General Discussion
no kids and never been in a 9 year relationship but its happened to me that someone else (especially young foreign women wtf) will seem much more attractive than the woman i go home to. seems pretty normal. why not just be honest? if you cant be honest with your partner, which is understandable, but regrettable, then be honest with G. If you can't do that, at least be honest with yourself. Or keep being honest, as the case may be. Let it pass. It'll pass -
great movie
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Do a google image search for "yoga injury"
konchog uma replied to Flolfolil's topic in The Rabbit Hole
thanks for posting this, my meditation teacher (buddhist/dzogchen) got a huge laugh out of russian yoga -
Happy Birthday!
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the self-reference is part of the joke im glad somebody got it
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my last 3 girlfriends are scorpios hmmm
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interesting.. my pluto is 12 degrees from my sun, both libra... not quite conjunct but close
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you're welcome to think what you want about it, and to express your opinions as loudly as you want. im not insecure about siddhis and i never claimed special virtue or mentioned ego. i have my own reasons for not talking about that stuff, and thats my business. people either understand or they dont... you aren't the first
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so much i could say especially about causing harm to others! aaaa but i have the paranormal power not to talk about my paranormal powers i'm also a libra/scorpio cusp and my girlfriend is a scorpio and yes its supernatural at all times
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wow, that has got to be the punkest thing ever. keep it down before G.T. Dave's starts putting borax in their kombucha guys i am not making fun of you - i drink only super-filtered water - and am in the middle of a cilantro and chlorella heavy metal cleanse at present.. just so we're clear. i think its great. its just funny too.
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im not saying its right, or that G.Hancock is wrong, but wtf did he think was going to happen if he gave a talk like that? TED isn't the platform for those thoughts. Its great to be passionate about what you believe in (like the healing power of sacred plants) but its also good to have discretion. Things like entheogens are self-secret.. you can tell someone all about them and how great they are, but if they aren't ready to hear you they will demonize you and make you into a drug-addled lunatic in the media or wherever they can. I'm glad ayuahasca helped him kick pot... he's a good mind, and being stoned 24/7 is a waste of time and money. drew: thanks for the link, interesting article. i listened to the beginning of the JRE clip and was surprised that TED sucks so much. And i would expect them to suck considering their exposure level.
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What non supernatural powers do you have?
konchog uma replied to thelerner's topic in General Discussion
am working on lucid dreaming, but really that's nothing compared to attaining the supreme power of avoiding internet arguments -
"Clear light is defined in most texts as the unity of emptiness and clarity. It is the pure, empty awareness that is the base of the individual. "Clear" refers to emptiness, the mother, the base, kunzhi. "Light" refers to clarity, the son, rigpa, pure innate awareness. Clear light is direct realization of the unity of rigpa and the base, of awareness and emptiness." "We lose the real sense of the clear light as soon as we conceptualize it or try to imagine it. there is neither subject nor object in the clear light. If there is any identification with a subject, then there is no entry into the clear light. Actually, nothing "enters" the clear light: the clear light is the base recognizing itself. There is neither "you" nor "it". Using dualizstic language to describe the non-dual necessarily results in paradox. The only way to know the clear light is to know it directly." -Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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i haven't gotten to watch those talks, and won't have time for a little while, but i am wondering, who banned them exactly? were they banned in Argentina, or by TED, or by some parents group? can someone clarify?
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me too. its also the reason i don't do drugs or drink.
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Everyone post some favorite quotes!
konchog uma replied to GrandTrinity's topic in General Discussion
"We need a deeper understanding of what the dream is, of what experience is, to truly utilize dreaming as an approach to enlightenment. When we practice deeply, many wonderful dreams will arise, rich with signs of progress. But ultimately the meaning in the dream is not important. It is best not to regard the dream as correspondence from another entity to you, not even from another part of you that you do not know. There is no conventional meaning outside of the dualism of samsara. This view is not a giving in to chaos: there is no chaos or meaninglessness either, these are more concepts. It may sound strange, but this idea of meaning must be abandoned before the mind can find complete liberation. And doing this is the essential purpose of dream practice. We do not ignore the use of the meaning in dreaming. But it is good to recognize that there is also dreaming in meaning. Why expect great messages from a dream? Instead penetrate to what is below meaning, the pure base of experience. This is the higher dream practice - not psychological, but more spiritual - concerned with recognizing and realizing the fundament of experience, the unconditioned. When you progress to this point, you are unaffected by whether there is a message in the dream or not. Then you are complete, your experience is complete, you are free from the conditioning that arises from dualistic interactions with the projections of your own mind." -Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche from The Tibetan Yogas of Sleep and Dream -
Do a google image search for "yoga injury"
konchog uma replied to Flolfolil's topic in The Rabbit Hole
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rv, im not sure what youre getting at. Its less simple to say it that way, in word count anyway. It seems semantic, except that in rare cases, there are those people who have devoted themselves to study and practice and logged the retreat time that lamas typically have etc. In that case (which i am not personally familiar with) i guess it would depend on if they had achieved a state of mind which allowed them to introduce students directly to the natural state. I have been given empowerments, guidance, transmissions etc by westerners which were effective. Surprising even. But nothing like the experiences i have had with my lama... he is electric... so i am only speaking from my own point of view here. I haven't had any experience with people who have the indefatigable qualities of a lama who weren't actually lamas not sure that answers your question but there is a lineage energy beyond someone's personal energy that a lineage holder taps into adn carries at all times. Being a lama might be qualitatively different than just having meditated and studied a lot, but im not %100 sure
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without looking at the issue in terms of superior and inferior, its true that the Tibetan tradition of lamaism is based on the lama's ability to give empowerments, guidance, and to transmit the experience of the natural state. So its not without basis. Its also true that its entrenched in dogma and antiquity and, from a certain point of view (which i believe is where you are coming from ralis) could use an overhaul in order to make it more accessible to those who do not have the need for the trappings of a guru (putting the lama before all others, making prostrations to the lama, and other trappings of lamaism that strike westerners as strange)... and i think its good that the dharma spreads in the west moreso than that bunch of Tibetan men get to maintain their time-honored traditions and religious fetishes. But i think that the lineage of ridgens or vidyadharas who can awaken others is valid, and not because it reflects a need for divine intercession, but of human intercession. Its a practical thing, not something you need faith to practice or belief in what can't be proven. The benefit of a qualified teacher is tangible, quantifiable. A person may be able to achieve realization without one if their karmic conditions are right, but a lama makes an incaculable difference.
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rising with my breath the hillock of my belly undulates gently
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Why do People go to Church, Synagogues, Temples, etc?
konchog uma replied to Vmarco's topic in General Discussion
mathematics can express the sacred, and buildings are built based on mathematical proportions. it is quite possible that a structure can evoke the sacred, and this is why most temples are built with sacred geometry as their basis. -
Why do People go to Church, Synagogues, Temples, etc?
konchog uma replied to Vmarco's topic in General Discussion
thank you for the interesting video cat.. i liked the guy that came on in the last 5 minutes best i can only speak for myself, i go to temples because the experience i have there is qualitatively different than meditating alone at home. Places of religion absorb a certain atmosphere of calm and tranquility which seems to seep into the walls and radiate outward to those in the rooms. I like the art and colorful thangka paintings, the smell of incense, and it reminds me of the community of practitioners whom i appreciate, even when i am there alone. I don't really go to church or synagogue, but i imagine that those are places where people find some kind of inner peace or at least quietude, which might be all they get as far as spiritual experience goes. Worshiping christ on the cross isn't my thing, nor am i jewish or muslim, but as so many people have pointing out before, it helps many people to connect with virtue in that way. religions are a two sided issue, there is great good in their ability to lead people towards virtue and fellowship in the spirit, and there is great harm in their polarization of people into aggressive zealots. So there is more to the picture than any one sided portrait of it, like the one found in the OP, could paint. Religions are powerful, and that deserves to be looked at, even if it is decided that their power lies entirely in the ignorance of humanity, we certainly could learn a lot about ignorance by examining religion. Writing it off as folly can be a cop-out, the end of a dialogue where one should just be beginning, as Alain de Botton illustrated in his talk. the harm of religion comes from thinking things are a certain way and never looking beyond that with the open eyes of a beginner to see if you are right or wrong, or what other possibilities can exist. And the harm of views like that expressed in the OP is the exact same.. so whether one takes the view of religion or anti-religion, their minds are probably encased is dualistic vision and are unable to encompass the naked truth that everything exists because it has its purpose and lesson. Instead of blind rejection, one could adopt an inquisitive attitude and wonder why humanity has always created religions? what is it that is "there" that causes people to come together in this way? i think its very fascinating -
first cousins are directly related so technically its incest but its legal in the US to marry, and in many other countries i think complications can arise if it goes on for too many generations tho.. i've heard of kids in the hills of a state that i will not name who have very light skin and a tendancy towards birth defects its actually only a recent development in history that cousin incest is considered taboo.. it was long accepted as i understand it, but i can't put a date on that.. you'll have to do your own research if it interests you
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Hi Jax, thank you for the explanations. When i experienced direct introduction it was as you describe, a collapse of the waveform of my consciousness and an expanse into space or spaceousness. It was immediate and transformative. I am not negating anything anyone else says, only sharing my experience to confirm that in my case, it happened that way. i believe that for some it is gradual, and for some it is direct, so I am not saying my way is the best way or the right way or any nonsense talk like that. A question: how does rigpa relate to clear light in your understanding?
