MooNiNite

I used to be able to sit in meditation and see moving geometric figures. I was always amazed there was geometric figures inside my mind and that they are somehow not man-made shapes. 

wang liping talks about seeing images in enter the dragon gate.

There are pros and cons to living in California.

But anyways, No, I don't think anyone can tell you what the hell is going on.

maybe you have to learn to "see" for yourself? 

work hard, sleep hard. 

I have been interested in latex mattress. It is supposed to be an all natural material if manufactured in such a way.

im thinking if it isnt an insulator, I could put grounding material under it and it will give best sleep ever. ever.

On 9/25/2018 at 2:50 AM, MIchael80 said:

Damo Mitchell talks about that in his latest book. Rather than being certain movements these are principles and when used and developed they replenish jing.

Any summaries or insight about these principles? 

I think in other threads people were saying John Chang died? 

Awesome recommendation Seatle! I will buy a pair of those to try them out.

Just an update I have resorted to making my own rope-sole shoes. they are still under construction... 

I would attribute your full head of hair to a lack of nerve damage.

2 hours ago, Marblehead said:

I have none.  The closest I got to one of those was a career soldier.  That was, what?, a lifetime ago.

 

Must be my ancestry.   Look at avatar.

 

Then yes, you do less thinking than most people. 

Think of an accountant, or a salesman and how much thinking they are forced to do on a daily basis.

On 9/30/2016 at 3:18 AM, Marblehead said:

I still have a full head of hair.  Apparently I haven't used my brain too much.

What is your profession?

Never lie. 

Never steal. 

Never borrow.

Always provide for yourself and don't make a habit of relying on others.

Not to say I needed all of this advice. But knowing what I know now, I understand how important each of them is.

Religion is merely a walking stick.

Because an idea can never be completely right or completely wrong...

 disagreeing completely with a person is falling prey to a form of illusion.

One that leads an individual to want to dislike or attack that person, which leads to self-harm.

Giving one's time towards trying to make another suffer is neither productive and leads the other to respond negatively...it is a double negative.

The ego is the root of illusion. It makes a person want to be binary... it is for attention. The ego also wants one to self-sacrifice for another to suffer. 

Falling prey to illusion only leads to time wasted on creating things which lead to harm. 

i think im sensing some emotional energy  in your words too.

“Study,” he said, “is of no use in gaining true knowledge, it is rather an obstacle. All that we learn in that way is in vain. In fact, one only knows one’s own ideas and one’s own visions. As for the real causes, that have generated these ideas, they remain inaccessible to us. When we try to grasp them we only seize the ideas that we, ourselves, have elaborated about these causes.”

-Sakyong 

“Relative and absolute, these the two truths (which) are declared to be. The absolute is not within the reach of the intellect, for the intellect is grounded in the relative.”

–Shantideva 9.2

On 4/26/2018 at 12:24 PM, vonkrankenhaus said:

 

Every "thing" has polarities - existence/nonexistence, up/down, left/right, and so on.

 

Whether we see or think about them or not.

 

"Change" is itself merely the movement between poles of any polarity.

 

So, night/day, beginning/end, and so on, are all Movements.

-VonKrankenhaus

 

But can anything actually "be" a polarity?

Well if you completely agreed with me, I would have to disagree with you. But, since you completely disagree with me (a binary stance), I would still have to disagree with you. 

I dont think anyone's ideas can be completely right because then they would be perfect. Anything that is perfect never changes, by definition. And since everything changes, nothing is perfect. 

On 10/4/2005 at 12:50 AM, sean said:

I am obsessed with this M83 album right now.

upgrades....

Thoughts are binary, and if you disagree, you are being binary. 

Nothing in reality is truly binary because everything in reality is always changing.
 

Therefor, thoughts are detached from reality. 

(P.S. This website doesn't have a philosophy section.)

9 hours ago, Taoist Texts said:

Yes it is. In the entire chinese culture actually.

Can you elaborate? Like how they view ancestors? 

Saying there is a connection isn't very specific, even westerners would say there is a connection. 

I was speaking with a Daoist and one of the things I noticed was that he didn't share the idea that my parents were different people than me. I'm sure i have a misconception of what he meant but he doesn't see them as separate like normal people do. Is this a common theme in Daoism?

Any sources?

probably the best daoist warrior monk iv come across in film.

On 3/17/2018 at 1:38 AM, Nungali said:

Ha ha haaar !    You guys are a crack up .... 

 

save yourselves some time and skip all the fake Lama BS at the beginning of this vid and go to     1:25       ... seriously ? 

 

 

 

It's sort of like hypnosis. People do things they normally wouldn't because their actions are observed by others (and their expectations).

all of the guy's sources were fake news lol.

I think experience is first, but as we grow older, our beliefs begin to shape our experience.

A lot of Buddhists compare themselves to children when talking about an enlightened state.