Tibetan_Ice

Isn't Nihilism for fools? From The Practice of Dzogchen Longchen Rabjam’s Writings on the Great Perfection REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION:

My statements are just as ridiculous as yours. Smile when the circus comes to town.

There you go, scientific proof. And Lazarus wasn't exactly a fresh corpse.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_of_Bethany

From The Six Yogas of Naropa:

If mind and body were indivisible, as you stated, then you shouldn't be able to transfer your consciousness to a dead body, which is also what the practice of phowa teaches.

Well now I don't believe you anymore. First your write that you have no kundalini, experiences or bliss, on this forum and also on AYP. Then you post all your posts on this forum about trivium and reason/logic and demonstrate a fierce grasping to rational materialism. And now you tell me that you are permanently in a state of unity/bliss/samadhi? What am I supposed to believe? Did you take too many mushrooms? Do you make it up as you go?

Actually, the crown chakra is contains way more than just "direct knowing" or higher intuition. The crown chakra looks like a bathing cap of petals. The petals are all pointing downwards. Each petal, (there are supposed to be 1008 of them..) contains its own siddhi. Direct knowing is just one of them. If you succeed in attaining a siddhi, that petal will point upwards. Up near the center of the head, closer to the top back inside the skull, there is a clear luminous space which can be seen internally after many hours of certain types of meditation, like visualizing a mantra while silently sounding it. This space is the source of all true intuitions. Beyond that space, about a foot above the head, there is a bright star. When knowledge comes from that space, it is always true. It is differerent from thought. It is much faster than thought. Bang, and you know something and you know that it is true. It came "from the top of your head". And, it is very hard to manipulate that space. You have to be "above" the normal thoughts that usually block or veil it. However, I wouldn't call that the third eye vision. When the third eye is open, not only can you see visions, faces and other planes, but if you close your eyes you can see the physical world through the third eye. The third eye resembles an orange red flaming peacock's feather and it sits what seems to be about 2 inches in front of the forehead from between the brows. When you look through it with normal eyes closed, people look like vaporous beings and most people have a large black flame emanating from their navel area. The crown is usually compared to the pineal gland and the third eye is sometimes compared to the pituitary gland. However, the whole third eye, when it is activated seems to be a structure that starts at the medulla area and progresses outwards past the center of the brows. Some say that it is the joining of the circuit between the pineal and the pituitary. That is what the Red Phoenix is supposed to connect (Kunlun). I did years of spinal breathing and even turned spinal breathing into a form of tummo, using the heated mixture (vase breathing) to perform spinal breathing (from the navel to the center of the eyebrows). It was Kunlun that opened up my third eye to the point where I could see the orange red peacock feather like eye beyond the forehead. It is really hard to open the third eye. For me it was a combination of all three practices... Butta shudi mantra, spinal breathing with heat and Kunlun. After a month or so, the novelty of being able to drive my car with eyes closed and the ability to see people as vaporous beings kind of wore off. Although it is very interesting, it doesn't make you enlightened. And there is nobody to talk to about it because I haven't found anyone who has had the same abilities and experiences. So, it can be confusing for most people. It is easy to visualize, to visualize and then jump into it like in a dream, or see faces and inner mind phenomenon and think it is the third eye. Maybe it is a partially open third eye. And there are so many mind functions that occur in roughly the same area of the skull. What is helpful is to spend allot of time watching the mind and learning the different traits of the phenomenon in order to distinguish between them.

I have to ask you then. How do you think Dawg is going to feel when he reads your post in which you deny his enlightenment based on your opinion? Are you more advanced than he is? Do you think that you hurt his feelings when he asked you not to call him "master" yet you persisted? Did he hurt your feelings deeply?

Swamiji says that prana is kundalini shakti. http://www.swamij.com/kundalini-awakening-1.htm When you refer to "meditation" you have to be specific because there are many kinds and styles of meditation. The varied types of meditation address the level of accomplishment, intelligence and capacities of the person. Typically, the tantric types of "meditation" or transformative energetic practices use the breath and energy directed by will and intent, to clear the channels/nadis. Then there is the samadhic styles of meditation which calm and focus the mind. Once the mind is calmed, balanced and focused it is then used to perform inquiry or close examination of phenomenon as in vipassana. Of course, on the journey there are many distractions and it is important to set your goals and stick to them. If exploring the astral realms is your goal, you should choose the appropriate practices. If your goal is enlightenment, then you could start at the bottom and progressively work your way up. Or, if you suspect you may be ripened from previous lives, you could start at the top and work your way down until you reach the level where you are at. Either method can work, and either method could waste your time. It is also good if you can find an authentic guru or authentic teacher, one whom has siddhis so that they can sense your level and give you custom guidance. Typically you should first start out with something that resonates with you, that you are drawn to and have some inclination and desire to pursue. Some of the downfalls you will discover when trying to pick a school of practice... Each one will say that their method is the best. Each one has their own language and culture yet the meaning behind the terms and language that they use may be different. A good example of that is the usage of the terms "awakening" and "enlightenment". In the west, both terms usually indicate a lower level of accomplishment, perhaps the accomplishment of nirvikalpa samadhi once or twice, when in the east, only truly ripe, accomplished practitioners are deemed to have awoken or become enlightened. These are the masters whom can leave their footprints in stone, or perform some kind of miracle proving their mastery. So, some study is warranted before choosing a "school". I would disagree with your statement about prana not recognizing the chakras. Prana is life force and you use life force, intent and willpower to spin the chakras. So, it is important to train the mind, the visualization, intent and will and have them under control as a first step. Prana follows attention.

So you took a course on logic and concluded that you were both the perceiver and the perceived. Well that is fine except there is something that is beyond both the perceived and the perceiver that is not personal. The perceiver and the perceived can be fused together (subject and object) into a state of samadhi and then you will realize that there is something beyond subject and object that was there all along, that is timeless, that is unborn, pure bliss, empty clarity,... Call it what you will.... Oh, and mantra repetition is not "awareness of awareness" as the mind is never still. AYP is the land of the deceived lost souls.

http://thedaobums.com/topic/24351-i-hunger-for-more/?p=351613

Sounds like a typical zen master... Let me guess, must be chan..

What you have touched upon is Nargajuna's interpretation of Dependent Origination, the chariot example. There is also the Pali version which in my opinion, explains another version of dependent origination in a better way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Nidānas

Doesn't believe in the virgin birth of Jesus. Says that Edgar Cayce found old bibles that contained information about reincarnation. Talks about One of Edgar's previous lives when he lived in Egypt. Said that the first 500 years after Buddha would have the pure dharma. After that, the teachings would become corrupt, like Vajrayana..

Absurd and incorrect. Aren't you aware that you are aware? It is the easiest thing. That awareness can be aware of itself is the whole basis for the highest Buddhist teaching of Dzogchen. Wiki: From The Yeshe Lama: Not recognizing awareness is called marigpa and that keeps you in samsara. It is "ignorance" From the Nang Jang: You are traveling in the wrong direction, trying to solidify and grasp at thought, logic and reason. The path to realization lies in the abandonment of concepts, non grasping, discovering what lies beyond. It is not an endeavor of solidifying the veils making them even more opaque as you have been attempting to do in this forum.

You make jokes, but now I don't even believe that you know what one-pointed concentration is nor realize the implications of your declaration. If you could make your mind one-pointed for as long as you wanted, you would have accomplished all the jhanas, realized all the siddhis. If you could focus on awareness being aware of awareness (meditation without an object) for as long as you want, you would have accomplished what most people can only dream of accomplishing. There is something terribly wrong with what you say.

Yes. I was about twenty-nine, and had gone through years of depression and anxiety. I had even achieved some successes, like graduating with the highest mark at London University. Then an offer came for a Cambridge scholarship to do research. But the whole motivating power behind my academic success was fear and unhappiness. It all changed one night when I woke up in the middle of the night. The fear, anxiety and heaviness of depression were becoming so intense, it was almost unbearable. And it is hard to describe that "state" where the world is felt to be so alien, just looking at a physical environment like a room. Everything was totally alien and almost hostile. I later saw a book written by Jean-Paul Sartre called Nausea. That was the state that I was in, nausea of the world. [Chuckle] And the thought came into my head, "I can't live with myself any longer." That thought kept repeating itself again and again. And (then suddenly there was a "standing back" from the thought and Looking at that thought, at the structure of that thought," If I cannot live with myself, who is that self that I cannot live with? Who am I? Am I one—or two?" And I saw that I was "two." There was an "I," and (here was a self. And the self was deeply unhappy, the miserable self. And the burden of that I could not live with. At that moment, a dis-identification happened. "I" consciousness withdrew from its identification with the self, the mind-made fictitious entity, the unhappy "little me" and its story. And the fictitious entity collapsed completely in that moment, just as if a plug had been pulled out of an inflatable toy. What remained was a single sense of presence or "Beingness" which is pure consciousness prior to identification with form—the eternal I AM. I didn't know all of that at the time, of course. It just happened, and for a long time there was no understanding of what had happened. As the self collapsed, there was still a moment of intense fear—after all, it was the death of "me." I felt like being sucked into a hole. But a voice from within said, "Resist nothing." So I let go. It was almost like I was being sucked into a void, not an external void, but a void within. And then fear disappeared and there was nothing that I remember after that except waking up in the morning in a state of total and complete "newness." I woke up in a state of incredible inner peace, bliss in fact. With my eyes still closed, I heard the sound of a bird and realized how precious that was. And then I opened my eyes and saw the sunlight coming through the curtains and felt: There is far more to that than we realize. It felt like love coming through the curtains. And then as I walked around the old familiar objects in the room I realized I had never really seen them before. It was as if I had just been born into this world; a state of wonder. And then I went for a walk in the city. I was still in London. Everything was miraculous, deeply peaceful. Even the traffic. [Chuckle] I knew something incredible had happened, although I didn't understand it. I even started writing down in a diary, "Something incredible has happened. I just want to write this down," I said, "in case it leaves me again or I lose it." And only later did I realize (that my thought processes after waking up that morning had been reduced by about eighty to ninety percent. So a lot of the time I was walking around in a state of inner stillness, and perceiving the world through inner stillness. And that is the peace, the deep peace that comes when there is no longer anybody commenting on sense perceptions or anything that happens. No labeling, no need to interpret what is happening, it just is as it is and it is fine. [Laughter] There was no longer a "me" entity. After that transformation happened, I could not have said anything about it. "Something happened. I am totally at peace. I don't know what it means." That is all I could have said. And it took years before there was some "understanding." And it took more years before it evolved into a "spiritual teaching ."That took time. The basic state is the same as then, but the external manifestation of the state as a teaching and the power of a teaching, that took time. It had to mature. So when I talk about it now to some extent, I add something to it. When I talk about the "original experience" something is added to it that I didn't know then. -Eckhart Tolle

Yes. It seems so. http://www.yogamag.net/archives/1979/haug79/2sides.shtml Ramana also dissuaded people from investigating reincarnation. He may have had his reasons. I think Yogananda Paramhansa yogi knew that he had to blend Christianity into yoga if it was going to be accepted in the west. Yes, Egypt, and also in Europe, and even in Tibet. People love to speculate, don't they? However, the mechanics of the kundalini process seems to be authentic in that video.

For some reason I don't believe you.

Yes you can what exactly?

What I have learned is that most of the time when I'm going to succeed in making the mind one-pointed, it takes about 1 minute from start of the session. Mastery of the process is indicated by the ability to sit in one-pointed concentration for 3 hours and enter that state any time. Forget the samadhi part, just from a concentration point of view, can you make your mind one-pointed on the sensation of the air as it enters and exits your right nostril? It is not child's play as you suggest. It is pretty hard. And you know, the funny thing is that if your mind is one-pointed, you lose track of time, so three hours can fly by in no time at all. And, not sure why you bring up AYP in your responses. AYP does not teach one-pointed concentration as per Patanjali.

If you are not focusing on the sensation of the breath as it enters and exits the nostril then you are not doing what I asked you about. I did not ask you if you could enter what you perceive to be samadhi. There is great benefit to mastering the mind, to train in concentration. It has taken me over a year to gain some success with that technique. I know the steps and components that have to come together very well. Are you saying that you can maintain one pointed concentration on the sensation at the nostril for 3 hours? That that is child's play? I don't want to hear a dismissal that samadhi is pointless, a dead end. For if you have not mastered your mind your claim is just hearsay.

Karl, so that now you have the general instruction, are you going to see if you can reach samadhi? Consider it an exercise in concencentration, an intellectual challenge to test the theory. Can you focus on the sensation of the breath as it touches your nostrils for one consecutive minute with absolutely no distraction? How about two minutes?