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  6. Posted · Edited by hydrogen

    Thanks. Now I just have to do it. Yes, it's true that people tend not to breathe properly (I know from experience). I think doing the āsanas as best I can... small steps... will be a beginning in stretching, becoming more flexible and fit... fit in a different way.

     

    Btw, how do you mean shaking? I may have missed something, being a little slow on the uptake at times. :D

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrr8yMGCVDc

    I like to hear her moaning :)

     

    After shaking, stand still, close your eyes, feel. This is kind of zhan zhuang.

     

    Do a search here. There are some good shaking meditation tips on this forum.

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    I see that you have thin skin.

     

    In another threat, you mentioned that you had throat blockage. I think they might be related.

     

    The throat blockage may indicate that you have trouble to express your true feeling.

     

    There is nothing to be ashame of what/who you are at now. Everyone is a work in progress. We'd love and support whatever path you take.

     

    Be true to "yourself". Let your truth shine through. Of course having thick skin for criticism helps too.

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    Thanks.

     

    My altar is placed so that I face east when I'm there. If I got into the routine and habit, I'd like to do the Surya Namaskar too. I would chant the mantras while doing the āsanas, making it all part of the morning puja.

     

    good plan.

     

    Shaking is very useful too.

     

    Breathing is important. It seems to soften the tendon when you get Qi going. If not, try to use a TENS unit for half hour, then do the stretch.

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    I have never quoted that person and even more, I don't even know who the person is.

     

    If one were feeling nasty one could say that this is an excellent representation of my ignorance. (Don't say it Cat!!!)

     

    You don't know who Ray See Bliss is!

     

    He's apparently the definite authority on Christianality. Jesus seeks regularly his advice about how to be a good Christian.

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  10. Posted

    I would choose a mantra that can be repeated all the time, even in the midst of activity and it seems to me that OM is

    more suited for contemplative sittings rather than walking or working in the fields.

     

    I sang "Hallelujah" in an American metal hospital, the nurse was nice to me.

    I prayed "Baba nam Kevalam" at Indian restaurant.

    I did "Queen save me" in a Canadian cell.

    I shouted out "Allahu akar" while my muslim friend piloting the airplane. :)

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    I just do "O" from different energy center. Of course it may sound different when the "O" from LDT or from UDT.

     

    1. LDT

    2. MDT

    3. UDT

    4. travel from LDT->MDT->UDT

    5. LDT/MDT/UDT same time.

     

    I'm working on get sound come form my feet now. I don't know if it's possible. But it's fun to try.

     

    The pronouciation is not the key factor. The vibration of the different chakras is.

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    I believe there are two ways of explaining this:

     

    The first one is the "external" mode of explanation: The terrorists hate America due to its recent foreign policy, which they feel has terrorized their homelands.

     

    The other is the "internal" mode of explanation: Terrorists hate, because they hate. If you look at history, you will see that Islamic history is full of examples where terrorists have done vile acts born out of a mix of religious fervor and hate. Terrorists in Algeria hate the secular Algerian government, and have been waging war against it for decades. Egyptian islamists hate the Christian minority in their country, and have been terrorizing and discriminating if for centuries (try and google "Egyptian Copts" and you will see). Christian schoolgirls are beheaded in Indonesia by Muslim extremists while on their way to school..

     

    Why? Because of American foreign policy? - No. Because they hate. People with a medieval right/wrong, black/white view of morality will sometimes do fucked up shit like that.

     

    Both of these perspectives have to be considered when analyzing why terrorists hate, in my opinion.

     

    The nationality of 911 terrorist: 15 were from Saudi Arabia, 2 from the United Arab Emirates, 1 from Egypt and 1 from Lebanon.

     

    And American ivaded Iraq and excuted the leader of that country.

     

    Talking about madness and "People with a medieval right/wrong, black/white view of morality will sometimes do fucked up shit like that."

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  14. Posted

    In noticing Original Nature or the quality of that which is Present we also draw closer to a Knowing, a Wisdom that underlies our thinking and is rooted in that timeless, spaceless, empty-fullness. So a sage is one who lives, breathes and speaks through that knowing, that settledness, that tranquillity.

     

    Is that personal experience, or being told by a "sage" in person, or pure speculation? Thanks.

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    I only say what I say because it comes from my personal experience. I recognize my mind in your mind - your mind is incredible - you have the mind of a scientist or something close. I have the mind of a detective. It is very tricky to shut down minds like ours but it must be done, because we can't Think our way into the answers on this one. We're very clever about fooling ourselves and letting ego be the master of our thoughts.

     

    If, at some point, the inner journey isn't taken, then the journey is only half finished. A person can start taking the inner journey, the self-cultivation, by merely reflecting on our own behavior day after day - how could I have been kinder today? Did I say something I should apologize for? What are my real motives for doing what I did? Follow the real motives to the bottom, the underlying selfishness. See it all for what it is, all the contortions, and the awareness of them will straighten them out. It is only after the clearance sale on the inside that we can truly see our part in everything that happens around us and a different type of clarity is achieved - a clarity that can't be won by thinking. It's a clarity arrived by placing one of the legs of the tripod within your cleared-out self, because your cleared-out self is the same self we all possess; only we let the dross accumulate on top of it and warp it.

     

    I know I am being a pain in the arse here and nobody wants to hear it. But it is the only way down the emotional path to the One. The cerebral path alone won't get you there.

     

    Best wishes

     

    I did something similar but in different fashion for while. It seemed to work well. I'm too lazy to do it nowadays. I might give it another try.

     

    Lying on my bed before going to sleep, I play my day event backward. Like watching a moive, I try not to judge. If I want to stop judging others, I have to stop judging myself first. I pick up one thing make me feel good about myself. I bath in my own "glory" and drift to sleep.

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    That's so funny,...thanks for the morning laugh.

     

    A Truth Realized person would put it another way,...like this fellow from Canada:

     

    "Waking up is not necessarily pleasant; you get to see why all this time, you chose to sleep.

    When you wake up the first thing you will see is Reality does not exist for you, you exist for it. Shocking as it is when you let it in, there is rest

     

    You do not have to labor anymore to hold together a reality that does not exist; forcing something to be real that is not real.

    You and this life you have been living are not real ..

     

    In letting it in, even through the shock... pain... shattering, there is rest.

    Reality is when all you want to know is what is true ...just so that you can let it in and be true.

    Reality is not a safe place for you - the you that you have created.

     

    It is the only place where you would die; where there is no room for your hopes, your dreams.

    Once you have let it in, once you begin to re-awaken; to let Reality wake you up, nothing can get it out. That is the beginning of your end.

     

    Waking up can be much more painful than the agony of your dream, but waking up is real."

     

    I think there is BIG difference between awakened person and enlightened/reliazed person.

     

    An awakened person find out the first hand that the reality was an illusion.

     

    An enlightened person can manipulate the illusion.

     

    I think you might have used the two words interchangeably.

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  20. Posted

    The age-old saying that if you want to practice zen, look into your kitchen sink and your toilet first, is very true, but I think zen goes overboard in making it TOO ordinary. Personally I go directly to what will inspire me most. What would make today an 8 out of ten? What would I have to focus on, think about, and work at? Okay, having established that, what would make today a 9 out of 10?

     

    Be generous in marking?

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  22. Posted

    Are we back to moi pai thread again? :)

     

    The importance of celibracy? I don't know because I didn't.

     

    Can we go back to the topic please?

     

    After one obtaining the golden pill, does one have to wait for nine years or more for the "fetus" to grow? Can one loose the pill if one doesn't practice taoist yoga afterward?

     

    I'd like to hear personal experiences please.