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Buddha messed up hahah

For all the claims you'd think he would have picked that up... has 10s of millions of people bowing at plastic statues.

If you are happy with half ok people guiding you through life that is your choice

Bruce Lee may be a good example of body + mind

If you want to eat pizza, eat pizza... etc I am just saying it isn't ideal/ optimal

Would you water a plant with coke or rain water?

Would the plant who chooses rain water be making a better choice than a plant who chooses coke.

Based on that alone would you choose to learn from the plant who chooses to drink rain water (ideal to its nature) or the plant that drinks coke (destructive to its nature)

Those Buddhists look and talk like death, the pizza part isn't surprising

So many "masters" who look like death, overweight, smoke etc

I don't go to doctors... but if I did I wouldn't go to one that looked like death for health advise.

For me physical health. robustness/. strength, youthfulness are all part of attainment ...

"Masters" having heart failure... something is missing... in my reasoning... haha... they arn't even intune with their own bodies... how can I expect them to be intune with greater aspects of consciousness.

You'll have to demonstrate my errors otherwise how I am to learn through simple accusations.

I am enjoying this discussion too, I don't find your thoughts rude at all.

What you are kinda saying is that immature people have attained some level of super-natural ability and waste it in coffee shops pulling pranks? and that's "one of the big lessons" ?

I don't doubt such is possible

what rigid preconceptions do you mean?

I wouldn't mix convention and meta ... I think they are the same

If this was a joke of his then ok.

And trickster = being deceptive

there may or may not be value in that

So he either drinks coffee and doesn't have "so much energy"

or he was pretending to drink coffee... to? have a laugh? because people of such ability can only find amusement in tormenting people in a coffee shop.

supernatural trolls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNf0RlzJAzc

haha

Hm Pretty cooooooll..

Pretty funny though... why is a student of high degree in a coffee shop?

If his energy is "so much, etc" ... why the need for a stimulant... seems like a contradiction...

salt, spices, coffee, alcohol etc all stimulants that suppress and destabilize natural energy rise and flow

I'd question peoples attainment who can't resist stimulants.

Any "master" on these things I'd walk away from personally.

Kunlun Kunlun and Gold dragon body

 

One of the highest achievements of doing Kunlun and Red Phoenix meditation is achieving GOLDEN DRAGON BODY.

 

Dragon body is in kunlun what Rainbow body is in Tibetan meditation traditions. Its where so much energy has been attained/collected and at will one can shift from body to emptyness and back from emptyness to body. Like it says in buddhist heart sutra - Form is emptyness and emptyness is form.

 

You may have heard / read in books of tibetan lamas and Indian asetics/gurus who when they passed away at will left the body and what was left was only hair and nails. I have heard that in Rainbow body, the space in atoms of body begins to contract and you shrink to nothing and disappear into light. But in dragon body instead one shifts due to energy and is able to come back.

 

One has so much energy that it may even start to happen itself. Few of high students of Max have attained Gold dragon body. One of his students Kan was in a coffee shop and people saw coffee cup fall down and his arm disappear. There are practices to stop it from happening.

 

http://meetandgrow.com/blogs/kunlun/archive/2009/03/08/kunlun-and-gold-dragon-body.aspx

Ahaha! cool

I really liked the opening scenes of the 1st Hobbit too



I was born in the year of the dragon, does that help?

Is this described in Taoist texts?

The Japanese likewise practiced various dietary abstentions: nikudachi from meat, shiodachi from salt, kokudachi for abstention from the Five Cereals and hidachi or from cooked food (Blacker 1999). Japan’s famous sages, such as Ryosan retired to Mt. Kimpu eating only leaves, or Yosho who diminished his intake to a single grain of millet and then ceased altogether and vanished only to be seen flying like a “unicorn or phoenix” (Blacker 1999). The Japanese have a specific practice, “tree-eating” or mokujiki, to help give up the cereals which consists of eating berries, bark or pine needles. Blacker mentions, Mokujiki Shonin, the Saint Tree-eater, which is applied to ascetics since medieval times. https://sites.google...demons-and-bigu

You could ask one? haha

<p>it isn't that there is no-self/ no doing ... I don't believe... it is just that the awareness is so... that only the action seems apparent.<br />

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And who is experiencing "no self" to say that it is no self... to me this is ridiculous and is either severely lacking in reasoning capacity or is an intentionally deceptive teaching to dis-empower.<br />

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Sometimes when I paint ... you could say I am not there... but I am there at another level without clouds of thoughts or thinking I am.. in that moment I am creating ... I am still present<br />

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Some call this being "in the zone" "in the flow" etc ?<br />

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So we are pure awareness, but we put limitations on our pure awareness to the degree that it is unable to express itself most fully.<br />

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Like a raging river that something has put a dam against and now only a trickle of water escapes... and people think they are that trickle of water completely identifying with that ... when the damn breaks and they experience themselves as the raging river... they have no foundation/ position to see this as themselves.../ overwhelmed by the experience... making illogical statement such as "no self" and going back to the beginning... or less.<br />

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Having access to these levels of consciousness and doing nothing with it. While their country is in abject poverty.<br />

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Even if reality is a dream... why not make it a beautiful dream?<br />

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Then you have someone like Nikola Tesla who is perhaps what a real sage is.<br />

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Uniting Heaven and Earth and attempting to create technologies that would free the world.<br />

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Much more creative... compared to sitting in rags telling people they don't exist (to me this appears to be some demonic (anti-life(creativity) mind**** game) opposite of creativity...<br />

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embracing self annihilation, teaching self annihilation and around them creating deserts.. as something "spiritual" ... for me this is the very opposite of spiritual.<br />

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Spirituality I would define as creativity ... gaining access to such states is to allow greater creativity to flow and to create wonderful worlds.<br />

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When did spirituality get mixed up with nihilism? <br />

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Enjoy, with 1000 blessings

haha

it appears the http://thetaobums.com/topic/36862-spooky-coincidence/ and this thread are converging

Not uniquely a Spring Forest thing. I am a "family healer" (and I am working on certification and "license to touch" so I can safely extend that to "family & friends and others").

 

I agree, something that has been lost worldwide (generally)... and at multiple levels

 

/ Self determination, self responsibility, self sufficiency = freedom

 

Oh... but "there is no self" ....ummm ~ haha

 

We weren't soo... compartmentalized.... centralized... isolated tasks like robots... (unknowing)

 

An adult would have been many things: father/mother, farmer, builder, warrior, poet, mystic, healer etc

 

All the power was within the family/ community

 

governments/ corps/ institutions basically obsolete... or voluntary community ... in matters close to home and not half a planet away... meddling in other peoples lives/ cultures etc.

 

Unfortunately these Globalist/ Universalist ideologies will not cease until the whole world is centralized and under their jurisdiction and supreme understanding... or whatever they believe gives them the right to torment the planet as a whole.

 

One true God became One true Government, One true $cience and One World... etc... all must yield! resistance is futile! love is all there is... hahah

 

 

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,

One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.^[1]

 

Utopia awaits!

 

Can't you feel the democrazy?

 

 

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^ Womens liberation.

 

 

^ Equality

 

 

^ Culture + Freedom

 

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Enjoy the medicine...

 

Sooo....

Hmmm....

There is no such thing as random?

I think the Universe/ Nature is in constant communication with us, differences are in peoples ability to recognize/ understand this communication.

The quicker we are to engage this dialogue the faster we move forward.

I think we are being pulling forward too rather than moving forward as such...

Rather than A to B ... it is C calling to B to become C and so on

Within the Oak seed is the entire blueprint for the Oak Tree/ it's fullest expression is within the seed?

Just with navigating the roads in this realm if you aren't watching the signs you are going to get lost... until you start reading the signs

:Title change to expand potentials:

In Buddhist discussion I was reading how it is hard to get a cat to meditate - humans have a better chance of reaching "liberation"

I'd say it is equally hard to get a human to meditate

Are humans really superior to animals? in intelligence/ spiritual capacity

I recall a very lucid dream in which I was having a very deep conversation with a cat, the cat was the teacher and showed me something very cool.

I do not recall that conversation... just the feeling of it and what was shown/visual

I felt the conversation was very important... this Cat is perhaps one of my greatest teachers... who can say... haha

When I look into the eyes of a cat they bring me into a meditative like state...

Hm I like the idea of turiya

From my understanding Buddhism only aims for 3) the void state of deep sleep ?

I have seen something in similar description to Turiya called "superconsciousness"

What is the 5th state?