Bearded Dragon

1) Nothing wrong with those things. If you learn internal stuff you can put it into the "container" of boxing/judo/whatever. Some arts go internal>external and some the other way around. Doesn't matter. 2) Tai chi takes maybe 10 years to get good enough to apply it. Where hard styles progress quickly in the beginning and hit diminishing returns tai chi starts out with almost no progress martially for a long time but eventually has the potential to massively overtake hard styles later on. Depends what you want. If you want to understand it then you'll have to find a master and feel it. Otherwise you won't understand.

You can do your own thing with your body because you can feel it, you know what ailments you have, etc. What do you know about your energy body? Do you even know what you want to do with it? All these questions need to be answered eventually. What are you actually trying to do with qigong, what are you trying to do with meditation, do you actually know what enlightenment means and what becomes enlightened? It all changes as you go along so you need to keep refining your answers. If you have a good teacher perhaps you don't need answers, but if you're doing it alone then you're going to want to know what you're trying to do.

To be present you kinda, you know, have to be present. If you worry about all these things then you're not present in the moment, you're present in unnecessary thought. Do whatever practices you want but have your baseline as letting go from moment to moment. Set a basic plan then forget about the what-ifs. If you're constantly learning to let go then that can hardly be a waste of time. Don't be too concerned about cutting things out of your life. If you can do it, great. If not then don't worry. If you pour clean water into a dirty bucked it will eventually be clean. In other words as you start to let go things will change on their own. If not then the practice becomes dealing with it.

No such thing as far as I'm aware. Nin means person. It's not the person that's immortal.

The opponent is rather theatrical, that's for sure. In any case I have felt what true emptiness feels like. Firstly, as you apply a force to someone empty it will not even enter their body and bounce straight back. This feels like pressing against a wall of air. There is nothing there yet you can't get past it. Normally you can have someone stand on some scales and see that as a force is applied the weight goes up, but in this manner the weight does not change therefore one can say that the force doesn't enter the body (which seems to defy classical physics). That effect can be added to by spiraling out energy. On one occasion I felt one arm spiraling one way and the other spiraling the other way, and that spiraling energy also felt like pressing against air. It tore me in 2 directions and I completely lost my balance. There is absolutely no way to defend against this unless you can match their emptiness. No techniques, nothing. If your body doesn't take in the opponent's force and you can issue your own force then nobody can stop you and you will therefore hit your opponent every time. This is all you need. Not some idiotic waste of time projecting energy at a distance. Anyone who wastes their time on that deserves to get nowhere.

The best thing to have is what you have right now, because that's all you ever have. You could say that life is like Keith Emerson's synth from back in the day (see below for a picture form of the chaos of life). You just go about your life plugging things into different holes. Bliss is when you plug in a certain way and the notes sounds great. That is not the way. The way is understanding the holes (seeing potential) and then plugging in according to the time (adapting to potential impersonally). So really it's not about markers and it's not about effects, but rather just doing what needs to be done without such a thought of consequence or effect (Because once you've done it there's no going back, so effects are moot). If the free adaptation to potential in present circumstances results in bliss then so be it. Otherwise it's not worth consideration.

Beyond this, beyond that. You get there then want something else. Come onnnnn. Give it up.

Who is seeking who? It's a tiresome question. I don't need to see the engine of the car to drive the car. It's there and it's function is accessible. I know it's there because the car is moving. Why did I want more? It doesn't make sense to want more. That is all I know right now. Searching feels like a dog chasing his tail. Perhaps it's necessary to kickstart refinement, but for me I don't see any benefit in the delusion of aiding a moving wheel.

Nobody can. It's not in the realm of the thinking mind because as soon as you think about it it becomes something. Spiritual people put too much emphasis on this magical nothingness as a thing. The magic is in it's function, not it's comprehension. The function is just acting according to how things are, without adding ideas/bias/etc.

Don Juan mentions it in a number of Carlos Castaneda's books. The initial idea was to talk to plants so that Carlos would lose his self importance. I don't think he ever did it in such a straightforward manner, but he did becoming quite intuitive towards his environment, so at least he had the listening part to some degree. Talking seems to be a matter of unbending intent.

Birth and death is going on all over the place all the time. Thoughts are born, then they die. Emotions are born, and then they die. The death of phenomena is a return to source. Don't start with physical death. It's not an easy one to deal with.

Real knowledge exists right now. From moment to moment you adapt to it and move on. Anything else is entertainment. Do you think that if you can't get past the clinging you'll be a free spirit? Doubt it. I don't care to think about the afterlife but perhaps it will serve as some motivation initially. At some point though, the idea will have to dissolve into the freedom that it serves to mould.

When my housemate was not even 3 years old there was a time when she was crying. I asked her why she was crying and she said she didn't know. It's kind of that age where you start feeling more emotions and are just able to talk about things, yet she had no idea and it didn't seem to bother her at a deeper level. I'm sure she was just overtired and everything was fine not that long after. My point is that you can shit your pants without sticking your face in it.

If you're going to argue a point then at least state the desired effect. This thread has no context.

He just tells it how it is, and he has a very yang personality. Nothing wrong with any of that.

It's nice as long as one isn't trapped on that side of the coin. The only things I really want these days are musical instruments. I feel like I want to buy lots of them. The freedom is that I don't feel like I really need to buy any, and I don't care if my house burns down and they all disappear. This is freedom on both sides of the coin where having stuff and not having stuff doesn't matter equally. I think it's good to renounce things in order to serve the purpose of severing the tie, but after that you can feel free to have whatever you want if it's not going to effect you.

I think this is a silly topic based on a very loose preconceived idea that may or may not be true based on ones own definition of a high level being. Forget about high level beings. It just serves to create separation. "High level" or "low level" beings are able to post the exact same words. The difference is the illusionary idea of the person we imagine to have typed them.

Life is a treadmill that chooses it's own speed. You either run at that speed, try too hard and stack it, or just do as much as you can and drop off when you need a breather. Chaos is when you think you can beat the treadmill. You try so hard for no reason at all only to find that you missed the sight of all the beautiful ladies around you, haha. That is ignorance. Unknowing is doing what you can, without concern. You may have to back off every so often, and that's fine. It's your 100% that you know you can do in that very moment, not the 100% that you think you do when you consult the image of superman in your mind. In giving yourself some space you also give yourself to enjoying the ride. It's anything but ignorance.

His book The Castle is a similar concept in that it's based around him trying to get into the castle and he never manages. I have always been meaning to read it ever since I watched a brilliant Japanese movie called Guilty of Romance which made reference to it.

I don't think you need any advice. You want to enjoy life, women want to enjoy life, sometimes there is attraction, sometimes there isn't. As for meeting people I've never had any luck either, except for when I was traveling around China. It was so easy to meet people. Almost too easy.

Just read her blog. The only difference is there isn't the shitty posts that follow.

haha, I know what you mean. Despite how ideas change it's intellectually obvious that the container of it all doesn't change. Knowing that doesn't seem to make a difference so we just keep changing ideas until something aligns, which I don't think will ever happen.

She has also mentioned that if you see actual light then that's not it. You were right the first time. The metaphor is just that awareness is what makes things apparent, just as light makes dark things apparent. The part that does your head in is that it's like trying to swallow your own head. Swallowing your own head might actually be easier. On what Ormus was saying, I would just add this. If you want you could say that vital energy is actually all of creation, since everything is energy and who is anyone to say it's not all vital? Then the two form a pair of created and non-created, which encompasses everything. In application there is only dealing with created energy, but it comes from a position of essence. This is balance if you like.

If you want to perfectly describe our planet you would need to create a perfect replica of it. But we already have one so.....

Just do whatever is comfortable. By the way, flexible does not equal relaxed. Look at ballet dancers. They couldn't relax to save their lives.