wilfred

i always thought of it as one and the same and 'karmic momentum' being layers of energy, more than anything. i think the various qualities associated with 'ego' are just ways of describing clumps of incoherent energy. an intellectual understanding, if you will.

life is a felt experience after all, refining how we're feeling is the name of the game here. ideas/views are an obstruction more than anything and while context is helpful in the beginning, letting go of that stuff is fundemental to progress.

welcome!

there's 2 more seasons, with 7 or less episodes per series. they might increase it a little but we'll see, it definitely won't be 10 a piece.

not sure if anyone here is aware of FOFOA but his blog makes the most extensive, detailed case for gold out there. about 8 years worth of writings, extensively maps out economic history in relation to gold and the probable future - a 'freegold' system. lots of reading required to get a grasp of the core arguments, but well worth it for the more academic/philosophically inclined. fofoa.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/the-debtors-and-savers-2016.html

yup, here's the piece. i also posted the original video in the main thread, the stupidity of the BLM supporter was quite astounding 'she's from europe!' lol

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they told you you couldn't wear shorts you said you can so you did.

definitely something to do with the gold and the documents in building 7 that became highly relevant after 2008. not to mention those who made money off the insurance.

that has nothing to do with whether what he's saying is true or valid, only whose interests may be served to proliferate said information. besdies, like i said, he's been commentating on markets long before his RT show and the link is from his own podcast. i was listening to him long before RT and it doesn't change a thing with the accuracy of what he's been saying.

if only everything were so simple - blame the source. fact is RT is the only outlet that will give commentators like him any airplay. there's nothing particularly pro-russian about his outlook besides the fact he's picking apart the western elites financial system. he's been talking about markets the last couple of decades from the perspective of an ex Wall Street banker, long before RT, and been highly predictive about the mess that's unfolded. he really gets how this stuff works and does a great job of explaining it.

latest truth about markets episode, max keiser zooms out to put it in perspective of global financial markets. always worth a listen: http://www.maxkeiser.com/2016/06/the-truth-about-brexit/

one good thing to come of this is liberals are showing their true colours in spades but trump is hitler?

liberals are tearing their hair out, it's very entertaining. many are saying it shouldn't of gone to a vote ie democracy is good when it goes their way. how dare all those stupid ignorant people have a say! i didn't vote.

meditation is a large field with many different types of practice yielding different effects. anapana is a pretty safe one in my estimation, only thing to be aware of is it builds energy in the central channel and without the appropriate level of grounding you may end up with too much energy in the upper body/head. if you're paying attention at the nose/nostrils this could certainly be the case. not being able to quieten the mind is normally related to not being grounded in some form or another. a recent thread on this topic: http://www.thedaobums.com/topic/40540-grounding/ where are you based geographically? if it's in the states i'm sure fellow bums may have some recommendations. if its europe i may be able to help, or at the least my group run online courses that provide a pretty thorough foundation to meditation. peace!

the fact the OP wants a large sum of money in exchange for their information and this is their first thread on the forums does not paint them in a good light. it would be best if anyone trying to sell something is up front about it.

is there a particular practice your teacher recommended? without a teacher you could be working on the wrong thing or going backward even, depends whats going on with your energy.

absolutely, on one level everyone is already 'aware' of everything but not mindful enough of things to be conscious of it. it's a faculty of mind my teacher calls 'direct perception' and can require quite a bit of training to bring online. different people have different degrees of clutter to clear before they'll feel much energy. or a certain amount of vital energy required to raise their mindfulness up. without getting too esoteric, experience with the part of us that's already aware of everything (stillness, emptyness, clear light etc) is another thing that can help boot up this perception faculty. once that can be noticed and identified as the constant, the gaps between and details of everything else become much more clear. there's also the idea that at its sqaure root all energy breaks down into elements and it's important to train the mind to be able to discern these different elements and their corresponding qualities. not totally unlike learning a language, in fact. this is a foundation for vipassana practice when it comes to investigating the nature of mind/reality.

http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/articles/the-five-hindrances-handouts/the-hindrance-of-sloth-and-torpor/

i think the part where the whole 'chi' issue gets interesting and diverges from scientific understanding is when you can feel energy external to your physical body. ie you have a field around you and can directly percieve objects that come in and out of it. how energy is resonating beyond your limbs with certain movements in internal arts etc. not sure how common this is, but was true for myself not long after starting meditation etc. seems that with further cultivation and refinement this field expands and you can also 'read' energy in it more precisely. the idea in buddhism (at least some branches) is that this ability to percieve energy directly is a primary tool for understanding how this 'reality' is just a bunch of energetic processes and breaking your attachments to it. when someone gets angry at you, instead of 'they're mad at me' it's more 'oh i can feel a bunch of energy coming off this person' which in turn is triggering some type of energy within yourself. hopefully there's less of a reaction that way, it's being more mindful of what's happening at an energetic level. more advanced people would be able to feel energy directly within the other persons body in the first place, knowing exactly what to expect. so it isn't that a person is a dick etc but they have lots of cold aversion energy in their liver, for example. it's easy to take things less personally when you can feel directly whats going on. it might be a bit of a stretch for less developed people to believe, but that's how it works.