Jonesboy

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  1. Extreme heat sensation like fire or lava

    Congrats What you are experiencing is normal. You will experience a lot of stuff. Heat, itching, crawling sensations, wind blowing against you, visions, etc.. It is all very cool very normal and nothing to be afraid of. The most important thing is when you are doing your practice is to let them all go. If you start to have such an experience treat it like a thought in meditation. Let it go and focus back on your practice. The "cool stuff" is just a distraction taking you away from your practice, from the depth of your practices that brought about the changes you are experiencing. After your practices feel free to explore and enjoy such things but during practices don't get lost or distracted. Your description of the event shows how once you focused on it, it went away. Good luck on your path.
  2. Time limit on editing?

    I propose that we put a time limit on editing and the deletion of posts. It is really sad to look up some information and see half a thread filled with deleted posts. What is wrong with 24hrs to edit or delete a post?
  3. Is the USA now a rogue state?

    Ok, so we agree to cut our c02 and kill coal for instance. Meanwhile China, Russia and India each get to double there coal mines/plants and c02 emissions? It does nothing to help the climate but transfer wealth from the U.S. to other countries. Just plain silly.
  4. What does this mean?

    I have found that what one thinks of as negative energy from others is energy hitting on shared issues. If you didn't share the obstruction the energy would flow on through. It would have nothing to hit or get stuck on or feel negative. What I have found is when you experience those moments use them to work within yourself. Reside in the feeling of that energy, let go of the mental stories and just reside. It is that residing beyond the mental stories and with the obstruction/energy that allows one to let go of the issue/obstruction. Good luck and all the best
  5. No-Self? Who or what is reborn?

    That is dualism.. All there is, is light. It is a path to that realization but eventually we realize light is everything. Until then we are stuck in duality.
  6. Form and formless are one and the same. The body is energy as are all "things". So I would agree with 3bob that transcendence reaches all things. How could it not?
  7. My enlightenment experience.

    Hi Wstein As far as I know bliss is a part of ones divine nature and far from a dead end. The compulsion to teach is another form of bodhichitta and is no way an indication of not fully being. Not all beings are called to teach, but there is nothing wrong with teaching.
  8. The prison of beliefs.

    Thank you, What you are saying is one is being swept away in the energy of it. True being doesn't matter if one is thinking or not. Thoughts don't hinder anything. They are non attaching.. just energy which is you. There is no being swept away to different levels of being. If one is still thinking that one has to have a silent mind they are still missing half of the puzzle. Expressing that state of being to others is a what? To them it is a belief because they haven't experienced it or are it. That expressing or thinking or talking doesn't take one out of the present moment either.
  9. The prison of beliefs.

    To me beliefs aren't bad. It is the attachment to them where one runs into trouble.
  10. The prison of beliefs.

    Bhakti literally means "attachment, participation, devotion to, fondness for, homage, faith or love, worship, piety to (as a religious principle or means of salvation)". Bhakti, faith, belief... it is all the same
  11. The prison of beliefs.

    That sounds nice but that is really not true. You don't have to believe in a practice but once it starts to change your life do you not believe it then? To continue to do a practice or a set of practices or to follow a tradition is to believe in the continued results one feels from those practices. Belief isn't a bad thing
  12. The prison of beliefs.

    Trying to split hairs If you are practicing anything it is a belief in those practices until of course meditation and life become one and the same. Then it is a being. You believe in those practices and do those practices.. it is still a belief that those practices will do something.
  13. The prison of beliefs.

    Faith is another word for belief.. no matter how rosy you try to make it.
  14. Speaking of which... Here is an interesting quote from The Doctrine of Vibration He goes on to say:
  15. The prison of beliefs.

    Isn't this a belief? Beyond I would say is being and the ability to share that which is beyond thought.
  16. Unplug from the Matrix

    Hi SOK, My question was more to gauge your level of depth and understanding. I am happy to move beyond philosophy anytime. You are free to visit me anytime or check on me if you wish As to the rest of your comments about women... Let's just say we disagree.... a lot! Have a good day, Tom
  17. Unplug from the Matrix

    lol, For someone that likes to quote Buddhist and Taoist stuff you haven't learned that there is only essence? That the separation that you see is that of the local mind? I could quote you tons of Buddhist and Hindu stuff to prove my point but I don't think it would matter to you. How would you like me to prove to you that we all share the same true nature? As far as women is concerned, you haven't proven your point, only stated a misguided opinion. Power comes from ego, perceived or not.. it's all ego.
  18. Do these practices lead to Demonic Possession?

    Very cool, I would say the same thing has happened when calling out Buddhist deities as well. I would bet that most of that reporting is from western christian countries. Have you ever researched the results from NDE in Buddhist countries? 3 Calling any being of the light especially one like Jesus would upset them. Makes sense. Yes, a demon can enhance such abilities which would lead the person to desire them. Hence feeding the demon you could say. The abilities themselves are not bad and with continued depth the person could realize them without the demon presence. New Age hippie love is basic teachings of Jesus without the church.. Love everyone man The secular media isn't about hippie love it is more anti religion in general. All the best, Tom
  19. Unplug from the Matrix

    We all have the same true nature. To see anything different is again to look through that colored lens I mentioned earlier. To talk about how women's power comes from men and can't come from within is seeing things from a slanted ego. You are not seeing them as they are but from a place of hurt or insecurity. When people talk about the opposite sex and the power of that sex it almost always comes from a source of insecurity within themselves. Power is always ego related.
  20. Unplug from the Matrix

    Do you think that seeing women in such a way is more showing your hurt, pain, obstructions and is far from seeing reality as it truly is but more from a clouded lens? As a true seeker wouldn't such thoughts and emotions against others be a clue of what one needs to work on within themselves?
  21. Learning to surf the Ocean of energy

    Hi LimA, I would say that: Light = Ocean, which is body, mind, energy. It is all light. I have realized that I am Light to a degree that I can share it or better said when someone connects to me they can experience it also up to their level of purification. Because of that I don't check people out or do anything without permission. Even when I work with someone every step I take I ask permission.. each and every session.
  22. Eventually meditation and life becomes one and the same. Beyond being an example I am not sure why a Buddha would need to meditate.
  23. Learning to surf the Ocean of energy

    lol, Only with permission
  24. you are not your body

    This woman is living without a cerebellum. How is that possible? https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/9/12/6136647/cerebellum-missing-brain-woman-explained-hemispherectomy I guess we are not there either...
  25. you are not your body

    Where in the brain are you then? I have seen people with no left brain working.. no right brain working, no medulla oblongata working.. Where are you in your brain if you are not any of those parts of the brain? I would also disagree with you on immortals and the like...