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Oh man I know. When I need help with it I think of the following song.

I think Flowing Hands TTC is very, very good.

I thought the teachings were to humble yourself. Where does it show to humble others and test their mettle? That seems the exact opposite of the teachings.

Isn't cutting people down about power? I didn't report you, nor does anything you say to or about me offend or bother me. For someone who doesn't like low places you sure are digging a hole...

My mind is pretty empty therefore it doesn't have much mumbo jumbo in it.

The cup is Qi as is everything you put in it. It is up to you to realize it.

Heck I thought Daoist Immortals could fly.

To truly connect to the Divine I believe one must be open to the 7th chakra. Can it happen before that? Sure but rare I would think. I don’t really think one can teach another powers, it is more they clear away the obstructions that was keeping it hidden. Do you just think it is not possible to connect to the Divine or to another person in a powerful way or is it more for you about all the dangers you perceive doing so?

To me such pain is more the energy from the divine hitting upon your obstructions. Think of it like the Divine is trying to help you but the energy is hitting upon issues you are holding onto tightly. Hence the pain. If you let go, the pain will go away and expansions often follows.

You can know and there are many examples of Divine beings providing teachings. Buddhism is filled with many examples. I have also seen many examples of people thinking they are taught by God or some some Divine being and be very caught up in it. Often in such relationships the person believes they are very advanced and savior like. What I find happening is the mind translates the light, 3rd eye sight. Based one ones depth an astral being may appear as an angel or even a famous guru based on ones belief structure. So I agree there are dangers or more that one should be cautious of what one sees. With that being said there are wonders, the Divine does like to help and I have learned to not be so dismissive of things.

Hi flowing hands, Karen does not have any issues with you because you and I disagree about climate change. I had actually forgotten about the entire discussion until I had read this post. It is true I disagree with your view on politics, history, climate change and even your interruption of the deeper meaning of the TTC. Who cares? I assure you Karen doesn’t. Just so you know Karen has suspended me a few times Anytime where people were personally attacking me and she felt the need to defend me she has always recused herself as a mod. I can assure you our discussions in no way rise to that level and I am troubled to hear that they still bother you. My advice would be to use such discussions on the forum that upset you as a tool to work on letting go. As you know if you are caught up, attacking others, projecting motives onto others when you know nothing about them it is time to stop and work on ourselves. A Sage is detached from such things, not caught up in the emotional upset. I truly wish you the best and have no ill feelings towards you.

It really depends on what that is in reference to. One teaching is the gap between thoughts. That leads to quite mind which is an expansive no movement experience. Another example that I thought was much more powerful and was taught to me as part of a Mahamudra empowerment was the mind during mindfulness. With mindfulness we observe our thoughts . Now to explain this I will use a common experience in meditation using the breath. We focus on the breath but the mind will all of a sudden take over and we will find ourselves lost in some thought or daydream. The mind is taking over, it wants to be active. I will repeat that last part the mind wants to be active. With mindfulness while we might be observing, the mind is focusing, being active, noticing every thought that arises. A thought arises and the mind is drawn to that thought. It becomes active to notice the thoughts. Your movement. The next step is to be like the sky, to let whatever arises, arise without the mind taking over to notice, to focus, to engage in whatever thought is passing through. That to me is meditation without the slightest movement.

That is while one is on retreat. Even Vipassana is about the Dharma and knowing the teachings. The lama is an expert on the teachings and the practices. One aspect on learning and reading is to not think you have arrived, to keep practicing, to gain inspiration.

Even your site only has records from 1979. That is a very short time to declare the sky is falling. In recent years Ice has been growing. Arctic sea ice volume continues its eleven year long expansion. Spreadsheet There has been a large expansion of thick ice into the Chukchi, Beaufort and East Siberian Seas since 2008. 2008 2019 Arctic sea ice extent is close to the 1981-2010 median. N_daily_extent.png (420×500) Experts describe this expansion of Arctic ice and normal levels of ice as being a melting death spiral, which is wreaking havoc on weather patterns. They say the Arctic is gone, and ask what “we” can do to stop it. The world’s leading climate expert predicted the Arctic would be ice-free last year. The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search And a Nobel laureate predicted the ice would be gone five years ago. His science fiction movie has been shown to nearly every public school child in the world. Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014 A simple solution for the press, scientists, educators and politicians would be to simply stop lying about the climate.

Wildfire area burn in California has actually decreased historically. So Wrong again.

Did you even read the headline of the link to so the dangers? Japan’s cherry blossoms signal warmest climate in more than 1,000 years. Signal, climate could move the blossom date by 10 days. It wasn’t the warmest in a 1000 yrs. So your own article discredits what you are say. More fear mongering.

Interesting discussion here on Guru Yoga.

Maybe because the Amazon is also known as a rain forest 🌳 Also, if you are talking about California I posted pages ago about how the total acreage of forest fires have actually decreased. No, the intensity of fires 🔥 hasn’t increased either. 😄

Not sure at all how your link debunks anything.

Yes, it is all within but it can still be shared.

I have had experiences with a few Hindu deities myself.

Any thought that the Tao that can be trodden is a reference to doing. Where the Tao is a being. The Tao that can be named is a thing, where emptiness is no-thing.

That’s right up there with my worry about super volcanoes.

More like common knowledge in various traditions.