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yep -- that's actually the traditional definition of Vipassana from what I read somewhere - Oh actually my Burmese friend told me this - that real Vipassana is only the advanced level - or what would be in Nirvikalpa Samadhi meditation. So yeah first concentration. Actually with the whole Vipassana mind yoga deal that is big in the West -- people seem to forget about the importance of mind concentration. I had that discussion with my friend at the Level 3 Spring Forest Qigong class - after meditation. I said - so do you stop your thoughts? He said - I go so deep that I don't even notice my thoughts - they are just on the surface, floating by. I said - well to develop concentration the first thing to do is stop the thoughts. Personally I like the concentration approach because it's too easy for the mind to fool itself thinking it has "gone deep." The technique to stop the thoughts is the means to go deep in the meditation. But still there are various techniques obviously.....

http://nader.org/2013/05/16/patriotic-yardsticks-for-unpatriotic-giant-corporations/ He quotes an Apple executive who told The New York Times: “We sell iPhones in over a hundred countries. We don’t have an obligation to solve America’s problems.” Monks responds: “This is what greed looks like in the global epoch of corporatism: plunder the Treasury, to be sure, but then deny all sense of responsibility to your country of domicile, outsource all obligations, and, like maggots, set to work destroying the host from inside by exporting its jobs and depleting its revenue sources.” He then cites Clyde Prestowitz, founder of the Economic Strategy Institute, who wrote that, as a top U.S. government trade negotiator, he went to great lengths to open up the Japanese market for Apple in the early nineteen eighties, adding: “We did all we could and in doing so came to learn that virtually everything Apple had for sale, from the memory chips to the cute pointer mouse, had had its origins in some program wholly or partially supported by U.S. government money.” No sequester cut-backs necessary if only Apple paid its U.S. taxes.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/jeremy-scahill-and-noam-chomsky-truth-about-americas-secret-dirty-wars Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky: The Truth About America's Secret, Dirty Wars Scahill’s work has sparked several congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors.

yeah it's a good idea -- it would have to be volunteer I think since any foreign business has to be in partnership with the military regime. If you watch that VJ doc - there was a Japanese journalist who was in the street videoing the nonviolent peaceful demonstration. The military goes up to him and shoots him point blank and -- in the head. Assassination. I mean obviously the Burmese Video journalist got in on film. But after that Japan pulled its funding for the Burmese military regime. Too bad it took such a drastic sacrifice. But yeah there is a big increase in Western tourism - as this thread is a testimony to - that's why I was curious what meditation center or not if Wayfarer went to in Burma since I know some of them are built by slave labor for the unwitting Western tourists wanted to practice "Buddhist" meditation. Pretty messed up.

Actually there is a monastery in Burma that accepts and even is geared towards Westerners - and it is a forest monastery -- but you also have to deal with getting your visa renewed -- etc. Anyway the thing about "forest" monasteries is that in Thailand the forest monks receive the regime support - because forest monks practice "power" meditation versus Vipassana which is mind yoga and therefore a slower practice in terms of results or fruits. So I am assuming is it the same in Burma - how else would the regime allow the Westerners there unless the monks of the monastery collaborate with the regime? At least they have to on some level. The monks who participated in the recent democracy demonstration got raided and attacked and imprisoned, tortured, killed, etc. There's an excellent doc on that called VJ Burma - video journalist Burma. It's on netflix I think.... hold on. hmm the couple youtube uploads didn't seem to have the beginning. Maybe copyright issue - but anyway that's a great doc -- very intense as the journalists are getting shot at and arrested and raided, etc. along with the monks. So yeah most of the monks in Burma are part of the democracy movement but so then probably not doing "power" meditation in the forest. http://www.paaukforestmonastery.org/aboutUs.htm That's the forest monastery Yeah so it's a three month meditation visa if you can get it. This is probably what I was about to get - the monks had written up a sponsorship letter for me to mail to the monastery in Burma -- or maybe just to get me the visa..... Anyway but I would have been teaching English since that is the type of monastery that the charity monk runs - I had told the monks I wanted to focus on meditation. haha. So I know it sounds really selfish to not do charity work but instead want to meditate - but anyway..... The monk who runs the forest monastery - he is also very high profile. The place looks stunningly beautiful. There are females and males but I'm not sure how much interaction - like do they share the same meditation room when all the monks gather at the temple or do they split up time? Personally I would prefer split up time. haha. Because I know that even any visual interaction causes the light energy to exchange between males and females. So anyway I am wondering how Westernized this monastery is - super nice meditation huts are built - and all the food that has to be donated to feed the Westerners. It kind of creeps me out in a country with so much suffering and poverty run by a military regime and then these well-off Westerners fly in to get the red carpet meditation treatment. I mean I was told that as a monk I would be treated really well since it's the wealthy of Burma who donate so much to the monasteries, etc. I suppose that is true.... but then the monks who protest for the rights of the poor -- those monks don't get much chance to meditate - at least not in very good conditions.

Umm actually my Burmese friend kind of dropped out of the Free Burma Coalition and then he hooked up with a monk who spearheaded the main charity relief after the hurricane that was a total disaster for Burma. But this monk collaborates with the military so most of the monks don't support him. But my friend just appreciates that the monk actually is able to leverage Western monies or outside funds to help the people of Burma -- even if that means collaborating with the military regime. So it's a bit of a condundrum because a lot of the normal charities can not access Burma since the military regime does not allow it. Anyway this monk does not really focus on meditation mastery but instead on charity and teaching and having monks get Ph.Ds., etc. I can't remember his name - he is high profile. I could look it up via my friend's monastery which is part of the monk's network. But yeah that Earth Rights International - after they won the lawsuit - I looked up their IRS 990 form on their website. So in 2005 they have a $50,000 budget and in 2006 their budget is over $2 million. haha. So that is really awesome because they are putting that money to good use. I'm curious what happened to the "does" that where the victimized villages - did they move out of the area where they are from because the military harrass them still? Still sad if they had to leave but at least they got money to find better lifes in terms of basic needs, etc. Maybe they are now more homesick, etc. but a lot of people in Burma had to flee to Thailand to seek refuge status at the U.N. My friend had to flee in 1988 which was the first big massacre against the nonviolent democracy movement - so he fled through the jungle and then into Thailand. Then he brought his family later.

http://www.earthrights.org/legal/doe-v-unocal-case-history Wow this doc is amazing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/dec/15/burma.duncancampbell So now they have to go after CHEVRON. https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/04/4303 http://www.earthrights.org/blog O.k. the updates there.

aRE YOU ALL watching the doc? Mind control means no force is necessary to control people. Welcome to the Matrix.

Yeah I was co-founder of the Minnesota Free Burma Coalition. The Burmese refuge who was the other co-founder -- well we let in other people in the group and some of them took on "leadership" positions but not the way I would have done it. haha. That's democracy though -- let other people take charge if they want. When I teared up to get some action I told the University administrators that I had tons of other issues to volunteer work on but this one is so blatantly the worst yet people want to just ignore it. I started to tear up and they got all embarrassed. haha. Anyway hey if that's what it takes - so be it. I mean my friend did some great guerrilla theatre for a front page protest news article while I did a megaphone. It took awhile but it's documented on public record. Of course they didn't divest Minnesota companies doing business in Burma since that would be politically too blatant. haha. I would have done more but I basically - quite literally - devoted my graduate degree to doing activism. Not many students can take that privlege but my dad was paying for the degree so I could do that. But I actually dropped out of school since when I did the sweatshop activism the corruption of the people controlling the professors, etc. was so blatant -- I was like - wow these people are in charge? And this is a university? They just resorted to stupid tricks to try to delay the truth but had sold out to Nike. Anyway I was doing qigong by then and so I said I was going on unlimited hunger strike and then the University President personally emailed me, patronizingly stating that I should not go on unlimited hunger strike as I had done enough already. haha. So then the school joined the Workers Rights Consortium - I think Burma apparel workers make something like eight cents an hour - it's by far the best -- I mean LOWEST wages for sweatshop workers worldwide.... Anyway so the Free Burma Coalition lost steam -- in legal struggles - I mean not directly - but the lawsuit against Unocal I think did not really go anywhere. there was a lawsuit against Total Oil in Europe - http://www.hrcr.org/hottopics/burmese.html yeah not sure ... http://burma.total.com/myanmar-en/faq/have-legal-proceedings-been-instituted-against-total-what-was-the-outcome-200235.html So Total Oil says they're innocent then sets up some patronizing "help" fund for those who come forward claiming they have suffered. Yeah like - hey if you can go through the legal hell that others went through then we might throw you some chump change. Meanwhile the slave raids go on and Total oil claims to be the nice guy. Oh I have not seen this yet!!

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made good progress on the deer fence and then watered my 50 fruit bushes and nut trees with a super long hose - takes a couple hours.

yeah the military raids the villagers and they work chain gang. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g97dxvhDrjI this doc gives the details. Watch out for the ad at the beginning - LOUD. haha.

yesterday was the hottest day on weather record for this early in the year in Minnesota - gotta go finish the deer fence so I can get the garden in.

So what did you do in Burma? Did you meditate? Do you know that some of the meditation centers were built by slave labor by the military regime? Yes I protested at UNOCAL directly at their headquarters in L.A. - back in 1996. We got L.A. to pass their own divestment law. There was a lawsuit against UNOCAL but I think the judge threw it out. I worked to get the U of MN to divest from Total Oil which is a Unocal partner. So that was a $1.5 million divestment. I had to cry in public just to get the well-paid administrators at the University to even acknowledge and begin to take action on the issue.

Yes Money is MONISM - it's the patriarchal repression of tantric free love energy. Robin Dunbar -- his book Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language is just so awesome (1998). Dunbar cites the studies showing the transcultural evidence that given the choice: money or sex, women choose the first. Money. The ultimate “commodity fetish” is money as “filthy lucre” – in other words Western civilization is based on repressed shit. Nonwestern cultures recycle shit as humanure to create sustainable organic farming for thousands and thousands of years. Doug Henwood, the structuralist economist, addresses this commodity fetish of money as shit very well: Doug Henwood: Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, ), pp. 226-7. Of course civilization is based on the dopamine sex energy addiction – from alcohol, nicotine, salt, caffeine, sugar and even grains (with their high sugar and opiate levels). The issue here is the electromagnetic mind-heart energy is still stuck in the lower chakras so it is repressed and then the electromagnetic energy is subconsciously projected onto objects as an oppressive expression of this repressed lower chakra extra electromagnetic force. Since it (the electromagnetic consciousness) is stuck in the lower chakras then it is projected as sexual attraction or as fear or as anger or worry – the lower emotions. This “commodity fetish” projection is in contrast to the natural emotion of blissful peaceful love from the electromagnetic brain-heart bliss of real consciousness (the electromagnetic powers of the third eye pineal gland). So you can see Taoist Michael Winn confirming this about the Monism Money culture of Gold Fire energy: 570 Michael Winn, “The Quest for Spiritual Orgasm: Daoist and Tantric Sexual Cultivation in the West,” Universal Healing Tao, 2002

24? You're a young buck!!!!! haha. I'm.... the opposite age of you. 42. haha. Yeah all I can say is when I get a lung blockage from smoke - like wood smoke since I heat the house with wood in Minnesota -- so yes I get very SAD. Also my sister had depression and she was a smoker from high school on and so she still gets sad but I suck it out of her. haha. Yeah so the TCM truth of sadness and lungs has to be dealt with. Actually I was at work in full lotus - alone - and my coworker walked in. He was 24 at the time. He just looked at me and I was overwhelmed by his sadness - I blurted out: Why are you so sad!! He was shocked because he had not said a word, nor did he have any expression on his face. So then I said: You know smoking causes depression. Then soon after he quit smoking and his sadness went away.

Actually what you describe sounds like my life also. But the only thing is you should quit weed since the smoke causes sadness - and so I think that's what you're describing really. But as for seeing the deeper level of things - yep -- Still you should be smiling all the time with no need for weed - the smile should be an "inner smile" from the pineal gland. I've actually had family members go - "why are you smiling?" as a threatening interrogation since I was smiling at a time that was socially inappropriate. "I'm not smiling!" I would shoot back all self-defensively. haha. Oops. How can I explain? Ummm. Well see my pineal gland, magnetic bliss, and really you don't have to be sad if you understand things this way.. and try to explain a deeper side of things. Nope. haha.

O.K. I visited the most traditional Berber village in Morocco in 1997 -- the women made all their own clothes. They composted their humanure and then grew all their own food - vegetables and wheat. The houses were made out of mud adobe, built on top of each other. Wild sheep in the mountains were herded and glacier water was irrigated down by rock channels. So then I saw this doc on the mother goddess origins and the lady visited a town archaeological dig from 7000 BCE - and it was the SAME as the village I visited. Oh yeah this village hung "stink bombs" in black pails outside their houses to scare off evil spirits. haha. So yeah living without money is definitely possible. Gold and silver used to be Solar and Lunar energy but if you read Jack Weatherford's MONEY book - he talks about how the Greeks around 400 BC then printed coins based on the 10-based units. So money is enforced by the military - that's what gives money its value. China was the first to use paper money and enforced it by the military. Same with Greeks, Romans, etc. Of course back then a lot of "money" was based on trading goods directly. Venezuela was even doing direct trading of goods recently with Chavez. I went to Venezuela in 1998 and I talked to bare-footed peasants living in a hut -they have never voted before but they said they were going to vote for Chavez. So yeah 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day. I spent 10 years living without a car - just biking even through Minnesota winters which is half the year - and then for food I dumpster dived for most of my food. So that way my money was kept to a minimum. I still had enough to buy books but then I sold them to used bookstores and then bought used books. So money using the 10-based number system is based on a logarithmic math that inherently skews wealth towards the rich. So the technology of extraction of wealth is technology based on logarithmic geometry which then uses logarithmic-based "investment" money to justify wealth growing geometrically. But so this system spread worldwide but resources on Earth are finite and so geometric or logarithmic growth of money based on geometric logarithmic extraction of resources obviously will soon come to its end.

The activism was multi-faceted by my focus was environmental activism. So I also protested against U.S. imperialism, genocide, etc. But then I organized some coalitions - so got the U of MN to divest from Total Oil using slave labor in Burma and then got the U of MN to join the Workers Right Consortium for independent monitoring and boycotts of heinous sweatshop apparel factories making sports clothing abroad. Anyway those were two "public record" achievements that I launched and otherwise I had an op-ed column in the U of MN Daily newspaper serving 50,000 and so of course my focus was on corporate-state personhood as corruption. But my last op-ed was called "Psychic Vampires Repress the Truth" and I mentioned George Bush Sr. getting eight qigong healings at the White House by qigong master Yan Xin. haha. Among other things. So the arrests were -- 1) against nuke waste storage on the Mississippi river on a Dakota Indian reservation 2) Project ELF military first strike communication system to nuclear subs in northern Wisconsin 3) Landmines and depleted uranium - largest manufacturer in the world headquartered in Minnesota 4) Against a highway destroying a sacred forest and springs at the conjunction of the Mississippi and Minnesota river - the origin of creation for the Dakota Indians 5) and 6) -- protesting genocide in Iraq in 1998. Well I may have gotten arrested twice at the land mind depleted uranium place - I can't remember but yeah I was going to many protests like in D.C. in 1994 against the World Bank which was the launching of the 50 Years is Enough! Campaign that built up to the 1999 Seattle shutdown of the WTO which I also attended, dodging rubber bullets. So yeah I did Earth First! protests against corporate personhood and I was in the Earth First! newspaper as the "local contact" - so the FBI tapped my phone. haha. So I had my own activist newsletter and then I did a newsletter with an activist who was then on the FBI most wanted list as being part of the SLA "terrorist" organization. I pointed out the group was started by a CIA mind control victim. So when Senator Wellstone had his "accident" in the classic CIA assassination plane crash then things got weird. The man who wrote a book on it also organized a JFK assassination conference but the professors attending disowned him for being fake and his "scholarly" books were all published by the Moonies and he claimed he didn't realize this and he was military and his collaborator bragged about having the Nazi SS Major Werner von Braun as his personal mentor. I pointed this out in my "last" column for the U of MN Daily newspaper and the professor emailed me threatening me that I would "never be published again." haha. So yeah things got conspiratorial and strange - like my activist friends thought I was too fanatical and then...whatever I took the part-time job at the fake environmental nonprofit as my "retirement" and so I worked their 10 years but I dumpster dived for food and sat in full lotus the whole time and I made less than 10 K a year. So then I biked year round and read one scholarly book a day and then did pineal gland flexing to heal people. Yep it was fun. So my friend set up a Buddhist monastery and he said I could become a monk but when I got there the other monk was a perv who sucked off my energy! I left in the middle of the second night after my friend told me sitting in full lotus and fasting was not Buddhism. haha. He told me to read his books - he is from Burma - and so then I found one of the books saying "achivement of cessation" - the first level of samadhi is after a week long fast. Anyway I left in the middle of the night by bicycle and then dumpster dived my way through the freezing rain to the other Buddhist monasteries set up by other immigrants - Cambodian and I was near the Laotian one but I skipped it. When I was at the Cambodian one then my Burmese friend called me as I sat in front of the Cambodian monk wondering what to do with me. haha. I smelled of garlic strongly among other things like probably crap. Oh yeah so the "dirty chi" is just when the yin chi is not purified going down the front of the body - so I would just sublimate it and then flex my pineal gland to turn it into chi energy - after sublimating the yin jing energy -- so it was yang jing as yin chi - but through the pineal gland mixed with some biophoton shen energy. So that's how I healed people for five years for free - my coworkers used to ask me to charge them up as I sat in full lotus at work. I had this female worker stalking me and I helped her get promoted up twice. Finally I had to quit since they downsized my whole department to replace me with a supercomputer speed dialer and then to cut down on the staff. Yeah so first they made me sign a pre-typed statement that I had been "disloyal." haha.

I was a radical progressive activist but quit my job with no notice since it was a fake activist non-profit. haha. I then biked for 250 miles to the Buddhist monasteries in my state but I was dumpster diving and eating bulbs of garlic along the way. So then I ended up returning to my folks who were in their mid-70s as my dad had become a severe alcoholic and so I figured I would keep an eye on him. So I began removing the invasive buckthorn from their 10 acres of forest and then I did permaculture gardening by composting my humanure and using the buckthorn as deer fencing and then I heat the house with the buckthorn in the wood heater. So the food and heat I provide covers my expenses. So then my sister moved in and had a 2nd baby and so I also babysit my two nieces. Yeah so then my dad died and my mom got healed by the qigong master. My secret agenda has been to suck my family back into the rainbow vortex of the qigong masters. haha. So what I really do is sit in full lotus as much as possible. But I had to quit my job b/c I had to eat tons of garlic to kill off the crap smell since I was flexing my pineal gland to transmit energy into people as I sat in full lotus - but the energy was dirty chi as "yin chi" energy and so it was just sublimated lower body energy without the purification to the heart necessary.

It's a long story - but had to do with pineal gland flexing in full lotus all day long. tantra people. It was some serious tantra.

yeah three posts or is it five to get onto the forum and past the spam.

oops I did an edit but meant to bump it.

ah. It was a European invasive Buckthorn. haha. I am reversing the genocidal colonialism of the white man.

I asked the lady outside of the co-op today , standing over the starter plants -- she said to me she was not "the boss." I said - "spoken like a true anarchist!" haha.