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Real flying (like Clark Kent) is very likely to be possible but the kind of work you would have to do to achieve it would be vast. Many hours for many decades or lifetimes. Also imo it's not just about "power", one has to have refined skill, deep understanding and so on so that you can control matter that is different to accumulating "power" and hoping one day you acquire siddhis. One kind of idea is to command "fly" and then lifting off ... but not really understanding why it is happening. Another kind is a sort of visualisation that affects matter but isn't real flying although others might believe it. True flying involves the control of matter and forces, it would be for very powerful people - who probably have more interesting things to do then re-enact superhero movies ... but they might !!! If you have a path of development that works and leads to such refined skill and inner knowledge then you are fortunate because then you can just work and work and work.

Are you sure you cannot fly now? Try. Perhaps as yoda said, you were too scared to really believe and that is why you could not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimana Vimana flying machines are devices created by demi-Gods who have powers of the scale of the universe. This is not something to be compared with things the human monkeys have been able to create, like the flushing toilet. Indian spirituality was much greater in the past, the knowledge of chakras is very poorly understood and treated like a game these days, only very few teachers know more than that. Some Indian teachers like Prabhupada described this era as Kali Yuga, so low that one much find a simple and direct means to escape as no higher kind of path can work in an era as unintelligent as this one. In my opinion external technology is a sign of degeneration. A strong society is one with no external technology because the population itself is of very high quality and need no crutches to exist. A strong society or a good society is one in which the people themselves have individual quality which is created through great effort. There are millionaires and dollars flowing in to India and China today, arrogance and materialism and egoism flows. Great India people want stories of great deeds of the past; look at Kashmir today. I fear that whatever was left of Vedic culture will be obliterated. How many real yogis are left today?

Indifference means "retire into solitude" and isolate yourself fully from the mania of the world which is insincere or a total illusion. "Separate from all" means the same thing. However he also says that one should devote fully to Brahman, in other words "attach" yourself fully and completely to Brahman. How can "separate from all" be compatible with the strict concept of "nonduality"? Well it cannot. So you either say to yourself "although I cannot use the toilet properly and am part of a mad species I reason that I am already enlightened". One kind of person says this to himself. Another kind of person simply follows the instructions, retires into seclusion and does the work indicated. If in doubt it is best to try both approaches sincerely and wholeheartedly and then choose.

Then there are 3 things, table wood and understanding. The table and wood were there before. The understanding is new. Standing around and discussing why "I am so everything" ... is a bit pathetic. Perhaps you can try to become more new and contribute to either yourself or the world.

@alchemystical As soon as technology helps you with something you become more stupid. Because maintaining your health intelligence body and feelings is not free it requires you to do something. Don't use it and you lose it. Your own mind ... having large amounts of your life to yourself allows you to develop into your own person, your own ideas, feeliings and direction. And that is how humans should live. Who lives in the hive-mind-matrix .... only insects. Insect people with insect minds. According to some mankind has already been falling for a long time and was once much more powerful. According to others mankind rises and falls periodically in a sort of evolutionary hell and should try to escape asap. A.I is just a marketing term like Sooper Computer. It doesn't mean anything else. There are no computers that "think". It is only humans that think. All computers just carry out the instructions of human beings; in fact they don't even do that ... a computer that says the temperature is 17C doesn't know it is 17C, it is just electronics ... only a human can understand things. But having said that because of recent generations of Western children being exploited, they appear to be degenerating to the level of insects and pretty soon they will be building temples to their toasters !!! Recently the degenerate Western economy has started to invent invisible products and sell them on the stock market ... like medical apparatuses that don't work or the hyperloop. A huge PR exercise to generate grass roots support accompanies these not-existing-products ... one day people wake up and realise they lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course "money" which used to be real gold and meant something is today plastic. Techno-merging if possible would really involve living in your "mind" for ever. Which would be even more of a hell then living in it for one lifetime. I do not think techno merging would ever be possible because putting a colander on somebody's head and measuring electric impulses from the brain does not allow you to go into that persons experience. The outer world we experience can be jointly experienced... we can watch a sunset together. But the inner world is absolutely private and always will be nobody is every going to be in here with you. Central bankers and billionaires have increasingly sown up the entire world-system into a large human prison-farm. This is to damage the ability of people to realise their own strength and live from their immortal soul. It has become important to teach young children to worship technology so that they will be grateful to the prison wardens and won't realise that their souls are being sucked out through their eyes. Scientific experts are another way you are taught that you are an idiot ... and that you need to be a slave to the market-economy and its opinions, because what you think is worth sh**. Everything is designed to make you feel weak stupid and helpless ... so you will never know that you yourself are the true power of existence because you are a child of god. Great corruption has happened in this world; work hard move quickly and quietly into your soul. These have been my very important thoughts.

This is a beautiful recitation of Japji Sahib the first part of the Guru Granth Sahib the book of the Sikhs.

Hmm ... I would imagine that most of the "powers" that people get are either mirages, glorified visualisations that are shared, or over time various hightened sensitivities happen to people ... for instance they may receive messages or premonitions or this or that. There may also be calling on a demi-god or something to perform some function (find a lost key for instance). That is all quite different from adept useable functions that can be used at will and are real, nor mirages. Or adept energetic transformations so that the energy of the Source can be transformed into a new form in the universe, like fire, or any structure. These kinds of powers would be truly owned. And no they are not spiritual. I am sure you could spend a good deal of time to cultivate such things only to perish because you didn't cross the river. There is also the question of adhering to the flow of the seasons and not trying too hard to preserve this form, let it change as it is needed. And also the question of living outside of a universe, and outside of the need for qi. Very high states.

This is very interesting because it is fake. And much of this world is fake. Why do people do it ? Don't they know the difference, don't they care ? Maya is the answer. This world is so phoney, and the people in it are so ungrounded so false, that the only thing to do is leave. And fast. Here we are so far away from the light, that any small amount of truth that filters down to the dark water at the bottom of the ocean, is very soon consumed. We are too far away from the light to even understand how far away we are. It is a very bad place to be, full of delusions, of dangers that are unseen. If you don't intuit the scale of the problem, you perish. And nobody will notice.

There is an old tradition of painting, perhaps Chinese, I heard once. For the first 10 years you learn how to paint bamboo. 10 years only on bamboo, closeup, at a distance, green, brown, at night in the day. Everything everything. Then for the next 10 years you paint anything except bamboo. After that you can begin painting bamboo. Doing, and then undoing, creates a channel. Like a boring machine it goes down, works, digs, struggles and then finally it reverses and undoes ... and what is left is a channel. As everything is dependent on the Source ... there are no independent existences, but there are channels that are formed. The implication of this is that worldly life is very important because that is the first part, the struggle, which creates. And if you refuse the challenge of worldly life you make a big mistake because someone who does not dig cannot make a channel and so is swept away. It is for this reason Krishna says "Fight !, Don't worry I killed you all already." Without fighting you are dead anyway.Too difficult is it ? Is the mattress not soft enough for your backside's demands ? What is the result of this digging and undigging ... it is the soul. For those who want one. The world is always full of failed people of all sorts at all levels. They sulk and tell everyone that it's not worth it. I suggest you don't listen to them !!! Have some courage, if the sky is darkened by a thousand arrows then you can fight in the shade ! Ha !

The idea that you always were enlightened goes completely against the experience of Advaita masters, for instance Nisargadatta meditated in the evenings 3 or 4 hours every day whilst being closely guided by a teacher. After 2 years or so he arrived. Buddha in the Lotus Sutra defines the skillful means and long diligent practice required. Jesus likewise. Of course when you discover "I" ... it is immediate. But to get it inside the human soul takes time. When you practice you should try to be "I", right now, immediately and fully, and by continuing with this practice for several years the human structure that houses or is the soul will accept the universal into it. If you are enlightened then how could you have fallen out ... it cannot happen so logically the initial notion is incorrect. We are seeds that may .... or may not ... one day reflect the truth. If we fail we are recycled, if we succeed we are enlightened. From the point of the view of the Source ... it is not so important, there are many seeds. But from the point of view of a single acorn it is important, because it is life or death. Some teachers like J.Krishnamurti taught hundreds of thousands of people for many decades only to completely fail. He said you are "right now" ... and nobody really got it. He kept telling them you don't need any path. Eventually after so many decades of failure, he announced that nobody understood him. This is really stupid. If you continue to fail at least try something different don't be so attached to your ideologies that you refuse to stop falling in the same ditch. Another thing, this teacher indicates the location of the Advaitic consciousness at 0:48 he says this background awareness. Because it is at the back of the head. Mooji also does exactly the same thing. Because there is a like a region or chakra there which is where the witnessing and oneness consciousness is experienced. They never point to their balls as the location, because the location is not down between the legs. This is very useful information. However due to total lack of interest in being intelligent and instead relying on mantras like "nonduality is the nonduality of nonduality" ... the Advaita groups seem to be in the dark even when at 0:48 they point with their hands at the location. Of course if there is a location that would mean that you are not the all knowing whatnot Brahman, you are just a monkey merged with Brahman ... I suppose that should be good enough. In terms of practice you can rest into the "screen" at the back of the head -witnessing consciousness- but then you have to "let go" so that you become the screen or the region of consciousness there are the back. Letting go whilst remaining fully clear and present. Full commitment. Later after a few years you can do some work with the 3rd eye area which eventually brings the consciousness to include the human functions and human mind. Many people do not the 3rd eye work and so the mind disturbs them for the rest of their lives ... this work should be gradually attempted only after a few years of work on advaitic consciousness and merging with the source.

I heard something inspirational from Mikel Arteta the new Arsenal manager, he said that the work they had done in training actually appeared on the pitch. And this is how all the spiritual work must be, it's not just talk. It's not just talk and talk and talk and talk. Whatever you do has to become integrated into your being, so that it is on the pitch, in every day of your life because it is part of you. That kind of work is the only work that counts.

An attachment is when part of your energy is engaged in something of a low nature, like the arm of an octopus wrapped around an anchor. You can pull the anchor away ... but what will the energy do then ? What will the arm do ? It will end up grabbing something else, that is the problem. It can have some benefit to doing it anyway, but it does get boring. In India many sages were half savage unintelligent people who did no yoga practices at all, but with the aid of a teacher they were able to connect to the light, and the light itself filled them and cleaned the house. They did not do incremental purification work. This is important because there are a lot of spiritual people who for decades are purifying and purifying and purifying, and they don't understand the principles above. Some of Buddha's students were enlightened in a few days, although they had some preparation.

It's not possible to let go of any attachments. But you can replace them with light, with the higher truth. If you empty a box of dirt, it can be useful, but in this world it will be full of dirt again very soon. Only if you have put gold in the box will the box remain clean. In practice emptying of darkness and filling of light go together. From the beginning you have to have contact with the real light otherwise nothing will work ... so that may be an answer to your question ... from the beginning you have to feel the light and this normally happens through transmission. One reason people like to talk about attachments is that then they talk about something they know. They know all their attachments and so it is easy. But awakening is not about something you know, but about something you can know, something new.

Best bet is to have sex in a relationship. What are the barriers to doing that ? Work on that, then plug it in. Porn is not sexuality, it is an abuse of the sexual function ... it's fine occasionally but if this how you use your sexual function it isn't. Sugar is not food, it is an abuse of your ... metabolism, it's fine occasionally but if this is how you use your digestion it isn't. This society has "sugar" thoughts rather than real intelligence, "sugar" feelings rather than something real ... and so on. Cheap exciting but ultimately degenerative. The idea that porn is sin ... the good part of it is that you wish to use your functions to their full potential ... the bad part is lots of negative feelings that aren't helping.

Great idea. Another idea is the scream thread where you can discharge any pent up stuff with no consequence, like a heat sink. You could even have one for each side of the aisle.

ChiKung NeiKung imo The centres like the LDT have a function in the human world, and also they can be illuminated. The LDT's function in this world is the circulation of energy into the organism, breathing into us the vital force from the Schwartz Source. The heart centre is similar it has a function in the human world, our feelings ... and it can also be illuminated. Each centre is like that, having a function in this world and also the possibility of illumination. Different traditions are working on different centres. The centre of Consciousness is developed in India. In China they are working on the LDT ... which reflects a different culture, more grounded more belly orientated. (of course there is some cross over) ChiKung is cultivating the function of the LDT in this world, cultivating the vital force. NeiKung is working on the spiritualisation of the LDT, on enlightening it which involves discovering your identity in the LDT and merging with the Source. With the heart centre it would be the same, you can work with cultivating your feelings and healing your wounds in the human world ... or you can reach the enlightenment of the heart. At least ... that would make sense to me as a distinction between the two words.

Hi, thanks for your comments. I was trying the pore breathing technique coming from this tradition and found it quite useful and so became interested in the books, to try other basic techniques - I am not sure how far I would go with the path, but if the techniques are practical then good. Perhaps somebody would know the difference between the books, and could recommend something.

Post-Cooking Cooking does not happen only in the oven. There is firing in the oven, but then another process happens outside. Like with the child, development happens before birth, another development outside. Life is wise enough to use multiple environment to complete its creations. Some development only a few being go through and requires special environments. Day and night are two environments, the alternation of which creates growth. Life to life incarnation to incarnation, in the womb and outside of it. Fusing together, and melting back down, folding and unfolding, scorching and wilting. At the beginning it is an automated process but as the thing-in-itself becomes more alive it pushes with the process, or it pushes against the process, lending its conscious weight to increase the speed of firing.

A painting is starting to decay even before it is hung on the wall, bread is decaying even before it arrives at the table. This is time and entropy, flowing out of the source, everything is flowing and disintegrating. Everything is corrupt, it is corrupt before it leaves the oven. Therefore we must always work to reconstruct the original ... we see the water flowing downstream and we follow it to the source. We reconstruct through our effort the original. And it is always like this, there are no free lunches. Time and decay force everyone to do that work to reconstruct in themselves the original, the source. To discover once again the truth. These skills are as much the path as the source is. Another way of saying it is that it is easy to criticise, but are you able to find the original meaning and follow it ? If you are able to find problems, are you able to solve problems ?

@CloudHands @ChiDragon Would you have any views on these books ?

Wang Liping Books : there are several Wang Liping books available. Does anyone know which one is best ? Thanks. Richard Liao https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19418647-ling-bao-tong-zhi-neng-nei-gong-shu Nathan Brine upcoming Feb 2020 https://nathanbrine.com/pore-breathing-book-excerpt/ Kohn, Bartosh https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/product/daoist-internal-mastery/

Personally meditation practice and the spiritual path comes first, and came first. And my progression into the way came from there. The methods of the Chinese arts have joined that path. I don't like the alignment business much. I prefer being with a teacher and just copying him, copying body to body, feeling to feeling, consciousness to consciousness. This is a transmission of "how to do it" as he does it. There are several types of "consciousness" from which you can practice. - Conceptual consciousness, which is the virtualising mind, makes pictures of anatomy - Awareness, which is arises from the mind to inspect things in the world, awareness of the joints - Energy embodiment, this arises from the ldt, it is you embodying that brain down there that feels the energy and being inside the qi. Different people practice from any one of these. If you just want energy power you can stay in #1 or #2. If you want to evolve you need to be #3. So that you only work from #3, in other words being inside the ldt and qi, (without using any awareness from the head) you can decide what needs to happen in your practice.. imo many people are still working from #1 or #2 even after decades. That switch from #1#2 to spiritual awakening and embodiment makes the practice spirituali. Similarly working with love and compassion is also #1#2 ... but when you are "inside" the heart chakra then you are spiritualized. That is the thing. When you are still outside the ldt you work with energy like an object, like a tool. When you are inside the ldt you are the subject, you are the energy itself.

If you concentrate on a pink elephant and focus focus focus ... then you will hold that image in your mind. But what is your heart thinking, what are your balls thinking? Why do you need to focus so much? You are thinking all the time ... aren't you thinking about what you want anyway? Do you really want a pink elephant? All these questions point to the fact that we are not one thing, we are a jumble of things that need to be harmonised together through the work on ourselves. And somewhere along the way we become our Real Self. At the end of all that you will have only one thought, your own, and only one wish, your own. But as you will already be the Real Self you will have got what you want already, and nothing else will seem as valuable.