EFreethought
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the last time I did it I was unemployed, and then I got a job. Maybe it is a coincidence. Now I need a new job. Perhaps I will try one of the "abundance" mantras in Thomas Ashley-Farrand's books.
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Lately I have been using it. I am trying to meditate more often. I started using mantras to help motivate me to stick with it. I have a rough guess of how many I can do in a minute and keep track of how many repetitions I have done. Now I am on day 200 of meditating ever day. I started "nam myoho renge kyo" about 50 days ago. "Nam myoho renge kyo" hasn't seemed to have much of an effect on me. I plan on doing it until I get to about 125,000, then going to another one. I tried "om vajarapani hum" for a few days, and I did feel different.
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It's called "imprecatory prayer". It's a thing amongst the wingnut crowd. Google "imprecatory prayer Obama" for a few samples.
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For some reason, the formatting in my reply to Paradoxal was messed up. To repeat: How do you contact these beings? Do you do it through some form of meditation/astral projection? Or does it happen spontaneously? Or some combination?
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I tend to regard matras as another object of meditation. I have a hard time just observing my breath without controlling it, so somewhere I got the idea to use a mantra. If it brings me wealth or health or helps me find a spiritual woman, that's great. I am skeptical about the idea that certain mantras connect you with particular gods or bodhisattvas or what have you. I do think that mantras with certain vowel sounds (like the "ah" in "mantra" for example) do seem to work better for me. I find I can focus more.
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Glenn Morris Meditation Mastery CDs (Who Is Allowed To Sell It)
EFreethought replied to Mikey_Power_Up's topic in General Discussion
Honestly, if my credit card company had the ability to allow me to get a one time credit card number, I think I would go for it. $40 total. Might not be a bad deal if it is Glenn Morris. -
Glenn Morris Meditation Mastery CDs (Who Is Allowed To Sell It)
EFreethought replied to Mikey_Power_Up's topic in General Discussion
I did some googling, and found a press release for the CDs on PRWeb. A few other searches make me think the phone number on this page might be his home phone number, but I have not tried it. It looks like they were being sold by a guy named Robert Morgen. He had a podcast for a while and a few books on Amazon (see pages here and here). Lastly, there is a company called EllEdu that has a couple of Glenn Morris courses: The Secret Smile (with instructions; one of the links on that page is a mis-formed URL that with some editing points to this page on the Dao Bums) and Meditation Mastery (I think this is the MP3 files of the CDs) . Only $19.90 for each! -
I have joined this forum years ago and I visit now and I ask can I discuss my Christian faith anywhere on this forum
EFreethought replied to Ervin's topic in Newcomer Corner
If I wanted to listen to someone talk about Jesus, I would have signed up for a Christian forum. Or go to church. We got plenty of those in the USA. Not too many places to talk about Taoism. -
There are some Golden Shield instructors here in Austin, TX. I mentioned to my instructor that this thread got bumped up again. He gave me clearance to post, so if anyone has any questions I might be able to answer them.
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@dmattwads, @Miroku Thanks for the response. Do you actually chant mantras, or do you repeat them mentally while meditating?
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Are there any mantras that help with not "staying single"?
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Inner Smile practice from Gilles Marin's book
EFreethought replied to Lukks's topic in Daoist Discussion
Does this "Inner Smile" have any similarity to the "Secret Smile" made famous by Glenn Morris of "Path Notes"? -
Is Flying Phoenix only available on DVD? A lot of PCs these days do not have DVD players.
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How to Meditate while doing anything? - Lying Down Meditation vs Sitting Up Meditation vs Walking Meditation
EFreethought replied to Heartbreak's topic in General Discussion
For sitting mediation: Just use a chair. -
Appeal to Forum Community to Ban Member “Everything”
EFreethought replied to Earl Grey's topic in General Discussion
I lurk more than I post (I think this is my 5th post). I tend to read threads without logging in (mostly at work, I admit). No logging in, no personal Ignore List. So when someone hijacks a thread, that thread is pretty much hosed for a regular reader who does not log in. -
Is Wim Hof method with just the breathing similar to qigong or pranayama?
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About me: 47, live in Austin, TX, software developer by day. I did martial arts in college long long ago. We did some breathing exercises at the beginning, and I started doing them on my own. I have been doing meditation and chi-kung (as it used to be spelled) on and off (mostly off) for many years. I am trying to get more serious about it. There is a Golden Shield Qigong group here in Austin that I am thinking about joining. That is all I can think of at the moment. If you have any questions, let me know.
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wstein: What taoist practices are you aware of in Austin?
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I work for a large company doing a Java/Spring/Hibernate app. Not Java 9+ with Spring Boot. For us, it's like 2007 never happened. I am studying Clojure and other variants of Lisp. I would love to get a job doing some type of Lisp. I think the ancient Lisp masters hit upon some enduring wisdom.
