EFreethought

I have a few questions about the Zhunti mantra: Isn't there a long form and a short form? I think Bodri wrote that you start with the long form, and after a certain number of repetitions you do the short form. Have you done enough to do the short form? If I remember correctly, the other karma mantra, Vajrasattva, also has a long and a short version. But I think for that one you can just go with the short version and skip the long version.

Do you ever practice mantras with a group? Or just solo? And if in a group: Chanting, or is everyone meditating silently?

Let's wait until The Boss weighs in on that idea.

It's great that Sifu Terry answers questions here. Even though I have only tried FP a couple of times, I still find what he has to say interesting. That said, sometimes I think a FP sub-forum would be better and more approachable than a monster thread. And is it "Sifu Terry", or "Sifu Dunn"?

I replied to an old thread. It happens here fairly often. I bought some tape. Nestor recommended 3M Nexcare tape. So far I have only used it a couple of times. On the plus side, I did not suffocate with my face down. I did not feel alive with pleasure when I woke up. But I have not used it every night. I do feel better when I remember to put it on. I think part of my issue is I sleep on my stomach. I have heard sleeping on your side is best.

I do not deny solo cultivation. Glenn Morris was a solo cultivator, and in his books he wrote about encounters with others. I think he waited a few years to make sure he wasn't crazy before teaching others. But I do not have to sit here and let some jackass (not you, but Mr "Now You See Me, Now You Don't, But I'm Still A Jerk") drop out of the sky and try to tell me he is my master and I am his disciple. And then there was that other solo cultivator who thought they had a great technique, took several attempts to upload a sound file that did not do anything (I guess there is no Dropbox or Google Drive in his ethereal realm), and then a day later said their technique was causing them problems and we should stop doing it.

I have been reading "Breath" by James Nestor, and in it he mentions taping the mouth shut at night during sleep. Has anyone else tried this? How did it go? Maybe this will sound irrational, but I have this nagging fear if I tape my mouth shut that I will bury my face in my pillow and suffocate.

Is this the same person who left and came back? Should we place bets on how long until the next cycle starts?

That's....not explicitly a denial.

Using grabbing buttocks to verify projection is putting the "ass" in astral. At least he got to the bottom of things. I am sure Mr Munroe had a firm grasp of projection. Ever since I watched Forrest Gump, whenever I read the word "buttocks" I always hear it in FG's voice.

My remote viewing girlfriend. She goes to another school. In Canada. You wouldn't know her.

I can usually tell in person when someone is talking to me about something else when their real agenda is to push religion. Online I cannot always tell. Yet this post does not come as any surprise.

My list of users to ignore has gotten more entries in the past month than the prior year.

If you do not mind me asking: What language is that? And what does it mean? I put it into Google Translate, but the output was the same as the input.

Dreams are messages from the deep.

Do breathing exercises count as meditation? Probably not Wim Hof, but I think some would. Lately I have been doing box breathing. I am hoping to improve my lung capacity as well.

Are there any other equatorial changes that you are aware of? In the style I study, we always face south. As far as I know, there are no students in the southern hemisphere. Some of us wonder if we would have to face north if we were in Australia.

I meant to write "stupid duck". I edited the post.

What do you mean by "meditate without any intention"?

Those look more like foxes to me. So I suppose calling a stupid duck a fox face would not be an insult.

Discussing suffering leads to more suffering. Discussing delusion leads to more delusion. Discussing bitterness lead to more bitterness. Yet discussing enlightenment seems to lead to less enlightenment.

There is proof that neigong leads to immortality: This thread just will not die. But seriously: interesting stuff from Infolad1.

Just ignore this guy. Every now and then we get someone too stupid to realize if we wanted to have some dipstick push their bronze age fantasies, we would not be on a site call Dao Bums.

The exercise done during the first minute or so of this video looks similar to your description, even though the stance is very wide. Is it similar to what you are referring to?

Does anyone do meditation in horse stance?