Lucky7Strikes

Live with your disbeliefs. Live in your cage of fear and insincerities. Call everyone who challenges you liars. Keep playing your game of cards. And surely die that same way. There no one here at loss but yourself.

I'm still very much of a beginner so my answer is going to be very very limited. Read some of Winpro's posts after doing Kunlun. He talks about seeing into the future, burning his own clothes, altered sight, and much more. The practice actually for me has had more physical effects than mental. Your body feels completely different than before. It buzzes, it's blissful, it's so blissful the nervous system feels like it's being punctured by needles. Sounds are heard with incredible clarity, you can begin to feel the insides of the body, and other parts you've forgotten you could feel. You can start doing MCO, and other energetic movements in the body spoken in books. Life becomes lighter and lighter, much more effortless. If you combine this with vipassana, the hidden egoic tendencies spring up and as they are released you can physically feel that energetic blockage removed. You feel fear, like cold damp fear take over your body and there is crying suffering and all sorts of amplified sensations take over and filed through, and after they're filed through you feel lighter and lighter. But I'm know I'm still going through a healing process, like taking medicine. My body is not even fully healed, I can't even fully "feel" my body, so why would I expect to be clairvoyant or fire energy out of my palms? To me, Kunlun is not mo-pai, it's not magic, it's not learning to zap people with energy. It's purification, and it's doing what it said it would do which is to heal one's body and mind. I think it's naive to think: hey if you can do all these cool things why don't you go check yourself into a lab? Yea, and become their lab rat? Become dissected? People fear these anomalies. I sure wouldn't go near a hospital or a government institution with real mystical powers. Max has shared stories about his relationship with the military and the medical institutions, and there's a reason why masters don't go become lab rats.

If the pictures are just promotional material, that makes Max a liar. He has shown these pictures in seminars as evidence of Kan's rainbow body status. So if these are faked, it means he and Kan set up these photos purposefully to deceive practitioners and the public. It would seriously damage his credibility.

Yeah I agree. I'm not sure if he minds as much anymore of people calling him a fraud. Max just delights in exploring mystical and ancient phenomena, be it Buddhist, Egyptian, whatever. I mean, if he wasn't so interested, why would he be where he is now?

Just go take his classes and do the practices to see if they are fake or not. It's that simple. The practice works. It is incredible. End of story. Max doesn't ask anything in return, except for 25 bucks an hour for a whole weekend of his time and to support himself. That's not much. As for the photos, the Karmapa has a similar thing going on, so call him a fake too eh?

Then I guess the 16th Karmapa is also a photoshop master. http://www.artameditatiei.ro/corpul_de_lumina.htm Max has shown more amazing pictures in person. Yes they could all be photoshopped, but that would be one funny story if he did. . Show any mystical pictures these days, no one will believe it anyway.

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You said the world is filled with deluded people, or better yet people who persecute you. So since there are a lot of deluded people, there must be something profound about being deluded, or there being persecution. . The type of fear mongering here is bat shit. I'm not insulting you but what you wrote, so please don't take it personally.

WHAT EVER.

Geez, you have some serious insecurity issues.

Then can you manipulate your entire reality just by thoughts?

Well, you're already a part of the universe...

The tantric process is a complete let-go. When one does not intend to evolve, there is natural evolution which is not evolution, but a formless movement--there is form, but it is without boundary--actually, you can do nothing but evolve towards the center, or rather return, or more aptly, realize. When we see a mandala, the outermost edges show beings suffering and cycling through various forms, from birth, death. Gradually one begins to circle the mandala through strenuous effort towards the center in a spiral, until one is near the center. But the mandala had really been perfectly complete all along, and at the centerless center alighting all aspects of the mandala, there was no center but the circle, the periphery and the center form the mandala as one, so when the view is complete, instead of traveling from the periphery one is already at totality. When in the mind there is no division, no form, no this, no that, then the heart opens on its own accord and the breath resides in the belly, then the skin, then the formless and the universe, when the root is cut, no more effort is needed, ultimately you cannot enter the center without complete renunciation/complete acceptance. It's like you reach the gate to heaven that was in your backyard all along, the rest takes care of itself. This is not mere ideology. I experience this day to day.

Have you experienced this?

Buddhism is based on not being reincarnated....ending the cycle

Haha! I didn't write it, Osho did, or rather spoke it. , but it rang very true and direct! I guess next time I'll have to put it in quotes It's in the Book of Secrets.

I partially studied philosophy at NYU which is the highest ranked in the country and it's not so great or high and almighty logic as some people might think. At the most they leave everything into word puzzles, meaningless circular logic and a hell a lot of uncertainties. They just pour their heads over nothing. I don't think any one would laugh at Vaj if he studied at these universities, they would probably marvel at him and some would probably start meditating and sure some would dismiss him out of sheer disbelief but not out of logical inconsistency. I was reading Osho speaking on the path of Tantra the other day and thought this relevant: "Fo tantra, doing is knowing, and there is no other knowing. Unless you do something, unless you change, unless you have a different perspective to look at, to look with, unless you move in an altogether different dimension than the intellect, there is no answer. Answers can be given--they are all lies. All philosophies are lies. You ask a question and the philosophy gives you an answer. It satisfies you or doesnt satisfy you. If it satisfies you, you become a convert to the philosophy, but you remain the same. If it doesn't satisfy you, you go on searching for some other philosophy to be converted to. But you remain the same; you are not touched at all, you are not changed... Tantra is not concerned with the ultimate. It is concerned with the immediate, the here and now. Tantra say, the ultimate is hidden in the immediate, so you need not worry about the ultimate. By worrying about the ultimate you will miss the immediate and the ultimate is hidden in the immediate. So by thinking about the ultimate you will miss both. If the immediate should be missed, because of it you will miss the ultimate also. So philosophy is just smoke. The approach of tantra is scientific, but the object is different from that of so called science. Science tries to understand the object, the objective world, the reality that is before your eyes. Tantra is the science of the reality that is behind your eyes, the subjectivity, but the approach is scientific. Tantra doesn't believe in thinking, it believes in experimenting, in experiencing. And unless you can experience, everything is just a wastage of energy. I am reminded of one incident. Mulla Nasruddin was cossing a street. Just in front of a church he was knocked down by a hit and run driver. He was an old man, and a crowd gathered. Someone was saying, "That man cannot survive." The priest of the church ran out. He came near and he found out that the old man was just going to die, so he prepared to administer the last rites. He came near and asked the dying Mulla, "Do you believe in God the Father? Do you believe in God the son? Do you believe in God the Hoy Ghost?" Mulla opned his eyes and said, "My God! I am dying and he is asking me puzzles!" All philosophy is like this: it is asking puzzles while you are dying. Every moment ou are dying, every moment everyone is on his deathbed--because death can occur at any moment. But philosophy goes on asking an answering puzzles. Tantra says it is good for children to philosophize, but those who are wise will not waste their time in philosophy. They should try to know==not think, because through thinking there is no knowledge Through thinking you go on webbing words, creating patterns of words. It leads nowhere, you remain the same--no transformation, no new insights. The old man just goes on gathering dust. Knowing is a different phenomenon. It does not mean thinking about, it means going deep into eistence itself in order to know, moing into the existence. Remember this, that tantra is not a philodophy. It is science--a subjective science. The approach is scientific and nonphilosophic... So every philosophy is good for philosophizing. For experiencing, every philosophy is impotent. That is why there is so much insistence on technique in tanra, because a science can do nothing but give technology, whether of the outside world or of the inside. The very word tantra means technique..." (quotations added)

so I figured reflecting is a dualistic process that bounds oneself to "I". that it is really an illusory activity, to "reflect" on some event, that it solidifies the reflector and the thing being reflected upon, or a fabrication based on symbols arise. that insight practice, which is yet another reflecting process is there to dissolve reflection, and that once this is understood, there is simply an effortless process. . Only when habitual dualistic thinking, bad desire, habit, reflection, grasping arise, the insight of emptiness dissolves it as soon as it arises until everything is very very smooth. . Feels awesome!

Just keep doing your Kunlun .

"So too, monks, when the Tathagata arises in the world, an arahant, perfectly enlightened, accomplished in true knowledge and conduct, fortunate, knower of the world, unsurpassed leader of persons to be tamed, teacher of devas and humans, the Enlightened One, the Blessed One, he teaches the Dhamma thus: "Such is form, such its origin, such its passing away; such is feeling...such is perception...such are voliotional formations...such is consciousness, such its origin, such its passing away...So powerful, monks, is the Tathagata over this world together with its devas, so majestic and mighty" (Samyutta Nikaya) "In the world, monks, with its Devas, with mara, with Brahma, in this populations with its ascetics and brahmins, with its devas and humans, whatever there is that is seen, heard, sensed, cognized, reached, sought after, examined by the mind, all that has been awakened by the Tathagata; therefore he is called the Tathagata Having directly known all the world, all the world exactly as it is, he is detached from all the world, unengaged with all the world... He is the Blessed One, the Buddha, He is the lion, unsurpassed, In this world together with its devas. He set in motion the wheel of Brahma (Anguttara Nikaya)

Well we can change the way the Universe works. And our sense of morals can make a better world...and we can adapt to a new digestive system. I really don't like the whole things about being stuck on an island and would you eat fish? If I was disciplined enough I would just starve to death because I wouldn't mind dying. But if I was scared or cannot take the pain of starvation I would probably eat fish. Or maybe if I was powerful enough I wouldn't have to eat anymore. Alchemy is about transforming oneself, so is the Bodhisattva's vow, so is meditating, so I really don't get all this stuff about "acceptance" and "nature"

Then why don't you answer for him, for surely you must be familiar with his ideology by now! .

I like that quote very much. Thank you!