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I was referring as to how the Buddha was enlightened. The Visuddhimagga is an abridged version of the Pali Canon and has many overlooked details. It was the Tibetan Buddhist monastics that created the division of different levels of practice and realization. BTW, Tibetan Buddhism is Lamaism as posited by Donald Lopez in which he emphasized that Tibetan Buddhism is a conglomerate of various traditions and practices. See also David Snellgrove's comments regarding the corruption of Sanskrit translations to Tibetan which is somewhere in the first 50 pages of the Hevajra Tantra.

I have seen very little regarding a Buddhist practice of developing the ajna center. Although, the Visuddhimagga provides hints.

I would state that is a cultural derivation which is not ubiquitous or even transcendent. Perhaps an anthropocentric point of view.

Are you positing that the Dao is somehow moral and sends out behavioral dictates to the world?

All the so called ethics that the Buddhist monastics teach are nothing more than a way of keeping their lineage intact and furthermore, equates Buddhist cultural values with a higher transcendent cause. Further, this ties in with a belief in a ubiquitous karmic cause and effect which has no basis in the real world, but in which is a basis of an mythological belief system.

If part of this was directed as a response to my statement; http://www.thedaobums.com/topic/42358-standing-rock/page-6#entry721930, I was urging Stosh to provide evidence, but it was no way a naive statement on my part.

Reasonable? Hardly! Natural order by whom?

Sorry I misstated that. I meant no model is absolute.

Not in the absolute, but a margin of error. Especially, in the case of dynamic nonlinear variables which applies to all systems.

Patterns are not always what they appear to be.

The election of 1876 in which Electoral College votes were disputed.

In general, you don't provide any real clues, but insinuate that you know the so called truth. The problem as I see it is one of the patriarchy that holds sway.

I do care about evidence, but the evidence you present is not always of a factual nature and one of a certain bias. Further, I don't have time to be a fanatical reductionist.

I am not innocent at all, but observe what is happening. There are rumors of detention camps in the desert Southwest, but in all my travels I have yet to see any activity of that nature. Surveillance in terms of Homeland Security vehicles around town, more cameras and so forth. The largest prison complex I have seen is in Florence AZ with its miles of barbed wire fencing and thousands of immigrants being held there. Sinister looking.

Are you going to show evidence of this grand scheme beginning in 1916? Infowars? BTW, those odds in question are called sucker bets in Vegas and are hardly reasonable and stacked against you. Perhaps you should take the bet.

I would be concerned about blood clots. Clots don't need to be large to cause major problems such as a stroke.

Shaking seems to be in many practices. When I practiced Vipassana I reached a certain point where I would start to shake and quiver. I was just fine with it given that it seemed a natural process.

The file size is due to the book being photographed. Are you having problems with it?

I hope this link works. Let me know if there are problems. https://www.dropbox.com/s/039kk99u4dvp3md/Yan%20Xin.pdf?dl=0

I created a pdf of the book and will post a link when it is uploaded.

Not having ongoing arguments with Brian.

Here is what I said; "Given the above, will Trump send his storm troopers through every house and neighborhood with his xenophobic madness? Search every house which is a violation of our rights? A knock on my door in the middle of the night? Will he use the NDAA to justify this?" Appears that I was asking questions. I come from the school of Strunk and White as well as William Zinsser and if I were to write extremely well with precision, I would be on here all day. Not interested in that.

I don't trust the guy whatsoever! I am in perfectly sound rational mind to ask such questions as to his intent. I never said he will, but am wondering if?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/21/lies-damned-lies-and-obamas-deportation-statistics/

I hope you are right.