liminal_luke

For ten cents I´ll lie on my bed for 15 minutes and make snide posts online. (Consider this one a freebie sample!)

This is fascinating. I like the idea of timing my practice to the most auspicious times of day. Does anybody have any experience timing meditations for solar midnight? Is there a perceptible difference?

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I wouldn`t normally post a Sprite commercial but I thought this was really touching.

It´s reassuring just to know there´s such a thing as yin intent capable of subtly steering me towards my destiny. I imagine that aligning with that hidden intent takes a bit of internal work (or perhaps luck? karma?) but the mechanism is there, part of being human. Thanks for the reminder.

By sleeping qigong do you mean lucid consciousness while sleeping? If so, training is available from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. There are periodic online courses in dream yoga as well as sleep yoga offered through Glidewing.com that will set you back a few hundred bucks. Also, a book: Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. I think the Bum most knowledgeable about these practices is @steve. He might be able to offer suggestions as far as how to proceed if this is your interest.

Woman -- where`s my tea??!!! (Luke scurries behind the couch to avoid the wrath of the formidable and always well-lit ilumairen.)

I`m all for brotherhood generally although to my ear "white brotherhood" sounds scary racist. @Nungali correctly points out that I got the title of the thread wrong-- greatings not greetings. My bad. There may not have been a whole lot of greetings but there have been plenty of greatings!

I nominate this thread for the category of Most Misleadingly Titled. Where are the greetings? Where is the brotherhood, white or otherwise?

Done.

You got to open the door and your wife got something arguably even more precious: she got to be the one who showed you how to do it. What a gift we give other people when we allow them to be our teachers.

I have a goal of checking Daobums every 15 minutes and engaging in as many pointless arguments as possible. My partner considers this self-harming and hides my laptop. Egregious violation of my personal rights or loving (albeit nonconsensual) intervention?

So good to hear!

We all effect each other energetically all the time, for both better and worse. To do so is neither illegal nor immoral -- it`s inevitable. Consent becomes an issue when we deliberately amp up the power of our influence through spiritual practice and then consciously direct this influence with laser-like intensity at unsuspecting hamburger-eating strangers.

You may have hit upon the essence of Daoism as a practical philosophy.

The practices of relating deeply to the natural world have always appealed to me. That´s an inspiring list!

A thoughtful post, as always, Yueya. Demonizing other people can be a way of distancing ourselves from our own shadows, as if to say that person over there did this horrible thing that I would never do. The truth, as Freeform has pointed out, is that all of us have base desires that can be amplified through spiritual practice. So I`m all on board with the not judging. At the same time, I`m in favor of ethical discernment. I want to know when there`s been a breach of good behavior, whether that behavior is my own or that of another. It`s good to speak up and say -- hey, that`s not right. Is it possible to be nonjudgmental while also holding each other accountable to uphold certain standards? I think so, difficult but possible. That`s the tightrope we face.

Good point. Now that you mention it, I´m sure I had something to do with my experience. My mom was with me on that shopping expedition and didn´t report any amazing heart openings. It´s possible that I´m selling myself short, I guess, but I can´t help but give the meditators in the other room some credit too. Maybe it was a case of serendipitious harmony between internal and external vibes? PS. If I was in a more @silent thunder kind of mindspace, I might point out how blurry the distinction is between inner and outer. I´d wax eloquent about the beautiful ambiguity of our alledged boundaries. I´d point out how the elements of the air contiually whoosh in and out of our bodies, how our digestive system is basically just a big transit tube for In and Out Burgers and other foodstuffs , how we are hosts to untold millions of microscopic creatures. One person in a bad mood can bring a whole room down; one person in a good mood can lift that same room up. Science is just now uncovering the astounding ways we connect with each other on a brain level (interpersonal neurobiology). In what sense am I the source of my experiences? Not the source of my experience? The answer is deliciously murky.

Wonderful story. Don´t ya just love it when that happens? A few years ago I was looking at books at an esoteric bookstore, Open Secret in San Rafael, California, when I suddenly felt this amazing sense of openness and relaxation in my chest. I´d never felt anything like it before or since. Later I discovered a group was meditating in the backroom.

I say yes -- it´s possible. I´d take this as a very encouraging sign. If you´re attracted to the name Flying Phoenix and your body is spontaneously making similar movements, perhaps it would be a good idea to investigate this system further? It´s not something that I practice, personally, but many people here seem to benefit and there´s a lot of support for practice.

Will be interested to hear the results of your Nine Turns investigation if you feel like sharing later. I´ve attended Sheng Zhen workshops with Master Li and highly recommend him and his system.

I´m just goofing off. Only about 50% of what I´ve said in my last few posts is true; the rest I added for what my friend Greg calls "texture and color" -- for entertainment purposes. Really though, I should stop. It´s obvious that you´re not open to serious conversation about your history so there´s no point in going on about it. @freeform is right, I think, when he says that you literally can´t see things differently than you do, so it´s probably not in the best of tastes to keep teasing you about it. It´s been fun in a low-brow not very spiritual kinda way, but all good things must come to an end. See ya in another thread.

I had a coffee date with a woman friend of mine the other day. First she cried and then she went to sleep. What can I say: I am a total stud.

With so many spiritually advanced people on the forum, it´s easy for the spiritually average to get a bit of an inferiority complex. It´s happened to me. These days I can´t even get into full lotus. And as for giving other people orgasms -- that´s hard enough the conventional way. But there´s one thing I can do that even some spiritual superstars have trouble with: I can start a thread about a topic and generate enough good will that other people are willing to engage with me in conversation.

you are not the moon