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Liberals tend to be masters at propaganda with Machiavellian ethics. Hence the media is predominantly liberal. Full story here. Keep in mind, this shady liberal zealot is a middle school TEACHER. Now, you know why our kids think they way they do!

Interesting, I think I was once a Gelug monk or tulku. I had an unplanned regression a few years ago where I was at a monastery and saw other monks wearing those funny yellow-fringed, fish head hats...

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. Now, if you don't mind, I have another question concerning the opening of the microcosmic circuit (ren mai & du mai) vs the kundalini (chong mai). The Taoist systems generally open the microcosmic circuit first, and then the kundalini. Whereas the Indian systems do the opposite. So in your experience, where in the timeline have you noticed the microcosmic orbit typically opening? Like, before, at the same time with or after the kundalini? Or generally not, since you focus mainly only on the kundalini? I'm just kind of wondering about the average timeframe for opening the microcosmic and how it relates to the kundalini. I think in Chinese IMA, it's often said that the microcosmic orbit takes about a year and the macrocosmic orbit about another 3. (With the macrocosmic orbit including the chong mai/kundalini.)

Thanks. But, if you were a "Christian Fundy," then why were you getting a shaktipat from Larry Jensen in the first place? Were you trying to awaken your kundalini, or did you just think you were getting a Christian blessing? Just curious, here? And it seems many people here actually got their kundalinis awakened through shaktipats from powerful gurus - as opposed through self-effort. So, how much more difficult is it really to do it "on your own" through dilligent qigong or pranayama? Kameel - That is WAAYYY cool, bro! Congrats! I am seething with jealousy!

Anyone read this Taoist classic? Talks a lot about "nothingness," including no "nothingness," etc.

Well, I think it's good to have a few notches on your belt, just for experience's sake. But, once you've gotten some, you could also use celibacy as an opportunity to cultivate. Like me or drewhempel, lol. Seriously, I've actually turned down sex this year to conserve jing for my current training. Sexual neediness comes from depleted jing. While the more jing you have, ironically the less sexually needy you become. And the eventual benefits of celibate cultivation are theoretically even better than either sex or celibacy alone. BTW, a lot of us also have sex for emotional ego gratification (validation). But, that sexual validation is actually worthless. When I went through a period where a lot of girls liked me - it was all due to entirely superficial reasons. I was alpha, popular, athletic, smart & cute at the time. I was a golden kid with personal power. Nevermind that I was also very shy, quiet and poor. Yet all these girls that I didn't even talk to had crushes on me, and I didn't understand why? Was there just something special about ME??? Nope, cuz once all those superficial attributes faded out in another phase - so did their attraction. Like water evaporating in the desert. None of them ever liked me for ME. Or disliked me for ME. Which in Buddhism, doesn't really exist anyways! So, girls liking or rejecting you does nothing but validate your superficial qualities. It does nothing to validate YOU...which doesn't even exist! YOU and your suffering - are all a duality-based illusion. Which you won't really escape until you achieve mukti or enlightenment (not getting laid more).

Well, open dialogue is a start.. That's where every movement starts. That's why I broach a lot of these taboo topics myself. Of course I know they are often socially-acceptable and I risk ostracization for it - but I somehow feel like it's my job to point out when the emperor has no clothes on. Because if I don't, who will? Someone said that happiness (or fulfillment) is giving the world one day what you always wanted it to give you (but never got). I'm in my 30s now. This misandrist wave hit me before it hit you. But there was practically NO awareness of it back then, and we didn't even have the internet, either! I was totally blindsided by something that I had absolutely no one to go to for counsel. Not even onlinne! Oh, how I wish some men had stood up for us back then to at least provide some resistance. Which is why I stand up for younger guys now. They're easy to dismiss because they're underdogs today. And people selfishly feel they have nothing to gain from helping an underdog. And in fact, are even programmed to kick omega males when they're down. But their pain is real and should not be dismissed. On this forum alone, we get another borderline suicidal, lonely & despondent kid rejected by women every few months now. That is predictable based upon the actual scene out there today. Yet they get told the same outdated rhetoric & female mythology, which never works out in the real world, and then get only more depressed and angry... There's no easy solutions here. Life is a challenge. Life is suffering. So what else is new? Why do you think Buddha founded Buddhism centuries ago? I think ultimately you do have to cease all external validation while attaining enlightenment to escape your suffering here - regardless of the cause. Because let's say you were wildly successful with women - like Tiger Woods. You really think you'd be happy then? No, you might feel content, lucky, fortunate or pleasurably good. And perhaps also guilt-ridden. But not blissfully happy. Happiness really is a much deeper state that really isn't dependent on anything worldly or external. I came to that conclusion at age 9 and frankly that's probably what drove me to my spiritual quest since then. If I couldn't find real happiness in a life when everything was going my way for a while - then where could I find it?

I don't know how much clearer this video can get. Funny thing is this completely confirms a post I made just yesterday.. Madonna is fantasizing about her first (real or imaginary) time walking on the "wild side" with a sexual "beast" who ravaged her like an animal. It was so different, thrilling and exhilarating (compared to the usual "lovemaking" *yawn*) that it made her feel like a virgin again. Experiencing something totally new for the first time. Like the previous times didn't even count.. This is overtly represented by her serenading and flirting with the ultimate alpha male beast - a lion, king of the jungle. Later on, she gets taken and actually fuct by a man with such an animal nature (represented by his lion mask). This video is like 30 years old now...yet people still stubbornly refuse to acknowledge its blatant message. That women really do want to be fuct like animals, not "made love" to.

I think you've related your story before, but I forget... I'm curious as to how you initially awoke your kundalini? I seem to recall you saying you were a Christian Fundy at the time? And then what happened? Did you just get a spontaneous kundalini awakening? Just out of the blue? If so, how would you explain that? And then later you decided to visit all these Indian gurus?

Uh, no my last bit does NOT say that! Sheesh people! Just to clarify my clarification, this is advice for reasonably sane AFCs who may just be too naive, idealistic, sappy, emasculated, docile, spineless, wimpy, lovesick puppy, etc. I'm really just advocating a slight attitude shift (normalization) towards a healthier "red-blooded" manhood - all of course, within the confines of mutually-consensual sex here. NOT RAPE! You are correct though, we are creating huge burdens for our succeeding generations - and that is what I am trying to rectify here. The unborn need advocates too.

Well, estimates of deaths under Mao (due to starvation, direct murder, etc) range from 20-70 million. Clearly, even the low estimate is ginormous...although the degree of uncertainty alone is even greater. Point being, if anyone thinks they can magically accurately pinpoint chaotic wartime death tolls - they are fooling themselves. Most of the best guesses are still very rough guesstimates.

Hey Drew, What do you think of the proposition that the weaving maiden's ribbon in the Neijing Tu is actually the vagus nerve - connecting the "animal" gut to the "human" brain? Or perhaps the ida & pingala nadis?

Yea, pretty much all mass media is propaganda, by definition. And ESPECIALLY during wartime! Then afterwards, history is only written by the winners... Cuz you control the past, you control the present. You control the present, you control the future. And the Holocaust is no exception to these policies, either. Most everyone would agree that Jews (and others) were rounded up and interned into concentration camps. However, "conspiracy theorists" would then argue that several hundred thousand Jews eventually died of starvation there...as opposed to 6 million being cremated to death. Either is a human tragedy of course, but the issue has simply become too politically radioactive for anyone to even research further. In fact, unsubtantiating the official version is illegal in 16 countries now. Of course, the problem with this policy is that it only adds more credence to a "cover-up" conspiracy in the minds of conspiracy theorists. The better (and less Orwellian) approach would be to welcome all open debate and then use actual evidence to deny the "deniers." Not censorship. Now I don't know how many Chinese were actually murdered by the Commies, but the point is that the Cultural Revolution did do a lot of damage to many old traditions there, regardless. Mao was an evil idiot. No need to make that up!

Yea, this is a recurring topic these days. That's because there really is a whole abandoned generation of lost, lonely, angry boys out there. It's a very real phenomenon that is increasingly on the rise. They've been demonized, neglected, disenfranchised and marginalized by decades of feminism & grrl power in this country that left them with nothing now. They have no advocates and literally, nobody cares about them. Even in this thread - there is no compassion for their pain. Just a bunch of elitist denialism and trite, cliched rhetoric. Whereas somehow, I think if a GIRL was whining here about being lonely - she wouldn't elicit the same victim-blaming, dismissive responses! Frustration comes from the feeling of powerlessness. Anger comes from the feeling of being mistreated while powerless. And this is all happening to young men today. They have been methodically emasculated and disempowered as a whole. In this light, allow me to clarify my previous posts - which represent an attempt to reclaim our masculinity on a primal level (since it may not be possible on a societal level yet). Integrity Integrity has nothing to do with "making love." It has everything to do with BEING HONEST. You keep your word and you don't lie. You don't just tell her whatever you think she wants to hear, if you don't mean it. You break up with her if you meet a better match, instead of cheating on her. You don't flatter her with false compliments or tell her you "love" her when you don't even know what that means. All things men routinely do with women purely out of self-interest to GET LAID. Women also do the same thing when they have sex or fake orgasms when they don't really feel like it - just to maintain the stability of their relationship. Again, all out of selfishness for their own better interests in life. Problem is, all these white lies are like white sugar. They might "sweeten" things up on the surface, but in reality all have a harmful effect. Yet, that is how most people conduct their relationships - with very low integrity in favor of self-interest. Which is also why they fail so often...because they are living "game theory" lies. So no, integrity probably won't help you get laid. Although it will help strengthen you and your relationships with more structural "integrity." Animal Nature We are all animals. So, fvck her like she's an animal. Fvck like you're an animal. And by "animal" - I mean naturally & primally. Without reservation, judgment, Unwritten contracts, expectations, Or social artifice. The ancient Chinese often observed and mimicked animals Because their behavior was so natural They formed many martial arts & qigong styles Like 5 animal frolics, wild goose qigong, Taijiquan, etc. While in this culture, animals are seen only as toys or food sources So imitating them is seen as degrading & demeaning Yet PETA loudly advocates for animal rights? And people have no problem fvcking "doggy style?" The bedroom may be the last place we can still embrace (not deny) our animal natures. So why not cherish & relish in that fact?!

Cool, so you literally breathed only through your sushumna, without air? For how long? And so this was preceded by a forceful exhale, kriyas &...what do you mean by "external prana retention?"

I had to transplant this sapling. It had stopped growing and was losing leaves due to a freak windstorm & perhaps underwatering. Well, this time when I replanted it, I properly gave it some potting soil, mycorrhizal fungi & mulch. It now got full sun & I've watered it daily too. It then took about a month to recover (with transplant shock added), but is now growing VERY vigorously. In fact, you will notice that the new leaves (all the light green growth) are MULTIPLE times the size of the older (dark green) leaves! I don't know exactly which factors this is due to - or if it's due to a combination of everything - but the results are pretty startling! Caution - I'm not positive if mycorrhizal fungi is symbiotic with ALL plants out there. I had 2 other types of plants that I recently repotted & added mycorrhizal fungi to - that wilted away and are almost dead now. Of course, they had first wilted when I transplanted them out in the hot sun & there's many other factors at play here too. But, I can't rule out for sure that the mycorrhizal fungi was perhaps incompatible with these 2 types of plants, either. The only plant I know for sure that it causes disease in though is tobacco.

Exactly, like many left-wing ideologies - it's a very seductive Trojan Horse to naive idealists. Which is why such meme warfare is so stubbornly dangerous and destructive - and I felt the need to speak out strongly against it. It already destroyed China (including Tibet) & many other countries...and I don't want to see history repeat itself anywhere else. And the Western government is on neither the Tibetan or Chinese side. They are on their own side, as John Perkins has detailed. They lust after control of the minerals and fountainheads in the Himalayas there. So, they are merely tooling the Tibetans against the Chinese to gain influence there...while trying not to piss the Chinese off too bad since we owe them nearly a trillion dollars.. I think the levels of attainment are still farrrr higher in China though. Many of the highest masters are still there. However, I think many lineages got broken during the Cultural Revolution (typical leftistnese BS, lol) and the next generation of torchbearers got radically reduced. They were too busy getting "reeducated" in the Red Guard..

According to The Magus Of Java, that is also the color of yang qi - which permeates our atmosphere.

Where do your thoughts come from?

Very interesting.. But according to his profile here, he sounds like a Deist Monist? Or, perhaps that is only Acharya Kedar's own interpretation? Basically he "declares over and over again that the goal of a human birth, the goal of all life is to merge in the Absolute, to attain Mukti while still in the body." And that this is essentially achieved by faithful practice & detaching from worldliness after your Kundalini has been awakened by a Guru. So, who here has experienced a genuine Kundalini awakening where they can breath completely energetically though their Sushumna channel alone - without any air? So, what IS the ultimate Reality? We are all part of "God," or everything only "exists" in relation to one another - but nothing actually exists on its own?

If this is a recent picture of her at age 55...WOW! WTF? What about this guy? Who exactly is this Sadguru Bhagawan Nityananda? He seems to have an immensely powerful presence?