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  1. What is Nirvana - A post from FB

    dwai replied to dwai's topic in General Discussion

    everyone who wants to ā€œachieveā€ something, always argues the same way Happy motherā€™s day to all. May the Divine Mother light your way šŸ™šŸ¾
  2. From the Vidya Gita, which is part Tripura Rahasya. Enjoy the enlightenment

  3. What is Nirvana - A post from FB

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    Clearly shows that there is no need to clamor for a rainbow body. Or a need to know ā€œeverythingā€...get rid of the craving and kaboom! ā€” nibbana!

  4. Meditation - Doing vs Non-Doing

    dwai replied to Spotless's topic in General Discussion

    You'll be a wonderful counsellor my friend!

  5. Meditation - Doing vs Non-Doing

    dwai replied to Spotless's topic in General Discussion

    Iā€™d say something like taijiquan or some form of moving qigong.

  6. Meditation - Doing vs Non-Doing

    dwai replied to Spotless's topic in General Discussion

    Did you know that we can travel across universes on a intergalactic fungal network which only tardigrades can navigate?
  7. Follow the instructions in this video and just stand. Qi will sink automatically to the belly. Once enough Qi has sunk to your belly region, then you can easily refine into the LDT.

  8. Meditation - Doing vs Non-Doing

    dwai replied to Spotless's topic in General Discussion

    Mind to me is a field of thoughts, that's all (that is how it is defined in the Hindu traditions). Mind is a process that borrows the light of awareness. It is reflected awareness that splits itself into subject and object. (but that becomes too much theory...)

  9. Meditation - Doing vs Non-Doing

    dwai replied to Spotless's topic in General Discussion

    This! Effortless effort...if there is such a paradoxical state. It is done without "doing". No mind is not a thoughtless mind. No mind is a non-grasping awareness. When we are no longer identified with the mind (thoughts/emotions/feelings), and abide as pure awareness upon which impressions rise and dissipate. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing @Spotless and @steve and @Jonesboy

  10. Dantian and Bones - How should it be drawn?

    dwai replied to Old Student's topic in General Discussion

    Wheee!!!
  11. For those who are interested in knowing more about the nature of liberation/enlightenment (in the Advaita Vedanta tradition), this is a must watch ā€”-

  12. Dantian and Bones - How should it be drawn?

    dwai replied to Old Student's topic in General Discussion

    I don't practice Neidan, so won't know how to advise you on that. On the other hand, the Dantien of Neigong and Neidan are the same, so I'd advice against overthinking this stuff. The sacrum is the lower belly/pelvic region.

  13. Dantian and Bones - How should it be drawn?

    dwai replied to Old Student's topic in General Discussion

    The location is not fixed (as in it moves around in the vicinity). Iā€™d suggest you meditate on it for a while before you decide one way or another. Main thing is to first let the Qi sink to the belly. After youā€™ve developed the ability to sink the Qi to the belly, it will automatically refine to a point.
  14. Just standing and draining will help. But you have to relax and not overstrain.

  15. Dantian and Bones - How should it be drawn?

    dwai replied to Old Student's topic in General Discussion

    Yes it is below the navel, and above the waist

  16. Dantian and Bones - How should it be drawn?

    dwai replied to Old Student's topic in General Discussion

    Did they say ā€œwaistā€ or navel? Iā€™ve never heard of anyone Say ā€œwaistā€.

  17. Dantian and Bones - How should it be drawn?

    dwai replied to Old Student's topic in General Discussion

    Who said it is below the waist?

  18. Dantian and Bones - How should it be drawn?

    dwai replied to Old Student's topic in General Discussion

    If you draw a straight line from your mingmen to your qihai, the lower dantien will be approx in the center of that line.
  19. Do you feel like an emotional wreck? Iā€™d say if thatā€™s the case, you can try releasing any heavy energies into the earth. Stand with feet shoulder width apart, with toes pointing slightly in, like if you drew a line straight from each toe, they will intersect each other about 4-5 feet in front of you. Imagine your crown (top of your head) is suspended from a point above you. Like a puppet. Relax your shoulders and waist and knees and ankles, bend your knees slightly. If it helps, imagine you are sitting on a giant beach ball. Itā€™s top half reaches your waist and bottom half is buried in the earth. Let your hands point down to the ground, like you were inside a beach ball and the hands were resting on the surface of that ball (2-4 inches away from your body). The fingers should point towards the ground. Let your mind slowly sink to your navel region (if you can feel your (LDT) lower Dantien, even better). Just stand like that, as if you are a wet mop suspended from the sky. Breath naturally, without controlling. Let your mind rest in your LDT or navel region (inside the body, not on the surface). It should feel like resting your palm on a table top...no effort, just resting your mind on that region. This is a powerful draining drill, which will release all the ā€œheavy/junkā€ energies into the ground. Only the good stuff will remain and filtered good energy will fill your body. If you can stand like that for 10-20 mins, youā€™re doing well.
  21. He IS totally a wizard! What weā€™ve discussed in this video is just the tip of the iceberg
  22. I like to use "active" or "inactive". To answer @welkin, imho, part of it being active is the ability to 'see' beyond the normal sensory action of seeing. Like seeing energy (will be like white smoky fog/mist), etc.
  23. Yes
  24. There is an Inherent void within us that makes us seek fulfillment. That is the way out of duality and into liberation. But the nature of the mind is such that it is constantly seeking outward. In order to know, it separates into self and other, subject and itā€™s objects. Why this happens is a mystery and cannot be answered to everyoneā€™s satisfaction. If you can agree with me that this phenomenon occurs, then the next step works as follows. The mind seeks fulfillment in things. In a materialistic world, the primary outcome is to seek it in objects. Hence the chain reaction of wants, desires, acquisition of objects, eventual disenchantment from what already is ours, and the attraction for what is not. That void in us, is really amnesia of our true nature. Most people donā€™t even know that. They spend lifetimes chasing after figments of their minds. Yet, the permanent fulfillment is always with our reach. Why? Because the solution to that void is our Self knowledge. For some, the process of remaining dissatisfied becomes so overwhelmingly painful, that an escape is sought after. That is the beginning of seeking. To start looking within again, to try and find something that will last. Then they start meditating, mind-body exercises etc. Only to find that nothing lasts forever. Even peak/mystical experiences! More later...
  25. Suffering is resistance to change. Whenever we resist, we suffer. A famous story (as I heard it)illustrates how the Buddha came to be known as ā€œthus come/gone oneā€ (tathāgata). Once he was sick and he realized that more than his sickness, he caused greater misery to himself by resisting the fact that he was ill. Instead of shoring up his energy to let his body heal, he went sifting through a list of things he couldnā€™t accomplish due to the illness, lamenting mentally his lost time, lost opportunities etc etc. until he realized that he expended far more energy on resisting the fact of his illness than it would take for his body to heal itself. Hence he came up with the phrase ā€œlet it come and goā€ , hence the term ā€œtathāgataā€ (thus come/gone). There seems to be a some correlation in the transactional world to getting beyond the basic needs of survival first (food, shelter, clothing ), before more profound questions can arise. For someone whoā€™s busy trying to stay alive, the questions about the nature of existence, purpose of life might arise surely, but wonā€™t become a pressing requirement to answer, in light of the immediate need to survive. Seeking liberation requires conditions conducive to it. One aspect of that is having enough security (materially) so there is time to address the questions that arise. Otherwise there always is another lifetime. In the modern world, while there still are sections of the population who have severe existential threats in form of poverty and hunger, a larger portion of the world are materially self-sufficient ( not just the 1%). Hence the growth of the materialistic lifestyle. More later...