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  1. Cultivation side effects

    dwai replied to Maddie's topic in General Discussion

    Not all types of meditation are applicable or recommended at all times and to every kind of practitioner. What you pick as your practice matters based on your constitution. Have you tried moving meditation?
  2. I think it will help to just share without reacting with anger or irritation. When we are “triggered”, what degree of self-introspection do we undergo? Why should some individual’s opinions even trigger us at all? I’m not suggesting that I’m immune to this — but I find it a worthwhile endeavor to pursue. I don’t believe in anonymity of internet handles. I know several of the folks here on a first-name basis. I think it helps change the nature of discourse when we know each other a little better, at a personal level
  3. Sheer genius
  4. Kalpataru - Kalpa (imagination) Taru (Tree). This is the “wish fulfilling tree” aka “kalpavriksha”. here’s a meditation technique taught by Sadhguru

  5. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

    dwai replied to idquest's topic in Hindu Discussion

    Read Swami Lakshman Joo’s book called the “Shiva Sutras — The supreme awakening”. It is what you’re looking for.

  6. Anyone heard anything about this?

    dwai replied to helpfuldemon's topic in Hindu Discussion

    How are you able to observe all these sensations without any thoughts then?
  7. It’s very fascinating to see so many perspectives on a simple topic such as this. Thank you all for sharing your views Do bear this in mind that just because we may not agree on something doesn’t mean we can’t be friends... 🤗 As far as the “truth” is concerned, it is reputed to be able to set us free. I pray that all of us are freed from delusion in this very lifetime, and don’t need to come back again once more (unless you want to).
  8. Beautifully articulated in your previous post. If you see carefully, I’ve not said anything about “unfolding” as that is in the context of the apparent personality, which may or may not continue. The one case for rainbow body I can see is when there is a desire to remain active in the human realm to teach/help liberate (aka the bodhisattva vow). That too is part of a view.
  9. You know...speculation -- what might or might not be the next steps P.S. -- One of the big things I find is that the tendency to objectify "Self" is very much prevalent. The reason Self-realization is not partial, or incomplete or has a "wait wait there's more" is because the Self is not a thing. It is not an object of knowledge like the body, or subtle body, or even the mind. It is that which knows. So when "realization" occurs, it is just a dropping of superimposition of the personality (which thinks it is a mind-body composite with history, with likes, dislikes, etc etc). The reason why one can't directly talk about it or even show it to another is because it is not an object that can be perceived by the sense-organs, or even the mind (intellect). It is a realization because once the veil of personality is seen through, there is no doubt about what the Self/True Nature is. There is nothing more to be done. The "individual" might think there is a lot more to be done...but in maturation of the realization one realizes the scope, breadth and range of this "Self/True Nature" -- Everything comes in its purview.
  10. The way I see it is — one either gets it or doesn’t. Once one gets it, there’s no more speculation about next steps.
  11. Seeing vs realizing. You mean like “intellectually knowing” Vs. “realizing”? I thought I made it clear in the OP that I mean realization. It’s like this — you’ve been told that you’re something — let’s say a white British guy. But you didn’t know about it prior to that, because you grew up in a neighborhood of Italians, and you even adopted their mannerisms, habits, etc. After you found out, you knew, but didn’t beleive. But then you looked in the mirror, you went over your family tree and realized you were British all along. Self realization is along similar lines — when you realize your true nature, it is no longer “seeing”, “knowing intellectually” or even “understanding”. we tend to ascribe that to karma. Now that’s a very complex topic of discussion. Self is direct and simple. I disagree There is nothing else needed to be done or realized or converted once Self realization occurs. There are still things that (can) happen to the body-mind-personality in terms of dropping of karmic tendencies. Or not. It doesn’t matter once the body is dropped.
  12. If you feel so moved to do it, by all means. If not, do something else. I know of many musicians who don’t “practice” but simply play. Once we learn the alphabet, do we still do “ a for Apple, b for ball”?
  13. It is perfectly okay to continue with whatever path we’ve taken. There is no compulsion or necessity to do so. Also the whole spiel about not “being there after awakening” is a myth. “You” don’t disappear. Just that you realize the personality-body-mind isn’t you.
  14. Me doth think that thou dost protesteth too much
  15. If there’s a classic ‘matrix’, then certainly that (^) is it. There are no chosen ones. Everyone is already free — thinking they are bound, thanks to their conceptual frameworks.
  16. I’m certainly not planning to develop a rainbow body why should I end something which is going to end on its own anyway (sooner or later)? Is that how little you value life? Truth be told, I’d been in a withdrawal mode for a few years, but that’s beside the point. How would you or anyone else on an Internet forum know anything about anyone else if you don’t interact with them on a regular basis? As far as merit is concerned — Why just me? Everyone is immeasurably meritorious already. Just need to drop the pretense of being separate beings in samsara. I’m not a Buddhist, so don’t buy into their mythology. Most of this stuff is basically just mythology. How many Arhants have you or anyone else on this forum met? I’ve met a few good and compassionate teachers, who’ve given me the directions to step out of delusion. For me, they are more valuable than unknown arhants and bodhisattvas. Wake up! Stop perpetrating the dream. If you don’t, “thank you, come again!”
  17. I find that One and Two are sort of hand-in-hand. More delusion reduces more Self nature becomes apparent, until one day it shines forth like a thousand suns. That is the matter of realization. What Buddhists call Buddha nature, Hindu advaitins call it “Self”. They even call it “Brahman” or the expanding principle.
  18. I was pretty clear. Why don’t you re-read what I wrote? Our views produce limitations. The way out of limitations is in the view, but also can be trap. It as applicable to me as to you or anyone else. I think the Buddhists articulate it in the form of rafts and crossing of rivers. Why does what I’ve written affect you so that you have to respond? if you think what I wrote is wrong, why does it bother you? Surely you won’t think others will be “misled” by me!?! Is it simply altruism that moves you to respond thus, or Is there a chance that my words cause in you a modicum of introspection, and leads you down an uncomfortable path? I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s feeling with what I wrote. Just asking questions about things that I find logically bewildering.
  19. I believe I covered the definition in the OP — Realize your true nature, become free from delusion and break the cycle of rebirth.

  20. Happy Thanksgiving

    dwai replied to thelerner's topic in General Discussion

    Happy thanksgiving. I thank my friends here for all the agreements and the disagreements. I wouldn’t be what I am without either 🤗
  21. There are realizations, and then there are narration of realization tales. The view limits the truth. The truth is only veiled. Veil dropped, all is One.

  22. Acceptance... of what exactly?

    dwai replied to Bindi's topic in General Discussion

    Aha! That’s because most people don’t accept the situation. A lot of the spiritual wisdom of the world is really stating the obvious — there really are no “secrets” per se And yet, when it’s the right time, for the right person, these very obvious truths can be life transforming. I agree — that’s a wonderful thing to aspire for. We all should, and yet most are stuck in their dogged resistance to the inevitable, flailing at the proverbial windmills that life throws at us, like Don Quixote.

  23. Acceptance... of what exactly?

    dwai replied to Bindi's topic in General Discussion

    Ok, let’s do a mind exercise. Let’s say you’re driving down a highway in a convertible. Not a cloud in sight. The sun is shining happily — wind blowing your hair softly. Suddenly, a thunderstorm rolls in, rains heavily, before you had a chance to do anything about it. By the time you’re done raising the roof, you are soaked, the hair that was softly flying in the wind is now a tangled mess, all clothes wet and uncomfortable. What option do you have except accept the situation? Do you have any option to not accept it? if you don’t accept it, what is the outcome going to be? For you to work on your subtle or physical well-being, do you not have to take stock and accept that you are “unwell”?

  24. Acceptance... of what exactly?

    dwai replied to Bindi's topic in General Discussion

    Interesting discussion. It seems that to OP, “acceptance” of something connotes “an agreement” to let whatever is happening happen. Which is not how I look at acceptance. Acceptance is acknowledgment of whatever has occurred. We don’t have to like it if it’s “bad”. We don’t have to dislike it, if it’s “good”. To me, acceptance is along the lines of “earth rotates”, “a thunderstorm rolls in, rains and disappears”, and so on. Acceptance to me doesn’t mean “don’t do anything”, but rather an opportunity to recognize that something has occurred and take appropriate action (or not).

  25. The duality fallacy

    dwai posted a topic in General Discussion

    Duality is a fallacy, a mistake that rises from the sense of separateness between a subject and any object of knowledge. Because there seems to be an object separate from the observer, it is inferred that the object must be a distinctly separate entity than the observer. One typically explains duality by stating that “body and mind” is “me” and anything else is “not me”, so there is indeed the subject-object duality. But through a series of phenomenological experiments one can quite easily realize, “that which observes” is not the body of the observer or even the mind of the observer. But rather, the body and mind “belongs” to the observer (I am) — which is merely a quality of knowing — consciousness. In fact even the sense that “I am” can’t be pinpointed to any part of the body (or attributed to any particular function of the mind). when we sit with this for a period of time in observation and contemplation the me and not me dichotomy falls apart. All knowing happens within “me” (the consciousness/knowingness) and there is no thing that can exist apart. One might then immediately counter with — “but what if you don’t see the object, but someone else does. Does that not prove that objects exist separately from subjects?” When such a question arises, ask yourself, “how do I KNOW that such an object exists?” Have we ever known “non-existence” without “existence”? And has any knowing been possible without consciousness?