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Thank you for this.

my my. Look who's the hypersensitive biatch. Sorry for offending your satin soul.

Tell me, how old are you?

There is A LOT of confusion about retention. Too much, I think. It would be nice if someone who really knew would explain it all. I am not that person.

the concept of virtue has been on my mind lately, and I am thinking that, within the Tao, the realization of what is perceived as virtuous is wholly grounded on the idea of enduring. The Tao must endure and all else becomes meaningless in the face of this - even the concept of virtue. So yes, virtue without "virtue" is very, very important in the scheme of things. Personal virtue in its energetic/karmic effects on others must be critically analyzed by the adept to achieve internal balance.

Has any Bum with Auric-vision ever seen a person that seemed enlightened? Ya know, golden halo around the head, 3rd eye spinning, etc... ?

Good thread cuz i'm sure everyone deal with this on some level all the time. For me it's ants and I agree with the "your space" opinion. Whatever enters my space and is disruptive will be dealt with as peacefully as possible. I figure it's like this -- we can't spend half our day placing bugs in containers and releasing them outdoors. Or maybe we can, i don't know. But I don't want to cuz I would rather get things done in an orderly fashion.

I think Taoism is as feminine as a practice can get. What I mean is, Buddhism may be "gay" in the sense that it's kinda ghey. But Taoist practices are qualitatively more feminine in its essence - i.e. impregnating ourselves to develop an immortal fetus. The whole process is Yin turning into Yang, but for the most part its procedure is Yin-based. At least that's how I see it.

Dr Marten's must have figured out that the company won't be around for much longer.

If you have questions that can be answered in a "yes" or "no" manner, try asking your Kundalini. It is intelligent.

If i took a fine balance of what I consider to be an idealistic and a pessimistic outlook on the near future, I would arrive at your scenario. Although ruling out a dimensional shift is about as useful as ruling out magical beans.... but magic beans do exist!

"It is necessary to understand that I Am, In order that I may know that I Am Not, So that, at last, I may realize that, I Am Not, therefore I Am." - Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei Destroy the ego to maintain the ego! YESSSS!

My curiosities pertaining to the lasting qualities of Ego/personality are largely tied to the concept of the Shen Spirit - or the Spirit Sage, which, by all accounts of Taoist philosophy and practice, seems to be the state of being all of us are striving for. What is the Shen Spirit or Spirit Sage, exactly?

That's pretty much what it comes down to. I was watching Mel Gibson's Apocalypto for the third time, and I think his depiction of Mayans in the Capital City are not so far off from what it was probably like. A spiritual society doesn't make it so that souls are more pure as they arrive. Karmic bonds will include the shallow, the less-intelligent, the more-evil as well as the good, deep and smart. If people are pretty much the same, then I imagine a lot of spiritual pride in a more Spiritual Age, a lot of people wearing things to show off their spirituality. The elders at the top are probably always shaking their heads a little at the ridiculousness of it, but knowing that this is the way of paths. If anything, the social organization of civilization would have been more progressively spiritual, and more advanced adepts were probably present, but was human nature all that different? Probably not, but i imagine it was a lot better than the largely demoralized civilization we are in right now.

I'd like to keep my sense of humor. :-|

Buddhists are the nerds, Taoists are the cool kids. But we're all in the same school cheating off of each other's shitty notes.

The concept of communication has been on the forefront of my mind lately. When I think about the essential nature of expression, it seems it's nothing but a very complex "charge". Like 010110 but longer. lol. This charge is then interpreted by our emotions as being positive/negative/neg/pos etc, etc. until finally the heart and mind decide "yes" its this or "no" its that. Although the mind plays a role in it, it seems as though it is the heart that does the actual translation of the foreign expression thus performing the role of interpreter between beings. What do you guys think?

Nah, no pessimism. I'm sure you'll attain whatever it is you want.

Honestly Findley, I feel like you're a transient in the desert and someone handed you a cracker, and now you think you're the richest man in the region. Perhaps you are, but your misguided-ness is revealing itself with every post. Yes, you seek to learn and seek to be enlightened but confuse yourself with stupid words like "mysterious pass" and "bliss". Hey, here are some more words for you - "doo-doo", "ca-ca", "poo-poo" "pee-pee". Just words, more words and here are some more to describe something that cannot be described. I suppose the futility of these discussions is what makes it such a grand ol' opra of drama queens who want to feel like sages. But in reality, we are just children in a sandbox throwing dirt at each other. Children in a sandbox, that's what we are.

Interesting, phore. When you say "feeling and an energetic image", what exactly do you mean by this? What kinda of feeling is it? Like an emotional feeling, or a sensory feeling? Regarding the energetic image - do you mean a literal image of energy within you? one you can feel or one you can only see?

At least this thread was good while it lasted.

According to Gopi Krishna, retention is necessary for the beginning stages of Kundalini transformation, which could be a few months, or until the brain stabilizes from the exposure to excess prana. Krishna further states that the sexual energy turned into psychic energy is the only thing that keeps the brain from going insane. Personally, I think he's right about that. I don't know why JJ had to be celibate for so long. It's quite unfortunate.

You're not alone. My personal theory - massive global Yang energy event on the last week of July. I think some sort of quickening is happening, but it seems to be affecting a certain population. Related link posted a few weeks ago.

Stig, I gotta say, the site looks A LOT better than I had imagined. Congrats on a great job and thank you for this.

One thing I learned from the I Ching (which I should really practice more often), is to shut-up because talking too much creates mistakes and thus weakens the adept. I like what marblehead wrote the other day, "Try to avoid conclusions. Best to keep an open mind.", or something like that.