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Yes, and I very well might be the only one here who answers your many questions. It's only a single data point but i hope it proves useful. I suppose its possible that instead of answering the OP, you were laying out your own system of Clarification through Inquisition. If that's the case, then who's to blame for my semi-flippant answer, the writer or the reader? My writing professor would blame you, the writer, because you didn't make yourself clear enough and left room for ambiguity. I, on the other hand blame myself for the misreading, though perhaps get points for humor and wit. I also don't quite understand why in the clarification system its so important to know right off if its a man or woman answering? I don't see that as relevant in most questions. Some small fraction maybe, but not most.

.. .. .. .. great and humorous thoughts, now lost to time. and good riddance.

I applaud your calm and forgiveness, a squirrel biting my finger and not letting go would definitely freak me out. My AHHHs would be bolded and several of them, then a trip to the emergency room to sew on a finger tip. With animals, I don't bother them (cept for lunch & dinner) and they don't bother me. spoken in jest but humans have a pretty big karmic debt to animals. its not unreasonable for them to view us negatively.

Maybe there is no easy or guaranteed road to enlightenment or opening up the third eye. The road map might include doing qigong all the time and meditating and chanting. And if you if you do it for a decade or two or three, then you've got a shot at it. My philosophy has always been look to the top students, not the guru, because they're what you'll most likely become. And a good teacher close is better then a great teacher far away. Particularly when you're starting out and mid level. So.. I'd say look around at what's close. Flashy and books don't mean alot. Put out the word, network, see who's recommended, check them out, don't sign on any dotted lines, or give up your family fortune, but listen to them, pay attention to there students/disciples, the ethics of the organization. And good luck.

But keep the balance for the chain must continue else three four three lost

If I can't breathe out contradictory thoughts, I'll write them out. Somehow getting things out on paper- ink to cellulose, not editing or being 'logical', just letting the pen write.. gets me clear. Allows me insight or at least files it away for a bit, either way my mind's quieter after. Sometimes I don't know what I think til I start writing.

Between Kar3n and Toni, you've got pretty solid tradition advice. A technique I picked up from Stillness Movement gi gong, keeping hands against my lower dan tien, versus a few inches away on my lap. Seems to focus me more on the lower dan tien and generates more heat. From the same art, a little natural bobbing motion helps me stay in position without my legs going numb for longer.

That's too bad, cause while I believe things have gotten better, I don't see such things ending any time soon. So you're depriving yourself of love for.. why? To protest enslavement and manipulation. I don't think the slavers and manipulators care. You can be against them, I think pretty much everyone is, and still love and be loved.

I think we live in an indifferent universe. Best not to turn your back on it. But.. it has its moments, we should appreciate all the good things its provided. While we exist between heaven and earth, perhaps thankfulness, kindness and appreciation is our truest prayer.

Don't know him or his art very well, but in the few correspondences I've had with him, he sounded like he knew his stuff. Esoteric, eccentric but approachable. Carving out his own path into the higher energy and magical arts. not my direction that what makes the world interesting.

Good to keep in mind when talking to humans too. Loud and in want of something.. bossy and oppressive.. We have to ask ourselves do we want to communicate or command?

might be fun to do a line of research: Not the singular drug/food looked for but worthwhile nonetheless: Intelligent diet is a powerful tonic, not a cure all but like regular exercise aids you a 1,000 ways. <addon>> Thats not to belittle anti-depressants role in mental health care. Telling a clinically depressed person to eat more Watercress isn't very helpful. Finding the right anti-depressant pill can be a godsend, but it's tricky. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6147775/ "Table 2 Antidepressant foods Antidepressant animal foods AFS range Antidepressant plant foods AFS range Oyster 56% Watercress 127% Liver and organ meats (spleen, kidneys, or heart) 18%-38% Spinach 97% Poultry giblets 31% Mustard, turnip, or beet greens 76%-93% Clam 30% Lettuces (red, green, romaine) 74%-99% Mussels 28% Swiss chard 90% Octopus 27% Fresh herbs (cilantro, basil, or parsley) 73%-75% Crab 24% Chicory greens 74% Goat 23% Pummelo 69% Tuna 15%-21% Peppers (bell, serrano, or jalapeno) 39%-56% Smelt 20% Kale or collards 48%-62% Fish roe 19% Pumpkin 46% Bluefish 19% Dandelion greens 43% Wolffish 19% Cauliflower 41%-42% Pollock 18% Kohlrabi 41% Lobster 17% Red cabbage 41% Rainbow trout 16%-17% Broccoli 41% Snail or whelk 16% Brussels sprouts 35% Spot fish 16% Acerola 34% Salmon 10%-16% Butternut squash 34% Herring 16% Papaya 31% Emu 16% Lemon 31% Snapper 16% Strawberry 31% Open in a separate window AFS: Antidepressant food score. Table 3 Food categories and mean antidepressant food score Food category Mean AFS Vegetables 48% Organ meats 25% Fruits 20% Seafood 16% Legumes 8% Meats 8% Grains 5% Nuts & seeds 5% Dairy 3% AFS: Antidepressant food score. DISCUSSION To our knowledge, The Antidepressant Food Score (AFS) is the first nutrient profiling system created to inform dietary recommendations concerning mental health. This evidence-based approach is unique in that it is based on Antidepressant Nutrient density. That is, nutrients considered have been shown in human studies to be beneficial with regards to treatment or prevention of depressive disorders. Our findings include a list of individual foods as well as food rankings within categories that can be incorporated in the design of subsequent research studies or recommended to patients as part of a healthy dietary pattern of their choosing. Interestingly, many foods with a high AFS are not commonly eaten as part of the Western dietary pattern. Specifically, the majority of the United States adult population does not meet daily recommendations for vegetables. The Healthy People 2010 initiative aimed to increase vegetable consumption of adults and found that only 27.2 percent ate three of more servings of vegetables per day[30]. Average annual seafood intake for Americans is 14.6 pounds, and the USDA estimates that 80-90 percent of the population fails to meet the recommendation of two servings of seafood per week[31]. On the contrary, top scoring foods on the AFS; seafood, leafy greens, cruciferous vegetables, and nuts are commonly consumed as part of a variety of traditional diets. The Mediterranean dietary pattern is but one example of a consistent pattern: traditional diets contain more nutrient dense foods and fewer highly processed foods. The evidence linking dietary patterns and depressive disorders supports the consumption of a whole-foods based traditional diet as opposed to a Western dietary pattern to prevent and promote recovery from depression. This emerging literature provides some external validity to the results of the AFS while our study serves to identify what some of the “active ingredients” of these traditional diets may be. Selecting foods based on nutrient density is one way to meet daily nutrient requirements without consuming excessive calories, which may have benefits beyond mental health[32]."

I believe it was Psychopomp- "..the spiritual guide of a living person's soul." not Psychopoomp

hmnn, one type of answer. During meditation, visualize wrapping yourself in a long purple robe. It's said to be protective. a better answer imo, trust in your guiding entity and don't make drama for yourself.. ie go on with your life, avoid 434's and such videos, don't give it a thought. For better or worse this quote is most often true: "Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you" Brian Vaughan, Saga Vol. 2 While that's harsh, internet time moves fast. Quit something for a 2 or 3 days and its flushed down stream and mostly forgotten. Pick at it, obsess, keeping posting and you're feeding the beast. You stop the cycle by stepping away. Very simple and some of the best martial art advice I've ever gotten; don't talk, step back, leave quickly.

I find Ajahn Brahms dharma talks informative and uplifting, funny too. You're using his techniques and they've taken you far. Don't ignore his talks and other wisdom. To me listening and learning is an important leg on the wisdom stool. Don't sit without it. As you go higher on the energy scale, equanimity and wisdom should keep up. I like making MP3's of my favorite teachers, listening to them on my phone, or when driving.. whenever. Here's a link www.diydharma.org/search/node/ajahn Brahm?page=2 I also enjoy the Zen inspired down to earth dharma talks at Infinitesmile.org , its also a podcast Speaking podcasts Zencast has an amazing library of talks, even series of lessons on Buddist stuff and cultivation. Zencast works nicely with the Amazon Alexa units($35 for the old mini ones), ie just say Alexa play the Zencast podcast. Often Infinitesmile works too, but seems down at the moment. But its great to wake up and tell your smart speaker to play a new episode. addon> heart stuff.. Watch children play.. go to a playground. See what you can pick up from them. Find some uplifting music too. The musical Hair has some good stuff. Godspell too.

only if you do it while smoking. On a more serious basis, in my understanding there are cultivation arts where you run energy through the body and doing too much, too fast can possibly be harmful, especially if your energy sensitive. This level one exercise seems mostly mental, so there's no circulating energy so I doubt it can hurt organs. I can imagine Freeforms version being mentally exhausting til you get handle on it. P.S Wang Li Ping does talk about the need to do all these exercises from a state of calm equanimity. If you have a disturbed mind then you can get into trouble and perhaps simple sitting would be better.

My subject matter was the observation that you acknowledge that.. wait you edited out what I quoted you saying.. ie " The observation was you feel like *** when you talk about the angst in society. And that you do it so much. To engage you in a discussion is to create a platform for you to do something that makes you feel like ***. And you already do it, pretty much every day, often several times a day. You mean your criticism sincerely, but maybe its not doing you much good. Or maybe it does. <<ad d as long as I'm all alone here. I feel its an irony that the other person here was lauding what he considered was a Jewish ideal of 'criticize your neighbor' and seemed to bug out when he perceived I was criticizing him. Maybe I was, but I was pointing out that if he thought pondering the negatives of society made him feel like shit, maybe he shouldn't do it as much. I'd think what he wrote and deleted about Criticizing your neighbor as as some sort of Jewish Golden Rule is wrong. It is in the bible somewhere but tends to be more for prophets and teachers. In the equivalent of our Golden rule from Hillel is more like 'That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. " In human interaction the rules of loshon hara ie beware the evil tongue are probably more intact. Which is pretty much watch try not to disparage others. A hard thing to do, I'm probably not show casing it here very well.

From your writings, you seem to spend most of your time there. Writing about your perception of angst and disharmony in society, the 'human apes' that surround you. That's pretty much most of your posts. You'll even write a post asking is there a problem with society then immediately follow up with videos and longer posts explaining what the problems are. Then repeat something similar the next day. If you're aware that it brings you down, you might want to take a break from constantly posting to enlightenment us with dark criticisms of all things societal. Go out and smell the roses for a week or two. Meet people who aren't screwed up and maybe you'll see we're aren't so bad.

I've been reading Wang Li Ping's book 'Ling Bao Tng Neng Nei Gong Shu'. Good book, tons of practices in it, perhaps too many but the Golden Flower segment at the end is nicely brief. Anyhow, one of the practice he mentioned that I bookmarked is very close to what you're talking about. Let me type it out here, the book is full of techniques like this.. p.23 Intro to first level practice: Reverse the Memory back to Infancy (Hui Ying Yi Wang) This section is practicing reversing memory: Remember-forget and remember again. Sit on the floor, naturally cross your legs, straighten the spine and place your hands on your knees, your tongue against hte soft palate and behind the front teeth. Open your eyes and straight look forward as far as you can; let the Shen guang (mind and light) slowly move bakc between the eyebros, close your eyes gently. Remember matters from the morning until now, every detail you can, from getting up in the morning, cleaning your teeth and washing your face...until you sit down to practice this moment. If in between something is forgotten, try to remember again. Past memories will be as fresh as when you were a new born baby; look at each of them carefully. It may come with matter: flower, tree, color, bird, animal.. look at each memory carefully and let it bloom, after totally blooming; the memories will be less frequent and disappear. Let positive memories bloom and let go of negative memories. ' Not a bad night time practice. A group called ENtrance has guided meditation that takes you to you library of memory to hang out and look at through a tome of your memories. I have it here- https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/45836-group-guided-meditation-practice/?do=findComment&comment=819174 Keeping our most precious happy memories close is so important- they're said to release an internal wellness tonic, yet we tend to do the opposite. Rerunning the bad, letting the good collect cobwebs.

I believe in time. Why else would I collect wrist watches? every now and then a watch stops. and I've captures time, itself, forever. .

What a fascinating series. So..Zen. AlmazanKitchen I'm watching the Salt Pile Chicken now and I've never seen such a beautiful zen-ish cooking demonstration. The Tea ceremony has got nothing on this guy.

What if a flying saucer landed in a nearby park? Would you go up to it? If you could, what would you say to the visitors?

I'm not sure, but it'd be better if you were wearing sunglasses. or on a more serious note, saints aren't saints for what they can do, they're saints because of how they see people.

A trip to the washroom.

I'm not too advanced. The changes over the years, are more heat, and when I rub my hands together after meditating, they get very hot too. I'll use them to rub my face and lightly press against my eyes a bit after meditation. There's also a feeling of it being more root-like.. These days my practice is based on being downward focus and the lower dan tien feels like it goes down deeper. Like its roots.. or maybe I'm more sensitive to the lower musculature. The 'deeper' seems to be connected a bit more to sexual energy, so that's coming a little more into play automatically with the lower dan tien work.