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Properly understood siddhis are opening up the natural abilities of the mind. So to work on siddhis does not conflict with natural compassion and so on.

report the posts - then its up to the mods - if they don't act you have to accept it - starting threads like this is a bad idea - guaranteed to make it personal - as in mod rules its not the person but what they say that should be addressed.

I don't think the question was about New Agers that's just something MPG brought up for some reason. The question is if you cultivate energy do you affect those around you? Answer yes. Some people react badly to it and some well depending on their own state. PS. the problem with New Age people is not their energy its their lack of it. But that's another issue. PPS. I have also observed non-cultivators who seem to display energy ... this can be very confusing (and sometimes dangerous).

So your thread arises dependent on the causes and conditions of this and other threads.

kicking my behind... is sado masochistic eroticism. @rainbow - hard boiled egg ... enough, is five syllables unless you say boiléd I suppose. @ anyone - that last haiku was not written from an autobiographical perspective.

tis a bountiful harvest... two tins of baked beans and a hard boiled egg ... enough.

They should try Bluetooth seeds instead.

what´s a golden urn? about 5.50$ an hour.

that´s right ignore me

spectral holograms... said Data to Mister Warf say that in Klingon!

life is for living, and death is for digging a square hole in round earth.

Ok I see that point and I don't have problem with it ... I still however see the perspective of the many writers who do associate karma perhaps not exclusively but with some emphasis on the 2nd step.

http://books.google.pt/books?id=d9WKrLmJUuYC&lpg=PA60&dq=The%20formula%20of%20dependent%20arising%20karma&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q=The%20formula%20of%20dependent%20arising%20karma&f=false "Karma is the proximate condition for the arising of consciousness"

That seems to me to be saying more or less the same thing but without using the word karma. Every other example I have found uses the word karma. Can you explain why you think this is wrong?

http://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh015.pdf ok here is another from a different Buddhist tradition saying more or less the same thing. (see page 7)

Could you give me the correct translation then?

it is not me that says this but many others for instance: http://www.rinpoche.com/teachings/12links.pdf see page 11.

Practice [your] smile now. Practice your grand prostrations. Practice makes perfect.

The way that karma is taught in Buddhism is that it is cause and effect. The word actually means literally action. I cannot explain it fully to you, much as I would like to, partly because of my own limited understanding and partly because no one with ordinary consciousness can properly understand it. The way it is taught is as a kind of guide ... or praxis ... so that you just accept that your actions have some kind of consequence ... so it matters what you do, what choices you make - because they have an effect. So if you have a choice you can use it as a guide. But it is not something to obsess about or make elaborate theories about. Because Ramzongfan likes people to quote books here is a quote from a key text that people doing the ngondro study: I think that the fact that the idea of karma does arise in samsara and so is part of dependent origination and yet is a profound aspect of the nature of reality makes it perplexing to us. So to answer your question I suppose it is about us and also not about us at the same time. Fear of change would be about trying to hold on to things which are fundamentally ephemeral. So obviously a mistake and part of number 2. A lot of Buddhism works at removing mental tightness, clinging on to things that we think make us happy. This is not a way of trying to be miserable by the way, its a way of being free and happy all the time in all circumstances based on the recognition that everything is empty (not in a negative sense) but in the sense that they can be enjoyed without wishing to hold on to them. Let things come and go ... a bit like wu wei I suppose. Conditionality is about the fact that fundamentally 'things' phenomena are limited or shaped by name and form (or function). So even if they give no pain, even if we ignore the fact they are temporary they are limited in some way. So they cannot be the answer to that which we are looking for. Suffering at a soul level - sounds a bit like existential angst - I suspect this would come under conditionality in that we feel that somehow fundamentally we are dissatisfied with our lot, or who we think we are, or somehow we are not quite 'getting it' - somethings wrong somehow .... this is a good feeling to have in my opinion ... but is difficult and uncomfortable so hard to endure ... if we feel like this then we should look deep into it and we will learn something profound ... or that's my feeling. These are just my thoughts not proper teaching by the way but I hope they go someway to help explain a few things.

She's black and he's white Its up to you to guess who's Coming to dinner.

Since I have been criticised for quoting Wiki (which is done by the way because it is the easiest resource for linking to and I always check that I agree with what it says before linking anyway) - samskara or mental formations or volitional formations is the second step in the 12 steps of dependent origination. As far as I understand it - having misunderstood the world through avidhya (ignorance) then mental formations are laid down which themselves form the basis for karma. @BKA - the 'suffering' referred to is three fold. 1) suffering suffering like pain and discomfort, 2 ) suffering arising from impermanence i.e. even nice things don't last and 3) suffering from conditionality. In fact suffering is a bad translation for dukkha which actually means something like unsatisfactory ... and suggests that nothing in the world is the 'answer', or enough or the 'it´ that you are seeking. This is because the 'it' that you are seeking comes from dropping ignorance and seeing things as they really are.

Da! da! the master has spoken.

? >>> Saṃskāra[edit]Saṃskāra (Sanskrit) or Saṅkhāra (Pāli); Tibetan du.byed (duche), Eng. "(mental) formations" The impulse accumulations of saṃskāra are characterized by the energetic direction of the first motif, manifesting through body, speech, and mind as structuring forces of our being. This relationship forms the basis of our character and our personal karmic patterning.

So ... who's life did you change?