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You're welcome Trogdorf

No not, "Spaced Out!" "Limitless Space", it's a term used in various cosmologies.

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Nice! Positive and negative human attributes of the four elements are listed here: 4 elements in human personality

Charles T. Tart has some interesting things to say: States of Consciousness & State-Specific Sciences

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Oh, sorry to disappoint.

There was a thread a while back going into karma in some depth. Mention was also made of factors which increase/decrease the effects of karma. http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?showtopic=3938

I've had a couple of warts on my hands over the last few years and they've turned out to be my body telling me something. The first went after I stopped wolfing down cans of tuna and the second disappeared after cutting down on fry-ups.

The book reminds us that feeding a 'demon' is not the same as indulging in self-destructive behaviour. It's one way of bringing out into the open disowned personal underlying issues that are causing problems in outer life. Ignoring them doesn't solve the problem and direct assaults only make them stronger. By locating where in the body issues are felt - hinting at their energetic nature - and allowing them to take form so that sincere communication can be established, the energy locked up in them can be transformed, through love and acceptance, into something more useful. 'Demons' represent our fears and aversions, but there are also 'Gods' which represent our desires, wishes and hopes to better ourselves, which can also cause a lot of angst and outer problems. The hassles and sufferings of wanting and not wanting, hope and fear were termed god-demons by Machig Labron, the founder of Chod on which this feeding practice is based. Of course this method assumes that the person doing the feeding has a rational component of mind and while often being knocked down by their god-demons can pick themselves up relatively quickly again. It is not a substitute for proper psychiatric help for overwhelmed individuals. Here's the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Feeding-Your-Demons-.../dp/0316013137/ edited for tpyos

You're welcome! Great Mistele links too! The feeding link gives the barest working outline. Her tape set uses identification with a divine image to assist in the process which I think affords more protection and invests the nectar with extra oomph far more then someone doing it unmediated in their ordinary form. Combined with purity of motivation this also dovetails nicely with Mistele's second article.

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Liberty and piss taking can't go unchallenged and folks do tend to take umbridge when it's countered.

This reminds me of how the I Ching evaded successive purges throughout Chinese history as it was just seen as a book of common fortune telling by the roving ten-thousand.

Sean posted the Buteyko breathing method a while back: http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?showtopic=263 This vid talks about breath holding time: JhK549uGvhc

Written material is good, but if you've lucky enough to have a teacher that you can really trust, then you don't have to get overly concerned over written material as they can clear things up and contextualise. I'd rather stay away from the hearsay and superstitions of others, they invariably have a hidden agenda.

Nor I, but I was using it in an ecumenical sense. Actually this wider question of being able to live and let live could make for a new thread.

Woof! It's nothing personal and I'm quite dispassionate about this exchange but trying to use a purported and unattributable quote from a tradtion to try and discredit that same tradition is cheeky. That's all, no hassle really, just an exchange in the market place of spiritual ideas.

Strangely enough, contrary to what it may appear, I'm actually into live and let live (having Buddhist as well as non-Buddhist teachers), but when a bold loaded assertion like this: boils down to this: then it appears that live and let die elements have announced themselves.

Absolutely not, and it's also not unusual to use questionable sources to support partisan views.

Interesting thanks. I've stumbled upon these: http://www.pencaksilat.ru/Docforsite/Ilmu%202-%20Energy.pdf http://www.pencaksilat.ru/Docforsite/Ilmu%20Surapati.pdf Try this search in google: site:www.pencaksilat.ru/Docforsite filetype:pdf

Judging from Lin Yutang's spiritual history (Christian to Taoist to Buddhist to Christian) Taoists may be equally unhappy with his final view of Taoism as he refound his original Christian faith and dropped both Taoism and Buddhism.

Li Hongzhi - the founder of Falun Gong?

This sounds suitably dramatic - have you an explicit reference for this? There's a Japanese Sutra, the Daijuku Sutra that mentions five five hundred year periods, though I'm not aware of the name of it's Sanskrit or Pali sources - if they exist at all that is.