Vajrahridaya

Om! I've read Wang Lipings authorized biography "Opening the Dragon Gate" and it sounds very much from his description of his transmission that he most definitely is a shaktipat Guru who helps awaken peoples kundalini but calls it a different name.

He is actually only an authority on self awakening of kundalini. Abhinavagupta and Kshemaraja would be a better Authority in my opinion as well as other Siddhas of the Shaivite tradition both gone and living. When it's awakened through the Shaktipat of a genuine lineage, it's entirely different as one has an umbrella of protection extending from the living guide to guides who have left the physical plane who do things to protect you even if you are not conscious of it. I had this experience until I veered from my path, ignoring the warnings from these protective deities and my main living teacher as well as my living mentor at the time. Of course I went through trials, but the quality of my life immediately became better, flow like. I got any job I went to interview for. People liked me everywhere I went. People enjoyed the things I said all the time. Women of all types wanted to be with me and wanted to know what I was about. Then I veered from my path and absolutely the opposite happened. Of course I broke rule, after rule, and guidance after guidance in order for this to happen. I basically went back to my previous lifestyle of street criminal. I have since been clean and "good" for 10 years, for the most part with some faltering here and there. But, I still experience the "kundalini syndrome" in an unbalanced manor only due to the fact of some major trespasses against my Kundalini lineage and teachers and not due to merely having kundalini awakening to begin with. My kundalini process under professional guidance was very smooth.

Thanks so much Creation. I love your Kuan Yin by the way. My favorite "form" of Avalokateshwara. ' ' '

I've tried to ignore him before... even for an extended period some time ago, but it never worked. Of course, my unskillful approach to sharing my path was still alive and well back then. But, I've tried to learn from my mistakes and am trying to take steps that reflect what I've learned and I wish that those that can't help but read my posts even if they don't like me, would take notice of that and just let the past stay there. There is just so much I can take before I feel like hitting back might work? But... thank you Creation. I'll do my best. Let's please keep this thread on topic!

You veil your personal attacks of me all the time in false speech. You insult my writing style and the way in which I express myself, over and over and over again, no matter where I go. Get off your low horse ralis... get on a high chair and look at yourself with more clarity. I'm absolutely sick of your constant badgering and misunderstanding and re-painting of what I say into the small box of your dark perception of my words. You are not helping anyone. I am seriously SICK of it! I like it here and I like many people here, but you just can't seem to stop attacking me, even after the Moderators asked you to put me on ignore. IGNORE ME!! I never reply to your posts unless you write something absolutely wrong about me and my posts. NEVER. It's always you that starts this spiral, ALWAYS, you or Songs. So... ignore me and move on with your life. Let me be me and I'll let you be you, ignore me. PLEASE! If you'd care to notice, I've stopped talking about Buddhism where Buddhism isn't part of the thread! Yes, I've made mistakes in my approach to people in previous times. That doesn't mean I think I'm wrong, it just means that I've been unskillful. So, move on... stop being so spiteful and vengeful.

I can see you responding... so you are going to ruin this thread... right? You just can't help yourself? WOW!! You are mentally constipated.

Ralis, you sure aren't the smartest cookie in the jar. Your interpretation of my posts is due to a major mental blockage and nothing else. All I spoke of was what the Buddha is recorded as having taught. Xabir say's the same thing, so do his Buddhist teachers, so does the Dalai Lama and many historical Buddhas. You just gravitated towards me out of some sort of inner spite. You have no idea what Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche teaches and I don't think you ever really will. Power as in... "energy", Mr. "I belong to Mensa." The word "power" does not automatically denote what you are suggesting here. "Having power over someone". For instance, there is a power in some peoples words to carry one to a state of inner equilibrium and powerful joy. This has the power to transform ones ideas self. This grants one the power to want to help oneself be a more powerfully beneficial person on Earth. So... Can you please NOT ruin this thread as well with your obsession with putting me down everywhere I go. You are "like" a demon to me. Go do some yoga or something... Of course I haven't fully embraced the path, otherwise I'd be FULLY enlightened. Since I'm not... there are issues in the way. I posted on here to see some helpful responses, and nothing from either you or Songs. Go read a book, please... leave me alone!

This is what happened to me, but only because I started smoking pot again and slowly lessened my daily practice until I completely stopped and ended back on the streets hanging out with dark minded people and even some black magicians. Even after having experienced many wonderful and amazing inner and outer signs of real and true kundalini awakening. This has to do with my own karma which is complicated and can't be compared to anyone elses with accuracy, just like anyone else, it's unique and true only for me. My karma happens to run the spectrum of really high and really low experiences and there has never been much stability in my life other than those 5 amazing years when I really did follow my Guru's commands both from within and without. My own Mom steadily follows the inner shakti and the outer form of the Guru's guidance unflinchingly and her life is really stable and good, with a steady incline. Of course not without it's trials, and falterings, but always within the umbrella of grace of her Kundalini path and teachers. I burnt those bridges and destroyed that umbrella, I think just for the sake of seeing if it could be done as the umbrella was so miraculous and amazing! The little tentacles of self hate in me weren't completely obliterated yet and I let them have a little power which gave way to the opposite turning of the power of kundalini from upward spiraling to downward spiraling over a period of time. From having visions of love, beauty and kindness, heaven realms and visions of saints and siddhas to visions of demons, shadow beings, malicious aliens, etc. etc. I still deal with both now as I'm slowly putting the pieces back together, but my kundalini experience is deeply overwhelming. My Dzogchen practice helps immensely but for some reason, I don't do it nearly as whole heartedly as I should? There was some really intense damage to my ego made during the first 5 years of my life that is really dark and intense and keeps popping up to subvert my efforts to be well and whole. Now this darkness has manifested on a psychic level that is really testing and suppressive, though I still have plenty of light level psychic and other worldly experiences to go along with it that uplift me. But, a doctor would most definitely want to give me psychotropic medication and they did. The only thing is that it depressed everything in me, including my ability to be happy.

Aren't you doing Mahamudra? That's an energy practice. Or if you are just focusing on Vipassana, that deals with awareness of inner energy.

That's an assumption and absolutely not true for absolutely everyone. Those with very clear sushumnas to begin with who are just continuing their process from a previous lifetime, and who have a healthy and accepting environment for practice and experience as well as a good, well rounded and deeply realized Master do not necessarily experience this mess at all. I've met plenty of people like this. I'm not one of them. My story is much like your own, except I haven't put it to sleep. My story was only like your own when I veered from the path my Kundalini Master was helping design with me. When I stopped following her guidance, and when I didn't heed the dream warnings from her and the various visions where she came to me and said, "stop", my life went to shambles. I'm still picking up the pieces through an entirely different path which I haven't yet fully embraced, but I am working on it as it's not an easy process. I just wouldn't make the false assumption that if ones kundalini awakening isn't like Gopi Krishna's, who I've read, then it's not kundalini. When one's kundalini is awakened by a living lineage that also has lineage connected into the higher realms as support both physical and secret beyond merely the physical, one's kundalini awakening and process can indeed be quite smooth. But, only if one follows the hints and guidance of the teacher, lineage and inner prompts. I have seen this in plenty of people from my previous path and my current path as well. I fully assure you, your example is not a universal truth.

I honestly don't know perfectly well of a single example that I can direct you too, though I wish I did. My understanding is both based on experience and having read many different sources of description from many books as well as my long and arduous arguments with Lappon Namdrol which lasted 3 years. Boy did I argue! But, I remembered the gist of everything he said without specifics! I know Xabir will have lots of great quotes as he's the quote master. Which is a compliment by the way Xabir. I wish I had that type of mind. I could quote endlessly from Hindu texts as my mind was more that way with Hinduism, but when I came to Buddhism, my studying is not all that. In fact, I know that Xabir has texts to quote from that deal specifically with how one should intellectually understand the Dharmakaya as I've read them before. I'm going to give it a try though... Some other links... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmak%C4%81ya Also... you might like to read these books. I haven't yet read my copy of the first... Heart Drops of Dharmakaya But, I've read this one below a couple of times... Crystal and the Way of Light Through these two texts you should be able to get a really good understanding of the experience of the Dharmakaya as these two texts talk very much on an experiential level and not merely philosophically. I know Xabir as well has read a number of Dzogchen texts and can quote from some as well.

Even when I finally had some small glimpses of what E&DO meant, I still found myself clinging over and over again to consciousness as supreme and the source with experiences that fortified this like a habitual cycle that was immensely blissful! I would think, "Oh these Buddhists just haven't experienced the Self of all, that's why they say these things." But, when I sat for the first time in front of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and chanted the "Song of the Vajra" with him and the group of a couple hundred people in NYC, I popped. It was so deep and amazing! I felt the depth of compassion of this guy like I've never experienced in anyone else! I had a flash of insight into the meaning of the jhanas and remembered when I experienced them and how I clung to the formless ones as God. I saw the meaning of the 6 realms and 31 planes of existence and how they co-related with the jhanas on an experiential level. I saw right through everything, even myself. I felt so luminously clear and totally free, like walking light afterwords. When I stood in front of him, we connected eye to eye on such an incredible level and he said some things that co-related with what I was thinking just as I was about to say these things, he was answering my questions out loud as I was just about to say them, like one step ahead of me. I almost fell off the stage when he blessed me and my mala and I had a few more visions with open eyes like seeing into many dimensions at the same time. Anyway... I finally only got it, got it on an unmistakable level through experiencing rigpa through his transmission. It was incredible... now I've forgotten what I was going to say I'm transporting myself back there. It's like a flood! Ok, yes... I realized how this clinging to the formless aspects of consciousness as a God leads to a subtle pride. I realized that this is what bothered me on a subtle level all those years about Advaita Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism, because these enligtened beings experience this kind of "Crowning" of being one with the "King" of all and this leads to various excuses such as, "It's all Gods will." This actually gets in the way of deepening compassion and compassionate action because when something happens or someone doesn't get it, it leads to this idea that, "Well, it's gods will that they don't get it and I'm one with God so it's fine." Thus the level of refinement of the teaching that helps people doesn't seem to be nearly as clear in any other path but in the Buddhist path because of this depth of compassion that transcends any sense of pride of existence, or the excuse of believing in a supreme will of all. For me, these beings are great and have very high attainments, but the insight into the nature of all things and beings is not complete, so the constant state of compassion is not complete either, thus the manifestation of the path they teach is also not complete. It's somewhat difficult to put into words. I feel like I'm kind of failing. As I find the experience of this fact so deep and profound that I want to unpack so many concepts as to fill a big book for the sake of clarity. But, I'm not that awesome yet.

Consciousness arises dependent upon the coming together of the main 5 elements into a sentient being on a much subtler level than even the brain. In every moment there is a kind of fermentation due to the 5 elements complicating through mixing and interconnecting into fabrications and volition, this process has no beginning or source but is caused every moment by ignorance until enlightenment. After enlightenment the cause is compassion as the unconscious becomes the Dharmakaya for the sake of all sentient beings, the subconscious becomes the Sambhogakaya for the sake of endless sentient beings, and the conscious manifest aspect becomes the Nirmanakaya for the sake of serving all beings endlessly, over and over again as a manifestation of the bliss of liberation. One's mind stream and personal existence is dependent upon all the endless personal and impersonal existences as in other sentient beings and inanimate objects. But, consciousness is the subtlest personal element, not because it's a source of everything, but because it's one's own personal source of bondage or liberation. Awareness becomes omnipresent through realization of the Dharmakaya which is basically the realization of the emptiness of all things and non-things. So, enlightened awareness is an insight into emptiness and the elements of being and not a source of all existence.

As long as seeing that the body has no essence, and that's it's essence. It's flexibility, it's vulnerability, it's emptiness is it's ability to be whatever without whatever it seems to be for a single being. Therefore, no ultimate idea of what deification is. Being is a sincere block, so real, because that block is empty of any inherent ability to bind anyway, so it can bind, thus, being is free from itself in any reference. Logic gets very strange here. There are so many good books, but, it's about readiness to really hear/feel/know what is being written from the perspective of the Buddhas teaching which is the same from Hinayana to Dzogchen, just different context or levels of comprehension of the very same. It's really one teaching that empties itself as it reveals itself...

"Universal Creativity" is just dependent origination... endless and empty of inherent selfness. It's very grounded, without a ground. It's very much Samsara is Nirvana, no escape but seeing what is is.

Now you're popping through! Or rather... seeing your own transparency instead of making an experience proof for an ultimate, you are making insight into experience ultimate by seeing it's total relativity.

Ah, what about the I-Ching?

It's from Witch's links.

It seems spiritual practice is the only truly sustainable way out in my opinion. I don't smoke pot anymore... as now if I do, I just get into analyzing pits of paranoia where I weave a wild web of seemingly verifiable delusion that ends up taking days to recover from.

Wow... exactly the stuff I got into in the early 90's that made me somewhat depressed and just want to smoke pot all the time! But, I can handle this information with more stability now... I hope. Thanks for sharing! I am enjoying this.

Very interesting... I've heard about this water world idea of multiple shared realities. Thanks for all this information! "Specialists have no explanation for a particular feature of the elongated skulls. If you take a closer look at the skull, you will see a tiny hole on the crown. The edges of the hole are extremely neat and even. Only elongated skulls have tidy holes. Could it be that the holes were used for picking information from space or from the egg-headed colleagues scattered around the world? "I did research on one of those skulls found near the town of Chihuahua in Mexico in the 1930s," says the well-known archeologist Lloyd Pye, the author of the book Everything You Know is Wrong. When the appearance of the "owner" was restored using Professor Gerasimov"s method, it became obvious that the guy resembled aliens the way they are portrayed by eyewitnesses. I ran a DNA test of his bones in two laboratories. His DNA links in some sections differed from the human ones. The skull should have contained around 2 liter of brain. The skull of present-day man can hold only 1.5 liters of brain," says Mr. Pye. "

Right that's it... thanks for the correction.

Far out and crazy! Could be true! More, bigger, scarier... but I refuse to get depressed about it all. I've heard they have an Earthquake weapon.