Vajrahridaya

It has a lot to do with seeing directly from the point of view of the big bang of this particular universe that one physically inhabits. One can see the beginning of everyone inhabiting this particular universe through seeing with the Brahma eye.

I think Santi is right. These are your own karmas that you are dealing with, not a trojan from someone else. You have to realize that you are manifesting this stuff from your own subconscious. I went through exactly what Edward did as well. What you are going through too. As my teacher said, "You are the baker of the bread you eat."

You can through realizing emptiness, but only internally, not externally in ones expression of the insight. Expression will always be subjective, even though this experience helps gain detachment and more objectivity in ones expression. This is known as the Brahma Siddhi, the super power of being able to talk directly to different people at the same time, directly to their level of comprehension. This is considered one of a Buddhas super natural powers.

But what causes awareness?

Alright dude... but vipassana is just practice of inner awareness of your workings, you can do it while you work out as well. But... do what you feel makes you feel great! I personally love to work out! That endorphin and dopamine rush you get? Wonderful!

I would just get with a good vipassana class and regulate your calm.

By knowing and understanding your past you are more able to understand your now. The point of seeing past lives is not to get stuck in the past, but to liberate the now from unconscious chain reactions based upon a previously unconscious history.

I would say source of our enjoyment of our lives, but I wouldn't say the source of life itself.

But what is the cause of this ability?

Endless linking, no rooftop, no primordial source... just constant regress in all directions. No foot to stand on. Emptiness... utter freedom. In one sense it's bringing the mind into awareness beyond the senses, so one becomes more intuitive. On another hand, it's not more valid, it just reveals more of what is possible for the mind beyond the senses. This is true, which is why meditative experiences aren't given the end all be all in Buddhism, but they are in other traditions. Meditative experiences do not inherently exist and are relative, just like your experience through your senses. But, they do add insight into the nature of ones mind with more depth then someone who just has awareness outward turned through the senses without any introversion.

I think to mistake the illumination of this... which is light in meditation as a supreme source is the cause of samsara.. as this experience blinds one from the particulars of this infinite regress and looses one into succumbing to this blinding and formless bliss. Thus absorption and re-expression over and over again... universe to it's end and re-beginning again and again like each thought leading to the next based upon the ideation of a supreme identity or illuminator.

Ok... so experience has no source... this is either leading the mind to infinite regress of particulars or into the mistake of independent cause. Unless one can merge the two into non-dual experience without residue of Self identity? This is hard to describe though I've tried many times. As in the cosmos is basically made of selves without inherent existence due to infinite regress of particulars which make up infinite selves... so infinite finites made up of infinite finites? We are all individually infinite in our infinitely individual connections of infinite finites. Thus this is the individual cause without residue.

Well... if you were to go deeper than that, you would get to the big bang... and if you were to go deeper than that even? What you said though definitely encompasses this life though, but there is a cause to this as well... I'm basically trying to lead people to infinite regress and the endless cycle of questioning until emptiness is found and realized directly... hopefully.

I'm not saying that every elaboration of the concept of "GOD" is wrong, but most are influenced by the dark one Mara's hands for sure. His power is located between the 3rd and 4th chakra illumined by the dark side of the 3rd eye. When one takes the information gathered there within into personal power dimensions instead of selfless love dimensions found in the 4th chakra.

Indeed... it's not been an easy road for me as well. Getting away from those that think they are one with the cycle of birth and death is hard. It's very deep the quality of bondage even into the blissful and formless realms. It's true that the Buddha got off this wheel of absorption and re-expression naming the cause... "GOD".. the source of all cyclical being. Though deep, is the be all of Samsara, so to understand the emptiness teaching is really the depth of getting past that level of ignorant bliss, no matter how powerful it may seem to be on psychic and physical levels. EDIT: Those without the capacity to understand the emptiness teaching still may have eons to go with many cycles of rebirth before they actually do, even if those rebirths are within high and powerful bliss realms. These are very high delusions. Though to the vast majority it may seem psychotic to say so... I have been up there, beyond this here too many times to deny the fact of so many so called Myths. I know directly the truths that they were pointing to, beyond this limited identity with a physicality.

Yes! I've found that through the heart chakra, I can love anyone... no matter how ghetto or how wrapped up through the physical empowerment of the 3rd chakra one is.... I can love them.. and be free from their projections.. as in anyone I run into on a day to day basis. I find identity with the 3rd level empowerment is limiting to personal power.

Absolutely... Source as in... what's the primal cause of your ability to even conceive of a primal cause, or experience anything mundane or spiritual?

Yeah.. Blasto is pretty darn cool! Makes me want to meet him in Berkley! My old stomping grounds... well literally San Francisco. But, I've been to Berkley and lived near it plenty of times.

That's very clever and quite upanishadic. But!! What is the source of your ability to experience your "am-ness'?

Yes, the karmas of their mind-stream has not manifested as of yet in this lifetime. Which is why one enlightened being said that enlightenment is merely being as if a child but with knowledge of responsibility.

Yes, if all aligned through the infinite lotus chakra. If one is stuck in one of the other without full alignment metaphorically through an aligned spine... then... well. Please don't think that one has to literally have an aligned spine to experience inner alignment. Though... through practice this does help as a process.

Ah... so you think evil is inherent and without causation? Like a paradox of light vs. darkness?

I do prefer to go into the higher chakras... even if channeling into the lower. I've had a hard time with the 3rd chakra myself and thinking that balances anything. I've found more balance in the 4th chakra or heart chakra of Anahata or unstruck sound. Not as in a causeless effect, but as an effect caused beyond the physical.

I experienced that the first retreat I had with Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche... and this experience gave me the direct insight into the Buddhas understanding of the 8 jhanas, 31 planes of the 6 realms and all elaborations of the Buddhas teachings instantaneously. I definitely felt as if a Buddha for a while there, but it faded away a number of days after the retreat through being on the streets of NYC pedicabbing. I bet if that experience happened long ago during some time and in some place of less distraction... that experience would have lasted!! Though... the impressions of that experience still hold true.

Ok... please refine your expression of this seeming fact...