Vajrahridaya

Don't know, wasn't there. Some I've talked with speak of sexual tantra happening and weren't scarred. I've never spoken to anyone directly who was. All I know is great things from these two beings. People all have their reasons for saying things they do, and I'm not one to know the validity of these statements? I won't let these statements take me away from what I know of is very good and wonderful about SYDA. Personally to me, the negativity doesn't make any sense outside of their own personal projection.

Oh... What about "Mind Walk."!!!

One of my all time fav's. Not as deep in the same sense, but still really good for my money, "Equilibrium 2002." Really good commentary on the "Hold it Down" emotional repression... "stay cool" culture of today. Also, some really great martial arts editing with a new creative martial arts with the use of a gun "shoot out" kata's. Though everyone has listed many of my all time fav's, this wasn't listed so I thought I'd put it up.

Awesome explanation! Thanks so much for your time and help!! Naaauyce!!

How Buddhism Is Different According to Buddha in Shurangama Sutra: (Hinduism and Monistic traditions is at fault in 41, 42, 43, 44 Some Taoists at fault in 46, 47) Also maps well with Thusness/PasserBy's Seven Stages of Enlightenment = http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2007/03/thusnesss-six-stages-of-experience.html QUOTE (41) Ananda, you should know that the good person has thoroughly seen the formations skandha as empty, and he must return consciousness to the source. He has already ended production and destruction, but he has not yet perfected the subtle wonder of ultimate serenity. He can cause the individual sense faculties of his body to unite and open. He also has a pervasive awareness of all the categories of beings in the ten directions. Since his awareness is pervasive, he can enter the perfect source. But if he regards what he is returning to as the cause of true permanence and interprets this as a supreme state, he will fall into the error of holding to that cause. Kapila the Sankhyan, with his theory of returning to the Truth of the Unmanifest (Like what is discussed in the Upanishads), will become his companion. Confused about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge and understanding. This is the first state, in which he creates a place to which to return, based on the idea that there is something to attain. He strays far from perfect penetration and turns his back on the City of Nirvana, thus sowing the seeds of eternalism. (42) Further, Ananda, the good person has thoroughly seen the formations skandha as empty. He has already ended production and destruction, but he has not yet perfected the subtle wonder of ultimate serenity. He may regard that to which he is returning as his own body and see all living beings in the twelve categories throughout space as flowing forth from his body. If he interprets this as a supreme state, he will fall into the error of maintaining that he has an ability which he does not really have. Maheshvara, who manifests his boundless body, will become his companion. Confused about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge and understanding. This is the second state, in which he creates a specific ability based on the idea that he has such an ability. He strays far from perfect penetration and turns his back on the City of Nirvana, thus sowing the seeds for being born in the Heaven of Great Pride where the self is considered all-pervading and perfect. (43) Further, the good person has thoroughly seen the formations skandha as empty. He has already ended production and destruction, but he has not yet perfected the subtle wonder of ultimate serenity. If he regards what he is returning to as a refuge, he will suspect that his body and mind come forth from there, and that all things in the ten directions of space arise from there as well. He will explain that that place from which all things issue forth is the truly permanent body, which is not subject to production and destruction. While still within production and destruction, he prematurely reckons that he abides in permanence. Since he is deluded about non-production, he is also confused about production and destruction. He is sunk in confusion. If he interprets this as a supreme state, he will fall into the error of taking what is not permanent to be permanent. He will speculate that the God of Sovereignty (Ishvaradeva) is his companion. Confused about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge and understanding. This is the third state, in which he makes a false speculation based on the idea that there is a refuge. He strays far from perfect penetration and turns his back on the City of Nirvana, thus sowing the seeds of a distorted view of perfection. (44) Further, the good person has thoroughly seen the formations skandha as empty. He has already ended production and destruction, but he has not yet perfected the subtle wonder of ultimate serenity. Based on his idea that there is universal awareness, he formulates a theory that all the plants and trees in the ten directions are sentient, not different from human beings. He claims that plants and trees can become people, and that when people die they again become plants and trees in the ten directions. If he considers this idea of unrestricted, universal awareness to be supreme, he will fall into the error of maintaining that what is not aware has awareness. Vasishtha and Sainika, who maintained the idea of comprehensive awareness, will become his companions. Confused about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge and understanding. This is the fourth state, in which he creates an erroneous interpretation based on the idea that there is a universal awareness. He strays far from perfect penetration and turns his back on the City of Nirvana, thus sowing the seeds of a distorted view of awareness. (45) Further, the good person has thoroughly seen the formations skandha as empty. He has already ended production and destruction, but he has not yet perfected the subtle wonder of ultimate serenity. If he has attained versatility in the perfect fusion and interchangeable functioning of the sense faculties, he may speculate that all things arise from these perfect transformations. He then seeks the light of fire, delights in the purity of water, loves the wind's circuitous flow, and contemplates the accomplishments of the earth. He reveres and serves them all. He takes these mundane elements to be a fundamental cause and considers them to be everlasting. He will then fall into the error of taking what is not production to be production. Kashyapa and the Brahmans who seek to transcend birth and death by diligently serving fire and worshipping water will become his companions. Confused about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge and understanding. This is the fifth state, in which he confusedly pursues the elements, creating a false cause that leads to false aspirations based on speculations about his attachment to worship. He strays far from perfect penetration and turns his back on the City of Nirvana, thus sowing the seeds of a distorted view of transformation. (46) Further, the good person has thoroughly seen the formations skandha as empty. He has ended production and destruction, but he has not yet perfected the subtle wonder of ultimate serenity. He may speculate that there is an emptiness within the perfect brightness, and based on that he denies the myriad transformations, taking their eternal cessation as his refuge. If he interprets this as a supreme state, he will fall into the error of taking what is not a refuge to be a refuge. Those abiding in Shunyata in the Heaven of [Neither Thought nor] Non-Thought will become his companions. Confused about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge and understanding. This is the sixth state, in which he realizes a state of voidness based on the idea of emptiness within the perfect brightness. He strays far from perfect penetration and turns his back on the City of Nirvana, thus sowing the seeds of annihilationism/nihilism. (47) Further, the good person has thoroughly seen the formations skandha as empty. He has already ended production and destruction, but he has not yet perfected the subtle wonder of ultimate serenity. In the state of perfect permanence, he may bolster his body, hoping to live for a long time in that subtle and perfect condition without dying. If he interprets this as a supreme state, he will fall into the error of being greedy for something unattainable. Asita and those who seek long life will become his companions. Confused about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge and understanding. This is the seventh state, in which he creates the false cause of bolstering and aspires to permanent worldly existence, based on his attachment to the life-source. He strays far from perfect penetration and turns his back on the City of Nirvana, thus sowing the seeds for false thoughts of lengthening life. END QUOTE Buddha warned (in Shurangama Sutra) against taking Consciousness as a permanent Spiritual Self: QUOTE (33) Further, in his practice of samadhi, such a good person's mind is firm, unmoving, and proper and can no longer be disturbed by demons. He can thoroughly investigate the origin of all categories of beings and contemplate the source of the subtle, fleeting, and constant fluctuation. But if he begins to speculate about self and others, he could fall into error with theories of partial impermanence and partial permanence based on four distorted views. First, as this person contemplates the wonderfully bright mind pervading the ten directions, he concludes that this state of profound stillness is the ultimate spiritual self. Then he speculates, "My spiritual self, which is settled, bright, and unmoving, pervades the ten directions. All living beings are within my mind, and there they are born and die by themselves. Therefore, my mind is permanent, while those who undergo birth and death there are truly impermanent." ...... Because of these speculations of impermanence and permanence, he will fall into eternalism and become confused about the Bodhi nature. This is the third eternalist teaching, in which one postulates partial permanence. ...... Finally, if your pure, bright, clear, and unmoving state is permanent, then there should be no seeing, hearing, awareness or knowing in your body. If it is genuinely pure and true, it should not contain habits and falseness. (Often considered by the higher or more subtle stages of delusion as the mysterious "Will of God", which is not the same as seeing what the Buddha taught as "Pratityasamutpada; Interdependent Origination, and one will not see how deep the scars of karma go) How does it happen, then, that having seen some unusual thing in the past, you eventually forget it over time, until neither memory nor forgetfulness of it remain; but then later, upon suddenly seeing that unusual thing again, you remember it clearly from before without one detail omitted? How can you reckon the permeation which goes on in thought after thought in this pure, clear, and unmoving consciousness? Ananda, you should know that this state of clarity is not real. It is like rapidly flowing water that appears to be still on the surface. Because of its rapid speed, you cannot perceive the flow, but that does not mean it is not flowing. If this were not the source of thinking, then how could one be subject to false habits? If you do not open and unite your six sense faculties so that they function interchangeably, this false thinking will never cease. That's why your seeing, hearing, awareness, and knowing are presently strung together by subtle habits, such that within the profound clarity, existence and non-existence are both illusory. This is the fifth kind of upside-down, minutely subtle thinking.

Oooo, I like Ayurveda! Thanks!

Yeah, he takes an experience of transcendence as ultimate... so... nope. He sure ain't complete. He'll either resolve into a formless realm for a long while, or play with his favorite representation of a formless state, depends on his karma. Maybe Krishna/Vishnu?? But, he hasn't even entered into the first stage of Bodhisattvahood. All great things, but not liberation.

All this stuff is good, but it's still missing the insight of dependent origination. Oh well.

Mind is clam? Freudian slip!?

Wow... I grew up seeing double rainbows in NM mountains. I've seen a couple in FL too. The original poster must have been from NYC or something to have a visual orgasm like that! I remember my first modern 3d movie affected me like that, LOL! The remixes are hillarious!! The poor guy who originally posted though... getting made fun of for having a Eureka experience. Hearing his reaction made my eyes tear from laughter though and hearing the people kind of make fun of him made me a little sad for him. Even though I also laughed.

Does anyone know what Windhorse symbol is in Shamanism?

Your not asked to give up self referencing. Just self and absorption experiences from oneself as ultimate proof of an ultimate Self of all. Totally different.

Yes, this is good politics from the DH. Of course! What else would one expect? He has also stated just as the Buddha taught that Brahma paths, which include all Theistic paths only lead to higher rebirth and not complete liberation from Samsara.

Very awesome! Last night I was thinking about Gurumayi as my wife slept next to me and she had a dream about her. Interesting.

That's not a problem, since I don't like the stuff anyway.

This is the beginning of the end of your ego reference. Beyond this is very deep. Like one Rinpoche said, "better not have ever started, because beyond this is a whole lot of self questioning." But since you're here with the rest of us, better finish this longing for true and sustaining bliss!!! Why knot? To de-knot....

I say to you my Lord of mystery! I was in a casket tightly closed, filled with the cold darkness. I was walking around in this contracted contraption, I conceived of as a life, Bumping into walls made of my own mind's projections, receiving painful injuries with each motion of thought, finding support and illogical feedback, from those who shared the same insidious dark dream. Cursing you my Lord with my free will, for putting me here with no light to guide me. My eyes wild with outwardly blaming fear, staring into the perceived nothingness that is a misunderstood life. My awareness externalized, to the point where not even a drop of insight would align with my mind. Finally, filled with anguish, I dropped to the floor and closed my eyes, half heartedly hoping with doubt plaguing my mind, I begged for help with a will broken and hurt. I opened my eyes, and as quietly expected, nothing did change. All I saw was more suffering to experience, more petty excuses to make in order to remain, in this foolish bewilderment of unloving pleasure to pain, with nothing unbreakable, just more dust and disdain. So with re-invigorated intensity, to realize something new, I then again shut my eyes with utter sincerity, and I pleaded with you, My Lord of mystery to help me out of this insanity we call misery! Deep within...my gaze wept for a spark of a something, a fullness for this emptiness that I called myself. Deep within, I traveled past memories of pain's and ephemeral dust-like joy's, which led only to more pain, my being sung a song of a heart wrenching for it's long lost love. Knowing it was seeking for the truth only long forgotten... that which without, life turns horrid and rotten! With pits as hearts spit out on the streets of society cold and stark. I cried, I cried, and I cried with no shame, and no desire to be noticed by a somebody...and In these tears, I let go of everything I thought of as important, I let go of any thought that thought itself was even important. In these tears, I drowned myself, I drowned all sense of me! After a time of unperceived passing, having lost all sense of worldly reference, my eyes opened from within...and from deep within, I could see the door to my enclosure, made of whimsical wishes and accidental desires was cracked open! There before my vision was light, LIGHT! Pouring through a seemingly boundless darkness, a small point of freedom glared clarity and shone brilliantly! It was tiny, yet it's warmth at it's sights touch, made me happy, to receive this taste of something beyond this clutch? What is known. My eyes were magnetically drawn to it, forcing my mind to move my body towards this seemingly impossible dream....of a blessing! I pushed on the door of my hearts perception, as the hinges rustily scraped open, to this light I humbly bowed, and wordlessly asked for encouragement, and to this light I released anxiety never spoken, from this illumination I receive nourishment, and teachings pour into my mind, like a rain storm of brilliant golden tokens, for this luminosity grants me, the knowledge that I need in order to live a life open, not to the petty arrogant, clenched fisted attitude's of the angry masses, but OPEN! To the experience of unconditional joy ever increasing, as my understanding is ever deepening. With this lit love held in the cup of my heart as reference, my journey to liberation from suffering continues... and the process of this lights unfoldment, from inner crevice to outer sky steadily brightens, as each day and each shade of color is made reflective of this, even the darkness which was made of cold contractedness, is now nothing but a black light, full of hidden illumination and harmless, and now if I let it, it offers no hurt or petty plight to shade insight... this that is bright and beautiful and not made by me as I realize that it could never be truly obliterated you see... It is the infinity! So hidden was this that was always within, so hidden under the rubble of my own insanity, I habitually considered normality, Now bright and unbidden are the waves of Love's elixir that pulsates throughout my body, and when my mind turns from habit to open spontaneity? in you... Oh Lord of all Mysteries... I FLY!!

I know! You too right? HAHA!! It's like your picture, the paradox of light and darkness. I'm light and you're darkness. :lol: :lol:

I had a lucid dream experience of my Rinpoche running up my spine but within a tunnel riding a horse with wind blowing all hair on both Rinpoche and the horse back... moving very fast, and Rinpoche was slapping all my main chakra points with a stick, his eyes wild with bliss, love and radiance and at the end he was churning me, my awareness stuck at the crown of my head and this heat baking me on the top of my head like in an Native Bread oven, he was looking at me with this fierce bliss! I've heard that the windhorse is a synonym for kundalini? What's up?

You arent even connected to his transmission... move on!

Talking to you is like forcing a rock through a key hole.

ralis, ralis, ralis... For the sake of the people you are wrongly influencing through your statements. Reverse the order of your assumptions and you will come closer to the truth. On top of that, my meditative findings are supported by spiritual texts. Believe it or not... !!

You are right... sorry about that. I do suggest that you can see past the last singularity through meditative experience. You can do this by delving deep into your own unconscious and making it conscious through illuminating the personal mind stream that may or may not have gotten locked into the last singularity of this dimension. For me consciousness transcends brain, while for you it does not. So, we will always butt heads here.