Vajrahridaya

For correction. I said that many of the things said against him online were true, just mis-contextualized and completely mis-understood due to limited perspective. A limited perspective which you also share Songs. Thus, I don't really like you much as a personality. But, when I'm doing my practice I experience great compassion for you, though you don't really care. Even your posts on other threads are filled with limiting mental dross. You suffer from molasses mentality. Putting you back on ignore.

You are merely talking about Pralaya as singularity. It's a very old concept from early Vedic times up to and beyond 4,000 years ago. Pralaya means "non-existence, a state of matter achieved when the three gunas (principles of matter) are in perfect balance. They also talk about how this happens over and over again, that there is no real beginning, just cycling, over, and over, and over... endlessly.

I agree with the phd's that agree with the M theory. Endless big bangs and beginningless universes, not just one. Because you do a lot of this. You think that because you haven't had the experience of insight into past and future lives and other dimensions of existence for yourself after this life ends, you think it's all imagination and unprovable. But, this just isn't so. There are so many instances that one can read online of children remembering details of their past lives and coming up with amazing proof that this is so. I completely disagree with this. I have experienced and remembered past lives and I have seen into other universes so for me, you are wrong on all accounts. There are so many people who have experience of this, and even brought up proof. One of the ways they found this Dalai Lama was by him proving through memory that he was the previous Dalai Lama. He had to show where he hid things and what items were his from his previous life and such. He was given these tests as a small boy. So again, please don't limit everyone by your own categorical limitations based upon a lack of memory. One can't prove dimensions beyond the 5 senses without you first transcending your own limited ideas about your own consciousness through meditation. The truth of M theory shows that there is no time that nothing existed, things just existed in different dimensions and then existed into this dimension seemingly as a big bang. But, this big bang was not the beginning of existence according to M-Theory. Also, not according to the Vedas and what the Buddha taught. Science is deeply behind the truths revealed to great beings in meditation through the medium of taking conscious awareness past the realm of the senses. Then study up on M-theory since you think everyone who has experienced past lives or beyond this dimension of the 5 senses is deluded and filled with illusions even though at times these people have proven who they were in a past life through various tests. You are saying that I am wrong as I am saying you are wrong. I am saying that your criteria for evidence is deeply limited. The only statement in your post that truly makes sense to me. It's a good one at that.

I believe in the ability to be always aware of the transformations happening to the relative self or mind-stream, soul, what have you. So that one never again falls into forgetfulness. Also having the ability due to awareness of the elements of change, make the conscious decision as to where to go next from lifetime to lifetime, making the idea of lifetimes obsolete really, as one never really dies if awareness is constant. There is merely a change of form.

All my double binds are obliterated by my Dzogchen practice. As all my double binds are basically a state of mind or perception rather than a physical occurrence. Even if the physical occurrence may seem like a double bind to someone, for me if I'm steady in my practice... they all turn into opportunities of some sort or another. Just because I see it that way from within this state of wonderful peace, and acceptance!

Right, like the theory that through a black hole is just another dimension of experiential reality. It seems far fetched to some, but it doesn't to me at all, considering what happens when we go through the black holes of our minds and how it feels like a suction cup in meditation and you go through it turning into multiple colors through a tube and end up in an entirely different dimension. Some aren't even illumined by physical suns but instead by the beings that live in these planes of existence, the people shine so bright. There is a huge difference between imagination and the experiences that happen naturally through meditation. My experiences have been corroborated by the sacred texts, so I do believe in their validity. I do not at all subscribe to the idea that the big bang was the begin "all" of "be". I don't really believe in an absolute alpha and omega. I subscribe to infinite regress....... echo, echo, echo, echo....

Also the one I put on your chair before you sit down.

Totally! That too!

The idea that the big bang is the beginning is rather silly. Please don't project your own limitations on everyone. What we call direct experience you might call imagination, but that's just you looking from without, trying to fit someone elses experience into your own box so that you can make sense of it for yourself within the scope of your own experience. That's pretty limiting, both of others and yourself.

LOL! Yes it is!!

LOL! Glad to see people had fun with this one!

My sentiments exactly. I do like Deepak Chopras thoughts on drugs found on youtube after Taiji Bums' link up to youtube anti-drug statement.

I almost moved back to Berkley earlier this year. There's a great Dzogchen center there! Hmmmn.

How wonderful! One of my thoughts as well. You are still quite young bro... get it done!!

No Freakin' doubt man! Stuff like this makes me want to get into Cognitive Science! I have a couple of friends getting their masters in this and I'm like... YO! That's just western style Buddhism without the sitting method. It's like proving inter-dependence through seemingly dualistic but still a viable environment of study. Even though sitting and quieting the mind in my opinion is deeply necessary, especially for the deeply intellectual as the practice grants more space for wisdom to connect with intellectual musings and make good buddhies of each other.

No, I just disagree with your experiential excuse for a conclusion of everything. So yes... I will state as such. Probably with much less tact than the Buddha. Excuse me for such.

A good start to the 4 brahmaviharas.

The Buddha didn't subvert the Vedas for no reason, which he did plenty of times in the Suttas. Study up! The Upanishads state that enlightenment is a continual state of absorption and integration with absorption, rather than a cutting through as in the Buddhas teaching. Hindu and Buddhist traditions do not at all agree on what Moksha actually is. The subtlety of the Buddhas approach is the reality of his transcendent insight. It's not as simple as quieting the mind and freeing it from concepts, that's merely a formless absorption which the Buddha warned more than a few times against identifying with as absolute "Truth." It's about knowing directly how exactly the cosmos works and comes into expression each and every moment, not merely living from a state of seemingly free bliss that lasts only till the end of this cosmic eon. When the Buddha talked about omniscience, he was truly talking about knowing directly and always how nature works, not merely falling into some space of empty illumination as an identity. Keep at your studies though... they always bare fruit. But, remember that the seeds you plant reflect the fruit they deliver... as dependent origination demands.

Which is why remembering past lives is so very important in development. It cures so many fears and lack of insight into the transcendent nature of awareness, as well as life in general as most people are trapped behind 5 senses.

Haha... not for the lazy, definitely. There are a couple of instances where the Buddha just had to walk away from people and go sit in the woods because of the fact that they just didn't understand what the heck he was talking about. As he first said. The truth of this realization is so profound, that people won't even understand! Anyway... I agree. As Swami Muktananda said, and I kind of paraphrase merely based upon memory, "Hallucinogens can give you a glimpse, but if you don't put in the work, you don't really attain true and lasting wisdom." But! After saying that... a glimpse can be the answer to a long held question leading to a true path of sustainable high quality of life.

Silly wabbits... Buddhahood far and away transcends anything you who do not even know your past human lives can even grasp as of yet.

A yogi is always young at heart, even if ancient in experience.

I kind of agree. I think making a public notice of such things is maybe not in everyone's best interest? I don't know though. This is just my opinion. It is quite funny though, but I feel guilty for laughing.

I remember in 95' during a chant with Gurumayi I had a huge crying kriya, so intense. I think the most intense tears I had shed up to the point, but not since. But my entire body went ablaze with this fire and there was this intense longing made of love, for love. Like love calling love, like a fire wanting to be more fire. Anyway... right afterward I took a huge poop that smelt like some major toxins had come out, like plastic and metals type of smells. So, I actually took a shit from an energy transfer as a kriya. HAHA!

I agree, it's funny what some people will reach for.