Vajrahridaya

OMB!! I looooove your f&*kin humor!! Your great redeeming quality!! Thank goodness you have this to fall back on!! I'm just beside myself here with laughter... maybe literally now?? OH NO!!! It's funny, because I've been watching, United States of Tara, Wiki Link ,plus I was talking with Ralis a bit (HUH! Silar?? That explains a lot!!) about D.I.Disorder, then I happened to come across this show recently. I've watched all 12 episodes in the last week. Freakin' awesome show... many tears shed. Talk about Vido Loko!! Plus compassion... wow!! Or at least our ankles and put our heads between our legs... sheesh!! Um... No...

Of course they do Drew. Your view is highly dualistic. Your experience of falling back is not what happens to everyone. As well, what you may think is falling back is merely someone just starting to integrate. Your renunciation is basically just a process you are going through, but the true realization is neither renunciation of, or identification with the world. No, he reacted to me and Vajrasattva quite negatively for a while there, full on attacked me even. You must have missed that. Yes, that's impressive and all that. But, that won't lead to liberation. Your view is askew drew. I used to think much like you many years ago. I used to fight to get into full lotus and got so proud when I did and puffed up when I could maintain it for an extended period. Yes, lots of bliss, yes... lots of transcendent experiences and visions, blah, blah, blah... all very good! But, without the "right view"... all just fodder for rebirth in a Prideful God realm.

Is about comprehension, deep wisdom... Yes, Lotus posture is the..."physical best" posture to get into, though not completely necessary for enlightenment or Buddhahood. Also, mastering the Lotus, does not guarantee Buddhahood. It doesn't even guarantee a great future rebirth if infected with lots of pride, because Buddhism is really about the humbling view of D.O./Emptiness. This is the 1st, not the 2nd, 3rd or 4th. Not even the 8th, though they are all connected from the base up or top down at this point... ok getting beyond the point here... "Right view", is highly necessary and really the true ultimate necessity for liberation, not blissful experiences, body rushes, energy transferences, making hunnies in the BK lounge wet and drooling. Yes, that has it's own merit, but it's not the merit of complete and total liberation according to the Buddha way, this only leads to high level pleasure realms which don't guarantee freedom from lower rebirth, even after eons of enjoyment. Though, indeed... if you are capable, Full Lotus is worth mastering, but not nearly as much as right view, ....which is deeply subtler than energy. "Right View" includes... but fully transcends all the powers of the Gods.

Ah.. thus the lust for true and personal existence goes on, and thus the possibility of future suffering... all is relative.. that is it.

Oh, you funny bag of personality... ok then. I mean relative as in you absolutely only exist because everyone who seems to exist, does so interconnected with you as you are to them... through an endless array of causation without discernible static nature. Eh? Change is the spice of life anyway... even in death do you never part from impermanence.

Yes, very sad, kind of like what "Buba da Free John" did with Muktananda's signature in his supposed letter of Guru recommendation.

Ok... if anyone can see the fun in that name alone... it's definitely me.

As Hagar said it... also... if you are doing it half open and still completely focusing externally, you are not doing half open correctly. Half open means splitting the focus from completely within or without to both, intermingling... So... to do that correctly, you are going to need transmission from a real master of that technique. SEriously. This is pretty good, with some masterful context would be very beneficial as well... as in transmission. But... other than that... very good here.

Well... that was a rare gem now wasn't it? You must have some sort of omniscience to be able to pull that out of the vaults at random! It goes to show how illusional of a story death is. A great being... the same great being as last not named, wrote a book, "Does Death Really Exist?" You are making me apply lots of these symbols here in a short period of time now Little 1... do you want a medal? Dumb ass? Taking things a little personally through the impersonal ability to be personal about impersonalities?

That's a good opinion that happens to be a fact for a spiritual seeker that is. A great being said that the two most important things on a seekers mind is death, and the nature of all things.... I guess they kind of run together, don't they. Since impermanence is the only permanent hotel in space!

Rofl!

Yeah I know... Well... I just married my current girlfriend. But... the last one I tried to marry, the one I was talking about. She didn't really believe that I would honestly do it though so she broke up with me after she'd been asking me to propose to her for over a years time and I wasn't ready, then when I did, she had already met someone else she felt was mature enough. She felt that she was too old for me, that she would miss the wonderful connection, but she had to sacrifice it for the sake of marriage and a kid she so desperately wanted. So, she is 40 to my 34 now, when we met I was 29. My current wife is 25 going on 26 in a weeks time. So, there is time to train her... LOL!

Yes, one can through deep meditation, but it should not become an obsession. Whatever information on the psychic side should just be a natural side effect of honestly following your path in the "here now" as it seems to be. When one goes further and further into the here and now, one naturally see's all the connections that now has to the past and future.

Yes, it just happens much faster. Oh man!! I loooove me some Black Sabbath!! Love that old school hard rock, all the way into Metallica... the old stuff of course and not all songs, but plenty of them. Led Zepplin... Cream! Dude!! Loooovin' it... got me listening to War Pigs right now!!

Wonderful Marble. I'm all gushy inside thinking about how our relationship has evolved! You're a good open hearted dude. I like that in a guy...

A child is not free from suffering, they just haven't manifested their unconscious yet, so they are in a state of conditional pleasure. The condition being ignorance. If we were born enlightened, we would know it and not loose it. This is what awareness of nature means, which a child, generally speaking, does not have, they are just wide eyed and excited and react to everything as it comes. This is not enlightenment. But he's right, because of impermanence and the childs lack of understanding it, he or she losses that condition of purity which was just due to ignorance. If a child truly understands their condition, it would not leave them. If a person is in pleasure, but then suffers after death, that is the type of suffering the Buddha is talking about. The suffering that is bound to happen even while we enjoy the conditions of pleasure. The Buddha is just pointing to a way where one can have the inner condition of continual joy no matter what's going on within the all pervasive realm of impermanence. Yes of course, the cause of inner suffering is dis-content thus clinging... even to subtle concepts which the Buddha pointed out. The profound far reaching truth of the Buddhas teaching goes far beyond the 3 dimensions, and includes them. But yes... of course! To each their own path of process. It's not even scientifically provable that you ultimately exist. Even science says that you exist relative to the conditions of chemicals, atomic structures... Your attachment to your perception through the 5 senses is a tall tail illusion that only seems real due to various causes and conditions of trained identity. Sure it's real, but only relatively. Never ultimately.

Read the welcome page for this site. The Buddha is not the source of anyones suffering. He (Or I should say, that level of awareness which he represented) is the source of understanding the causes and conditions of suffering. Let go... we are all here sharing valuable ideas... or you can think they are not. Being effected shows buttons of clinging.

Ahahaha... oh you guys...!!

The thing is... there are all these misunderstandings about Buddhism that are prevalent in the minds of the masses who have not actually studied directly the teachings. Jokes like... "What did the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor? 'Make me one with everything!'" Buddhism does not see a cosmic consciousness, yes, there is awareness of the workings of the cosmos, but there is no one that all things are... there is no one energy that all is. This is considered a very subtle level of mis-understanding meditative experience that most paths cling to as absolute Truth. There is no oneness in a literal sense in Buddhism, only the recognition of interconnectivity, and emptiness, which is why the awareness expands and seems to fill everything in meditation, but it's not becoming one with everything, it's merely seeing through everything, but those without right view are thinking it's a oneness thing. When it's really not. It's merely inter-connection and the fact that nothing has any inherent existence in and of itself, not even awareness. Take care. Reality is a field of relativity, and this is absolutely true. Quite correct. The same with the identification with oneness or manyness. Buddhist non-duality is referring to emptiness, no inherent existence, which is the possibility of total fullness, not oneness. Because the fact that all things and consciousness are inherently empty of an sort of self existence, awareness can be free. Non-dual means, Not-two, but in Buddhism it also means, Not-one.

I can accept the wisdom in this for sure.

I had a girlfriend that could find the upward spinal energy pull... the kundalini yogini she is. She could shatter your ego through her yoni and make you see the cosmos as if the entirety was in the bedroom with you. She'd pull up and have multiples and take you there with her, or vice versa as I would have inward multiples as well. Well... that was our connection at least, quite cosmic. She would lick blue light from my ajna. The best sex I've ever had, by far.

Please expand? This thus far sounds more Hindu Monism. I'm sorry... it may be because it's really early in the morning and I've been working all night... but the meaning of this statement is not revealing itself to me right now. Can you expand?

Or like... shadow boxing, with yourself, in the dark.