Vajrahridaya

I agree. Yeup, he also invented many other techniques that take a shorter time to gain insight. Secret Mantra Vehicle is a different tenet system. Mantras are not made up by human minds. Well... I'd go into some more, but I'm going to bed. I'll comment later. I suppose you think Theravada are the only true teachings of the Buddha? Well... go ahead with it!

Good job for 8 months. See, doesn't take long to get some type of comprehension of clarity when one is using dependent origination as the tool for insight. Wonderful. I'm on my way to sleep now, but I will come back tomorrow when I get up and we can discuss some of the aspects that you are not completely clear on and maybe we can help each other? Nice post though. Some Prasangika and Dzogchen. I like how you just go right to the truth of integration skipping the two truths model of Madhyamaka. That's Dzogchen. It's good you understand that non-duality in Buddhism is not because everything is one substance, or arising from a single substratum or source, but rather that all the multitudes of things are just empty of inherent existence, so it's a non-substantial non-duality. Ok, the typing is waking my GF... better go to sleep. Talk tomorrow for sure. I'm impressed!

Just to share a contrast because it was brought up. The Vajrayana system has 84,000 nadis or currents and then the many different chakras and Tibetan Medicine uses the findings to cure patients with the body, prana or winds, energy currents and mind system framework. Tibet actually was the center of the major trade routes and also shared information with India. Tibetan Medicine is a mixture of Chinese/Ayurveda of the Indians the Siddha medicine, Bon... etc.

Why are so many people so effected?? Where's the fruit of your spiritual paths?? How are you people so effected by me, how do you people give me so much power to disturb you?? These are serious questions. I'm just a 6 foot tall, 160 pound, 34 year old male from San Francisco. I'm not a 1 ton gorilla from Africa in the same room as you guys. Ignore me if you don't like me. Yes, I post a lot, mostly because people ask me questions and sometimes I find certain threads inspiring to write on. Also, some people bring up Buddhist topics and so I add to that. I used to argue the superiority of the Buddhist view because I was invited in here specifically for that purpose by my friend Michaelz, and he asked me more than once because I said no a few times, but I've stopped and mostly debate with other people about the details of the view of Buddhism or just offer my own experience about topics that have arisen, like psychic stuff. Or I tell jokes and laugh with some friends here. I offer information that may challenge someones perspective. Why take it all so personally and get bent out of shape and ruin threads by attacking me personally over and over again??

LOL! Astounding... Just as all things are perfectly imperfect. I don't engage with those I don't wish to. Honestly I only mention Buddhism in threads where it's mentioned or where I feel the wisdom of the information can help someone. I don't go out of my way to argue with people I don't find interesting. Unlike you and some others... oh then you find me interesting at the end of your post. People... Actually he disrupted it by asking me questions in here first as I was not engaging with him, due to the fact that all he does is preach O's at a D and the full lotus as the only way to full enlightenment. Your entire take is subjective based on the first part of your post. Overall your interpretation is not worth reifying and replying to. Did you see the way Drew stepped all over me, asked me personal questions then used the information as fodder for a personal attack, much like Songs. Mostly I think he did this because he was mistaking me and Vajrasattva for the same person, so he thought he was continuing his argument with Vajrasattva through me, thus it was out of no where.

SONGS! Serene sent me a PM and said this... She also said she didn't want you to feel like you were being singled out for public humiliation. Of course if you could think for a moment about your complete lack of compassion and how you with a tag team of hate-on-VH friends singled me out a number of times for public humiliation with no holds barred. I sure hope that someday you will find some objectivity about your interaction with me.

Ok, I'm going to engage with you a bit. I've done philanthropic work and offered service and money though I'm not wealthy in the slightest as me and my girlfriend rent a room together in a house for 500 a month and everything we have is in this room. I used to have credit cards and I went into debt 8 years ago buying strangers books from around the world and I would buy a collection of a favorite book and just give it to all sorts of people because I've always thought the greatest service was giving the spiritual teaching. I do feel that this is my calling because this is what enthuses me. But, just the other day me and my GF gave a homeless man a ride to a needed destination two times in two days. He gave us a drawing of his and my girlfriend gave him 11 dollars and I gave him 10. We made sure he wasn't an alcoholic or a drug addict, he just smoked cig's and drank from time to time and smoked pot from time to time. We felt he was worthy of some money and I gave him a hooded Gap sweatshirt because it was a cold night a few days ago out here. Anyway... this type of stuff happens from time to time. I don't have many resources. But, I do share and engage in the best way I do know how and that is through writing. Those that understand the things I write seem to benefit from the things I have written here and elsewhere, so this is good. What you do philanthropically is wonderful and needed, but it's actually fleeting. It's good for your own karma though and it will help your capacity to apply the dharma to yourself at a future date or lifetime, which is real for me and not just something that I'm saying to excuse myself. But, to understand the dharma to any degree and share it's teachings which will lead other people to the end of their cycling karmic experience of unconscious rebirth after rebirth, to engage with people and share the understanding that helps people to find their way out of psychological suffering once and for all is, as I've read from historical Masters, the greatest humanitarian work. It's the stuff that inspires people who have the resources to do the work that you are able to do. One page of inspired writing can inspire many people to do what you do. Not that I'm that inspirational yet. But, I get plenty of PM's of thank you's and more questions that I am able to answer as I have resources on these topics. If this weren't so, I would not stay here one more second. There are people who will get transmission from ChNNR now because I have shared here. Though it might have happened some other way from someone else as well, no one can stop something that's going to happen anyway. But, this is how some people were destined to come to what might be their root Guru who will take them across the ocean of Samsara. So, these talks and debates are very engaged and have born wonderful fruit, thus has been very positive contrary to your interpretation. Sharing the Dharma is the best type of engaged Buddhism. People are now reading books from an incredible master of Yoga and meditation in the Tibetan tradition. I know that your mind is conditioned with certain ideas of what engaged dharma is. But just the very fact that you are so effected by my writings shows that you are just a baby on the path of Dharma and haven't engaged much in directly experiencing the teachings of the Buddha. So, the type of work that you do is clearing your karma so that in a future life or in this life you may have the capacity to understand and truly experience the dharma on a deeper level. Being subjectively psychic has nothing to do with real Dharma by the way, in case you think you know me through some other venue because you seem to pretend that you do. You really don't know me at all or what I have done in my life other than the tiny bits that I've shared, of which you seem to only remember those aspects which serve your overall negative interpretation of me and my posts. I do not say this to save face either. But in the hopes that you will come to an understanding of your own condition of suffering which you blame me for. You have a very limited view of what engaged dharma is. Also, you don't really understand where the power of the dharma lies. The power of the Dharma doesn't lie in giving food to monks and money to the homeless, it lies in sharing the teaching that leads to endless peace for endless beings on a level that is beyond actions, but in understanding and interpretation which is what you take with you when you die. Of course one's actions should reflect one's understanding as well, but everyone has their own capacity as to the best way to offer service to the people. I have my resources and you have yours and these resources may change over the years. The real service I have read is sharing the dharma and helping people out of erroneous views so that real liberation can happen, because having a house, or getting some food for a while is not real liberation, unless of course it's leading to more dharma teaching. Sharing my Guru with those that are open and ask about him through me I feel is wonderful service and is a condition for great joy for me and those that get enthusiastic about finding out about him. I feel called to this right now, plus it's a good way to keep the time in between doing my job, online, which is the only money I'm making right now and it's pretty constant, answering questions from potential buyers from around the world at odd hours of the night. Then sometimes I have to do things first thing in the morning before I can even sleep like put in orders so that things can happen swiftly, then maybe the ups guy comes and I have to take care of that on no sleep and send more items. Like I said, my plan is to go to school next year once I'm a Florida resident. I'm very excited about that and my grammar and writing skills will surely progress through that medium. I'm trying to write very simply to you right now, I hope you can tell. Because your grudge against me ruins thread after thread. Though I know you think I ruin thread after thread, but only a few of you think so and more people than not don't think so it seems. But, more than anything, your taunting ruins thread after thread. Though of course I'll incorporate it into my cultivation and come to more detachment and compassion. Honestly. Even if I only reach one person with thousands of posts and they see the jewel that the dharma is with any sense of clarity and take up a practice and go and buy a book by Norbu Rinpoche, then even go further and get transmission! Wow!! That is some engaged Buddhism right there in my opinion. This person has been helped that much closer to Buddhahood and true inspiration which will lead to more service as each one teaches one and influences each other. Though, you are entitled to your opinion of course. But, I am as well as all these other people here. I have friends here who plead with me to stay while you plead with me to go. Who should I listen to? If you are really honest with yourself, you would realize that your experience of me is totally subjective, maybe shared with a few others yes. But, is not the truth. As the Truth is relative. Actually, what irritates you about me is something deep inside of you. Somewhere in there, you are not getting the Dharma and it's not working for you if you are this irritated about me continuously over so many months without rest. It's quite astounding. The level of abuse I've experienced from you is borderline psychotic. You tell me to get off my high horse? Well, I'm asking you if you could please get off your low horse. Or... get off YOUR high horse actually. It's actually good that you shared some of what you do, because up until now, I've thought of you as a total jerk, probably what you think of me. But, you seemed to have no redeeming qualities other than the fact that sometimes you were funny and creative with the way you bashed me personally, over and over again. At times I was actually scared that you might be some internet psycho that might try to find me and hurt me personally. LOL! That thought did cross my mind fleetingly here and there. It's almost supernatural the degree that you are effected negatively by me. It's something that maybe you should seek psychiatric help about. Honestly. It's somewhat scary if I wasn't that easy to scare. Also please stop assuming you know anything about me and my girlfriends relationship. It's not fair to her or anyone else, this constant bashing and personal mud slinging, thread after thread, wherever I post. She keeps repeating, "What was wrong with me?", "Why'd I do that?". She is kind of an emotionalholic. Not an alcoholic though sometimes she drinks and then sometimes she drinks too much. I have also done this and that night when she came onto E-Sangha was one of those nights, but she was suffering from over exaggeration. She is very pure hearted person as well as being very pretty too, with lots of spiritual potential. She got transmission from Rinpoche and really got it! It changed her life for good. She is still awed by it and spontaneously goes "Wow" from time to time and says out of no where... "He's amazing!" i was just was really upset and i used jaro as my scape goat That was Alana... She's right next to me and complaining a bit about her split personalities, of course they are all aware of each other. But anyway. She doesn't want me to suffer her issues so she's apologizing to the board. She's making great progress and I learn from her all the time as well I learn about my own issues. So... Big guy? In what way am I your scape goat too? Am I the sacrificial lamb for you? I ask you this because this is kind of freaky, how you are suffering so much because you cannot change me and make me the way you want me to be. Can't I be myself and live my life without you getting obsessively mad? Why can't I write obsessively on a spiritual blog board? I love writing and debating "right view." It's inspiring to me as a reason to be and live. So I want to go to school for it. Like I said, I'm on the internet all the time due to my work and sometimes all night answering emails, then coming on here, going back answering emails, then coming on here. Back and forth, back and forth. Printing postage through paypal and I have to stay at home to wait for my UPS deliveries that happen from 8 am to 7 pm at their own time. Anyway... you need to start asking yourself more questions about why you suffer so much from little ol' me?? Also... I am not a Dzogchen master yet. Hopefully in this lifetime though. I hope this effects you in some way to let me exist. Please, can I exist? I'm asking you permission... because this is getting a little scary. I don't know you, but you have so much hate for me. You have followed me around from E-Sangha to Tao Bums. Now you are trying to change me into another personality, into someone you can manage. This is so narcissistic. It's disturbing. I'm questioning your sanity, honestly. Ralis has calmed down a bit. But you?? Are you insane?? This is a befitting place for these posts as far as the title goes. Songs! Sereneblue just sent me a message and she assured me that you are helpful to others on this board. I am not aware of these posts at all. So... this is a relief. I'm glad that you may not be totally insane, just partially insane, or fully insane when it comes to me. Also, Serene assures me that you do actually have wisdom and understanding. I have never seen any of that side of you. But that's a relief! I trust her. So maybe your not a baby on the spiritual path, and maybe you're just a whiner when it comes to me.

That's awesome! I'm glad you are following your calling!! Keep up the wonderful service!

This is nice. But, I'm about to cuddle with my girlfriend who just got home from work and watch last nights episode of Heroes. Thank you for the invite, maybe another time? I have taken Qigong classes but that was about... 25 years ago I think? I love everything about it though.

Also, if you took the time to check out the links I posted for you... here's one of them. You'll see that Vajrayana is a yoga that balances mind, energy and body and uses yogas that involve all aspects for development. So, it's a complete system and actually Vajrayana because it's tantra, most of it's methodology is about energy, drops/bindus/tigles, and channels/chakras. Even Dzogchen is mostly about energy and there are specific Dzogchen body yoga techniques, like this... Dzogchen has three main systems of teaching, from mind teachings, to space teachings which uses symbols as metaphors for the realized state such as mirrors and crystals, contemplations, visualizations and body postures as well as the secret oral teachings. Anyway... yes... this is a Taoist board. But the welcome page says this board allows for all views to dance and play here. Yes, like clay, you can put it in any position and make it look complicated and tied up, but it doesn't change it's substance until it's cooked at a very high temperature.

Actually, Buddhism has the unique flavor of not being paradoxical and contradictory in the entirety of it. Though it can take up complimentary contradictions as a way to show multiple angles or perspectives on a single topic or insight. Full lotus will not liberate you, if that's your goal at least. Only insight will liberate you. Liberation is not a sensation or a body experience, it's a state of mind that integrates with the body in any position, be it lotus, half lotus, upside down, doggy style. Doesn't matter. When one see's that all things are luminous by nature and all inner and outer arisings are non-abiding, without inherent essence other than infinite potential, then nothing can stop you, not even an injured knee that keeps you from sitting in full lotus. But, yes... it is very nice to be able to sit in full lotus a lot. It's beneficial for sure and highly recommended, just not as a dogma.

Awesome!! I think Drew is gone for now though. Ah well. I'm sure our fearless orgasmic healer at a distance will be back. EDIT: oooppps. I take that back... Heeeeeee's baaaaaaack. You know, I think if I knew that there was a Vajrasattva here before me, I would not have chosen my E-Sangha name for here too. Clarity is nice, though chaos can be fun too. At least Vajrasattva is not some bum, he's actually a nice person to be mistaken for. I just hope next time it's for the right reasons.

Zencave, Zencave, See for instance. Me and Xabir here are talking about the same truth. But, he likes the word realization for the same reason I like the word actualization and dislikes actualization for the same reason I dislike realization, though I have used both many times for the same reason. See to me, the word actualization is seeing what's actually here and does not refer to stages at all, but is just being what is actual. For me, the term realization denotes making something real that once was not real. So... words are tricky in English because it's not an inherently spiritual language like Sanskrit. We are all here trying to understand through a very materialist language on this board and in our English speaking lives for the most of us at least who live in English speaking countries. It's nice to discuss things and clarify understanding. This is actually part of my practice. I don't see why people think that this is not a part of cultivation? For me, even watching TV or a movie, or going dancing is part of cultivation and celebrating spirituality. I used to think that I must stop watching TV and dancing and going to movies, stop having sex, hanging out with people. This is true that this is a very necessary stage in development, to renounce all these worldly things because one is experiencing them from a worldly vision. But, once a spiritual vision is established, all activities are experienced as meditative development. My main practice is Mantra Yoga and Guru Yoga by the way and remaining in Rigpa, even if my body isn't feeling it. Integrate, integrate, integrate!

If you meditate intensely... it will happen automatically if you just listen. Everyone is psychic, it's just being awake to it.

Oh come on... Think about it in terms of guys.

Are you getting the Transmission from webcast in November?

I use the coin only because it's the easiest and the only one I know how to use. Actually I always do it with my mother and she reads the coins. So, I don't even really know how to do it myself. I just ask the question, shake the coins and throw the coins, momma does the rest. That's even more lazy!

I can't muster any debate here... time to move on. We all agree!

As long as you know Zhang. I'm not going to try to psychically stop you. Indeed! It took me years to intuit that. I find that the only time it doesn't work, is when I'm not in a good place, or really, really tired. Like yesterday I was having some issues.

This did increase through psychic powers I must say! I prefer the dog types. But, pigs are cute anyway... both me and my GF were commenting the other day on how the heck people could eat such cute things??

Please show me where he say's they are a dead end. The sound dissolves into an awareness of pulsation and peace. They lead to stages of Jhana which helps with integrating vipassana on subtler levels of awareness. If he felt absorptions were dead ends, he wouldn't have taught samatha.

This is exactly how I've thought of it too. The projective light enters the receptive dark to mix and manifest the rainbow of multitudinousness.

I found it at first detrimental to my path in fact. I wished they had never arisen. I also see in other beings who have psychic powers but not real discernment as to where these thoughts are actually arising from get highly confused and start projecting things onto the wrong people. All sorts of complications can arise it seems. At first my cultivated compassion turned to pain when I really started hearing what was on other peoples minds. It became very disconcerting because by the time they started to arise I had already pretty much cleared out all social thinking and replaced it with mantra and every time I heard a thought from someone else, I felt the energy of the thought too and it would pull me down into feelings of darkness. Plus I found that other psychics would be reading other peoples thoughts through me because I would just let them flow through while I repeated the mantra silently without identifying and people would get confused. I just find it really complicates things and causes lots and lots of confusion. On the other side, I guess I became even more compassionate in the long run as I overcame the negative symptoms through mantra meditation and an intensified regiment of inner focus. I find it's still an ongoing process, but I've made leaps and bounds over the last 11 years since they started happening to me. Lots of aspects of clinging that I wouldn't have known were there prior to having certain siddhis have been de-clung through intensified effort. So, this is good. I could write pages and pages on this though. But generally speaking. I'm not a big fan of telepathy as I prefer to just focus on the pulsation of mantra. But the seeing energy, chakras and different classes of beings part of it is interesting and hearing the thoughts of great beings is wonderful! But, I don't ever make it a focus and I don't regard these things as signs of greatness either. I find that if I focus on joy , that I'm protected from the negative side of this power, so over the years the subtleties of my joy and detachment has deepened and changed because of this. I don't mind if I'm considered one of the, "happy people" by the poverty consciousness type of psychics who think that happiness is an alien invasion, or something. Though psychic powers, one can sure find out directly how much in Kali Yuga we all really are. Take good care.