Vajrahridaya

Yes, I was wondering if that was a trick question. LOL! Maybe it was? I was wondering what was meant by that question. I thought of my father who's fronts are not really his, but implants. Well, that's the most correct thing you've ever said... if memory serves me right. Thanks for making your ignorance obvious. Seriously Songs, you spend lots of time creating insulting rebuttals. Why don't you spend some time on the cushion, daily... for hours and see what happens for your personal experience and then read experiential references from historical masters and see if the experiences and insights match up? You'd be doing yourself a favor if you did.

I agree. The wider range of perception one has in relation to the moment, the more true to the moment one will be in relation to absolutely everything.

Your so wise Songs. Thanks for your opinion. All those autobiographies from great masters are completely useless and junk food for the spiritually malnourished, right? Get a life... follow someone else around... p.s. He asked me questions and I answered them. Your like seeds in watermelon.

Eh... individuals will be individuals. It is true that the full lotus is a wonderful practice. It's also true that I don't know all of your recommended teachers teachings and methods, so I cannot comment on their full realization. Since you've elaborated a bit on their view. It sounds nice. I wish you well with it. I don't feel that Ramana attained Buddhahood. But, I'm not him and I cannot comment on how he internalizes privately within his individual mind stream the concepts he used and methods he recommends. He was a good and great being. I find Buddhist teachings to be clear. If people in various parts of the East want to be extremists of any type, that's their prerogative and one cannot hold the Buddha accountable for that. Anyway... you seem like a smart and sincere person. I wish you well!!

Yeah, your right, I'm a limited, incoherent ignoramus. Please talk to someone else. Your on ignore. LOL! Your right... I am as you see me, completely and totally. I'm that person you think I am... always have been. Your perception is god. bye. No, I won't. Because I don't have an addiction, you are projecting. Have a great life!!

Ok, you're broadening the context. The very, very first cig gave me a light headed feeling... I was about... 12? Your projecting.

All are having an experience in another incarnation laying the effect that is to be the cause for the next birth and the intermingling co-existence as parent kid relationship.

Ok Tao... Your whole energy is a paradigm of over-reaction. Take that as an ad-hom if you wish. I was talking about the paradigm of certain so called intoxicants. See context.

Dzogchenpas don't believe in these dogmas and still attain the body of light, jalus, or great transference. So, I'm not in agreement with your teachers. One can attain liberation in any bodily position. One can have the nirvikalpa experience which is merely a formless state meditation experience of infinite consciousness, or infinite nothingness, or beyond perception and non-perception spontaneously occur while serving water as a waiter in a restaurant.

Yes, I have direct experience of these other realms. You can't take photographs really of another dimension using this dimensions technology. You may be able to at some point in the future though?? My experiences are corroborated by the information of various texts and current to historical enlightened beings. Faith in the validity of my direct experience and the experiences elaborated in various texts and autobiographies. No. Whatever your view and interpretation is relative to your understanding and remembered experience. Yes.

Don't you have some poker to play? Your subjectivity is relative to your personal insecurities.

ralis, you keep self righteously touting this reply in error, when I said both and gave examples in a long post. Why are you too lazy to do research of historical posts? I talked about how the theory of relative perception of time is showing subjective view originating dependent upon various local conditions as a primary cause. Anyway... You keep making the same assumptions based upon not even really reading my posts. Just... glossing over them with your subjective relativity.

That's sad, how a tradition done in order to break previous bondages of limitations in experience is turned into another dogma... We don't have to drink, we are just allowed to. It seems that those of us that benefit and experience a liberating by eating meat with the consciousness of blessing the karmic lineage of the animal and drinking some wine with the idea of de-limiting one's ideation are those of us who spent many years abstaining due to dogmatic constraints. But, at the same time, it would be a dogma to force someone to drink. Neither are needed for liberation, abstinence or partaking. The liberating criteria is merely seeing dependent origination and experiencing emptiness free from consciousness while being conscious and aware.

Not if one doesn't see dependent origination and merely see's non-duality through a real substance that seems non-substantial as substratum. You seem to keep thinking the void or infinite empty consciousness is what emptiness means. It does that. That's just another meditative experience. Enlightening the House of Brahma in the fontanelle Stroking the uvala in wanton delight, Confused, believing binding pleasure to be spiritual release, The vain fools calls himself a yogin. Teaching that virtue is irrelevant to intrinsic awareness, He mistakes the lock for the key; Ignorant of the true nature of the gem The fool calls green glass emerald. His mind takes brass for gold, Momentary peak experience for reality accomplished; Clinging to the joy of ephemeral dreams He calls his short-thrift life Eternal Bliss. With a discursive understanding of the symbol EVAM, Creating four seals through an analysis of the moment, He labels his peak experience sahaja: He is clinging to a reflection mistaken for the mirror.-Saraha, one of the 84 Mahasiddhas For a Buddha, you can listen forever, because there's no actual cessation of activity through an experiential idea that all things are one essence. Rather, we see that duality always is, it's just inherently empty from top to bottom always, so there is in fact no transcendent. Which is why Samsara is seen as Nirvana, not that we transcend Samsara, but we just see what Samsara is and are liberated in it.

Within my experience, yes. Your pretty reactive though. My response to ralis was actually grounded in the fact that he always comes off as negative and that I've known lots of poker players and seen lots of them. It's a shady game by nature. When I say I don't take part in such limitations in paradigm, I still feel that being a hit man would not equate with that comprehension and experience. Get a grip. Because your you and I'm me. I also don't feel that it's a need, it's an infrequent enjoyment. Very different. I understand. You don't. I'm fine with that. You have a good life!

Your reaction shows a clinging to a self. I wish you the best. p.s. of course you cling to a self because you believe that the universe is an intelligent creation of a single entity. That's exactly what Buddhists consider clinging to a self. It's a dogma of the Buddha that is meant to guide people to the right view. Your dogma is that there is an ultimate Self of all.

I'm not a smoker. People have all sorts of assumptions about things due to extreme views in society. "That's BAD and that's GOOD"... I don't partake in such limitations in paradigm. How can I write it more clearly... it's always my very first time because I have a puff very rarely. Sometimes even less than once a month to a few times a year.

Exactly. Just that the qualities of inner realization shine out like ripples through the ocean of collective consciousness.

Yes, you do, because every time I partake it's my first as I only have a smoke very, very occasionally and I'm very picky about what type of Cig I have. I also cannot smoke a whole one, but only a few puffs will do. American Spirit is the type I prefer and generally I get as I have some friends into the whole native american tepee thingy. I don't know... the lighter the cigarette the more toxic it makes me feel. Like if I take a puff from a parliament or a Marlboro light or something... it's totally horrible! Like i've just invited more toxins into my body due to treated tobacco. Which I hear has more chemicals to have less nicotine. Then I feel anxiety.

There are other realms of incarnation that manifest for a being after death from this body that co-generates according to the inhabitants with either less strict physical laws or more strict physical density. Ones inner experience of anything originates dependent upon view or perception.

Poison actually in small doses strengthens the immune system. Tobacco in small doses is good for de-clotting which is a main cause of heart attacks. Of course, in large doses just impairs the immune system and destroys the heart and lungs. It stimulates the nervous system and decreases anxiety and is very relaxing, when the tobacco is pure and it's just kind of puffed like Natives do during peace pipe ceremonies where concentration actually increases as well due to the physical effects. You can google this information.

Actually, this has to do with the fruit of the entirety of meaning and effort. If there is encore, that means one has applied to doing lots of beneficial things for all beings and thus your well loved in the highest sense. If there's a resounding drum role, that means that there has been an impression of importance reflective of course not in ego based principles, but in principles of virtue grounded in a bodhisattva view of things as elaborated in the Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Sutra and the inner realization of Dzogpa Chenpo or pristine awareness that has effected people towards the final goal of human potential.

The difference is simply this. Advaita Vedanta posits a true and self existing awareness that is at the beginning of the universe and persists throughout all time that is the single source of all beings. Buddhism does not. The state of non-dual awareness realized through seeing dependent origination directly is merely a result of seeing dependent origination which posits no single source of all activity of all beings. The subtle difference is very, very important and extremely refined in how one experiences and lives with non-dual awareness. Of course people need a correct path and view. Why be incorrect and have a false view? The Buddha was very clear in the Pali that this is not enlightenment, and merely leads to dwelling in a formless realm, either after death or after your modular perception loses it's karmic stability at the end of a cosmic eon. To Buddhism, the state of non-conceptual is a concept and originates dependently. It is not the source of existence, it is not the end all be all, and is not the type of non-dualism that Buddhism realizes. Take care. I agree! Have you seen, "The God's Must Be Crazy"? Great funny film with a good philosophical premise in the beginning. It's good just to see the beginning as they lay out the differences between the indigenous and popular cultures.

I guess not. I don't have many expectations though.

Actually a small amount of tobacco is good for a person and native Americans used it infrequently in a relaxed and non-craving manor. I think it's quite rare for a person to use tobacco in a medicinal manor though, so for the most part, you are right. I'm just throwing out a different perspective, a rare one, but a true one.