Vajrahridaya

Oh you poor dear! I hope this can be alleviated!

Yes, I think for the most part your right. I have literally seen such things as spirits going into the bodies. The energy at bars is very "hungry ghost" or "Preta" as well. Unless one has totally exhausted his or her hell and animal realms, strange things happen when alcohol is introduced into the system. But, that person without hell or animal in them, would most likely not do much drinking if any at all anyway.

I think it depends. My experiment is over though. So, don't worry guys! JK, You do have some more experiences to be had through the practice that will blow your cherished beliefs of what is "real" and "false" out of the water of your mind.

Nah... If you read this... it's like your reading to yourself. That's absolutely true! It's not that he's wrong all the time though. Just insensitive to process. His approach is an extreme view all the time, not very practical and down to Earth.

From a non-dual perspective, learning from a great living teacher is learning from yourself, of yourself. People find it easier to quote from dead masters, but to humble oneself to a living guide takes much more courage. Then of course, you get to a point... but that point is not worth talking about if you haven't made that first step of honest and open humility, releasing of yourself and your thought patterns, and what you think you know and lay it down at the feet of someone who has actually gone through the entire process themselves, in lineage.

I agree with all this. My experience of so called toxins completely changed after doing lots of retreat and cultivation for many years without any toxins. Then... I can take acid, shrooms, coke, drink lots and lots and people think I'm completely sober, because my inner experience does not change. I can feel the chemical try to do something to me from within, and I change it through a kind of focus, or re-balancing of my mind. Plus I don't get addicted to anything. It's strange and I think it's just having high, positive and happy vibration... that's it. I did this stuff as an experimentation as I read that some Tantric yogi's took poison to test their attainment and focus of mind. By the way... I'm not a perfected Master. I don't recommend this excuse either. I'm just saying... there is a definite change in a persons physiological make up before and after intense spiritual cultivation. Take care.. don't try this at home kids!! Do intense retreat in the house of an enlightened Master instead!!

Buddhism only disengages ignorance so that balance and harmony happens naturally and spontaneously. More later on what I mean by this. There are so many proofs for past lives in my honest and experienced opinion. Kids remembering past lives and proving thus with empirical evidence, etc. can be found online and in books. I'm also one of these kids. Not only that but if one meditates very, very deeply, one will remember without a doubt. But that's only to dismantle attachment to individual identity, and strengthen transcendent confidence, but not to strengthen an idea of... "oh I'm supposed to be this or that person!" I find nothing wrong in what you say, but it's somewhat limited in my opinion and doesn't see causation and relativity to a depth and degree that is possible for the human capacity. Yet... what you say I find good in! So, no argument there. Though of course I don't expect you to measure up to my opinion... I'm just saying. But of course, you are your own person with individual causation. I love Astrology... I'm Aries Sun, Gemini Moon and Scorpio Rising in Western Astrology, and I knew my houses at some point in historical study, etc. I'm Pisces in Eastern Astrology. Both make sense for me personally. It's all quite interesting and accurate as far as my karmic make up goes. I find enlightenment merely being the ability to bring about the positive aspects of all one's planetary/karmic pulls. I don't believe in an inherent soul... just a continuation of energy and the ability to have awareness that is knowledgeable of how one's energy manifested prier to this life only in order to better understand how and why things are happening in this life. It makes it easier to see causes and conditions and lay down the blame game once and for all and take full responsability for ones life. All the best!! I'm happy to get to know you!

IT is amazing. You actually burn less energy eating less food even when doing a high activity life style.

You give to much importance to your self experience. I don't have as much of a problem seeing through my own projections as you do. No, they are not, you just project that they are. Which is the entire problem right there. This will keep you from really learning from a genuinely liberated lineage. You follow yourself too much. Yes, that's what you do.

Oh! Ok... for some reason I'm laughing my ass off right now. Dig the energy my man!

Find out, it does not neglect genuine process. Your kind of extreme in your view, not so radical, more chaotic.

There are lots of diagrams one can find that show many chakras above the head, but this is all really just the crown chakra and it's infinite dimension lotus.

One should take the practice to it's fullest extent before tolling out advice of dropping what one has not yet experienced directly. Buddhism is designed to take one beyond being and non-being... GIH has a mental dogma that's worse than a religious dogma sometimes. Having the non-dual experience doesn't mean neglecting the process, as duality is what's non-dual, it's not that non-duality is dual. Don't put your cart before the horse. Ya dig?

You are not your own best teacher. You should get more humble, because your afflicted by your own historical karmic baggage, which limits your perception on a deeply subjective level. You look around and color everyone with your spiritual pride, not catching how fast your subconscious projects it's delusions. If you think Gotama was merely that teacher who taught the Pali Suttas, and not the Mahayana Sutras attributed to him, then you don't understand Gotama. Gotamas most pure teaching was the first thing he said upon getting up from under the Bodhi Tree. Look that up. It's before Brahma asked him to teach. He taught a highly delineated process to both a highly delineating culture and also a culture caught up in superstition abstractions, but his perfection transcends his words and his influence far transcends Buddhism into other religions. Gotama as an emanation of Vajrasattva is a teacher of Dzogchen. He also teaches to more highly evolved disciples in higher dimensions right now. He died leaving out of the 4th Jhana attributed to the Peerless deva realm, so you can meet him in the Sambhogakaya dimension, if your so fabulous. Your judgement of Gotama both betrays a lack of experience and a lack of understanding Buddhism. You should loosen up your assumptions a bit and learn some things. Transcend yourself, get out of your box a bit. See more objectively and take in more information per spherical moment.

So your a better teacher than Gotama? Ah yes, the epitome of humility... GIH! Get over yourself.

You should try to get to a hatha yoga class, as these are available almost anywhere. That would help with your lower chakras. The crown chakra extends out above. If your not grounded, you'll feel it above the head, when your centered in your body, or your let go of your body and naturally just relaxed, pain and anxiety free, you'll just feel it where your head is at, or everywhere really as that's the infinite lotus petal chakra. Hatha yoga will help anchor your energy, ground you, and open up your personal power. Doing hath yoga in groups can be helpful, as you will force yourself to focus on yourself even when there are people around. This all takes time and is a process. You must be patient with yourself and have compassion for yourself as well as others who seem to make you fearful or paranoid. It's fine to feel scared, just acknowledge it and see it for what it is and know that it's not something to identify with or let rule your life. Believe me, I've gone through major paranoia about being around people and can have a tendency towards agoraphobia. But, through practice and contemplation, I have overcome much of it. I am still sensitive, but I don't cling to the sensations I feel from others and don't judge them. I mostly send them good vibes anyway, just because I accept that people are the way they are merely due to conditionings and everyone has Buddha nature! Do some Hatha Yoga!! You'll be amazed!!

Oh ok, Motherly love Goddess. Well, that's a positive force. We don't really worship anything in the sense of a theist as in calling that being as totally responsible for us and our complete source of existence. We see everything as an inherent potentiality within infinitude. Gods and Goddesses even though they have long lives in high and powerful realms as merit born of lives lived from a previous universe, are not eternal and completely worthy of refuge to us. Buddhists take refuge in the realization of being awake (Buddha means awake) to the nature and process of all things, planes of existence and the nature of all beings from high to low. Hathor sounds like a Goddess of goodness though and worthy of deep respect and veneration. I bow to her. Within the Cosmos, even Goddess beings though having power and help support their worshipers, cannot really guarantee liberation from karmic recycling according to Buddhist cosmology unless one has realization for oneself. We Worship the historical Buddha and other such Masters in the sense that we have the same potential for ourselves and can aspire to that hight of realization and depth of insight, compassion and total love for ourselves in order to serve others better with openness and love. We think of them more as our equals though we are humbled by their attainments, only in the sense that we ourselves have not come to that level of realization. Yet, in certain states of samadhi or glimpses of the Dharma or the Way, we experience that very same wisdom mind and find an inner depth and equality with the endless Buddhas of endless time, thereby knowing that our practice will lead to the very same level of attainment as those beings we venerate.

Nah... just karma I agree.

Though you do bring up some good and valid points, worthy of contemplation. Your being somewhat absolutist here. There is only the illusion, so therefore it's not an illusion. So, the process is valid. Not to be clung to, but seen through and utilized. It's true though, one can see without eyes from anywhere as all points lead to each other and contemplative awareness is without center.

YAY!! Cumming out of the crown of your head instead of the tip of your pee pee!! Just out of curiosity. You said you'd be the opposite of a Buddhist. So, do you worship Satan, or Mara? I'm not joking, as I know there are plenty that do. When I say Satan, I mean the dark side of the force. LOL! Just curious. I've been friends with some that do, so I'm not judging as everyone has their own eternal process to undertake and is worthy of compassion. Well... That's why he's the Dalai Lama and I'm not. Please forgive me for my lack of ability, he has way more realization in his little pinky than I have in my entire body. It feels deep and wonderful and that feeling can extend outside of the bedroom. It feels the same for a women, as I've experienced with a lover. There is a deep intermingling that happens on this level where all the chakras are shared and one can very deeply know and feel exactly what the other is feeling, thinking, etc. It's fabulous and worth the practice.

I agree. He is somewhat cultish as well. I've experienced all the Jhanas at one point or another. Now, one can spontaneously have a jhana experience due to the building of familiarity, while doing anything. It just happens. All of a sudden the mind focuses the body turns to pulsating bliss energy and one is kind of transfixed in a state of rapture, or equanimity where the body doesn't want to move, or all of a sudden everything falls away and there's nothing but open space and no perceiver and no time, or there having ever been time... there are of course different levels to this. These spontaneous jhanic experiences started happening to me at around the age of 5 or 6. This is due to both past lives and the fact that my mother would go into Jhanas while I was in the womb. One should as a beginner do extensive retreat. That's highly recommended and this is how I got some sort of mastery over the jhanic experiences. But, as Xabir said, without Vipassana, you'll have no integrated level of liberation and the jhanas are really there just to subtlify one's consciousness or awareness of processes in order to go deeper in vipassana until one has a state of constant and open contemplation of nature that is natural and spontaneous. Where one is seeing through everything constantly, including ones self. Jhanas are good though, just don't "I" and "Mine" them. Even a perfected being will do regular Jhana just for health reasons. Or not, there are different kinds of Masters.

I can't really say, as I'm not her particular karmic make up... we are only of the same system, but different particles of it. I can say that the mistake happens a lot. But, I can also say that a lot of high level experiences happen very fast in Siddha Yoga, but I know that the final attainment does not happen as often through any other system outside of Buddhism. Buddhism is the most clear and concise recording of everything that happens through spiritual practice as well as the amount of methods available. This is vast and would take lifetimes of study to accumulate the entirety of information available through the vast cannon of Buddhism. Yes, Buddhism is much more clearer of a map. No doubt. They can be a bit similar, as it depends on the teacher and how much ability he or she has in expression. But, see Buddhism is specifically engineered to train people in the ability to express perfectly and concisely exactly what is going on from stage to stage. Dependent origination is the genius of a Buddha and it's insight leads to laying out the nuances of the stages of spiritual experience. I know other systems can explain certain things in very beneficial ways for certain people. But, I haven't come across as complete a system as Buddhism, especially Vajrayana and I'm barely scratching the surface. But, it's system of method and symbols are deeply intricate incorperating the ability to liberate every nuance of any persons particular neurosis through any level of explanation. Even if seemingly contradictory... they are pointing to the same liberation... vajrasamadhi. Vajrayana is probably the most nuanced system on the planet, bar none. The highest peaks on the planet saved the highest teachings on the planet for all of us. Actually if you read the entire canon of Muktananda, he goes into quite a bit of detail on how to concentrate and the meaning of the mantras, and how they apply elementally. But, you'd have to read every single book that he wrote. Which I happen to have done, about 100 of them, printed and out of print books. He's darn good for a Hindu who just gave lots of secret teachings to the public. But, Buddhism again is much more nuanced in available texts as well as just the core of philosophy as the formula of "pratityasamutpada" or interdependent origination is much more of a detailing format to view from... as in the first noble truth which transcends a primal source. Though who knows what those hidden Shaivites are hiding in their caves of the Himalayas as influenced by Vajrayana? Vajrayana is quite accessible now though, if you get initiation you will have access. The really good stuff is not available on Amazon. Only some of it is. Vajrayana cannon is vaaaaaast though. Well of course Mr. Contradiction. Yes, full lotus does open up the glandular system. Hmmm, interesting. Ok. I personally like constant joy, no matter what happens. When there's inner joy, one does not project this sense of lack through secret subconscious manipulations of incoming information.

Well, according to Vajrayana one can attain liberation in the bardo no matter what state of body your in, sick, dead..., dismembered, whatever. It's about the mind! Of course if you want to function your enlightenment through your body, it helps to integrate with a healthy body. But there are plenty of examples of great beings who died with very sick bodies but totally illumined minds!! A wonderful book is.... Link to Amazon display of GRACEFUL EXITS: HOW GREAT BEINGS DIE: Death Stories Of Tibetan, Hindu And Zen Masters Written by Shushila Blackman. An acquaintance of mine who's husband was a good friend of mine shortly after she died of cancer. He shared her story with me and it's amazing as well. She also was a great being and I get tears of bliss just thinking about her now. Wow.... She's great! About that interpretation of the Jhanas. I like what he says in the end: It's fine... but there is a 9th Jhana that is not an absorption and comes with Vipassana, that is directly related to seeing dependent origination and emptiness experientially, the first noble truth of "Right View". This transcends an ultimate identity, or an abiding Self of all and transcends an absorption state as it's the realization of the inherently uncompounded nature of all that arises, even consciousness, no matter what it is, the experience of liberation ensues due to seeing through with this level of contemplation. It's interesting, I know Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat, Pray, Love which he mentions, as she was a practitioner of Siddha Yoga, a path that I grew up in my entire life having many levels of absorption experiences and waking samadhis with that kundalini practice, until coming to Buddhism and Vajrayana specifically, which sobers that stuff up and gives it more of an open, objective perspective. Hinduism seems to want to place an identity on a state, calling one or the other an ultimate state or an experience of the ultimate, the creator of all things that all beings are "one" with. Buddhism say's that they all arise dependently and are conditioned since beginningless time, even the state of infinite consciousness, or beyond being and non-being is a condition and only a seemingly unlimited limitation. There is no primal cause, or a final state, only a final realization. The 9th Jhana is Vajrasamadhi, it's neither here nor there. It's mentioned in the Pali Suttas as the state of cessation, or Nirvana which can only be realized through understanding the first of the 8 fold noble path which is right view. This right view is not taught in any other religion. All other religions teach a basis to the cosmos, while Buddhism empties that concept which is conditioned by a certain level of experience that one identifies with as "The Source" of existence. Thus Buddhism is really not a metaphysics where one reverses the cycle of creation from out to in. So, it is not an absorption path, other than using the absorptions as part of the path, but not to attain a final and true Self of all, but rather to recognize how deep conditioning goes. A good description of the Jhanas actually exists on Wikipedia... if you haven't read it, it's not long: Jhanas on Wiki Take care I realized this through making love for a number of years with a yogini. We would go into the yab yum position at times, and I would relax more and more deeply into the desire to ejaculate, and I would do intense breathing which would heat up my body, plus I would repeat a mantra that I had used many years in meditation to integrate a deep state of meditation with the sexual energy, and I would at times just focus on my crown or 3rd eye to draw the energy up, with breath. It's subtle and internal. I would contemplate the dependent and empty nature of the experience in order to free it of grasping conditions. It also helped to read Daniel Cozorts... Highest Yoga Tantra After the sexual experience, I would feel the state of liberation long afterwards. I felt like karmas were being burnt instead of made through the sexual experience. So your not interested in integrating the nature that is beyond birth and death with the body? One still is aware of the body instincts, but is not identified with them or suffers with them. Many of the so called animal instincts are just there from past lives, in lodged deep in the psyche. They are not really natural, just habit patterns that are karmic blockages. But, one can still experience them in a liberated manor. You probably have an idea about Buddhism that makes you think that you'd repress things? Buddhism isn't about repression, it's about unlocking potential and understanding limitations. But... to each their own. This is a very nice article of practice and a good reminder. Thanks for this!

Yes! When one is in a detached state of totally relaxed equanimity, that fire of sexual desire fills the entire being with a supernal pleasure that stops completely centering in the lower regions. It's like your entire spine is the phallus, the lingum, the channel of intense creative simultaneous outpouring and indrawing.

Mantra is merely a symbolic sound vibration or concept, which is an energy, or a contemplation that one focuses upon by repeating the words symbolizing the meaning, over and over again in order to hone the minds endless abilities. This can take a wide array of forms and intentions. From bondage, to supernatural powers... to even liberation from psychological suffering.