Vajrahridaya

Where'd you get this idea? Buddhist emptiness is not the same as Nirvikalpa absorption. Nirvikalpa Samadhi is merely the 8th Jhana or attainment of the Pali description of meditative absorptions. ........ The Rupa Jhānas There are 4 stages of deep concentration which are called the Rupa Jhāna (Fine-material Jhāna): First Jhāna - To attain this jhāna, the meditator must fix his mind on the meditation object to reduce and eliminate the lower mental qualities which is called the Five Hindrances (sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and doubt) and promote the growth of five jhāna factors (applied/directed thought, sustained thought, rapture, bliss and one-pointedness). In this stage, only the subtlest mental movement remains. The ability to form unwholesome intentions ceases. Second Jhāna - To attain this jhāna, the meditator must reduce and eliminate the two initial factors of the first jhāna itself (applied/directed thought and sustained thought), the three remaining jhāna factors still possessed by the meditator are the rapture, bliss and one-pointedness. In this stage, all mental movement utterly ceases. The meditator acquires complete confidence and internal assurance. Third Jhāna - To attain this jhāna, the meditator must reduce and eliminate the third initial factor of the first jhāna itself (rapture), the two remaining jhāna factors still possessed by the meditator are the bliss and one-pointedness. Three additional components are possessed by the meditator (equanimity, mindfulness and discernment). Fourth Jhāna - To attain this jhāna, the meditator must reduce and eliminate the fourth initial factor of the first jhāna itself (bliss) and replace it with another jhāna factor (equanimity/neutral feeling), the two remaining jhāna factors still possessed by the meditator are the equanimity/neutral feeling and one-pointedness. In this stage, the meditator enters a state of supreme purity, equanimity, and pure consciousness. The Formless Dimensions Beyond the four jhāna lie four higher attainments in the scale of concentration, usually referred in commentarial literature as the Arūpajhānas (Immaterial/formless Jhāna). The immaterial jhānas are designated as: 5. Dimension of infinite space. 6. Dimension of infinite consciousness. 7. Dimension of nothingness. 8. Dimension of neither perception nor non-perception. = 8th Jhana or Nirvikalpa Samadhi, considered the state of the Godhead in Theism. In the suttas, these are never referred to as "jhanas". According to the early scriptures, the Buddha learned the last two formless attainments from two teachers, Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta, respectively, prior to his enlightenment. It is most likely that they belonged to the Brahmanical tradition. .......... Emptiness in Buddhism is pointing to dependent origination which points beyond the attachment to an eternal, self sustaining nature that expresses and absorbs everything eternally, as is taught in Advaita Vedanta which is a later development even after the development of Mahayana. Emptiness in Buddhism is not a state of absorption beyond body and mind. It's a recognition of non-abiding (dependently arising) nature, thus transcending Advaita Vedantin Eternalism and Materialist Nihilism.

Yes, one can get into a state where one can travel through time and space and know particulars. As deep meditation has proven to me. But, that's not liberation. Liberation is knowing how things function, yet spontaneously manifest which is beyond name and form. The linear minded wouldn't know. Only apparently. As words fool the subjective. Why are you taking it as condescending? That's nice. I seem to know when someone makes a remark. For some reason.... hmmm. I don't pine though, or try to fool people... like poker players. Honestly... talk about condescending. I just do my business online and check back here from time to time and read things. If I'm inspired to write, I do. I'm not trying to change your world... I'm just letting the words flow. p.s. Ralis, The thing is... is that your way of thinking won't allow you to take in anything I say. No matter how many times I have taken your points apart, you won't hear them, or read them. Since day one you've come at me in a condescending manor that was somewhat spiteful. So... I'm really just writing to those that read this, not really to you. I'm sorry... I wish you well in your voyage to many poker triumphs, as that seems to be the marrow of your existence, or part of it.

There is also a way to read your opponent before he/she strikes if one is completely relaxed and fearless (blissfully focused), one can actually see the energetic exertions before they manifest physically. p.s. one is in an open receptivity.

I have more than idea if it works. Oh... Am I ever serious. Ralis... I think your looking in a proverbial mirror. p.s. cosmic omniscience doesn't mean knowing every single particular that is happening at all times cosmically, it just means having intimate non-conceptual and blissful knowledge of how the entire cosmos works, but also expands how much one knows on a level of dualistic particulars. Oh, also... it's not so much of an Ideology, but more of a letting go of subjective thinking and really seeing beyond limiting conditionings. Enlightenment is a recognition, not an ideology.

Dispassionate as in not feeling is not what I mean. Dispassionate as in utterly blissful and totally involving every chakra in a balanced manor that utilizes as well as transcends the "energy" of desire is what I mean. You don't utilize the upper chakras, integrating the lower completely if your still filled with uncontrollable craving, if your not interested in enlightenment, or not contemplating interdependent origination/emptiness. Your just having some sort of personal experience that passes... even if for an extended period. If you don't experience cosmic omniscience during sex? Your just neo-tantra... Which is fine, if that's all you want. Not everyone is actually interested in complete liberation from psychological suffering and unconscious rebirth. p.s. wordly in Buddhism means bound by karma and habit patterns.

If your equating love with attachment, then it can be pruned of unnecessary craving that causes the fluctuating and passionate emotions that happen in most relationships. If one just wants a worldly life, sure, do whatever you want. But if one wants a spiritually liberated life, then what seems "natural" but is really just genetic and social habit patterning can actually be de-conditioned and a more optimum human experience can be realized through genuine spiritual practice. There are plenty of examples of yogi's who have genuine love for their family and friends, but don't suffer the usual attachments and cravings that the masses experience. They'll even make love to their wife, but there is an entirely different inner experience about it that far transcends the so called normal range of pleasure.

My opinion is that the experience of non-duality makes everything good! Virtue arises spontaneously in reflection of the inner experience of interconnectivity and wisdom naturally arises in reference to any particular occurrence that takes place within the field of a maintained non-dual presence. So, nothing wrong with sex when your non-dualing.

Wow! That's awesome!! Sounds like how my girlfriend is all the time, unless she's sleeping which she does too much of. I need to get on this stuff again. I used to drink this stuff and wheatgrass in NYC lots when I made good money. Not the case anymore. I'd like to learn how to grow some though. Thanks for the information!! Ah that is good to know! Thanks so much!

It's a power or an ability. So, it's an act or a verb. A process.

If one just follows "natural" inner patterns which are really habit formed without contemplation of the true nature and causes of the inner arisings, then no liberation will be realized. From a Buddhist perspective at least. But, your not a Buddhist and you think physical death is the end. So... alas. This is why in Buddhism most beings throughout many lifetimes go through different forms of practice, where they stop doing certain actions as monks or whatever and look directly at the energy that is arising through meditation to de-wire the reactive habit patterns. Then... when one see's emptiness directly and dependent origination experientially, one can self liberate one's actions through non aggressive acceptance and non-denial as what arises is being released through the state of constant contemplation, rather than the mere intellectual and emotional excuse that... "this is natural." Marblehead, Everyone has their process, as you have yours and this lifetime is a Taoist examination of that process and I'm sure it is serving you well!

There's some Hindu or Buddhist text I read many years ago that states that the mind stream (soul) doesn't enter the womb until after the brain and spine has developed enough to hold that persons karmic imprintations? So... I think it's fine if before the end of the first trimester? That's not true, one can remember being in the womb.

Yeah dude! But man that s$%ts expensive yo!! How are you funding this??

What is an I that experiences? But... yes. Yes, it can be strange. For a number of years I couldn't sleep... much at all. I was too aware of the manyness of cosmos. The multiple things that are happening simultaneously. I was quite ungrounded. I still wrestle with that at times. I went on medication for a bit, but it only made me a dense, insensitive and depressed person, plus my meditations were completely devoid of energy and I had no sexual energy to speak of, which for a spiritual being is utilized as cosmic creative energy for awareness deepening. But, I was like a zombie for that month of medication. So... I dropped the medication and went back to practice and I tell you, happiness, that type of spontaneous joy that everything is just liberation itself is the best protection against any sort of fear of this type of heightened awareness and sensitivity!! Joy is the best medicine!! The Buddha said his Bodhisattvas would teach in other religions besides Buddhism.

The Tibetans don't at all think of themselves as part of China. But, Tibetan medicine is a mixture of Chinese and Indian as well as ancient local stuff. Tibet is kind of right in the middle of ancient trade routes.

self is merely identification which is an ever evolving process and never stable, thus... there really is no self. Only clinging. Or for a Buddha... accepting, letting go, letting flow... thusness.

One of the higher level experiences is where the cosmos and all time and all information is pouring through you and pouring right back at it at the same time. It feels like the cosmos is so small and so large simultaneously. Quite non-dual.

Siddhi... not siddha. Siddhi means supernatural power and siddha means one who is accomplished.

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Yes, that's true. Also conscious meditating is deeply restful but it also burns more body energy than sleep at the same time. My sleep cycle is off because of years of doing Night Audit in the hotel system.

LOL! Right on... very good. But, I see this type of will still being conditioned by subtle polarities in the unconscious that are not being made aware of if one does not illumine consciousness beyond the brain/body complex. In Buddhism, we attain omniscience of the entire functionality of the cosmos. As we are a part of it and connected to the entirety, through expanded awareness one taps into beyond brain conscious ability to realize directly the entirety of cosmos on a level beyond dualistic thought functionality as well. The microcosm discovers it's macrocosmic body.

LOL! Well... I can't see any depth of peace happening unless one just ignores the problem and merely accepts one's life is random chaos or merely a physical order with nothing beyond the 5 senses and their tools. I don't see this answering the questions of will and personal conditioning. But, one could just "nevermind" and ignore the question. Thus, ignorance is pleasure, conditioned by not going deeper.

Not for a Buddhist and endless enlightened Buddhists have proved your point wrong by attaining total peace and contentment while knowing directly their own past lives. Don't limit us to your experience. Don't limit yourself by your own experience.

Yes.

Actually we're born in fear. Most are at least. Our first breath is not a fun one. We aren't born enlightened. As children our unconscious conditionings from past lives haven't taken shape yet, so we seem a bit pure and we do full body breathing and feeling, but we don't have true wisdom, thus the conditions of entrapment role over us and take over as the years role by. Until we find the spiritual path and start de-wiring those conditions.