Vajrahridaya

Well, I mean the realm you perceive through your 5 senses or dream states. I mean, for you there is no personal consciousness after the brain completely dies?

Isn't that an I-owaska derivative? No, I never have. I've taken Peyote, but all I experienced was strong kundalini currents and vivid perception of such lucidity and joy... all the pretty colors of the green forest in the summer time in Mass. I've heard about people taking DMT and seeing aliens immediately though. A friend of mine told me his experiences back in 94'? Yes, I've heard the same. Any experience one has on drugs can be had through meditation with more lucidity, clarity and grace.

Yup, shoulda married that first one myself. She was so in love, and soooo darn hot! I hope my girlfriend isn't reading this. sssshhhhhh. No, I love my current girlfriend lots, but man, Sarah was bangin'! 1)I don't know if I'd actually say that to myself though in the same sense of wisdom, because if I hadn't of gone through what I went through, I wouldn't be here. But, one thing I should have done was let paypal know I was moving, then I'd still have my 6 figure income. They wouldn't have closed me down, freezing 20,000 in clients money, thinking I was hi-jacking my own account? Anyway... bonkers. I'd not be financially struggling right now if it wasn't for that one. 2)Ok... the other would be patience, you'll actually survive these amazingly difficult times. 3)The other would be, don't give to many pearls away to those who won't receive them and go into debt buying books for people.

No Mr Tao99. That's not me, sarcasm has the intention to cut and to subvert. Being Facetious is something else. "You Buddhists", see how your intention is debasing and cutting? "You Taoists" don't even know what level of emotion your expressions are emanating from. (I don't believe that about all Taoists) Plus if a persons only way of communication has pretty much been sarcasm, than that's a tall tale sign. At first, sure, it's fine, let's all have a good laugh. As I've been doing. But, sometimes someone needs to get slapped up-side the head for their constant stupidity. These people pretend to know a person. I never make assumptions as such. I just said, if your always being sarcastic, that's a sign of higher chakra closedness. Because it's hiding insecurity. Yes, it's an individual thing. The idea that, "You Buddhists"... is quite silly because look at these Tibetan Masters who lost their country and families and lots of their traditions history and scriptures. They're so playful and full of spunk! The Dalai Lama too laughs all the time.

Yes, I've intuited the same based upon experience. We of course are stronger physically because we deal with more tangibility, more friction and density. Their minds are stronger because they deal with less and their body energy is more refined mental than dense physical.

That's funny. Yeah, we basically tolerate them and kick them out of their meditative bliss state when the conditions are ripe for them to hear some Mahayana. What do you mean North American? Native American? Science going on out there? You mean modern physics? Yeah, it's intriguing.

Beings can attain different stages of realization in different spiritual traditions and get influenced in other realms, it's all not so black and white. Anything can happen to anyone depending upon endless things. But yeah, Buddhas teachings, the teachings of awakendness has certain marks. The 4 noble truths, emptiness, which basically means impermanence, dependent origination, 8 fold noble path. If something from another planet teaches these things in the language, "zajebod", it's Buddhism.

A small expose on the genesis of the various traditions. The Old Testiment. Full of wars, revenge, some wisdom of a mundane type. As in only pertaining to God realms and loving a God who is the source of all existence before which nothing was. Christianity: Jesus preached for 3 years, spoke in riddles, we don't know much about those missing 30 years, except maybe something out of the Dead Sea scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library. Mostly though his teachings were all quite hard to interpret with clarity and due to this, there was much beheading, witch burning, corruption to a degree unlike most any other religion. Islam: Now God is a formless God that talks to some prophets, Mohammed had a vision in a cave, then started lots of wars and spawned many war crazy tyrants to kill in the name of religion. Wisdom came about when it got influenced by Hinduism later on. Hinduism: So many different sources and factions that both like the Vedas and do not, like South Indian Siddhar traditions from Tamil Nadu that did not, and Brahmanism that did. Shankara brought many of them together again through some crypto-Buddhism merged with some Upanishads. Started a system of Monks fashioned and influenced by the Buddhist tradition. Took the two truths model of Nagarjuna and re-interpreted it limitedly through Upanishadic theory of a single divine source to all existence. Taoism: Some good teachings that seem quite Buddhist, but from many different sources, I-Ching, Confucius, Tao de Ching, Chuang Tsu, but now highly influenced by Buddhism at this point. Buddhism: 1 clear source like clear running water from a spring. Buddha preached for 40 years, was very clear, talked about the different stages of meditation. Actually set out to start a clear based religion with clear goals and methods of self transformation. Spoke in many different ways for different people and deities alike, he was just so clear, come on guys. Admit it. He's the genius source of Buddhism. He is a Sammasambuddha. Unlike Jesus, his disciples actually attained high states of liberation. Oh... it's just so vast the many things he said recorded in the earliest recordings and the Mahayana Sutras pertaining to his time on Earth, I love it and it satisfies me greatly. We have 3 turnings of the wheel, and some call Dzogchen the 4th. They are all linked together very beautifully though not everyone is ready for higher turnings so they take the lower turnings which is fine and is leading in the same direction. Sure there are arguments and what not, but they all agree that the Buddha spoke a Dharma was not heard before and is defined within his 3 jewels, the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha... which Shankara later took. He also very clearly defined what the Buddhadharma was and was not. It's clearly by his lucid explanations, none of the other spiritual traditions, which if you read the 31 planes, you can see that the other traditions fall under any of those Samsaric realms as their source guides and God or gods. I am self satisfied, and it originates dependent upon knowing both experientially and intellectually the power of the Buddhadharma and how much more clear it is from all other systems of philosophy and spirituality on Planet Earth. It's complexity is it's clarity. Not everyone is ready for that. People have reactions in their mental/emotional system when they see the Dharma and they follow these reactions identifying with their thoughts and feelings and don't see how conditioned they are by so much pre-conception based upon limited experience that they miss the boat. Take care dudes and dudets. May you all jump on the boat at some point. Thanks for reading! To Ralis and those that asked what the difference is between my fundimentalism and others. I don't see that those following other religions go to hell forever. But, rather if they do their religion well, they will eventually be born with a capacity to understand the Buddhadharma. So, all goodness flows towards the Buddhadharma, no matter what stream of entry starts your higher capacity voyage.

At least you know something... Lets not talk about my meditation experiences... eh? You just wouldn't believe them anyway. You really don't need to fake kindness when all you have is congested feelings to share. Small world is for small minds. Not wrong, just incomplete. Because due to dependent origination, the level of complexity of this simply empty/full cosmos is ascertained. Excuse me, I'm going to be kind of wrathful with you here, because your so sarcastic all the time... It's a reflection of lack of higher chakra capacity. You need some real third eye opening. Psychic powers are actually lower chakra abilities by the way, third chakra even. Cats are psychic, though quite subjective about their interpretations. Demons are psychic too. Anyway, that lens of the Buddha was huge and wide, variable like a branch that holds strong to it's rooted source, but bends according to the wind. He taught in many different ways for different capacities. He was like no other teacher before him, known to anthropology. He was very clear in way's that were previously unknown. He made no experiential, emotional, nor intellectual excuses for falling short from the liberated view of the real nature of things. He taught nothing less than what any group of people or person needed in order to evolve. He spoke for 40 years. Then he continued to teach from the Peerless Deva realm some of the higher Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings. The clarity of his explanations are unmatched. That's just objectively speaking. Buddhadharma is the most complicated explanation system with such a clean connection all the way through. Of course if you lack practice and experience through the practice. Your going to miss the point. Humility is a key to actually receiving transmission directly and openly with any fruit. It's Kali Yuga by the way too. As in a majority of the human beings are caught up in material things, psychic powers, false interpretations of spiritual experiences. He's a haven in the Kali Yuga due to his clarity. He didn't fumble around with metaphors unless they were succinct and to the point. Check out Pratyekabuddha... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyekabuddha It's not exclusive in the same way. If you can't see that... put on your reading glasses and pull out your meditation cushion. Read some of my past posts. Clear that sty in your eye... These questions have been answered. It's also quite obvious considering the fruit of the spiritual traditions. Buddhism is quite the disarmament program of religions. It has the largest cannon, as well as the most enlightened beings, both known and not popularly known. Also, the level of change that Hinduism has gone through post Buddha is just staggering. Plus I don't damn other people for doing their religion correctly. I feel that they will evolve their capacity over time to come to understand the Buddha (Awake) teachings. Read the 31 planes of existence. Understand the limitations of the Jhanas, read the different texts by all the different religious teachers of antiquity in open comparison seeing commonality and subtle differences. Get some real deep beyond 5 sense experience that shocks the bajesus out a ya. Even Wikipedia has some good information on it that you can learn a thing or two from. Read my posts with an actual objective mind that defines my words contextually outside of your pre-conception. Not possible without meditative experience at least past the 4th jhana for the most part. When you get into the formless meditations your entering into and illuminating your alaya vijnana. Also, if you've experienced Tandra yet, you've experienced seeing your subconscious files flitter by without order, illuminating and de-knotting your subjectivity ties, then you start getting some objectivity. No, he said his teaching was a teaching that did not exist pryer and he refuted the Vedas pretty well. Study, study, study. You haven't yet understood what middleway means. I'll just be blunt. If you did... you would understand that the Buddha taught the flow, not transcendent experiences to be called "ATMAN" and eternal witnesses that are just merely the fruit of absorption methods reified as Self. As defined in the texts of the path? Yes, it does the first, not the latter. But... that doesn't mean it's a bad path... it still leads to higher rebirth and greater ability to be cognizant non-conceptually. Which is what it takes to understand dependent origination directly. The particular fruit is derived from what seed is planted. View predicates outcome of the practice. It's all about the subtle intuitive interpretation of the methods outcome, not the method itself. View is what it's about in Buddhism, not just sitting, because your just seeing directly your capacity to revolve when you go into your unconscious mind, your not seeing the dharma unless that seed has been planted. You should go through and really read the thread about Buddha's True Self that Dwai started. If your really interested in some answers to these questions that have been answered. Why not? Or are you just smugly Ad-Homing me with sarcasm because I'm so dense and stuck up, while your so down to Earth? These questions have been answered thoroughly over the past few months. Anyway... you are a sentient being, and I wish you to know the Truth of the nature of things, just as I do for myself and my girlfriend, my Momma (who's a great yogini), and everyone. Now, if one can conceive of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as being non-static and each one dependent upon the other for existence thereby empty in and of themselves, and Brahman is just the empty realization of this, and not a divine will that starts the mess every cosmic eon. Then maybe you have something there, but Hinduism doesn't really teach like this. In the texts, these beings are considered forms of the one divine will that is the source and end of the multiplicity of existence. Even the hindu Tantra sees the chakra colors and mantras as static based upon a static source of being. Buddhist Tantra does not treat the chakras in the same mannor, because there is no static being. Buddhism also shows how one can manifest enlightenment in different ways through Tantra depending on the path one takes and how one focuses on the chakras with what mantras and colors, as well as intention. Because Buddhism is dependent origination no primal source, while Hinduism is static source religion. Brahman is absolutely real on it's own, without the need for a cosmos according to Hinduism. This does not equate with the Buddha's shunyata. I hope we can have a discussion without sarcasm. I'm not in NYC anymore and a lot has changed because of my surroundings. There is more softness here in Florida in the energy vibrations. It's nicer here.

LOL! Go within young skywalker, go within... Read some good Mahayana texts... Re-read some of my past posts because I've answered most of these questions if not all already. Oh yeah, there's no endless memory on this site is there? Ah, I may say something later... who knows. Seem's pointless to talk to dense darkies who think there's an alien invasion and don't even follow the understanding of dependent origination. But, I might give it a whirl. I wonder why people like sitting in my bowels?

That is pretty darn good, I must say... thats right down to... sewer?

Steam, I've seen the greys too and other Aliens in a kind of bardo or in between state of consciousness many times. We'll the grey's once. It was so tangible, un-canny. Yes, they have powerful psychic powers, but I don't think they exist on this dimension directly like we do.

Mikeal. It's fabulous, I love getting all this attention. You know when you were a school kid and you really liked somebody, but you were to scared to actually show your feelings so instead you pulled her pony tales and called her names, but you really had a crush on her? I think that's what's going on here.

Oh well, they're way better than I am. Specially Dilgo Khyentse and the Karmapa. I'd like to clear this up a bit. Because that can be used as an excuse as well. If it really is the other persons fault, walk away, ignore them, whatever, just don't kill yourself or the other person.

LOL! Well, I do love to write and I love to de-compartmentalize.

LOL! So effected... Don't hurt yourself. How old are you? As we get older, we realize that we create our own suffering out of subjective interpretation. That it's really our own state of mind that's at fault for how we experience something, someone or a situation.

LOL! No, they are quite close, the differences are extremely subtle. ;-)

LOL! That's funny... We never get out, it's just seeing through it and understanding that we are interconnected is what I mean about unitive. That we are all co-creating this experience on Earth. There is only experience, it's just making it a psychologically liberated experience instead of a mentally bound one. Ahhhh, a salt bath. I still haven't been to the beach since I've moved to Florida. My whole state of mind has really changed though since I left NY and quit my Bicycle Rickshaw job. Whew.... thank goodness that's over with.

No, the Buddhas are not us. They are individual mind streams since beginningless time. We are all individuals and not one big mind. It's a nice poetic metaphor to describe the unitive experience, but is not true upon analysis.

That is funny! I got a good laugh, thanks!

Oh, that's cool. Yes, I've always found that an open intuition can know deeper than physical science, which of course TCM is based on subtler ways of perceiving than the western hard sense science guys.

Hi Kate, That's the Mahayana view on Arhat generally, is that its a solitary enlightenment that doesn't include the vast scope of omniscience required to be a Buddhahood so in a certain case sure, it would be considered selfish. But, an Arhat naturally moves along the Bodhisattva path eventually as a result of even attaining Arhatship. If they decided not to come back, that wouldn't help us very much would it? We'd be pretty lost fishies at sea with no one to guide us.

They become awakened by Buddhas to become Bodhisattvas. They just haven't been exposed to teachings declaring the way of accumulating the type of merit that allows for Bodhisattva application. It's like they feel, oh I have liberation, I'll just live my life out like this. People are inspired by them, but they don't have the same measure of powers and cognitive skills as someone who undergoes the Bodhisattva accumulations. arahats - totally severed the fine remains of greed/attachment mind. So are not reborn in lower realms and have no desire to strive for the type of omniscience that makes one a teaching Buddha. bodhisattvas - totally severed the fine remains of hatred/dualism/discriminating mind. Can take rebirth to accumulate more perfections of expression for the sake of others. Buddha - totally severed the fine remains of ignorance/folly/wandering mind. Is fully omniscient and takes up the role of a teaching Buddha forever. Thus can manifest through bodies in multiple realms to teach the dharma. This type of bliss is generally considered higher and also more active than the Arhat bliss which is generally just a sit in meditation bliss for a long period of time until they are ready to undertake the bodhisattva path. p.s. This is a Mahayana view. In the Pali Suttas, or the Nikaya which is the Theravada view, there is the mention of Bodhisatta and it just means one that is striving for enlightenment.