Maddie

I wonder how the energetic effect differs?

Yea but I always do lol.

Has anyone run into this? For the past couple months I've been meditating a lot and now it seems harder to meditate, as in I don't have the patience like I did and I'm not sure why?

From what I understand being human is one of the best positions to cultivate from because if your in a higher realm you feel so good you lack the motivation to cultivate, and if your in a lower realm you either lack the intelligence or are too distracted by suffering.

I'll just say here what I said on the post discussing progress for married people. It was for reasons like this and that, that monasteries were formed lol.

I think several of the latest posts show the reason for the existence of monasteries and monks. These things didn't just arbitrarily develop over the centuries lol. The fact that sex hinders spiritual development is why the celibate path is seen as the most efficacious route towards enlightenment. Is this to say that as a householder you can't make progress? no. But if the monastic life generally allows one to go further and faster, which is why it exists. From personal experience the results from celibacy and meditation are much more profound, and its not only the conservation of jing and qi that makes a difference, but also the mind is freed up from all of the additional distractions as well. Yea that's where I was going with that. You were of that opinion in the first place, and simply proselytized your own opinion lol, which is what most people do.. I don't know if its unpopular at all, actually it was my opinion that the other point of view was generally less popular. I don't think people enjoy thinking they can be affected by others to such a degree.

Ok so I think Shaolin is very cool, but I'm confused because the precepts of a Buddhist monk don't allow them to hurt anyone, so how did these warrior monks get around this? This topic has baffled me for sometime. It's even one of the reasons I got out of the Army. I was a Christian at the time and I felt that the teachings of Jesus precluded taking life.

Yea its good, and one of the main characters is a TCM guy (not shown in clip) so I'm like "right on" lol. It's on netflix btw

This scene out of Sorcerer and the White Snake illustrates very well the dynamic of qi draining. It's noteworthy that this came out of a country with a long history of cultivation tradition. He does his mantra to empty his mind when the females are trying to decovert his energy.

explain please!! lol I want to know.

Do you think its possible that since you were inclined to think this way anyhow this could have influenced your opinion? Actually I think the idea of having your qi drained by someone else is a rather disempowering perspective and thus quite the opposite of an ego boost, which is why I suspect its so unpopular to speak about.

That's of course assuming that the national debt it circumstantial as opposed to deliberate

Yea but I'm working on water now too for memory, willpower and also to help keeping the heart shen calm ;-)

i think that statistically considering how many star systems there are in the universe the odds of there being aliens out there are high. What I'm not sure about is what if any role they have in cooperating with the government (pretty unlikely I think). Buddhist cosmology seems to indicate that the multiple and various levels of high spiritual beings correspond roughly to the various distances of other planets in our solar system. If this is the case and the beings that inhabit these realms are made up of qi bodies as opposed to jing bodies like ours, then that might explain NASA's inability to detect them.

What I mean is that the notion of "evil" is the point of view of the person getting kicked from a subjective point of view, not that I'm saying there is any objective sense of good or evil in this example.

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Well what ever that aspect of us is that wants notoriety and exhalation, the false sense of self? I'm not even sure what to call it.

No "evil" comes down to the interpretation of the clown's action by the person getting kicked

What do you mean by that?

I thought that was a pretty darn good answer to this question. I'll go back to the 5 Skandhas again. (form, sensation, conception, volition, and consciousness). First something happens. Lets say a clown comes up to you at your cousins Bar mitzvah and kicks you in the shin. The clown and your shin are form. You see the clown with your eyes and feel your shin. This is sensation. The visual signal your eyes pick up is recognized as a clown due to previous experience with clowns. The sensation of getting kicked in your shin is recognized as pain. This is conception You then associate the clown that you saw with the pain that you feel. Now you realize the clown caused your pain. The pain feels bad, and since you recognize the clown as inducing the pain your assign the clown the distinction of being "evil". This is volition. Finally you are aware of this process and its outcome with in your mind. This is consciousness So it would be at the level of Volition that we assign the clown the judgment of being "evil". But this is still a matter of perception. Perhaps the clown saw a black widow spider on your socks and was trying to protect you. What you then just labeled as evil, the clown labeled as good or helpful. Thus one act, and two completely different judgments about what type of act it was.

Why do you think the ego likes notoriety? Why does it dislike the lack there of?

Whether they are cooperating I have no idea, BUT assuming they are I'd assume they could learn our language if they could figure out how to get here lol. Dophins are native to earth.

Yea considering the vast number of stars and star systems it seems harder NOT believe in aliens lol.

Haha that's great and appropriate. So I just woke up this morning and was looking around my room, and was thinking to myself "oh I like my room, its nice, why haven't I paid more attention to it before" lol. I agree being non-judgmental is the key. Actually I think that being non-judgmental both helped get me to this point, (welcoming what ever arises during meditation) and is helping me get through the disorientation now (just because I don't have it all figured out, its still ok).

Has anyone ever felt "weirded out" by success in meditation? I mean I've been meditating so much lately to change habitual patterns in my mind, and to try and work out karma, and it just dawned on me that its working and I felt so lost haha. I guess we can just get so used to our patterns going round and round and round for so very very long that we just think "that's how life just is", and then you finally do something to change it like study the dharma and meditate and then one day it hits you that your in a totally new place in your life and in your mind and its very disorienting. Has anyone else faced this?