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Maddie
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I have always hated doing chores, running errands and other routine tasks like this. I think I heard there is a Zen practice of making doing chores a type of practice. Is anyone familiar with this, and if so what the correct approach is?
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I realize this might sound very speculative and perhaps superstitious but I was wondering if anyone had any real knowledge or experience in dealing with protecting themselves from the dark side of spirituality such as from evil spirits, or curses and other such things? how would one recognize it being something like this as opposed to something else? And what are effective measures that can be taken to deal with it?
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One thing I think I have come to notice as I continue to practice and experiment is that a lot of ritual practices of religion and the ancient world in particular that I had once shrugged off as the superstitions of a simpler time seem to have more to them than I once realized. One of these is the practice of animal sacrifice, which while still practiced these days, seemed to be a much more wide spread ritual in the ancient world that spanned most cultures universally. I'd never really understood the reasoning behind it, and I'm sure the reasons varied from culture to culture, but it seems that the sages and priests of old often had a deeper spiritual awareness than mere superstition. What I am wondering though is what is the benefit of doing so? What is the mechanism? Does the deity being sacrificed an animal (or sometimes human) to benefit from it? That being said it makes me wonder about other old practices such as baptism, circumcision, communion, pilgrimage, relics, and so on and so forth. I was just curious if anyone had any knowledge, thoughts, or insights into this topic.
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After my last question I thought I would ask another question that is both more specific and more broad, and that is what is the goal in Taoism. What I mean by that is in Christianity and Islam the end goal is heaven, in Buddhism and Hinduism the end goal is enlightenment. So what exactly is it in Taoism and or what is the point? What does the practice lean lead one towards?
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Your response was pretty good lol. I would have said well if at the end of this you understand meditation better than before we started, then apparently teaching meditation is my power. lol
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There's two things I'll say about powers and then I'll just leave it alone. They're actually easier to get the most people realize if you're willing to do a lot of Sammatha meditation. With that being said they're kind of pointless and a horrible thing to seek, as it's usually the ego that speaks power, and the ego is the problem. The Buddha said the best power to have is the ability to teach the Dharma well.
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What are Buddha 's teaching on householders
Maddie replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Buddhist Discussion
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Whenever I do samatha I always use the breath as my object. Well probably one of the most noteworthy experiences is I was out of state and I astral traveled to my mom's home and she was making cookies and so when I came back I got on the phone and I called her and I said you're making cookies aren't you? That freaked her out LOL.
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There's various methods and I'm not going to claim to be familiar with all of them but the primary ones that I have become familiar with and that seem to be effective art various types of chanting.
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Yes and yes. Again that would come down to Sammatha meditation.
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Thanks for the reply. Since that post I have found out that Western Buddhism is pretty much useless for this kind of thing. For any kind of help at all you have to go to the more traditional Asian Buddhist approaches.
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If I've been meditating a lot it just kind of happens automatically. If I've been meditating less then I have to try to focus a little bit. There's nothing magic about the breath it's just an object to make the mind still. When the mind gets still that's what unlocks its abilities.
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Meditation is really such a broad word. The Buddha said that psychic powers are developed with Samatha meditation. This is what I was doing. Not for powers though.
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Yes, I don't usually like to get into these topics but since this misunderstanding is soooooo widespread (thanks in part to Chia and others) I thought I would say something. Semen is NOT Jing
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I agree. Orgasm, and mental stimulation are types of stress (remember good stress is still stress) what I am saying is semen is not Jing.
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I think I would like to try to clear up the "Jing" misunderstanding. Jing is not semen. If we had to compare it to something in the West then I would compare it to genetics. Obviously semen relates to genetics, comes from genetics, and carries genetics, but that does not make it genetics. When it comes to life span then we can get even more specific and compare it to Telomeres in our genetics, and these are shown to reduce in length from stress and things like that, not from ejaculation. Ejaculating will not make one loose Jing, although being hot and bothered might. One time I asked one of my professors (who is from China) about this and she just blushed a little and then laughed and said that, that is just what they tell boys to keep them from masturbating haha. The masturbation taboo is probably a Confucian thing.
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Oh dear ten points from Gryffindor all because of me lol. That's interesting about "given a dream" I don't think I realized that. It shows how language gives insight into how people think.
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I just thought I would share my personal opinion on these Incubus and succubus beings. Are there potentially entities out there that prey upon people's sexual energy and excite them to get this energy? Maybe, maybe not who knows? What I do think is probably more likely is that some people experience guilt over their sexual feelings and find it easier to create an external entity that's responsible for these feelings then acknowledge that they come from themselves because of guilt.
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Here's an herbal formula to decrease sex drive. I'm an acupuncturist so LOL https://www.activeherb.com/zhibai/
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There's nothing that extraordinary about energy vampires. Every internet troll is one whether they realize it or not. They will excite what ever their favorite emotional energy is and then feast.
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I just found that as I began to meditate a lot it just sort of happened.
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I have noticed that people with more gross karma tend to have auras on the lower end of the spectrum so like red.
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Ooooooor its just made you more healthy and raised libido is a sign of good health lol. Again mindfulness can help.
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Mindfulness over time helps to decrease this. If one pays attention to sexual desire as opposed to the object of desire it can be seen it is indeed suffering, and when the mind realizes something is actually suffering then it lets go of it.
