Maddie

Kaihe do you understand how it works yourself, and if so could you put the theory and practice into your own words? I can tell you how to awaken via the Buddhist path without having to refer you to a website if you wish.

Actually that's probably what I was thinking of LOL 😂

I've noticed the Theravada tend to call him Gautama more often, and the Mahayana call him Siddhartha more often.

1. You realize that transgenderism is not homosexuality. 2. Homosexuality is not a disease.

Yeah C minus for me huh LOL

So the idea is let nature take its course? Interesting.

Mindfulness. When feeling fear observe the fear with out interference or judgment. When the mind comes to realize something is suffering then it lets go of it.

To say at some point in the past the beliefs of any group of people were "Shamanistic" is not really a stretch at all as it is believed it was the original belief system of our hunter-gather ancestors. It also does not have any specific location of origin as it seemed to organically begin in most cultures around the world weather they were in contact with each other or not.

Gotoma Buddha (the historical Buddha) has nothing to do with Hindu scriptures. As far as the rest of them go I don' think they came from Hindu scriptures. They may have been influenced or inspired by them though, but I'm not sure.

I would say just an increased sense of wellness both physically and mentally.

This mantra has really been doing a lot for me lately.

Ziran?

I hope this does not sound dumb, but are there micro forms of qigong that just use fingers, hands, neck rolls, ect? I don't mean mudras either, but qigong?

(How does what you said above answer my question below?) _________________________________ "That end goal is not watching Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty, the Kardashians, NASCAR, the NFL, WWE, etc. The end goal is not to stay drunk on cheap beer and microwave meals and work a 9-to-5 till we wind up in a nursing home." (Is this system necessary to accomplish this?)

Is this system necessary to accomplish this?

I might be a little late to the table for the Mo Pie discussion (I hope I got the spelling right). But what I've never understood is what is the end goal? Enlightenment? If it's just to get powers to light things on fire with your hands I've never understood spending years training to light paper on fire with your hands when you can just go to the gas station and buy a 50 cent lighter?

What exactly is it?

In Buddhism the way to develop powers is generally getting into Jhanna, but the catch is that in order to get into Jhanna you have to quiet the mind and then Jhanna has the effect of lessening the ego so then once you do develop powers they seem much less interesting.

You can do it across the room and only change your finger angles subtly. You can even do it with your eyes but I wouldn't recommend projecting qi out of your eyes. You can even put a thin cloth in between you and the strip of foil and still do it across the room.

Actually emitting low levels of chi isn't very difficult and pretty much anybody can do it. All you need is a strip of aluminum foil and a thread and a piece of tape and you hang the foil from the thread using the tape and you make sure all the fans and ACs are off and you point a finger at one end of the foil and you visualize chi coming out of that finger and hitting the foil and usually it will change directions.

Yes totally.

Does she think she's feeding birds?

I'm trying but I think I have a hard time following your meeting. Could you give a more specific example?

Totally agree. Otherwise it's like when my dad used to force me to apologize to my mom when I was a kid and I would say it but I didn't mean it lol.

I was just curious in this thread and in the energetic aspects since I'm trans.