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Maddie
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It's nice that some "get it". I think since my approach is more mind based than energy based, many of energy practice people don't always quite understand.
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It's definitely gone on way longer than I ever thought it would. I had no idea there could be so much in one person. I have noticed much has changed for all my trouble, but then more things continue to surprise me.
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Two main ways. Meditation (which I don't really do now) Certain Mantras I notice the unusual thoughts tend to follow when doing much of either of these.
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I have noticed that when I work on karma more, this happens more.
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I get that too, but what if the thoughts that come up are out of no where and totally out of character?
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Something that I've noticed is that often after a lot of meditation or karma clearing mantras my thoughts get inexplicably kinky :-/
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I just googled "meditation" and this was the image at the top of the list.
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Very good. You make several good points. I actually got into this originally because I had been through a lot of traumatic stuff and was currently (at the time) in a bad relationship. I couldn't afford therapy and to me meditation seemed like a relaxation technique since most of the posters showed some girl on a beach sitting cross legged and looking relaxed. The things you mentioned are things I have been evaluating and are evaluating largely for the reasons you mentioned. *edit: This also causes me to understand the mostly merit based aspect of most popular religion. Most people can't handle cultivation.
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Well I'm still glad you answered lol. I would be curious for you to elaborate on that a bit. Is this something you've experienced as well?
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I have one for you now. After meditating do you find yourself sometimes bombarded with intrusive unpleasant thoughts that seem very out of character?
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Something I am curious about that is related I suppose is how does one tell if someone casts a spell on them? I ask because this is not my field of expertise.
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I wonder if this had anything to do with why Alexander the great's men didn't want to go any further once they got to India. Yes I know they had been campaigning for a long time and had been away from home for a long time also, but perhaps this was a contributing factor?
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I find this one helps reduce desire.
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They don't tend to encourage meditation? is that correct? Don't they pretty much only chant Nam Myoho.... or is that an over simplification?
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Yes very much so to the paradigm question, I feel like everything I thought was my self or my narrative from the past is changing. When I am off I tend to nap a lot lately. As far as dreams go, I find that lately I have had a lot more dreams about things way in the past than usual.
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Yes, and in addition being very sleepy.
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There are various breathing methods. Dr. Yang of YMAA has several good books about this for example.
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I've heard about scholar or Confucian qigong but never what it is, what it's done for or how to do it? Is anyone familiar with this?
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As you stated your intention I would recommend lower dan tien breathing.
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Brahmakumaris on the cyclical nature of time in Greek, Roman, Indian philosophy
Maddie replied to Ajay0's topic in General Discussion
I also remember a while back when watching Battlestar Galactica thinking it was really interesting when they kept saying all this had happened before and it would all happen again. -
I'm curious if you could elaborate on that.
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Brahmakumaris on the cyclical nature of time in Greek, Roman, Indian philosophy
Maddie replied to Ajay0's topic in General Discussion
This makes me think of two things. In the book of Daniel in the Hebrew bible Daniel saw a statue that was made from top to bottom gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Later in the book each element was said to be a kingdom. The other are the three ages of Buddhism of which we are said to live in the third. A subset of this would be the Kali yuga of Hindu thought. -
That much like what Nichiren said about this age and chanting daimoku.
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Some general comments relating to spiritual paths and Neidan in particular
Maddie replied to Geof Nanto's topic in Daoist Discussion
Then they create two new denominations based on did Jonah live in the whale's stomach or lung. -
So today (a couple days away from the initial side effects) I don't feel anxious nor am I dealing with weird thoughts, but my head feels like it's full of cotton and thinking is hard.
