Maddie

.... reducing reactivity.

I noticed over the years that I tended to have adverse reactions to a lot of practices that I was told were safe. Last year I even had to back off of Buddhist breath meditation for the same reason.

Very strongly agree. Getting off autopilot, not reacting to reactivity, waking up is the goal. Typically when I notice reactivity that's when I take a look.

I would agree that I have a peculiar reaction to the topic of money.

It's why I stopped several years ago with this practice.

I would say "it gets weird". The Allan Watts the video that I posted discusses many of the weird attitudes about money we have in the West. And at the risk of sounding like a crazy person I was just woken up by two evil spirits that are extremely unhappy for whatever reason that I brought up the spiritual side of money. Coincidentally I had to ward them off with the mantra. I know this is not a typical day for me. So yes it got about as weird as it gets.

Well I was going to post the quote from Bill Brodi where he states Zhunti practice requires none of those things you just mentioned but then found this for the first time in my life. But just to show what Brodi said. Nevertheless I had made two points. The first was doing a lot of zhunti had greatly changed other karma in the past very effectively. The second was it sucked and was painful. Like I said for years I was under the assumption from Brodi that Zhunti mantra was totally safe to do, but my experience and that first article that I just found and posted it seemed to indicate otherwise. On the other hand last year I quit meditating because I was having adverse reactions to that as well. That being said there are several mantras and chants such as Nam myoho renge Kyo, Amitofu, and om mani padme hum that are said to be totally safe for anybody to do by the groups that advocate them. As I stated earlier in the thread it's not like I've been unsuccessful with mantra practice as I gave more than one example of karma that I had changed successfully. It's just that my money karma is the most recent attempt of mine.

After a full day of having this post out I will reiterate my reluctance to post this. For some strange reason it seems like almost any other topic can be spoken about with a fair sense of reasonableness, but for whatever reason on the topic of money is brought up it all changes and it gets weird and I'm not exactly sure why that is but I have very certainly noticed over the years that it is. It seems the advice runs from the very obvious to the judgmental to assumptions about ones attitudes and habits that may or may not be correct. I think at this point I'm more interested in the effect money has on the psyche of those discussing it than the topic of money in and of itself.

What do you mean? I would hardly describe my mantra practice as dippy toed. Sometimes I will spend hours per day dedicating myself to mantra practice. I would not say that it's something that I take lightly.

What is it?

No I don't think that's it. Sour grapes isn't really my style.

It does make sense whatsoever :-)

I had no intention of getting my third eye involved either, but since it is on the path of the orbit it just sort of happened. It freaked me out.

Well you had just indicated that you had messed up parts of your life so I was wishing you well. Aside from Brodie saying what he did, the other reason I stopped doing the MCO is because while I was circulating the qi around my orbit it would open up my third eye quite a bit as it is along the path of the orbit and all that energy there had an effect. This being the case I was not ready for it and had some unpleasant experiences that were similar to a kundalini experience. I became very sensitive to other people's emotions and thoughts so I backed off.

Well I hope things improve for you. As for me I wouldn't call it being "choosy". There is effort and as the Buddha said there is "right effort". I just want to make sure what I do is productive as opposed to making more problems for myself, which in the past when I did a mixed salad approach to practice is what I got.

No like I said I've done that before as well.

Then that makes one of us

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Or are you talking about the MCO? I used to do that a while back until I read that Bill Brodi said it was not a good idea.

I needle the points for them. Not sure if that's what you mean?

Learned a lot about those in Acupuncture school and I very frequently use them when I'm treating patients.

I've noticed sometimes my LDT starts buzzing or vibrating even when I'm not actively breathing into it but like spontaneously and I wonder why this is?

As a TCM practitioner I would like to know more about this difference. Maybe that's why I've been confused when I hear terms like opening the channels because from a TCM point of view if your channels weren't open you wouldn't be alive.

In John 10:34 Jesus said "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods?' Does this seem to indicate Jesus believed and taught non-dualism in a very dualistic culture and most likely why he was executed?