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from what i have observed, its a tendency, and like all tendencies, its a pattern compounded by a complex web of habits that shapes the introvert into what he or she is presently. Not saying its good or bad, just that it often leads to contractive attitudes which can accumulate, and if so, could breed other darker states.

it was an honest question but if you took it as a jab, maybe you might want to reassess your sensitivities. How would you have asked the question without it appearing to resemble a jab?

how many Buddhists do you personally know?

introvert someone who has mastered the difficult skill of bridge deconstruction

Sometimes simply appreciating another's beauty is more than enough reward, without having to make known one's inner desires. Usually the building up of the urge to express these mysterious emotions associated with 'falling in love' is no more than a craving for the feeling of wanting confirmation that we are worthy to be loved in return. This can be caused by a number of things, namely, fear, self loathing, guilt, lack of esteem... all negative in nature. If you turn these around by realigning these neurotic patterns with their positive equivalent (takes work of course, but certainly a worthwhile endeavour), you will find that what began as a kind of constrictive, narrow craving will gradually and gently be replaced with a heart that grows in warmth, caringness, unselfishness and tends to overflow with a special type of gratitude & generosity that seeks out opportunities to always consider other's needs as equal or even more important than one's own.

In countries like Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia there is only one herb that men rely on to boost testosterone: Tongkat Ali from an online article: (Please dont mess around with this supplement)

what the heck, take it carve out this salacious heart a buzzard's free meal

Maybe it was a christmas prezzie

O yeah? I bet thats just another excuse to get yourself a second phone.

2017... Year of the Bouguoise. God I love that word.

It may be that the mountain climbed you, MH

This auspicious annual event is happening right now in Bodhgaya, India. https://www.facebook.com/10march1959/?hc_ref=SEARCH

http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Pagan-Tribes-of-Borneo1.html

Ive always wanted a mobile phone. How does it feel to own one, Apech?

Im not Irish, merely a blow-in from a distant shore, Sionnach. But i have a lot of respect for the old Irish ways. Have walked the ancient fields, hiked sacred hills, circumambulated some of the holiest stone circles. They are still alive till this day. I felt it very strongly at some of these sites.

Maybe a documented list of all the actions you have thus far taken to initiate the changes being proclaimed here, albeit rather emotionally, will garner more 'ayes' than otherwise. For starters, you said you are asserting your true heritage, which is all well and good, but the reader finds it hard to empathise when there is no information at all, or at least a little, on the history of it. Plus, your call that all should return to Europe does sound quite naive and idealistic, but thats just my own limited understanding. Dont read it wrong please.

its a system failure apparently

egg tarts & farts. A pair made in heaven! Coming back to your question: Personally cant assist, but recall that years ago I met a very interesting Taoist priest at a temple in Tseung Wan, Hong Kong, who claims to be able to communicate with animals, both dead and alive. If memory serves me well, it was the Man Mo Temple. His surname is Leung. Visitors to the temple call him 'Leung Tai Si'. Fancy a trip to Hong Kong, if you are nearby? If you dont find him, at least you will find and eat the most delicious dan tarts in the world!!

Point proven. Thanks ps - it came in a dream last night that you do not live in Malaysia, and now its confirmed. In fact, the name of your location came up as well, so you're not that hard to find, ethereally.

The fact that you are still harbouring those trivial exchanges that happened that long ago speak volumes, flowing hands. By the way, you ought to control your emotions better, because they are evidently causing you much discomfort. And lastly, i never used the term BS specifically on you, nor have I 'abused' you, but if you want to use this delusional idea to guide your thoughts and fan the flames of your turmoil, then so be it. Its your tendency, so you need to work with it. Surely, if you are not prepared to be scrutinised, then cease making claims here whereby nobody can actually verify if your claims are indeed what they are. Your demo vids, imo, are anything but convincing, let alone extraordinary. In my 30 years growing up in Asia, what you demonstrated is actually very mild comparatively, but i am open to being proven wrong. If you are as open, perhaps we can meet up - I shall be in Malaysia soon to facilitate some classes, and look forward with some earnestness to visit you if you will pm me your contact details. Here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is.

The Five Poisons Through the gradual intensification of habit, sequential entry into samsära began. The five poisonous kleshas developed. The actions of the five poisons are unceasing. Gradually we intensify, gradually we solidify, and gradually we develop deeper impressions of this pattern of duality. This pattern repeats over and over and over. It becomes so solid and appears so genuine that it almost becomes part of us. It almost becomes the nature of our mind. Whenever we think of mind, we are thinking about “I.” That’s duality. In gradual steps, we get deeper and deeper into this samsaric pattern. From that fundamental ignorance and the development of the split of duality, the actions of the five poisons increase. This develops into a stream of endlessly repetitive actions of the five poisons. We get into that mechanism of habitual pattern. Then we enter into samsara in a deeper sense, no matter what level of samsara we may be experiencing. Once we have developed that degree of intensification or habituation, the mechanism doesn’t stop. It continues to run automatically. The example we use in Buddhism is a potter’s wheel. Some kind of effort is required for the potter to start turning the wheel. Once the wheel is turning, it doesn’t stop. It just keeps going on and on and on, continuously. You actually have a hard time stopping it. Similarly, once we have turned the wheel of the five poisons, it doesn’t stop. It’s unceasing. Do you remember any break from the five poisons? It’s very difficult. I don’t quite remember having any break from the five poisons. From this endless stream that we call karma, the samsaric solidity of suffering, of ego-clinging, and of poisonous emotions gradually develops. When that has developed, we end up in this solid existence of samsara. The progression that ends up as the existence of samsara is basically the twelve nidanas, the twelve links of interdependent origination. Beginning with ignorance, formation, and so forth, we have the inner cycle of twelve interdependent nidanas. We also have these twelve links in the outer sense: the twelve astrological cycles called the twelve months, the cycle of twelve years, and so on. From the repetition of the twelve interdependent originations, we solidify our habitual inclinations and tendencies. In that way, we solidify our samsara. We have the habitual tendency to delude our perception. We delude our conception, our view, and our understanding. As a result of habitual tendencies, we are always caught up in this cyclic existence called samsara. We get caught in the continual cycle of the five poisons. The unbroken continuity of habitual tendency, the unbroken continuity of the five poisons, is the existence of samsara. It is the only reason we are bound to this suffering. It is the only reason we are caught up in this suffering. We learn here that samsara is nothing apart from our habitual delusion. According to Dzogchen, the five poisons are nothing but the manifestation of the luminosity of rigpa. They are called ö nga, the five luminous lights. The five luminous lights of rigpa are white, yellow, red, green, and, like the color of Kuntuzangpo, deep blue. Each of the five lights has meaning. The luminous white light of wisdom is the manifestation of rigpa’s immaculate nature. That completely pure nature, that completely pacified nature, manifests as the white luminous light. The yellow luminous light is the manifestation of rigpa’s fully completed qualities. This means that rigpa is fully enriched with all the qualities of buddha. Rigpa is fully equipped, so to speak, with all the enlightened wisdoms necessary to overcome our emotions and ego-clinging. That completeness of qualities manifests as yellow light, which is richness. The red luminous light is the manifestation of the quality of rigpa that encompasses and magnetizes. Like a magnet, it draws all things in that direction. In a similar way, that very nature of our mind called rigpa encompasses all qualities, encompasses all wisdom. This means that everything is included within rigpa, nothing is left outside. That’s why we have this magnetizing red light, which encompasses all the qualities. The difference between the yellow and the red light is that the yellow light of enriching has the quality of possessing all the many different elements of buddha wisdom, while the red light of magnetizing encompasses all these qualities that actually boil down to rigpa. It’s rigpa that has all these qualities. So everything boils down to one and only one essence. The single essence, which that contains all, is rigpa. It is the primordial mind, the primordial wisdom. The luminous green light means that rigpa manifests all the activities of buddha. Rigpa has the compassion, love, and wisdom that buddhas manifest as physical activity, verbal activity, and samadhi, meditative absorption. All of these activities of buddha are complete within rigpa. Symbolizing that is the luminous green appearance of light, which is the fourth light taught in Dzogchen. The fifth light is the deep luminous blue light that symbolizes the unchanging nature of rigpa. No matter what confusions we may experience at this point, the true state of rigpa is beyond all confusion. No confusion, ego-clinging, or mind poison can ever touch the true state of rigpa. They can never cause it to change. The absolute state of our mind is in the unchanging nature of rigpa, the unchanging nature of the buddha wisdom. Therefore, we have this luminous blue light. ~ Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche ~ Excerpts from Penetrating Wisdom: The Aspirations of Samantabhadra

this mudra, when perfected, has the power to cut through even the densest negative energies, or ward off unwanted visits from the twilight zone.

sometimes its the initial taste of the manifestation of bliss states associated from over-practice that hooks practitioners, so, for some, its not easy to know when to stop. A few times i have witnessed this personally, but, you know something, by nature we are a resilient lot, and those that were mentioned above have all managed to ride out the difficult phases with some help from friends.

sometimes 'ethically sourced' is just another label.

what can one really say... its her individual reality, her game. Cant argue with that. She will have to finish what she started, or it will just keep adding layers one on top of the other, and it will never end for lifetimes, not until she connects with something that sheds a completely new light on the matter, and where recognition of that light is accepted to be non-deceptive.