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Imo, The yoga sutras were written during times where those who took up that practice had less distractions, therefore, less mental/physical gunk. Lives were simpler, and people had less overall blockages. Conditions then for applying the principles of the sutras were therefore more conducive. In this age, more is required in terms of ground-clearing to first establish a firm and proper foundation for siddhis to manifest. One of the simplest ascertainment is the question: Are you able to consciously control and direct your dreams? Its important, because if you cannot consciously and lucidly develop the strength of an elephant in the dream world at will, it is infinitely more difficult to cause fruition in physical reality. So incorporating dream yoga, in some sense, is logical, and an essential prerequisite to siddhi development. However, its important to note that ultimately thats not the primary service of dream yoga. But its a good foundation to prepare one for siddhi cultivation in this current age. For example, your goal is to tap into the potentiality of super memory. Odds are you're finding it challenging in this current bodily realm, otherwise you wouldn't have started this thread. Dream yoga provides an optimal training ground whereby you can launch a systematic and concerted program to become omniscient (as the ultimate fruition in that dimension). By the time you fully master this in the dream dimension, you will know with conviction whats essential to attain a similar mastery in the physical realm. (Btw, super memory is just an off-shoot of the power of omniscience. Therefore in the dream dimension, its best to aim for the highest, and be as free and adventurous as possible. Even if you miss the ultimate fruit, you will still come away with consolation prizes.)

Not siddhi.... miracle

Immaturity to the max, so much so need to be spoon fed basic common etiquette. Sigh... Endorsed as the most advanced adept on this board. Really. No kidding. edit. afterthought - If I didn't know better, it would seem non-evil people are intent on lowering this site's bar for what constitutes a high level/advanced practitioner.

Alchemy in Buddhist tantra in the main is more interested in attaining the rainbow body (of light). Ref. Apech's post above. This is one of the reasons dream yoga is a core practice in most tantric traditions. To overcome physical limitations of the body, some of the practices assist the initiate to apply dream yoga in creating a mandala (some sects use the energy of sound) and simultaneously, an ethereal, visceral body of light (at the development stages during the phases of cultivating the outer tantras (kriya, charya and yoga tantras) vis a vis the path of purification initially, and later, path of transformation). When the master ascertains the readiness of the initiate, he or she is transferred culmination practices (abisheka) of inner tantras vis a vis mahayoga and anuyoga, both classed as 'paths of transformation' - this is the completion stage where signs of stability in manifest body of light gradually seeps into the physical world. The masters will be able to notice the onset of this by confirming the presence of shimmering holograms of light around the person, and later (usually years later) a more stable halo will be revealed as enveloping the upper body as the cultivated visceral body merge in subtler and subtler detail with the its physical counterpart. Liberation, Dharmakaya, Rigpa is the ultimate fruition of the culmination of Atiyoga, the ninth and final vehicle, which is the vehicle that Dzogchen places the most emphasis on. Other schools and traditions have varying approaches to this practice. I think Western occult traditions also promote a form of dream yoga. In dream yoga one is basically manipulating energies in lucid dream states that are suffused with limitless potentialities, that otherwise is not accessible by the ordinary waking mind and body. In those portals of limitless potential nothing is impossible, so the practitioner has licence to explore all sorts of possibilities and scenarios as a means to expand physical limits imposed by habitual tendencies. This is the key difference (an important one) between the Buddhist approach and others who claim to achieve results thru various natural consciousness-altering substances.

It'd be odd to answer the phone if it ain't ringing!

Ok... comparing my level of patience, for the sake of clarity. Maybe its not even that. Maybe its just that your nature is quite different when it comes to such matters. You have better tolerance, perhaps? As for the question you posed, well... in this regard, it'd be more precise to consider from the point of view of 'spiritually developed', one that assumes awaken has asserted this position, and not otherwise. There was no room for speculation, or rather, such a possibility (that she wasn't awakened) has no place within the scope of her interactions on this forum. Its her way or the highway. For her, the process of development has ended. Finito. That is really something that I would encourage everyone to have a good think-over. It is quite a claim to make, more so when it directly contradicts the ethos of sageliness as per the teachings this entity claims mastery over. To those who have been in her bad books, and there's a good few here (me included), compassion and kindness was definitely in short order. These two qualities are pretty good markers for discerning if one's mastery is indeed of the level claimed. Throw in tolerance to complete the pic. Having said this, I'd admit it is challenging to judge anything with any finality given the limits of online interactions.

Luke the pacifier, the one who, 9 times out of 10, knows just the right thing to say at crucial moments. Wish I had such an ability, to be as cushiony, balmy, and with the patience thats almost saintly. Me... i just prefer to call a spade a spade in such contexts. To be high level and then to demonstrate such haughtiness takes some believing. And in terms of patience, on a scale of 1 to 10, you'd be a 9 while awaken likely hovers around 2 or 3. Moreover, when some internet entity is being endorsed as 'realized' or 'high level', that too, takes some believing. Including those who did the endorsing. Its just superficial. Ambivalence aplenty.

Image of Sakra. Ming Dynasty. Location: Central urban Beijing. Zhihua Temple - the only remaining temple with Ming characteristics. Twice a day, visitors will be treated to a more than rare cadency of 17th century Buddhist rituals. Sakra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śakra_(Buddhism)

There's a marked difference between elaborate teachings live and via online platforms. When live, the person is able to access filters quite easily. So if I'm listening to a lecture, my capacity to discernibly pick up things can fluctuate between "Yes thats useful, I need to pay attention" to moments where the mind can automatically relax and even tune off where certain teachings are not yet useful, or perhaps redundant. Online, however, it requires enormous amounts of energy to sift thru stuff, so a habit of being as succinct as one can, and orderly, is helpful, and quite vital. Energy, after all, is a precious resource. In some regard, being succinct and conservative in presentation is also a good reflection on the presenter itself. More so for those who desire and demand that others must regard them with respectful reverence simply because they've a head full of parroted terminologies and old notes from dead sources. I don't see this poster (awaken) is that aware of this fact.

Depends, I think. A nuclear physicist and a cave hermit, or a DIY expert and us will have significant contrasting ideations and experiences of 'suddenly'. With regards to the stability of things that are thrown out, reliability and constancy is worth considering together. Theoretically, a consciousness having suspended space/time momentarily can indeed instantaneously transform a motor car into a chair, which is actually rather mild compared to more fantastical, even bizarre, transformations which I'm sure we've experienced in the world of dreams. Avidya has forced upon most to regard the waking world as real, prompting a fake sense of stability where things do not suddenly change, and the dream world can only be regarded one dimensionally simply because of its ephemeral nature. Those who practice dream yoga will say that world is far from one dimensional, imo. But sudden change is not that uncommon, isn't it? Its an observable natural phenomenon - for example, how lives were permanently altered within seconds when the tsunami hit many parts of SE Asia not that long ago. Survivors not familiar with relativity and impermanence may well reflect in hindsight on the surreality of it all, and may even proclaim the nightmarish experience as dream-like. Im quite sure a significant number would have.

Can we go beyond violence? Ponders J Krishnamurti. "If we know how to look at violence, not only outwardly in society - the wars, riots, national antagonisms and class conflicts - but also in ourselves, perhaps we shall be able to go beyond it." (from his work, Freedom from the Known). In some ways, Sadhguru's style and substance reminds me as if he's a lighter version of JK. As Dwai said, appeals to those with shorter attention span. Imo, JK is much more substantial. Comparatively, his words promote deeper contemplations. Freedom from the Known was the first of his works that I picked up and read back like maybe 2 decades and a bit. A present from someone I met and chatted with on a 2 hour train ride. First the conversation, and then the book, left a deep enough impression. In more ways than one, served as an indelible precursor to my journey into Tibetan Buddhism.

It worked then. Does this mean the end justifies the law of the excluded middle? jk

I haven't the faintest clue what this law implies, and therefore am unable to follow your assertion to its conclusion. Sorry, Mark.

The value of one skill is worth more than a wealth of 10,000 taels of gold (ancient Chinese adage)

Interesting. Assuming reversion occurs (which to my mind sounds likely, although there's that factor of simultaneous movement of expansion which requires equal consideration, too), Im not yet fully convinced of the necessity to reduce the ultimate fate of the 10,000 things to One since this process of reversion, as pointed out, is that which serves as the underlay, which, to my mind, must then mean this One, if indeed it is thus, must also be subject to it, without exception. Unless of course I have misunderstood the finality/ultimatum this One implies.

I sit at his feet eating peanuts, shooting breeze mosquitoes galore!

Thank you, Manitou. Keenly observed. I must admit though I'm still on the 11th floor with regards to the notion of all being One 😄

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A basic but essential consideration is to ensure vertebral subluxations are in their correct state to optimize blood flow to the brain. There are yogas for this, but I know of yoga teachers and even advanced spiritual practitioners who maintain regular visits to chiropractors as enhanced support for that purpose. This will complement your eventual adoption of whichever siddhi techniques found. Its still very helpful as a stand alone though.

~ Dr. Thupten Jinpa ~ The Heart Sutra, in a nutshell

The contact of an object with the senses does not a chair make. One perceives outline, shape and colour, but the term 'chair' is a conventional (convenient) designation relative to its temporal formation and/or existence. The pieces of material in a flat pack that can be assembled into a chair is no less solid individually, yet its not possible to identify any single part as a 'chair' despite the presence of an inherent 'chairness'. McGyver could assemble the parts into a box cart by adding four roundy things into the mix, does this remove the 'chairness' of the parts in any way? What qualities must a chair possess anyway for it to be thus named? Is it more of a chair if it has 5 legs, or less if it merely has 3?

The assignation of names to objects, followed by meanings, labels, definitions, time span, location, and their subsequent imprints on the sense doors present the perceiver with only an image of objects' apparentness, and not its true existence. The compounding of meanings, labels, definitions, time span, location, and degree of impingement on the senses is whats appears to clarify shape, colour, sound, taste and so on. An object appearing, given a name and meaning, remaining for a period of time, and then breaks apart (time span) cannot be said to have intrinsic existence. Such that, what is conventionally known as a cup isn't a cup in the real sense. It is a made-up term, a convenient rendering related to its coming into view, and also its usage (location). Moreover, its visible and tangible form depended on many other factors and conditions, whether complex or simple, coming together before it got to be what it is, in its temporary state of existence. Including its hollowness. Especially its hollowness, without which.... no object can exist that can be labelled 'cup'. Same goes for 'human being', and every other dependently originated matter. When matter is considered in the complete sense, then both form and emptiness needs attention, but most (objectivists), choosing to rest their assumptions only on the tangibility of matter, will intentionally stop short of the emptiness aspect.and equation. An imbalanced view is not conducive to establishing a proper spiritual foundation. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Anyone who's dedicated to cultivating the subtle body and other mystical powers to ultimate fruition will do well to first unravel this simple yet profound truth.

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