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I SO agree with you Mak! What people see energetically is too often conditioned by what they have heard other people say they see. So a lot of theories out there are just second- or third-degree knowledge, or actually hundreds of years with second-degree delusions built upon other second-degree delusions. I totally understand the ghosts becoming angry when some blind amateur is trying to force them into "the light"

Placebo is actually THE best documented medicinal effect. Think about it, EVERY scientific research show around 10-20% placebo. Placebo is certainly not to be underestimated Emptiness is medicine in so many ways!

haha, ghosts can be very boring. In an apartment I lived in many years ago we had a ghost that was allways standing in one specific corner. Sometimes once in a while he wandered to the kitchen and made som noise with the dishes. And then he just went back to his corner watching us constantly. He was never a problem. Just very very boring The scary image of ghosts that come from movies is so wrong. Most ghosts just mind themselves.

Dao Zhen added many pictures too. You can look in the gallery. Maybe you see your teacher in some of the photos? So how was the course you did? Did you learn the practice outlined in the dao-qigong site? How has it been working for you? I remember also Pietro did the practice Dao Zhen teatches. You can probably look up Pietros journal in the Personal Practice section. I never new why he stopped... If you see this Pietro, why did you stop updating the journal?

Workout, like lifting weights or spinning or aerobics or things like that. Also eating highly nutritious food like greens, algea, things like that. Spending time in nature, especially long trips in mountains or forests. These are non-meditative techniques that most people should be able to understand and assimilate. But they demand activity. Not all people are able to understand that they have to be active and do something about it themselves. I hope your friend is.

I had to use my "extremely high level google-gong-fu" to look up samboghakaya. All these fancy words... with many different levels of interpretation. Some people say it is enjoyment body, others say it is bliss body, others say it is buddahs body appearing to you, or deities appearing in visualizations, or just that your thoughts are positive. I love stillness meditation above all else! Been doing it for 4 years now. I stopped all visualization, energywork, and controlling, and started to do just stillness meditation. Just listening to the stillness, breathing stillness. My experience is that my development has become more deep, more balanced, more healing, more awakened, more enjoyable, and more of everything I was trying to create with energywork. With energywork it seems you just deal with symptoms, and this dealing create other symtoms, which in turn creates other symptoms. But with stillness meditation it seems you allow the bodys innate intelligence to do its job in communication with the universal intelligence. What can be more rewarding? And I know what you mean, if I cling to sensations my meditation and development stops immediately. No matter how good it feels or how interesting they are. After many years and many retreats I have realized this fact. Nodays I dont care so much about experiences, only stillness. Edit: I see the trikaya now, in relation to my experience. I think. Body intelligence: Nimanakaya. Universal intelligence: Dharmakaya. And then we experience Sambaghakaya inbetween. It is atleast one level of interpretation.

Welcome! Very inspiring to read your description of emptiness meditation progress. Makes me want to read more from meditationexpert.

Dao Zhen, who is the creator of the damo-qigong site, visits taobums every so often and leaves posts that shine for ages. You can probably pm him.

You, like so many others, misunderstand TTT, quantum physics is not used in those new age things. It is only used as a way to explain because the concept contains images that looks a little like the new age experinces. Nothing more. It is no more valuble as an explenation than the ancient theories of qi or whatever. It is no more scientific either, not as long it is being used to explain phenomenons of human perception of reality. There is absolutely no scientific connection between quantum physics and human observation. It is just theoretical. QP is scientific only as long as it is being used to calculate interactions between a very limited number of atoms.

We are very hungry, starved actually, for authenic teachings without new age twists or religious delutions here, so anything you post in this topic is very welcome!

If you calculate complex quantumphysics equations with enough atoms, like all the atoms in a stone or a ball, you get the exact same result as in the simple Newtons equations. The quantum effects only behave strange when applied to a very small amount of atoms. The new age people can use quantum physics only as a model to explain their thoughts. But typical of new age, they also misunderstand it and believe it is scientific proof. It is not. It is only a theoretic explanation. And it works just as fine as any other theoretic explanation we can imagine for ourselves. But I loved the movie!

I did it for 6 months and had a lot of fun. But realized I dont want another quickquick method easy come easy go and a lot of energetic experiences inbetween. I want hard work that demands stamina and dedication and no guarantee of success. Jupp, thats what I want.

Thank you Song! Our withdrawal symtoms are eased for a little while. But soon we will probably begin bumping again

haha, yea, but then that would also be a little boring. It is the exitement, the waiting, and the impatience between the episodes, that makes the magic. It sucks, but its worth it

Fracking motherfracking frack! I gotta take a break and absorb the scenes here... Please dont tell me this is the last BSG I am watching!!! frack, I think Im gona cry...

Did you guys see Farscape many years ago? The ending of that show almost gave me a heartattack. But then the hard-core fans collected money for many years so the producers could finish it properly. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Ive never heard about Deadwood. Is it something that makes you happy to be depressed?

BSG is so depressing... but goddamitt, Ive NEVER been so happy for being depressed! Its THAT good!

Its not THAT an amazing system. I did it for a little while many years ago. Its mostly based on Zhan Zhuang and sitting quiet in full lotus. So ofcourse it is a great system The rest is just unhealthy secterism.

SYD was posting here today. We should grab him and not let him go until he give us an update to how he is doing with his translations!

Yes, agreed! BIG BUHUHUMP! So what happens now we've bumped bigtime? Do we ask SYD or YMW to write something interesting?

I dont have a book to refer to, sorry. Most books (and religions) explain simple linear reincarnation. I dont understand how they can justify talking about soul and still be stuck in linear thinking. Understanding non-linearity or non-duality takes a lot more than some explanation found in a book. Mind cannot really understand this, only observe. I dont know how to teach these things. Maby someone else here can? Anyways, a dedicated meditative emptiness-practice, and a good non-dual teacher, might give you the personal experience and awakening needed to see the obviousness of it

But its rather obvious, isnt it...when we see incarnation from souls perspective, meaning transcending time and space, all linearity disappears. Everything becomes interconnected dots of choices and experiences. All interconnected to the NOW we experience right now in some subtle way or another. I see memories of past lives, or future lives, as a byproduct of becoming more and more aware and awake.

Im thirsty...

hahaha almost! That certainly puts things in perspective!