ShaktiMama

the person who hates you the most or you find the most difficult in this life is probably your biggest and most true soulmate.

lust is not just in sexual context. Lust has nothing to do with sex. who are you to say what is the highest form of love? who is your source? Have you made love yet with a woman or a man? You said like you are probably male but I don't care what your sexual orientation is. were your family old school catholic? I see it more and more in you. dakinis destroy ignorance and pride.... why would a dakini honor any human? your desire for this, any particle or molecule of this desire, is going to get you dismembered in dakini land. i would recommend you do some Chod too along with the liver chi exercises... Do it voluntarily before a dakini comes for you.

make sure you let people know the amount you take in your drink or there will be people having a truly cathartic and miserable experience....

aaaah....now there's the million dollar question. Does being human negate any possibility of becoming enlightened? That's why I like Maslow et al. Becoming self actualized is more about becoming fully human which has specific behaviors to measure ourselves by.

Well, some people have already done this and have made a much bigger success. Roman Catholicism. This is their dogma too. good luck on creating your mega church but there are other churches out there who have been saying and doing the same thing much longer than you.

you would never make it in bon po or tantra. A dakini would probably kill you out of annoyance. Hopefully she would just kill your sense of self, which to me is more of the ego, and just not your body. people get this abandoning all for God thing all screwed up, IMO. As if God really cares about you and me and all our petty, needy desires. it is really about saying your love and desire to know and be god has to be so great that the love you have for anyone or anything else will look like filth and waste in comparison. Don't worry. Christian ascetics can get it all confused too. the paradox is that when you achieve that state of love and devotion the whole world and it's inhabitants are then included in this love. God is All. If one truly loves, honors, and respects Self this becomes self evident. Service and love to others becomes a spontaneous expression of the innate gentleness which is present in us all. I would recommend you do some chi kung exercises that focus on detoxifying and harmonizing your liver. good luck in India but if you are going to Tibet it sounds like you will need it even more. May you get everything your heart desires. I could say, May all your karma be balanced in one week but that would be cruel.

you are so confused.... there you go making assumptions about me again. All you saw was criticism. What I said was how to have clarity in context about how you make decisions. Buddha did the right thing and took care of his family before he left. Obviously, you didnt read what I wrote but more like had no understanding of what I wrote. I am not angry. In fact, your posts often make me shake my head in disbelief because you understand so little. It's hard to be angry at a 3 year old who sees himself as the egocentric center of his and everybody else's world. This is just my opinion. Others may think differently of you. Who am I to judge your path or for you to judge mine? i dont feel the need to roll out my "spiritual" pedigree here. So please don't be angry when I offer you are not fit to offer criticism about me at all. Buddha can defend himself. He doesn't need anyone to defend him. The art of apologetics has always been something I thought was redundant. Like, as if God, needs someone to stick up for him and explain his actions. have a good time in India.

there was a period of of time when my kundalini was coursing through my body that I had momentary periods of omniscience: I could see every being in the universe, and hear their thoughts all at once and understood what they were thinking. Now that was an awesome siddhi. No, it was very temporary and sporadic. did that mean I was enlightened? probably, mostly like not because I was so poor then that I would have desires of picking winning lottery numbers during this time. my physical needs for food and shelter were certainly more at the forefront then that working for a lofty spiritual attainment.

oh my....just to stir the pot some more... In the earliest accounts, Buddha achieved enlightenment by gaining the three types of knowledge: complete knowledge of all his own past lives, of the karma and rebirths of all others, and the Four Noble Truths. Later accounts explain that, with enlightenment, he achieved omniscience. http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/approaching_buddhism/teachers/lineage_masters/life_shakyamuni_buddha.html Omniscience. That's a new one for me that I have never heard of omniscience as a quality of enlightenment. So...hmmmm...does that mean then there are qualities or levels of enlightenment. aaagh *pulling her feet up underneath her, with her book and her kittehs, pondering upon the couch*

it's all about perspective and common sense for me, Mal.

First: I am not picking on you personally,time to change, but this example to me always begs to be put in context. This is just my opinion. I wonder if the Buddha lived now and he left his wife and child to pursue his own agenda, regardless of how high an ideal, would he get sued for child support? Would people say he was spiritually stunted? Buddha was royalty so we would see a lot discussion on youtube, the forums, etc. about that he was a deadbeat dad? I can just imagine the comments on videos? Does he pay child support? Since we have such a intense focus on celebrity in this time would his face be showing up on People Magazine or on Entertainment Tonight? That begs an interesting question: Could Buddha even become the Buddha in 2011? We don't live in Buddha's time. Can we expect the same things to unfold for us the way it did for him then? Now he could probably hire his own spin doctor to do damage control for his reputation. But there has already been a lot of sanitizing about his life then. That's the nature of a religious icon. He wasn't really royalty. He was of wealthy, aristocratic warrior caste. The prince rep was added 3 or more centuries later. Let's look at his culture then if we ask ourselves, "what would Buddha do." We must look at his renunciation of his society and time in that context. Buddha decided at 29 to leave his family and become a wandering spiritual seeker mendicant (beggar). He wanted to understand the nature of suffering. He did not just walk away and leave his family without anything. He would have had a wealthy extended family that looked over his wife and son while he was gone. The fact that he was a warrior it would have been expected at some time to leave his family for battles. I am not sure but I don't think warriors take their families with them to war. I wonder how many dedicated elite soldiers do we have here on this forum. They would understand the rigors and discipline of military life. Buddha was a soldier. I am almost sure he would apply the same level of dedication of his training as a warrior to that of a spiritual seeker. Does anybody here really apply that level of dedication to their spiritual path? I haven't. That it in itself would separate the Buddhawannabes from sincere, dedicated seekers. So today, if one is seeking to follow the renunciation path...it is the responsible thing to make sure your parents and family are cared for while you are gone. It is not "tough luck, Chuck. It is just me and God and you can take of yourselves from now on and I am a more better person than you for doing it." I find it ironic that those who follow that path want to learn about overcoming suffering but fail to see the suffering they may cause by leaving. I am no way a scholar about Buddha but it does help to do a little more research to understand the depth and consequence of making a commitment to leave family and loved ones to over come and understand suffering without having any self awareness of how the life that you choose makes your family suffer. If you must you must but at least be cognizant that your desires can have unexpected results. Not to say you shouldn't, but one can almost always find a better way if one just looks.

If you believe God is All, as you have told us several times now that you do, it sure does. I hope you do well in India.

I teach a lot for free. Like in a thursday night study group I lead and on Monday I lead a healing class and do free energy work. I tell people if they want to insult me and have me insult them back, then they have to pay for a session with me. For you I make special deal...$200 US. Sweetness and light and love is free. Wake up calls are gonna cost big time.

this little bit you wrote really speaks volumes to me about your world orientation and view of reality. He did make a million dollars a year for a couple of years in his business. Then he lost it all and now he is back on the path again of starting all over. He has lost nothing but a million and gained much in awareness and realization. That is priceless. I thought you were ridiculing the concept of ALL GOD a few posts ago and now you are championing it?

i am glad you dont and neither do I. It is odd that you have fixated on maslow and freud. Do they speak to you in some way? If you are judging me by what I put in the list...did you even notice there were about 20 other writers, philosophers, etc on that list but you choose only to bring up those two names. Why? I dont think your views are strong at all , at least generally. They don't show much depth of understanding or little wisdom of a Sage who has lived a well lived life. Just my observation. I suppose I could say that makes you weak but how would I know? I have never met you in person. You have never even described what weak means to you. For all I know it means you think I cant lift a 60 kilo weight with both arms. as I said about 3 or 4 times already... that list was meant to stimulate discussion in a Thursday night study group I lead. Last night we never discussed the list. We just put it on hold because we wanted to review other things first. obviously the list is stimulating discussion .... well done...

yes I agree but I have never sagreed that we should look for affirmation of worth, hope, safety, security, etc. outside of ourselves.I used to think that way but that was over 20 years ago. I hope people don't think that is what I am saying or that is what Maslow is saying because that is antithetical to his model of psych wellness and health and antithetical to my own personal understanding of psychological and spiritual growth and wellness.

I am glad that you have observed that I am very human and still capable of growth and understanding. Over the last two years I have been through a lot. Most things I won't discuss here because it is personal but I will say that about over a year ago I was diagnosed with a severe learning disability. I feel like I have been reborn because it changed my own personal self orientation. Thats why I refer to myself as a broken plate. I still dont have enough to make an empty cup. Probably never will. From day one of being on this list I have never claimed to know it all or that I have ever been questioning my own path. It is interesting how people create an absolute myth about me just from reading my words on this list.

Apech, like I said I created the list to inspire discussion in a study group I lead online on Thursday nights. The ironic thing is we never discussed the list at all but other things last night although they all had a copy of the list for at least 12 hours. I like you view of the Sage. I definately would agree with that one.

hahahahahahaha...... boy do you get pleasure out of playing mind f*ck games.

I don't understand why you think I am a follower with Freud and Maslow. It doesn't make any sense in context that you would think that. You lack some serious intellectual rigor here and for me to make a statement like that... off to bed...busy day tomorrow.

seeing the "ego" in others is very easy. Seeing the "ego" in ourselves not so easy. Just continue in your practice and eventually the "ego" drops away and ceases to be an obsession.

So what is this energies of prosperity you are talking about? If I told you that when he woke up from the couch one year later he was bringing in one million US dollars a year would you find some other way to find fault with him. I cannot see what the connection is between ALL GOD and beggar and millionaire and how it is germane to what we are talking about. non sequitur

I guess you misread my post. Ego is a term coined by Freud as a poetic conceit to help explain his theories. Yes they have written good stuff and they don't know everything. You have not given us any evidence of having a published body of scholarly reviewed work that shows any kind of intellectual rigor that proves you know something. We can not help but hold you to the same standards that you want to apply to others. You make a lot of assumptions about me and the rest of the people on this list. I live my life according to what my heart and experience shows me. And why do you say they are unenlightened? what makes you an expert?

so why did you ask me to define terms? Are you not accountable to the same standards as you hold the rest of us or are you special? It seems to me all your posts are about separating people into what is right or wrong. You play word games. You are affected by words otherwise you would not make an issue of defending your position. But, you are not weak but we are?