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No way man! Did you not SEE that those Hale-Bopp comet cult guys couldn't, like, even TOUCH him?

Even if these masters were evolved, I'd be surprised if they were sharing what they really knew. I know from learning internal martial arts that very little is taught, even to students. There are people who study IMAs for years who, from what I've learned, are not taught how to actually use tai chi. Even if these LSD masters are able to produce miraculous results, what makes anyone think they would pass on the REAL teaching? Especially if they are prone, as denty would have us believe, to playing the trickster and passing on false knowledge. It is common knowledge that many Asian masters will not teach cultural outsiders their art. Besides Chinese tai chi masters, D.T. Suzuki is said to say that Zen cannot be understood by or truly taught to non-Japanese. Now we have these allegedly high level Chinese masters openly teaching for anyone who can pay? I doubt it very much.

If only Mike Tyson would come forward about when he punched John Chang... What I find hard to believe is how easily people swallow this stuff. Promise magical powers, charge big bucks, lots of secrets--- no red flags? As Buddy says: a fool and his money are some party.

The following is a history of your chosen mystical art/martial art/esoteric meditation technique: This art is the original teaching of the Buddha/Lao Tzu/Zhang San Feng/Moses. It is far more powerful than your usual Zen/Tai Chi/Karate/prayer which has been watered down over time. It has been passed/transmitted/handed down from master to pupil for decades/centuries/millenia. You are quite fortunate to have found this school/dojo/lineage. All other arts/sciences/techniques have stemmed form this one. Hope it satisfied!

This from the guy with 450 posts. Chris has something that is found lacking in your posts: genuine sincerity. Quite different from your often arrogant, demeaning, elitist posts. Maybe if you stopped teaching everyone all the time, you might accidentally learn something.

1. Practice of attention. 2. Practice of attention. 3. Practice of attention. 4. Practice of attention. 5. Practice of attention.

Is this an actual situation? I've never heard of some one having to register as a sex offender because they peed behind a bar. Nevertheless, if you have children, you don't take chances. You err on the side of their safety.

There's a koan for you: what's left when all is lost?

Maybe this is why its better to develop insight and wisdom rather than supernormal energy powers. Wisdom and insight, once gained, cannot be stolen or lost.

No, no, the correct version is an Indian story!

Not a fetter. One of the TEN FETTERS. Check it out: Ten Fetters Relying on rites and rituals instead of oneself. From what you Tibetans call the "Hinayana." Do they still teach Hinayana or do they jump right to Mahayana?

Science is nothing magical. Its a method that involves observation and repeated trials. You form a hypothesis, you experiment controlling as many variables as possible, you tell your friends so they can do the same thing. Shamans don't do that. Most people who believe they can manipulate the world magically in this day and age are generally people without power in the real world who want it. My boss is a mean prick? No worry, I am Melkor the 10th Level Magic User, I am really much more powerful. Just another of the 10,000 things the ego does to keep you busy and away from actually cultivating anything.

I hope you weren't going around spiritually raping those women again, Hempel. I'm going to tell the reptilians that you've been having non-consensual third eye sex!

Hey Pero, What do you make of the Buddha saying that reliance on rituals and practices is actually a fetter to enlightenment? I read all this about needing transmission, and I tend to think this is all about keeping the masters in power. Look at Trungpa's student who received the transmission and went around having unprotected sex with his students. What does lineage mean if the masters can't be trusted?

Adam, Were you following a specific tradition or technique? How long did it take you? LP