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[quote name='strawdog65' date='17 December 2010 - 10:58 AM' timestamp='1292612334' post='2305 "...I am not at all suggesting that we should live our lives like a happless leaf floating wherever the current takes, without any goal or meaning other than that. I am suggesting that rather than constantly struggling and fighting to have our lives conform to our desires, we should practice flowing with our life's natural direction, more so than trying to force it's direction. This means letting life have a more natural flow, and letting our actions take part in being a positive influence in the creative force behind that flow. Flowing with things as they happen, and accepting what comes into our life with the realization that many things come into our lives by our past actions, and they will effect the future flow of our life. Making changes, accepting mistakes .." Hello Strawdog, Flowing with life.. In retrospect if I was flowing with my life still and havent done some very strenous going against the stream,Sun would be a different person alltogether. There have been major changes in character and understandings of life a total upsidedown turnover,just becouse of not accepting the flow and questioning of everything. The idea of acceptance and not resisting totally makes sense .But where I am at -I make my life happen and will try and redirect the flow if not suitable to make my life beutiful. Than again I am not taoist.. Just giving another point of view . edit:typinng

How about wu wei being a habit of no habits?

Interstingly enough some of the main siddhis(which directly translates as perfection) is fullfilment of ones wishes (doing exactly as you think)and complete satisfaction and parasiddhi(main siddhi)is knowing yourself where one is meant to be loosing any sort of sense of desire. Personally I believe siddhis are mind developed to a fuller potential and nothing mystical at all. But the problem is that the concentrated mind is very powerful.It can be double edged sword .One yogi once gave me good advice I tresure and told to: watch out becouse the higher you go the lower you fall.

Hello Mr. Steve, It is good to share things like this sometimes ,getting it out of the closet -as you say. It seems as if your father was typical old skool Mediterrenean man.I am Medtierranean myself and am familiar with this type of attidues as they are quite common. It is a type of temperament that is so deeply rooted in our still very manly/patriachal culture. It is good if you can forgive him,but best if you can forgive yourself and love yourself where it hurts.And dont let anything dominate your well being.This is coming from personal expirience.

Yeah,whats with this rudeboi minimalistic mental karate style always on? Get in touch with your inner teddy bear or something.

Has anyone heard of the Iceman,Wim Hof ?A Dutch tummo practicioner who does a lot of demos like a barefoot marathon in -15 centigrade etc.He is on you tube too. Sorry cant post links as somethings wrong with my computer. He is an interesting guy to check out.

NINPO,I was thinking this just now!!!!!!!!!And read your post.

Yeah got you,you sort of "wipe off your mental screen". More or less that is what I meant by having unshakable heart /mind -like you say:"getting rid of fears,hopes uncertanties"accepting transient reality .Keeping it real. Easier said than done on permanent basis-for me at least. I like the twist in your post with Guardian of Gates and mental illness. It has sort of velvet carpet and dragons and frankincese flavour to it.Maybe some medivial music too.

Can you explain more on this?Consciousness of astral?Or?Split vision -do you mean you can see some stuff that you wouldnt normally see on purley physical level? Just curious of your expirience ,as it is an mind candy topic.

Thanks ,looking forward to check this site out tonight. So what does survival in astral mean to you?Keeping the clarity of the purpose?Or having developed unshakable heart/mind that shines through?Or?

shique mistique

Nice,thanks

This is hillarious converstaion.I never even noticed this stuff. You sound like a bunch of old uncles meeting up on the way from the shop and talking about disgraceful cashiers. It is cute in a way .

In yogic path it is said that in dreams it is important to be able to hold values as in waking reality.Not doing anything you wouldnt do awake. That is one of the basic levels to be mastered .This also includes working on your personality and developing more understanding and forgiving and loving personality on a very deep level too. Get over self-sabotaging mechanisams. Than mind becomes clear and other dimensions than this earthly one start reveleaing naturally and it is possible to see what is imagined and what not.And here is where a lot of more esoteric teaching from teacher begins becouse the ground is prepared. As I was on yogic path for over 10 years in past that is what I have heard and no I havent been thought by a earthly teacher how to dream. Some Sufi schools deal with dreamwork a lot and will teach in a very specific way.Becouse it is similar with Yogis about turning sleep into being aware non stop.

Yeah the blue is definetly after gold like that.

Children raised by animals, There is an interesting footage of Ukrainian girl raised by dogs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljVd6XS-J0s&feature=related, and the whole over an hour long documentary As the guy in the documentary says is it the genes or the expirience that makes us human? Science has always been too rigid for my taste.

Intersting .I wonder wherther I am understanding you correctly here,can you explain?Also what is soul for you?I am still working on my unedrstanding/belief/non belief and trying to figure it out.

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Ok Ill try link again as the other one doesent work http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8RLOdlrA7l4/S1HI0hvn-DI/AAAAAAAAAWI/pgrC0aiwnzc/s320/ring+ufo+manhatten+14+jan+2010.png this is different picture (lol form some alien website,I just googeled images random)so its goleden not white and glowing with something in middle like a shining spot.

I know what you are talking about as I see it sometimes. Looks something like this more full and golden with shining spot in the middle you could call it star I suppose ttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8RLOdlrA7l4/S45dZcet4sI/AAAAAAAABvY/9W3XH67vO2Q/s1600/Golden-Ring-UFO.png It is an "opening "and afterward there is golden sphere and than blue sphere Vaj talks about comes. Alwayson is it result of khechari mudra,I would be curious to find out?

Cheers Steve,sounds interesting.

Yeah it is incredible deep question to think about.. Although I am ware of these types of children.I was particulary puzzeld when I saw footage of Ukranian girl barking and behaving like a dog.You know when you see or hear something "in the right space time frame" and it just strikes a chord deep inside of you and brings out and insight. RE:to the bit that i framed in italics in your post- Yeah totally,we are so much a product of our enviroment,to the smallest detail.Very "sticky"situation.And when this type of exploration starts it is so difficult almost a taboo to admit sometimes and say to myself"this is not me ,it is just some conditioning,some thought pattern acquierd .It is going against everything we were ever thought to be true. Personally I think human being would manifest compassion,understanding ,intelligence and love,spontaniously without fear ,that would be where hers/his concissnes is dwelling.As these are qualities that makes us different from animals. Oh and by the way according to me I am not human yet.

Tao Meow, Now that I have read your posts it is becoming appereant that I too always had fire illnesses as a kid and do have a lot of fire too. Even my friend astrologer did chart (western one,dont know if there is big difference with chinese one)for me and said that I have only fire and air ,no earth at all and only one water element.Again dont know much about astrology,but lots of fire in there. How interesting that you mention "clear astrological reasons"for your illness as a kid,this kind of looking at things allows so much "space to move" .Becouse we are so not one dimensional beings,that is why I have mentioned in one recent thread that science only has always been way too rigid view of life for me. And that yogi might of been on fire path,a lot of them are.Those Nath yogis can have a lot of siddhis after most of the life cultivating in silence as hermits.

Tao Meow, Interesting read. So why are some peoples bodies hot in terms of TCM and others cold?What is it that detrmines it? Are some people born that way and some become that way as the age,illness,accidents?Or? I am not very familiar with TCM. First person on raw food I have met was one old Nath yogi living in a cave for most of his adult life ,eating raw roots and fruits only and having a blanket as the only item of clothing.A very interesting person,would love to see him again. I thought that his dietary choice was a bit extreme at that time ,and definetly not for me.You see how life flows her own way,incredible. Second raw person ive met on raw did display some of the blank stare issues you have mentioned.Not sure why though.Thats all raw fodists I have ever met. But I have met tons of SAD and could tell you same about them ,minus the runs.lol These things can be difficult to figure out,sometimes there are behaviour patterns so well hidden and mistaken for ones own identity..It is like getting to root cause of what makes me me.