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I'm wondering how the transmission will work for Tantra and Dzogchen too, which will be third cycle. I emailed to ask. I'll post here about it. BTW Pero, I told them my financial situation isn't good at the moment and asked if I can enroll but pay later, they asked me how much I can pay now and offered me a scholarship. I don't think you should let money stop you from doing this Oh, and thanks for the PM. I got info about the 8 year program.

Yes, you can truly know such distinctions through experience, and having knowledge of these distinguishes is what allows you to have deeper realizations.

This is from the site, the bolded part is Dzogchen In practical steps this teaching covers all three vehicles (The Triple Excellence) from the perspective of the Vajrayana. Beginning with fundamental mind training, one proceeds to the Bodhisattva path of love and insight combined. Finally, the penetrating wisdom of the Vajrayana is introduced, culminating in the secret paths of the higher tantras. At this more advanced stage of practice, participants will receive a transmission, which includes methods that use the energies of the subtle body, and they will be initiated into the practice of trekchö or “cutting through resistance” within the primordial purity that is the nature of the mind. I share the same thoughts, but my situation doesn't allow me such a luxury. I don't have any teachers close to me.

Watching it now. Very well done. I hope they are done with the 9/11 conspiracies and religion bashing? The movement will never take off if they keep doing that. They need to focus on economics, politics, psychology, and sociology and stay away from conspiracy theories and making people feel defensive about being religious like they did with the first movie.

Thanks I just noticed that's an 8 hour program? Wow. Seems like this would be a much more drawn out version of the Dharma Sun program perhaps, since both cover (I think) the beginning all the way to the culmination in Dzogchen

Does anyone here follow the Chinese medicine circadian clock model? Have you found this to be accurate according to your experience? I think it's pretty interesting, but what I'm curious about is if the model is universal or relative. It would be universal if somebody woke up at noon, went to bed at 3am, would have issues because they would be eating late, not giving the liver/gb their 'rest time' and other problems. But, if it's relative than the clock shifts to the person's schedule. So if somebody gets up at noon, then that would be 8am on the TCM clock and so on. What do you guys think? Is the clock absolute?

Condensed form: It's not emptiness because there's still a sense of self in that realization, the I AM everything realization, or I AM the source of everything. Emptiness is when there's no longer any reference point. The experience is the same though, but instead of identifying with everything, labeling everything as a part of Something, there is a surrender of attachment and everything just is.

While I greatly respect that approach, I personally feel it is invaluable to learn from those who came before us. Saves time, since time is precious

Actually Spinoza's God does not have a unique identifiable personality at all. For Spinoza, everything is of one substance, but this substance does not have any personality at all. You are not God because you are in God, for Spinoza. God is the unique substance that everything is part of, but it is incorrect to identify with the totality because you are only a part of that totality. He calls these parts 'modes' which are expressions of the infinite substance. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/#GodNat Not saying I agree with Spinoza entirely, but I do certainly agree that it's a great bridge from monotheism to taoism. Spinoza's God isn't fully nondual. There is still a duality between God (the infinite eternal substance that causes everything) and reality (the expressions of God).

Interesting, yeah I'm going to try to change my schedule to match the 'clock' and see if I feel changes. I've always been one to stay up late into the night and wake up after noon, unless I have to be up earlier.

They do offer scholarships I think. When is that Online Shedra program starting? Their website isn't very informative, but that sounds interesting.

It just sounds like a grand ego attachment and has nothing in common with Vajrayana.

I saw both and don't understand the relation. Can you clarify?

anyone feel a transmission from the DVD?

Gerard, what did you do clean your liver/gb? I don't know what your site is where you said you wrote about the process

With buckled seat belts too. No, really though. How will visualizing keep your family safe? Do you think you can control reality? If that is even possible and not just a mythical mystical thing, then only those who are purified of karma and have realized their connection with the universe can do that. Until then, you can visualize or not and it won't make a difference.

Here's a better link. Has everything on one page http://www.askshelley.com/faq.php?p=all

Sweet... I'm trying it but it's downloading her WHOLE website including her forum lol. Ok, I just kept clicking 'skip' when it tried downloading the forum page. Thanks for that.. now I have her page saved

I know this is an old thread, but I didn't want to start a new one.. just wanted to share this site with others. It's awesome. So full of really good info on cleansing and curing different issues, plus lots of recipes there too. I highly recommend going through it. I printed the whole thing out in case it goes does http://www.askshelley.com/faq.php

I'm not sure where you got that statistic from, but I stated what a true atheist was and it has nothing to do with life after death You're talking about skeptics, and yeah I'd say skeptics only believe in what they experience and have memories of experiencing. Yes I completely agree, and I think the best way to gain such wisdom, to know thyself, is to attempt to have such experiences yourself. That's at least why I do it. The faith in others' experiences is only a fuel to have them subjectively and see what they're all about

Atheism is simply the denial of theism, which is the belief in a creator God (monotheism) or multiple gods (polytheism) and has nothing whatsoever to do with the continuity of consciousness after the death of the body. Asking tough questions also requires a strict open mindedness that your answer could very well be wrong. Many have experiences that solidify their beliefs. If you have none such experiences, you will not share their beliefs. You will even deny their truths based on your logic. Faith in logic and reason are good and well, but not absolute indicators of certainty, and certainly shouldn't be when it comes to these tough questions. Of course it matters. It matters a lot I'd say. I don't know any Buddhist that feels good about rebirth. I certainly don't. I know death can come at any moment, but I'm also open to the fact that I could be reborn as a mosquito. Now that would suck. Death becomes much more serious once you open to the possibility that your consciousness will continue, and that your actions in this life will affect what happens after death. Pascal's Wager was on the existence of God, but can be applied to practicing for death as well. If you believe in the continuation of consciousness after death and prepare for death by meditating, ridding attachment to the self and body, building positive qualities, etc, then you have everything to gain if rebirth is true. If it is not true, then you didn't really lose much and lived a good life anyway. Now, if you didn't prepare for death and there is rebirth, you're screwed big time. So from a rational perspective, it actually makes sense to have faith in some after life than not to. But, as I said earlier, a logical argument shouldn't be the basis for a belief in after life, though it certainly is better than blind faith. I think the best indicator for certainty is direct experience, but you can't have direct experience unless you have open mindedness. What makes me open minded is reading the accounts of others. I don't think the many mystics throughout the ages, and the many people today, were lying or hallucinating. I think they had genuine experiences, and that motivates me. We all need some sort of faith.

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't hear 2012 mentioned once in that news clip. They are talking about a very real potential solar storms could wipe out our power grid.

HELLO I was told about a recent study done which shows that in just 8 weeks of meditation, there are considerable brain changes occurring. I found this pretty fascinating. Here's a link http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-mindfulness-meditation-brain-weeks.html I also found some really interesting talks given on the subject of meditation and science. The first one is by a former scientist who became a Buddhist monk. The second is by Jon Kabat Zinn who founded the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction therapy and has done lots of research on mindfulness therapy at U Mass Med school..