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unfortunately circumstance isn't always on time for me. i'm leaving to study in China tomorrow, and will be gone for almost 5 months. the book will be waiting for me when I return. maybe it's better that way

Mal, did you read the Insiders Guide? what did it talk about? how detailed was it? biased? this sounds interesting

this thread has been excellent so far thank you. I ordered that book mentioned, Real Love: The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love and Fulfilling Relationships by Greg Baer. its exactly what I've been looking for, i'm at a part in my life where this is one of my main issues, and just today i was thinking about how I can have more meaningful relationships with people. i'm a young male, and i'm pretty programmed to see girls that i'm attracted to as a pleasure "thing", they get me so excited, and in the past relationships i've had once that excitement wears off.. i find them dull and uninteresting, but of course i'm still attached because sex feels good, and so does "having someone", being alone sucks, or so i'm led to believe. so my to do list: love myself and be ok with being alone, not to see people as objects that give me something but rather find people interesting and want to give approval, love, care, or just share life. i agree that attachment is the cause of heartache, neediness.. clinginess.. i know that all too well. it's one of my demons, haunts me. is there such thing as romantic love without attachment? i think that a lot of the opinions expressed on this thread are excellent, but a bit negative towards romance. i think that attachment does come from sex, because ,well, it feels good! but say you don't need a person for emotional dependence, but you really connect with them, and are at the level of spiritual evolution where you are no longer attached to physical pleasure. can't sex be used as a tool for communication? for furthering that connection?

i really like that one too.. i guess direct linking doesn't work this is the picture Scotty is talking about http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qs2ip...feat=directlink i studied abroad through my university. i earned 12 credits over there doing practically nothing i'm going to China in a week, Nanjing University. will be much different.. huge university, will actually have to study. i think China will be more exciting than India for some reason. just a feeling do it! traveling is a great opportunity to gain experience. world experience.. thats the reason i went abroad to India in the first place, i really had no interest in going there. i put myself into these situations to grow, and i certainly had a lot of those situations in India.. being the only white person in a sea of Indian people certainly brings up strange feelings of Shrek. i've gotten the fear a bunch of times traveling alone.. but, if traveling and seeing a different, and interesting, country is what you're after. India is great,.. go to Ladakh if you want mountains, and Dharamsala if you like Tibet. go to Kerala if you want beaches, and Rajhistan if you want deserts and palaces. India has it all, but be warned traveling through India, or any developing country, is a pain.

birds like to poop on me too but i've always attributed it to bad luck

i've just finished reading the first book, and haven't started the 2nd one yet. but i'm confused. what did JJ Semple actually accomplish? I think that the goal of the Secret of the Golden Flower is more than just physical health and creativity and whatever else he talks about. where is the mystical stuff? I understand if the book is geared more towards an audience that is looking for health, which is much more broad than the kind actually seeking truth through kundalini and meditation.. but that is the real goal here isn't it? i'm going to read his 2nd book tomorrow, i hope it goes deeper into the more interesting juicy stuff in one part of the first book Semple says something like if your goal with kundalini is enlightenment than you're getting ahead of yourself, and says that physical healing is a better goal to attain. i don't particularly agree :> but then again, i don't know anything! i just think placing the ultimate goal as your target is the way to go

April, a couple questions for JJ Semple does JJ teach that 100 days of celibacy is necessary for his method? i've only skimmed through both books but didn't find an outright statement saying that it was necessary, only that he gave up sex because it was too painful and tiring. , in the book JJ says that he found proof that the ego survives beyond death. what does he mean by ego? and how does he have proof if this if he is still alive? lastly, I am a musician as well so i'm wondering how music helped JJ on the spiritual path? how can music be used as an aid to one searching deeper.. and not getting caught up in it as just an obsession of the mind. also i'm curious about how he views and relates to music now after awakening. thank you i've found this communication very helpful

this is my last.fm site, it shows what I listen to by automatically "scrobbling" whats played on itunes, cool site because you can find similiar artists to what you like http://www.last.fm/user/moisha i'm into be pop old school jazz like Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, i have a couple great radio stations that come from manhattan i believe, and they great stuff. The Mars Volta is one of my favorite bands, the led zeppelin of our time. lots of energy, talent, creativity. i'm also into bands like The Doors, Pink Floyd, Sigur Ros, Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Fall of Troy, Minus the Bear, Regina Spektor, Boards of Canada, Explosions in the Sky, Radiohead, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Devendra Banhart some classical like Chopin, some electronica like Four Tet and Air some hip hop like Aesop Rock and Atmosphere a little bit of everything!

Trunk, i hope that i don't offend you with this question, no offense is taken... and i doubt you will be but some people get touchy when skepticism is called in. how do you know that Mark is actually doing anything? that he has any inherent power that is independent of your minds belief in that power...is there a perceivable difference in sitting in during the live stream vs sitting alone, and if so, how do you know that this difference is not psycho somatic? i've received shaktipat before, bunch of times. in person and online, and have never felt anything, but then again i'm not very open... and very skeptical in nature. i m completely open minded to this idea though of transmission, but am skeptical. and was told that i had to be open to receive it and actually feel something. this leads me to think though that "open to receive" could just be psycho somatic, in other words.. you are leading yourself to believe that you will attain a deeper state of meditation through listening to this live stream with this cool dude, and like an affirmation "i know i can i know i can!", it works, but the cause isn't the person.. it's just the belief. i had similiar thoughts about Guru Yoga in Vajrayana tradition, where you focus on the Guru as the perfect being who bestows blessings and clears your path for you, this could be entirely psycho somatic too, where the Guru isn't really doing anything, it's just your belief that is making you think and feel that you are receiving something, and just like an affirmation, gives you confidence to progress on the way and not give into fear. All you're doing is programming yourself and creating the conditions which aren't dependent upon the Guru at all, just like shakti isn't dependent upon receiving 'shaktipat' from someone, its just a ritual. what do you think about this? it's very late, i apoligize if this makes no sense.

you'll have much more informed responses if you post on E-Sangha in the Tibetan Buddhist general discussion

i see them as complimentary but only if you don't take either too seriously.. depends on your style. both are pointings and have different methods and philosophies for pointing you beyond ego to the infinite non-dual reality. buddhism uses more of a reduction method with the philosophy of emptiness and no-self, while taoism is about harmony with the tao, balance. the goal of buddhism is to end suffering, which is identical to finding your true nature, union with the Tao or whatever. so while i think in goal they are the same, they differ slightly in method and more so in philosophy. its hard to match the two philosophies together because of the apparent difference, buddhism focuses on the everchanging, compounded, and interdependent aspect of reality while taoism looks at the whole picture, the eternal tao, never changing (i think). different view points. oh and if both interest you, look into tibetan high tantra like Dzogchen, i find this to be a very interesting blend of buddhism and shamanism and sounds a lot like taoism sometimes

i hear heroine does wonders for back pain

i've tried the Shinka system too. it's cool, a bunch of different audios are included but the main ones are 1st wind chimes (very neat and relaxing) and the 2nd is rain. its very much like holosync.. i've tried both actually and had no noticeable results from either i never paid for either of them too, found them online.. holosync are easy to find with torrents.. and a friend sent me Shinka, maybe i still have the link somewhere. they might work for you, but only as a secondary practice. like one of the above posters said, Vipassana works. or some other actual meditation practice.. and then if you want to try one of these do it up. but they are quite expensive. the way i see it, is that these brain waves are observable in deep meditation, but i believe that these brain waves are actually just the effects, and not the causes, of deep meditation states. so you can't force the side-effect and produce the cause. know what I mean? i believe the only true cause of deep meditation states is actual meditation. and unless you're a gifted one, in the beginning you'll have to do concentration exercises like breath awareness, visualization, or mantra to get your mind focused. or else (like me) you'll download these binaural beat techs and think you'll just skip on ahead, but end up just falling asleep

i think he's just talking about me. sorry dude!

i think the better question is : what IS global warming? theres no doubt that climate is changing, but are humans responsible? and if humans aren't directly responsible, are we in -some way- helping to speed it along? can we do anything to make matters better?

this book is awesome so far. thanks for the tip. Daniel Ingram seems legit, awakened, free of dogma, fierce attitude, and great sense of humor. reminds me of Glenn Morris and Jed Mckenna

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the 4/4 breath count is used in the beginning just to still the mind. I think that these technical details you mention are just variations in style, some breathing practices are more forceful than others, JJs style seems pretty natural. you can read about the method here: http://www.goldenflowermeditation.com/the_method.html

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Video: Amit Goswami, Quantum Physics & Consciousness scroll below

LOL that guy was pretty funny to watch.

welcome April

April , i read some of Deciphering on google books, very interesting.. contemplating buying it and the new book. i really like reading personal experiences and a safe powerfully effective method for K awakening is intriguing. what does Mr. Semple say about Cleary vs Wilhelm translations? I believe I have the Cleary translation somewhere.. I believe this question was repeated by Creation but i'd second asking about anyone gone through full K awakening through the Golden Flower method? about the Kundalini process, I would appreciate hearing Mr Semple talk about whether there is a 'goal' or if its an ongoing process.. in other words, the health of the body seems to only be a secondary goal compared to the primary goal of deepening awareness and sinking into primal consciousness. from Mr Semple's experience and possible speculation beyond that, is there ever a point where the process is finished? while in the physical body? or perhaps at the moment of death? thank you, Mikael

I used Ubuntu for a while, i think it sthe best kind of Linux, very easy to use and comes with everything you need.. open office, firefox, pidgin (instant messanging), and its free! http://www.ubuntu.com/ you can even download and burn a Live CD which is the whole operating system on a CD which you can boot up and run without installing anything on your hard disk. and for those less adventurous that just want to stick to windows..a good free antivirus, you can get Avast http://www.avast.com/ btw, there is a program called Wine for linux which lets you run windows applications. here are some links to what linux looks like for those interested http://www.troyandnaomi.com/images/Ubuntu_desktop_large.png http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubunt...s/home/main.jpg

personally I found India to be overrated.