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Everything posted by Jetsun
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Many of the famous Taoist teachers believe in God, like John Chang, Waysun Liao, Chunyi Lin and there are probably others. It seems like for these guys practice enhances their belief in God rather than diminish it, which probably goes back to what Manitou said earlier about studying the microcosm to understand the macrocosm and when you do that you understand where God exists within it all.
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Surrender to God is a legitimate way to transcend the ego and the suffering it perpetuates
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There are structures in your psyche which filter your experience and make the energy move along certain grooves. These structures are not bad because at one point in our growth they served to protect us and help our growth, but they outlive their usefulness and then like all things in the universe they try to survive when they are no longer needed. One of the ways they survive is by convincing you you have to get rid of them or change them or improve them, because what you resist and fight against just feeds energy into the dynamic and keeps one half of it out of the light of conscious awareness. Ultimately you can't find these structures except in the imagination and then from the mind they create sensations and tensions in the body which makes the scripts they run off seem completely real, but it is only useful to treat them as unreal and imagination if you really see that as the truth otherwise you are going to end dissociated from your present experience.
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No matter what you do you can still suffer though it seems, even great masters like Ramana Maharshi and Suzuki Roshi were killed by it and you can't accuse them of being too stressed or unnatural in their lifestyle and diet and they probably had all their qi channels open. So there is no guaranteed immunity. * The only place I have heard of with no cancer is on Mt Athos so those Orthodox Christian monks there are doing something right
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I'm not sure its all about genetics, it seems to be what some people call a "modern disease" in that many cases are directly related to our unbalanced psyche and way of life. I read about a native Indian who got diagnosed with a few forms of cancer so decided to go back to a really primitive traditional way of living for his last years and the cancers went away.
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Mahamudra is good too, but in the Vedanta type paths there is not the religious trappings, you don't have to take refuge or swear to anyone, or worship the Guru, or study texts, or do preliminaries, its just basics stripped down to the bone.
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They can't be used to understand ultimate truth, they can only be imperfect pointers hopefully sending you in the right direction to have the experience of ultimate truth. For example no matter what anyone writes or what ideas people have in their minds about oranges it can't compare in any way to the actual experience of eating an orange. Many of the ideas and concepts people have are just hooks they get stuck on which is why the Vedanta type paths are good for some people as there are far less of those hooks to catch you and slow you down on your way to experience .
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How do you bring the non dual into the realm of mind and ideas so you can talk about it using the dualistic mind? Really it is impossible but the way it is attempted is to either negate what it is not, the other way is to affirm to talk about the one, but in practical terms you can't ever find the one, but that is the way they talk about it for convention. The Buddha sometimes said there is no self, Ramana sometimes said there is only the one, really they are two sides of the same coin talking about the same thing.
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Genetic imprint from traumatic experiences carries through at least two generations
Jetsun replied to SonOfTheGods's topic in General Discussion
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How is it inferior? it is as direct a method into the nature of identity as you can possibly get. You are confused if you think it is some sort of intellectual game or analysis.
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"This is suitable only for ripe souls. The rest should follow different methods according to the state of their minds" - Ramana Maharshi
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It is my understanding there are two currents, the up and out and the down and in, both representing different complimentary impulses
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I have been reading a lot of Buddhist forums and it seems like many of the internet Buddhists underestimate the importance of Bodhichitta, especially many of the Dzogchen practitioners. This is what the Dalai Lama said when he gave his own teachings on Dzogchen when giving a teaching on the Longchen Rabjam text 'Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation on the Great Perfection' "The fundamental reason we are able to attain omniscience lies in bodhichitta, which itself is rooted in compassion. If bodhichitta is present, the state of omniscience - and buddhahood- is possible; without it, buddhahood can never be attained. Everything then depends upon whether we have bodhichitta. Our kind teacher Lord Buddha, on the basis of his own experience, taught that the principle training for us to follow is that of bodhichitta. We could think of the Basic Vehicle as a foundation or preliminary to bodhichitta and all the teachings on bodhichitta itself in the Mahayana as the main body of the path. This includes the six transcendent perfections, and it is within the practice of concentration and wisdom that the cycle of Vajrayana teachings and practices fall. They constitute a training in bodhichitta. So I feel that all the 84,000 teachings of the Buddha - the Basic Vehicle, Mahayana and Vajrayana- are rooted in bodhichitta." - Mind in Comfort and Ease - Dalai Lama - pp153
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Real power comes from embracing powerlessness and surrendering because then there is no situation or cirumstance which can emerge which causes you fear. Or rather there is no fear of fear any more. Easier said than done though as it is almost a trans rational drive to surrender as we are programmed to struggle and fight.
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Do you believe in- and when do you think the actual shift will happen?
Jetsun replied to 4bsolute's topic in General Discussion
There is a difference between this anticipation which we all do to survive and thinking we know for sure what us going to happen in the future. To think you know is delusional and not at all helpful because when reality shatters your knowing (which it inevitably will because it has to) then you are frozen in terror because your model of reality which you have placed all your cards on has been destroyed. -
Do you believe in- and when do you think the actual shift will happen?
Jetsun replied to 4bsolute's topic in General Discussion
I don't see how anyone who meditates can think they know the future, anything could happen, absolutely anything could arise out of emptiness. Predicting the future just seems to be another ego strategy because if you think you know what's going to happen you feel safe, and if you know what's going to happen and others don't you feel superior, but in reality you have no idea and your entire world could collapse at any time. Which is absolutely terrifying so the mind creates imaginary scenarios to try to get rid of the fear. Surely meditators see their own mind predicting onto the future all of the time, usually as a strategy of avoidance and ego play to avoid the reality of the present moment. I do believe there is a kind of shift going on at the moment at this present time though which is more due to things like relative peace in the world combined with cheap air travel, easy access to the internet and the scattering and open availability of wisdom traditions and teachers around the world. I don't see any obvious political or social change from this more that there is a psychological/spiritual shift which makes it easier to awaken. Plus there are a few great beings alive working for humanity at this time. -
The Importance of 'not seeking' - Or "How do we actually get something?"
Jetsun replied to 4bsolute's topic in General Discussion
The yearning to seek comes from somewhere, but to seek is like following the call outwards where it is travelling rather than turning around and tracking back where it comes from. If you hear crying or some sort of alarm you will sense something needs attention, but if you follow the sound where it is travelling outwards you will spend eternity trying to find and satisfy the cause of it, but if you turn around and look at where it is coming from you can track it back to its source. -
If there is a you or an "I" separate from your experience then you are resisting the flow of the Tao because in your mind you are creating something separate from it, so as long as you believe there is a separate you from your experience then you are in resistance because you are mentally trying to hold something outside of the flow. Usually when people experience the flow of the Tao is when they have temporarily forgotten themselves as separate or they have got into a state of intense concentration where their sense of "I" has merged with the object of their concentration, which happens with some top athletes. You can't ever in practical terms be separate from the flow of the Tao because everything just flows and happens no matter what you believe about it, but if you believe that you exist as separate if only in your mind the resistance will show up as tension, stress, disease etc in the body.
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Untying the Knot: Your Heart is actually a Spiral
Jetsun replied to BaguaKicksAss's topic in Daoist Discussion
Da Vinci did a detailed study of the aortic valve in the heart and demonstrated how the two vortices of blood are what close the valve to stop blood flowing backwards -
Are there any members of the Mo Pai on here?
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Untying the Knot: Your Heart is actually a Spiral
Jetsun replied to BaguaKicksAss's topic in Daoist Discussion
I read recently that scientists have shown that the blood flows in the body during the embryonic phase by forming into spirals around the heart before the physical organ is properly grown. So there is a spiral at the heart before the heart it is even formed. Leonardo Da Vinci also worked that out long time ago how blood spirals at the heart, but modern medicine is only now starting to properly understand this and use it in its theories. -
Is this a Ho'oponopono Huna teaching?
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How deep should sitting/emptiness meditation get?
Jetsun replied to thelerner's topic in Daoist Discussion
Depends on the sort of meditation you are doing, if you have some sort of goal or brain state or level of Qi you want to achieve then it may take a certain amount of time or cycles of your nervous system to go there. But if you want to just allow what is or be aware of awareness then that can be done very quickly, potentially instantly, but often it takes some time to settle down and relax. I think I remember Alan Wallace say that traditionally the sessions in his lineage were about 23 minutes or so. Mingur Rinpoche says you are better off doing lots of small sessions during the day rather than one long one, at least at the beginning. I have heard Stillness Movement hits a sweet spot after 45 minutes (correct me if im wrong) Mo Pai apparently takes 3-4 hours to get deep enough trance. So it depends on what method or path you are walking. -
So the character of Kosta Danos was a "literary construct designed for a particular market", surprise surprise. I wonder what else was constructed under artistic licence of the author
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This is Bentinho Massaro, he does start talking after about a minute but the silence is instructive too