Jetsun

There are groups working at raising the consciousness of humanity, not so much to protect us from aliens but more from ourselves to try to reduce the general mass of suffering, they aren't that secret though most of them you can probably join

All things have power or momentum of their own, if you let go of attachment of your body you will still have a body until its power is exhausted and it dies, if you let go of attachment to emotions you will still have emotions like anger and sadness until their power is exhausted, there just wont be any resistance to any of it from your mind. If you let go of attachment life will just flow through you more easily but it wont stop flowing just because you have removed your mental concepts around it. But if your going to go all the way you have to let go of your attachment to wanting to not exist any more also

For me the most useful was the Small Universe MCO of Spring Forest Qigong, simply because they provide a recording to do it by so you can't go wrong with the tempo, breathing and route, plus you have the bonus of calling on the masters energy to help you and healing sounds to aid. If I was to do it on my own from a book I would probably do it too fast and without the right breathing rhythm and miss out on other benefits. https://soundcloud.com/rolf-h-corneliussen/01-sitting-meditation-small

There are only a handful of objectively true timeless sutras and religious texts, maybe Heart Sutra and a few others, most of the rest are potentially outdated and dead by the time they are published

Usually when HH talks about countermeasures it is in reference to mind training, so if your mind is full of anger you generate love, if it is full of attachment you meditate on emptiness, lust : disgust, etc these are the Bodhisattva countermeasures they take a vow for to protect their own mind, not for picking up a gun to take a countermeasure of violence.

I have some experience with depersonalization disorder, I spent a few years on a dpselfhelp forum and trying different things looking for answers, in my experience just about everyone recovers eventually, the most common story was that people would in the end just give up looking for answers and just try get on with their lives and it went away on its own. The anxious struggle to get rid of it perpetuates it it seems , so when you accept it you relax enough for it to go away. The body is a self regulating self healing organism so sometimes the best thing to do is to just get yourself out of the way. But each person is different so maybe a technique will help you, Sloppy has mentioned the BK Frantzis Water Method which may help, in my experience with that the softer and lighter you do it the more powerful it is, if I did it with the intention to try and really shift things it could make things worse. Another method is the Duck Egg Soma method of Zen Master Hakuin who meditated too much and got a lot of his energy stuck in his head so he had to seek out a Taoist healer who taught him the simple Duck egg meditation to move it down which led to his recovery. For me I found most of the methods I tried would only provide temporary relief as I was always doing them with the wrong intention of anxiously trying to fix myself so often they just made things worse. Things which did help were installing simple good habits, one high level Qigong healer on this site called Michael Lomax recommended that I just walk bare feet every morning on the morning dew, which helps, then regularly go for walks in nature. Doing physical things like housework or gardening gets you into your body and out of your head. Challenging your beliefs and thoughts around not just the issue but everything else too can help a lot and the method of Byron Katie I found to be the most efficient at doing that. There are other meditations I could pm you too.

Thanks for the clip, I have been reading "Freedom in Bondage" by Adeu Rinpoche who talks about his time of internment and torture in Chinese prison camps, but also in the typical Tibetan way he also talks about the positive sides of it such as his fortune to meet many other great Buddhist masters who were also imprisoned and receive teachings from them and how the years imprisoned gave them plenty of time to meditate. These guys are a real inspiration how they can survive such brutality at the hands of the Chinese and not be broken in spirit or full of resentment.

Can anyone not read it?

Yes I read it at school and it made a lasting impression on me, not so much at the time but recently with the whole "war on terror" scenario and gradual eroding of rights it is so similar to the book that it is scary, but on a positive note apparently the sales of 1984 have been soaring this month on Amazon.com so maybe people are becoming more aware of what is going on around them.

The concerning thing about the Snowdon case is that even though what he reveals directly impinges on the rights of the citizens of the US and UK the vast majority of the population of both countries don't seem too bothered about it, yet the Germans are furious about their citizens being spied on even though it affects them far less. The reason being that they have already lived under an Orwellian police state and are fully aware of the horrors and terror that system creates and don't want to go back there. So we need to wake up before its too late.

The perverse reality is that the US on the one hand are fighting the "war on terror" against extreme forms of Islam but on the other their main global partners are the Saudis funnel a large proportion of the wealth they receive from the US into globally promoting the extreme Wahhabi form of Islam, which is ravaging much of Africa and promoting extremism in many other countries. So the whole war on terror is one giant racket where on one hand they fight it on the ground and the military complex remains very rich and on the other they indirectly fund those who promote the extremist ideology and groups, so they create a state of perpetual war and conflict which the wealthy elite have no motivation to break out from.

Giving up your passion is about as useful spiritually as punching yourself in the face. Few people even find or can do what they most enjoy so if you can pursue it then go for It. I think you have a very distorted view of spirituality if you think it is about making yourself miserable and denying your talents,there is nothing noble about that and you won't receive any rewards for doing it.

Pretty much in all Western alchemy and Christianity the left side is yin/female/moon while the right side is yang/male/sun. Inside of my body my left side is more of the emotional side and someone has already explained the brain science of the hemispheres so I don't really know why in some TCM they say it is the other way around, maybe there is a difference if a person is left handed but I don't know.

There is very simple wisdom for the mind when understood that can help orient it towards more universal compassion. A concept that Shantideva emphasises in his guide to the Bodhistattva way of life is that every human on earth operates from the basic wish that it wants to be happy and doesn't want to suffer, which is a basic compassionate heartfelt desire we all share. I noticed that the Dalai Lama repeats this phrase in nearly all of his books and teachings often multiple times so I started to meditate on its importance, and if you take this simple idea to its depth you can recognise that everything everybody ever does at all times comes from the desire to be happy and not to suffer, so we are all the same no matter how we are trying to manifest this wish, and it is ignorance about how to go about this which causes problems not the underlying motivations people have. If you view things from this base perspective rather than the surface manifestation of how people are trying to go about it it can soften your outlook towards many people.

For intuition in my experience it is a matter of listening and then trusting and acting from it, then your confidence in it grows from all the times it leads you on the correct path.

I think it shows that most of what people write about death is conjecture, that you don't really know anything about the future or when or how you might die. Even if he was a high level master he would still have karma to process.

What is injaculating? I don't really believe in celibacy unless you really know what you are doing, but if you aren't going to go in a cave but are dedicated you can change your diet by cutting out all sugar, spices, basically anything nice and tasty which stimulates your senses and eating very bland including no alcohol or coffee, Master Nan Huai Chin says this is one way to help retention, although I doubt many can keep it up long.

There are over 7 billion people each with a different belief system about the way life should be, so its no wonder there is perpetual conflict and stress as each belief system bumps into others each insisting its own is the correct perspective. Therefore the only way to love everyone is to go beyond all of your beliefs as any belief you impose upon yourself you also impose on the world at large, which isn't a very compassionate way to go about things. There is a consciousness which embraces it all including your lack of love and any belief you have and that consciousness is right here .

If you offend everyone equally then there is equality

If you aren't hurting anyone then the only bad karma you will suffer will be from your own beliefs, if you have been conditioned your whole life to think gambling is sinful you subconsciously might set yourself up to be punished, but if you haven't I don't see any problem.

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Synchronistically this article just came up on my Twitter which says that there isn't actually any scientific evidence that women are more compassionate than men http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-it/201306/are-women-really-more-compassionate, under brain scans there was the same level of compassion elicited from viewing sad images for both sexes, but the way the compassion was expressed was different. But what they have found is that physiologically women have a thicker corpus callosum so both halves of their brain communicate better, but it is not so significant that a neuroscientist can easily tell the difference. But what they seem to suggest is that because of neuroplasticity it is not as significant what sex you are but rather more significant how you have been conditioned and how you use your brain which determines how it reacts.

But on the other hand that might be precisely what draws men towards it and gives them a lot of drive, perhaps the further away from union you assert yourself the stronger the longing and drive there is to return, the more separate you feel the stronger the force is puling you back. Men naturally become more removed from the earth by the natural process while growing up of identifying themselves away from the mother towards the father, while women through their ability to give birth remain more connected to the cycles of life. So adult men perceive themselves as further away from union with the whole, which is why as Desmond Tutu says the male human is probably the most isolated and thus fearful of all of God's creatures and perceive themselves further removed from Gods love than anything else on the planet, so they may need spirituality more otherwise that disconnect can manifest in ways like trying to prove themselves as worthy and fighting wars etc.. So men may feel a spiritual drive to reconnect to the whole more strongly than women as they feel more disconnected, which might be part of the reason why you get so many male teachers and males who write books and male spiritual figures.

Talking very generally here but in my experience many women automatically have highly developed qualities like intuition and emotional/energetic sensitivity, but very few have really mastered those qualities. So I think their being is naturally more centred in the left emotional side of the body and because they are centred there it requires less work for them to gain development in that area, but that area is only one side of a human being, I assume it is then more difficult for a woman to master the right hand masculine side. Which reminds me of Ya Mu's book, after the initial training the female had to go and search for power and the male search for wisdom, if one is centred in either the yin or the yang it requires development of the other side to gain balance, so overall in the long run I don't know if they have an advantage.

If you can improve things from the inside it is the best way, which means harmonising your own being first as then that has a influence on the rest of society, but there may be a time when personal action is the most appropriate thing to do, like in Turkey at the moment. I was in a gallery in London the other day and a young woman walked in and lay down on the floor in the middle of the gallery with a t-shirt on saying "The more you repress us the more we will resist #OccupyGezi" and within a few minutes she was surrounded by people taking photos and security not knowing what to do with her, such a simple protest I think can be quite powerful and has a ripple affect on peoples minds and opinions , so sometimes direct action is more appropriate and powerful than sitting around meditating I think.