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A lot depends on the approach you take, the Dalai Lama says that in Tibetan Buddhism women have a potential advantage over men because they have the stronger child rearing instinct which they can tap into to develop their compassion, but not enough women make the most of this. With the direct non duality approaches though it makes no difference if you are male or female as presence is the same no matter what or who you are

Yeah but you present an idea to them and they invest in it if its any good and you get a business partner, if its not you get humiliated on national tv

Dragons Den

The US arms suppliers gained too much power during the Second World War and to maintain that power they have to keep creating wars to fight as well as miltarize and brutalize the population. It has to come to an end eventually either through economics or through the people having enough.

That's rooted in a belief, something like if you fail it is a reflection on who you are as a person or a reflection on your value, or people won't love you if you fail, which are common beliefs in our modern competitive society but are actually false beliefs. So the fear is usually based on a lie, so investigate the truth and the fear diminishes.

How do you see Qi and filter out all the other things normally undetectable, like radio waves,gamma rays, x rays, microwaves and all the other many things the eye cant normally detect coming at us all the time from the universe and from the sun? How do you know what you see is Qi and not one of these other energy waves?

What instructions do you use for the MCO? what speed do you do it? I have noticed that if I do it at the same sort of speed or rhythm I am normally in it can energise my agitation or stress, whereas if I do it slowly with slow breathing then it creates a more harmonious healing pace in my system. If you want to try the SFQ version try this https://soundcloud.com/rolf-h-corneliussen/01-sitting-meditation-small

Is there any difference between understanding emptiness and understanding dependent origination?

I don't think there is such a thing as being fearless, although I do believe there is the potential to get to the point of not being afraid of being afraid.

Your mind will always fill in the gaps in understanding as it can't stand not knowing, often with the worst most fearful thinking, this is normal and probably a survival mechanism from evolution. So in this example you hear certain things and you sense certain things, there is a gap in understanding there as really you don't know what they are or what they mean or what their intentions are, they might be angels coming to bless you but your mind then will fill in the gap with a story or with thinking usually based on fear based conditioning, so for you to be afraid you have already believed your minds conclusion on the issue, one possible conclusion out of many. Observe and challenge your thinking and there is less to be afraid of as you have stopped automatically believing the survival fearful thoughts .

Well the Small Universe is pretty much the foundation exercise of the whole system and is used for your own development as well as healing others, Chunyi has said he still does it sometimes. It is also a system which has been scientifically tested, has legions of people who testify to its ability to develop you spiritually as well as heal, so I don't know how it isn't a "real system" as it clearly gets results. There is no requirement to be always grounded either and yet it still works. I guess problems could arise from it if done incorrectly, with the SFQ version you do it using a guided recording which ensures you do the correct orbit, at the appropriate speed with the right breathing rhythm, with healing sounds and also you get the benefit of using the masters energy. If done without all of this I don't know if you will get as much benefit and there is more potential for complications.

If there is a discrepancy between the message and the messenger then it usually means that the messenger isn't speaking from what they really know, they are just recycling another man's teaching from another situation and another time and claiming it for their own wisdom.

As I understand the dissolving method in the book does the emotional body, there is a lot of talk of dissolving anger and your inner demons, the things he says he doesn't do in the books are dissolving the brain and there is a deeper spiritual level not discussed.

Thanks, I liked his explanation of "Perfume - story of a murderer" on the second podcast, I don't think I watched it properly when I saw it as I didn't picked up most of that at the time

They do clearing of the Kundalini channel in a method called Vortex Healing, if your intuition is attracted to it and want more info pm me

Yeah its possible especially with Buddhism, all you really need to recognize is that everything is of the same nature which is impermanent and dependently originated, which includes heaven, hell, Qi, the soul etc. As for Qi when pushed most people don't really seem to know what it is or can explain it very well so its by no means a required belief.

If the natural laws in the universe are perfect and you are a microcosm of the universe then all efforts and methods to improve yourself are just your own attempts to improve perfection, but that is obviously a foolish thing to try to do and harmony must get restored naturally when you stop believing in imperfection and doing things from that perspective because then you stop resisting the natural laws which are always striving for balance. So what is there to do spiritually except appreciate what you witness and what you are? maybe all problems stem from the belief of imperfection, the belief that man has to improve creation. If the natural laws are not perfect then I expect all life would come to an end due to imbalance.. but that doesn't happen.

I would assume that saying it is anything or defining it in any way might potentially create mind concepts and expectations which get in the way of seeing what is actually going on openly without preconceptions.

It seems to me that perfection can be observed at all levels, whether it is in the physical scientific laws or the laws which govern the human psyche and health and spiritual laws. What I mean by perfection is that the laws move towards perfect balance so that life as a whole continues, which might result in destruction at times especially of that which opposes the laws, but it is perfect in that there are no mistakes. Although I get what you guys are saying that perfection could be construed as a judgement coming from the mind but I am finding it useful at the moment to go beyond the limitations that mind puts on the world, the main one being that it needs to do something to try to restore balance, when that occurs naturally due to law when the mind stops trying to do and puts faith in the universe rather than trying to make things happen from a perceived view of things being wrong. This taken to its limit I don't think results in inaction, if you see a baby in pain you go and comfort it because your heart calls you to because it is a spontaneous reaction in perfect line with natural law flowing through your heart, if you sit and refuse to do anything then it will cause you suffering because you have resisted the experience.

Nerdy monk lol, maybe, but he does talk about the concept of multiple universes all intercepting in a Buddhist context "The Avataṃsaka Sūtra describes a cosmos of infinite realms upon realms, mutually containing one another. The vision expressed in this work was the foundation for the creation of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism, which was characterized by a philosophy of interpenetration" http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatamsaka_Sutra "Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each "eye" of the net, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering "like" stars in the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring"

Nagarjuna apparently went to the land of the Nagas which is a realm which intercepts ours and received Dharma teaching, some say some of his scriptures are from that realm like the Flower Ornament Scripture, I tried reading it once and it is pretty strange but got boring fast, but its worth looking up the concept of Indras Net from that teaching for an interesting perspective on reality.

If you want to see a crazy Fakir type performance watch this India's got talent clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEjFCP6eguE

Just allow it and keep going. It's the minds job to doubt and question, it will never stop while you are still alive, what you can do though is get a little distance between you and the habits of your mind, but that distance isn't gained by fighting whatever is there and trying to get rid of it.

I haven't heard him contradict very much, but even if he does that is not necessarily a bad thing, because the conventional truth changes all of the time and can change from person to person or even from moment to moment, so to bring different minds with different perspectives to ultimate truth you are bound to contradict if words are taken out of context. The Buddha contradicted himself all the time, or rather his conventional truth sutras often contradict if you see them other than advice or teaching for the person to whom they are given. But I imagine Adyashanti isn't that popular with a lot of spiritual people as he doesn't give you any robes to put on or even any particular technique to practice or path to follow.

Guys do this busking for change on the streets of London