Adishakti

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  1. What is not Tao?

    Intellectual discussions, discussions not from the heart, arguments? That's why the Tao Te Ching is concise and terse.
  2. When you are on the path, fortune-telling, astrology and all other forms of divination are 'sign-posts'. You can use them to your advantage or disadvantage, or not use them at all. It's all relative. One shouldn't depend on these, but there is no harm in some guidance in the beginning. It's also true that once you are on the Path because of meditation and because you choose to be more responsible for your action by being a good human, donations etc. you are changing your predestined Karma . But do not undermine divination tools. If someone comes to you to tell you that a certain aspect in your chart or the tarot needs your attention, you then take it as a sign that the message was intended to come to you. In that case you focus on the apple and satiating you hunger, instead of which tree and why. And besides divination is a gift, and a bigger gift to be able to use it without ones ego coming in the way.
  3. OMG! A Huge Raw Foods Bodybuilder!

    Hi Suninmyeyes, Thank you for the response. I find cooking the most futile activity on Earth. What motivated you to keep up the diet? Withdrawal symptoms?
  4. Modern Life

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  5. OMG! A Huge Raw Foods Bodybuilder!

    Hi Astral_Anima, How long did this super skinny phase remain for you? (I'm assuming you switched to a complete raw diet.)
  6. OMG! A Huge Raw Foods Bodybuilder!

    Hi CatPillar. Milk, cheese etc. all point out to the fact that your body is craving for Calcium. For two months try Wheat grass juice or Sesame milk, and your desire for dairy will reasonably or completely drop.
  7. Love is?

    We had a crash course on what love is (when I was 13) in the music class. Off course I was in group five made to sit far away as I didn't know how to sing. This was the song that decided my fate, as belonging to group five was the worst thing you did to yourself. But as it turns out it worked in my favor, I sat quietly and breathed in and out. My first meditation class. Hahah The Rose Lyrics for you: Some say love, it is a river That drowns the tender reed Some say love, it is a razor That leaves your soul to bleed Some say love, it is a hunger An endless aching need I say love, it is a flower And you, its only seed It's the heart, afraid of breaking That never learns to dance It's the dream, afraid of waking That never takes the chance It's the one who won't be taken Who cannot seem to give And the soul, afraid of dying That never learns to live When the night has been too lonely And the road has been too long And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong Just remember in the winter Far beneath the bitter snow Lies the seed That with the sun's love, in the spring Becomes the rose
  8. I believe that when you read high knowledge you should read it slowly and let it sink in - you have to digest, adsorb it and make it your own. I'll try answering your question but nothing compares to the answers you'll be able to give yourself. From what I understand of the above text is that the author is speaking about Vipassana. I've done Vipassana retreat so I'll share. After first few days of anapana where the spiritual aspirant focuses on the breath s/he moves to feeling the gross and subtle sensations in the physical body. You travel from head to feet and back, and repeat. So you witness. I've learned very little Taijji (my instructor moved to a new city), and from that experience I can say that Chi cultivation takes time. You start with external forms of exercise. With enough expertise, which I didn't get to, you enter in to deeper forms where you cultivate yang and Kundalini energy. Why would you want to dissolve desire? Desire is beautiful. Live with it, that's what makes you human. See the movie 'Wings of Desire' or 'City of Angels' and you'll know what I mean. So you don't focus on removing the desire, you simply focus of your "feelings" of desire. You witness desire and every other emotion and very slowly you'll feel some changes. I find it a little difficult to explain it as it cheapens the experience. It's a journey, trust me, and a very slow one. So take it easy.
  9. Hi Tulku, The experience is different every time. On some days slow breathing leaves me completely turned on. On other days it leaves me annoyed - maybe a long suppressed emotion has surfaced. Some days it leaves me happy. And on other days creative. Yet other days feeling useless and on some moments feeling on top of the world that I can't stop humming this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crWGGy2oBT0
  10. Yep, you are right. We can certainly work towards activating the pineal gland, but there is no "What is more important." How do people come up with these crass questions I sometimes wonder.
  11. Everyone post some favorite quotes!

    "People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." St. Augustine
  12. Do we have the options to choose what we want to activate first?
  13. Lifestyle of a Sage

    Yeah, good point. So much like what Kurt Vonnegut said about champagne. "Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne."
  14. Christian missionary converted by tribe

    In the same vein:
  15. Charisma & Women

    DP
  16. Charisma & Women

    You could also execute charisma, top class charisma, if you knew how to use all your three bodies. Gross, subtle and causal. They say actors do that naturally (use their three bodies) without consciously knowing how to do it (I think I read this bit somewhere). Off course people who meditate begin to execute a lot of charisma too. Women tend to glow.
  17. Lifestyle of a Sage

    Haha, yeah. With so much going on in ones mind. What I really mean is the stuff that youngsters are thought to expect: Good career, marry, take a loan to buy a house, invest etc. And sometimes when things don't as expected - don't loose hope, be glad that it's providing a great potential to grow. You agree?
  18. Ok, I'm chewing on this bit. Can you now explain what happens to the other 10 % who menstruate during / around the full moon? Thank you
  19. Hi Harmonious Emptiness Yep, the last quarter is the waning crescent. I've experienced a lot more negative situations in this phase too. It's also researched that 90 % of the women menstruate between the phase of last quarter to New Moon. I don't know why. Would you possibly know? New moon is a good time to 'reduce' stuff in your life. Rid yourself of things you don't want. Be aware of your negative thoughts and release them. New moon is the time for a better, new, you.
  20. Hello InfinityTruth, I heard this from a certain Guru. Committing suicide means you'll start again (in another birth) exactly where you left off. There was a lady who came to him, absolutely sickly. She told him she didn't want to continue living. He asked her to live through all her problems. Why? In all her past lives she had committed suicide.. and life after that only gets worse. So you keep coming back, coming back, coming back, to clear all your previous Karma + the added baggage you created by committing suicide. Love to you. We have all lived through low moods. And you can too.
  21. Who are you?

    I'm not that smart but this poem and The Canonization stirs something within. Deep, deep stuff. Reading Meditation XVII, thanks for sharing.
  22. Lifestyle of a Sage

    Sometimes when you are expecting changes and if nothing happens, take that time to meditate. Maybe it's pushing you towards the Lifestyle of a Sage.
  23. Who are you?

    I am you and you are me ...and god can be the flea. This poem by John Donne came to mind for some reason. The Flea Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is ; It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ; Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ; And this, alas ! is more than we would do. O stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, yea, more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is. Though parents grudge, and you, we're met, And cloister'd in these living walls of jet. Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not to that self-murder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.