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Siddhis are cultivated virtues, much like any other virtuous deeds one accumulates along the path to awakening. The harvest of siddhis are not indicative of the Enlightening state; however, the Enlightening state will enable the realizations of siddhis effortlessly if one so desires. As you said it.

One need siddhis and powers in order to break free of the 5 skandhas. The definition of cessation of suffering is to break free of the 5 skandhas including the skandhas of volition/desires. If one does not even have the divine ear or sight, how does one see for himself the cause of karma? If one does not even have the divine ear or sight, how does one see for himself the emptiness of this reality? No one can be enlightened without gaining siddhi powers I say again.

In all Spiritual Traditions, one is taught to kill the human ego in order to reach the Void and attain enlightenment. The Void or Pure Consciousness is the state of the universe before one is born, before the planets and the universe is created, before the stars are created. When a biological life die, its soul or essence will break down into subatomic elements before disappearing into the Void. Most biological life have to die before becoming one with the void. It is only humans who have the ability to become one with the void while remaining alive. However, the human ego or animal ego is afraid of being killed so it unceasingly force all of us to indulge in our senses through sex, good food and fun. This is why most of us find it impossible to let go of the mara of sex, good food and fun. It is because our human ego refuse to let us do so. When one indulge in one's senses, one's mind is prevented from going still and becoming one with the void. How would you kill your human ego?

I already told you.. you are hardly enlightened.. the creator/tao/universe does talk back but he only talks back to high-level practitioners.. taming their desires and culling the indulgence of the senses are like fundamental ABCs for these high-level practitioners.. anyway good luck to you and your life.. you gonna need it.. lol

you can save the good lay for yourself i will be doing the lying mediation instead

Nothingness

I can tell you right now, Aaron. You will be the one who will be suffering in bondage to your desires for all of eternity. I don't hate myself. On the contrary, I love myself. What I do hate however are all those "enlightened" poseurs who think they hold all the answers to the universe just because they caught a glimpse of oneness. If you are truly enlightened, then let me ask you. Do you have the capacity to communicate with the gods and even the Creator/Tao/Universe himself? Of course not. You are just pretending to be "enlightened" while indulging yourself in the everyday luxuries of life because you are too weak-willed to resist the energies of desires conjured up by external beings. What's needed to transcend these desires is not religion, suffering or even spirituality. What's needed to transcend these desires is the acceptance of death as the inevitability of life. Why do people indulge in their senses? Because they are afraid of Death and they indulge in their senses to feel alive! As I said before, I expect the energies of desires to come down upon you much harder than before and I expect that you will suffer in bondage to your desires for the rest of this life-time and for eternity until your soul becomes so tired it will dissolve into nothing as a result of endless incarnations of lifetimes of desires. That will be the punishment for one enslaved in desires.

Why don't you tame your desires first before talking to me?

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The reason though why I have said that meditations that focus solely on the body and its esoteric structures usually cause problems in the long term; is because these sort of meditations that either push or guide the energies along some sort of predetermined pathway, using visualization to spin this or that channel/orbit, etc.: Actually will prevent someone from reaching samadhi, because the nature of these sort of practices entails engaging the sixth consciousness (either through visualization/mental imaging or focusing on the energy and it's sensations. Which in turn is excessively focusing on the body) that you can't "jump out" of this realm or let go of the idea of being this mind/body. To reach dhyana (especially the formless jhana's) requires that someone lets go of these notions altogether. You can't accomplish this (the exception being Tantra because, after generating the visualization to the point of one-pointed concentration; you then are supposed to completely drop it altogether to "empty out" and achieve samadhi) with these sort of meditations because the nature of them is to constantly engage in mental imaging or clinging to the body and the sensations that chi produces.

The only way you can find the connection to the void is through cutting off your connection to life. You say that you have experienced the void yet you can't even find out the true nature behind the energies of desires in this world. I think what you experience is not the void but a delusion of the void.

I don't think your efforts will ever be sufficient to hijack this thread.

I believe that the Creator and Enlightenment can make me much happier than mere petty women or even petty money can ever make me. It is not that I have not been with women. It is not that I have not been making money. Both are empty pursuits which give you nothing at the end of the day. Happiness give you nothing at the end of the day. It is only when you find Enlightenment when you find the Creator then can you find true happiness. Can petty women give you the secrets of Enlightenment and Immortality? Can money give you the secrets of Enlightenment and Immortality? Why do you think the Taoist Sages have rejected money and power time and time again over the centuries? Btw, those taoists who enjoy sex and good food? They ain't taoists. They are just freaking posers who pretend to be taoist. There is no true difference between a taoist and a buddhist. Both seek enlightenment through the culling of their senses.

There is a point where even city married life is just yet another attachment. If you are arguing for city married life, you are attached to it. If you feel you need to promote it, you are attached to it. If you are arguing against city married life, you are attached to it. If you renounced the concept of city married life, what do you have left?

How is enlightenment escapism? How is trying to evolve to a higher state of consciousness escapism? Are you trying to tell me there are no higher forms of beings out there in the universe whose consciousness is so high that they would not fall into the addictions of sex, women, food, fun and anything else that indulge the senses? Is our whole damn existence only about sex, women, food, fun and indulgence of the senses? Are the Tibetan and other monks escapist? Are the mountain Taoist sages escapist? If so, then you know what, I do pride myself in being a escapist. What's the fricking karmic penalty for being a escapist like the monks?

OMG.. monks asking you for sex.. what have you been sniffing man? Are you sure you are still not off drugs yet? Who says life is only about pleasure or pain? Who determines life is only about pleasure or pain? You? Do you really think that life is only about pleasures and pain just because you have experienced only the pleasures and pain of life and nothing ekse? Do you think that just because a few monks go crazy so all monks are crazy? Don't be childish. You said that you have given up sex, alcohol, cigarettes yet you are still going to bars and clubs which promote the life of sex, alcohol and cigarettes. It is not that one doesn't have control over these addictions and desires. It is that YOU doesn't have control over these addictions and desires. DO you know how people get addicted to these desires? It is because desires have emotional, mental and spiritual energies and when people let these energies hijack their consciousness, that is how addictions are formed. If you truly have control over your addictions, you wouldn't even think about going to bars, clubs and these type of places where the energies of sex, alcohol and smoking are so prevalent that even a monk will fall prey to them if this monk is chained up 24 hours for a year straight in these type of places. Tis all about energies, my friend and you have so aptly demonstrated that you still do not have the consciousness to reject the energies of these desires because you are too weak-willed. Why else would you still waste your time in bars and clubs if you have totally rejected the energies of sex, alcohol and cigarettes? It is because these energies are still subconsciously calling you back into those haunts! A monk choose to be celibate because he is training his consciousness to reject the energies of desires. Granted, some monks will fail in their training because no one is perfect. This is why monks live in monasteries because their consciousness are at their most well-defended in holy places where there is a high level of consciousness. Otherwise, monks would have began their training in bars, clubs and other night-time haunts a long time ago. As I said, it is not that people have no control over their desires. It is that your consciousness is too weak to control and resist your desires. I really advise you to stay from bars and clubs for the rest of your life and trust me, I was once like you. One more thing, aaron, please do not say you are enlightened when you can't even resist the basic temptations of sex, alcohol and cigarettes. You are not fit to call yourself enlightened.

freedom true freedom only exists when your own mind, your own consciousness stands apart from the sea of mass consciousness driving you to be the same as them

freedom does exist and so does peace only when one finds enlightenment, then he will find freedom and peace for there can be no freedom and no peace in the material world or are you gonna say the Creator does not exist?

to have desires of any manner is to have thoughts and thoughts are what's preventing one from entering into samadhi i do not seek the connection to life.. only connection to the void within therefore it is necessary to cut off every and all connections to life and only seek the void within as you said, let go of it.. my question still stands.. how do you remove all your desirous thought-forms?

how do you know i am not doing non-stop deep meditation when i am not posting on the net? since when did communicating on the net become a luxury? there s no need to meditate in a cave.. just meditate non-stop for at least 6 hours everyday and one will get just as much insights as meditating in a cave to tell you the truth, no woman, no matter how beautiful or well-endowed or personable she is, has really made me happy and fulfilled.. i don't fell any pleasure in being with a woman.. all these marriage, kids, career are making me feel really depressed and unfulfilled the only thing that can make me feel happy and fulfilled right now is if i gain enlightenment.. and i am going to focus on nothing but enlightenment for the rest of my life

well i am walking the talk now if you haven't sensed it by now. you know, unless you people have accomplish great feats of enlightenment to start with, i don't think any of you have the credentials to lecture anyone on how they should walk their path.. you can offer your opinions maybe but in the end, it is someone else's right to walk the path in whichever manner they want this cat is not finding its way down in this very lifetime.. it will either find enlightenment or it will find death.. both of which are very desirable alternatives

It is funny. The city people see me as being dissatisfied with life yet the monks see me as being enlightened enough to want to jump out of cycle of rebirth and death. Should I listen to the city people who have not even attained an iota of enlightenment or the monks who are already enlightened? How is staying away from women, good food and other luxuries of life considered to be a punishment? How is living a life free of addictions a life of punishment? Most people are addicted to women,or men, good food, shopping, clubbing, drinking and other types of useless fun which do nothing for enlightenment. Yet for the monks who have broken free of these addictions, if you ask them to enjoy themselves with women, good food, shopping, clubbing, drinking and other types of useless fun activities, it is like a suffering for them. Because their mind is already stable and to drag their minds into a state of instability is like dragging them into hell. What I am doing is the most natural thing in the universe. It is not something which the monks in the last few thousand years have not already done. Whether I get any hardships or enlightenment in the end is not something for a petty human like you to decide. Do you really think that you are the Creator the Universe who can decide my fate just by saying so? Don't delude yourself. A mere petty human who can't even determine his own fate can never judge a being like me.

the profound nature of the tao does give its seekers different insights but the previous and current taoist masters still give a very limited explaination of the tao. i am already living by myself in the mountains regardless of where i am physically.. one does not have to physically join a solitary mountain monastery in order to lead a solitary mountain monastery lifestyle.. From that moment on, I decided to take control of my life. I made up my mind to turn my body... into a weapon. I would be a warrior-scholar. I boxed. I went to school. I began reading So I gave up all the worthless luxury... that most inmates crave. The girlie books, fags, cigarettes, the movies- I hated them. In fact, I hated everyone. I didn't even speak English. I spoke hate. And its verbs were fists. I made up my mind... to turn my body into a weapon... that would eventually set me free... or kill anyone who sought to keep me in prison. On September I was released, and I vowed upon everything holy... never to come back to prison again. I had spent almost half my time on this Earth... in jail. Hey, come on, Lesra. Time to get up. Breakfast, buddy.