konchog uma

is going to bed the same as meditation? its, um, all one, right?

enjoy anyway! life, fraught with difficulty is too short to waste

Gongchig by Jigten Sumgon a root text of Drikung lineage written by lineage founder JS. 190 pith statements ("vajra statements") in the form of "it is a commonly held point of view that ...X... but here it is considered ...Y." illuminating common misconceptions and the points that make the Drikung unique. Prayer Flags by Jigten Sumgon vajra songs and mahamudra instructons. Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition by Karl Brunnholz finally.

No wait, that's Doctor Ludovicus Doolittle He's old. Don't race him.

blessings to you all may your mindstream be moistened by loving kindness

also drink enough water. Seems simple but if you're not getting your h2o throughout the day (combined with possible coffee or tea excess) you can hurt the kidneys

if only they knew... those things in their frosted flakes aren't really raisins

wisdom is considered the wisdom of emptiness, and as such a formless and abstract concept, considered feminine. compassion (or skillful means) are considered an action or a doing, and as such a formed concept, so masculine. The whole duality, at the same time, places emphasis in the feminine as mystical and formless, and also emphasis on the need for union of both to achieve freedom. Hope that helps you parse it. Its tough to really think about gender distinctions in a concrete way without laxing into culturally embedded ideas about men and women and thereby our prejudices. I have to admit, i see women as more abstractly capable and formless in their mentality, and run into situations of myself and other men trying to think about things too much where women are just able to grasp the idea and throw away the verbal baggage it came in more easily. But thats just my own experience, not a law or anything. I wonder if there is a practical or genetic basis for the distinction between left brained rational men and right brained intuitive women. hmm

self-diagnosis and self-treatment are great if you can't afford an herbalist, but if you can, go see one. Kidneys are most vital. I use Chinese Foxglove (rheumania) and Fo Ti Tien for general kidney support, buy organic, and not from China!!! (duh) i like MountainRoseHerbs out of Eugene Oregon USA... www.mountainroseherbs.com also adaptogens, like reishi, and eleuthero are good to add, but i have been cautioned against combining Fo Ti and panax ginseng of any kind (not to be confused with eleuthero which is often called siberian ginseng but is not a true ginseng) because their effects counteract each other when taken together. (my teacher said take them 3 hours apart if at all). again, Kidneys aren't to be fucked around with, ask the teacher who gave you those practices about it, and go get a consultation from an herbalist who at least believes in qi if not understands five elements theory if you can.

yeah according to the dharma, form doesn't arise from emptiness in a created way, but is emptiness (and emptiness is form). So in that sense, nothing arises from anything else in the way posited by the OP, and to that extent the original question is phrased incorrectly. If you ask "if" form arises from emptiness you will get different answers. But asking "how does it" assumes that it does, which is not a universal POV. lol not to be a dick, trying to help clarify, which can oftentimes obscure by mistake... Master Lao posited that from one came two, and so on, until the ten thousand things had manifested, and while the literal interpretation of that could be disputed, it does at first glance imply that things arose from a source which was other than itself, ultimately back to Tao which manifests spontaneously. This has led to a lot of conflation of Chinese Tao and western God which has nothing to do with Master Lao's POV as i understand it. Shakyamuni Buddha posited that things are not created by anything other than themselves, nor by their own nature, (nor by both or something that is neither) but are spontaneously uncreated and exist in an illusory state like a dream. Other lineage masters have posited different things, but the question that the OP is trying to ask has been on everyone's mind for a long time, and while there are several versions of the answer to it, nobody has really proven anything from a scientific point of view except to mention some indirect support like the first law of thermodynamics, which (if i remember) is that energy/matter is never created or destroyed. Also it has been posited (but of course not proven) that the sum total of all the energy in the universe is zero (taking into account matter and anti-matter, positive and negative energy, and so forth) so i personally, seeing the support from science math and logic, i take the point of view of Shakyamuni and company, hence the first two sentences of this post.

or some kind of god... space-faring geneticists tweaked the chimpanzee

touche

"This post is hidden because you have chosen to ignore posts by Marblehead. View it anyway?" ...no thanks, i can guess

because of the flagrant use of ad hominem and trolling (derailing a thread on purpose, and then bragging about it), there were 2 posts in 33 pages which were actually informative. A fine display from a Steward lol... is he steward of the pit? Abuse of power issues anyone? at any rate, a call to peace? is the last post some sort of evidence of the sincerity of that claim? or were you just interested in peace-as-long-as-you-got-what-you-wanted, which seems to be me to just shut up and quit using logic and reason in these damned discussions! lol a fitting close to what amounts to MH being defensive about his ism, and reacting from the ground of fear and insecurity rather than being open to what others had to offer. I still think that the OP made a good point, and had it not been for having to shovel an hours worth of shit to make the smallest point, an interesting discussion might be had about non-realist atheism. Its astonishingly funny to me that if Niels Bohr says that matter is an abstraction, "i might be on to something", but if Shakyamuni teaches non-realism, its a delusion and his followers are all fools etc. Anyway, congrats Marbles on great Stewardship and exemplary openmindedness when it comes to learning about other's paths. You have earned yourself a gold star to stick to your nose, and a place on my ignore list. Nice knowing you.

make sure to wear shades sleeping, indoors, and at night to be fully cool

welcome Maestro Hicks was a big influence on me as well. I hope you gain from being part of the community here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxsGyljd6B0

yet "humans" do it! invent noun-verb agreement before we have speech

thanks Where are the roots of the idea that kundalini is an earthly power? When kundalini resides in the lower centers, it causes a lot of gross and sexual fixation, but as it moves up the body, it is the cause of virtuous emotions (heart) and nondual awareness (crown). Not everyone's kundalini is confined to the root chakra, and there is much more to it than sexual energy.

Well what i was referring to was the relationship between Holy Spirit and kundalini in Jewish Kaballah. The verses you cite are interesting, but do not clarify that relationship. Some people translate Shekinah as a synonym of kundalini but I understand that that is not entirely correct and a projection of one culture's interpretation onto another's. I am asking because i personally believe that there is "one thing" and that Hindus do not have some special access to kundalini which Jews are not afforded or any other such nonsense. So if there is a relationship which is described in the JK teachings, I am curious about it. do you have a reference or references for these distinctions? Not that i disagree with them, but just that you seem to dabble in a lot of traditions and i don't read a lot about gnostic Christianity so i wonder where these ideas come from.

make up you and me dont mean to cramp your style! you can rhyme, dagon

Thanks turtleshell. Fuck TED anyway, as you said they represent a dangerous agenda and have banned some valuable talks. They also represent the proliferation of a mindset which prefers to get its news from glorified sound bites instead of delving deeply into an issue. So easy to misrepresent what is real in that format, and now we see that there are vested interests at play, and that TED is corrupt. There is some French research on the effects of GMOs on animals, but all American attempts to study GMOs have been mysteriously underfunded and disrupted. The French research came out last year from Caen University (i think) and i won't link to anything because you should look into it for yourself.. its highly polarized and very contested research (and for some valid reasons) so i will let you wade through the data yourself. It did show dramatically higher incidence of cancer, tumors, organ failure, and other abnormalities in rats fed GMO corn than in rats fed natural corn. As far as i know, we are still waiting on a study which studies the effects over generations and how the genetic modifications to the corn effect the genetic modifications of offspring and their offspring etc. I could be wrong, but I do make effort to stay on top of the issue.

thanks jeff! also noticed that the OP referenced gnostic Christianity, so feel free to ignore my query about Jewish Kaballah... There is no real evidence that JK is what Christ practiced anyway, its just a common assumption.

has anyone read the desert fathers? any good recommendations/sources? i was just talking to a contemplative prayer friend of mine for a couple hours about correlations between Christianity and Buddhism. That being said, I knew that this thread would get mucked up with kundalini nonsense, and dzogchen rhetoric... lol kinda like foreknowledge except on TTB its just pattern recognition. I don't think that the holy spirit manifests in the same way to all people, or it would be widely known, and not just the words of TI that it was a ball of light with wings and lasers. If anyone has references for that idea being acceptable as a fact i would be interested. I could not find any by searching except that John saw the Holy Spirit alight upon Christ like a dove at his baptism. Anyway, without a firm foundation in Jewish Kabbalah (which i don't have) I dont think anyone should be commenting in an authoritative way about the relationship between Shekinah, kundalini, and Holy Spirit. Is anyone able to describe that relationship from the framework of Christian mysticism/Jewish Kaballah? That would be appreciated. No universal kaballah or magickal pseudo-kaballah please.

viola! haiku fudge delicious and nutritious even if it rhymes

old stale tendencies like a needle in a groove new record, new song