konchog uma

i didn't mean to criticize your approach. Its natural to want to understand the amazing things that we experience, and to want to share them with each other. I have had my own experiences which have colored my perspective, and that is the only POV from which i speak. Other practitioners might benefit from sharing and reading, who am i to say? nobody. So my answer isn't to influence others to "hide their light" only to say that I hide mine, and those are the reasons i prefer to! I am not a teacher and don't know whats best for others, just (sometimes) myself. Best wishes to you.

me too

I think the real shame is that we want so much to be acknowledged as "genuine" or "advanced" that we compromise the integrity of sacred experiences by blabbing and bragging about them to others. Nobody really benefits from that in a significant way. Even if i hear a great story about someone else's practice and the lights they see hahah and the states they can attain and sustain, that doesn't help me because everyone (and the lights and states etc) are different, and (if you use this framework) in different places karmically speaking, so what someone else can attain easily might not be something my mind does like theirs, and so by comparing and thinking "oh i wish i did that" i am really just generating dualistic mind and possibly jealousy and other afflictive emotions. Beyond the guidelines and examples given by authentic teachers, I have no use for that sort of idle chatter. I cringe when i see practitioners sharing their inner experiences like they are showing off some fresh shoes or a new shirt. The real accomplishment is to rest the mind in a state of ease. Who can accomplish that? I have my doubts about those who are consumed by the idea of peak experiences or accomplishments or worse yet "their accomplishments vs others accomplishments" lol. Even though those people think that they have ease and nonduality, I doubt that they really understand the ease and nonduality that is talked about by real masters. So i am friendly and open lol, but i don't talk about my accomplishments or spiritual/energetic experiences with anyone but my teachers.

Crunch! Silence broken errant foot falls on dry branch birds alight, deer bolt

I've learned (and been recently reminded through bad interactions with a member of this board) not to share that sort of thing with anyone except maybe teachers. Good practice to diminish the ego.. keep it to yourself

free in form, form free rest the mind in its nature to abide or not?

okay its funny now

when i'm through feeling sheepish it'll be funny lol

thanks for pointing out the irony, i feel sheepish now lol

i would be happy if it were moved to general discussion, thats where i was originally going to post it. maybe a mod can help

off the topic of daoism and cultivation per se

sorry cat, everything i post in GD gets moved to off topic so i just thought it would be best here no disrespect

interesting article, thanks

Food as Medicine enjoy

clear light and rainbows... signs of great accomplishment as the body burned

no apologies necessary, there is a lot of misunderstanding out there

sorry didn't read the degeneration of the thread before i posted that... nevermind "my dreamlike form came to dreamlike beings to show them the dreamlike path to dreamlike liberation" -Shakyamuni Buddha

Buddhism is older than 2500 years. Buddha is, at least, the 5th Buddha, according to Theravada. Bon recognizes 26 previous Buddhas and I was just reading Garchen Rinpoche (kagyu) where he said that the number of those who have attained buddhahood is innumerable, so many have achieved liberation. Also, pretending that one doesn't exist is not the operation in Buddhism. That is a false view, a misunderstanding. Buddha never taught that he didn't exist. The Buddhadharma teaches that phenomena are empty of both existence and non-existence. The point is that reality is as it is and needs no conceptual elaboration, not that there is a stance to be taken regarding existence and so forth. As Saraha said "those who think that reality exists are stupid as cows, and those who think that it doesn't are even stupider"

Let there be light, dawg! on day 8, god created slang and street lingo

your liver maybe... i'm not really a doctor just read a few books

millions of people don't have electricity and this invention has brought indoor lighting to them in an affordable way. So from a certain POV its just a bottle of water in the ceiling, but because of that same simplicity it has changed the lives of millions of people living in sheet metal shacks who can't afford power, or don't have it available. Its very dao if you ask me, and I personally think its worth Nobel consideration. Nobody does shit for those people, and now they have indoor light!

@owledge: cost Thanks basher, i saw that article in a Flipbook group called "good news" which i highly recommend. He might win a Nobel prize for the Moser light, which if i remember will be in 1,000,000 homes worldwide by the end of the year, even allowing people to grow hydroponic gardens

no one is watching... only the trees bear witness yeti wanders home

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to pierce a god's mind... just a reminder of death the human spearpoint