konchog uma

but its not your title! hahaha or maybe it is i might presume too much yes moms happy mothers day! i am grateful to mine for raising me the best she could and putting up with me cause i was a live wire thats for sure bless you mom and moms everywhere

are you talking to the vicious god or vmarco?

hahahaha another one sheesh it gets old tulku. just like you don't listen to us, (or the quotes of teachers, or the words of wise people, or reason, logic, etc) we don't listen to you either

i think she said time doesn't exist, there is only the present moment

we all have hidden agendas, don't be silly. some of us hide them from ourselves, some from others, some from both, but i can't think of anyone without some undercurrent of agenda coursing through their psyches im actually a scientologist just WAITING for someone to express interest so i can hook them i get 20,000usd off my next level teachings for each new convert doesn't save me much but every penny counts right right long live L Ron what? he's dead? crap

except a koan will lead you to enlightenment and posts by tulku won't "i want attention" "i have sexual issues" "i think i'm better than other people" "ego ego ego" "sex sex sex" "you're all going to hell and i'm not" "neener neener neener! did i mention i want attention guys?" pretty much sums it up. nothing worth meditating on there... unless youre generating bodhicitta with the intent of having compassion for the suffering of others

conflict follows you around like a shadow, the unfortunate thing for me would be to get involved by saying more than i have. it actually doesn't say volumes about me, you just erroneously think that you know all about me from the little information i've given you. I will tell you why i don't read your posts, so you don't have to infer these volumes from between the lines. Oh wait, i already did, conflict follows you like a dark cloud over your head, and everywhere you post you anger people. So i don't involve myself. Sometimes you come up as a "difficult person" in my metta practice, but thats all i really want to do with you. There's no need for further discussion.

i think this was the last one of VMarco's posts i read. Its terrible to feel that you're going to be attacked snidely for the CRIME of disagreeing with someone. Rigidity is not the dao, is not the buddha nature, isn't anything that isn't going to do much but break eventually. Worthless dust. I'm with you RainbowVein, it saddens me to read.

In buddhism, it is said that the highest merit comes from liberating yourself. Just the light that you then can radiate into the world is worth more merit than good deeds or generosity or anything. So that is pretty massive.

What the development of true renunciation implies is that we no longer rely on sensory pleasures for our ultimate happiness; we see the futility of expecting deep satisfaction from such limited transitory phenomena. It is important to understand this point clearly. Renunciation is not the same as giving up pleasure or denying ourselves happiness. It means giving up our unreal expectations about ordinary pleasures. These expectations themselves are what turn pleasure into pain. It can not be said too often that there is nothing wrong with pleasure. It is our grasping, exaggerating, distorting, and polluting attitude toward pleasure that must be abandoned. -Lama Thubten Yeshe

have you ever had a near-death experience? its often reported that people who come back from a brush with the light have that sort of thing happen to them regularly. and is that the only strange thing that happens to you? do your watches stop working or anything like that?

lol i gave up food and sex and im feeling really evolved oh wait that's light-headedness due to nutrient loss but im not gonna eat cause i want enlightenment baaaaaad oh wait thats food nevermind

i just finished part 1 (the foundation and philosophy) and next time i open it will begin part 2 the practice so no comments yet except that i think tenzin wangyal is completely awesome. Everything he writes glows with excellence best wishes to you with your dreaming practice

i used to feel like i would never give up trying, even just a little bit that i could, to act for the relief of all beings, and to do my part to facilitate a smooth transition to the next age. I guess somewhere along the way, with all the genetically modified food, and yes lol jersey shore, and all of it, politics, war, religion, financial crisis, and all the crap i see in spite of trying to find the essential basic goodness of reality, i guess my attitude slowly changed and the insidious voice of pessimism crept in and i just figured "i guess the world is going to end badly" i've been moved by your post scotty, its a welcome refreshment from the ordinary rut of thought that i was stuck in. I should embrace optimism on principle, even if the world IS going to end badly, i should never give up my focus on basic goodness, which i truly believe in without doubt. Its been nice to reconsider my view from the point of view of giving up or having admitted defeat, and i feel like i need to honor the sacred person that everyone is instead of looking to find their faults, and then reinforce my attitude that "oh yeah people have faults so i must be better off than them"... its a pretty flimsy attempt to conceal my own suffering when i look down on it from above instead of being trapped inside it thanks for calling it what you saw it as scotty, i appreciate that more than these words might be able to convey

thanks creation

i appreciate your point of view scotty i don't know why i feel the way i do, i just feel like people have to suffer to learn that behaviors like humans exhibit in this age bring suffering.. its like my saturnine side at its worst! When i read your post i think "man i'm an asshole" but i was just being honest. Maybe i am indeed an asshole and the truth is that i should never stop trying to save all sentient beings. There is a definite ring of truth to that hahahah a loud ring (ahem to the last part there of course) I really don't claim to understand the situation or what humans are going to bring down on their own heads and on the head of planet earth... Thanks for your perspective, its certainly food for thought.

i've often seen that book, but i held off from buying it because i understand its a companion to saraswati's A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya, which i can only find as a hardcover for $50 or so It sounds like you are recommending Kundalini Tantra on its own, without the foundation of A Systematic Course... so i just wanted to double check. I love kundalini yoga, it gets my energies blazing, but i am still having a hard time with the cultish aspects and the so-called sikhism of it all ("so called" because real sikhs don't recognize bhajans whiteclad followers as legitimate at all, so i don't know what to make of it) No disrespect, sat nam brothers and sisters, but i am having a gut level rejection of it and i really appreciate sivanandas book for giving some foundational practices that don't come with the baggage. and saraswati was a student of sivananda right? thanks for the clarification

just keep calm thats the main point whether you do drink some beer or don't feed the trolls is up to you you could try doing both at the same time if you're feeling really crazy (although i don't suggest writing on internet forums with alcohol involved) or you could feel the trolls some beer! I wonder if tulku would be more fun, or less fun, if he was drunk

There are better writings about how to use the geometries of the platonic solids ala the Horus schools of ancient egypt than his. I think that DM actually believes himself, i don't really think he is out there frauding people in his own mind, but having familiarized myself with his material, i doubt he really quantifies what the 4th dimension really is (time? hyperspace? something else?) and his claims that the only way there is the merkaba raise some questions "why then isn't the merkaba the most popular spiritual practice ever?" (especially since the flower of life has been found carved into so many locations around the world)... why is he the only source of this "vital" information about ascension, and if he channeled it from Thoth himself, why didn't Thoth share any of this with others? He claims to be trying to save every living person from the coming shift of ages so that nobody suffers the ills of this radical dimensional shift, but doesn't that kind of equate to tinkering with karma or the will of the divine? I mean the cycles of life on earth go through this pattern of descent into ignorance -> cleanse -> only the spiritually evolved enough to survive are left -> descent into ignorance... etc. The maya, who he claims to be a spokesperson for, appointed by the mayan council themselves (i have no further info on that) believe that one day we will "get it right" and stabilize in our awareness and so not devolve back into ignorance anymore by virtue of genetic knowledge and some kind of spiritual equivalent of genetic knowledge that i forget the name of. So in short, the earth is supposed to be cleansed, it is supposed to be purified by the traumatic expression of the elements or the natural world or the will of the divine. Why purport to try to stop all that and sneak every last lousy human being through the gates? Theres altruism and then there is delusion, and in my opinion, jaded as it might sound, DM is quite deluded. Natural cycles are for humans to experience, not to change, control, or manipulate for their own naive ends. How can a spiritual master claim to want to buck the trend of the very cycles of life? I never understood. oh well, im done. hahaha disgression! in short, i think he's actually sincere, i don't think he believes he's selling snake oil to newagers, but in the end, i dont know if theres much difference.

Sivananda wrote a book called "Kundalini Yoga" in 1935. I am told that it existed in northern India and was kept secret by the upper castes there so that the lower castes wouldn't have access to the kundalini. So maybe there was a practice before yogi bhajan ??? im no expert just passing it on from my KY teacher

i'm afraid i don't understand the question. I am typing a response to your post at present. why does my presence here indicate a difference between the mundane and the divine? i am not here because it is mundane elsewhere and i am certainly not here because it is divine here. I am, as mentioned, presently here because i am attempting to elucidate that at the heart of reality, everything is divine, sacred, and everything is mundane, so there is no difference between sacred and profane in other words. In our limited scope of awareness, its easy to draw such distinctions, but the seeming perception of them doesn't mean its actually there, doesn't mean its really that way. From another point of view, these distinctions dissolve into each other, and into meaninglessness. from the point of view of fullness, everything is love, the expression of the divine oneness as differentiated so that we can experience it and so that it can experience itself (2 ways of saying the same thing). So everything is sacred and divine, the very stuff of holiness itself. From the point of view of emptiness, everything is dust, transitory, boring in its limitations and completely mundane. So from a nondual point of view, both these truths are true at once and the mundane becomes the divine and vice versa. That is what i was getting at. It has nothing to do with my presence here.

there is no difference between the two.

I stand corrected! Thank you

you can turn it back on me, but my points still stand, even if they are unaddressed. flowing hands never said he was immortal. im done talking to you about this.