konchog uma

i wish i could minus one a post! where is the little red button? hahaha and where are the bull testicles?? that was more interesting!! :D lets hijack this thread again i dont think our previous efforts were sufficient enough

oh yeah sure with just a feewwwww minor exceptions here and there like the difference between burning down monasteries and building them for example hahahaha read chinese propeganda much? :D

haha quite so

really? i can never finish a book of his i pick up. in contrast to that i am reading a book on meditation and internal alchemy, that is of similar length to some chia books, that i am almost finished with in 3 days (tao & longevity by huai-chin nan). So its not that i can't do it, my body just never lets me take in mantak chia! it doesnt like him for some reason

freedom isnt choices, i agree, but i think freedom exists, even though its often misunderstood. Hahah in USofA they hype freedom but really they just take your freedom away if you don't follow the rules to me real freedom is a free flow of energy. When my energies were constricted, i thought and acted in a way that wasn't free, and in many ways was a slave to my lower nature. But as i heal and my energies become loose and expansive, i experience what i can only call freedom! to be fair, i hear where you are coming from, and i am a believer in cause and effect. I had a conversation last week with someone who had a dream that 16 years later was a deja vu for them. So what does that say about the flow of time? I also believe in the validity of astrology, although i would not describe myself as a determinist. i would describe reality as being paradoxically free-willed and fated in the same instant. And i would describe that as just a way of saying things, a koan to push the mind into a non-dual way of looking at things. another way to say it would be that our freedom is destined, and that accepting our destinies is freedom. There are boundaries and constraints but i don't think that means freedom is a total myth. i just think that the freedom that people imagine, like "freedom to do whatever i want without consequenses" is bullshit. But the more we accept our boundaries and limits, the more freedom we experience! So there is a paradox there that i think freedom is part of... just my 2 cents

here's a better question. why should we listen to your advice about how to attain inner peace when you obviously don't have much of it? why should we care what you have to say since your version of "enlightenment" is to look down on us from your glass castle and tell us how much better than us you are? enlightened masters aren't really known for acting like you. do you think that any of us lowly practioners even want what you have? i personally don't. if we wanted to be condescending ignorant jerks we would have joined www.condescendingignorantjerks.com, where i'm sure we could find all kinds of guidance on our paths. but we are looking to further our spiritual cultivation. if you were spiritually cultivated, it would stand to reason that you would recognize spiritual cultivation in others, and spare us your derogatory comments like the one above. ???? i don't even know why i am trying to engage you logically. you may think that you are an ascended god being who is capable of judging others harshly because you know a few big words, but i think that there is only one in this world who can judge, and its judgement is always unconditional love. since your commentary is notably short on that, i don't actually look to you for spiritual guidance in the first place. again, i don't know why i'm even wasting my time typing this.. DOH! you got me tulku now you can bask in some more attention that you don't deserve sheesh

cause my scissors aren't that sharp!!

hahha they are illegal in some states of the USofA my girlfriend tells me anyway... for being distracting to drivers and offensive to churchladies

nearly every culture on earth has deified the sun as a living entity. the greeks observed helios as incarnate spirit of light.

how true! i was curious as to whether you thought the whole phenomenon of gods was placebo. some people think that humans create divinity as a coping mechanism for the parts of reality that we don't understand yet. yeah thats an interesting take on it all. The sumerians even went so far as to tie the two directly together, according to one Zecharia Zitchin, who relates the mythology of the annunaki in his series. I don't suppose to know either, i just thought you were saying that all phenomenon of deity nature was essentially placebo, or happens because we believe it to happen, and i was really interested in that. i have never seen the god realms, or remembered an abduction, so i dont claim to have the firsthand infos. But i do think that the idea that every culture independant of each other observed some kind of higher power is very telling as to our place in the omniverse. I believe that something is out there, if not a whole hell of a lot of things, more potent and robustly energized than the lot of us humans . Thats about all i can say tho before it gets kinda nebulous on account of ignorance.

tulku is a superawesome ascended god being. he is not some submormal loser "mammal" ahem lets show the proper respect. did you know that when you get to be a superawesome ascended god being, you no longer have to cite references when you spout "facts". What a bonus!! i'm gonna cut off my willy i'm in such a hurry to get there

how would you explain the mythologies of nearly every culture? I can't think of one culture which doesn't have gods. why would people all over the world invent gods if there weren't some inherent reality to it?

i've never had fu jou training but sometimes if i need a boost or a lift i might draw a little talisman and put it under my heel inside my shoe, and walk around til it breaks into little pieces. i accompany it with a prayer or some sort of invocation so thats sort of like fu jou. if fu jou by another names smells as good as fu jou anyway like i said i don't know about fu jou but "the subtle realm" is probably a way of saying "the invisible world" or the spirit world, and i would venture the guess that one could put an S at the end of it and be just as descriptively accurate. i hope that smarter people than me chime in on this thread!

for those that can not spin like the others, there are always sharpie markers to huff! you will feel just like you were a sufi spinning in the desert! bonus: then you can write about your experiences! double bonus: you'll need white-out if you make a mistake! you can practice in your favorite bathroom stall and journal your progress on the walls! oh the joys of spiritual progress

things i do every day - wake up and smile, anchor myself in gratitude and love - prayers of thanks and blessings to the spirit, the gods/goddesses, the ancestors, etc - remember the tzolkin calendar and pray to the day sign (to native americans the day signs were like deities) - stretching and light yoga (nothing crazy just enough to stay limber) - 5 to 15 minutes breathing white light/fullness and clear light/emptiness with the spiritual umbilical cord - 45 min to 75 min meditation starting with chakra hand seals and mantras (kuji-in) and ending with quiet sitting - today was my second day of taiji/qigong class, so now i have that to do every day too. - and reading, right now i am reading "tao and longevity" by huai-chin nan, "the tibetan yogas of dream and sleep" by tenzin wangyal rinpoche, and "the secret of light" by walter russell

tulku if your bad attitude is any example of what happens to someone when they leave the world, i will take the world thank you.

i just got back from a walk in the woods with the teacher who helps me with meditations and we talked about qi and the 3 dan tiens. this all comes from a thread about chakras and MCO that i couldn't find to link to but i didn't look very hard. he said qi can't be reasoned about, it doesn't conform to left-brained ideas and its different for everyone. he said to think of it as life energy and don't try too hard to categorize it. but in regards to the three dan tiens, he said that its no good to give definitions of different kinds of qi but he could give examples. for the lower dan tien (LDT) he said this is the gross qi that people feel when they do energy work and want to cultivate in martial arts to do breaking and fa jing<sp>. it is grossest so it is closest to the physical plane. the MDT is emotional qi which he said is what gurus have that makes them radiate emotional energy and give students the idea that they are in "a presence". he said thats just heart qi. he said heart qi can be dense like physical or subtle, and that part of spiritual practice is to refine the emotional qi until it is translucent and transparent. he said when you listen to music, feel are the emotions opaque or translucent. he said that the UDT qi is most refined and that it is this qi that allowed primitive man to communicate telepathically, something aborigines can still do, speak with impressions and thoughtforms. he said the less you try to explain the better, but its the qi that transmits information. he said he like the tibetan bon system which calls LDT fire, MDT water, and UDT air. he said that system works well to describe the energies. in bon, the root is earth and the crown is aether, akasha, emptiness, etc. anyway, thats what he said, i told you folks i would post it here so i hope that helps some of you.

i dunno what the word on the street is but my teacher said they are 3 types of qi. i don't think he was talking about jing and shen, just qi. i don't know about the dan tiens and jing and shen, and ive already said one misinformation today (my quota!) so i'll leave it at that

shiva, among others. i have a crystal skull to honor death! it sits front and center on my alter santa muerte looks awesome!

unless you are a sufi!

oh ok. thanks. sorry for the misinformation. i don't know if i got that wrong or if there are different systems that get lumped into bon or what. my appologies

hehe that things all over the interwebz. im not attached tho, i'll find a different picture if ninjaman is going to be sad. actually i tried to upload a different picture but that thing is still spinning. haha it likes me more than i like it