Tibetan_Ice

Like the Buddha ever said that. Show me where. The Buddha strove for years trying to find the right method. He spent over 6 years practising asceticism. He had practiced the other styles of meditation too before that. You never defined what kind of meditation you are talking about either. Even anapanasati has need for skillful means in recognizing its stages. Yeah right. Just meditate deep and long and you will succeed. The only thing you will succeed in doing is fooling yourself. And that link that you posted to the meditation expert site is a kind of bastardization of anapanasati, isn't it? The purpose of breath meditation is not to cultivate chi as that page would lead you to believe. And the more chi you gather does not transform the skandas. Vipassana transforms the skandas. Heck, the author of that page even threw in Nisargadatta! This may be much closer to what the Buddha actually taught than some intellectual trying to bend anapanasati into some form of chi cultivation.. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.119.than.html

If he mind has been destroyed forever and there is no more world, and this is your experience, then how can you be writing your post?

Amazing, all these people talking about meditation like it is one thing, without even bothering to define the many many kinds of meditation. Like it didn't matter or something... There is mantra meditation, TM (ok some believe it is meditation), shamatha meditation, vispassana meditation, gazing meditation, tummo meditation, kundalini meditation, visualization meditation, awareness of awareness meditation, self inquiry meditation, useless meditation, contrived meditation, meditation with an object, meditation without an object, loving kindness meditation and there is even non-meditation. Then, there is the level of the practitioner to consider. Then, meditation done poorly can be done poorly for long periods of time with no or even a detrimental effect. Meditation done properly can cause valid experiences almost instantly. Then there is the general idea that you must sustain your practice 24 hours a day in order to become enlightened. That is why most, some if not all of the aforementioned posts seem like blank stabs in the dark to me.

Again you ridicule and show disrespect for one of the buddhist's highest achievements. Why does TTB let you get away with turning the Buddhist sub forum into a circus?

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What would be a refreshing change is if you quit trolling the buddhist sub forum and posting your negative comments.Everyone has to eat including you. Did it cost you anything to watch the video? No. Did you learn anything? No. You were too busy looking for something negative to say about this Doctor, whom has dedicated his life to helping people. I am disgusted with your behavior.

http://thetaobums.com/topic/36321-stepping-up-the-qigong-master-healing-experience-for-you/?p=580273

How much of that is Adyashanti? It is very like him to put down other disciplines and attribute awakening to grace. Did sitting staring at a wall for years like Adyashanti did qualify him for grace? Is he saying he is the chosen one? The ego is very capable of committing suicide, how many people in the world killed themselves today do you think? Adyashanti is quite a spin doctor and a dualist, isn't he? There is "you" and there is God", and only God will save you. Only thing is, God is already in your heart so what kind of rubbish is Adyashanti talking about? 😳

You're allot stronger than you think you are! Showering might help...

Hi Stefos, You posted this: "Guru Norbu Rinpoche actually even stated that Jesus was a Dzogchen master!". I have never posted that. I do recall saying that Jesus is a Dzogchen Master, and then later that Jesus is beyond being a Dzogchen Master. (because he is) However, I did never say that C N Norbu said that. Did you ever personally hear Guru Norbu say that?

Too bad Einstein never investigated awareness. Awareness, being omnipresent does not have to travel faster than the speed of light because it is already there.

Malcolm wrote: http://www.vajracakra.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1828 What's up with that? I can think of many derogatory comments at this point but instead I will wait. If you wait long enough, so they say, the bodies of your enemies will come floating down the river... It is funny that Malcolm gets to push out hatred for other sites from his own site, yet religiously censors topics on his own site like the latest one that was removed because a lama had a picture of himself and his protoge in yabyum which resulted in unsavory discussion... Senge Khadro... .

Well I hate to suggest this to you because I believe that in your previous life you were one those breeds of mice that fuck themselves to death, but, have you ever heard of Tongkat Ali? http://youtu.be/w1ZtqpphI8E .

Well is it true that in order to detect movement or change, one must observe from a fixed vantage point? Is it true that in order to precipitate time, there has to be a basis which is still and outside the influence of time? It would seem logical...

Ok I will spell it out for you. Malcolm has used TTB's as an example of people whom read texts, don't understand them, think that they do and then get into trouble. Well, it appears that the members if his very own forum could be subject to legal action from another forum that they attacked. For the last month or so there was a thread at vajracakra called "is it Dharmawheel or is it just me". (Or something like that) It went on for pages and pages. I noticed today that that thread is gone now. I was quite disgusted with the whole thread and asked myself how a forum which is even remotely supposed to be Buddhist could harbour such an attack on another supposedly Buddhist forum. People tend to judge other people not on what they say but on what they do. So, by permitting such a thread in the first place, Malcolm incurred some karma there along with the members of his site. I just don't think it is right that Malcolm is so arrogant as to use TTB's as an example of people who understand nothing when his own site's members suffer from the same sickness. Again, an enlightened being could see the subtleties and the distinctions that I am presenting. And, to create a forum out of spite for another forum in a way is an injustice to all the members. You are supposed to perform actions out of compassion and concern for other sentient beings. And tell me this, although Malcolm claims that he is against "privileged texts', he himself has told posters on his forum that certain topics were inappropriate for his forum, like discussions of practices and experiences. He has removed many topics from his forum. Yet, you will find practices and experiences in most all of the Buddhist books that you can buy on the net, so where is the reciprocity in that? I guess I'm just sick of all he quotes that Simple Jack posted from Malcolm, like he was some god or final authority on Buddhism, when in reality he is just like the rest of us. On another note, what are the dangers of reading secret top-down texts? Some teachers do tell you and have written about it in their texts. The first danger is supposed to be misinterpretation resulting in nihilism or eternalism. There is a danger that someone reads that there is no self and acts like nothing matters anymore. Yet the karmic accumulator still keeps ticking. They don't understand the two truths, the relative and absolute and become confused. The next danger is that of reification, which is enforces dualism, rather than promote nondualism. At the highest levels of practice, one has to shed even the slightest remnants of the belief in the self because that belief is a hindrance. It is important to realize that all experiences are empty and one should not grasp at them, for the grasping creates a seal or mark and at the highest level seals and marks are hindrances. Anything that enforces a Subject-Object relation is straying from the path. The next danger is no danger at all. If the reader cannot understand the text, then they were not ready or evolved enough to gain any practical knowledge or gnosis from the experiences from the teachings in the first place. If someone is not ready, there is not a whole lot that you can do to help them, except perhaps point them to instructions for the persons of dull intellect and dull faculties. If you ask me, the most shocking text I have read is from the Buddha himself. For, in it (if you want to believe that that is what the Buddha actually said) the Buddha expounds on the true meaning of emptiness, even to the point where he says that if you call him a Buddha, you have succumbed to ignorance for the very act of calling him a Buddha is a mark, and the Buddha doesn't have any marks. But this is not a restricted text. http://www.buddhisttexts.org/uploads/6/3/3/1/6331706/_vajra_prajna_paramita_sutra.pdf#page208 The other danger of revealing secret texts, is that if the practices revealed do actually work, then it undermines Buddhism and the need for supporting the very structure that nurtured the teachings. In any institution a support mechanism must be built in to promote dependency in order to sustain the longevity. Otherwise, it would dissolve away and be lost to future generations. The other danger is that of losing face or being simply labeled insane or lunatic. If you present secret texts which tell you how to walk in water, leave footprints in stone, there is the likely chance that ordinary people will think you are just plain crazy or that the "fanatics" should be locked up, burned at the stake or whatever. I still ponder what happened there, when the Chinese murdered 1.2 million Tibetans. It sure makes me wonder.

Then constants must change too, so why doesn't that happen?Is permanence a misnomer?

Perhaps one should examine one's own nose before casting boogers? Malcolm banned at dharmawheel... http://www.vajracakra.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1038&hilit=Legal+action&start=0 Threat of legal action from DW... http://www.vajracakra.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=1754

Does your mind control you? Or do you control your mind? Sounds like your mind got the best of you. Who exactly sent you that message? What was the source? Do you do everything your mind tells you to do? My mind is a toilet bowl of every kind of thought imaginable, the result of endless dumping from aeons gone by. Why would I give one thought more preference and not push the lever?

for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life

No, he pushes out an arrogance and the message that you have to be a scholar in order to really understand the texts. Like he is the only person capable of understanding texts. You don't understand texts by throwing more intellectual knowledge at them, you understand texts through practices and experiences. Malcolm is pushing and selling the idea that only the chosen few are capable of understanding the texts, when in reality, it is the mind which is not capable of understanding. It is not the tao bums who serve as an example of lost sheep in the land of ignorance, it is the mind. The mind isn't going to save you, it is experience that will. And there is no shortage of minds on vajracakra either. There are just as many, if not more ignorant minds on the vajracakra forum as there are on Dharmawheel or any other forum. Only, by positing his finger at TTB's, he is also stating that that there is no savior, no grasping scholar here to point out the real meaning behind the words of the texts. You don't need the ability to translate Tibetan in order to know what the texts are saying. There do exist very intelligent PHD's like Alan Wallace whom have already rendered texts, secret or otherwise, into understandable concepts. And the concepts become even more clear when coupled with practical experiences. Tenzin Namdak and Tenzin Wangyal also tell it like it is, don't hide secrets and do a marvelous job of explaining concepts and practices. And what's more, they will even publish their experiences in books, like Tenzin Wangyal did, of his dark thogal retreat. Malcolm's attack on TTB's is one of the reasons why vajracakra and dharmawheel members visit this forum and push their "you are wrong because you don't use the same terminology that Malcolm uses" attitude. I've seen it time and time again. That group of Malcolmites will even disavow CN Norbu's books and writings simply because they contain a quote from Ramana. Case in point: The Marvelous Primordial State. You shouldn't reduce spiritual discovery to a sham of "unless you're in our club you are all wrong". Further, Malcolm, although quite intelligent and linguistically blessed, is not capable of realizing what other people truly understand by reading their posts. Anyone who spouts off blanket statements is in fact exposing their own ignorance and building sand castles of conjecture. The problem with the intellect is that it is always at odds with the heart, and anyone who pushes the intellect and intellectual knowledge does so at the detriment of the heart. Once you experience primordial wisdom you will understand the pitiful minuscule conceptual mind's frailty and you will wonder how you could have ever let it self inflate to such a degree. (Pun intended)

Arousal vs. Relaxation: A Comparison of the Neurophysiological and Cognitive Correlates of Vajrayana and Theravada Meditative Practices The short version: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-reveals-vajrayana-meditation-techniques-tibetan.html The longer version: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0102990 It is too bad that they told the vajrayana practitioners to close their eyes for their meditation sessions... It almost invalidates the whole study. It is also interesting that the gamma waves decreased during deity and rigpa meditations... Kind of blows Zoom's hypothesis out of the water, that Dzogchen is about increasing gamma waves, doesn't it? .

MARVELOUS! I can hardly wait to hear about your experiences! I used to do mirror gazing and gazing at each other's faces when I was a teenager. A native Indian buddy showed me how. I saw many many faces, which apparently were what you looked like in previous lives. We got so good at it that we could project visages at each other and then confirm what we had projected. We spent a few weeks doing that, every day after school... part of my Don Juan influence back in the seventies

Sure! That would be great!

Many times but not for an extended period of time. I see little white dots moving in arcs, appearing and disappearing rapidly. They sparkle and shine. Someone said that it could be orgone. I'll have to try extended sky gazing some time.

I would love to read or hear about your experiences. Any links?