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First of all, I'd like to thanks everyone here, especially who post often and speak their mind often. I'm not as elegant as Jim Carrey. So I'll let him speak my thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4M3wlQK6VI I used to think I was crazy, bitter, lunatic, and eccentic. After a while being here, I realize that I'm in "good" company. I'm perfectly fine. Thanks every one. So long you speak honestly, you're help someone in some way, maybe not the way you intended. I'm sending out my love and appreciate. Have a good holiday and be merry.

Modesty. The middle way. Nobody knows the answer except a few sages/prophet in legend. "The power of feck it" was just a humorous expression. I doubt anyone take it seriously. If you do, you should say "feck it, silly article" after reading it. I'm reading Ron Hubbard of Scientology. It's interesting. I wonder about disciples of Osho as well. How could they believe a guy who possessed 97 rolls-Royse? The same with Billy Graham, who suffered so many illness. Apparently he's not blessed by God. My point is nobody can help you figure it out but yourself.

Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter said to him, "You are the Ruler of Israel." Matthew said, "You are the Greatest of Prophets." John said, "You are that which cannot be named." Jesus said to John, "I tell you the truth when I say that no mortal has taught you this, but you have been instructed through the Light." Then Jesus took him apart and showed him the mysteries of Life, the power of unity through which mortals join the Eloheim. I was floored when I read this line "You are that which cannot be named." If that were true, then Jesus had have come from outside of this universe/system. He'd been really different from everyone else on earth. According to Tao De Jing, Heaven and earth originated from that which cannot be named. What does it mean? My understanding is that anything which has a name is pre-existed, has been manifestated, and is subject to the laws/rules of this universe. That which cannot be named could become anyting and doesn't follow the laws of this universe/system. Is Jesus unique? Do we all have that which cannot be named from which we can created a brand new world? I don't suppose I can find the answer soon.

I ocurr. And you don't need any qigong practice or SMO to be able to do it. If you do it correctly, you'll feel energyzed instead depleted. The more you do it, the easier it gets. I was able to do it before I believed in Qi. I just talking from my experiences. It may or may not apply to you. --------------------the following is sexually explicit, please don't read if you're offended by sexual materials--------------------- The hard part is to break the old thinking of "get rock off". It's mind controlling penis. Actually you should let penis be in control. Think about it carefully, when you "do it", do you actually feel the penis, the sensation from different part of penis? Lots of people go through the motion fast and furiuos to get to the climax. They don't feel the penis, only the overwhelming urge to come. The penis doesn't enjoy the journey. Have you heard the term "edging"? It's not exactly the same thing. But it's close enough. The idea is to let you penis feel. You should feel it got a mind of its own. It wants to touch and explore its surroudings, be it virgina or your hand. When it can feel, then it can control. I know it sounds like B.S. But after enough practice, it can dance by itself without moving your body. At first, solo practice with some tool (flash light or fake virgina?). Your hand tend to give too much partial pressure and tend to too active. I prefer a device of some sort over. You don't want it too tight though. Of course, you need lube. Initally if you have troulbe control ejaculation. You can do a quick session, let it come as soon as possible. Rest a few minutes, then start the training. When you climax, try to spread the good feeling all over your body. It also help, if you make lots of satisfying sounds loud. After you climax, your penis may become soft, it's OK. So long you don't ejaculate. It'll be functional with a few minutes or seconds. Have a strong PC muscle definitely help. If you use visiual stimulation, don't over do it. Remember, it's penis centric, not for your eyes. I didn't read the book. I hope my advice not in conflict with the book.

Sometimes, people tend to make simple thing more complicated. It's simple a meditation instruction. Don't move your hands and feets. Don't worry with your mind. Look inward with your eyes physically. (Find a quiet and clean place where) you can't hear sound. And you can't smell. (put your tongue up against your mouth roof) so you don't move your tongue. The Chinese has a penchant for mystifying things.

I disagree. Please name any other major religious leader who was the first to die for his belief.

It's the main psyche to build strong hold against outside element. It's diffeent than building a hide out. The original poster has a split psyche. I think I'll speak out of my depth here. I don't believe the shelter you spoke of is a rigid solid wall. It's more like a flexible energy convertor. It convert negative energy into positive as much as possible, and let the excess energy pass through without losing one's center. It's more like small flexible grass in the wind than a big strong tree. If there is a big splinter on the bottom of your feet, no amount of meditation would help.

I don't know about your particular situation. Usually the split was born out of fear. The current psyche can't handle the external presure. The split psyche is created to escape. Unless the perceived external factor is removed, or your main psyche can deal with the unpleasant environment, it's pointless to do anything else. You can't use meditation to create a personal haven shelting your from the "real" world. Inside is outside; outside is inside. Meditation can magnify the effect of the external condition. You can hide and run for a while. Eventually you have to face the music. The first step is to be honest with yourself. You know the core of the problem. Write it down. Then do something different about it. If you keep doing the same thing, you'll get the same result. I'm sorry. I wish there were easy solutions. Believe in yourself, you can survive and be happy.

I think it's on the right track. I think Jesus was out of this world. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were made by him, and nothing was made without him" "The unnameable, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; The namable, it is the Mother of all things." If you think the above is nonsense, then I guess this topic wouldn't be any interest to you. The bible says the similar thing to Tao De Jing "the word (name) created the world". IF that's true, then basically anything in existence in this universe has a name, even we don't know it yet. But the real "tao" that cannot be named don't belong to this world. That's why I was so shocked when John said Jesus was that couldn't be named. How could be Jesus existed in this world and still couldn't be named?

haha, Thanks for making me smile today.

I don't suppose Jesus didn't speak Latin either. And why did vatican become the authority on bible?

So long it has a name, it's not "THE TAO". It doesn't really matter if anybody can understand it or not, it's got a name. Then it belongs to this world. It ceases to be "TAO".

無名,天地之始。 That's what most people would read. I'm not expert in Dao De Jing, but I haven't seen any interpretation of "invisible" in either Chinese or English.

"mind" is its name. Did I missunderstand your question.

What I got from reading the "light warrior" is "sit and concentrate on LDT". That's the core practice of most Qi practice system. What does it make SM unique? I must have missed something reading "light warrior".

Best form of yoga, especially good for beginners who don't know how to breath correctly. When you laugh aloud, you automatically do belly breathing, such bring Qi to LDT. The joy will nourish Heart chakra, the MDT. The uplifting corner of eyes and mouth will open Crown chakra, stimulate HDT. The sounds will massage all the internal organs. The laughing buddha is one of the most revered buddha in China. I should do the haha yoga myself everyday.

Then you should live your life cheerfully every day. Mormonism? Money? must be false. Why does God need earthly money? I used to be a very cynical person. I'm still not sure I'm fully recorvered from depression. But I'm totally convinced that the water ripple effect is real. It's so cliche in Zen that I'm sure you know the stone thrown into pond metaphor. Your thought now effect your future. Karma is truth. I have a different version of karma. I believe we're engineered. One of the engineer design principle is feed-back system. All our outpout will eventually feed back to ourselves as input. Your thought, your emotion, your speech and your act will come back to you. If you're a programmer, then you know the saying "garbage in, garbage out." I believe the other way is true as well "garbage out, garbage in." If we continue the cycle of "garbage in, garbage out, garbage in, garbage out...", we'll stuck in the vicious cycle forever. We have to wise up and do something different. Our goal is to be able to do "garbage in, fetilizer out." Then we will start a positive cycle "fetilizer in, fruits out", "fruits in, happiness out.", "happiness in, love out". The old metaphor is "lead to gold" in innner alchemy. I'm not saying anything new, just different phrase. The more awareness you have, the clearer you can see the cause-effect feed back loop. It's as true as gravity. You can't change the system. You have to work with it. Buddha said "It is better to travel well than to arrive." Jesus said "Live life in joy and welcome death in peace." Lao Tzu said "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belogns to you." So I don't where you get the idea "it is all something to suffer and endure with the only hope that there might be an escape to something better".

I guess the intention is very important in this case. If you want to go to nirvana by yourself, you're unlikely to succeed. However if you want to bring your loved ones into nirvana as well, why not give it a try? If you bring your loved one there, and they bring someone else there, one by one, eventually the most human race would be there. But you have to save yourself first, if you can't save yourself, you can't save anyone else. Maybe our ancestors suffered and endured so much with hope some one would find the way and lead them into nirvana. Please don't give up. Everyone has the potential.

They just didn't believe in God/Tao/Buddha. They looked at it from the wrong angel. They should have asked about those NDE patients personl life. I suspect those poeple who has NDE was given a second chance to finish something very important to that person in this life time. That person might not be aware of what is the quest that they have to do consciously. So it might make the interview difficult. They should have seek help from people like us on this forum.

I used to love impressionism paintings though I didn't understand their theory until I saw it myself with their way of observing the world. The traditional painters use color, line, shade and light to create three dimensional objects with depth. The impressionists think there is no inheritent boundary between objects. They paint their picture flat with dots of color to capture what they see without deception. The viewers contruct the color information into some objects. During my "crazy" period, I indeed saw the world this way. It was so beautiful. The whole world was a sparkling of colors, no individual objects, no sense of depth. Now I lost the "ability" because it's hard to drive if I couldn't judge the distance of the cars. I wonder if anyone have similar experiences. Can you do it regularly? How to you swich back and forth between the "normal" view and impressionist view? Thanks.

Welcome to the forum.

I like the idead. I don't think thread is the convenient machenism. Basically it's like a silent chat room wihout anybody saying anything, right? It'd be nice if someone set up a meditaion web site. A few different medition rooms: silent, chakras music, Zen music, yoga music, Chinese Qi Gong music, sufism music, nature sound music, binaural music, sexual tantra music. When a user enter the room, an avatar would show up in the themed room. Before the meditation room is ready, a thread would do. I vote for it.

Flolfolil, don't let the naysayers discourage you. If that's your interest and you're willing to spend your time life to figure it out, go for it. Currently nobody knows. You asked a caveman to explain how the airplane fly. Of course you'd get blank stares and "smart" advices. The human body is the most advanced techonology there is. It represent billlions of years hard work, man power and technology. It contains all the stars and galaxies in the whole universe. All the knowledge, that our current race of "human" have, is the just the reverse engineering of the previous race's accomplishment. I believe there are seven layer of management in our body (I got this by myself before knowing it's been taught by many esoteric teachings). Our current technology can only work with the first layer. So any model we come up with is only an approximation. You might not get the answer this life time. But we have to start somewhere. First, let assume the human body is built with solid engineering principles. The current science already know that our body is a electrical control system. I suspect there is a wireless communication channel inside our body as well. Mabye the Chinese meridian channel is the wireless channel. When you exercise the eletrical components, the eletrical charge, overheating may trigger the cooling system to protect the components. I have no idea. You may have to study, research and experiment yourself. Good luck.

who authentify this authentic spiritual path? I sure didn't put a stamp on it? If you truely belive what you said, then you should know I could go "home" whenever I chose so. I think we're going around circle. You want to go back to who you were before. I do too. But I want more. And I believe there is more and we can be more. Otherwise we wouldn't put ourselve in this human body in the first place? what's the point? Do you really think I want the suffering comes with this human "body", the aging, the pain, and the emotions? I don't. But I figure there must be more than just going home. I don't what it is yet. I'm willing to stick a little longer to find out. At least until my parents die and my kids grow up. Good luck! I'll see you at "home".

I don't know. But I do believe if enough guys know about this and tell their wife and girlfriends. And if enough girls do and find the benefit. Then surely the science would find this magic enzyme. That's the way of Tao. Mind manifests matter.