seekeroftruth

By meditation, do you mean like formal meditation, or do you include any other type of spiritual practice?

There's been talk about bill bodri recently, so I guess I'll just throw this out there. How do people feel about bill bodri and the stuff he presents? Did people get results using his meditations? He makes pretty bold claims, saying that he knows the TRUE path to enlightenment. What are your opinions on that? You don't have to answer all those questions, I'm just seeing what people think of him and his practices.

I know that there's a few people here who meditate with brainwave entrainment, so I was wondering whether when you listen to the track you actually meditate (like follow the breath) or just let the brainwaves do it's thing. There is mixed responses to this. I know Holosync says to just let the music do it's thing, but people have done well with brainwave entrainment while doing formal meditation. Maybe it's something I'll have to try out...

I was about as close to a "cultivation virgin" as you would expect. I had a year of meditation, nothing happened. And, about 6 months of AYP, nothing happened except ringing ears . I went to the seminar and nothing happened. I tried the practice out for a few months and it became painfully obvious that nothing was happening. I hadn't developed the sensitivity or a quiet enough mind for the practice. Hence, the switch to KAP and some messing around with brainwave entrainment. Hope that answers your question.

Thank you very much Scott. _/\_

You can't leave us hanging like that. Do tell. What was it like to "achieve an enlightened state and fall from it".

Over at the AYP forums, there's someone who's been doing the practices for a while but nothing's happened. From that, I'd just like to ask: Is there anyone who was born with NO sensitivity. That is, had no luck with meditation or couldn't feel energy when they started, but after hard work, can now feel energy and meditate. I'm asking this for my sake as well as the person on the AYP forum. Thanks for the replies

advancedyogapractices.com They have a forum, hence the name ayp forum

Hi, I'm taking the course and finding it great. In three short weeks we've learned so many practices including deep belly breathing, inner smile w/ 5 moods, shaking, chi kung walk, chi circulation forms, earth/ root chakra meditation, and water meditation. I haven't felt too much, but that's because I'm VERY unsensitive. All I've felt is some tingling and some stuff when we made chi balls. Other people have reported to having all sorts of good things happen to them, but most of them aren't Tao Bums. Hope this answeres your question, Niel

Hey Sloppy Zhang, I'm 18, almost 19. I know what you're feeling about the path looking so far. Sometimes, I get scared that I can't do it and scare myself to death that I can't make real progress. Then, I remember to just focus on the day and to forget what may happen in the future. What I've learned is that I should do my practice. Even if I have to drag myself to my meditation seat, I should do it because practice is what makes a difference. There are plenty of good people who make no meditation progress, and there's assholes that make great spiritual progress. Then again that might be the exception to the rule...

Hey Sloppy Zhang, I'm 18, almost 19. I know what you're feeling about the path looking so far. Sometimes, I get scared that I can't do it and scare myself to death that I can't make real progress. Then, I remember to just focus on the day and to forget what may happen in the future. What I've learned is that I should do my practice. Even if I have to drag myself to my meditation seat, I should do it because practice is what makes a difference. There are plenty of good people who make no meditation progress, and there's assholes that make great spiritual progress. Then again that might be the exception to the rule...

http://www.kriyayogainfo.net/ Great free website on kriya yoga practices. I've never practiced it, but other people have said it's good.

Thanks for the story Mwight. Most enlightening (a pun!) Hopefully, we haven't completely hijacked this thread...

I would be most grateful if you relate that story. I am a hardcore skeptic and want to have some hardcore experience to get rid of my doubt. If you relate your story, then I would be most thankful. Not immediately, but sometime in the recent future would be nice.

Unfortunately, I have saturday class. Which is a real pain in the ass. I would love to meet you all, but...it is what it is. Maybe another time.

TY so much chris. Much appreciated, I will be sure to use it when I can. Hopefully, I'll have better luck meditating with this. Joe Blast: I'll look into buying nice headphones....

I have a simple request. Unfortunately, I don't understand half of the terms you're talking about. I've read a little literature about binaurals, but I still need to catch up on the lingo. Basically, I just want an hour long track that takes you really deep into a meditative state, which should be a deep theta state. Unfortunately, I can't give specifics on numbers because I have no clue what they mean. Oh yeah, do you need high quality headphones for these tracks because I don't want to have to spend a bunch of money on a nice pair of headphones. Thanks a lot

Tao Bums in NYC on Sep. 13? Hell yeah, I'll go. Thing is I have class from 1:30 to 6:00 on Saturdays. It sucks. So, if I could be so humble as to request that the party is an early lunch or 7 pm dinner, then I would be extremely grateful. You all seem like cool people, it would be awesome to meet some of you.

Has anyone else signed up for the long distance KAP training? I signed up for the 10 AM sunday class.

I changed my mind. I just signed up for the KAP long distance class on Sundays. I'm so excited. After a year of NOTHING happening in my spiritual practice, I can't wait to have my mind completely blown. Yeah, I know I'm not supposed to look for side effects, and that I'm supposed to good Taoist/Buddhist and stay meditatively stoic, but I can't help myself. I want to go through something like this:

Will you continue to make this available after the twelve weeks? That is, will there be another course in twelve weeks right after this one? If there is, then I would definitely be interested in joining. I'm not too sure about joining the one that's starting in two weeks. Thanks

aypsite.com Great free site. Lots of practices, great forums. Many people have found it very useful. Something similar and also free: http://kriyayogainfo.net/ Great place to learn kriya yoga for no money.

Thanks for the support Yoda and August Leo, Kunlun does make a good study break. I hope I didn't give the impression that all I do is study. I mean I know I'm in college but I do have a life*. Anyway, I'm gonna keep with the Kunlun and hopefully, get the ball rolling (a pun!). *relatively speaking

Hey everyone, I was at the NJ seminar too, but, unfortunately, I didn't meet many of you. I'm sure you saw me, I was the Indian 18 year old. Im kind of a shy person, and so I didn't meet all of you. I know this sounds really stupid, but I really did want to meet you people, I just kind of got nervous and didn't have the nerve to introduce myself. This is nothing against all of you, it's more me. Right now, I feel like a total @$$hole because i missed out on a chance to meet a bunch of great people. Also, the fact that I sat at the other end of the room probably didn't help. Also, I didn't stay in the hotel because I have finals this week and was sort of in a time crunch. I got to meet Yoda, who was really cool, Cameron, and probably other Tao Bums that I didn't realize that were Tao Bums. Anyway, now that I'm done moping , I 'd like to say that it was an awesome seminar. I had a blast. Even though I didn't get the Kunlun to start, I still had a whole lot of fun. Looking forward to practicing more. If I ever meet any Tao Bums at any more seminars, I promise to introduce myself. Man, I still feel angry at myself...which probably isn't a good thing... oh well

seekeroftruth! P.S. I'm breaking the chain of one word replies!