manitou

A meditative technique? Please go on---

In a blackout? I may have.

No. Not in the least. Sometimes during meditation it's full on. I'm not sure if the ear ringing thing is part of it - but the ringing has gotten as loud as standing under a tree with a bunch of cicadas in it. It's just ON all the time.

Maybe 50% sasquatch.

I'm not sure meditation is a causative factor in K arising. Maybe the meditation the old masters did (and the people observed) in getting to the place where they could receive the K-energy would be a possibility. But the K-energy is with you constantly, 24/7. I find it bothersome, although after my awakening I did receive some abilities I didn't have before. All in all, I'm used to it now. As I think of the yoga postures, it seems that many of them would alleviate the tingling. The ones that involve a twist at the waist would be very helpful too - it would give the inner impression that one was being wrung out. But downward dog, upward dog - anything that involves that long stretch from the neck to the bottom of the spine - that is the thing that will spread it out so it's not so bothersome.

(double post)

I don't know how or why yoga became a Thing, but I do know that as a kundalini-active person, there are times when the body only gets relief from crazy stretches or positions. I've wondered if this is why yoga came to be. Just to give some relief from the electrical excitement happening down the spine. Sometimes the K will sit in one place, feeling like it's burning under the skin. Just last night I had to stretch my head as far forward as I could for an extended length of time, just to relieve the electrical pressure and tingling from the upper back. Downward dog probably would have helped, or definitely a shoulder stand. I know some folks practice kundalini yoga to get the K to arise. But I wonder if it didn't actually start with someone who already had it and was looking for ways to settle it down. It makes sense to me.

Not quite yet. The poo hurling doesn't start until 7PM. the Neanderthals don't usually poop before 6.

The thing that amazes me (I've said this before) is the way the fetus is formed. The cells, as they reproduce, are all the same cells. But what decides whether that cell is going to be a skin cell, a fingernail cell, an eyeball cell, etc - is how they line up next to each other when the fetus is forming. I cannot get over the incredible intelligence that demonstrates. Like the blueprints are within each and every cell. But actually, what that shows us is that we are the Intelligence. And then the fact that what we are observing as our bodies, is actually 99.9999999999% (actually, 13 9's) space! Just like the make-up of an atom. We're just virtually not here at all... All thought, that's all.

I'm only at the second sign. How much longer till the third? My monkey is really bummed.

I was just jerking around with Taomeow

Isn't it doubt-sower? I think they got rid of the doubt-sewers in the 70's.

Okay. No foot support for me any more -

Great video Limmers! Yes, that display was about right for 2020. Although I was hoping for a larger conflagration.

Thanks Dwai - I may watch it today.

Oh yes. the foot support they would supply is remarkable!

the icicle fell down, but maybe it was up. I'm never quite sure

Not only are they suitable as winter socks, they're also suitable as winter gloves.

"He who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else" ~ from a wise TV commercial ~

This is a serious problem. I looked through the article and couldn't find it. But if that's the truth.....wow......I can't imagine anything worse.

Believe me. That's all you need to know.

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Definition of paramita. : one of the perfect virtues (as morality, charity, patience, wisdom) that must be practiced by one who undertakes the path to Buddhahood. You must — there are over 200,000 words in our free online dictionary, but you are looking for one that’s only in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. Is that connected to Paramito?

I don't think I've seen anything better than this as to describing the human condition after realization. He writes from a position of love. This has to be one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. It struck me the same way I was struck by The Rubiyat struck me when I first read it as a teener. It took my breath away for a few seconds. This one did too. I'm going to somehow print this out and frame it. Maybe lots of frames. On pretty parchment type paper. Steve - thank you, thank you, thank you!

HI Cheya - I grabbed the book off the shelf and I do see what you're talking about. I see it in this way - The way to get rid of personal history so that the dynamics of the past don't affect your present and future - is to walk through the incidents within our personal history, admit where we went wrong if we did. By doing that, it removes the powering dynamic which causes us to react in a certain way. I don't remember exactly where in the series Don Juan has Carlos go back and carefully go through his personal history, looking for specific things that may have started a tendency. When Don Juan tells Carlos it is advisable to remove personal history, he's not just telling him to 'forget it.' There would be nothing gained by doing that - the offending dynamics would still be there. I don't know why Castaneda didn't go more into the inspection of his personal history at Don Juan's request. I wish he had. This process was mentioned early on in the series, but he never really returned to it. I get the impression that this process took place over years (as it does when anybody does it fully) - the dynamics get removed when we take measures to remove them, to lose their potency. As in the case of recovering ones from an addiction, the recovering one looks for incidents in his past where pivotal things may have happened; or where the recovering one screwed someone over badly, stuff like that. Then the hard part, making the apology and owning up to it. This slight moment of emotional pain (apologizing to someone that was the target of our unkindness or thoughtlessness in the past) is the very thing that brings the awareness to change the dynamic when it pops up. One of his paragraphs on page 17 - "You see, we only have two alternatives; we either take everything for sure and real, or we don't. If we follow the first, we end up bored to death with ourselves and with the world. If we follow the second and erase personal history, we create a fog around us, a very exciting and mysterious state in which nobody knows where the rabbit will pop out, not even ourselves." What he's talking about here is developing the Beginner's Mind. He has instructed Carlos to cultivate one by examining his past (earlier in the series). What results is this 'foggy' mind where reactions are done out of clarity because there are no negative dynamics left to sit inside the chest as 'buttons' from childhood that anybody can push at any time. The buttons must be eliminated for a full range of reaction or decision. It's kind of like magic.