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And it's wonderful when it does, although it took over 20 years.

"....everyone else appears as merrymaking, and I alone am dull and muddled..." (or something like that, I don't have the DDJ in front of me.)

Monk with Family is wonderful as well. I wish I were closer to Berkeley so I could participate in your meditation groups.

Rideforever said: "Fixing problems involves making problems, worrying about problems and maybe this is creating the 10,000 things. Be happy instead? I think you're on to something there. I would only tweak the first part that says 'fixing problems involves making problems'. The Sage nips all problems in the bud, as he is a seer, knows how things work, and prevents problems from manifesting. This, too, we can do, if ego is diminished sufficiently. The simple and trite explanation, as I see it, is 'everything is as it should be'. To get a little more intellectual, I see it as Time not being linear, it's all happening Now, it's actually already happened and we're just coming into alignment with it, and we are actually all one Entity who is self-realizing through our sensory perception. If that's the case, what's to worry about? I Am translates into We Are.

What an incredibly wonderful translation of the DDJ! Substitute chocolate for coffee in my case....

Hi AussieDaoist - there seems to be plenty of Aussies on this forum. It must be one high consciousness place. So glad you decided to join the forum. Welcome!

I think listening to one's own heart is a good idea when it comes to giving. There truly is a voice in there. I like something that Eckhart Tolle has to say; that those who operate on the high frequencies are 'frequency bearers', which is a gift to mankind in general. Some frequency bearers go on to do great things because of the heights they reach, some go into monasteries or something similar; and some just plain drop out of life because the old society structure no longer suits them. In any event, it's all good. The frequency remains intact regardless of where we are or what we're doing.

Yeah - 72 year old lady here. You're in the right place. My kundalini energy is still with me after 15 years and I find it a bit bothersome. I wish it would just explode out of my head already. I look at my tinnitus as the sound of universal energy and it makes it a bit more tolerable.

Hi Derek, Welcome to the Bums - I hope you enjoy your stay here as much as I have. Bouncing off so many different traditions has a way of filing down the rough edges and seeing the whole picture. I love this place. Manitou

Isn't that the truth?? I was a total rebel when I was a kid, thinking I was free. I was cutting off 50% of my potential and didn't know it. If you told me to go left, I had to go right. Opposite dog, thinking I was off leash. When you realize you can say Yes to life, everything opens up. You can go left or right, say yes or no.

Don't worry. Be happy.

2, 13, 32, 37, 47, 6 (it'll probably work somewhere)

…..which is a way of explaining those Aha! moments when we perceive that a truth is self-evident; it is in alignment with something that is already known to us but suddenly brought to consciousness. Like tumblers in a lock falling into place.

I can't remember the strange little pamphlet I found somewhere - I just looked for it and cant find it. But it was the teachings of the Nazarene, wherein he talked about the magic of the blades of grass. How the secrets of life were contained therein. Wish I could find it. Thanks so much for that wonderful song, Nungali. I hadn't heard it before.

I think you're absolutely on target, Wandelaar. Yes, we are born into the relativistic phenomena. But it excites me that quantum physics is man's way of catching up with the Whole of it - both dimensions. And how many more dimensions there must be! In the Sutras (I've only read Avatamsaka and Lotus) there is consistent mention of zillions of 'Buddha-lands', which I suspect could account for so many other dimensions that are outside of our sensory receptors.

I'm not sure if you were asking about my comment or someone else's. Linear time (that our brains can handle) vs. the totality of vertical time (everything happening Now) could be compared to quantum physics. When the physicians discovered that the smallest observable bits of matter (quantum entities) are smashed, they measure as BOTH a particle and a wave of probability. It seems to me that there is an inherent duality in that. A particle takes up space in the location in which it is observed, a wave takes up time to get from point A to point B. How can it possibly be both? This is a mind boggler to the scientific community; even Einstein conceded that because his theories were based on Newtonian physics, they were subject to modification upon the scientific community making this new discovery. To me, it says that we sit at the intersection of time and space in our being. So hard to get our heads around this, but it is a new reality as far as mankind's knowledge knows. Of course, the mystical masters of all time have probably intuited and 'seen' this phenomena in action. I think it might explain things like being in two locations at the same time, or levitation, or maybe the Nazarene walking on water. To bring this awareness, that we are the thought-stuff of the universal Intelligence (or God) is how the miracle workers have done this. Everything, on this thread, comes about as close as you can come to verbalizing all this, as I see it.

Stuck energy. that's all money is. Takes energy to make it, takes energy to spend it. but when it's sitting in your wallet as a $20 bill it's just....stuck. Maybe the secret to making it is to not focus on it at all. Rather, to do what we love to do, to focus on the moment at hand and enjoy the play that we're living. The rest is frosting on the cake. If we focus on making a million bucks we won't find the satisfaction we're looking for anyway. There will always be the want for more. Thanks, Everything! Thanks for recognizing the Dao within yourself and seeing it in others.

Hard to put it into words, it was more like a deeper intuitive punch in the gut. I think it is representative of the alignment of past, present, and future. The seed contains DNA from the past, the physical seed is the present, the blueprint for the tree is the future. As with many of those intuitive 'punches', there's no explaining it; there is just a ringing assent in our own hearts that it is true.

This will probably sound like a huge cop-out on this question. It's all actually happening Now - yesterday and tomorrow are merely mental constructs. I think that the concept of destiny or fate can be attributed to the fact that it's already happened, we just haven't caught up with it yet, in our prison of the linear time construct that we have in our brains. I recently read where the scientists researching with the atom-smashing Hadron collider in Geneva have discovered that not only do atom components smash into the Present, but they also smash into the Past! Simultaneously. I'm guessing they also smash into the Future as well but they haven't devised a way to measure that. So I think Destiny or Fate has already taken place, but it's just unfolding on our linear level.

Realization of this concept, 'the oak is in the acorn', was the very thing that started me on my spiritual journey many years ago. What a delight it was to see it here...

LOL. That is so incredibly true. Occasionally I will smoke a little cannabis and the ideas just keep coming - deep and straight to what I perceive as the truth. And I'm sure it's a totally original thought. Then, a month later, I'll be reading a book that refers to some ancient reference to the very same idea. I think that's a bit of a proof of the evolution of the collective consciousness, the oneness of everything and everyone, and the illusion that time is linear.

Really nice take on that, Nungali. But I'm a little concerned about all the quotes you used. Are you a bit of a nut job?

When 'somebody' uses that many 'quotes' in their 'writing', I think there "might' be a bit of a 'screw' loose. But it 'might' be a good 'topic' for 'General' 'Discussion'. In a broad sense, when you look at the fact that 99.99% of the measurable content of an atom is space, it logically flows that we are 99.99 percent space as well. I dunno. Are we actually here, or are we a dream on the backdrop of consciousness? Plato must have sat in a cave for many hours thinking about the shadows of people cast on the wall. I like the fact that you're an independent thinker. You'll find plenty of those here. Welcome.

Hi Adrian - I don't have an answer to your question, I'm in California. But for forums on health and self development this is the place. Plenty of discussions on Qigong and Neigong as well - do stick around, and I hope you enjoy your time here and get as much out of the forum as I have.

That's exactly what I suspected