ChiForce

In your state of deluded mind, you would still think you are facing North...LOL LOL...

But there is no FOR ME in enlightenment. If you have to consistently define what is enlightenment for you personally, is not enlightenment. Like I said, when it happens, you will know. You will no longer need to define what is enlightenment for you personally.

Tough one... Karma is made up of complex..psychological complex having its mind of its own. I won't take it too literal about how to cleanse karma. Burning up means working on your chakras and using your chi or wind energy to heat up your subtle body. That's what usually happening when your kundalini energy begin to rise. Is all internal. You can help this process by working out and eating healthier. How do you tell someone that what they are doing is generating massive negative karma when, because of their delusional ego, they think they are doing great?? Won't they get defensive about it? Won't they attack you? I guess you can intervene only at the right moment when their karma has taken its course and is no longer as sticky as before. You can't spare them completely though. The actual work has to be done by the person themselves......

Let me put it this way............one's existential crisis is not about getting obsessed over if an apple is actually an apple or taking a cold shower naked in Siberia... LOL............. Is about understanding suffering, human suffering originated from trauma and events such as wars and etc. Being a victim of some horrible events. These events created an imprinted into our brain patterns. No....no amount of self will can deny these realities.... Enlightenment is about understanding human suffering and its mental anguish generated in our mind...not brain. Our consciousness... It is never about knowing an apple is actually an apple.

Yes...I would rather not say what, how, and when. When it happens, you know is real.

Hahahahah..by the name implies..is formless. Can not be grasped....the Dharmakaya....or the Tao...

I thought I add something here. Anyone experiencing seeing familiar figures in your dreams or visions but they seem to behave and act in a way not consistent with reality? Figures such as your high school teachers and friends and even further back? Is even more astonishing that you haven't seen this people in your real life for ages, ages because you have moved or in another countries? I am big fan of the Star Trek Deep Space Nine series. The protagonist, Captain Sisko, is an emissary for the Bejohrian Prophets. He would regularly have these visions interacting with his crew members and yet none of them even act, behave, and speak the same manner as in the reality. He was told that it was the way of the prophet to communicate to him using people and figures he knew in his real life. Interesting concept but personally I find it difficult to decipher these messages because the meaning of these vision would get clouded with my own personal prejudice relating to these past figures. I just had one of these visions this morning..sigh. I am like what?? I had a vision seeing my grade school teacher helping me and I saw myself interacting with my childhood classmates...their behaviors were consistent what I came to know them when I was 8 or 9. LOL....

One of my orchid collections...you know..you can't call yourself as an accomplished cultivator if you don't have a green thumb, right??? Is called the Oncidium Orchid..."Dragon wings." Is fragrant...it was blooming last year Oct...

I see no spiritual element in relying on your attachment to something in order to feel happy... That's the opposite of the Dharma. This attachment is the result of the arising dependent condition. Is not permanent. Is just an illusion. An imbalanced spiritual equation is called the samsara.....the hell realm.... A balanced one is when you realize the essence of the Dhrama. Your happiness is resulted from not attaching your mind to the hell realm. To see the impermanent nature of it.

Snakes...2 headed one....spiders..the size of a car...LOL LOL...... Fear? Nah.. They were interesting....... You can look up the animal totem symbols and their meaning. It may help you to understand why. It has to do with your life..of course...and what is happening with you.

I have one for you....this is the second time I dream about the similar symbol. It was this morning. I was on an aircraft carrier. And US one since I was communicating in English. I remember I saw one of the servicemen was surprised about the new schedule. And he was asking the commanding officer why this new schedule was so odd. Something about 4-6..a whole list of them. The entire week schedule from Sunday to Sat was listed as 4-6. I am not a veteran and never served in the US navy. I don't understand why there would be a schedule at all.... Now, I handed a receipt to my commanding officer to sign it. Why? I have no ideas. Then, I was walking with another female officer and we were talking. I saw beds..... Something about hearing rock music. The first time I dream about the US navy was during the height of the NK crisis. I remember marveling the speed in which the aircraft carrier can travel. And I remember that we needed to be at certain region on the map at certain time frame. Did I just have dream about a current US navy operation or a future one?? In where? NK?? 4-6??? The time of the operation and lasting for a long time? I can't see other military operations in which an aircraft carrier is involved.... In both dreams, I was a sailor. I always have a karmic affinity to sailors and soldiers....:) It has something to do with my past life..supposedly....

My last one....

Thanks. Another my favorite shot.... hehehe

Something recent from me....heheheh

Not that I know of. I have been playing this RPG PC game lately, Divinity Original Sin 2 (over 100 hours of gameplay), late at night. My dreams are kind of strange...hehehe....almost nonsensical....contrived. Pointless.

Let's see.............I finished college somewhat late due to changing college too many times....because of issues relating to my "enlightenment" and my path. The reason I got in to my first college had changed by the time I was at the Dharma Gate...which I haven't entered it yet. This college tried to mold me into what they thought I should be...and to silent my own mind of what I wanted to do. The turning point was that my so-called English professor gave me a F for the course because I was unconsciously writing about Nietzsche. LOLOLOLOLOL... The irony of it all... I am reading an author talking about re-evaluating the herd mentality and to go against the time of the age..the same time I was doing just that and experiencing this herd mentality in this college. I left this college and to move on. Talking about co-incident..... I discovered Carl Jung too.... I had my kundalini energy rising experience after I left this college and to transfer to another one. Unfortunately, I left my second college because I was dealing with karma predated my birth...and getting myself into some troubles with the dean..... I finally got my 4 years degree after attending my third college. LOL LOL.. good news..somewhat uneventful..boring...hardly an epic experience. Then, I started to work in retail and been with this company for 7 or 8 years, with total of 5 years of management experiences. I was surrounded by cool people and very responsible staff. I enjoyed the moment there and even now I have good dreams about the work place. It wasn't bad at all considering all the craps I took in my college years. I can't say I was cultivating during the time I was working in retail management. Maybe I did....because I started to race bike (cycling) locally for 4 to 5 years. Very hardcore with training over 10 hours a week and traveling to races all the way to Rhode Island, from NYC. Even commuting to work. I guess...cycling and bike racing...was my way to work out my own karma. It worked. Always love thos 4 to 5 hours long bike ride...hehehehe There were times I would get so tired from work, training, and racing in that week that my heart felt tired. Somehow, I began to have redemptive dreams about the time I was in college. Something it didn't happen but it took place in my mind, in my dream state. I thought that was great. My heart and my mind were healing from within. Things weren't going so well with this company and I got passed for a promotion and felt like I have been used. Change of upper management and I left the place about 6 years ago. Took a year off and thinking. I began to toy with the idea of starting my own photography business. Been doing it for over 5 years... Well, is seasonal. Is on and off. Some money can be made. No replacement from my old job. However, for what I shoot, is definitely worth it. My photography allows me to manifest my Buddha mind to the world. To bring light to the world of events people aren't aware all. I mainly shoot in grass root sports. Now, is about cultivating my artistic visions and executions. I am hoping something would grow from my photography. I have plenty of free time and I used it to reflect and to meditate and to catch up on my cultivation...which has started when I was 18 but I didn't have a teacher or a master to guide me. What is funny is that the worldview I was prophetizing in my college days and professors and students giving me a hard time for it??? Shit is unfolding them now...hehehehe..

Before we go further, how about listing if you were under the influence of drugs??? If you were, your experience could be a bit more magnified than they really are. Most of my encounters are in my dream state, in astral projection. I don't use drugs. I can only offer what and who I saw and what knowledge was told or conveyed to me. There was only one incident that my mind was connected to a physical Kwan Yin statue for a brief moment in a Buddhist temple in Westchester NY. I sensed the pull or the energy. That was it. I have one near death experience (was about to get run over by a truck "deliberately" while cycling near my neighborhood.) I ended up dong some Matrix slow motion feats without hitting the truck to the side. Ended up coming to a complete stop and doing a track stand ALONG the side of the truck. I think it was my yi consciousness and wai wu wai at work here...

It depends on what traditions you are referring to. Taoism? Or Chan Buddhism? There is this unspoken consensus that higher realized beings don't connect with you because you aren't in the same plane with or as them...because we assume all things originated from our minds, the one mind. Such as the case, your mind can't perceive higher realized celestial beings because your mind has not become as such. To see and to connect to them, you mind has to become as such. This explains why beings and dreams and visions I used to have in the past...aren't the same as now...I have made some significant advancement in my cultivation journey from 20 years ago...since the first day I have my kundalini energy rising experience. Should higher realized celestial beings manifesting themselves before us regardless how our minds have become???? I am not the person to answer you this question..hehehe.. I think someone should ask the gods instead????

Well, I would assume if it was Christ himself, he would have done something for his mind instead. As well as the mind of the person who is about to do him harm. Gods can help you but they aren't your personal god. There are no reasons why a highly realized celestial entity would save you but to only harm the others...hehehehe.... Think about.... I think...for most people, their entity encounters are largely "local."

Well, there is the Taoist Shamanism in which the practitioner can use rituals to summon any deities they want and to become possessed by them..and granting superhuman ability. Only stuff I saw in watching too many Chinese (Hong Kong) movies when young....heheheh

How do you connect to them? I don't know.... Are you sure aren't they connecting to you instead??? I believe the ones you can choose to connect are your spirit guides...being related to you because of Karma or your past relationship with them in some way. I don't believe you can deliberately connect to some higher celestial beings....just because you want to.

Interesting but don't take this the wrong way.....maybe is not Jesus Christ saving you but other other entities...ie spirit guides.

How do you know if the beings are celestial beings at all..... I think I do plenty of astro projections at night and the early hour morning. Is something naturally occurring. I have encountered countless of beings. Are they deities or deities relating to certain particular spiritual practice? Is not clear at all. However, they do appear relating to the teaching of the Dharma or the Tao...interestingly. FYI, I experienced them in my dreams and visions...not sure if there are other ways to experience them.. They are what is called the sambhogakaya beings and only manifesting themselves in dreams and visions to spread the teaching of the Dharma.

I am in this mood right now..a somewhat reflective mood. Regardless if I may have certain advanced cultivation level, my life was and has been largely sad..as I am looking back. Of course, is all matter of perspective but I can't dismiss it just because...some others may have worse life experiences. From my own perspective, I guess I am still trying to find some answers. The karma was originated from my grand mother on my father side. She was born during the Mao era in China, Guang Dong Taishan. She had a large family, 2 sons and 2 daughters. Her eldest son, my father, somehow, made his way to Hong Kong as a migrant when young. To do what you say? To get her entire family to live in Hong Kong during the 60s and 70s. You see where this was going, right? Economic migrants seeking a better life in places supposedly more wealthier, often sacrificing their children's mental well being for the sake of some fake, delusional dreams and expectations. Once they settled in Hong Kong, somehow, they managed to marry off her elder's daughter, my aunt, to an American born Chinese. Sigh..... Called it an arranged marriage or whatever. By the time I was born, my entire extended family on my father side had left Hong Kong for good and went to America. Somehow, my parents decided to make a life for themselves in Hong Kong. Why not? My mother was born in Hong Kong and a Hong Kong citizen. Unfortunately, growing up in Hong Kong, I have been told one day I would leave for America. This was not good knowing that Hong Kong isn't really your home even when you were born in the city to Hong Kong parents...is messed up. My childhood was a nightmare plaque with sadness and existential crisis. I have never met my grand parents on my father side, and the aunts and an uncle, until I was like 11 or 12...when I left for America..with plenty of unresolved childhood issues. My own existential crisis, originated from the time growing up in Hong Kong, didn't get healed until I was 17. Healing...meaning that I stopped dreaming about my horrible childhood experiences and beginning to dream about healing and overcoming in my childhood. 2 years later, I have also overcome America (I became a magnet to the country's karma too) and to have my first Kundalini energy rising experience lasting for over 15 days. I was finally recovering from all the karma being passed onto to me.......LOL LOL....... I was never the same from that point. That was some 20 years ago. Secretly, I do wish I have been growing up in Hong Kong since I was always very close to my extended family on my mother's side. Unfortunately, somehow, I was determined to let go everything I had with Hong Kong before coming to America. I haven't really spoken to my extended family in Hong Kong for decades. I think is sad but...what can one do anyway. What happened to my American grand parents and aunts? My older aunt became a housewife in America and didn't even have a decent education. In old age, she is suffering from some advanced stage of diabetes and can't walk easily. She has asthma as well. She got 2 daughters but I was never close to them and we haven't talked to one another for decades. My younger aunt got herself pregnant dating the wrong guy when young. She ended up marrying another guy and he was from Burma. They were eventually divorced and they had a son. Again, I have not talked to them for decades. She is currently living and working in China. LOL.... Get this......her mother, or my grand mother, spent her whole life trying to get away from China and to come to America but to only have one of her daughters ending up living and working in China...some 40 years later. Hehehehe........... Karma at times can be funny too... What about my "baby" scrooge uncle? He was the more Americanized one. Sadly, he never shared his wealth to his parents. He is one of those Chinese Americans I am supposed to look up too...the model minority they say. LOL LOL... Except that he is not so Chinese at all and but can't pass as an American either. He is married and has 3 kids. He didn't marry Chinese of course. Their marriage is also rocky. The person who originated the chain of Karma, my grand mother, passed away few years ago. Can't say I cry at all. In fact, during the funeral, no one really cried for her. I have a sister too but we were never close even when young. We don't even talk at all unless it is necessary. No, she isn't really that Chinese at all. She has her own issues and her marriage is also over but they haven't divorced yet..... I am glad that my parents are healthy and even my mother's congestive heart failure has been cured. For me...still hoping there would be better days to come... I often see myself as a Dharma warrior and ending all karma in my life at least. I think I have been successful.

Surprisingly, my persistent spirit guide happens to be an elderly woman of who I have never met in my real life. I can't say we are even related by blood, maybe by karma..somehow and some time ago......predated my birth. She isn't Chinese for one thing....an European and possibility could be Jewish too. I know she isn't an American. She is like my grandmother or some sorts. I have been seeing her for the past 20 years.