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  1. the dao of time

    ChiForce replied to silent thunder's topic in General Discussion

    That would mean.....to recognize time is also void...not real. That changes are not real. That's what Dao is? That's what happens when the mind realizes the Dharma??

  2. the dao of time

    ChiForce replied to silent thunder's topic in General Discussion

    Off topic? Not exactly. We are trying to find out what are the reasons and the causes for the China sea reclamation. Is it being dictated by some linear concept of time and cause and effect? Is it something else? Not so easy now once we moved away from cups and pots. What is interesting is that you have America and the Philippine using the International court body in order to shift the balance of power in the region because they believe couple of judges and lawyers can reshape the power struggles in the Far East. On the other hand, the Chinese govt never thought that any international court body can undermine their national interests. Instead, you would need to exercise Real politics and substantial political capitals to cause any political changes in the region.

  3. the dao of time

    ChiForce replied to silent thunder's topic in General Discussion

    Causality is not linear, period. Its effects are not known. I am going to break away from this pots and cups nonsense. Let's look at the South China Sea ruling concerning about China's land recrimination in the South China Sea. The Philippine and America thought that the International Arbitration court ruling would shift the balance of power in the South China Sea and to isolate China. Because??? Because an international court body said so. It turns out this wasn't the case. In fact, it didn't change the balance power in the region at all. Cause and effect isn't linear? Depending on which realities you are talking about. The assumption that a court ruling, being decided by handful of judges and lawyers, can shift the balance of power in the South China Sea was wrong. It couldn't be more wrong. Yeah. pots don't make themselves either. What is the point?

  4. the dao of time

    ChiForce replied to silent thunder's topic in General Discussion

    So, what is the difference between an unbroken cup came to being because someone made it??? Then a cup being reanimated again through recycling? Same thing.... So, don't use cups and pots for your reasoning. For all we know, the cups and pots you were referring to are already broken once. Surprised..... Great...we are talking about cups and pots.
  5. Oh,,,,,,my path is very simple, really. To break through the skandha of form (took me 10 years of reflective thinking about my own life issues). As a result, the kundalini energy awakened. Only later I began to refine my energy by completing the MCO. Since I realize my own Dharma within my own mind (not through books, not through reading and hearing the Buddhist scriptures and teaching), I am not bounded by any code of conduct from any particular lineage. However, I do receive teaching, represented by various symbolic dreams, from various beings. Here, you see how simple this is.....

  6. the dao of time

    ChiForce replied to silent thunder's topic in General Discussion

    I don't know. Have you heard of recycling? How a broken pot can be reanimated into something else through the process of recycling? The problem with your old reasoning is that you think every object, such a pot or a cup, came to being because they exist by themselves. They are only relative forms and their existences are relative, conventional. Their ultimate forms are its parts and atoms. They can be broken down and to decay and to recreate another forms. Hell, another pot!!!!! There..... If change and time are linear, everybody would be born at the same time and same place and same year. We all would die the same. The world and civilization would end.
  7. Hey, you can say anything you want about me because I don't give a damn. I walked my path when there was no Internet or the Internet was not a big deal. Information and guides were nonexistent. My mind was never clouded with delusions and false paths because I didn't know I was on a path. We are in a new age. False paths are abundant . False views are everywhere. I have no issues to pierce through ignorance. None.....

  8. the dao of time

    ChiForce replied to silent thunder's topic in General Discussion

    Recycling? Ever heard of it???? Guess not....

  9. the dao of time

    ChiForce replied to silent thunder's topic in General Discussion

    No silly. Change is a fundamental nature of reality, which is time. Change and time aren't linear and that's why you were born on this earth. That's why every minute there is a baby to be born, a person dies, and someone falling in love again for the first time. Is not linear. Is repetitive, cynical, and progressive at the same time. What you are describing is the relative existence of some objects in their human created form. In their decays or recycling period, they would reanimate again as something else. Ever heard of recycling, Karl.... Your reasoning is getting old...

  10. the dao of time

    ChiForce replied to silent thunder's topic in General Discussion

    Time is change. There done. Where there are flux and transient, there are time. The idea of hours, seconds, and minutes are just illusions. Something people in the civilization to construct to describe this state of change. The question is does Time/ change cease to exist in the Tao??? Does time cease to be in the Dharma??
  11. Yawn...is time for you to find yourself, instead of arguing with people who have walked this path long long before you were born.
  12. Please, define what is happiness... Is it same as suffering? No, you don't know what is Nirvana. You need to have cultivated certain degree of samadhi to partially realize Nirvana. The process may require several life times. Really? Yes, really. That's why there are 3 vehicles or 3 paths to enlightenment because not everyone starts at the same level. Getting high by listening to some music won't cut it. That's the new age thinking. You talk as if you know the path, but you don't. Finally, most of us do follow certain established paths lay out by the ancient to some degrees. So, our cultivations aren't some new age thinking about (do whatever hell you want and you can become enlightened). The reality is not. Instead of arguing here...you need to go find your damn self. I would recommend starting with your own life first.
  13. Yes..a musical prodigy would be able to hear the tones and to repeat them on a piano without much instructions. Lessons and instructions from here on are to refine the techniques and styles and to interpret a particular musical piece.
  14. Hell...just because you saw someone playing a piano, it does not mean you know how to play one.....
  15. It means that your actual life situations and circumstances would dictate your path, either you like it or not. A genuine spiritual path works with real life situations and circumstances. It isn't about following some rituals and rules, or the scriptures. The Tao and the Dharma are always present since the beginning of time, if there are beginning. Neither can be explained and grasped. Then, how can you claim to have made a choice to follow either since you neither can see them or to grasp them????
  16. That's correct.... It was never a choice.

  17. How do you feel/sense chi?

    ChiForce replied to cheya's topic in General Discussion

    Ever had a Kundalini energy rising experience? That's what it feels like when the chi is active and to have completed the MCO (micro vibrations, a bit of numbing sensation like being mildly shocked by electricity, seeing light in the third eye, breathing slows down a lot, hunger ceased, and etc). If Chi is active while you are asleep, you get interesting dreams, visitations, and even doing some astral projection.
  18. You can say the same thing about Chan Buddhism and Taoism... The thing with Dzogchen is that unless you are being taught by another master, you are not really practicing Dzogchen. You can read about it.

  19. Practicing in Lucid Dreaming

    ChiForce replied to sketchbo0k's topic in General Discussion

    Forcing what? Mind to mind transmission and enlightenment? You can't. Much less so in thinking you have full controls of your dreams. In dreams, our power of consciousnesses becomes weak. You can influence your dream sequence and events. You can not change the background or the contextual setting of the dream itself because they are products of your karma..... Any changes would be gradual and extremely subtle......

  20. Practicing in Lucid Dreaming

    ChiForce replied to sketchbo0k's topic in General Discussion

    Funny stuff....I actually had my kundalini energy rising experience when I was 18, after waking up from a dream. Is a shame that some sees sleep is for sleeping, not for mind and enlightenment transmission. I actually entered into a deep Samadhi once during my morning dream vision sequence. Unbelievable experience....it gave me a taste of what is to come maybe when I am about to leave this world behind.....
  21. Yes, of course...it depends on your realization to realize rigpa.... If not rigpa, at least, in the realm of "dream of clarity" in which objective information about the world or yourself is being revealed and conveyed to you.
  22. This is an interesting read... http://www.kagyu.org/kagyulineage/buddhism/cul/cul03.php It conforms to the whole notion of "form is emptiness, emptiness is form." Yes, your mind can reside and live in these two states of duality and non-duality...realizing the inherent emptiness of all phenomena and yet they aren't empty. There are degrees of realization that would define what is emptiness to you... http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Pratyekabuddha "The shravakas accumulate merit for up to sixteen lifetimes, whereas pratyekabuddhas accumulate merit for a hundred kalpas. In their accumulation of wisdom, shravakas only realise one type of selflessness – the selflessness of the individual – whereas pratyekabuddhas also realise half of the selflessness of phenomena. For the same reasons, the pratyekabuddhas' realization is considered inferior to the full enlightenment of those following the bodhisattva path. A bodhisattva accumulates merit for three countless aeons and fully realises both types of selflessness." Again, this isn't about some word play or mind thought manipulations. It is about the ability of the realized mind to see the world around him or her.
  23. Hehehe..not needed because I receive guidance in my dreams..... Others seek words, texts, and sutra for guidance and affirmation. Otherwise, they rely on their own mind, the Buddha mind.
  24. Is irrelevant what you think because there are those who are just starting out in this path in this life time. There are those who are living the last stage of their realization because they have been cultivating eons and ages ago.
  25. Oh CT, since my realization has been self actualized without a teacher or hearing the sutra, I have already taken my vows in my previous life. Since you are trapped in your own time, you can never conceptualize events happened before you. There goes again, you are trying to define what is Dharma in your own time...think outside of your own time...for once....