Songtsan

Sat - Being, cosmos, matter, external world, physical brain and mental constructs, objective world, physical stuff, the particles of what we are made of, ego mind, the mirror, little self, the other, the seen chit - divine Self, soul, seer, watcher, witness, consciousness, to understand, emptiness, subjective ananda - bliss, delight, pleasure, shakti, chi, energy, radiation, light, affect, feeling, happiness (sadness too), act of seeing, holy spirit The brain, containing the mind (brain + mind = sat), reflects the light of the world (ananda, feeling) to the awareness (emptiness) Knower, known, and act of knowing are one Seer, seen, and act of seeing are one matter, energy, and awareness are one prakriti, shakti, and shiva are one mirror, light, and watcher are one one who senses, act of sensing, and that which is sensed are one maker, the made, and the act of making are one I am looking for corrections. thank you. Here is an example: You look around your room - you see a lamp perhaps. The lamp is you...how so? Well, in reality, we all co-exist, interdependently. Light rays (shakti) are bouncing off the lamp (and coming from the bulb), hitting your eye, stimulating the retina ('rods' and 'cones' at the back of the retina are triggered, producing electrical signals). These electrical signals travel via the optic nerve to various areas in the brain, where they are processed, collated in mere nanseconds, and then presented to the 'I' consciousness as a perception. The colors you see are created within the brain. The information coming in did not have color in it, it came in the form of wavelengths and little packets called photons. The color perception was added post-sensation. All the colors of the world that you see are created within. So the colors you see are the chi energy. The lamp is the matter or prakriti (sat), and of course there is the awareness (chit), which watches all this happening. You really and truly ARE the lamp (what you perceive as lamp), you are the mind (sat), and you are the incoming energy (ananda). Take any other sensory perception and it is just like this. Now you may ask, "But am I that lamp on the outside - in external reality? The reality which cannot be known?" This is a good question. Are the parts that make up reality part of a whole? Is a car simply an aggregate or is it composed of many separate parts? Is there in truth such a thing as separation?. What does quantum physics say? Supposedly electrons are multi-shared between objects and range out an infinite length away from their atoms. Many physicists believe that all electrons exist everywhere in the universe at once. I don't care to discuss this as I am no physicist, but I believe that it is likely. This is the best answer I can give to that question. So if all energy exists everywhere, then we supposedly exist everywhere.

I only ever met one Swami: Swami Vidyadhishananda..he initiated me into Kriya Yoga in 1997...check out their website - it's a beautiful wesbite: http://www.swamahiman.org/

awesome idea!

The larger the hurt, the larger the burden....if you had a pet cow and you decided to kill it and eat it, you'd probably feel really guilty. The more removed we become from the killing, the harder it is to feel - "Sure, I'll pick up some steaks!" they are already prepared. I am sure if a picture of the cow it came from was on the package, less people would buy it. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say. I am sure there are sociopaths out there who could do terrible things and then sit down and play a game of chess, no problem. Not me, When I was a kid, there was a mouse that lived under the back porch, and I used to watch it avidly. One day, I threw a piece of wood at it, wicked little boy that i was, and it squeaked in terror when it got hit. I felt so bad I hated myself. Another time my cat jumped up on the counter and took a piece of meat off a sandwich i was making, and I got so mad that I spanked him and he ran and hid behind the refrigerator, and I felt so bad that i went and called him out and he eventually came running into my arms and I was so sorry. I think that insects don't feel pain, although I don't know for sure, but that's what the internet says...

Just be aware of your feeling states...if you feel suffering when you do something - you are adding energy to a suffering wheel in your mind, if you only have fun, then it's cool. When I was younger and played cards and lost, i would walk home feeling poorly (and being poorer)...when I won, I was happy - it's a gamble! lol..It will actually take care of itself I think...lose enough times, the suffering becomes intense and then you stay away...keep winning, and you become a pro and end up in reality TV shows...it all depends how much of a shark you are!

was there some kind of granular substances in it? how could you get lacerations? hmm...probably use some A&D ointment...or just leave it alone.....I don't know..vitamin E oil? FYI: you don't need to play with yourself to generate sex energy to create mind-bliss-chi...just visualize a Dakini during your meditation and strengthen your imagination-visualization powers..eventually you can have sexchi going straight to the brain and then you send it down your chest into dantien..the longer you nofap the more intense the experience...you can create waves of all day long bliss this way. Tantrik visualizations create the ecstasy of sex within oneself, and then you drop the meditation object (the Dakini), and breath in the essence of yabyum (man/woman coupling) bliss states. You cycle the energy around the dantiens and wheel it into fruition in the lower dantien.

yep - that's exactly it! Seriously I agree. Each to his own..I like gambling, but I hate it too..I once went to a casino and blew about $240 on roulette, blackjack, etc...I played all the games I ever wanted to play and said, "One time only, never again..." It basically worked. I buy a lottery ticket once and a while but stay away from gambling..though I like to play that game where you flip quarters and if you match the other person's coin, you get to keep it, but if you don't match, they keep your coin.... I think the best way to gamble is to invest in penny stocks...if they go up you win, if they tank, it was still fun to watch!

If you feel ill at ease while gambling, ask yourself if it is worth the cost...if you are having fun, and everyone else is, and the money isn't a big deal, then its ok too...every situation is different. Play each moment as it comes, and move from a center of wisdom-bliss, without attachment. Do not judge yourself for gambling or judge others for not gambling...I'm just dropping leaves of possibilities on you. Try to find happiness in what you do - if it causes you to suffer in the long haul - back out. There are plenty of different games to play.

one word or 100 words, intent was negative and unproductive...and she posted it twice...it wasn't the only post either....no one likes being ganged up on. No one likes being told they are not good enough. I have no idea why this is even continuing, all I was asking for was forgiveness for being who I am and some understanding that I am not like everyone else. Do you think I wanted to spend my night going over this? I happen to be extremely sensitive, suffer from paranoid delusions, have schizophrenia and bipolar and EID (Emotional Intensity Disorder). It's not fun, let me tell you that. I am not sorry for being who I am, I just wish others would find some acceptance for me is all. I am not saying that you or anyone else are completely unaccepting of me, but hating the part is in the way, hating the whole, as parts can't be separated. This is ridiculous anyways...I think I am done. As far as I am concerned, Cat's post and the others that followed were insensitive and scornful. I don't come here to be belittled. I have no problem with others debating with me in my beliefs, but when people start attacking me personally, I get a little twerked.

...also, this is not a matter of personal practice - it wouldn't make sense to put it there..people get into debates in a lot of the threads around here...I see debates in about 4-5 of the major threads at the top of the list currently...Cat's reply to me was off-topic - it was a personal statement of dislike of a part of my personality...there is no better place to reply to such a statement than in the thread it was posted in...same goes for any of the other complaints against me...if all you people posting your negative views against me were so much better than me, then perhaps you should call it quits, as I am seriouly getting pissed off.

physical yoga first, followed by pranayama, followed by meditation

true, but then again many of the threads around here get way off topic...and my original reply was way on topic....like i said I have a chip on my shoulder about things like this. Yes, I am defending myself. I get defensive sometimes, when under attack from multiple fronts...Its kind of like if people start throwing snowballs at you, you start making your own snowballs to throw back.

its been ok so far i guess...

pain is just an energetic sensation. The Buddha stated that neutral or pleasant sensations were easier to gain the state of absorption with and that pain was the most difficult. So it is merely a matter of efficiency with me. I admit I am more interested in the fast path. I believe in time.

to me it simply meant - give her pleasure, do a good job, enjoy sharing intimacy, etc. which is perfectly fine in my book. Takes all kinds. I am who I am, and you may judge me as you please. I enjoy myself, personally. I can't be everyone's ideal of perfection, not even my own. I am basically a little bit twisted, more so than most. I do not try to hide this. You can practice acceptance or reject me, and deal with the choice on your own. I personally had no intent to offend and did not think twice about what I posted - it was basically fine by me. I understand that not everyone is as carefree and open about life as me. I am the kind of guy who would sit in the cemetery covered in ashes, drinking out of a skull bowl.

"Pain in joints is bad, pain in muscles is good." - this is my philosophy - I dont mind burning tapas, or the spiritual fire of kundalini in the mind, just anything that messes with joint stability, venous circulation or whatnot....I also possess a mind that is not easily reigned in - its hot Yang brain, so the more I can forget other incoming sensations, the better I can focus...unless I choose to make the pain my object of meditation, which is actually a great technique..

well - karma isn't so cut and dry like you think...the word means action/reaction...and is basically the same as cause/effect. Action/reaction are two sides of a single coin, as are cause/effect. The reason the Buddhists would say that it is bad is because when someone wins, someone always loses. No matter what side of the coin you are on, someone will suffer to some degree. They believe that one should not cause or be a partner to suffering in any way, that it brings further karma (actions) down the road. Here would be an example: say you win and your friend loses...maybe they feel frustrated, etc. maybe they don't have that extra $100 now and can't buy those vitamins, or useful personal items that they normally would have bought - they incur suffering from it. Because you benefited from it, you are party to that suffering, and supposedly it will come back at you in the wheel at some point. Now do I personally agree with this? Yes/no - I believe that you are fine gambling personally...it's just that if you are Buddhist, I wanted you to know what they believe. "And what six ways of squandering wealth are to be avoided? Young man, heedlessness caused by intoxication, roaming the streets at inappropriate times, habitual partying, compulsive gambling, bad companionship, and laziness are the six ways of squandering wealth." - Buddha Sigalovada Sutta

its true...but it doesn't mess with my knees so much as my ankles...I can actually put my leg behind my head - I am naturally super flexible...I just choose to meditate in a more efficient manner. To spend months or years (I have known some die hard meditators who took up to ten years to perfect full lotus), paying attention to something of such trivial importance, is not really my cup of tea. If you can do it easily, I say go for it. But if you are unable to actually concentrate on your object of concentration because the pain is so intense, it isn't really meditating, its suffering for ego-reasons. I am not necessarily even speaking to you - this is just something I have always contemplated. I was a personal trainer, so I have been around a lot of guys in the gym who had the 'no pain, no gain' mentality. Most of them ended up with tendinitis, stressed connective tissue, crepitus, and a bunch of other fool-gained injuries which were unnecessary. When one focuses not on appearances, but on direct results, gain occurs much quicker. I admit that I love the look of full lotus, and wish that I could do it, but I think it just doesn't work for me. Like I said, it is an excellent meditation posture, the most stable that i know of in fact, and if you can do it without ruining yourself, then you should, definitely.

Buddhist wise - yes

What is the Taoist equivalent of Satchitananda?

I already told you I was fine with judging others - I merely point out when they are judging me...yes, I have a feeling of righteous indignation. This isn't a war bewteen you and me really, or me and someone/anyone else, it is war between illusory mental constructs within each person. You can not possibly know what my intent is in anything I say; there is always what is called 'lost in translation,' which was and is the root of all this....so what you perceive is really you. You have a thought construct of who you think I am in your head, and your thought construct of 'I' is judging that other thought construct. You are basically judging your own mind fabrications, as I am. This is actually an important step to transcendence, believe it or not.... here is something for you to read, that may perhaps short circuit your mentality, should you grasp its fundamentals. I am not saying that I do totally, but should anyone be able to, I doubt they would have any complaints about me: [sung in the ancient Bengali language one thousand years ago on the banks of the Ganges by the supreme Master Tilopa to his supreme disciple Naropa, translated into Tibetan and preserved in the mystic Land of Snows, translated in modern times into English by the scholar-practitioner Garma Ghang, and rendered into this free English expression for all contemporary seekers of truth by Lex Hixon, with great awe and joy, at Gang Jong Nam Gyal, a retreat in the Catskill Mountains, August, 1986.] Mahamudra, the supremely royal way, is free from every word or sacred symbol, but for you alone, beloved Naropa, this wonderful song springs forth from Tilopa as spontaneous friendship that never ends. The completely open nature of all dimensions and events is a rainbow always occurring yet never grasped. Thus the way of Mahamudra creates no closure. No strenuous mental effort can encounter this wide-open way but the effortless freedom of sheer awareness moves naturally along it. As space is always freshly appearing and never completely filled, so the mind is without limits and ever-aware. Gazing with sheer awareness into sheer awareness, habitual, abstract structures melt and flow as the fruitful springtime of Buddhahood. White clouds that drift through blue sky, changing shape constantly, have no root, no foundation, no dwelling place - nor do the changing patterns of thought that float through the sky of mind. When the formless expansive of awareness comes clearly into view, obsession with thought-forms ceases easily and naturally. As within the openness of universal space shapes and colors are spontaneously forming, although space itself has no color or form, so within the expansive of awareness, realms, relations, and values are arising, although awareness itself has no positive or negative characteristics. As the darkness of night, even were it to last one thousand years, could not conceal the light of the rising sun, so countless ages of conflict and suffering cannot conceal the innate radiance of Mind. Though deep philosophers explain the transparent openness of all appearances as empty of permanent characteristics and completely indeterminable, this universal indefinability can itself never be defined. Though enlightened sages report the nature of awareness as pure illumination, this limitless radiance cannot be contained within any language or sacred symbol. Though the very essence of Universal Mind is to be void of either subjects or objects, it tenderly embraces all life within its womb. To realize this inexpressible Truth, do not manipulate mind or body but simply open into transparency with relaxed natural grace, intellect at ease in silence and limbs at rest in stillness like hollow bamboos. Neither breathing in nor breathing out with the breath of habitual thinking, allow the mind to be at peace in bright, clear wakefulness. This is the vast royal wealth of Mahamudra drama that needs grasp no coin of any realm. Beloved Naropa, this treasure of Buddhahood belongs to you and to all sentient beings. Obsessive use of methods and restraints and perennial study of scripture and philosophy will not bring forth this wonderful realization, this Truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind which desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the Basic Light that illuminates all experience. The one who fabricates any division in consciousness betrays the for precious friendship of Mahamudra. Cease all activity that separates, abandon even the desire to be free from desires, and allow the thinking process to rise and fall smoothly as waves in the vast ocean. The one who never dwells in abstraction and whose only principle is never to divide or separate upholds the trust of Mahamudra. The one who abandons craving for authority and definition and never becomes one-sided in argument or understanding alone perceives the authentic meaning hidden in the ancient scriptures. In the blissful embrace of Mahamudra all negative viewpoints and their instincts are burned without remainder like camphor. Through the open door of Mahamudra the deluded state of self-imprisonment is left behind forever. Mahamudra is the torch is supreme liberty shining forth through all conscious beings. Those beings of awareness who try to ignore, reject, or grasp awareness inflict sorrow and confusion upon themselves and are therefore truly mad. To be awakened from this madness, cultivate the gracious friendship of a sublime royal sage of Mahamudra who may appear to the world as mad. When the limitless mind enters blessed companionship with limited Mind, indescribable freedom dawns instantly. Selfish or limited motivations create the illusory sense of imprisonment and scatter seeds of further delusion. Even religious teaching can generate narrowness of vision. Trust only the teaching that is utterly vast and profound. The noble way of Mahamudra never even engages in the drama of imprisonment and release.the sublime royal sage has absolutely no distractions because no war against distractions is ever declared.this way of nobility and gentleness alone, this perfect non-violence of thought and action, as the tray flip trace this path of all Buddha’s.to walk this all-embracing way is the bliss of Buddhahood. Phenomena on every plane of being are constantly flowing and disappearing. Thus they are ever fresh, always new and inexhaustible. Like dreams without any solid substance, they can never become rigid or binding. The universe exists in a deep, elusive way that can never be grasped or frozen. Why feel obsessive desire or hatred for it and thereby create illusory bonds? Renounce conventional, habitual worldviews. Go forth courageously to meditate in the true mountain wilderness of the wide-open Mahamudra. Transcend narrow bonds of kinship by embracing all living being as one family of consciousness. Remaining without any compulsion in this vast landscape of natural freedom- spontaneous, leisurely, generous, joyful - you will receive the crown of Mahamudra dressed in all sense of rank and attainment will quietly and entirely disappear. Cut the root of the vine that checks the fruit tree and its clinging tendrils wither away entirely. Cut the root of the conventionally grasping mind and all sense of bondage and desperation dissolves. The illumination from one oil lamp lights a room instantly, even if it has been dark for eons. Mind is boundless radiance. How can the slightest darkness remain in this realm of conventional perception? But one who clings to limited mental processes cannot awaken to the radiance of Mind itself. Strenuously seeking the Truth through thought and discipline, one will never appreciate the unthinkable piece, simplicity, and bliss that abide at the source of thought and discipline. To uncover this fertile Ground of Consciousness cut directly through the roots of complexity with the sharp gaze of naked awareness, remaining entirely relaxed and sublimely content. You need not expend great energy nor store up extensive spiritual power. Remain simply in the flow of pure awareness. Mahamudra neither accepts nor rejects any current of energy, interior or exterior. Since the Ground Consciousness is never born into any realm of being, nothing can add to or subtract from it. Nothing can obstructed or stain it. When awareness is grounded here, all appearances a division and conflict disappear naturally into Original Truth. the twin emotions of anxiety and arrogance vanish into the void from which they came. Supreme Knowing knows no separate subject or object. Supreme Action acts resourcefully without any array of instruments. Supreme Attainment attains the goal without past, present, or future. The dedicated practitioner experiences the spiritual path as a turbulent mountain stream tumbling dangerously among boulders. When profound maturity is reached, the river flows gently and patiently with the sweep of the Holy Ganges. Emptying into the ocean of Mahamudra, the water becomes ever-expanding Light that pours into Great Clear Light without direction, destination, division or distinction.

To me it was a 'love of sexuality' fest, an honoring of that which was sacred to me, of which most things are. I embody the philosophy of radical love and acceptance. To you it was a sausage fest. The person you need to fix is yourself, as I am already balanced. I am sorry that this so offends people (not really). I find it so interesting that one could make a comment about politics, religious wars, their motorcycle, or anything else, and that when someone makes a comment expressing their acceptance of both themselves and something they hold dear, others will come along and basically try to crap all over them, judging and ridiculing them for their mere beliefs, just because it it makes them uncomfortable, which indicates that they don't love that part of themselves...are ashamed of it perhaps. I wear my heart on my sleeve. It's a blessing and a curse. I am not here to make everyone become my best friend, I am here to be real.

true! I come here to burn up me ego...sometimes it works, sometimes I enflame it....I am waiting and desiring someone who can knock me off balance. My vanity, pride and arrogance are monumental, and I love them so. I am not even meditating lately, simply burning my brain in hot Yang chi. It is the fast way to gnosis, although many would disagree with me. I aim to send it downwards soon though....I will miss you guys when I do that, as I will disappear from the face of the earth.

I am coming more and more to believe that the kundalini is one with us all, and that to view it as separate is true, yet not true. Please see my thread on Satchitananda. Kundalini is simply universal chi, alive and intelligent and she is also the holy spirit. I don't believe you should be fearing her, instead you should let her further in. The stranger is already in your house and you are running from room to room trying to avoid her, when in fact she is really your best friend, and you should sit down and have a nice cup of tea with her. She is beautiful. Become her and you become yourself. You asked for her presence on some level, whether you believe it or not. This is what I believe. Time to let her go to work. Rip the bandaid off quickly, quit agonizing over the injustice of it all and start riding the waves of tapas. You will be pleasantly surprised at how genius she is. I can always say more, if you are willing to listen, Willing To Listen.

You are merely interpreting me from your own world view...Also, you contradict yourself in a hypocritical manner. By labeling (labeling = judging) me as possessing a 'male dominating..etc.' conceptual mind, you judge me as possessing a 'male dominating conceptual' mind, simply put. Unfortunately for you, this is incorrect. You don't know me, or what my intent was in writing what I wrote - you assume far too much about, knowing nothing. I will say it a thousand times, those who judge without knowing really judge themselves. I am not afraid to judge myself personally, so this does not bother me. There is a Tao of men, there is a Tao of everything. Tao of physics, Tao of Jeet Kun Do, Tao of anything. Please refresh yourself. So yes, you did judge me, by grouping me (categorizing = labeling) with 'male dominating, etc." and also you judged me as an idealist/mentalist. It is in fact almost impossible to have a conversation without judging. I suggest you study this. I stand firm in my horse stance by what I said. So far no one has the wisdom to knock me from my stance. If anyone can, I promise you I will kiss your lotus feet.