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Why try to do it when its just easier to just get it done and move on to better things to do... You are right... seeking to escape may be a fools quest that keep us bound without doing what need be done... If some folks only have their illusions and delusions lets help them change the nightmare into a divine dream and then help them bring about the dream into a divine reality... with the help and guidance of the divine... Humanity is part animal part spirit part mind and a bit more... and just need the right dance and music to play and learn

Wait a minute before you penalize me, i must mention that i have had slight visions of the future, but only in my dreams so far. Like this other time i saw a girl in my dream i had never met before, she was writing something in her dairy and the next day at the supermarket i see her leaning against the wall and recognise that its her and that same week i had a dream where in the middle of it a large crowd of people were dancing in the street like a flash mob and the next day i hear the same song at a hardware store, and it wasnt a new song. It was the song celebration by soul train, or something. While we're on dreams, there was this one time when my big brother fell asleep in the sitting room playing playstation and i was asleep in our room and then i was woken up by him, but it wasn't him cause even though my vision was blurry i couldn't see his face. Its as if he didnt have on. So he or it wakes me up by shaking me, i blink a few times then he's at my door calling me with his hand and not by talking or anything. I fiqured he wanted to show me something he did on the playstation so i get out of bed and walk out the bedroom but i find he is nolonger at the door, he/it disappeared. When i get to the sitting room i find my big brother fast asleep(waking him up is harder than moving a mountain). So i eventualy wake him up and we go back to bed. So what faceless and voiceless bieng woke me up?

People have been able to talk shit online for over 30 years, but it's only become a common hobby since Facebook and Twitter. I've been discussing bullshit with friends and on the internet since I was a teen -- I remember my first message board, a gangsta rap forum in the '90s, quite clearly! -- and I'm aware that I'm not the only one, but it seems like the number of political "experts" and idiots shouting opinions has increased massively in the last few years, partly due to the popularity of "social media". On the one hand, it was a previously unimaginable dream for any democracy to be able to supply its people with so much information and have them so involved in the discussion. On the other hand, this is why I've always been wary of democracy...

interestng post , i have had numerous long term relationships and currently single but have dreamt for a long time of a certain woman , she is always different in appearance but always the same in spirit, I adore this woman with all my being , and is the only lady I dream off that I do not have sexual contact with , I always just hold her and treat her like a goddess as cheesy as that sounds. I am starting to think she isnt human , maybe some connection with the higher feminine ?

Doing an academic paper on Daoism (living the dream!) I'm looking for the passage where Zhuangzi says roughly the following: "[Even the useless has its use]. Words too have their use. Where can I find me a man who has gone beyond words so that I may have a word with him!?" http://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html Using this site, which section can I find this story?

Why would i want to feed my demons they have taken enough from me and ruined my life. Im talking actualy entities i have seen. I have been under demonic oppresion...the best way to sum it up. But i think these entities have been abducting me since i was a toddler or a baby even...after all my research into alien abduction shows that abduction is a life long thing and if your seeing them then most likely your an abductee... i have other reasons to belive so also. It was only in 2013 when thanks to mindfulness meditation i started to over come my porn addiction, that summer i managed to go three weeks no fap and i woke up in sleep paralysis with a grey alien standing at the foot of my bed. Another experience i had was a year and a half later when as i was waking up i felt energy being drained from my left arm, i tunred my head over and before i opened my eyes i saw a reptilian entity, in what im guessing is the astral plane, arm outstretched holding my hand with a big creepy grin on its face. Ive done silly simon before and the first big visual to hit me was what looked like an alien language, although i cant remember it properly now. But its was compicated and vivid nothing my imagination could come up with, this was many years ago before the entity experiences i mentioned. The language was golden, shining in a double helix spinning in a giant void with other strands in the distance and it seemed to go well with the music i was listening to. The thing it reminded me of though was serpent like in essence a bit like the dollar bill sign $ or just S is serpent like, but more complicated, like if a reptilian alien language existed it would look like that. I think psychadellics can open you up but not necessarily and perhaps they just show you what is already there. My bloodline is probably cursed. I might have found a solution though, although its even harder to believe. After hearing so many near death experiences about Jesus i ended up going to church...long story short i had chritians pray for me and i confessed sins ect ect. A week later i ended up wrestling with that entity in a dream or out of body and we fell on my bed except my hand was on it, it seemed pretty short actually and it was wriggling and gyrating...thrusting its hip peversely, i some how called on Jesus and the entity evaporated. Yep what the actual ****

Hi, Tao Stillness what do you mean by negative energy? I have been under demonic oppresion...the best way to sum it up. But i think these entities have been abducting me since i was a toddler or a baby even...after all my research into alien abduction shows that abduction is a life long thing and if your seeing them then most likely your an abductee... i have other reasons to belive so also. It was only in 2013 when thanks to mindfulness meditation i started to over come my porn addiction, that summer i managed to go three weeks no fap and i woke up in sleep paralysis with a grey alien standing at the foot of my bed. Another experience i had was a year and a half later when as i was waking up i felt energy being drained from my left arm, i tunred my head over and before i opened my eyes i saw a reptilian entity, in what im guessing is the astral plane, arm outstretched holding my hand with a big creepy grin on its face. Ive done silly simon before and the first big visual to hit me was what looked like an alien language, although i cant remember it properly now. But its was compicated and vivid nothing my imagination could come up with, this was many years ago before the entity experiences i mentioned. The language was golden, shining in a double helix spinning in a giant void with other strands in the distance and it seemed to go well with the music i was listening to. The thing it reminded me of though was serpent like in essence a bit like the dollar bill sign $ or just S is serpent like, but more complicated, like if a reptilian alien language existed it would look like that. I think psychadellics can open you up but not necessarily and perhaps they just show you what is already there. My bloodline is probably cursed. Sorry for going off topic. I might have found a solution though, although its even harder to believe. After hearing so many near death experiences about Jesus i ended up going to church...long story short i had chritians pray for me and i confessed sins ect ect. A week later i ended up wrestling with that entity in a dream or out of body and we fell on my bed except my hand was on it, it seemed pretty short actually and it was wriggling and gyrating...thrusting its hip peversely, i some how called on Jesus and the entity evaporated. Yep what the actual **** Again sorry for going off topic.

I am going to copy this pretty much from the first post I made earlier and add a little to the end. I hope that's ok! Hello. I think I've only got one more post today so I'm going to type out some stuff here just in case this turns out to be my only post! I have been into philosophy/esoteric/mysticism/mythology for a few years and recently found out about qigong! I went through Jung, Western alchemy, dream analysis and Heidegger's pre-Socratic oral/acoustic truths, which are immanent as opposed to the static one-to-one correspondence theory of Western metaphysics -- veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus -- left-brain matching, rather than making i.e. propositions! Anyway, to cut a long story short, my waking experiences can be pretty vivid, always more than pleasantly so to say the least. So, I wasn't planning on getting started with qigong until I had some baseline knowledge under my belt. But 5 days ago I went celibate and started doing shaking knees horse stance and wim hof quick fire breathing if ever sexual ideas drifted into waking consciousness, then some anal breathing. Well, today I was reading a book while doing reverse breathing and moving the heat around the lower mind. Then pumped it up to the top of my ass, and I actually had my eyes shut at the time, then I thought maybe I ought to try the orbit. So I moved it up the spine and into my head.. and the crown of my head, above my eye-brows right around my head, felt like warm liquid! Right then I was wondering what I should do next and I realised I had no idea, So I opened my eyes and the room was vivid with bright colours and I wasn't really sure if I was awake or asleep! I thought about moving the energy down the front. But I don't think it happened tbh. As I said I wasn't planning on getting started so I don't really know what I'm doing. But, now after two reverse breathes everything in the lower mind gets REALLY HOT. So I pump it up to the top of my ass and that's it, I stop there. I am wondering what I should be doing. Maybe some standing stuff? Has anyone got some pointers or ideas? ADDED BELOW: So it feels like there's A LOT of energy in the lower mind, no pain or anything. I can pump it up to the lower back and it gets hot at that spot, but then it goes back down again. Should I move it someplace to store somewhere or move it back into the head, for get about it, carry on reverse breathing?!?? Thanks for the help!

Cool dream I would suggest finishing that book? Dreaming is one of my favourite things So interesting+ Bizarre! haha I'll share one monk related one that you sparked the memory of... The Dalai Lama gave me 12 golden candles But I felt these were too precious to be given to me so I hid them in a cupboard in the temple... I think I left the temple after that hmm vague Later I asked a monk whether or not I should have taken them... he said I should have ... I think I was questioning my ability... lacking in confidence etc ... the other monk said something along the lines of ... you wouldn't have been given them if you weren't ready. I think there was some war between two factions while this was happening maybe that was another dream hahah... or maybe the war happened after my not taking of the 12 candles.... hmmm interesting

In my understanding, to be awakened is to have "woken up" from the dream of duality. Enlightenment is the same thing. It seems to me that enlightenment, however, is something achieved after many many years while awakening is instantaneous. Awakening is the moment of waking up, while enlightenment encompasses the whole shibang. You could say "he is very enlightened" but not "he is very awake".

Exactly... "Hunting his own bliss"... aren't we all... Dream update: NADA. But to be fair, I have been doing some serious cleansing with sage and such ( for my internal work, see my other posts), so if anything was there, it was probably washed off. *** If you feel happy around him, it means your vibrations match or he is "higher". I would suggest to let it sit and then watch again in a week/month/year and compare notes... If you feel not happy around him... go with your intuition...

I watched the video in full last night, I forgot to do WLP first, I felt nothing. These could be placebo having expected something but I thought I felt some nausea when I went to sleep and I did have very vivid dream.

mmm... meow.....mmmmm.... He is definitely moving energy. But it's something...more of an air/cool/metal type vs. fiery kundalini. Definitely a lot of loading in the third eye/head, but again, just like a random hit of energy, did not seem to have "intelligence"? No response of lower chakras for me at all. Nada. A little bit of coolness at the heart, but with a note of ( ok, let's let it in, but be careful, this is something not exactly enemy, but not a friend either). Probably different vibration between me and him. If you did watch the video today, mind coming back tomorrow and compare dream notes? It should be an indicator if dreams would be way off/weird. p.s. There is a sadistic sparkle in his eyes at the beginning. Am I the only one seeing that energy? "Hunter" sadistic. p.p.s. My "fire alarm" is not ringing that this is dangerous. More of "I don't attack if you don't attack". If you do not have your protection in place though, I would be careful as advised. ( but if you do get enlightened and you are a Buddha in one sec, ping me, we have a job to do)

Congratulations dear Qigong-brother, this is a very auspicious sign and shows two things: 1. Your subconscious is healthy and vital. 2. You are starting out connecting to a wider universe. The variety of experiences you can make in dreams are endless. Sometimes dreams are metaphorical and sometimes they are to be taken literally and sometimes they are just a "cleansing of the subconscious". I even had to battle once in a dream. As I shared this with my teacher he said the same thing I am now saying to you "Welcome on the path, my friend." PS: You can always gain great benefit of your dreams by reliving them in a meditation. Just get in trance with your preferred method and visit the monk again, just like you would do a meditation with guided imagery. What you also could do is to set an intent to meet this particular dream guide again while you are falling asleep. It may take some days with focussed intent in order to have this experience but it will work. You can also write the intent on a piece of paper and put it under your pillow or under your bed.

I have not done it intentionally. But thinking back now about few of my weird dreams, I was given a Fu, but I thought it was for somebody else ( there were two of us in that "dream"), so I gave it to him. But in real life he turned out to be a jerk. So I am not sure if I still have that particular Fu. It's something Primordial Chaos related I think. I will try tomorrow. I need lots of knowledge ASAP to fix things.

Can't really say anything on your dream Leon apart from monks are thought to be symbolic of the higher self. Jetsun, your dream suggests to me that you have frozen emotions that are depriving your higher self of it's life within your conscious being. Just my interpretation, only you can know what it really is pointing to. Peace Ed

I had a dream that a Buddhist monk froze to death, I wonder what that meant? it felt like a far more real dream than usual.

You're still pretending to not know what it means? I'm not getting it... I don't know what to say. Maybe you're serious about the monk in your dream. Perhaps you should go see a doctor see if they can scan you head to locate the monk. You might need surgery to remove that. Its not often that monks come into peoples dream.

Boom! It's just automatic. The wind of karma will take the sentient being where it belongs to: 1. A murderer, a criminal, a career-minded individual who spent a whole life cheating others and becoming very wealthy in the process, a pornographic film producer, etc. to one of the hell planes for an effective purge of their spirit-consciousness. It's the heaviness of their lack of morals what sinks them down so deep in the astral planes grading system. 2. A good person who spent most of their lives doing good deeds to one of the heaven realms to enjoy an existence of unmatched and sublime bliss. It's the goodness of their actions what raises their spirit to the higher realms of existence. 3. Everyone else, back to human if you are more evolved and your degree of karma is evenly distributed, to animal form if your desires are based on a survival mode (eat, drink, sleep, fornicate and work), to ghost if you have lots of unresolved emotional issues, died in an accident or commited suicide. 4. Ascetics, monks, hermits, serious spiritual seekers and the like, to one of the four enlightened categories according to the level of spiritual attainment. We all hope to fall into this last group. The interesting fact is that it's all like a dream, the process is so quick that all memories of the lifetime that is left behind are wiped clean except for your karmic deeds and what is lingering deep in your consciousness: switch on, switch off...like turning the lights on and off. Very quick. We all move on to the next level. So what is the purpose of clinging to anything, including your own life or the futile pursuit of enlightenment? CLING TO NOTHING. It isn't as easy as it seems as beautifully depicted by the Zen artist Ogata Gekko (Monkey Reaching for the Moon): https://goo.gl/images/ruhY1F The monkey is reaching For the moon in the water. Until death overtakes him He’ll never give up. If he’d let go the branch and Disappear in the deep pool, The whole world would shine With dazzling pureness. (Hakuin Ekaku) Happy practice to all.

Hi Dioni:) When I was a kid, I was traveling left and right and everywhere. I kind of forgot about this until I got my life changed with all this esoteric stuff and digging deeper I understood I was always like that. Natural talents:) I remember in one recurring dream as a kid I was always trying to get past the electricity wires which were covering the planet. There were a lot of humans, all cramped, all sick, like a concentration camp on global scale, but I would try to get to the wires as close as I can ( they were high up) and try to find a hole. It would burn like hell ( try touching electric wires yourself), but after I would pass through it, it would be me and blue sky and I could fly and do whatever I want. The feeling of the place was so different energetically. Being an adult and having read about "the matrix", I think my "kid being" was doing just that - going to hang out "outside". Once you get past pain and fear, it's actually very pleasant. ... but I did do a lot of strange things as a kid. I lately took an inventory of all the "events" and it made me think about 1. What were my parents doing ( i.e. did anybody ever watched me) and 2. I died ( almost? technically I am alive) 5 times before age of 7 and then it all stopped. Did I already pass all 5 gates or is it still work in progress? Was it Saturn turning? Who knows... Anyways, OBE is fun if you keep your mind from snapping from fear. If instead of running from fear and pain you actually go ahead ( because it's all in your head anyway. There is really NOTHING and that's all is. I.e. Dao creates whatever you create for yourself ( yourself including all the ancestral programming with boogey monsters and fluffy unicorns))

Hello. I think I've only got one more post today so I'm going to type out some stuff here just in case this turns out to be my only post! I have been into philosophy/esoteric/mysticism/mythology for a few years and recently found out about qigong! I went through Jung, Western alchemy, dream analysis and Heidegger's pre-Socratic oral/acoustic truths, which are immanent as opposed to the static one-to-one correspondence theory of Western metaphysics -- veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus -- left-brain matching, rather than making i.e. propositions! Anyway, to cut a long story short, my waking experiences can be pretty vivid. So, I wasn't planning on getting started with qigong until I had some baseline knowledge under my belt. But 5 days ago I went celibate and started doing shaking horse stance knees and wim hof quick fire breathing if ever sexual ideas drifted into waking consciousness, then some anal breathing. Well, today I was reading a book while doing reverse breathing and moving the heat around the lower mind. Then pumped it up to the top of my ass, and I actually had my eyes shut at the time, then I thought maybe I ought to try the orbit. So I moved it up the spine and into my head.. and the crown of my head felt like liquid! Right then I was wondering what I should do next and I realised I had no idea, So I opened my eyes and the room was vivid with bright colours and I wasn't really sure if I was awake or asleep! I thought about moving the energy down the front. But I don't think it happened tbh. As I said I wasn't planning on getting started so I don't really know what I'm doing here. But, now after two reverse breathes everything in the lower mind gets REALLY HOT. So I pump it up to the top of my ass and that's it, I stop there. I am wondering what I should be doing. Maybe some standing stuff? (which I have never done and don't know how to do). Has anyone got some pointers or ideas? Thanks for the help! (and which forum should I post this in with my other post?)

Eckhart did turn around and question his own existence, yet thousands of others have done this and not awakened. What is the difference between them? Some could call it randomness or grace. One of my own teachers says that for a deep permanent awakening to occur one has to be at the end of their karmic journey and be close to working through their last karmic knots, only then will awakening occur as basically there is nowhere else to go. So with Eckhart Tolle he was already close to it when he entered this life and basically had nowhere left to go to try to get away from his suffering, he knew on a soul level that avoidance and suicide don't work , only place left to see through the dream and wake up out of it.

What I find in my own practices is as lucidity is expanded in meditative or hynogogic states, the ability (and I do mean a skill set) to guide the state of sleep as an altered state into consciousness not readily or ordinarily experienced. One of the key experiences I had related to this is lucidity in rem dream state, repeatedly gives me experiences in two or three directions. 1. I begin to wake up, but through meditation practice I release the my inhibitor control on the experience and I'm paused from awakening in a variety of in between states of which are identical to meditative states but highly enhanced because of sleep paralysis it seems. Everything is inside out or outside in. 2. I stay in REM state and have a very face value symbolic communicative mastery of the rem environment asking questions, receiving instant answers, traveling, soul searching, hearing music, seeing possible timelines play out, lights, tunnels, sliding or shifting planes, and the abs solute peace of rejuvative spiritual energy experienced in sleep. 3. I fall "in deeper" or "up" and am snap shot awakened. Oobe's are definitely a different experience than lucidity. Light meditative dream imagery states are distinctly different for me than the relaxed clarity of sitting or standing meditation. A quiet mind definitely enhanced ones awareness to the natural spiritual doorways we open and close each and every day.

The sensed needfulness of removing ignorance, is itself illusion. This sensed loosening of the shackles, is itself illusion. What effort can be put forth in letting go of chains which never bound me? Can it even truly be said there is a letting go? Even the emergence of my perceived underlying naturalness is mere perception in contrast with perceived unnaturalness. In truth, I, without attributes, simply imagine a "doer". As such, at all levels there is neither effort nor effortlessness. Just ideas, appearances... a snake in a rope. A mirage of water in the desert of the mind. Upon dissolving such distinctions effort is seen as a call from my Self, by my Self. I was my Self when effort arose, I am my Self when effort subsides. What appears as the lofty goal rendering all else insignificant, is already Me. What more is there to realize? Where has effort gone? It's as if it never was. Nothing has changed. Just an appearance of change. An appearance impossible without my being the Stillness... just being as I am. Where is effortlessness? An idea in the dream. Nothing has changed. Spontaneous, without effort or its absence...just being as I am.

"Back to the Future" - one of my favorite movies! ... On a "spiritual" related note, I constantly have dejavu's. Sometimes it is annoying, like knowing what will be said and such... Most of my dejavus I think are from seeing it in a dream first and then being in exact situation later. Sometimes I think it is a glimpse from the meditation. Given that there are those( selves) who travel in the past, those who travel to the future, those who run in parallel dimensions( my teacher always talks about it, so there must be something behind it - spirits going on their own business left and right. He says he sees them all the time in a concept of medical chigong treatment, but usually just observes them, unless they give him a message for the patient)... I think it is possible that "time travel" is nothing more than a dimensional change concept. For example, for those of you who have seen spirits/deities in your meditations/rituals. Where do they come from? Even if they are generated by collective subconsciousness ( which I doubt, I think they are unique individual entities/beings), why do they look appropriate to their "epoch"? I.e. would you recognize Buddha or Jesus in jeans and a t-shirt if they show up to you? I think they are time traveling... ...