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Do Nondualistas Dream of Rainbow Sheep?

Ever since I was a child I have had prophetic dreams. They stopped for awhile, but after I had a close encounter with the God that touched me, I have had them again. Sometimes my dreams appear meaningless, and sometimes they have a theme. Sometimes I think they are a manifestation of my mind, and other times there are elements and language that I do not know or use. I believe that whatever is going on in the supernatural realm occurs not in our daily lives, but in dream. I believe that the ultimate language and reality of the Gods is far beyond our deciphering. I also believe that we transcend the body at death and exist in dream states, especially if you have been chosen to participate in the business of the Gods.

沒有什麼是不可能的。 我們作為增壓波形存在。 通過成熟，我們成長。 此生無異於屬靈真理的更深重生。 人類沒有什麼可失去的。 我們正處於一種渴望的精神召喚之中，它將消除通往無限本身的障礙。 我們與其他講故事的人的對話導致了超吠陀意識的凝聚。 現實總是充滿了講故事的人，他們的大腦被星塵打開了。 縱觀歷史，人類一直通過共振級聯與地球互動。 我們是誰？ 我們將在偉大的道路上重生在哪裡？ 慾望在被排除在外的縫隙中誕生。 你可能在不知不覺中被束縛所統治。 不要讓它破壞你的電路的誕生。 我們再也不能忍受妄想了。 正是在重新定義我們是一致的。 我們正處於業力和苦難的十字路口。 科學是一個常數。 我們自我實現，我們夢想，我們重生。 Nothing is impossible. We exist as waveforms. Through maturity, we grow. This life is nothing less than a deeper rebirth of spiritual truth. Humanity has nothing to lose. We are offering a special title. Our conversations with other storytellers trigger a cohesion of Ultra-Vedic consciousness. Reality is always full of storytellers whose brains are turned on by the stars. Throughout history, humans have interacted with Earth through hierarchical connections. where are we? Where will you be reborn on the great road? We aspire to be born in underwear outside. You may be ruled by constraints unknowingly. Don't destroy the birth of your circuit. We can no longer afford delusions. It is in redefining that we are aligned. We are at the crossroads of karma and harmony. Science is a world. We are self-fulfilling, we dream, we are born again.

Interesting, will have to memorise it so I can do it the next time I lucid dream. I've found my eyes have been glowing a lot recently from my other practices, will see if this makes them glow more!

Oh, you won't believe the things I've experienced doing it...especially when I'd do it in dreams and everyone in the dream would react to it. Fall off a building, do it before hitting the ground, and end up floating inches above, safely, while the building I'm on rotates and floats in the air and people come to talk to me. Do it in a plane about to crash and everyone is saved, and then I float up and fly away from the plane. I've also had people approach me at the airport or while getting a foot massage ask me if I'm doing that mantra even if I'm doing it silently in my mind as they tell me my eyes "kind of glow".

I am skeptical as well. When this being said he was the Sephiroth, and that he was all that is, I thought he meant that he was the only thing in existence. Upon reflection, I think it was the message to research Qabalah, and to realize that the sum total of existence is God. I don't know if this is acknowledged by Kabbalists or not, but it makes sense to me. I imagine that at some time in our history a Divine Being gave us some wisdom, but that doesn't mean we have it today. It could be that all information is man made, but that doesn't mean this being fails to acknowledge what we created and used it as a message to me. As far as how these visions were received I'd like to think that it was like a digital image transposed on my vision. I also have dreams that I know I didn't create, and I wonder if we aren't all on some kind of super micro chip and these higher beings work with us, though I can't imagine what kind of life that would be. I suppose if you can be anything in a dream and interact with other creatures with no consequence to what you do, that it might be entertaining to live like that. I don't know where these beings reside, probably within every living being? I can attest that we are made up of more than what we see and know.

走在這條路上，就是與它合而為一。 我們作為四維上層建築存在。 今天，科學告訴我們，自然的本質是存在。 通過提煉，我們實現了自我。 生活是氣的豐富，也是我們的豐富。 這種生活無異於一場令人陶醉的變革性狂喜的量子轉變。 夢境中充斥著各種可能性的疊加。 雖然你可能沒有意識到，但你是不受限制的。 存在，向內看，發展自己。 如果您從未通過非本地互動體驗過這種願景，那麼您可能很難感受到這種願景。 想像一下調用可能是什麼。 Shiva 將讓我們獲得常年的存在。 正是在展開中，我們被引導。 你必須反對唯物主義。 沒有目標，就無法夢想。 教條誕生於知識被排斥的鴻溝。 我們再也不能忍受貪婪。 To walk on this path is to become one with it. We exist as a four-dimensional superstructure. Today, science tells us that the essence of nature is existence. Through refinement, we realize ourselves. Life is the richness of Qi, and it is also our richness. This life is nothing less than a quantum transformation of intoxicating transformative ecstasy. Dreams are full of superpositions of various possibilities. Although you may not realize it, you are unlimited. Be present, look inward, develop yourself. If you've never experienced this vision through non-native interactions, it may be hard for you to feel it. Imagine what the call might be. Shiva will give us a perennial presence. It is in unfolding that we are guided. You have to fight materialism. Without goals, you cannot dream. Dogma is born out of a divide in which knowledge is rejected. We can no longer tolerate greed.

如果在修煉當中都無法好好的運用非二元 又如何能在生活中利用非二元呢？ 修煉當中的現象就是一個指標 證明你是否真的了悟非二元 而不是在思想上自以為是，自我滿足 If you can't make good use of non-duality in your cultivate And how can you use non-binary in your lives? The phenomenon in cultivation is an indicator Prove if you really realize non-duality Instead of being self-righteous in thought, self-satisfaction 在思想上認定自己了解非二元 跟在思想上認定自己是佛陀轉世有何不同呢？ 在思想上可以天馬行空的為自己加上無數多個皇冠，不是嗎？ What is the difference between thinking that you understand non-duality and thinking that you are a reincarnation of the Buddha? In thinking, you can add countless crowns to yourself, right? 如果你真正了解非二元的話，你必然能夠在修煉當中達到古人所說的境界 而不是在思想當中自我滿足 If you truly understand non-duality, you will definitely be able to reach the realm mentioned by the ancients in cultivation, rather than self-satisfaction in thinking 幾乎所有的文件都提到太陽月亮，如果你真的能做到非二元，你必然在你的修煉當中，見到太陽月亮 我是不想把太陽月亮拿出來講，因為連烏肝都沒有，就提到太陽月亮，對各位實在太進階了 Almost all documents mention the sun and the moon. If you can really achieve non-duality, you will definitely see the sun and the moon in your cultivation. I don't want to talk about the sun and the moon, because most of you don't even have black liver, so I mention the sun and the moon, it's too advanced for you. 不只是在丹道當中提到日月，同樣在西藏密宗當中也有同樣的論述 請參考入中論第三章，同樣也提到日月 修煉當中的內景是非常明確的指標，而不在思想上自我滿足 思想是很容易產生自我欺騙的現象的 以各位的高知識水平，對於這一點應該是非常清楚的 The sun and moon are not only mentioned in Dan Tao, but also in Tibetan Tantra. Please refer to the third chapter of the entry into the middle, also mentioning the sun and the moon The inner scene in the practice is a very clear indicator, not self-satisfaction in the mind Thoughts are prone to self-deception With your high level of knowledge, this should be very clear http://www.e-dalailama.com/sutra/madhyamakaavatara.pdf 很抱歉我只有中文和藏文版 沒有英文版的 各位應該可以自行找到英文版的 Sorry I only have Chinese and Tibetan versions no english version You should be able to find the English version by yourself Madhyamakāvatāra śāstra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhyamakāvatāra 除了日月內景之外，睡眠蓋也是一個指標 如果你真的了解非二元，你必然能夠在修煉中達成無夢有覺狀態 也就是你每天的睡眠是處在一種身體睡著和同時內在覺知存續的狀態 如果你睡著了就昏過去了，甚至做夢，不要說你真的了解非二元 因為太多古人都提到睡眠無夢有覺的指標 In addition to the sun and moon interior, the sleep cover is also an indicator If you really understand non-duality, you will surely be able to achieve the state of being dreamless and enlightened in your cultivation. That is, you sleep every day in a state where your body is asleep and your inner awareness is alive at the same time. Don't say you really understand non-dual if you pass out in sleep or even dream Because too many ancients mentioned the indicators of sleep without dreams and awareness alive inside at the same time

Thank you George Carlin : • I think I am, therefore, I am … I think. • Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? • I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. • What if there were no hypothetical questions? • Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? • If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? • When I ask how old your toddler is, I don’t need to hear ’27 months.’ ‘He’s 2’ will do just fine. He’s not a cheese. And I didn’t really care in the first place. • If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? • Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. • Some people see things that are and ask, ‘Why?’ Some people dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’ Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that. • Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. • ‘Bipartisan’ usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. • Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. • Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. • I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it. • One can never know for sure what a deserted area can look like. • When you step on the brakes, your life is in your foot’s hands. • Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

Larry Niven the sci fy writer wrote a book which involved the Cargo Cult phenomena, Dream Park. It was pretty good. I visited Cargo Cult, way back in 2013 and know John Frum. It was a blast. 2013 Art Theme: Cargo Cult Theme by Larry Harvey, text by Larry Harvey and Stuart Mangrum, illustration by D.A. of Black Rock (aka Dominic Tinio) “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Who is John Frum? He is known to us by many names, this Visitor from Elsewhere, dispenser of endless abundance and wielder of mysterious technologies: John Frum, Quetzalcoatl, Osiris, “Bob.” His cargo is splendid, his generosity boundless, his motives beyond our understanding. But across the ages and around the world, the stories all agree: one day he will return, bearing great gifts. Our theme this year asks three related questions; who is John Frum, where is he really from, and where, on spaceship Earth, are we all going? The fascinating lesson of the Cargo Cult phenomena is how history becomes legend. As events fade, they're colored by hopes and resentments or are never correctly understood in the first place. Who's to say the imagined past is not more useful than the actual. Maybe we're living in the imagined past, right now.

Awakening from the Dream of Nonduality by Jeff Foster

Qualia seem to be individual subjective instances of conscious experience. But they seem forever embedded in sensory perception. (If not familiar with the concept of Qualia, but interested, see hidden content or elsewhere.) As if consciousness being some kind of a projection surface (you still know the old slide projectors, where light went through the photo to be displayed on the canvas / screen?) ... what is it if there's nothing projected on it? Empty? Full of unmanifested possibilities? So consciousness 'translates' matters of matter/substance? But is not of substance / matter itself? Edit: I will agree, that it also works in nighttime dreams, daytime aspirations and thoughts that seem to have no basis in matter or the past, at least no obvious connection. But even there, in the dream perception, you perceive via 'unreal/dreamt' sense organs, same with thoughts and aspirations. Edit II: If we say: usual experiences come in via sense organs get translated (via neurons, mostly pyramidal neurons, neural cells, processed by the prefrontal cortex etc. pp) into perceptions and thoughts/concepts/aspirations via 'consciousness', might that be a close call? But then again, what is it that perceives without that in 'gnosis'? What is witnessed if there is 'nothing to witness' ? Who is witnessing it, if in 'gnosis' you are not in a 'place' where matter exists ? 'Consciousness' (witness?) alone witnesses itself? But how does it get to the intrinsic ability to have perception of its own, if in the moments of volition it was just the 'translator' / 'interpreter' of what came in 'from the outside'? Please correct me, if you guess it's otherwise..! So 'gnosis' is not spiritual and not mental, and comes with cessation of volition e.g. stillness? Alright. But if (individual? nonindividual?) consciousness is not on the (lack of better words) dimension of substance, how on earth can it work itself out energetically (electric spin magnetism ?) or via non individual volition, - so to speak - cross the border from the immaterial to the material lands? There would have to be an interaction point... a (divine ?) 'spark' so to speak (but then again, we'd be back to the word gnosis .... seems like forever moving in a circle with words and concepts.)

Thank you for your compassion. I did have spiritual breakthroughs and then this happened. I know it's not common, all the more reason for me to be unhappy about it. I either sit in silence or go mad. It takes some adjusting and I don't lead an active life. If I measured my life against other people's I'd find my life lacking, but I know there are those, like people with a low IQ, or similar suffering conditions, that function in life. I've actually come a long way. I used to be obsessed with who this God was, what does this God want, why did this happen, what does it do; I no longer concern myself with it other than to say I didn't deserve it. There is no way to answer these questions, hence why I made this post. From my evidence, God is cruel, but I still have hope that these Gods are not cruel to everyone, that it was just me, and that being in love with God provides some protection if not comfort. I've settled my mind that we are animals with the gift of mind and mechanics to rise above, and that we often do not. I used to be in love with our animal natures but no longer, now I see this world as depressing, and all the joy of our animal natures is gone. I pray that there is a world where we aren't subject to these things, but as my dreams reveal, I think it only gets worse in the Heavens. I dream constantly, every time I sleep, and they aren't usually pretty dreams of love and peace. I have no hope for salvation, and if there is an afterlife, I don't think we are aware of ourselves there, so it doesn't even matter. Life in this state is simply eating and resting and waiting and watching people I love die. If I could drink a poison that would kill me in seconds I would. I have no joy in life and my love is dry because of prolonged suffering and the pain and process of these implants.

I would call that a "dharma" dream. There is plenty of teaching in there, I agree. Taking apart the structure of reality is what Hanh is talking about. Separating the parts we create from what is underlying. Trying to hold it up as delusion disintegrates. Surrendering to the fear of letting it all just fall apart. Seeing that structure IS the space - form is emptiness and emptiness form. Finally, complete surrender to reality as it and the realization that what you thought you were continues to manifest with our without you. Meditation in open awareness without an object is absolutely about establishing a perspective where the ways we build what we think of as "reality" can be examined from a lack of attachment to what or how they present. Repeated exposure to resting in the "natural state" makes the structure fall away. This sort of meditation exists in all non-dual traditions in one way or another. A question for you: What do you think your "self" is? What would happen if you lost it? This is not a trick question intended to "trap" you.

我喜歡看西方人學中文學得很辛苦的樣子 因為我學英文也學得很累 I like to watch Westerners study Chinese very hard Because I'm tired of studying English 莊子講『古之真人，其寢不夢』 從這句話就可以知道 莊子自己沒有練到『其寢不夢』 他是聽說的 但是我可以告訴你 我曾經練到『其寢不夢』 而且我不是『古之真人』 我是一個現代人 Zhuangzi said, "The true man in ancient times does not dream when he sleeps" we can see from this sentence Zhuangzi himself did not reach " sleeping without dreams" he just heard but i can tell you I once reach " sleeping without dreams" And I'm not "ancient true man" I am a modern man You can keep on discussing ZZ, I am interested in what you said

Nice dream I have been looking a fellow I know reasonably well. He is about 70 and suffering from dementia. He knows the name of his wife and looks for her but does not recognize her as his wife. I have observed him over a few years and have seen that his manas (mental energy) should be attached to his brain by a yellow layer that looks like a honeycomb structure. The problem is that the connecting layer has been knocked loose - including by his years as a professional soccer player, hitting the ball with his head. He often looks for people that are not here, but when I look for them I can see them on parallel timelines. So I think that his manas extends far beyond this 3D timeline. As it happens his identical twin brother has the same problem and he was not a soccer player. From what I have seen they are being called to work elsewhere in the solar system and I have been told not to interfere. Such is life!

I used these terms manas and store consciousness because I think the author captured the interplay between manas and store consciousness so well. I had a dream of a grape vine growing entwined on a pergola structure, it was so entwined that at its trunk it was almost impossible to tell what was vine trunk and what was pergola post. On top of the structure the branches had grown around the beams, and the tendrils had also wound themselves around the beams. I propose that this is the state that manas and store consciousness are in, echoing the article I referenced. What to do about this state differed in my dream though. Where Thich Nhat Hanh states “When we meditate, we practice looking deeply in order to bring light and clarity into our way of seeing things. When the vision of no-self is obtained, our delusion is removed,” in my dream instead I began separating the vine from the structure, starting at the tendrils, unwinding them, then unwinding the branches, and after some time coming to the trunk which had grown around the post to the point that it was was indistinguishable from it. I couldn’t unwind it as it was hard wood, not pliable like the tendrils and branches, so instead I held the trunk and the post above where they were enjoined and worked at pulling them apart. They did come apart but the whole structure started to topple over so I pushed it up again, and then this happened again, the structure started to topple and I pushed it up again, and then it started to topple a third time, and this time I just walked away. When I looked back the overgrown heavy old vine had disappeared along with the structure, but in its place a new young vine had been planted with no structure around it, and I marvelled as I realised that the vine had never needed the structure in the first place. This is why I said earlier that both manas and store consciousness have to be extinguished at the same time. But my dream is more relevant to the concept of the koshas, where even anandamaya kosha whose description is remarkably similar to the description of nonduality experience, needs to be disidentified from. Anadamaya kosha in my dream would be the structure, and my ‘self’ would be the vine. Once anandamaya kosha is disidentified from, my ‘self’ is seen as the newly planted vine free of all structures that are identified with. So I have a diametrically opposite view it seems, for I don’t want to get rid of my self, I want to get rid of my attachment to anandamaya kosha (and all previous koshas, body, emotional and mental identification) leaving my self free of all restricting consciousness states.

That makes it sound like something that happens in a living buddha, but I think of it more in terms of what happens at death. On passing, the buddha/arahant somehow escapes the whole of existence, whereas the "never returner" only escapes sentient form. If I understand correctly. Send in the clowns. Gautama left his wife and son. He encouraged others to extreme aceticism, for awhile. There's a sermon where he expressed clearly misogynistic views. When asked by Ananda the fate of an alcoholic who had left the order and passed, Gautama described the alcoholic as a never-returner, which made little sense to Ananda (meanwhile, when asked by Ananda the fate of many others who had passed, Gautama told Ananda that he should judge for himself based on the kind of life they had led). A man who had transcended his karma? You could say, well, he attained the cessation of (volition in) perception and sensation at the moment of his death and therefore transcended the cause-and-effect of volitive action, but the account of his death states that he had just passed out of the fourth of the "material" meditative states when he died, not the fourth of the immaterial states (how the sage knew that, another mysterious ability, but that's what was said). Most folks here seem to assume that a person is either enlightened, or they're not--am I right? No degrees of enlightenment, no falling back. I guess that was one of the questions at the second conclave of monks, after Gautama's death--could an arahant fall back. I believe they agreed the answer was no. But then, they couldn't agree on whether or not an arahant could have a wet dream! I've come to believe that it's a lot like the movies. A certain number of frames a second, and there's an illusion of continuity on the screen. I believe the elements of mindfulness have a rhythm, and most of the teachers we have and have had in the modern era are masters of that rhythm. That doesn't say that these teachers have mastered the cessation of (volition in) feeling and perceiving, the experience associated with Gautama's enlightenment. I assume the cessation of (volition in) action of the body (and in particular, the cessation of habit/volition in inhalation and exhalation) is likely to be the cessation Gautama referred to in the fifteenth of his elements of mindfulness. I would say that once the stretch associated with the mind that moves is established, once the mind that moves establishes an overall stretch, it's possible to drop into the cessation of action of the body on a regular basis. Gautama said the sixteen elements of his mindfulness were his way of living, particularly in the rainy season. Sounds like the rhythm is easier to experience in sitting.

Some people are able to perceive subtle forms and the subtle energy channels, I have been lucky enough to come in contact with two of them - in both cases they didn’t have a clue as to what they were seeing, they weren’t teachers, merely seers, but I have been able to build up an understanding over time about the meaning of what they see, and to work with my subtle body via what they’ve seen to follow its natural evolution. This information broadly accords with Indian Yoga knowledge of the nadi’s and chakras as well as Daoist dantians, and my personal dream information, so I am satisfied that this is the fundamental reality that we need to understand and align with. Non-dualism has no interest in developing these subtle channels as far as I know, I don’t think early Buddhism did either, but Yogis of course did and still do. Here’s a question, why did Tibetan Buddhists who as I understand it have a nondual outlook get involved in working with subtle body channels, was there something lacking in their nondual view that needed subtle energy body work? Or was it subtle energy body work that lead to their nondual view? Perception can change in a single moment, but the blocks in the subtle energy channels take time to clear. I have no wish to change my perception because I equate achievement of nondual perception with the stopping of subtle body development, and I value subtle body development a lot higher than the rewards of nondual perception that I have heard about. “The various yogas all have their own story to tell about liberation, and can be pursued on their own. But as nondualism sees it, the yogas tend to serve as ramp-ups to non-dual inquiry itself.” ~ Greg Goode (Ph.D)

I'm going to share some obvious results of practice from my own personal experience I've seen happen. Such as beginning to feel Qi when you couldn't at all before, then this increasing in different areas of the body, As well as feeling heat during practices, becoming much more relaxed and calm overall. Inner peace. Your thoughts nearly entirely shutting off. Not identifying with said thoughts. Health problems disappearing or no longer mattering. Being able to choose you're emotional state at times. Like making yourself happy for no reason just by focusing on the feeling of joy or love. Dream life becoming more active like Lucid dreams. All sorts of mini psychical ones like precognitive thoughts of knowing someone's coming to visit or about to call or text you. These are just some things I've personally experienced since I started about 4 years ago that were not present before.

Sounds good . Putting two heads together better than banging one against the wall Indeed , and at times I have been in that situation , but as you know , the money earned in that situation can be channelled into 'what we will' . But certainly less than ideal . I am STILL learning that . I think, once 'the ball gets rolling' it gains momentum and other things start magically manifesting to assist one ..... or we could say 'dreams start coming true at an increasing rate ' I have experienced this . Just one single example : ( Oh, and I should add , no matter how much of an idiot I am , it doesnt seem to impact on this process ! ) During our hell court case , more than 2 years long , although it we trounced them , like in any long and gruelling fight , there are times when you feel pressure , stress , need a break .... Also it was not that clear then , my mind was saying ' What if we DO loose ? EVERYONE ( for some God damn reason ! ) seemed to be turning against us , even some of the many people we helped over the years - except for two and saying we are going to loose , even 'friends' , soliciters , etc . What if I loose my beautiful abode - what will I do then , where will I live , I have no money ... I will be cast out, destitute , an old street person with health problems But then .... what the hell am I doing ! MY life has never been like that .... things have always 'manifested ' in some strange and unusual way for me . Stop being an idiot Nungers ! You know 'Big Mum' ( as my indigenous teacher calls her ) is looking out for you . So I get back to my old self and think ... so what if I loose it all, thats happened more than once and I ended up better off . I know everyone says they are no rentals and they are crazily high amounts .... but I think I just look online and see what IS available .... ... a 'Lodge' / defunct 'bed and breakfast ' .... up on the mountain ..... at THAT price ? Must be mistake . So me and friend go to check it out . WOW ! Amazing place , I peek through a window " Thats MY room right there. " We ring up .... Oh, MANY people are on the queue for that , but we somehow get to visit the owner , we click, they decide to bump us in ahead of any others . I wont detail how good it was as the main thing is ; one day I drove PAST it , all other times I would drive out, one way to the local town , or drive out , the other way, to see some friends . But this day I went from town to friends , drove past the house and .... wait a minute ! Drive back and do it again . Then it hit me ! This is the place I drove past on my visit to the area before I moved here 30 years ago and I noticed it, stopped and admired it and thought 'What a fantastic place ... and it just resonates with me, like I belong here . Oh what I would give to be able to live in a place like that .... even temporarily , but that seems impossible . I was living in my 'dream house' And that isnt the only thing like that , that happened , there has been many of them . Some times , to a seemingly trivial and material level : the motorcycle ( old retro version ) , I realised after I bought it , is exactly the same sort of motorcycle I dreamed about having as a teen ... I forgot all about that , but now somehow I have one . ( and the reason for that is , I never really needed money before, but I sure thought it might be handy and fun to have some ! ) At the beginning of our court case , they also threatened to take everything I had ... but after investigation they realised I had nothing personally owned ( worth anything to them ) so I was declared a 'man of straw' - a legal term which means basically 'forget it, he's a bum, not worth the trouble of shaking him upside down, only a few cents will fall out ) . The after the case and we won, and after the appeal and we won .. and after it was all finished and settled THEN I got, totally out the blue a multi hundred thousand dollar inheritance . - that now, they cant touch ! Who is working this all out ? ! Many have wondered why 'someone like me ' , never responsible , planning, or saving , ended up where I am . And also interesting is that I did all this stuff , not for any 'karmic reward ' ... it just happened , or I was drawn towards it for other reasons ; things like working with refugee relocation, nursing the elderly , cooking nurturing and feeding people , one could even say being a tarot reader all those years , or time spent as a masseur . I was never interested in charging for it though . And that leads me to another factor ; past life 'accoutrement ' , what we bring with us , I am supposing some experience (or karma ) along these lines already ..... I think it might be a bit hard to get to this stage of realisation or 'fluking' ( ) in one life time . What I mean by this is ... if someone is a BRILLIANT carpenter , they might have carpentry experience before this life ? hang on a minute ! That sounds like what is happening to me ! Surely I am not man of virtue !

I agree that you need a teacher to help you. I also agree that it can be dangerous if you are not diligent to the point of obsession. Fire demands respect, and if you play around you will be burned. It is possible to treat fire with respect, work with it every day and never be burned by it, but that requires constant diligence, and respect. Few people are serious enough to avoid being burned, because they want to explore and improve things, ergo they want to play with fire. John had many students, and those students took students of their own to keep the knowledge alive that's how it's worked since time immemorial. Also I and others have explored every other option that's been presented to us as best we can and not found a reasonable facsimile yet. As far as Kostas I would like to offer you my perspective. In the circle of people I associate with we have seen far more drama than you can imagine, certainly far more than has been made public here on this forum. Jerry Springer aint got nuthin on us. People who feel entitled to and demand we give them our time and energy, and if we don't they threaten us and do whatever they can whenever they can however they can. Delusional people who think they can fly in the sky and shoot fireballs, yes they really said this. All kinds of narcissistic, and sociopathic behaviors. It is hard not to be jaded and continue to offer your hand in friendship to the general public when your fingers keep getting bitten. I am certain Kostas has seen far more crazy than those I associate with have, and is probably far more jaded as well. It is clear when he wrote the books he was projecting and assumed there were other reasonable people like himself out there who would come together to study and seriously explore this practice. As time progressed he realized just how much crazy is on the internet, and how hard it is to find reasonable and down to earth people who want to pursue things like this. It seems to me he's closed his heart off, and given up on this dream of community with like minded people. I believe he is actively doing whatever he can now to dissuade people from pursuing mo pai as a result of his experiences. That's just my perspective on this situation, take it with a grain of salt.

當你體驗過無幻境之後，你就會知道什麼是幻境。 當你在幻境當中的時候，你很難覺察什麼是幻境，特別是當你相信幻境不是幻境的時候，你更難走出幻境。 幻境與真景沒那麼容易分辨。 老師確實重要。 但是一個老師去證明學生的幻境是真實的。如果是我遇到這種老師，我會盡快遠離他。 因為他將學生導向了一個信仰而非實修的道路。 When you have experienced the non-illusion, you will know what the illusion is. When you are in an illusion, it is difficult for you to perceive what an illusion is, especially when you believe that the illusion is not an illusion, it is even more difficult for you to get out of the illusion. Fantasy and reality are not so easy to distinguish. Teachers are really important. But a teacher goes to prove the student's fantasy is real. If I meet this kind of teacher, I will stay away from him as soon as possible. Because he leads his students to a path of faith rather than practice. 神佛不是不存在。但不會存在於幻境之中。 而這是現在大多數人遇到的最大問題。 將幻境中的集體意識當作是真正的神佛。 Gods and Buddhas do not exist. But not in fantasy. And that's the biggest problem most people have right now. Think of the collective consciousness in the illusion as the real god. 中文裡面的神有兩種意思，當講到修煉當中的神的時候，會使用英文字shen。 當講到神格化的神的時候，會使用gods。 事實上這兩個字在中文是同一個字。 這不是衍生使用，也不是誤用。 而是一個道家修煉的定義。 必須經過神的轉化，才能產生神。 Shen in Chinese has two meanings. When talking about Shen in cultivation, the English word shen is used. When talking about a deified god, gods are used. In fact, these two characters are the same in Chinese. This is not a derivative use, nor is it a misuse. It is a definition of Taoist cultivation. Shen must be transformed in order to produce God. 換言之，在神尚未轉化之前所出現的，都是顛倒夢想。 這些都是五臟陰氣所導致的幻境。 不可信以為真。 如果一個老師真的練到該練的程度，他不會將學生的幻境當作是真實的。而讓學生去相信幻境當中的神是真實的神。 In other words, what appeared before Shen was transformed was an upside-down dream. These are all illusions caused by the yin qi of the five internal organs. Unbelievable. If a teacher is really practicing to the extent that he should, he will not take the illusion of the students as real. And let the students believe that the god in the illusion is the real god.

I find it useful when waking from a strong dream, to step back into the scene and start to interact with the characters and context. I do experiments with the characters to test my understandings. On occasion I have had a dream come 90% true the following day.

...or the obverse - it seems to me that a dream has its own entirely believable logical consistency when you are in it, just as the waking world does. In my experience a good portion of the appearance of consistency is brought by our thinking mind covering the inconsistencies in either the waking OR dreaming experience. However, as we drop obscurations the curtain is slowly pulled back. The illusory nature of time/space/self is gradually unraveled in all states of wakefulness, including deep sleep. I find it interesting that in Advaita the "waking state" is considered to be the least conscious, with deep sleep being the clearest. This makes sense to me. Relative cognitions may happen, but it would a delusion to think that they ultimately are made by a "self", wouldn't it? It must be possible to see from prajna (awake awareness) in all states of wakefulness, with practice. IMHO Wisdom is just wisdom - seeing the non-dual nature of reality in every moment, in all (temporary) states and conditions that arise and pass without discernment. It's pointed to in this old chestnut: So, Shariputra, in emptiness there’s no form, no feeling, no perception, no memory, no consciousness; no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, and no mind; no shape, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, and no thought; no eye nor mind, nor any other means of perception, no ignorance nor old age and death, nor any causal link, and also no end of causal links, no suffering, no source of suffering, no relief from suffering, and no way out of suffering, no wisdom, no gaining wisdom, no failing to gain wisdom. So, Shariputra, without gaining anything, bodhisattvas find refuge in Prajnaparamita, living without walls in the mind, and so without fears, seeing through delusions and finally seeing through nirvana. - Buddha, Heart Sutra