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Not giving them much importance doesn't mean its not there. If an alcoholic or drug addict doesn't bother about his habit, thinking "it shouldn't be a problem" (in fact that is exactly what all drug addicts think until their issue really gets out of hand), the habit can only grow until it tips over. Maybe a little kind of inference might help: if lets say we are able to remain unafflicted throughout waking and dream, even in the worse scenarios like nightmares, etc, then naturally I should have no problem with the bardo states. If there is any amount of attachment, or afflictions, in dreams, in sickness, in pain, or whatever, then naturally I can't overcome afflictions at the time of death. Because death, as my Taiwanese teacher (through experience) have said, is a much more painful process. It's all based on the scriptures. I have no experience of afterlife, sorry. Thats right. Yes he died four times this life. Four NDEs (he sees the white light and all that). He remained totally awake and unafflicted. He said death is a very painful process. But obviously, if he can do it, so can we.

@tulku If you eat,breathe,urinate,defecate then you (sorry to see that you have so much hard time to recognize and accept it) belong to the animal species.In case you have not fully realized it: you have an anus that is directly connected to your mouth by your digestive system. I can see no reason to despise your anus. You can of course take care of germs and bacteria but it is a whole different attitude than finding it disgusting. I don't advocate following animal behavior. I am just saying that there is a huge delusion is trying to be what you are not. You are free from what you know and have integrated not from what you are trying to run away from: your animal nature will follow you until your death as a human being so you can be better off knowing this aspect of your life. Sexual instinct is one of the most powerful energy in nature because it relates to Life itself. Unless you have specific qualifications, you may just fooling yourself with all this. It is leading some day or another to frustration and disillusion. I am no one to define what the monk is: Buddha did it better, but you can look in all traditions: it is quite the same and it is definitely not for everyone if you look honestly. At least the skeleton meditations were designed for specific people living in a specific context. If you have a TV, a DSL connexion, a fridge, a couch, live in a urban area chances are that you are not concerned by them and that you use them at your own risk. Your freedom and right to pour on this forum the mix of all what you think one should do in order to reach enlightenment is total. But if I were you, before doing that I would first take care on my own practice and first and foremost : find a real teacher not a youtube one, not a hallucinotary one. This only may take you some time. If you are really serious about your spiritual life and if you like meditating on skeleton, join the Forest tradition of the Theravada, if you don't and choose to go on with your current attitude, you are just dreaming a path you will never undertake. Posting on web forums like you do is so clearly a way to escape from real life challenges and real commitments to any spiritual life. If you can't bring spiritual life into your animal life, what will you have to enlighten? I know you won't hear me. I am no one but I have lived long enough to see people caught in their dream of realization.Leading a spiritual life requires full time practice and commitment. The more you talk the less you do, the more you are browsing the web, reading books etc.. the less you practice and confront the real demons of your life (tip: your anus or anyone's anus is really innocent here and so are the women you like so much in their skeleton dress). take care. edited for putting words in bold

I think I have heard about that before. Isn't there a way to make sure it really is? I Have always had pretty decent dream control, but never really messed with the higher-self thing. Mostly I use the lucid dreams for entertainment.

Basically, what I consider as emptiness simply means that what dependently originates is empty of an independent, inherent, locatable existence. All appearances lack self-being and hence while appearing is fundamentally empty, thus being like illusions, like a dream, a mirage, etc. The teaching of emptiness due to dependent origination is peculiar to Buddhism alone.

Thusness Seven Stages makes perfect sense to me. "Everything appears as mere thoughtforms (conceptual constructs)" - actually, not all appearances are conceptual. There are conceptual (ideas, etc) and nonconceptual appearances (sense perceptions), all are equally empty. So emptiness isn't just about realizing the illusoriness of concepts, it is about realizing the illusion-like nature of all appearances be it conceptual or non-conceptual. At this point one realizes all appearances (conceptual and non-conceptual) to be empty, like a dream, like a mirage, like a magician's tricks, etc. Otherwise, there is nothing much I disagree with your statements. update: (Namdrol) ...At base, the main fetter of self-grasping is predicated upon naive refication of existence and non-existence. Dependent origination is what allows us to see into the non-arising nature of dependently originated phenomena, i.e. the self-nature of our aggregates. Thus, right view is the direct seeing, in meditative equipoise, of this this non-arising nature of all phenomena. As such, it is not a "view" in the sense that is something we hold as concept, it is rather a wisdom which "flows" into our post-equipoise and causes us to truly perceive the world in the following way in Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: "Form is similar to a foam, Feeling is like water bubbles, Ideation is equivalent with a mirage, Formations are similar with a banana tree, Consciousness is like an illusion."

It's common knowledge I thought. Here is the 1st one I found. "In your yoga practice, regularly pause for a moment, and look within. There, inside your Heart Center, find the inner smile. This connection with the inner smile leads to a state of unconditional bliss in which external circumstances cannot sway the joy we feel for who we are." http://www.aadilandmirra.com/?tag=bliss Then there is the ever-so-obvious metta or loving kindness. Mettā (Pali: मेत्ता in Devanagari) or maitrī (Sanskrit: मैत्री) is loving-kindness,[1][2] friendliness,[3][4][5] benevolence,[2][4] amity,[3] friendship,[4] good will,[4] kindness,[6] love,[3] sympathy,[3] close mental union (on same mental wavelength),[4] and active interest in others.[3] It is one of the ten pāramīs of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first of the four sublime states (Brahmavihāras). This is love without clinging (upādāna). The cultivation of loving-kindness (mettā bhāvanā) is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism. In the Theravadin Buddhist tradition, this practice begins with the meditator cultivating loving-kindness towards themself,[7] then their loved ones, friends, teachers, strangers, enemies, and finally towards all sentient beings. In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, this practice is associated with tonglen (cf.), whereby one breathes out ("sends") happiness and breathes in ("receives") suffering.[8] Tibetan Buddhists also practice contemplation of the four immeasurables, which they sometimes call 'compassion meditation'[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett%C4%81 Pretty obvious imo. It's on this MCO chart as well. Vajrayana (Buddhist Tantra) The Tibetan theory of chakras plays an important role in all the Highest Yoga Tantras. They play a pivotal role in all Completion stage practices (as opposed to Generation stage practices), where an attempt is made to bring all the subtle winds of the body into the central channel, to realise the clear light of bliss and emptiness, and to attain the 'illusory body' of a divinity .[9] The Tibetan system states that the central channel begins at the point of the third eye, curves up to the crown of the head, and then goes straight down the body to the tip of the sexual organ. The two side channels run parallel to, and without any space in between, the central channel, but they begin at the two nostrils: the lunar channel ends in the sexual organ, and the solar channel in the anus. Along the central channel are positioned 10 chakras, of which usually four or five are expounded as being important. They are located in the following positions: 1.Third eye between the eyebrows 2.The wind wheel on the forehead 3.The crown wheel on the top of the head 4.The throat wheel 5.The fire wheel between the throat and the heart 6.The heart wheel 7.The navel wheel 8.The secret place, four fingers below the navel 9.The jewel wheel on the sexual organ, near the end 10.The tip of the sexual organ The channels run parallel through them, but at the navel, heart, throat and crown the two side channels twist around the central channel. At the navel, throat and crown, there is a twofold knot caused by each side channel twisting once around the central channel. At the heart wheel there is a sixfold knot, where each side channel twists around three times. An important part of completion stage practice involves loosening and undoing these knots. Within the chakras exist the 'subtle drops'. The white drop exists in the crown, the red drop exists in the navel, and at the heart exists the indestructible red and white drop, which leaves the body at the time of death. In addition, each chakra has a number of 'spokes' or 'petals', which branch off into thousands of subtle channels running to every part of the body, and each contains a Sanskrit syllable. By visualising a specific chakra, the subtle winds (which follow the mind), enter the central channel. The chakra at which they enter is important in order to realise specific practices, for example, meditating on the syllable 'Ah' in the navel chakra is important for the practice of tummo, or inner fire, the basis of the six yogas of Naropa. Meditating on the 'Hum' in the heart chakra is important for realising the Clear Light of bliss and emptiness. Meditating on the throat chakra is important for lucid dreaming and the practices of dream yoga. And meditating on the crown chakra is important for consciousness projection, either to another world, or into another body. In general, the higher tantras, starting with the Guhyasamaja tantra, are very uniform in their descriptions of the chakras, channels and drops. The Kalachakra tantra has a slightly different system, which relates the chakras with astrology. A result of energetic imbalance among the chakras is an almost continuous feeling of dissatisfaction. When the heart chakra is agitated, people lose touch with feelings and sensations, and that breeds the sense of dissatisfaction. That leads to looking outside for fulfillment. When people live in their heads, feelings are secondary; they are interpretations of mental images that are fed back to the individual. When awareness is focused on memories of past experiences and mental verbalisations, the energy flow to the head chakra increases and the energy flow to the heart chakra lessens. Without nurturing feelings of the heart a subtle form of anxiety arises which results in the self reaching out for experience. When the throat chakra settles and energy is distributed evenly between the head and the heart chakras, one is able to truly contact one's senses and touch real feelings.[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra

Wow! You sure do talk a lot once you get started, don't you? Much to speak to. Let's see how I do. Therein lies the problem. When stuff happens that we don't understand we say, "WTF?!" But when things happen the way we think they should happen we say, "Ah Ha! There has to be some controlling factor. This is because this is how things happen in our personal life. When things happen the way we want them too we claim that we had control of the situation but when things get all screwed up we balme other factors. I do understand that humans, in general, have a need for unification. The dieties are for becoming one with - unification! No. There are no answers. There are understandings and opinions. But this is why I have stayed so long in this thread. The word "Taoist" was used negatively in the thread title. I will always argue against such actions. It is not necessarily my intention to hyjack the thread but rather to show that Taoist Philosophy is a perfect guide for one to live his/her life to its maximum potential. That, IMO, would be our best expression of Tao. And this is where I differ from Religious Taoists and Taoists who hold to the concept of a consciousness or an intelligence that is universal. There is simply way too much duality of observable consciousness and intelligenc for me to accept that there is any "higher power" controlling, in any way, what is happening throughout the universe. (Unless, of course, this "higher power is schizo.) Yes, we all hear voices. This is our subconscious mind. A natural function of our brain. What we get from it will depend on what we have put in it. "Garbage in = garbage out." If I were to constantly think about my Pegacorn I would have visions of my Pegacorn during my awaken hours and I would dream about her when I was sleeping. And the more I think about her the stronger my visions will become. Self-induced illusions and delusions. Yep. You will get back what you have put in. Our beliefs, both negative and positive will be reflected in our thoughts and dreams. Thing is, our subconscious mind does not work according to any rules. It just throws shit at us. We think we smell like a rose but in reality we stink really bad. There is no "higher" or "lower" self. We are what we are. That is all. Nothing more, nothing less. If we practice goodness we will be said to be a good person; if we practice evil we will be said to be an evil person. That's life. I don't know. All I can go by is what I have observed with my senses. I have my opinions and understandings. I share those with others. I will arrgue them with others so that I can either justify my opinions and understandings or find that I have been in error and need to change my opinions and understandings. Taoist philosophy teaches me to do this. It teaches me to observe the universe objectively. Every time we view something subjectively we smudge the picture - we don't see what is really there. The more one thinks about flying saucers the more one will see in the night skies. We need to understand the processes of Nature and the processes of our brain. This will allow us to live a much fuller life. And no, we don't have to give up anything in order to become self-actualized. In fact, giving up things will prevent us from becoming self-actualized. (But I'm not going to talk about excesses right now.)

Kali Yuga, no problem Everything, have you tried OBE and LD technqiues? They are quite powerful. Or i should say tapping into the dream body is quite powerful Deci Belle, Thank you for that very reassuring post, hmm i have to say that i hope its not just "my mind playing tricks on me" i feel that all emotions and thoughts are another form of chi, and that one could make a good meditation just by "believing" or "willing" or causing your body to simply "respond" to your will. No frills involved. However that is more of a technique then concentrating on the infinte nothingness ;p Anyways I cant stand the thought of waiting years and years to feel improvements, actually i cant stand the thougth of a meditation being boring, they are always exciting for me You do totally have a point though, that the mind and emotions and words really tend to overexagerate things. However whether that exageration is always bad is another thing to consider alltogether.

Hello Everyone, I have decided to write a followup review on my second Michael Lomax workshop as well as my experiences within the stillness-movement system. I believe today is my 77th day since my first stillness-movement workshop. I recently attended my second workshop in Terre Haute IN on the 20-22th of August. So far I have been very happy with my personal progress in Stillness-movement. As Michael says, "Somedays are better than others, thats the way it has always been". I find that to be very true as somedays when doing Gift of the Tao the Qi can feel as thick as carving butter and the stillness-movement can feel like a burning fire in my Dantian; while other days the Qi can be much more subtle and almost barely noticeable. I look at those days as almost a built in test to weed out the simple phenomenon seekers from the true warriors who have the patience and perseverance to keep pushing on with their heart. Overall though my personal energy development has been heading in a steady upward direction. The average qigong session when I first began this practice pales in comparison to what I am experiencing now. So while day to day may be very different, I'de say on a week to week basis there is a definite tangible improvement. I will now attempt describe the experience and impression I had on my second Stillness-movement workshop. For this workshop I had much more profound experience of it than my first workshop. Its not that each workshop is dramatically different from the previous one, but your own experience of it can change drastically as one's personal energy awareness increases. Its kinda like a beginner student new to the system may only actually perceive and take in maybe 1% of what really goes on at one of Michael's workshops. While a senior student would probably perceive a much larger spectrum of what Michael really does. I know personally I was able to perceive a bit more from the second workshop than the first as I will describe in this review. This is the reason why I think people continue going back to workshops, as each one exponentially expands upon the last. I remember asking one of Michael's senior students who had already graduated from his system why he still bothered attending every workshop he could make. He replied comically, "Graduation? What graduation, as far as I'm concerned Michael will always be a higher vibration than me so there will always be much more to learn and room for growth. Graduation happens when Michael dies", he said laughing. I thought that was interesting and admired his passion towards the never ending strive to learn. However on the other side of the coin I believe one could progress very far with just a single workshop. I remember the same senior student telling me a story about a a girl who had attended one of Michael's workshops in the past and then Michael never heard from her for several years. He said Michael just randomly met her again and she told him that one workshop had changed her life and she had kept up the practice, apparently Michael tested her and found she had some good power. Then for self growth and awareness, one really just needs to attend a single workshop. I think the people that come back are like myself and really feel a calling to the system and wish to learn the medical aspect. On the first day of the workshop I immediately noticed how much stronger I could feel the qigong movements than from the first workshop I had done, in fact doing Gift of the Tao then was perhaps the most powerful I have ever felt it. The Qi got so thick that was like moving through water almost, or perhaps it was like warping the space around me like playdoh lol. I remember doing this one move that Michael stated was particularly awesome. During that move I felt like I was experiencing the complete definition of Tranquility/Calmness/Peace/Power/Love/Ect... all wrapped into one truly awesome movement. In fact after doing it Michael jokingly asked us how many felt like we had just smoked a Joint because this movement had shifted so much energy that it truly expanded our awareness in a truly awesome way. You would just have to be there to experience it because reading about this will just create an abstract concept of what it could have felt like. I believe sometime after this exercise was when i first started to notice seeing Michael's energy field. I was just serenely staring at him without a worry on my mind when suddenly I began to see this bright yellow/golden outline around him. I thought this was interesting so I casually brought more of my awareness to it and as I did it seemed to grow and Michael's being seemed to get larger and larger as this golden energy field was expanding out from him and filling the room. At one point I closed my eyes and amazingly I found that I could still see him, my vision was black except for this golden silhouette of Michael that was following his movements. Although this may not be such an amazing feat for some people reading this, I personally thought this was very cool and a definite proof for me that I had been progressing in my practice and awareness. The only other person in the room whom I could easily see their energy field was one of Michael's senior students who also had a golden outline but not quite as strong as Michael's. Later we practice stillness-movement and received the energy transmission that Michael does. In the past I usually have some spontaneous movement, however this time I was moving nonstop every which way. In fact the movement was so intense it was keeping me from fully relaxing, until one point I completely calmed down and my body went limp. One of Michael's senior students said he and Michael had projected to me so that I my body could just relax and thats what it felt like, a wave of calmness just overtook me and my body and mind went limp. The projection was a subtle sensation that I couldn't quite explain but one thing I noticed was it felt like a weight had been lifted from my head afterwards. After the first day we all went to Umi Sushi where Chef Qi cooked us up some marvelous sushi treats for a great Japanese dinner . The second day was also a lot of fun. We all took turns visiting this tree to practice tree qigong. On the surface this tree appeared not much different from the rest of the trees around it but MAN did it have strong energy. I remember doing tree qigong the first workshop and I couldn't definitely feel the tree's energy although it was quite subtle, and have practice qigong with several trees around my house which has been a lot of fun, however that tree at this second workshop has by far been the most powerful tree I have ever felt. Its energy field was SO tangible. As we were walking to it I was about 30 feet away and suddenly felt like I hit a strong wall of vibrating energy which got strong the closer to it I got. I was surprised to so strongly feel it from so far away. This time I was also very easily able to feel the different layers of the tree's energy that Michael talks about. Later in the day we practiced rejuvenation qigong and did some more stillness-movement. The stillness-movement session was particularly interesting. As I was sitting there my body gave a great urge lay down so I allowed it to do so and i felt a lot more comfortable. To me, this session appeared rather uneventful and I felt I was having difficulty calming the mind. Next thing i know I feel this HUGE jolt on my Dantian, almost as if someone took a big tomtom and beat my Dantian once like a drum. I was at first actually quite confused, I remember thinking, "What the? Where am I? Why is it dark? What am I doing in this state of being?" I then realized what I was doing and had a vague recollection that something important had happened earlier in this meditation but I couldn't quite remember any of the details, almost like recalling a blurry dream. Pretty soon after that Michael brought us out of stillness-movement and I was still super disoriented. Michael said some kind of funny remark I didn't quite catch about if I was still with them and then one of Michael's senior students right next to me laughingly told me for the last 45 minutes or so I had been in a comatose like state with my eyes wide open and body hardly moving a muscle to even breath, he said that if someone came in on this workshop they most certainly would have called the paramedics on me lol. Hearing this dumbfounded me because I certainly felt like my eyes had been closed the entire time and what shocked me even more was that this qigong session had been nearly 2 hours and to me it seemed like an uneventful 15 minutes . There isn't too much to note about the third day of the workshop devoted to medical qigong besides the fact that everyone who participated did in fact heal their partner by remarkable degrees. I will though describe two interesting healing sessions that I have done since this last workshop. The first healing was actually done the day right after the workshop when I was visiting my family in Indianapolis. It came up that my uncle had pain in his elbows and fingers so I told him what I learned at this workshop and said maybe I could help. He agreed and I worked a little bit on him, after he said he could feel something happening in those areas. What was interesting though was that while I was working on him, his wife right next to him said that she could feel all this tingling on the back of her neck and shoulders where she is usually sore. So I said maybe I could help and I began treating her, she said that she could feel all this energy flowing from her neck down her body and out her foot. The next day she wrote to me and said the pain in her neck was much better which I thought was cool, I never heard back from my uncle. The second healing I did a few days ago on my grandma. She's had this terrible pain in her shoulders for over a year now and has very little mobility in her arms. A week before I treated her she got a steroid shot at the hospital for the pain which didn't do anything and she said due to the pain she was unable to do the stretching exercises that her doctor prescribed. Before I treated her she told me that on a scale from 1-10 her pain was at a 8 or 9. So I treated her for a solid 15 minutes utilizing the medical qigong techniques I knew and giving her quite a bit of Energy. Afterwards she hugged me with a smile on her face and said she felt great. She said that her pain was now down to 0 and I had 100% gotten rid of it! Now thats pretty cool for only having been seriously practicing qigong for less than three months. She called the next day and said that for the first time in a while she had slept very good. I certainly feel I have made a big difference in her life and am proud to have been able to help her. From what I have seen these medical qigong methods work and are truly remarkable. I can't tell you how awesome a feeling it is to be able to truly help make a difference for someone I hope my experiences have not bored anyone . I wrote these accounts to pay my respect to the stillness-movement practice and voice my opinion of what it can accomplish. I can say that after this second workshop I have felt a considerate boost to my energy level and practice. Before this workshop I had could not feel too going on in my Dantian area, but now I can feel a tangible heat and pulsing everytime I put my hands there which can get pretty hot when I'm deep in the stillness-movement. My friend asked me the other day what has been the single biggest benefit from doing this practice and I had to think about that because it works on so many aspects and levels of one's life. After giving it some thought, I will have to agree with Michael that the biggest thing for me is empowerment, I truly feel a deep inner strength at my heart after doing these practices that was not present when I first started this system. I wish everyone good luck on your own personal journeys, whether that path be stillness-movement or not I wish you the best. Peace, SurfingBudda

freedom isnt choices, i agree, but i think freedom exists, even though its often misunderstood. Hahah in USofA they hype freedom but really they just take your freedom away if you don't follow the rules to me real freedom is a free flow of energy. When my energies were constricted, i thought and acted in a way that wasn't free, and in many ways was a slave to my lower nature. But as i heal and my energies become loose and expansive, i experience what i can only call freedom! to be fair, i hear where you are coming from, and i am a believer in cause and effect. I had a conversation last week with someone who had a dream that 16 years later was a deja vu for them. So what does that say about the flow of time? I also believe in the validity of astrology, although i would not describe myself as a determinist. i would describe reality as being paradoxically free-willed and fated in the same instant. And i would describe that as just a way of saying things, a koan to push the mind into a non-dual way of looking at things. another way to say it would be that our freedom is destined, and that accepting our destinies is freedom. There are boundaries and constraints but i don't think that means freedom is a total myth. i just think that the freedom that people imagine, like "freedom to do whatever i want without consequenses" is bullshit. But the more we accept our boundaries and limits, the more freedom we experience! So there is a paradox there that i think freedom is part of... just my 2 cents

Wonderful, Adi! Happy to know you like Lhasa too... perhaps you will like Priscilla as much - Her song 'Dream' is one of my favs! and to continue the inspirational and happy theme, here's a little stack of tracks worth a listen or two -

I like to think that Life has no opposite and thus never ends. Birth is the prerequisite for Death, so Death is the opposite of Birth, not Life. I myself have never witnessed any evidence for 'Non Life' as everything feels alive to me. A rotting corpse is full of life. Teeming Living Bacteria is breaking down an old life form, but no where is the Life Force itself absent. Minerals are transforming, trees are breathing, everything is in constant motion. When I watch death, what is it I am watching? The person I knew is gone suddenly, that light I saw in their eyes, that look that was them, is suddenly not there... To me, the body they had is not what made them them, so where did that part go? Their eyes are still there, so is their body, but what was it that carried their body around? That force has suddenly moved on... There is no proof that awareness is limited to the body. We cant really define at all what awareness is. It does not seem to have a substance. there are plenty of cases where people who were hooked to brain machines were declared clinically dead, yet they could give accurate reports of things spoken or events that took place. All while being brain dead. At the same time, we do not want to let the awareness of death [impermanence] really penetrate our lives. We spend so much time imagining that temporary things will bring us happiness, and to me that is our way of protecting ourselves from the vulnerable feelings, that being aware of our Immanent death can bring. Panic. Fear. If we were suddenly told our loved one only had two weeks to live, that loved one would suddenly become very precious to us, we would dote on them, appreciate them, and love every second with them. Our hearts would break open wide. This is so sad to me, as it shows just how deluded we are about our own Impermanence. The reality is we have all been given that sentence. Not by a doctor but by being born. We could die at any second. All our loved ones are going to die also. We have no Idea when or where. The sad thing is that If we were fully aware of Impermanence, we would be fully aware of the precious nature of every moment together. We would really love each other, not just for the two weeks some doctor may one day give us... Impermanence makes us raw and loving and open if we let it. You are fortunate to be having thoughts and doubts about death. Even if death really is the end of us entirely, Living fully with the fact of its Inevitability, will help you really live and really love and enjoy every moment. Then when death comes to you, you will not have the regrets of not having cherished your loved ones, or fully lived your life. You will die bravely and satisfied. For me Buddhism has brought me to this, but there are other paths there as well. Even though I believe in life after death, I think it would entail a massive transformation of sense of self. I would not recommend any path that gives you beliefs that serve to protect you from the truth of Impermanence. Like: "After you die you live in heaven forever, where everything you want you get, and you are waited on by fat flying babies..." This kind of belief lets us falsely believe that everything will work out all right without any suffering. We can be as attached to false things as we want, put of loving our close ones till after the simpsons is finished. For me, as Impermanence sinks through my thick skull, my bad habits no longer seem useful, I no longer seek happiness in things that will not last, and more and more of my attachments just die. This brings a great kind of freedom and happiness. I am now a far better father to my daughter, as I really really appreciate her. I know she could be taken at any second. Its heart breaking and wonderful at the same time. And I am gaining compassion for strangers in ever increasing amounts... [sorely needed lol] I am finding a Happiness not based on things. It comes from awareness itself, when it is clearly seeing reality, clinging to nothing. I believe your partner calls it Rigpa. I aim to Live and Die in this state. It is not my body, my body is like a dream. It is not my mind or thoughts, they are decorations for it. It is the experiencer of everything that will age, change, decay and die. No one can say what it is with any certainty, but without it there is no life, no world, no time, no knowledge, no theory's, no senses, no body... Therefore it is prior to all concepts of the world. The Idea that awareness is limited to the body can only come about because awareness is already there. Awareness is the base of all knowledge. Awareness is always present. Unconsciousness is an experience of a lack of inner and outer sensory data, which includes perception of time. If someone shouts your name while you are in deep sleep you wake up. Something is obviously still there. My experiences of General anaesthetic, and of being KO'd, and from once stopping my heart have showed me that even unconsciousness is a kind of experience within awareness... So why not death? Anyway I have rambled enough. I wish you great Blessings. Love Seth. P.S. Why don't you sign up with your own name?

mate i have had more sex than you could ever dream of .. which is something i deeply regrets up till this very day

isn't all the patterns in this life, all its predictability, isn't all of that the proof of all fakeness? We can predict everything, change its destiny. We can alter reality. Also, can you proof that this is all real? Why did you choose to believe that this is all real then, when you cannot proof it? Have any of you guys ever had a lucid dream? I can talk about this for ever, but you will never understand what its like unless you have experienced it. This experiemce of letting go of the ego is beyond words.

I bought and tried this Shinka Meditation sytem. And I very satisfied with this shinka meditation system. I like "Twilight_wind" track very much. this track make me have better sleep and so nice dream. I only listen to this track and not follow their user guide. lol Wish their can make and release an update that let us to hear the sound without using earphone. I only hear "Twilight_Wind" track, because I get best result with this track. I think they must give more detail explaination on their other tracks. maybe other user testimonials for each track will help me and other user to get some information about the useage for each tracks.

things i do every day - wake up and smile, anchor myself in gratitude and love - prayers of thanks and blessings to the spirit, the gods/goddesses, the ancestors, etc - remember the tzolkin calendar and pray to the day sign (to native americans the day signs were like deities) - stretching and light yoga (nothing crazy just enough to stay limber) - 5 to 15 minutes breathing white light/fullness and clear light/emptiness with the spiritual umbilical cord - 45 min to 75 min meditation starting with chakra hand seals and mantras (kuji-in) and ending with quiet sitting - today was my second day of taiji/qigong class, so now i have that to do every day too. - and reading, right now i am reading "tao and longevity" by huai-chin nan, "the tibetan yogas of dream and sleep" by tenzin wangyal rinpoche, and "the secret of light" by walter russell

You should reread that everyday for 1 month and rewrite it over and over again untill you have the most abstract text. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. So we let go of this reality, as if ready for death with open arms. Then our consciousness goes to a higher/deeper place. I do not know why, but it happens. We observe the secrets in what seems to be something like a 4 dimension. A lucid dream, out of body experience, revelation, whatever. I think you should use this secret knowledge you have attained to your advantage in this manifested reality. For example, completely focus believing in good things, to make it grow like a tumor untikk you orgasm. It is difficult to handle such great power that comes with this secret knowledge.

Found this a few years ago on a compilation disk of cool videos. Until you mentioned Mick I completely forgot about a Patty Smith dream I had last night, she was so nice and salt of the earth, on the level. I saw a picture of Mick in a NYC Village record store, I thought it was Patty at first. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=fFh96ssGisM Regardless... never hesitate to live your dreams

Don't know if I was fortunate or unfortunate,...but at around 19, I began reciting the 1st Absolute Bodhichitta numerous times per day. Although it took years for shamatha to be more present than not,...those Absolute Bodhichitta proverbs are very helpful: These proverbs are: 1. Treat everything you perceive as a dream. 2. Find the consciousness you had before you were born. (Unborn Awareness) 3. Let even the remedy itself drop away naturally. 4. Stay in the primeval consciousness, the basis of everything. 5. Between meditations, treat everything as an illusion. Unfortunate? "Reality is not a safe place for you - the you that you have created. It is the only place where you would die; where there is no room for your hopes, your dreams." JdeR V

i thought hindu and buddhist did that sorta thing?! a butterfly can dream they are zerostao however i will concede somethings may be "highly unlikely"

That sounds similar to Ray Kurzweil's Singularity. As for being specific, what about a complicated math problem in a dream written on a heavy scroll? Any better? Kind of Book of Revelationy, except without the four horsemen part and all the other depressing stuff. More like Christmas. No, not like Christmas--no bows, snow or leftover wrapping paper. No Santa. Um...not high school graduation either, kind of the opposite of that. A wedding--that's it. It's like a wedding--worrying about all the ceremony and the reception and will the flowers get delivered and I don't want to flub my lines and let's hope Uncle Charlie doesn't get drunk and pick a fight and lots of dress up. Formality. No feeling of honeymoon after, not a vacation. Hard work, but fun work after, like a baby.

Like a complicated math problem. In a dream. UFO's are entering into the realm of accepted fact. http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view

No,...I see WuJi or Undivided Light as the Still source, but a source like a fulcrum. The fulcrum does not "cause" anything into motion,...the fulcrum of a playground seesaw doesn't cause the lever to move,...but facilitates it. Duality effects its motions through the prism, which is upon the fulcrum. The prism is not WuJi, but neccessary for the perceived split into TaiJi. IMO it is tricky to use the phrase "so dao gives rise to and contains all forms of light" The Tao of Wu is light,...although not light from our point of view. Our point of view about light is the electrodynamic field. Our point of view,....that which arises from the 5 skandhas,...cannot observe Undivided Light. To observe it, we need our Unborn Awareness. Things are not what they appear to be from a Divided Light point of view. Divided Light desires union with Undivided Light,...however, that can never occur,...because Divided Light was never separate from Undivided Light,...Divided Light is an illusion. Because we have been duped into thinking that this dream is real, we only see one-way,...we do not see the reverse flow of forward moving things as a Tathagata does. Thus we are deluded into thinking there are beginnings and ends,...we think we evolved from apes, who evolved from bugs, who evolved from carbin, etc,...but the reverse is equally correct,...that is,...we are who we are, and to be who we are, we manifested a reverse devolution, to get to the evolution, we perceive we are. Time is one thing,...only our perception fragments it. V

Actually, the mistranslation is a sciential minded revisionism,...like David Barton revising US history to suit Christians. It doesn't take much research to uncover that the the first Christian President was the 7th, Andrew Jackson. The first 6 were predominately Deists. The Greeks implied that true wisdom arose from Thymos through gnowledge, not the psyche through knowledge. Gnothe Seauton literally means Gnow Thyself,...not Know Thyself,...but revisionists have been quite successful altering things, and through the ages since Theodosius and Justinian, pretty much brainwashed humanity to be pro-grey goo, and anti-Heart. The correct definition of wisdom was also shared by Egyptians, Mayans, Naga, Buddhists, Bon, etc. In the Sun and Krst philosophies of Egypt, the heart-thymos was revered, whereas the brain-psyche was considered worthless. In the mummification process, the heart was preserved, but the cerebral gray matter was sucked out and discarded. Like Tantra, Buddhism, and the Maya, the Egyptians seem to have been aware that the head was the vessel for the lowest consciousness, but through the heart came the highest consciousness. Today’s object-ive science considers such ideas nonsense, and disregard for the brain misguided. Yet evidence clearly shows that the Egyptians had an intimate knowledge of brain functions, for example that the left cerebral hemisphere controls the right side of the body. Christians love to say that gnosis came from their Christianity,...yet all the evidence is contrary. Christianity anhilated gnosis,...through Paul, whom the Essenes called “the Spouter of Lies”, to the evasions and genocide of the Cathars. Gnosticism, the original form of today's Christianity, arose from a Greco-Egyptian philosophical fusion, as mentioned above. Gnosticism was an important part of the neo-Christian construct. Gnosis was not an outgrowth of neo-Christianity, as revisionists suggest. Today’s Christian persuasions are a product of Gnostic Christianity, not the other way around. We could say that Christianity was built on the DNA of Gnosticism. This neo-Christian fabrication from Gnosis and Krst, from gnowledge and the Anointed One, can also be substantiated through the Book of Enoch, from which over a hundred phrases were introduced into the New Testament. Enoch was written before 170 BCE, and several Aramaic copies were purportedly found among the Dead Sea fragments of the Gnostic gospels from Qumran. These Gnostics, from the time of the Julian clan of emperors, maintained that Christ was not a man in human form, as claimed in the gospels, but an individual goal of an initiate to realize a Christ Consciousness, the Logos. The Logos represents a mystical rebirth without sexual union, an awakening to a reality beyond duality, a palingenesis from the dream of perception. Duality is inherently a sexual reality, in which consciousness is fragmented. Christ Consciousness is an unfragmented consciousness, in which there is neither hope nor fear. The Jesus as defined in the gospels could not have been a Christ. Neither Paul nor his followers could grasp gnosis, that is, to gnow themselves through the heart of essence. Like many today, frozen in their conceptual experiences, Paul needed a more physical, hope-driven, fear-based path. The ignorant respond to hope and fear. Thus, from the expectations infused through the Pauline church, the concept of a personified Christ grew and entered the groupthink of the anti-Gnostic Paulines and those, like the Roman aristocrats, who wished to exploit it. V

Exactly! You're the first person I hear this from... I once had a dream about bach, but he was an old chinese man. He said that reason why he never included tempo in his work is because it could be played in all kind of tempo's. Especially the slow tempo on a fugue fascinates me because it contradicts the very definition a "fuga". Yet the melodies still succeed tonescape the grasp of your mind, like water. Even on slow tempo. Here is a slow one When you play a fugue yourself, on piano or keyboard, it is alot easier to notice the harmony that all the individual melodies form together. You can play with the rythm and tempo that way and discover the music so deeply. Its great fun. Since I've been trying to figure out fugues, composing music becomes easier and easier. I think the fugue is all about the process of creating music. Exploring all the possibilities in a single musical theme.