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It's OK to be crazy. Don't worry too much. I also think dreams come true for people who are slightly crazy. If your mind is too sane, it means it is too rigid and too inflexible for dreaming. You need to be flexible, loose to dream well. That's why I say being a little crazy is good. But sometimes you have to be completely crazy. Not even just a little, but a lot. And that's OK too. Try to relax and pay attention in a relaxed manner. Don't worry too much about sanity or what's proper. Try to enjoy your life as it is.

makes sense!! Actually,. i used to HATE it, i was scared it meant i was going insane and that i would wind up being taken away by "officials" and put in a rubber room (mind you was 12, and heard that when people stop dreaming they go insane - i beleived it maybe too much - or maybe im too insane to realize ), but eventually, after getting stoned, i embraced it and found it to be quite relaxing actually. Though insomnia doesnt help But overall.... i miss life... i havent experienced life except in minutely small dosages for over 18 years. Last summer was 3 consecuative months of REAL reality, until i fell in love with a girl i had never seen before except once.... in a dream... Dreams dont come true. they jsut dont. they lie to you and trick you into wasting your life and then when they finally present the pay off, they strip it away from you and piss in your open heart wound. It's too late for me. i must exact compensation from the innocent, as the guilty are not within reach! Dont blame me, i didnt ask to be here or be lied to, or go insane. im just a product of YOUR world. I of course speak out to my inevitable victims and their families and above all, the "powers that be" who run the economy and society. They (The "PTB") are to blame, not me, i am just a byproduct of their evil. I will fight it for as long as i am able, but i must warn you, after 12 years of fighting to retain my sanity and express respectful conduct, one day soon, the long haired and easy going hippie will kill all humans. Sounds funny, heck even im laughing, but i have to express this is a very true and real warning. i am losing it, and i know it, and... sadly... short of me finding a mate and getting the heck out of this society and living off the land in peace... there is nothing anyone can do at this point to stop it.

semantics wasnt the right word, and only now have i heard the word referred to as "meaning" and not just "medium for meaning", or as you put it, grammar and syntax. regardless of the meanings of the words, the point of question i am trying to establish, i thought, was blatantly obvious. ANYWAYS. I DO wish to aide this world into an awakening, to raise awareness to the equal level of real reality and immunize our collective selves to propaganda and falsehoods. I feel like i have been waiting 5000 years for humans to GET THE FREAKING PICTURE. That is too much for a 24 year old to feel!!! BUT the problem i have is that the only way i can see guiding anyone in this world to a better way of living is to RECEIVE that guidance first! I've sought it long enough that, at this point, if some random farmer appeared at the door unannounced and unexpected, i would warmly welcome their proepr example and not question wher they came from except in conversation. Heck, at this point, i'd GLADLY accept "i materialized out of thin air a few minutes after you posted your response on ttb" Even if only to acquire the necessary seeds to plant for my first steps toward fulfilling my wishes. But without opportunities to move forward, wishes are nothing but desires made verbal. I've tried dream resolution... but it's pretty useless when you never have dreams. I havent been able to conjure up subconscious dreaming for the last 12 years. ALL my dreams are now nothing more than conscious desires for opportunities to embrace contentedness. "day dreams" as it were. im SO pissed off. Well that sure seems impossible. Experience dictates that it is impossible to make my dreams come true, let alone dream LET ALONE influence my dreams. I am about || this far from calling you a politician type with nothing but pretty words and promises

It's not "just" semantics. The word "semantic" refers to "meaning." (or the study of meaning). Meaning is the most important "thing" in a sentence. Syntax and grammar are less important. So if you said "it's only just syntax" I could understand that. If you said "It's only just grammar." I could even understand that. But when you're saying "It's just semantics" that's like saying "Oh, it's only just meaning." Just meaning? What else is there more important than meaning? Let's continue. You don't think you wish these things because you don't understand the full extent of your wish. You're just not cognizant of the grand scheme of things. It's true that you do wish for all these things, but there are other things you wish for much more. Those other things are interfering. In other words, you wish is fragmented, and the individual fragments of your wish are complicating, or even making entirely impossible the fulfillment of some of the other fragments. I'll give you a simple example. You most likely wish that each person have a free will and an independent mind. That's one thing that will complicate finding your romantic match. You also wish for the world to have physical qualities. That also complicates things, because now things must make sense. A woman can't just appear at your door -- that would not make sense to you, because the world you have built up with your wish demands that such things be either impossible or extremely, extremely improbable. And it is your wish for that kind of world that makes thing this complicated. If you give deep thought and consideration to the full extent of your wish, you will realize that everything is exactly as you want and has always been. The key word there is "full". Not partial! There are many things you take for granted. There are many things that you only notice when they are gone. These kinds of things are also your wishes. When you ignore a thing and begin to miss it when it's gone, that thing was your wish and you didn't know it, because you took it for granted. This means that many of your wishes are hidden from you, because you just think "that's how it always is" -- you take them for granted. You probably don't think gravity is your wish either, but should gravity go missing you will quickly find you want yourself some gravity quickly, and you want it a lot more than you want a romantic partner. Your dreams should be much easier to influence than the appearance of a partner. Why don't you try this: before you go to sleep, resolve to have a dream and to remember it. Be serious about it. Mean it. Believe it. And don't get too worked up about it, because being obsessed about something could be an indication that you believe it is hard to achieve. Try this. You're the only one who has access to all the hidden corners of your own consciousness and subconscious. There might be things buried in you that make your life more difficult than it has to be. For example, maybe you used to commonly have nightmares, and then your mind learned to black everything out as a defense mechanism. You might have fear of dreams. Or there might be completely different reasons that are buried deep down that cause that blackness. You are in a much better position to find all that than me. You are the one who is intimate with your own consciousness, so even if you may not know it perfectly, you stand the best chance of figuring things out. You can get some hints from others, but other people can't solve anything for you in the end.

Hey all, It seems sleep paralysis is rather popular on the net, especially in the Christian community. I remember having 1 or 2 experiences like that when i was younger, one where I was being drained of energy by a purple and green snake O.o But anyway, they all say it's demonic attack usually because of "opening yourself to demons" which of course is done by doing ANYTHING thats not in the bible. Personally, the ability to see entities (as i believe SP is more than just a dream) would be a sign of progress, though it's a shame so much negetivity seems to accompany it. I was just curious what people's views on it were. I've heard theories that it's alien abductions (the movie "The fourth Kind"), that it's demons, that it's subconsious projections, energy vampires, ghosts... So yeah what do you guys think? Have you ever had one? Do you know how to make them stop?

1. Ubik. My favourite. 2. A Scanner Darkly (also a great film). Anybody who's experimented with drugs can relate to this. Total headfuck. 3. Do Andoids Dream Of Electric Sheep ? The novel that became the film Bladerunner. Awesome.

Ah... the dreamless sleep. yet are we really dreamless if we can reflect and say that we were without dreams? Even if we dream of absolute nothing[ness], we are still dreaming, recognizing, reflecting. My question is how do i return to life and dreams from the pit of absolute nothing[ness]?

You can make your dreams be anything you want. That's great power and it's easy to get caught up in it. For example, you can make it so that your dreams have special messages about the non-dream world. You can then get obsessed with gathering and following these messages and forget that you can make dreams meaningless if you want. In other words, you might forget that you have this power to change what things means and just follow a meaning you gave something long ago, all the while suffering a lot. If you are careful not to get obsessed over things, and if you keep in mind that dreams don't have to mean any one thing, and that you are the one that makes them mean this or that, you can go ahead and play with that power and you won't be hurt. When you get bored or tired, don't forget to switch your dreams back to meaninglessness.

No, that's not all there is. We get a job, make friends, get a couple hobbies, save up some money, met a woman we love being with, get married, buy a home, have a couple kids - Hey! the American Dream! Or not. But then even a dullard can say something that will cause a thought process in our mind that will lead to an enlightenment. Never discard something until you are sure it is of no use to you. Yes, here in the US people have become a colder breed of people over the past 50 years. But still there are many who hold to the ideal that we should help others if we can. Yes, the fear of 'getting involved' and being taken advantage of prevents a lot of people from getting involved with others. This is sad but a fact of life none-the-less. Yep. Too late for that. Not many people left who live on family farms and produce nearly all that they need in life. Things change. We change too else we become extinct. Peace & Love!

In "Buddhist India" Ward tells of the final conference after the death of the Gautamid before the order split. There were five main differences between what became Therevadin and what became Mahayana. One of them was the omniscience of the Buddha. The differences were reconciled around the notion that a Buddha was only omniscient with regard to the dharma, not with regard to worldly phenomena. As I've said on Tao Bums before, the point that could not be agreed was whether or not an arahant could have a wet dream, be seduced by a succubus. Something like that. Doesn't exactly sound like the Mahayana that we know, the compassion for all beings that holds off personal enlightenment for the sake of others? Yet I think it rings true, because it means that the mahayanist enters into the suffering occasioned by delusion for the sake of other beings, and that means acts are committed that an arahant (supposedly) could not commit. I'm thinking everybody is right tonight, God help me. the cessation of perception and sensation, which is beyond neither perception and sensation nor not perception and sensation. Marked by a happiness. The pride of clinging to existence, the craving to be reborn, giving rise to the asavas, which cease with the cessation of volition in perception and sensation. Attending on sense object, sense organ, consciousness arising from the contact of sense object and sense organ, impact out of the occurrence of consciousness, and feeling associated with impact, fevers of mind and body decrease, and happiness of mind and body is experienced. Right view, right intent, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration develop and go to fruition, right speech, right action, and right livelihood are already well-attended- so in one observing thus, abiding thus (something like that) with regard to the six sense-fields. does anybody think that the reason we have this much brains is directly related to our lack of a tail? Why do I exert so much energy to wag the tail that I don't have? How come all I have is consciousness, impact, and feeling that breaths and wags? Woof?

The Led Zeppelin I just posted is awesome guitar work. Page is playing a Gibson Les Paul which is my dream guitar. Min. of 3500.00

The problem isn't our obvious sexual excess, but our denial of that excess. We use sex advertising everywhere, but as soon as we find out just how many chicks Tiger Woods has banged, we pull him from all advertisements.... HELLO? He's living the life most straight men dream about- rich, famous, and has sex with as many women as he wants..... We tell everyone "buy our product to be sexy", but when they get their sex on, it's bad. Nobody wants to be "the virgin", because virgins are inexperienced, obviously not social enough to ever have had a decent relationship, and not physically attractive enough to ever have anyone want to have sex with them. But what's the difference between a virgin and a slut? (using the Christian influenced term) Sleep with one person it's okay, you're just proving you're desirable, sleep with two and you're a horrible person? Is it a time limit? Must have X number of days before sexual encounters with different people? You try not to become "the virgin", and instead wind up being "the slut". Tantra is taboo because it would acknowledge something that everyone is in denial about. To have people admit to practicing this would equate to them tacitly admitting that they have sex at all. And upstanding moral members of society don't have sex. Because people still think sex is evil. (of course there's more to tantra than "just sex", but we boil everything down to sex, don't we? ) Give people tantra, and they'd probably downplay it or even ridicule it in public. Of course, behind closed doors they'd be all like, "I can have sex AND be spiritual? Whaaaaa? Sign me up!" But ask them about it and they'd be like, "ew, disgusting." Oooooooh society, society.

Hey thanks artform! Yeah I don't use any kind of physical contact -- except the full lotus pressure on the legs! haha. Of course if I wake up from a dream after having too much yang food that I didn't burn off properly then I might need to close off the gate of mortality -- the base of the weener. But that's only happened once in the past 5 months -- maybe twice -- and I just lost some preseminal fluid.

I kinda like orange fizzy drinks so I wasn't offended. Can someone open a window or turn on a fan? Ya Mu, Rain, may I send you both some Samples of water ala pentatonic yum yum? Has anyone got good links on this 528hz love field? I havn't found research only claims. With loose DNA associations? Certain of the animal movements clear emo energy of humans easily. Animals exist in a natural state of balance. Both of you project strong fields, (dialog window) I pay little attention to either of your posts and casual glide over what is natural inevitable and only human. As we attempt to put into words our natural states we befuddle one another for in one culture and time and for in another culture and time, when I say stupidly universal I mean tessalated truths transcedninh all mediums of matter the center angle the flower of being the reason why there is even the IDEA of movement, a reoccuri g shape or dream you've had

It takes the understanding of there being others to have compassion. The contemplation is that there are no ultimate others, so thereby you realize detachment, and that relatively there are others... so, your compassion is greater because of objective detachment. At the same time... because you are also an other to others, you simultaneously realize that you don't inherently exist. Unlike in paths that take up a formless experience as an absolute, like Shaivism for instance, where you take up a self importance kind of solipsism in experience of divinity and while merging with it, creating experiential and intellectual excuses for a deeply engraved sense of clinging to a self center. Though enlaced with bliss as it might be, is not really liberation from clinging, no matter how exalted the experience and no matter how much your environment reflects this dependently originated subjective idealism. Thus... the Buddha's teaching of Anatta (pali) or Anatman (sanskrit) or true selflessness is not fully realized as you are basing all your actions on an ultimate self as an excuse for action itself. But really, there is only relativity, so compassion is the only act to be, not getting lost in a blissful repose of non-beings as ultimate either. Anyway... this insight must be realized directly by contemplating the truth of inter-dependent origination/emptiness, not as a divine Self, but as reality is relativity there is no ultimate Self. Ok... dream well and dream deeply.

I had my first conscious experience of the power of this lineage at this Ashram. Of course it's always a congruency of ones karmas with the presence and intentions of the place as well... still karmic. The experience was incredible. I was 14 and wanted to be a monk and devote my life to the practices after the experience. I left and forget the experience even happened for 7 years as it was so different from my normal everyday life. I saw directly the space beyond being and non-being then I experienced the light of the physical body as Muktananda describes in "Play of Consciousness" which I didn't read until 7 years later reminding me of the experience I had at 14 with such vivid reflection. When the experience happened it was just from looking at a picture of Gurumayi in the chair and Muktananda above the Guru's chair. The picture itself emanated this power and energy that made me close my eyes while chanting and I went into this deeply aware state of timeless, formless expansion... then it coagulated into the red body sitting in my posture burning with fire! I later walked out of Muktananda Mandir into the walkway with my Mom and wondered why everyone suffered when they are innately so beautiful and free beyond the conditions which only seem to bind! I later had visions of the "nila bindu" and such things as this. All I wanted was to stay there... it was like heaven on Earth. Such a wonderful place... if one is karmically open to it that is. I was the Pujari for that statue and all the others on the grounds of the main building once a week as my offered Seva for my day off when I lived there. I lived there for most of 5 years from late 94' to just after 99'. I also did Seva in the Nityananda temple and Pujari for the afternoon Arati at times. My main Seva was the food service line for a number of years as the manager or co-manager sometimes for the lunch and dinner schedule. I also worked with Mahadev (Leonard Saphier) as a personal assistant who has muscular dystrophy but is a highly accomplished yogi who has been living at the various Ashrams since the 70's. Anyway... some of the happiest times of my life were experienced at and around Shree Muktananda Ashram. Yes... no doubt at all. He visited me after his physical passing as well. eh... karma is as karma does. Oh yes... yes... yes! So deep she is. So deep. She's a very good, good person. Highly realized on the Shaivite transmission. Very nice to hear your shares. If I don't reply tomorrow... that means my head exploded. You know... spontaneous bliss combustion you hear about that happens to some Indian yogi's? No really... just kidding. You know... your share about the blue light around the Earth. Muktananda talks about that same experience in play of consciousness, except it penetrate the Earth for him, and I think I remember Gurumayi sharing that same experience which she had at a talk. I could be mistaken as there are so many talks I was at with her since 85' on into the 2000's both impromptu and formal as well as amazing dream talks with tons of people at them. I remember being confused sometimes by these dream talks thinking they were physical talks and I would tell people things she said, but later remember that this was my dream. The blue light is the conscious illumination of the infinite space element, thus one can travel through time and space via remote viewing through this connection. I remember when I first started seeing, feeling and hearing through physical matter through this connection. It kind of freaked me out. Anyway... thank you so much for sharing and taking me down memory road. I had a lot more to write and did, but erased it as I deemed it to private. But... thank you!! Good energy... very good energy.

That's more than 10 years ago in the late nineties. This is still about 4 or 5 years ago. You can see slight sag in her cheeks. Anyway... she is looking far more healthy than your average person because she mostly eats a raw food diet and she has been practicing a vigorous hatha yoga practice her entire life... besides that. She is deeply connected to the dimension of infinite space so lives her life from a deeply calm place. She also regularly chews wheatgrass. Funny... I had a dream with her last night. She was just talking and chatting, laughing it up a bit and sitting at a table with a few people, and I was just standing next to her and I was like... "wow... such bliss!" I was just feeling the bliss of her presence. I've not felt anything else around her since I first met her as the Guru in 85'. Well... I also went through my period of doubting the bliss during my sadhana, but that's done with now. :lol:

Taken from Dr Lius Dragon Gate Homepage http://goldenliving.us/ebpage.asp?page=chigong 5 Celestial Beasts stsnd up, Face North, relax 1) Visualize a green light emanating from the liver, moving out through Under construction the eyes and becoming a Green Dragon on your left side (outside of you). 2) Visualize a red light emanating from your heart, moving out through the mouth, and then turning into A Red Phoenix floating about your head. 3) Visualize a yellow a yellow light from the spleen/stomach, moving out though the navel and turning into a yellow lion in front of you. 4) Visualize a white light emanating from your lungs, moving out through your nostrils and becoming a while tiger on your right side. 5) Visualize a black light emanating flora your kidneys out through your ears and turning into a black turtle and snake behind you. Invocation to the heavenly beasts: "Great universal energy the five holy beasts and give me protection and wisdom" (When finished with practice, revere the entire pincer) Top 7 Stars/Big Dipper Visualize the Big Dipper in the sky. Then bring the Dipper down to your bed (See the white point of light). Arrange the Big Dipper so that you he down on the 7 Stars your head is in the square. (When you lie on your side it matches the shape of the Big Dipper) The Big Dipper is the name for the seven brightest most prominent stars in the constellation often celled Urea Major. Urea Major is the 3rd largest constellation in the sky, in the North Polar Region. The second star on the handle of the Big Dipper, called Mizar has a companion star called Alcor. Tow Stars, forming the far side of the "bowl" (one of them being Dub he, the brightest star in this constellation) act as pointers to the North Pole Star, Polaris. Ursa Minor or Little Dipper or Litter Bear is also shaped a dipper, with the North Pole Star; Polaris at the end of the handle. Top Red Sun Practice Visualize yourself on a cloud, sleeping. Red sunrises in front of you. Swallow the red sun, which Stays in your throat area, emanting red light, Invocation to the Red Sun "Great universal energy helps me to sleep like an angel and travel the heavens, the mountains and the oceans peacefully and harmoniously." 1) Walking up, stand up (or sit) and face East. 2) Dry Bath. Rub palms together (men 36 times, women 49 firms), and then rub over Ask yourself, what did I dream last night? 3) 3 sighs 4) 7 deep breathes, filling lunge and then blowing out quickly. 5) Place your consciousness in the 3rd eye and see a while spark. 6) If that doesn't work visualize a black light at bottom point face and body 7) Cover navel with hands (men left hand on bottom, women right hand on bottom). Top Eye Exercises 1) Eye circles 3 collections: face circles, horizontal circles, and vertical circles. Counterclockwise. 2) Look out through your 3rd eye at the heavens. Say your Number (You May see color or light and think of yourself and the lights one.) 3) Bang concentration to the navel and look out the 3rd eye from the navel Say your Number 4) Do Red Sun Practice? (See instructions on next page) 5) Turn onto side. Bottom hand goes around ear and top hand goes over bottom shoulder. Top Foot zests behind bottom foot with heel of bottom foot resting on top foot. Say your Number. 6) When inhaling contract and when exhaling relax (slightly for both) 7) If you am stiff or tired of one position then you may switch to the other. Simply reverse. It is ok to keep one position without changing. 1) Circular rubbing: Thumb behind jaw, index finger on outer edge of eyebrow, middle finger in of brow, 4ty finger on bottom of eye in the middle (4 points on each Side). Rub 100 times in a circular motion (both hands simultaneously). Best dine with eyes closed. 2) Shake the eyeball. Thumb is hind jaw, 4th finger and pinky under the eye, first and middle fingers on the side of the eye. Shake the whole eyeball (with a vibration feeling) 50 times up and down. Best done with eyes closed. 3) Rub eyes side to side. Middle finger on upper eyelid, 4th finger on lower lid. Rub side to side 36 times. Best done with eyes close. 4) Pub ears. First finger be hind ears, other three fingers in front Rub up and down 100 times. 5) Pull ears. 6) Rotate head and eyes follow. Rotate head three times in both directions. Eyes circle as well, following the same movement as the head rotation. 7) BiZe Fa-Green Sight Dharma (secret exercise) Make circles with your fist fingers and thumbs and look through these "binoculars." Expand the binocular and inhale through the eyes, then contract the binoculars exhale through the eyes. Repeat for a total of 72 or 108 times. Best to look at blue (sky) or green. Top The Important and Fundamental Rules of QiGong Practice (Part II ) (The Medical Aspect) The side effect of physic and mental disorder is usually seen among people practicing QiGong, Meditation, Zen Meditation, self-confine, feast, etc. Teachers and learners are Precautionary against each other. In fact it's because they have little medical knowledge. Discomfort symptoms caused by incorrect participation can generally be sorted out as the following: 1. Legs paralysis: Symptoms causes deficiency of both Qi and blood, sink due to a deficiency of Qi, stagnation due to heat or cold. In the religious field another kind of legs paralysis should be considered, which is caused by "mental factors", can be easily found in people having mental problems. In western medicine, this symptom appears as serious muscle weakness, hardness of the nerve of side collarbone in back vertebra, and nerve inflammation, etc. All of them have only one reason, that is, long time cross-leg sitting causes extravagated blood or catching cold, or blood vessel declination. Therefore, feet are weak and paralytic. That's why back in the Spring And Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.) and the Warring States (457-221 B.C.) in China people cross-leg sat in straw mats. But then changed to use Chair and Bed. The reason is that when the weather is cold, and warm-keeping is not sufficient, or sitting too long and lacking of movement cause lacking of circulation. Tibet Buddhists prostrate themselves before Buddha instead of sitting or cross-leg sitting for too long. One of their purposes is to prevent extravagation of blood circulation. 2. Stroke: this is the most frequently mentioned symptom. Especially things happen to some people that when they are cross-leg sitting practice. They feel weak suddenly, fall down, can hardly utter words, their bodies cannot move, or they even die suddenly. It includes cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombus, cerebral anaemia, and insufficient oxygen. Cerebral hemorrhage is caused by too much mind working while meditate, vascular sclerosis, too much cerebral congestion, overuse of body strength, so that the vessels break. These symptoms often occur to Marshall Art players, weight lifters. Of course Marshall Art players include TangShouTao, KongShouTao, TaiQuanTao, Judo, SabreTao players and other kinds of boxing players. Cerebral thrombus is due to long time sitting, so that deposited anemia moves to neck artery or head. 3. Qi conflict to Vertex: it means too much thought in mind or too heavy concentrated over head area cause brain cavity hypertension, so that the patient may have hot and red face. Even when you put the center of the palm about one inch over the BaiHui Point (top area of the head skull), you will feel hot heat radiates through the head. The patient may feel quite discomfortable. What makes things worse is that, the hot heat may ascends following the heart beats. Those serious ill patients may suffer from insomnia, can not go to sleep all day along, being unable to think, or losing self-control. This kind of illness Cannot be cured by common tranquilization medicine, western medicines also does not have good effect on it. Only traditional Chinese medicines like JianLing Soup and ChaiHuLongGu Oyster Soup can cure this illness by induce the blood and Qi returning to its original place. 4. Involuntary movement: What is involuntary movement? In fact, after sitting in meditation or cross-leg sitting for a while, the heart blood circulation will be reduced, or the heart may lack of blood, so the compression and peristalsis of abdominal cavity and the heart is automatically speeded up. This results in a feeling that the belly keeps eating, or the body may wobble with the heart beats. But the less blood or oxygen in the heart, the more seriously the sway becomes. And vise visa. If continuing to do this way without lying down fully stretched, or moving a little bit, it always causes sweating all over the body, looking pale, or even the patient die of sudden myocardial infarction. Or some patients may suffer from hypertrophy of the heart, extravagated blood or hemorrhage of the heart. 5. Hallucination or mental disorder or insaneness or madness: when fasting to a certain period, the body may become short of blood sugar, which cause brain lacking of nutrition support and malfunctions. The patients may suddenly feel being caught by devils, or feel just like in Paradise, and seeing religious holy views. Therefore, it is better for participants to take some sugar, especially black sugar and Chinese date. For those who already has hallucination, the patient will be recovered after drinking strong sugar water and lying down for over half an hour, and wait until blood sugar level returns. As for insaneness, the patient may sit still dumbly all day long without eating and drinking, even not being able to realize urinating. This is caused by short of blood and oxygen in the head. Therefore, the patient should take excitable medicine in order to increase blood and oxygen supply in the head. As for madness, it is caused by over supply of blood in the head, which results in over excitement. These people consider themselves as distinguished, intelligent, virtuous and noble. They are fond of wandering, singing and dancing, endless talking, not going to sleep for all day long or for several days, not being able to realize danger in dangerous place, attacking and abusing their beloved ones, or self-beating, cutting and pricking. These patients must be treated by strong tranquilization medicine, or herbal medicines for clear the upper heat and wind remedy. And the patients will be recovered after a period of time. After recovery the patients will not remember their previous illness. Anyway, any symptom mentioned above to the participant should stop their practice right away. Therefore, incorrect medicinal knowledge or lacking of the sporting and practicing hygienic knowledge may cause side effect of their practice.

Ahoy there! There's a song about that, ya know...merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

a dying breed! I had a dream once or as i believe premonition, of the girl i am meant to spend my life with... i coulda sworn i met her last summer, but it turns out she's belly up... maybe she's seeking the way... she seems open enough to truth to accept that what she has been taught could be wrong, but she is also an extreme socialite and busy bee... she might never slow down enough to see. She has her life ahead of her and i have mine, Who i seek probbly doesnt exist, at least not in america. My "standards" are probably pretty shallow... All natural auburn hair is the one thing i cant get over. drives me nuts. Freckles do a lot for me too, i cant say why. Personality has to be compassionate and loving, understanding that we are all interrelated and connected as a whole. Another "nobody" like myself that is to say... Free spirited and not easily bound to obligations, but completely loyal to companions and family. Someone who especially understands the importance of family and understanding relatedness.

Well, I'll give a practical example of the resonance effect in my own life. About 6 months ago I decided to limit sending chi and focus soley on increasing my own field. Apparently my dream body didn't like this idea, because I would wake up around 3 am to use the bathroom and notice I was sending chi in my sleep. Fair enough. One night, during a particularly difficult case, Michael (Ya Mu) visits and changes my hand position and how far away from the body I am working on a specific patient. He then also raises my personal vibration as he does the treatment with me. Why Ya Mu? Not sure. I am currently not a student of his system/lineage and only know of him through this forum and reading his book about a year ago. But he does come from time to time to check on my progress, and I am open and available to any help I can get that will benefit others. So I'm sticking with the resonance theory.

Hey all, I'm constantly in search of methods to increase my gains in everything I do. On the topic of meditation I've been contemplating it's correlation (if any) with sleep deprivation, or rather an "augmented" sleep schedule. I notice that when I sleep less or don't sleep at all, the next day I feel as if i'm constantly that place between dream and awake which seems to be ideal for meditation. I've been looking into polyphastic sleep, which is taking multiple power naps during the day instead of sleeping once per day for longer duration (if anyone's ever seen that Sienfeld episode where Cramer tried that...LMAO). For example, DaVinchi used to call for roughly 20mins every 4 hours(only 2 hours of sleep every 24 hour cycle!!!). One of the biggest touted benefits (besides more waking time) is a heightened vivid-ness and intensity of dreams and the tendency toward "visions" or "hallucinations", which seem rather rare but welcomed in my reality I'm trying to devote as much time to practicing meditation and certain physical exercises as I can so I figured this may be an option. I plan on combining it with a diet of fruit and sprouted grains/beans/seeds because I naturally sleep less and have more energy when I eat like that anyway, the only trouble would be finding work O.o But anyway has anyone ever experimented with polyphastic sleep before? Have you noticed the effect certain sleep patterns or diets have had on your meditations? I'm really trying to maximize my results so any and all input would be MUCH appreciated and probably enjoyed by the many anon stalkers on this site Thx in advance -Astral

Yes, I understand. You take the blank level of formless consciousness as the Self. I understand the leaning on this experience as the end all be all and how it blocks one from going deeper in investigation. I used to be blocked by such a bliss and love that felt ever present. It's just a state of expanded awareness that is possible due to the fact that phenomena and consciousness is empty of inherent existence so malleable. That light is blissful, but to lean on it as a Self of all is a block according to the Buddhas and according to my reluctant experience as well. Buddhism beyond my beliefs of it, made me very uncomfortable because I agreed with the universal consciousness as truth experience as beyond rebuke. I used to think that the Buddha taught the same thing as all the other mystics. But, I was really under mis-assumptions. "Yes it is. In unconscious states of sleep, I am not aware. Of course if I were enlightened these unconscious states of sleep would be filled with awareness as my dense karmas would have been wiped away through the practice of awareness. Also, in the state of infinite nothingness, I am not aware. It's only afterwards that I say... "Oh, there was nothing and no one aware", only in contrast to when I become aware. Are you always aware of the experience you are living? How about that mosquito that bite's you on the back of the leg while you are sleeping. Are you only aware of that when you wake up?" This is your assumptions based upon your interpretation of your experiences. You are wrong according to the Buddhas though. This has nothing to do with indoctrination, though you could use some study. This has to do with investigating more deeply your beliefs about awareness. More monist dogma. It exists within the awareness of many conscious beings as an inter-dependently co-created play of all sentient beings experiencing it. But awareness is not a single cosmic non-phenomena that the entire cosmos arises from. In my opinion, you are fooling yourself. You don't realize how much the traditions you have enjoyed has effected your interpretation of your experiences. Did you read that book by Venkatesananda? "Total Love"? He talks a lot like this... saying, "be-lie-f's" I really enjoyed his writings and they used to boost my belief in a cosmic consciousness and the experience of this as the truth. Even though I experienced the formless state of Samadhi very deeply before I read a single book on spirituality at the age of 14. Because I had no other form of interpretation in my influence as my mother was a Shaivite my entire life, I considered this experience an experience of God. I wondered around in an altered state of awareness for a week while at the ashram at 14, deeply effected by this direct experience beyond time, form and limitations and it was deeply blissful on a deeply peaceful level and I felt deeply connected to all things afterwards. It was very nice. But, I mis-interpreted the experience due to various causes and conditions. Yes it happens within my awareness. Some deities that follow me around are aware of much of what I experience as well. "In certain states of sleep we are not aware of the world and in certain states of meditative absorption we are not aware of the world at the same time that we are having these inner experiences. It is only through the fact of connecting moments and awareness of these that memory works. But awareness is NOT constant, even if consciousness is still available, but at times consciousness is repressed and stupor is experienced maybe in one state of sleep or meditation or another. Of course if you have constant awareness, even in deep sleep where you have illumination or your awareness goes to higher realms or you consort with various deities or whatever. That's fabulous. But, this doesn't mean that everything is made of one consciousness. All of it, including the elements and individual consciousness' arise and flows, cycles and evolves within the vastness of inter-dependent origination and is all empty of inherent existence." Yes, I do. Only when I become aware of experiencing do I contrast the non-experiencing of dreamless black sleep where the subtle elements that arise my consciousness recede into potentiality, and awareness is lost for a while during deep body rest. But the energy of body karma which is another type of consciousness pulsates my body even though my sense consciousness and dream consciousness receded into non-awareness in the subtle elements dulled by the darkness of my unconscious. I'm not that enlightened yet all the time where I am ever aware, even in deep dreamless sleep, only sometimes. My Rinpoche is though, he has 24 hour awareness. The Buddha didn't break down an individuals consciousness' into different aspects for no reason. I feel that you are under the sway of beliefs and assumptions. So... I do disagree with your assessment of me. As I very much have direct experience of many of the Buddhas statements. I spent many years meditating many hours a day and chanting many hours a day, avoiding movies, even friends other than passing spiritual conversations with spiritual minded folks. I was quite the shut in. A very blissful shut in though! I very intensely wanted to know the truth of things.

The 4 noble truths include the 8 fold path, which includes right view. This means understanding mutual co-origination and emptiness as well as anatman or no-inherent-self or essence to anything. See this constitutes a belief in a real and true self and will to the entire cosmos. This does not hold up to the Buddhas scrutiny. No worries, it happens to me all the time. In Buddhism the sacrifice just has to do with realizing no-self and offering all will and merits to the upliftment of others, either now or in the future by sewing seeds of liberation, even if it seems disagreeable in the now. Buddhism seems to be the only path that breaks down this, "spirit" into it's most subtle components and then finds that there is nothing absolute there to grasp at as well. Experience goes on and on endlessly. In Buddha interpretation, Samsara is beginningless for an individual, but once Nirvana is realized, this is endless. I used to believe as you. When I studied all the worlds religions vehemently without giving much time to the most volumes... Buddhism. I used to only read from here and there out of context from really bad translations. Then I was schooled by an experienced scholar accredited from an Eastern school to a high degree. Then I met a great Rinpoche, and then I met many others after that both in dream and physically. Anyway... it's not that an individual cannot realize the same truth as the Buddha without being Buddhist. But... it's just that as a spiritual tradition, Buddhism offers the most clear explanations and methodology that appear on this planet with the most beings who have realized actual Buddhahood and not just intermediate bliss states of great power like in many other traditions.

Balance- thanks for quoting directly from the book! I really like how Yang Jwing-Ming is always very detailed oriented. His was the first book that I got on the subject, and even as a beginner I really appreciated his attention to detail- helped me get the lay of the land and to know exactly what I was getting into. Interesting! I've recently tried two experiments to try and figure out where my "dreaming state" is. Basically, in the morning when I wake up I try to stay "in the middle" between wake and dream- when my eyes are open, I see the normal everyday world, but as soon as I close my eyes I am in a dream (there is no blackness at all). But I'll try centering my awareness there and see what happens! As far as the point itself, I too have experienced it (or at least, in its general area). During meditation I'm sometimes able to center my awareness in that location, as well as during qigong (yeah I know, I should be keeping on the lower dantien ) In some systems that require visualization I have tried, I feel like that some visualization is a layer above it ("surface" level), like on a normal thinking level, but when I dig deeper and think from that lower, deeper level inside my mind, it's much clearer, and it feels more integrated with the rest of the world. The "surface level" thought state seems very forced, sort of like I am trying to put a flat piece of paper on an uneven surface and trying to write on it.