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People looking at you... I can relate to that very well. Really it is just that you yourself are looking at people more. It is a reflection, so they appear to be looking at you. About your dream, I think that everyone is inside of you and you are in everyone else. So nothing to be worried about I'm thinking of trying alpha/beta tapes. Please keep sharing. I enjoy this.

I had a dream last night that ended with me and a bunch of people trying to summon satan onto a mat. I recited some of what they were saying with them, but they were very unorganized and saying random things, I was focussed on laying what I perceived to be traps for the thing,should it come. The dream ended with one of my friends who wsa there saying something along the lines of "we should get more organized and find something on the net to chant together" When I woke up I looked in the mirror and noticed a "deep and mischievious (with slight beed of deviousness)" look in my eye. I have been noticing a number of shifts in my perception lately, to "nothingness" and "non-meaningful" or "non-dualistic" feelings from identification with forms, but only very slightly. I've been listening to this overnight the psat few nights: http://www.mind-tek.com/html/ultra_meditation_system.html#UM and during the day as well. I didn't really know what doing those things meant, and it made me feel more weird than happy. It is slightly happiness-inducing though to hear your interpretation of them. But it's quick to subside in lieu of the dream I had last night. I am also becoming much more aware of my feelings, and the effects my thoughts have on them. I also notice a lot more attention from other people coming to me - like if I am with people, or if I am in an area with lots of people, the attention of people who newly look in my direction is immediately drawn to me, and I notice people are going more an dmore out of their way to look at me.. Odd...

My body feels feverish, tired, and somewhat hot. Could this be kundalini awakening? I also saw snakes in my dream . I am assuming they represent the sexual energy?

I know this topic is over a year old at the time of my post. However, there are some sentiments here that seem a little incomplete, in regards to the legitimacy of Mahayana and Vajrayana views and practices of Tibetan Buddhism (and others, I might add, such as Zen Buddhism). If you want to know about the integrity of the Tibetan Buddhist schools, just take a look at the Dalai Lama. Go and google some things about him, his life, and his outlook. All schools in Tibetan Buddhism look to him as their center. The underpinnings of Tibetan Buddhism is, fundamentally and intrinsically, the Four Noble Truths and all primary Sutras taught by the Buddha. Yes, all 84,000 teachings are included in the core text of every Monastery. Along side the original teachings is another set of texts - the commentaries on the originals. Along side these are works by major Indian masters, who developed Buddhist work after Buddha's Paranirvana and before Buddhism was taken into Tibet. Scholars such as Atisha, and Shantideva, Naropa and Tilopa (to name a few). Nalanda was a great university in India. Many, many great scholars and practitioners learned and taught there, from all over the planet. If you want to look at Tibetan Buddhism and where it came from, you need to look at Nalanda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda The Four Nobal Truths underpin all Buddhist view. The fundamental teaching from the Four Nobel Truths can pretty much be boiled down to Buddha's core realisation: that suffering comes from a misunderstanding of the true nature of existence. The true nature being that all things arise as impermanently assembled phenomenon and do not inherently exist of their own volition. And, from this misunderstanding arises a mental state that continues to block opportunity for insight into this nature of existance. That mental state is ignorance. Every branch of Buddhism teaches this fundamental teaching. To have direct insight into the reality that all things arise as assembled phenomenon is THE goal of every Buddhist practice, whether Hinayana, Mahayana or Vajrayana. When Buddha saw this reality, really saw it, he became Enlightened. Surrounding these core teachings, in every culture, are religious frameworks. These arise over very long periods of time, with much peer review and refinement from qualified practitioners. Many commentaries reflect culturally tuned versions and translations of the teachings. Or, teachings refined for certain types of mentalities or views. Why? Because everyone starts with ego, with issues, with clouded minds that cannot grasp what Buddha grasped. It is just too damn hard to let go of yourself and see that everything just doesn't exist as it appears. Not even atoms are self arising and do not inherently exist alone. They too arise and disolve into the rest of all assembled phenomenon. So, there you have it. All of this is taught in all traditions, and just because one takes the Bodhisattva Vows (Mahayana Buddhism) it does not mean one no longer observes the Individual Liberation Vows (Hinayana Buddhism). Also, when looking Tibetan Buddhism, you need to look further than what you see as it is consumed by the West. Diamond Way is from one teacher, and he is a Westerner. How long have Westerners been involved in this tradition? A tradition which is essentially Asian. Tibetan Buddhism acknowledges the significant role that the Guru has in a student's learning. Key to this relationship is the development of devotion. However, devotion is an increadible state of mind that can smash negativity and allow great discipline to practice the approprate teachings which lead that individual to seeing that reality of assembled phenomenon. Yet, particularly in the West, students just fixate on the teacher. Milarepa was crying out to Marpa one day while meditating, lamenting his yearning for his teacher, as he sat in his cave in the complete and utter isolation of a Tibetan mountain. Marpa appeared to him in a dream and basically told him to stop snivling and get on with the practice. Such was Milarepa's devotion to Marpa that he just dissolved any sense of loneliness and longing and pushed through. So, while humans come and go (teachers) the essential core teaching always remains pure.

Be happy that the real you is ventilating through your dreams, that is, what makes you think that the "wake you" is not real if the "dream you" is reflecting something different than your consious will? have a heart. you are balancing. you'll be just fine.

I sure do know how it feels to be surprised by a nocturnal emission, after being so careful, it sucks man. It does get easier, and even though your little rant seems over the top, you are building an emotional aversion to nocturnal emission which can eventually pervade your dreamscape, and that will help stop your dream character from going all the way. However. Something in your writing shows that the jing issue is a metaphor for some greater pessimism. Emotional instability comes with the territory of alchemy, and you know if you are up to it or not. Sexual frustration, mood swings, masochism come with the territory of sexual abstinence. Ive been there, and it will happen again, unfortunately. The only thing I can suggest is to monitor your self-talk, because idle negative thoughts snowball, but they can be cut off before they get too big. Example: "Fuck life sucks...no wait...lifes ok."

Hey everyone, Last night was the first night I tried sleeping while listening to binatural beats/beta/theta/alpha/etc frequencies. This is the product I used (the second tape of): http://www.mind-tek.com/html/ultra_meditation_system.html#UM A lot of things happened in my dreams last night. I usually fly around worldly places (i.e. up the stairs instead of walking) in my dreams. While dreaming, I was flying down some sort of open hallway, and I tried landing down to walk. I didn't like it, so I tried teleporting to the end, which seemed to be my destination, and there was a large podeum there (not sure if that's what its called, its the thing that people who are giving speeches stand behind and put their notes on) but it was on an elevated surface. I tried teleporting there, and went there, but the picture wouldn't render 100% and it switched scenes. Three weird things about this were that 1. I've never tried landing from fleight before I got to my destination before 2. I've never tried teleporting before and 3. When the scene changed, it did not simply change on a dime, like in my dreams before - rather it faded into the next scene, which has never happened. Anyway, in the next scene, I was renouncing all my worldly posessions, giving my parents back everything they had given me, all I had. Then, I was on my bed at home crying face-down. I cried a lot, and then I woke up, and i was face down (which NEVER happens to me) and crying in real life. Then I went back to bed after realizing it was pretty weird. Another weird thing, and why I posit this has a religious meaning is well, because the Buddha renounced his worldly posessions, and I passed by a church down a very heavily populated road that had a two-sided sign up. On the one side read: "His coming forth is prepared as the morning -Hosea" - this I attributed to perhaps this being a special day in my life, due to the content of that dream. The other side said "Jesus Christ will come as a bridegroom for his bride" - which i thought was especially weird! People who ascribe to the Christian bible will note Jesus did not have a woman bride - though there is a lot of controversy around this there is a lot more information here: http://www.google.com/search?q=was+jesus+m...amp;startPage=1 Anyway, the reason I attribute meaning to the second one is because I actually do have a belief that I am of some similar role as Jesus, as our stories match up very well and a lot of miracles and "coincidences" have been happening in my life recently - especially coincidences of my dreams coming true - among which is my overcoming of various negative past influences affecting my views of women and interacting with them. One time not long ago I went to a chinese buffet that gives fortune cookies (also, most of those come true for me as well) with my parents, and we got 3 fortune cookies (the server brought 4 but kept one). My dad's was "Good day for business contacts and material gains" Mine was "Someone you have been admiring may suddenly become aware of you." and my mom got two saying the same thing "This person may be especially attractive to you." Which also was weird because on its own that fortune doesn't make a lot of sense, but makes perfect sense appended to the end of my fortune - I figured yeah it could just be meant for when there's just two people dining but that is a very long shot. Anyway soon after I conquered my long time fear specifically relevant to my high school crush, and called her asking her out. But I digress, the point of the previous few anecdotes was to try and give you an insight into my frame of mind regarding this situation. I'd really appreciate if you guys could help me try and figure out/analyze what's going on to help reveal what may be going on.. Thank you.

One of the only things i feel comfortable saying I know; is that what I believe is relative and subject to change, which is why I believe that I cannot know anything, but only have belief after all. I think it would be neat to see Alex take ayahuasca in a spiritual setting. That dream stuff reminds me of something else... I had insomnia very strongly as a child, it went away as a teen, and it came back some time ago. It is not like I can't get to sleep now though, it is like I need less sleep now about 6 hours.

Don't worry I am aware of the differences between geometric dimensions (mathematical dimensions) and physical dimensions (timespace), but thank you for bringing that up. I don't dream much at all anymore. I have not dreamed for almost a year that I can remember. The last dreams I had, which are few(3-5) over the last years(5), were all lucid though. But honestly I have never really dreamed much, so I do not think it has anything to do with Hun and Po in my case. It is just the way I am still I have dreamed much less as an adult than when I was a child. Now I have some other strange thing happening. I have dreams that never occur. For example I had a dream that my taiji teacher came back to my town, in the dream he came back because there was no economic opportunity. The funny thing is, I remember the dream, but never had it. It just appeared in an instant, it was not at all related to sleep, one moment it was not there, then it was. And the part that interests me is when i spoke to him on the phone, and he told me he was moving back. I told him of my "dream" and it was totally accurate. I know nothing about what you spoke of about Hun, Po and Shen. So do not know how this relates to my experiences. It sounds interesting. I define awake and dream in a rather scientific way. Wakefulness relates to exogenous sources of sensory information, dreaming relates to endogenous sources of sensory information, ergo memory. I have no belief in these things: souls and subtle energy bodies and subtle energy realms. I have no belief against them either. I have a different view of the action of DMT than you do.

Hi Josh, I will not discuss the experiences of this guy if they are real or not. In my opinion any experience is real either it is in a dream state or awake state. How do you define awake and dream? I will make some comments about your dream experiences, and you take them whatever you like it or not. Taoist theory says that when Hun and Po are not harmonized they fight each other and during night Po dominates the Hun. Because of that Hun leaves the body and all the dreams during night are experiences of the Hun soul. All the OBE and lucid dreaming are experiences of the Hun soul and Shen together because they are conscious dreams. When one begins to cultivate (meditation, alchemy, prayer... whatever) the animal soul Po is tamed and the Hun no longer leaves the body but stays inside during the night. The alchemical process transform the Po energies in Hun energies. A sign that shows these processes are running is that the cultivator no longer have dreams, and if they are they rarely occur and usually these dreams are very spiritual insightful about his spiritual path. The symbols or the lessons of the dream are not for everybody but just for the person that dreams them, and anyone else have no clue about their meaning. But in the normal lucid dreaming there are some stories that are shared by various people and that shows that there is an "objective reality" out there regardless the subjective experiences of the dreamer in the real world or dream world. In my opinion DMT is just the chemical substance that open the gate. I personally don't believe the theory that all the experiences are chemical stimuli inside the brain, and we create them in the visual cortex. I do believe in souls and subtle energy bodies and subtle energy realms. By the way you make confusions between the physicist or mathematical dimensions and the so called "densities". The densities are worlds inside this world (with the same number of dimensions) but more subtle and of another energetic level.

He doesn't. Some Buddhists claim that there is a kind of findable continuum, but upon investigation nothing is found. Others claim that there is 'nothing' but how can this be? 'Nothing' cannot be aware. Both are flawed. A very good comparison. You have already highlighted the limitations of a linear interpretation of our being. If there is only NOW, then the arising of subjective awareness and its object must be a simultaneous dualistic event. Consider this; when we dream, we say "I had a dream in which I went someplace, met some people, got scared, did all kinds of things etc". In truth, the entirety of that event was mind-created, especially the subject as well as its objects. We take it for granted that we feature in our dreams, but a subject has to be created in order that the play of being can dance before us. From what does this emerge and by what force? Recent recall within meditation, as well as past life recall. I think you are describing that state. It does. I sometimes get that just before I wake up. Namaste

His "contacts" are rather consistent with those reported in the use of DMT, which frequently results in "contact", time dilation experiences, strange colors, visions and scenes etc. I do not think he is a liar, but I think his experiences may not be what he thinks they are. I like his good intentions about global reformation. I do not see him as having any scientific knowledge that would have come from a non human source, much of what he says, like about black holes being holes, seem based on common misunderstandings that few would be able to catch, including him, simply because most people have little exposure to astrophysics and a great deal of exposure to science fiction. His "reincarnation" does not appear to include birth as animals or any other species. He says people are a unique GMO species and yet he says that their souls are very ancient. There is an inconsistency with this that may be sublte but is profound in its implication about his claims. I do not think he is lying about his experiences, but given that he has no new information in any scientific sense then I suspect he is not the real deal. That he predicted great calamity between July and August 2001 that did not happen, when he was told about it by aliens with supposedly amazing technology, makes me suspect he is not in contact with aliens who can make accurate predictions of the future. That his contact experiences are extremely close to many DMT experiences reported in and outside of studies, and that DMT can occur naturally in the human brain, leads me to wonder if his experiences are not chemical in nature. I have had some interesting episodes as a kid where I thought I was being abducted, in many of them I was in the back of a vehicle on a military base with those orange sodium vapor lights. This all happened when I was asleep, but often as I was tired I would hear strange noises that i have never understood and for a time I thought perhaps this was an alien craft. In my dreams I can fly. I have lucid dreams rather often you see. The experiences I have had flying in dreams are very real, I have been lost above city lights many times, it is hard to navigate actually. But does this mean I can fly? What I mean is that despite very convincing experiences of flight, I have no reason to believe that i have flown in reality. If my dream states can seen real, then perhaps so can those of others. Who am I to know that he is or is not real? I do not and cannot know, however I do not get the feeling he is real and the details of the situation do nothing to convince me.

How about if they were co-emergent? No need for anything to facilitate anything then. Just a thought... As I understand what I have been taught, it's more a question of process, rather than a 'thing' to be reincarnated. Perhaps if you compare it with going to sleep, passing through the dream state and deep unconscious sleep and then nevertheless waking up as yourself again - there is a process which may (or not in my case) be observed. A good question though and I'm looking forward to reading what others think.

A very good point. It has been my experience that orgasm depletes the power of the 'dream body' (or whatever term you wish to use to describe it). It tears off energy and weakens the structure. Internal retention is even worse - as the energy is still torn off but remains lose within the body of the person, which can lead to all sorts of health problems. Oddly enough, semen is not necessarily linked to this energy. If it is released without orgasm, then the energy does not go with it. I have also never felt that nocturnal emissions have ever depleted my energy levels, as they always occur for me within the context of erotic dreams and the dream body is somehow disengaged from direct attachment to the physical body. It prompts ejaculation from the sleeping body without being damaged itself. But this is just my own experience and not something I've been taught, or have on authority. Better, like you say, to learn ways of orgasm-less sex. If the taoist teachings are right, then this leads to an increase of energy and a more non-obsessive approach to sex.

Alright, I'll bite... Only the bound self can dream of liberation. When the perspective shifts beyond the limitation of the self to that of the Self, bondage is gone, and yet this can be a relatively subtle shift. It is a matter of recognizing who it is that experiences the bondage. If you follow that inquiry to its ultimate conclusion, one realizes that the bondage is illusory. If bondage is illusory, what is liberation? This seems to me the transition from Taiji back to Wuji. Bondage and liberation arise mutually, when one is seen through the other cannot exist. Therefore, the end of bondage is the end of the search for liberation. Hope that is worth something...

Best wishes with your practice, I hope things work out for you, have you looked at http://www.alchemicaltaoism.com/ ? Great stuff there from Trunk and I'd really like to quote this The strange thing that happened to me with nocturnals was I actually started to recognize the sensations of an approaching EJ when dreaming. After a while Icould actually wake up from the dream in time to practice retention. This was less succesfull in dreams that were not overtly sexual and sometimes the dream wasn't remembered at all. You mention developing power which is why I wanted to use the "cycle" quote above. While I don't specifically practice retention I do seem to be moving towards wanting less EJ, could be to do with age (35) I notice that when things go espicially well with practice retention is very natural. But when things get out of balance retention can be impossible untill that excess energy is spent, things settle back down, and you start to build again. So please don't be disappointed by this if it happens. The body is quite clever and knows what to do if we can stop interfering long enough for it to heal itself

Hi Josh. These are some interesting ideas you are discussing. More than one quantum physicist that was dissatisfied with the Copenhagen interpretation has tried to explain quantum phenomena in terms of things like resonance. It's called the pilot wave theory. The question is, what is the wave? Most use the same scalar wave as the one in the Schrodinger equation. A particularly interesting (to me) version is one that postulates an electromagnetic pilot wave associated to things like electrons, with a very fast (and hence not directly detectable) oscillation imposed on the standard field of the particle. This oscillation itself is related to electron spin, and its frequency is related to mass. Also, when you look at the mathematical structure of relativity, you see that the cosmic speed limit is not some arbitrary thing (as it would be in a Newtonian model), but a consequence of the very structure of spacetime causality: loosely speaking things that are "lines" in the Newtonian model become "hyperbolas" in the relativistic model, and the asymptote of the hyperbola corresponds to the speed of light. BUT, if you allow physical influences to travel backward in time as well as forward (using "advanced waves" and well as "retarded waves") then you can bypass the asymptote. Put this together with the pilot wave model, and perhaps you get a new theory of the universe? Well, working out the equations and their physical/philosophical consequences is quite a task, But a man can dream, no? Would you clarify what you mean by "non-linear"? Since that term has entered into popular usage I no longer know what it is supposed to mean. -Tyler

Gimme a break - he started THINKING that way inititally due to a dream he had about the underworld. Real good science, eh? And you keep saying I am wrong. It is an opinion based on as much practical experience as the underworld dreamer, so just as valid. All thinking is looking through filters - none does not. Perhaps because dragons, elves, etc were real? This back and forth started because you said medical qigong utilized the archetype. Medical qigong as I teach totally bypasses the mentally derived archetypes.

All your sentences contradict the statement 'Emptiness is Form'. The general view of Advaita is that Brahman is non phenomenal -- not limited to a specific manifestation or form or attribute, for it is the unchanging background reality and the container of phenomena. Yet at the same time, it's seen to be inseparable from all forms. Actually at the highest level of realisation, Brahman is not seen as a void background but as all its dynamic expressions. Adyashanti describes Thusness's Stage 4 (non-dual) insight quite well and relates it to Advaita: "Being Stuck in Emptiness Another of the traps you may discover is similar to being stuck in meaninglessness: being stuck in emptiness. Being stuck in emptiness is a form of being stuck in the transcendent, being stuck in the position of the witness. Initially, it can feel wonderful to be in a state of witnessing, a state in which we realize that we are not somebody who is witnessing, but that we are witnessing itself. Although it is true that we are the witness to everything, there is also a deluded aspect that is easy to get caught in. The ego can set up camp anywhere; it is a shapeshifter. If superiority doesn't work, then setting up camp as the disconnected witness might. The ego is constantly in flux. Once you're onto it -- once you've discovered it in one aspect of your being -- it will disappear, only to reappear somewhere else. It is very cunning, very subtle. In fact, as I see it, the ego's illusion is one of the most impressive forces in all of nature. The "me," or the ego, can set itself up as the witness. Initially, this can feel tremendously freeing, especially for people who have experienced a lot of pain and suffering in life. All of a sudden they are the witness, and there is extraordinary relief in no longer being identified as the main character in their life. But the position of the witness can become a fixation, and when it does, a sense of dryness can start to creep in. In this situation, the witness sees itself as unconnected with what is being witnessed. This means, of course, that there hasn't been a true and thorough realization. It is more like a half realization; it's like being halfway awake. There's an ancient saying that the great sage Ramana Maharshi used to talk about, which goes like this: "The world is illusion. Brahman alone is real. The world is Brahman." This saying speaks to certain insights that come with awakening. The first insight, that "the world is illusion," is not a philosophical statement. Seeing that the world is illusion is part of the awakening experience. It is something that is known; we discover that there is no such thing as an objective world out there, separate from us. This first statement, then, is pointing to this insight, which comes with realization. The next statement, "Brahman alone is real," points us toward the recognition of the eternal witness. The witness to the world is where all the reality is. From this perspective of awakening, the witness is experienced to be much more real than what is witnessed. What is witnessed is seen to be like a dream, like a movie or a novel, unfolding in front of us. There's a great amount of freedom in this, but also a great tendency to become stuck in the idea that "I am the witness to what is." So far, we've seen that these two statements are true: "The world is illusion," and "Brahman alone is real." (The latter of these could be understood as "The witness alone is real.") But without the third statement, "The world is Brahman," we would not have true nonduality. In the statement, "The world is Brahman" collapses the position of the external witness. The witness position collapses into the totality, and suddenly we're not witnessing from the outside anymore. Instead, witnessing is taking place from everywhere simultaneously -- inside, outside, around, up, down. Everything everywhere is being witnessed from inside and outside simultaneously, because what is witnessed is what is witnessing. The seer and what is seen are the same. Unless that is realized, we can get stuck in the place of the witness. We can become stuck in a transcendent void, in emptiness. .......... (continued: http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=nFF8XY...lt&resnum=1 ) ...As long as we're staying at the summit of awakening, in the transcendent place of the absolute, where we are forever unborn and forever untouched and forever undying, there is an incompleteness to our realization. Quite surprisingly, upon reentry, life becomes very simple and ordinary. We no longer feel driven to have extraordinary moments, to have transcendent experiences. Sitting at the table in the morning and drinking a cup of tea is perfectly adequate. Drinking a cup of tea is experienced as a full expression of ultimate reality. The cup itself is a full expression of everything we have realized. Walking down the hallway, each step is a complete expression of the deepest realization. Raising a family, dealing with children, going to work, going on vacation -- all of it is a true expression of that which is inexpressible." The Form (be it a sound, a vision, a taste) before a moment of thought, before perception, before superimposition, that's Buddha-Nature. And it's not you smelling, tasting, seeing, but the sound itself is the hearing, the mountain itself is the seeing, the world itself is consciousness. Absolutely no 'witness' can be found when everything is the self-mirroring awareness.

hagar my husband had an employee who recently mede that dream come true. you can have his adress? any way I am sure this dream will come back toyou later in life as fairly the same dream just slightly differently dressed. love

this is awesome. such a great analogy. Buddha truly was an amazing teacher -- You might think that because samsara is like a dream, perhaps enlightenment is solid and permanent. But Shakyamuni Buddha said that nirvana itself is like a dream -- an illusion. There is nothing that can be named which is nirvana; nothing called nirvana which is tangible. Shakyamuni Buddha said this directly: "Form is emptiness". For instance, the moon is reflected in water, but there is no moon in the water; there never has been! There is no form there that can be grasped! It is empty! Then Shakyamuni Buddha went on to say: "Emptiness itself is form". Emptiness itself has appeared in the manner of form. You cannot find emptiness apart from form. You cannot separate the two. You cannot grasp them as separate entities. The moon is reflected in the water, but the water is not the moon. The moon is not the water, yet you cannot separate water and moon. Once you have understood this at the level of experience, there is no samsara. In the realm of realization there is no samsara or nirvana! When speaking of the teaching of Dzogchen, samsara and nirvana are just another dualistic concept. But when looking at this moon in the water, you may say: "But it is there, I can see it!" But when you reach for it and try to touch it -- it's not there! It is the same with the thoughts that arise in Mind. So if you ask: "How has this actually come about?" you need to consider that everything comes from interdependent origination. So what is this interdependent origination? It is simply that the moon and water do not exist separately. The clear water is the primary cause, and the moon is the secondary or contributory cause. When these two causes meet, then this interdependent origination manifests. It is the coincidental appearance of the primary cause and the contributory cause. http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/A...c%20Ngondro.htm oh man, that quote from Dalai lama was great..

It is objective. Because I've experienced arising out of the potential of cosmic manifestation due to memory as a first born. I know directly how deluded the Gods are in their powerful bliss. Advaita no matter how you chop it, believes in an eternal essence that all things arise from and subside back into in a substantialist way at the end of a cosmic cycle. When Buddhas say, things arise and subside in emptiness, they are still not qualifying emptiness and are still seeing endless and beginningless D.O. The craving is merely based upon not seeing emptiness directly which is deeply non-conceptual. Which is different from seeing Brahman directly because I've experienced both. Brahman is still a subtle latching on and proliferation, an identifying which will only lead to a long lived God realm. I know this very deeply, experientially and objectively. Both through reading scripture and what the texts by Buddhas say and what Advaita Siddhas say as well as through logic, intellectual understanding of D.O. and through direct meditative experience both in sitting meditation and lucid dream states through the practice of lucid dreaming while inquiring into the secret meaning's of D.O. and how this actually applies to cosmic workings. Buddhism transcends Advaita. It's a deeper comprehension of cosmos, enlightenment and what it means to transform the experience of Samsara into Nirvana. Or in Dzogchen, to spontaneously cognize the inherently empty and liberated nature of all arisings and so called non-arisings, which includes conceptual free bliss experiences in formless states of consciousness. Of which I have plenty of direct experiencing. Daily sometimes for elongated periods. Not right now, I'm actually being quite egotistical even talking about these experiences... LOL!

It's just the same except less densified with less or if enlightened, no attachment. It's it's own complicated story really. But, basically... it's just what you are now with less density based upon less attachment to perception and more identity with awareness itself, either enlightened (seeing through identity with D.O.) or not as in most Theistic or substantialist paths that reify awareness as ultimate. Kunjed Gyalpo gives a good explanation of how we fall during the cosmic cycle. p.s. kind of like dream realm stuff but more interpersonal, as in there is more reality to the different and unique beings that make up any given realm of subtler or denser energies.

Sorry to hear about your yoga mishap, what a nightmare! This might be too obvious to mention, but there are lots of non-dairy, vegetarian milks available in health food stores, and now even supermarkets, including rice milk, soy milk, almond milk and hemp milk. They are all lactose-free, and as an added advantage, don't contain carcinogenic bovine growth hormones, steroids, antibiotics, and other extra crap that we get in milk here in the U.S. Although I did see an article recently that stated many brands of soy milk have a chemical called hexane in them. One brand they mentioned that does not was Eden (there were a few more that I don't remember). Personally, I find the product called "Rice Dream" to be quite tasty. Michael is right about Mantak Chia. I have some audio tapes of him, and he keeps burping constantly. It gets pretty annoying actually.

Thanks for doing this last night, Santi, and tell Susan I said thank you as well. I was not knowing what to expect or if I would even notice anything. I wasn't even sure if I was "doing it right." I think there is a Susan Coleman somewhere who's etheric body is telling me "you dialed the wrong number, don't call again!" But it's okay, cause I know Santiago Dobles. I curled up with my copy of Pathnotes and fell asleep on the part where Doc was talking about shiatsu massages and a certain Suzanne Carlson. I had a very vivid dream about a street hustler who appeared in a dream I had last week. I thought he was a despicable person until I noticed old baby clothes in his blankets that he was folding. I flashed back to a previous dream where he mentioned something about having a family. I realized he'd lost his family and took to the streets. Kind of made me feel guilty for thinking poorly of him at first.