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Thanks for sharing the info. I have been practicing Spring Forest for a month and results are truly noticeable. My first experience with energy was while traveling on a plane fromIndia to LA when I met an Indian Master (http://kamakshi16.tripod.com) who practiced Traditional Tantra. I developed sickness and this guy placed his hands on my stomach. The pain disappeared in a while followed by sensations of deep fiery energy splashing in my spine. The bliss was overpowering though. Unfortunately I could not get in touch with him again. But the sensations continued to occur repeatedly and one night in a dream, the same person appeared and advised me to learn Chi Kung. I was wondering what it was when a neighbor told me she was taking a Chi Kung workshop by Master Chunyi Lin. Chunyi diagnosed the problem as Kundalini awakening and told me if was a powerful shaktipat that had happened to me and gave me specific exercises to balance energy. In a week, the unbearable energy was gone and calmness came back.

The truest purest most returning moments occur when our direct being is in danger .This can be the fleeting moments before a car crash,a physical encounter with someone else i.e. a fight.suddenly falling from a height,No doubt all of us has had the incredible awareness and altered state of time these intense enounters ellicit.The beauty of these moments I believe is we behave spontaneously,are movements and actions have a purity and truthfullness unencumbered by rational duality.Past present and future are fused together,welded into instaneous now.Often when one is close to death or indeed dead all of ones life flashes in an instant,the tyrany of time is extinguished.Dreams also deliver us now.There is only the dream.Where is our yesterday,its the shadow,the fall from great heights,the touch of a unknown lover.Where is our past?,its the deepth of the cold blue sea,the miracle of light,the song of a one blue planet.The countless lives and extinctions rolling back to forever have led us here.now. Please to forgive the ravings of a mad man

I don't see the Dao De Jing as the "bible" of Daoism. I don't even see it as the most important work of Daoist literature. It's simply one of many written works in the canon. I found it very difficult to get much our of the classic works until I had connected with some of the core concepts. This came through practicing Dao meditation. There are other readings that have helped me grow in my understanding dramatically as well, some not in the Daoist canon but expressing very similar ideas in different ways. Many have been posted in other threads or stickies. Here is a list of a few readings that have helped me return to the Daoist classics with a deeper level of understanding and appreciation: Alan Watts - What is Tao? and The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Osho - When the Shoe Fits (Chuang Tsu), The Empty Boat (Chuang Tsu), Tao: The Pathless Path (Lieh-Tsu) Raymond Smullyan - The Tao is Silent Anthony DeMello - Awareness J Krishnamurti - To Be Human and A Light to Oneself UG Krishnamurti - The Mystique of Enlightenment Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - I Am That David Godman - Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Jeff Foster: Life Without a Centre: Awakening from the Dream of Separation Good Luck! Branch out a little if you feel like you have attached too much to any particular book, point of view, teacher, or idea. After all, it's all just stuff created by the mind. It's all really a distraction from what is behind it all... Here's a nice quote from Sri Ramana Maharshi Do not meditate - be! Do not think that you are - be! Do not think about being - you are! I'd like to add to myself - stop reading so many books - be!!

Neither Heaven nor Hell is permanent, and rebirth is inevitable. I personally am not interested in gaining spiritual brownie points, so I have have a better "temporary" vacation. I want out of this cycle, even if that means eternal death so be it. Every being has the intrinsic right to defend their own lives, and the lives of loved ones. Self preservation, and self defense are fundamental to nature. How many animals in nature just lie down and allow themselves to be eaten by their predators? Even they have enough self respect to attempt to save their own lives in such a situation. I don't have much respect for a person who doesn't even value their own life. Don't get me wrong. I am against violence. I am vegetarian. It bothers me that we needlessly slaughter millions of beings each day to fill our fat bellies, while we let half the human population of earth starve to death. I hate war, and needless human death and suffering. The more I observe humanity the more disconnected I feel from it, the more I want out of this insane world. It solidifies in my mind the unreality of this world, for only in a dream could things be so absolutely insane.

I guess I could roll over like a *explicative deleted* and take it in the *explicative deleted*, and wind up dead. I however view my life as just as important as a would be killer or attacker, it's survival of the fittest always has been and always will be. In my mind their is nothing immoral about defending yourself. I am not afraid to die, I am afraid of being reborn again into this world. I want out, I want to break this cycle. Giving my life up before I naturally die, or achieved liberation, on some moral grounds would be stupid. Achieving liberation is something I have to do above all else before I die. That is why being prepared to survive a violent attack is important to me. The only thing I can fathom is that people who are ready to forfeit their lives on moral grounds must not have a dream to accomplish here in this life.

I am not going to defend or put down Mantak Chia. This guy is 24 years old. It would have been my dream to have gone on a Taoist Discussion board 8 years ago and been told what I told him in my post. However..we are all free to choose..and if you say Mantak Chia is an authentic lineage Master..well my friend..that is just fine and dandy with me

So, it's been over 2 months now practicing Kunlun Level 1. Most of the days it's 1 hour in the morning and one hour in the evening, but some days more and some days less, all based on how I feel about it. It's probably too much and I wouldn't recommend doing it 2 hours/day to anyone unless they are doing other meditation practices for long periods of time. And by doing it, I really mean "doing it", not thinking about it or "well, every minute of my life is practice" crap. I had my thoughts against starting yet another practice. My friend Alex was all excited about it because he is a long time fan of Max. To me at the time, I wanted to focus on one practice and the claims like "One hour of Kunlun is like doing any other spiritual practice for 100 years" were just too much to take it seriously. Then I had 2 dream experiences with Max and his teacher and that convinced me to try it and see what happens. After all, who needs to sleep when you can sit in a chair and move like a retard in an epileptic seizure for an hour? I started moving right away with my legs bouncing and hands and body moving left and right. Sometimes it was too violent and I had to keep saying "slow down" to calm myself. Over weeks the movements became more harmonized and sometimes mixed with periods of stillness. There were many experiences and a few times "things" came to observe. So what do I think so far? The way I observe Kunlun Level 1 works is basically like an excavator- the energy generated through the posture moves through your physical body and "unearths" anything on its way. When I say anything I mean anything- "past" experiences, feelings and emotions are all game and it's up to you to deal with it. It is a very good advice not to practice too much at the beginning and see how you can handle it. Then you can increase the practice according to how much you can take. In a way, Kunlun reminds me of Vipassana. In Vipassana it's more controlled as you go around your body with your mind eye focusing on different body parts and observing the sensations. As you become more sensitive, the sensations reveal the energies connected to them and you can relive the moments of this and other lives connected to those energies. To explain more what I mean... Time is a man made thing. It doesn't exist. All the lifetimes and all the experiences charged with emotions and feelings are connected to the energy fragments that create "you" right now. If you look with the clear mind, you can see that every moment of this life and other lives are all here. They are everlastingly present and alive. Some are strongly charged with emotions and those are connected to the energies making "you". There is much more to it and I can talk more about it in details, but don't want to get off the topic. As you go deeper in meditation, you experience the sensation and the energy connected with it and may "see" and relive moments from your life you forgot all about. As you relive them, the emotional energy gets released/freed and so is the influence of the event. Your destiny may change, your karmic influences may ease up and eventually be gone. How is it all related to Kunlun? Well, Kunlun effects are similar but it can open up more then you can face. And that's why I truly believe there maybe something to it when they say "1 day of this is like 100 years of others". Of course, don't take it literally but you should understand the thought behind it. My advice you should start really slow and progress gradually so you know you can handle it in a safe manner. For most people it shouldn't be a problem. I believe other levels of Kunlun will address the subtle deeper energies that weren't affected by level 1. Like peeling the onion. Is it worth doing? Like I said before it will "gently move you to emptiness meditation in a natural way". To me, it's worth the price of gold because most people are unable to do that. Their bodies, minds and energy is like a garbage dump in a middle of a highway to Mexico. Need a lot of internal work to be done. Kunlun addresses this in an easy way anyone can implement. The question is: Can you take it all in and deal with it when it's pouring out of you? lol M.

I got the book and practiced about two weeks before the seminar in August. I had a few things happening, like the body circling. When I went to the seminar Max corrected a few things I was doing wrong and told me to be more like water as I had too much fire energy inside of me. My practice is much different now. I feel lots of changes happening and my dreams are becoming interesting. There are other things that Max teaches at the seminar like Red Phoenix, standing Maoshan 5 elements, spirit travel, and 3 pts healing method. This is also just the Level 1 seminar. I suppose there will be a Level 2 workshop in the future. I told Max that there were a lot of people who were talking about just reading the book and trying to get the transmission through the dream state and his reply to me was that you only have to see him one time. I know for myself that it helped me a lot by attending the seminar. I would just use your intuition and see how drawn you are to this practice. Craig

I've noticed in my travels that there are many enlightened - realized - evolved - beings who eat junk food. Some say they can transmute it. Some say they eat what they are given. Some die young of disease, some live a bit longer. There are many factors involved genes being one. It takes time for transgressions of ones body to find a form of disease. It doesn't happen overnight. So yes when we are young it may appear that we can eat anything - eventually it will catch up to us. It sounds like we have a power when we say we can transmute it. My own feeling re saints and diet is that they are not evolved in all areas of life. They're good at what they do but they are still in a human body and the nature of the body is to eventually decay. I have no concept of what a dragon body or a golden body is. I can dream about them - maybe I'll have one someday but untill then I will treat this earth body with respect - it is made from the same stuff as the rest of the world. Without it I wouldn't be able to strive for my golden dragon body. One of my teachers used to say "All the time you thought you were enjoying your pleasures they were enjoying you"

i haven't ejaculated for will be 3 weeks now and to be honest i don't feel much different. physically i suppose i'm a bit stronger since my body isn't on the cycle of trying to replenish the lost sperm but if something is going on in the spiritual level i'm not yet keen enough to tell. if i haven't had a wet dream i suppose my body is growing on the inside and it needs the energy so even in my awake hours i keep myself dry. what you all must keep in mind is that lin is a monk and their life is much more different. no disrespect in any way or form to you, lin, i just personally think life must be enjoyed more. i think the monk life is too bland and egyptian-ish in the esque that more emphasis is placed on enlightenment or your next life rather than enjoying what you have. if you cannot be happy now how could you be happy in the next life? or the life after that? mal, i personally think if you enjoy it who cares? it's like picking a career. do what you want first and let the money come later; money comes and goes, true happiness is forever.

I've been following the threads for a while and decided it was time to join in. I absolutely don't want to get into anything technical about the practice. I'm no expert. Aside from yoga, I don't have experience with any other energy practices so I can't compare. I can only share what I've experienced and hope it will help. I've been doing the practice since February. I had a dream that I should go to Hawaii to see Max. I felt compelled. I had met Max before but at the time wasn't drawn to the practice. I guess I wasn't ready. Anyway, I went to Hawaii and Max transferred to me. I was immediately sensitive to the energy. It was a very quiet, simple process. I just sat there and closed my eyes but I actually saw an image when he did this. I won't say what it was but it was cool. There was no physical reacton but afterwards my arm was trembling. I got a little worried but he told me my energy was balancing itself. I felt tremors for about an hour, then it went away. I'll fast forward from here. I started doing the practice about a couple of times a week. During the practice my shoulder would twitch pretty hard, my stomach would tighten and release, I would start to swirl into a "pillar of bliss", laughing uncontrollably. At times, I would cry, deep sobs from the depths of my soul, sometimes with memories attached, other times not. Afterwards, I would start to laugh. After bringing the energy back down and coming back to the "real" world I would feel light and cleansed. I still have these reactions but they've also become more intense and more interesting. I have to run some errands but will elaborate more later if anyone is interested.

I feel compelled to inform you all that i regularly meet some of you in my dreams - either by indirect reference or a face-to-face meeting. This question goes out to people who have not yet met each other in person: do you, too, dream of fellow tao bums? If so, in what context? In my own experience, we are generally all in the same boat - that of seeking. Self seeking self. Some of us are way off the scent (to use a turn of phrase) and others are skirting the boundaries between our human conditioning and self-realisation. My last question is as to whether any other tao bums 'receive' premonitions of the future whilst they sleep; i have done for as long as i remember... do you? How often?

I have as well, though they are usually pretty mundane things on the surface. I have been training myself to be more perceptive to premonitions while I sleep (dream recollection and such), and I have experienced the interesting "side effect" of having similar experiences while awake. I usually find those to be random thought processes with no apparent logical origin, though I never realize what they are until I experience the actual event. If any of you have read the Celestine Prophecy, it is actually quite similar to the premonitory phenomena in that. I can only ever guess as to the meaning of these images, but I know that they somehow change my actions and thus my life and everyone's around me in some subtle way. They are not very regular, but I often go through days where I have several and then weeks where I have none. If anyone has any theories about this phenomenon I would love to hear them! -Flynn P.S. I apologize if this is not very coherently written, I just woke up!

I have not met any of the tao bums in person. I once dreamed Michael (thelerner, dream here) and today I dreamed I was reading a post made by Cristoph. I can`t remember what it said, but it was something bad. I hope you`re ok man. Perhaps I had more dreams about the TB members, but I can`t remember. Sometimes. Only I don`t figure out it`s about the future till it happens. Like while I was still in High school, I dreamed I was in a lab of some sort in a white robe and around me different people I never saw before also in white robes. They were talking amongst themselves and with me too, though I didn`t know how they were. Then one time at the university, this exact same thing happened for real. Only this time I knew who the people in white robes (that`s not the right word I guess haha) were, they were my schoolmates!

Hehe... You guys are taking this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to seriously. Even if Max is who I think/thought he is. It's still just a big fun joke. Don't get caught up in being too serious people! Remember the funny Taoist philiosophers. This whole plane is a big joke .It's basically Earth School. We are all one. One..one..one..one..one..one..one..one..one. It's all here..whatever you want to think about it is secondary. I couldn't deny Max if I wanted to..going 2 weeks for the most part without sleep is interesting .At some point in the dream you just got feel the love people! I won't "divulge" anything else I was told about Sifu Max but as far as Egypt goes..let's just say he is versed. I have no intention here but to speak the truth to my friends. A friend of mine told be to be careful that I would acrue karma if Lama Dorge had a negative effect on people. Max is like Morpheus on the matrix. And my other teacher is just like the Oracle. Whoever made The Matrix and DragonBallZ knows stuff! Have fun.

Edgar Cayce, He was also called the sleeping prophet, and as a devout Christian he didn't believe some of his own revelations at first. He slept and tapped into the potential of his mind in that state, to solve real world problems. Einstein, Tesla, Andrew Carnegie, and many other famous geniuses and successful men have used this secret. There is something about this altered state of consciousness, which we yet truly understand. This is where I believe all higher knowledge and powers ultimately reside (inside the deepest realms of the mind accessible only by such altered states). From my own experience my qigong abilities increase 1000 fold when inside of a lucid dream or astral projection. I can literally feel the energy pouring into me, and any knowledge I gain in this state has proven very lucrative.

copied to my jounral and here- I have my doubts now whether Kunlun is the right path for me. Obviously it seems to be working beautifully for some people. I am not sure it is balanced for me or not. I am still only sleeping maybe 2 hrs a night. I had a dream of David Shen's teacher Jiang Sifu. I won't beat around the Bush. I felt a pretty powerful conncetion that I can't even explain with Sean Denty and when we were eating lunch togethe rhad some really intereting transmission from him. Was like the energy of his teacher came into my shen. As I told Trunk...that weekend was alot. As of now..I am not going to pracitce kunlun for 1 week. I will do standing meditation(yiquan) every morning. That's all. I just want the energy to come down at this point. This is wild but does not feel balanced to me. I am having a hard time focusing at work and at school..not something I particularly enjoy. So..for now..will just stand every day. My feeling as of this moment is I will study with Ken Cohen or will take the plunge and try to study with David Shen. It is possible something might change. But as of this moment I will not post or comment or address questions or anything until after my week of standing. Blessings, Cam

Man, This has been just amazing. Way beyond my wildest dreams. Ok..let me just try to have some little concept about what it has felt like for the last week. Basically..the oneness that is realaized and sustained is so real. Like unity..Tao..just feels like I am a fish swimming in the ocean of Tao. My really deep dark crap has been getting released(as some friends of mine on the board can probably note) but the most profound thing is this total 'opening' to all that has happened in this lifetime. Most noticebaly conneciton to childlike, innocence. Also...seems to be wild levels of synchronicty and almost like this sense of 'working with the universe' like sort of catching things before they happen. Like people are mostly characters in this dream state called life and this practice opens you to the truth..that it is all God's play. It is a little difficult at times for sure. It is a bit challenging to be so in the ehad for so many years..really just 'asleep' and then basically have the rug pulled out from under you like this. It's like playing a video game and you think you are this character in the game..but then 'wake up' that your just an imaginary little blip on the tv screen. The real you is something so vast and undescibeable you just feel like laughing about it. I will do my best to try to make it to SF. Also, since being in Max's presence the celibacy thing has been a non issue. I don't know if Max did something to me energetically or what but it feels like the energy is basically 'locked' down there. Like it has nowhere to go but up. Anyway..the not sleeping thing has been a little weird but I am finding some solice in just laying down now. Like just being still in bed. I don't know..I imagine in ancient Egypt they would do all sorts of stuff and I know Max is a master in that school too. Well..anyway..I porbably shouldn't go on too much. But the time you said Max is a "system breaker" just makes total sense to me now. It can be a scary thing to break the system but also probably what is encissary for us crazy humans to evolve.

If you were close to sleep and you felt your heart chakra beating but your physical heart was still it means you did or were close to ejecting one of your energetic bodies. We have multiple energetic bodies with copies of our consciousness layered like an onion or a Russian matryoshka doll, Sounds like new age BS but it isn't. You should read astral dynamics by robert bruce. I find his explanation of multiple simultaneous sets of consciousness to coincide exactly with my own experiences. If your bored sometime read my theory 6 dimensional reality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6UTGkC73GE this also may interest you. I haven't been able to find any thing written by or about this master yet, if anyone has any information on him please let me know. My greatest revelation is that all meditation should be done while lucid dreaming, during this state you have access to abilities not fathomable of in your normal body. The key I have found is to let you body go to sleep but keep your mind awake. You are for all intents and purposes asleep to the rest of the world, but you are awake in your dream, and the laws of this reality no longer apply to you. You can have access to higher knowledge, distort time to have more time for meditation and training. Anything you can conceive of is possible in this state, and it in my opinion is the most powerful way to accelerate your growth. However I don't think I am qualified yet to instruct you on specific meditation techniques. I can however recommend several books and courses for you to look into. Energy Work -Robert Bruce. (and all his other books) "The Magus of Java" of "The Secret Teachings Of The Warrior Sages" -Kosta Danaos The Tao of Meditation The Way To Enlightenment -Tsung Hwa Jou Spring Forest Qigong www.springforestqigong.com Robert Peng's DVD www.robertpeng.com Pillars of Bliss http://www.risingredphoenix.com/ Those are the best easy to understand systems I know of. I hope this helps you some.

lucid dreaming is when you are awake in a dream, if that makes any sense.

Hey thanks. He is great, very practical, no theatrics. Bread and butter Neikung, I guess. Have you been practicing your Kunlun? I haven't managed to squeeze it in yet, but I did have an interesting dream involving Max.

The Non-Separation of Buddhas and Living Beings By: Lin Zi Yi (Lin Ai Wei) The wonderful ways of this universe are only according to the minds living beings. In the realm of hot, there is cold. In the realm of big there is short. That which is myriad is only myriad because of the thoughts and afflictions of living beings. What is an affliction? An affliction is nothing more than that which the mind attracts to, moves to, and remains in view (perception) of, which is the fuel of the process of creating things. Taking the view that all beings area interconnected, we will direct our attention to the relation with all things. In the relation to all things, living beings are thus all things. A rock, a tree, a statue, a car, all things. How is this so if a rock, a car and a statue do not breathe, live, think? It is because living beings which do breathe, think and live create such with the mind. When a living being sees things, they see with the use of the function of the physical eyes. When eyes are closed, they claim to see nothing. This seeing of nothing is still seeing. One thinks there is nothing being seen, and thus, nothing is seen. One says because of the blackness, there is nothing. The present moment of labeling what is sought to be the blackness makes this blackness something. It now becomes the mind of the seer, the one seeing, not a sage. When things enter the function of the eye organ, one claims to see, and thus one views such a seeing as an experience of the object in sight. From labeling comes further separation of views. The movement of mind to what is seen is the separating of things, thus the creation of things. Things that are created are, in form, separate from other forms that are in creation, hence a quote from the Dao De Jing, “One creates two, two creates three, three creates the myriad things.” This line only points to the function of labeling. Not the overall manner of the universe. What is known as the universe is nothing more than mind. When mind views the universe, there is a universe to view. No minding of a universe and the universe is not separate from the minder. When such is cultivated, the view of oneness with that which is outside of the one seeing begins to function. This view of oneness is still not actual oneness, but only a guideline to the realization that all things are actually of a single substance. When the mind is not moved by that which is a result of the function of viewing, the mind no longer is the mind. The idea of a mind is still a view. Once the view of a mind that is unmoved is put down, there is a realization that all places, all things and all minds of living beings are no longer places, things and minds of living beings. Just for the sake of saying so, all minds, places and things are all one. Buddha is a name to that which is the put down mind, the unmoved and unattached mind. One cannot grasp it as a thing because it is not a thing. Though it is the “mind” which is unmoved, unattached and put down, it is also the defiled mind; mind of attachments, unbalanced and full of views. The “mind” that is attached is just the same “mind” that is not attached. To be clearer, we can look at the analogy of clear water and dirty water. In a cup of clear water, no dirt, there is just water. When dirt is added to the water, it is now defiled water. It is still water, but only with dirt in it. When the dirt is first put into the water, it falls down to the bottom of the cup. The water was originally not moving, but because it was in a vessel, the cup, it was subject to dirt entering its abode and defiling it. The dirt enters, and the water moves slightly as the dirt falls to the bottom. After all of the dirt has settled, the water is now again still, but is defiled. When there is wind, or a vibration, the water moves, and that movement also disrupts the settled dirt causing it to move about, and sometimes rise up to the surface of the water. This is the mind of living beings. They have a vessel, a body, a form, and are subject to the influence of the functions of the body. They in turn believe these functions to be real, and base their views on them. This is the same as the defiled water and its movement of dirt. When there is a sensation from the body of the living being, because of the attachment to the sensations and views of them, the mind moves to them. This results in stronger attachments to the views of the sensations. It is likened to the defiled cup of water. This brings us to look past the emotions, sensations and views we hold, and realize that they are all created by improper views. Improper views are thoughts held in the mind which assist in believing what is experienced to be real. Though living beings have a body, and will inevitably have views, certain views result in the experience of a destructive mind, a sick mind which results in the forms of living beings to be the same. The Buddha taught to put down views, but since great amount of living beings have the condition of needing to hold onto views in order to cultivate, as an expedient to keep the mind from creating what we consider unpleasant things, he teaches to hold onto precepts, truths of what we consider reality so as to stay focused on not becoming stuck in daily habits, thoughts, emotions, etc. The lesson with that is, if we are to hold onto any false thoughts, hold onto those which result in wisdom. Using poison against poison and thus curing the mind from ignorance. The mind which we call the Buddha mind is none other than the mind of living beings. The only main difference is, the Buddha mind is not pre-occupied with , attached to, the things unrealized Buddhas are. What are unrealized Buddha but living beings with no wisdom, virtue, morality; Patience, Compassion and Wisdom. All are the same, all have certain characteristics. A living being puts down their pre-occupied mind, all emotions and thoughts by not entertaining them with emotion, desire. Constant practice of this leads to wisdom, compassion, patience. When all is finally put down without a trace of defilement; emotional attachment, personal desire, there is enlightenment. It was said in the Sixth Patriarch’s Sutra, “Karma ended and emotions empty, defines a true Buddha. Karma heavy and emotions turbid, defines a living being”. People tend to think that having a physical body means one is not a Buddha. On the contrary, without a physical body, how can you become a Buddha? Utilizing the body, mind properly, one will become a Buddha. But, it is not that one mysteriously, magically turns into a Buddha. It is that one’s mind transforms from filled with emotional imbalances, to no mind of emotion at all. That doesn’t mean a Buddha doesn’t feel emotion and is dead emotionally. That means the Buddha is not moved by emotion; when someone dies, an unrealized Buddha usually cries in loss of the person. A Buddha knows that “Life and Death” are of the mind, and so no one is actually dying. That is the difference. To be in the ups and downs of emotions is going with the flow of turbidity because emotional ebbs and flows are but coverings to the actual truth of conditions. Though people consider feelings to be pleasant and lively, this is only because people think it to be that way. In actuality, there is no pleasant and unpleasant. Living beings have a problem with this, because they are so used to labeling and indulging in their good and bad feelings. This is the separation of the Buddha mind and the mind’s of living beings. The separation exists only because living beings cannot put down their likes and dislikes, their views. The views of living beings is the dirt in the water, it is the clouds covering the sky, and it is the blue color we call the sky. These views, because of the strong attachment to them from living beings, deter the concentration of mind from the original nature. What is the original nature? It’s simple, just meditate and find out. In this we realize that the Buddha mind and the defiled mind are only a thought away. There is no real separation of Buddhas and living beings, yet there is separation due to the views living beings hold onto. Seeing the Buddha, is not really seeing the Buddha. Hearing the Buddha is not really hearing the Buddha, becoming a Buddha is not really becoming a Buddha. This means that if we see the form which we call a Buddha, it is because of our own views that it is a Buddha’s form. If we hear the voice of one we call the Buddha because of the profundity of the teachings, it is only that way because we view the teachings spoken to be profound. Becoming a Buddha is only viewed as a becoming because of the defiled thoughts viewed of in the mind of the living being. It is due to our views of ego, others, a being and a life that there is a view of separation of Buddhas and unrealized Buddhas. It is not enough to recite the words of a Buddha, and speak in the manner of how a realized master would speak. That is lying to oneself. What is proper is that once one realizes the way, attains enlightenment; there is no difference between living beings and a realized one. In this, there is no becoming a Buddha because there is nothing that is transformed. What is experienced is only passing, not real, a bubble, a dream, empty. Why use what is empty as a base for experience? Thus is such a life of living beings. NAMO ORIGINAL TEACHER SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA NAMO GREAT COMPASSIONATE AVALOKITESHVARA BODHISATTVA NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA NAMO GREAT SHURANGAMA NAMO XUAN HUA SHANGREN NAMO ALL BUDDHAS and BODHISATTVAS, PRATYEKA BUDDHAS AND ARHATS OF THE TEN DIRECTIONS May the merit and virtue accrued from this work be transferred to all the living beings throughout the ten directions. May they all attain great affinities with the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of their minds and be reborn in their lands of great and ultimate bliss according to their affinities.

I remember little from my last existence, other than a sincere loneliness and heartfelt sorrow for those who had gone before me (friends, family etc.). i felt grey and lifeless towards the end - i wanted to dissolve. when the time did come i was surrounded by love, i tried to keep my awareness, but it drifted in what seemed a quick period of time. I also recall coming close to the "source" ... what i could best describe as pure, non-judgemental love. I was almost reunited when a deep sorrow pulled me back. i accepted that i was to become once again. everything that happened was without form and seemingly outwith time. now here i am. i dream my deja vus days or weeks before they happen. (i am shown what is to come in both third and first person). i could sense a guide next to me during my youth - with the same love as aforementioned. i have lived through hell on earth (i will post about it sometime... when i am ready to transmit it). i am here to teach, but on no grand scale. i have done it before and i will do it again. death? what to expect? hehe. that's part of the eternal question that is behind all human thought - who am i? or somethimes, why am i here? "ooh, look! i don't know why i am here, so what happens to those who die around me? they were here... and now they're not." many realised folk have given their teachings, but please remember that everything has relevance (time/place). i would say that you should treat it as all things in existence - have no expectations. (Mai, there is much literature/philosophy/religious speculation on death. you are the best person to know what would suit her temperament. Christopher Hansard writes about the fear of death in his book The Tibetan Art of Serenity... if i remember rightly he gives meditations to overcome the fear too... he also writes about how to comfort dying people in the end of his Tibetan Art of Living. These are books i would personally recommend).

I just ordered the book. Smile, thankyou for sharing about the dream reception. Like it!

Lots of shaking and twisting- arms, legs, torso, head. Lots of heat generated that at the end of 1 hour make your underwear soaked with sweat. Sometimes there is a feeling like you want to make sounds with your mouth and there are some sounds coming out related to animal sounds or to Healing Sounds, it only happened to me once when I practiced with a friend. It seems if you practice with someone, the effects are much greater, at least for me. Doesn't matter if the air conditioner is on- the heat is all the same, and eventually you would prefer having a freezing water shower just to cool things down a bit. The heat is not uncomfortable per say. This practice generates a lot of energy but again this type of energy doesn't make me feel too full or uncomfortable. It opened up the legs a bit so it feels now like walking on something soft, even if I walk on the concrete floor. It's been now over a month into this type of practice, and there are some weird feelings on the upper back area- kind of pleasurable. Also, many times, same feeling in the feet and the knees. This practice greatly improved my stillness meditation and an ability to sit cross legged for longer periods of time. Also, the flexibility in the legs improved, even though I haven't done anything targeting it. Also, I noticed the hunger is gone, and some days I eat once a day, mainly veggies and fruits. There is definitely something is going on with this method, and although I practiced before a similar method related to Soaring Crane chi kung, the effects of this practice are much more powerful. I would also recommend it to anyone who wants to improve the quality of their emptiness meditation. If you sincere enough and have the right heart/mind, the transmission from Sifu Max could happen in a dream. Actually, there are a couple of "dreams" with Max and his teacher that convinced me to come to the upcoming September workshop. I wasn't going to before. One of the main reasons I'm recommending this practice is because it helped me with my stillness meditation. that's all for now. Max