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The difference is right there in the highlighted sentence. In AV, it is just an appearance when it comes to the existence of other beings. Such appearance is just maya and not real. The transcendental reality of the 'I' is the only truth. Whereas Abhinavagupta accepts both the transcendent and the immanent (bheda-abheda) as reality. If other sentient beings are just an appearance similar to a dream, what is the need for a jnani to help others? I doubt if we can find an answer to this question in AV. If there is no answer to this question, then there is no need for compassion, or for that matter morals or ethical values.

Again, there is no difference, for as Parabrahman, the states of waking dream and sleep come and go, while You, the stateless, remain throughout. KS says oneness of states, AV says the separate states are illusion. It's a matter of perspective, not a difference. Conscious integration of what? That which springs forth from you? That's one perspective. Another is, there is nothing separate from you to integrate.

1) In my personal view, there is subjective reality to separate sentient beings. 2) It is not only possible to help, I feel it is not possible for anyone to live alone without the interdependent help of other sentient beings and taking help from other factors of the universe. Such as, I benefit from the Sun's light everyday, breathe the oxygen that is transformed by the trees and plants, etc. Every time I eat a meal, some animal or plant has given it's life to become that meal on my plate. I am not fanatical about this view. But I feel it is important to be consciously aware that other beings are contributing to my survival all the time, without asking me anything back in return. To have gratitude and be able to give back is also important in my personal view. Others don't have to necessarily agree with my views. I respect if someone else holds a different view and sees it all as movie/dream.

Depending on one's view, these are all hugely different points. First, one has to know/decide if there really are other (separate) sentient beings. If there are not, then there is no point in ever trying to help them as it is all just a movie/dream. Second, is even if there are other sentient beings, is it possible to even help them, or is everyone just alone trapped in their own karmic path. To me, these two simple questions ultimately define the view and subsequent potential realization of the underlying tradition.

Personally this makes a huge difference for me and also a very important factor plus the reason to differentiate. If everything is seen as a dream, if the waking state is the same as the dream state, just a projection, a person that awakens from this dream has no need to help others, since there are no others! When I wake up from a horrible dream, I rarely ever (never) go back into the dream to help other dream beings (my mind's creation) suffering in the dream, because there is no need. There is no compassion in viewing the waking state as same to this.

In buddhism there is a teaching/observation that things are empty of independent existence where when we see a spider or hear a scary noise ...the fear comes from a reaction from our senses that have associated pleasant and unpleasant things or from a reaction in our minds...the spider isnt by nature scary...the fear comes from within us. The teaching isnt to deny the existence of fear its to make us realise that freeing ourselves of fear is found within us. You cannot free yourself of fear when you perceive it outside yourself... The teaching is about understanding that the world we perceive is a reflection of our inner world and not just objectively true...ie that spiders are inherently scary. i dont know what perceiving this emptiness does or what this teaching achieves but i am confused... when you see that your love for others comes from within and reality is a blank canvas what are we left with? What does reality become if you perceive that you project your feelings onto the world and live as if fear etc is real? Is this what the buddha meant when he said the world is an illusion that it is empty of inherent existance and that we create the worlds we see? incidentaly this teaching shows how absurd people are when they argue over which is the better food dish...two dreamers stuck in two different dreams arguing about what dream is better lol

It's American politics. Everyone wants to be King or Queen. Some can't even make up their mind what they want to be. To hell with reality - it's a dream world now.

There is a lot of controversy surrounding everything that has to do with GM Doo Wai. I thought I'd share this blog written by the ex-wife of Jim Lacey. And hey, I'm just the messenger, don't shoot the messenger. I don't know the truth. (source: https://kungfugrandmasterjameslacy.wordpress.com/part-1-the-beginning-of-our-story/) Part 1 – Part 1 The Beginning of Our Story Back in the eighties, in Hamburg, Germany, I felt a strong desire to get to know America for one year and to learn English. I was 43 when I arrived in February of 1990 in San Diego. I had contacted a family who was interested in hosting me for one year as the nanny of their two-year old son and housekeeper/cook. I had picked the nicest family in town, the only thing missing in my life was a boyfriend. So I announced my request to the Universe to send me a boyfriend. Three weeks later he showed up. I had put an ad in the paper looking to connect with readers of the Seth books by Jane Roberts. For years it had been my desire to one day be able to read the Seth books in English. So Jim responded that he knows all about Seth and that we should meet. On April 29, 1990 when he came into my life, I was quite attracted by his incredible blue eyes. But I remember thinking that the beard has to go. Jim had brought his Urantia book to show me the references to Seth. After two hours Jim said let’s marry and build our love… So the next day I told Janet and Bruce, my wonderful host family, that I’ve fallen in love and that he wants to marry me. Janet said let’s meet him and order a pizza. They sure liked him and Janet told me that Jim is a good-looking guy. They became witness to our entire story. Jim’s 40th birthday was upcoming on May 16, 1990, and Janet told me the 40th is celebrated in America as a person’s major birthday. So I went to his apartment and surprised him with 40 red roses. Jim had an age-old Honda motorbike and I was horrified being the pillion rider on the freeway. I wanted us to have a car, so I made a down-payment for buying an old car for Jim to drive so that we could explore San Diego. Three days later I withdrew from buying the car. Several situations had shown that Jim was very unreliable. I found it hard to witness what a dysfunctional relationship Jim had with his Chinese Grandmaster. He was the first Chinese I ever met. Jim constantly complained about the Grandmaster’s demands. I told Jim that I can’t watch any longer him being a slave to his master and that I quit our relationship. Jim’s Chinese Kung Fu Teacher, Grandmaster Doo Wai, came always first. The Grandmaster constantly demanded money. Jim had a few students coming to his apartment for classes. Whenever the Grandmaster called to bring him money, Jim had to make the 45 minute drive to Escondido on his old motorbike. Jim made money for the Grandmaster by selling the information from Doo Wai to martial arts students. In return he got either an herbal formula or a videotape with the Grandmaster demonstrating a form. Jim also had to provide the Grandmaster with marijuana and penicillin, on a regular basis. However, a week after my breakup Jim came and promised to be more reliable. Janet in her generosity offered that Jim can drive her old car if I pay the car insurance. So Jim and I went on an overnight trip to Salton Sea in the high desert and stayed there in a motel. Jim wanted to show me the ¼ acre that he had bought there years ago in planning for his retirement. He already had paid off half of the $9,000 mortgage. I was quite shocked by the idea of living there, breathing in hot and terribly stinking air from the artificial lake. But I buried a crystal on the lot anyway. I must say, despite of all the culture shocks I got it was the happiest year of my life! It was exciting to step as an explorer into a brand-new reality in a new country with a new language, new people of a different culture, new food, new money, different behavior, different climate, and so on. I decided that when my year in America was over I wanted to come back out of love for Jim. and to start our life together. The time arrived when Janet and Bruce and Jim and I went out for a last dinner. As a thank-you gift for our wonderful year together they gave me an envelope with $660 as a bonus. The next day my dear host family and Jim brought me to the airport. I returned to Germany in order to go through my affairs and to sell my belongings so that I have money for a new start in America. For several months I had diligently envisioned to sell my entire household for only $10,000 to somebody to move in my apartment. It happened exactly as I envisioned! In April of 1991 some old friends brought me to the airport in Hamburg, Germany to say farewell to my homeland. As a surprise, even my ex-husband Matthias had come all the way from Southern Germany to say good bye to me at the airport in Hamburg. So in April of 1991 I returned to San Diego as a tourist with $10,000 for a new beginning. Jim came with a student to pick me up from Los Angeles airport. We drove all the way down to San Diego. Jim had a 1-bedroom apartment in the Normal Heights district. Before flying back to Germany I had asked Jim to keep for me some of my clothing plus the envelope with the $660 bonus gift until I would be back in two months. When I came back Jim said he gave the Grandmaster the money and received in return some priceless information that will make the money many times back. Next the Grandmaster wanted Jim to bring him my $10,000 for the next level of the Iron Palm. I was quite speechless and realized the level of power and control the Grandmaster had over Jim. As the first thing we bought a Hyundai car for $2,800. Then on April 15th of 1991 we rented a house in Golden Hills for $775, not far from my American family’s house. So I went there often to baby-sit little Kellen who was now three and a half. I loved visiting my American family. When Kellen was four they sent him to a martial arts school and Jim and I were invited when he got his first belt. Three weeks after moving in we got burglarized. I had left the back window open, as I was used to do in Hamburg. We didn’t know that there was a drug rehabilitation house adjoining to the back. They stole all of Jim’s electronics and my jewelry. So I paid for a new video recorder and video camera and had now only $1,000 left. In all streets the nice houses were in the front and in the back were the two-story apartments, where the black people lived. I was shocked when I learned how racism was part of life. There were gang activities in the ally ways. One night we woke up from a horrible explosion-like noise. We called the police and it turned out somebody had thrown a self-made bomb under our car. Another culture shock for me…. Jim tried to get more private Kung Fu students to come to our house. Grandmaster Doo Wai did not approve anything we did. “Jim, you will fail” was his constant remark. Sometimes somebody gave the Grandmaster a ride from Escondido to our home in San Diego and they filmed doing the forms on the beautiful wooden floor in our large living room. Of course the Great Grandmaster wanted hundreds more dollars for those tapes. Jim and I married on August 1st of 1991. There came no well wishes for our future from the Grandmaster. Now began the time of dealing with all the authorities in order for me to become a legal resident. One month later, on September 1st of 1991, we decided to start a business together. More visits to the authorities, filling out forms and paying hefty fees. Jim named the business Mew Hing Productions, after Five Elder Monk Mew Hing, the founder of the Sup Bat Mo Jung Pai System. Jim was on disability since age 18. A train accident left him with a fractured hip and the loss of his spleen, beside other injuries. Altogether he spent 17 years in juvenile institutions, jails, prisons, mental institutions, and probation. We didn’t know whether Jim was allowed to have a business and make money, so we put the business in my name. I had been a secretary in my first occupation and knew how to run an office. We started our quarterly newsletter and snail-mailed it to several hundred martial artists. Also, Jim had started in San Diego an annual martial arts show for the benefits of the homeless. It took a lot of time and effort to organize the show every August, get the rewards from the politicians, the trophies donated by a company, plus fast food donated, flyers created, etc. Jim wrote a weekly column for the San Diego Navy Dispatch. He often used it as a creative outlet for trading; that is how we for example got a waterbed, a massage table for me, or ate for free at our favorite vegetarian restaurant. Also, Jim wrote regular submissions for different martial arts magazines which required much preparation, picture taking, herb buying, etc. without ever getting paid. My letter to the Great Grandmaster The situation with the Grandmaster had escalated to the point that I was ready to go back to Germany. I had come to this country as a self-confident, emancipated woman. The Grandmaster’s abusive interference in our relationship had become intolerable to me. When he came to our house in Juniper Street he kept saying to Jim – in my presence, “Jim, you are not the man in the house!” On October 22th of 1991 Jim had to pick up a gun from somebody in San Diego and bring it to the Grandmaster in Escondido. It could have gotten Jim into prison. I didn’t want to live in such close proximity to a person without any morals whom I – if I were on my own – would not want to have in my life. So on October 25th of 1991 I wrote a letter to Grandmaster Doo Wai, asking him unequivocally to give us some breathing space so that our marriage has priority, otherwise I will leave my husband, for I would not have agreed to Doo Wai’s demands of providing for his livelihood. I wrote that I am not comfortable with his constant interference in our lives, his constant demands of more money, his calling day and night, his threats that he will commit suicide. I wrote that I do not like that he month after month puts emotional pressure on Jim by telling him that he cannot pay his rent, or that he has not eaten anything in four days. And other psycho terror…. After mailing the letter out to the Grandmaster, I gave Jim a copy so that he got to know its content. As expected, the fact that I had the audacity to write such a letter was more than Doo Wai could handle. So the Great Grandmaster called and told Jim that he will ruin his life and career in return for my letter. Of course Jim was scared because he knew that Doo Wai was capable of destroying his career as a martial artist. I found my letter justified for it forced Jim to stop playing slave to his master and stand up for our marriage rights. Especially since Jim constantly complained about how badly the Grandmaster treated him. My letter provided the opportunity for Jim to cut the unhealthy bond and establish his own career. He obviously had gone through years of abuse from the Grandmaster and worked hard for becoming a Grandmaster himself. After I wrote the letter to the Grandmaster I tried anything possible to smooth things out again. I wrote Christmas cards, send him wishes at the Chinese holidays, etc. Jim was contacted by Christina, a German woman who wanted to market healing meditations. She also marketed the Kombucha tea fungus and helped it to gain popularity. So I made Kombucha tea for many years and offered it to all students and guests, and sold a number of them over the years. Jim told the Grandmaster about Christina and Doo Wai wished to be connected with Christina. A week later Doo Wai informed Jim that he sold one of the five systems to Christina and that Jim can get sued if he sells anything that she now has. That was a typical story of how Doo Wai stabbed Jim in the back. But to be just I also must mention that there were times when Doo Wai and Jim actually performed together. At those occasions I loved to watch how much coherence there was between them when doing the moves. I could feel it that they were age-old buddies. Or when they were having a good time talking over the phone for hours. The Great Grandmaster had made Jim the Archivist to preserve the Five Elder System. For that role Jim seemed to accept his place in the Chinese mafia-style pecking order. At one time Jim had a student who was a distributor for high-quality water filters. So the student traded water filters for classes and forms. After awhile everybody was interested in those great water filters. The Grandmaster also got involved and traded them. Of course Jim tried to make a martial artist out of me, but I only liked the moving meditations. I am a peace maker to the core of my being and I had difficulties watching all those martial arts guys with their infighting, their politics, their inflated egos, their enemy thinking and gangster-type of a Grandmaster. The Grandmaster only occasionally taught Jim any forms, only when he brought him larger amounts of money. I wondered why Doo Wai the teacher usually only handed out a video tape to Jim, his student. Many times Jim came back with an empty tape, or a movie video that Doo Wai unsuccessfully had tried to overplay. Jim always hoped to have later on the time to actually learn the form himself and film himself doing it. However, out of this dilemma Jim developed his home study method. The Panther Tapes story Starting in 1993 I got to witness American capitalism in action. I watched closeup how the big fish eat the small fish, with no ethics and no morals. It was another culture shock to watch how the martial artists in position of corporate power treated and exploited other martial artists. Everything ended to our disadvantage. Jim had no more control over the information in the Panther Tapes. He was not even allowed to sell it, Panther owned it. Two times we got a royalty check of about $500. Then they announced that Panther Productions got sold to a larger company called “21st Century”. They offered $1,000 to pay Jim out. When he asked what other options he has, they responded that he has none, other that they would take him off the catalog altogether. Two producers came to our house in San Diego for the first series of Panther Tapes. Over a year later they came for another series to our home in Jacumba, about one hour East of San Diego. When Grandmaster Doo Wai learned about the planned Panther Production video tape series he contacted Panther Productions in another attempt to ruin Jim’s life. He announced that Jim Lacy is a fraud and has never been his student, and so on. With that additional back stabbing from Doo Wai there was nothing Jim could do. These Panther Tapes now belonged to 21st Century Company and Jim got cheated out of them; I think 17 tapes altogether. The Herb Shop Mister Wang and his son Ohn were the owners of the Chinese herb shop in San Diego where we regularly went. I loved going there, for I never before had met Chinese people. I watched over the years how impossible it normally is to get closer to them, for they hide behind that artificial smiling and bowing. But Jim loved people, he could start a conversation with everybody. The herb selling for Dit Da Jow liniment for hand conditioning for the iron palm training was part of our business. When we started Mew Hing Productions in 1991 Jim began giving Mister Wang and his family red envelopes with silver dollars. After 25 years they must have quite a nice collection of silver dollars from Jim Lacy. Jim asked son Ohn to break down the herbal formulas, with the Chinese, Latin and English names. Jim had a thousand Chinese formulas. He bought them to fill, broke them down, photographed them, and put them in books. He also used them for his herb articles for the magazine. Over twenty years Jim and Ohn worked together breaking down Chinese herbal formulas. What we loved the most while living in San Diego for 3.5 years was doing the moving meditation “Sparrow descending to its Perch” in La Jolla on our favorite beach spot or in Balboa Park. Back then we were the only ones doing something like that and quite often people afterward came and wanted to know more about it. Buying a home in Jacumba near the Mexican Border After 3.5 years the quality of life had gone down dramatically in our neighborhood in San Diego. It was stressful living. There were now more gang activities in the alley ways. A coffee shop opened across the street, which brought heavy traffic and pollution. Jim had already enough long-distance students with whom he interacted through video exchange and video certification. We had been able to pay our rent every month and we wanted to pursue the American Dream of buying a piece of land with a home. We wanted to get away from the city stress and live healthier. Since we were so poor, our only option was to find an old fixer-upper house in a rural area. I detected the property in Jacumba; it was a double-wide trailer on 2.5 acres, 1.5 miles from the Mexican border. For Jim this was a few sizes too big for our humble livelihood, but eventually we were able to buy it for $76,500; financing through the owner at 10% interest. The double-wide trailer in the middle of 2.5 acres was spacious, but totally run-down. We moved there in September of 1994. It felt heavenly to live surrounded by Nature. After having to deal in the past with all the obstacles thrown in our way by the Grandmaster, we suddenly experienced amazing windfalls. A medical doctor who had a cancer clinic in Texas contacted Jim to buy the cancer-curing Five Elder formula. He was very excited that he discovered the herbal part of White Tiger Kung Fu. He made it possible to start our American Dream by paying us $5,000 for the down-payment of our home in Jacumba. The doctor and his family came to visit us in Jacumba. I’ll never forget our hike towards the border with this wonderful family and their adorable son. Jim decided to use the opportunity of having such an affluent student to make another attempt of reconciliation with the Grandmaster. He contacted Doo Wai and announced that the doctor is interested to meet the Great Grandmaster in person. First Jim and I visited the Grandmaster in Escondido as a gesture of burying the hatchet and reconcile. Since I knew how important gift-giving in Chinese culture is, I brought him a beautiful Quan Yin stature. Jim received the large golden fan and we seemingly were friends, or so we thought. At the end of 1994, shortly after we settled in our double-wide trailer Jim got a computer from a new student. The student came to visit us and set the computer up for Jim. We were able to put some money into renovating our home. I needed to paint the dark-brown walls four-times to change the energy of the house. We bought new carpet. I spent the following two years feathering our nest. I finished the work of the handyman, whom we had hired to enclose the porch into a sun room. A year later we went to the big computer convention in San Diego where they introduced Windows 95. From that early time on Jim participated in the Internet, even though in the country side it was very expensive to go online. I fulfilled my childhood dream of having my own swing in my yard. (smile) Also, I created – with a handyman – a shrine built of quartzite as my meditation place. I loved being the steward of our land and performed regular ceremonies at the equinox and solstice. And of course I gridded the land with crystals for protection. The neighbors always had lots of problems with illegal immigrants, homeless people, border agents, and also weather problems with mini tornadoes who took the roofs off their houses. But we never were affected directly by any of these problems, we only were surrounded by them. For my 50th birthday Jim gave me a computer. For my 53rd birthday on January 1st of 2000, at the New Millennium, I got a website, built by Jim’s first webmaster Darren Hanson. (www.KarinLLightworker.com) Followed by the hate of the Grandmaster Ever since I wrote the earlier mentioned letter to Doo Wai in 1991, he run his smear campaign against Jim Lacy until his (Doo Wai’s) own death. Within the twenty years there were several reconciliation events, initiated by Jim and inspired by me. After the reconcilation in 1994, Doo Wai spread the message that Jim Lacy announced to destroy Grandmaster Doo Wai. When Doo Wai later also got on the Internet he started by spreading that Jim Lacy had died. Imagine that! But then, a couple years later, Grandmaster Doo Wai created an entire website for the slandering of Jim Lacy. In the past I never visited any of those trash sites where the followers of Doo Wai spread their lies about Jim Lacy. When I recently googled for info I came across some forums where they badmouth Jim Lacy. Those are the ones from the Doo Wai faction. Somebody even writes comments who is claiming to be Jim Lacy. I remember some of the names of these students, who first came to us. I served all of them Kombucha tea before they turned into “traitors” and went over to the Great Grandmaster’s territory. He sure welcomed them for use in his next attack on Jim Lacy. As I am writing this memorial I am well aware that Doo Wai was what nowadays is widely known as a “Psychopath”. The Psychopath’ main traits are incapability of feeling empathy with others, no moral or ethical values, no conscience as the innate compass of what is right and wrong. unforgiving and resentful, dishonest and ruthless; bossy in dealing with others. For example, Jim did all the preparation work for the annual martial arts show and the Grandmaster comes and takes the micro and made himself the center of the show in cult leader style. Beside Jim Doo Wai had other students. He either did not introduce them to each other, or played them out against each other, depending on how it served him. We can assume that he kept with each of his students that same abusive master-slave relationship of exploiting them to the max. The Grandmaster called those who did not want to stay with him “traitors”. It always amused me, since to me the word “traitor” was vocabulary from the middle ages or from medieval knight movies. On the other hand, those of Jim’s students who ran over to the Grandmaster’s faction, were not traitors. Well, Jim and I always knew what was ahead for them. From the beginning I realized that Jim’s unhealthy relationship with his Chinese teacher indicated a heavily loaded karmic debt relationship. I received from spirit that they were repeating and acting out old and unresolved patterns from their many Asian lifetimes together. Doo Wai was Fung Do Duk, and Jim was Mew Hing, the crippled one with the bad hip. The rest of the Five Elders came to gather as well, they all wanted to meet at this time. Their mission was to introduce and spread the martial arts to the Western world, to introduce Chinese culture to the West. Of course I wanted to be instrumental in their karmic healing work, if needed, yet not be pulled in. Grandmaster Doo Wai went after Hollywood contacts. As the Bruce Lee movies led to the genre of martial arts movies in Hollywood real Chinese were sought after as consultants, stuntmen and extras. Doo Wai wanted to be an insider and pose with Hollywood celebrities. I vividly remember when Jim had to bring a larger amount of money to Doo Wai, and he got in return an old looking small bottle with some Did Da Jow from Fung Do Duk, from the sixteen hundreds. I couldn’t help but laugh. What a master of switching timelines Fung Do Duk was! Connecting with his family One day Jim’s daughter Harmony called from the post office in Jacumba, asking whether she can stop by, together with her friend and her friend’s infant. I was delighted and thrilled for I always wished for Jim to reunite with his family, especially with his two children. Jim did not bring up his children. While he was in prison his wife married another man. When his daughter was 15 she wanted to live with him. However, Jim declined since he smoked marijuana and was afraid that she could get him into prison for life. Jim first did not want to meet his daughter. He was afraid of being drawn into old family dramas. He was seen as the black sheep and outcast and didn’t expect any good coming out of it. But I always said that for anybody on a spiritual path it is essential to come to terms with one’s mother and father, and other blood relatives. So I just stepped in and opened my arms and my heart wide and welcomed them into our home. And the ice was broken! Next Harmony arranged for her brother Michael to call Jim. I forgot the year son Michael stopped by overnight with his girlfriend on their trip to South America. Now that father and children were reunited we all managed to arrange a phone call between Jim and his 71-year old mother. She had disowned her son at age 18 and not seen him since then. That is why I had wished so much for a reunion between my husband and his mother, especially since I knew how much his blood family meant to him. So it was Jim’s son and me, and the fairies of the Universe, who were instrumental in the reunion between Jim and his Mom. It was on July 15 of 2000 that my husband called his mother in San Francisco, an unforgettable event. His Mom was willing to accept the telephone contact with her son. At age 71, she was recovering from a stroke. I loved hearing Jim chatting in the porch from his cell phone, speaking with his Mom in San Francisco and making her laugh. He couldn’t get enough saying the word “Mom” and he would have loved to call his mother often and talk endlessly about the family. Being not the loving, motherly type she wished to keep the calls rather short. Not once did she give Jim a call. Jim wanted to share with his mother how gloriously he had turned his life around. He would have loved telling his Mom about all his humanitarian work in San Diego as his way of giving back to society; and that he even got a day in his name from the San Diego mayor. Despite of his bad hip he had become a well known martial artist, with students on every continent. He had sent his Mom all his martial arts tapes published by Panther Productions, but from his Mom came not much praising for his accomplishments. Since Frances kept the contact with her son rather short, I decided to stay out altogether and instead maintain my own family contacts. Jim called his mother for 3.5 years until her death in December 2003; a lifetime of healing was accomplished. When Jim’s two children first visited us Jim and I were playing with the idea how wonderful it would be if they would want to move here on our land and we would build dome houses and greenhouses and co-create as a community and bring others in as well. There was such great potential for healing…. As Jim got more long-distance students and our financial situation improved, we enjoyed being prosperous for a few years and I indulged in gift giving. To deepen the bond with his closest students we sent them gifts for Christmas, as well as to Jim’s relatives and my own family in Germany. We often sent flowers to Jim’s Mom. Over the years it turned out Jim’s son and daughter did not want to have their father in their lives nor did they want their own children to know their grandfather. Alas, it was a sad reality, but a fact of life. – Immediately after 9-11 homeland security took over the quiet border area and turned it into a war zone with agents patrolling on off-road vehicles, flood lights at night, helicopters flying so low that our trailer rattled, new check points were built. Large invasions of immigrants came over the border, causing many problems for the local population. I described life in the back country in my Open Letter to San Diego Council Woman Donna Frye: Additionally there were problems with our next door neighbors. They intentionally dragged the dirt road dividing our properties every week to demonstrate that they do what they want to, raising a huge cloud of desert dust sweeping over our trailer, causing problems with our electronic equipment, plus we having to breathe the dust. When we asked them to water the road according to the county regulations before any dragging. they said that they won’t do that for us. But Jim was a people person, who was always looking to negotiate and mediate and look for peaceful solutions. When Jim walked over to the neighbors to talk to them in person they shouted to leave or they will shot him. A couple days later the neighbor announced that he wants to meet Jim at the library in Jacumba. I could feel that something eerie was in the air and asked Jim not to go. But he insisted. When Jim arrived at the Jacumba library the neighbor, named Jim too, was already there and he shouted at Jim, “You are a child molester!” He expected Jim to start attacking him and in defense he would pull his gun out of his jacket and kill Jim. There was no child around anywhere far and wide, so Jim must have comprehended the situation in a split second. He said quietly, “We are three here right now, you and I, and Jesus. Jesus wants us to make peace. Obviously the preacher in Jim came to the fore and he somehow calmed the neighbor down and they had a long talk. It was a miracle how Jim was able to turn the dangerous situation around. From then on the two Jim’s had their occasional neighborly chats over the fence and Jim always told the other Jim that Jesus was there with them. Jim was a person of great faith in Jesus. The Urantia Book was his bible, one third of the book is about the life of Jesus. I could not befriend myself with the Urantia Book, it was not “my cup of tea”. We always went together to town. We were popular, especially at the health food supermarket. The cashiers competed to have us in their checkout line, for we always chatted and knew everybody by first name. Jim liked to brag about his successes, but couldn’t understand why not everybody liked it. He simply was proud of his accomplishments and how far he had come. Jim loved weightlifting. It was his hobby. Since he had a bad hip and limped he used weightlifting to balance his weaker lower body by creating upper body strength. He was very disciplined, also in his meditations. Jim’s Cat Timmy When I met Jim in 1990 I also met his 2-year old cat Timmy. Jim and Timmy were inseparable, they were like Siamese twins. Timmy could sit for hours on Jim’s lap and stare into his eyes and adore him. Timmy was our child. We both remembered Timmy being with us in other lifetimes. When we moved to Jacumba I took him often on a leash to walk the parameters of our 2.5 acre land. We had to keep him as an indoor cat because of the rattle snakes and coyotes. As a snow-white cat he would not have survived one night in the desert. Timmy was a happy cat and never got sick. He was with us in our bed when he died at age 18 on his own in a natural way. We buried him on our land next to my shrine. – I felt more and more like a foreign body in Jacumba. I could not make any friends in all these years, not even find a female hiking companion. But I had wildlife friends, such as the Raven couple that lived in our yard and I helped feed their offspring. I also was befriended with a wild coyote, “Coyote Mom”. I fed her wet dog food every day. When I walked the parameters of our land Coyote Mom walked with me, exactly seven feet next to me. She did not want to be tamed, but she loved to lay under the tree close to my window, where I could see her. At one time she was gone for several weeks and suddenly showed up with a cub. We were friends for six years, until the neighbors shot her with four shoots. It was another omen for me to leave Jacumba. Again and again I suggested that we move away and buy a better place, away from the Homeland Security war zone, away from the Mexican border and from the desert heat. But Jim insisted that we must be committed to the land and the mortgage. I had put all my energy into growing our business. I thought once everything is on a firm foundation I can focus on my own goals, not just hobby-style, but fully step into my Life’s mission as a Lightworker, for that is why I was guided to come to America. Our marriage relationship became more and more co-dependent and dysfunctional. I could not assert myself in his powerful presence. Leaving my Husband and Living Openly as a Lightworker In December of 2005 Jim’s cousin Angela came to visit. They had not seen each other in thirty years. I asked Angela that I may come with her to live in the Ashram in Sonoma where she presently resided in retreat. I received much healing in the Sonoma Ashram. I stayed there for five months. The guru was very kind to me. He connected me with his friend, a lawyer in Garberville/Humboldt County, who allowed me to stay at his house to write my long-envisioned book “Potty Training for Indigo Children – Cannabis,Marijuana, Hemp for Medicine, Enlightenment, and Abundant Resources for the 21st Century”. Later I moved in a rental place with garden in Garberville where I could grow marijuana. I was in email contact with Jim. At harvest time I was able to pay off my credit card and other debts. Also, from then on I sent Jim his medicine every month and he in return sent me some money. We supported each other this way for ten years. In 2007 I divorced Jim to be fully self-sufficient. As a married, but separated woman I would have gotten $250 less social security benefits. Also, Jim’s business was now freed from paying social security for me. In summer of 2007 I moved to Chico, where people helped me to get on food stamps. Before I reached the age of 62 I applied for SSI disability, and then for early retirement, as well as from Germany, and went through this very stressful time of dealing with government institutions. My worst fear had been that I may end up as a homeless senior woman. Once I received monthly retirement money I found that I had made it; a huge burden of anxiety was lifted from my shoulders. Jim and I became close friends and we talked about selling his property and moving up here in the North were life is easier than in the desert, it’s green here and there is water. Land is cheaper here and there is no border with all its problems. But Jim wanted to first pay off his mortgage, his car, and his credit cards. That was what his life was all about: paying the bills and counting the months down to the day when he would be debt-free. Only then would he want to sell the property and relocate. So that was the red thread throughout the last ten years, his yearning for the day he would be debt-free. After Jim made the last of the 15-year mortgage payments, the middleman company cheated several thousand dollars more out of him by suddenly claiming he missed one early payment. Next the former owner did not give Jim the original property papers to declare him the owner. He had to go to the authorities to involve them, which took another half a year. Jim always wished for a long life and regularly declared with great conviction that the next half of our lives will be easier. We agreed that there must be more to the American Dream. Jim was lonely and overburdened in Jacumba. It all was too much for one person to deal with. Three years ago, after he had a stroke, he talked about writing his will. I always brushed the talk off by saying, “why talking about the will if you want to live a long life? Let’s talk about your will in twenty years.” Back then Jim told me that son Michael had called and Jim told him over the phone about his will and that Michael will inherit nothing, and that Michael hung up. And there was another year or two of silence between them. When I moved to Mount Shasta I learned that land is cheap North of the mountain. I did much research and shared it with Jim. I sent him links with pictures of the 2.5 acre lots of raw land for $4,500 that I liked. We could set up two prefabricated small houses, and support each other and live a smaller version of our old vision of a dome village community. When Jim died he had only two more car payments and three more credit card payments to make. He literally worked himself to death. I don’t want to miss to mention Jim’s dog Olive. Jim always wanted to have an English pit bull dog, but we had a cat for 18 years. On Christmas Eve of 2011 a Jacumba resident brought Jim a five-year old English pit bull terrier. The family in Jacumba dissolved and they needed to get rid of the dog. Jim told me that he took Olive along the parameters of the 2.5 acres property to show her the boundaries of her territory. He said that she not once ran away, even though the fence had many spots to get out. Olive was Jim’s best friend for three years. He took her everywhere he went. As I said at the beginning, when Jim suddenly died in his house the dog and parakeet were in there. Olive must have sat for 12 days next to her dead master. The medical examiner told me that they let the bird fly and brought the dog to the neighbor. I do not know whether Olive is still alive or son Michael let the neighbor bring her to the pound to be put asleep.

I thanked for everything. Rejection is also key, so have at it. "Have it as you wish", meaning, there is acceptance of you're unwillingness to have a reasonable discussion. I'm quite content in your freedom of beliefs, and wouldn't dream of encroaching upon them. That you've become so defensive once having to consider alternatives speaks volumes of their nature. Someone challenging them does not equate to someone compelling you to change them. There having never been an argument points to the reality in which apparent similarities and differences are known to be of one and the same substance. They are non-different from that consciousness which goes by so many names, and non-different from the one who believes he identifies them. As the rising of similarities or differences are like waves on the ocean of consciousness, consciousness is like mist on the ocean of Parabrahman. That which the mere feeling of being Shiva has appeared upon. Contrary to how the ocean appears on its surface, there lies below depths unimaginable. A direct experience expansive in nature quite contrary to the waves of narrow-mindedness or the mist of shallowness, and yet, it contains all waves and all mist simultaneously.

Speaking for myself ,I dont hate you. I figure you had a dream ,for that mental object to constitute proof, you should require of yourself some indepemdent evidence that the conclusion you reached ,is indeed memory of a real event and conclusively not dream.

Renunciation of wealth, feeling of detachment and respect for a saint is the result of former merit and good fortune. He alone starts thinking of a sadhu. It is extraordinary to have such an intellect in the dream within a dream. To be conscious, to be fully on senses in spite of taking a doze of brandy shows that though money can bring demonic pride, he still is on his senses. This is his (true) good fortune. He is in a dream within a dream. But on account of his virtuous intellect, he went to a Guru and discriminated between the true and untrue. He got the experience that everything else is false and `I am Brahman [final reality]'. This means that he has woken up from one dream. When in this dream he deliberated again he came to the further conclusion that even saying `I am Brahman' is false -- the whole world and words are illusion. As a result he became tranquil by staying in his own blissful state. Truth was revealed. He fully realised `I am Brahman'. This condition means `I am fully awake'. Not only the delusion but also `I have experienced' vanished. For if one says that he has experienced the self it means that he has taken himself to be different from the self. The real test is when the self has no sense of self `I'. If the mango says, "I found myself sweet", then it is not a mango. If you say `you got an experience', that means your `I', ego is still there. The idea `I got an experience' is a delusion. The `I' in `I have become knowledgeable' or `I have become Brahman' is ego. The former `I' should disappear. Whatever was before naturally is Brahman. The thorn `I' has to be extracted; then you are through. When you become all pervading, you become Brahman. `I am Brahman', this ego comes, but it also disappears afterwards. It is `One' only and there is nothing else than that. To go beyond nothing is to be in Thoughtless Reality, Parabrahman. ~Siddharameshwar Maharaj

You are satisfied and thus in that satisfaction, you expand to new and more and even more satisfaction and better satisfaction etc. But saying, only be satisfied with the ocean is like assuming that there is anything other than the ocean. The ocean is focused right here and now with you on you and your experience and your environment. And when your perspective of your environment feels bad, then you can feel the discord between your perspective and that of your greater higher deeper non physical eternal soul consciousness, wether you call it God or Source of Creation, or Consciousness or Soul, it does not matter. If you feel satisfied you are in alignment and harmony with that which is who you truely are, all that you truely are. Right now in this moment. Always a present feedback of your emotions. Defining to you that relationship between you (physical you) and YOU (your non physical eternal greater knowing). There is nothing outside of infinity and eternity and existance. You come forth along with your entire universe as a projection of the non physical realm. And part of your non physical consciousness is focused into your body. To experience the contrasting variety here and come to new conclusions and preferences. Always being called by Source to more and more. And better and more. And thus you are constantly inspired. And always expanding into more. And the ever expanding nature of it is what makes it eternal and infinite. And you are part of the reason why it expands. A very vital part of it. Infact, you cannot take yourself out of the equation. You cannot ever become less than all that you have become, It is not possible. And you also cannot help but expand, it happens so easily and automatically. You are that valuable. Without you, the entire structure would fall appart. Crumble to absolutely nothing and even worse. And its simply not possible and just a silly idea. You can never be truely disconnected from your Source, only experience a less connection, even tho all the desires you hold for yourself. It is a given. The coming to full fruition of everything you can possibly wish, it is a given. How or when, is up to you. Very often people wait untill they die, before they allow all of that to manifest for themselves. Which is not necessary, but it seems to be a thing we do on this planet for some odd strange reason. However, it is possible to consider that when you become the ocean itself, purely, just become existance itself. Be all that exists. Then you have no awareness and no ability to perceive anything outside of yourself, and so no ability to develop any idea or awareness of yourself. Just like dreaming and suddenly realizing you are the dream. And the dream sort of fades away. And you wake up to who you truely are. To the more of who you truely are. The higher truth. And you are then able to see all that you have never witnessed before, in all that you have become now, all focused right here and now, from a new point of view, completely fresh and new. And this now moment and new experience, you have the ability to completely redifine everything. Change the entire universe. And so there is also an infinity of that, ability to wake up to ever more higher states of being and awareness. And every awakening will yield absolutely unimaginable revelations. Enriching you with the highest of knowledge and experiences. More vivid and more lucid and more real and intense. Etc. But if you mean to be content? Ofcourse, you can be content right now. And I'm pretty sure you are content. And good things are certainly flowing into your life. And patyways you want to walk will certainly become visible to you if you are truely feeling contentment and being satisfied with your now experience. And as you get into the flow and comfort of constantly walking down those enjoyable pathways, and enjoying yet another day full of new things you liked and enjoyed, you sort of get the ball rolling. And ignite the natural joyful vibrant being that is your true nature back to life. Always inspired to move in yet another fun pathway and experience. That is our deserving and everlasting destiny. And like anything, if you've practiced something else, you need some time unlearning those old habbitual ways of being and living and viewing life and perceiving life, and get back into the natural state of your being, and get used to that and allow it to become the most practiced mode of being in life. And eventually you just click into place and you find, there is nothing easier to you than enjoy yet another day of fulfilling every possible desire you can possibly imagne, simply because you exist and that is the only reason you need to know your own infinitely deserving nature. Because you are that which existance is made out of.

Imagination allows you to see things you otherwise would not be able to see, for the purpose of inspiration. When you don't like your life, it is because you cannot see clearly, and thus causes discomfort, in a lack of understanding. With imagination, you can recreate the world around you in a way that you can then feel good about what you are imagination. It helps you learn what you want. When imagination becomes unuseful, is when people have found what they want to see and then hold on to the imagination, and insist that the reality around them becomes like their imagination. The reason this is unuseful, is because the reality is always attempting to become more than even the best of the best that you could ever possibly imagine for yourself. So eventually, you have to understand, you only imagine things because they feel good. And when you just allow yourself to feel good, you cannot in a sense look at reality, misunderstand it, and not notice the intense pain that comes from that misunderstanding. Because you are so used to feeling good in your imagination, and now the reality around you feels extra bad, because your ways of perceiving the reality around is an old outdated habbitual way of perceiving. Imagination allows you to learn how to make peace with life, by getting in the habbit of recreation. You recreate your own perception of reality. The best way to use your imagination is to ask yourself, when you do find an imagination that feels good to you, to ask yourself why you want that. Not why you think you should be allowed it to have it or want it, but why you actually want it, and what about it feels so good to you. To reach the core essence of the desire, which is always pure and harmonious and in alignment with the reality you already exist in, and the entire universe infact. And then, when you take that core essence and focus on it, and allow the entire universe to show it to you in all the ways it can, you realize that what you imagine is not the ceiling of what is possible, it is the absolute lowest level, floor level, of what is possible and attempting to show itself to you. People are sometimes going through life as zombies. And then they like to imagine things be different, and in so doing they feel good in that, untill again, they return back to their "reality" which is their habbitual way of perceiving, their most practiced way of looking at the reality around, that has allot of momentum and attraction power, so it continues, and they perceive themselves to be in a reality they don't like. So the best way to use imagination is like a wave on the beach, ebb and flow. You expand the net of possibility in your mind, then let all of that imaginary stuff go, and contract the net back, and you are left with pure value, core essence of your desire, which is the feeling itself. You take that feeling. And allow your life to support that feeling in ways you couod have never imagined and trust that it is already always trying to do so in the first place. Often people say, oh I want this and that. I imagine this in my life and when this is in my life, THEN I will be so happy forever! But they forget, that anything they think they want, is because they believe that they will feel better in that having of it. So that is why it is so important, when you do use your imagination, to ask yourself, why that imagination feels so good. What about it feels so good. Why you want that. And when you reach core essence. You realize, that that is already available in your life. And then they can instantly and naturally go with the flow of that and allow it to expand their positive good feeling emotion, in ways they could have never imagined. For example, you can say I want money. Why? Because I am poor! That is not the reason you want money. But people think it is, and so, the imagination helps you with gaining clarity. By imagining you have money, what would you do with it? Oh I wanna buy that and that! Why? Because then I can finally be happy! Why? Because I like that thing so much. I want that nice computer! Why? Because it can play all the games! Why? Because I wanna have fun. And why do you like to have fun? Because I wanna play and relax and be free to do whatever I want. I want freedom. And why? So I can just do what I want to do. And why do you like that so much? Then I have no worries, and I feel blessed and supported by the entire universe and I feel worthy and I feel that god loves me. And why do you want that? Then I can be happy and feel free to be myself and free to express myself in anyway I want to. So you sort of take it all back to the center point of power, the core essence, the root of all desire. Is to feel good. And this is perfect harmony with nature. It is natural to want to feel good. So you realize, you already have freedom. Which is what you want. And if you then let go and trust the entire universe, because the entire universe will support your freedom, for it has made you as a nature that will always desire for this freedom, then you realize you exist for that freedom and then you move and flow with the freedom that is already always present in your life. And as you do so, the universr will support you and your freedom to expand evermore, in ways that you could not have imagined, in ways that feel infinitely more better than everything you could have possibly imagined, and in everlasting and evermore expanding ways of better and more, with the everlasting perfection of each moment, and the joy of the never ending journey. And so you no longer try to be free. And you just are free. And thus express your freedom in ever more and new free ways, that will naturally show itself to you as the next logical step for you to take. Like, going outside. Or freedom may feel like looking at the sky and clouds and all the free space and so much freedom and so much space to move and be and feel free. And so you move, and you enjoy the ability to move. And you go places you would have never been able to dream of. So you enjoy the freedom you have, which is what you wanted in the first place. But everyone has to ask themselves, why they imagine that which they imagine. Only you can tell what it is you really want and why. And follow the alignment with your true core essence of true pure desire that is always in harmony with who you really are and all that you are, in harmony with the entire universe and all life on the planet.

This is actually not correct. Karma yoga is prescribed with following viewpoint for Jnana-oriented seekers so one can become selfless (seva as nishkāma karma). For Bhakti-oriented seekers it is while maintaining a break-less contemplation of God. If you read about the Ramakrishna Order's teachings, you'll find this very clearly articulated. Again this is not correct as far as my knowledge goes. Universal Being is the Material Universe (virat) appearing to the individual being (viswanara) in the waking state. The Universal Being appears as the Dreamer's world (Hiranyagarbha) to the dreamer (taijasa) and the Universal Being appears as God (Ishwara) to the deep sleeper (prāgya). In Waking state, Universal Being is the Universe experienced by the Jiva. In Dream state, the Universal Being is experienced as the dream universe to the Jiva. In the Causal state (Deep Sleep), The Universal Being is God (Ishwara), the cause and condition for the manifestation of the dream as well as the waking states (and the associated experienced worlds). All these states (and the Universal Being) is none other than Brahman/Atman as Turiya. A reading of the Mandukya Upanishad and Gaudapāda's Kārikā is very useful towards understanding this.

I trust the traditional attribution of authorship. I don't think its cogent to question the authorship given that he has been attributed with authorship for a 1000+ years now. I've highlighted the section of your post that IS relevant (imho) wrt. the comparison you started out with. I think it is great that you're doing it. But you stopped at the "jagat mithya" bit. So, it was incomplete. There are aspects of Vedanta that normally people are not well versed with. What is the relationship of Brahman with Vak (the four states thereof)? When looked at in context of Vak (parā, pashyanti, madhyama and vaikhari), suddenly many things become clear. Parā is Vak in primordial state, undifferentiated, with full potentiality of all permutations and combinations that arise out of it. It is corresponding to Turiya. Then there is Vak as Pashyanti, where it manifests as "archetypes". This corresponds to the causal state (and deities, et al arise exist here). This is the state from/in which infinite beings (kārana sharīra) arise (and re-incarnate over and over again, the body-mind changes). Then there is Vak as Madhyama, where it manifests in thought-forms and is accessible by the mind (more profoundly so in the dream state). Finally there is Vak as speech (and words), where it exists in the most unsophisticated state (verbal communication, language, etc). The Shivoham of Shankara, I am inclined to say is the parā, that he verbalizes (so it is in my books, not different from Kashmir Shaivism perspective that dramatically). And it manifests as Pashyanti, Madhyama and Vaikhari (as Deity, Concept/Ideal and in speech). Seems tangential, but thought we should look at this subject from a different angle

That was before its first John Chang experience. You should see it now. Doesn't even dream.

I've been literally gazing into my crystal ball for a couple weeks now and I've noticed something strange: It's difficult! It's difficult to gaze uninterrupted into a simple ball of crystal. After a minute or two my eyes get tired, my mind wants to wander. It's as if the powers that be want me to go to sleep, to cease and desist. I've found myself needing to take a brief break every 10-15 minutes just to "recharge" my mind. I never noticed this with sitting meditation. Perhaps it's because while sitting with eyes closed the mind can wander into a semi dream state with nothing to object, but when staring at a ball the semi dream state shows a start contrast? Who knows? I do believe that I must strengthen my powers of perception and focus. Scrying a crystal ball is like riding a wild bull (or so it seems, I've never actually ridden a wild bull). More to come...

Ultimately mankind is in a bad state and it is tragic. Hollywood movies and Hollywood Bodhisattvas give us the dream that one day it will be okay. Teachers try to help us by telling us we don't exist. Can you imagine how bad things have to be for that to happen. Yes and then it is quite terrifying when someone tries to "give you a hug" and it is obvious that this guy is suffering, and he lives through hugging people .... very bad energy. Because people who are needy have weak energy defence and the parasiting begins, feed off the weak. Of course it's all unconscious, so who can you blame. But you can put an end to it, and realise the danger. We can only help with the excess that we have after securing our house. Only that excess is available. No more. Help only those who are not idle, I have heard it said. On such a planet stark choices have to be made, and illusions shattered. Carrying on with the helping is a miserable spiral imploding. When a man has stood on that white ball of rock up there, and on the South Pole, get off your knees. Everyone must use their life to build create and generate. Otherwise their energy is destructive and sucks the sunlight out of the Earth. This reminds me of an old story : Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany 12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary therefore took a pound[a] of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it[c] for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

Well it's an open and imminent question for me. I question the whole fabric of this society, it looks one way, but inside is different. I think society is sick, deeply sick and the things we take for granted are actually diseased. And it's old. Why is there any compassion at all ? What does that mean, that people are idiots and can't help themselves ? Dependence and dependence, and old game of slavery. Sounds so nice ... "I'll help you". But maybe it's your undoing. On this planet you see nature documentaries, and this animal sitting on a branch with big eyes looking out ... along comes another animal and slurp it's eaten all up. Eaten alive. and this animal is still sitting there on a branch with big eyes looking out. Like nothing happened. That's this planet. It's completely unconscious. Asleep eating each other. Nobody even notices there is a problem. Mankind is far more like that animal on the branch than you might think. Who wants to know the bitter truth. Are mankind's problems just "an accident". Or does it speak of what we are. When you switch on the TV, what's the subject. Always the same, "helping". Who is "helping" and who isn't "helping". There is total unconscious deceit in all this, truly you would be very fortunate to escape the sludge. But hey on most days I drift through the streams of people. Be polite, pat the dog ... but what does my heart really say ? Is there something very very wrong. When I was young I was the same, it was how I was raised. The rainbow coloured plastic toys waggled in my face, coochie coo little idiot baby. And I would watch these "adults" do this and already something felt quite ill about it. I was smashed to smithereens, lucky to survive on several occasions, and only that has catapulted me far off trajectory. But still here. Perhaps I value these possessions and so on too much. I was thinking about selling up today and moving to Ecuador, a perennial dream. It is not that desire is wrong actually. But desire when you are born into such a species is not worth it. That's closer to the truth. Maybe we are in transition here, pay extra and take the express that's the best.

I had to simplify a bit in order to contrast Feng Shui with Bagua Zhan. There is more than meets the eye at first glance in the latter too, but the two arts differ in their emphasis. It's fine to dream.

What I experienced and described would rather disagree - and I say so because while I was stabilizing that whole process, the slightest waver in the attention would let the energy-dynamic at the niwan wobble just enough...earlier on in the process it would disturb my heart rate, but then one learns how 'heartmind' applies to that dynamic.....after a while, perturbation would simply engender random thought.....after a further while, I could detect the perturbation when it happened but really highly detailed......after a further while, I was able to prevent the perturbation from "percolating" and leaving the niwan (like squeezing the balloon but then relaxing the hand)......after a further while, there was maybe only the slightest whisper above the surface of the water.... when everything's stable, the sensory input is at maximal efficiency - this is what I likened to "transforming the resonant mode of the senses from yang to yin" just as it is taught the solid line becomes the broken line. at that stage, the neural & muscle memory does carry forth into sleep and sleep's almost always deeply peaceful, dreamless, motionless - and perchance a dream does happen, its one of those epics that can last what seems like months and perhaps teaches you something important. having shut all that up to such an extent, I can confidently for myself say that awareness is not a function of the brain - the brain is the platform upon which awareness interfaces.

Awareness is a function of our brain. Do we still have thoughts without the inspiration of sensory input? I say "yes" because we dream while sleeping and we have sporadic thoughts arise without input.

All this makes me wonder if mankind goes deeper into his imaginations and technologies in proportion to his lack of comprehension of himself. He cannot make progress with himself, so he causes trouble elsewhere. i is more i-candy for the mind. The never ending mind-pain whirling around. "Scientists" today are so mental and dull, like crazed monkeys on steroids competing to push their mind even faster, compared to the brightness and soul-journey-ness of the Ancient Greeks. In general humans don't value real numbers, they don't value reality, they don't sense reality, life is one long dream-nightmare.

Unfortunately this is not the case. In fact I have noticed Mooji and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev still currently alive doing the same thing. They have been "teaching" for many years but they notice it doesn't work. Osho likewise died saying "I leave you my dream". Being realised and understanding your realisation to teach are 2 different things. Of course you can inspire and even transmit energy, but real explaining is for a select group of rare teachers. Additionally the Daoist path does not seek understanding through "conscious intelligence" like the Indian teachers. It seems geared towards energetic "understanding" or instinct. But .... people get realised every day on Earth. Most of them you will never hear about. The big flocks of seekers and teachers etc... give a silly view of what is really happening. It is available to you if you want it and are willing to pay the price. If so, then it is simple.

Look man, if you're not gonna read then what are we doing here? Ajata vada does not deny "creation" of the universe as such, but only affirms it as an un-caused appearance in Self. No one is denying the appearance of those aspects, what is contested is their actuality in light of the ultimate reality. By your criterion, I take it Mandukyopanishad also directly flies in the face of established Sanatana Dharma??? This rendering appears as ‘Stray verse nine’ in Collected Works and as ‘Bhagavan 28’ in Guru Vachaka Kovai. Variations of this verse can also be found in the Amritabindu Upanishad (verse 10), Atma Upanishad (verse 30) and Vivekachudamani (verse 574). The ajata doctrine takes the position that since the world was never created, there can be no jivas within it who are striving for or attaining liberation. Though it violates common sense and the experience of the senses, Bhagavan regarded it as ‘the ultimate truth’. Muruganar has noted that, though Bhagavan taught a variety of theories of creation to devotees who asked him questions on this topic, the only explanation that tallied with his own experience was the ajata one: Adi-Sankaracharya generally invoked maya to explain how an unreal world is created within the Self, whereas his Paramaguru, Gaudapada, taught that the world did not exist at all, even as maya. Swami Madhavatirtha, a vedantic scholar, once asked Bhagavan which side of this doctrinal divide he favoured. Bhagavan: Na nirodho na chotpattir Nabaddho na cha sadhakaha Na mumukshur na vai mukta Ityesha paramarthata This verse appears in the second chapter [v. 32, vaithathya prakarana] of Gaudapada’s Karika [a commentary on the Mandukyopanishad]. It means really that there is no creation and no dissolution. There is no bondage, no one doing spiritual practices, no one seeking spiritual liberation, and no one who is liberated. One who is established in the Self sees this by his knowledge of reality. (The Power of the Presence, part one, p. 240) Though Bhagavan says here that ‘One who is established in the Self sees this [the truth of the ajata position] by his knowledge of reality’, it was not a teaching that he often gave out. Bhagavan himself explained why in this extract from Day by Day with Bhagavan: The letter went on to say, ‘Ramana Maharshi is an exponent of ajata doctrine of advaita Vedanta. Of course, it is a bit difficult.’ Bhagavan remarked on this, ‘Somebody has told him so. I do not teach only the ajata doctrine. I approve of all schools. The same truth has to be expressed in different ways to suit the capacity of the hearer. The ajata doctrine says, “Nothing exists except the one reality. There is no birth or death, no projection [of the world] or drawing in [of it], no sadhaka, no mumukshu [seeker of liberation], no mukta [liberated one], no bondage, no liberation. The one unity alone exists ever.” ‘To such as find it difficult to grasp this truth and who ask. “How can we ignore this solid world we see all around us?” the dream experience is pointed out and they are told, “All that you see depends on the seer. Apart from the seer, there is no seen.” ‘This is called the drishti-srishti vada, or the argument that one first creates out of his mind and then sees what his mind itself has created. ‘To such as cannot grasp even this and who further argue, “The dream experience is so short, while the world always exists. The dream experience was limited to me. But the world is felt and seen not only by me, but by so many, and we cannot call such a world non-existent,” the argument called srishti-drishti vada is addressed and they are told, “God first created such and such a thing, out of such and such an element and then something else, and so forth.” That alone will satisfy this class. Their mind is otherwise not satisfied and they ask themselves, “How can all geography, all maps, all sciences, stars, planets and the rules governing or relating to them and all knowledge be totally untrue?” To such it is best to say, “Yes. God created all this and so you see it.”’ Dr. M. said, ‘But all these cannot be true; only one doctrine can be true.’ Bhagavan said, ‘All these are only to suit the capacity of the learner. The absolute can only be one.’ (Day by Day with Bhagavan, 15th March, 1946, afternoon)