Skeleton Meditations

[rideforever]

40 minutes ago, virtue said:

 humility kind compassionate 

 

The problem with you is that you think virtue signalling is ... the same thing as virtue.

 

[rideforever]

39 minutes ago, ilumairen said:

 

 

How is it going taking lessons on being a woman from the beta males here ?
How deeply can sell your own soul ?

[ilumairen]

5 minutes ago, rideforever said:

 

How is it going taking lessons on being a woman from the beta males here ?
How deeply can sell your own soul ?

 

Your questions are non-sensical, and have absolutely nothing at all to do with the comment I made. 

 

But if you really desire some response, I'll offer you this:

 

It was silly men with weird ideas looking for excuses for their failures with women who coined the term beta male - which in all honesty means absolutely nothing (aside from the built in excuse for a self defeating attitude).

[rideforever]

3 minutes ago, ilumairen said:

But if you really desire some response, I'll offer you this:

 

I don't, don't worry

[gatito]

2 minutes ago, rideforever said:

 

I don't, don't worry

 

 

Have you got a girlfriend or a boyfriend?

[ilumairen]

4 minutes ago, rideforever said:

 

I don't, don't worry

 

Then move along genderbater.

[rideforever]

7 minutes ago, gatito said:

Have you got a girlfriend or a boyfriend?

 

It's complicated !  But I am not courting these things so much these days, I am more interested in Silence.

Why ?

[gatito]

6 minutes ago, ilumairen said:

 

Then move along genderbater.

 

 

I prefer the term Master Bator for these types.

[senseless virtue]

37 minutes ago, rideforever said:

The problem with you

 

Let's take the pointing finger back to the source and examine carefully: What are the closest flaws in ourselves in comparison to that which we seemingly identify in others? Inspections like this will eventually change our lives. In fact the process could totally destroy what we held as our personal identity.

 

What everyone is after in spiritual development is uncovering one's true self, the reality we are. This is not about any gain or comfort, but loss of self-concern and self-importance until no speck of egoistic selfishness remains. For how much we grasp tight on our selfishness and its concoctions, the discovery and renouncement of those illusions is often painful and unpleasant.

 

Why are we concerned over ethics at all? We want to feel energetically pure and clear. This especially includes conscience which is a very subtle and powerful indication of our internal energetic integrity.

 

Again, I am feeling very grateful that you have much sincere concern over my integrity and well-being and also providing a good opportunity to articulate myself.

Edited March 29, 2020 by virtue

[gatito]

Just now, rideforever said:

 

It's complicated !  But I am not courting these things so much these days, I am more interested in Silence.

Why ?

 

Because you need the love of a good woman or a good man (depending upon your personal proclivity) IRL to sort you out by the look of it.

 

[rideforever]

2 minutes ago, virtue said:

Let's take the pointing finger back to the source and examine carefully:

 

Let's not ! zzzzzzz

[senseless virtue]

2 minutes ago, rideforever said:

Let's not !

 

Alright. You know the best what's good for you.

[rideforever]

Just now, virtue said:

 

 

Oh come on, don't be such a sourpuss.

The Tao Bums is a perfect place to Signal your Virtue.

Look you can even change your avat... .... oh you have.

So you're all set.

 

[Walker]

6 hours ago, rideforever said:

How is it going taking lessons on being a woman from the beta males here ?

 

Translation: Howzabout some free mansplaining from an omega male who created false-but-insidious sense of identity by living vicariously though various strongmen on TV?

 

Analysis: This is called "the strongman fetish."

 

6 hours ago, rideforever said:

It's complicated ! 

 

Translation: No! 

 

Analysis: It can be hard for a guy who habitually calls other men beta males to admit that the vaginas of the world would prefer to monologue rather than dialogue with him.

 

Prediction: But soon enough he'll tell us what a lothario he actually is/was/would be if women were worthy. 

 

6 hours ago, rideforever said:

But I am not courting these things so much these days,

 

Translation: He is afraid of rejection!

 

Analysis: Chances of rejection nearing 100%.

 

Conclusion: This fear is reasonable.

 

6 hours ago, rideforever said:

I am more interested in Silence.

 

Translation: More interested in hearing sound of own voice than communicating with human woman.

 

Analysis: This is the best time in Faffforever's life. There are fewer people in the cafes, and Pornhub is free. It's like God finally answered his prayers. He can mumble to himself in McCafe while watching porn on his phone and nobody even notices.

 

Prediction: Now that there are almost never kids in McDonald's, Faffforever is planning to relocate to playroom.

 

Recommendation: He should put down the phone and go to the playroom. This may be his one and only chance before death to engage with residual baggage from the awful childhood that he blames the world for. 

 

Reminder: Death comes sooner than most expect. Seize the day, omega male! It's your only chance!

 

6 hours ago, rideforever said:

Why ?

 

Answer: Addicted to miniscule dopamine surges, deprived of oxytocin and serotonin. Probably has body issues, performance anxiety, and either sexual dysfunction stemming from poor lifestyle habits, and/or a thick-headed inability to get anybody off. Developed fetish for strongmen to make up for ominous sense of lack of agency and inability to influence environment in positive ways haunting own life. Finds it easier to maintain imaginary friendships within authoritarian daddy figures than actual humans, whether online, or off. Therefore... 

 

Prognosis: Recovery unlikely.

 

Prediction: Will soon reply with milquetoast retort, nobody will be impressed, but Gatito's dickriding will be sufficient to convince Faffforever that he has won the day.

 

Recommended course of treatment: Burn him off like the genital wart he is. Advise holding nose and squinting, the smell and sight of burning papiloma is known to upset the stomach.

[silent thunder]

7 hours ago, rideforever said:

these days, I am more interested in Silence

 

*quietly rises and goes to lock his doors*

[RiverSnake]

1 hour ago, ऋषि said:

 

 

Looks like those old Tibetan Buddhist deity paintings.....care to elaborate on what painting this is? 

[RiverSnake]

A further note on skeletal practice. As your going about your training in this area....paying special attention to heal areas you've damaged is worth the time and effort. 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2020 by RiverSnake

[thelerner]

On 3/28/2020 at 12:33 PM, RiverSnake said:

Skeletal based practices are a common method in several traditions and for good reason. I've been exploring this area for a bit now and am sharing some of the benefits below. 

 

Skeletal cultivation helps stabilize awareness so your less likely to be "touched" by divine madness.

 

Martial Artists will find that it relaxes the muscles and promotes alignment. Increased vitality is the most immediate benefit, so if your an "older" individual whom lacks the juice of a young whipper snapper....this practice is quite helpful and worth the investment. 

 

The only downside to this kind of practice is that it is a bit "slow moving". Other practices give much more immediate benefits while skeletal work is like a slow turning ship....but after many years of training the dividends began to multiply exponentially. 

 

William Bodri is one of the primary Buddhist sources i've found and Taoist meditations are also scattered about on the net. Best of luck to my fellow cultivators. 

Bodri's work was discussed here back in 2012, feels.  The pdf's are still easy to find on the net.

 

[Mandrake]

This thread quickly devolved into crap.

 

Anyways, I can add my own experience. White skeleton is a shamatha meditation and I've seen variants employed in monasteries in Sri Lanka, where they even had a real skeleton for display.
One of the things in my own cultivation that gave me a lot of juice.

 

M

[RiverSnake]

Continuing to play around with skeletal cultivation. The benefits are real.

 

On a rather strange note, something that came up in practice is that there is an alignment between Kettlbell training and this internal practice. Don't fully understand the correlation, but it's there...so i guess i'll keep playing. 

 

 

Edited June 19, 2020 by RiverSnake

[RiverSnake]

On 3/28/2020 at 12:33 PM, RiverSnake said:

 

Martial Artists will find that it relaxes the muscles and promotes alignment.

 

Still playing....the martial benefits of skeletal cultivation continue to expand. A truly joyous treasure, for those insane, horse stance loving masochists, like myself.  

[RiverSnake]

Still exploring, found strong correlations between Skeletal and Mountain chi. Mountains in many cultures are sacred spaces for the gathering/channeling of power and usually play a strong role in mythology.

 

There is also a crossover between crystals and the skeletal system. Still don't fully understand, but I will likely do another post on Crystal Gong in the future. 

[awarenessrules]

On 3/29/2020 at 8:57 PM, rideforever said:

Bodri ... seems like another modern charlatan, in the synopsis of his book on Amazon he says :
"There are many possible different final objectives for spiritual practitioners"

This is not correct, there is only one path of development for a human soul.

Seems that he does a White Skeleton Meditation ... which is a strange label for it ... because it is not meditation and it is not about the skeleton, he has some mindfulness of different body parts in the instructions : pus, faeces, hair, nails etc...

This is not meditation.

True meditation on the bones ... not the skeleton ... is to embody the bones, which means you feels them as your self.  Therefore it is subjective "I am inside".  Rather than mindfulness ... "I notice that object".

Mindfulness as it has degenerated of late is not meditation as it is objective (of objects) ... it is about noticing things, rather than being inside the bones.

Being inside the bones is a very good practice.

 

I have tried white skeleton meditation and It was boring as hell. It's more like a type of visualization rather than meditation. Can you point out some resources about this specific type of skeletal meditation that you do i.e. Meditation on bones?

[Taomeow]

10 hours ago, awarenessrules said:

 

I have tried white skeleton meditation and It was boring as hell. 

 

I'm not familiar with it but I know one that is anything but.  It's a shamanic practice.  Not for the faint of heart.

 

You come home at the end of the day.  At the door, you take your shoes off.  Then walk into your room, take off all your clothes.  Then take off your skin, toss it in the corner.  Then your flesh -- strip it all off, discard.  Next, take out all your internal organs, one by one, throw them against the wall.  Get inside your skull, scoop out your brain, discard.  Next, take your head off your shoulders, drop it on the floor.  Rip out your legs, scatter the bones.  Next, your ribs and your spine, then your pelvis, and then your arms. 

 

By the time you're done, you've dismantled the ordinary man (or woman) who had entered the room.  And then you begin making the extraordinary one from scratch.  This only works if you have an extraordinary task to perform, otherwise the exercise is pointless.  

[centertime]

On 2020. 03. 29. at 5:57 PM, rideforever said:

Bodri ... seems like another modern charlatan, in the synopsis of his book on Amazon he says :
"There are many possible different final objectives for spiritual practitioners"

This is not correct, there is only one path of development for a human soul.

Seems that he does a White Skeleton Meditation ... which is a strange label for it ... because it is not meditation and it is not about the skeleton, he has some mindfulness of different body parts in the instructions : pus, faeces, hair, nails etc...

This is not meditation.

True meditation on the bones ... not the skeleton ... is to embody the bones, which means you feels them as your self.  Therefore it is subjective "I am inside".  Rather than mindfulness ... "I notice that object".

Mindfulness as it has degenerated of late is not meditation as it is objective (of objects) ... it is about noticing things, rather than being inside the bones.

Being inside the bones is a very good practice.

What about I feel my bones?