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by deepbluehum
Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:22 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Advice, suggestion, guidance, anything?
Replies: 15
Views: 4327

Re: Advice, suggestion, guidance, anything?

Hello, I am here after quite a bit of a journey. I used to be active member here and of e-sangha. I practiced Pureland for a few years and a few years in Chan(Zen) at a branch of Chung Tai. I am now facing a bit of an obstacle in my spiritual life. About a year and a half ago I abandoned everything...
by deepbluehum
Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:25 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 20059

Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness

No. Don't do anything. Don't notice anything. Don't look for anything. Don't practice anything. Dont try to relax. Just rest. When I "just rest" I usually drift off into half (or full) sleep. Even at my peak awake hours. The feeling I have is that brain, having nothing to do or focus on, ...
by deepbluehum
Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:50 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 20059

Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness

If it happens that things start getting a little wild, or too intense, that is scattering, and you need to relax and loosen up on noticing your thoughts. My friend (who recommended that I check out vivid awareness) advised using the breath as a kind of stabilizer when things get too wild. Not to sh...
by deepbluehum
Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:54 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 20059

Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness

If you have not done so, seek out direct introduction. If you have no teacher who can do this for you, consider taking it from ChNNR when he next does one. Without direct introduction it will be very difficult for you to ascertain the state of mind you are aiming for. Contrary to being a series of ...
by deepbluehum
Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:51 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 20059

Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness

Look into the looker. I had this very exchange with a teacher one time. My next question was, "Who or what is the looker?" The translator asked the teacher, and the teacher replied, and they both laughed heartily. The translated answer was, "No one can tell you that. You have to find...
by deepbluehum
Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:05 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 20059

Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness

rachmiel wrote:
conebeckham wrote:Turn awareness in on itself.
How?
Look into the looker.
by deepbluehum
Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:03 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 20059

Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness

You can have so many experiences. This is a not good or bad. Anicca is of course a good thought but not what vivid awareness means. What, as you see it, does vivid awareness mean? Clarity without involving thought. If you move your eyes from right to left across a room for one second, no thought co...
by deepbluehum
Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:54 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 20059

Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness

That's fine. But after that don't aim.
by deepbluehum
Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:41 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 20059

Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness

You can have so many experiences. This is a not good or bad. Anicca is of course a good thought but not what vivid awareness means. You just stay with it until you see what doesn't change.
by deepbluehum
Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:44 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Rainbow body
Replies: 53
Views: 14375

Re: Rainbow body

Dzogchen talks different. By the way, as sambhogakaya is only a symbolic representation of dharma teachings and does not perform activities. This is why a rainbow body is a nirmanakaya and not a sambhogakaya. So you're saying all the sambogakaya deity forms are just symbolic representations of dhar...
by deepbluehum
Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:40 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Rainbow body
Replies: 53
Views: 14375

Re: Rainbow body

Rainbow body is the result when elements return to their essence of five colors. Body of light is the realization that he's you there.
by deepbluehum
Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:15 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Replies: 87
Views: 47167

Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening

Folks should see chapter 8, p. 349-50 of Longchenpa's Precious Treasury of Philosophical Systems, where: In lower systems of secret mantra approach, the entrance of motile energy [prana] and mind from the rasana and lalana channels into the central channel initiates an experience of timeless awarene...
by deepbluehum
Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:22 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Replies: 87
Views: 47167

Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening

They are using the word kundalini, but it is a different concept altogether. In Vajrayana, there is really no kundalini. It's not about motivation really. In Hinduism the kundalini is a living force that acts of its own. In Vajrayana, practitioner uses visualization to generate the fire element. No...
by deepbluehum
Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:07 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: What meaning is?
Replies: 21
Views: 4361

Re: What meaning is?

oushi wrote:So, what is the meaning of meaning?
Mental projections.
by deepbluehum
Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:45 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Replies: 87
Views: 47167

Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening

They are using the word kundalini, but it is a different concept altogether. In Vajrayana, there is really no kundalini. It's not about motivation really. In Hinduism the kundalini is a living force that acts of its own. In Vajrayana, practitioner uses visualization to generate the fire element. Not...
by deepbluehum
Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:15 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Advaitin vs. Buddhist takes on awareness/reality
Replies: 364
Views: 73796

Re: Advaitin vs. Buddhist takes on awareness/reality

Mahayana only stops mental projections. It doesn't say anything about anything.
by deepbluehum
Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:52 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Replies: 87
Views: 47167

Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening

Adamantine, "Well Nityananda was the avadhoot I was speaking of" You're obviously talking about Nityananda, Muktananda's guru. I think Deepbluehum is possibly refering to Nityananda of the brother/ sister lineage. Why are you putting words in my mouth? I'm talking about Swami Muktananda's...
by deepbluehum
Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:07 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Replies: 87
Views: 47167

Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening

greentara wrote:deepbluehum, What happened to the lineage of Baba Muktananda? There was much strife and bickering after he passed away.
Going strong. Anyone connected to Swami Nityananda has tremendous power.
by deepbluehum
Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:04 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Yidams: What are they, how does one get one?
Replies: 14
Views: 7892

Re: Yidams: What are they, how does one get one?

Hiram is a deity whose form is a teaching. Get a teacher.
by deepbluehum
Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:56 am
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Replies: 87
Views: 47167

Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening

It can happen due due to past lives or this life associations but without a lineage it won't go well. What a huge, sweeping, [over]generalization and assumption. Such are the huge overgeneralizations and assumptions told by the Mahasiddhas like Dhyanyogiji and Baba Mukhtananda. Their not going to t...

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