2ND ARROW PROBLEM

 

The quality of our life is determined by our mind’s response to the circumstances of our life. It is not determined directly by the circumstances.

—Yoshin David Radin, “Brief Teachings”

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ADVTA

Most of my life was spent as a materialist. I regarded physical matter as the basis of reality. From matter emerged biological organisms such as humans, which developed brains, and out of the brain emerged consciousness. The inescapable conclusion I was forced to accept was that life is meaningless—because once the brain and body die, consciousness and all associated memories must also die. Any “meaning” given to life while alive must necessarily be wiped out with physical death. If one wanted to create meaning under this paradigm, it was nothing more than a rationalization.

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I understood these implications well. As unpleasant and nihilistic as this philosophy was, I wasn’t prepared to alter my worldview. As far as I knew, this paradigm was well-established as scientific truth. And the truth happened to be bleak

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That all changed for me starting in late 2016. I learned of phenomena that mainstream science would call “paranormal” or “anomalous”—phenomena which suggest that we all have innate psychic abilities (though sometimes subtle); that consciousness doesn’t die when the physical body dies; and furthermore that a single, underlying consciousness is the basis of all reality, existing beyond space and time. The more I researched, the more I realized that my old paradigm—which dominates modern scientific thinking—was false at its core. This was a disorienting and jarring realization that radically changed my worldview. In the summer of 2017, I put my research on paper, which turned into a book entitled An End to Upside Down Thinking (Waterside Press; October 9, 2018).

HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS X PROMISORY MATERIALISM 

 realized that the central misunderstanding was around the origin of consciousness. Modern science assumes that consciousness arises from activity in our brains. However, I was shocked to learn that modern science has no clue how this could possibly happen. Science magazine has even called this the #2 question remaining in all of science: “What is the biological basis of consciousness?” In other words, how can physical matter in our brain create a consciousness that isn’t physical?

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NATURAL EVILITY 

Which animal of all apex predators are the most dangerous fighters?

By size and raw power: polar and grizzly bears.

By ferocity and awe: Siberian and Bengal tigers.

By aggressiveness: sun bear.

By bite force: jaguar.

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Malaria Mosquitoes Cause More Than 1 Million Deaths per Year

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AGING X FOCUS

 

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Hearing loss that often accompanies aging makes it more difficult to distinguish speech in a noisy environment. Because hearing then requires more concentration than usual, even mild loss of the ability to focus can affect speech comprehension.

Most people start to notice changes as they enter their 50s and 60s. Although these changes can cause consternation, most age-related memory and thinking problems don't stem from an underlying brain disease such as Alzheimer's disease. Instead, what appears to be a memory problem may simply reflect a slower processing speed and poor encoding and retrieval of new memories as a result of diminished attention. However, even though your brain may be slower to learn and recall new information, your ability to make sense of what you know and to form reasonable arguments and judgments remains intact.

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ENL -That’s right. After you’ve finally finished being a collector of experiences, ceased coveting and playing around with all those ‘high states’ and samadhis, and finally given all that up…you discover that you’ve come right back to your natural state. Just You. Just Being.

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Jay Jennifer Matthews

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4h ago

spiritual ponderer

While am able to understand and appreciate non-duality and onenness as a concept, am not able to experience it. My sufferings still continue. How do I move from intellectual understanding of enlightenment to actual experience of it?

It’s never too late to do nothing.

- Zen saying

The fact that you appreciate oneness is good.

It might help you try something that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred to you:

Nothing.

I don’t mean you must literally do nothing.

I mean you don’t have to fix what ain’t broken.

Oneness means you are That which alone is and has always been.

Non-duality is based on the understanding that there’s nothing wrong with You.

What could be wrong?

Problem-mind is the one who sees problems.

The solution to these problems is to cease to activate problem-mind.

This is the conclusion I eventually came to, which I’d like to share, in case it’s helpful:

The answer (silence) has nothing to do with the question (mental affliction).

Our insistence that the answer must confirm the question is the cause of the apparent delay.

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Is the path to enlightenment explainable by those who achieve it?

This is how the “path” goes:

You looked everywhere for the answer but you couldn’t find it anywhere.

Occasionally, things fell together and you thought you were on the right path.

Then it all fell apart for one reason or another.

You followed every scrap of advice and tried everything under the sun.

One day, you realized there is one place you didn’t look.

Everything happens outside you.

Like a Greek chorus, your thoughts comment on the show.

There are two directions, and you’ve only looked in one of them.

You turned your attention out there.

To find the answer, look within.

It’s not a corny cliche.

The answer really is inside you.

Turn toward the One who looks.

The way to know the One is just to be it.

Without movement, without action, without thought, without concept, without sensation, without image, without mind.

The One is being, but beyond being.

It’s consciousness, but beyond consciousness.

Who can explain it?

Explanations disappear into the One.

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you are not inside the body. The body is “inside” of You, as YOU, one total Being.

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Claude Claudiu

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Updated Thu

Bridging Spirituality and Science · Passionate about movement of Energy through Creation

What is the science behind awakening Kundalini?

The main science behind Kundalini is simple … Our bodies are made of 4 main elements (oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen) which amount to over 95% of a human body, plus small amounts of Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, sulfur, etc. All this elements of the body are borrowed by a soul from the planet in order to get an instrument (a body) to experiment life around and gather experiences. When the body is worn out after 70-80 years of life the soul discards the body (death) and leaves for another life, taking with him the experiences/lessons gathered to the next life.

In order to maintain the body for so long one needs lots of energy to sustain life, energy that comes partially through eating and drinking, but also more important directly from the planet through the energy she emits to all that lives on Her body including humans. The channel for this type of life-sustaining energy is through our feet soles and upwards through the feet where they join in C1 (chakra 1, root chakra) and feed the reservoir of energy there. This energy lifeline between the planet and human bodies has to work permanently and without fail or death occurs quickly. This root-energy in C1 is what yoga calls kundalini, which in fact is the life energy from Mother Earth that keeps all our bodies alive. Our kundalini in C1 is actually a very small part of Earth’s life-energy that mirrors Mother Earth in our bodies, a projection of Her in our bodies.

In an ideal case the kundalini energy goes up the spine through all chakras (increasing its vibration along the way) without obstacles and feeding the body organs around, and arriving in C7 (crown chakra) unites with cosmos energy that comes from above. Of course that this doesn’t happen in the ordinary 3D human bodies where chakras are clogged and kundalini can’t go up. Things are actually a bit more complicated since there are two different energy circuits in parallel, first the kundalini circuit that goes up the spine, and there is a second circuit of energy that comes from the sun and cosmic energy through C7 and goes down to C1 through a parallel circuit than through the chakras, but I wanted to keep the discussion limited to the question.

The result means actually that Mother Earth’s energy goes up the spine and eventually merge with the sun and cosmic energy in C7, hence our body becomes ideally a physical conduit for Earth’s energy that merges with the higher cosmic energies throughout our body. For this to happen one has to become “enlightened”, that is maintain his chakras open and clean of any 3D energies that clog the chakras like fears, worries, anxiety, agitation, envy etc; only then one can be united with the rest of Creation.

The ancient Hindu religious term for Earth’s energy was “kundalini Shakti”, and was written in sacred texts that it’s destined to rise through shushumna channel until it unites with god Shiva in 6th chakra (representing actually the cosmic energy), is exactly what I explained you above in modern terms.

A true spiritual will work all his life to unclog his chakras and make kundalini find its way up.

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I know you’re supposed to just allow everything as it is (thoughts and feelings) and not identity with them, but what do you do when the feelings are so overwhelming that they consume you?

My doctor asked me recently if I ever feel like I’m engulfed in flames.

“Yes,” I said, after thinking about it.
“But not in a bad way.”

Doctors apparently do routine checks for hot flashes.

If you have a meditation practice, sensations that would ordinarily overwhelm and consume you will start to feel natural and pleasant.

Meditation increases pain tolerance and reduces reactive emotions.

It doesn’t matter how you feel when you meditate - you’ll get the benefits anyway.

During meditation, you might feel any number of sensations.

Not reacting to them immediately provides a priceless opportunity to notice they can’t actually consume you.

These feelings are like the monster under the bed.

It seems all-powerful when you run from it.

When you turn toward it, you will see it is only a shadow.

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What Did Representatives of Other Indian Religions Say at the Chicago Conference

The Chicago conference of 1893. (Source: Parliament of World's Religions)

The 'Parliament of World's Religions' in 1893 was a remarkable event for the number and variety of faiths represented for the first time, at one place.

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New Delhi: It was the first global seminar on religion. The 'Parliament of World's Religions' in 1893 was a remarkable event not just for the number and variety of faiths represented for the first time, at one place. While it was known to be the event in which Swami Vivekananda shined, it also saw theologians from Islam, Bahai, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Brahmo Samaj and several other faiths come together and lay the foundation for an inter-faith exchange of ideas.

The conference that was happening in Chicago was also the place where Swami Vivekananda, representing the Hindu religion, made his famous speech of 1893.

Clippings from newspaper reports covering the event are a somber reminder of what the world's religious leaders discussed gathered at one place.

One of paper cutouts refers to a lawyer from Muzaffargarh in India, called Jinda Ram.

One of these clippings write about a message of hope from one 'Miss Sorajbee from Bombay'. A message from a woman praying for a better future for all women in India and America.

'Miss Sorajbee' had said, “The Christian women from my land... give the women of America our love... tell the women of America that we're fast being educated. We shall one day be able to stand by them and converse with them and be able to delight in all they delight in."

One of the clippings about Ms Sorabjee's message from India.

Another 'Mr Nagarkar from Bombay', wrote hoping for a possibility of harmony between the East and the West, "a wedding between the Orient and the Occident."

A clipping about Mr Nagarkar's message on harmony.

H Dharmapala from India, a representative of Buddhism, wished for peace among the various faiths. "Go to Japan and what do you see? The noblest lesson of tolerance and gentleness. Go to Brahma and what do you see? The lesson of tolerance and mildness... the twentieth century will see the pages open up upon a new era of gentleness and kindness."

H Dharmapala's peace message in one of the cutouts.

And there was also, of course, the famous speech made by our very own Swami Vivekananda. This is how one of the newspapers reported it:

'The bell that tolled this morning in honour of the representatives of the different religions of the earth, in this parliament assembled, is the death-knell to all fanaticism [applause], that it is the death-knell to all persecution with the sword or the pen, and to all uncharitable feelings between brethren wending their way to the same goal, but through different ways. [Applause].'

A newspaper mention of Swami Vivekananda's speech at the Chicago conference.

 

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 Anais’ famous quote:

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

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Our convenient food, entertainment, AC/heating, cars shuttling us from bubble to bubble…indoor, plugged-in exercise…is set up to create constant Cocoon.

There’s just one problem…we love fresh air.

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"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad."

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We sleep less

as the moon waxes, more as it wanes. 

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SSPA X THIRD ACT PROBLEM X PANDITYAM X BALYUM X MOUNAM X SCHOLARSHIP STRENGTH SILENCE X AHAM BRAHMASMI

 

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ENLIGHTENMENT IS WHEN U REALISE THAT UR THE 10TH MAN

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GYANA MARGA X BHAKTI MARGA IS THE BEST PATH

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SAKSHI CHIDABHASHA  CHAITANYA ALWAYS THERE-WACOS OR D

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Let yourself become thatspace that welcomesany experience without judgment.~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH

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SN CNMA DARKNESS FALLS 2003  -FORCED OD DROWND 

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SN CHEERS WOODY INTERRUPTUS X DIFF BYFRND X DTH CRYOGENICS X GAPIC NOB NOM X ME AM NOT OWN MOODS

 

B MANTRA

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Whether we know it or not, every act of compassion, real or simulated, may have a positive significance far beyond our powers of imagination.

—Taitetsu Unno, “Three Grapefruits”

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HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA- WOODY BROUGHT UP

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GANDHI "Peace is its own reward."

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SRAVANA MANANA NIDHYSANA 

BREAKING THRO LIFETIMES OF JIVAHOOD

AXB GAP BXM  COD QUESTION 

PRACTISED BEING MISERABLE ATTACHED LIMITED

BREAK THRO AXB ECB

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