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SyntheticMInd
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Astral exeriences of a recluse monk
#8383367 - 05/09/08 09:42 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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Here is a very interesting read about a monk who has been meditating 30 years for 3 hours per day, and shares his experiences with astral dreaming. Some inspiration for yall still be'ers 
http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/personalexperience.htm
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ChiefGreenLeaf
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Re: Astral exeriences of a recluse monk [Re: SyntheticMInd]
#8383419 - 05/09/08 09:57 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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That was a very cool read. Thank you
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A man said to the universe:
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"However," replied the universe,
"the fact has not created in me
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Re: Astral exeriences of a recluse monk [Re: ChiefGreenLeaf]
#8383578 - 05/09/08 10:40 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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I have found the five hindrances to enlightenment: sensual desire, ill will, restlessness, sloth and torpor and doubt, etc., have slowly diminished through the years as the ecstasy has saturated my daily life. I now do not seem to experience sensual desire, ill will, restlessness, sloth and torpor, or doubt, therefore I believe it is reasonable to say, cultivating the ecstatic states, as I have done, leads to cessation of the hindrances to enlightenment.
Why is sensual desire such a bad thing?
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SyntheticMInd
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Re: Astral exeriences of a recluse monk [Re: Jack Albertson]
#8383624 - 05/09/08 10:52 PM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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Why is sensual desire such a bad thing?
it's definitely positive when the desire is fulfilled...
but when always engaged in desire this certainly does hinder development of the ability to identify with the present rather than conditioned patterns
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Re: Astral exeriences of a recluse monk [Re: SyntheticMInd]
#8383931 - 05/10/08 12:16 AM (3 months, 25 days ago) |
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Quote:
Things happen in this "sleep" domain that are too numerous to say. Sometimes I travel across the landscape, birdlike. Sometime I fly through space to other planets. I often relive whole lifetimes. Sometimes I visit infinite domains of existence where a galaxy of beings, like a brilliant scintillating ocean of infinite love-beings, sings to each other the sweetest love song. And, of course I am singing with them. Sometimes I become that whole ocean of beings, so that each point of light is a cell within my organism, and I am fully conscious of each and every cell, which is a being.
I have read in Buddhism that this place is called, "Indra's Net of Jewels." I have found the same place referred to in Vaishnava Hinduism as, "Krishna's Ocean of Milk." And, in Kabbalah I believe this is called "Devakutt with the Shakina."
Sometimes I fly all over the world like a fairy touching each and every being with a touch of love and light, almost like the myth of Santa Clause, or Mercury and his caduceus, or in Hopi culture they call this one, Kokopele, the "water sprinkler." There is much, much more that occurs in my "sleep" domain. Every night, there is no break in awareness that I can detect, and I do much, much more there than I do here.
How do I know "I was sleeping?" Well, my awareness seems to be continuous, And therefore there appears to be no unconsciousness, however I was not aware of this body that is now typing this message. And, when I once again become aware of this body after "sleep," the thing feels rested. Then I get it up and sit it in meditation again for an hour and a half or so.
I am in awe after reading this...
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Re: Astral exeriences of a recluse monk [Re: Ginseng1]
#8388313 - 05/11/08 07:59 AM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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that was an excellent read. my mouth just stood agape the entire time.
The way this guy words things makes me remarkably comfortable while I'm reading it. Its some sort of serene/ridiculously simplistic vocabulary, there is nothing that really sticks out about it at all.
Yet it leaves trails of itself. I don't think I'll ever forget reading that, and it surprises me with its straightforwardness and simplicity, again.
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SyntheticMInd
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Re: Astral exeriences of a recluse monk [Re: Ozekat]
#8388760 - 05/11/08 11:41 AM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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it really is motivating
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