drigga
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drigga
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from 2021’s trenches - BTC proponent - Aspiring trader - No Financial Advice




The taoist master (long tweet) Many years ago i trained with a taoist master on a mountain, one on one, for months, because i had to learn energetic practices to stabilise the ´unity-realisation´ i had years earlier by pushing my mind to the limit for 2 years straight. Every day, we would train for 8 to 10 hours, sleep on the floor outside, and eat simple food. One day we were sitting next to a stream with small ponds, doing practices to draw in the cold, and the heat. Suddenly, he pushed me in. I was surprised and shocked since it was freezing cold. I don´t remember the conversation exactly, but was something like this: I got out of the water and said: Me(m): ´why did you do that?´ Master(ma): because i don´t want you to become trapped in illusions of non-duality. M:´illusions of non-duality?´ Ma: Yes, many people nowadays think they are on a spiritual path because they adhere to some non-dual philosophy or present moment awareness and the idea that they are not the body etc. As you just saw in the cold water, you´ll always have a body. Now in the core it might be true you are not the body, but we still have physical and energy bodies, and only very few masters in history have achieved full body transcendence, and even fewer body dissolvement. You know the story of the 21 grams of the soul right? M: Yes, that when a human dies the body loses 21 grams Ma: Yes, that is energy leaving the body, and advanced masters can change a lot more of that bodily energy into spirit, and very few even their entire body into pure spirit. It is called rainbow body in tibet M: Yes, i heard of that and read books on it, but why did you push me into the water?´ Ma: Because i don´t want you to become one of the millions of deluded people that think they are on a spiritual path by adhering to non-duality or whatever other nonsense. They can never stabilize true realisations of non-duality since they have not trained their physical and energetic bodies properly, and they also can´t take it further to the next level by learning to transform parts of their energy body into spirit. M: So you are saying that most people that practice non-duality, being in the now etc, or walk around saying their body is not real, are not actually on a spiritual path at all? Ma: No, they are doing mental tricks mostly. If you hear people talking like that, ask them if you can hit their hand with a hammer. You´ll quickly see that they are still their phsyical bodies and talk nonsense. However, your story what you told me is a bit different: you basically collapsed your ego due to years of hammering on your mind in meditation, asking ´who I am´, and reading these jed mckenna & richard rose books you told me about. Somehow you totally opened you upper dan tien, your upper energy center, also called crown shakra, but you did not open the lower centres, hence your realisation of unity is not stable or deep enough. It is very rare that you even achieved this alone, even rarer you did not go crazy with your lower energy centres still so closed up, it shows you have a very powerful will and determination, i wish all my students had that. M: so what are all these non-dualists etc doing than? Ma: being aware of awareness itself. it already gives great mental peace etc, but they are not transforming their jing into chi into shen, their body into energy into spirit, so to speak, that takes decades M: so what you are saying is that what most people do is useless? Ma: if it helps them be more at peace, it is not useless, but no, they are not on a real inner esoteric path. You studied economics and politics right you told me? M: yes Ma: and how many people want to get rich, or powerful, and how many actually become it? M: very few Ma: exactly, most don´t want to put in the effort or dedication, they live in their dreams of getting rich but it is always out of reach. Same with spiritual work. Most are trapped in illusions of being in the now or non-duality and no-effort, sells easily as well, and can be done in an afternoon. Real inner work takes many years of hard dedicated effort to open the energy channels, prepare the physical body, and discipline the mind, and that is just the basics. M: Ok, thanks, so what do we do? Ma: Just do the basic practices with dedication, and do the advanced kan & li practices when you can or on retreats, and be serious. And that realisation you had a couple of years ago, we´ll work on deepening it, amplifying it, and we´ll make you body and energy so strong that this realisation no longer destabilises your mind and lower energy centres. The popular non-dualists play mental tricks on themselves, they are dreaming that they are awake, literally, while with this training you can keep working on deeper meditations to transform more energy into spirit´ M: Ok, thank you, understanding this is really an enormous help, nobody was able to explain this to me properly or what has really happening to me Ma: Don´t thank me, that is why you came to see me, thank yourself M: Ok



























