For years I've been wondering about what to do about the missing soil at the edge of the allotment. Every year the old basturns must have been sneaking up and stealing my earth so that edges of the allotment looked quite precipitous. Last year I covered the edges with old carpet, thinking I'd kill the couch grass then them dig it out and replace it somehow. That didn't really work last year. But I think I've solved the problem now with the rake. You just move the topsoil a couple of feet and the cliff disappears. Voila!
Hey John. LOVE ur blog/s.
ReplyDeleteJust found ur blogs earlier this am, just now trying 2 recall thru notes what link I followed, I think it was thru NaturalNews 2 vase breathing post. ??
& then a long time reading also Lu Sheng-yen, hilarious & interesting. Love those mantras.
(a) I envy the hell out of u 4 being able 2 meditate.
I'm dealing w/ psychotronics here in rural E Arizona, USA, 4 many yrs now, the last 2 yrs much more overt from harassing sociopath neighbors.
Psychotronics of the CIA "no touch" torture & molestation kind. Nonaudible but tangible frequencies. The other kind of psychotronics r supposed 2 help w/ metaphysical focus, but I am wary now of the entire concept.
Quite distracting from any attempt 2 meditate. Also affects mood, which makes concentration difficult. But I persevere.
(b) Is there any local community of meditators in ur area? Sounds like u have been quite isolated in ur practice. Is this a Scots thing, no meditators?
God bless us, in this rural touristy area there r yoga classes, & wiccans, & Unity church, & whatnot. If I wanted 2 do groups, they r here. I am a hermit on purpose. Bless their hearts.
Hope it does not spur ur grief 2 wish u Happy Mother's Day. Be well. Vani
Vani. Nice to hear from you. The psychotronics stuff doesn't sound good for you! Mac
ReplyDeleteAll right, Mac then.
ReplyDeleteMy brain was still whirling earlier today & collecting thoughts after post.
(c) Jon Rappoport's interviews w/ Jack True:
My thought is that writing (& other art) is a way in which we explore r ability 2 create & 2 visit other realities. Learning 2 step outside r box/es thru r imagination. This exploration is part of our spiritual process, not separate from it, all 1 thing.
I have been noticing more unity of theme & symbolism in my own life; things that I used 2 think were separate from each other. *s my emphasis.
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/explosive-new-interview-with-jack-true/
A: I’ve had a people write their own books of dreams.
Q: How does that work?
A: It’s very simple. They just keep inventing dreams and writing them down. Do that for a year every day, *and you’ll see some very interesting changes in your conception of reality.* But you have to remain grounded at the same time. Because you are living in this world, in this form of reality. That’s the trick, to remain grounded.
... An analogy. Yoga. You’re moving into different areas of consciousness, but you’re also doing strenuous physical work. One isn’t separate from the other.
(d) I think the link 2 ur old post on vase breathing was from Jon R who writes 4 NaturalNews. So I followed both links @ once. Synchronicity.
(e) Yeah the psychotronics is hell. Where I want 2 concentrate on energy work I am dealing w/ this crap. Just recently discovered the name & the community re psytx. Looking 4 how 2 deal w/ it apparently outside of law enforcement which ignores it.
Be well. Vani
& Mac. Sorry this comes in pieces. As it drifts back 2 me.
ReplyDelete(f) Way back in the day, my guru Swami Muktananda taught that the shakti is intelligent & would guide r progress. That being awakened by a realized teacher & being under the protection of a lineage, we did not have 2 worry about all that going-insane over-shaktified stuff.
A lot of other sources warned of such: U can't do this w/o close supervision from a teacher. Seemed like a monopoly move on awakening. & grasping 4 $.
I'm not saying Baba said 1 must never worry, but that in the protection of a teacher & a lineage, the shakti was guided & we chelas were safe. Not 2 worry about odd experiences: lights, sounds, movements, stuff. (Which were *very* strange 2 Western students.)
& 2 check w/ the teacher/s if anything got 2 weird. Something like that as best I recall.
(g) So. Not 2 be disrespectful 2 ur teacher/s. Recently I have been reading in books & as I amble 'round the web that r human energy signature, 4 lack of better word, r energy flow/s is changing; r solar system & r Earth r changing their energy flows during this time. The whole 2012 thing.
1 specific point attached 2 this energy flow change is that it is much less dangerous 2 pursue shakti awakening & spiritual practice during this period of human process than before. That r human energy flow is opening up & stabilizing, my interpretation, re spiritual perception.
David Wilcock's site Divine Cosmos is good 4 some info like this.
& a lot of conspiracy stuff, which I enjoy.
So my question is, Do/es ur teacher/s still seem 2 insist that u pace urself? That u take care not 2 go 2 far 2 fast?
Or did I misunderstand something in ur earlier posts?
4 some reason, this stuff was on my mind.
Be well. Vani
Vani! I don't know anything about anything. As far as teachers are concerned, I've hardly ever had a decent conversation with my root guru, but that doesn't bother. I spoke to him a year ago and I'll speak to him quite soon. That's enough for me. He's told me to do Dorje Sempa and the four special foundations, but Tibetans are liable to tell almost everyone interested that. In fact, I didn't speak to him at all for six years before last year. He's a million years ahead of me in practising, etc., but I've never regarded crawling up someone's arse to be a part of my kind of buddhism. Nobody can meditate for you. If you want to know about my meditations, I'm afraid you'll have to read my books on Kindle (or on your computer). TheBlissBook and The Buddha and the Big Bad Wolf.
ReplyDeleteIronic that I stopped blogging about the bliss and all because no one was interested in meditating and as soon as I start blogging again (about writing and digging) someone shows up who is interested in the juju!!! Such is life!!
"If you can't get it from youself, where else will you go for it?"
Hey Mac. (This is a bit long.) Thinking over ur post from the other day. A Facebook friend Mathew (in England) posted an article on consciousness:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.themastershift.com/the-importance-of-consciousness/
I disagreed mildly, suggesting clarity on a few points:
forgiveness is not permissiveness 4 harm;
sometimes we have 2 grow r perspective 2 get 2 forgiveness;
not everything is karma, some of it is Bodhisattva Vows.
In trying 2 express my opinion in a careful, long comment (!), I googled Bodhisattva Vows (innumerable translations!! lol). I was looking @ vow 1 -- Innumerable beings r suffering, I vow 2 liberate them all -- but ended up looking @ all 4 vows.
& found myself thinking of ur post. I also am not into guru worship altho I am quite grateful 2 & 4 gurus I have known in different lives. What a work of compassion.
Swami Nityananda once said that our guru (Muktananda) did not want us 2 imitate him but rather 2 become most fully r own selves. I quite liked this because some rigid-minded folk had seemed 2 push that imitation gig. Not my thing.
Some versions of Bodhisattva Vows:
[vow 3] I vow 2 learn innumerable doctrines.
[vow 3] The Truth cannot be told. I vow 2 tell it.
[vow 3] Innumerable spiritual methods, I vow 2 study & [2] comprehend.
[vow 4] Buddha's Way is unsurpassable; I vow 2 BE it.
(my emphasis)
-- Which last makes me realize that really they all 4 Bodhisattva vows r the same vow. 1 vow expressed in several ways. Jabez' Prayer in 4 phrases also is quite like this. When translated correctly. --
Jabez' Prayer (a marvellous contemplation):
Ah! Indeed U bless me!
Ah! Indeed U enlarge my boundaries.
Ah! Indeed Ur Hand is w/ me.
Ah! Indeed U keep from evil, that not it may grieve me.
(& thanks.)
In connection w/ ur post & not/ guru worship, & not being so very much bound by practice rules, I had been thinking of my long-held conviction that my spiritual path is ecumenical. The same truth seen & repeated in every tradition is what Muktananda said & what I have been seeing 4 a long time now.
& just tonight realizing that this flexible exploration of ecumenicality actually is a perfect fulfilling of Bodhisattva vow 3! Who knew!
Gotta have a sense of humor on this path. Be well. Vani
Vani! Why don't you meditate again? I don't think it matters if you don't know anything about anything as long as you do the sitting. The world is full of miserable basturns (not you!) and nobody meditates. Well, nobody I know. If the flatheids were happy ... but they're almost always sad basturns! Mac
ReplyDeleteWell just who *are* the miserable bass turns then?
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