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I'm a little bit late, but I thought I'd comment on your two songs that I've had a chance to listen to, Speak.  Both of the songs "Pure Rain" and "Now There Was Nothing New There But Something Was Wrong" are absolutely amazing pieces of art.  I love both of the songs, but "Pure Rain" is the one that caught my attention the most.  There is something about that song, and how it just gravitates my mind toward blissfulness like some of those binaural tracks I've listened to a year ago.  Oh no, the song is not the same as those binuaral tracks, it is just that that song brings me to a similar state.  When I listen to "Pure Rain," I can feel certain parts of my brain reacting to the music, particularly the back of my brain and the frontal cortex area.  Anyhow, both of these songs are keepers. Good Job, Speak.  :thumbsup:  :nod:

Well, I certainly don't know if what you believe is right or wrong, but I do have a similar belief as you, joker.  I just think that how could we possibly know everything there is to life -- every truths out there -- with the limited length of time we have due to old age or other causes of death.  If we were meant to come into this world to learn and ascends back to the "one", then wouldn't it sound more plausible that we have multiple lives; each lives we are given with a new scenerio where it teaches us different lessons.  If say, we didn't learn this lesson now, we would have the opportunity to learn it again in another life.

As for people spending their whole life looking for truths, I think that they should just stop for a bit and relax.  Have a sniff a the fragrance of the flowers.  Smile.  Laugh. Play with friends and family.  The truths will come when they come.  If you spend your whole life looking for that TRUTH, what will you do once you have found it?  By then, all of your time would have been wasted, where the story of your would-be happy life is ripped from its pages in a book.  People should learn to enjoy what they have now.  They should live in the moment, and love it.  For if you don't, all the people you know, all the things available now, might not be there when you come back to it.  Everything will have to move on eventually, and once it has moved on, it is too late to get the exact same thing back into this physical world.

Hmmmm...that is what I think.

Thank you so much, Speak, for telling me what the song in the background is.  I love the music. : )

Anyhow, don't worry about not knowing what to say.  My purpose for posting it was to let other people enjoy the art.  No one needs to comment if they don't want to.  Just enjoy it.  

Have a great and fantastic day, speak. :hug:

Hey everyone, go to this link and watch this awesome video.  You might enjoy it.  :wave:

http://www.voiceyourself.com/03_thoughtsfromwithin/VoiceYourselfPoem.swf

[He told me that I was never to use that term in his presence again, that if I was bored it was entirely my fault and no one else's. The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible.]

Hey Donal, if you want to become a hippy, and that is your absolute dream, then do it! Follow what is in your heart, and you can't go wrong from there. And if after awhile you don't want to be a hippy anymore, it is never too late to change.  Life is too short, methinks, to hold yourself down.  For all we know, everyone of us could have just one life and one chance to live it all out.  Once we die, there might not be anything at all (of course i don't believe that, but you should look at life like that, as if there is only one opportunity.  that way, you'll learn to appreciate life to the fullest).  

Think to yourself, do you want to just one day marry someone and have a house, and then that's it?  Or do you want to explore life, live life, and actually experience life?  It all depends on you.  While I agree with Intergalactic that everybody has different reasons to happiness, I disagree with him on what he thinks about your dream. You are you.  This life is yours.  Live it the way you envisioned it.

With that said, I have thought about life and my purpose in it before.  I actually asked myself a few months ago (well.... it's more like sitting down at a place and have a deep contemplation about) what i'm going to do with my life.  I also had this to help.  It's a passage from an essay written by John Taylor Gatto called "Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why":

"Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who spent time in a teachers' lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited attitudes, to be found there.  When asked why they feel bored, the teachers tend to blame the kids, as you might expect.  Who wouldn't get bored teaching students who are rude and interested only in grades? If even that.  Of course, teachers are themselves products of the same twelve-year compulsory school programs that so thoroughly bore their students, and as school personnel they are trapped inside structures even more rigid than those imposed upon the children.  Who, then is to blame?
   
We all are.  My grandfather taught me that.  One afternoon when I was seven I complained to him of boredom, and he batted me hard on the head.  He told me that I was never to use that term in his presence again, that if I was bored it was entirely my fault and no one else's.  The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't  know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainty not to be trusted.  That episode cured me of boredom forever, and here and there over the years I was able to pass on the lesson to some remarkable student.  For the most part, however, I found it futile to challenge the official notion that boredom and childishness were the natural state of affairs in the classroom.  Often I had to defy custom, and even bend the law, to help kids break out of this trap."

While this passage doesn't necessarily talk about purpose in life, but it most definitely talk about boredom.  At the time of my reflection on life, I was pretty much bored with it.  I don't know what to do to make me enjoy it more.  I do this and that and this again, but nothing would make me 'happy' (Okay, there were occasions where I would be happy but most of the time, it's all boredom).  However, because of this passage it has helped me tremendously.  It made me realized that all this boredom was in my mind.  If I want to be happy, I can be happy easily with the right frame of mind; and so this was the beginning of my ascension (not spiritually, but out of boredom kind of ascension).  I started picking up things that I have  always had interests in and doing things I much enjoyed.  I started playing the guitar recently (self-taught). hehe. I started writing more, draw more, be happy more.  It was amazing.  And you know what, I begin to realize that there are all sorts of way to live a spiritual life.  You don't have to travel around the world to obtain it, you can just live where you are and learn so much.

With that, I wish you a beautiful and wonderful life.  Have a safe and fun journey my brother from another mother in the same cosmic universe.

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day. "Does it happen all at once, or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse.  "You become.  It takes a long time.  That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.  Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.  But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

~ Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

I just thought to throw this in for fun.


Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja



Edit: If anyone wants to read The Velveteen Rabbit, click on the link below:

http://www.writepage.com/velvet.htm

[In the Sanskrit tradition, this sound is called "Anahata Nada," the "Unstruck Sound." Literally, this means "the sound that is not made by two things striking together."]

I just thought to share this article that i read recently. I find it is really interesting that ancient texts have talked about it too, and i've always been curious what the sound was (i've been hearing it for awhile).  So go ahead, read it and see what you think.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja




A-U-M Silence

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Ancient teachings and modern science agree: you, I, all living things, all things in existence are made up at their most essential level of vibrating, pulsing energy.

For millennia, mystics have recounted their experience of this energy, which is said to manifest in our hearing awareness as a humming vibration around and within everything else.

In the Sanskrit tradition, this sound is called "Anahata Nada," the "Unstruck Sound." Literally, this means "the sound that is not made by two things striking together." The point of this particular distinction is that all ordinary audible sounds are made by at least two elements: bow and string; drum and stick; two vocal cords; two lips against the mouthpiece of the trumpet; the double reed of the oboe; waves against the shore; wind against the leaves. All sounds within our range of hearing are created by things visible or invisible, striking each other or vibrating together, creating pulsing waves of air molecules which our ears and brain interpret as sound.

So, sound that is not made of two things striking together is the sound of primal energy, the sound of the universe itself. Joseph Campbell likens this unstruck vibration to the humming of an electrical transformer, or the (to our ears) unheard hummings of atoms and molecules.

And the ancients say that the audible sound which most resembles this unstruck sound is the syllable OM. Tradition has it that this ancient mantra is composed of four elements: the first three are vocal sounds: A, U, and M. The fourth sound, unheard, is the silence which begins and ends the audible sound, the silence which surrounds it.

There are several traditional and allegorical interpretations of this ancient sound.


The ancient tradition of AUM

The lovliest explanation of OM is found within the ancient Vedic and Sanskrit traditions. We can read about AUM in the marvelous Manduka Upanishad, which explains the four elements of AUM as an allegory of the four planes of consciousness.

"A" (pronounced "AH" as in "father") resonates in the center of the mouth. It represents normal waking consciousness, in which subject and object exist as separate entities. This is the level of mechanics, science, logical reason, the lower three chakras. Matter exists on a gross level, is stable and slow to change.

Then the sound "U" (pronounced as in "who") transfers the sense of vibration to the back of the mouth, and shifts the allegory to the level of dream consciousness. Here, object and subject become intertwined in awareness. Both are contained within us. Matter becomes subtle, more fluid, rapidly changing. This is the realm of dreams, divinities, imagination, the inner world.

"M" is the third element, humming with lips gently closed. This sound resonates forward in the mouth and buzzes throughout the head. (Try it.) This sound represents the realm of deep, dreamless sleep. There is neither observing subject nor observed object. All are one, and nothing. Only pure consciousness exists, unseen, pristine, latent, covered with darkness. This is the cosmic night, the interval between cycles of creation, the womb of the divine Mother.



The Yoga of AUM

It might be said that the ultimate aim of Yoga is to enter this third dreamless realm while awake. Yoga means "yoke" or "join." Through yoga we "join" our waking consciousness to its "source" in the world of pure, qualitiless unconsciousness.

Which brings us to the fourth sound of AUM, the primal "unstruck" sound within the silence at the end of the sacred syllable. In fact, the word "silence" itself can be understood only in reference to "sound." We hear this silence best when listening to sound, any sound at all, without interpreting or judging the sound. Listening fully, openly, without preconceptions or expectations. The sound of music, the sound of the city, the sound of the wind in the forest. All can give us the opportunity to follow the path of sound into the awareness of the sound behind the sound.

When one really "listens" to this silent sound, this unstruck vibration, one comes inevitably to stillness, to pure and open existence. The poet Gerhart Hauptmann says the aim of all poetry is "to let the Word be heard resounding behind words." The sound behind the sound. And, in making the sound of AUM, we hear this unstruck sound most clearly in the instant when the last humming vibrations of the "M" fade away. At that moment, that instant separating audible sound and silence, the veil is thinnest, and our listening awareness is most expansive.

At that moment of silence, to use William Blake's words, the "doors of perception" are cleansed, and "everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."



Another way to make the AUM sound


A favorite exercise with the sacred AUM sound involves a more modern interpretation of its elements. In short: "A" is the sound of infinite expanding energy in the universe, the energy of unity consciousness and Divine Love; "U" is the sound of that very energy manifesting and materializing in our waking reality; with the sound of "M" we absorb and integrate that energy into our own being. In the silence after the sound we give thanks and allow the process to resonate within us.

Try this: stand comfortably, feet shoulder width apart, hands and arms hanging easily at your sides. Prepare to make the "AUM" sound, all three vowels in one seamless breath. Inhale gently, easily, expanding into your belly as you breathe. Open your mouth fully as you inhale, as if to "inhale" the "A" sound itself, creating the intention of the sound before the sound actually begins.

Then, as you begin to make the "A" sound, raise your arms out to the side, as if opening to embrace all the universe. Than as your voice transitions seamlessly to the "U" sound, extend your arms to the front, as if to hold something precious and powerful in your hands. You might wish to visualize some shape, round and energetic, manifesting between the palms of your hands. Then, gliding from "U" to the "M" sound, bring your hands, and whatever they may contain, to your heart center. Finally, in the echo of the silence, bring your palms to your chest, pressing them lovingly to your heart. Breathe gently.

Repeat this exercise several times. It is remarkably centering and relaxing.



Find your own way

The most important aspect of this second form of AUM is the combination of sound and movement. It really doesn't matter what "images" you create in your mind as you do this exercise, or what specific significance you choose to attribute to each of the individual vowel sounds. The mere fact that you are intoning this ancient sound, and combining it with gentle intuitive movements of the upper body, will have a naturally gentle and balancing effect on your body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

In that state, we can best hear the the Anahata Nada, the unstruck sound behind the sound, the very Sound of the Self.

Okay, I don't remember if i've ever posted this link before or not, but either way, i think not everyone on this message board has played it.  Sooooo...... here is the link to the game:

Note: You need 'flash' in order to play.  It also takes awhile to load, so be patience.
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/644/

Warning: The game is quite addictive............for some people.

Have a great day, everyone.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

I've never actually tried to manipulate it-I've always just said "hmm,look at that.Interesting"  

Me too. lol  That's why i develop the skill to look at them.  hehe.

I started noticing that stuff a few years ago,but I've read that it's just stuff inside the eyeball ("Floaties").

I don't know.  I think those people might be refering to the other one; the one that is transparent and seems to be floating around your eye.  I'm guessing those 'floaties' are just proteins or something.  I know they are different because i can see both, the transparent ones and the moving white dots ones.

Perhaps you have me confused with somebody else, I don't understand what you mean by banjo time. I don't play the banjo.

Kevin

I think the reason for him saying that was because you said you have 6 banjos and some guitars at home.  This led him to assumed that you must play the banjo because you own them.  I dont' know. i'm just guessing.

i never get angry,depressed or any state of mind.
i've learned to supress my emotions ^o^

i think i did this by thinking "it's not worth it"
eventually i think my subconscient assimilated it

I agree with Tyciol.  I dont' think you should supress your emotions.  But of course, i'm being a little biased here becuase i usally follow my heart -----> emotions.



My love to everyone.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

Does it look like little tiny spects of light dots moving around in all directions?  If it is, then i know what you are saying.  I've been seeing it ever since 2-3 years ago. I started seeing it when i was in a Physical Education class.  Maybe there's a link between excercising your body and seeing these dots?  But anyway, over the years, i've been able to adjust my vision anytime i wanted to look at those vibrant moving dots (without needing to participate in any physical activities).

From what someone told me, he said that those 'dots' were the chi, ki, etc. energy that i was seeing.  He also said that if i were able to manipulate that energy force, it would be very useful for doing any healing work.

Aside from that, I thought it was really interesting that you were able to control it in order to run super-dee-duper fast.

I must fix this, this is my goal and the only way I'm going to fix it is to learn to love what I hate.

How do I lose the hate?

I think what got me to stop hating was when I started to realize that we have only one life to live.  We have only one chance to live in this body at this time with all the people we know right now. We have only one chance to look like who we are now, and do what we do.  We have only one chance because this life of ours is unique from any others.  After that realization, a thought popped into my head and just showed me how "hating" was pointless.  It showed me how i could either spend most of my life hating people, or use the remaining time that i have to just learn to love and enjoy life.

Of course, by just realizing that we have only one life to live does not guarantee a successful disappearance of 'hate.' So in my quest to try to find other alternatives to diminish this 'hate,' I started to internallized about who i am and why i hate.  This was difficult for me at first because i couldn't find that deeper "reason" why i hate, but it eventually became clearer and much easier. During this same time of introspection, I discovered something very amazing.  I found out that everything on this earth seeks balance. You can look at the scientific data of how and when a plate tectonic converges under the sea, new land arises somewhere else.  You can look at a curved pipe (u-shape) and see that when you pour water into it, both sides of the water will be the same length (assuming you don't tilt the pipe).  You can argue that this happens because of gravity, but isn't gravity part of nature, therefore it is part of earth's way of balancing itself?  Another example of how the earth seeks balance is to take a glass of water and stir the water with a drop of red food coloring. What color do you see?  There are many more examples, all you need to do is 'look.'  

With the introspection of why i hate combined with the discovery of the earth seeking balance, it finally led me to another conclusion. My new conclusion was that in life, love and hate; good and bad, must exist to gain balance.  And so this made me realized that i shouldn't hate the bad or hate the 'hate,' but learn to love it as much as i would love the 'good.'  Now i don't hate anymore.....well, not that much anyway.

Note: I don't hate but there are things I still dislike.  Dislike and hate are different.

I hope it helps at least a little.  

My love to everyone.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

PS I forgot to mention that in order for you to truly love something you hate, you must first 'understand' it. Don't love it for the sake of 'righteousness' or 'duty' like what i did before, but love it because you want to, and you understood why.

I hope I don't sound like I'm lecturing.I don't want to do that.I had just hoped that I can lend to some basic understanding through some of the fustration I have been reading in these threads.When you so truely desire the knowledge for any type of spiritual understanding, and eventually development one has to learn the basics first. Kinda of like we all must learn to stand before we can learn to walk. I hope that I helped lend a little insight to those whom are still seeking.
May peace be with all,

good post! Thanx for sharing your info!   Yea, I don't like to sound like I"m lecturing either. I'm just relaying what's worked well for me and sharing my experience and knowledge .  Your comments regarding anger, negativity etc are very true... Releasing those emotions so that they don't control you was one of the most difficult things I had to overcome! Getting over that was the hardest part. Although at this point in my life, I can now see how much they had held me back before I started getting serious.

I don't think you guys were lecturing.  I thought that both of your posts were very helpful (well.... helpful for me, i'm not sure about the others), and very good.

...one thing I can say for sure is that the more you meditate, the more you become in "tune" with life. You have less accidents, things just happen to go your way, you find yourself getting less angered at things that would normally anger you, you smile more, You have flashes of spiritual insight that you never had previously, you open up psychic development etc..... None of these things ever came to me prior to heavy meditating.

Hmmm..... I dont know Dusty, i've been nicknamed "Smiley" by my teacher because he thinks that i smile too much (not just my teacher but my friends as well), and i don't meditate at all. I'm also seeing less accidents in my life as well, as if they were all meant to happened to me. It's weird that a lot of what you described has so much relevance to my current life situation.  I guess what i can make out of this is that i'm probably doing some kind of meditation that i am unaware of?  

To me, reading books just gives you an academic sense of spirituality and it's hard to internalize that.

I couldn't agree more.  I believe that personal 'experience' is far greater than just reading from a book or listening to what someone else describes about their own experience.  However, i must say that i love to read and listen to other people's stories.

Also, when I meditate, I also have to create the mood, so some new age music(kitaro is my favorite) and some incense from India (Nag Champa) really creates the mood for me

Hey i have one of kitaro's cd in my car.  Actually, it isn't mine, it is my brother's..... but what the heck, it doesn't matter whose it is from. And plus, i rarely listen to it.    I'm always listening to Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, and Damien Rice's music; good stuff.  I'm currently trying to get my hands on Remy Zero, Athlete, and Ed Harcourt cds at a cheap price.  So far, no luck.  

Hehe. i know i'm going off tangent with this.

Dusty ---> Who's still FAR from being enlightened (long way to go there).

Don't be modest, now.  

Anyway, it was nice meeting with you.

Have a terrific week, everyone.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

Hey spiritualquest

You know what?  Sometimes I do that too, though, not for the sake of meditaion (I didn't even know that it was meditation). I do it because I love how the earth is shaped in a special way to form such a beautiful work of art. And so sometimes, i would just find place to sit and just admire at all the beautiful things in the environment (or while on a car driving home and seeing the sun setting with its beautiful rays of light casting different shades of color on the trees and buildings).  It's very cool.

Anyway, your post is great.

Have a fantastic week everyone.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

LOL, you were just waiting for the perfect time to pull that little story out of your hat, weren't you? Cute, real cute.  

Yeah.  I've had that thing for so long, and didn't know when I was able to post it..............until now.  


Happy days to everyone.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

[Nostic]

Nostic

The guy who wrote the dream diary was primarily interested in having incredible experiences. If that is your focus, you will remain in the endless cycle. Because it is inevitable that you will, at some point, have those incredible experiences (even if it's only when you die). And when you do have them, what's going to happen? You will say, well that was nice, but what's next?

Hey, this is a little bit of a sidetrack from the topic but it is humorous nontheless. This was taken from a wonderful message group that I was in on yahoo.  The group somehow got deleted some times later without anyone knowing why.  

Anyway, at that time, the people on the group were discussing about the purpose of astral projection and all those stuff.  Then one person (a smart and wonderful guy who i really respect) wrote this.  I titled it, "Things to do in astral."

He wrote:

"Hmmm... I can go any place at all! Amazing. Let's try holding the universe
in my field of view. Ohhh wow. This is beautiful."
"Okay bored of that. Now lets try going to different time periods. Ohh hey
the future is pretty nice. Not too shabby. Woah! People can do that!? I
wonder if I can do that stuff too. Sure I can what am I thinking."

"Okay that was nice. Now lets try the outer realms of space time. Shaz!!
That was a ride! Hmm. Been through space... been through time... been
outside space-time... now what?"

"Okay performed a few healings in this state. Pretty useful, very
refreshing. Family liked it. Energized my aetheril body and opened all my
chakras, raised my kundalini and merged it with devine shakti... now what!?"

"Ok. I merged my astral sight with my third eye and my energy body has
become very lose. I can percieve astral signals within my body and see some
astral landscapes if I try hard enough. I can read cards before their delt
and heal people easily. Im a reiki master. Now what!?"

"Ohh... higher learning... I see... so the whole world works like that? Gee
who would have thought! So lets try changing the world around me... hey its
not so hard. Well I can make plants grow instantly, transport objects,
bilocate and read minds. Now what?"

"So all those previous skills were pointless? I see. The whole point of
graduating the human experience is what? Huh? Love? That doesnt make sense.
I've felt love before. Wha? I havent? Show me love."

"My eyes unclouded, I am.
Love is all there is."

*converts body to pure light and is one with all realms of existance*

Playfully,
-Grant



My love to everyone.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

Hey Telos, thanks for the link.  It was fantastic.

Tombo, that was a great post.  And I love your stories.

[CaCoDeMoN]

CaCoDeMoN

And what can people do in those realities? Maybe with less limitations there is less things to do?

I don't think by having less limitations that we would end up having lesser things to do.  Why? Because when we are not constrained, we are able to explore more possibilities that this life cannot provide for us.  It will then be like a new journey all over again.  We will explore more about those realities and learn about all the uniqueness that they have to offer.  

I am not saying that this life in this reality is useless or anything.  Each of the realities, including this one, help shape our perception of the world to gain a fuller awareness of the greater workings.  We will gain more and more understanding about the universe that would then help ourselves (leading to helping others).

1. How do you know that I have chosen this life?

I must admit that what i said were based on my beliefs of how the world work.  I know that we won't know for sure until that "final phase" of our lives.  But with my reasoning, i believe that we have chosen this life because if we did not, then all this talk about 'free will' from spirit guides, to angels, to other higher beings were all a lie.  

If we were to follow the idea of "our lives were forced to reincarnate", then life in general has no free will.  We will then have to follow someone else's scripted 'plan' that they have created for us. What, then, is freedom?  Freedom to exist?  If we were forced to follow someone's plan, then why not create us so that we have all the collective information we needed at the start of our existance?  Why must they go through all the trouble of sending us to one reality after the other; life after life?

But to answer your question of how do i know? I don't.

Sweetbliss

LittleNinja, my English (or my expression  ) is not always so good.

Your english is bad? My buttcheeks.

No, really, i think your English is very good.  I should be the one to say that i'm not good at it.  So far, i've manage to be able to put some of the ideas in my head into words, but not all of them. My thoughts are a jumble.  I think with me being an Aquarius might have something to do with this.

About how long does it take too feel it... If someone practices in a meditation center, it is much easier that alone. Because the energy is reflected by our hearts, so it is like love sharing, when you are on your own, you cannot feel to much. Awareness is also the same: if I read a book, I can understand it better if I have the chance to find somebody interested in it, to discuss about it. It also has the advantage that in a center there are people who can show how to clean and awaken the chakras, so it's much easier to improve. This is the best advice I can give!

Wow!!! thank you so much sweetbliss.  I have never thought of meditation that way.  But as much as i am intrigued by the idea of meditation, I don't know if i can meditate though.  Everytime i do it, i always ended up feeling sleepy.  The odd thing about this is that, I am somehow managed to relax my body instantly if i ever wanted to, but can't meditate.   LOL.  I'm very weird (funny clumsy weird)......or so my friends told me.

well, my love to everybody.

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

[CaCoDeMoN]

CaCoDeMoN

Maybe that "dead" feeling is caused by the way people think?

Yes, definitely.

The reason i said this life is dull as compared to the other 'realities' is because of the limitations of the things you can do here on this world.  When we die, we go to another place (reality/realm/dimension), and we become free; free of the rules that bound us here.  Also when we go to 4d, 5d, 6d, etc., we become freer and freer with each ascending levels.

It is my belief anyway.

I am not saying that this life is actually 'dead'.  I do love it here.  I love the sun, the ocean, the trees, playing in the rain, running around, the good times, the bad times.  They are all amazing and wonderful. I love it.

I'd like to see those other realities.

Well, there are many ways to see those realities. (Note: These are not the only way.)  One of them could be astral projection.  Another is meditation.  and maybe suicide.  I don't recommend suicide because what's the point of living here on this earth anyway.  You have chosen this life to live in, and now you are giving up? If you didn't want to live here in the first place, then why did you choose to "reincarnate"?  I mean, just relax and enjoy what comes your way in this life.  It's all meant for YOU.

Have a beautiful day everyone.

Love & Peace
w/ Littleninja

[Sweetbliss]

Sweetbliss

Hey, Littleninja!  How is it then that there is no need for meditation, that things come up spontaneously, that we just go further with our life..., introspect a bit in the process...?

Well i believe that meditation is not needed because we can still become enlightened even by living our normal lives, just as long as we put some thoughts to all our actions and other people's action.  Sure, i know what i just described seems as if it's some kind of meditation, but it's not.  When we introspect within ourselves or doing any retrospection, we don't have to be super relax or having our minds cleared of any thoughts.  It's just, basically, thinking about the things we/they did, do, or will be doing.  We can think about it anytime we want; in the rain, in a traffic jam, at a carnival.  With introspection/restropection, it is instantaneous.  

Meditation, like you said, can "smoothen" the ride a bit and help us understand better, but it is not the absolute necessity.  I have said before that there are many paths or roads up the mountain reaching the final destination: enlightenment.  We can go on the rough road, smooth road, curvey road, straight road, etc.  It is up to us to decide what suits us best.  Only we know because this is our LIFE.

Also, what i described above about introspection/retrospection is not the only way to attain enlightenment.  There are probably some easier ways. (From what i've experienced so far, it feels like 'life' isn't that complicated.  I'm beginning to believe that 'life' is very simple. It is as if we are only making things difficult on ourselves.  Example?  Astral projection.)

Though, there are times at which it can become so abrupt that one feels like dying if he/she is not giving it the entire attention. It happened to me a few years ago, and it is like nothing can give any satisfaction or comfort, that it is the end, that you would stay your whole life the head down (I use to think like this, because it was the most horrible and uncomfortable thing I could imagine  ) only to get that state.

Interesting..... recently i've just got out of a long depression (sort of).  It wasn't that i was depressed.  It was more like feeling....."numb; emotionless; couldn't careless" of everything around me.  yeah, i do help people when i had the chance, and i do laugh when someone tells me a joke, but all those things were automatic to me.  I didn't help people because i wish them well but because it was my duty.  I laughed at the jokes not because it was funny, but it was courtesy.  I'm still recovering from the depression.  Currently i'm taking up learning how to play a guitar, and so far, it is great.

knucklebrain1970

Welp, like I always say, your as dead now as you'll ever be.

knucklebrain1970, if you are refering to dead as 'constrained; limited', then i agree with you.  Living on this 3d reality, we are very much limited to a lot of things.  It is here that life is dull (well, it's not really dull, but if you were to compare it with other realities, then it is the most......dead). But if you are refering to dead as 'what will happen to you after you die' then i disagree.  When we die, we will become more free, and life then will be more interesting.  The 'dead' here won't be the same 'dead' as when we die. (Sorry that it feels like what i'm saying to you is absolute.  It is not.  Remember to just absorb the things that you "Feel" intuitively is right.)

I wish I could understand or feel this energy everone speaks of. How long does it take?

I'm not sure if i've felt that energy before, so don't feel bad if you didn't.  The reason i know about the kundalini energy is because of my research on astral projection and other metaphysical stuff that i stumbled upon it.

My love to everybody (and this is for reals, it is not the depression making me do it) LOL

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

What Qaz_Azaran gave, sounded very reasonable.  Who knows, it could be true, but always remember to not accept everything as absolute truth.  In that way, you can have room for any reconfigurations and adjustments to those ideas.

Sweetbliss, you can ask your kundalini?  I thought you can use the kundalini energy only when it has been activated?

See what i mean?

Oh and Sweetbliss, you've got mighty fine computer skills with all your technical talks.

Wonderful days everyone. Wonderful days.

Love & Peace
w/ Littleninja

I just wanted to add something.  Meditation is not required for spirituality.  It is used mostly to "enhance" someone's psychic abilities (ie. astral projection, telepathy, aura seeing, etc).   Just some clarification.

Have a great day everyone.


Cheers
w/ LittleNinja

I just want answers dammit, and I shouldn't have to meditate for 20 years for it. It's not right. That's where I get ticked off.

Who said that you have to meditate for 20 years?  Who said you have to meditate in general?  I don't meditate at all (well, I've tried a few times but most of those times i ended wanting to go to sleep instead ), and i'm perfectly content with that. Enlightenment to me is not about forcing yourself to do something you don't want to do, it is about learning to accept/love/understand reality: about yourself, about the world, and about everything else that seems to be revolving around you.  After all, this is your life. You should enjoy it.

There are other methods to attain the truth that you seek; just like there are many other paths reaching the top of a mountain.  The method that i used in subsitution of the meditation is by just going through life as usual, and just think about all the things that had happened, is happening, and will happen to me; about the people, about their reactions.  Then i delve deeper into it.  Why did that happen? Why did he acted that way? How come they are mad?  Happy? Sad?  The more you question and explore the world, the more "fulfilled" you become.   You gain understanding, wisdom, and then you will be able to answer the question about life and why you chose to be here, this place, right now.  But before trying to understand others, you must KNOW your self.  This is because the world around you is shaped by your  own perception.  What you feel, what you think you know, and what you thought as good could be totally opposite of what someone else might think.   You can get to KNOW yourself by doing the same thing i showed you about reflecting upon other people and events.  Why am i mad at her?  Why does this happen to me?  Is what i am doing really me?  Continue with it and you will have a lot of control over your emotions, and you'll become more empathetic as a side effect.  Once you KNOW yourself, you will be able to understand others more.  Everything will begin fitting together like pieces of puzzle.  Though, you won't easily get all the pieces but you will have some that fit just enough for you to have a little concept of it.  

In truth, no one can answer your questions, only you can.  You may not get the right answer, but you won't get the wrong answer either because in your reality, it is true to you.  The thing is, you will get your "own" truth.

I wish I could willingly adopt that concept

If only life was that easy.

I think your decision in not willingly adopt to that concept is awesome.  I mean, why should we give up so easily?  Why not search for the truth, and decide for ourselves?  That would be much more fun and worthwhile in my opinion.

Do you know how sickening it is to me to learn of everyone elses enlightenment's

I want to address this quote.  I don't think we should care whether or not that someone else is 'enlightened.'  This is our life.  Our main focus is on us.  Everybody will become enlightened when they are enlightened.  Then again, not everyone who called themselves enlightened are "enlightened."

I am learning slowly to love all people, but I CAN NOT STAND THE RAT RACE. I'M SO DONE.

Yeah loving other people is good.  You are making great progress, so don't give up so easily.

I just can't understand the concept that I chose to be here.

Relax, we will know the truth someday.


Love  & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

I am by no means an expert, but i can make my own avatar.  Basically all you need is a picture that you like (you can create them or find them from somewhere) and an editing program (such as Adobe Photoshop). Next, you just need to understand the shrinking, resizing, and cutting concept from that particular image editing program, and you're all set.  

Steps:
1) Start out by choosing what part of the picture you want to have on your avatar (or you can have the full picture as your avatar, and you just need to shrink the image to 64 by 64 pixels).

2)Then boxed the area you want, adjust it to your liking, crop the image, and then resize it to 64 by 64 pixels.  *It is very crucial to set it to 64 by 64 pixels because I think that is the accepted size for an avatar on this site.  Anything larger may get rejected.

I hope that helped a little.  

Love & Peace
w/ LittleNinja

Ps.  As for those moving or animated avatars, well...... i still need to learn how to make those .gif files, so i can't help you on those.

[knucklebrain1970]

Hi everyone

I like this thread.

Here are my thoughts on the subject (well, kind of):

This was something i wrote to my friend a few weeks ago.

Hey this reminded me of a revelation i had recently. I don't know if this is correct or not but it feels like it to me.  Well you know about 'free will' right?  From all the reading's that i've read and from what other people said about free will, they usually say that we have choices in life to shape our future; to make anything of our life of how we want it.  Well, for me, yes i think we have 'free will' to a certain extent, but life also has to move on.  I believe that in order for us to learn certain lessons in life, there are things that are in placed for us to follow.  Yes you have the free will to quit that path (meaning suicide) or continue with that path.  And maybe we have 'free will' to shape ourselves and decide how to react to a certain situation and buying anything we want in that particular life time.  And even before that, maybe we have decided to set a certain road map before coming into this life (free will). But once you are in that life that you have set for yourself, you don't really have that free will.  Yes you are playing in a free willed playground that you have created becuase of the choices you made before entering into this life, but upon entering, you are playing a scripted story. It is pretty much like playing a game.  Super Mario for example, you can ride the Yoshi how many times you want, you can jump how many times you would like,  you can go back and forth between the levels as many times as you want, It doesnt' matter how long you play the game or stall the game, but ultimately, you will reach the ending.  We are living in a scripted world that we have created for ourselves, and that in itself is the lack of free will.  Once we get out of this 3D program (going to 4D, 5D, etc.) we will have more free will but only until death do we have the ultimate freedom that is called 'free will'.  Now.. now... i'm not trying to tell you that you should go commit suicide to achieve 'free will'.  That would defeat the purpose of learning the lessons needed learned.

As you can see, I really do think we have free will.  It's just that we used most of our free will to create our 'life plan' before coming here.  When we are here, it doesn't seem like we have much free will because we are playing out a 'plan'.

knucklebrain1970

Well since I'm so disconnected with my true self, and no matter what method I try I can't connect, I find it hard to believe that there are 2 of me;
1. My physical Self
2. My spiritual Self

Well... it may be difficult but we can try to use some simple clues that we "know" to understand a little bit better.  Let us begin by asking a few questions.  Do we (you) know if astral projection exists? (Personally, i have had an out of body experience before, so i know it exists.)  Have we (you) heard of people recounting their experiences of looking at their bodies when they were out of their bodies? (yes for me)  Now think about it for a few seconds.  What are your thoughts?  We don't have to assume right away that there is a "spiritual self," but we must assume that there is some kind of aspect of ourselves out there other than just our physical self.  Why?  Because we have many people saying that they SAW their bodies.  How can that have happened if all we have are our physical self?  

Now my physical self does not want to reincarnate again. I've had it with this planet, I don't want to come back. Sad to say that? Yes, but I'm serious.

Yeah i know what you mean.  We can get discouraged of our lives sometimes, and just want to quit.  But you know what?  Let's just assume that we have another aspect of our selves that have the whole collective consciousness of all of our lives experience.  Our other 'selves' might know what is good for us, whereas our physical selves is limited to the 3D perception and do not grasp fully of the good and the bad .  This could be why people reincarnate; their other selves (not physical selves) decided for the benefit of themselves (and everyone else).

These are just some things i believe anyway.  I dont' know what other people think.

Well, I hope people understand what i'm saying.  I'm not really good with words.  My thoughts are so messy.

Love, Peace, and Cheers,
LittleNinja

PS everyone should listen to Damien Rice's music.  It's amazing, and has nothing to do with this.