But who needs the arguments! So I call it myDDJ (implying it’s only an interpretation).

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When we start moving meditation (e.g., taijiquan practice), we start at a physical level, and once the logistics of the physical movements are sufficiently internalized, the focus goes inward, from external form to internal feeling. This is when we start feeling our life energy (qi), internal organs, the flow of blood, etc. After a period of diligent practice, we notice that the feeling of qi is not scattered anymore, but is becoming more focused, and we develop a deeper sensitivity to the ebbs and flow of qi within our system.

Along with sensitivity, many mental patterns become observable. We start entering into a witness consciousness state, wherein during the practice, various mental activities and proclivities start to become apparent. With proper guidance from a good teacher, we can understand our own minds at a very deep and profound level, delving not just at the surface, but diving into the depths. 

With time, understanding, and patience, the mind becomes calm and still during the practice. But the witness state expands into the rest of our day. Gradually every action, every thought is observed as if by a neutral witness. Little by little, the stillness and calmness of the mind during practice time spills into 'normal' time. Little by little, every moment becomes the present moment. That is when we enter 'meditation' in movement.

Even one's physical experiences or lack of (knowledge, objects, energetic development, etc); such things were never obstacles or truly even gone. It is simply the observation that "this is my experience" that makes it one's experience; the observation that I do not know or do not have this thing that makes one experience such lack. Simply put, if I had the desire and expectation to be a genius musician, then I could obtain such an experience regardless of my physical effort.

Many who are spiritual or even have an in-depth understanding of the mundane mind can agree with this, but they still insist on the sanctity of natural laws and phenomena. Such sanctity is created and such scientific phenomena are only maintained to follow the natural laws that one has created. In truth, the physical experience is truly inert. When one gains memories in their experience or see's with eyes; they create the brain to store those memories and the eye's to see. An example of the brain's creation in greater depth, is one's belief in momentum, physical idolization, acceptance of physical laws, the individualized consciousness's observation of inhabiting a certain physical form, etc. The list usually goes on, but it is never necessary or sacred. In fact, in a scientific sense: most yogi's brains are basically turned off. Similarly, most spiritually advanced people, while inhabiting the physical body, simply find no need to remove/transform the physical body or surpass death. Hence with the regard that they have lost conceptions of momentum and time, causes the physical reflection(the brain) to be simply turned off without its removal.

For the sake of further explanation, let me explain the phenomenon of Daoist's seeking to create the spiritual body. Firstly, just like the freedom of meditators who sought to not use their minds or rely on their bodies; the Daoist has made his choice to rely on his body and develop it. The Daoist believes that there are natural laws and scientific methods for developing Jing and energy channels, and so they exist in his experience. Perhaps the existence of these energies is even a natural law that one has agreed to when inhabiting a physical body, hence why default creators (those that do not know they have a choice in creating their experience) may encounter them. Regardless, the Daoist immediately gets to work for his goal of a spiritual body. He preserves the jing, meditates for long hours, performs certain practices, and undertakes diets. In all this he observes his effort and his improvements, and similarly feels his effort and expectation for the efforts as well as his improvements. It is this feeling, that then manifests the physical conditions improvements and growth, usually to be observed in the future experience because one's conception of time and momentum. That is the popular way of approaching this problem, the easier way is to simply feel that one now is a spiritual body or to simply just desire and expect that one will obtain it. Then depending on one's conceptions and conditioning, physical effort may be unnecessary for such a gain. 

In both cases, hard way (daoist/popular method) and the easy way (yogi/overlooked method), one is playing with their conceptions and conditioning. It is just that in the hard way, one believes that they do not have the spiritual body and must work towards it and that work will surely move one closer to the spiritual body. Thus, in the hard way, one creates not only the current lack of a spiritual body but also the need for effort to obtain it. In the easy way, one believes that they already have it or that they will have it. Thus, in the easy way, one creates the abundance of a spiritual body with very little effort to obtain it. Such a phenomenon and analogy is deeply relevant not only to development of skills like music, computer science, art, etc but also to the trappings of all general life experiences.

What's important to understand, is that nothing is illogical. The physical world/experience is simply a reflection of the individual consciousness's belief's and expectations. The physical world is not more sanctified than the imaginary world, nor is a physical observation the truth. It is only so for most, because they believe it is so. Such an understanding is shallow and obscures the depth of one's true nature. However, such choice for one's experience is afforded to all. As if one believes in a non magical world and their experience being reliant on the general state of the world and others, then they will experience that. If one believes that they have no control over their experiences and are simply a physical body, then they will experience that. If one is highly religious and believes in a god, then they will experience that god and heaven/hell after death.

On that note, I should explain that every experience is 'created' by one's own conception and conditioning. The reason why the ultimate truth is Brahman, is because it is not created or based on conception; it has no attribute and simply is, hence it is the truth. Going back onto topic, it is impossible for one to experience something outside of one's conception or conditioning. Hence this is also why, meditator's seeking enlightenment meditate and seek to eliminate mental conditioning and conception. For when they do so, they naturally return to Brahman. However, once again bondage is a created concept and movement towards enlightenment is one as well.

However, such a topic I do not feel fully qualified to speak on so I will move back to the topic of experience's created by one's own conception and conditioning. To illustrate this, I can give the example of me wanting something absurd. Consider that I desire/believe and fully expect that everyone around me is actually a robot who can only speak in 0's and 1's starting from right now. Even if they are all normal now and I have friends who speak to me regularly, with sufficient mental effort, I can override my current experience and then experience my desired/believed one. I mean it. My physical reality would actually change to fit that narrative. However you, by your conception, would still be experiencing the normal world and perhaps even experience my choice being represented as insanity(I imagine this example would mainly come to be for default creators). But that would not mean I was insane. Instead it would only mean that you and others you experience as also believing/observing me as insane would see a me in that state. I, on the other hand, would have actually created that world and would then be experiencing it; I would not be insane at all. Similarly, if you put forth mental effort that I am an amiable and friendly person then you would experience that. You would never know about my creation of a dystopian world. Another person's creation of a world where I am insane. And your world's representation of a normal/friendly experience. This is what I mean by there being no finiteness; there are infinite realities. In fact, I wish I could explain it better but words like 'I', 'you', 'me' are basically incapable of representing the depth of this situation. Once again, why it is noted that enlightened beings reject notions like 'this world' and 'I' for they are shallow lies that lack the depth of the truth. However, for the sake of illustration I find the words necessary.

Continuing on with the topic at hand, I would like to say that you are the main character of your experience. It is only you, your experience. All others exist, but they are merely in alignment with your conceptions and conditioning. Hence selfishness is a presiding factor of Buddhism, Western esotericism, and many other faiths. But this selfishness drifts towards one's true nature: Brahman/consciousness/infinity.

This is freedom and it is inherent. My explanations of it, and even words like lost or gained cannot even begin to describe its depth.

And so a question I find other's may ask, is why do I not simply wish myself enlightened/truly realized? Or why do I not wish for the greatest sensual pleasures? Super energetic development? And the reason to all these is that I find that life is a natural journey, I know that I am not bound and I know my true nature and I'd also like to experience the steps towards that true nature. I really enjoy the amalgamation of all that. Furthermore now that I truly know the truth and the 'rules' I come to no harm by experiencing this life. There is no urgency, no pain, no traumas; it is just like a playground. Beautiful, heavenly, harmonious, and perfect. 

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Two of my friends and I have been at it for a while now, and two others joined in after being told by our master to join us. They struggle a bit conceptually because the process is so alien to them.

Typically when we conceptualize meditation, we think of eyes closed, sitting or standing, and even moving (if it is the qigong/taijiquan type of meditation). There is always some doing. But in our meditation, we rest in silence/stillness with absolutely nothing to do vis-a-vis meditation. And we might not even maintain silence, as we abide in the stillness as the backdrop, and still manage to have conversations, discuss details of the wisdom traditions. 

So one friend decided to ask Master about this underlying silence/stillness/emptiness that is revealed when we focus our attention on it. Master said (and I paraphrase what my friend told me), "It is the Big Dao...it is also your own Being". 

In Vedantic tradition, this stillness/silence is the Self within in which all phenomena rise and fall. 

Here we are.  It's all Thought.  Mind.  We're It.  No one in the sky to save us.

If this makes any sense to you, please take a guess as to "why" we would be manifesting Trump and Covid.

I don't have a theory about it yet.  It's still too dynamic.  I think it's something you have to zoom way out in space, look back at Earth, and see the overall dynamics from there.  But...why is this happening?

Are we exterminating ourselves?  Are we supposed to end up with One World Government? (I say this because the action of the Dao is reversion).  Are we culling ourselves for population control?  Are our bodies evolving in some direction as a result of all this chaos?  Are we seeing survival of the fittest in action?

 Are more people enlightening at this point in time?  Feels like it to me.

What I'm asking, is to pivot out to the furthest reaches of your thought, your gnowing.  There's no right answer here, other than creative conjecture.  We should be entitled to this information.  After all, if you know who ya' really are............ ? 

So help me out here?  I gotta know.

have you ever encountered such person? I have an experience with one boy who took teachings from the same lama as me and therefore he is my vajra brother. He kind of reached out to me and I helped him along the way for over a year. I helped him with getting materials on dharma, showing teachers around etc. But the entire time he was so annoying. And not on purpose I guess, it is just his stubborn nature, plus he is 18 and ex-catholic. These three things can mess people up. ?

Long story short he got quite attached to me since I was the only one who he could share dharma with and also the fact that he is homosexual. I tried to be as supportive as possible, but weirdly it turned sour for me. He always has strong opinion on everything, despite not doing any research whatsoever (trait I might share a bit) and has tendency to evangelize and bash people with "truth" until they give in. Which is for a person like me probably the most annoying personality trait out there. Anyway, we had a falling out over fluffy dogs (sounds silly but I always wanted a fluffy dog and it might be bit personal to me) where he attacked the idea of having a fluffy dog because it is too hot for them, nowadays. And surprisingly that was the last straw for me and I cut most of the communication. He still asks some stupid questions and I don't have the heart to ignore him completely so I give either small explanation if I find it to be worth the effort, or just tell him off lightly if not. What bothers me the most is that now I have a hard time developing positive thoughts towards him now. 

Anyway ... if anybody can make something ut of this mess and discuss it or share your experiences with this, I would be glad. Do you think it was right for me to cut him off?