Are you sure you didn't get brainwashed ???



Harry

Hmm

you are really doing the best to scare the doubtful away for sure

I think he just got a hold of some really good drugs. You know what they say in school - bring enough to share with everyone.

my recommendation of the day:

"Give yourself up to hedonistic pleasures and rub melted chocolate, containing 70 percent of cocoa and no sugar, over your heated body and then indulge in a sauna. As the heat rises in the steam sauna, the chocolate will slowly start to melt and slide down your skin, you will then melt with it simultaneously."

"You are looking for a high quality chocolate product all your life. You have found it at last and now you can enjoy the fantastic shapes and taste of Atlantis."

plus a very weird vid for grounding cameron:how to fold socks

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Indeed....
A post here and there like that no problem, but be careful, this is getting a little to much.

Also, what you say is kind of illogical. The way I understood what Max teaches, is that everyone can do these practices and become like him. So putting him as a god kind of goes against that.

I have thought a little about Cam's initital "statement" and while I enjoy his enthusiasm in a way it reminds me of some of the foundation students seeming to go nuts over the fact that they have come into contact with something "not so common"...

I don't really want to lecture... so take the following with a grain of salt. It's basically me talking to & reminding myself:

I recently met a very special person... and if my mind serves me well she said something close to the following: "You know. I have seen a lot of weird things happening there with the masters. You know: things like knifes flying around (note: not in the sense of "being thrown") etc. But all that does not really matter. At the end of the day it just comes down to YOU doing YOUR practice..."

Experience has shown that jumping ahead with conclusions all too often leads to disappointment. Maybe better to evaluate in silence and see where things lead... don't let enthusiasm carry you away and lose your ratio and balance...

...am I glad that I reminded myself



Harry

Dorje's video makes me have some serious doubts myself. It just seems so fake, painfully so. I did buy his book however, after talking to a close friend who attended one of his lectures. According to him he did feel Dorje's Chi was at a very high level. I still haven't made up my mind on him, I will see how kunlun training goes.

Careful Cam.

Max would never want people to say this about him. He wont even let people bow to him. He does not even like to be called "teacher."

He just doesn't see things that way.

He truly sees us all as equals with equal ability and potential.

Calling him "Sifu Max" is out of the question then?

You can call him what you want. He prefers "Max."

Max is no more and no less God then the rest of us, despite what some may be led to believe.
Careful Cam, you may need some help my friend.
Despite what you or Max may say, Chris, I suspect that he considers himself to have just a bit more ability and potential then the rest of us mere humans...
A few quotes on the Lama Thunderbolt site:
"The lightning had actually fused his third eye open, allowing him to see energies beyond normal human vision, at all times."
"He was recognized as a "tulku" or high level reincarnate."
"Ralo Rimpoche of the Nyingma order of Tibetan Buddhism, gave him the title "Ngakpha Dorje" which identifies him as one who has the power to awaken dormant powers within."
Following any guru or method ultimately takes one farther and farther from the truth. The truth is what remains when the thoughts and images of the mind fall away in the face of the experience of reality in the present moment. That cannot be taught, sold, or given, only experienced.
"Dao ke dao fei chang dao, ming ke ming fei chang ming"
Laozi
"It is only when I do not know what God is that there is God."
J Krishnamurti
"I don't give a hoot for a sixth-century BC Buddha, let alone all the other claimants we have in our midst. They are a bunch of exploiters, thriving on the gullibility of the people. There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God."
UG Krishnamurti

Max is who he is. He is all of those things and much more, but despite the fact that he is a high-level Boddhisattva reincarnate (who has held off his final evolution to stay here and helps us poor schleps figure things out), he refuses to put himself above others.

He just doesn't see things that way. He understands and teaches that we all have the potential to gain full awakening in this life.




Hey, I'm a Tao Bum.

Good company.

Feels like my first initiation.

Mantra,

When Max was given the tittle of a reincarnated lama, how did the guy know and what ritual did he go thru to see Max as a reincarnation of a Lama?

What did Max say when the person told him he was or what was his reactions?

WYG

Just playing the devil's advocate here. While we are all very skeptical of the Guru-student relationship in the West, and for lot's of excellent reasons, my understanding is that in many Eastern traditions the Teacher-As-God relationship is not that uncommon. Ideally the teacher maintains a I-Am-WINDOW-To-GodNESS stance, to prevent a dualistic perception. This is a big part of the Guru tightrope act challenge IMO.

Cam is a bhakti yogi through and through, so perceiving God through teacher, heart-to-heart, without the mental filter probably comes more naturally to him.

Two cents.

Sean

Sifu Max doesn't advocate the Guru-student relationship, on the DVDs he advised against it rather strongly.




Thanks. Have to be able to differentiate in between all of the many people named "Max" here.

Hehe...

You guys are taking this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to seriously.

Even if Max is who I think/thought he is. It's still just a big fun joke.

Don't get caught up in being too serious people! Remember the funny Taoist philiosophers.

This whole plane is a big joke .It's basically Earth School. We are all one.

One..one..one..one..one..one..one..one..one.

It's all here..whatever you want to think about it is secondary.

I couldn't deny Max if I wanted to..going 2 weeks for the most part without sleep is interesting .At some point in the dream you just got feel the love people!

I won't "divulge" anything else I was told about Sifu Max but as far as Egypt goes..let's just say he is versed.

I have no intention here but to speak the truth to my friends. A friend of mine told be to be careful that I would acrue karma if Lama Dorge had a negative effect on people.

Max is like Morpheus on the matrix. And my other teacher is just like the Oracle.

Whoever made The Matrix and DragonBallZ knows stuff!

Have fun.

Just to add something Jeannie Zandi told me..

When I asked her am I irrelevent she said "totally irellevant and totally relevant",

I won't get into any specifics..in fact I don't even understand most of what I have been experiencing myself. But I would say Jeannie is the totally clueless in the now approach and Max is the mindblowing super energy connection approach.

The fundamentala ttitude is the same for me..atleast now. I told Jeannie even before I met Max I see her at the top of the pyramid laughing and serving poeple chocalates.

Hopefully this vision of the pyramid and more of Yin, healing energy(than perhaps different energies of the past? Again I am clueless)

C

Come on Cameron. Don't wriggle yourself out the easy way It is okay to instead of leaving the arena with a poker face, to keep your head high and ackownledge we were on to something

just joking



Harry

joking=on the right track.

Says you.
Plus, you make no sense. Were what you are saying true, we`d all be enlightened already. But we are not.
And even for you to say what you said, you would not say it, if you hadn`t listened/read many different things out of which you created your opinion.

My vote is split. My body says the chocolate in the sauna is definitely the answer.

My "true, dat" function claps its hands at what sean said.

Elders, Teachers, Mentors, guides, even friends. A good teacher helps you discover truth on your own. You can not be "educated" as to the truth. Good education strips away layers of illusion. A Sifu can help guide, not do it for you. There is protection in numbers, naturally.

Circle the wagons,

Spectrum

is Max the guru who claims to eat burgers and fries? or am I confused?

Yes. One of his more controversial claims...

He also chows plenty of Cocoa Puffs.

,,,

In a way everyone is right.

Serious..there is no right or wrong.

It's just chutes and ladders

On more serious topic I heard rumors Randy Couteur will be facing Fedor in "The Octagon".

Should be fun.

Everything you said before was ok so far, but now you're talking crazy

If this fight doesn't happen many UFC and Pride fans will be let down.

I think even O'Sensei is excited to see who would win that fight!

You know how I stand on supporting any of my countrymen but I've got to vote for Randy this time. He would be a very good role model for all the young fighters out there.

I have to oppose you brother.

Fedor is the Serpent Eagle.

Though Randy is most definetly righteous...dude.

O believe me chutes and ladders was the serious topic...

I can understand why this is controversial....I cant comprehend anyone on a spiritual path eating that shit and voting with their dollar to support it and the sickness industry it feeds..Quite the opposite of naturalism to eat processed junk food isnt it?

I met a "spiritual master" at the New Life expo one year. He charged everyone 250$ for half an hour of bull#$%^ energy work. He wore tiger skin jacket, and ate Kentucky fried chicken and mcdonalds. Nice right? The man was a total fraud. I won't say his name, but the man claims to make dr.s of energy work out in california somewhere. hahahahahaha

This is one of the reasons beings with abiltiies and wisdom don't go public. They are afraid everyone else will
look to them as gods. Only demons will want to be called great masters, gods, immortals, etc.

Peace,
Lin

Not sure what to say here really.

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I agree about high quality food obviously however I must point out that rice is less than ideal for many people because of indigestible proteins(similar to gluten),mineral leaching phytic acids and highly unfavorable glycemic index.

Eating Lifefood and Paleo style has done as much or more for me than any meditation/cultivation,contemplation,pontification ect.

I will eat as much crap as I like and none of you can do anything about it.

Nothing!!

*Is torn about what to have for breakfast..leaning towards eggs*

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Food <shrug> Gotta live with it.

Eat Rice was just another way to say eat things that make your body feel good for more than the 15 minutes it takes to eat it. Regular exercise will regulate your metabolic cycles which is grounding for the other fundamentals of air, gait & food.

Spectrum

yeh, well. The least you can do is start washing your hair with lentils.


make the effort, man.

Rice is fine for celiac/gluten intolerance but what I meant was that the indigestible proteins are similar to gluten in that they can provoke unfavorable immune response.
And then there is the whole GI factor...the best you can hope for with rice is a moderate GI, which is OK for some people.
If you are going to eat beans they should be soaked overnight and rinsed not the cooked in the can variety.
Food and O2 are THE fuels of life and the way to vote with your dollar for a better earth so I dont really understand why people think its cute to eat junk food,especially people who have unplugged from the matrix.

Just to be clear, I wouldn't recommend anyone emulate Max's diet. He is an advanced alchemical wizard and he really can convert everything he eats to usable energy.

I mention his diet only to show that at the highest levels, matter doesn't really matter.

For us mere students though, it still kinda does...

Has anyone touched hands with any of these guys?

Spectrum

Wait.... how is it that he eats meat, yet he is a Bodhisattva reincarnate?

Choosing which food industries you support by voting with your dollar is important at any and all levels of awareness IMO