On 9/30/05 9:57 AM, "TurquoiseB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One of the best spiritual practices I ever received was
>> called "The Inner Smile". One of the people I learned it from
>> had gone to China to study under some Taoist master who taught
>> rare, very advanced practices which were still kept very secret.
>> Of course he had some concern after traveling to this remote
>> region that he might be rejected and he wouldn't get the
>> teachings he sought. After meeting the teacher and requesting
>> the teachings he desired the teacher said to him, simply "do
>> you know how to smile at yourself?" The student, who had
>> practiced the Inner Smile as part of his practice for a
>> long time, immediately broke out into a smile realizing what
>> the teacher was referring to. "Oh yes" he responded.
>>
>> He got the teaching he requested.
>
> Meat. There was a short period about five years ago
> when I was having some issues in the dream plane.
> I almost NEVER have nightmares, and haven't for my
> entire life, so when badass demon types start showing
> up in my dreams and trying to kill me, and it's the
> same badasses every night, I pay attention. Some-
> thing is going on.
>
> As it happened, I described what was going on to a
> friend of mine who was studying with a Taoist herb
> master, and my friend passed along a mantra that
> had been given to him especially for dispelling evil
> forces or demons. My friend told me what the mantra
> was, and that night I went to sleep and the badasses
> showed up again, and I managed to get lucid in the
> dream and shout out the mantra at them.
>
> It was impressive, to say the least. They caught
> fire and burned up, leaving nothing but flakes of
> ash, like after you burn a pile of autumn leaves.
> I've never had those particular badasses or any other
> seemingly malevolent being appear in my dreams since.
>
> What makes this story relevant in a funny way is that
> the mantra was "HA." Yup, HA, as in ha ha. It means
> something totally different in Chinese, of course,
> but I have been amused ever since that the thing that
> can make malevolent spirits burn up and go away is
> basically laughing at them. :-)
Hehehe. They hate silence too.
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