For me, it is like everything becomes more vivid. Just like how color tv made black and white tv hollow, and HD tv makes normal color tv hollow, when my third eye is open, everything becomes more vivid. Life becomes a dream, but it is more clear then normal, not more foggy. Hyper clarity
All the homophobia in India is mostly English prejudice inherited from the Victorian age, and to a lesser extent Islamic influence. Hinduism (and Islam!)has a community of Hijra's transsexual and homosexual men who are legally treated as a third gender in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh...
Men dominating society is not a healthy state.
Men who do not conform in such a society are viewed as subversive to the dominant men.
I'm bisexual, so I am hardly endorsing this.
The Romans and Greeks felt homosexuality was irrelevant if you had a Woman who gave you children too, hopefully...
I actually have some experience with that. Whenever I experience Darshan, it feels like my third eye is being forced open, like a bullet or a snakebite. It is rather ecstatic and purging feeling. It's not really a controllable thing. I would suggest try to focus...something like a mantra, or a...
I Think when you see temple in Judaism, or Christianity, they refer to the holy temple in Jerusalem. God dwelt there. It is synonymous with Synagogue in Judaism, but I think it means that the Church has replaced the Temple in some "Reconstructionist" views of Christianity.
AKA "We are the real...
I do a few rounds of Japa before bed, and often when I get up, but I never got the hang of still-mind formless meditation. I suppose that is a good idea to try to refocus on that.
You are right, in the sense of that one cannot avoid doing harm, but one can minimize it.
I was. Normally I am not shaken like I was today. I suppose that everybody gets a curve ball like that. I try not to go public like this on the silly little things like this but I figure if somebody could...
I suppose it is very strange to see Sufis do their religion, and the Shia...and then see these IS people do it.
Which is why I strive to live by my Pacifistic worldview. If I do no harm, then the world will be better then when I left it