Eckhart Tolle: Remove 95% unhappiness now

(Eckhart Tolle) February 4, 2026: Remove 95% unhappiness

The Great Allowing (guided meditation)

The Great Allowing

Ego Death by toad venom? (Bufo DMT)

Buddhist psychedelic artist Alex Grey (WQ) understands this altered state of consciousness!

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This is more real than ordinary consciousness.

(VICE) Twenty times stronger than DMT: The Spirit Molecule, "Bufo" (5-MeO-DMT), is hiding in the venom of the Sonoran toad -- but it is also synthesized and harms no amphibian whatsoever. Mother Earth and Father Tech have provided it.

The ego is an illusion, so is Ego Death good?

I, the Homunculus, AM what I feel and what I think within MY body and mind.

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Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity" [1]. The term is used in various intertwined contexts, with related meanings. Psychologist William James, a 19th-century philosopher, uses the synonymous term "self-surrender."

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  Descartes on the body's pineal gland

  [This is the literal meaning of Islam and the Muslim follower's attitude towards the one God Allah, and it is the yogi's merging with "GOD," where or godhead/godhood is the Atman merging or uniting with Brahman, the "ultimate reality" in Hinduism and in different terms in Mahayana Buddhism. And it stands to reason that in Christianity of all kinds, it is the attitude of a soul to what Christians would regard as "God," to be "Christed" or "anointed with Chrism," not figuratively and symbolically in the reenactment of a ritual but in the sense of the pineal gland producing endogenous DMT that floods the system, which is the power of entheogenic substances like amrita, amata, ambrosia and perhaps soma.]

Wow, they hid the truth!

DMT: Toad of Awakening? Bufo Alvarius (Bufo)

Sacred Secret: It happens to pineal glands monthly

Is this why lunar cycles and calendars are important?

Peter goes to Meg's school to bust Bufo fad

Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term psychic death, referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche ("soul") [2].

In death and rebirth mythology, ego death is a phase of self-surrender and transition [3][4][5][6], as described later by Joseph Campbell in his research on the mythology of the Hero's Journey [3].

It is a recurrent theme in world mythology and is also used as a metaphor in some strands of contemporary Western thinking [6]. More

• VICE; Wise Quotes Sacred Secret; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

LA Fire FREE healing session (2/8)

WHAT HAPPENED?

As above, so below. There are two stories to The Awareness Center, a Kundalini Yoga studio in Pasadena. Entering the room, participants spread out on borrowed yoga mats on the hardwood floor, most of the group was already on stage, waiting for Seven to make an entrance.

The large shamanic drum began to drone, the bowls came alive with their unique vibrations attuned to each of the chakras, and the rainstick began to pour.

Event details

The natural elements are for us, even fire.

Spend an hour with Dr. Ling O'Connor and healers gathering for a sound bath, deep relaxation, reiki massage, and meditation. 

We're offering a FREE sound bath and emotional healing to support Los Angeles residents affected by the recent fires.

• Cause of Eaton Fire? Edison tower sparks

Join Dr. Ling O'Connor, Meditation Guide Seven, musician nurse Devorah Anderson, the Zildjian Mistress Linda Lau Cole, Azalea, Frank, and our very own Urban Shaman Seven for deep relaxation and recentering at The Awareness Center yoga studio in Pasadena.

Experience Tibetan singing bowls, harmonium, shamanic drum, rainstick, temple muyu, gong, and more.

Sound has no power to vibrate or cleanse

Shamans connect us to unseen energies.

This healing session promotes deep relaxation with breath work, emotional release, healing touch, reiki, and physical/spiritual renewal. 

Soothing vibrations restore balance, ease stress and strain, and bring back peace of mind. It's time for the recovery to start by resetting our own nervous systems. First, attend to the body, the mind will follow, and wholeness is in sight.

WHO IS IT FOR? Those most impacted whether emotionally, psychologically, or physically by the Eaton Fire/Los Angeles Fire. (Yeah, this means you). RSVP FREE:

• Disclosure Project: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• PasaDharma: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• Nature Center: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• Email: dancinglunarin@gmail.com

What happened? Free LA Fire healing

Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley suddenly feels like a faraway paradise beach

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WHAT HAPPENED?

What is a sound bath for spiritual cleansing?

In PR Russia with its worker cooperatives, the nation hides a glorious imperial past. Leningrad is actually Saint Petersburg, and this is where the czar stored the booty from imperial Eurasian adventures and conquests in the forging of the USSR, a Soviet super-nation, now mostly disassembled. The great Central Asian "stans" where the Buddha grew up are remnants of that time as is Ukraine and places as far away as Mongolia. The palace is now a museum. One needn't travel all the way there to see it, just visit The Langham Huntington Resort Spa in residential Pasadena on Lake Ave., which becomes Oak Knoll as it flows south.

The Langham Huntington, Pasadena

All the Gilded Age gold inlay on the ceiling...anyway, turn left to the Georgian Room, apparently named after the country of Georgia, where 60 yoga mats were arranged in a flower pattern streaming out from a center, where all of our "philosophical instruments" (Tibetan and crystal singing bowls, Zildjian gong, tingsha, giant shamanic drum, muyu wooden temple drum) were set up. Enormous amethyst and clear quartz crystals formed a ring around our sacred space. Eager participants, many of them guests of the hotel, streamed in and found a place, arranging themselves on the ground for maximum comfort, socializing and hugging. Then Seven sounded the drum and brought their attention to the basics for the evening:

• total relaxation
• receptivity with palms facing upward (downward for grounding)
• diaphragmatic breathing
• placing the mind on the breath to remain in the present moment, knowing the human superpower of adverting attention to a safe default (resting home) position at the nose or belly button.

Slowly the other musicians, the Zildjian Mistress Linda Lau Cole and Dr. O'Connor and Linda with the bell and her husband with the rain stick wandered about, enchanting the audience. Some sat to meditate, others taking a supine position to exhale.

The instructions were simple. What? Be. Where? Here. When? Now. How? Breathe and stay with the breath already breathing itself. Be a mindful observer of all that is coming up, without

• fixing
• judging
• evaluating
• clinging to
• rejecting
• fighting
• or even choosing

The work of the shaman is healing.

the content of experience. Be here now. Stay present. Know the safety of presence as Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle explain it. Be in the now. The room was very safe. People kept streaming in, finding a mat. The sounds became ethereal, echoing, softening hearts and soothing minds.

Dr. O'Connor voiced otherworldly notes, traces of Tibetan chants, a heavenly choir as the Mistress joined in. Seven gave reiki and a laying on of healing hands, transferring prana and whispering a sacred mantra, for those open to it.

Dr. O'Connor began the process of emerging, signaling the supine to slowly move their heads side to side and rouse themselves with tapping. Slowly they sat up, smiling, looking at one another with lovely eyes.

Raising open palms, we intoned three long "OMs" together to send out metta and positive energy to an aching world. Outside, the earlier rain had quelled the fires and begun the cleansing process. Inside, the vibration had been raised, and there was clarity and a wish to connect.

• The next FREE sound bath and healing event was announced (February 8, 2025, at 4:00 pm, at The Awareness Center, Pasadena.

Roses were distributed to everyone as was water provided by the spa. Some people cried tears of joy, free hugs were on offer, and plans were made to reunite as everyone was invited to the next event.

RSVP for the next free session

• Los Angeles Fire FREE healing session (2/8)
• Disclosure Project: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• PasaDharma: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• Nature Center: LA FIRE FREE HEALING, sound bath, meditation for all impacted by disaster, Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup

Event details

Event flyer: Sound Bath.

Spend an hour or more with Dr. O'Connor and healers gathering for a sound bath, vagus nerve release, relaxation, and meditation.

Dr. O'Connor and Dharma Buddhist Meditation are offering a complimentary sound bath and emotional healing to support Los Angeles residents affected by the recent fires with our very own Seven and Devorah Anderson.

• COMING SOON: We will be at The Awareness Center yoga studio in Pasadena, providing this healing event to the community. See Dharma Buddhist Meditation (Meetup) for upcoming announcement details.

These Santa Ana winds are driving me crazy!

Using Tibetan singing bowls, Indian harmonium, shamanic drums, and a Zildjian gong, this healing session promotes deep relaxation, breath work, emotional release, de-stressing, and physical renewal.

Let the soothing vibrations help begin to restore balance, ease stress and strain, and bring about peace from within during this time of recovery.

WHO MAY ATTEND? This is for any LA resident emotionally, psychologically, or physically affected by the fires. (That means you).

There is good scientific evidence that sound stimulates the vagus nerve and can therefore positively affect our wellbeing.

• FREE meditation, spiritual healing, sound bath
• Georgian Ballroom at Langham Spa Resort Hotel
• 1401 South Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena, California
• Monday, January 27, 2025, 6:15 pm
• Space is limited to 60. Sign up as guest to register:
• na.spatime.com/tllax/5684945/activity/activity-view/11679295
• Also please RSVP free here or here:
• Disclosure Project: Dharma Buddhist Meditation
• PasaDharma: Dharma Buddhist Meditation
• Nature Center: Dharma Buddhist Meditation
• Dr. O'Connor, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Breath key to change: prana, meditation

Once you breathe like this, reality shifts

(Solace Owl) What if I were to say that the key to shifting "reality" [timeline, position in the universe, psychophysical health] lies in something as simple as breathing?

As crazy as it may sound, we’re inhaling the essence of the universe with our every inhalation (prana). It’s the most fundamental act of life, something we do unconsciously every moment of every day, yet 99% of people don’t know the truth about breathing.

This simple action has the power to transform our entire existence, but only if we know the secret behind it.

Let’s discover the long-kept secret of ancient breath masters, something so powerful that it had to be kept hidden for centuries.

Issues about video? Feel free to contact: bizemailyt@gmail.com. Thanks for joining in on this journey. Subscribe to the channel: @SolaceOwl. Buy a coffee (and support the channel): https://ko-fi.com/solaceowl. Music by: @ironcthulhuapocalypse.

• Solace Owl, 9/13/24; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

On emotional trauma and spiritual practice

Tilly Campbell-Allen, Buddhistdoor Global (buddhistdoor.net, 1/4/22), COMMENTARY; Jen Bradford, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Do you know why I'm shouting, you little monster?! - Because Grandma shouted at you?

Who is it that is practicing spirituality and reaching for enlightenment?

French author Tilly Campbell-Allen

All the world's a stage, so are we merely play pretending on it? Who is striving for egoless liberation? Is it me, you, us, or just a result of our clever social-survival mirror neurons mimicking spiritual practice?

I can tell you that for most of us — with all the best and most earnest intentions in the world — it is most likely the mirror neurons [unless Asperger's or an autism spectrum disorder has taken those neurons offline].

Therefore, as all the masters, gurus, and New Age teachers tell us, the ego is still running the show.

As if it is all theater, we dress up for the role. Arguably, this isn’t a big problem. Shakespeare did say, All the world’s a stage:

The Stages of Human Life, Yehen eygenschaft des altters der menschen (BM 1872m cropped)

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages.

At first, the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school.

And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad...

And so he plays his part.

The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound.

Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

[You're on now. How will you play your part?] 

Get in here, you! Get the hell out of here!

But the brain needs to learn how to function from the moment we begin using it, so it copies from its environment — any baby can prove this fact.

We have mirror neurons because our brain knows that we stand a better chance of survival if we are accepted by our social group, rather than rejected and left to die all alone in the cold wilderness or the dark and scary woods.

The more an act or practice is copied and performed, the more hardwired it becomes in our brain’s biology.

We're reliving our youth. Cougar party!

The follow up question is then, Who [or what, ask in the Five Aggregates clung to as self] are we beyond merely a simple composite of hardwiring learned from our environment?

While this is the case for many phenomena, it can’t explain some characteristics that appear to be inherited from our parents and that may have previously been absent from the offspring’s life.

Tiny, very personal character traits show through when babies can express reactions beyond those to which they have been exposed.

Beyond this, there are young children, often between 2.5–5 years old, who are able to talk about past lives in great and sometimes verifiable detail.

I'm a man. Gotta get back to work. I love it

Clearly, there is something more than mere biology going on. Workshops and intensive meditation retreats are both beneficial and popular practices for helping to peel away layers of accrued hardwiring and ego-driven delusions.

However, being away from our young children while we choose to undertake long retreats can damage a child emotionally. This is an example of when a spiritual practice becomes selfish and led by ego desire, considering our own welfare before that of another.

[Of course, we're doing the child and the world a favor by working our ourselves, but they don't know it, so we may feel guilty and excessively question our own motives. It really can be a win-win endeavor, but we're shamed by our society not to automatically see it that way.]

Learn an engaged practice instead and make Buddhist mindful parenting an integral part of meditation.

Emotional damage is a significant contributor to how we function in the world — within ourselves and at a spiritual community level.

If you need to clear rust or bust a stuck nut, there's nothing better than this (Scotty Kilmer).

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It is imperative, therefore, that we heal these traumas before moving forward, lest any attainments that we may accrue be built on shifting and unstable sands.

Scientists tell us that we live in a universe where more than 95 percent over everything around us is unknown and invisible and that our five-per-cent reality isn’t solid and isn’t even really real or here at all. Thanks, science.

It is a subject that fascinates me, that I research deeply, and about which I have written extensively. It feels profoundly important to understand and is of particular significance in meditation. I'm a French philosopher, what can I say?

And here is where my thoughts on reality become quite a challenge to comprehend as they are contrary to all that seems "real."

Based on a growing mountain of scientific evidence, I now imagine this five-per-cent reality to be the inverse of what we perceive it to be.

The implications of this would radically change the way we understand our relationship with the whole. However, we cannot bypass the emotional body in preference to escaping into a metaverse [or into another part of this multiverse]; that would be an ignorant foray into the spiritual realm. More

How to HEAL from emotional trauma: Jordan Peterson

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• MTNTOUGH+ for motivation

Snowflake cops, Hillary, Biden, BIPOCs

Hillary Supporter, Joe Biden, Chris Christie, Chuck Shumer (Mike MacRae), Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com, 6/18/20); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, A. Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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Devotion in Buddhism: Faith Mind Verses

Dhr. Seven, Roshi Jeff Albrizze, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Sengcan (Sosan Zenji), Third Zen Patriarch in China; Ven. Nyanaponika Thera, Devotion in Buddhism; Tulsi from Sweden

Devotion (saddha) is rampant in Theravada Thailand (Katherine Neumann/fotopedia.com)

Zen zero in part symbolizing emptiness or shunyata, impersonality (etsystatic.com)

 

Mahayana novices (wellhappypeaceful.com)

The Great Way is not difficult for those who do not pick and choose. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If one wishes to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what we like against what we dislike is the disease of the mind. When the deep meaning of things is not understood, the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

 

(childfocusedsolutions.com)

The Way is perfect like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess. Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things. Live neither in the entanglements of outer things nor in the inner feeling of emptiness. Be serene in the oneness of things, and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves. When we try to stop activity to achieve passivity, our very effort fills us with activity. As long as we remain in one extreme or the other, we will never know Oneness.

O Zen empty spot, there is nothing you are...

Those who do not live in the single Way fail in both activity and passivity, assertion and denial. To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is [also] to miss their reality. The more we talk and think about it, the further astray we wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing we will not be able to know. To return to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss the source. At the moment of inner enlightenment, there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness. The changes that appear to occur in the empty world we call real only because of our ignorance. Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.

Devotion in Chinatown, the Buddha's Tooth Relic Temple (Goderic Tia/flickr)

 

Devotion in [Theravada] Buddhism

Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (edited by Wisdom Quarterly)

Theravada candles, Burma (Nadia Isakova/flickr)

The Buddha repeatedly discouraged any excessive veneration paid to him personally.

He knew that an excess of purely emotional devotion can obstruct or disturb the development of a balanced character and may thus become a serious obstacle to progress on the path to liberation.

 

The history of religion has since proved him right, as illustrated by the extravagances of emotional mysticism East and West.

 

The sutras or conventional discourses relate the story of one monk, Ven. Vakkali, who full of devotion and love for the Buddha, was ever desiring to behold the Teacher physically. The Buddha told him: "What shall it profit you to see this impure body? One who sees the Dharma sees me."

 

The Buddha reclining into final nirvana, Vietnamese monument (Wisdom Quarterly)

 

Shortly before the Buddha passed into final nirvana, he said: "If a monastic or devout layperson lives in accordance with the Dharma, is well conducted in life, walks in line with the Dharma -- it is that person who rightly [and most highly] honors, reveres, venerates, and holds sacred the Enlightened One (Tathagata) with the worthiest kind of honor."

 

A true and deep understanding of the Dharma, together with conduct that conforms to that understanding -- these are vastly superior to any external act of homage or mere emotional devotion. That is the instruction conveyed by these two teachings of the Buddha.

 

Vajrayana puja (BuddhaWeekly.com)

It would be a mistake to conclude that the Buddha disparaged a reverential and devotional attitude of mind when it is the natural outflow of a correct understanding and a deep admiration of what is great and noble.

It would also be a grievous error to believe that the "seeing of the Dharma" (spoken of in the first saying) is identical with a mere intellectual appreciation and purely conceptual grasp of the doctrine.

(childfocusedsolutions.com)

Such a one-sided and abstract approach to the very concrete message of the Buddha all too often leads to intellectual smugness. In its barrenness it will certainly not be a substitute for the strong and enlivening impulse imparted by a deep-felt devotion to what is known to be great, noble, and exemplary.

Devotion, being a facet and natural accompaniment of confidence (saddha, conviction, trust), is a necessary factor in the "balance of faculties" (indriya-samata) required for final liberation.

Devotion (GeordieDiary2012/flickr)

Confidence, in all its aspects, including the devotional, is needed to resolve any stagnation and other shortcomings resulting from a one-sided development of intellectual faculties. Such development often tends to turn around in circles endlessly, without being able to effect a breakthrough.

 

Here, devotion, confidence, and faith -- all aspects of the Pali term saddha -- may be able to give quick and effective help. More

• Faith in Buddhism
• Pujas (devotions) in Buddhism
• Great Tibetan Buddhist Books
• Doubt and Uncertainty Prevent Enlightenment

Vajrayana: 100,000 Prostrations

Himalayan Buddhism or Vajrayana ("Diamond or Thunderbolt Vehicle") in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Northern India, and Mongolia has a particularly devotional and magic-oriented approach to developing the Mahayana path or "Great Way."

This is in evidence on treks to Mt. Kailash (see below) in Tibet as well as at the Buddha's "Great Enlightenment" (Maha Bodhi) shrine in Bodh Gaya, Bihar state, India.
 

Tibet (Wonderlane/flickr)

Tibetan devotees armed with a board and protective hand paddles stand and bow, prostrating 100,000 times. The arduous effort clears the mind, purifies (at least temporarily) the heart, and strengthens resolve to follow the adamantine way.

A great deal of reverence may go to special gurus, Himalayan shamans, Bon wizards/sorcerers, and famous writers like Jetsun Milarepa (The Hundred Thousands Songs of Realization) and the various Dalai Lamas and the incarnations of a variety of rinpoches.
 

 

What are prostrations and why bow?

Tulsi from Sweden (edited by Wisdom Quarterly)

Tulsi from Sweden explains Buddhist bowing

A prostration is a gesture that overtly proclaims: "A state of being vastly greater than my present self exists. I truly admire and seek that condition. Here is a symbol of it before me. Thus do I signify utmost honor and respect, both for the goal itself and all those who precede me to it."
 
Why bow? Buddhism is a practice not a faith. It is almost like a second career. Buddhists learn very specialized skills, including the use of many tools. The largest classification of these tools are lumped together under the term "meditation." For the most part these tools are rather subtle, delicate, and specific in their purpose, like an array of precise surgical instruments.
 
Introspective methods scope out certain problem areas of the mind/heart. Skillfully employed these can map out every tiny grain and sliver of delusion yet remaining. They must be dealt with, each according to its kind. Some may have to be rooted out by use of one tool or another. Others we might choose to dissolve in place. The more skillful operator even has a few rare and wonderful tools to transform them into something beneficial. Of all these tools available, each just right for a certain task.
 

Another use for shiny smooth wood monastery floors -- sleigh riding!

What if the problem is really big? What if instead of a minor negative karmic propensity, the problem needing to be addressed is an iron-hard knot of ego? It might be carved away with a magnifying glass and a scalpel. But that might take rather long, and all the while it might be growing... In such a case, why not go at it with tongs and hammer: hold it fast, take deliberate aim, and pound away with measured strength until it softens into a state of useful malleability? Is there a tool for that? Of course.
 
Tools have a secondary function also. Ego is clever and hides. Prostration helps flush it out. All I ever have to do is a few, and up it pops, virtually shouting: "Hey, hey, hey! What's all this? It's humiliating. Don't do this! People are watching. Stop it right now!" At that instant one may come to know right where ego is. How many hours might one have to sit for this kind of report? Having lured ego from its lair, we are a shade or two less vulnerable to its assaults and deceptions.
 
Ego would rather that we not know it exists. It much prefers to masquerade as "self" instead. When we make it show itself, the veil is lifted. We can stare it right in the face. We are by no means one and the same, which is very good to know. Prostration is bait that ego simply cannot resist. It is one of its weaknesses, which makes it an easy way to attack it, over and over and over again.

Tibetan Buddhist devotees traveling, doing prostrations every few steps all along the way, to the 2002 Kalachakra initiation -- from Werner Herzog's film "Wheel of Time" (Rad der Zeit).