--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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. :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
