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Asi, “I Am That”). Having had a taste of ‘zeroing out’ with<br />
both, I much prefer the oceanic experience of the latter and<br />
suggest you prefer the same. It’s more loving, more gentle.<br />
Of course the Buddha provided his own amazing panacea,<br />
The Middle Way, but he also said that it would only<br />
last for 500 years before becoming too corrupt to be useful<br />
– and that was 2500 years ago. Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu (David<br />
Reynolds, an American Buddhist monk currently back<br />
from 18 years practicing in the Burmese forests, discusses<br />
this prophecy on his blog. 12<br />
The manner in which we close down our sensitivities as<br />
we grow up tends to pin our bliss tolerance ceiling at a<br />
woefully low level. When adolescence hits, we focus on<br />
our new sexual sensations and forget the many ways we<br />
used to turn our bodies on as young children. I remember<br />
purposefully desensitizing myself to tickles because my<br />
older brother wielded enormous power over me by tickling<br />
me to the point of agony.<br />
Once I had turned off that particular sensitivity, he could<br />
no longer torment me, but at the cost of my loss of a level<br />
of sensation that might have allowed me great enjoyment<br />
(see ‘The Thwizzler’ on p. 16). It took me many hours<br />
of oming/purring to reacquire it by dissolving the lateral<br />
chest tensions that the noted Dr. Wilhelm Reich termed<br />
‘armoring.’<br />
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http://thebahiyablog.blogspot.com/2012/09/on-500-year-lifespan-of-buddhism.html<br />
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