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[Sam Lim]

It's 4am in the morning and I've just meditated and will continue meditating later.

First I've never gone looking for students. Somehow they just gravitated towards me and through discussion about spirituality they wanted me to teach them. Somehow again, most of them seems to be Indians. I love them very much but also I am detached from them.

[Sam Lim]

Bones of the Buddha - Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn3lk6xTF24

[Sam Lim]

Islam : The Untold Story


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2sCIZPOeJ8

[Alexander]

I liked how the scholar couldn't put his face in the dirt. That is my favorite part of Arabic prayer.

[Michel]

The Arabian deserts are so incredibly beautiful, they are sacred places.

[Sam Lim]

I remember about 15 or 16 years ago after my kundalini arises and I was very interested in meditation and spirituality, I always smell urine.

At first I thought I was dirty but even when I had a thorough wash, I still smell it. I was very embarrassed by it. At one time when I went to a Brahma Kumaris meditation session, the smell was overwhelming and as usual the people besides me can feel the heat from my body. Later I asked one of my friend if she smelled urine , she said no. The next meditation it was the same but then I had a full blown charism. I was like a drunkard man. I can't walk properly and see strange things and colours but it was not frightening but strangely beautiful.

Later, I found out that others in their experience smells tobacco, flowers and etc.

5 years later when I was homeless, I went to stay at my sister house. During my meditation, I always smell jasmine. It was very nice. I wonder if any of you have such experiences?

[Alexander]

Hey Sam. I have experienced a smell like spices or flowers. It seems to come from the inside of my head. I have also experienced a rotten smell. Specifically, I remember when I first gained power over my thoughts, I smelled something awful. At the time, I thought that something ugly had been released which caused the smell.

[Sam Lim]

I try to do some research on this. Some say that bad smells is the clearing of blockages in our energy system and flowers  smells are angels trying to contact us. I don't know. Maybe the answer will come later.

[Sam Lim]

For the past 2 months, I've been thinking about death. Specifically about dying. No, I am not depress or anything bad have happened to me. I just have so much yearning to die to go beyond. I miss "home".

[Jhanananda]

I remember about 15 or 16 years ago after my kundalini arises and I was very interested in meditation and spirituality, I always smell urine.

At first I thought I was dirty but even when I had a thorough wash, I still smell it. I was very embarrassed by it. At one time when I went to a Brahma Kumaris meditation session, the smell was overwhelming and as usual the people besides me can feel the heat from my body. Later I asked one of my friend if she smelled urine , she said no. The next meditation it was the same but then I had a full blown charism. I was like a drunkard man. I can't walk properly and see strange things and colours but it was not frightening but strangely beautiful.

Later, I found out that others in their experience smells tobacco, flowers and etc.

5 years later when I was homeless, I went to stay at my sister house. During my meditation, I always smell jasmine. It was very nice. I wonder if any of you have such experiences?

Hey Sam. I have experienced a smell like spices or flowers. It seems to come from the inside of my head. I have also experienced a rotten smell. Specifically, I remember when I first gained power over my thoughts, I smelled something awful. At the time, I thought that something ugly had been released which caused the smell.

About 15 years ago I went through a period too of smelling bad smells.  I thought at first that I stank, but then I realized that humans stink.  It is just we are accustomed to those smells, so do not smell them.

It just so happens that at the time I was meditating more, and going through the hypersensitive phase, so my ability to smell had become acute.  Later I started smelling coconuts, or roses, or sandalwood. 

In some religious literature I recall reading about mystics, mostly in Islam, reported charismatic smelling.  There the smell is mostly roses.  In some Hindu texts the charismatic smell of sandalwood is reported.

So, it sounds like you too have been through both hypersensitive smell phase, and charismatic smell phase.

[Sam Lim]

I have taken a video of otters feeding in a reservoir. This is the place that I went to cycle daily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nc--EyKlbg

[Jhanananda]

Thank-you, Sam, I enjoy observing otters in nature.  I find it very comforting to observe them, because they seem so very playful at their life.  However, I notice that otters, and other wildlife, do not like to know that they are being watched, because they think the watcher is going to eat them.  So, one has to be very careful not to be seen by the wildlife, when observing it. 

Even the bunny that I freed a year ago, and has gone feral, and take care of, and pet when she needs it, has let me know that she does not like me looking at her; even though I often find her resting in a hiding place nearby, and she is watching me.

[Sam Lim]

My god-son have died for about 1 year and 9 months. I was thinking about him tonight. I have always wondered why he committed suicide with his wife and daughter.

First I must start where he borrowed money  slowly from me to start a business. Not to lengthen the story, he had borrowed money from me over time which had accumulated to about SGD $90,000. I have already told him that he need not pay it as money is rather unimportant to me.

One day before he died, I called him from Singapore to India telling me that I am unable to visit him as I had leave my rented room to another place of residence. I even told him again that he need not pay me, even though I do not have any more money but I will survive.

I think he died because he lost too much money from his business and he feels so bad that he is unable to repay me. That was so stupid. He is a son to me. Such a waste of lives.

[Sam Lim]

During happier times.

[Jhanananda]

I am sorry, Sam.  I too have often thought of the tragedy.  Life is hard on all of us.