No-Defense Shield Technique

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Original post: Rin Daemoko

I take a different approach to magical and psychic defense. Rather than built barriers and project fields, I tear them down and I reject them. When someone/thing sends a magical or psychic attack, who or what are they attacking, exactly? Your thoughts, your emotions, your ego? Are they attacking your brain, your nerves, your blood? Who is it that they are attacking? Where does this person reside?

Neuroscience has so far been unable to locate "us" at home in our own brains. When they look, they cannot find us in the brain. The lights are literally on, but there is no one home. We're not in here.

In Buddhism, it is asserted that one exists as a result of dependent origination. In essence, it means that nothing is separate or distinct from anything else. People do not exist as isolated islands of "self," but rather as a series of interconnections, of relationships in a vast web of karmic energy that ebbs and flows. We are temporary events in the sea of samsara.

How can anyone attack a connection of events, then? You can no more take an axe to a happenance than you can attack the blowing of the wind with your fist. Don't give anyone something to target, is my philosophy of defense. The best defense is to not get hit. It works especially well if there isn't even a target in the first place.

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Original post: zan

People do not exist as isolated islands of "self," but rather as a series of interconnections, of relationships in a vast web of karmic energy that ebbs and flows. We are temporary events in the sea of samsara

Thats why i think there is a backlash when spells are cast. we are all interconnected, it would also answer why we have visions of each other, have empathy and precognition. i have used barriers in the past and may do again, but i think it is better to know where the energy (good or bad) is coming from rather than have it bounce off.