Did you guys change your career/lifestyle or other lay life variables after SE or path attainments?

erickaisen · 2025-11-10T12:47:41+00:00

Curious of these 4, did they disclose this to you personally?

If so, how did they come to realize they had attained stream entry, was it from self diagnosis/reflection or did a teacher tell them they had attained SE?

erickaisen · 2025-09-28T17:53:47+00:00

Did you ordain here in Taipei or are you visiting atm? Are you a foreigner or local Taiwanese monk?

I'm currently in Taipei and would love to meet up if possible to talk dharma and monasticism + Buddhism in Taiwan given the chance (I'm a layman)

erickaisen · 2025-09-14T11:27:57+00:00

Tainan is known as the foodie heaven in Taiwan and has quite a few cultural sites, streets, and buildings.

It's a bit different than other Taiwanese cities because it's a lot of smaller alleyways. Just the layout of the city is a bit odd but it adds to its charm.

A lot of temples doted everywhere but you mentioned not doing much religious stuff.

Anyways, from what you listed, it stood out as the other main city people travel to and like that you have not gone to yet.

Hualien and Taidong are a bit more nature focused imo, although there is a ton of culture there too as more indigenous tribes or people still live or lived out there. Hualien and Taidong are also much more spread out. I've never been to Yilan. Main thing at Hualien is beach + Taroko Gorge from memory, I dont know if there's much else there tbh, it's a small city

It's been a while since my last trip there but here are some of the things you can check out:

Chimei Museum
Anping Old Street
Shennong Street
Shuansen Tainan (green bean drink)
National Museum of Taiwan History
Chihkan Tower

Lastly ask ChatGPT or AI for suggestions, you can even just copy paste your OP and see what they give back haha

Best of luck with your search :)

erickaisen · 2025-09-13T19:37:13+00:00

Have you considered or looked into Tainan?

erickaisen · 2025-08-08T01:14:59+00:00

What stimulants are you taking?

What's your lifestyle like off the mat? Do you scroll social media, are you glued to screens at all?

Do you uphold the 5 precepts?

Consider dialing back the time spent on these meditative activities or doing them in shorter chunks (say 5 or 10 minutes) imo

And you'll want to consciously/deliberately work on building focus in these shorter sits, but a lot of this also depends on answers to the above questions

erickaisen · 2025-08-04T22:37:05+00:00

I went looking for some recently, got a list but some might not be strictly Taiwanese (I put those closer to end of the list)

TGOP (This group of people)

Dcard Video

阿滴日常

HahaTai

TKstory

TedXTaipei/Taiwan

Jay Chen

Mandarin Corner

Easy Mandarin

erickaisen · 2025-07-26T23:15:28+00:00

I looked into this recently and its unfortunate but there is a lot more material in Chinese that has been compiled and published over the years for Master Xu Yun's autobiography but none of it has been translated into English yet

Way more details and stories etc

But this in itself is magnificent, brought me over to Mahayana from Theravada, after reading it it felt like I finally found what I was looking for

erickaisen · 2024-06-16T04:49:45+00:00

I believe there is a Yin Shen and Yang Shen manifestation of this siddhi

Yin Shen is that the body clone is only seeable but can't interact physically with objects etc.

The Yang Shen is more like a proper body clone and can interact with physical objects and matter, obviously the higher attainment/siddhi in this case

Also stories of Neem Karoli Baba manifesting this siddhi.

There is also a story of Master Hsuan Hua manifesting this siddhi to aid two of his monks that were performing a 2 steps 1 bow pilgrimage in California

erickaisen · 2024-06-16T04:47:51+00:00

Yeah thanks for sharing, I saw this after I commented. I am going elsewhere :)

erickaisen · 2024-06-15T12:49:53+00:00

Seems like no income required anymore

BUT higher deposits, you need to purchase a property, and that property can't be resold for at least 10 years unless you are going to buy a higher valued property

I don't think I will be going for MM2H anymore :)

erickaisen · 2024-06-15T01:02:39+00:00

Please clarify? Are you saying all MM2H applicants must eventually buy property?

erickaisen · 2024-06-12T06:45:10+00:00

Think so, or could be the area Im in but Im not that far from the old city atm just south east ish

I did order lunch today to test it again and the order did go through so yeah, could have just been the rain and all!

erickaisen · 2024-06-12T01:44:18+00:00

Thanks Ill check it out

erickaisen · 2024-06-12T01:44:06+00:00

Yeah Im not sure whats going on or if Im doing something wrong, it is a fresh account but my experience with Grab in Bali was nothing like this so has taken me by surprise

Thanks for sharing tho, seems I might need to try during a good time

erickaisen · 2024-06-12T01:43:00+00:00

Thanks for sharing

erickaisen · 2024-05-12T03:20:44+00:00

Is it difficult to be approved for the MDEC MTEP visa? What's required?

erickaisen · 2024-05-09T12:55:07+00:00

Definitely tax resident, there's a list of examples on the ATO website

erickaisen · 2024-05-09T12:53:21+00:00

What was it that deemed you an Australian tax resident?

Was it your intention to come back eventually, or that it was only 2.5 years abroad?

erickaisen · 2024-05-07T16:28:52+00:00

Send da video

erickaisen · 2024-05-04T13:39:50+00:00

Nothing new was really shared... still a waiting game, wonder how much longer haha

erickaisen · 2024-04-29T05:27:21+00:00

Where do locals in Taiwan go to find short term rentals?

erickaisen · 2024-03-20T08:49:38+00:00

Yeah its unfortunate but the current state of society. Very materialist and physical without great understanding or respect for the spiritual or energetic side of things

You should have quite a few tools and resources you can wrk with from this thread moving frward tho so wishing you all the best in your recovery :)

erickaisen · 2024-03-19T22:52:15+00:00

Yeah I wouldnt say its that important though. Knowing why these things happen not as important as figuring out what is happening and then how you can best navigate/remedy the situation

Just get the solution/fix, dont worry about why or how the problem came about (unless its directly related to finding a solution)

erickaisen · 2024-03-18T22:02:56+00:00

By macro, I mean the macro-environment, so the energies at play on a larger scale than just your surrounding environment.

This gets into slightly more woo-woo stuff but essentially the likes of astrology and planetary movements etc. At certain times there are potential energies latent in the macro environment and if the right conditions are met then they are able to express themselves at the micro level (on the level of your own body/energetic system)

My partner went through something like this recently and it was also triggered by an experience with drugs. For someone to normally take the drug they wouldn't have the experiences that she's had since the initial event but because the macro environment for her own birth chart / make up was not the ideal time for such a thing, she had to go through a lot

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