bagua

Hey Dog:

I agree fully. Picking the right man or woman is the key.

Gua

Hello Damon:

Its great you went to see him. He comes here to meet people, to meet you and he loves to talk to people, especially people who study his life’s work. Maybe the next time if you see him you will introduce yourself and chat. He is as open to meeting and talking with others as any person I have met. He has an enormous amount to offer,…[Read more]

Oh, this is so much fun following along.

bagua

Hi Steven:

Another way to look at it is alignment, stress put pressure on the body, your body responded with headache and pain and you listened and responded by realigning by walking, one of the natural ways of movement and exercise. Can we learn to relax even under pressure, this is our challenge. Some people hold that stress for months and…[Read more]

I don’t think the Buddhists believe in killing the ego, this is a communication error. Their insight is the ego is not your essential nature, we tend to view our ego as what we are, imho to a Buddhist, when we see and know our true nature we see the ego for what it is, one aspect of a functioning of a human, to help us operate during certain…[Read more]

“Thus, instead of initiating an action to create a “change”
to the direction of the flow, what you are doing is
choosing to completely align with the flow–and in so doing,
you notice that then the flow spontaneously changes ON ITS OWN
without you having to do anything to initiate it.

In a nutshell, you win by…[Read more]

I think you are making a judgment that its not natural to respond with anger and even stopping a situation, if this is a natural response then you are trusting the universe, its a deep response and trust. Emotions are natural, when they are polarized to an extreme and when we try to hold them, retain them, keep them alive and not let them go it…[Read more]

Nothing is fixed, absolutely nothing.

Wu Wei is the taoist term/approach that can allow one to live in a yuan or natural state. Its more an approach of how one experiences life, wu wei allows the natural unfolding of life, without resistance, stagnation, suppression or repression. This means not desires, no judgments, no attempt at creating…[Read more]

A way to view the “dropping of judgements” can be not to live in preconceived ideas, that if you life in a yuan state, you will respond to situations properly, which can include total rejection of actions and ideas and anger at them.

“Taoism:

“In comparison, the sage,
in harmony with the Tao,
needs no comparisons,
and when he makes…[Read more]

Since you acknowledge you are birthing your immortal body and are in process of learning, experiencing and digesting life and you are in process of evolving I will wait until you evolve some more before we chat more.

Good luck in your cultivation.

bg

Hello Michael:

“So my conclusion is that Bagua and Singing Ocean are talking past one another, not to each other. Each is focusing on an aspect of the truth of Tao that is important to them. But the place where they intersect comes in the issue of what scholar Chad Hansen calls the moral imperative of the Tao: what is it that Tao is offering to…[Read more]

Nei Yeh, page 104

“Inward training defines inner power (te) in a very concrete psychological sense. It is linked to both the vital essence and the Way. It is what enables the sage to secure vital essence, and it is the perceptible manifestation of within human experience. It cannot be controlled by force or will or use of language, thus…[Read more]

Hi Michael:

I think i agree.

bg

Well, what I said was in the classic texts there is not channel or point info on the Wei Channels, this is a fact. I never said they do not exist, what i did say is if you go to any acupuncture book and look at their channels they are not on the arms, this is a fact. I know why some put them on the arms, long story.

I do not know what One Cloud…[Read more]

You use Quotes as if you are just restating something I stated, I did not say the quaoted statement you wrote below. I asked you not to misquote me, if it happens again I will move on and end my participation in this discussion.

“we already have everything we need and only need to realize our eternal presence in the Tao, and (presumably)…[Read more]

I read the Nei Yeh as a practical meditation manual, not a metaphorical treatise. I am not changing words, i am using the original chinese characters which I took time to research since I do not read chinese fluently. I think the original chinese words (jing, qi & shen) resonate more with Healing dao practitioners than “essence, breath and…[Read more]

From my experience as an alchemist, I am not having any issue being present, in fact the practice of nei dan is a very embodied way of experiencing the constant birth and death, the arrival and return of the present moment from the dao throught the wuji, and formless planes into the present physical plane and back again (and yes, I feel it as a…[Read more]

Hi Steven:

OK, I suppose I could rephrase in another context as:
If we are both awake, I don’t have the same awareness you have.
Thus the part of the lifeforce that is me is not the same as the part
of the lifeforce that is you. Right?
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I believe there is a common experience we share, this is our being from…[Read more]

Hello Steven:

If I am asleep, and you are awake, I don’t have the awareness you have.
Thus the part of the lifeforce that is me is not the same as the part of
the lifeforce that is you. Right?
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How would you know?

Is there any awareness of “the part that is me” after death?
And if not, can that be changed?
I think…[Read more]

Hi Steven:

“Are you aware of the present moment when you fall asleep at night? Do you have
continuous awareness as you shift into sleep? I don’t know about you, but I lose awareness as I lose consciousness. I go from having awareness to nothingness–periodically punctuated by dreams–then a return to awareness as I wake up.
And here I…[Read more]