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One of two things is probable. One, Diana managed to become a ghost immortal. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is entirely up for debate. The other is that Winn was lying out of politeness, also entirely possible. 🙂
Yes, there’s a chance he did the whole corpse switching thing, but I don’t think that he knew the appropriate talismans. 😉 After all, if he had, someone in his circle would have written a book about it already. 😀
When an archer is shooting for nothing
He has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle
He is already nervous.
If he shoots for a prize of gold
He goes blind
Or sees two targets – He is out of his mind!
His skill has not changed.
But the prize divides him.
He cares.
He thinks more of winning
Than of shooting –
And the need to win
Drains him of power.But how can oxygen on one hand be so bad for you and also so good for you?
The same way that a little fire keeps you warm but a lot of fire burns down your house. 😉 I suspect you’d benefit from an understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 🙂
I’m beginning to think that you’ve been posessed by the spirit of one of those long-dead external alchemists who poisoned himself swallowing cinnabar. 🙂
Putting all your time and energy into something that is destroyed the next day is both very educational and very painful. I suspect that that was the original idea behind Zen rock gardens. A more modern equivalent would be building beautiful sand castles below the tide mark. This is simply the internet equivalent. 🙂
You said your daughter has been very emotional lately and unable to go to school? Might this be related to the move? Many children don’t take moving well, as they are forced to start over again in a new place without friends.
Might you elaborate a bit on the symptoms?
Chinese dietary theory actually has a lot in common with old Greek medicine’s dietary theory. Translations of Galen might be easier to find than of Hu Szu Hui. 🙂
Chronic fatigue and eating troubles? I’m not aure, but if you combine that with HT practices there’s a good chance you’ll end of with some sort of yin deficiency. I’d avoid the sexual practices at least until you’ve cleared those troubles up. Have you seen a TCM doc? (If not, make sure they’re qualified, and not just a new age type with needles and herbs)
See, there’s a trick.
Being a Daoist is a lot like being a soldier. The best soldiers come from areas that have the most conflict. If someone else isn’t quite as expert a soldier, more than likely that means they’re fortunate enough to live somewhere more peaceful That’s one of the things being described in Chuang-tzu’s Peng bird story; The biggest birds can fly the furthest because they have to to get enough food. Being forced to go deeper into Daoism to attain what others can get with less is a terrible misfortune, not a bragging right.
Daoist practices are a lot like painkillers. If you’re taking stronger ones, it’s because you’re in more pain. If thelerner can live a meaningful life as a householder, he has it made. 😉 If he could have lived a meaningful life without having heard of Daoism at all, he would have been close to divine. If the division of his life into meaninful or meaningless had never occured, he’d have been near perfect; introducing him to Daoist practices would only have corrupted him. This is what was being talked about in TTC 65, when it says “In the beginning those who knew the Tao did not try to enlighten others, but kept them in the dark.”
Well, there’s a lot of people who can’t get back to a healthy weight due to emotional problems.
There’s also a lot of people who remain at a state of athletic readiness due to emotional problems. They lead quiet lives, but they spend hours and hours doing “ultimate strength training”-this or “unbreakable soldier regiman”-that, trying to turn themselves into Rambos when their lives don’t require it. This is because of fear and shame.
In the process of truly coping with life, one of the hardest things some people have to confront is turning into the person they always feared they would become. If one of those trainer types were to ask for a good meditation practice for them, this is what I would suggest.
If you are muscular and active, become fat and slovenly. If you are handsome, uglify yourself. If your farts smell like roses, smear yourself with shit. Turn yourself into the being you are most disgusted with. Confront it. This is the most direct way to coming to terms with it.
Of course this is an advanced meditation technique, and if you fear your life would fall apart and end deepthroating a shotgun, perhaps you should put it on hold for now. But if you think you’re up to it, it can be very helpful.
Many American eating habits encourage obesity, not only eating more food than they need for their lifestyles.
American foods tend to be dense, more triple quarter pounder with cheese than beef stew. Denser foods, while more nutritious, are harder for your spleen and stomach to digest, and if they aren’t digested properly, they have a way of turning into phlegm.
Americans tend to eat foods that are very cold, more milkshakes than milk.
This can have a weird effect on your stomach. At first, it damages the stomach qi. Then, as your stomach tries to counteract the extreme cold, it raises your stomach qi, and you find yourself hungry after you’re still full because of the high-burning stomach qi. This encourages drinking or eating something very cold, which starts the cycle over again. This tends to upset the spleen quite a bit, and can be seen in action with the “beer shit”, a modern problem that comes from consuming vast quantities of beer at barely above freezing temepratures (as opposed to vast quantaties of warm beer, which doesn’t cause those problems :P)If one decided to go on the “Medieval Peasant Diet” to lose weight, for instance, and limited oneself to a hunk of cold cheddar cheese, some hard rye bread, and an ice cold beer a day, this doesn’t necessarily mean the pounds would fly off, because although the caloric intake is smaller, the manner in which it is taken is very hard on the digestion.
