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I picked up my “Dao de jing: a philosophical translation”, and looked where I’d left off a few months ago.

Chapter 18

It is when grand way-making is abandoned
That authoritative conduct and appropriateness appears.
It is when wisdom and erudition arise
That great duplicity appears.

Thanks, Wendy, your title triggered a fragment of a dream from last night that I’d forgotten.

I saw basking in a slightly less than half-moon with the bowl facing up, a little above and to the right of the Sun. I then saw Michael Winn say that in 3 months, in Glastonbury, they will be perfectly aligned.

(now, let’s see if Steven’s…[Read more]

I remember having similar issues, but with me it was reconciling the 8 forces/directions of the bagua with the 5 elements. The two ideas came up independently in China. At some point, they sort of jury-rigged them together in a way that is meaningful, but not perfect.

I was also deeply into Yi Jing symbology for a while and struggled with,…[Read more]

I am curious what you mean by the kundalini energy, as different from chi with other charges.

I think of kundalini in terms of its direction, going from the base chakra up into the heavens. The microcosmic has been described as having that and the reverse flow – from the heavens (as they enter the crown) to the base – and is thus a more…[Read more]

The cause was probably some combination of it being spring (wood/liver season) and that my right side has been very tight/compressed (but much less so after the last Feldenkrais functional integration).

When I was doing the Jing Shin holds, at some point during the hold I would feel sick, and when that passed after a couple of minutes, I would…[Read more]

Happy travails and happy travels 😉

I’m looking forward to hearing your (likely much shorter) stories of life at Heavenly Mountain.

Your warning is quite valid, but I think only for people who proceed with this work in a disembodied manner.

How I enter into all of this is starting with my body as it is – where are the pains, the joys, the vague feelings, the parts that don’t want to move, the parts that don’t want to thrill with the microcosmic orbit, the parts that scowl…[Read more]

You can only use the link below to link to a photo that is already uploaded to an internet site and has a web address. I did a google search for the hunab ku that AA mentioned, and found one at this address: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/hunab.jpg

I then put that address into the “insert image” box and, voila, it should be below!

If you…[Read more]

I am looking for a present for you. It will come in time. I will let you know when I have found it!

The quote from that book said quite beautifully, in a heart-centred way, what many of us try to say. I immediately checked out the book at Amazon…and was immediately dismayed that it was a “Jesus” book (I’m unfortunately dismissive of Christianity). But, since the quote was so good I read some of the excerpt from the book…and was quite…[Read more]

Nice quote.

And Excellent to have you back!

My wife and I read that poem at the end of our way-out wedding 16 years ago!

It brings back strange memories reading it now. Back then, we thought our relationship was great. Now, I feel a bit sick remembering how things actually were between us back then…and how much clearer and deeper and loving they are now.

Steven wrote: “I eat it because I have to, but wish I didn’t have to bother.”

That sense of “bother” is ripe for some inner smile! Explore gently into the feeling of that bother, befriend it, learn its secrets. Sometimes as you do this it just disappears, other times it shifts into something beautiful, other times it takes you into more murky…[Read more]

My practice is all about awareness, so every moment is ripe.

My physical practice really consists of getting, and coming into balanced with, a Feldenkrais Functional Integration once a week. I’ve been doing that for two years and it has taken away sinus infections, incipient tmj, serious pronation (I could destroy a pair of shoes in a few…[Read more]

Simon,

I read that interview with Cohen too (are you in Canada? I’m in the Niagara region of Ontario), and what I really liked was this quote: ““And what a ruse that desire for completion [through sex] is…because ultimately, you’re still left with yourself.” I like that he is looking for completion with sex as that is so Taoist, but am sad t…[Read more]

Taking off on Barry’s take, if HT is about cultivating awareness, then be aware of the energy of the food while on the plate, while in the mouth, while being swallowed etc. Where in your body is the food wanted? unwanted? desired? feared? How does it feel energetically, physically, spiritually? This is all enabled by, as Barry suggested, chewing longer.

Sit outside with your back to the Sun (do you have sunny days in Belgium?), and feel the Sun fill the jade pillow with fire.

Sit inside, on the floor, with a candle behind your sacrum, and feel the fire energy rise up your back channel.

While exposing yourself to the fire, bend in and out of a bow to allow the fire to move and fill the back.

The “Chambers of the Deep” video sounded fascinating, but there was no information about it on the websites you provided. So, I googled the title and found the following website in which it is stated that the article is “bogus” and was created by someone for fun, and somehow it escaped onto the web.http://www.cam.net.uk/home/aaa315/spirit/egypt-secrets.htm

in fact, maybe ignore both of the posts!

Michael talks alot and is sort of like the bible – you could probably find him saying something to support any view! (At least, thinking that way I can hold onto my views without being wrong, and without having to comb through his many tapes and transcripts for support for what I am thinking/saying 🙂

We’re all just talking about where we are…[Read more]