silent thunder

financially predatory

Celeborn

Angmar

I am going to sleep tonight with a lighter heart than I've had in many weeks thanks to many of you Dao Bums. I am so grateful for this place. Several key and very poignant interactions have been made in the last couple weeks and days, from a variety of people that have reached out and shared things that elicited such kizmit and kinship and have reminded me how resilient we can be... I just started my first project in seven months and seven days, on Tuesday and it elicited some serious anxiety once I got going. We're just in the very opening of it. It will be a long run on a major Hollywood show, working with hundreds of people in many departments and handling equipment and supplies from myriad vendors from around America and the World for many months. My wife is on immune suppressors that leaves her very vulnerable and while I thought I was really ok with returning to work... on my way in to the second day, the reality hit, of just how intense and chaotic this is going to get and I was really suffering for it. But the connections that have arisen were varied, poignant and resonate palpably after the words conveying the intent were read by me. The connections I've garnered here have touched me in ways most will likely never know, but tonight... I'm going to sleep and I can feel that it will be the first deep and revitalizing sleep I've had in quite some time... and it's directly linked to the authentic connections afforded me by this place. Thank you for spending your time and energy here Bums. It's remarkable to me this place. I sometimes have to take a break, but I am always drawn back and grateful beyond words for the connections afforded me, with people i never could have met in face to face life... and particularly over the last couple weeks, it's helped initiate an internal shift that I sense is going to unfold in a whopper of a compassion and love bloom. *deep bow* LOVE

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Thought creates our world, and then says 'I didn't do it'. David Bohm

wow... I was distracted and this bit slipped passed my goalie... That's amazing good sir.

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You can actually play that piece?! *deep bow sir* Wow. You are officially invited to our next, and any subsequent camping trip... ever.

*bow* extremely good point. When the student takes up the Master's tools prematurely....

Nassim has his finger on the pulse... (just saw another great lecture/doc of his on Prime). He's on the outskirts in a manner similar to David Bohm was in the early 1900's, whom I just recently discovered... and whom was ostricized and literally driven out of the country by Oppenheimer and Einstein. Turns out it was the best thing to ever happen to him, as he ended up meeting and forming an instant deep friendship and working relationship with Krishnamurti for the next 35 years. Though they approached awareness fields and consciousness interactions with the fabric of reality from opposing paradigms, they instantly felt affinity for the other's insights as intimately reflecting their own. Similar to Fritjoff Capra's insights revealed in his book The Tao of Physics when he revealed the parralels between Modern Theoretical Quantum Physics and ancient descriptions in Taoism, Vedic and Buddhist paradigms... wow... thank you for that one... <woof!>

This thought settled on my awareness one moment and has resonated ever since... The Path and Pathmaker are one process...

= "I have more energy" Really good point. The conflation of 'sensations with progress' in internal arts seems pernicious and is why perhaps, it can be more difficult to navigate aspects of the process without an in person teacher or an already established foundation of awareness of subtle internal reactionary processes... at least in certain stages... (opinion, not claiming anything). New, or intense sensations occur and I too had a tendency to conflate that with 'progress', more sensation=more progress... For a time i sought to recreate this perpetually, when what was occuring for me was a temporary recalibrating process of old modalities of the body.

water flows downhill tzujan... of itself. no training no skill set no forcing no teacher no method no mind water flows downhill naturally energy flows in response to the patternsa bout it within our own awareness and body in similar fashion, *(in my experience) so we too (body and mind) are natural processes of flow... most of my personal process has been about the exact opposite of Chia's approach... for me it's about unfolding blockages, allowing natural flow and release (in though, emotion and body) not stifling any aspects of natural flow. Too much interference has always triggered alarm bells within my own process, no matter how appealing the idea may seem, the experience of Chia comes to mind. I read one of his books and the ideas seemed to hold promise, the function of them, was almost immediately setting of warning signals and I rapidly released them. allow nature to be as it is, respond to your nature by your nature within nature and be... natural. The path directs itself... like water finding the natural path from mountain top to sea. the way walks itself in and through our open participation. The Path and The Pathmaker are seem to me, one process...

Yes! That post caused me to log in just to read it, it seems... I recall I was engaged in something offline at the time, then found myself loggin' in to DB and wondering 'why?'... then read that in my feed and instantly understood, it reached out and called me. This is what is behind my old avatar picture... toroidal spheres to me encompass the motion and action of simultaneous contraction/expansion that occurs in seems to comprise my very field of awareness. Spiral lines of coalescing and intermingling energies from without and within... harnessing and expressing the old Hermetic Principle As Above, So Below; As Within, Without perfectly. my old avatar pic was a still pic of this animation which encompasses my experience of the process edit to add: this experience seems highlighted and engaged inherently in 'reverse breathing' practice...

Billie reminds me of The Living Sisters... We saw them at a Santa Monica Music Festival. My son was three at the time... and when they began to sing... his head snapped around so fast I thought he'd get whiplash. He was transfixed. He slowly walked to the foot of the stage and stared up not moving once, until their set was finished. My Mother and Father were born in Eastern South Dakota, this one is for them.

This young musically gifted gal is captivating my heart places through my ear places. Ha! I just realized while writing this and it seems somehow significant that ear is the h(ear)t of the word heart... through my ear, i may hear the heart of others.

My wife gifted me a small Hapi steel tongue drum recently. https://hapidrum.co/hapi-drum-mini It's almost like 8 singing bowls in one... @Nungali, you mentioned selling your hang... and the hook seems to have set... PM me if you're sincere, I'm interested.

Word and phrase meaning seems to sift through each awareness in its own manner, and lately it seems so few even care about etymology these days... or know what that is... and this precludes in depth conversations with broad understanding. i'm tickled to see it addressed at all. It provides so much context for me to know how folks are using words in conversations... particularly on subjects as subtle and dense as the ones that arise in a setting such as this... one reason I abstain from so many topics (hard to believe I know) is that there is seldom a common or shared set of parameters for what the key and pivotal terms in a conversation mean, which causes me to realize that while we may all be talking together, we'll not be talking about the same things from similar avenues of perception and framing, but from our own reality tunnels... and I end up recusing myself from participating as understanding is elusive and thus communication is slim even when many words are used. my own process is one of constant and even at time simultaneous expansion/contraction. (though that is a rare high skill that remains elusive, mostly it's one then the other) expand, emote, explore, encounter... withdraw, contract, analyze, assimilate, synthesize... then expand again... I certainly don't seem to be able to choose my emotions, any more than I choose my thoughts... though lately it seems i garner the potential to influence which one's i feed and bolster to a certain extent...

Tibet and The Tribes of North America. Two cultures that were genocided and occupied by foreign aggressors. Nawang Khechog (Tibet) and R. Carlos Nakai (Navaho) blending musical traditions from both seamlessly. Listening to this is like Swimming in Light. Thank you to them both for their collaboration. Such heart and presence, rings out and stirs resonance in my own awareness... such a gift! thank you gentle men.

Welcome Sketch. I look forward to your sharing. Hope you enjoy your time here...

Music is central to my life. I love acoustic guitar... (12 string especially), it's probably my most loved. Also the Guqin and Guzheng are instantly capivating. Wood Flutes (Plains Indian in particular) and the Cello... by the gods... the vibrations of a Cello can be like swimming in liquid light. Drums of any kind... always. So primal. I played a bit today and sang an old song from the Lakota Tradition that I haven't sung in years. I used to sing professionally in my stage days back in the 80's and 90's. I sang with several groups (an Elizabethan Sweet Sixteen Madrigal group, several Barber Shop Quartets, a Jazz Octet, umpteen musicals... and a few Choirs) Lately I sing in the shower, or about he house, only occasionally. I played saxaphone for years, as well as drums (grew up with Ethiopian animal skin drums that were gifted to my uncle by tribes he treated as a Doctor while traveling through Africa in the 1960's). Also studied some piano and last couple years have plunked about with a guitar. Nothing for anyone else to listen to, just something to engage and express myself. This piece leapt out at me and has become something of an obsession lately... fitting it's a piece oriented about Autumn too...