Birch
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I hasz a question! This idea of 'mirror/projection' does seem to get thrown around a LOT. If I get really annoyed when I see someone else talking at/with someone in a way that I find has a disagreable vibe, does that mean I also have the same problem as the person being "mirrored"? It's from what I understand, a common 'spiritual pitfall'. What about the whole "5E" application? Can't recall off bat, but something like anger(wood) is controlled/quited by earth (which I can't recall)? Of course one can be mistaken and fixate upon one's position, but the 'look how I handled that mistaken person' just smacks of arrogance to me. I almost didn't post this because I felt I'd get flak for doing so. Interesting huh?
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Hi Hagar! Don't use the concept if you don't want to:-) However, if it applies, could be useful:-) I'm no expert K spotter but it sounds awfully like it! No, I don't think we are used to the embodied part of information. We tend to see body as under control of mind.
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What's that that Jesus has got his compass on? Looks like a cell or something.
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I wish:-) Unlikely to prompt me to start learning Mandarin. I wonder if I just watch them, what'll happen?
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Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaages!
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Nice! Would be even nicer if they had subtitles:-)
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Here's my latest opportunity to assert a most recently acquired opinion (which of course means it's better than all the others I previously held:-)) that religion as an organized set is not living and as such cannot inform the living without prejudice. A community of practice, well that's something else. -----opinion----yada yada--- The TTC seems to address this in the stanza about the degradation to rules that happens after "Tao is lost". That's how I read it anyway.
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I wouldn't know about it, given I'm not in the MA community However, what your post did suggest to me was the extent to which any given person will (attempt to) take on an entirely new practice and belief system without either of those actually changing anything about the person or the practice. For example, if my 'lineage sifu' says 'in our lineage we consider body as a garden' - or a 'temple' or anything 'other' than what I've been used to considering and treating my body as up until now, then while I may very well adopt the ideas, if I do not adopt forms and foundations that treat body as such, then where has the teaching gone? --guilty as charged opinion alert-----
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Awesome report and healing Kempomaster. Not to be a 'resolution' fundamentalist (kind of;-)) but the pain brought that lady to you to resolve something very specific. When I said that pain was about something needing attention. I wasn't just referring to the physical. There have been attempts to systemize meaning of pain/ailments. Lots of BS books about what various symptom or body parts 'mean' - as if one needs further dismembering. No, one requires the opposite! I reckon 5E does this very well BUT that's IMO still more systemic modelling than the 'real' accounts for. I have an idea about 'resolution' (again;-)) that at some point I'll dust off. ---opinion alert, obviously:-) ----
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Horse here:-) Also having fallen off them a couple of times, I can attest to some amount of pain that had no other message than to say I probably should give up that dangerous (to me) sport Attention paid:-) Sport ceased. Pain is subjective. Obviously. Allowing other people to judge its level and/or legitimacy is, well, it's a tough call. SIME, I read your post about Christian culture with a nod. Agree 100%
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I like this one http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Circle_of_Fire.html?id=7QtrhMNi2tkC&redir_esc=y Which I have BTW if you want it. (Or anyone else) Well, I think I have it - unless it got chucked on one of my 'words are useless' rampages ;-)
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This is kind of extreme, but worth a look IMO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb i don't know the answer.
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My take on pain is that it has a purpose. To call attention to something that needs attending. It CAN also be protective and important in healing (see below) The way I understand 'suffering' - not sure if this a Bhuddist term/concept- is that it is one's reaction to the pain that is under scrutiny. In some cultures, being able to go on despite pain is valued ('no pain, no gain'). What I understand about the Bhuddist concept is that suffering is any reaction to reality and that given it is a reaction, it cannot be reality itself. Only the separation from reality. Maybe I'm not getting it. I think there is often a distinction made between physical and emotional pain. How much they are linked is still debated in some places, in others there is an understanding ofsome kind of impact (e.g. anger injures the liver, grief the lungs). Anecdotally we still refer to this as in the expression where someone 'dying from a broken heart' can actually happen. The capacity to eliminate pain is an interesting one. IMO if pain serves a purpose (for example making a person with a broken leg avoid putting too much weight on it before it has properly healed) then is it wise to seek to eliminate it before the root cause has been resolved? However, there is also the pain related to one's 'conditioning' and in which case, one might opt for voluntary suffering in order to break past it. IMO that's the only kind of any import.
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Creation this is great! I'm def up for readings about the other stuff! Have you considered blogs/ebook/podcast...?
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Hehehe SIMY:-) Good to make people laugh with this stuff. It's serious yes but it can get so stuffy! I reckon that's just a North American thing. I put the opinion alerts in to remind people that it's only my opinion and my experiences I'm ever talking about. I think it's far too easy to forget that part:-)
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Sickening feeling from too much larger reality
Birch replied to 73543_1494798777's topic in General Discussion
It doesn't have to last for years:-) Gerard, IMO all that a person needs to do is recognize a Dark Night. Not be afraid of it (which is counterproductive IMO). It's like since I read about Whathisface's 'wind' that feels like you're being cut to pieces I've been scared of the idea. Then I remembered having all kinds on crazy chi sensations ages ago and while 'being ripped to threads' wasn't one of them, being 'stomped all over and dragged backwards through a hedge' certainly was. The point is that the descriptions of experiences are pointers and everyone's 'mileage' may vary. Now if a given religion has codified such things then bully for it, but IMO it shouldn't be so quick to hand out predictions to others not practicing within its framework. That could be at best mistaken, at worst misinformation. -
I had the bones "on fire from within" thing as well and it was pretty scaryweird. I've since read that this is a common occurrence. It didn't last very long. Dreams tend to be more literal too. I'd take a stab and say my unconscious 'feels' it doesn't have to veil things quite so much to pass me messages. Of course I'm still somewhat dismembered. I still refer to my 'gut feeling' as coming from somewhere else when of course it's still me I think the hardest things for me to deal with/accept are wrong relationsips and wrong "livelihood" resolving. In the case of wrong relationships, this has meant their end. And they didn't go out with a whisper.
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Thanks Gerard! I did read the story. You of course know what's going on, the thinking mind has gone into stealth mode pretending that more control and suppression is what's required when it's painfully obvious the opposite is the case. How do I know? Through simple deduction. Oh and the actual internal constriction caused by too much 'wrong technique' (note that even a great technique can end up in the wrong service). Unlikely it will go on for years.
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Sickening feeling from too much larger reality
Birch replied to 73543_1494798777's topic in General Discussion
Hehe, I have the opposite problem;-) -
If you're spirituality is not rational, how do you keep from getting scammed?
Birch replied to findley's topic in Daoist Discussion
Point taken Ya Mu. I was of course referring to full-time healers. Nowhere did I say it wasn't a 'good thing' in wider life. -
Great post Steve. And another great reason to not consider 'scientific' experiments about humans to be applicable to all humans.
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If you're spirituality is not rational, how do you keep from getting scammed?
Birch replied to findley's topic in Daoist Discussion
Nice Ya Mu. Just wanted to add that while the world undoubtedly needs more/better healers, IMO it also needs other skills. You might be called to something else and I don't consider that a negative:-) -
The science deals with the very small of it (wrist movements in the study I read). Whether that's then legit to extrapolate to things like eating or not eating, choice of profession or other stuff is up for grabs at this point.
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It's the "destructive" aspect of "kundalini". Change is a given but if you've been 'holding' anything that is not in line with life (in this case one's own) then it just has to go. Also resolution of (for want of a better word) 'karma'. This is not always to one's liking. ---opinion from some experience alert---
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I wouldn't bother with nutso gurus. Get a good teacher (not same). IMO any "worshipping" should lead you to Self-realisation. That's the point of doing it. I don't see how you can't keep the physical exercises if you like them and do yoga anyway. ----not into guru stuff opinion alert---
