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Drew, you've missed the point, again Interview with Chunyi Lin of Spring Forest Qigong And I don't think I'm able to help ...

^ cheating

Drew You are typing a lot but I don't thin.k you are listening ... Or is it willful ignorance?

It either an attempt at a joke or just a misleading jab at Stig about some other recent threads. I wouldn't worry about it as Sydney is a LONG way from Queensland

I really liked this, very similar taste to tulku Still can I be willing to learn from one who knows almost nothing when I know I know nothing ?

I like the sentiment :-) but was not taoism once referred to as "a religion for old men"i.e. a good pastime for those who had already forfilled their obligations to society and family Edit to add the person in the mirror can help with astral projection

Seeking that may be an error, what you feel is correct for you, "trust you feelings"

Constant connection

Dbl post

"Act with virtue to those who are deserving, also and equally, act with virtue to those who are not." HHC from memory :-) I try my best to act with respect to all, regardless of weather they "deserve it"

To me it stands out as "unusual" if only because I can't recall Chang Tzu or Lao Tzu mentioning reincarnation (or anything much about what happens after death) and when I see reincarnation I think Buddhist as that was my introduction to the subject. I guess "do not worry about this" is the important bit but mentioning people already having previous lifetimes of merit accumulated seems unnecessary, yet if a "master" made the effort to mention this and it was recorded then I would feel that it should be true. Then again Walker did not have this information in his translation .... It's perplexing :-)

You have :- Noun - Secrecy; the practice, or policy of keeping secrets (via buckwheat husks) Adjective - Operating in a way so as to ensure concealment, e.g. with buckwheat husks Adverb - By stealth; under cover of buckwheat husks yes the website hit 1st of google but www.phrases.org.uk looked much more interesting

Your avatar might disagree?

It was good food for thought, and moved bums to elucidate counter arguments. I was quite confused for a few min when I couldn't find it in thread As a rebuttal I went to Wiki to find The reference for 16 is" ^ Says who ?" got to love a wiki reference ROFL But I feel something like "names can be named, but not the eternal name" Whatever the process of reincarnation is (or isn't) just like when we think we can "label" or "understand" the "Universal One" we have raised a barrier between ourselves and the universal one, as the universal one is beyond understanding or explanation. Like it was said in chapter 6 or more simply from this chapter Humans have been creating sacred and profane labels (religions) to stick on the universal one for eons. As all are trying to explain and understand the same thing there are many labels. Some of those labels have persisted over time (and now across cultures) and we can recognize that labels ancestry. Yet any label or concept is insufficient to truly contain and explain the "universal one"

I agree Arron. I "know" what a "Papilio ulysses" is and I see them often. If you saw one flying, wanted to share your experience with me and said that you saw a blue butterfly I might reply "Yes I know, It's a Ulysses butterfly" But I don't know what you saw, all I have is an label, a husk, in my mind. You have a memory of what you experienced .... while the butterfly continues on experiencing. I can't answer this well. The I ching talks about patterns and how to be aware of them. Personally through meditation I feel more and more the "gaps" between the experiences of my sense organs, my response, and the labeling of this experience by my mind. Minds "think" in "time" as the mind is already at least one step removed from experiencing. Everything happens "now" yet we think about it as happening soon, or happened in the past.

like how the I Ching can "show" the cycle of changes in the universe, the Haiku thread can be used to "show" the cycle of changes on TTB.

Been a while so BTT for any that have not had a chance to read this

I asked "What am I ?" and also got (looks a bit like a single whip )

I'm not sure, cause I don't actually know and DJ's but isn't that what a DJ does, abridge songs and mix them together eg mashups Not great but I though the 8 bit style might appeal and it's MLP on topic! Now this is good and the thing he is "playing" triggers the sampled tracks when he hit's the buttons.

Nothing's off topic when discussing the Universal One .... I feel the "pin" (or the cage for the songbird) is our minds need to understand and explain (pin) experiences. But "reality" has already arisen and moved on to the next moment (often before it has been pinned/understood by the mind) And while we can try to pin it as a "Blue mountain swallowtail" / "Papilio ulysses" / "pretty blue butterfly" None of those pins fully capture the experience.

I feel Walker really "captures" the intent of the HHC i.e. Walker is more about how to practice the way, rather than a recording of the "words" of the master. Most (perhaps all?) of the time we are flying (While we can and do analyse our flight path with our mind and explain/justify why we chose to do something with our words) I feel that often the decision to "fly over there" was already decided (or instantaneously chosen) yet we explain it to ourselves "after the decision" as something "we" decided to do. The same on the larger scale, we think we know what this flight / tao / reality is. And we explain it relative to our chosen concept (imagination) trying to make the "flight" "tao "reality" conform to, and be explainable by, our imagined concept. Yet even if our imagined concept can totally explain our flight. What is imagined is not "real" and in fact has just added another layer between us and experience of the flight.

Sounds like a great combination, keep having fun

For what it's worth as YMMV - Juru 1 is "faster/more time efficient" than ZZ (as is Gtumo) Allow orbit and 5 point breathing (especially the head) to happen/arise, the sensations should naturally strengthen over time. The static posture used must be relaxed ie sung. A more difficult / demanding posture (as long as you can still while relax doing it) is more time efficient than a simple posture. I enjoy short standing sessions (5~15 min, often after Juru 1) Static postures are not for me, my Sifu did not recommend them for me. BUT what you are drawn to is often what you need. Good to see you around T. <3