blue eyed snake

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.―William Arthur Ward

I've never understood why people think reincarnation is not true and when we die we're just get switched off. I come from a western country, was brought up without any religion. But already as a child i was sure of this, anything else seemed just illogical/strange/madeup...ungraspable for me. Now that I'm older these ideas of course have rooted in my mind , there have been some experiences too But I have no theories, no need of them either. I do admit to being a little curious to what will happen after the body gives up its last breath.

over here in the Netherlands about 35% has bloodtype A, so that is not an overwhelming majority.... then 40% for bloodtype O, which should then be a healthy ' natural' type. I would that 40 % of the population was ...err wat did you call it...( looking back...) well, I but rarely see those types over here. the rest of the population is split up in small percentages. I am A negative by the way, and when still young and fanciful sometimes have wondered if those 7 percent of the population that i belong to have in common except for our rare bloodtype.

sometimes I think, that what we get of whatever text, can never be more then a reflection of ourselves. When I read something like this, I get a very different association then say ten years ago. But for everybody there's wisdom to be found in these lines. For us humans to play with and ponder.

Micheal has exlained better then I can what i meant by:

I've read that as examples of how every thing carries the seed of the opposite . like the dots in the yin yang symbol

oh I think marble should stay too, even though i would translate his name as knikkerhoofd

those who know own, those who don't know often want ' secrets' for free. knowledge comes through training.

agree

In women, the flow in the du-ren can spontaneously flow the other way, in that case it is oke, not fiddle with what you don't understand yet. the zong-mai is , in my admittedly small understanding, a different channel, in which energy can go two ways too. Different teaching prefer a different 'way in' . it's maybe not a matter of correct, but something like: which way you choose to reach some end.

storks are back, spring has arrived, lambs are dancing in the meadow and tadpoles in my fishbowl

Hmm, remembering this thread Methinks it was clear from the outset that you've made a difference for daobums

please don't disturb

ah, vandaar, die naam is toch wel redelijk onmiskenbaar. have a good time here

thanks for posting my thought upon seeing that vid

Hi Hannes, welcome here seeing your name, are you by any chance a dutchie?

due to illness I'm not much here anymore so I missed out on what happened, whether I'll read you again or not, I feel happy to have met you digitally. The times I am here, I feel that the atmosphere has changed and wonder for myself whether this forum will be a nice place for me. Too much good bums seem to have left. love and power to you BES

a Yaqui way of knowledge

If one person calls you a horse, ignore them.If two people call you a horse, look in a mirrorIf five people call you a horse, you may want to buy yourself a saddle.―Hungarian Proverb

"Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of pain that was entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, each one of us is part of her heart, and therefore endowed with a certain measure of cosmic pain. You are sharing in the totality of that pain. You are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity." ( found somewhere on the www)

land's end

simple

I'll sleep on that tonight

thanks @Apech, I like that, it sort of fits the way I look at it. looking back, this is sort of what happened to me when I started working with my teacher, becoming aware of the daily accumulating dust. I tend to see it as ' layers' not as in believing that there are actual layers around my body, but metaphorical. the outer layer is the dust the Egyptians talk about. When you diligently clean the outer layer there comes a moment that you find an inner layer... looking back, I think that the startup work was what Chinese would call working with yin ( or something, y'all know i'm not versed in anything and don't particularly want to either, just Bessie) the next layer is ' issues', stuck problems that ( at first) presented themselves as deep rooted emotional problems. A sort of conglomerate with ( as it felt for me) sort of one big issue in the middle. When I went through that, the fire thing happened and kundalini reared its tail. At the same point in time I became aware of this as an understandable centre of a pattern ( meaning, I had known for many years that there are patterns to be seen in lives, whether own life or that of others) But the pattern all of a sudden made sense. Now, I still am entangled by these patterns, but much more aware when them. I see them happening and be aware that it is that pattern, not needed to become emotional about it. I also see things happening in my life that do not conform to that old pattern, now that is interesting yep, we all mis-translate what we see, and feel, Me too I see it as sort of: this body-mind-sytem is sort of stuck in a rut ( that's the action, endlessly repeating the old pattern). when you wash the outer dust and then burn the inner dirt...you can get out of your pattern. what would come after that ? and, me thinks when you have burned enough of the inner layer, maybe you do not gather dust on the outer layer as fast as you did before. And when you let it accumulate again, washing it away would let you find the inner layer pretty much in the state you left it when you started accumulating dust on the outer layer (may just be wishful thinking of course ) and yes, I think that other people/gods/entities/whatevers can assist in burning that inner layer away. But the pitfall in that is that the chance that you fall back in your old patterns seems much larger when someone else does the work, then when you do it yourself. In other words, some one more evolved than you, can burn a hole in your inner layer, but then you have to change your intent, or the help will not have been help at all. ( and in the end, maybe even a developmental setback) But also, that help can be much needed when you cannot go through your core-issue on your own. Teacher did help with that, and I am grateful, of which he does not want to hear. He says, you did the work yourself, for many many weeks i saw you struggle with it. Then I only gave a tiny nudge to push you over the edge.