blue eyed snake

ROTFL you may take yourself a bit too serious,

oh, I'm pretty sure I could, but it's not interesting

yes, i find that's true. there's something about that in the gospel of Thomas too, maybe reread that and see if I get some more out of it.

yes, there is such a student living with my teacher. Maybe his assistants have been in that kind of relation with him too. I'm not sure. And indeed, it's sort of psychic ' training' I'm one of the people that sleep over during workshops. People living closer don't. The accommodation is not really up to overnight guests. But when I'm for 3 days and nights at the dojo you see some of the relationship between uchideshi and teacher...sort of...wow Maybe...' naturals' have their own hurdles to take

thanks, i like praise for my sifu it is... I do not come from a good family, but indeed, what I missed as a child, i find there. thanks for bringing that to my attention.

put nicely earl, read daeluins description of his teaching. This is mine teacher has what could be called outdoorclasses, he dubs them chigung, but that flag is not really what is happening there. Twice a year for about ten weeks. He then says goodbye with the remark. "I'm interested to see who will be able to keep his/her level up until we meet again." He does that on purpose then there are indoorclasses, dubbed " for senior students" , these are weekly the year round. don't know what's happening there but someday I might tell you. In the summer he gives several workshops open for everybody, these are great! working for max 3 days together as a group, eating and somtimes sleeping together. I think these ( most of them) are to be attended when you're a senior student. In wintertime no chigung , no workshops. and in early spring there is a meditation weekend, somewhere in another country, beatiful place. I've heard great things of it, but never attended yet. It's pricey because of the trip and the cost of the hotel. yes, i think that's about it.

ah, that was quite playful really, i haven't bitten you.

i don't like the scheme much, it's far to simplistic. oh, and i would take heed of dawei's message, we've some little rules here for behaving politely BES

I will stop stoking the fire then

err, that was not what I meant, ...searching on the web...slithering through websites, ah, here it is. http://www.tienshan.net/mastery.html even though, for several reasons, I would not regard this as an adequate representation. I think i now am best represented by the term big potato. Although every once in a while I fall back to the great expert phase.. I remember when I started, i felt great, surpassing everybody, very special with the siddhi's happening. Of course my teacher blew that, like this and again, and again. Oh my, was I angry... so now I'm happy to be an idiot and expect I'll stay that way. Grateful that I've met my teacher who seems to be an expert with that much needed needle. oh, and it's sister actually, beware, there are more females here. Do not take for granted that it is guys you're talking to. edit: edit website to chart

maybe that is you problem. i'm glad i'm just an idiot

welcome here

yes, he was instructing me for one particular movement, and thinking about other things I learned I realize that i did learn pulling too. Although not from him but from taji teacher. They were both students of the same teacher, my luck I'll ' think' it over

oh.. I asked because your text seemed to suggest that for beginners pulling is not advisable. But maybe I understood wrong English is not my native language. It reminded me of an exercise that I did, and that was new for me at the time. I asked teacher whether in a certain part of it I should push or pull, and he said push. But of course I should not generalize that... but I've always sort of been aware that you can push or pull with my hands... and I'm not a teacher, just a beginner. I'll try to find out how it fits in what I'm taught, never thought about it before.

could you say more about this? Why pulling is not advisable I mean?

weather can be nice here, sometimes... but when I wrote that post it' was raining very hard

yeah, well, until the time you meet somebody who has conscious control. Then this description becomes obsolete of course

The Netherlands

yes

Too wet, cold and muddy, too full of people. A lot of those boring. but feel rooted here. Would not go away to a sunnier place cause it seems that I belong here.

this is beautiful Brian

no thanks, i prefer less intrusive methods

the first book I've read on these kind of topics was the wisdom of insecurity. To me it was a treasure and I may read it again. But I would not say he can teach you the truth in an hour. When you're open to it you will see it. But when you cannot open the you will not find it worthwhile I think. You will simply not get what he means.

interesting, from a beginner, ( so even whimpier ) I remember a workshop where both senior students and beginners can attend. We were to do a specific exercise, teacher told the seniors to do a variation. saw the questionmark on my face and told me. ' the way I taught you and the others expels sick energy from the body. before you can go further to this variation you need to be cleaned up more. Well, the was the gist of it.