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Thanks for sharing the 6 healing sounds windwalker but the point of the thread is that you share something experienced by yourself. I'm pretty sure you can do better than this

Tai chi so much physical pain it already relieved me of and I'm just a beginner student. Pretty sure it will help you circulate and integrate fresh in your system that disappointment energy.

Great article lifeforce. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

Michel de Montaigne - "The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve." and Baruch Spinoza - "No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides."

Christ acupuncture Like a rose in the desert Thorn path ´till its bloom!

My boss hates that in me bless him!

Your post made my day Stosh. Thank you.

Don't know what your interpretation of idolatry is, mine is putting your hope, your energy, your "soul" in objects, those objects being something that lead you away from the source. Of course one needs people, wood, water, books etc, but psychologically if one hopes to find salvation or an ultimate answer in those one is very far from the right path. So let's say, I know how some books are very important to us but... that something that put those books in our path should be regarded as more important, right?

As opposed to giving objects a piece of his soul which would be idolatry. People can be objects/idols too, at least that is my interpretation of the term "straw dog" in the DDJ.

Was thinking of starting a thread on such an important book when I found out that you already did steve. I really love the minimalist straightforward style of the book never using two sentences when something can be explained in one, like the DDJ.

Welcome. Just place your awareness in the subtle sensations in your body. Soon you will feel a lot.

On the street where I work there are oaks as well as cedar trees.

My experience tells me that all of that becomes banal with time... like everything else in life. What does one feel when entering the ocean for the first time?... Primal fear right? A few years later one becomes a prized surfer. Be patient, don't rush things, life will happen to you as well as all of us in its due time.

In all ages there is always the need to feed the slaves with vulgarity!

I think you'll find confirmation to your thoughts in chapter 4 of the following book https://books.google.pt/books?id=NdwZBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=road+to+heaven&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=road to heaven&f=false Bill Porter spent a good part of his life looking for buddhist and daoist hermits in deep China.

Hurried bitches give birth to blind puppies! It's a saying from my country but it's so daoist....

Been there Lost, know very well how it feels... not for many years now. If it helps, your suffering has a reason to be as you will probably understand sometime in the future and...even be thankful for it. WuDao's suggestion is a wise one STOP! Stop looking freneticaly for a way out of it, the answers you want may be in front of you but your anxiety won't let you notice them. Notice how you're struggling constantly inside yourself and try stopping that as much as you can. Do much less and trust more. You are never alone. Best wishes.

Thank you very much dawei

Hello dawei! Can I have a practice journal?

Clarity in what we want, yes, but knowing that the path itself isn't linear and yin and yang will always manifest in different ways...

For me the author which better explored this point was Krishnamurti. It's very worthwile a thorough study of what he said about it.