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Hi windwalker, Thank you for your angle from a Buddhist perspective ~ I can gel with it. I am focused on the energy of ONE riding on the waves. There is impermanence/boundlessness/... as no two waves are the same. But there is wavy orderliness in the midst supposedly disorder. Waves have patterns... When I was working as a development chemist ~ I liked to go to the beach for inspirations. There is order in Nature and The Tao ~ the apparent contradictions are there with reasons. They can be felt intuitively over time... - Anand

Hi CloudHands, I can identify myself with you ~ re your identification/contradiction with your grandfather. My Grandpa passed on before I was born. But he left behind a legacy that was both good and bad. Why? Grandpa was a black sheep who had made good from his mistakes ~ 浪子回头 I too have heard stories of Grandpa in relation to ~ solidarity, justice, fairness, education and fighting... Additionally Grandpa was filial and compassionate... but he suffered no fools. He died young and his legacy was passed down as both a gift and curse... especially the wealth he left behind. However my generation, his grandchildren, has stood up anew with our own energy... that has nothing to do with Grandpa's wealth... but his good memories. I walk my own path and there is less contradiction for me. If there is, I am confident of being less contradictory as I have Grandpa's genes... he tried to be good. Good begets good. - Anand

Hi Creighton, Yes - I don't tell/share internal story to/with myself... I feel. It is now internally processed that I am sleepy... re 1+am at my end. Good night. - Anand

Hi Creighton, His/her impression of reality... to impress/depress/suppress... Sure... accidents, incidents, or events... are mere words, From the perspective of what is.. what transpires and co-arising shift... don't we feel first? It's mostly story ~ only when shared with others? Otherwise ~ no story? No real substance ~ to those hearing/reading your story? If it is fluidity interweaving/unfolding ~ what/who can be more solid or inherently unreal than the story-teller? I would also like to admit that... "my reality, is not reality"... I am a weaver who multi-task as a story-teller. Table for one + one - be my guest... - Anand

... only incidents?

Hi Rocky, The Tao follows only itself... Human distinctions give rise to contradictions? Any different from God ~ whatever I respectfully/humbly perceive Him/Her/It... to be? God only helps those who help themselves? - Anand

Hi dawei, Get over it ~ and The Dao Bums: Forums will be over too? - Anand

Hi windwallker, Everything is energy... But of course... the wave is also water... as in ONE and ONEness. - Anand

Hi Ming Jen, Thank you for pointing our attention to direction... it is not a straight line path re everyday living on the ground... I cannot imagining ~ "two legs moving in different directions one forward, one back, one back, one forward". I was in military service for about three years and my Sergeant Major on the parade square would scream at me if I moved thus . Luckily I was directed by the "one" moving the legs. This morning... as a non-bird I said to myself ~ I am not going to fly today by Singapore Airlines on Flight XYZ at 1500 hrs. But of course. - Anand

Ultimately The TAO is great? TAO Universe Earth Man Now what/who is the contradiction?

Hi CloudHands, If I cannot find what I want/need (or don't know what I want/need) within myself ~ can/should I blame the TAO on the outside? IT has provided life with sunshine and rain ~ apple trees give apples, orange trees give oranges... What fruits do I give in return? The TAO is not human ~ so there is no human hazard from IT. I am human ~ am I humanly hazardous? The TAO has footprints? I have ~ carbon footprints. - Anand

Hi Creighton, 'ing' is a part of 'feeling' and it is not found in 'words'. It bring words to life and is energizing. How do feel when you add 'ing' to words like woo, chase, kiss, f...? These are instances of what you get if when you think of 'ing'... Henceforth peeling/eating a banana will not be the same...? Dizzling ~ please cut out the 'ing' ! - Anand

Hi Everything, Yes, to me life itself is a contradiction ~ I live to die. But I like to be positive/honest by living well so that I will/can die better. I believe too that everything is energy and it is dynamically interchangeable into something, nothing or anything ~ a spectrum to be embraced as ONE. I accept it without action and I need not have to choose. For me freedom pertains to the feelings of being liberated from words, conceptions, definitions, expectations... I beg to differ that "nothing can ever go wrong". On the contrary ~ everything can go wrong but I am always learning. Lifelong learning gives life meaning ~ learning from sunrise and reflecting at sunset. Yes ~ simply feel... simply feel... differently moment to moment... for the better. - Anand

Hi Mate, You have the knack of seeding me with a new energy that keeps me go ing ~ ings, inging ings... As a force ~ it is flow ing through my body and mind, driv ing me to connect through my personal innate pleasure of be ing alive and bring the next generation to manifestation. Where is your force from? - Anand

Good morning Creighton, I have noted that your ancestral ing symbol has two perfect ten in your 'inguz'... It is really uncanny ~ my Chinese ancestors too have our ing symbol rooted in double ten thus... Every year we celebrate our "ingUS" destiny together in Taiwan on 10 October... Re your "inguz" you have indicated... Again it is very uncanny ~ our "ingUS" symbol is also rooted in our personal innate pleasure - our Double Happiness... Our ancestors and US celebrate our happiness with 9+9 crackers... Why? For our familial posterity ~ we also pray for many descendants... 子孫滿堂...to keep "ingUS" alive... as we strive for perfect ten... - Anand

Hi Creighton, My ancestors too were very proud of our family ing genes and image... I am go ing to sleep... yawn ing... will be dream ing of you... see you in the morn ing. Good night. - Anand

Hi Creighton, relishing the heat in the paradox hot tub i find i don't mind (nice Qi) i find i don't mind that it's actually soup comprised of just me (Jing Qi Shen) for all that i eat transforms into me you see not i into it (transforming is not the same as transformed) yet are we not we? (we are not we... we are be-com-ings) - Anand

Qi No... you are consuming your... being... Jing Qi Shen

BON 4PP3T1T.

Hi Creighton, When you see A as A, it is A (without words). When you start to intellectualize it, it becomes B (with words). Thus A and B are not the same because of words? - Anand

Hi Creighton, There particularly seems a choicelessness in this state, a pure connected mindlessness as I recall my experiences, where though mind has gone utterly quiet, awareness is never more vibrant. Awareness is more than just the mind? Full presence. Where pure, authentic relevant action arises spontaneously without thought and flows without any perceived effort. Wu-wei? Action, utterly pertinent to the exact conditions co-arising, as no story gets in the way, the storyteller is quiet, mind is blank, open and simply reflecting all. Clarity. Appropriate action arises naturally, action flows without tension or resistance of any kind. Pure action. In recall the words 'touches tao' seem to fit. Feeling the moments ~ as is? Only after the window closes and identified mind returns, does the storytelling restart and the analysis of what occurred transpires. Words ~ returned? Time particularly reveals its seemingly fluid, subjective nature when experienced through such windows. Fluidity in more dimensions than just time? And to specify, not mindless with the slightly pejorative western connotation of dumb and unconnected. Mindless in the eastern sense of vibrantly unobstructed, wholly present and aware without judgmental storyteller present. The kind of raw awareness where false notions we tend to identify with in daily sleeping life, evaporate in awake presence. Feel... feel... feel... as is... without words? Reminds me of Kali who, tongue drooling blood, dances on the reclining form of Shiva. Holding the severed head of 'identification with form' in one of her hands, severed by the sword of enlightened true seeing held in another. She also bears many gifts in her myriad other arms, for those capable of severing the head of mis-identification of absolute truth and self to receive. She typifies to my identified mind the truth I've experienced in moments returning to tao... of pure action/presence. And that is... when experiencing god, tao, awen... one transcends identified mind, forms, and notions of concepts. Into ONE and ONEness? I find such windows in my house. They are open briefly, but the view is earth shatteringly potent. - Anand

Hi Creighton, Whirlpools of what? If it is of the mind...then maybe ... 走火入魔 (pinyin: zǒu huǒ rù mó) It is a qigong deviation ~ a Chinese culture concept traditionally used to indicate that something has gone wrong in spiritual or martial arts training. The qigong community uses this term to describe a physiological or psychological disorder believed to result during or after qigong practice, due to "improper practice" of qigong and other self-cultivation techniques. The concept was highlighted in the social and political context of mass popularization of qigong in China. - Wikipedia 走火入魔 ~ whirlpools made of polluted water? - Anand

ice => water => vapor... H2O... trying to follow/approximate... jing => qi => shen? good morning my friend.

Hi Creighton, Yes/no ~ to each his/her own. No two persons ~ the same. Where is the constant? Good night. - Anand

Hi Creighton, Besides nothing - everything, something, anything... what have you... change. So? - Anand