Nintendao

Peace be with you.

道(dào) ≈ MOVEMENT AHEAD Step and stop to move a head. (chì zhǐ, chuò shǒu.) Dig my toes into the gravel to rest. A river flows over my face.

I am thinking to translate this 回光 as "reflect," because if you take the same phrase and replace the word for light with one for sound, you get 回音="echo." The 回 connotes something swirling around; going out and returning back. When you shout into a ravine or hold up a mirror, the echo or reflection happen on accord of the whole system. There's ultimately no work on our part to actually grab the sound or light and flip it around. I like the phrase "Just watch," ..calmly reflecting with one's senses on what the hallowed invisible golden waves are doing everywhere else. Also intriguing is where Dosa said: "回光返照: It's a short moment when you come back to your senses and act before you die." ! Did you ever get that split-second feeling, when you're about to fall off of a bike or something, and the chi spontaneously sinks/leaps in the gut, and you automatically do some movement to right your balance.. Or, when one is literally dying, they say "my life flashed before my eyes," as such reflecting on what was achieved. As time stands still, the past and futures are accessible holographically.

I started to see why time and place have such a heavy bearing on the amount of worthwhile translatable meaning, at least without involving lots of historic anthropology side-tracking. Especially if the chant was only a shorthand recording of some practice.. one that could be perfectly demonstrated in mere seconds, vs. painstakingly inscribing each actual detail. For example, I just invented a move called "the eagle has landed." That is to say I've artfully balanced a silver dollar on the top of my head. Now, if you did not happen to know that I presently have a 25 gram disc of alloyed metals, i.e. a $1 coin from 1972, illustrated with an actual eagle landing on the Moon, then the name of the move becomes unnecessarily mysterious. Even if I changed the name to the less poetic yet more descriptive "holding a dollar coin atop the head," depending on how it then gets miscontextually translated literally and culturally somewhere down the line, sure they could end up way off and thinking i meant i have "my money on my mind." The real trick is, you don't even need any coins to do this move. If you simply imagine picking up a 1.5 inch diameter coin with your fingertips, the hand naturally takes on a kind of expanding version of the Beak-hand/Mukula-mudra (synchronicity bonus: eagles have beaks.) Now gracefully raise the arm and rest the five fingertips in a circle around Bai Hui (Du Mai 20). The skull and the hand become respectively reminiscent of the Moon and the Apollo ll lunar lander at the moment in 1969 when the pilot radioed mission control that "the eagle has landed."

Hi Jinatot, I wonder maybe your uvula was getting dried out and stuck to the back of your throat or some such. There's a valve back there that separates the nasopharynx and oropharynx, as well as the ear drains. On occasion i'll hear an audible clicking coming from that spot when it pulsates just right. Not unlike the sound of lips mildly pop-popping if you do the face like a fish blowing bubbles. Any case make sure to stay hydrated and I pray health and safety to you!

Possibly something to do with sinus pressure? If you do the thing where you pinch your nose closed and gently try to blow air out your nose, so your eardrums kind of squish out a bit and everything sounds muffled until after you swallow... if you do that, does it feel anywhere similar to that uncomfortable feeling?

My garden, my mind. An excellent haiku line! Oops, i posted twice.

overgrown with grass, i rest quiet, motionless as a skeleton

I like half lotus. You can get the same alignments as full lotus, without straining anything. Put some cushion or folded up blanket under the buttocks/sacrum so the knees can sit slightly lower than the hips. Air conditioning is okay as long as it's not blowing directly on you.

There's no jumping off, but if you do get pushed off, quickly learn to fly.

Unfortunately i'm more of a Lunatic

Aha! So both these critters are actually yin, they must be part of a mystery. @yuuichi's initial intuition still checks out, since metal chops wood. Thus the rabbit assumes the submissive position, when this particular interaction is now considered on the octave of wu xing. Don't forget though, that wood can get back at metal by bursting into fire, which melts metal. And now i'm dizzy. Maybe the yangness of identifying the moon rabbit as gold/jade is to show that it is in fact so much yin that it is ushering in the yang (the white dot in the black half of the taichitu). In other words, even though the moon is the lesser of two lights, it is still a light. Either way it was neat learning about the festival!!

Probably that tingling is a good sign, that the nerves and capillaries are waking up. Hands are very sensitive so will feel it early, but easily with regular practice over a few weeks then many other sensations will become familiar. Another good thing is simply placing the hands over dantian location when standing or sitting. This guy shows some good practice for getting used to feeling the chi moving by using the sensitivity of the tingly hands:

Right? We may be seeing at least part of why TDB broke away from Winn and HT back then to begin with. Also not surprised solarhealing.com is not operating anymore. I'm not knocking it though, but this is a prime example for reasoning that idea of why is the "really advanced stuff" traditionally kept so under wraps. It doesn't need to be resented as secrecy for secrets' sake; it's a safety concern! All rationality aside, this is epic. I had heard long ago about adepts that would astral travel to the sun's core to meditate. Getting inside a hollow tree instead sounds a lot more accessible for the time being. At first I thought you were talking about the animated one! ;-D

Is that like when they say: when doing the movements, 70% of attention should remain in the lower dantian?

Yes, usually better to just always be totally relaxed yet full in the abs. Welcome to TDB, jinatot! Hi dosa, 丹 is as in 丹田 = "dantian"? What does 前七後三 meaning? "Seven in front, three in the back"? loves, ninny

Hai Flolfolil! I bet walking around like that would make you a badass at jump-rope. It's actually extremely fascinating work, and I like your attention to detail. I remember this one time, i was so wigged out over something, and i ran digitigrade down the street barefoot. I was not thinking about doing it that way, it was just spontaneous. The thing is, i was stonished at how mindbogglingly fast it all happened. It definitely had the sense of being more like a controlled fall.

Continually grasping after the obvious, i only find myself reaching for shelter in obliviousness. The answer should be so easy! Right there front and center, as the most obvious should properly be. So without further ado, please raise the curtains. Alas, the thing is so close it's hiding right under my knose. No, closer! It's like when something is so close to your eyeball that it is impossible to focus on. Closer than your lashes! As the clouds should drift through my empty skull before fully crystallizing my wavering being upon its truths, then i digest to say: I agree with liminal_luke. The child wailing over his stove-burt hand evokes Buddha's 1st noble Truth. Surely, though, had the child no Love for his hand he would not be taking it so hard in the first place. Furthermore, i reckon it's obvious that we love TheDaoBums at least a little.. because otherwise would not be here to even read the question..

Just like with foods, drinks, and inhaled gasses, different substances goes through at different intervals. Likewise I imagine there can be different "densities" to what kind of Energy is being handled at any given time. The most subtle could go at the speed of light or even instantaneous, whereas an emotion could linger for a while. Entire lifespan maybe one big blossoming cycle, interwoven with infinite other loops you can resonate onto consciously.

Not unless you factor in other scientifically wrong things, like archangels altering the course of the meteorite. Even ruling that out, I would still venture some non-linearity of space and time. Cause/effect usually respectively adhere to before/after, but following on a circle instead of a line can sometimes get dizzy. That is to say, had the ruler not been so preoccupied with bullcrap, then he could have done something more useful like cultivate the level of vision needed to see the future and not build his house where a rock was falling.

Yard by yard life's hard. Tall grass and weeds plague my yard. I will mow them down.

There is another dimension to these words. A beautiful tune, sung from a full heart. Had we not the benefit of fine recorded audio, I couldn't have made heads or tails of it. Likewise reading the scriptures, how can one know the spirit behind the words? The motivation of holy folks flows forth from the cosmos. Feel the cosmos within, and listen for the fine recorded echoes.

"Oo, Ooo, Oooodee." No books needed to translate that part Hugz, Ninny

I always thought 谷神 as a spirit in a valley, but now also i see the spirit with a mind expansive as the valley, a womb of infinite possibilities swirling in the mists.