Nintendao

i’ve been told by both a cranky taiwanese grandma and an ascended jewish doctor that not a lot can be done with alchemy until one achieves yang within yin, that is to say, remaining conscious while the body is asleep. sometimes called trance, it’s a different thing to lucid dreaming. those energy flows perceived as various vibratory sensations, when the five normal senses are mostly offline, take on a new coherence.

watching in silence as nine stars orbit freely heavens harmony

cinco palabras silencio es de oro ¡ciertamente! In the spirit of this thread, syllabic rules now put to bed, and speaking on in verse, much more wordy but still terse, I will try to keep in time, and maintain a simple rhyme, to illuminate a subject, that as long as no bums object, will indulge a mystery, that of course is plain to see.

Yay one thousand posts! Oops now a thousand and one. Should have been quiet...

dear Bing: "can you show the picture of saints and xian hanging out together again, but make their eyes look better and some of them are grumpy" Haha what! yeh this thing can be very hit-or-miss. Maybe went for less photorealism this time to cover up for the phony factor. Uh oh some of them are off the wagon now. Bro on the left rocking a third arm

What bunch a bums! This picture was generated as part of a Bing AI session comparing saints to xian. It totally looks to me like how some TDB threads can feel when grumpiness abates. When I zoom in there's something slightly creepy about the eyes though. That's a common artifact of certain image processing style. I will think of it as saying everyone might be little bit blind anyway, but there are better things to focus on.

Zǐ qì dōng lái. Wùxū chūn, Wángyuèmíng shì, HéYuánJùn xiě 紫氣東來 戊戌 春 王月明市 何元俊 寫 常氣東朱 我首 㤗 王月明市 仍尢俊 字 Wow I scored a 47% 😅 that's about what i was expecting. It was a good exercise though and honing in on it over time. "Purple Air Comes from the East, written by He Yuanjun of Yueming City in the Spring of 1898"

常氣東朱 我首㤗王月明市仍尢俊字 常 eternal 氣 qi 東 east 朱 vermilion 我 my 首 leader 㤗 exalted 王 king 月 moon 明 lit 市 city 仍 still 尢 special 俊 handsome 字 sage Fair amount of guesswork here! Sort of gets an idea though. Some of those characters are just to small to make out. What do you think @ChiDragon how bad did i butcher it?

The first part looks like it says 常氣東朱 Changqi Dongzhu, maybe the artists name? Something not quite matching up though; there's an artistic liberty in the way those characters mix up. I'm just scratching them into qhanzi.com and making best guesses. I'll take a crack at squinting the smaller part soon Oh yea that looks like the style of Zhongli Quan's famous fan.

That's actually kinda neat. Would you be willing to share what method is used to create such a file? I was going to ask you if it was intentionally silence or if there was a bug or something but you already answered that. I tried to play it once this morning and again just now and both times I could've sworn i started smell something burning LOL like an electrical fire. I imported the mp3 into Audacity and sure enough there's not even line noise, just zeroes for the whole hour+. I don't have super beefy antivirus stuff but some basic scans didn't turn up anything so that's good in case anyone else wondering. Don't know how to scan for talismanic codes though I guess it doesn't matter as long as you promise its not something sneaky. BTW i didn't play the whole thing just few seconds at a time.

If you like that, check out the artist: https://geyashvecova.tumblr.com/ lots of nice stuff! The meditating Meghan was inspired by what Mark had said about gravity and awareness and tendons, as I'd found the subtle swaying motion to be unusually well animated (credit Kasia Granica) and even seem to go with the reggae rhythm. Might have to zoom in but even the mouse is breathing in sync

(Cantonese accent)

There's no missing the Divine Mother in the Rosary. That'll be 53 Hail Marys and a Hail Holy Queen, young man!

I go as far as to think of all nature as part of the Son. Infinity is all-encompassing, pure potential, aspects of the Father. The fragment of infinity that we as humans can even perceive at all, and take part in, is the creation, the Son. The Holy Spirit is the active force that continually bind the two together. There is a much more personal relationship and consciousness to them, as actual beings not just some universal concepts, but I don't say too much about that for now. Am happy to ramble on a bit more, as I think about this a lot. On a more abstracted level, the Father is the pattern, the Son is the product, and the H.Spirit is the process. The pattern is most readily observable by looking to the heavens. Massive energies of stars and planets, are not easily interrupted in their orbits. No sin of sloth is conceivable by the sun and moon, who rise and set with a regularity worthy of awe to a lazy bum like myself. The incessant nuclear reaction in the sun, or the churning of earths magnetic core, is easily the envy of any alchemists furnace and cauldron. A relationship of father and son elegantly expressed in the patterns discernable by both galactic superclusters and living tissue bearing a resemblance. To even be able to see them with the telescope and microscope, is because of the pervasiveness of light and persistence across billions of years, who hints at the capability of the spirit. https://www.space.com/27016-galaxy-supercluster-laniakea-milky-way-home.html Beyond those physical structures, the Law is also reflected. The kingdom to come as the will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. In order for the universe to have stuff in it, the void differentiated itself with the big bang, whose radiation can still be detected today. In order for humans to be able to get closer to perfection, the blood of the lamb dispersed during the crucifixion, can still wash devotees in holy medicine. Moving onto the microcosm of the body, when I make the Sign of the Cross, as the hand moves from head to gut to heart-and-lungs, while recite in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. One example is of thought, feeling, and breath coming together. some references https://www.beginningcatholic.com/basic-catholic-prayers https://www.beginningcatholic.com/support-files/rosary-graces.pdf https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/what-is-the-holy-spirit/ https://www.loyolapress.com/catholic-resources/prayer/traditional-catholic-prayers/prayers-every-catholic-should-know/prayer-to-the-holy-spirit/

Can't go wrong with the classic

Instead of silencing it, you can try overriding it. Do you know any mantra/chants/prayers? Some prefer counting forwards or backwards. It can be sync with the breath too. For example count 1 to 5 during inhalation, and 5 to 1 during exhalations.

We be jammin'

Well sure for you zen masters just picking up a spoon or laughing at a squirrel may in harmony with the movement of heaven and earth, imbue such gusto to within the span of a single breath, subtly dancing along at light speed.

Truth! In this modern age usually the day-to-day cooking and cleaning does not require enough chopping wood and carrying water to exhaust the yang phase. If sitting quietly reaches the point of diminishing returns too quickly, give a try to the ancient and powerful gong illustrated here:

Good journey! The Neiye is a classic about jing qi. IMO mostly all it says is "be calm." This points to the de (of daodejing), or the way muddy water will become clear again if left in stillness, so the particles can settle out. Try to reach in and scoop the mud out, only stirs it back up, prolonging the process. As for the I-Ching, a key takeaway is the details of the kan and li trigrams. Their imagery is of fire vs water, but the meaning is more about dispersal vs condensing. When the mind leaps out like flames, the central log turns to ash. Spend time pooling back together, to reflect the moonlight. When distracting thoughts arise, just ask one question: Can you see the light? If yes, keep looking at it. If no, keep looking for it. oh! and Toki Pona looks adorable I want to try it

I will now go on a five to ten year journey see you all next week

in year of dragon i will build a set of wings and do a kickflip

D'oh!