Nintendao

(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!

aw c'mon, just hold still and......

It's just the way my mind works, looking for lots of different angles. I do it with English, too. Always want to see the Latin or Greek parts that went into something. As a calligrapher i even look up the radical and phonetic components separately. Holding in mind the pictographic representation of every stroke facilitates a more expressive style

I don't always ignore compound words, but i might try to pass myself off as an intelligent donkey, instead of just a smartass.

what is that?

i don’t remember being born, but i remember the 80’s

We're all bums when the wagon comes!

sleep

Flying sword takes a while to get the hang of. Those things are expensive, too. In the meantime why not practice it on wheels: looks pretty easy, right? 😈

It's more like the other way around. Understanding the mysteries of how life operates allows one to more deeply relate to fiction, or any other artform. I'm not saying it was real, I'm just saying what it said. Science goes the other way around. We know how massive an amount of energy a hadron collider must put into making a few dozen subatomic particles literally transform into and out of existence. The energy of heaven is limitless. I went the other way around. I've already experienced more than I care to enumerate of gain/loss, nurture/abuse, mundanity/mystery. So now i'm just hanging out.

May your lighning lotuses take root in the purest of hotsprings. Keep chipping away at that mountain of jade.

What was it like?