Nintendao

my guns and my cats this is getting out of hand what is next, clown cars?

Welcome denele. Chia is easy to misinterpret. How are you feeling otherwise?

Hehe that pic looks like when Sterlings wipes out on his magic carpet The rest is just semantics. Like maybe private is a better word than secret. It's no secret what's underneath our clothes, but only in certain circumstances should it be discussed in detail. How much more intimate should our very soul be considered? Then the idea of whether you mean spiritual or magikal. If for whatever reason you don't have a thousand incarnations to work on it like usually happens, then there are lots of safety protocols some of which have already been mentioned. Finally i will say this: Jesus did not keep it a secret and just look what happened to him. I usually don't talk about that though because i like to keep the saviour's name hallowed.

Or like if you see someone wearing a super rad looking pair of denim jeans. Faded and frayed in just the the perfect places. And you ask them, "damn, what's your secret to looking so good?" The answer is plain to see. There is no secret whatsoever. This material has simply put in a lot of work over a long time. There are designers out there who will sell you a type of pre-worn denim, but it usually won't look exactly right, for you.

is the LAMP just limping or is there a DDOS going on? I know how to read var log http if you need backup.

Welcome aintmt. Judging by the subject line do you also like computer programming?

One time Dan Kim told me a story about his teacher Gabe Chin. He had gotten into a car accident and was being examined for internal bleeding by the doctor. He said here let me breathe into the upper, middle, and lower lobes of my right lung individually, and you can listen with your stethoscope and compare if anything sounds obstructed. The doc was like what do mean humans can't control their internal organs to that degree of intention! But Gabe was a Yang Taiji master. They proceeded to do the thing and the doctor confirmed medically that Master Chin was able to do what he'd described with regard to his breath. Have you heard of this kind of ability? I wonder if can be done with not just air but other substances, such as moving lymph with the spleen.

Just glimpsed the Venus and Jupiter alignment over SW horizon! Over the next few days they're going to get even closer. https://www.pbs.org/video/a-meeting-of-the-bright-nov-18th-nov-24th-5-mins-ysadd8/

"Parade of Planets" is on again. See Saturn sweep southern sky at sunset!

ordinary transcendence: the ability to break free from the matrix. transcended transcendence: the decision to go back in and help others out.

One way is to get a Medal of Saint Benedict. I’ve heard he’s good at getting rid of ghosts.

Which are the coolest Taoists? Quanzhen “Complete Reality” 全真 Focus on personal development and transformation Zhengyi “Orthodox Unity” 正一道 Rituals of protection and consecration for the people

On the subject of meek or powerless inheriting earth, there’s an example in the Old Testament, somewhere in 2nd Kings. When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem, everyone especially those in prestigious positions were imprisoned and exiled to Babylon. The people who were doing physical work like tending the vineyards were left to carry on production as ever. Taking it a step further in Isaiah ch. 65, the prophet describes a time when God “will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind,” and people “will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat.” Just getting along doing whatever, without the need for dominance over one another. Perhaps resembling the return to simplicity described in the final chapters of Daodejing.

It's a lovely rendition of Dragons Gate style alchemy. You know, disappearing into the mysterious passage to combine lead and mercury into elixirs, conceive a golden fetus, and ascend to heaven. From 性命要旨 Xìng Mìng Yào Zhǐ by 汪东亭 Wāng Dōngtíng.

I wonder how @Limahong is doing. There's not enough animated GIFs on here

https://www.tiktok.com/@chiinnature/video/7407198507032956166

“Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.” ― Richard P. Feynman

Well said, and could also be applied to a number of other traps that beset the path. One thing i liked about the Ge Guolong interview, near the end of the usual mound of boilerplate, he talks about how reclusion is great for learning, but returning to the everyday grind is what really puts it to the test. I've heard a few times how the powers that be seem to have an interest in portraying Taoists to the rest of the world as weird tree-huggers hanging out in the mountains, certainly not shrewed badasses hiding in plain sight. Luckily our neighborly and dashing rapscallion Dr. TT has provided a free sample, which also might've been missed from that other thread.

And if a right practice has been established, the energy will have already gone where it's supposed to. So what's this thread then? I re-read the opening post and i'm just thinking "Saintly is as saintly does" (Forest Gump voice). How to "bite through the iron"? Other than having my ass handed to me by life until a moment-of-zen hits and reveals to me what "can not be put in words or images, nor can be drawn as a picture; but there can be a perception and intuition of it; when it expands it fills the 6 directions, when it contracts it hides in secret; it reaches the Heaven and covers the Earth" Is it me or that sounds a little like Emerald Tablet? I'm not knocking it, mind you.

Yup mobile device users have gotten used to incorporating this glyph language. Another way to use emoji on Windows PC, press the keyboard shortcut: "Windows logo key" + . (period) to bring up a searchable menu 😉👍

As has already been stated in this thread, different practices have evolved to use the same words for different things, as well there are different levels of perspective. Here is yet another one. Lower dantien encompasses the entire physical body. Dan refined here involve enhanced flow of metabolites and hormones, to tissues who have increased efficiency and durability. Anything that can be objectively measured, even electricity. Middle field is what's usually referred to as the aura. Technology has just scratched the surface of mapping a toroidal vortex via superconducting quantum interference detection, but lacks the resolution to sense intricacies of multiphasic encoding wherein our thoughts and feelings resonate. Medicine of this cauldron "removes dust from the mirror of the heart," smoothing out the little packets of turbulence propagating throughout the external orbit. Upper stage, you'll have to ask a celestial about that.

Peering into the depth of the well I perceive a vermillion mineral crystallizing between the rocks Gathering them into the cauldron suspending above the furnace I begin to refine the ore

A thread for poems Original or quoted Compose or discuss Five, seven, then five. A form we know very well. Cast off this constraint. For those times when, Expression is more important, Feel free to bend rules.

To further confuse the issue, here's a few etymological notes i'd taken at zhongwen.com Dan is also signified by new or rejuvenated growth.