soaring crane

Where are you headed with all this, Dog? Do you know? I've a number of 'trials by fire' in my life and they tought me to let go of fears and develop faith. Faith in what, I don't really know. But I think the not knowing, not defining, is very important.

Don't believe Dawei. There wasn't any money involved

absolutely

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But then why would you need to log in?

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morning, noon and night Qi, Shen and Jing, yes, that's right Microcosmic you

I guess that would be Dao?

to where we are now who what where when why and how Taiji, Wuji, Dao

@dustybeijing -- this is wonderful stuff, thank you :-) And I agree, your artwork is top-notch, gorgeous. Do you have more?

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Because they're the end result of long, complex processes. Diamonds are pretty simple, too.

Not from Nazareth, then?

I'm thinking the OP of this thread should be given an irony award

same here haha (actually, I think I've pictured him more as Wickie, a similar character from a children's cartoon about Wickinger)

jeepers. My wife just came in to show me how I had hung my cargo shorts wrong after washing them. She stormed off, I looked down, and there was this post. HAHAHAHA!

Cheerful indifference and humility

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That should be bored games, perhaps? ha. ha.

huh. That's less common in my experience. The pedants usually want the right hand on the LDT and the left hand over the top. The other variation is women have the left hand on top, men the right hand. Personally, I think it's just dogmatic and it's better to let the intuition guide the posture. Being left-handed/right-handed has to affect the energy flow to begin with, and then there's a whole long history of development behind each individual adult human which affects the energetic body. (did a dumb thing with my morning session. D/L'd a zazen timer app yesterday and programmed it incorrectly. Thought I had it set for 20 minutes but it was 120 minutes! I started getting antsy and thinking there must be something wrong after about 35 minutes of standing. Was late for work, geesh)

Mork? Sorry, couldn't resist. RIP Robin Williams

yes, but cosmically speaking, we aren't under the sun, we're the third planet next to it.