soaring crane
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Practitioners of chinese medicine, enter! I need your opinions.
soaring crane replied to UTI's topic in General Discussion
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Yes for sure. It could as easily begin 'In Spring, I...' But it could also begin, 'In the morning I... ' Or, 'when I'm born, I...' Or, 'when I feel hungry, I...' Or, 'when I feel tired, I...' Or, 'when I turn on my computer, I...' That's what I was trying to convey. The universal aspect on a personal level.
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You mentioned Davy Jones and it reminded me of a visualization that sometimes accompanies the Daoist 'pelvic wave' motion (definitely related to ZZ). Standing in the middle of a calm sea, legs extended down into the seabed, feet sunk deep deep in the mud. Torso above the water, lifted high in the sky, head above the clouds. The water surface at the lower belly, with long, rounded waves gently lifting and setting the basin of the pelvis. The waves are the breath. Every new intake of air is a new wave that lifts you up to the crest of the wave, and every exhale is the wave leaving you, lowering you to valley, where you wait for the next wave to come. You're facing the shore and the waves are coming from behind you. And with each cycle, your legs grow deeper into the seafloor; your head moves closer to heaven; and your middle expands to the horizons.
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I was describing the sequence that takes place in every process, on the macro and microcosmic scales.
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Or do mean tu na? :-)
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I align my heart with the sun, and my kidneys with the Tundra :-) (Actually, it's the standard practice in Soaring Crane form and I just let it carry over to everything I do)
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The Inner Smile. Livia Kohn paper link
soaring crane replied to GrandmasterP's topic in Group Studies
great find, thanks GMP -
What do you think? There are many people here who are not native-English speakers/writers (and KUDOS to them for doing so well communicating in a foreign language. I know from experience that native speakers take it for granted that everyone can just speak English like it's their mother tongue, but it's quite an achievement and there are some here who do better than with the language than many native speakers). Anyway, for example, there are quite a few members from Germany and I think it would be worth considering creating one forum where they could converse in their mother language. French, Spanish, Russian, and pretty much any language which has enough representation would benefit from a mother-tongue forum. It could also be a way of attracting even more international visitors and members, no?
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ha! I hadn't thought of that angle. I don't see it as a real roadblock, though.
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yes. Do you? No matter where I'm standing physically, I'm always outside on the meadow, below the expansive blue sky :-) And facing south Legs grow through the floor, through the basement, through the foundations of the building, one meter deep, ten meters, a hundred meters deep into the Earth... And above, no ceiling, no roof, only heaven.
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You could send your roots all the way through the building into the ground below.
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How does one 'choose' a religion, spiritual path, etc?
soaring crane replied to qvrmy11vz's topic in General Discussion
"How does one 'choose' a religion, spiritual path, etc?" By asking the Yijing, of course. You could formulate the question thusly: "would I be making the right decision if I choose to follow the path of the ________ religion?" or, "what would await me if I choose to follow ____________ ?" -
details, Jox?
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You made these?? They're gorgeous
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Thoughts about stating warnings for new practitioners
soaring crane replied to thelerner's topic in Forum and Tech Support
Doesn't Trunk link to something along these lines once in a while? -
It's an interesting metaphor for the meridians. It's how they're sometimes described. I'll look at the sky tonight and see what I see thanks :-)
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This really moved me: http://theunboundedspirit.com/how-wolves-change-rivers/ :wub:
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"Rely not on the teacher/person, but on the teaching. Rely not on the words of the teaching, but on the spirit of the words. Rely not on theory, but on experience. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it..." I like the quote
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ha ha, you didn't answer my question - did you think about it?
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This is just awesome, please watch
soaring crane replied to soaring crane's topic in The Rabbit Hole
nice, Joe! There are lot of 'Muir' parks in N. America, no? George Duke put out an album called 'Muir Woods Suite' - but I never thought about where those woods would be -
I wasn't being 100% sincere with that comment, it was supposed to be lighthearted. But it does seem to me that you have a good understanding of your impressions and I wonder what you would expect someone else to offer. Oh, another question - what do you see when you look at yourself? hmmm...
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well, that's enough, no? Sounds like you really have a good handle on this. In my opinion, you don't really need someone to provide more clarity. Maybe you're secretly looking for company? :-)
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yes; wavelengths that exist outside of the parameters the sense organs. And interpreting them isn't a parlour game. I feel it's better to trust your own intuition than search for someone who can give you a clear set of guidelines. Speaking of which, how do you 'interpret' your impressions?
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It's your subconscious speaking with you in a language your conscious mind can relate to (that's all "aura-seeing" is, too, but I understand our frustration when people insist that that's what you're experiencing). I would say you're simply picking up on wavelengths and your brain is translating them to optics for you, to make the experience comprehensible. You're predominantly visual-oriented (almost all of us are). But the same information could be translated into sound or even smell (my wife is a spirit-smeller, not kidding). White surrounded by blue reminds me of happy clouds floating on a clear, wide sky And golden light, well, it's golden light. I wish more of us had more of it If you want to put the colors into a Dao perspective, look into the Wuxing, five changes (aka the Five Elements) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xing
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haha, me too But, Li Ching-Yuen isn't a what, he was a who