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Thanks for sharing. Glad you like them

is it okay to out a Taoist?

Placing your tongue on the roof of the mouth, closes the connection between the Du and Ren Channels.

Path? what path ? Is there a path?

Get checked out by a doctor. A Chinese doctor MD who also practices TCM would be ideal.

Yes and thanks for having the awareness and understanding of what it means to know that they elicit a response

Agree. How can you allow something when in reality you have no control. That is why i prefer surrender - non resistance - being present in the present to the present

right on it's the space between the breaths that leads to meditation and quiets ones mind

Surrender = acceptance = go with the flow = Tao

You're kidding. Right?

I made them by reading and meditating on each hexagram It took me 5 years to complete the 80 paintings They can't be anything but personal Meditation allows one to tap into the source where basically everyone is the same- there is only one - so while being personal hopefully others will relate o them on some level. If you have any specific questions I can try to answer without being mundane. A direct meaning, such as this means this etc, can spoil the experience as that becomes all one will see andthey will miss the inner connection. You see something you have never seen before - it is full of wonder. You give it a name and the wonder is gone.

Hare style Kung Fu is secret form taught by the Hare Krishna sect not taught to outsiders. Bunny style developed by Hugh Hefner is only taught to Playmates

Did you read 'Information about the paintings' and 'How to read the paintings' ? For the 64 hexagrams you can read each hexagram in the Wilhelm translation of the I Ching. Thanks

Discovered/ became aware of rather than invented

LOL When one enters one can feel the energy shift of silence

Please move these aside discussions somewhere else. They are pointless to this topic. I would appreciate it if posts here related to the paintings posted. Direct link to paintings http://www.etaoin.com/yj_cat00.html Review http://www.artezine.com/issues/19/19sbc.html

Thanks At some point maybe posters. Right now i need a very large gallery space.

The only way talisman works is if you put it in your mouth so it stops food from going in http://www.drfuhrman.com/

Your body uses energy to digest food. A piece of fruit might be better then nuts as they are more difficult to digest.

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Grasshopper you state the obvious platitudes re everything is your teacher. I believe i covered the we are all students teachers part when i said the teacher is always learning. As to why there needs to be a specific form to a teacher i will state the obvious. When i want to learn math i don't sign up for an English course in the same manner when i want to learn a specific art i take a course with one who is qualified to teach that subject. To answer your next query the teacher of math or English or whatever has been given a piece of paper that qualifies him/her to teach. And yes not all teachers with papers are good teachers. We could go on and on but it's time for me to stop this nonsense and do my practice. Actually I should thank you, for you too are my teacher by inadvertently teaching me to type

To be succinct. A few thoughts A teacher is someone who loves what they teach - who wants and has no fear of their students becoming as good as they are - who is always learning and progressing on their path - who knows what the student needs - who is kind - has no need to prove him/her self - who can control their power so as to never hurt anyone. As to your take of me wanting a boss or master i can't imagine how you deduced that from what i have written. Do you have issues in this area?

Yes hard to believe but there's a lot of ego involved. A teacher has the ability to transmit to teach by example giving individual attention. A video show the same action over and over and over. It doesn't accommodate variation or individual needs. My teacher who speaks very little English teaches me what he knows i need at a particular time to progress. He teaches through feeling and showing. I am not always aware of what he is teaching me until at some point i realize i have learned and understand something new.Sometimes words and long discussions and theory don't cut it until you have a certain level of awareness in your body. He also has Chinese students who speak Mandarin but they don't all get his explanations as they don't have the understanding the vocabulary the time into learning taiji. i can read his body and understand more than they do. Of course there still is plenty i can't see. So i guess i am tired of beating a dead horse as they say re the merits of a real teacher.

I certainly am no expert and have much to learn. I am very happy to have Tm who knows what she is talking about speak for me on the other hand.......

Do i have to have TM explain it LOL All the examples you gave above interacted with the water thus they learned - improved. The one i mentioned, the one who never got wet was under an illusion of how much he knew. Never going in the water, swimming in a calm pool, swimming in a rough ocean - different experiences. If you swim as 10 laps as fast as you can with no one else swimming against you wow you are great - a real champion. Swim against others and it's another story.