deci belle

From the start, you had something "better" to cultivate, dear. I only responded to your leading question. There is no "share". et sez: Your wish is self-reflective …not to mention utterly dependent. So by all means, do cultivate something "better" on your own, without needing to "share" it, as it were. It is my experience on this forum that anyone sincerely wishing to "share", does so by sending me a private message. Off-topic grandstanding is one thing, mon petite bouche, but this is not an act. This is also not the discussion section. THIS IS THE ARTICLES SECTION. You even gave your own "article" the same name as this one. PM me in about twenty years, ok? ed note: add word "cultivate" in paragraph just below et's quote.

Yet there is following, and Ting's cleaving cannot be said. Cleaves. Yet incipience is spontaneously opening in perpetuity whether or not there is Ting to apply the knack. So complete human being is developed capacity adapting as the natural cleavage of any given situation pairs off. There is no space here, so the accomplishment has "no step at all". If such a way can be described as having an attribute and a location, Ting cleaves potential in its incipience by meeting it on its terms developing spontaneously in perpetuity. Taoism is just a description we don't cling to. The mind(s) of the inner chapters aren't taoist~ just awake and functioning naturally as it is. I am not aware of this in any philosophical sense. What is lowest functions effectively; the noble employs this in terms of human being. Tao is not separate, nor is it human being. We belong; tao does not belong. Ting's cleaving doesn't do. Non-doing isn't just spontaneous, it's spiritual. Spiritual is non-psychological. Your own mind. Wu Dao… nice word. Cleaving leaves no room; works where there is no room; enters where there is no room; finding space wherever it is. Practice is perennially up against a wall with nowhere to go… and cleaving its incipient openness according to the time. This is how. How doesn't actually exist other than in terms of function~ just manages cleaving appearances in their incipience in perpetuity. Who would dare to put down the cleaver?

What is so secret about what is completely natural is there is really nothing to know. "Secret" is just a device. Some want to pick this out and protest; others just know there is nothing to it and smile. The fact of the matter is, some people simply cannot smile naturally. Though it is pitiful, who can help them?

hi wandering… there's lots of variation. You might do a search as this question has been asked many times in the past. There is a Chan buddhist, humanist confucian, and inner alchemic taoist I Ching series translated from original Chinese works by Thomas Cleary keyed to approaches taken by the three main cultural mainstays through the long historical thread of China. I have nine versions I refer to often. I recommend that you just take the plunge and start researching them yourself. You will find which ones are relevant for your own evolution as you wander along the way.❤ ed note: typo in 2nd paragraph

One ought to be inspired with grace, somehow. But yes, absolutely, xenolith. I hope you are so inspired and blessed with grace.❤

ya, that has happened to me one time and I didn't like it! Something is being upset or being shaken up somehow (it seemed to me), although I hadn't done much at all to set it off. I couldn't figure out why it happened. It went away after a while. When it happened to me it was the first thing in the morning too. Try not starting your practice right away. I wouldn't recommend enduring whatever is happening~ change up your routine and try to observe what may be triggering that weird eye-reaction!! I hope it stops for you, my!❤

That is wonderful to hear, Cat!❤

Hi manitou~ Birthing the spiritual embryo is an event within entry into the inconceivable, so there is no person or location whatsoever. I believe you have described an evolutionary breakthrough in terms of a person's understanding, which can happen at any time~ before or after selfless realization creating a body outside the body. It is death (what returns at death). The death of the person enters nonbeing and reverts to essence, penetrating the mysterious pass and assimilating to the Mysterious Female, the Valley Spirit, The Virtue of the Way. One then returns (to life) impersonal living potential. Realization is not the same as buddhahood. There is gradual maturation after all-at-once complete perfection in terms of mystical copulation. Birthing the spiritual embryo is a preliminary stage of enlightened realization. At this point it is now an embryo~ the embryo still needs to undergo the "ten months of incubation". This is a taoist term used to describe various stages in a number of systems. The only experience I have pertaining to this is exactly the same as the notion connoting "dropping off" used in Chan where the seed of buddhahood is planted. When the skin-bag is "dropped off" a point of vital essence congeals in the void. This is the spiritual embryo. It is the moment of the medicines of fire and water, yin and yang, fusing like sperm and egg. One produces a body outside the body, and the spiritual embryo forms out of nothing. At this point one begins the process of "incubation", sealing the refined elixir; protecting the achievement from damage. Not a good time to jump up and down proclaiming one's white-hot enlightenment. This is why it is said to see essence on your own, then seek a teacher to confirm and solidify one's understanding of entry into the inconceivable. All these terms are multifarious in their applications in the numerous systems of refinement, cultivation and practice. I have only concentrated in the processes described in the Northern and Southern schools of Complete Reality taoism, which is identical to Chan at the highest levels. When the spiritual embryo is complete after the period of incubation, one then knocks over the polar mountain, shatters space, empties out openness, sublimates oneself spiritually and physically and enters the tao in reality; the same as potential, able to match creation: a complete human being. Others may disagree, but this is my experience of the process which includes "birthing the spiritual embryo". +1 for Mama ed note: respond to manitou after all this time❤!!

Quite right. The fact is, so many of you could actually nail it yourselves, without knowing it. But that's not good enough. And what is so pathetic about that is even though it is possible to see it and say it oneself, who will dare to admit it, much less actually accomplish it, hmmmm? I see a few asses riding asses looking for their asses, but who has actually seen their ass without a word? Whenever I've gotten any one of you in a corner, all you can say is "I'm satisfied with my life." Which proves you haven't gotten to the end of it yet. If you don't know death right now, you do not know life. The matter of life and death is the closest any one of you will ever get to entering the tao in reality. Even those who see essence can fail in terms of falling into the nest of emptiness and cling to it the way you all do to ordinary relativism. It really is not easy at all. It is very difficult, even in the aftermath of realization, to break down the experience of absolutism the same way one must break down the habits of a lifetime of doubts, in order to understand delusion on its own terms right here, right now. The working definition of being close to the tao is entering its mystery in its reality— and this is ground zero right here. So get off your asses and try to see it without naming it. It's not that you can't— you just can't until you stop.

I like what Christian wrote (of what i'd read of his posts he was cutting right through the bullshit) and I don't blame him for stating this the way he did. Besides, he's not lying. It is true, after all. Who here is that close, hmmmm?

This quoted from the superb introduction to his The Life of Milarepa translated by Lobsang Lhalungpa. "…centering around the way of discovering for one's self the unknown secret of the truth. As in any great human endeavor, no real achievement is possible until one meets the challenges the training throws before oneself with openness, humility and determination. An acute awareness must be repeatedly brought to bear on reappraisal of what really is the foundation of lasting happiness for oneself and also for all others. In working toward an aim such as this, one is bound to awaken to one's own inadequacies, thereby bringing life's challenges into focus." "…may also be considered in terms of the possible development within man of a link between the Buddha-nature and the ordinary deluded mind. The great idea behind this notion of a relationship between the highest and the lowest in human nature, which (we are told) only the greatest masters have realized, is expressed in the Vajrayana as the essential identity of nirvana and samsara: nirvana is the understanding of samsara!" (italics mine). It is so important to realize, remember and strive to rediscover something of monumental importance hidden as a most open secret, the wonder of our miraculous innate human nature. I urge those so disposed to abandon habitual relationships with people, things, ideas and mental constructs in hopes of actually rediscovering this recondite capacity of mind for oneself. ed note: add second paragraph ending with "(italics mine)".

Random manifesting Is itself absolute reality What lies at one's feet Is this complete reality in one foot. One's whole mind and body of creation Having never once suffered existence: Following the heart's desire Without ever once counting Its singular rhythm. Weeds growing; a flower's fall Amidst our delusion; there is no other Shining vacancy Through and through. ed note: (removed line 7: "Shining all along" and bumped everything below up one line)

Selfless adaption to ordinary circumstances Effectively harmonizing reality subsuming appearances Is not dependent on accumulating knowledge But rather overcoming the accumulating mentality Obstructing one's selfless being. This is the meaning of no-doctrine Chan.

ahhahahhaa!! SinBins~ Vous sso very funny!!❤❤ hahaaa!! HE sez: Oui~ for those who have the eyes to see! ed note: quote HE's nice comment❤

This is taoist alchemy, dear. The function of the tao is in return. It's called reversal for a reason. Why? Because the world has it backwards. If you consider this backwards, what does that say about you?

splash!

At the moment just before a single thought of the next ten seconds is close… Not deciding deciding to decide is close… Not giving up, but also not going along with thoughts is close… Natural reality is that close… it is just astonishing.❤ ed note: add "also"

poof!

ed note: deci's original thread contents removed from et's comments and re-posted as End Game (director's cut) above.

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Yes!!❤

This was inspired by an event that took place this past Winter in the midst of an ordinary day-time situation. A being came into the public place where I was sitting. On a stool, with a teeny table, a book, breve ristretto, 85% Trader Joe's chocolate, some serviettes on which to write, and a few erotic bookmarks I keep with whatever I happen to be reading or not. I did not see her enter the room, but upon reaching the point of my gaze our eyes locked and I suddenly could not see anything else; and I couldn't even see her eyes~ only a shimmering pulsating effect completely filling my whole field of vision like huge black and white focusing patterns cinematographers use to check lenses before a movie production. She turned and walked to the counter to order something. She seemed quite young with long black hair; she had a friendly professional manner. Her impeccable wardrobe was a wiff of NYC or Paris… Her garment went just to the knee so the tops of her slim leather boots were hidden. The worsted wool textures, buttons, detail, colour, silhouette, everything about her look was fresh and daring, avant-garde even, but still lovely, perfect, really perfect. I turned to gaze out the very large plate glass window onto the cold, wintery scene just across from the State Capital building. When she approached the door to exit, I could feel the weight of her eyes once again upon me— no light-show this time, though. I just kept looking out onto the grey, mid-afternoon vista. I didn't follow her exit but saw her drive by my window in a très shiny black Stuttgart SUV and out the parking lot …I assessed (correctly so far) that I'll never see her again…❤ ed note: oh, add words like serviette and Stuttgart, and noted her boots… heehee!!