TzuJanLi

Greetings.. I'm curious, is there any scientific verification of the 'psychic powers' being discussed here? As far as i know, the only verifiable condition that might qualify is 'remote viewing', if there are others i am interested in the verification studies.. i am keenely interested in this subject, but.. authenticity is a rare commodity for this subject.. Be well..

Greetings.. Accepting the apology is evident when i don't display the awareness of the transgression, when i greet the transgressor without resistance, it's a new 'Now', another opportunity to redefine 'who we are'.. i look to that opportunity without prejudice, but i am also cautious of the potential that the transgressor may not choose to redefine theirself in alignment with the apology.. that caution doesn't diminish the opportunity, though.. The 'lesson learned' is evident in one of two ways.. it is stored in our mental filing system with a 'red-flag', or.. it is internalized as 'who we are'.. if it is internalized, it doesn't pop-up as a red-flag, it is simply part of our natural awareness.. our responses to evidence of a reoccurance are fluid and without conflict, we identify the situation prior to its maturity and manage it appropriately.. if we rely on the 'red-flag' alert from our mental evaluations, we are likely too late for 'appropriate management'.. our 'startle reflex' kicks-in and conflict emerges, the mind is invested in its value system.. An apology offered is part of the 'appropriate management', if the energy feels sincere.. we simply respond comassionately, realizing the sincerity is the result of an energetic shift of awareness toward interconnectedness.. a sincere 'thank you' is 'my' response, and nothing more need be said.. i appreciate the effort to shift energies and awareness.. Be well..

Greetings.. You should hear some of the stuff people i know 'say'.. That seems to dispel 'forms' and postures and visualizations.. mostly, competing 'methods' are the offspring of pride and arrogance, a need to be perceived as having superior knowledge.. Be well..

Greetings.. Exactly!! if it's the hand that keeps pounding on your head.. Be well..

Greetings.. Hi Forest: I do not intend to imply 'do nothing'.. i intend to imply before doing something, find the Clarity to discern what it is you're doing.. i have seen many people scurrying about doing 'much' and accomplishing little.. Be well..

Greetings.. Hi Bill: As soon as is practical, we should meet and talk.. we have much to discuss.. Be well..

Greetings.. Having studied directly with Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming.. i can assure you the books and videos are great references, but.. there is no substitute for direct learning. Read the books and study the videos for many hours, then.. make the investment to visit the author, spend a day with YJM, it will change your Life.. Spend a day with WCC Chen.. Spend a day with Rick Barrett.. and, if you have the initiative, first find her, then spend a day with Mde. Cui Yu Li.. make those real investments, and.. this sort of 'book talk' will diminish greatly.. Be well..

Greetings.. No, Forgiveness has a bunch of conceptual attachments.. 'letting go', is simply moving on, without attachment.. often, 'forgiveness' is attached to ritualistic process, evaluations, and justice judgments.. 'letting go', just moves on.. reminding me of the of the monk asking the master, "why did you violate your vows and carry that girl across the stream?".. the master's reply,"i sat her down on the other side, why do you still carry her?".. Be well..

Greetings.. Meditation is 'stilling the mind'. 'Stilling the mind' provides the Clarity for everything else. Meditation is not dependent on posture, mantra, mudra, visualization, etc.. If the mind is engaged in agendas, whatever the intent, it cannot find Clarity.. To assert that meditation is dependent on posture is a great misunderstanding. That does not prevent meditation from occuring while in a specific posture, it only diminishes the likelihood.. the maintenance of the posture will likely engage the mind and distract the practitioner from Clarity of the actual experience.. how 'present' are you if you are fumbling with structural mechanics.. Electro-magnetic fields and Qi are matters for QiGong and intellectual evaluation, internalize these issues, then.. in meditation the internalized evolution of 'who you have become' will be the 'natural' clarity.. Be well..

Greetings.. Forgiveness is its own trap, entangling a process of conceived agendas.. Just 'let it go'.. Yes, Marblehead, caution born of experience is wisdom, in-as-much-as that caution doesn't turn to prejudice.. dwelling on the past is living in the past.. so, i greet every one with a 'clean slate', even those that have transgressed, but.. experience identifies appropriate action prior to repeated occurances.. Forgiveness is an unnecessary mental ritual, the very act of which confirms the past is still a burden.. Be well..

Greetings.. Yeah, ain't paradoxes grand.. Sometimes, you just gotta get past the 'logic'.. From my perspective, Taoism is 'Clarity', seeing/experiencing what 'is'.. from which, what we have become can discern appropriate action.. Be well..

Greetings.. Meditation is a 'state of mind', 'NO MIND', actually.. for body mechanics, look to QiGong.. Be well..

Greetings.. The FIRST NOBLE TRUTH OF TAOISM: There are no 'Truths', only perspectives thereof.. Be well..

Greetings.. All that you can say.. about all that you believe.. pales in comparison with a single moment of Life.. Read back over these pages, it's a mockery of Taoist Philosophy.. shameful in its display of juvenile pride and arrogance, and i do except myself from the admonishment.. i can only resolve to improve. Be well..

Greetings.. A tumbleweed tumbled by, pushed by the unconcerned wind.. the Sage reflected on this and said: Begone, students.. your faith and loyality is misplaced.. Be well..

Greetings.. The notion that 'You', the indiviual, do not choose is without any pragmatic basis.. it is the domain of incompetence at the art of Living being masked as wisdom or Sagehood.. it is conceptual folly to 'Choose' to believe that you don't 'Choose'.. You are not a meat-puppet of the Universe, you are tasked with Living Well.. freely choosing your way, and in doing so demonstrating the nature of Consciousness to itself.. You ARE Consciousness, in the same way a raindrop is separate from the ocean, and.. both are the same 'Water'.. the Human experience is defined by its freewill, there is no other meaning.. the denial of freewill is no more than the fear of its responsibility.. Be well..

Greetings.. Aye, Taoist Philosophy is a bit more pragmatic.. it supposes that this Life is not an 'illusion', that things are what they are.. i get up in the morning and there is no coffee to drink, i have many choices, but i choose to make some coffee.. at that point i move on to other matters, i don't imagine fantastical intercosmological processes, i just do what needs to be done.. i Live in the moment. Some people will conjure amazing 'mind-scapes' of doers and non-doers, but.. it is they, themselves, 'doing' the imagining.. Be well..

Greetings.. Thank you, CowTao.. as one moves through the understanding of that quote, much is revealed.. some of that 'much' is rather than creating fantastical mind-scapes and presenting stories of 'liberation' from suffering and other such conceptual intrigues, return to your Life among the Living, "Chop wood, Carry water".. do not engage in great debates of "understanding and awareness", it only demonstrates your lack thereof.. It was my hope, when i first happened upon this forum, that people who found Taoist Philosophy to resonate most closely with their understandings, they would share stories of Life that also resonated with Taoist 'understandings'.. i didn't expect to see such conflict and contradiction.. As an example: The maple tree shed many of its leaves overnight, so much so that the driveway was completely covered.. my neighbor offered to use a blower to remove the leaves, but.. i politely declined, explaining that i really enjoyed the view and that the leaves would turn to fertilizer.. he then politely explained: that his carefully manicured lawn would be covered by the leaves when the winds shifted.. i asked: would you rather control ALL of the leaves, or just the ones in 'your' yard.. I hope this makes some sense.. Be well..

Greetings.. Really? Show me deeds done without a 'doer'.. no 'doer' no deed.. the coffee will not make itself, a being is necessary.. just how much fantasy must one indulge to arrive at such nonsense as quoted above? the quote above is a self-deception of epic proportions, an attachment to to some ancient imaginings fueled by the irrational desire to perceive one's-self as 'mystical' or Sage-like.. I see deeds done by doers every day, it's plainly obvious.. now, consider the mind-play and imaginary contrivances necessary to convince yourself this is not so.. Be well..

Greetings.. Hi Brother Crane: I didn't feel as though the 'guilty' remark was directed at me, specifically.. the response was a general commentary.. i am often amused at such debates as 'chopsticks vs. silverware', it is my belief that efficient and sanitary means of getting food to my digestive system is the issue.. by the way, i enjoy the practice of eating with chopsticks, it's a good meditation.. Be well..

Greetings.. This is not factual, this is mind-play.. decent mind-play, and very entertaining, but.. Life is unfolding directly through our unique and identifiable perspective, it is the relationship of this perspective with that unfolding that is the source of our 'knowing'.. remove that 'identifiable perspective', and there are no concepts, no relationships, no Human Experience, no one to 'know'... Be well..

Greetings.. Not at all. If someone has issues with eating utensils, then it is 'their' issue, not mine.. to extrapolate that notion further, chopsticks made of wood, destroy trees which harms the environment, which... yada, yada, yada.. these issues are nothing more than personal perspectives, choices to 'believe' a certain way.. metal utensils are reusable, long-lasting, easily cleaned, efficient, etc.. common sense is a useful approach to this issue.. Karma, is a choice of preconception, to project a certain 'belief' onto future events.. not my 'cup of tea'.. I accept that consequences are inevitable, but.. they are altered by choices made subsequent to the deeds or intentions that initiate them.. Karma, like so many beliefs, is humanity's attempts to assign order to its existence, it is an attempt to predict future events.. to the degree that someone, or some culture, actually accepts the notion of Karma as an existent condition, then it will manifests itself accordingly.. so, Karma is a creation of human conceptualization, it does not exist outside of that concept.. 'Still the mind', suspend 'beliefs'.. Life will reveal a process of creation that is not bound by 'concepts'.. the Human Experience is just another chapter in the eternal process of evolution.. Be well..

Greetings.. Hi Bill: No, i haven't given up Taiji, it just keeps getting better.. i learned the Dragon and Phoenix LHBF sets from Weilun Choi and Weilun Huang.. i do the brush work, if you're interested.. (i even started playing with what little i know about Bagua in brush images, after your e-mail).. My more recent brush work has been to create images from one continuous stroke.. i've been studying Mandarin through writing/brushing the characters at the Guang Ming Buddhist Temple on Hoffner Rd., it's free and the teacher is very good with us non-Asians.. I was waiting till i had some decent samples to send you (my success is 'hit and miss').. Be well..

Greetings.. I hope everyone will appreciate the sincerity and the well-meaning intention when i say: Common Sense.. Aside from that, Liu He Ba Fa.. Be well..

Greetings.. 'Karma' is a particular culture's perspective of 'consequences'.. the consequences of a poorly intended deed can be altered by other deeds more appropriately focused.. Karma does not set in motion unalterable consequences, Life is dynamic and not confined by 'cultural perspectives'.. As has been stated previously, the power of 'belief' is self-fulfilling, therefore caution is advised regarding 'beliefs'.. it has been my experience that sincere curiosity regarding the events unfolding in the continuous 'Now' reveals opportunities beyond the limitations of 'belief'.. Be well..