Komako

Thank you very much for your suggestions I will check them out before class.

Hola, For my Methodology of Yoga Instruction course I'm leading a guided meditation in shivasana at the end of the class this Thursday (4/10). It will be 10-15 minutes in a darkened room. I was hoping to share some sort of Taoist meditation with my fellow instructors-in-training. Do you have any recommendations/links Taobums? -Koma

"Heaven and Earth have no preference. A man may choose one over another but to Heaven and Earth all are the same The high, the low, the great, the small-- all are given light all get a place to rest." There are many ways for water to reach the ocean, yes? You are on to something friend!

When I was fourteen I slipped into some sort of altered consciousness. I felt that I was everything, and everything was me, and that there was no subject-object dichotomy. There was nothing particularly unique about my day that day, only that I was walking home from a fairly average time at school. I would like to feel that again. Tao.

It is good to note that history is not a progressive course towards technological advancement, but instead a series of civilizations that rise (and fall). Let us not forget the Dark Ages. Without the revived Greek texts I doubt there would have been a Renaissance! Or isolationist Japan--they were trading a third of the world's silver before the Tokugawa Shogunate. Remember it was Ghandi that argued for a return to simplicity! Furthermore, Islam has fallen far from the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires: once the center of the academic world, now we see that Europe is the 'developed' world and the Middle East is the 'undeveloped' world. From chaos to structure; from dust to civilization and civilizations to dust; the Sage sees all and overcomes the cycle. The Taoist must see wide to become small. bright blessings, Koma

We will see how fiat currency functions in the 21st century. I am in school for economics now, and everybody is quite convinced that Keynesian economics is still well-functioning, but I keep an open mind. (The professors think I am a little bit crazy when I bring up RBE economics) bright blessings, koma

That was in response to the local Buddhist expert comment ;-) Sorry if that seems confusing from a Taoist perspective! Bright blessings, koma

It is best to release one's pride in this situation. Sometimes it is not welcome to let others know you are a follower of the Way, and silence is key. Or simply say: "I am not a follower of Christ, but I understand his teachings, and I too wish to be compassionate and generous to all."

The Tao manifests itself in mysterious ways. Things are as they are.

Know powers; refuse powers. The Tao prevails.

When you see that All is One, and One is All, compassion is the Way: to be compassionate to another is to be compassionate to the Self. There is no subject/object barrier, but 10,000 illusions dividing the "I" and the "You." Tao is the origin of the ineffable: it is this origin a Taoist seeks; remember it is One that begot Two, and Two that Begot Three, and Three that Begot 10,000. A Taoist returns to that which Begot One: such is "Te."

I used to admin a server of around 500 so called "Anonymous" members. This really isn't so much "cyber warfare" as a number of targetted server raids that aren't hard at all to pull off. The media's jargon is completely off base here =/ not every person on the underbelly of the internet is a hacker, much less a "hacktivist!" The government's corruption is no new news; the documents Wikileaks has released are easily available online if you know where to look (zoklet? 4chan?). Unfortunately it's been a few years since I've been connected with that community and I'm a bit off base. The charges against Julian Assange are false, bright blessings, Koma

For a complex discussion on happiness I recommend the Happiness Hypothesis. Happiness is a divine union of the unmanifest and manifest. Bright blessings, koma

What literature recommended this? Curiosity strikes.