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  1. Helping ignorant spiritual people

    Jeff replied to shortstuff's topic in General Discussion

    I think when you want to help or teach like that it becomes important to be able to know/read the level of clarity (or energy flow) of the the people you are trying to help or explain things too. When you know your audience, you can appropriately tailor the discussion (or not even bother because they wont get it ). Best of luck to you.

  2. Welcome

    Jeff replied to greatsaiyaman's topic in Welcome

    Welcome to the forum. Look forward to your discussion.
  3. Also, it is an energetic principle, not a hard and fast rule. In some relationships you often find the woman more yang while the man is more yin.

  4. Chi - how does it feel?

    Jeff replied to wandelaar's topic in Daoist Discussion

    Yes, but you could describe what you are saying with the headache perception as kind of “pre-chi”. Chi is the actual movement and perception of that energy within your local body-mind. What you are describing is more like the mental reflection of the underlying chi energy. Like getting a mirror view, rather than the actual thing itself. Next time you do that with the headache, instead of watching with stuff bouncing around your head, try to move it from your head down lower into your lower body or heart. It is not really a mental forcing, but more like a guiding intent. Energy naturally follows attention/focus. When you get it right, you will notice that your headache will just naturally end with it.

  5. Keeping the Old, receiving the New

    Jeff replied to Walking the lesser way's topic in Welcome

    I would also agree that they work very well together. Have you also ever read the Gospel of Thomas?

  6. True Yin and True Yang

    Jeff replied to Bindi's topic in Daoist Discussion

    Very well said. In a way True Yang does control True Yin, but more like defines and creates form and structure, while True Yin receives and kind of gives a place for it to be born. So rather than True Yin controlling the thinking mind, it more contains (or gives space to) thinking mind. True yang does not create matter by itself, but gives the form/definition of it. At the broadest polarity, True Yang “binds” energy giving rise to form/matter, while True Yin “unbinds” which is how it can restrain the Yang principle as you described above.
  7. The sticking the finger is like a conscious intent for you to reach out and connect. Like acknowledging their is something beyond just yourself.
  8. Awesome. Can you say more about what you mean with “emerging with your state”? Mean something like trying to keep a connection going? Also, did you try imagining me as a woman with it too, or did not bother with that part?
  9. Very nice. Could feel you doing it. The smiling, loving and happy fun is the loop that I described. You are sort of balancing out with it and your mind is translating it that way. You may also get a sense of becoming bigger, stronger and more powerful with it too. But now you get the idea of how it should work. Feel free to ask any questions, or send me a pm if you want to talk in more detail about it.
  10. Sure. Coming to you now... Try imagining me in front of you and then sort of stick your finger insid of my heart. No need with complicated visualizations, just feel yourself doing it. Also, may help to think of me as a woman instead, as that may better help align you with the energy polarities. Let me know what you get...
  11. No, not reiki. More like I sort of come into your local space and establish the polarity that I described above. You are at the point where you may feel it all at a conscious level. As it continues it may feel like your mind gets quieter or rising up. Some are more heart based and feel it as pressure/vibrations at heart like it is opening more. Just let me know.
  12. I can send you a little push now if you want me too. See if it helps.
  13. I can tell because it fits with your current energy body configuration. Such thoughts are common with similar people. Not someone with strong emotion, I meant someone who is even more yin/receptive energetically then you. In some traditions, that would be like a goddess, or someone who is very strong with divine feminine energy. Such a person would create a connection with you, go more receptive/female/yin and then with the connection, that would kind of “push” you more transmitting/male/yang to balance the connection. Over time, that would help you move more to the center/balance.

  14. What color is jing, qi and shen?

    Jeff replied to yuuichi's topic in Daoist Discussion

    Such color is a translation in (local) mind. A mental mapping that is learned. Same as with traditions having both a different number of and colors for chakras (dantien).
  15. You are stuck in a highly receptive mode at the 5th chakra (throat). Like you are taking in things from others and your environment, but cant let it go. Super yin, without the balancing Yang to release it. At that level, at a mental level it is about communication or in your case the lack of it. I agree that doctors would not really help. More need some energetic rebalancing. In energy terms, you sort of need to be pushed more Yang. Other traditions may call it going more male side (or transmitting) with energy. The easiest way to deal with it is to work with someone who has the capability to go even more yin than you and energetically connect. Their being more yin will cause you to naturally go more yang with the person as you balance them through the connection. Doing that for repeated practices will help you reopen and stabilize the other side. In traditions like buddhism, you would want to work with a strong dakini, while you do more guru yoga merging. In mystical Christianity, it would be working with someone who is very strong with the divine feminine aspect. Hope that helps, and feel free to ask any questions.
  16. Good/Bad or right/wrong are all concepts in the mind. If one is the only person on the earth, there is no origination of right and wrong. Like if lighting hits a forest and it burns down, that just is, and not right or wrong. If you are the only one, then you are the perceptional basis for "nature", and there are no such things as strong morals and good character. There is just "you" and your surroundings. On your own, you are probably more likely to develop mental concepts of easy and hard.
  17. I would agree with that. Dwai - What chapters in the DDJ does your master consider as irrelevant?
  18. Ok, sorry if I derailed your thread. I was just disagreeing with your premise in the first place as it did not fit for interpretation of the DDJ for me. That being said, if there is only one person on the planet, then to me there would be no right or wrong, or good and bad. Since you are the only person, everything would simply be self referenced, and just your view on things. Since there is just you, there would not even be a language to have such words or concepts in the first place.
  19. I agree that happens as everyone brings their own mental framework to what they read. But, part of the beauty of the DDJ to me is that it is very integrated and wholistic. It specifically states in it's own words what is appropriate and how to approach.
  20. That is just the issue, there are others in the Dao. You are overlaying your AV view to your understanding of the Dao. In your approach to understanding you are abandoning others. That is the point of the part of Chapter 27 that I tried to point out... Therefore the wise take care of everyone And abandon no one. They take care of all things And abandon nothing. This is called “following the light.”
  21. Then please explain how all such meaning of my quoted passages is not lost if you think you are the only person on the planet? Or if nothing really exists.
  22. If you don't seem to like the chapter that I quoted, how about this one from Chapter 51... ... Therefore all things arise from Tao. By Virtue they are nourished, Developed, cared for, Sheltered, comforted, Grown, and protected. Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering. This is Primal Virtue. Sheltered, comforted, grown and cared for... This is the primal virtue...
  23. Sounds like a non-taoist way to look at the DDJ, especially the part about imagining that you are the only person on the earth. From the DDJ... TWENTY-SEVEN A good walker leaves no tracks; A good speaker makes no slips; A good reckoner needs no tally. A good door needs no lock, Yet no one can open it. Good binding requires no knots, Yet no one can loosen it. Therefore the wise take care of everyone And abandon no one. They take care of all things And abandon nothing. This is called “following the light.” ... Tsu, Lao. Tao Te Ching
  24. Got it. Thanks. I had misunderstood your meaning. So if one actually realized the rainbow body, would it then not be a conceptual construct, or is it still then a conceptual construct that is somehow created?
  25. Very interesting on studying it, but not practicing. If you dont mind my asking, why would you do that? Ecstatic conductivity could also simply be called energy flows.