Fū Yue

Without integration, there is no comprehension. Without the application, there is no understanding, only the potential for understanding without any actualization of that potency. You will not be answering the question, just telling a lie or a fanciful story, because it falls outside of your actual experience and is thus just a tall tale, an idea. It may be close to the answer on account of that hidden potential, but it is not the answer to the question.

But you must consider that, in pushing your 'help' on another person, you may be harming them. Just because you see yourself as on the right path, does not necessarily mean the other person does - and, this being the case, they - considering your views erroneous may find your 'help' offensive to them. To keep pushing your 'help' on them even after they make it clear that this is the case will not lead to them suddenly seeing that you were right all along. It will just lead them farther from where your intended help was trying to point them to, because they will be trying to get away from you! Not because they were afraid to face the truth, but because they wanted you to stop imposing upon them..

People aren't living in reality. They're talking about it, debating it, loving it, hating it, making snide remarks about it, but they aren't actually being here, in this reality, right now. The vast majority have no idea what is happening to them, and are in a daze as if smacked across the face with a board called LIFE. I invite you to consider that you, as well, may be being deceived by your own expectations. I am not implying that there is no such thing as 'bending the elements', but that it may not be the elements that need to be bended. There may not be any elements at all other than you.

All of us owe our growth to the dreams we had as children. Isn't this all just our wildest dream becoming reality? Half the fun is the madness of it all, and it is our innately childish nature that allows us to take it and run with it.

Yes. When the world is revealed to be as it truly is - revolving around you, along with everything else in an ecstatic dance, a heartbreaking rhythm soaking through the fabric of reality melting into a single taste at the tip of your tongue, it's pretty difficult not to drop your old paradigms and just enjoy. It's not like you have a choice at that point lol. Enjoy the journey, enjoy the fruits of labor and enjoy the mystery. Enjoy it all, that's my motto.

Those who say ignorance is bliss have never tasted any sort of true bliss which is inseparable from the truth. They are just trying to justify their meager and fleeting pleasures which do not give them any sort of relief or peace of mind - and without that peace of mind, there can be no real bliss.

What is the difference? That's right. It cannot be defined. Let's not speak of defined in the manner which you are prejudiced toward, but rather defined as in confined to form. Not conceptual form, mental fermentation or thought, real form. The forms you see when you look outside. It cannot be defined as those things, because those 'things' are not 'things' at all, just the circumference of it, the infinitesimal edges of a sphere. When I say that 'they are the boundary of it', I am not speaking metaphorically. What does sound do in an empty chamber? Do you know the science of black holes? Time is warped around it, and the closer you come to it, the slower your acceleration appears to be. No particle can escape the event horizon once a certain distance has been breached. And you know that we are not moving forward in time, but revolving around it... I don't think that bit about desire was for me, but your own personal thoughts, so I'll leave it alone. What? I never used the term fool. And did you really think it was necessary to define a word for me... on the internet? As for that profound harmony - it has it's roots in profound simplicity, so anyone, from fool to kingly scribe, would be able to understand it if they really took the time to contemplate it. It is explaining itself. Just look around you. All of it is language. You cannot get the Tao defined more clearly for you than by reading nature.

It cannot be defined, so to speak of it is impossible. I say it cannot be defined, but it can be known, though to know it is to know silence. I say it is silence, not the stillness which comes before motion. In any case, it eludes word and itself defines language though it is never described. What is an empty circle? You'd think I was talking in riddles, but I am being literal. What is the center of the universe?

I just wanted to pop in and say that I agree completely. What everyone seeks to emulate with technology is our own natural ability. What people seek in church or religion is innate to us without any of these things. If humans hadn't been introduced to all of these methods as children, their lives would be full of the wonder and magic that humanity is so lacking now. Life is simple, and in that simplicity, there is the answer. Too much time spent rationalizing their existence, marginalizing the mystery, and for what?

Hearing the internal music of the spheres is a good thing, it is a sign of progress... though not the sort you were hoping to cultivate in your practice, it seems. It will eventually fade away, so you should enjoy it and know that this too will pass. The central channel, though it goes through the center of the spine, is not inside of the body. It is more like a spacial vortex, and so when it is activated what will be felt is 'emptiness', as if it were magic, coming from some place far away and yet intimately close. The body is an instrument in the truest sense of the word, so when it becomes harmonized, what would result but music? You say 'behind me' as if you were truly your body! No, you are That. Do not be afraid. Do, however, cease all practice and ground yourself in your regular life. Let the phenomena which you've cultivated be and just live your life normally. Meanwhile, contemplate what you are really trying to do with your practice, because the mind is capable of creating miracles and many other interesting and terrible things. Any sights, smells, sounds or feelings you can imagine, the mind can recreate with stunning accuracy, hence why the masters are always stressing non-attachment. By the same method you use to create your 'internal thought voice', that is the same method used to create other mind-sounds. Don't regard them as real or arising from some disorder, when the mind is thus empowered your expectations become potent. When you have energy, manifestation is just a matter of will.

What was your goal in doing your neigong? How much do you know about the sushumna nadi?

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No, my friend. The best way for you to seek the truth is to try the practices. To sharpen your wits and sense of feeling to the furthest extent you can and actually map the territory of your body and mind yourself. There is superstition, and then there is actual reality, that is happening to you right now. Don't believe anything that anyone at all, scientist or not, says to you, until you've done your own inquiry, using the most powerful tool available to you or any other human, your own mind. I understand where you're coming from. However, the only way you will be able to see what you're missing is to accept that everything you see, hear, feel, read, write and eat are all uncertain. Anything could be happening right now, so if you are going to be greatly skeptical of what has been scientifically disproven then you must also be greatly skeptical of what has been scientifically proven. You could be in a very simple hologram. 'Ghosts and spirits' could simply be aspects of your own mind given form via tri-color manipulation of the brain a la 3d glasses on a brain in a jar, but then the same thing could be said of other people. You are made of 'energy'. This is an undeniable fact. If all of the atoms in your body were not moving at insanely high speeds, you would be torn to shreds by the objects around you, because we are moving extremely fast through space. Can that 'energy' be manipulated? If that energy could not be manipulated, you would not be able to reply to my post let alone move around through the world. All volition of will requires force. If you are going to be skeptical of energy, then you must also be skeptical of the continuity of space-time itself, which can only exist as an expansion of extremely powerful and condensed energy movement. That does not necessarily mean that all those tall tales about the use of energy is true, but there is something there, and it can be controlled, and we are living proof of that. You may not have the money to set up some large research project with other people, but you have an abundance of time and nothing else better to do than research your own existence from the most intimate standpoint of all - between your two eyes. Your own body is the greatest research facility. You don't actually have anything to lose, yours and everyone elses lives are like a split second flash of lightning and they could end any second. Anything 'proven false' could just as easily become a reality the next moment. So don't put your chickens in any basket, is all i'm saying. That basket could be an illusion.

'What science has uncovered'... What have you actually uncovered? What do you actually know? A healthy dose of doubt is good, but don't mistake intellectual laziness for skepticism. No amount of reading, no amount of words can ever make up for actual first hand practice. Honestly, how much do you even really know about the nature of 'existence', how much do you really know about the process of a thing going from 'non-existence' to 'existence'? How much do you really know about this thing we call 'reality', outside of what other people have told you, outside of what you've told yourself, what do you really know? Maybe you should direct that skepticism toward your entire base of knowledge up to this point. All of the conclusions that you've drawn, up to this point in time, may well be completely false.

Isnt that very quote saying that the grass is the same?

Be chill, but don't get waterlogged and lethargic. Maintain your sharpness at all times, don't just let them step on you, but don't be offensive either - be fully yourself, and don't let anybody cow you into surrendering your dignity. Like π guy says, you should be prepared to defend yourself. Cultivate a strong personality, presence and take good care of your body, and you will be fine... of course, if these boys are trying to hit you with hockey sticks, you should really tell someone about that.

I just drew this tonight.

.. You will know. When you can hear the planets singing and the stars are telling tall tales from afar, the sound of natures growth trumping the sound of local humanity, it's difficult not to notice you've suddenly entered a new world.

Even though school sucks, school is easy. The work we do in school these days is easy. Don't quit if you could easily pass through your schooling, getting good grades without putting in undue amounts of effort... It's a pretty good deal. Meditate your way through school, put all the fools to the test, prove you're the best and then start slinging fat beats on the streets.

They don't just have wildly different meanings based on the individuals. Even within the individuals they have wildly different, constantly changing definitions based on a myriad of factors, including irrational, nonsensical, and even no definitions at all. They may as well be lies, because the moment we say it what we meant to say has become something completely different. They're just stories until we are experiencing them firsthand. The truth is the truth, indeed, and the truth always eludes attempts at filtering or defining in accordance with small perspectives. No words could possibly encapsulate the truth. Being can only be an experiencing. The reason why no matter what you say about it, it does not change the truth is because all of the words are false after the fact, all of the debates are based on nothing, and the thoughts don't come from anywhere 'truthful'. All of that is in the past the moment the words hit the screen, come out of your head or fall from your tongue. The truth is right now, everything else is superfluous. Every perspective is just a part of that 'right now'. There is truth in all perspectives happening now, but to consider that one perspective is more 'truthful' is just a falsehood, because it's ancient history the moment a moment has passed. Harmony in change is the only constant.

That may be true, but the actual action is not up for interpretation. If you punch someone in the face, you punched someone in the face. Sure, maybe that could be a metaphor, or have some deep seated meaning behind it, but the persons bruised face is only saying 'I just got punched in the face '. Instead of trying to judge whether people are living 'in the truth', one simply looks at how they are living right now, rather than attempt to concoct some convoluted meaning out of some insignificant words which may or may not mean anything at all. And if you cannot see how they are living right now, trying to judge them based on some insignificant words says more about you than them. The truth must be lived, not talked about, thought about or debated.

not at all. words are very easily misinterpreted, and being imperfect descriptors of actual truth by nature of the truth itself being undefined, it is very difficult to get your actual point across when talking about such things. It is a bit more similar to a hive full of bees all buzzing at different frequencies, barely able to hear one another in the cacophony. Actions, however, are very clear. A bee stings you, the fish are swimming in the river and there is a bird flying in the sky. Though the words are evocative the action behind them speaks for itself. But when we start getting needlessly complex, talking about words talking about words talking about the universe as a whole being behind the words eating fishsticks while we post on this topic, there is a lot of room for misunderstanding.

Have you experienced death and rebirth?