Osalina

I so enjoyed your statements. I am new here and just made a new post introducing myself and my new book on the Alchemy of the 5 Elements. That is how I teach and learn to find my inner peace is through poetry, rhythm and tapping into the child mind to enjoy the simplicity of life and nature.

Peace be with you,

Osalina

This chapter strikes me a little because it shows how the physical is able to get the mental under control. It shows how the mental reverence (balance?) bleeds away because of the seemingly anxious situations we place ourselves in. Or, in some cases, our choice of perception. How very easy it is to get anxious at today's affairs and let the news of the world bleed our balance away. We must always keep in mind that these items are merely the perceptions of others that we are seeing; that for every anxious moment we have worrying about something, there is something equally wonderful on the other end of the scale that we're ignoring. We choose to live in fear, seems to be our path - until we figure out otherwise.

 

It seems that life has provided us with the things that return us to harmony, if we choose to alter our inner course. Music, poetry, rites - those things that filter out the inharmonious and send us back to the One. Total focus on something other than the perceived problem.

 

When you are inwardly tranquil and outwardly reverent

You are able to return to your innate nature

And this nature will become greatly stable.

 

I like this part a lot. To return to our innate nature is to return to the child's mindset. Not in the sense that we become petulant, demanding, and cry easy. In the sense that we have made no judgment and everything out there is 'good', in the mind of the child. Until his parents teach him their fears and he starts adopting them. To be able to reach out to each and every of the 10,000 things without having to either express "Ugh", or "Ahhh". The place of non-differentiation is where the balance of the Tao is found.

Hello,

My name is Osalina. I found you through Dr. Stephen Chang who was a teacher of mine in Maui in the 80's and 90's while I was living there. I have a website www.abcpeace.com which I am currently working on to transfer from www.abcpeace.net and so I created a link to Stephen on my currently www.abcpeace.net site and found your site. Taoist Alchemy is a subject I am especially interested in since I have just published a new book called "The Alchemy of the 5 Elements" subtitled "The Legend of the Beet Brothers".

In my book I teach the 5 Element Theory along with the history of Alchemy and its relationship to the 5 Elements through an imaginative children's story called "The Legend of the Beet Brothers" In this story the Beet Brothers (Beet the Beetnik and his brother Mr. Beet Hoven) study with the 5 Elements in the College of of Alchemy for Plants to learn how to heal humans. Their Elemental teachers are Solar the Sun King, Edena the Earth Mother, Airey the Air Angel, Watson the Water King and Ester and Ethen the Ether King and Queen also using Ayurvedic analogy instead of wood and metal for ether and air. I teach about the organs, glands, systems, taste, emotions, motivations connected to each element, herbs and foods etc... through poetry, story, humor and many recipes and include history lessons based on actual history of alchemy and myths surrounding alchemy. So I thought it would be fun to share these ideas with others who seem to be of like mind. Looking forward to connecting with you all. If you like I can add a direct link to this site as well from my website.