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My world, or at least the world my heart-mind is in, has no heirachy. Plagiarising my own terminology, idiot and genius exist on different side of that Mobius strip. And what more a handle which came to my mind over 15 years ago when Idiotic Taoist became my handle. It sprung off from a little snippet from Chuangtzu, that the Tao was known by the Idiot, except the Idiot do not know the words to say it. Negativity will be what you like to put to it. As the same with positivity. How about accepting a stance in the middle and look at that handle with neutrality and without judgement made. The world full enough of judges, of how you must act, how you must dress, how you must think, and how you must use your time. How about accepting all and each other, unless that person is such as to be thrown into the bin and out of sight and mind. The Idiotic Taoist aka Shanlung http://shanlung.com/

Its like in a buffet when you already ate enough. Can anyone then go eat even more? If so, then to each his own. How can one go getting more happy when he is already happy enough. Or do we then add more words like that peculiar Americanism of quality time that I spoke about recently? Quality happy to show my happiness is quality better than yours? If so, go ask an American how to up the level of happiness and follow his direction. I humbly withdraw Idiotic Taoist

What aspirations do I want for now I am 62++? How about maximizing my happiness and minimizing aggro to myself and anyone else. And to eat when hungry To drink when thirsty And to fornicate when horny Idiot lurching and reeling on the path aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

I am an unapologetic carnivore. I think I wrote enough in my webpages and livejournal blog to let those writings be the witness as to my outlook on all things big and small, bright and beautiful that share this Earth with us. I have been through the times where meat did not come in shrink wraps. And from times when if you go to camp in Islands for a week or so, and you wanted a BBQ, you bring meat on hoof. Strangely in all those occasions, the task ot sending them on fell onto me. A task I did not relished, but a task I knew got to be done and done in least pain for them and with respect for them. Perhaps that was why I decided Taoism suit me fine as being carnivore is accepted. I once asked a Taiwanese friend how to distinguish between Buddhism and Taoist temples as they shared many common entities. He told me to look at the altar offerings. Buddhism altars would have flowers and fruits and Taoist altars would have that and in addition, roast pork and chicken as well. I kept quiet to him that the Dalai Lama loves a good steak now and then, Idiot stumbling about on the Path aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

I doubt if I would have written better if I append MasterSifu or HeWhoMustBeListenTo, or EarthyImmortal, Or SlayerOfHotAirWorm to my name. Or If folks listen to me more should I have done so. And since there are so many worthies here that I felt so insignificant to that strewn pearls left and right of them, I might as well claim this forum as the village to be the Idiot in. An entity very close to the Bum Idiot on the Path aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

One will be humiliated if one chose to be humiliated. I never start trouble. When I was younger, I had walked into trouble to end trouble my way. At times, allowing trouble to start knowing that I will end it. Then I could see trouble brewing. And walked into that to defuse that trouble with words. Now I see trouble, I walk away to smell roses elsewhere. My choice to do what I believe the Tao brings me to do. As is my choice in the handle that I use in Taoist forums, in the past, and at present, and into the future. The Taoistic Idiot

Growing peyote there is better and more spiritual Idiot wandering on the Path

Bum rap on the Tao. But the Tao does not care or mind. What is there in a Name? Idiotic Taoist

Do remember the ancestry of birds. Birds did not start with the egg. They started long long ago with the age of T Rex and others of their like. For all we know, they possesed collective wisdom of a lineage longer than us. Think of that next time you rip into that drumstick or enjoying that scrambled eggs. Wujing has the time and the inclination to watch the stone breathing and the grass growing. Unlike most of us in desire to go for quality time and end up neither with quality or with time. Or is quality time peculiarly American propensity for glorified words? But on other hand, I thought I read enough American authors from Mark Twain, Thoreau, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald etc etc. Never seen them talking of quality time. Perhaps its because they had no clue what quality time is all about unlike most Americans now. In which case those authors must be pitied for being clueless of quality time since they did not write or evoked that. In the same way Chuangtze be discarded from the Taoist canons as he never mentioned the Tao in his writings and therefore a mere Pretender. Another reason why I felt with more words and more explanations made with even more lofty sounding words, our minds became more entangles and further from the Tao. Sorry if I add to that confusion by banging out more words instead of voicing my thoughts the way Wujing is doing so well. Idiot wandering on the Path aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

Stosh, Dont talk of the UN. It seems even mentioning in another thread in the lobby " hey its a new guy" had this unfortunate effort of stopping all talk in that thread, other than well meaning advise from GrandmasterP for me to seek treatment for my thoughts of flagellation, necrophilia and equine bestiality. Maybe that mystical monk or immortal I met wanted to remain hidden. And he came to me so he could remain hidden. He knew whatever I wrote would make others shut up and not talk about it. Imagine John Chang and his puny powers. Still being talked about because of the folks he met and their shouts to the world were repeated and repeated, even into here. And John Chang coming out via Ring of Fire was well before that mystical monk coming to me. And btw, it is bad to get the UN to shut up. I thinking even useless talking is better than napalming or rocketing each other, even if I do think some deserved to be napalmed and bombed. GrandmasterP, If I am in your part of the world, I definately will drop in on you and your friends. And talk of things while enjoying your tea and cakes. I had felt enttities like that mystical monk aka immortal should also be very concerned with the state of our poor planet. Even if not for the cancer like humans infesting the planet, they should be concerned that this same planet support them and they should do their bit in frightening the shit out of all that care and with the power and control of $$$$$$ to effect real changes. And not pounced on an innocent like me who cannot even spread properly word of them. My work involved in a fair bit of travelling about. In the first year of that meeting, his presence was very close to me. When I was in my hotel room in Erlangen, Bavaria, or in Guangzhou, there were times I felt he was there beside me. I regret to this day I did not just abandon my neu rou lunch to follow him when he walked away. Or that I should have just dropped to the floor , grabbed the end of his robe and kowtowed to him. Words here of mythical beings and mystical powers have been debated and analysed more finely than the number of angels dancing on the head of the pin. What I wrote first frightened all my poor birdies and beastie friends. I admit very high number of hits on that Fragments thread even if replies were zero. Or maybe it is that folks rather talk on mythical beings and mystical powers found almost only in books and not in real encounters. dwai, Take care of talks from anyone on jings. Listen politely to all, but listen closely only when those that talk to you of jing can do that at will and at all times and to you. I cannot do fajing at will, and at best one out of 3-4 times. But the tingjing that I had had tied people into knots. And moved them such that their own center of gravity trip them over. They thought I fajinged when it was only simple direction and redirection via tingjing. They need not have to be able to fajing at will. But at the very least, able to tinging. I take it that tingjing and dongjing will be like wuwei and tse-run, both sides of a Mobius strip, and not able, or indeed not important to know where tingjing start and where/when dongjing begin. Unlike what one guy said, the tajiji, real taiji that you do must lead you into that tingjing/dongjing. Regardless of what taijichuan. And I done enough. Starting from Sunjia, then into Chenjia Laujia, pau chew, the Chenjia Jiang set, the dadao set, the chiang set, the Chenjia Tsin jia set. Then the Wu jia, the Yangjia and the Yangjia sanshou suantuishou, the Chenjia ChenFake. All those sets, and the detailed instructions and beatings, finally let me into the path of tinging, even if I cannot say I understood that process. I can intellectualised as well if not better than most. That intellectualising and pseudo mambo scientific hocus pocus that I did was my biggest stumbling block into the world of real taiji. Not that what I say will matter or believed by you and most. You will probably want to continue to think too much, or listen to others who think too much, and paint yourself into a corner of what you think taiji is. The only way is to be tossed about by a real Master as against all those tiny masters and HAWs infesting much of our world. At the time when I met that mystical monk, I was only a few months on that path of tingjing. And even at a later stage, I dare not say I can tingjing without contact. Perhaps I might have like in that roof top encounter. But perhaps that might be figment of my imagination. I needed to be in touch with that mystical monk then. I tried so hard, both at the handing over of that 50NT, and later at the taking of the Milofor from his hand. All I needed was just a touch of him to connect and hear him via tingjin. Writing of that now, I could feel his laughter at me at both attempts. He knew what I was trying to do, maybe before I even thought of trying that. And to amuse himself, and to educate me in my incompetence, he did not allow it. The Taoistic Idiot aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

This is terrible! But I admit to that dastardly crime. I did try to flog a dead horse. I should have just sent that to the glue factory. My redeeming grace is that I am an Idiot and Idiot not liable to any acts of lunacy or idiocy. Your Idiot on the Path

Let me try to flog this dead horse again. You get a collection of good entity and bad entities in this thread. http://thetaobums.com/topic/24841-fragments-of-earlier-memories-of-taiwan/ Idiotic Taoist

We are ok here. It is the rest of the world that we should be worried about. The Idiot on the Path

Tung, I suggest you read the short intro I wrote of my martial arts here. http://thetaobums.com/topic/24575-taijiquan-styles/page__st__32 Above is just a short intro. You will see my links in above. That added a bit more. I wrote a lot more than that in the past. Except that was into BBS before the birth of Internet. And as you have read, what I wrote died in the hard disk that was fingered by that entity from the forlorn road side shrine. Stosh, Thank you for breaking that cone of silence. It was strange enough when I first wrote of that in Taoist BBS long time back. Even without the 2nd and 3rd encounter with the road side shrine by the road before that road descended to sea level again. As can be read, that 2nd and 3rd encounter was after the coming of Tinkerbell into my life. And in a way, an extension of that mystical monk episode. My earlier taoist friends did not know of that as that did not happen when I was writing in those forums. Even so, what I wrote drew a cone of silence there and then. As if they could not bring themselves to say anything. My credibility was already good then. I known more for understatements than over statements. Probably I am about the most visible and traceable on the Internet because of my prior writings even if they were on birdies and beasties. Enough photos can be seen of me as well. I know it can be said that I just accept that. Events that started over 20 years ago. The inexplicability of all that went by. The why it happened to me. Why not that mystical monk go into the UN where his words can do a lot more good, then appearing to me in a lonely town in the North of Taiwan. What impact had that mystical monk made? Other than striking most of the people who read of him speechless The Idiotic Taoist aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

Gerard I love the delicious hawker fare of Taiwan. My first dinner of all my frequent return visits to Taiwan will be at Lor Her Night Market to eat myself silly on the hawker food there. chris d You will agree the difference was the way that little Milofor came into my hand. There were thousands if not hundreds of thousands of that. I even have one Milofor about 2 feet high carved from wood and given as a farewell gift to me from the company I was with. None will match the little one sold to me by that monk. That Milofor is priceless to me now. Moonbar taomeow I wondered many times, alone and with friends, on the nominal fee. Which perhaps might just be a nominal fee and with no numerical significance. That cat looked like Dommie. My wife came back from Oman. I found I could see the photos this time unlike the last time when I just could not see the photos she took of Dommie the cat and Riamfada the parrot. All of them are doing well. GrandmasterP I was at your site. Pity I live about halfway round the world from where you are. Friends, When I wrote that report, I wrote that for an entirely different audience altogether. You can page back on my Lifejournal to know I have been writing in parrot and kitty forums. Comprising of nice people (and a few nasty ones), and young people , and I was conscious what I did for birdies and kitties had been a shock for most of them. The last time I was in martial arts and Taoist was in 1999. And that was all because of Tinkerbell. I did not just give up my taijichuan for her, I gave up writing in Taoism stuff too. I later went back, but as said, into birdie and beasties forums. I tried to keep true to the things that I did in Taiwan, but tone that down considerably because of the audience I was writing for. I could not bee too descriptive of the neu rou chang. Neither did I want to frighten them of the combat and fights I was involved in various challenges. And so, that was tone down. And even if not, I doubt they would have understood anything of tingjing. My account of how I tried to use tingjing on that monk had been unknown blah blah blah to the birdie folks then. And even here as well. I do not want to write more of that here. Combat taijichuan , and even more of my background of taijichuan belong to taijichuan thread elsewhere. From all I have read, which for that matter, how many here truly know of tingjing and use that as a matter of routine. Strangely, in the birdie forums, I would get a lot of questions and emails on routine birdie training and playing and cooking of food for them asking for more details. On accounts that took maybe 10 or 20 minutes to write in the first place. They known me also for years. And knew I never wrote anything but the true things. On the Fragments of earlier memories of Taiwan which took a few days to write, not a letter asking me more of the details. As if they were afraid to ask. And afraid of more details And afraid it was all true. That by closing their eyes, all that will go away. I gone over those events many times myself. Still trying to understand. Still trying to accept what happened. My friends from the bird forums did not help me with their induced cone of silence on that matter I was actually hoping for more questions from you all. That might help shed some light on those events. Or will I get another collective cone of silence here as well? Idiotic Taoist aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

That was on "state of wu wei" What about approval seeking? I have not the faintest clue. Just living of life is tough enough. Living life to please people and to seek their approval is far too difficult for me. And why in the world will one need to seek their approval? They never seek my approval to do their things. Surely the converse must be true in that I can, and should do things without the need of their approval. Idiotic Walker lurching and reeling on the Path aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

I view that as a heightened state of supra awareness, or actually beyond that heightened state of supra awareness. In which without effort, or going with the flow, penetration is made to the heart of the problem. I know I wrote below long long time ago. And flogged it about a few times now, even if in different thread altogether. But I have no reason to changed my mind on what I wrote long time ago. And little to add on what I wrote then. Taoism - Some thoughts on Wu Wei http://www.shanlung.com/oldwuwei.html Just your Taoistic Idiot aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

Why do I feel your implication that you and you only possess an open and fair mind in contrast to all the rest? Opps! I guessed that put me into the ranks of closed mindsets. Do those close minds besieged you in your life too?

Neither do I. How to pray to the Void or even to think of the Void? Or to the Infinite Tao. Can one picture the Infinite Tao? Easier and more cheerful to think of a happy Milofor, Or to a Buddha, or Jade Guardian, to channel the thoughts to. To Goddess of Mercy, to Jesus Christ, to the one of your choice.

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Welcome If it seemed nonsense, that will probably be right. I find if that make sense, I check if I accidentally got on my rose tinted glasses.

I just do not know where wuwei end and tzuran start. I am not even sure if there is a transition from one to the other. Might just be different sides of the same coin, or a form of Mobius strip The Idiot

Not to worry. I do not have many old postings. Those were done before Internet and those BBS died and gone without reincarnation. Kind of sad, at least for me. What we spoke about then is what you folks talked about now. My coming here is good for me. If I had not checked back on the google hit, I might not even have known of this Taoist site.And that too, was because someone here spoke also of Taoist Master Tseng Lao Weng. But it seemed Google scored more hits on my site at the time I checked then. What I kept in my old HD died in circumstances that will make your eyes pop later when I talk about that. If relevant, I do old postings. Otherwise I might have to plagiarised myself from my old writings. I thought I also did new writings. At 62 years old, my apologies if I have to talk of the past as I do have a hell lot of my past than the present. Last ten years I wrote largely on birdies and beasties, with periodic one sided forays into Taoism with my captive audience of beasties and birdie forums. Heck! it was the birdie that got me entirely out of taijichuan and taoistic forums 10 years back. And if she was still with me, I probably might not even be in this forum. It was YuanFeng that brought me here us together. The Idiot is an entity of ChuangTzu Which suited me very well. That Idiotic Taoist came to life in those old BBS 20 odd years ago before he went into hibernation Waking up again ten years or so later here. Your Idiotic Taoist aka Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

Long long time ago, I was an undergrad. If God then was not walking with me, Destiny was. So I thought. I was wrong. But what else was new? I organised and demonstrated against the Americans in Vietnam and cheered to see them flying off the rooftops of Saigon to their aircraft carriers and ditching the chopters into the sea. I despaired when the US withdrawal ended with the killing fields of Cambodia. I rejoiced with the fall of the Shah of Iran to despair later at the coming of the Ayatollahs I now mistrust any scrawlings on the walls, whether the hand is good or not. Such messages seemed always to have a cruel twist not seen at all in those words in the first place. I learned to mistrust everything I pity those who say or think "In God we trust, everyone else we audit" They placed their trust in the wrong entity, if there is actually such an entity. Why not give us just that wee bit more of wisdom? and that midge more of understanding and compassion in the making of us? Or he got so little to spare? or too indifferent to care? But No! HE did not or he chose not. A cosmic joke? at our expense? As we see the Earth degraded with greed and corruption as we collectively went to rape and despoiled her. To the point where the tipping point was reached perhaps 15 or more years ago. And Rene, go check on when that note from Blofeld was first posted by me, in 1999 and that was a reposting of something I wrote in 1995. That was when I was living in a remote fishing village SaiKung off HongKong. Somewhat like that Ancient Mariner and Wandering Jew, I seemed to be wandering all over. John Blofeld books got dog eared, then with pages missing, and then the entire book/books either got missing or misplaced. But misplacing the books were a lot less painful than having to part with my beasties or birdies. Books can be bought again or laughed off. Beasties and birdies took a part of my soul with them. And my wandering not ended yet. Perhaps it just began. Idiot reeling and lurching about on the Path

My wife is in the Sultanate of Oman right now. She flew there about a week ago and will be back in Doha , Qatar tomorrow noon. That was the second time she was there ever since we left Oman in Sep 2010. I hear of them of course. I could not bring myself to see the photos she took the last time she was there. You understand that I probably will not see the photos she took this time either. The cost of getting what my beasties and birdies to do what they did for me was heavy. My heart paid the price, even to now. Taoistic Idiot aka Shanlung 山 龍 http://shanlung.com/