manitou

the griffon in the background seems to be having its way with the sun disc.

yeah, but would it land on the Dobermans or would it fling her high up into the air? Seems like that's a good idea though. It would work either way. As an attack mechanism, or an escape mechanism

Perhaps he's the sage that nothing happens to.

So excellent. When an opinion is formed, all other possibilities are ignored.

It sounds like you are living right on the edge. PLEASE find a hobby, get out of yourself.

All I know is the action of the Dao is reversion. Regardless of what society or language we delve into, the Dao wants to revert back and meet itself. I think this template is written into every human. We are not separate beings, we - collectively - are awaiting our own enlightenment, the joining of the human to the source. I think it goes pretty deep.

That hand position is pretty remarkable. It definitely gives the impression of hard grasping, even involving the muscles in his arm. Artists don't usually do things for no reason. It is very important to him that this caduseus remain stable. As to the snakes looking eye to eye? Could it be that it's the moment that man realizes who he really is? He is meeting himself?

You've been to a doc, right? There may be a med out there with your name on it.

I know the assumption is that the cat is scared s**tless. I think that kitty might be laying in wait and torture...it almost has the look of an ambush. All she needs is for them to take one step further.......

That's pretty funny....

That shows a lot of adeptness that your mind can be stilled. If words are paining you, then you are taking the words of others personally. that's one of the shamanic four agreements: Don't Take Anything Personally. The reason being, is that nobody is really thinking about you or trying to hurt specifically you. There is no need for paranoia there, because people just act out of their own conditioning and impulses. People just care about themselves, unless they're refined people, in which case they do care for others. They're usually thinking about their own stuff, not you. I care for you, for I know that I am You. That's the whole reason. You have the ability to still your thoughts. Why give them sway when you consider that outside influences are coming in, demons? You have the ability to still your thoughts and laugh them off. Start training your mind to do this. Find one defensive stance, and take that stance mentally every time one of these things makes an appearance. And consider that this mental torture may have started long ago in childhood as a means to escape something else. If that's the case, then following the twine ball back to the original incident(s) will give you a starting place to make the corrections you need to make.

matter is matter. I'm guessing some matter has more consciousness than other matter. Isn't the concept of equality a bit on the moot side?

Oh, it boils down way beyond wanting something to happen. It's usually 'wanting to control what happens'

Why is it important that it is not qigong based, just out of curiosity? Are you giving a class?

This is the very scale that is the struggle. I'm finding more and more that when I set up a strategy of what I think would work best, I'm closing off other possibilities. I really am to the point of letting it all come to me naked and raw. When we stop the dynamic, whatever it is, it gets to lay there on the floor where everybody can see exactly what it is. Our greatest 'fears' about what could possibly happen are exposed as what they are - just fears. Karma is allowed to play out on its own without any help from me, despite how much I may want to protect the person who must suffer the consequences of a prior condition or action. And sometimes it's interpreted as lack of love or emotion. It is not. The love is a greater one, the understanding of oneness - and realizing that for us to come in and try to control anything is just to delay that which must be.

HD, it seems like you're entertaining a brillo pad of neural pathways in your head. It would be nice if you could unravel some of this stuff. Your dedication to the path is wonderful. You are obviously a very intelligent person, which sometimes works against us. Your mind is filled with possibilities but you tend to extend them out to extreme places. I have a friend who does something very similar to what your head does - he extends things out to the extremes and then frets about it. And he manages to extend his thoughts out to where they always cancel each other out, rendering him powerless and stuck in the belief that there's nothing he can do about anything. It's like everything points to "See? I told you this wouldn't work." When you're able to find some mental peace, all of your concerns will fuse together in an orderly way. If I had a suggestion to make to you now, at this moment in time, I would suggest that you stop living in the mental for a while, and get into the physical. Just forget this stuff for a month. Pick up some free weights. Go for a run. Shower. Carry wood, chop water Rx: Ignore head for 30 days. Chop wood instead.

End up in the drink, the fly fought for his dear life with his head submerged

I'm so sorry, Bhathen. It was a joke, a very bad one apparently. Burpees was something they used to make us do in gym class in school. You're right, he's missing the squats.... (but they are doing slow motion jumping jacks)

Yes. I do know what it is. They are slow motion burpees.

What are you afraid would happen if you did nothing?

washing off the blues replacing them with dark hues looking ominous

This is exactly how I was brought up as a kid to believe.

Personally, I find the challenge is to get along with everybody, regardless of their actions toward me. One of the four agreements of Don Miguel Ruiz is Don't Take Anything Personally. If I don't take things personally, nothing bothers me. It seems to be a choice. There is a way to embrace the Is-ness of a person's bad behavior without buying into it.

I think it's important to remember that if you can identify those qualities within another person, it's because you either have, or have had, those same qualities. Maybe not at this particular point in time, but at some point. The most helpful way (for my own progression) to walk the minefield is to remember that we're all the same entity. That will bring more love into the equation and less dissention.

No Soup for U today.