Seatle185 Posted October 8, 2017 Thank you for the reminder! I often think, that the first step in any practice, no matter what tradition is trying to fully embody the earth trigram - complete openness, receptiveness, and humility. Which as mentioned, means forgetting everything you think you know. If needed it can be brought back, but in order to learn properly all the conflicting knowledge you may have learned in books or from other teachers needs to be put aside for the new material to really soak in in my opinion. And it gets harder the more you develop and progress actually, but to continue its all important 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites