Nature hints - SIN SIU

[Mak_Tin_Si]

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Mak Tin Si

Edited January 8, 2009 by Mak_Tin_Si

[froggie]

thank you

[goldisheavy]

In nature, everything interacts, so when something happen it always have a reason and have an effect and a prediction. These are hints in the nature that taoist are trained to see and get.

 

Now, for example, when something BROKE, it will correspond to something that will broke in the coming future or something will not work out, etc,.

 

example : You are going to an interview for a job today. During the time when you are drving to the office, you spilled the cup of coffe and you broke your cup. That means your interview is not going to end up good anyway. So to avoid that, you must be more aware of what you say in the interview. On the Taoism side, you can do something to cancel out the hint and the interview will be fine.

 

These hints are all around us. Look more into nature and you will find out that there are lots of connections between things happening in nature. This is one of the trianing in Taoism for taoist. Very fun and very useful.

 

There is a connection between what happens "in nature" and how we feel and what we intend to happen and what we believe to be true. Someone who is mindful and contemplative can begin to notice the general flow of mind/experience. So before the cup gets broken they already feel it in their heart that it will break or something similar will occur. In other words, these experiences are not necessarily surprising because you can feel the general flow and you can also guide this flow using your intent. The problem with most beings is that they don't know what's good and what's bad, so they have no idea where to guide it, or they think they know, but they don't. It's like in that parable where a man had a horse who ran away and then later came back with another horse. Then his son broke his leg riding the new horse and then the war started the son couldn't be conscripted due to a broken leg. Each time people kept thinking this is lucky or think it is unlucky, but they didn't know, because there is never a conclusion in life.

 

So the whole point of guiding one's life is to not make any effort to guide it using one's own preconceptions, and then it is well guided, and this state is intentional, because one can just as easily intend to wrestle with life. So when the wrestling stops, it's just as intentional. When the prejudiced guiding stops, that's also a type of guiding and not non-guiding.

Edited December 2, 2008 by goldisheavy

[h.uriahr]

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