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… in which doth a man, verily, find his true self, and though he hath not all wisdom, still I deem it way cool!
… in which the cry of the wolf in the tundra is revealed as the aching for truth in the dark tentacled snake of nature!
… in which your secret fear becomes your greatest hope and marries your inner light!
… in which the mystic death of self suddenly makes life worthwhile again for all!
The third post on ‘Notes of Nnonnth’ – Already read by God, what are you waiting for??!!?
http://nnonnth.wordpress.com/ – squeezing the toothpaste tube of wisdom!
Nice blog, NN, brings together all the influences in your life under the umbrella of neutrality.
What is poorly understood about neutrality is that it is a force in itself, not simply the negation of yin and yang, not simple neither-neither. Neither-neither is useful only on the mind level, to neutralize the tendency to conceptualize. Zen is great at that, Tao develops the skill. That true light doesn’t belong to the personal you until you own it and integrate it with physical plane. Then you are immortal.
When you talk about body as holding the key to true will, you are describing the focus of inner alchemy in cultivating jing. Evven though jing is not body, it produces body. And yuan jing is the “body everywhere”, space itself. But how to grasp it?
It can only happen step-by-step, it is a progressive cultivation. People like Buhlman break through, but I doubt he can hold it while functioning in ordinary mind. That is always one problem. The other problem is teaching others how to cultivate it, so that we are moving beyond random luck or grace. That is spiritual science, of which magic is a branch.
I took me 15 years to stabilize my inner personal experience of my original nature, and another 15 years to figure out how to best teach it so that male and female and sun and moon all fuse into the same space at the same time at the level of jing. The test was the retreat last week in your backyard, and it seems the method I downloaded from my future self three weeks ago is transmissible. Stay tuned.
and keep up the good work.
michael>>What is poorly understood about neutrality is that it is a force in itself, not simply the negation of yin and yang, not simple neither-neither.<>Neither-neither is useful only on the mind level, to neutralize the tendency to conceptualize. Zen is great at that, Tao develops the skill. That true light doesn’t belong to the personal you until you own it and integrate it with physical plane. Then you are immortal.<>It can only happen step-by-step, it is a progressive cultivation. People like Buhlman break through, but I doubt he can hold it while functioning in ordinary mind.<>That is always one problem. The other problem is teaching others how to cultivate it, so that we are moving beyond random luck or grace. That is spiritual science, of which magic is a branch.<>I took me 15 years to stabilize my inner personal experience of my original nature, and another 15 years to figure out how to best teach it so that male and female and sun and moon all fuse into the same space at the same time at the level of jing. The test was the retreat last week in your backyard, and it seems the method I downloaded from my future self three weeks ago is transmissible. Stay tuned.<>and keep up the good work.<<
Will do my best!
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NN,
I thnk you are probing into an area is cutting edge for spiritual science, i.e. the interface between religion and magic. I think this has different fronts, some dealing with community/social value issues, others dealing with impact of method on spiritual experience. These may boil down to issues of Will/Intention behind magic, religion, and spiritiual science, a will that can be applied to many different area of life.so the Zen community is not very focused on wordly destiny, while some religionists are very focused on god manifesting what they need here more than the next life. The alchemist is working on refining the whole, but historically in secret, unseen. The energetic infrastructure all three use may be similar, but applied for totally differnt ends.
A big fat, boiling cauldron of fun and pain is the result…..
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I care nary a care for ‘religion’ but I do care about manifestation of course, all magicians do. You’re right about intention for certain, and it boils down to a lineage question as well… one can look at lineage and religion as linked (like it or not) however what you are calling ‘alchemy’ is not as far from what I’m talking about as you might think. Not if this sequence means anything to you:
1. Body moves chi
2. Mind moves chi
3. Chi moves itself
(putting it in taoist language). All I mean is, I can’t quite talk about it yet.>>A big fat, boiling cauldron of fun and pain is the result…..<<
hahahahaha yes. Well we signed up for it! j
Hey Jason,
If I can suggest that you title your announcements or your post with a brief description of the subject, as well as your promotional taglines ;-), it might help generate more traffic with the busy people.
-MichaelL
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