Alexander Alexis

I’m glad to see that someone has offered a contrasting view to the normal one taken on the substances mentioned so we don’t fall into the usual pattern. But I have something to add.

While I agree completely about the warmth factor for the stomach as a cooking pot, with regard to the cold water vs a coke idea, it is equally important to…[Read more]

I love it. It’s such a purely Daoist answer. A non-answer answer.

“The energy work done in neidan, with however many methods, is thus both similar and different to..”

“As with all Daoist practices, a lot depends on where the individual practitioner is coming from…”

“Are the end results the same? My inclination is to say no, since…[Read more]

The moment you started thinking about what to do you interrupted the healing process.

If you question “How,” you go into doubt.

Trick question: What raises your positive energy most?

Answer: Your heart.

So smile and forget about it and the next time you think of it it will be healed.

-A

“…we have the obligation to care otherwise our cultivation is meaningless”

Without care there is no real cultivation. The point is that when i reaction there also is no cultivation.

“and yes holding space and generating love and compassion is a way to deal with it…”

No it’s not a way to deal with it. It’s a way to change it.

Two things I have been seeing really clearly and learning about lately is the concept of embracing what is going on and the idea that we are now being pressed to trust ourselves at a deeper level than ever before.

Embracing what is going on without fear or resistance and radiating from that space of love sends energy that can transmute.…[Read more]

Hi Wendy,

I can feel the irritation you have about what is going on. I sometimes am blown away by how preposterous is the behavior of those in rule now. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Those beings are the embodiment of our worst denial. It looks to me though that they already are the manifestation of our karma. They represent…[Read more]

…that evaporates like mist
in the face of the sun.

“The taoists eat the universe.”

-Mantak Chia, Greater Kan and Li booklet

I have looked at this situation over and over again through time and come to much the same conclusions as you do. We have to let the lifeforce handle the process because it’s wiser than us.

But! Equally important is that WE are here to be the embodiment of the dao, agents of the lifeforce. As we grow and develop our relationship with life…[Read more]

Funny you should bring this up.
I emailed a friend on the Big Island to find out how she was doing and what it was like for her.
Aside from the objective stuff which is already known -very very violent shaking, etc- she described the experience as, “Not more clearing, more aloha!”

She felt completely positive about it, though a…[Read more]

…it was understood by those cultures that there was an active conscious relationship to the animals, and that they were communicating with the animals who understood what was happening. Tribes honored the fact that the animals they slaughtered and ate were aware of the fact that they were giving their lives for the good of those people. There…[Read more]

“how the **** are you going to smile to an animal and KILL it simultaneously?”

Apparently you cannot imagine this possibility. It is possible, and, in fact, has always been the underlying attitude for most aboriginal and ancient cultures. Killing a hunted animal was done with resect and appreciation by aboriginal Americans and this is…[Read more]

“i wondered, if i was a rain cloud, would i want to fall on land that is being farmed in a way that was unsustainable and destructive to the soil? naaa.”

Wow! What a point!

But what do YOU do with that then? Are you stuck with believing that it was meant to be and should be or do you want something better, at least for yourself?

I…[Read more]

“I do also beleive it is possible to transform even a negative vibration if one has the tools to do so.”

I agree with this but think it is simpler than most people believe and that it happens all the time. I believe that we always choose a vibration when we eat and imbue it into the animal or whatever we are consuming with our thoughts and…[Read more]

Yes, this has been a complicated place to interact! Ha! But rewarding.

I sometimes feel we are much too serious and that more lightheartedness is due. I think we are carrying too much tension and need to let go. I realized this after I saw the comments from you and Wendy and understood that I had provoked gravity instead of levity. Let us…[Read more]

“I just like to share MY fear and questions with this community.”

But what is your question? This?:

“…where to go, where was the middle, the passage way?”

Where is the middle, the passageway? Sounds like asking, “Where is my center?”

-A

Sly- I agree with W that the focus should be on grounding- always. You have to have a concentration of presence in the earth realm for anything you do to be safe and effective.

But the heart itself and the spiritual heart center are different and I believe that meditation on the center of the chest, the middle dantien, is very healthy all…[Read more]

The lifeforce will tend to go where it is needed for balance. This will be mitigated or moderated by your own beliefs and directions.

Bringing the chi down into the ldt concentrates it in the place from which it feeds your whole body. The ldt is the resting place, a reservoir, for the lifeforce. This does not close it off from the rest of…[Read more]

William, my thinking is going in the same general direction as Michael and uroburro. I would suggest that you focus on what, in daoism, is the core of all practices – balance. Look for it, meditate on it, ask for it. If you are drawn to herbs (and even if you weren’t!) I strongly recommend that you do this:

1- Find a good acupuncturist with…[Read more]