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Like a good jazz riff all I can do is find my own story within the masonic one and see what music it makes.

As a child, from my earlest school age I attended a jewish yeshiva. This means that my natural inborn spiritual insights wrestled that particular rigidity and developed great affection for the underlying ripeness of instruction…[Read more]

this is the part I love…”also the opportunity to conger your own Disciples for your inheritance upon completion of your apprenticeship, & teach your own private students at the same price.”…taoist franchises….yuk…barry

Hi Andy and all. I agree both with Snowlion’s enthusiasm for experiences this form conjures and also Mat’s recognition that the more you keep up with other forms of inner and outer chi Kung the more capacity you have to ‘eat and digest’ what comes back.
It is a dance a ceremony and a mystery. The first time I did it I related it to the…[Read more]

I am so happy to see love brought out and questioned. We are so Hallmarked into a saccharin sappy love and I have made love a prison because of how it was presented to me. When my partner told me she loved me a few monthe ago I threw up. Literally threw up. When she told me she was hurt or angry I was digesting just fine.
It is as if I have…[Read more]

Very well said Wendy. You try to give words to that which is beyond words and only sound like contradictions but are paradox instead. I could feel your curiosities touching those edges of reason. Thanks for that.
You use the word ‘seeing’ from that stream-field. My sensual experience from this place is synesthetic where all the senses become a…[Read more]

I was just in China and while in the temples, while the monk wasn’t looking I would physically take the shape of the deity presented, mudras and all. The animals were especially fascinating for me to embody. At first I was sitting on them like the conquerer and then they were carrying me with a whole lot of implicit communication between me and…[Read more]

Thanks Snow for your perspective. It worked out great because I showed up and was present for them. Made it totally accessible as chi kung is at its root. Surprised at how much I had integrated in order to share. SO glad you are doing your work. they were so hungry for it. Take care, barry

Yes Michael all you say about the essence of this being feels true to me. It is difficult to put words to the experience but then again that is what the forum is about.
The force appears from a deep earth place, one that is not of this time or dimension. Yet the force is also the embodiment and therefore teacher to me of the three heavens…[Read more]

It sounds like you learned to enter yourself from your Dan tien, the lower belly. This seems to be a wonderful affirmation of the water and fire method working really well and your discernment about its proper use. It is inspiring to read, thanks, baba

I have begun over the past year to use the Primordial Chi Kung form Michael has transmitted. The form is relatively easy to learn, though it appears complex, and is such an attractive and supportive vehicle when nature is pulsing back and forth, when it reaches the end of one flow to change into the other. The form helps me embrace the center and…[Read more]

Thanks FF. Your metaphor is an apt one. Spatial awareness isn’t as strong in my processing but visual is. The auditory is one that has recently increased as I open. I tried this last night and while it certainly wasn’t as linear/clean as you suggest the essence of observing, asking, releasing, smiling was. I just feel my relationship to the life…[Read more]

cheers

Realized through simple practice that it is the force of these emotions that can strengthen the energetic matrix rather than the matrix needing to be strong enough to handle them. Perhaps it is the chicken and egg thing. That one gets experiences one is only able to handle even if the mind rebels.
AS I work the Primordial form and welcome…[Read more]

Teacher student via e-mail. It is so western and effective. You have given me a lot to notice and ground into. Realignment is my name. Thanks Michael, baba

thanks snowy

Great ideas and contradictions ff. The right and wrong thing is before Aristotle just go back the the Garden Of Eden. It is so rooted in our minds. I am not sure how a person raised without that polarizing story views merit.
I know that my practice develops a relationship with inner virtues. I guess I tend to use that inner resonance to them…[Read more]

Hey, not inappropriate for me in that it is something you feel engaged in and willing to share. I think the essence of Emoto’s work for me is that we are composed of water on a water planet so the inner smile isn’t only a fond intention but a deep resonance that affects us on all levels down to the molecular. The power of intention perhaps.
For…[Read more]

Yes, it is important to articulate this process and for me to hear it from the outside in. I especially like the distinctions about the Tao Immortals as opposed to other forces, I had not quite communicated this importance to my inner spirit.
I experience the discussion of which practice is best from the outside as silly but also profound. I…[Read more]

Yes, I have felt a growing appreciation of center in myself. The practices touch me in a deeper way, more chi and more shen…meaning more personally connected circulation. What has shifted for me is the jing level as is reflected on the TV screen all over.
During all these years of practice I have tried to hold onto a marriage that…[Read more]

Good question and the opposite intention is involved, that of association through inner communication. Using the physical body as one aspect of spirit and generating room for the energy body to emerge from deep inside.
If you think it is without struggle or true inner tests though you are mistaken. The life force will instruct, it is better to…[Read more]