Steven

>>>Another way to look at it is alignment,
>>>stress put pressure on the body, your body
>>>responded with headache and pain and you
>>>listened and responded by realigning by walking,
>>>one of the natural ways of movement and exercise.

Very true.

>>>Can we learn to relax even under pressure, this is our challenge.

This can…[Read more]

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an incentive for the company to keep you happy.

S

>>>The impression I get of the Wuji is as
>>>being the “universal ground”, [rest snipped]

I see you as a senior instructor someday, teaching
a class called “Grounding yourself in the Wuji”.

Big smiles,
Steven

P.S. It’s been a fun discussion 🙂

>>>This article says levels of loneliness increase
>>>when people perceive more social activity in others,
>>>so they have a higher standard to compare themselves to.
>>>That doesn’t make sense to me since I really don’t need
>>>some kind of common standards to figure out what my
>>>own needs are.

Yeah, this is just a theory of the…[Read more]

>>>a very experienced teacher once said to my class:
>>>”there are three types of people, those that make
>>>it happen, those that watch it happen and those
>>>that wonder what happened”. If you are a musician,
>>>those are words of wisdom. Especially a teacher…
>>>whatever you do is what other people will learn.

I agree, but there…[Read more]

You create and flow with whatever spontaneously arises.
This is different than trying to stop whatever arises.

Suppose you are standing in the middle of highway and a
Mack Truck comes barreling down in your direction . . .
Don’t get angry that the Mack Truck is there.
Don’t try to stop the Mack Truck.
Just neutrally step aside and let…[Read more]

>>>The idea of “responding with anger” is as follows:
>>>lets say you are confronted by an excess yang person,
>>>and this person is going to walk all over you with
>>>possible consequences to the quality of your life
>>>unless you respond with conviction, stating your own
>>>opinion.

I don’t find it necessary to get angry with…[Read more]

>>>I don’t think the Buddhists believe in killing
>>>the ego, this is a communication error.

You are, of course, right. The above is just
my personal perspective on their position, not
the one they actually promulgate.

Their emphasis on “not identifying your ego with your
essential nature” can create a negative judgement…[Read more]

This is a different notion than the
Buddhist idea of trying to kill the ego.

The ego should not be killed, as it is
an important part of who you are.

It should be embraced.

Rather than trying to kill it because it has an
“independent mind”, you cultivate to convince it
to join the party that is already underway.

This is really…[Read more]

>>>I would add one thing, we realize we are the flow,
>>>we are the change, there is no distinction, this is our true nature.

I mostly agree.

Except I would say we are but a fragment of the flow.

So I would say that “you are the flow”, so long as you are acting
in complete accord with the directionality of the lifeforce, as you
are…[Read more]

Great . . . yet another thing of many that causes cancer.

You know what else causes cancer.

THINKING ABOUT CANCER ALL THE TIME.

We should put energy into what creates good health,
not put energy into what causes cancer, because
in doing so we are giving more energy to the
“CANCER” entity.

The body is geared toward healing.
It…[Read more]

>>>I would agree that in a superficial situation,
>>>the choice not to be angry would help to maintain
>>>the balanced flow of qi, BUT IN A SITUATION
>>>WHERE A MORE FORCEFUL RESPONSE IS DESIRED TO
>>>MAINTAIN BALANCE, ANGER WOULD BE USEFUL.

So you believe that things are unbalanced unless
a forceful response is taken? Actually, the…[Read more]

>>>I think you are making a judgment that its not natural
>>>to respond with anger and even stopping a situation,
>>>if this is a natural response then you are trusting
>>>the universe, its a deep response and trust.

Not at all.

Of course an instantaneous response–regardless of what
it is–is natural. How could it be otherwise?…[Read more]

Hi Chris,

Since a lot of these concepts are beyond words
and comprehension, each person will probably have
their own interpretation–each with its own measure
of validity–so it’s difficult to point to one
person being right or wrong.

Nonetheless, I’ll play:

My feeling:

The Dao gives birth to the prenatal and postnatal.
The…[Read more]

>>>A way to view the “dropping of judgements” can be
>>>not to live in preconceived ideas, that if you life
>>>in a yuan state, you will respond to situations
>>>properly, which can include total rejection of
>>>actions and ideas and anger at them.

I would probably go one step further.

Namely, if you live in a state of complete…[Read more]

>>>How much Daoist cultivation (quantifiably speaking)
>>>is necessary to ensure immortality? How strongly
>>>would one need to believe Christ before salvation
>>>is given? Can muslim enter heaven through terroristic acts?…
>>>Mathematically speaking, the “percent saved” or
>>>”percent immortal” you are-if you could even quantify…[Read more]

OK, I’ll play:

It doesn’t make sense that salvation/immortality is a goal.

How much Daoist cultivation (quantifiably speaking) is necessary
to ensure immortality? How strongly would one need to believe
in Christ before salvation is given? How much karmic debt
needs to be erased before you are free of it so you can
go to nirvana?…[Read more]

>>>Was this some insight from Judith’s class?

The first half of my post was probably an application
of some of the triple warmer energetics that I
learned from her class.

The second half of my post was an “a-ha” moment of
reflecting on what I wrote and past experience.

S

P.S. It’s sometimes hard to know where some insights…[Read more]

Hey Dog,

I think you need to define what you mean by
“earn salvation”
and
“earn immortality” first.

Many heated arguments have taken place on this
forum in part due to disagreement on what
these things mean.

So, at the very least, explain what these
terms mean to you. 🙂

S