Dragon and central channel

Yeah so much of what you say is bang on the money.

Actually though I just have to say something. I am not in any way attempting to challenge anyone’s practice at all. Honestly and truly. I really like this board for the reason that, as Michael said to me at the beginning when I first joined, there is no need to be a card-carrying taoist to post here. I also love everyone on this board, and, 10,000 slaps or not, I’d hug Alexander like a brother if he were right in front of me. If he’d only notice, I’ve learned alot from him!

So much for that. I also feel I have progressed in ways other than the ways on this board. Alot of people here don’t practice purely Michael’s way. I have discovered something that works, really and truly. After a few more posts on my blog, anyone, including Alexander, can make up their own mind if I’m right when I say that. Not everything I work with would work for everyone else. Similarly, not everything in HT would work for me. I know this; I like to discuss what people feel so I can understand it, I never ever have told people they should practice a certain way; I want only that all ways be accorded equal respect.

Now this is something else I want to say. As soon as I came here an argument was breaking out around Bill Bodri and Huai-Chin Nan. I want to say that I have learned alot from Nan, but Bodri (speaking for Nan by implication) has dismissed practices of moving chi as delusional and unnecessary – everyone knew he was speaking of HT. This was unworthy of anyone who has real spiritual attainment. I have also learned alot from Frantzis; in his books he deliberately besmirches the healing dao under the guise of ‘fire practices’. I think his behaviour in that way is unnecessary and divisive. What began then in terms of the way different taoists speak of each other has only continued.

Of the taoists I’ve learned from or had contact with, Michael is really the one who says, lets open a dialogue, lets talk, lets see what happens when you are allowed to bring in anything. It’s for this reason I love and respect Michael’s way, not for the details of his practice. My own practice I keep thinking will fall in line with some healing dao methods but each time I make a step it seems to take me somewhere else. I come back here not for the practices therefore but for the attitude and for the people.

Why, in a world which is crying out for spiritual progress, should those who are achieving it be so dismissive of one another? I don’t understand it. I believe that every tradition whatever would be better if it could open itself to others.

I also don’t believe I deserved 10,000 slaps! I know that what I’m practicing might seem unrelated to what is taught here but I don’t believe it actually is, any more than I believe HT is unrelated to the techniques taught by Nan or Frantzis. I believe they are all very related, and I can already show some of the relationships in my blog and will do so.

Now obviously I don’t appreciate at all being told that I know nothing, am deceiving myself or lying or not understanding what I say or trying to control things and thinking only but not progressing – no I don’t like that much! And I don’t remember ever saying such things to Alexander. But I can live with it, because I know the truth as I see it in my heart. The only thing that would really bother me is if people forget to be open to what is different from themselves just because they know they are on a path that is great for them. No-one in the Healing Tao wants everyone to practice Healing Tao do they?

jason