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I've never found that to be true.
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This. This right here might be at the core of a majority of vexation with regards to the topic. For individuals who have not personally experienced a significant enough decoupling of the societally enforced equivalency of the two, i guess i can see how it might be inconceivable that such a thing even exists. Dao Bums needs a "heart" icon. Lacking which, I give you a quasi-mystical photo of the lake and mountain I live next to, in appreciation. (photo by Stephanie Espinosa)
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I'm completely fooled, Nungali!
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excellent
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The photos are the practice. The Tao of the selfie
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You could request a PPD, and tell everyone that yours is not a "Personal Practice Discussion", but a "Perpetual Photo Discussion".
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Welcome! What cultivation are you currently doing? And what is your end goal for cultivation?
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Are you not? Luminous blob? I am confused.
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Am I cat now?
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Yup. It's how our minds process the perpetual unfolding of the eternal present...
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I can´t say what an abundance of synchronicities mean either but it strikes me as a very good sign. An alignment of inner and outer realities such that fluctuations are perceived as a smooth unified force, an edgeless flowing between the conventional you that lives inside your skin and the you that is as big as the universe? Seems to me that synchronicities are a prerequisite for creating positive change in the world. Most people try to change things by focusing on something outside of themselves. This method lacks oomph. It´s like a beginner at tai chi waving her arms around without an integrous connection through the body. Another sneakier way is to make the change on the inside and let it ripple out into the world synchronicity style. This is obviously an advanced method but I reckon it works better, especially for stopping hurricanes.
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ah how the mighty have fallen. When the neidan market was in full swing they claimed that you have to make a pilgrimage, swear a blood oath, get a magical lineage oral secret heart transmission through personal touch face to face...but when the market dried up suddenly a boiler-plate video is just fine makes you wonder
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here you go, cat https://www.taoistic.com/taoteching-laotzu/taoteching-38.htm
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What's with this Relative and Absolute Reality dichotomy? It is all very confusing...
S:C replied to dwai's topic in General Discussion
Very much agree with your first observations and paragraphs. How should there be knowledge of the absolute? We may have conceptions about it in our own relative minds, no? Or perhaps you mean that all relative conceptions of the absolute together are the Absolute because they appear on the projection surface of mind? -
Looked into Nathan Brine. I read his book with interest. Seems like a decent chap. Sadly his course fees amount to $2,750, which is a bit of a punt for an old miser like me.
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It's also a function of rotation!
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I would worry more about the violent thoughts than the headache part. The latter is kinda natural in first tries to be fair. It could be a simple case of lack of mental stamina, or monkey mind doing its best to resist. Or simply you overdid it.
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, ”when good and bad arise the Dao is destroyed” quote from I would have to look it up.
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How very synchronistic. I've been looking for a summation of different views on synchronicity. I have some theories as well, but am in a theory collecting mode right now. A fun one for me is one day, I went to a particular outdoor mall (Mall X) and decided to sit and watch the people drifting by. My mind drew an analogy to the inner states of mind--- this is how one might observe and relate thoughts/feelings. That night, I went to satsang type of activity. The teacher began to explain how to relax from being caught up in the mind. He said it was like going to Mall X, sitting down, and watching the people wander by. He'd never used that analogy before or since, nor had I explained what I had done.
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Thank you for sharing and welcome to the Dao Bums in general and to the transgendered thread specifically :-). Always nice to have another sister around. * and brother Blue Eye's ;-)
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sure! i have a proper dao-bums-relevant introduction thread in the welcome forum, so i'll do the trans-specific one here i'm rose. i started transitioning in late 2021 because i thought it would impress zhuangzi. i'm only half-joking. (before 2021, i spent rather more time than the average cis boy thinking about the zhuangzi as a trans-inclusive text) i do think that 無為 (wuwei) provides a good model for understanding gender. we tend to think of transition as a goal-directed set of changes away from Received Gender toward Desired Gender. but that misses its heart. Received Gender isn't something that comes "for free": it requires lots of active maintenance, both through active performance (為) and actively holding oneself back from behaving as the Desired Gender (不為). i don't think it's useful to define "woman", but if forced to, i would say: woman is what happens when i do nothing. 無為而無不為 (wuwei er wubuwei)—non-doing and non-not-doing.
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What's with this Relative and Absolute Reality dichotomy? It is all very confusing...
silent thunder replied to dwai's topic in General Discussion
Dropping pearls forest... thanks for sharing that. -
A part of it is your body producing the immortal medicine. However, it’s not really at the level of a practice. My understanding is it’s more of an outcome to transformations that change how practices work and who you are. It does have a physical component to it related to the bodies organ systems. I would say it’s not only part of certain alchemy lineages but is also referenced in certain old tantric yoga systems as well. we tend to approach things simply as practices as that’s the way the intellect works. However it’s much more subtle and nuanced than that and way more difficult or so I’m told. Not something that arises from a few practices or reading a few books. Probably requires substantial time in retreat from society, changes to the acquired mind and some feedback from others further along the path. I sometimes wonder if people really think through what it means to go beyond the acquired mind, if they really want to go through that much change to who they think they are. Though I don’t think you need to find a Taoist immortal to learn about it just as you don’t need access to a Buddha to learn about Buddhist cultivation methods or a Yogic immortal to learn about yogic methods. Though I imagine it might help, haha.
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Wisdom right there
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