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Welcome Back Taomeow.

I think there’s a remember me button you have to click.

ok, then I'll raise you three absolutes

After a few more months of practice and not feeling a lot of benefits from it, I think I might have found the reason why: After checking everything, just to be sure, my doctor send me to the sleep clinic and long story short, I have a moderate case of sleep apnea caused most likely by a low jaw being too far back that disrupts completely my quality of sleep. But from what I remember from early pages, good quality sleep is a must for FPCK to work and it looks like I didn’t have that in quite some time... So I guess I'll pause my practice for the moment and will try again once those apneas will be sorted. Thanks for the help of everyone and especially @zen-bear for taking time to answer around here multiple times!

I'll see your bet and raise you two absolutes...

what about "omnipresent" as in being everywhere

Brahma Viharas for the Win! (or something like that)

Given a presence of mind that can “hold consciousness by itself”, activity in the body begins to coordinate by virtue of the sense of place associated with consciousness. A relationship between the free location of consciousness and activity in the body comes forward, and as that relationship comes forward, “practice occurs”. Through such practice, the placement of consciousness is manifested in the activity of the body. This is too complicated, IMHO. It's all really simple. No places, relationships, activities, or placement. This moment just is, and there is a simple awareness of that which belongs to no-one and no-thing - pervades the field of phenomena. Arriving at this simple understanding is hard for us humans, especially those of us with the burden of education. It took me years to realized what a handicap it was for me. Is Dogen saying something there, when he says "find your place where you are", when he says "practice occurs", and when he says "actualizing the fundamental point"? What's the difference between "just sitting" on the couch watching the Simpsons, and the "just sitting" that is shikantaza? The Theravada doesn't interest me. The first four Nikayas of the Pali Canon interest me, as do the writings of Yuanwu and Dogen.

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my highlighting Ah to be young and to still think everyone else is to blame and not know as yet that’s a complete dead end. Happy days.

Human madness will not end. There will always be extremes and there will always be differences of opinion regarding what is madness and what is sanity. As Jiddu Krishnamurti famously said, it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to such a sick society. But that does not mean we can't improve our situation and that of others by beginning at grass roots levels. Human "civilization" is at least 5 - 6,000 years old, possibly older, and yet nothing meaningful has changed in our collective and individual psyches. We are evolving technologically and possibily intellectually but not psychologically or emotionally. In many ways we feel more sophisticated, more knowledgable, more capable, but if you look at our situation, inequality is worse than ever in history, our destructive potential is more formidable than ever before, the effects of our presence on Earth more destructive than ever before. When you look at our behavior and its effects, our species acts very much like a cancer - growing without any restraint or sensibility, choking out all competition, destroying our loving host, and putting our very survival at risk. It's nice to imagine that something or someone will come along and change all that but the evidence does not support such a dream. None of our religious, political, or intellectual leaders have made much of a difference overall. Certainly there are regions and groups that do better than others and this fluctuates over time but overall I see little evidence of collective psychological and emotional growth. While this may sound and feel very discouraging, there is a solution as described above. We must free ourselves from the shackles of ignorance and limitation imposed by millennia of conditioning and sabotage. We must discover and remember what it means to be fully human, both individually and collectively. That can only start by turning inward and looking at the truth of our own personal situation. For me, this is the core and purpose of spirituality.

Hello friends, It appears that Taomeow has locked herself out of the DaoBums. The contact email she gave years ago doesn't seem to work anymore. Is there anyone that has a working contact for her so we can help her get back on, assuming she wants to? PM a mod directly. Thanks!

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That is fantastic news! Welcome back Taomeow!

She emailed to say she’s back in.

See my message in Stward lounge- Another Day thread.

Not a plug (ok maybe a little bit), but I recently did a consultation with Eric Isen, medical clairvoyant from a different (Indian) system. He's pretty highly regarded in the Flying Phoenix thread and you can find more info there. But he's said some pretty good things about Tao Tan Pai kung fu forms and their health effects -- Cane form: Activates and enlivens the spleen chakra. Qi radiates in the lower body and into the lymphatic system. Very good for the gut. Crane form: Activates and enlivens the 3rd (navel) chakra sending qi to the adrenals and digestive organs. improves energy and digestion Monkey form: Activates and opens the first chakra causing qi to flow into the meridians and up the spine activating all the chakras. two through seven. Not sure how much of this is specific to my constitution, but looks like a good sign.

Most of the good things I see, I am looking back at .... or they are contained within the bubble I have made around myself .