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Lately, something strange but beautiful has been unfolding in me. I’m currently in a phase of life where I’m looking for work. I started this process rather late because I had some psychological issues for a long time. And now, as I walk this uncertain path, I find myself doing Qigong as part of my spiritual practice – and it has quietly opened my heart. Through this, I’ve begun to feel a growing trust in God, in the Dao, in the deeper current behind life. A few days ago, I was still very anxious – "What if I don’t find a job?" – but then this gentle thought came to me: God protects me, no matter what. And suddenly, I felt this deep shift: I want to let go of my plans – the idea that I need to have this job, or that I have to secure my future. What truly matters is not what I think I should do, but what the Divine wants for me. I don’t want to chase control anymore. I want to listen. I want to trust.i got so calm that i could hear my heartbeat. That is a good sign of calmness for me It feels strange to think this way. I’m not used to it. Part of me wonders: Am I becoming passive? Irresponsible? Or is this the beginning of true surrender? Sometimes I feel like I just want to sit, meditate, and be at peace. The earthly world seems so unstable – everything is constantly changing, dying, passing. Without God, without the Dao, everything feels chaotic. But if I hand it all over, if I stop clinging to goals and outcomes, there’s a quietness that arises. And in that stillness, I feel... safe. Has anyone here experienced something similar – this strange letting go, this dissolving of personal plans in favor of divine guidance? How do you navigate this shift in daily life?

i dated a Dine' (Navajo) guy for awhile. There was no word for attorney in the Dine' language, so a phrase was cobbled together for attorney: Dinébe'iiná Náhiiłna be Agha'diit'ahii This roughly translates to "those who talk too fast and help revitalize the well being of the Dine' people"

I'm very hesitant to share specific details even on here despite knowing it's relatively hard to get in trouble for this sort of thing online. If it was just me I'd say what it is, but this is someone else's livelihood, so I'll leave it vague. Suffice it to say it involves chemicals that are not psychiatric medication. I'm of the opinion that it's a completely different beast in therapy and likely won't cause serious issues in most cases, but I'm more inclined to listen to the one teaching the program.

I was able to ask Neirong a few questions. It really does just seem like an esoteric school of unknown but possibly good validity. Lots of "trust me bro" type statements, which I guess could make sense when you're dealing with stuff that's fully unverifiable from the outside. I'm going to hold off on trying it as I'm currently doing a type of therapy that's likely incompatible with their stuff, but it does seem possibly worth checking out in the future. I'll likely check out the course on authenticneigong.com for now based on the level of praise it receives on this forum. I did some digging on old posts from them and seems like this is just a name for whatever type of energy/visualization technique it teaches.

Many readers buy books with every intention of reading them only to let them linger on the shelf. Statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb believes surrounding ourselves with unread books enriches our lives as they remind us of all we don’t know. The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it may provide lasting benefits. We have these stacks of books because we desire to read so much more.

This. The desire to make a good living and the effort required to do so are not separate from the stillness and silence of source.

I'm a master of the art of tsundoku!

I appreciate you sharing your experience, it sounds authentic and profound. I have experienced something similar though I use different language to describe it. When working with surrender and transcendence, it is important to have a healthy and stable ego as a foundation. Letting go of the primacy and agency of the ego can be very destabilizing for some so there needs to be some way to find grounding and support if that becomes an issue. Given your mention of psychological challenges, I suggest a modicum of caution and self-awareness as things shift for you. If we surrender to something greater or deeper, like you describe, there can be a tendency to objectify, project, analyze, interpret, anticipate, label and all the other things the mind is so good at. (There is little more dangerous than someone who thinks they speak for and believes they know the will of God.) So when the mental activity arises, which is inevitable (eg "Part of me wonders: Am I becoming passive? Irresponsible? Or is this the beginning of true surrender?"), I find it important to always return to inner stillness and silence. When we are quiet enough, the answers we need are there, effortlessly. If they are not coming, the best practice IMO is to let the questions remain open, trusting that answers will be there when truly needed or when we are ready. I appreciate how Steven Harrison talks in his book The Question to Life's Answers about questions being alive and full of potential, whereas answers are essentially dead - nothing more to gain from them. When it comes to integration, I think this is an important part of the process each of us has to explore and navigate for ourselves. In my tradition, every experience of life is taken as the path. One suggestion is to try and find some balance between that sense of surrender to the "absolute" and the value of the "relative" aspects of life, the mundane daily grind. Certainly there are those of us who have the opportunity and aptitude to choose the life of a yogi and to retreat from society for a time or for our remaining years. Most of us need to live with others, maintain a job, support a family, and find meaning and nourishment in the mundane. For me, finding that balance involves finding the essence of the divine within the mundane, finding the joy and nourishment in the little, everyday experiences, particularly in my relationships with other people. In particular, I find it very rewarding and instructive to dedicate time and energy to serving and helping others, both formally and spontaneously whenever the opportunity presents. Another important part of the process is to not neglect one's physical and mental health. An unhealthy body and mind cannot possibly optimize the connection with the source. Get enough sleep, eat whole foods rather than processed, drink enough fluids, reduce consumption of sugar and intoxicants, get plenty of physical exercise, limit exposure to the morass of propaganda and psychological manipulation that masquerades as "news" and "social media." All of these things have been very helpful to me in terms of the integration of the spiritual and secular in my life. I think it is a great blessing to find some sort of refuge and guidance in life, something we can trust, particularly something that is pure and stable. Integration for me means that we are able to use this to really show up in our lives, to be fully available and present, rather than withdrawn and disconnected. So much of our behavior is programmed, conditioned, and reactive, coming from a place of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty. If we can allow our actions to come from a place that is less biased and less influenced by transient emotional states and conditioned patterns, they tend to be more creative, appropriate, and beneficial, IME. Good luck to you @Kati

Hymn to Time by Ursula K. Le Guin Time says “Let there be” every moment and instantly there is space and the radiance of each bright galaxy. And eyes beholding radiance. And the gnats’ flickering dance. And the seas’ expanse. And death, and chance. Time makes room for going and coming home and in time’s womb begins all ending. Time is being and being time, it is all one thing, the shining, the seeing, the dark abounding.

we did this at work, as a way of confirming the person would be able to talk on the phone, i.e. not busy with something else. But for personal calls, if someone doesn't want to answer, then just let it go to voice mail.

The self-referential geometric recursion that can be named is not the real self-referential geometric recursion.

In the human we find the idea of the being who stands with feet on earth and yet has heavenly powers of reason. Its nature is what laws govern the human through its birth. And so whatever flows from it having a human mother and thus a human body and mind. In its conception as human, to its birth, adulthood , old age and death , all this is its nature. A mortal being with immortal scope, between animal and angel. Made by spirit but born of earth.

The phenomenon you’re describing could be termed “self-referential geometric recursion” or “non-orthodox topological replication”. These terms capture the idea of a topographical continuum where evolutes (curves or surfaces derived from another curve or surface) self-replicate in unconventional patterns, referencing the relational geometry of prior instantiations. This put simply so as not to over complify things.

i remember about 30 years ago taking a class on "prosperity based on spiritual principles." My financial life was well, in the toilet. Unemployed, out of the work force, unstable and unhealthy romantic relationship, ongoing health problems, court appearnces and legal battle with ex over money and custody. The class was very practice-based so there was interesting homework which I faithfully carried out, more out of desperation than anything else. Sort of an "i'll try anything" mindset. Some of the homework assignments made a big impression on me (and still do, to this day). Every time i wrote a check for anything (this was before online banking, when people actually wrote paper checks to make payments) in the comment field write "God is my Source of supply." I did this for years. After a while i shortened it to "God is my Source." Carry a $100 bill in wallet at all times (yes, a real one). It is impossible to feel "poor" while seeing a $100 bill every time opening wallet. All financial debt is related to forgiveness. Make a list of all people in my life needing forgiveness, and do it. Include self on list. Repeat as needed. I found it surprisingly effective.

That sounds awesome that your whole life feels like that Cobie but also a bit scary to me. I think need sometimes people who have similiar experiences and Tell me that i am fine. I dont have many people who bother me negatively. Not anymore I just meditated a little while ago, and something quiet but clear came through: Source is my purpose. When I rest in that awareness, so much stillness and peace arise. But it takes mindfulness not to lose myself again in worldly goals — career, health, success, becoming someone. All these things only seem to have meaning for me when I feel deeply connected to Source. Without that, it all feels hollow. My teacher once said something that I now understand more and more: “Everything in life is ultimately a reflection of your relationship with the Divine.” I feel that. Even each thought we think is, in a way, a subtle proclamation — a declaration of how close or distant we feel from God, from Dao, from Source. It’s strange to watch my mind form goals or worries — and to realize: all of it is just movement on the surface. Underneath, there is something still, silent, whole. And the more I trust that, the more I feel that this is what matters. This is the real path.

You can email Rudi to ask

I’m doing authentic neigong too, depending on what kind of therapy you are doing, you might have to hold off on that too

In his own words, reading does not interest him. Other things interest him more than reading. To each their own. Why do i read? Enjoyment. Instruction. Guidance. Learning. Curiosity. Inspiration. Encouragement. Support. Enhances intuitive flow. Creativity. Problem solving. Understanding. Resonance. To receive message. Self development. Satisfaction. Beauty. Insight. Contentment.

Appropriately, some of his books sit unread on my shelf! For me it seems to be that I buy books and then can't decide which to read next. The other aspect is that once I have them available, I feel no urgency to read them. Right now I am torn between three novels - Monstrilio, The Master and Marguerita, and Never Let Me Go

One extremist in this respect was Umberto Eco who collected a home library of 50,000 tomes and couldn't possibly have read all of them.

me three

Me too.

Could you point me to where the link is? Their website says you have to pay to get onto the server. Got a link to them saying this? I get that people in this thread have made it clear they're not interested in listening. I'm still open to a conversation of some kind.

You can join their discord for free to ask questions

Glad to hear it. I´m not much of a texter but don´t want to be rude. Letting unwanted calls go to voicemail sounds like the perfect solution to me. I also think that people shouldn´t feel obligated to answer the door every time someone knocks, although, for me, that programming is hard to undo.

I don’t see why he would post here from the way everyone is acting. If anyone is actually interested, just join their discord and ask there.

to gnow or not to gnaw, that is the question... btw, without will one is like a leaf in the wind of uncontrolled mind, thus control is needed but not a heavy handed egotistical type of control.

Maybe he had too much 'diorthomethodioxide ' . ? ( maybe you removed him due to his excessive beliefs (and practices ) about Shivambu - and I do mean EXCESSIVE . Tide washes best ? ... are you sure about that ? ) .

No wonder the courts are full of petty criminals

Small world! I used to be friends with him on FB. Haven't seen him in ages -- though I don't remember if he somehow gave me a reason to remove him or merely fell through the cracks. I suspect the former, he was messing around with my Sacred subjects or something, taking on interpretations of Taoist Sciences without the requisite qualifications. And now let's complify the above: Metamorphoses of orthodoxies are not interchangeable with orthomorphoses of metadoxies.

Like many Generation Z people, I´m no stranger to social anxiety, so I get why it might be uncomfortable to have people stop by unannounced. But I want to live in a world where my social anxiety is challenged rather than catered to. We´re human and we need other people. If someone is my friend, they´re welcome to knock on my door any time.

It used to not be considered rude even to come visit friends without calling. And gen Z etiquette experts are reported to have a new way to answer the phone. They cancelled Hello, instead they just pick up and keep silent waiting for the calling party to start speaking. Now that's rude far as I'm concerned.

I keep reading on MSN that younger people (generation Z) think it´s rude to call a friend out of the blue without texting first. Could this possibly be true? I´m likely very out of touch but this seems to me like a very Strange Thing.

I'm not sure the heading is quite correct -- e.g there's an exact English equivalent for #18, Schadenfreude, to wit, epicaricacy -- though it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily, which is why English speakers tend to know the German word but not the English one for this phenomenon. Perhaps there's more, haven't looked at all of these closely. #21, the Russian toska, which can be mistaken for depression, is not the same -- depression is a lingering state, while toska may refer to either a lingering state or a fleeting mood of the moment, might describe a boring meeting or a dull movie, and with the preposition po, the state of missing someone or something badly -- a person or an animal, a place, a time, or one's native land. In this last case it becomes exactly synonymous with nostalgia. Depression doesn't begin to cut it for any of these.

This is the essence Tommy, yes. "We" cannot manhandle the mind, we must just drop our control of it. It is like a bar of wet soap - you can hold it and let it rest in your open hand and it will stay there... still, BUT if you grasp at it it will shoot out of your hand. The more you allow for stillness to well up of its own accord the more frequently it will.

Tis true without lying, certain and most true. That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracle of one only thing. And as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation. The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse. The father of all perfection in the whole world is here. Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth. Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry. It ascends from the earth to the heaven and again it descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior. By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world and thereby all obscurity shall fly from you. Its force is above all force, for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing. So was the world created. From this are and do come admirable adaptations where of the means is here in this. Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished and ended. — English translation of the Emerald Tablet by Isaac Newton.[12]

Did you know that when you draw the pattern for the Lo-Shu or Magic Square of 3×3, in contains 2 large triangles that are actually in the Phi Ratio, meaning that these 2 Golden Phi Isosceles Triangles (if base is 1 unit then the 2 other sides are both 1.618…) fit exactly into the 5-Pointed Star or Pentagram. This is another occurrence of the Trinity expressing itself in 5ive-ness which suggests the Trinity has connections to the Phi Ratio (1:1.618…). The Golden Phi Isosceles Triangle naturally exists in the Lo-Shu Pattern. This makes the statement that Magic Squares are related to the Divine Proportion and is therefore at the Heart of Creation). ( Man ! I once had a mushroom trip with this guy ^ )

and who's to stop me from deriving "Overcomplexicate" from it.

I believe the ox-herding pictures were originally eight, in China. The last two, the blank slate and the marketplace scene, would therefore be later additions. Speaking of uncertainty as to what constitutes the light... Tommy, I'll bet you could relate to my latest post--here's the first part of it, and a link: “The Place Where You Stop and Rest” In one of his letters, twelfth-century Ch’an teacher Yuanwu wrote: Actually practice at this level for twenty or thirty years and cut off all the verbal demonstrations and creeping vines and useless devices and states, until you are free from conditioned mind. Then this will be the place of peace and bliss where you stop and rest. Thus it is said: “If you are stopping now, then stop. If you seek a time when you finish, there will never be a time when you finish.” (“Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu”, tr. Cleary & Cleary, Shambala p 99) In my teenage years, I became keenly aware of the “creeping vines” of my mind. I read a lot of Alan Watts books on Zen, thinking that might help, but I soon found out that what he had to say did nothing to cut off the “creeping vines”. I was looking for something Shunryu Suzuki described in one of his lectures, though I didn’t know it at the time: So, when you practice zazen, your mind should be concentrated in your breathing and this kind of activity is the fundamental activity of the universal being. If so, how you should use your mind is quite clear. Without this experience, or this practice, it is impossible to attain the absolute freedom. (Thursday Morning Lectures, Shunryu Suzuki; November 4th 1965, Los Altos; emphasis added) I began to try to sit zazen, based on the illustrations in the back of “Three Pillars of Zen”, by Philip Kapleau. Zazen is almost always taught to beginners as sitting with a straight back and paying close attention to inhalation and exhalation. With regard to the straight back, Moshe Feldenkrais wrote: “Sit straight!” “Stand straight!” This is often said by mothers, teachers, and others who give this directive in good faith and with the fullest confidence in what they are saying. If you were to ask them just how one does sit straight or stand straight, they would answer, “What do you mean? Don’t you know what straight means? Straight is straight!” Some people do indeed stand and walk straight, with their backs erect and their heads held high. And of course there is an element of “standing straight in their posture. If you watch a child or an adult who has been told to sit or stand straight, it is evident that he agrees that there is something wrong with the way he is managing his body, and he will quickly try to straighten his back or raise his head. He will do this thinking that he has thereby achieved the proper posture; but he cannot maintain this “correct” position without continuous effort. As soon as his attention shifts to some activity that is either necessary, urgent, or interesting, he will slump back to his original position. (“Awareness Through Movement”, Moshe Feldenkrais, p 66) For many years, whenever I sat at a zendo with a teacher who walked the room during a sitting, the teacher would invariably stop behind me and correct my posture. I generally couldn’t maintain their correction to the end of the sitting. With regard to close attention to inhalation and exhalation, Shunryu Suzuki described such attention as only a “preparatory practice”: … usually in counting breathing or following breathing, you feel as if you are doing something, you know– you are following breathing, and you are counting breathing. This is, you know, why counting breathing or following breathing practice is, you know, for us it is some preparation– preparatory practice for shikantaza because for most people it is rather difficult to sit, you know, just to sit. (The Background of Shikantaza, Shunryu Suzuki; San Francisco, February 22, 1970) Shikantaza, or “just sitting”, is emphasized in the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, the school to which Shunryu Suzuki belonged. (“The Place Where You Stop and Rest”)

I think the best things that happened in my life were down to chance or accident. Finding a career, moving abroad, meeting my wife, even IVF for our son. But I don't think I ever had a passive attitude toward these things. I worked hard to get a job, I was looking for a long-term partner. So while success or failure depend on fate, divine provenance or luck - however you want to see it. You still have to care about it, and strive forward in pursuit of your goals.

So , that is 'an incident ' ... what when it is your whole life ? A bigger mystery for me is I THOUGHT I WAS RUNNING the show ... but was I ? In latter life I started to see the image that was being formed ( and was SUPPOSED TO BE being formed - one knows that it is supposed to be as the picture gets clearer - you can see what it is . Its a long complex story that I will not go into , but it is like ; little kid sees a fire engine and loves it ... so what , many many kids do that . Then he gets a choice of a toy for his birthday , he chooses a toy fire engine . He doesn't seem as nervous around fire as others kids but acts reasonably . he even puts out a dangerous fire at a young age . He grows up has a variety of jobs but isn't really happy ... eventually , through a ' series of coincidences' he ends up as a fireman . he enjoys it, he starts having a better life . He discovers his grandfather and two of his uncles were firemen . How much of that was his choice - how much was his destiny ? One example I could give out of the whole complex tapestry of them in my life : I treasure my little place and environment , I have been here 40 years and its a rare gift . But we got involved in complex court battles and it looked like we were going to loose it . Oh no ! The rental situation here was impossible and over expensive ... I started to get worried and stress out ... what they hell am I going to do ? Then I pulled myself together ... what the hell are you doing that for ? My whole life I have never had to worry , the Gods have 'always delivered ' ( I didn't realize that for the first half of my life ! ) , stop being stupid ! Just let them do their thing . But one needs to create a medium for manifestation , so I randomly looked at a site on line to see if there any houses for rent . I saw one that immediately caught my eye , and it was near local , that was weird as many many people had been looking for rentals and none were supposed to be about . A friend of mine was considering the same issue and we decided to move together as house mates . We went and had a sneak look at the place , it was great ! I peaked through a window ;" Thats my room ! " . I won't go on about how good it was, in many aspects . We rang up, were told many people had rung and there was a huge list . They happened to be at the house unexpectedly and I asked if we could come over and see them . We hit it so good the woman said " I don't even want to sign a lease , it seems so crass and official, I would like our arrangement to be based on trust and understanding . My woman friend loved that but I could see the owners male partner cringing and sensing danger , so I offered , " Yes, let's work on trust from both sides , but just as a little official annoyance , give me the lease and I'll sign it . Very happy there . But something unusual still hung in the air . When I left the house I would either drive to town, or the other way to see people I knew . Not just drive past the house . One day I rode my motorcycle* from town to a friends PAST the house and it hit me , MY GOD ! This is the house I rode past on the first day I ever came to this area ! I distinctly remember the view from the road as one passed , the garden and fields and spectacular view and I said to myself ' Wow! Look at that amazing house and view , I would love to live in a place like that , even if it was for a few months , for the experience . ' And here I was doing exactly that . Things started to improve in the court case so I started going back to home , a cabin down in the valley . Now I had a cabin down in the valley near the river , and a lodge up the mountain (it had been a lodge offering accommodation previously ) * same with the motor cycle - I saw one as a youth " Thats the one I want ! " I could never get it of course . And then it became impossible as, as they do, keep changing models every year and 'modernizing ' ... decades later , I get an inheritance , an Indian company had bought out the English motorcycle manufacturers and kept making them in India and had put out a 'retro model ' of the exact one decades back I always dreamed about , so I got one . That's just two examples ... and crazy that it is things like a motorcycle ( its been other things too that I wont detail ) , but a lot more of course ; life direction, relationships , job , etc / Some days , I just stand there and look wondering up to the sky " Thanks 'Big Mum ' for looking after me ! "

Here is the thing ; letting go and being led .... how did I know I was actually doing that ? Its tricky . 'Today I shall not 'decide' to do anything , I shall let go of control and be 'led by the divine' . Today is Saturday ( well, it was then when this happened ) , I am supposed to go to training , do I go ? Wait ! That's thinking about things and getting near a decision ... don't do that . I am wandering around , going near the car ..... am I being led towards the car by spirit or am I fighting being led elsewhere and subtly wanting to get to the car to go to training ? - let me know if you ever figure it out . Oh dear ... and so on, and on , and you can go nuts . So , I thought , obviously 'the Gods' need some type of medium through which to be able to manifest direction . I suppose I could ask and do a quick 'divination' at significant points of the day ? Nah , that seems to much like the 'coin toss ' experiment . Very difficult . Anyway here is what ended up happening . It seems the divine wanted me to wander around aimlessly for a while But I 'ended up' in town waiting to do training . Thing is now one turned up ... now it gets interesting ; there was a camper van parked in the parking area of our training park and a rather strange looking , thin guy was sitting there on its back step . I had rung up a training mate and was hassling him on the phone (under divine direction ) for not turning up ( he had a hang over ) . This camper 'guy' was listening and laughed and I made a comment to him, and with the answer I realized he was actually a she . I had a few words and then the strange stuff started . Nothing about this woman 'attracted ' me to her , physically . She was a bit 'nervy' and unsettled but seemed friendly . She said she had driven to this town from not too far away to go to the markets here and had slept in the van overnight . I took one look at her and " No you haven't ! " She seemed shocked but then admitted I was right . I added " You are on the run aren't you ?" She was . I asked if she was able to go back home and she looked down and shook her head . So I offered , :" Well, it looks like training won't happen , hop in my car , I will drive up to town and we will get some breakfast and coffee ." ... and I had no idea why I said that but that's what we did . During breakfast , we didn't talk , she seemed to go inward and introverted . I told her ( told, that surprised me ) we would go back to the camper van and she would drive it following me back to my place . And she did . Back there the story came out , yep, domestic abuse . She owned a house down the coast but had been in years long abusive relationship with some biker dude , she said it came to a climax a couple of days ago where she spent over 12 hours hiding under the house while he stalked the surrounds with a shotgun , then she managed to escape and drove up the coast . I wondered why. after that, she would go off with a stranger , what if I was a murderer - she said she didn't care if that happened ! Wow , turned out she was real mess ! I had to 'diffuse' a lot of stuff , she had bad subversive stuff going on with herself . We started to work though it . She was a mess , as you would be : just driving around in my car with me she would scrunch down onto the floor if we were about to pass anyone . Anyway there was a lot of talk, counselling and turns out she was a good responsible ' housemate ' , she lived in her van , did a lot of gardening which I appreciated and then one evening comes back from the shower block ( I live on a community ) saying she just met a funny little man there , and described him . " Ohhhh, that's Ben, he's harmless , a bit funny and a recluse , but he's ok." " But he invited me to dinner ! " She seemed surprised that she accepted . I said again he was harmless and she should go, if she wanted to . Anyway , they ended up ' in a relationship ' , she tells this small thin ineffectual man about her issues and they drive off down the coast , little skinny guy fronts the crazy biker and somehow scares him off ! She gets her house back and a few months later I am at their wedding reception and she is pointing over at me and saying " This all started 10 months ago , when I met a strange man at the park in town . " So ... anything could happen .... but it might not relate directly to you . ( Although I did get a good gardener for a while . )

That’s my approach to life, that’s my faith. I am all for “trusting the divine flow”. My whole life I have felt like that. In my experience it’s sometimes necessary to tell some type of intrusive people to f**k off.

yes that is really helpful. for me personally spring forest qigong was the game changer. I felt also that my heart was closed for a long time. The more i did qigong, the more i felt, something changes within me. then i had some healing sessions with the founder of spirng forest qigong. in the first session i felt nothing. but then boom - i just felt my heart opening and for some weeks i was walking in joy. i felt very close to everyone around me. after some time that feeling of an open heart got away. but because of diligent qigong practice it came back recently. and i am really grateful for it. it changed my life for the best.

Not everyone likes to converse via debate, and the users who aren't interested in that style of communication are making that clear when addressed. Personally, I approach conversations here like interviews instead of debates. I'm interested in understanding what a person believes and how they came to believe it, not proving a person to be incorrect. Debating the belief itself gets in the way of the information I'm looking to receive, and is therefore unproductive for my personal goals. Other users here have different perspectives and approaches, and are not wrong for seeking debate. But just as there are guidelines for debate, there are also conversational guidelines for learning instead of teaching, and those who prefer that approach are not wrong for seeking to develop an environment that allows for such.

Of Being by Denise Levertov I know this happiness is provisional: the looming presences -- great suffering, great fear -- withdraw only into peripheral vision: but ineluctable this shimmering of wind in the blue leaves: this flood of stillness widening the lake of sky: this need to dance, this need to kneel: this mystery