silent thunder

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  1. Everyone post some favorite quotes!

    If you don't read the news you're uninformed. If you read the news, you're misinformed. ~Samuel Clemens
  2. How do you stop the leakage?

    When one focuses all attention onto one point, then by the nature of that focus one ignores the rest of reality. Is this always preferable? At all times and in all conditions? My lineage cultivates focus and spherical awareness as well as diffuse and several others... In my experience, neither the flashlight focus of the local awareness which by its nature focuses on one aspect of nature to the disregard of the rest, nor the expansive awareness of the all in all are right or wrong or preferable in all cases. They are aspects of awareness. A tree has many aspects, they all combine in the process of tree-ing. We are awareness and all aspects of it are applicable to conditions in which they become prominent or dormant by turns. The action of Dao, like Life is a bellows.
  3. Dao Bums (here i am)

    nothing in nature is wasted... it is not possible to waste anything.
  4. Dao Bums (here i am)

    Mine is put outside when replaced. We have an outdoor altar for animals/birds to feast from...
  5. these three words resonate like vajra still...
  6. Dao Bums (here i am)

    you're very pretty too... goooood kitty!
  7. Dao Bums (here i am)

    @Maddie I enjoy your presence and your sharings. You're beautiful, intelligent and giving. *hug* please share often
  8. simplify

    Hold my Sake!
  9. Have you ever been blessed by someone?

    John Blofeld's recounting of his meetings with Daoist Sages in his book The Secret and Sublime was for me, sublime... something of a blessing. In particular his recounting the meeting with Tseng Lao-Weng was paradigm shifting and struck resonance in awareness like lightning from a clear blue sky. Instant and lasting shift. vajra!
  10. More Unpopular Opinions

    I'll hold the mirror up to your projection/assumption of liminal's description of his experience.
  11. Virtue ethics

    Chatgdp? Curious choice for a topic requiring subtle synthesis of complex human social interaction and context to approach understanding. With all the reams of magnificent minds drawing and synthesizing life experience, resonant insights and human realizations... you turn to random amalgamations of a non intuitive regurgitation software package... disappointing to me, but it does seem to be the flavor of the month. Is it I wonder, a generational thing?
  12. More Unpopular Opinions

    Unless you strip to your underwear, have scientist observers present and record it on video... no practice has any value.
  13. Voidisyinyang

    True story