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I have found it interesting that the four people in my direct family who invariably at all family gatherings will often bring the conversation round to instigate and propogate passionate discussions about government being too large. 1 retired military officer 2 retired public school teacher 3 retired federal court reporter 4 retired police officer These four people rail, scream, #1 will nigh on foam at the mouth when talking about the bloated nature of the governing process, yet in each case, they assert that their branch was/is/remains necessary. I sense they are all necessary to a point. This point may always be pushed to a useless/parasitic extreme. Humans don't seem to be balanced by nature... we seem to operate on a sort of energetic flowing by braille between the extremes of behavior and experience.

Reminds me of a family that tried to live for a week, without purchasing a single thing with plastic in it, or around it. Watching them try and shop for groceries and basic life supplies was painfully comical.

Sounds like the very potent practice of Ho'oponopono. When i encountered this practice it was a great stone dropped in my pond. so potent. I love you I'm sorry please forgive me thank you Forgiveness does not free the one being forgiven. Forgiveness is an intentional, internal shift that frees the heart and mind to cease participation in the stories. Forgiveness is the intentional release of the forgiver from the entirely self perpetuated prison of their identifying with memories, stories and subsequent rejection of things as they have passed and a desire to somehow affect the future with a notion of justified retribution. It is a release from the notion that through ranting in the mind about the wrongs of the past, that they are somehow affected. All that is affected is your heart and mind peace in the now... where likely, none of the offending processes remain. Forgiveness releases the forgiver from the heart/mind perpetuated hell of vengeance and stories of the desire for recompense and justice. let it go just let it go if we release everything... that which remains is....

quiet heart when eating sincere heart when cooking kind heart when sharing

then you have also taken car of the Falcon and her family.

rivers are not pushed it is the nature of rain to fall down... in the desert it grows thorns and in the gardens, flowers. No raindrop falls in the wrong spot.

eat, drink, be merry! relish the process of life! without grasping... flow.

zero? zero point field . within that great yawning O, owe, oh, lie all the past and future, unborn and undying and the present sits here... like an uncarved lump an empty, grinning idiot what audacity! what authenticity! truth?

all perception... is gamble.

Boy it's incredible to read these words, distilled from centuries past, that are living and resonating within my comprehension and experience now. Source is never separate. Quiet the self, turn the senses inward and connect to all that which seemingly lies without.

High skill exhibited by you there Rocky. *bow* Respect Sir!

I've come to perceive anything I take into myself, particularly my food, as a medicinal. This mindset has developed naturally through my experiences. As my sensitivity has increased, so has my experience and understanding that every single thing I take in, affects the whole, exhibits an effect. We self medicate with food daily, most of us and pay it little to no mind at all. The manner and quality of my breathing, is perhaps the most potent medicine I have encountered. The palpable experience of how much impact everything I take into my body has... has altered my perception of power and increased the level of mindfulness in all things I ingest. Last few years it's even more imporatnt to me, what I allow to enter my mind and thoughts in the form of news, conversations and what I will allow my mind to ruminate on as these affect my heart and determine to a large degree, the tone of the subtle which infuses the physical. Everything I ingest and the quality and manner of my breathing and my relational thinking to them are all of vital importance. Medicine can harm or heal. My wife and son are both very sensitive to the concentrations of most pharmaceutical medicines and usually take half of what folks their size would take to gain benefit and avoid harm from their doctor prescribed meds. I on the other side of the spectrum usually require 50+% more of a compound for efficacy or any affect at all. Dosage, reason for ingesting, relationship to environment, mental and subtle tone.. all vitally important.

manitou... deep abiding respect and love

Thanks for sharing this! I've never heard of Manuka Honey until now, but my gal and I were just chatting and wondering the other day about more possible natural remedies for her to try to treat her regular bouts with ulcertative colitis. Will be getting some of this next time we're at Trader Joes... thanks for the tip. I began using honey medicinally and regularly some 16 years ago, at the prompting of a nutritionist friend, when I shared with her that I was rather severely allergic to some of the plants out East of us here in the desert of Southern California and they regularly kicked my ass. It took some time, but my allergies steadily decreased and have been gone for over a decade completely.

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Rene, your insight resonates for me what is at the heart of the ancient saying. The Sage is in the world, but not of it. Participation in the process of duality and the play of the 10,000... is not the same as identifying with it.

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I'd make another donation to cover the cost.

Welcome to the bums mate!

Ok, one final bump on this one.

that which has a form will dissipate, this seems the nature of forms change is constant as described in the I Jing that which is not form, cannot dissipate thus the return from jing to qi, qi to shen, shen to nature, and nature to tao the body is a pot lower dan tien is a furnace 5 elemental qi goes in the pot yin/yang qi go in the pot yuan qi goes in the pot seal the pot lower dan tien is a furnace shen is the fire that warms the pot cook the golden pill in the pot golden fetus forms nurture the fetus birth the fetus rainbow body tao is eternal i sense that it is not the physical body which is to be preserved but the body seems an agent in the alchemical process that gives rise to what is referred to as the rainbow body/yang body/immortal kind heart, quiet heart, sincere heart... with these, every action and moment of life is practice without them all the practice of the day amounts to little more than waving ones hands in the air kind heart quiet heart sincere heart this is purely the distillation of my experiences with Zhou Ting-Jue, Wang Liping and my own ilusory self... just an opinion

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misery kinship addicted to the challenge who is it who wins? release sensations abide in the body now this moment is free