silent thunder

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.

nothing in nature is wasted... it is not possible to waste anything.

Mine is put outside when replaced. We have an outdoor altar for animals/birds to feast from...

these three words resonate like vajra still...

you're very pretty too... goooood kitty!

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

Hold my Sake!

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!

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

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?

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

True story

There is no state to maintain.

thanks

The side paths of engaging are nigh on endless for sure... yet the foundation is ever underlying all seeking doing or fleeing... unchanged and unchanging awareness abides all, rejects none and grasps no thing or non thing. It is what underlies all and is as close a concept as i have to describing in a word form our true essential nature.

Awareness does not arise or diminish. No teaching it, or attaining what already is your fundamental essential nature. Release, explore, seek, destroy, absolve, report, learn, forget... Awareness is i am

That which never arises and does not diminish... Accomodates all arisings and occurences without grasping or fleeing... Unchanged and unchanging in the midst of the ever unfolding and ever shifting... Awareness is

Me! Me! Ooh! Ooh! Mock me next~!

Perhaps revisit(or explore for the first time), the definition of response...

Civilization, to me is wholly uncivilized. It is predatory in nature, which makes complete sense given that civilization derives from human socializing and humans are...

This reminds me of an old saying. "if you loan someone $100 and never see them again... it was money well spent."

So roam... surely 'certain teacher' would know what they are? Why ask here?

I relished keeping them on the line as long as possible, preventing them from talking to another caller, stringing them along while I searched for my credit card, endlessly asking them to repeat the offer and restating it incorrectly again and while fumbling for that darned credit card randomly describing the swollen aspects of my cat's genitalea... wondering if it needed medical attention and what their take on it was. "should it be weeping like that?" or playing the developmentally challenged man with a head wound...

Awareness is It requires no thing, no upkeep. No thing to achieve, or maintain. i am this is it!