blue eyed snake

i wonder about Boaz and Jachin, I mean, I know about the story of the temple pillars, the easy to find stuff. But sometimes I wonder about it, what do these symbolize, is there any relation with all the energetic stuff that is surrounding the fleshbody? not looking for "truth" but for some insights and associations from better educated bums then me. Maybe @Nungali has something for me

thanks https://watchseriesstream.com/watch-movie/watch-cave-of-forgotten-dreams-full-online-6947.5309320

ehm, I took it as a veiled message that everything we can talk about is just symbols, trying but failing to convey underlaying reality. or just a joke of course

nice, how both of you, coming from different directions say the same, its about ( the balance) of mercy and justice. One can also toy with language, in my language the word for mercy translates ( back and forth) as grace. Having been subjected to grace, as a stream of golden light descending into my fleshbody, yes, this is sunlike. The word Justice hold the word straight in my language, straight to assessing what is absolutely necessary to complete the task. that all fits nicely to my uneducated eyes. further i was thinking of the high-priestess from the tarot, Boaz and Jachin are part of the picture (at least in the riderwaite version that i played with as a youngster) She holds the Torah Justice holds 2 pillars too, but not named as such, he holds the traditinal symbols of judgment, the scales and the sword. ( @Nungali is more fond of the Toth cards when I remember it well, but this set is what lives in my subconsciousness, the play as a youngster seems to have made quite an impression) apart from other symbolic things, I see female for mercy and male for justice the new vision cards give a look at the backside of things, i do like this version, it literally gives a new perspective. the curtain falls also nice to see he interpretation of finding balance between justice and mercy.

oh dear, I'd rather be old-fashioned.....

His luminous blobness is in hiding, hiding or not, but you cannot hide you luminosity.

thank you, the way you formulate this hits the centre

Even the easy stuff is far beyond me and as usual your answer is perfect for what I was wondering. I thank you for being a pillar of wisdom Lately my awareness sometimes resides in the surrounding energy-field instead of in the flesh, that is a bit disorientating. But also interesting, It feels like there are three pillars of light ( or something, jeez, this stuff is so weird to talk about) one going straight through the fleshbody and 2 right behind me, one golden, the other dark blue. sort of like the image on that book which answers my question, namely, there seem to be more people who perceive this as such. ( oh, and many years ago I awareness of those 2 pillars on the back arose, but as a set of 2, only now it becomes clear that it is a threesome) beautifully said and painfully true _/|\_

thank you _/|\_

well, people just want to be accepted for what they are. I do never like to talk about tings spiritual, all to son it s hollow words. But during my life I've sort of seen that to get your feet on the spiritual path you first need to have a healthy ego. A personality that fits, working on trauma's, ( and there are more ways to skin that fish the psychotherapist) ego gets formed by all the things we encounter combined with karmic stuff, only after we've worked through a nice fat bunch of layers and are totally comfortable with our life stories, our ego, only then we can set foot on the path. when still vehemently defending that may look, from the outside, as unstable. But one has to realize the enormous amount of backlash some like Maddie gets, in those circumstances it can be a healthy way of getting positioning yourself, she strikes me as an activist. I would never have reached a balanced me, a stable ego, a good healthy sense of "me" without putting my gender in the package. Try to think up the following, I guess you are a male, now you have had to dress up as a girl as a kid, you had to do sewing instead of woodwork at school, you were totally treated like a girl and had to conform to the female role. would you have developed a stable and happy sense of self? I guess not only after the ego has developed to a stable and happy baseline is it possible to let go of it, very slowly

well, I guess that people who are belligerently antitrans ( here I am thinking of some people on (former ) twitter, not bums, these guys regularly go an ranting ) maybe is that for them it sounds like identifying as Taylor Swifts guitar 🤔

well, the Buddha is much more an authority then poor ol BES is, so that's case closed

yup, but this after all, is the Daobums

as a small kid I identified as a boy, whole society told me I am weird, nice start in life. Now that I am grown people still call transpeople weirdo's then you ask whether it would make more sense to identify with pure awareness.. well... I do not identify as a boy or as a girl, i identify as a human, that took me about half a century. further you cannot identify with pure awareness, the moment "you" "Identify" there is "a you" doing something ie "identifying" so mostly I identify as human, on rare moments "I" am gone and there is only pure awareness.

I almost never talk about trans-people on the internet. But being chronically ill I am part of a large group of chronically ill people, most of them, bedbound or housebound, like I am. I habitually block every troll to keep my timeline reasonably clean of them. Never really analyzed it but I guess the most obvious characteristic is that they gloss over lived experience, talk ( condescendingly) to us instead of with us and generally behave as if we are children that have not tried the most obvious remedies. Now having 2 spirits in your body-mind-system is not an illness, but underlying is that your body-mind works so much different from the mean that they cannot handle the idea that that is true fact. So in the minds of the outliers, whether trans-people or people with badly understood illnesses there must be a psychological faultiness to explain their weirdness. kitchen sink psychology

the surprise was that it was only one

fake it till you make it

yes, seen one troll seen them all. But mostly it was a good thread I think, i learned some things and that was nice.

i think there's a nice piece in the golden flower too, but for today I am finished sleepytime

i think it came along in a dutch newspaper or something, but this looks like somthing https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-eight-genders-in-the-talmud/

now that i call interesting

that was after you transitioned? or before?

it's a mess and all kinds of people have jumped on the bandwagon, to the detriment of us all. some years ago i was contemplating to come out of the closet, but now I won't. I do not like the term trans-people either. For myself it feels like two spirit people fits me, in modern terms I guess that would be nonbinary You've your own set of troubles and we all have. We also all like to have some recognition, especially friends who sort understand how we feel. There's totally no need to compare, loneliness and alienations seem to be part of the human condition. you're doing very well not being an asshole mister meerkat, you being the opposite of that. when saying that earns you moral scorn there's something wrong, not with you i mean. No, of course not. I know someone who sees himself as a misfit, self esteem so low you have to stoop to see it. Lovely guy, not much wrong with him that I can see, smart, lots of booklearning, Someone I can strike of real conversations with. It would feel very bad to see him as he sees him self and i would not do him justice. Or that person with a size 10 ego walking in a pair size 6 shoes, I will not see them as they see themselves, au contraire. ---- morals... once after I had struggled with something as a kid, that something being morals and no god or bible as a guideline I told my mom how I had solved it and she said: the important thing is that when you go to bed at night you can look into the mirror and not feel shame about your behavior. Even when a lot of people were angry at you today, you made a perfectly thought out decision from the kindness of your heart. They just did not understand you. That line still serves me

it's not, it's also not a personal choice for people to be lefthanded, or colorblind. when you still think being trans is a personal choice maybe take some lessons in reading comprehension, or on empathy, or being less judgmental.

interesting questions when you super oversimplify Neigong you could say that getting the lower dantien up and running is hard for guys as they tend to run after their dicks. For women it's a lot easier to get the LDT in working order. But for women it's hard to get the middle dantien "working' ( for want of a better word) as they tend to run after their feelings. So when you're cultivating in a group you'll see the ladies outperforming the men at first and then when the guys have picked up they see the ladies struggling with something that's easy for them, more or less. I've always suspected that these things are strongly correlated to hormones