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"When the lofty hear of Way" ..... of the Way. Perhaps the editor wishes to sound lofty himself. 41 The wise student hears of the Tao and practices it diligently. The average student hears of the Tao and gives it thought now and again. The foolish student hears of the Tao and laughs aloud. If there were no laughter, the Tao would not be what it is. Hence it is said: The bright path seems dim; Going forward seems like retreat; The easy way seems hard; The highest Virtue seems empty; Great purity seems sullied; A wealth of Virtue seems inadequate; The strength of Virtue seems frail; Real Virtue seems unreal; The perfect square has no corners; Great talents ripen late; The highest notes are hard to hear; The greatest form has no shape; The Tao is hidden and without name. The Tao alone nourishes and brings everything to fulfillment.

Yes Marblehead you are the only one on this planet who has problems.

Why do you say that ?

It has taken me quite a while to understand Christianity. Paul was a fanatic, he was a fanatic when he hated Christianity and a fanatic when he became Christian. Not really a great person to take lessons from. There are the words of Jesus of Nazareth. Do you need anything else ?

That's all rubbish. You are just work shy. When in gravest dark pain is the right time to meditate. You should remember that next time you have a screaming migraine. In fact people are in pain 24 hours a day, but they don't understand.

Non-duality and Wuwei are things that enlightened beings talk about after they have finished their arduous path. Here's a nice big coffee table book about mountain climbing. As you flick through the pictures whilst sipping a cappuccino ....

If you want power the practice won't work

Also I completely love this form, I can do about 1/3 or it now and it's Water Element fantastic. The students coming out of the Liang line are very good and inspiring, and clear.

Hello. I have been looking through dozens of practitioners doing Liuhebafa in the last few weeks, and it seems to me they are more or less all doing different things. Sure there are small clumps of people doing a similar interpretation, but by and large there is no Liuhebafa, is there ? If they are doing different types of movements different emphasis some staggering, some flowing, some hip based, some this some that. What's the similarity ? Is there anything similar or is it just the same name and sort of same movements ... but actually completely different ? And so how are you supposed to "do it properly", then ? What does it mean to do it properly ? Pick one teacher you like and copy ? Christianity .... degenerated over the years until it was exactly upside down and then the wars in Christianity's name began. Very strange things happen on this planet. You start with white, and then 100 years later you have black, but somehow it carries the same badge. Inside it's all changed. Sigh..... Some styles like Chen Taiji seem more fixed, but also a bit repressed ... the more institutional they are the more certain you are of them - because everyone is exactly the same - .... well is that good ? Maybe not. Been watching BKF's Heaven & Earth DVD, and for such a small movement there is a great deal of work that could be done in it, a lot. But I supposed one hungers for a longer practice ... probably in the end you'd get more from the shorter practice. With the Liuhebafa a lot of the people they do the movements in such a way that they are completely not ready for combat, legs are .... just standing there side by side .... anyone could push these guys over. So what does that mean ? I have the sense often that farmers, and workers, physical people .... can be trusted because they get their hands dirty with the life. They are physically engaged. And their work is good. And their ways are good. A their forms are good. But people who are of weak bodies .... who talk of "energies" .... are they just cowards who have gone into their heads ? Can you trust their forms ? Maybe not. Some teachers I have seen add in a bit of "energy detail", a Laogong here, a Leg Three Miles there .... they give you a big smile and mention these gates. Is it convincing ? Or are they trying to convince themselves ? Maybe they know nothing. Maybe they specifically remember a couple of gates just to ... prevent you realising that they have no idea what they are doing. What are we doing ? There is this famous tattooed Tai Chi teacher in NY, forget his name, but he's been around .... he says that in the end you fight .... because you like fighting. And I thought he was right, although I would add that "fighting" is just a means for testing truth in life, and so growing. Every fight is a test of reality. Anyway not sure what to say of Liuhebafa, perhaps i was looking for that water secret .... in a world of murky water .... maybe I should just stick to the people I like, and place my spirit with theirs. Maybe that's all there is, in the end. Maybe if there is an ancient secret, I have to hew it out of the rock with my own hands.

Did Cleary really write this ?! Wow. It is gibberish. =================================== Knowledge outside and inside is good .... if that is what you seek. Know what you want, and seek it. Know what you wish, and do what you wish to do. Whatever it is. Whatever. If you wish to go deep into absorption in the subject, then do so. It is also "knowledge", but yes of a totally different realm. Yet you might wish for it. So answer that wish. Find a good teacher and sit with him and grow. What do you wish ? Just be honest. Then follow. Follow your self. What is the capital of Uzbekistan ?

Good news. In fact I have managed to shift quite a lot of stuff this week. Santi posture is dynamite for clearing out leg blockages, and yes it can be painful. I do 5 mins per side, and just keep alternating until I can't do. Very good. Second method is the extraordinary meridiens businesses described before. Third method is dissolving the upper palate ( comes from that Alchemy Book voidyanger keeps posting ) ... and actually dissolving head blockages starting from within the mouth and working outwards very good. Fourth method is doing 6 healing sounds but using the aforementioned big diagram of emotions which is also amazing. So it's all good. The thing about doing it yourself is that ... you can do it yourself. Nothing more soul destroying to wait 2 weeks for an appointment with a "therapist" to do something for you and then pay for it. Although maybe it can help, but .... to maintain health is life isn't it, so must get good at it. And I don't have 2 weeks to wait, nor 2 minutes.

Thanks man, yes I have this very video and I know Serrano, and this is exactly the one I do in the morning. At the moment i have been trying doing one round of this form and then 3 BKF Heaven & Earths, and then the form and then H&E. Pretty powerful, bordering on ungrounding. But yes very good. This one also very good :

The individual receiving the light of the whole dies. New individuals are made like acorns. It's not a problem. However some acorns have a different future. A human when he dies he actually dies, meaning his eyes close and they do not open again. A Buddha when his body dies does not, since he is an oak, meaning his personal substance has become permanent. That is how it seems to be. Most humans are unable to really understand they are individuals, they cannot feel inside them who they are, because their individuality is still very very small. You can say it was always the whole that was looking through your eyes, and perhaps it is true, for the whole. Anyway, the question is more like can I become alive. Or what can I make out of life ? Everything of value has a price, and sometimes the price is high. Immortality is a great price. As for the question ... how can you work for something immortal ? This question is based on the premise that there is only the whole and so nothing to work for. However this is not quite true. The whole (Self/Tao) functions through the creation of temporary centres of identity all which are given part of the Self's identity. And they are supported through the space-time's bodies. At the end of their lives their light is recovered. However some reach realisation (they return early and form a bridge that is eternal). Humans live in a kind of depression where they always looking for ways to justify doing nothing. Even if it is hopeless why not try, what do you have to lose. You are dead already.

I have had this particular problem, candida infecting the groin and appendix - is it on the right ? What to do ? I can tell you my protocol. First thing in the morning squat on the toilet, this is critical for emptying the caecum. Candida infections trickle down the rest of the pipe and get through the gut wall. Probiotic stuff : is very important : I used Rhythm Pure Coconut, it's excellent and I have tried a lot. Have it at breakfast. And I take Lindens probiotics plus. The Rhythm stuff really is extremely good. If there is an active infection then in the morning I put 1/2 teaspoon of bentonite + 1/2 teaspoon of fine psyllium shake to mix with half cup and straight down. It absorbs the infected material and carries it through. And I take Lindens Colon formula likewise to clean. Okay Candida killers. I have a vast arsenal in my cupboard but I tell it is no good because you kill and it half dies and the dying mass infects the colon etc... This is the not the way. Gentle replacement is the way. With breakfast I take : Vitamin C (Patrick Holford 1.4g) 1 x Lindens garlic oil 1 x Bioforce Grapfruit Seed Extract (GSE) ... and that's it. I did go through a period of 2x garlic oil but you can overdo it and damage the stomach. Slow improvement. Breakfasts : Organic Oats / banana / apple / seeds / crushed lindsseed + Rhythm, cinnamon, pinchsalt Also have the remains of this for lunch Exclude : Wheat, sugar, all breads, milk if you need to, and coarse foods, also Peas (high fodmaps meaning high fermentation) Dinner : fish rice often, or veggie quiche, with salad, rice crackers At night if you need more pills : 1 x GSE + 1 x Capryllic Acid (Lindens) + 1 x turmeric So that's all simple and cheap. The only strong thing in the whole lot is the garlic. This is better than trying to nuke your body. Sex > depletes the immune system What is the underlying cause : > emotional pain : >> 6 healing sound qigong, get good at it do it a lot, but get good at it > emotional tension especially around the stomach >> shaking / bioenergetics / dancing For circulation issues you can use BK Frantzis Dragong & Tiger ... it is excellently taught on DVD you wont' go wrong Standing meditations like Terry Dunn's Chi Kung For Health, strengthens the system Qigong might keep you alive, but .... deal with what is inside. Healing tea from Dr Christopher naturopath in the US : Barberry root + chickweed + mullein flowers > these sooth the digestive tissues Brown Linseed + ground licorice + lemonbalm > the linseed becomes a gel, licorice for digestive problems since Ancient Egyp, lemonbalm slight mood uplift ... Linseed gel production is sensitive to cooking temp and time. About 1/2 tablespoon per Litre, cooked for 15mins on low heat, after boiling. Mix all that together and you have something, just drink it all day and night.

I think in 10,000 years you will still be .... having a meeting.

Monkeys are so dumb and then the civilization falls one more time and everyone is like .... how did that happen. Tolerance is just cowardice mixed with idiocy mixed with unconsciousness mixed with more cowardice.

Alright well if you want to go to Hawaii why don't you go to Hawaii ? Or approximate it in some form. Go to Costa Rica and play with your coconuts. ( it's a bit cheaper than Hawaii ) Or better than that go to Lake Arenal, with a big hippie seen. Or just go to Rishikesh and bring coconuts with you. Sitting on your bum is not very approximate.

He is "really interesting" like Robin Wiliams was really interesting. He is not grounded and comes out with these one liners that have the intelligensia going ooh aah ... but actually the guy did not help himself. Like many intellectual European nutballs, his intellect is just driven by ego. He had no transcendence nor peace. "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man." What the hell does that mean ? It's so melodramatic. "Hope in reality" ... yeah really profound. The torment of man ? Talk about yourself, it's just you who is tormenting you. Why don't you put your intelligensia down and do some meditation or dare I say it prayer. If God is dead bring him back, instead of thinking it's going to fall out of the sky on your lap. I am actually a bit sick of these melodramatic monkeys either intellectual or religious who are just f****ing ungrounded lazy big mouthed gits. I am no longer impressed. Get lost.

Interestingly I have just been learning Santi and found immense benefits even in a few days. Very good for clearing blockages from leg trauma. I also just received an email from a senior teacher in one of the big Liuhebafa Associations, and he warned me that claims to authenticity are to be taken lightly ... also his assoc no longer teaches. My assessment is that there are several traditional type old men who teach what they know, around. Their forms are eroded and they don't know what they are doing. Most have little active interest in the work. Liu Xialing who is famous and made the "best DVD" for instance in his interview it is clear he think Liuhebafa is partly dead and encourages students to grow it, and he performs it accurately but academically.. The only group I see that is actively growing it comes from the Liang family in Vancouver ? I have now see 4 students of theirs all with strong living forms. So I go with them. Easy choice. Also I have a number of warmups in the Xingyi Bagua tradition that I do, as well as Wush ChangQuan. And that's the best I can do. Get busy living or ...

If you refuse to stand up when you children are taught to sodomise each other and surgically remove their sexual organs .... if your refuse to stand up now. You are nothing.

Who is it that will be powerful ? Do you know ? Concentration is fine at the beginning because it coheres and integrates the mind, but the mind must also wake up. Too much concentration is like trying to hammer a rock. What for ? So if you do Samatha practice you must also be sensitive to feel who you are. Crushing yourself in concentration is not good. Satyananda practice is generally good because the asana is soft and not yoga-sex-body-calfifornia-style ... These people are very good : https://www.yogameditation.com/bindu-publishers/yoga-tantra-and-meditation-in-daily-life/ Their practice is extremely good, the best I know of on this planet, it's in Sweden at the Haa Centre. One of the things they do is mirror gazing Tatrak. Through this type practice you can wake up.

37 (Gia Fu Feng) Tao abides in non-action, Yet nothing is left undone. If kings and lords observed this, The ten thousand things would develop naturally. If they still desired to act, They would return to the simplicity of formless substance. Without for there is no desire. Without desire there is. And in this way all things would be at peace. Abides means to be absorbed in to reside in, it stays within itself, it does not separate itself with action. As it flows it flowers and everything is taken care of. King and Lords ? Well, to be absorbed is not passive, it is active but active-whilst-absorbed in the spirit of nature. And so your actions extend that spirit though you. Such a King or Lord would have to be unusually in tune with nature. Many people would like to believe that absorption is passive, and that you can go to sleep, which is monkey's favourite thing. But being Tao is not going to sleep at all. It is waking up big. Possibly Laozi also believed in passive. He says "If King and Lords Observe This" ... well it's not that easy is it. How to make K&L conscious ? No answer given. Thanks a lot Laozi : yes we can all criticize can't we. We all know we would like to be peaceful like the forest, but ... how can it be done ? Without desire ? Well desire also arose from the Tao, what is its purpose ? If you don't know the purpose of desire, and you don't know the purpose of the individual mind, then .... ..... then .... ..... you will default to monkey's greatest hits : 1. Kill it 2. Fuck it 3. Monkey sleeps now And these 3 greatest hits are monkey's approach to ego-individuality-desire-separation .... because monkey doesn't understand why it is there. It is there because Tao put it there, because Tao is bored of flowing like a really big Mississippi River, it wants companions and friends, it wants individuals who carry Tao to emerge. And so it births them. And they are confused. Very confused.

No, I don't. Why do you say it is not correct ?

Jesus wept. If the members of a society can't even tell which gender they are .... wow. It's finished. In our society all these things are just a game. Gender, marriage, the body. All just a place for the darkness to take a shit. The dark lords are enjoying the disintegrating consciousness of mankind, and eat their souls for breakfast. Mankind is now so severed from the ground that if the TV told them to jump in the lake most would do it. Our society is becoming and as-if society .... everything is there, doctors, politicians, etc. ... but they all do exactly the opposite of that they should be doing. This year some people livestreamed cannibalism from Finland or somewhere in Northern Europe. It's all fun. Ever seen Apocalypto. I pity people born in this world. And all these people who think think think, like that non-duality thread. It's just the false self false self false self. Having good fun. And then death. Anyway, not sure how I have managed not to slide into the black sewers of the mind. But then again I sit in meditation 5 times a day. Sometimes 8.

Following a psychotic breakdown in 1889, at the age of 44 years, he was admitted to the Basel mental asylum and on 18 January 1889 was transferred to the Jena mental asylum. He remained in demented darkness until his death on 25 August 1900. Better to follow people who have solutions.