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Why don't you hazard to ... expand on this idea. Right now.

Friday is a difficult day for me, whether it's trying to avoid the cars that are braking late and cutting every corner so that they can be the first person to get home after 5 days of self-torture and watch TV .... or deal with the surrounding community all loosening their belts, getting drunk, spraying it all out, overdooing everything as away to anebriate themselves to forget the week. Being in a crowd of drunks loosennig their pants and loosening their tongues .... well I feel the effect, I start wanting to do the same. So I deal with it by firstly : doing something different, changing up my qigong practices or meditation practices, which sort of rides the Friday energy wave, like swimming diagonally across a stream. Or I do a lot of simpler practices (going back to basics), breathing meditation, zhang zhuan grounding work. Every day has it's own energy. Monday is like .... "OK let's get up and DO IT" ... as the world wakes up and pushes itself back into the machine. Tuesday can be quite depressed. Saturday is a bit like Friday but with less desperation and urgency. Sunday can be boring so I get up early and do a whole body workout and keep the morning full.

Existence (in this universe) is growing through forms, forms evolve and devolve, some reach a threshold where they can (re)turn to their source and become permanently individuated fragments, like eddys in a river that become permanent. This is what communion means, a being who is real is a bridge, on one end the Sun on the other the Moon. All real beings are communions. Like water boiling, some gas molecules escape, the rest cycle and recycle and lose their opportunity. Anyone who reaches out will be helped, but most live and die in fear, or imagination. However much you think you need to do to get there, do 3 times more.

Evil is required for life to be real. Without true hazard there is not true life. If you really enter the light the reward is very great indeed, not just words. I get the feeling that many people are asking and answering from the veneer of themselves. Wu-wei is not ... not doing anything. Wells have to be dug. And life's challenges met, only then will you be the hand of life as it grows. When you are asked you will dig unremittingly and when the work is done it is forgotten, then it lasts forever.

The ways of heaven earth and humanity are the same, to give to the small from the big. Interesting he says "of humanity is not to give to those who have much", therefore written in a slightly unhappy way from the perspective of a peasant. "Unity harmonises them" ... well they are the same, no need for unity ... it's not the meeting of opposites. The last paragraph is very important, to accrue what is good. "Many people" do not know the difference and do not differentiate, often they fantasise about doing many things but do not do the small thing that is possible for them, and so the yield of their life is none. The interaction of positive and negative gives beings the opportunity to differentiate between the two, and over time learn to recognize the good and choose the good. At some point, one is able to step from being a recipient, to participate in providing, - according to one's accumulation of the good. If we have one, without deviation, there will be no error.

The activity of Nature does not cease; coming to an end, it starts over again. Therefore it can go on perpetually. When a wheel has a place to turn, it can thereby travel far. The activity of Nature is one, without deviation; therefore it has no error. The way of heaven is to reduce what is much to add to what is little; the way of earth is to decrease what is high to augment what is low...The way of humanity is not to give to those who have much. The way of heaven is a pattern, the way of earth is a design; unity harmonizes them, time works for them, thereby developing myriad things. This is called the Way. Positive energy can be disbursed only after it has accumulated; negative energy can exert influence only after it has been built up. Nothing can exert influence without having been accumulated and built up. Therefore sages are careful about what they accumulate. Wen Tzu Verse 95 https://ramblingtaoist.wordpress.com/series/wen-tzu-series/

I have read in TCM books that we should especially avoid cold wet wind as it is harmful to chi. Well today was the first gusty stormy day for 2 months and I had a totally catastrophic morning, I didn't have my own brain on, everything I did went wrong ... like somebody was breathing down my neck nagging and pushing me then whole way. The wind does that to me. I am not sure if it might be because my Wood energy is weak (judging by my preference for green clothes) and Metal destroys Wood (hits me where I am weak). Or perhaps there is a psychological thing .... when I was very young, the tall trees used to frighten me with the howling Woooooooohooooooo sound they made. Nice to be in a large solid building when the wind is going, or alternatively I was trying to sail in the wind (earlier whilst riding my bike) which might also work .... but being in the wind is like being in the ocean ... it can be draining somehow. Yet another way I have tried is to do a lot of 5 elements, sometimes focussing on Metal .... become like Metal and Metal won't harm you. Some different strategies, but in truth I prefer being in a solid building where I am shielded.

Existence is not quite as stupid as you imagine. It is with you every moment of your life and watches the choices of your heart. Even ... as you act like there is a private space that you can corrupt with nobody knowing. The road opens in front of you, how will you meet it ? The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao. In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent.

Individual terror is the cause of Left and Right. In the old days I would have said that the Left represents the collective insect ant hill that mankind is leaving and the individual will Right is where mankind is going. (and different individuals are tussling between the two) But ... now it seems now is that there is actually a Real Being ready and waiting inside every human, Right Now. But people have become terrified of it somehow. Perhaps it is that we have fought like murderers to keep hold of our position on Earth, and this has become a bad habit. We sing songs about it. The Left and Right are two different songs sung by conquering heros. One singing "In the past we crushed others by being together", and another singing "In the past we crushed others through our individual will". We are drunk on the idea of crushing others ... who talks like this ? Only the terrified expecting attack any minute. And according to the laws of the universe ... if you expect attack, it comes. Humans are ... it is not true that they are far from their Real Self. It is just behind and Ready. But people would do anything at all to keep singing the songs of yesteryear, the great conquering heros. We are a species of dumb ape murderers and we remember nothing else. Like a soldier with PTSD, everything he sees need to be killed. Watching old Feudal Samurai films, you see these big tough guys so proud as they commit harakiri with their special white outfits and all the other strong men "say yes he had honour". What fucking honour ? Don't be donkey and follow these idiot rules. How can you have any self respect following the rules of such a twat of a species as human beings. They don't deserve to be followed. I advise everyone to give themselves a big slap around the face and say ENOUGH. Enough. Just open your own eyes in the morning.

If you are thinking about "what's good for the world" ... then you are anyway lying because you are not present to the situation at hand, you are speaking, but in your head you are planning plotting and have an agenda - even if it is a good agenda. Therefore you are lying. When you read the papers, you can say "oh he's a f******* a******e" and get angry at many people. But if you are in front of those people are you really going to say the same thing. Looking into their eyes, seeing that they are just crazy monkeys, all wanting to be happy, trying to deal with a difficult world. Is it really honest to shout at them ? Or is it an indulgence in your own fantasy. You want to shout at people, so you can continue to be not present and indulge in the dream of hatred in your head. Likewise if you are really nice and compassionate and want to save the world .... when speaking to people. Are you present ? Or is this a different dream ? Are you present to yourself, and are you looking into the eyes of the person in front ? Or do you look to the side to allow you to keep dreaming and get your agenda out ? Life is not painful or hurtful if you are there. Just be there. Be honest right here. Again and again.

As "existence" is doing everything, learning how to listen to its messages and learn its lessons and participate and co-operate and flow with the growing light of the existence .... this leads to a good and worthy life. Otherwise you are living separately trying to feather your nest, but it has only limited value, in the end. Most humans are safeguarding themselves, but it ends up being chaining yourself to the deck of the Titanic. Some days we become, some days we surrender. Together this forms a channel.

You might go to university and study philosophy or psychology or something high-minded, study many ideas books and authors. But nobody will ask you .... "can you feel who is thinking ?". They don't know ... and they don't care. They don't care who it is. They don't care who they are. Do you ?

Can you feel if it is occurring in the lower or upper part of the body, front or back, in the arms, waist, legs, heart, head. Working slowly like this can you come to the area from which the thinking is happening ? Can you develop a new inner sensitivity ?

If you sit quietly and calmly .... then beginning a thought stream.... for instance say to yourself ... "calm .... calm ... calm ....". As this continues, can you feel where it is happening, where the thinking is occurring ? Is it occurring in your left foot ? Can you feel if it is occurring in the lower or upper part of the body, front or back, in the arms, waist, legs, heart, head. Working slowly like this can you come to the area from which the thinking is happening ? Can you develop a new inner sensitivity ?

Yin Yang is the engine of the universe. Spring : Yang Summer : Harvest of Yang work Autumn : Yin Winter : Harvest of Yin work Positive and negative experiences are required for the growth of intelligence, which is the ultimate direction of growth of all that lives. God entered this plane of existence and deposited a very large engine Yin-Yang, that begin turning and cascading throughout this plane, the turning of the seasons bears fruit, and creates order. Yin-Yang reflects the fundamental duality of existence, to exist something has to be occurring (even if it just recognition) and for something to happen there has to be 2 things, male and female. One thing would be non-existent and is not possible. In this plane yin-yang is coarse because that is the nature of this plane. In higher planes it is subtler. The difference between planes is the level of intelligence. The engine as it cascades through this plane creates pockets of energy called beings, some develop intelligence and internalise the yin-yang cycle in their identity, as the energy of the source flows into them, so they flow back into it, completing the cycle in their identity and so their identity because a permanent circle and they live for ... a long time. Well, that's an attempt;.

Faith : Willingness to be constructive I wake up and I try to do something positive, there is something inherently good in living. Faith : Confidence from Experience Praying every day I begin to feel something inside, a light, God, and continuing it grows. This leads to confidence and then faith. Faith : love of self Deeply within I wish to be, I have confidence in me. Faith : hope No matter the outer conditions I feel hope and I act as if there is hope of salvation. When enough light has entered you, there is no turning back, there is only light.

Did you have a particular piece by Milton in mind ?

When we are spaced out we start talking less meaningfully, when we feel ourselves and are present our meaning becomes clear. There are those who talk for hours and say nothing. Others speak little but say much, the energy of reality is conveyed through their words. All of which leads to a different conclusion that Shakespeare's.

Human beings and this world is a catastrophic mess, let's face it. The more you listen to the crazy planet destroying monkeys the less you know. So do we give up then ? ... what did the great seekers do in this situation ? Just copy what they did in their journey and I don't see it going wrong. If you commit fully to any school/ teacher you like and give it 3 solid months, by the end of that period you will know if it has an exit for you, if not try another one, and another one and another one. On this world the only thing you can trust is your own experience of things, and within a year or 2 you will have found the path ... if you wish to. 2 years is going to seem like nothing in 20 years. As you get older you will see that there are people who after 50 years of being "on the path" are still going precisely nowhere. At the end, you will be very happy to have pushed each tradition to its limit and tested it, and have found the one out of a dozen that is real.

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Cat was wise, and I shall do the same one day.

Human beings have not solved any real problems. They don't want to because they don't really ... understand caring. It seems that not many human beings are able to actually care, the ordinary caring is part of a tribal game. How else can you explain, war famine childhood cruelty for so many hundreds of thousands of years. Does that sound like anyone is fixing anything ? Even today, in the biggest most intelligent countries so many disgusting terrible horrifying things are happening. Nobody is actually trying to fix it. Humans are like a mirage, actually they are not awake. They are busy, but in fact deeply deeply asleep and don't realise it. Just a few notice there is a problem, a big problem. It's quite a strange situation. I am not blaming anyone, but I am telling the truth. Humans are asleep and don't realise it. They keep crashing the car, bus somehow they find another way to go back to sleep. They don't comprehend the danger or damage. With regards your losing the will to go on .... does that sound like you are actually aware and capable ? Or are you in fact asleep at the wheel. Perhaps you do many busy things. But can you .... understand what it is to be yourself ? Can you value that ? Well, it's an opportunity to .... put everything in order whilst you are still young enough.

What was the result of all the meditation practice ? Where you able to recognize your true identity ?