The Wanderer

Is this your assignment? I've thought about this a lot -- and I don't think there is necessarily a right way, but in all the arrangements I've thought about, Malkuth is the trigram earth, Yesod is water, and Tiphareth is fire. I would also make Da'ath another water! I would balance the wind you have in Chokmah, with lake for Binah, if I were assigning those trigrams, but I like Crowley's approach -- where he handled the excess of sephiroth by making Chokmah simply one yang line, and Binah, one yin. Of course, this is all play. I wouldn't want to take it too seriously :-)

Hi. Thanks for welcoming me to your forum. I've been looking for more people to talk with about the topics that interest you for a long time. I have a lot of experience, and some skill and knowledge in many of the topic areas you discuss here, including meditation, qi gong, tai ji, alchemy, buddhism and philosophy in general. At the moment I am especially interested in alchemy. I have been "turning around the light" in meditation and daily activity, mainly for the last six weeks (if you don't count my years of qi gong practice :-)) and it has affected me profoundly and well, and I seem to be having some experiences I am tempted to interpret as getting very close to awareness of reality. I let go of most thoughts and feelings automatically, without effort now, and I can let go of the effort to let go too, with some effort, lol. I and I reach a place of great stillness and openness for some time, although I still struggle with the distraction of my posture. And I do not feel confident that I am not-doing it correctly, in terms of adopting the state of mind that will lead to restoration. Having a thoughtless mind is one thing. But there are many different ways to be thoughtless. I have read Liu I-ming and other masters carefully and I believe I understand most of the subtle errors they describe, but I am also becoming confused by too many ideas in my head from ancient Taoist texts! But anyway, my point is . . . I would really like to discuss this with any others who understand the things I am talking about. :-) love, me