rainbowvein

You have a point there. Thoughts and intention do play a part in your spiritual life. The greatest challenge is your own hard-wired nature. Q: Can you supersede your own habits and preferences?

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Also depends on the criteria to confirm awakening.

melody

stand like a line

Are Taoists just when injustices happen? Is the Tao just when injustices happen?

pancreas

ovaries

infinity

@shanlung Will not tire of his unique storytelling style, esp. these stories: meeting an immortal; and the pictures disappearing from his camera and computer after his journey in the mountains of Taiwan. I hope his Chinese continues to improve.

@soaring crane, where has he been?

Picking yourself up

Aussie bums

Very creative scenario and muchly agree with the end of your post, @3bob.

delicate

Tectonic!

Oceania

More importantly, how can (and will) cryptocurrencies affect people's spiritual lives? Everything has an energy profile. Cryptocurrencies have energy profiles. If you are a serious cultivator, you must be cautious about how you make your money, in what you invest. You will read on on messageboards from those who made money early on in crypto, how empty some feel. Even though they are now wealthy. This is a serious topic to consider.

Good Te, my friends

Emptiness in the belly/ldt? It's a bottom-up unfolding. You can't unlock your upper dan tien unless the lowers have opened. Can siddhis activate without enlightenment? Surely. Siddhis do not usually indicate enlightenment.

Wake later and go to sleep earlier, I heard. Since the sun is shining less. Maybe adding cocooning meditations under the blankets with your head facing north!

The first officially enlightened? Howsabout Nuwa and Fuxi?

How would you recognize a xian if s/he crossed your path?

If Tao is a baby Then all babies come from a Mother It is difficult to see or hear Tao, never mind it's Mother. Motherhood is a different type of power, methinks. That's why it is difficult for so many to recognize.

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