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  6. Posted

    7 hours ago, Indiken said:

    Hello,

     

    how much Jing is spent living 5 years in Nazi concentration camp ?

     

    It's all too easy to let your surroundings weigh your spirit down. You may become sick and emaciated from malnourishment or mistreatment. And your jing may suffer. But your shen can still soar.

     

    "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

    ~Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor

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  12. Posted

    Hello @TranquilTurmoil

     

    I sympathize with your desire for a teacher and personal relationship. Please know that, with all the teachers, gurus and sages in the world, who will be able to guide you appropriately? The fact is that all spiritual information is incomplete. And the majority of it is even misguided. Or worse, malicious.

     

    Where can you continue your cultivation, then? Build your foundation on normalcy and sobriety. It sounds like this is the place you are at now. Yaey!

     

    If Tao is Zero (circle), you need to become One (a line) before you can enter the narrow gate. Spiritual strength is developed through cultivating gentleness and softness. In time, and with loads of patience, the strength of one's spirit will feel like jade!

     

     

    Gathering the Mind

    by Sun Buer

     

    Before our body existed,
    One energy was already there.
    Like jade, more lustrous as it's polished,
    Like gold, brighter as it's refined.
    Sweep clear the ocean of birth and death,
    Stay firm by the door of total mastery.
    A particle at the point of open awareness,
    The gentle firing is warm.

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  14. Posted

    On 1/10/2021 at 12:05 PM, CozySpace said:

    Good self awareness and judgement. I've been told that high level cultivation is done throughout the day in each and every moment, and that these will make sure that you stay on the right track as you interact with the world. 

     

    Oh, and some luck in order to find a genuine method to cultivate.

     

    Yep. Some people are born with luck.

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  15. Posted · Edited by rainbowvein

    Some ideas for the OP

    • super important: drink more water consistently - if you don't like plain water, then drink flavored sparkling water. suggestion: make a chart and cross off each 8-oz. glass of water you consume, up to the recommended dose linked above.
      [note: each human has an inborn preference for liquid intake. I know some that don't drink hardly at all. they experience chronic constipation and even eventually have been hospitalized for dehydration. I know others who can't drink enough, are constantly thirsty, due to large body mass or health/medicine issues.]
    • walk regularly
    • apples, pears and other helpful foods
    • senna tisane (full cup for stronger job; half a cup for mild job)

  18. Posted

    13 minutes ago, sagebrush said:

    teechino was something I drink too and Pero 

    chicory 

     

    I dont own a microwave its against my religion

     

    Do you mean teeccino? I love their tisanes.

     

    Sorry to hear you are anti-microwave. I regularly use mine. So handy. ^_^

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  22. Posted

    On 1/4/2021 at 2:12 PM, Wilhelm said:

    How does your tradition protect you from deluding yourself, or being deluded by others?

     

    Most every tradition has blind spots that their practitioners cannot see. The sages and adepts of the traditions will have similar blind spots, no matter their claims or level of enlightenment.

     

    A tradition does not protect one from deluding oneself. (I have been deluded myself at times.)

     

    A tradition is a way to delude oneself, unluckily.

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  24. Posted

    Speaking about pu-ehr teas, how do folks break open the brick when the block is insurmountably unbreakable?

     

    This year I broke open my first pu-ehr/mum tea. I steamed it repeatedly as I was able to break off pieces. But still it was a challenge. (A hammer to the outside of the block did not break it.)