Da Le

Thank you for your update, Shen! I'm glad to hear your DVDs arrived. It's pretty frigid here, too, right now. My Qigong work is going quite well, with definite benefits. I've also been teaching Taoist meditation and some Qigong to a young friend (about 29) who is a chief instructor at a Taekwondo school. I enjoy that. Da Le

Thanks so much for your comments on the FP discussion board -- they've been a great help! - Dale

Thanks! I'll report something here, but not on the main board. That DVD of Grandmaster, though I haven't learned it yet (still on Terry's DVDs), it makes me joyful just to watch the GM. And now when I meditate on Guanyin or Puxian, I've begun to spontaneously see the GM in their Hearts. - Dale

This music pretty much restored my nerves and mental health years ago after a major breakdown (child-PTSD-related). For once thing it's "vertical music"--reaches right up to the "Immortal Realms"; and also it puts Order back into the heart-mind and nervous system. So it's still my Musical Food. - Da Le

to continue a bit more -- the main keyboard instruments in Bach's time were harpsichord and organ. Aside from the metal-stringed harpsichords, there were gut-stringed "lute harpsichords" - like a keyboard guitar! - and harpsichords with foot-pedals. I just ordered the Well-Tempered Clavier played on a pedal-harpsichord! [cont.]

You're welcome, Shen. A white dragon (lung spirit--heals grief), dark-blue dragon (kidney spirit--heals fear), green dragon (liver spirit--heals anger), rainbow-red dragon (heart and head spirit--heals both manic and depressive extremes)... [to be cont.]

Your inner Dragon will plough through any old inertia behaviors! And even if sometimes you don't feel like getting up and doing, you can sit and watch for a while, or practice movements in your mind. It's Yin and Yang and it all flows together and works together toward your goal. -- Da Le