spiraltao
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Opened this morning with swinging arms, tea cups and silk reeling. Now I feel like the tin man after a good oiling.
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Vision is mind Mind is empty Emptiness is clear light Clear light is union Union is great bliss -- the Fivefold Teaching of Dawa Gyaltse from Awakening the Luminous Mind by Tenzin Wangyal RInpoche
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Animal Frolics is the first recorded systemof dao-yin that is still practiced today.(See Hua Tuo's biography in the Historyof the Later Han Dynasty, Hou Han Shu.) Chinese literature does not record detailedinstructions for the Frolics from this period.The earliest instructions are found in theYang Sheng Dao Yin Fa (Dao Yin Method forNourishing Life), 1506.
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Animal Frolics is the first recorded systemof dao-yin that is still practiced today.(See Hua Tuo's biography in the Historyof the Later Han Dynasty, Hou Han Shu.) Chinese literature does not record detailedinstructions for the Frolics from this period.The earliest instructions are found in theYang Sheng Dao Yin Fa (Dao Yin Method forNourishing Life), 1506.
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To realize our knowledge is ignorance, this is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we cease to be sick. The sage is not sick, being sick of sickness, this is the key to health.-Tao Teh Ching
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To realize our knowledge is ignorance, this is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we cease to be sick. The sage is not sick, being sick of sickness, this is the key to health.-Tao Teh Ching
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Thanks for adding as friend! I was going to add u back, but it does it by itself, I guess. Best Wishes
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The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses, it swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next, one self-centered idea to the next. If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let this monkey go. Let the senses go. Let desires go. Let conflicts go. Let ideas go. Let the fiction of life and death go. Just remain in the center, watching. And then forget that you are there.-Hua Hu Ching Chapter Ten
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so i am going to begin tea cups and then standing meditation as others are sleeping. also knife and wing chun in front of the mirror. starting and ending in the void posture. Very sore after hundreds of double palms today.
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Whew major vibration going from Jiang Rong Qiao's and Wang Shujin's first three changes followed by
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baguazhang's ding shi animal postures, rotating them around my central axis. Shoulder, elbow, wrist.../coiling is uncoiling, uncoiling is coiling, vibrating snake palm drills, fresh energy.
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chansigong, preceded by full body joint relaxtion. Now that's the ticket. Git yer SHEN TOGETHER!
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Twenty-Nine Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness. Here is the great secret: Just as high awareness of the subtle truth is gained through virtuous conduct and sustaining disciplines, so also is it maintained through these things. Highly ev...
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Got jow now. Bamboo palm training methods. Step, rise, drill, overturn, fall, let falling hand hit bag. Repeat! Great approach to internal palm training, IMO. Thanks Zerostao and sifu.
