spiraltao
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seems the baguazhang is more effective working through one am. sleep from eight thirty to twelve. eight animal fixed postures walked after warm up. i like it!
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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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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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Thirty-Eight Why scurry about looking for the truth? It vibrates in every thing and every not-thing, right off the tip of your nose. Can you be still and see it in the mountain? the pine tree? yourself? Don't imagine that you'll discover it by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way. The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from...
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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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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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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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Whew major vibration going from Jiang Rong Qiao's and Wang Shujin's first three changes followed by
