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........................................... I just ate an apple with my tea. Tasted pretty good for an illusion.

But without non importance... no importance.

Thank you Marblehead.

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Non-duality is not an illusion. (Usually). Sawing a lady in half. Pulling a white rabbit from a top hat. Producing endless white doves from the sleeves of one's dinner jacket. Now those are illusions. Jolly entertaining illusions they are too, when done well.

Duality is an illusion. It's also one word in that sentence of words. Words can be slippery customers.

Well anyone expecting physical immortality on this side of life is in for a bit of a surprise sooner or later. This old corporeal overcoat has to be put into the wardrobe at some stage, but what wears it carries on regardless; as ever. That said, as spiritual beings; we are of course; immortal.

"Where did all these Apaches spring from?" Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer

How do you include pictures in your posts please? I'll try to pop a piccy or two of our garden in here if i can.

Concierge that pussy cat of yours in the picture looks to be a Grade A expert meditator. We can learn a lot from pussy cats. Sleep, Wake, Stretch, Sit, Meditate, Dinner (and repeat). Yep, Pussy Cats have got it sussed.

Main thing is, if you wish to develop your ability to perceive halos/auras is to continue to cultivate and focus on those practices that get you into the zone where you are seeing/sensing halo/aura. Either yours or others. It's actually easier to see someone else's halo/aura than it is your own hence the old Tao Masters' mutual greeting of.. "You are fine. How am I?" Some people switch QiGong sets like changing socks. It's a means to an end so the more mind-less-ly your cultivation flows the more effective it becomes. So master a set, stick with it, and see what develops from there. IMHO Water sets are possibly better for you in the long run than are fire sets, but I would say that. Up to you really and all good wishes as you progress.

Excellent post, your cultivation is developing well. Whatever practice helps towards your seeing halo/aura is the best way forward for you. There's no 'one size fits all' formula because everyone is different. More later.

Absolutely. It's all 'One' and of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. No boundaries with Tao just permeable membrane

Entities only have what power one chooses to permit them. Maybe game metaphor is 'lost' on noncompetitive Taoist.

It's been a summer for pests, worst I've known. No nasturtiuums at all. Slugs n snails aplenty,Hostas like lace. Second show of roses has been good though. Lilys [tigers] mainly chomped. Mrs GrandmasterP thinks Dahlias vulgar but I am working on her.

The Pure Land Buddhists are very big on chanting. Ultimately whatever gets you there is what gets you there. There's little or no magic in it. Tibetan draws western converts especially men. Possibly because there' such a lot of kit to buy.

No need to apologize. Yes I teach QiGong,Meditation and facilitate Mediumship development groups here in the East Midlands of the UK. We have a centre in Leicester. Do not seek to advertise on here but PM if you would like a link to the training centre website. We have nothing to sell online. All classes are face to face.

Quite so. You can certainly describe visions, and those would be good to share. But how and where you were, how you felt, what 'you' experienced. Those are no more communicable than is the taste of the word 'salt' via the spoken or written word. .

................................................ Ah but you do, my wise friend.

Chapter 2 Sentence 1 When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created. Very profound.

There's nothing to it.

It's like kids arguing and shouting in a playground with some of those Tibetans, and the western converts to it are often the worst offenders. By and large the leathery little old ladies in the temples who make the tea and actually run the show don't give a toss. Mainly down to regional dialect differences along with geography is Tibetan sectarianism. The schools reflect geographical areas that were isolated one from another. We have a similar schism where I come from between people from Lancashire and those from Yorkshire. Two counties separated by a range of hills impassable in winter in ancient times Old suspicions. Those filter out into the Buddhism, then you add 'lineage envy' with its 'My Lama is better than yours' infantile rhetoric and the rest is history. Thank goodness we don't see much of that nonsene in Taoism.

Yep Maranantha Baptist Church that was it. Small world! Nice to meet you on here.

Lovely place. Been there. Probably changed quite a bit since we were there last though. Does it still have a Baptist Church? We delivered acres of supplies on the post revolution aid convoys. That church was the warehouse for stockpiles prior to them being distributed Chap name of Florian Dragoiou and his sister were our hosts.

Poor edit above, sorry... Along with Dorje Shugdan the 'Dharma protector'/ cum 'demi God - Je Tsongkhapa is one of the New Kadampa 'celebs' hence perhaps the bad mouthing on Amazon. Anything the New Kadampa favours becomes de facto 'bad' in the eyes of those who oppose them.