Horus

The number thirty, understood with reference to the spiritual life, signifies the practice of the virtues. -- The Philokalia Out of thousands of birds that set out on the journey, only thirty birds from the outer world contemplated the face of God in the inner world. -- Fariduddin Attar Horus entering the Narrow Gate with 30 stars, Going forth by day (Egyptian book of the Dead)

The "scared" is the undelved potential, the raw material for greatness. Get that "c" past the "a" and "scared" becomes "sacred". You can completely overcome this with Time Line Meditation (TLM)...http://thetaobums.com/topic/35840-time-line-meditation-tlm/ Though, I realise your undertone was more whimsical than asking for solutions for the sacred bit... LOVE

And Bracken Fern? http://www.theequinest.com/images/bracken-fern-4.jpg and Fishbone Fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)?: http://www.pittwater.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0005/8960/lg_Fishbone-Fern.jpg Wood?

I'm pretty sure that Lilly Pilly is Wood? But am getting confused between Wood & Metal there... https://grndoordesign.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/syzigium-australe-_townsville_2.jpg http://gardenclinic.com.au/bush_garden/NjkyMwMjk3MANTI0MQNzcyNA/

So, Eucalyptus as Fire. I've been working with a number of Eucalyptus varieties and feel that Fire fits with Red Iron Bark (Eucalyptus sideroxylon): http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2196716494_2da6800ae5_m.jpg I can feel the Fire markedly with these babies... But when it comes to Scribbly Gums (Eucalyptus haemastoma) and Ghost Gums (Corymbia aparrerinja) - I feel a balance of Metal and Wood in there and am trying to tell myself its Fire... So, in the reference above he talks about "Base Colour" - and to me the base colour of these guys is white with some green... And the big ones feel very Metal to me... http://www.dryadmusings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Squiggly-Gum-Forest.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8085/8407753444_9a961589fd_z.jpg

Mmmm, yes the Aussie larikin within is often hard to keep there But, please don't take it as a sign of lack of respect. Not to be underestimated is the respect inferred between buddies and diggers alike Downunder...http://goo.gl/vPuARS Great inclusion with these trees - thank you muchly

ok, thanks. My copy is ordered and should be here in the next week, I'll suss it out.

Sounds like fun, would you elaborate more?

ok, just bought mine...should be here 6-12 August! Thanks for all the reviews and tidbits guys!

Such a bewilderingly important aspect of practice this. I was electrocuted about 3 years back, and was totally uprooted. I could no longer feel the yin energy of the earth and nature (well, barely). I became entrained/rooted to the electrical currents all around me. Space cadet city, and every time I walked past a fridge, tv, light post, lamp, electrical cord, shaver - whatever - it would pull me toward it energetically and sometimes I would stumble in that direction physically. I was very ill, throwing up - hardcore. I thought I would die and was almost dead. I started rooting by taking colloidal silver, which worked very well. Then I started doing Zhan zhuang embrace the tree, packing process breathing and rooting practice - getting my wife to push me with a fist at sacrum, mingmen, t11, back of skull and some iron shirt stances. Most meditation uprooted me unless I countered with more rooting - so it all became a big lesson in rooting. Now I realise that the more I develop my LDT the stronger I can root, and the more I develop my upper dantien the greater the need to root or its space cadet city again. And if I go and do very shen based star work, like big dipper practice, I'm gone...out there baby! :0 I also now realise that the more of my channels I clear (and also marrow cleansing), tendon strengthening, and structural alignment the more rooted I can become. But the embrace tree, packing process breath, and pushing practice (twice daily) are my foundation, and the dantien, channels, and marrow cleansing (yet to begin), and earthgrid/sacred site work are additions to that. But the reason people don't know what works and what does is lack of consistent practice. Doing it twice daily develops the root over time. If you were to stand like a tree and relax and ask the earth yin to ascend into you to take the push force - and did it every day - you will gain a root like a tree and will not be pushed over. And that helps drastically in keeping you grounded and balanced with higher energetic work. I came searching to find more answers and feel i'm pretty well on the road. Sometimes my wife is powerfully pushed back when she pushes me (daily) - without any effort on my part - the earth when we are one unified piece (bones, jing, qi, shen, tendons, mind, emotions, body, earth) - the earth and you are one and she protects you. But humble daily pushing is required - the results are from your growing connection to earth - it's her power.

hmm...maybe there's a worm in your apple? Forbidden fruit?

it just pops up when I click into the space for the post text....but upper right on the window (the post text window) is a little arrow button to expand this tool...

thanks spotless "I have no idea how you guys add colored fonts, smileys and other great editing functions."

yes, but what's happening in the NOW is that you are off in the future NOW!

ok, found this:http://thetaobums.com/topic/7008-yin-xian-fa-and-ling-bao-bi-fa-cultivation-methods/ is it: [8] moving the refined vapor to the primordial regions? Also - regarding [5] ejecting the golden sparks from behind the navel, I think I've witnesses this....with internal vision. Maybe I'm progressing through these steps without trying to?

What tradition? What is the name of this particular "shengong" if it has one in your tradition?

I've recently heard some people commenting that Mantak Chia's work is dangerous, particularly the Bone Marrow Washing (Iron Shirt 3). Has anyone done that work and care to comment on that?

thanks orb

Sounds beautiful! I've has similar aspirations myself, but my guides shun the idea - saying that they need me to be around people/society. At least I've been able to get out of apartments now, and have a home with bush across the road "All came about from just trying to listen to where I was being led." Awesome!

hey steve - awesome question. Yes, I do. I connect with the earth core daily. I've just started working with (beginning with larger scale awareness (solar system rotation, galactic vectors, and so forth). After about 12 months of the standing earth work with the sites and chakras I was greeted by a guardian of the site at Bali (Tirta Empul) which is a meeting point of male/female ley lines (and a key purification center for the global energy system). This man told me I should make myself invisible until my connection is strong enough otherwise i'd attract too much attention during the early stages of shen journey through the earth system. I would then see him every day for months and at times he would heal my energy body and remove blockages that were taken up from the earth grid. He left the earth about months ago saying his role is no longer needed and things are "changing". A few months before he left I was met at a few other sites by a number of my spirit guides that have been showing me various exercises to do. One guide in particular would just sit at a particular site and just be there when I'd get to that site. I asked him why he's just sitting there and not showing me things and he said that I am refusing him until I can see him clearer. That lasted for months and then one day he started showing me things, simple things first. Then after some time (months) he grabbed my hand one day and said follow me and we flew to a hospital to a woman in labour that was having issues and he worked with her energetically and the child was born. So, things like that went on for a few months - visiting children in orphanages, people calling out for help. He then started saying just do what I do. So I mimic what he was doing/does. These visits would only be for say 30 sec to a minute out of my earth grid cycle meditation (while embracing the tree stance). Then one day recently instead of flying of in his usual direction with me following - he turned back in the opposite direction and asked me to look to the sky/cosmos. I baulked at that, and said oh..I can't understand what you mean - it's too much/shenning out. So, he broke it down - and made it clear he was showing me the workings of the solar system. He then showed me - see/feel the sun - focus on the feeling. ok, I can do that. So, the sun came into spiritual perception - and before I had time to think about it - he pulled my perception to the moon - oh, ok that's different - and then he said - while holding those energies sturdy in my perception - he said - now feel the earth. And when I felt the earth it suddenly jumped into vision - and he sped up the vision through time/space and I saw the earth spinning, tilted on its access, moon orbiting it and the gradual movement around the sun. It was awesome, and is now every morning - because when I get back to that part of my grid cycle/that site - he's not there - and so I tried to do the same perception and it comes up each time and is getting stronger. He's leaving me to work with that and will come back sometime when ready for more... An I can feel that the next phase is rooting further into the earth to understand the rotational dynamics and how they relate synonymously with our physical and subtle body - the taji pole, the extra meridians, the eternal soul, etc

Thanks, Steve He's a smaller than average border collie with less than average concern for irrigating the floor... Yes, zhan zhuang/yi quan is as simple as it is powerful. I now combine my standing meditation with earth grid "work", and in that visiting sacred sites (meeting points along the ley lines) across the globe - just like visiting points along the channels on my etheric body (with the mind/shen). That is a work I feel is largely overlooked and yet roots one into a very subtle/powerful extension of power. In time you start to become aware of the grid lines on and in the earth, and the grid lines in the sky radiating out from the earth. You also become aware of the vectors/vortexes issuing at the various sites/points - and come to know their direction of rotation. Working with these rotations...pulling and pushing them - like earth grid push hands comes through aswell - amplified by the yi quan/zhan zhuan development of ting jin. Working with virtues through the grid is something quite amazing. All of that asumes the geosomatic synonymousness.

This feels like very old past-life issues coming up to be resolved. But we can make it as complicated of as simple as we choose. Karma is not punishment - it's compassion - it's the compassion to allow you to be that which you are not until such times as you choose to remember who you are and start rummaging through all of the old choices until clarity arises. Again, you will find your answers and healing within the emotions and beliefs you have around this issue - just work with them one by one. Do you have an emotional clearing modality to work with?

Nice post about a nice post! In developing Ting Jin (I found that mine was well developed when I started), and found that Taji honed it. But, when I incorporate yiquan to the practice it fast tracked Ting Jin development massively. Starting with embracing the tree, and then moving to yiquan "combat stance" standing mediation pose - I tried to bridge the "gap" between utter stillness in stillness to movement in stillness. And then once developed and stable - started working with projecting Yi in all directions. So, standing there and intending to move (ie lunge explode attack forward) but not actually moving. Just approaching the move, and lighting up Yi. Then stopping. It has to be "real" intention - not pretend. Like you really belive you are going to do the move, but don't. that develops the listening Ting Jin of listening to the partners movement through yi. the next exercise is to visualise yourself inside a tree trunk and do the same yi but pushing the tree from the inside in all directions, then the same on the outside of the tree. Having done that for about 6 mnths - the yi built up and the Ting Jing evolved. I like to practice this with my dog. He is a very sloppy water drinker lol! Puts trails of water all over the kitchen floor and beyond, steams of it, every time he drinks. We've taken to wiping his mouth after every drink! lol Sounds absurd, but so is the way of love So, anyway, I decided to make a practice of it. Now, I get his Yi come over me when he intends to drink (almost every time - unless I'm monkey minded out ) - so, up I jump and sure enough he's waddling to the bowl. So, the next part is not cramp his style while he's gulping - wait with chux at the ready. And when I feel him about to finish - I feel it and I've trained my subconscious to start a countdown "1,2,3" and (again, almost every time - say 90%) he breaks from the drink right on 3 - and I jump in and wipe. So, I wait until if I get it wrong water's everywhere - so I'm not preempting - I'm responding to Yi. Make everything you master teacher and the Tao will love you.

i'd like to add that intention has a great deal to do with it also, and understanding may drive intention.