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A traditionnal Practice for Today's WorldUrban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-49141428869484003962017-05-13T09:46:00.002-07:002017-05-13T09:46:29.044-07:00Tempus Fugit !<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<i><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en">"The fate of man on earth is that of a soldier,</span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="« Le sort de l'homme sur la terre est celui d'un soldat,"> </span><span class="" title="Et ses jours sont ceux d’un mercenaire.">His days are those of a mercenary.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Et ses jours sont ceux d’un mercenaire."> </span><span class="" title="Comme l’esclave soupire après l’ombre,">As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow,</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Comme l’esclave soupire après l’ombre,"> </span><span class="" title="Comme l’ouvrier attend son salaire,">As the worker looks for his wages ,</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Comme l’ouvrier attend son salaire,"> </span><span class="" title="Ainsi j'ai pour partage des mois de douleur, j'ai pour mon lot des nuits de souffrance.">So I have to possess months of pain , I have my lot of nights of suffering.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Ainsi j'ai pour partage des mois de douleur, j'ai pour mon lot des nuits de souffrance."> </span><span class="" title="Je me couche, et je dis : Quand me lèverai-je ?">I lie down, I say, When I get up to ? </span><span class="" title="Quand finira la nuit ?">When finish the night ?</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Quand finira la nuit ?"> </span><span class="" title="Et je suis rassasié d'agitations jusqu'au point du jour.">And I am full of agitations until daybreak .</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Et je suis rassasié d'agitations jusqu'au point du jour."> </span><span class="" title="Mon corps se couvre de vers et d'une croûte terreuse,">My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust ,</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Mon corps se couvre de vers et d'une croûte terreuse,"> </span><span class="" title="Ma peau se crevasse et se dissout.">My skin is broken and dissolved.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Ma peau se crevasse et se dissout."> </span><span class="" title="Mes jours sont plus rapides que la navette du tisserand,">My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle ,</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Mes jours sont plus rapides que la navette du tisserand,"> </span><span class="" title="Ils s’évanouissent : plus d’espérance !">They vanish : more hope !</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Ils s’évanouissent : plus d’espérance !"> </span><span class="" title="Souviens-toi que ma vie est un souffle !">Remember that my life is a breath! </span><span class="" title="Mes yeux ne reverront pas le bonheur.">My eyes do not see happiness. </span><span class="" title="»">"</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="»"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="»"></span><span class="" title="Job 7">Job 7</span></span></span></b></i><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Job 7"></span></span></blockquote>
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Job 7"><br /></span><span class="" title="Nous sommes dans une période de changements qui demande d'être particulièrement attentif à ses actions et ses valeurs.">We are in a period of change which requires to be particularly attentive to one's actions and values.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Nous sommes dans une période de changements qui demande d'être particulièrement attentif à ses actions et ses valeurs."><br /></span><span class="" title="Il est temps de faire déborder la Voie vers l'autre, vers le monde : il est temps de partager et de s'engager dans l'évolution positive de notre univers.">It's time to make the Way spill on the other, on the world : it is time to share and to engage in the positive evolution of our universe.</span><span class="" title="L'évolution de tous dépend de l'évolution de chacun : le changement profond du groupe doit passer par un éveil de l'individu."> </span></span><br /><br /><h3>
<span style="color: #990000;"><i><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="L'évolution de tous dépend de l'évolution de chacun : le changement profond du groupe doit passer par un éveil de l'individu.">The Evolution of All depends on the Evolution of Each:</span></span><span class="" lang="en"><span class="" title="L'évolution de tous dépend de l'évolution de chacun : le changement profond du groupe doit passer par un éveil de l'individu.">The Profound Change of the Group must go through an Awakening of the Individual.</span><span class="" title="Les soubresauts du groupe, qui réagit et s'indigne, ne peuvent qu'amener une modification fragile de la société, les mêmes cycles se renouvellent sans cesse."> </span></span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Les soubresauts du groupe, qui réagit et s'indigne, ne peuvent qu'amener une modification fragile de la société, les mêmes cycles se renouvellent sans cesse.">The upheavals of the group, which reacts and is indignant can only bring a fragile change of society, the same cycles are constantly repeated.</span><span class="" title="Pour un changement profond, pour une évolution stable de notre monde, il faut passer par un effort personnel de transformation de soi."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Pour un changement profond, pour une évolution stable de notre monde, il faut passer par un effort personnel de transformation de soi.">For a profound change, for a stable evolution of our world, we must go through a personal effort of self-transformation.</span><span class="" title="La remise en question de nos préjugés, la recherche d'un meilleur fonctionnement personnel, une connaissance accrue de l'autre, un engagement dans le monde et une meilleure observation de notre monde vont permettre cela."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="La remise en question de nos préjugés, la recherche d'un meilleur fonctionnement personnel, une connaissance accrue de l'autre, un engagement dans le monde et une meilleure observation de notre monde vont permettre cela.">The challenging our prejudices, the search for a better personal functioning, an increased knowledge of the other, an involvement in the world and a better observation of our world will allow this.</span><span class="" title="Avant tout, acceptons de changer, d'évoluer : reconnaissons que nous ne savons pas tout, que nous devons évoluer vers un mieux et que nous devons y travailler."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Avant tout, acceptons de changer, d'évoluer : reconnaissons que nous ne savons pas tout, que nous devons évoluer vers un mieux et que nous devons y travailler.">Above all, we must accept to change, to evolve : let's recognize that we do not know everything and that we need to move towards a better and that we have to work on it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Nos imperfections, nos fonctionnements malades, tout cela peut aller vers un mieux, une réalisation de notre potentiel humain."><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Nos imperfections, nos fonctionnements malades, tout cela peut aller vers un mieux, une réalisation de notre potentiel humain.">Our imperfections, our pathological ways, all this can go towards a better, a realization of our human potential.</span><span class="" title="Acceptons que nous pouvons mieux nous occuper de nous, que nous pouvons changer certains comportements avec les autres, que notre travail peut aussi être source de joie, que rien n'est fixe..."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Acceptons que nous pouvons mieux nous occuper de nous, que nous pouvons changer certains comportements avec les autres, que notre travail peut aussi être source de joie, que rien n'est fixe...">Let's accept that we can take care of ourselves better, that we can change certain behaviors with others, that our work can also be a source of joy, that nothing is fixed... </span><span class="" title="nous pouvons tout changer dans notre vie si nous le voulons.">we can change everything in our lives if we want to.</span><span class="" title="Nous sommes des êtres humains, nous avons des fonctionnements physiologiques, respiratoires et mentaux : dans la mesure où nous essayons de mieux connaître ses fonctions, nous allons savoir quoi faire pour mieux fonctionner."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Nous sommes des êtres humains, nous avons des fonctionnements physiologiques, respiratoires et mentaux : dans la mesure où nous essayons de mieux connaître ses fonctions, nous allons savoir quoi faire pour mieux fonctionner.">We are human beings, we have physiological, respiratory and mental workings: insofar as we try to better understand its functions, we will know what to do to better function.</span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Pourquoi ne pas tirer avantage de notre existence en tant qu'humain et en avoir la meilleure expérience possible ?"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en"><span class="" title="Pourquoi ne pas tirer avantage de notre existence en tant qu'humain et en avoir la meilleure expérience possible ?"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>Why not take advantage of our existence as human beings </i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i><span class="" title="Pourquoi ne pas tirer avantage de notre existence en tant qu'humain et en avoir la meilleure expérience possible ?">and have the best experience possible ?</span><span class="" title="Profitons de notre vie pleinement en nous réalisant et en améliorant notre conscience : connaissons nos points forts et nos points faibles pour mettre en avant les premiers et corriger les seconds."> </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Profitons de notre vie pleinement en nous réalisant et en améliorant notre conscience : connaissons nos points forts et nos points faibles pour mettre en avant les premiers et corriger les seconds.">Let's enjoy our life fully, realizing ourselves and improving our consciousness: let's know our strengths and our weaknesses to highlight the first and fix the second.</span><span class="" title="Ne nous contentons pas de ce qui est, mais tendons vers l'idéal de ce que nous pouvons être… et pour cela il faut travailler sur les aspects de ce qui fait notre humanité."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Ne nous contentons pas de ce qui est, mais tendons vers l'idéal de ce que nous pouvons être… et pour cela il faut travailler sur les aspects de ce qui fait notre humanité.">Let us not just settle down for what is, but let's tend toward the ideal of what we can be instead... and for that we need to work on the aspects of what makes us human.</span><span class="" title="Si nous comprenons ce besoin de travailler sur nous, de chercher à s'améliorer, nous avons franchi la première étape."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Si nous comprenons ce besoin de travailler sur nous, de chercher à s'améliorer, nous avons franchi la première étape.">If we understand this need to work on ourselves, to try to improve, we have taken the first step.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Cette première tempe est cruciale, elle détermine notre capacité à aller chercher l'évolution, c'est notre force pour changer ce qui ne nous convient pas dans notre vie, dans notre interaction avec les autres et dans notre quotidien.">This first step is crucial, it determines our ability to seek evolution, it is our strength to change what does not suit us in our lives, in our interactions with others and in our daily lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Sans cette prise de conscience, nous ne bougerons pas de nos habitudes et de nous resterons dans l'imperfection ressentie comme une punition.">Without this awareness, we will not move away from our habits and we will remain in an imperfection seen as a punishment.</span><span class="" title="Nous ne pouvons être parfaits, c'est aussi la beauté de notre incarnation, mais nous devons y tendre et ne jamais arrêter d'évoluer."> </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>We can not be perfect, it is also the beauty of our incarnation, </b></i></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b><span class="" title="Nous ne pouvons être parfaits, c'est aussi la beauté de notre incarnation, mais nous devons y tendre et ne jamais arrêter d'évoluer.">but we have to go towards it and never stop evolving.</span><span class="" title="Ensuite vient la pratique personnelle : c'est assez simple."> </span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Ensuite vient la pratique personnelle : c'est assez simple.">Then comes the personal practice : it's pretty simple.</span><span class="" title="Nous sommes une entité corps/esprit/vitalité, un ensemble corps/esprit qui possède un souffle vital."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Nous sommes une entité corps/esprit/vitalité, un ensemble corps/esprit qui possède un souffle vital.">We are an entity body/mind/vitality, an ensemble body/mind that has the breath of life .</span><span class="" title="Il est donc possible de travailler son corps, son souffle et son esprit, pour fonctionner au maximum de notre potentiel."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Il est donc possible de travailler son corps, son souffle et son esprit, pour fonctionner au maximum de notre potentiel.">It is therefore possible to work one's body, breath and mind, to operate at our full potential.</span><span class="" title="Rien de spirituel ou de new âge ici : si notre corps fonctionne mieux, si nous connaissons les règles de vie qui permettent de mieux profiter de celui-ci, notre vie est plus facile."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Rien de spirituel ou de new âge ici : si notre corps fonctionne mieux, si nous connaissons les règles de vie qui permettent de mieux profiter de celui-ci, notre vie est plus facile.">Nothing spiritual or new age here: if our body works better, if we know the rules of life to better take advantage of it, our life is easier.</span><span class="" title="Une grande partie de nos soucis de santé viennent de nos mauvaises habitudes et de notre abandon du corps..."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Une grande partie de nos soucis de santé viennent de nos mauvaises habitudes et de notre abandon du corps...">Much of our health problems come from our bad habits and our abandonment of our body... </span><span class="" title="il suffit de savoir et de faire pour résoudre tout cela.">we just have to have the knowledge and do it, to solve this.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="il suffit de savoir et de faire pour résoudre tout cela."><br /></span><span class="" title="Le travail du souffle est naturel : sans respirer, la vie est moins sympa...">The practice of breathing is natural: without breathing, life is less fun ...</span><span class="" title="Mais un travail de conscience dans le souffle permet une meilleure connaissance de celui-ci et une vitalité accrue rapidement."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Mais un travail de conscience dans le souffle permet une meilleure connaissance de celui-ci et une vitalité accrue rapidement.">But a practice of conscience in the breath allows a better understanding of it and a quickly increased vitality.</span><span class="" title="Sans parler de la réalité physiologique démontrée d'un travail du souffle conscient, le plaisir de passer du temps à respirer calmement est une grande chance."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Sans parler de la réalité physiologique démontrée d'un travail du souffle conscient, le plaisir de passer du temps à respirer calmement est une grande chance.">Without mentioning the physiological effects that are a demonstrated reality, of a conscious breath work, the pleasure of spending time breathing calmly is a great opportunity.</span><span class="" title="Le travail de l'esprit n'est pas la méditation, c'est juste l'entrainement des composantes fonctionnelles de notre mental."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Le travail de l'esprit n'est pas la méditation, c'est juste l'entrainement des composantes fonctionnelles de notre mental.">The work of the mind is not meditation, it is just the training of the functional components of our mind.</span><span class="" title="Sans rentrer dans des détails profonds, l'entraînement de l'esprit permet un esprit plus disponible, des émotions plus stables et une meilleure préhension du monde."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;">Without going into deep detail, training the mind allows a </span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Sans rentrer dans des détails profonds, l'entraînement de l'esprit permet un esprit plus disponible, des émotions plus stables et une meilleure préhension du monde."><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Sans rentrer dans des détails profonds, l'entraînement de l'esprit permet un esprit plus disponible, des émotions plus stables et une meilleure préhension du monde.">more available </span></span>spirit, more stable emotions and a better grip of the world.</span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Plus la perception du monde est claire, plus y est possible de voir la réalité, les changements du monde et de fluidifier sa vie."> </span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Plus la perception du monde est claire, plus y est possible de voir la réalité, les changements du monde et de fluidifier sa vie."><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>The clearer our perception of the world, </i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en"><span class="" title="Plus la perception du monde est claire, plus y est possible de voir la réalité, les changements du monde et de fluidifier sa vie."><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>the best it is possible to see the reality </i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en"><span class="" title="Plus la perception du monde est claire, plus y est possible de voir la réalité, les changements du monde et de fluidifier sa vie."><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>and the changes of the world</i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i><span class="" title="Plus la perception du monde est claire, plus y est possible de voir la réalité, les changements du monde et de fluidifier sa vie.">and to streamline one's life.</span><span class="" title="Le travail sur soi regroupe l'ensemble de ces aspects : corps, souffle et esprit."> </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Le travail sur soi regroupe l'ensemble de ces aspects : corps, souffle et esprit.">The work on oneself combines all of these aspects : body, breath and mind.</span><span class="" title="Le travail de ses qualités profondes dépend de ce travail."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Le travail de ses qualités profondes dépend de ce travail.">The work of one's profound qualities depends on this work.</span><span class="" title="Cette évolution de notre propre nature va permettre de mieux connaitre l'autre : notre relation à l'autre va en découler."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Cette évolution de notre propre nature va permettre de mieux connaitre l'autre : notre relation à l'autre va en découler.">This evolution of our own nature will allow to better know the other : our relationships with others will result.</span><span class="" title="De plus, l'apprentissage d'enseignements particuliers (bazi, par exemple) permet de comprendre le fonctionnement des types de personnalités et d'interagir intelligemment avec tous."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="De plus, l'apprentissage d'enseignements particuliers (bazi, par exemple) permet de comprendre le fonctionnement des types de personnalités et d'interagir intelligemment avec tous.">In addition, learning specific lessons (bazi , for example), can allow us to understand how personality types work and to interact intelligently with them all.</span><span class="" title="Une meilleure relation aux autres, un effort de comportement avec même les gens que l'on ne comprend pas, un partage avec tous, tout cela façonne un monde plus agréable autour de nous."> </span></span><br /><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Une meilleure relation aux autres, un effort de comportement avec même les gens que l'on ne comprend pas, un partage avec tous, tout cela façonne un monde plus agréable autour de nous.">A better relationships with others, an effort of behavior even with people you do not understand, sharing with everyone, all this shapes a nicer world around us.</span><span class="" title="Dans cet effort relationnel, nous agissons directement sur l'évolution positive de notre univers."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Dans cet effort relationnel, nous agissons directement sur l'évolution positive de notre univers."><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>In this relational effort, we act directly on the positive evolution of our universe.</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Nous sommes dans une période ou le partage est une obligation : nous devons accepter de donner à ceux qui ont besoin.">We are in a period where sharing is an obligation: we must be willing to give to those who need it.</span><span class="" title="L'égoïsme n'est plus acceptable, les temps demandent d'évoluer et de s'ouvrir vers les autres."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="L'égoïsme n'est plus acceptable, les temps demandent d'évoluer et de s'ouvrir vers les autres.">Selfishness is not acceptable, the times demand evolving and opening to others.</span><span class="" title="Nous devons donner, particulièrement nous autres "les chanceux", nous ne pouvons fermer les yeux sur ce qui peut se passer devant nous ou à 5000 km de chez nous."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Nous devons donner, particulièrement nous autres "les chanceux", nous ne pouvons fermer les yeux sur ce qui peut se passer devant nous ou à 5000 km de chez nous.">We must give, especially the rest of us, the " lucky ones", we can not close our eyes to what can happen either in front of us or 5000 km away from home.</span><span class="" title="Notre engagement est nécessaire pour évoluer personnellement."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Notre engagement est nécessaire pour évoluer personnellement.">Our commitment is needed to develop ourselves.</span><span class="" title="Allons vers l’autre, partageons, donnons..."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Allons vers l’autre, partageons, donnons...">Let's move towards each other, share, give... </span><span class="" title="le temps n'est plus aux yeux fermés, il est de notre devoir d'être humain d'agir maintenant.">time is no longer to eyes wide shut, it is our duty as a human being to act now.</span><span class="" title="Tout cela nous confronte au besoin d'observer correctement le monde : ne plus rester focalisé sur soi, mais réagir et réfléchir sur les actions possibles."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Tout cela nous confronte au besoin d'observer correctement le monde : ne plus rester focalisé sur soi, mais réagir et réfléchir sur les actions possibles.">All this confronts us to the need to properly observe the world : not staying focused on oneself, but reacting and reflecting on possible actions.</span><span class="" title="Regardons les réalités de notre monde, ses blessures et son évolution pour agir dans le sens du mieux : attelons-nous à cette tâche importante pour notre lendemain."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Regardons les réalités de notre monde, ses blessures et son évolution pour agir dans le sens du mieux : attelons-nous à cette tâche importante pour notre lendemain.">Let's look at the realities of our world, it's injuries and evolution to act in the best sense : let us set to this important task for our next days.</span><span class="" title="Nous voilà à la fin d'une autre année, dans un cycle qui s'accélère, il est temps de faire plus."> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Nous voilà à la fin d'une autre année, dans un cycle qui s'accélère, il est temps de faire plus.">We are at the end of another Cycle, in a bigger cycle that accelerates, it's time to do more.</span></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année à tous, dans la conscience et les abus mesurés."><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><b><i>We are Responsible for the Way the World will Evolve !</i></b></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année à tous, dans la conscience et les abus mesurés."><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i> </i></b></span></span><span class="" title="Celui qui sait marcher (dans le Tao) ne laisse pas de traces ; celui qui sait parler ne commet point de fautes ;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>He who knows how to walk (in the Tao ) does not leave traces , one who speaks does not commit mistakes ;</i></b></span></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Celui qui sait marcher (dans le Tao) ne laisse pas de traces ; celui qui sait parler ne commet point de fautes ;"> </span><span class="" title="Celui qui sait compter ne se sert point d'instruments de calcul ;">Those who can count do not use calculation tools ;</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Celui qui sait compter ne se sert point d'instruments de calcul ;"> </span><span class="" title="Celui qui sait fermer (quelque chose) ne se sert point de verrou, et il est impossible de l'ouvrir ;">He who knows how to close (something) does not use a lock, and it is impossible to open ;</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Celui qui sait fermer (quelque chose) ne se sert point de verrou, et il est impossible de l'ouvrir ;"> </span><span class="" title="Celui qui sait lier (quelque chose) ne se sert point de cordes, et il est impossible de le délier.">He who knows how to bind (something ) does not use ropes, and it is impossible to unbind.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Celui qui sait lier (quelque chose) ne se sert point de cordes, et il est impossible de le délier."> </span><span class="" title="De là vient que le Saint excelle constamment à sauver les hommes ; c'est pourquoi il n'abandonne pas les hommes.">Hence the Holy constantly excels in saving men, which is why he does not abandon the men.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="De là vient que le Saint excelle constamment à sauver les hommes ; c'est pourquoi il n'abandonne pas les hommes."> </span><span class="" title="Il excelle constamment à sauver les êtres ; c'est pourquoi il n'abandonne pas les êtres.">He constantly excels in saving people , which is why he does not abandon beings.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Il excelle constamment à sauver les êtres ; c'est pourquoi il n'abandonne pas les êtres."> </span><span class="" title="Cela s’appelle être doublement éclairé.">This is known to be doubly enlightened.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Cela s’appelle être doublement éclairé."> </span><span class="" title="C'est pourquoi l'homme accompli est le maître de celui qui ne l'est pas.">That is why the accomplished man is the master of those who are not.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="C'est pourquoi l'homme accompli est le maître de celui qui ne l'est pas."> </span><span class="" title="L'homme qui n'est pas accompli est l'aide de l'homme vertueux.">The man who is not accomplished is the aide of the virtuous man .</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="L'homme qui n'est pas accompli est l'aide de l'homme vertueux."> </span><span class="" title="Si l'un n'estime pas son maître, si l'autre n'affectionne pas celui qui est son aide, quand on leur accorderait une grande prudence, ils sont plongés dans l'aveuglement.">If one does not esteem his master, if the other one who is not fond of whom is his help, when we would give them great care, they are plunged into blindness.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" title="Si l'un n'estime pas son maître, si l'autre n'affectionne pas celui qui est son aide, quand on leur accorderait une grande prudence, ils sont plongés dans l'aveuglement."> </span><span class="" title="Voilà ce qu'il y a de plus important et de plus subtil !">Here is what is most important and most subtle !</span></span></i></b></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Voilà ce qu'il y a de plus important et de plus subtil !"></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" title="Voilà ce qu'il y a de plus important et de plus subtil !"> </span><span class="" title="Daodejing, Chapitre 27">Daodejing , Chapter 27</span></span></blockquote>
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Anyone who starts to Practice expects something. </div>
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This is because in our daily lives, in listening to our body and our emotions, something is wrong. It is difficult to determine what "something" is, it is not defined, it is not clear but it is there.</div>
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We can believe that everything is going well and that we are moving towards a practice to "refine" the perfection of our perfect ... but actually not, if all went well, if we were in tune with life, the phenomena and changes, we should not be looking for a practice.</div>
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We try to forget and cover this "empty" feeling by a feverish activity, many with sex, shopping, drink and food, but there is only pathological love relationships and dependency or television. </div>
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<b><i>This external "filling" cannot overcome our internal emptiness.</i></b></div>
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The discovery of an opportunity of another choice, to meet with a teaching that should "help", has created a new disease: Expectations.</div>
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Now that we have found the solution in a spiritual practice or energetic (it's the same thing!), We want results! </div>
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Like at the market, we invest 10 euros in carrots and we want a lot of vegetables ... unfortunately it is a little different with regard to the practice.</div>
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The Practice must pass through three distinct stages that we tend to mix up and and which lead to a real confusion (we should not be confused!).</div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">These three stages are:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">* Intentional Practice</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">* The Natural Practice.</span></b></div>
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In the training phase we will work the exercises and practices which are not the Essence itself. </div>
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For example, in the years of meditation exercises we learn to feel the "meditative state", but there are no exercises which are meditation (see "we should not be confused"). </div>
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<b><i>We must understand that in the training phase, we do not practice, we learn to practice. </i></b></div>
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We seek to integrate intellectual exercises so that they become "habits" and are used with the minimum of intent and imagination. </div>
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After two trips, two hundred or two million trips, you're sitting, relaxed, knowing every part of the progression of the train, and you can even have an activity, such as reading or work, without missing your stop. </div>
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This is analogous to the end of the learning phase, which is more or less long according to the people.</div>
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We leave the training phase when we can do this exercise without thinking, without going to memory (or very little) and a soft and almost silent intention. </div>
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"But I am never out of the learning phase!" I hear you say ... </div>
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well yes! Hence the immobility of the practice that you undertake!</div>
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Thereby hindering the transition of training of the practice of awareness of these two stages. </div>
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In the absence of Expectations, you'll slip into the practice. Voilà!</div>
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When you start to practice, after a more or less laborious learning phase, phenomena may occur. </div>
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These perceived changes are another possible blockage to the accomplishment of your training. In the phenomena, which do not matter, we have the unfortunate habit of attaching to a host of unnecessary thoughts. </div>
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This attachments to the moments of perception of our practice reminds us that we "expect" something, the results ... "I am currently feeling this or that?", "Am I on track?", "Is this a sign of accomplishment? "... so many questions about phenomena that do not matter who we bring to this expectation, this need to know that it will get better, that we are good students.</div>
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<b><i>In practice, and into our daily life, we must seek our own Natural. </i></b></div>
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It is actually quite simple in theory, practice for nothing else but practice, for no purpose, and find the Enthusiasm in this Way.</div>
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Our practices take us back to a loss of our mental structures, our structure separated from the world, our ego. This loss of structure is fatal to our mind, it blends into the rest of the universe and makes us lose our individuality. </div>
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In our daily practices, our ego will survive on the basis of new limits in our teaching: then comes our commitment to our beliefs about our practice and our Teacher, waiting to feel better and become better and all these recent resistances of survival of our discriminative mental activity.</div>
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We can practice by strengthening our minds and our imagination, going to the opposite of what we release, and amplifying the sensation of unease linked to our "me determined and unique".</div>
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This Process will multiply our expectations because it is worse and worse, under the guise of mystical-spiritual-energetical confusing and destructive. </div>
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To go in the direction of a peaceful practice, practice is the goal of practice. It is good to try!</div>
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We're not going to transform into anything. It is unnecessary to grow our hair and to eat incense, or dress in Orange…we will stay as we are. </div>
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All the changes that we are trying are a way to hide this expectation that we lack: the bright colours of our garments will alleviate the stiffness of the body and the sadness of our thoughts, forced sessions of "silent" meditation (in appearance) will parody an internal silence which we lack, the soft-spoken voice and the non-violence will conceal as much of our fear as of others and the world.</div>
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All attempts to visibly change into others is a way to demonstrate our performance, our mind tries to show that we are right, that we are better than others, different ... still expecting to be better!</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">But the practice does not change us, the performance does nothing, we will remain what we were before our birth and which will continue after our death. </span></i></b></div>
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In everyday life, we "work" just relax in silence and make us what we are, without the acquired blockages and without mundane conditioning.</div>
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There is nothing to seek, nothing to add. We will gently practice without expectation; to what we are. </div>
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We will not add anything or learn, we will seek to return to a spontaneous phase with the changes of life. Without a morbid, compulsive use, for which the mind is used in everyday life. </div>
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Without getting lost in the maze of our imagination, which is based on the past and projecting hopes in the future, we live free in the present. </div>
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Leaving the time line, we will enter the world of perceptions without the filter of the world of thoughts. Without this bad link to the time of past and future, we leave expectations: we abandon the fantasy of the imagination that comes from the past and we don't plan hope in the future, there is no more expectations, we Practice, we Live, we are Free</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">While the secret of the Practice, is the Practice.</span></i></b><span style="color: #424242;"> </span></div>
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This simple practice that demands only that we follow what we are advised by our Teacher, our feelings. </div>
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By implementing these simple and practical teachings, we are moving towards our life with this clear sensation and empty of compulsive thoughts.</div>
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The relaxation allows us to live in peace and silence, without attachment to the images of an imposed separation from the world.</div>
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Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-80874299262262118822017-05-01T07:09:00.000-07:002017-05-01T07:09:02.176-07:00Refining the Spirit to see the Magick<br />
We often live exciting, or boring, and very busy lives, and we rush a lot.<br />
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With the reason, the intellect, having seized power since the 18th century, there is very little room left for superstition and ghost stories.<br />
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But at the same time, intuition and communion with the world are rarer, even absent in our lives: we are no longer able to look at the signs of life or the messages of the world.<br />
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Is it possible to keep living our modern life while rediscovering a part of sacred, of magic?<br />
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The sacred is a notion that allows to separate the mundane and the utilitarian from what is "something else", not rational.<br />
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It is not only religious, but also mystical and traditional.<br />
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The magical is using, through intention, the energies of the world, within the frame of one's attention.<br />
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It is nothing other than acting in perfect Consciousness.<br />
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Having very little relation to the sacred, we forget a part of our humanity: the Greater, the infinite part of our Consciousness.<br />
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Through practice, we ritualize a part of our everyday life, to make it slowly overflow into our life.<br />
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But we often give to the practice, to these particular moments, a value that isn't real: when we practice, when we leave the mundane, to enter this workspace, we are in the "sacred".<br />
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In the realization of the energetic phenomenons, in the attention to breath, in listening to our emotions or in observing the mind, we really are in a deep contemplation of our body/mind entirety.<br />
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We are here, in daily practice, in a “Magical” space, a time apart from our daily life, and entirely devoted to the intention by the attention.<br />
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But the reality of this "magic" exists only if one becomes aware of it: the strength of our work depends of the importance that we will give it.<br />
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If the practice trains the subtlest energies, but the practitioner doesn't particularly respect it, we stay in the ordinary (of practice).<br />
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By practicing, in all the facets of the way of spiritual evolution, the extent of the changes in our lives depends, in a large part, on the importance we give to it.<br />
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Watch how some of your personal objects and possessions have a particular importance: the special T-shirt, the right tie or the shoes of success...<br />
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The strength of these objects directly depends on the passion of "devotion" that you give them: you can do the same with every aspect of your life.<br />
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The burning incense before practice, the respect given to the teacher when you arrive, the clothes you wear for practice... All this is a way to ritualize practice.<br />
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It is important to understand that very often, the ritualization done with devices is bad because it isn't conscious; but consciously done, it is a plus.<br />
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It is better to have no external devices, but a “modified” presence during practice.<br />
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The interest is not only that your practice will improve in terms of quality, but also that your life will open to subtler things, the signs and messages of the World.<br />
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The make a place for the "sacred", the "magic", the more it will manifest in your life.<br />
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Be careful, the idea is not at all to become a "spiritual weirdo, with a touch of ethereal", but just to know how to enjoy all of our human capacities available in our consciousness.<br />
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For all the volatility, instability or mimicry outbursts, the teacher is here to take you back (quickly) on the Way...<br />
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The more the practice becomes spiritual, the more the ways of doing things have to be down-to-earth, but the more the practice is present in your life, the more this awareness has to be part of it too.<br />
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The practice is not gymnastics, but if you treat it as such, it becomes so.<br />
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The basic exercises are gymnastics, but if you give them a greater value through a particular attention and a serious commitment, they become "something else".<br />
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This is a good reason to stop chuckling, whining and chatting during the course, to stop having a bad posture or being without a care in the world: this moment will give you what you put in it.<br />
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You are directly responsible for what you will acquire in the practice: give it its right place, a serious commitment, and you will enhance what is given to you.<br />
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Today’s world does not like what is magical, what can’t be explained, but at the same time the most advanced researches in the most advanced sciences force us to look at infinity in the eyes.<br />
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Let’s give the sacred a place back in our lives and we'll give it a place in the world back.Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-32663116627366154062017-05-01T07:05:00.001-07:002017-05-01T07:05:45.175-07:00Getting out of the Torpor<br />
Practice returns what you've invested into it, the importance you give to your Way gives it its reality and its transformation power.<br />
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We are in Way in life, which doesn't require seclusion, nor suffering, but which requires work and involvement.<br />
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We get used to live with our fears and our decisions whirl around them: we are victims of a failure strategy where we always anticipate the worst and the negative (otherwise we would more often ask for raises, we would do more parachute jumps or we'd talk more easily to this person we like so much...).<br />
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Practice is also bound by this fear of failure : we are afraid and this slows down our evolution.<br />
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If only it was possible to get out of this anxiety of not achieving or this terror of truly changing...<br />
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Well, good news, it is!<br />
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It only depends on three things:<br />
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The most difficult and the easiest : to commit oneself to a practice without expectations</h4>
It only requires to choose your Way, to get the information, to check it regularly and to set to work.<br />
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You're going to tell me that it's what you're doing, you the good practitioner, except maybe the fact to ensure you're really on the Way and not on Your way.<br />
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Well, let's have another look at what is necessary to do :<br />
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<i>" It only requires to choose your Way, to get the information, to check it regularly and to set to work."</i><br />
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Here, It's not mentioned criticizing others, wanting to copy them, "wallowing" in envy, "whinning" because we don't succeed!<br />
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There's nothing talking about obligation of time, of result, about secrets and unspoken words. Nothing showing the need to scatter or mingle.<br />
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No, it simply evokes a need for work based on information that is understood and regularly checked.<br />
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So easy!<br />
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Then comes : "Communicate honestly with the teacher"</h4>
It's important to underline here the adverb "Honnestly" and to stop there...<br />
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Maybe a reminder of the idea of communication is important also : there are two ways in the communication ; one going from us to the other and, usually, a return equally substential.<br />
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Communication must not mix up with monologue, which happens in only one way (whether knowingly or not).<br />
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Communication is oral, but also at all the levels of exchange; from the most mundane and practical to the most subtle : once again, it has to be both ways.<br />
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Even if we are here repeating ourselves here, you really need to understand the importance of return on invest : you can get back from your Way the importance you give it.<br />
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The "sacred" depends intention, the "magical" also.<br />
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Practice only produces the fruits of your work, of the real work.<br />
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Moreover, the proclaimed importance of the teaching must also comes out in reality and in actions, not only in selfishness and self-protection.<br />
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It's unthinkable to claim one million euros to the bank if you never deposit nothing. It's aberrant to ask for a service to someone to whom you're not respectful, in the same way you wouldn't expect to get a solution from a book you have not read.<br />
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Well, Practice is the same!<br />
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If you do everything to go in the direction of what you've understood from the Way, your life will be transformed and the changes in the world will be made-to-measure.<br />
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If you only do a little bit, because "it's complicated" or "it's difficult" or "you can't always do what you want" (my favorite); then all you get back is a superficial knowledge and maybe a t-shirt.<br />
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Furthermore you don't trust, in one way or another, the Way becomes impracticable.<br />
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In a world where information is everywhere and where it's possible to know all on everything, there is nonetheless not more practitioners.<br />
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In the ancient times, where everything was hidden, there was not less practitioners.<br />
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Today there is information, but people don't want to practice anymore, whereas in the past, people wanted the access to knowledge, but the teaching was rare.<br />
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Practitioners of today, you have a great chance to be on a Way of evolution of the being: we are in moment of changes which needs it, but the success of your progression depends on these three simple instructions.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">" Since this is so, we must take more seriously the lessons we have received</span> </span></i></b></blockquote>
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<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Whether one's research is on the Breath, the "energy" or the spirit, Whether one's Way is global or not, the foremost quality at the center of every religions as well as of movements of spiritual evolution is Attention, focus.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Attention to God and his work in the religions of devotion, to nature and its manifestations in the animist ones and a "presence to the Attention " to the ways of non-duality.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">In the Taoism of the origins, away from the popular and picturesque beliefs of modern China, we go toward the "Return" or the "One."</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This research of Unity, of the union of the human functioning towards a full understanding, this research requires a view of the practice of the different aspects of our humanity : body, breath and mind.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">But whatever the facet that we want to develop, there are three essential qualities for a practitioner 's: the attention, the understanding and the study.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The mind, the tool of the perception and the assimilation of the advice and teachings, is at the center of the required qualities: if the teaching is not understood, it is impossible to follow it.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The search for the balance of the facets of the mind (planning, action, intuitive and instinctive), is one of the "returns" that guides us back to the global Return.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The more the mind is "centered", clear and active, the more it is possible to perceive clearly, understand clearly .</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The mind is the gripping tool of the world, it must be reliable: it is the quality of Understanding.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">When questions and practices are set for the mind, it is imperative to keep it active and to the limits of its possibilities: it must always be in an intellectual challenge that requires it to "run" after knowledge, to always be little late ...</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Thus, in our tradition, we talk of keeping the mind in the state of youth of the child. The latest brain research tends to support this attitude.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This does not mean doing nothing: it means having too much to do: It is the quality of Study.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">But above all, more important than the Understanding and Study, there is the source of all this, the Attention . There is nothing more important than Attention/Focus.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The Study correspond to the Jing (the Yin aspect), the Understanding to the Qi (energy) and the Attention to the Shen (the Yang aspect) .</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Through continuous Attention ( :-)) we can render Yang , spiritual, all the aspects of our lives.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">But what are the components of Attention ?</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The Attention is the first quality of the Zhen Ren, "the true human being" and that's what leads to the Zi Ran (the natural) .</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">It requires three things: a strong body, a boundless vitality and a focused mind.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">But it is this attention that is supposed to give us these benefits ... how do we do then?</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The work on Attention demands primarily three things that we all have :</span><br /><ul style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
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<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">We need to understand what it is to be Attentive, by experiencing it, then repeat this action until the Attention is stable.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>And what about the sense of humor?</i></b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This is what helps us the most, knowing that we will not succeed right away ...</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Being Attentive, it is searching for the state of mindfulness, this state is a moment that escapes the space-time and reconnects us to the infinite, the divine.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This state of full consciousness, escapes the mental mind, it has no memory (space) no conscious length. It isa moment of ecstasy, a beneficial time that connects us to the Source, which bathes us in light .</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">It can happen naturally in front of a landscape that speaks to us, that has a particular presence, in front of a work of art ... Or through a conscious practice.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">It is not possible to live well in this excessive state : it is a particular time of connection to something greater than ourselves, tied to a moment of practice, it is also a state of grace.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">To go towards this saving state, we have to search for one foremost quality: Attention .</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Attention is having in mind what we are doing, what we are perceiving, without (or with minimal) comments from the egotic mind : it is to be anchored in the present moment , living life fully.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">For this, it suffices to make conscious our action in the present, our perceptions of the instant... without commenting, of course!</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">I eat a fruit and all my attention is on the taste, the texture and the chewing, without judging, without commenting ... Can you do that?</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Surely for a few seconds, but then we try to comment on what we are doing, comparing it to similar experiences, drifting on wakeful memories that are stimulated by the senses... Basically, we disappear from our present moment to get bogged down in the filthy intricacies of our viscous mind.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">It suffices, and this kind of sentence where "it suffices" are always treacherous, it suffices then to be there without leaving one's mind.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Do you understand the problem?</span></i></b></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Do you see your internal comment when I say "Do you understand the problem?"</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Do you see your internal comment when I say "Do you see your internal comment?"</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Now you see what will be a problem.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Our mind does not like what is of the order of the natural free perception, because it is beyond the control of the egotic mind: he therefore has to appropriate the experience by attaching a superfluous comment to the moment.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">To go towards the absolute, we must cut the ropes with the limits of our ego, we must bathe him in the Attention and the moment until it overflows with consciousness, enabling us to enjoy the infinite.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">Repetition gives us access to Freedom !</span></i></b></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">It is therefore necessary to understand all this, to test these simple moments of awareness of the instant and to try to repeat the experience as often as possible : you're set in the most extreme trip you will undertake in your life, a gateway to the stars.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Attention is what is most lacking in a practitioner and among people in general, it requires a laborious and not very rewarding work, but it is the key point of contact, towards a complete Way.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Fortunately, there are a number of practices, of lessons and secrets that will grow this attention, and deliver us from the chains of the ego .</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">For those who have had the chance to make their initiation into the secrets of the External Taoist Alchemy, you know what I mean ... if not, start Wai Dan Today !</span></div>
Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-48465234409892675992017-04-21T08:01:00.006-07:002017-04-21T08:01:55.322-07:00Paying attention<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<i><b><span style="color: #990000;">For those who have a daily practice, </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #990000;">it is useful to think about refining their time spent on the Way</span></b></i><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In concentration, which is useful early on to avoid distractions, a "tunnel" type of focus is created, nothing else exists except the object of our concentration, even though it only lasts two or three seconds.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This "confinement" over our action automatically reduces our other perceptions: for example, a motion will be the focused center of all our perceptions, and of our compulsive thinking, during the time of our effort.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This works fairly well, but in general, the concentration can not hold for a long time ... and when it stops, everything disappears. The explosion of distractions can even make us forget the original object of our concentration.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Although it is important, concentration is a "tension", a way of doing by "strength." No way of doing by duress has sustainability, it is impossible to live in these conditions because it is not "natural."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">When we learn a physical movement, without having gone through the acquisition of the "gong fu", we need to focus not to forget. We also need to repeat the gesture often enough to make it "enter" in us. For most people, a movement done with a certain amount of tension will be felt more easily: the tension gives a stronger feeling.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In general, an unknown movement will create a tension and ask us an effort that is not really related to the required physical demand: we push to successfully copy the gesture, in resistance against our problems of flexibility and of coordination. When the motion is acquired, we should normally use the right "amount" of strength for the required effort.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">If we keep the same physical tension at each execution of the learned movement, we hurt ourselves, we tense ourselves. But it will never actually happen because the physical pain calls us to order and we fear it enough to avoid it and not to push ourselves too far.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">For the mental, emotional and intellectual part of learning, we use a form of "tension" to acquire the gesture: it is concentration.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Moreover, it is easier to stay "focused" throughout our practices, throughout our lives, while injuring ourselves, as internal difficulty creates another form of pain than physical pain. It's a pain that we are able to keep and accumulate precisely because it is less physical and at the same time seemingly less serious.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Concentration, while useful for the entry into a practice, can become a source of tension and stiffness in the Shen (mind) and even be harmful for the health (at least it can prevent from reaping the benefits of a practice oriented towards health...).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">A practice that requires too many details at the same time, that seeks the perfection of the gesture, can not bring relaxation. In the learning phase, it is very important to make progress slowly but constantly. If the research is that of perfection, that does not exist, we work in a vacuum: it never bring anything, except a certain morbid rigidity.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">On the other hand, unable to focus, feel and reproduce a movement, the tendency is to seek a mental satisfaction for compensation: we watch videos, we search for the "advanced levels" and the secrets of the hidden arts... forgetting at the same time the most important: distinguishing right from left.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This text is not an encouragement to say that you just have to relax (do nothing!) And that "it" will come by itself (well of course!) ... This is not the case. No confusion possible with the beginning of this text "For those who have a daily practice, it is useful to think about refining their time spent in the Way."</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">"Attention" is relaxed concentration</span></i></b></div>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">We find in "attention" the benefits of concentration, but in a more open way than in a "tunnel vision". It is obvious that in the beginning the problem lies in this opening which is likely distracting.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In a daily practice, the learned gesture requires a minimum effort. It requires concentration to "understand" and a certain amount of tension for the first executions. By contrast, it must quickly take less effort, and to enjoy our practice we have to stay in this economy.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We must do the same for our practice: it must be integrated into our daily lives, but must reside in the usual attentive than in the concentration. And we reduce the adding of tensions to gain relaxation.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It's easy to wallow in tension, because it allows to better feel. It is a form of laziness of the senses that develops easily. Strong feelings, strong emotions, buggy jumping, weight lifting ... all these ways to "feel alive" can prevent us from enjoying the simple perceptions of everyday life.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In our Taoist approach, relaxation in practice leads to a kind of mental silence and physical relaxation that allows us to really enjoy our life. The simplest perceptions amaze us, the constant attention is growing and we really live.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Training in concentration, in an overall stiffness, annihilates the benefits of our physical practice and condemns us to flatter our ego to receive an intellectual satisfaction: but we are here in a illusory and harmful practice.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Attentive to what we have learned and accepting the need for concentration necessary for our growth, we must move towards relaxation and the simple: body and mind can not remain under tension under penalty of increased suffering. We have to accept the structured letting go of the Way and practice.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">rather than from the Way itself?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Wether it is religious, mystical, philosophical or atheist, the process of introspection, observation and interaction is based on a work on the self. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In observing oneself in action, in our daily lives, it is possible to improve our behavior every day.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is too rare to question the value and importance of this type of teaching and research. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">The Practice we are talking about here is a Way of Life, adapted to humans of yesterday as well as today, a Way that finds its place in the world by living as close as possible to the ideal we have of ourselves.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>This conscious approach must be done daily, it is a work of every second.</b></i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Many people find it boring, oppressive, to have to practice every day, they want more freedom and flexibility.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">They want to do what they want, when they want, without pressure.These "free" practitioners are often those who complain of the way, those who criticize the effectiveness of the tradition, such as the ignoramuses with a piece of technology that surpasses them.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">And there are those who work and are silent, those who do: they do not complain, they practice.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The Sacred you give to the Practice, the importance that you attach to it, is the source of what you will reap.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The more you treat this research with serious and discipline, the more you'll get back. Let's be honest: you'll get what you put into it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In case you are engaged in a way that does not suit you, a tradition that is not what you want, be strong:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="color: #333333;"> If you are not really honest with yourself and with your choice of practice what do you believe that this Way will offer you?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">You must also see that you should not look at the teacher as an example of the practice, he is the vector of it: the more he practices himself, the more you see the Way through him. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The experience of the teacher only concern him, his experiences are his own and copying them will be of no use to you.Your search is on yourself, on the profound discovery of your reality and the observation of your life: what do think you'll learn by mimicking and pretending?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Be engaged in a personal and sincere research with other members of your group, move without worrying about others and without comparing to each other.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The discipline you put in the withholding of judgment; in personal commitment, and in managing the priorities of your life, will give you the result you'll get from your Way.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Obviously this is difficult, of course it is not easy, and fortunately it requires a genuine effort: what do you learn without effort? </span><br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">What is results of nothing...? Not much! </span></i></b><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In this time of change and upheaval, in this time of questioning and questioning of values, only introspection and healthy interaction with each other can bring lasting happiness.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">You know what does not work, you can try lying to yourself, but you know.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Let's clarify our attitude, rectify our actions, agree to be responsible for them and let's walk on a Way that changes our lives.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Again, if we pretend, mimic or lie, practice will only bring frustration and wasted time. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This search for understanding of self, others and the world is a natural tendency of our nature, a desire to go further for an invigorating conscience of living. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Again, you'll get from your practice what you put in, you will change depending on your efforts, there's no magic for the couch potato, no transformation for the tourist.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Choose, but apply your choice: it is not advisable to complain if we are behind our deficiencies, behind our ills. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">There is something transcendent in the Practice, it can profoundly change who you are and how you live your life, but it must be given a place of choice. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">It's like a mover who is not allowed space to work or who is not allow access to all the rooms: he'll clean and clear only that which is available.</span><br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Involvement in a Way is a choice, but also an opportunity: serious Practices are rare.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">If you are in a personal quest to know yourself and allow yourself to better interact with others and the world, are you aware of the importance of it?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In this new year, it is time to realize the importance that one wants to give his path, his life, not by ad hoc research of ephemeral pleasures, but the attempt to live better by building a better world.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">However, it is possible to do nothing and be led by the worldly, to seek the bright, without going any further ... </span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The path we try to follow demands to pass by precise stages if we want to be able to evolve, without being stopped in our run-up by blockings from</span><span class="" lang="IT" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> diverse origins.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">We have three big stages, which can be </span><span class="" lang="IT" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">decompose</span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">d into five small ones</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">:</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; position: relative; top: 1pt;">•<span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">It is necessary to identify and to regulate the energy, allowing it to circulate freely, to be unlimited.</span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Regulate the body demands to unify two groups of practices: the work on the body and the one on the breath:</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Strengthening the body</span></i><i class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The strengthening of the body is made by methods of chi kung (dao yin) or by the arts of fight. There are the same movements which will serve in any levels of practice.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The same exercises of strengthening allow, done differently, to relax the body. This relaxation is at first superficial, then it settles down in the everyday life.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Grounding the body</span></i><i class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">By the practice of the static postures, holding the tree, we are going to be able to verify its relaxation and its strength in an unequalled method of grounding</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class=""><i class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Work on the breath</span></i></b><b class=""><i class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Identify the breath</span></i><i class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Before going further into the breath work and because of our crazy city-dweller's life, it is necessary for us to look at our breath before being able to play with. Most of us live in half an apnea as soon as we go out in the street.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">By this abdominal, natural and original movement, we find little by little young the usage of our lungs. The exchange with the universe finds itself slowly and an incredible energy brushes us.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">It is the breath of the action, the active movements and the exercises yang. It is a natural way to exchange and to generate more energy with the outside of the body.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">In the work of regulation of the mind we shall include the listening, emotion and the </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">To calm the mind it is necessary to go out of our capacity to produce thoughts in chain, for that it is necessary to observe it before being able to regulate it</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">After regulating the spirit and being able to understand our emotional functioning, we feed our intention of this energy "recycled".</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The energy exercises bring a free circulation of the energy in the body, but also offer a possibility of a free exchange between the inside and the outside.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The usage of the energy is exhausting if it does not circulate freely in the whole </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">body. </span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks to the small circulation, our energy becomes fluid, but we are Limited to play only with our own energy.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">By this practice, we establish the communication between the outside energy and the energy of our complex body/spirit. It is an inexhaustible source of energy, usable or to store.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The continuation of the training concerns spiritual practices which all use what we studied before. But we shall see that somewhere else </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">…</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: #333333;">We talk of a luck that is given to us, one that we need to understand and a last one to be cultivated.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The fact is that all this can be a deep work to understanding the world and it's existence.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Why "work" on our luck chance when in our glittering West says "you have it, or not"?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The Taoist vision of the human being between heaven and earth is clear, it asks us to look at the Heaven, the Earth and Ourselves, the filling of the "Cosmic Sandwich".</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We will see that even if the vision of luck may seem uneven or frozen, every aspect that we understand can be used to better live one's life: once again, we are responsible for our lives.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">There is no need to hide or lie, shirk or sulk, pretend or cheat... Our life and its complexity remains the same, our work to be happy too.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The only way to be truly happy comes from within, from our gaze and our perceptions of the world, but it is possible to give a sense to it all, to use Luck in its three aspects.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;"><b>The concept of Luck in Taoism is threefold:<br /></b></span><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
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<br /><span style="color: #333333;">The Luck of Heaven is what we have been given, a subtle mixture of a forgotten choices, of family mixtures and of an heavenly destiny.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This luck we can understand through being delivered one's <b><i>Celestial Mandate</i></b> and through understanding it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Learning how to computing one's Celestial Mandate allows us to see the mechanisms of what was given to us, and the means to interact with this given.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">From this work, it is possible to attain a better coordination with the Universe and a better timing for our actions... The calculation of beneficial dates, the Forecasts and other practical work.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This is the ultimate understanding of non-resistance, Wu Wei, the ability to work actively with the fluidity of one's existence in the world changes.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">What is our responsibility through our family, everything you wear without having chosen it, is one aspect of our Luck of Heaven: indeed, we only deserve an incarnation by accepting to carry it's weight.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is often difficult to accept what is forced on us, but it is the fairest and most perfect way for our lives. That does not mean it's a party every day ...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Exceeding our innate family burden is the base of a work on the Celestial Mandate: how can I pretend to understand the Way of Heaven if I can not even overcome its earthly manifestations?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The delivery of the Mandate of Heaven is an important moment, which can be done several times, and that requires much thought and a good deal of acceptance.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is then possible to calculate or ask for Rectification of it, a series of very specific traditional councils, depending on the structure of one's personality, to go directly confront the disappointments of one's incarnation.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Rectifying this is a provisional draft of what the Judge of Feng Du will present us before the Mirror of Contemplation: a precise work to do now or later in the workshops planned for this purpose...</span><br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">The forgotten choice does not really concern us here</span></i></b><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The Luck of the Earth is the Feng Shui and the complex attributes of the "dragon veins".</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In understanding the flow of energy, the harmony of forms and the relationship of certain individuals with certain places, we can learn to live in places that suit us and adjust those that annoy us.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The classic appearance and meticulous science of Xuan Kan Yu, the classical Feng Shui, will allow us to study the four aspects of traditional geomancy</span><br /><br /><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
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<br /><span style="color: #333333;">This will explain why we always train in the same place, why we always fight in some places and why people should avoid living together.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Accepting our life imperfections, the Luck of the Earth, merges us in the "post natal" world changes, but tries to teach us about unification.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This work on the world around us is by far the most complex, but also the most systematic and the most structured: by just applying the rules, it is surprisingly feasible.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">But what remains within our reach, is obviously the Luck of Man, it is our practice, our search of knowledge of ourselves.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This practice must be global and be perfectly aligned with the other two Lucks, Heavenly and Earthly.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The full vision of our presence in the world, of the facets of our incarnation, of the world around us, of the complexity of the changes of the world and the shadow of our immortality, all this is the subject of our study.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is a breath of sustainability that leads us in this daunting task, a desire to overcome our worldly simplicity and to aspire to something else than what is bright and sweet.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This work is the encounter with what is Greater, with what makes the world works, with the origin of our willpower.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This traditional view is really suited to today's world, it just asks to remain open and available to the teachings and to searching.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">As my understanding of my various Lucks is assimilated, the more I know what I need to do, the more my corrections are active in this life, the more my days are fluid: I consciously go toward my own happiness and it is possible for me to irradiate that on my loved ones.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">These Lucks are potentials, it is possible for me to unlock, exceed and enjoy</span></i></b></div>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">Again, responsible for my happiness and the happiness of my family, it is possible to shape one's world: brighter and more free.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;"> <b><i> "Act as free men, not as men who make freedom as a pretext for evil"</i></b></span><br /><span style="color: #333333;"> Epistle of St. Peter</span></div>
Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-27797213238958984942017-03-29T05:43:00.001-07:002017-03-29T05:43:04.047-07:00"Monkey Mind" : Tourment of our PerceptionsWe are constantly in connection with a noisy part of our mind that comments, judges and compares everything that we perceive.<br />
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This internal "little judge" prevents us from living fully our senses, as a negative filter in front of a camera lens.<br />
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This "integrated" commentator is a sure way to always continue to "fabricate thought."Our mind is a tool that can be useful, but unfortunately it is often we that are in the service of the tyrant.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">It is not useful to think our perceptions, it is very tiring to do so, it is a serious waste of energy</span></i></b></div>
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"This is normal" you will tell me, it is absolutely normal to think constantly, it is what makes us human. And yet, many people in different cultures and living on this earth at this moment do not think the same thing.It is normal for us Westerners, to think all the time, just as it was normal for the inhabitants of Easter Island to fell trees in order to worship their gods or for the Inca to sacrifice young women.In the moment it seems to be the only "right" way to live, but that's because we do not know anything else. And well, the Taoist Way offers us return to the perception, to silence and relaxation.<br />
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We have different "facets" that we present to others, we have our inner voice that comments our every move and we have something else ... this Observer can sometimes realize our conduct, before being himself commented by our mind and its compulsive thoughts.<br />
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The Daoist give a name to this "sicko" who speaks constantly in our minds: the Monkey Mind. As a young insane ape, this entity will pounce on every perception and every thought to make a little more of it, like a treat.<br />
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We have all already seen a madman in the street or the subway, speaking to himself. We often tell ourselves "... it's sad." Well, at the bottom of it, we're not so different from him...We do not do it loudly, but we are in the same dynamic.<br />
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We can even sometimes think so strongly that the body, deprived of energy and attention, remains paralyzed, dazed.<br />
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Motionless, we dedicate all our attention and force to the frenzied character that saturates our mind with noise.<br />
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Many traditions speak of this, some call this part of the mind: ego.What is the ego? It is the attachment to the character that we believe to be.<br />
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The ego is the strength of our individuality that wants to be important, it is the way we capture the world.Einstein, who was clairvoyant, said that the ego is the "optical illusion of the mind". We need the mind to act in everyday life, but much less than what we think.<br />
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One could even go further by assuming that the ego is only useful at the beginning of our evolution only in order to be overcome.<br />
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We have obviously been stuck in this stage of evolution for some time, knowing that the Daoists already talked about this 4000 years ago...<br />
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For some years now, the rebirth of spiritual movements has given us the opportunity to have the information to do the job: getting rid of our ego mind and going to a different ethical life.<br />
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The source of our ego is our "box", a set of concepts and prejudices that accrues from moment we start being aware of our name. Around the child's development, people will qualify, criticize or praise the little one who will take a good portion of the information as "valid and serious".<br />
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In agreement or reaction, in the need to be important and different, the rest of the development of the psyche (mind) will be done by accumulating and adding information.<br />
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This conceptual morass, federated by the importance of our name, will create us a nice ego that wants to survive ... for that, it has at his disposal the mind.<br />
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The creation of compulsive thinking will help to keep the ego in a noisy well being by setting the clear limits of an "acceptable" personality.The desire to be right, to be important, to shine and win are ways to strengthen our ego and to make sure of its strength.<br />
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The confrontation with what has no limits, the infinite, or non-duality or to the fact of not being the most important thing in the universe ... All this is a threat to our ego.<br />
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Spiritual paths seek this freedom in the acceptance of a union with world and the ephemeral nature of the human being... it's not going to please our Monkey Mind.We all experienced an "empty mind", a silence when seeing something beautiful, a pleasure which short-circuited the mental mind...<br />
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But that was commented in the following second not to lose foot, not to lose our limits.<br />
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The Practice seeks to install these moments in place of our alienated mind and use our mind in the framework of its function: thinking.<br />
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<b><i>Here you are for an introduction to this madman that dominates our minds</i></b><br />
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Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-27297748132554240822017-03-22T06:08:00.004-07:002017-03-22T06:08:49.490-07:00Building the Internal, Stalked by Shadows<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8777434841645680779" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 648px;">
<span style="color: #333333;">According to Taoist theory, we are searching for three profound realizations that will transform us to take us back to our natural "Unity" : we will discuss here one of these three realizations.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">During the creation of the individual, according to Taoist theory, the "gate of life" (ming men) is the first point in space that the human being will occupy.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Upon the meeting of the jing (essence) of the parents, and through the presence of a spark of the Universal Spirit (yuan shen), there is creation of a new living being.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">From this "gate of life", the axes of existence are created: first the "high - low" axis (chong), then the "front - rear" axle (ren and du) and finally the horizontal division of the belt (dai).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The projection of this "gate of life" on the front of our body is the center of our lower "elixir field" (dan tien), a few inches below the navel.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This center is a gift of our humanity, a rapport to earth, to our manifestation and it constitutes the ability to vitalize our body by the force of the Yang that energizes our mind / body.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>Like it or not, whether one is aware of it or not, </i></b></span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: #333333;">If you put your attention on it, without superhuman efforts, the sensation of this center is available to all, at every moment.Just being aware of this center of cinnabar enables a multiplication of the vitality of the body, of our being's energy, a realization of our true way of functioning, often blocked by sick behaviors.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This center is perfect from the beginning of our lives and will remain perfectly opened until our death. On the other hand, by conscious attention to it, it is possible to understand and realize this perfection.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The awareness of the perfection of the bottom center, by direct experience of internal alchemy, gives what is called "the achievement of water and fire" (kan - li): there are 9 steps to work on, the first being conscious breathing with a sensation of this center (embryonic respiration).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This is a precise job that is prepared as a fine dining dish, where technique must be learned with details and in a precise order.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Within a serene and full of love family atmosphere, the second center, the heart, may develop.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This middle center, contrary to the bottom one, is not formed without internal and external actions.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It will depend on the love that we will be given and the ability to perceive that love: it is possible not to feel the positive emotions around us if certain other emotions overwhelm us (fear, anger ...).</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Our relationship with our emotions and our balance in our relationship </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">with others will depend on this middle center.</span></i></b></div>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">If the bottom center determines our basic operation, the fluidity of our physiological functioning, the middle center will be responsible for our emotional life.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In the case that we have an emotional center handicapped by a heavy family history or a bad perception of emotions due to heavy childish emotions, it must be built with an introspection of our internal functioning.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This is the basis of our character and of our ability to establish rapport to one another.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The third center in the sphere of of the unknown for us, the spirit being in our hearts, it is the rapport to our realization, to the infinite and mysterious.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This center does not really exist if it is not built, it has the name "Purple Palace".</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Our goal is to build this center, which gives us a taste of the infinite, but also a connection with the mysterious, before returning to earth.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In the "Magic Annals of the Slayers of Demons," an old story about Zhong Kui describes the practice as a race: the luminous goal in front of us and death that is never that far behind.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It depends on the awareness of the bottom center, through the water and fire realization, but also on the balance of the parts of the mind by opening the middle center.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">This center enables us to have a clear vision of the real world </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">and a glimpse of the invisible world.</span></i></b></div>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">This process is called "internal alchemy," the "Ling Tai" (spiritual embryo) birthing that will grow along with our worldly life, according to our practice.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This profound realization of our total nature is an important goal of the esoteric Way, but it relies directly on the core work of the body and the ability to live a decent life in the necessary alignment.</span></div>
Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-29825662868307300132017-03-21T03:15:00.002-07:002017-03-21T03:15:55.682-07:00"DO NOT ASK WHAT THE WAY CAN DO FOR YOU, ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THE TRADITION"<div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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But what will we leave in this world, at the end of our Incarnation?</div>
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The chance we had to experience a Tradition of Spiritual Evolution is also the the chance to know what to bequeath to the World: by example and continuity.</div>
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It is often useless to talk about the Way to try to convince others, but the example that you incarnate in your daily life will persuade others without saying anything. </div>
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Thus, by respecting the concepts of Practice you are the showcase of the Way in your life, you are at the origin of the construction of the world of tomorrow.</div>
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By following the notions of the Way, empathic and in the World, you show others that there is a different way of living one's life, of behaving according to the Values of Humanity, more than of the questionable values of our dying World.</div>
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This example which you incarnate, which produces the Future of our History, will give envy to others: they may laugh a little or criticise but they will always end up being intrigued and interested.</div>
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The continuity of The Daoist Tradition which gently approaches its Fifth millennium, comes from the example followed by intrigued people who wanted to live better.</div>
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Know with reality the depth of the Way, the interest of this Knowledge of the human in its environment and see how vital it is in our Corrupted World.</div>
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We are useful for the world of tomorrow and our "lost time" in which we train is a little in the Light in the Darkness of the Collective Unconsciousness.</div>
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Know yourself, understand the world and discover others with all the facets of the Daoist Tradition ... so Tomorrow will go in the right direction!</div>
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Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-28583925047628680942017-03-15T05:43:00.004-07:002017-03-15T05:43:39.732-07:00The Fighting Arts in the Way<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2143995116086624081" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 648px;">
<span style="color: #333333;">Often enough in Gong Fu or Tai Ji Quan classes we talk about fighting, personal defense, we learn to respond to possible attacks ... But is it really that necessary?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Today the probabilities are not so high, unless we are ask for it, that we have to apply all these techniques in such conditions.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>There is no need to fight, to<span style="font-family: inherit;"> collect self-defense techniques to achieve an evolution and to feel better in one's life.</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Depending on individual needs, be more present in one's actions and succeeding in fighting against stress are sufficient.</span><br /><br />There are many techniques, teachings and a multitude of spiritual ways that can meet these expectations.<br /><br />One way or another, all paths lead to the same thing: feeling better, closer to one's real self, being a better person and sharing this relaxed state with other people.<br /><br />But in this case, there is no need to seek fighting arts: to practice them, violence must be understood in a practical and real manner. If we study any form of combat without being clear about what we do, without really knowing the thrust of the teaching we follow, staying in a nebulous position for years, we just lose time.<br /><br />With urban life we meet hundreds of people every day, and although some are just silhouettes for us, it is necessary to have a better understanding of the relationship with the others. One facet of it, and we can see that every day, is the possibility of confrontation. This relationship can go from a simple exchange of looks to a real violent conflict: of course it is exaggerated!<br /><br />Even in this exaggeration, we can realize just how often it is difficult to say what we think, we don't want to disturb, we are afraid ... The fear of the other is as unfounded than the need to practice martial arts.<br /><br />The two-person training, in martial disciplines, allows for once to go after a contact with the other, directly through the body, as less intellectually as possible. Through a better physical understanding of the other person, trough a better feeling of the center and the axis of the body, we understand ourself a little better. This relationship to the other in the exercise allows to feel more than to think, it is par excellence an honest relationship.<br /><br />I often have people telling me about their practice in clubs, which are often "sport" clubs, where the whole teaching implied to come once to five times a week to dress up, to bow in fornt of portraits of old masters that they don't know, to lock themselves in a ritual which is far from everyday life, and then return to their life. A majority of these people got no benefit from these sometimes long years of practice.<br /><br />First, we have to learn what practice really is:<b> </b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>It is a work that is done alone, only for ourself, </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>and where the teacher has little significance.</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Besides, a bad teacher who passes a corrupt practice, can bring us the desired results if we practice honestly.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The moment our practice is the most important is never a peaceful moment: if we need Qi Gong it is because we need energy, and because we are rarely in a quiet state of mind. The moments when meditation, when the meditative state, are most needed, are moments of breakdown. Once again, the fighting arts give us the best example: the only times we have to use what we know to defend ourself, we are rarely ready, and almost never in the right mindset.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">If the practice is a ritual, separated from everyday life, it is unlikely that it can be useful.</span></i></b></div>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">The first thing that keeps from using the knowledge of our practice is fear. The best way to go against fear is to confront it in a gradual yet regular manner: the fighting arts are one of the healthiest ways to do so.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">How many people feel this need to drive fast, to throw themselves in the sheer drop only attach to a spring, to drink or eat too much, to have all these behaviors which are kind of a way to defy death? In this challenge is the need to cross swords with fear, a bit like when watching horror movies or reading scaring stories.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The primordial energy of the body, which in chinese medicine comes from the kidneys, is related to fear. If the general energy of the body is weak, we feel afraid of all things, we sleep poorly, we have trouble digesting food...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In the animal kingdom, deep into the heart of one given species, there are the peaceful ones and the fearful ones. When you look closer, the fearful ones are often those who are sick, injured, easy preys for potential predators. They are not better nor worse than the others, they are just in a moment of weakness and they know it's dangerous. Few animals remain in this state, either because they heal and become strong again, or because they get killed by a predator.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In humans, it is not uncommon for this condition to persist, to become a way of life. We have no predators, or at least this is what we often believe. Someone who is always afraid will be a victim at work, in relationships with abusive people, perhaps even in the couple relationship. We are not talking about panic here, but this little anxiety which is pointless and prevents us from expressing ourself honestly about our feelings and wishes.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This is obviously not by beating people up that we will feel better, but</span><b style="color: #333333;"> through fighting arts we can more easily assert our personality, develop our place in the world.</b><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This can be achieved in many ways, and all of them are good. But if instead of choosing the steep path, full of traps, that we will take by crawling, we could choose a sunny glade that we will walk across with the head up, why would we do without it?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Meditation is a difficult practice, and still so simple. It takes two things to meditate correctly: a practical and sufficient concentration ability to do this practice. Concentration is not necessarily filled with a stiff intent, but it's simply the ability to stay focused on something. It is possible to do this only with a peaceful and relaxed mind. This relaxation state is difficult to achieve when one is afraid of everyone, of everything and all the rest.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Qi Gong is an even simpler practice than meditation, but still so complicated. The body has to be relaxed, breathing has to be refined, emotions have to be calmed and energy has to flow freely. The first manifestation of fear is a tension in the body, a speeded up breathing rythm, an unceasing production of ideas and it is quite clear that energy cannot flow in a tensed body. Once again, we can not practice properly if we are scared.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The martial arts simply ask to be here and now, to accept the training, and to be honest in their daily practice. The ancient practice of chinese fighting arts include many exercises for mind and body, two-person exercises, methods for the training and the usage of the breath. Few exercises are physically tough, yet we clearly feel the work.</span><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333;">In my view, to have a real access to Qi Gong or meditation, one needs a physical practice that will help to strengthen the body and calm the mind. It is not necessary, but it is a priceless shortcut. Many physical practices meet this expectation, but to my knowledge, none does it as well as fighting arts.</b><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is really important to forget the idea that fighting arts are a workout session with a warm up, a codified routine practice, a little sparring at the end, and perhaps pus-ups or abs-gluts workout to finish. It is not a Gym Club!</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">The practice is to be learnt with the teacher and is achieved by yourself.</span></i></b></div>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">Every week, every month, we face a little problem: a detail on coordination, on a physical exercise, on our connection with our body...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Everyday this relationship can go further in our intimacy to ourself, to realize how much we underestimate what we really are. Within months, if we practice daily, our body changes. In a few years, we come closer to the person we really are.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The Taoist Way of Chinese internal arts is not the best way nor the worst, it is the way I know. This road leads to a transformation on people who practice, and that, quickly and every time. So I think it's a good way, a teaching of value, anchored with deep roots.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In a world where everyone knows a little of everything about everything, where the teachings are like fast-food, where horizontal knowledge has no depth, we have to look deeper into one thing. We have to renounce patchwork practices , chakra taichi, and bring a fusion between our way and our life.</span><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333;">Practice, action is the Way, whereas intellectual knowledge is just one more obstacle to the liberation of the mind. We should not learn more things, read more books, attend more conferences, we just have to put some effort, some discipline and to start working.</b><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">A majority of the beginner's practices are things he already knows, and most of the time he will let you know. But if the beginner knows intellectually these practices, he has not worked on them so far, so they are of no use to him.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Think for one second about all the wonderful practices that you have met in your researches, how much do you practice every day?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Do you see what I mean?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Before sitting still to merge our soul with the stars, to make our mind travel in the subtle spheres, before connecting the power of our body with universal energies, to exchange our breath with the earth elements, to emit energy to treat diseases, we must first be able to stand still without thinking too much.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Before thinking about meditation, to the wonders of Qi Gong, we have to work. This is rarely the funniest thing, except for those who have sought for a long time and who understand that.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Again, and according to the teachings of my school, the easiest way is first to go through the fighting arts which will work on presence and fear, in order to move on to the rest after. Before touching all the subtle things, it is good to have a healthy body and a calm mind.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This is why the fighting arts are so important in our teaching, it is our tool to go and look for further things, the door opening to new horizons. That's all, but this requires honesty in practice. If we speak about fighting arts, we must understand violence. It is not possible in a practice based on rituals, a social relationship and the concern of other people's opinion. It is impossible to have belts, to compete or to dress up. We just have to relax and share with the others a simple yet hard training, and to do a daily training for ourself.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Martial arts are not really for fighting, the fighting methods based on rituals, and all these fake warrior practices allow to unwind, to have fun, or even to get stuck in a stupid violence, and they surely have their place too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">But they will rarely be of a substantial help in the discovery of ourself and in the evolution of breathing, meditative and spiritual practices. It is just a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">In our Tradition, we say that we need to cultivate 2 topics for actual self defense :</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>- Mind Intent : to Go or not Go</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>- Impact Power : Really Hitting Hard</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">But the Martial Arts mostly teach the rest :)</span></span></span></div>
Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-70181776273279264472017-03-04T02:02:00.001-08:002017-03-04T02:02:42.247-08:00I thought it was going to be a Beautiful Day<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4366841465084853376" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 648px;">
<span style="color: #333333;">Our mind (mental) continually bases itself on beliefs that if finds reassuring.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This information is stored in memory and becomes the basis of what we think we know. To form itself the ego assimilates what is perceived like a neurotic eater. Everything is taken, stolen from the world, to become "his" or "her."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">By appropriating itself what is seen, somehow, the ego builds himself comfortable limits by eliminating "what is not known" and what is a source of anxiety.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Thus, a new experience, when it is possible, will be likened to another that we already have in memory. What is new, different or too far from what we know, will be transformed to be acceptable. This phenomenon, invisible and concealed, is of an incredible finesse that makes it difficult to consciously experience.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The practice is often paved by attempts of news, direct experience, that can enable us to get our head out of our prejudices, to see things differently.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">From our childhood, we record information that shape our ego. This "box" will become "what we believe." Environment, education and our genetics define this "character". With all this, we lay the ground for the prejudices that allow the ego to take over the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Reality, "what is", is interpreted by our perception and becomes "what appears to be." We perceive, this is matched with our personal database, the ego takes it over, and it is stored in a familiar form so as not to disturb the stability of our character. So we do not see a tree, a sunset or our companion, but just a reminiscence of what is already in memory. No novelty, therefore we get bored, so we start thinking.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">If we try to explain to someone what we believe we perceived it often becomes "what we tell (ourselves)"... and then a deep divide creates itself over the initial perception.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">What was already interpreted by our mental assimilation suffers another ego interpretation through the regurgitation: it is the photocopy syndrome, the more copies, the further away from the original the copy is.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">When referencing to what we have in stock (memories and beliefs), and not to what we see, we cut ourselves off from reality. Moreover, by this habit of always referring to the known, we get to the culmination of prejudice: the </span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;">guesstimation</span><span style="color: #333333;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Knowing "what we believe" we offer the world a few sorted possibilities based on the acceptable things we deign to perceive. We project so much about the universe that we perceive only what strengthens us mentally, what flatters our ego.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We put in this jumble our moods, our hopes, our brooding and all this "obscures the light."</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><b>We can summarize by saying that the source of all this pathological functioning is Fear.</b></span></div>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">This operation will spread to the world and especially to others. Thus, we expect from our relationships and from our exchanges that everything goes in the direction of our ego. If this is not the case, we will filter the collected information enough to keep only what reinforces our sweet madness.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We also have the ability to avoid certain situations, more or less consciously, in order not to perceive what bothers us.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The Practice tends to eliminate prejudices, in order to perceive clearly. It will go in the opposite direction of everything that has been listed.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We will discover "presence" and confront us with our fear, if we can bear it, to wake up a little and go from a viscous unconsciousness to a light version of it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In this state of "waking", we will have, through the teaching, moments of clear perceptions that will be a new basis for the beginning of the rest of our lives.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Traditionally, we start with ourselves. We will look beyond what we believe and we will try to know ourselves. This encounter with our mental functioning and our dissociation with it, will be a first approach.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Then, through specific exercises in a gradual evolution, we will go towards a liberation of perception.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This ability to perceive is incredibly pleasant, the benefits are numerous, for example, the disappearance of boredom and the ability to continuously discover what is already know...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">After this groundwork, we are surprised to see that there is something else than we: the World. After having developed this ability of self-discovery, we will apply it to "this that is not us."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We have a series of exercises that will enable us to perceive the world and others with this acquired freedom. Exchanges with others, our ability to communicate and respect the world will change because of these practices.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In an opening where I do not take my mental mind as a reference, in this release of a new perception every second, all of my practice will "crystallize" to get a coherence.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is tedious and unrealistic to believe that a spontaneous work without structure can free the mind. In most cases, those who work without a teacher only manage to reinforce their already suffering ego.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">How can we reduce the power of the mind if we can not even rely on tradition and alleviate the organ of thought?</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Some speak of a fear of being manipulated, but in reality, it is often just Fear</b></span></div>
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Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-8538014295519442592017-02-21T02:30:00.005-08:002017-02-21T02:30:39.934-08:00Si Xiang : The four aspects of the spiritual path<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3558998861741287245" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 648px;">
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">Training of the four spiritual aspects is a traditional method of explaining the Kan-Li Accomplishment, one of the three stages of Taoist spiritual enlightenment.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The four aspects are :</span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>Initiation </i>- <i>Purification </i>- <i>Rebirth </i>- <i>Accomplishment</i></span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Training implies the presence of Nei Gong (internal training) or a « Weapons Path » (a serious combat practice, not ritual) as part of any practitioner's practice.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This training comes after working on Nei Dan (Internal Alchemy), the final stage of developing the qualities of the mind.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In the reality of training, it is often more practical to incorporate everything at once, time being a pressing factor.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">The stage of the Shadow Warrior</span></b></h4>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">This is the moment of becoming aware of the Way or of a need to follow a path. A contact, or meeting, anything could potentially generate this need to go further, to understand one's life.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">But having realized the need, few among us will go on to practice: we are stuck in our prejudices and our habits, our confidence and the size of our ego.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is the start of a battle, a fight between your desire to go through with it and the refusal to become a « student », to accept learning. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We are going to fight against the shadows, the most restless and heaviest aspects of our being. There are high chances of losing oneself, of staying in our comfort and our illusion of satisfaction.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This aspect of the practice is under the sign of the Black Tortoise, sign of the land and of our morbid calculations.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Only one thing can get us out of this state : passing through the Door, the start of a Way, the Initiation.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">After practicing for some time, it will be possible to go further by truly committing oneself to a chosen tradition. It is not an obligation, the Way is also a path to health and a martial path which do not require an opening into the spiritual.</span><br /><br /><h4 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #990000;">The purification brought by the White Tiger</span></h4>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">The problem with our mind, is that it is restless and has long since escaped from our control: the tool has become the master and the master now takes orders from the tool.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Even the idea of the origin of all things, the Wu Ji, is stillness and the perfect availability towards creative manifestation.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">To have access to this stillness, to this particular quality which is at the center of our profound nature, we must clarify and align our day to day life.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Somewhat like a device which no longer functions properly, and of which we are unable to understand the dysfunction, it is preferable to take everything apart, clean everything and put it all back in place.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We are there at the stage of dissecting our life : our actions, our thoughts and our emotions are going to have to bathe in the benevolent luminosity of our attention.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The White Tiger appears only in the face of perfection, therefore we are going to clean everything, reformat everything, study everything to head towards this perfection.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is really written to examine oneself and to make corrections of oneself, not to become the little judge of the world around you, to give your opinion about everything and criticize others.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In destroying our habits and in observing our behavior, we clarify our life.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Immobility and tranquility will be able to transform us.</span><br /><br /><h4 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: #990000;">Riding the azure Dragon to be Reborn</span></h4>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">Thanks to the preceding efforts, an availability and a tranquility set in, which will allow the energy from Heaven into our life.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">This exposure to the « Way of the Heavens » will gradually transform us and allow us to dissolve the remnants of our old way of functioning.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Through this training, we will experience on a regular basis states which unify us with the Greater, that transcend our humanity.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Riding the Dragon, we move towards the Heavens, but always come back to the mundane. after having glimpsed superior states, pulled back toward the Earth by our habits and our beliefs to which we cling so much.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Incapable of renouncing my self-importance and accepting another way of seeing the world, it is impossible for me to be reborn without first dying.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">That is the catch to riding the Dragon, that to be reborn as something else, one must first overcome this way of living.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The trouble of being reborn, is that one must die.</span><br /><br /><h4 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;">
<b><span style="color: #990000;">Accomplishment : Glory of the Vermilion Phoenix</span></b></h4>
<br /><span style="color: #333333;">In the case that I accept death and that my exposure to my maintained awareness is continued, due to bathing in and sensing constant energy, it will be possible to live in a new way.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Rising up from my ashes, in an availability to a balanced energy, with a water – fire balance in my body/mind, there is the Kan – Li realization .</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">At that point we live in a different state, permanently, but without being absent from the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">There we are, present for our loved ones and working with others, yet conscious of the different aspects of the world unified with the way of the Heavens.</span></div>
Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-71305252058929235022017-02-10T10:57:00.003-08:002017-02-10T10:57:56.157-08:00Punch<h2>
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<b><i><span style="color: #e69138;">It is important not to confuse the force of impact with physical force.</span></i></b></div>
<br />Often enough, a heavy puncher is pretty strongly built, but it is not necessary.<br />In my tradition, it is recommended to work the body structure, flexibility and coordination before attempting to work pure strength.<br /><br />The whole work on the structure goes in the direction of the force of impact.<br /><br />Before anything else, we have to understand the mechanics of the move before thinking about hitting something.<br /><br />See details from the bottom to the top:<br /><br /><i>- The feet are rooted to the ground, the weight being on their center, the rest of the body depends on this foundation.</i><br /><i>- The rear foot will push the weight slightly forward, initiating the move.</i><br /><i>- The front knee bends slightly, remaining in the alignment of the toes.</i><br /><i>- The push is passed on to the hips moving the waist, acting as the base for the connection of the shoulders and the latissimus dorsi.</i><br /><i>- The trunk rotation will propel the striking shoulder straight forward, remaining low and connected to the latissimus dorsi.</i><br /><br />The whole movement allows to let the arm go forward, including these details:<br /><br /><i>- No tension in the arm and forearm,</i><br /><i>- Aligning the striking part of the fist, the wrist and the tip of the shoulder,</i><br /><i>- Letting the elbow down and the shoulder connected to the latissimus dorsi,</i><br /><i>- Looking at where you strike.</i><br /><br />At the impact, the elbow must not be bent, but it should not be stretched ... the striking distance is therefore essential for a truly devastating strikes.<br />The fist should be held, but not tense. If the fist is really clenched tightly, it will be possible to make "brutish" strikes, but not the most subtle ones.<br /><br />The fist will have more power when aligned with the opposite shoulder.<br /><br />Much of the force of impact may be annihilated if we hold our breath, if we stuck our diaphragm. In addition, striking while holding the breath will make us tired much more than when striking with a relaxed breath.<br /><br />We just have to strike the air first, seeking to feel, slowly and remaining relaxed ... we should not rush to train with speed (and it's not really necessary).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: #e69138;">The more the move is direct, the less there will be "force leaks".</span></i></b></div>
<br />So, even slowly, you have to go from total immobility to a decisive move.<br /><br />It is advised not to put attention on the striking hand or arm (it will create tensions), but rather on the rotation and mobilization of the back.<br /><br />Once the move is loose enough, and without parasiting movements (or at least, as little as possible), we will strike stuff (rather a soft bag, but quite heavy, for example).<br /><br />Traditionally, in our school, we hit a wooden post. </div>
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We start from pushing, rubbing and then violently hitting the post. The work bag comes later.<br /><br />We will see specific exercises that develop the impact force in another text (working with weights, targets, iron rings ...).<br /><br />We are not talking here about the work of precision, speed or structure which will obviously determine the effectiveness of the strike.</div>
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Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-18434545231908325752017-01-26T02:54:00.002-08:002017-01-26T02:54:30.264-08:00Practicing for one's pleasure<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3880467612621215878" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 648px;">
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="Quand vous entrez dans une pratique sérieuse, normalement, dès le 2ème mois vous avez déjà trop de mouvements de pratique à effectuer.">When you enter into a serious practice, normally as soon as the 2nd month you have too much exercises to perform. </span><span title="Le professeur doit avoir les moyens de vous confronter au travail à effectuer sous plusieurs formes.">The teacher must have the means to confront you to the work you have to do in many forms. </span><span title="L'accumulation des exercices permet ainsi de vérifier par soi-même son évolution.">The accumulation of exercises allows to check for yourself your evolution. </span><span title="Il est important de s'en tenir à tous ces exercices pendant quelque temps.">It is important to keep practicing all these exercises for some time.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="Il est important de s'en tenir à tous ces exercices pendant quelque temps."><br /></span><span title="Le principal est de tout travailler sans chercher une logique dans les exercices.">The key is to train without searching for a logic in the exercises. </span><span title="À chaque période de son évolution dans la Voie, il faut savoir aller dans le sens des exercices.">At each period of one's evolution in the Way, you should be going in the direction of the exercises. You </span><span title="On peut, à certains moments, discuter de la Voie et de ce qui est recherché, mais on doit à d'autres moments savoir être dans la pratique, et rien que la pratique.">can, at times, discuss the Way and what is researched, but at other times one must know how to be in the practice, and nothing but the practice.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span style="color: #333333;" title="On peut, à certains moments, discuter de la Voie et de ce qui est recherché, mais on doit à d'autres moments savoir être dans la pratique, et rien que la pratique."><br /></span><span title="Rapidement, il faut installer dans sa pratique une part égale des trois facettes de la Voie :"><span style="color: #660000;">Quickly, you need to install in your practice an equal share of the three facets of the Way:</span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Rapidement, il faut installer dans sa pratique une part égale des trois facettes de la Voie :"><br /></span><span title="- un aspect physique, pour le corps,">- A physical aspect, for the body,</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="- un aspect physique, pour le corps,"> </span><span title="- une facette énergétique qui nourrit le Qi (énergie),">- A energetic facet that nourishes the Qi (energy),</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="- une facette énergétique qui nourrit le Qi (énergie),"> </span><span title="- une composante méditative qui cherche à connaître le Shen (esprit).">- A meditative component that seeks to know the Shen (spirit).</span></span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="- une composante méditative qui cherche à connaître le Shen (esprit)."><br /></span><span title="Sans cette répartition égale entre les trois éléments de l'être humain, on instaure un déséquilibre.">Without this equal distribution between the three elements of the human being, we create an imbalance. </span><span title="Il est évident que lorsqu'on débute dans la pratique, ce déséquilibre est déjà présent, c'est pourquoi il est important de le corriger le plus rapidement possible, avant d'aller plus loin.">It is obvious that when starting the practice, this imbalance is already present, which is why it is important to correct it as soon as possible, before going further. </span><span title="La plupart du temps, les douleurs et les faiblesses du corps demandent une voie plus physique au départ.">Most of the time, the pains and weaknesses of the body require a more physical start. Our mind, </span><span title="L'esprit brumeux de la plupart d'entre nous, et débordant de préjugés gluants nécessite des exercices de Shen gong (travail de l'esprit).">foggy </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="L'esprit brumeux de la plupart d'entre nous, et débordant de préjugés gluants nécessite des exercices de Shen gong (travail de l'esprit)."><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="L'esprit brumeux de la plupart d'entre nous, et débordant de préjugés gluants nécessite des exercices de Shen gong (travail de l'esprit).">and overflowing with sticky stigma for</span></span> most of us, requires Shen gong exercises (work of the mind). </span><span title="La perte d'envie et d'enthousiasme, malheureusement courante au sein de notre société molle au fond dépressif, demande de réveiller l'énergie en nous.">Loss of desire and enthusiasm, unfortunately common in our soft society with a depressive tendency, demands to awaken the energy in us.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="La perte d'envie et d'enthousiasme, malheureusement courante au sein de notre société molle au fond dépressif, demande de réveiller l'énergie en nous."><br /></span><span title="Au bout d'un an d'entraînement, on doit pouvoir instaurer deux phases dans son temps de pratique : l'apprentissage (où on ajoute, on raffine et on pense) et la pratique elle-même (qui se fait dans le "ressenti">After a year of training, we must be able to introduce two phases in our time of practice: learning (which we add stuff, refine and think) and the practice itself (which is in the "feeling</span><span title="", sans pensée).">" without thinking). </span><span title="En effet, sans une continuité dans l'enseignement, sans un rapport constant avec la Voie et la découverte de ce qu'elle est, on peut régresser, voire oublier.">Indeed, without continuity in education, without a constant relationship with the Way and the discovery of what it is, we can regress or even forget it. Thus </span><span title="Il est donc bon d'affiner sa pratique en allant toujours plus loin dans l'apprentissage.">it is good </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Il est donc bon d'affiner sa pratique en allant toujours plus loin dans l'apprentissage.">to refine one's </span></span>practice by always going deeper into learning.</span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="Il est donc bon d'affiner sa pratique en allant toujours plus loin dans l'apprentissage."><br /></span><span title="D'un autre coté, il est nécessaire d'avoir une phase d'action libre, de fusion dans le ressenti de ce qui est le mieux connu.">On the other hand, it is necessary to have a phase of free action, melting into the feeling of what is best known. </span><span title="Au début, un geste simple que l'on comprend bien est suffisant.">At first, a simple gesture that one understands is sufficient. </span><span title="Mais sans ce moment où l'attention est posée sur ce qui est senti, oubliant l'imperfection de ce qui est connu, la Voie n'existe pas.">But without this time where the focus is placed on what is sensed, forgetting the imperfections of what is known, the Way does not exist.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="Mais sans ce moment où l'attention est posée sur ce qui est senti, oubliant l'imperfection de ce qui est connu, la Voie n'existe pas."><br /></span><span title="Si l'entraînement n'est qu'apprentissage, on finit par se corriger des décennies durant sans jamais avancer sur la Voie.">If the training is only an apprenticeship, you end up correcting yourself for decades without making progress on the Way. </span><span title="C'est comme inspecter son véhicule avant un long voyage, aménager l'intérieur et vérifier la pression des pneus… pendant 20 ans et à la fin, n'avoir effectué aucun voyage.">It's like inspecting one's car before a long trip, arranging the interior and checking the tire pressure for 20 years ... and in the end, not having made any trip. </span><span title="Il existe des voies modernes où tout le temps d'entraînement (en groupe ou individuel) repose sur une correction maniaque de tout ce qui ne va pas.">There are modern ways all the training time (group or individual) is based on a maniacal correction of everything that goes wrong. </span><span title="Dans cette focalisation névrotique, il n'y a pas de pratique, il n'y a pas d'évolution, c'est une perte de temps.">In neurotic focus, there is no practice, there is no evolution, it is a waste of time.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="Dans cette focalisation névrotique, il n'y a pas de pratique, il n'y a pas d'évolution, c'est une perte de temps."><br /></span><span title="Si dans l'illusion de la pratique, vous vous perdez dans les mouvements, c'est que l'apprentissage n'est pas suffisamment respecté et que cette fausse pratique ne sert à rien.">If in the illusion of practice, you get lost in the movements then the learning is not sufficiently respected and that this false practice is useless. </span><span title="Il est possible de prétendre être dans le "ressenti", plongé dans les limbes astrales, mais la vérité, c'est que l'on est perdu dans le fatras de son mental.">It is possible to claim to be in the "feeling" immersed in </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="Il est possible de prétendre être dans le "ressenti", plongé dans les limbes astrales, mais la vérité, c'est que l'on est perdu dans le fatras de son mental."><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Il est possible de prétendre être dans le "ressenti", plongé dans les limbes astrales, mais la vérité, c'est que l'on est perdu dans le fatras de son mental.">astral</span></span> limbo, but the truth is that one is lost in the welter of one's mind. </span><span title="Le ressenti, simple présence au corps et à l'énergie, mais présence tout de même, permet d'être dans le geste juste, connu.">Feeling, simple presence to the body and energy, but presence still, enables us to be in the right gesture, in the known. </span><span title="Si on ne parvient pas à cela, c'est que l'apprentissage n'est pas suffisant, que le travail est incomplet, que l'on ne travaille pas dans le bon esprit.">If one fails to do so, it is that the learning is not enough, that the work is incomplete, as one does not work in the right spirit. </span><span title="En aucun cas le ressenti ne doit faire perdre de vue la forme des mouvements, il en est au contraire, partie intégrante.">Under no circumstances should the "feeling" make us lose sight of the form of the movements. On the contrary, it is an integral part of them. </span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="En aucun cas le ressenti ne doit faire perdre de vue la forme des mouvements, il en est au contraire, partie intégrante."><br /></span><span title="Si vous n'avez pas ce problème, il faut alors commencer à "trier" la pratique.">If you do not have this problem, then you have to begin to "sort" the practice. </span><span title="Dans un souci d'équilibre entre les trois phases de la pratique, et une bonne gestion du temps d'apprentissage et de pratique, il faut aller plus loin : il faut se faire plaisir.">In an effort to balance the three phases of practice, and a good time management of learning and practice, we must go further: it must be fun, we must have fun. </span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="Dans un souci d'équilibre entre les trois phases de la pratique, et une bonne gestion du temps d'apprentissage et de pratique, il faut aller plus loin : il faut se faire plaisir."><br /></span><span title="Seul celui qui se destine à l'enseignement doit connaître tous les aspects de l'enseignement.">Only those who plan to teach must know all the aspects of education. The </span><span title="Le pratiquant, lui, n'a besoin que d'une voie qui lui convienne et qui va dans le sens de ses besoins.">practitioner only needs a path that suits him and that is in line with his needs. </span><span title="L'apprentissage doit rester l'apprentissage, en revanche la pratique, pour être considérée comme telle, doit prendre tôt ou tard, une forme plaisante.">Learning must remain learning, however the practice, to be considered as such, must sooner or later,take a pleasant form.</span><span title="Dans l'ensemble de ce qui est connu, avec l'accord du professeur pour ne pas faire de bêtises, il faut donc façonner la pratique en vue de se faire plaisir.">Across everything that is known, with the agreement of the teacher so as to not do anything stupid, we must shape the practice in order to have fun. The</span><span title="Le travail des qualités, le fond, peut s'exprimer sous des formes différentes."> qualities work, the substance, can be expressed in different forms. </span><span title="Il est donc possible d'articuler sa pratique, tout en respectant la Voie, dans une expression qui plaît, qui fait plaisir.">It is therefore possible to articulate the practice, while respecting the Way, in an expression that we like, that is pleasant.</span></span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="Il est donc possible d'articuler sa pratique, tout en respectant la Voie, dans une expression qui plaît, qui fait plaisir."><br /></span><span title="Que l'on choisisse un style plutôt qu'un autre (taijiquan, baguazhang, xingyiquan….), que l'on préfère le travail des bases plutôt que celui des formes avancées (qi gong simple, nei gong…), que l'">Whether you choose one style over another (Taijiquan, Baguazhang, xingyiquan ....), whether you prefer working on the basics rather than advanced forms (simple qi gong, nei gong ...), whether </span><span title="on décide de tout faire avec la même forme plutôt qu'avec des formes diverses, ou l'inverse… tout est bon à partir du moment où les bases sont respectées (c'est pour cela que l'approbation du professeur est importante et qu">we decided to do everything with the same form rather than various forms, and vice versa ... Everything is good from the point where the bases are met (this is why the approval of the teacher is important and that you</span><span title="'il ne faut pas se laisser aller à sa créativité sélective)."> must not indulge in </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="'il ne faut pas se laisser aller à sa créativité sélective).">selective </span></span>creativity ).</span><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="'il ne faut pas se laisser aller à sa créativité sélective)."><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="color: #660000;"><b>"The teaching is broad enough to express the Way in pleasant forms"</b></span></i></div>
</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span title="L'enseignement est assez vaste pour exprimer la Voie sous des formes plaisantes."><br /></span><span title="Il est inutile d'avoir une pratique "pénible", le "no pain, no gain" ne sert à rien.">It is useless to have a </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Il est inutile d'avoir une pratique "pénible", le "no pain, no gain" ne sert à rien.">"painful" </span></span>practice, the "no pain, no gain" is useless.</span></div>
Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-19162567040750378122017-01-10T03:21:00.001-08:002017-01-10T03:21:24.932-08:00Enjoy Summer Outside !<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Clearly, summer is
characterized by heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under its
effects, the body functions better in general, as everything is more open and
circulates better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Be cautious to
avoid restlessness and excessive movement, they result in a hyperactive and
overheated system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If we are peaceful
and calm, summer will benefit us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we
are upset and overworked, it will be harmful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Openness and Communion With Nature</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Summer is the time
where we don’t have to protect ourselves from the cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However we must still protect ourselves from
the sun because too much exposure harms the skin (skin cancers are caused by
repetitive and excessive sun exposure).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">“In summer, take
care to regulate activities and limit strong emotions.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Summer is a
special time in the year during which we can spend time in nature with a
minimum of clothing, almost none at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Strolls in nature, where we are lightly dressed in simple apparel, allow
us to feel the forces of the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
feel more in harmony with nature, and have a greater sense of belonging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Take care of Fatigue</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">An excess of heat
makes energy rise up, into our heads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
can feel easily overwhelmed by our enthusiasm, and at risk of ‘spreading
ourselves too thin’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This tendency
towards dispersion can dissolve our vitality, leaving us feeling fatigued. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To avoid this
fatigue, we must treat summer heat with respect and make efforts to regulate
our temperature during this period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We must conduct
ourselves similarly with regard to the emotions and the internal heat they can
generate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heat will feel oppressive
if we are worked up or bothered by strong emotions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">“A good diet, the
right breathing exercises, </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">and a moderate level of physical activity will allow
us to best cope with the heat of summer.”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In summer, we must
take care of our heart and circulatory system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We can fast for a few days, or stop drinking for a few hours, hold our
breath for a few minutes…but we cannot stop the beating of our heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The heat is not an
ally for our hearts, for it oppresses and fatigues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Summer is the
period when our cardiovascular functions are most stressed and our circulatory
system is most stimulated by environmental heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We must ‘tidy’ up
our heart, be selective in our efforts and not tire the body out for no reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Caution –
inactivity and apathy wear on the heart just as much as over activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In summer, when we
are at rest, the heat allows our circulating blood to be more fluid and flow
easier, because all the blood vessels are more dilated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">However, if we are
too worked up, there is too much pressure on this system, leading to
over-exhaustion, especially for the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">We must be active
but not overly so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we have plans to
carry out made in the spring, we must not allow ourselves to get sidetracked by
tiring distractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do what we have
committed to, without adding fluff to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We often have
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<span lang="EN-US">Enthusiasm can
lead us to undertaking too many things because of the illusion we have that
putting the pedal to the metal is how to live fully.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When we are
engaging in physical activity, we must hydrate much more than often, and eating
lighter than usual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i><b>Blockages and Heaviness</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If we are not in
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with a daily practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In order to
circulate what is stagnant - whether it be the blood, the energy, or the breath
– one must practice simple activities, such as taking a walk three or four
times a day, swimming regularly, or going for a jog at an easy pace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In a week or two,
the chosen moderate physical activity will help with restoring good health, as
it aligns with the rhythm of the season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Summer: the
season where one takes their time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fall:
the season for man and nature to travel together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winter: the season where we count the
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spring: the season of illusions;
nature is rejuvenated and we believe the same happens to us.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aristotle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This is the
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<span lang="EN-US">The strength of
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of the season to realize our goals, rather than getting all worked up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In order to do
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<span lang="EN-US">One of the secrets
for acting well here is to understand the balance between work and rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This truth applies to the entire year, but it
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<span lang="EN-US">Avoid bustling
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<span lang="EN-US">Summer is also the
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<span lang="EN-US">We take advantage
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<span lang="EN-US">Accepting to do
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<span lang="EN-US">We often feel the
need to define ourselves by our activity or how much we bustle about…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Doing a lot gives
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<span lang="EN-US">This is not an
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<span lang="EN-US">Summer allows us
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<span lang="EN-US">The natural
relaxation that accompanies summer allows us to contemplate the world around
us, to accept life and commit to living simply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is a great thing
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">“Summer is a good
time to contemplate the joy of being alive.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-75385745681015663422017-01-10T01:29:00.001-08:002017-01-10T01:29:05.636-08:00"Il faut toujours un Hiver pour bercer un Printemps"<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span>Many of us have
trouble accepting the fact that we ought to decrease our activities during
winter, as we live in a society where working less is equivalent to being
weak. Also, professional and societal
rhythms and demands do not slow down during winter.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">However, if we
learn to respect our own rhythms of rest and work, we will be more
productive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many people spend long hours
working at their desk, but a decent portion of those hours is unproductive and
would be better spent resting, thus allowing for more to be done later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Winter is the time
of the year for letting go and withdrawing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It represents the irrepressible need for rest, as per the annual cycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our daily lives, we must respect the
interplay of work and rest, along with the rhythms of the year’s activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Consider these two
fates: that of a military commander, the strategic genius, versus the
kamikaze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first wins their battles
with the least loss of human life, while the second gives their life up by
crashing into a target.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Studying, reading, learning</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Winter is
traditionally the time for studying subjects that are interesting, reading,
self-cultivation and developing knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Often, we do not
devote enough time to our interests in our daily routine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winter is the perfect time for dedicating
time to this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the rest of the
year, take note of subjects you find interesting, books that attract you, and
put them aside until winter comes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Compile all the
things that interest you into a list at the end of autumn and the start of
winter in order to develop a syllabus for learning and discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Doing less in
winter does not mean doing nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is the time for learning.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Going out less, receiving more</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Winter is neither
the time for going out a lot, nor for meeting new people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The season is best for spending time with our
closest relationships, whether family or friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Invite them to come over, converse with them
about any and every thing, and take advantage of the long winter nights to get
to know these loved ones better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="color: #990000;">“Winter is not the
season for going out, but that for having close friends in our homes.”</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Getting ready for spring</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">During this active
hibernation, think back over the year that is about to come to a close, and
make sure what we did lines up with what we wanted to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This analysis
prepares the ground for spring, and therefore the coming year, by making sure
we are on the right track to becoming who we want to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By examining ourselves thusly, we can track
our evolution and our expectations with regard to our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By adapting our
vision of things and ourselves to the coming year, we prepare for the right
kind of self-development and daily routine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">If we have trouble
reflecting on these things objectively, turn to others you trust and ask them
for their advice and help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You can also seek
out a mentor or teacher that has already guided you, to get help with your
research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The strength of
our personal development lies in our efforts that we actually undertake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“The retreat that
comes with winter is not a dead period, but a time of active preparation for
the year to come.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Choosing a different rhythm</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The creative force
from the beginning of the year feeds off the energy that accumulates during the
calm winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more we take this
period seriously, the more we successfully shape our choices for the coming
year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To ensure that we
make the right choices, we must know which direction we seek to go in, in
addition to how much intensity to put into each effort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By conserving our
strength in order to avoid exhaustion, and by searching profoundly for what we
need, we can really prepare for a productive and intelligent new year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Like a sprinter
preparing for a big race, we must rest and concentrate our will on the action
to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">These preparations
are often more important than the actions themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many athletes, especially fighters, speak of
how much harder the training and conditioning is than the competitions
themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This preparatory
period is demanding, but without it, the athletes would not be primed for
competition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Working more at home</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If possible,
winter is a great time for work as much as we can at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our work will benefit from the peace of our
own home, or another location where we feel at ease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Winter is not a
good time for brainstorming in groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead, we must make decision by ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our work will also be better if we do it
alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For solo working
and thinking, stay at home or disengage from your environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is possible to
become isolated and focused on yourself and your thoughts amidst a hurricane:
this all depends on your state of mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you are focused
on your work and the problems that need to be solved, the external ambiance
becomes a white noise, a murmur that no longer distracts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Isolated but not
alone, we work actively, just like the energy of winter.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Meeting and sharing</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If we need to work
alone, we must also meet with those close to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can plan gatherings or regular meet ups
which allow us to connect a bit with those who are important to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“In order not to
suffocate, we must condition and motivate ourselves, uncover our goals and
create a strategy for the coming year.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our introspection
can extend to include our circle of family and closest friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This sharing helps balance the retreat from
the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not turn to the people
outside of your circle, unlike in spring; focus on your intimate relations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“In spring, energy
expands outwards towards the new, so we can test and discover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In winter everything contracts, to enhance
and share.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i>Doing, but not excessively </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">End of year
parties give plenty of excuses for excess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, these do not align with the spirit of winter, as it is the time
of year when we are most fragile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
must instead pay close attention to what we eat, and arrange our lives to be
free of excess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In this
introspective and reflective period, our awareness must be free so that we can
be efficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our diet must be adapted
to the season, full of vigorous vitality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our body abused by the cold. We must
sleep enough, by going to bed at a reasonable time. The time we spend doing things must be useful
and deliberate. By doing what needs to
be done in our daily routine, all the while sparing our strength, we conserve
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Enjoy the end of Winter and be ready for an incredible learning year of Ding You !</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Learn Something in 2017 !!!</span>Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-80776778992633174592016-11-07T08:47:00.003-08:002016-11-07T08:47:29.752-08:00Adrenaline: Assistance to a Person in DangerIn the primitive times of the development of mankind, humans had to struggle to survive. Every day, to eat and live, men were challenging death.<br />
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The confrontation with the possibility of dying was as present as life itself. We have not changed that much: our immune system is still functioning like in survival days.<br />
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The reaction to an important stress triggers a release of adrenaline that allows to deal with the two most important options: fight or flight. This rush allows us to have an increased neuromuscular function and to be more resilient to pain.<br />
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In our sterile society and where the sense of responsibility has vanished, we don't have many occasions to be confronted with these extreme body mechanisms, so they end up surprising us. We take this natural feeling, which renders assistance to a person in danger, as a pathological manifestation of our weakness in a situation: it overwhelms and paralyzes us instead of supporting us in our choice of action or escape.<br />
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When driving a car, it is requested to engage the clutch and then accelerate. If you do so, you will have a movement that depends on how hard you are pushing your machine. If you accelerate without clutching a gear, you will have a terrible noise, a shaking of the structure and some surprise of the driver who does not feel the expected motion. Adrenaline causes the same phenomenon in humans: if we learn to use it then it is of invaluable help, otherwise it will only disturb us.<br />
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Now we need to recognize the various manifestations of these rushes in our body. There are five major manifestations of our fears and anxieties that will be related to problematic releases of adrenaline:<br />
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<i>- The anticipation anxiety,</i><br />
<i>- The fear before the confrontation,</i><br />
<i>- The fear during the confrontation</i><br />
<i>- The second dose during the confrontation,</i><br />
<i>- The anxiety following the confrontation.</i><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #e69138;">Through daily pathological anxieties, we release, over long periods of times, small doses of adrenaline without any purpose or specific reason.</span></i></b><br />
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A possible confrontation with the partner, the department head or the "colleagues" at work, causes this anxiety unnecessarily. The more the body gets used to this constant release of adrenaline, the more the person will be tense, agitated and unable to respond to a real emergency situation. The constant stimulation of the system, without reason and without action, is not like a car that accelerates constantly without being clutched, thus burning the engine.<br />
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The compulsive calculation of possible conflicts destructs us and makes our daily life arduous. We'd better fight against situations that really come up, rather than tilting at windmills. Moreover, after a while, this unused energy, stagnant and "heating", will be turned against someone weaker than us in our daily life: a partner, a child or small pet (if we are really weak and pathetic). This sweet release of "poison" must be identified and sublimated not to destroy us.<br />
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This is an anxiety, so it comes from the world of thoughts. It is a work of internal alchemy which begins with Qi Gong.<br />
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When planning a real confrontation, it is normal to be scared. This stimulation prepares us for a reality. Whether a request for an raise, the prospect of a breakup, a fight for one's life or for sport, the feeling will grow until the manifestation of the event.<br />
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This fear may be that of defeat like that of success. This adrenaline rush lasts long enough and becomes useless. It is very difficult not to be the victim of this waiting period, often much worse than what we really expect.<br />
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This is related to the field of "calming the mind", but this represents an advanced level of practice.<br />
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In a conflict situation, and according to our level of knowledge of these phenomenons, we have a wrapping and violent adrenaline rush.<br />
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Depending on our own reality, we will be overwhelmed by the flight of a sparrow or a bayonet fight in the dark night. The more we become intimate with these rushes and situations, the more we live them fully, in a completely relaxed state. The response will be even proper if our intellectual mind is not involved: we are more in an instinctive response which depends directly from an adaptation to our perceptions; the mental compulsive mind there is not welcome here.<br />
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We wil be progressively able to be more familiar with our reactions in a gradual exposure to our fears. Thus we will be more able to respond normally to life, in a typical taoist non-resistance.<br />
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In a conflictual situation with life, we can misjudge it. This mistake may suddenly appear when realizing the confrontation: again we go through a fear of failure or success that will give us a "second round" of sudden release of this natural stimulant.<br />
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Too often ignored by unadventurous scholars in their studies on fear, the second wave can break the achievement of our action. Confident of our abilities, but surprised by how reality turns out, we can be knocked out by this phenomenon.<br />
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A fantastical imagination, nourished with hopes and dreams, may be the cause of the difference between our projections and reality. I love the image of the armchair fighter who actually for the first time on an opponent. He is sure of the immensely destructive power of his iron fist and he is surprised by the absolute lack of results on the guy standing in front of him.<br />
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Imagination and cheap books guaranteed him victory however, but reality is not as attractive. He can be gone strong to battle, with all his illusions, and receive a "second wave" of fear that will freeze him at worst, make him run at best.<br />
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A husband who wants to break-up with his wife can feel self-confident and full of power until the final confrontation where his girlfriend leaves him.<br />
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His universe of decision-maker male may be the source of a memorable adrenalin rush. Exposure to fears will help setting the proper level of response to fear to a pleasant degree for everyday life: This level differs depending on whether one is a dressmaker or a special forces agent.<br />
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After the conflict, a "drawling" release remains and relaxes residual tensions. May the confrontation be a success or not, there is often, in this moment, a violent feeling which concludes the expérience.<br />
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The emotions that will be linked to the happy or unhappy resolution of the confrontation will make this moment easily discernible or not. When we are very pleased with the success of a confrontation, the final corresponding release end can be confused with the emotional signs expressed, but it's here anyway.<br />
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The more the confrontation phase will be unresolved, the more violent the final phase will be. If all steps do not end in a clear resolution, the remnants will be very present and very troublesome.<br />
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<b>How to recognize these manifestations of adrenaline release?</b><br />
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The results a slow rush, ie type 1 of the "anxious", and type 2 , are by far more dangerous and can become chronic. The same symptoms can exist for a bad psychological reaction to type 5, the afetrward rush, it is a state of shock.<br />
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We have four major symptoms:<br />
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<i>- Loss of sleep or disturbed sleep,</i><br />
<i>- Loss of appetite or weight loss,</i><br />
<i>- Depressive syndromes,</i><br />
<i>- High blood pressure and palpitations.</i><br />
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Regarding the violent releases in the confrontation moment, we have five manifestations:<br />
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<i>- An agitation that starts from the heart pumping to shake the whole body (voice included)</i><br />
<i>- A lack of saliva and spontaneous sweat (hands included)</i><br />
<i>- A "tunnel"vision that reduces peripheral vision (useful but dangerous)</i><br />
<i>- A possible nausea or a desire to go to the bathroom,</i><br />
<i>- A distortion of time which may seem longer or shorter.</i><br />
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These are the manifestations listed as the most common in studies on fear and its biochemical process.<br />
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To regain a kind of relaxation in these situations, a more normal way of working, we have three key concepts:<br />
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<i>- To accept by intellectual and experimental understanding of the body mechanisms,</i><br />
<i>- To feel the adrenaline rush without confusing it with weakness,</i><br />
<i>- To use this natural help to "fight or flight" the situation.</i><br />
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<i>Voilà !</i>Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-12338408776743245282016-10-30T10:44:00.002-07:002017-03-28T10:30:25.772-07:00Taoist Immortality<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: symbol;">·<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span>The Way is a vast teaching that takes time to fully explore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: symbol;">·<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span>The idea is to live to one’s maximum potential, whether that be at 66 or 118 years old…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are thus a series of simple guidelines for living long, or at least as long as we can according to our genetics, and especially with the fewest number of inconveniences possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Modern research on this hinges on people who lived longer than others, and there have even been multiyear studies conducted on global populations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They all come down to several simple rules for living as well as possible, as long as possible…and these rules are on all points similar to those of our tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let us examine together these rules for a long life, there are eight in total: three lifestyle, three dietary, and two philosophical and spiritual:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Physical activity and daily awareness are very important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This has nothing to do with fussing about one’s daily activities, it’s physical activity with the intention held on the feelings in one’s body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also important to state that none of the groups of centenarians were involved in sport. The practiced movements were walking, light and daily calisthenics, but not sports in the sense we generally understand it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The difference is that in sports, the body is pushed too far and too hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is good for a while, but the practice of sports as seen by Westerners exhausts the body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Qi Gong exercises are superior for obtaining good and lasting health.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 – Letting Go: Knowing How to Relax Each Day</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a simple rule of balance between work and rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, it is the organizing of spaces for relaxing in one’s schedule…every day. These moments can be brief, but should be increased proportionally to the stress one experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In general, the more we feel stressed, the less we take care of ourselves and our relaxation. This rule demands we do the opposite: the more we are under stress, the more we must endeavour to carve out relaxation periods in our day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This does not require advanced techniques, it’s simply the capacity to sit down and breathe for a few minutes, two to ten times a day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These “lost” minutes allow us to stay healthy, to avoid depression or hating one’s job…in the long term this habit saves us time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one’s practice, this occurs via Shen Gong (meditation) and one’s habits of balancing work and rest.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 – Staying Occupied: Having Enthusiasm for the Wonders of the World</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An honest focus on subjects of one’s choice is what fuels a life of many years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stimulation of one’s nervous system, senses, and intellect permit one to stay young in spirit and in body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boredom is a source of tension and stagnates the energy; it is the source of great stress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enthusiasm is a stimulant for our vital processes, and for our desire to engage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As well, none of the aforementioned groups of centenarians retired in old age. Work and one’s occupations never end; rather they evolve as one ages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By never retiring, we are obligated to adapt how one works, depending on whether we are 20 years old or 90.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the study of a teaching or a tradition, one flourishes in their research into self and the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be busy also means to participate, to go in search for oneself regardless of one’s tradition, as per the eighth rule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In our tradition, the vastness of knowledge to acquire permits one to continue searching for the duration of their life.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 – Drinking: To Stimulate the Body, Seasonal Tonics</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In all centenarian traditions around the world, people take herbal preparations with each seasonal change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within these traditions, we find herbal wines, traditional preparations, and pills for “long life”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seasonal changes are prepared for with the regular inclusion of natural products.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People do not hesitate to take products when they are sick, whereas the smarter move is to take them before the body becomes exhausted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At every seasonal change, it is recommended to take products that can help the system to adapt with the least amount of effort…it’s a little effort to make every three or four months that can have a great effect on one’s health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In our tradition, products to help with seasonal changes come in the form of herbal drops or essential oils.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 – Chewing: Mostly Vegetables, Some Meat</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the practitioner is building their body, it is important to eat of all foods, and not to eat too little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vegetables and fruits should make up the majority of one’s diet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not necessary to follow a strict diet, but reigning things in every three months promotes a relaxed body that does not fatigue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In all studies, the concept of a balanced diet rich in vegetables forms the backbone of a good general health and of an absence of serious illness together with the digestive and excretory systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A healthy proportion of fresh produce obligates one to chew well, and a low amount of meat eases the work for the digestive system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In our tradition, dietary rules and the phases of the Taoist diet follow this principle.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 – Feeling: Not Eating Too Much or Too Late</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One must retire, relaxed, with the digestion completed, or very nearly so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Religions and religious traditions help people to find good values to live well amongst others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Way is an essential part of living well, as it helps one find purpose to their life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One doesn’t need to be spiritual or religious, as sharing with others can be through moral or social means.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sense we have of our lives and our place in the world are two stimuli for a happy longevity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daily practice gives us an understanding of ourselves and of others, in a better perceived reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A belief in values is important, but the ability to share them with likeminded people is equally so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This shared endeavour brings a fraternal ambiance which we can carry our entire lives…a powerful stimulus for longevity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We see that the wisdom of the Taoist clan tradition, based on ancient texts dating back between the 4<sup>th</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup> C, are aligned with these most recent studies (the latest from 2009).</span></div>
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Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-6043577402741694802016-10-14T00:00:00.001-07:002017-03-28T10:27:47.907-07:00Shen Gong: The essence of Bitterness<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5724110107790079481" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 648px;">
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The practice of the knowledge of the mind, the most yang part of training is often seen as an insurmountable obstacle.</div>
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The physical work is a long process, but you only have to repeat gestures with a firm attention and everything falls into place.</div>
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<i>With fierce obstinacy, blockages of the body can not resist a daily practice, </i></div>
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<i>neither can weakness nor fatigue</i></div>
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The energetic training, based on breath and posture, attention and body work, rests on a kinesthetic part that supports attention and sensation.</div>
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In Shen Gong, only the mind and its movements are observed, there is no edge to hang on to.Without leverage, without the ability to force, deprived of our usual cheating methods, the mind is not an easy subject for experimentation.</div>
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In addition, in our "passive-aggressive" resistance, our mind reveals all our tensions, our inconsistencies and our lies: the more we push it, the more we try to escape its control, the more it will show us our personal inconsistencies.</div>
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Thus, the more our lives are paved with egotistical characters, the more we live contrary to our values, the more we try to escape what we know is important, the more our mind will persecute us.</div>
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We will in turn be stuck in a salutary torpor, a headache or a redemptive nausea... Everything is good to not perceive the inconsistencies we implemented for many years.Shen Gong gives direct access to a deep happiness, a meeting with oneself, which will open the "Door of Wonders."</div>
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Let's see some broad guidelines to spend our Shen Gong time doing more r than counting sheep on the carpet or reviewing the groceries list: the Eight Rules of the essence of Bitterness.</div>
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Do not expect anything: This is for fun!</i></span></h4>
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Accepting that we always begin practice for the wrong reason, we must understand that expectation has a special place on the Way (see the text on Expectation).</div>
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It is necessary for the beginning of a sustained practice but it is also the source of our most treacherous blockages .</div>
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It is not possible to drive expectation out of our minds, but it is possible to reposition our attention during the practice of Shen Gong to somewhat escape our expectations.</div>
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Each day, sit for your mind practice with a contract with yourself: "Today I practice for nothing, just for fun ... Tomorrow, I resume the search for a fulfillment that will make me the strongest in the world."</div>
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A little more seriously, sit in a total wantonness, in search of a moment for yourself, only for the pleasure of getting to know yourself better... Without expecting anything.</div>
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It is also interesting to know that nothing will happen if you start with having in mind any success, or the firm will to see lights or shining deities.</div>
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Sit in the appreciation of a luxury that you can afford, to take some time to watch one's mind without purpose, but with a direction (the daily Shen Gong exercise).</div>
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Do not force or want to do well: this is not a competition</h4>
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Watching one's spirit, feeling one's emotions or focusing one's attention is not raising a dead donkey, it's just an observation of our inner workings.</div>
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Unlike body work, a sustained and tense effort will do nothing good.</div>
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The mind requires a firm attention, relaxed and enthusiastic, that must bring a desire to smile in a relaxed manner, not grimace of pain.</div>
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You will not be judged on your performance or your efforts, there is nothing to gain by forcing ... except maybe a headache.</div>
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Do not try to do well or to stay longer than your school brother, instead try to find the pleasure of getting to know yourself.</div>
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Some days it will be difficult to do certain Shen Gong practices, do not resist, but look for other ways to work your mind: there is always a more pleasant to look at one self's thought process.</div>
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Do not bind yourself: a "trick" is not Mental Peace</i></span></h4>
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Each Shen Gong practice should be a single event that repeats every day: none of your practices should be similar, none should be compared or planned.</div>
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It is important to sit in a total openness to the possible experiences, without searching or waiting for an accurate result.</div>
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If a moment is very pleasant, it will pass, if it is very painful, it too shall pass.</div>
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You should not seek to duplicate the experiences or to avoid certain sensations: let go, let go of all expectations and enjoy this unique moment ... daily.</div>
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When you find "tricks", tips to rush your mind work, do not get attached to them, agree to leave as new, without tools.</div>
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Look at your practice as unique and without technique, a moment where nothing else exists other than this great chance to spend some time with yourself.</div>
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The focus should be on the absence of technique, and on the goal of the day (which differs depending on the day).</div>
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Releasing: Motionless Body and Fixed Thoughts</i></span></h4>
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To find a state of mind conducive to the practice of Shen Gong, there is only to set oneself in a held stillness, proper alignment and relaxation due to the comfort of the meditation position.</div>
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On a high chair, a sofa, sometimes laying down (not nap, eh!), the comfort of the body must be the source of its relaxation.</div>
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If the body suffers, in writhing or tension, it is not possible to keep a calm mind.</div>
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Align yourself, push your attention in this immobility and turn your attention to your mental productions: look now, without judging, what happens, then go to your practice of the day.</div>
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This letting go is the base of Shen Gong, the foundation of your temple, the white screen where you project the Manifestation: in this consciousness of Consciousness, still and aligned, you can do anything.</div>
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Accept: Acknowledge your expectations, valorize your Gaps</span></i></h4>
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If you could meet Buddha or Lao Zi, you would not accept being told "you're lucky, today it is in a good mood." No, you expect from the masters to be open and available.</div>
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You have your ideals (whether they are Gandhi, Winne the Pooh, William Munny or Jonas Blane ) of the desired qualities and a minimum fulfillment dream.</div>
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You would not accept a so-called teacher to be moody or biased.</div>
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It is not acceptable for one's hero to be stupid or malleable, weak or whiny.</div>
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You must therefore accept these ideal qualities for yourself.</div>
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You must accept to look for these qualities for yourself, your practice and your life: there is no reason for your ideals to only be fantasies, they are also values.</div>
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You must have an ideal of quality. "It is better to fail in trying to reach too high ideals than to manage to reach too low ideals" (Ali).</div>
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Now that you realize what you really want to aim at, accept to see where you are right now ... Look at the reality of what you need to do, of what needs to change.</div>
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Look your pain in the eyes, the time of behaving like an ostrich is gone: it's time to accept.</div>
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Be indulgent with yourself: you do not need to suffer</i></span></h4>
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We do not recognize the need to feel pain, to suffer for progress. No "no pain, no gain" for us.</div>
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This does not mean that we will not be faced with difficult times in our practice, but only what is necessary for our evolution.</div>
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If you practice every day, you are already in an introspective effort to understand tourself , which is laudable: recognize your values in the same way as you became aware of your faults.</div>
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Do not judge yourself, practice.</div>
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You need a teacher to practice Shen Gong, those who practiced in "free style" will only do an active nap active.</div>
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The mind work is an exploration of the mind where a map (clear concepts) and a guide (competent teacher) are required.</div>
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Missing one or the other, it is not possible to go very far ... really!</div>
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In the sitting practices, the Shen Gong, a myriad of phenomena will manifest. Some are signs of a profound change in the Way, others are silly fabrications of the mind to distract you from the goal.</div>
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Some are more present than others, you know which ones. Do not be fooled, do not look for anything, ask and go in each sitting as the first time.</div>
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Phenomena are real and important, since you perceive them, but their usefulness or their messages may be worthless.</div>
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Take time to enjoy the vision of your mind, to know yourself, and live in an increased relaxation.</div>
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Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-85606383085611999412016-10-08T01:05:00.002-07:002016-10-08T01:05:11.547-07:00Be sober, be vigilant<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1503648238280896345" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 648px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The Ultimate admonishment in Taoism, as in many Traditions of Spiritual evolution, is to stay Attentive, hence the admonishment to "awaken" in some currents.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This is also what is sought in the dream work, an activity in which one seeks to awaken in his dream without actually waking.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">In order to allow the practitioner to always be attentive, be vigilant, we have many aspects of our reality that we want to study : therefore, every perception is associated with a knowledge of our Study .</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">We speak of the "Five Arts of our Study"</span><br /><br /><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">These directing words, these characters, have a special meaning:</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The mountain is the development of human qualities, our work for personal development, which involves the body, breath and mind.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">We want to strengthen the body to survive the training, take root in the earth to accept the vagaries of our evolution and relax to manage our frustrations. These are the three traditional attributes of regulating physical health, stability and relaxation.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The breath work allows us to have a healthy relationship with our emotions and increase our overall vitality.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The exercises in the training of the mind allow us to approach true happiness, to really know and enjoy the immortality of the soul.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This is the action "Mountain", this vital research, but which may enclose ourselves on our little person ... And make us miss the rest of the universe.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The vigilance that we will develop with the understanding of "Destiny" is characterized by the recognition of oneself in others and the awareness of major structures of personalities.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Indeed, by learning the "Eight Pillars of Destiny ", BA ZI, we will identify personality types with specific behaviors to better interact with others.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">If it is almost inevitable for a practitioner to know his Mandate of Heaven, it is also very useful to study this science to understand the people around you .</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The search on personality types is a subject explored by many scientists and psychologists such as the Holland code, the Enneagram, the theory of psychological temperaments of Keirsey, the Kelly directory, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator...</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This knowledge allows us to perceive the teachings of our Way in each recognized behavior : it is a very useful way to stay "awake" and streamline our daily lives.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Divination : under this somewhat esoteric term lies a living reality, the reality of probabilities. The richest teaching on this subject is the Yi Jing .</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The "Book of Simplicity" teaches us the probability of changes based on the analysis of a situation. It is the most important teaching of our tradition.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This binary view of the world, with six levels of complexity, enables us to understand everything and to study everything, it is possible to translate everything in an alternating yin / yang structure. "A practitioner who knows the Yi Jing can not be surprised by changes in the world," he surfs on daily events, in accordance with the laws of nature.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This study has three levels and six aspects: it describes the judgments of the hexagrams, the law of numbers and time and keeps secret the use of Taoist Magic.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">It is also a way of understanding the weather, emotions, close combat or armed conflict...</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">There are no limits to what the Yi Jing can teach, it is a real source of wisdom and understanding of the world. With the study of this book, it is possible to perceive anything with it's yin / yang components and always remain vigilant.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Chinese medicine and Taoist medicine allow us to understand the normal and pathological functions of our organization and to see the similarities with the movements of the universe. This study allows us to see each event in the body the Taoist theories in action, it is monitoring the teaching constantly.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">One that understands the theories of these medicines is already advanced in the mastery of science and Taoist arts : indeed, they are the same associations and relationships that occurs in the other disciplines.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Traditional medicines concede a practical knowledge in the prevention of common diseases and lead to a successful healthy life : a good way to watch one's evolution over the years and live well one's senescence.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The observation has three distinct forms :</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The feng shui "san he" is a study of the visible forms of one's environment, it is the science of the harmony of structures to capture energy as well as possible. It's like raising one's cell phone for better reception, we seek here to develop our environment to be the most receptive to the energy flux: it is the geomancy of ancient times .</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The feng shui "san yuan" focuses on the rhythms and cycles as well as their perceptions. It is understing that the networks are more free at certain times and that it is best to avoid certain times of "rush ". It is the acceptance of natural cycles and the calculation of good dates.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The Mian Xiang, is a reading of faces to find specific psychological types, to read the emotional reactions in order to evaluate them based on the coherence of the discourse and discern certain pathologies on the body and face.</span><br /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The overall Observation is a complete study on developing our world for a better life, an awakening to an awareness of forms and natural cycles, but also an education that allows to perceive others in the light of our practice, or to observe oneself to become aware of certain ignored behaviors.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">That's it for all of the arts of our school that enable us to stay awake, to make us see the world in a Practitioner's aspect and that does not leave room for servile torpor.</span><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">" Be sober, be watchful : your adversary the devil , as a roaring lion, walketh about , seeking whom he may devour . "</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Peter 5:8</span></div>
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Urban Daoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814798095166251812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-72206592371960774772014-02-27T16:23:00.000-08:002014-02-27T16:23:08.504-08:00Doing without tryingIntention plays an important role in the process that leads to a daily Practice.<br />
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Without desire, will or fantasy, it is difficult to go towards a Way or a Practice.<br />
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Indeed, it is through personal research, to "change" that we go towards traditional exercises : for a better health, a certain vision of one's spirituality or even a martial research.<br />
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There is no right or wrong reason, but a conscious reason is a plus when starting on one's way .<br />
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These practical choices are uses of the egotistic mind, necessary to function in the world.<br />
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The choice of the style, of the teacher and of the practice time also depends on the use of the intellect and the mental, sometimes of the analysis.<br />
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But, in meeting a serious teaching, it is very useful, even essential, to know how to free oneself of it all. What was used for a specific action should be abandoned.<br />
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It is the story of the raft to cross the river : we do not keep with ourselves after going through... but yet ...<br />
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It is useful to remember the first few characters of Master Lu in his "100 characters"<br />
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养 气 忘 言 守<br />"Feed the Chi, Forget Talking, Keep"</blockquote>
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What was useful to choose one's Way is often a problem in one's evolution : the mind, the ego, the monkey mind.<br />
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It will manifest itself in various forms, this compulsive mind, but mainly in three main types:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Imagination</li>
<li>Expectation,</li>
<li>Attachment.</li>
</ul>
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The imagination, the mental fabrication fed by knowledge, surmises, plans, and predicts instead of letting us perceive.<br />
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We have an image of "we the practitioner" and we try to impose it to reality instead of letting go. We are thus trying, in a silly way, to project to the world a fantasized image of ourselves. This can not really work and it is all the more frustrating and generating lies, to others and to oneself. We are then blocked by our imagination in our fantasies.<br />
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With the habit of observing one's practice and one's life, we will have to distinguish between reality and imagination, this will allow us to actually enter the Way.<br />
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Expectation, linked to a projection into the future, stiffens us in an early conception of "who we believe to be", our new "spiritual ego". This is obviously related to imagination, but stuck in a future representation.<br />
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We believe that everything will get better in a more or less near future, in a better life that is "going to happen ". We dream of an "improvement ", a transformation or progression, but later... In our minds, this can only happen "later", "when it will be different".<br />
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We can also put back the "serious" practice at a later date, more conducive to it, according to our mental mind.<br />
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However, we can only act in the present, we can only live instants, this idea of the future is an illusion.<br />
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Attachment is linked to the past, it is an unnecessary use of our memory, an inability to "let go" of the past to accommodate new experiences. This is directly related to our ability to grieve, to let go.<br />
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We love what we know, dread what is new... "In case it is not as good as before". We also have a false image of the past, idealized by an ego fleeing the present, this source of it was better before", "I was better before"...<br />
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It is the same illusion as the illusion of the future, but turned towards the past .<br />
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To come back to this image of our self, linked to our attachment or to our expectation, we must surrender. We will seek to strengthen this false identity, to defend it and cherish it. All this will go against the teachings of the Way, but they are human reflexes against which we have to confront ourselves. In this context, there are three illusory choice that we can identify :<br />
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<ul>
<li>Want to do well,</li>
<li>Believing in one's intellect ,</li>
<li>Defending one's mental mind.</li>
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The idea of wanting to do well is dangerous: it gives the illusion of doing what needs to be done, when we are against the current. We are opposed to the idea of "non-resistance", so dear to the Taoists.<br />
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The Way should always be practiced in a clear perspective of one's research : presence , relaxation , perceptions ...<br />
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But wanting to "do well", we are victims of our imagination, forgetting what we are doing in the Way ; we find ourselves as tense as can be, stiffening the teaching. In a little period of time, we practice what we have made of the Practice, which is not really the Way. We interpret, we surmise, we create, imagine and move away from the essential.<br />
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While learning, it is possible to loose oneself in one's own interpretation of the Way, in a creativity that strengths itself in the trust in its intellectual tool. We criticize, change and modify the Practices so that they are not too "disturbing", so that the Way is more comfortable ... the ego is a crafty one!<br />
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With a teaching that goes against one's prejudices, as it should be of any serious Way, the mind will defend itself : we will judge, criticize, discriminate. This "self-defense" of the ego, our strong compulsive thoughts, will relativize what we hear of the Way in order to make the Practice more convenient. This interpretation, often unconscious, is a way to hear what we want, which does not go against one's prejudices .<br />
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Whatever the obstacles, the fact of Practicing, even "wrongly", is already in the idea of the Way. It is important however to consciously look at one's research, discuss with one's teacher, to understand how to evolve. In the comfort of one's productive mental mind, believing in one's deep understanding, locked in irreconcilable prejudices, we remain prostrated in an ignorant stillness, but self-satisfied.<br />
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It is very easy to become a good student in forging a personality that is appealing on the outside, but the work is not that of pleasing or to reinforce one's egotistic state.<br />
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It is possible to downplay oneself, to play on a false modesty and criticize oneself constantly to hide one's enormous ego. This daily activity, semi conscious, enables us to get ourselves accepted by the world. Still officially discreet and modest, the ego knows the profound reality, everything happens inside. In this obvious dichotomy, the discomfort is often palpable and the Way becomes a showdown. It is often easy to see what is true , but always difficult to accept it. To practice the simplicity that we seek, we will have to let our guard down, to agree to show ourselves with our strengths and weaknesses.<br />
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In this new honesty, naked to the world, we can be born again.<br />
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This is the search of the Way, it is the "meeting" with oneself .<br />
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The teacher must know where the student is, if he does not, he can not make him benefit from the information contained in his Way. Old traditions have the answers for the blockages in the Practice. The expression of these solutions goes through the teacher. The teacher can not help unless he knows the concerns of the practitioner. The solution for an easy Practice, is a serious Way and a teacher who is primarily a practitioner with whom you communicate enough... it's simple.<br />
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In the learning phase, in accordance with the advice of the teacher, just follow the teaching.<br />
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Do not try to do well or to try stuff, you just have to do. This requires no judging, no criticizing, not speculating, just practicing.<br />
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It is not necessary to find the logic of the Way, to understand the structure of it, to know the lineage of the Professor... just practice.<br />
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Do not plan, analyze, wait , do not intellectualize, imagine or compare, do not talk, discuss or predict, do not be afraid or worse, have hope ... just practice.<br />
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When you do not know what or how to practice, you just have to go to your teacher.<br />
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The Natural ,自然, is a very interesting concept.<br />
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It is the emergence of what is already there, the realization of what has always been there, the waking of a conscious sleep.<br />
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This Natural has to be trained, it is not completely visible, it takes effort. It is not an accumulation towards an improvement, a progress or a development.<br />
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All these qualities are already there, present, but buried in the huge rubbish of an all powerful ego.<br />
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The Wath is not an accumulation, but eliminating the clutter.<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: red;">"反 者 道 之 动"<br />"Return is the movement of the Dao" </span>says Lao Zi in Chapter 40, it's a return towards the simple.</blockquote>
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The Practice must be the Natural, the Way and the Life must be united.<br />
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The simplicity of the practice is a requirement for the practitioner, this requirement depends on the communication with the teacher and the seriousness of the Way.<br />
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True relaxation, a clear perception and a quiet spirit are the qualities of the Natural.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3970508166511593542.post-27276162001047509062014-01-27T21:24:00.000-08:002014-01-27T21:24:18.079-08:00The changes of the TaoTaoism is an ability to grasp the changes of the world and to blend with them in a "non action" necessary for a certain quality of relaxation.
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The growth, the changes and the decline of phenomena and things, the natural cycles and the principles of creation / destruction , are in the image of the movement of the Tao.<br />
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This movement, Fan反, is a "reversion" , a "return " .<br />
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All that is necessary to know about the movements of the Tao is in Chapter 40.
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This return to the spontaneous and natural, that existed before the attachment to one's self-image, is the Practice.<br />
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反 者 道 之 动,弱者 道 之 用<br />
天下 万物 生于 有,有 生于 无
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Reversion is the movement of Tao<br />
Weakness is the expression of the Tao
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All things under heaven come from the manifested ,<br />
The manifested comes from the unmanifested .</blockquote>
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<span title=""Fan", réversion, mouvement de retour, régression, est similaire dans ce contexte à ce que nous voyons au chapitre 25 :
">"Fan", reversion , return movement, regression, in this context is similar to what we see in Chapter 25:</span><br />
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大 曰 逝</span><br />
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逝 曰 远</span><br />
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远 曰 反</span><br />
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Big therefore moving ( da shi yue )</span><br />
<span title=""Fan", réversion, mouvement de retour, régression, est similaire dans ce contexte à ce que nous voyons au chapitre 25 :
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Moving therefore at the origin ( yue shi yuan)</span><br />
<span title=""Fan", réversion, mouvement de retour, régression, est similaire dans ce contexte à ce que nous voyons au chapitre 25 :
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Antique therefore at the origin ( yue yuan fan)</span></blockquote>
<span title=""Fan", réversion, mouvement de retour, régression, est similaire dans ce contexte à ce que nous voyons au chapitre 25 :
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You should see here a circular motion, endless, whose origin and end are the same.<br />
It is the absence of progression, of addition. It's a search for simplicity, a willingness to do more than just learn.<br />
This return leads back to the natural, what is already present, but demands to resurface .<br /><br />
The movement is a movement of return , not of evolution, in fact of evolution in the returning.<br />
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The fact of adding, of accumulating, can not go in the direction of a simplification.<br />
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The more you search, the more you find there is to search for. <br />
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It's an endless action that projects itself into the future, a linear representation.<br />
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The Return is a circular motion.<br />
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The weakness is that of the bamboo versus the oak, of water versus fire : a relative weakness that is a source of sustainability.<br />
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In chapter 43, it is said "What is soft overcomes what is hard ."<br />
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<span title=""Fan", réversion, mouvement de retour, régression, est similaire dans ce contexte à ce que nous voyons au chapitre 25 :
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天下 之 至柔</span><br />
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驰骋 天下 之至</span><br />
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<span title=""Fan", réversion, mouvement de retour, régression, est similaire dans ce contexte à ce que nous voyons au chapitre 25 :
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Under the sky, what is soft</span><br />
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Dominates what is hard (under Heaven)</span></blockquote>
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This softness and apparent weakness can be found in the combat arts, armed or bare handed, in conflicting human relationships, in life
in general.<br />
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Here, again we find the two terms "Wu " and " You" that we saw in Chapter 1.<br />
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<span title=""Fan", réversion, mouvement de retour, régression, est similaire dans ce contexte à ce que nous voyons au chapitre 25 :
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无: Wu is what is not manifested, the origin of what is.</span><br />
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有: You is what is manifested, what is the domain of the perceptible .</span></blockquote>
<span title=""Fan", réversion, mouvement de retour, régression, est similaire dans ce contexte à ce que nous voyons au chapitre 25 :
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The manifestation takes its source in the "unmanifested absolute" unmanifested . <br />
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The world takes its source in the manifestation of Tao. </span><span avec="" blanc="" ce="" cercle="" deux="" du="" est="" et="" la="" le="" mouvement="" noir="" points="" repr="" sentation="" symbole="" taiji="" tao.="" title="Le Yin prend sa source dans le Yang, l'action dans le mental.
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The Yin has its source in the Yang, the action in the mental mind.<br />
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</span><span title=">The Taiji symbol, the black and white circle with two points, is the representation of the movement of the Tao. <br />
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It is only about 500 years before JC that Zou Yan will shape this figure that we know so well... 1500 years after the beginning of the Yi Jing .<br />
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This representation is only interesting if we see the movement, the "return" of one of the absolute to the other, this dynamic interaction that defines the concepts of yin and yang.<br />
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This spiral, endless and onto itself, may contain this idea of reversion. It evolves and changes, but remains identical to itself, it is a representation of the cycles and changes the world.<br />
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This concise chapter gives us a lot of information on the practice :<br />
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<span avec="" blanc="" ce="" cercle="" deux="" du="" est="" et="" la="" le="" mouvement="" noir="" points="" repr="" sentation="" symbole="" taiji="" tao.="" title="Le Yin prend sa source dans le Yang, l'action dans le mental.
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The Yin has its source in the Yang, the action in the mental mind.<br />
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The study is necessary, but it is not the practice</span><br /><span avec="" blanc="" ce="" cercle="" deux="" du="" est="" et="" la="" le="" mouvement="" noir="" points="" repr="" sentation="" symbole="" taiji="" tao.="" title="Le Yin prend sa source dans le Yang, l'action dans le mental.
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The Yin has its source in the Yang, the action in the mental mind.<br />
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The basics are the most advanced practices</span><br /><span avec="" blanc="" ce="" cercle="" deux="" du="" est="" et="" la="" le="" mouvement="" noir="" points="" repr="" sentation="" symbole="" taiji="" tao.="" title="Le Yin prend sa source dans le Yang, l'action dans le mental.
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The Yin has its source in the Yang, the action in the mental mind.<br />
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Returnning on what is "known" is a perpetual novelty</span><br /><span avec="" blanc="" ce="" cercle="" deux="" du="" est="" et="" la="" le="" mouvement="" noir="" points="" repr="" sentation="" symbole="" taiji="" tao.="" title="Le Yin prend sa source dans le Yang, l'action dans le mental.
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The Yin has its source in the Yang, the action in the mental mind.<br />
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Attentive to life, everything is constantly changing in an idenical nature.</span><br /><span avec="" blanc="" ce="" cercle="" deux="" du="" est="" et="" la="" le="" mouvement="" noir="" points="" repr="" sentation="" symbole="" taiji="" tao.="" title="Le Yin prend sa source dans le Yang, l'action dans le mental.
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The Yin has its source in the Yang, the action in the mental mind.<br />
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The movements and functions of the Tao are the sources of the change and transformations of the phenomena of the world.</span><br /><span avec="" blanc="" ce="" cercle="" deux="" du="" est="" et="" la="" le="" mouvement="" noir="" points="" repr="" sentation="" symbole="" taiji="" tao.="" title="Le Yin prend sa source dans le Yang, l'action dans le mental.
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The Yin has its source in the Yang, the action in the mental mind.<br />
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Understanding this, in an enlightened observation, enables us to unite ourselves to the changes the world in an active non-action.</span></blockquote>
<span avec="" blanc="" ce="" cercle="" deux="" du="" est="" et="" la="" le="" mouvement="" noir="" points="" repr="" sentation="" symbole="" taiji="" tao.="" title="Le Yin prend sa source dans le Yang, l'action dans le mental.
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The Yin has its source in the Yang, the action in the mental mind.<br />
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This understanding refers to the Yi Jing ( the Book of Changes ), the source of the Feng Shui (the geomancy).<br />
<br />This return to the roots is a human attempt to get as close as possible to the Tao without being able to reach it.<br />
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It is not possible to reach as it is in the unmanifested and the human is a manifestation of that.
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As the eye can not see itself, what is created can not understand the creator.<br />
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</span><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">After conception, the human being can only taste the De (德), the manifestation of the Tao and its expression in the world.<br />
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We can not see the true nature of what is not accessible to our understanding, on the contrary we can see its manifestations.<br /><br />
This chapter is a sublimation of the details of Chapters 25, more concise and precise while becoming more nebulous for the non-practicionner.<br />
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A wise man joked : " a non-practitioner has no more to do reading the Daodejing than a Japanese in a course of taijiquan ."<br />
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In the history of mankind, many phenomena have gone to their destruction after their heyday. We find the natural movement of reversion, creation / destruction dear to Lao Zi. <br />
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This is the principle of the natural cycles of our system.<br />
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It is interesting to note that in the Taoist idea of changing phenomena, anyway, everything returns to the source. This return is the reason why we do not want a relationship to time (past and future), but an union with the present. This is the idea of the trip whose purpose is not the destination but getting there. The circular vision of Taoism as compared to the Western linear view.<br />
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Stillness , tranquility, relaxation and non-resistance will enable us to live in harmony with the changing world, to fully enjoy everything that comes in one's life, to return to the source without conflict. This active non-effort allows us to live in harmony with the Tao , unlike the mind that feeds on time and expectations, projections and
questions , doubt and hope.<br />
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The weakness of the Tao is an apparent weakness: it is the concealed strength of water. Nothing is more fluid and seemingly weaker than water. In the techniques of martial arts, if the impact power is needed, the fluidity of movement is the source of the destruction of the enemy. This "natural " flow that is trainable is the power of water.<br />
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Furthermore, water has no form, it adapts to its container, as well as air. If the water is in a cup, it takes the shape of the cup, if the water is in the ocean, it takes the shape of the Earth. The air is the same. Water and air are the yin and yang of Feng Shui (Geomancy which means "Wind and Water" ). The Tao includes this yin and yang.<br />
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We see this in the study of the beginning of chapter 78 :</span><br />
<span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde."><br /></span>
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<span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
天下 莫 柔弱 于 水</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
而 攻坚 强者</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">莫 之 能 胜</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
以其 无 以 易 之</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
Under Heave, nothing is more adaptable and flexible than water</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
However, it erodes the strongest and stiffest</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">Nothing surpasses it for that</span></blockquote>
<span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
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<span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
弱 之 胜 强</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
柔 之 胜 刚</span><br /><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
The flexible surpasses the hard</span><br /><span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
The adaptable surpasses the rigid</span></blockquote>
<span title="Après la conception, l'humain ne peut que goûter le De (德), la manifestation du Tao et son expression au sein du monde.">
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The image of water is ideal to express this aspect of the Dao. If flexibility is important, the concept of adaptability is really the quality that leads to the return, to the simple. In the capacity of relaxation that is necessary to adapt oneself, there is already an beginning of return .<br />
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This is the "De" (manifestation of the Dao ) which is practiced and that points to the Dao, which can not be understood .<br />
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All this is interesting and demand something difficult, but essential : the Practice.<br />
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</span><span title="Tout le monde est d'avis qu'il est préférable d'être détendu, souple et adaptable, mais il est rare de voir des gens qui pratiquent dans ce sens, qui aménagent leur vie dans ce sens.
">Everyone agrees that it is better to be relaxed, flexible and adaptable, but it is rare to see people practicing in this endeavor, which schedule their life in that direction.<br />
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Lao Zi already testifies of this fact in his time... and it remains valid nowadays.<br />
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In the remainder of chapter 78 :</span><br />
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天下 莫 不知</span><br /><span title="Tout le monde est d'avis qu'il est préférable d'être détendu, souple et adaptable, mais il est rare de voir des gens qui pratiquent dans ce sens, qui aménagent leur vie dans ce sens.
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莫能 行</span><br /><br /><span title="Tout le monde est d'avis qu'il est préférable d'être détendu, souple et adaptable, mais il est rare de voir des gens qui pratiquent dans ce sens, qui aménagent leur vie dans ce sens.
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Under Heaven, everyone can understand that</span><br /><span title="Tout le monde est d'avis qu'il est préférable d'être détendu, souple et adaptable, mais il est rare de voir des gens qui pratiquent dans ce sens, qui aménagent leur vie dans ce sens.
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Yet nobody does it practical</span></blockquote>
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Chapter 78 ends with a sentence that contains a theme of Lao Zi :<br />
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正言 若 反</span><br /><br /><span title="Tout le monde est d'avis qu'il est préférable d'être détendu, souple et adaptable, mais il est rare de voir des gens qui pratiquent dans ce sens, qui aménagent leur vie dans ce sens.
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The expressed truth may appear paradoxical</span></blockquote>
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<br />We should not always believe what is expressed and not necessarily doubt either. We must not talk too much and not study too much, but we must acquire knowledge. What is perceived can be false, knowing this we must be attentive with our senses... all this has nothing paradoxical.<br />
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All that is said is consistent if it does not refer to an intellectual understanding, but to an understanding through direct experience, by one's
personal practice .<br />
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This Taoist capacity that aims to blend in with the changes in the world demands for natural qualities to emerge, but they are dormant in every human
being. It is therefore not about winning anything at all !<br />
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