Truly the ways of the Tao are mysterious.
I am amazed at how this proves true so many times. ALmost everyday something amazing happens to me. Meeting people, accomplishing things, learning new knowledge. Just amazing. So wonderful is the magik of the Tao.
Recently our neighborhood has been visited by many Cardinals. Just a small thing but a very beautiful thing to be thankful for. Today I met an elderly woman at my son's baseball game. Turns out I helped her and her husband out in the ...
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A Question
Taoists believe that there are no coincidences. Yet at the same time, there is what I refer to as the "Forest Gump Principle of Philosophy" or- "Shit Happens." That is no predetermination, pre-destined fate etc.
So how do these two ideas relate to each other without creating a contradiction? Or is the idea that something just happens, not a coincidence because it occured out of an all inclusive relation with the Tao? -KurtL April 01 2012 at 4:44 pm
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SHort Nature Poems
The first flowers of spring,
rise around me in a field winter is still near I watch little ants walk across my kitchen floor sad but they must go The dog growled at his own reflection perhaps he is human and saw his true heart A memory danced around the clouds of my mind leaving only the good A small boy watches at the edge of a pond a frog swimming the boy falls in the frog laughed -Kurt L March 06 2012 at 2:27 pm
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A Question??????
Has anyone else ever felt a sense of nausea during qigong? It used to come to me in the beginning. I have not experienced it in a long time but it was something that could be of a concern to a beginner.
One and that 1teacher told me that it was from the body's sudden release of toxins, and that by doing cleansing breathing it would go away and that did seem to help -Kurt L March 06 2012 at 2:18 pm
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Derek Lin Article
I read Derek Lin's article which is an excerpt from his book. I had already had this book recommended to me. I was't disappointed. As an Enlish as a first language speaker, Lin brings a unique clear to understand view to Chinese thoughts and concepts. His use also brings these concepts into the modern American world. So often the interpretation of the ancient tomes are so difficult to understand because of improper understanding of either Chinese terms or American terms. Lin's works skip this. I ...
March 01 2012 at 2:28 pm
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Welcome to new members
Just noticed how many new members we have. I wanted to saw a quick hello and welcome to the community. Please hop in and enjoy. The library is always open and full of great articles. Feel free to blog, through out a thought or a question for an answer, or a question for pondering.
-Kurt L February 26 2012 at 7:12 pm
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Weather Chaos
The weather on the east cost this weekend has really been an example of the chaos and unpredictableness of nature. From sunny skies in the 50's Saturday morning to raging snow 10 minutes and 2 miles later. 40-50 mile per hour winds on Saturday night. Clear skies on Sunday mid 40's. Last week temps in the high 50's. The predictableness of nature lies in its being unpredictable and in that is it cycle. So perfect, so wonderful. It is man's folly to try and predict. If we plan our lives around the prediction ...
February 26 2012 at 7:10 pm
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An Intro
Hello, I am new here and am wondering why no one has posted a blog. I am a crossover from the Abode of the Eternal Tao where I am a regular blogger. I am a long time martial artist (40 years, around) with many years of internal practice Tai Chi Chuan in several styles. I am also an initiated Taoist priest having been so since April of 2001. Hard to believe it has been over 10 years now. Those years have been a long strange trip. Just a short intro to any who may be interested, trying to get a feel ...
February 26 2012 at 7:00 pm
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Nature Award
Tonight I received my highest award ever- from nature. WHile awaiting my students for Tai Chi class, I walked outside of the house where I teach. There standing about 30 feet away were 3 deer. It looked like a doe and two yearlings. The doe set up on me right away. Pawed the ground and faked a charge twice. I did not move. She eyeballed me intently.
I had read and been told that if you can do the form in a herd of deer and not startle them then you have reached mastery. So I figured-why not. ... February 01 2012 at 8:47 pm
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what is the most taoist ______ ???
Hi All,
Taoism was formulated in old China. it was born out of a combination of family...shamanistic...husbantry-farming....martial.. and healing ways. But tao is every place, in every thing and in every time . We study the old Chinese ways to get the more original and pure forms of this way. But one need not go to , study , or practice ways of old Chiina , to be one with tao. We just see this is a good way to learn it. Tai Chi Chuan is a good way to learn the taoist use of yin and ... February 01 2012 at 4:43 am
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Tree qi gong...yin and yang
Hi All,
One of the most powerful ways of the taoist school is the teaching and awareness that all things are ONE. Everything is alike . The trick is to see and understand how two different things are alike in some ways. Take people and trees. It might seem that people and trees have nothing in common. We have skin.. does a tree ? Does a tree " root " , as we try to do in qi gong practices ? The affiars of humans have their roots and branches.. do trees ? We talk of our famiy " tree ... January 27 2012 at 8:34 am
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Nature Lead Living
As modern man has moved further and further away from living with nature, I believe we have lost much. I hear people complain of winter cold. I see it as natures telling us to withdrawl and renew as the bear does in his or her cave. A time for planning what will be done in spring.
I hear people complain of storms and I see nature cleaning up dead wood, washing off the world. We can accept the nature is here and will and cannot be fought. Learn to accept the lessons of nature ... January 24 2012 at 5:04 pm
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new year.. new way..old message
Hi all,
I am often asked: if you could have just ONE book of the taoist way..what one would you pick to teach you ? the I CHING ...tao teh ching... ??? I would pick: "365 tao " by Deng Ming-Dao You pick it up and read it each day..one page a day ( NOTE: reading int he bathroom while n the " pot " is often not so good for the process of the pot !.. reading brings qi up to the head..the pot wants the qi to be down in the lower dan tien..to help the work at hand.. ) . The ... January 06 2012 at 5:37 am
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The Spirit World
After doing some serious sleep chi gung and dream work for the past three nights I realized I might have something to share that may help beginners. For experienced folks it may just help to re-inforce something you too may have realized.
Sometimes we forget something. Certainly when we get in touch with the spirit world whether through meditation, chi gung (especially shen gung) ceremony, ritual, dream work, vision quest, whatever our chosen vehicle is, it can be a wonderful experience. ... January 05 2012 at 8:17 am
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An Intro and a Story
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Kurt Levins, I know big thril, haha and I agree. I will be here regularly. I am glad to say Solala and I have crossed paths and agreed to walk a path togather. Solala has graciously named me as a contributing editior to the EV and I believe I am his first. I have been writing for the EV for several years. I usually write from a perspective of experiencing the Tao in life rather than a theoretical point of view and with that here is a story meant to be explored ...
January 01 2012 at 12:36 pm
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Heart's Dreaming...
There are many doors to enter into...to dream infinite dreaming...
Heart's dreaming is one with LOVE...one with LIFE... Dream from the Heart... Dream vibration of LOVE... We can hear it... We can feel it... Entire our being resonates with it...when we dream from the HEART... HEART is only here and now... HEART does not bring PAST or FUTURE... HEART does not put opinions... When we speak from the HEART...our eyes are wide OPEN...as there is nothing to hide... Can you look into ... January 01 2012 at 5:58 am
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breathe
how amazing to observe...
how deep this conditioning/matrix is... any opinion or expectation we held against others... ripple right back to us! anger resentment judgement breathe... we are not here to wipe out our suffering... we are here to accept our suffering...and transform this shadow to a higher vibration, so that the shadow becomes our gift... acceptance gratitude surrendering to open a portal of universal love/quantum love... which is so different than love that the ... December 24 2011 at 3:28 am
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Winter Solstice
Aloha! It is the time of the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Pancha Ganapati (for Lord Ganesh), Yalda, Saturnalia, and a myriad of other celebrations for when the days are the shortest... and hope for the light is the greatest.
The symbolism in celebration is so clear and wonderful. The ancients took the signs of nature to help us reveal our inner world in such tangible ways. Human nature really hasn't changed all that much from what we can tell in the past several thousand years... ... December 24 2011 at 12:02 am
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Holy Holidays
The time of the winter solstice has been a hugely important time for us human creatures for thousands of years. It is a time when the short dark days/long dark nights of winter begin to transform into the brighter days of spring, tho it's kind of funny to think that way in the midst of winter!
For Dao people this very much ties into the world of yin/yang. Winter is a very yin time of year – dark, cold, more of a time when we want to spend time indoors. This is the time of year that has traditionally ... December 23 2011 at 6:45 pm
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