History Lessons

I once wrote: the facts of history are not as important as the lessons of how we relate to the stories of history.

Any and all conflict based on history... is a conflict based on lies and is a huge waste of time.

All history has lies within it, To base life purely upon historical context is to live ass backwards.

A very basic lesson of Taoism is : Life now and History then are two separate stories.

Generally speaking when within conflict and a person/leader/media brings up history to cite and justify a cause: Then with 100% certainty this is done to stir up emotions and perceptions to purposefully use history to create conflict for personal gain.

To gain inner peace, To promote world peace... then a quick history lesson is this:

Drop the history lessons and make life now what it needs to be

However, as most people desire some history... then discover a personal history, hold it close to the heart... but you dont need to validate it by pushing it outward for some universal recognition of truth. The universe doesn't care as the universe has already moved onward to the next event. The real universal truth is once you share any history... chances are you will also discover conflict due to differences in the story...

This is the base reason why so many people in academia are always fighting...

Human History is a personal choice of values to embrace, not some universal truth of what happened.

So learn to value life for life rather than stories that fade with time.

Namaste

The nature of impossible

Once you figure out the trick of doing one impossible thing...  

all else becomes potentially possible...

more importantly

No tricks are ever required to explore potential.

Namaste

Formless Practice of "Pu"

Practice is a very very interesting topic. More so than people give it credit for.  

When I started the Awakening Dragon Taoism School I had a Dilemma of how to teach Practices.

Most people when they teach a practice: you start with a form and you practice within the form over and over again until you get the form perfect and then you can move on ...

I find that to be too restrictive. TO concentrate so much on forms... can blind a person to variations and personal angles that could be of greater benefit...

Instead I teach practices in a "meta" sense. I teach everything that goes around the practice but not the form. Hence I teach a formless practice. I work with each student and I use their own life as the form to fit the practice within.

Do you see the difference?

Most people learn a practice so they can change their shape to fit the practice

I teach Taoist practices to fit within the shape and form of each student!

It's a vastly different way of teaching. Yet when teaching a student it always fits like a glove as then the practice will always fit to their life fully.

Now this isn't for everyone. In fact more people than not do better with form based practices. Its less work and keeps a person very busy. Formless practice doesn't work for very literal people needing precise and very sharp definitions.

But formless practices are great for rebels, for people that don't fit in anywhere else becuase they are so strongly their own person, or for those seeking how everything connects together but in a non literal and relaxed manner.

It took me years to ponder and develop a very simple concept of how to embrace practice... not as practice but simple as "________" or "Pu", formless yet full, that is enough to assist students discover and fill the empty space which defines us each. To teach a practice that enhances a person's form but doesnt define them as the practice.

That is Formless Practice. How to implement "Pu" "the uncarved block" as a full practice

To be within full potential and explore all potentials that as a person we each can represent.


Namaste

Expectation Lost

A point to ponder is this: 

People project way too much expectation  

Free yourself, project out hope nary any expectation  

If this is done, then life becomes freedom 

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Ok what I say above will make sense to some and not sense to others. Let me add this following bit to give an angle towards what this can mean. (several distinct results exist, but I will show only one tonight)

Having reviewed countless paths. I have no intention of going down what is tired, bored and done: way over done already.

That is the problem many face when building up their business or life. That it becomes a process of pandering to expectation to get support. The trouble is all the support comes with the price tag of expectations and how it's been done already. Which then leads a person in turn to being shaped by that very same expectation and end results...

In terms of potential... that's a very limited path.

For instance when I walked the streets I saw countless street preachers, people trying to literally become Jesus to save others. In doing so, they sacrificed themselves to make that dream come true. The expectations shaped them and then destroyed them in the same fell swoop.

If this sounds extreme, I use it to make a point. Countless other examples exist. Look around to find other examples you have seen and compare results (and towards both good and bad endings).


The point... don't follow a path, make a path free of expectation. If you do this then it does open up new potential, and more importantly in being fresh... defines new hope.

So many people are losing hope right now... when right now I see more hope than ever before. Because now is the time to be new :) becuase so much potential is to be had... once you shake loose the expectation shackles...

Namaste

The Impossible

For a few students, here is something to chew upon... 

In Taoism 

Once you learn your first impossible trick.  

All else becomes possible  


However, Lewis Carol sums it up nicely:

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.

"Can't you?" the queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Back to basics. Everything you need is present.

Just be
open to potential
work your form into the possibility
you accept yourself to be.

Namaste

The Absurdity of Fox News

It seems that  

Fox news is what people would call UnAmerican, since it seems to be against free speech  

On the surface it might seem strange that people waste their time watching Fox news... but then again seemingly some human behavior isn't about what makes sense, but rather about exploring what can be best call: the absurdity of life.

In my opinion, very little is more absurd than Fox news, so I guess they will be around for a long long time since no one currently does absurd better than Fox News. They are meeting market demand of what people ask to see. Fox News could be called the News flagship of capitalism at work... Don't report the news, report what it's controllers want to sell...

“There's a sucker born every minute”. P.T. Barnum

Funny! What a circus Fox News really is in the finest tradition of PT Barnum.

To those who watch the circus of Fox News, I wonder if they ever ask:

What is the price of admission to Fox News?

I would opine that it's:

Giving up your freedom of belief

Namaste

PS

I should add

My opinion about Fox also covers CNN, CNBC and every major news outlet right now. It's just that Fox defines absurd better than any other news outlet.