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Re: Trip to ChinaFrom: Rainbowbear
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-12-26 15:14:53
Remote IP: 24.70.95.205
MessageThank you so much for your sensitive reply. I do get a little defensive on certain things. I am so very careful of putting my well earned money into the hands of anyone designing tours for specific purposes. As I said before when I went to China to train taiji it was not the most pleasant experience I have ever had. I was an outcast from the group to begin with however the whole itinerary was not one conducive to my dreams. Competition and business luncheons just were not my intention when I went there. And being highly intuitive I knew what was going on, which made the whole situation worse. Not so good. Now I am a bit more seasoned and I can put up with those things a little easier as long as I get what I come for. It is okay. I guess, for me ... a lot has opened up lately and a lot of questions have been answered for me. Spirituality is always strong in me, always has been .. however I have learned that if one just provides an opening spiritual learnings come to you for your best interest. Now with energy shifts that have happened over this year and energetic "wars" so to speak that have happened on other levels ... it is okay. Things will open up more easily than ever for people. So I just don't think it is in my best interest at this time to spend time on things that have already happened or will happen on their own. For me ... my most sacred, spriitual place is inside my heart and whether I am in China or in a sacred cave doesn't matter. That connection is there. But I love the energy in China. It is so "full" and it is so "giving". I am in another world when I go there. So happy. That is why I yearn to go back ... to me it is like home. And now as I reach an older age I require movement, lot of it due to who and what I am. So that is for me. No disrespect to Michael. I am so very sure he has the most awesome tour. However for $900 US we can train/stay/eat for a month in a temple/hotel. Four star hotels have never interested me. Not even in my homeland. I would rather tent. And in China, what is the sense of staying in a four star hotel, what experience does that give one.
For the next 4 months I begin my training at home. A good diet, which I have learned about thru this website and confirmed by others, lots of physical training and spiritual training ... every day. That way I can go and learn the forms I want to learn and bring them back home with me where I can practise them every day without fear of offending anyone. I can dance with the energy any time. And that is what gives me great joy. So many times the teachers here in Canada do not want you to use their form unless you are "a registered teacher", unless you are a "registered student" ... so basically I just retreated from all of that, dropped what I have already learned and I am very excited to go to China and learn something new. And it doesn't have to be "traditional". It just has to resemble that if they choose not to give me the true form. For I know also that the Chinese guard the true forms and only teach "changed" or "adapted" forms to foreigners. But that is okay. As long as when I see the form, if it has in it what I require than that is just awesome. I want to dance with earth and heaven, I want to learn a sword form and be as leaves on the wind. That is all I have ever wanted in this and for some reason so many others who have taught me have other intentions. For me to teach, for me to clean their toilets, for me to make them money or a namesake. Which okay, that is not a problem,is long as I am being taught. But honey, I know when I am being taught and when I am not. So in that way I would say the last 2 years of my taiji training .... I was not taught. Well that is what is behind all of this. And that is basically why I am not interested in entering spiritual caves. I have my (our) ascended masters whom I transmit with and they have taught me lots. And as we open our hearts we will know just as the emperor penguins know ... how to swim in the ocean without every having done it before in this lifetime. It is an ancient knowing, and that is what all of the qigong is ... we just have to remember that is all. No one person has that secret ... we all have it ... inside each and every one of us. And that is why I get so damn angry at people who insist it has to be done their way. Each way is different. And the way is so simple. But in this life it seems it has to be complicated and so damn expensive. That is so untrue.
Life has taught me with very hard lessons because I am very stubborn, but when I asked, the lessons were adapted and with more grace. So well, now....it is just the physical I want for training. The rest comes with life.
Rainbows!
I would like to meet you some day .... it sounds like you are very experienced in the arts. I respect that greatly.
Karen
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