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Hermit way and DaoismFrom: Steven
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2010-04-04 11:34:46
Remote IP: 76.247.140.105
MessageHi SD,
Yeah, I actually OWN this on DVD. It's pretty good.
I'm a hermit at heart, and live the hermit lifestyle
for approximately one month per year in the winter
at a small hermitage in a remote location.
I spend my time doing qigong and alchemical meditation
from the Healing Tao, listening to Michael's CDs, reading
M. Chia's books, reading Daoist texts (i.e. Livia Kohn books)
and magazines (Empty Vessel).
While I'm there, as another practice, I do Zen meditation also . . .
However, as I've tried to argue, it is actually a practice that
came from Daoism originally; and moreover, it is a useful practice
for Daoists to do to supplement the alchemy, in my view.
But even regardless of whether you add that on or not, the
point is that you can be a Daoist hermit instead of a Buddhist one,
so you don't have to do it like the ones in the video do it.
In fact, Alchemical Daoism is--for the most part--a hermit
tradition . . . passed from one hermit to the next over the
centuries, e.g. One Cloud was a hermit!! M. Chia removed the
limitation to the hermit line when he learned it from One Cloud
and decided to spread it to the world, but the hermit way is
very much part of our history.
If you want real acceleration, go and be a hermit and be isolated
for a month and just do practices. The stuff that you've got
buried and didn't even know you had buried starts coming
up; it can get emotionally tough to stay isolated because of that;
but if you can have the courage to remain in isolation and face
your demons, along with doing more practice, then real change happens,
and you don't leave the same person you were when you arrived.
I highly recommend it to *serious* practitioners.
Steven
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