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My own journal entryFrom: Rainbowbear
Subject: General
Date/Time 2008-07-19 14:11:54
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Messagere my last entry regarding the micro-cosmic practise.
I think I stated that I had no teachers ....wrong actually, I have lots of those just no masters except one and that one is inside/outside/beyond. And I guess that is the way it is supposed to be.
However I did not give respect to one of my most trusted teachers .... he stands back, he told me he knew what I was trying to do, told me that I could kill myself doing it, but he just readjusts me and lets me go. Watches from a distance. Never forgets. He is so in the background I forgot what an influence he has had on me for in actual fact he has never hurt me, emotionally nor psychologically. He encourages me thru all my stages. When i told him I am working on losing weight for what I want to develop to .....he said ...it'll come off, it is just weight. And it is so. I think we have a tendency to remember a lot of the "bad" stuff. When we get in to a "pissy" mood especially. In his giving of gifts to me the most precious is his sharing of his spirit. I just want to thank him for that. Funny thing, he is Chinese and a man. But what he does, what he practices, is the greatest art of heart. And not many people recognize it as that. It is sad. I just wanted to put down that I remember him, that I trust him, that I respect him.
I guess too, he does not need money so there is no loss of integrity for the gaining of it. In fact he gives of his own money to train others. So I guess perhaps that is something teachers can look at. How much does their gaining a living by teaching harm their own integrity and morality. And are they truly living the Tao. What they give comes back.
Funny thing is, I cannot give to this Master of his art in a material way because he has all of that. I can only give to him what he has given to me....faith and trust...in myself. And respect...in myself. You see it does happen and can happen, but the teacher must be it to teach it.
Just a note to someone and to me.
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