When you psychic field force is strong and your vibratory rate is fast, therefore, you will draw only positive situations to you. As these vibrations impact on your energy field they produce either resonance or dissonance in your lower and middle tantiens (psychic power stations) depending on your own vibratory rate at the time. Positive, potentially life-enhancing situations emit quick vibrations. Negative, potentially harmful situations emit slow vibrations. This has an effect on your energy field, which in turn translates into a positive charge that makes something good happen.”īarefoot Doctor's Guide to the Tao: A Spiritual Handbook for the Urban Warrior When you pray, you are praying to the god or goddess within you. Praying is merely a device for realigning the mind, energy, and passion of your local self with the mind, energy and passion of your universal self. Pray to the mountain, pray to the ancestors, pray to the Earth, pray to the Tao (but it won’t listen!), pray to the Great Mother, pray to Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Lakshmi, Siva, pray to the Great Spirit, it makes no difference. Pray to whomever, whatever, and whenever you choose. Fact is whatever terrible thing you may have done, praying will always turn your energy around for the better. Don’t ever be ashamed to pray or feel prevented by thinking yourself unworthy in any way. “When you find yourself in one of those mystical/devotional frames of mind or in am emergency and you feel you want to pray, then pray. Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature If we are to be whole and follow the way of nature, we must pursue the difficult process of embracing the opposites.” Back came the neighbor, this time with more commiserations, only to encounter for the third time the same response, "Who knows what is good or bad?" And once again the farmer's point was well taken, for the following day soldiers came by commandeering for the army and because of his injury, the son was not drafted.Īccording to the Taoists, yang and yin, light and shadow, useful and useless are all different aspects of the whole, and the minute we choose one side and block out the other, we upset nature's balance. He was met with the same observation: "Who knows what is good or bad?" True this time too the next day the farmer's son tried to mount one of the wild horses and fell off, breaking his leg. The neighbor came over again, this time to congratulate the farmer on his windfall. The next day the horse returned, bringing with it a drove of wild horses it had befriended in its wanderings. His neighbor commiserated only to be told, "Who knows what's good or bad?" It was true. The ease with which such opposites may change places is depicted in a Taoist story about a farmer whose horse ran away. If being useful is beneficial, the being useless is also beneficial. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao?Īnd when you make a mistake, you are forgiven.“The Taoists realized that no single concept or value could be considered absolute or superior. He considers those who point out his fault No greater misfortune than having an enemy. No greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, When you realize there is nothing lacking, If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? When the clouds pass, the sun shines through.Ī good scientist has freed himself of concepts She is present, and can welcome all things. Till your mud settles and the water is clear? When you are content to be simply yourself, The author was most definitely an enlightened individual who had tapped into the deeper workings of our world. It’s one of those books that you love, not because it teaches you anything new, but because it articulates that which you know to be true from experience, as all good books do. I’ve heard people say that the book is very much like a Rorschach test, in the sense that it reflects the reader, and his or her own state of mind, more than anything else. It’s a short volume, but dense with wisdom and universal truths. I read the book during a time in my life when the content resonated very deeply with me. In fact, he gave me a copy of it as a gift (the Stephen Mitchell translation, to be exact). I first learned of the Tao Te Ching in 2010 after a strong recommendation from long-time friend.
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