even if you are a atheist its hard to go against that...
and the way things are is that there is wuji, which is nothing, and that gives birth to something, which is called taiji, and then taiji returns to wuji, but then it aint as linear as that, because one gives birth as much as the other, and one returns as much as the other but not really, something and nothing are opposite and they are complimentary, and the same thing happen with taiji, taiji is found in the taji tu symbol, the yin yang symbol, where there is opposites that are complimentary,
and if i put that in mathematics symbolism its : 0 = wuji, 1 = taiji, + = yang, - = yin
and thats the way things are, thats the underlying principle "behind" the universe (but its as much behind than in front of)
and from there it creates everything
thats lets say my interpretation or understanding of their cosmology
and from that comes their philosophy, which is about balance and alignment, you need alignment to balance something, you need a center point to balance something from, but you find that center by balancing stuff, again its that interrelationship where one creates the other as much as the other creates one
so the point in taoism is to achieve good health and longevity by balancing yourself
so you are suppose to follow the tao but thats your alignment, its a straight line from you to the tao, from you to the way things are, and the way things are is that they change all the time but that never change, so there is something that always change and something that never change
you align on what never change and you balance on what always change
and that dynamism is what brings good health, because you aint loosing energy around fighting the way things are, you learn to go with them, its the equivalent in martial arts to using your opponents force against him
or on a boat it would be about using the wind, the wind is the way but you dont have to go south if the wind goes south, you can go left and right and if you get good you can even go north but you cant never really go north in a straight line, its always a curve, you cant directly go against the wind
so you dont make up your alignment, thats where the yielding takes place, where you need to observe the way things are, and from there you balance yourself
from there you can shift your weight one way or the other depending on whats going on and use the wind or your opponents strength to your favor
but i our daily modern lives its usually about stress, understanding where it comes from, where its going, and not fight against it but go with it, there is a reason why its there, its energy, its a wind that is suppose to push you forward, but you cant grab someones butt or punch someones face just cause your animal body feels like it, you need to divert that energy into something else, but you cant fight against it its gonna win over your good health, you need to accept it, let it come and redirect it somewhere else, so instead of thinking about not doing something you need to think about doing something else, like if you are trying to stop smoking you need to stop thinking about not smoking, that just creates more stress which makes your craving even worse and then you cant sleep...
you think about putting something else in your mouth, you think about doing something else like exercising,
if you do push ups every time your body tells you to smoke then it might not so easily get incline to ask when you really dont feel like doing push ups, you might not care to hear that part of your brain asking for nicotine, its like Pavlov's dog in behavioral psychology, you reprogram your brain so that everytime you hear a bell you think steak, but in this case you think fuck it, the good of the craving isnt worth the bad of the exercise, unless that is your body starts to ask for endorphin instead and you care to work out so weee, you turn something bad into something good
anyway...
the point of taoism is health, and you get there by following the way and you can more easily find the way in nature, its everywhere, its all around, but you really dont have to be in nature, its just that nature puts you back in place inside your animal body where you need to follow whats around, we still can connect with nature, we still go camping, the less you have the more you are reliant to nature, the more it becomes important to connect with everything around, day and night, pants and animal, the seasons.....because those are survival matter
but then we started using fire and tools and electricity and then we really dont have to connect to survive
even tho we now all connect on the internet around the fire of social networks to share our stories we still have to balance ourself not to loose ourself, the more you have the easier to loose one self
its good to bring it all back to basic, all back to wuji, to 0, to emptiness and let itself being brought back to life from within yourself and up to the sun, balance yourself from nothing to everything, from left to right, from good and bad, from yesterday to tomorrow
the flow is always there, the way, the path...that is the primordial essence of being
and the more you can center around it, the more healthy you become
the less energy you loose fighting against, the more energy you have for your immune system, the better you can digest, the better you can sleep
so the better you can rejuvenate yourself, the universe rejuvenate itself at all time, it is constantly doing so, that is the essence of the wuji-taiji relationship, it holds itself
and yeah i feel like writing about it be cause for me this is good stuff
this is good relationship model, but it took me ten some years to really get it, and i know it aint in there in what i say, its between the lines, and you need to do the work yourself to get there, you aint gonna know much about sex by reading about it, you aint gonna get good on a instrument by reading a book about it, and even then, even if you do it you still have to do it again, and again, and again...
it aint more about knowing then it is about understanding then it is about experiencing, its about all of them in balance, as they say when it come to recording music : "your signal is as good as your weakest link"
i use to be way too much in my head because my upbringing was suggesting that that was the evolved and superior things to due and that sure fucked me up
i ended up isolating myself in my head building walls around my heart and disconnecting from my body until i was ready to kill myself because i had fucking lost balance, i ended up thinking instead of acting because i wanted to figure out something with my head because i believe that the only way to figure something out was by thinking about it, and thats bullshit, meaning doesnt comes from your head more than your feet, its all energy pattern that makes you connect, it makes you connect with something, something we call meaning, and it doesnt matter what part of your body connects with it, its that relationship that we value, that connect in itself, it doesnt matter if you dont know wtf in your head, you just want to feel good, you just want to connect
"there is a light that never goes out"
and now ill talk about god,
what if we would define god as a feeling,
a quality of feeling that happens when we align ourself so good that we receive energy beyond words, we feel immerse with eternal love because we feel so good that we want to share the love around
god is a feeling from the stars, god is the light, the one and true light that goes beyond words, beyond explanation, a light so pure we see god, we see omnibenevolence, omnipotence, omniscience
what if god is simply a quality of feeling that we get all is align so thigh that we feel infinity energy embracing us, making us feel immortal in his arm, what if that energy is simply the universe, the motion of the stars, the motion of the earth, the motion of your body, the motion of your emotion at a moment where everything aligns perfectly well with the whole universe
i think thats how i see god atm, as a quality of feeling, the feeling is personal but the reason behind it is impersonal, and you might get there unconsciously by luck
its just a part of how the way things are
i think that taoism goes beyond that, or at least doesnt center on that, it center on itself, and you can do the same by centering on yourself by letting the dao be within you, by centering yourself around the dao you end up centering yourself around yourself, and "As Above, So Below" the macrocosm of the universe is balanced with the microcosm of yourself, thru duality you let go off duality, you make one with the universe, and you return to wuji
and the way things are is that there is wuji, which is nothing, and that gives birth to something, which is called taiji, and then taiji returns to wuji, but then it aint as linear as that, because one gives birth as much as the other, and one returns as much as the other but not really, something and nothing are opposite and they are complimentary, and the same thing happen with taiji, taiji is found in the taji tu symbol, the yin yang symbol, where there is opposites that are complimentary,
and if i put that in mathematics symbolism its : 0 = wuji, 1 = taiji, + = yang, - = yin
and thats the way things are, thats the underlying principle "behind" the universe (but its as much behind than in front of)
and from there it creates everything
thats lets say my interpretation or understanding of their cosmology
and from that comes their philosophy, which is about balance and alignment, you need alignment to balance something, you need a center point to balance something from, but you find that center by balancing stuff, again its that interrelationship where one creates the other as much as the other creates one
so the point in taoism is to achieve good health and longevity by balancing yourself
so you are suppose to follow the tao but thats your alignment, its a straight line from you to the tao, from you to the way things are, and the way things are is that they change all the time but that never change, so there is something that always change and something that never change
you align on what never change and you balance on what always change
and that dynamism is what brings good health, because you aint loosing energy around fighting the way things are, you learn to go with them, its the equivalent in martial arts to using your opponents force against him
or on a boat it would be about using the wind, the wind is the way but you dont have to go south if the wind goes south, you can go left and right and if you get good you can even go north but you cant never really go north in a straight line, its always a curve, you cant directly go against the wind
so you dont make up your alignment, thats where the yielding takes place, where you need to observe the way things are, and from there you balance yourself
from there you can shift your weight one way or the other depending on whats going on and use the wind or your opponents strength to your favor
but i our daily modern lives its usually about stress, understanding where it comes from, where its going, and not fight against it but go with it, there is a reason why its there, its energy, its a wind that is suppose to push you forward, but you cant grab someones butt or punch someones face just cause your animal body feels like it, you need to divert that energy into something else, but you cant fight against it its gonna win over your good health, you need to accept it, let it come and redirect it somewhere else, so instead of thinking about not doing something you need to think about doing something else, like if you are trying to stop smoking you need to stop thinking about not smoking, that just creates more stress which makes your craving even worse and then you cant sleep...
you think about putting something else in your mouth, you think about doing something else like exercising,
if you do push ups every time your body tells you to smoke then it might not so easily get incline to ask when you really dont feel like doing push ups, you might not care to hear that part of your brain asking for nicotine, its like Pavlov's dog in behavioral psychology, you reprogram your brain so that everytime you hear a bell you think steak, but in this case you think fuck it, the good of the craving isnt worth the bad of the exercise, unless that is your body starts to ask for endorphin instead and you care to work out so weee, you turn something bad into something good
anyway...
the point of taoism is health, and you get there by following the way and you can more easily find the way in nature, its everywhere, its all around, but you really dont have to be in nature, its just that nature puts you back in place inside your animal body where you need to follow whats around, we still can connect with nature, we still go camping, the less you have the more you are reliant to nature, the more it becomes important to connect with everything around, day and night, pants and animal, the seasons.....because those are survival matter
but then we started using fire and tools and electricity and then we really dont have to connect to survive
even tho we now all connect on the internet around the fire of social networks to share our stories we still have to balance ourself not to loose ourself, the more you have the easier to loose one self
its good to bring it all back to basic, all back to wuji, to 0, to emptiness and let itself being brought back to life from within yourself and up to the sun, balance yourself from nothing to everything, from left to right, from good and bad, from yesterday to tomorrow
the flow is always there, the way, the path...that is the primordial essence of being
and the more you can center around it, the more healthy you become
the less energy you loose fighting against, the more energy you have for your immune system, the better you can digest, the better you can sleep
so the better you can rejuvenate yourself, the universe rejuvenate itself at all time, it is constantly doing so, that is the essence of the wuji-taiji relationship, it holds itself
and yeah i feel like writing about it be cause for me this is good stuff
this is good relationship model, but it took me ten some years to really get it, and i know it aint in there in what i say, its between the lines, and you need to do the work yourself to get there, you aint gonna know much about sex by reading about it, you aint gonna get good on a instrument by reading a book about it, and even then, even if you do it you still have to do it again, and again, and again...
it aint more about knowing then it is about understanding then it is about experiencing, its about all of them in balance, as they say when it come to recording music : "your signal is as good as your weakest link"
i use to be way too much in my head because my upbringing was suggesting that that was the evolved and superior things to due and that sure fucked me up
i ended up isolating myself in my head building walls around my heart and disconnecting from my body until i was ready to kill myself because i had fucking lost balance, i ended up thinking instead of acting because i wanted to figure out something with my head because i believe that the only way to figure something out was by thinking about it, and thats bullshit, meaning doesnt comes from your head more than your feet, its all energy pattern that makes you connect, it makes you connect with something, something we call meaning, and it doesnt matter what part of your body connects with it, its that relationship that we value, that connect in itself, it doesnt matter if you dont know wtf in your head, you just want to feel good, you just want to connect
"there is a light that never goes out"
and now ill talk about god,
what if we would define god as a feeling,
a quality of feeling that happens when we align ourself so good that we receive energy beyond words, we feel immerse with eternal love because we feel so good that we want to share the love around
god is a feeling from the stars, god is the light, the one and true light that goes beyond words, beyond explanation, a light so pure we see god, we see omnibenevolence, omnipotence, omniscience
what if god is simply a quality of feeling that we get all is align so thigh that we feel infinity energy embracing us, making us feel immortal in his arm, what if that energy is simply the universe, the motion of the stars, the motion of the earth, the motion of your body, the motion of your emotion at a moment where everything aligns perfectly well with the whole universe
i think thats how i see god atm, as a quality of feeling, the feeling is personal but the reason behind it is impersonal, and you might get there unconsciously by luck
its just a part of how the way things are
i think that taoism goes beyond that, or at least doesnt center on that, it center on itself, and you can do the same by centering on yourself by letting the dao be within you, by centering yourself around the dao you end up centering yourself around yourself, and "As Above, So Below" the macrocosm of the universe is balanced with the microcosm of yourself, thru duality you let go off duality, you make one with the universe, and you return to wuji