gravity vs. chi

[Anonymous]

good day,

how does gravity and chi relate to each other?

cheers

daniel

[Anonymous]

From what I can intuit, gravity is like a wire or conduit for chi.
Regardless of whether we think of it as a force or maybe a thermodymanic-curl, or even nonexistent (maybe electromagnetics?), whatever it represents is just a line of force upon which chi travels/etc.

[Anonymous]

humm…

[Anonymous]

seems like i read somewhere earth is the perfect place to develop chi awareness since our gravity field is conducive to this effort
naturally this requires a belief system which includes many issues outside my western indoctrination
what happens to chi when gravity is modified??
like so many, just trying to get a better understanding of the mysteries of chi
thanks

[Anonymous]

maybe in the end it’s like pattabhi jois said “practice, practice, practice, and it’s all coming.” but of course he was Hindu and their belief in faith is stronger than mine

on the other hand the Buddha said, which is more of what i can understand or stand under if you will:

cheers

O monks and wise men, just as a goldsmith would test his gold by burning, cutting and rubbing it, so must you examine my words and accept them, not merely out of reverence for me.

My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience…
My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship.
My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river.
Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.

If you were to follow the Dharma purely out of love for me or because you respect me, I would not accept you as disciple. But if you follow the Dharma because you have yourself experienced its truth, because you understand and act accordingly – only under these conditions have you the right to call yourself a disciple of the Exalted One.
Not to do any evil, to cultivate good, to purify one’s mind, this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
Dhammapada v. 183

[Anonymous]

at the end of the day, daniel, I wouldn’t give belief-systems the time of day; they’re pointless and useless.
Well, kinda…they’re more of a crutch or a prosthetic-limb, yet, when you clear out your mental body, isn’t this akin to regenerating a limb or healing any ideational-handicap?
What’s true is true and what’s false is fun to use as smoke-and-mirrors to make people see the truth, right in their neurological-blindspot.
Making it safe for them to assume that the ta-da of the truth was just an-act rather than the truth it is.
Hopefully making/allowing them to question the true-and-false enough to start feeling for energy rather than thinking about it.

I do like the notion of the importance of having a physical-body in whatever-the-hell gravity is as paramount to chi-awareness…since I got one o’ my own. And since Bruce said it (in the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching bit), I’ll take him at his word. I like the Buddha, but sometimes he says one thing and then another and they aren’t the same thing

[Anonymous]

yeah but aren’t you just replacing with what bruce says
for me one of the hardest things i face is trusting my own experience
i have just recently started asking myself why

cheers

daniel

[Anonymous]

just being kinda ironic; I like Bruce and take some of what he says as the pearls I perceive them as, but you’re right.
Who’s to say the idea about chi-awareness and a gravitational-field isn’t just good-publicity for our current situation? making the most of it rather than pining for the ideal (or taking a “shortcut” and potentially scorching the earth in its wake, so to speak)? Certainly stands out more in the Bhavacakra when they/Buddhists put humans at the top and make heaven out to be a cul-de-sac of distracting-fun that leads to a tragic and inevitable downfall.
I hear you with regards to personal experience; sometimes you gotta pool it with all you can get your hands on and just read the interference-pattern/tea-leaves. Comes down to divining what you can make out from your experiences and others…and then comparing notes; rinse and repeat.
Maybe you should ask yourself why you don’t trust your own experience, or is that what you’re saying?

[Anonymous]

exactly what i’m asking…

thanks

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