The Tao Letter

Quoting from this month's Astronomy magazine ( a large distribution serious mag. ).

"all planets have a bizarre numerical connection with Earth, and with 1/8th of a circle, which is 45°, or half of a right angle. Check it out:
During precisely one Earth year, each planet performs a certain number of spins on its axis, and then rotates a further additional angle which is always very nearly a multiple of 45°."

Check out the entire excerpt from the article here,
and the site which this rule's discoverer created with all the details. He calls it 'The Half Right Angle Rule'

It's a little hard to believe that the rotation periods for all the planets are known with such exactness. But the conclusion is clear, although I admit I did not check the guy's figures. Presumably there are complete running programs to do this sort of thing.

All our celestial neighbors are synchronized in their rotations, both on their own axis and around the bodies they orbit ( within a degree or 2).

Now the interesting questions are: 'Are the small remainders or offsets from the perfect 1/4 rotation changing over time? Is there some ideal arrangement that they all tend towards or are bound by?

G. Gurdjieff wrote strong warnings about something similar in 'All and Everything' before WW2.
In chapter XLV (45) entitled '`In the opinion of Beelzebub, man's extraction of electricity from nature and it's destruction during it's use is one of the chief causes of the shortening of the life of man." he describes a link between the use of electricity (the Romans had lead acid batteries) man's inevitabley deteriorating state as a result of cosmic desynchronization.

If all these planets have to stay in sync, we may be having effects beyond or local Global Warming. What does it do to our spin when the glaciers melt?, Antarctica melts? What about the 3 rivers gorge dam that tilts the earth with the water it holds back.

Gurjieff's warning is this. The falling water that is made into electricity never returns it's gravitational potential to the earth's rotation. The energy extracted is lost from the system.
Where is that energy being made up? G.s answer is no less disquieting today than it was in 1949. By the energy human's release when they die. And the more electricity we use, the more dieing there is. And it's true, electricity is what makes real high density possible. It's really just the other view. The more sinister part of G.'s story is that we have already taken Mars with us. It's atmosphere destroyed by greedy foolishness on earth ( we have been at this planetary destruction game for a while in his view).

My guess is the 1/4 rotation rule needs to look at comets and the lengths of their years.

The absolute complete synchronization of every movement of every object is reassuring in a way. But put's one on ones toes regarding upsetting what is described as an incredible harmony of the spheres.

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May 11, 2010

Wang Liping Teaching Openly - Why is this important?

Daoism (Taoism) and the transmission of Daoist practice has been shrouded in secrecy throughout it's 2500 year history. The classics record that the Dao is not hidden from humanity, but that humanity has hidden itself from the Dao. Conceptual thinking and study are not the Way, nor the way to reach the Dao. Only by dropping ideas about the Dao can one reach it.

Upon meeting Wang Liping, doubts about the veracity of the teachings and the living nature of the Dao fall away. Effortlessly, without displaying power, this man transmits the core teachings. Questions are answered without being asked. Realization comes without searching. How could it be clearer?

He knows you and you know it. Not the you of street and family, but the you of yourself. The hidden, invisible you you hide from the world. Nothing is invisible to one who's eyes are open.

So it's important because it is a change in protocol. A change in the manifestation of the Dao? This has not been seen before. Certainly there have been supposed masters who have tried to reveal the Dao and it's secrets in the past 2 centuries. There are the qigong masters who manipulate chi for their own profit. Some may actually help medically and perhaps even with longevity techniques but most care ( or know ) little about the real effects of what they do an teach. This is something entirely different.

Significantly more difficult of approach since it involves 'not doing', something enormously more difficult that learning a minor technique of qi adjustment or tuning or mere manipulation.

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April 27, 2010

Wang Liping, Daoist Dragon Gate Sect Lineage Holder now teaching openly

It was just a little over two years ago when David Verdesi ( also known as David Shen ) brought a small group of his students, 12 in all to Dalian China to spend an incredible 10 days in front of this modern Taoist Wizard. This was a seminal experience for me, and for everyone present. This man is a living master in every sense of the word, not in the degraded sense in which it is so often misused in the West.

David had explained before hand that to fully absorb his teaching already required a foundation of practice beyond most modern people. Conceptualization, impatience and unrealistic expectations are major stumbling blocks. David had been studying with WLP for three full years prior to his inviting this small group of his students to share his experience

The experience was at once uncomfortable ( to be kind, it was actually excruciating ) for reasons explained below, and inspirational in a way difficult to convey in words. One part of the teaching and meditative experience is the master's application of 'ya li' ( my pin yin sucks ) or 'pressure'. No matter what your meditative practice was prior to that experience, you could not be prepared for this.

The practice was more like a military drill than what one might expect sitting in front of a Taoist Master. There was brief theory, some illustration and a few questions translated by the translator ( possibly the local communist cadre keeping an eye on things ), and then - into quiet sitting, following orders. Simple obedience is a big thing, and absolutely motionless sitting for 45-50 minutes a strict requirement. And, after a few minutes of 'settling', the pain begins. The Master's pressure has the immediate effect of pushing the chi down into the legs, and if they are not already numb, numbness is the best you can hope for. The sensation is definitely of pressure, like the sky pushing down on some inner part of you. With a brief warning he would 'turn up the pressure', small increments at a time until it was a second by second experience to stand against it. No way to fall into inattention or drowsiness, but a continuous act of will not to 'break'. In the closing minutes, again with a spoken warning, and the end in sight, again he would up the pressure, creating a sensation for me like my legs were about to explode, the meridians splattered over my companions in the room. And then, the awaited words 'practice over', and instantly the pressure would disappear as if it was a simply imagination. The most amazing thing of all. In 30 seconds, you were longing for that something, caring torture from the Master, to return.

A few weeks later I was able to experience the true force of this field effect myself. I was staying a nearby apartment building 500 meters or so from where WLP and David were having a private session. I knew of the timing of these sessions and usually took that time to do some quiet sitting myself. On several occasions I was also subjected to the 'pressure' even at that distance. I could accurately report to David whether the session had involved sitting and the application of this field, including an estimate of the amount of force applied. I expect the intensity of the force was significantly greater for David's benefit, perhaps making it easier for me to detect.

I'm writing publicly about this now (April 2010) only because recently, WLP's students in the US (Atlanta Georgia) have published a web site, http://www.laoziacademy.us/ complete with registration for upcoming workshops with WLP ( register online for $3700 US) and incredibly, pictures, and where, well, on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3230215&id=267557887607&fbid=267570012607

This is the man himself, demonstrating tree practice since it's daytime. The practice itself is generally done at night, when the trees are exhaling, not inhaling.

There are also websites, blogs with public and student comments and instruction and inspirational teaching from his senior students, YouTube Videos and all the modern social media wonders.

Fabulous, really fabulous.

James

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