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The Longest Road

11/21/2020

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"Never underestimate the long-term consequences of your actions. For as long as the mind has the obscurration of grasping at an inherently existing “me”, then there will be karma. No matter how far on the path one is, no matter how realised one is, no matter how many miraculous powers one has attained, for as long as there is even a subtle trace of this obscurration, karma is there.

That is why Padmasambhava, an enlightened being not even affected by it, had skilfully told ordinary beings, 'My realization is higher than the sky, but my observance of karma is finer than grains of flour.'”
~ Chamtrul Rinpoche


I have been going to back to the basics and working on the subtleties of Taiji form.  I feel like a rank beginner.  What seems so simple is in reality very deep and profound.  The more we refine, the clearer the energetic presence, the deeper the healing.  By going deeper in Taiji we get closer and closer to Wuji.  But it is work.  It is work that is basically never done.  It takes time and practice.  And it takes beginner's mind, which of course takes work.

In time we discover something that has been there all along but hidden so well.  It is a coming together of familiar existences, a remembering if you will.  But what happens at these deeper levels of energy work is hard to express adequately.  However, the more it happens the easier it is to access, to remember, to engage at will regardless of where we are, what we are doing.  As Erle Montaigue once said, we practice Taiji so we can always do Taiji, even when we aren't doing Taiji.  So, like Padmasmbhava sifting through fine grains of karma, we can always look closer, go deeper, walk the long road.
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