Knowledge?

The National Enquirer magazine is the periphery,
ABC is the periphery,
BBC and CBC are the periphery,
Encyclopediae are the periphery,
The internet is the periphery,
The Bible is the periphery,
The Kybalion, Sepher Yetzirah and the Emerald Tablets are the periphery,
OM MANI PADME UM is the periphery,
Look elsewhere...

Knowledge is the periphery,
Mr. or Mrs. [insert your name here] is the periphery,
The thought which just crossed your mind is the periphery,
The thought that didn't cross your mind is also the periphery,
"Not to Be" and 'Want to Be' are the periphery,
Your mind is the periphery,
"All That is" is mostly the periphery,
Look elsewhere...

Whoa!  No kidding!  I am an Usui Reiki and Karuna Reiki Master myself, and I know that having studied these methods has enriched my life to a great extent... what the eyes can't see the hands know and will show. 

When I go to the bookstore part of my method for choosing the correct-for-me book is to hold it in my left hand for a few moments.  If my hand begins to pulse this is an indication that it's a good choice.  I noticed this for the first time just after my Reiki I initiation almost 10 years ago.  The book was [i]Bringers of the Dawn[/] by Barbara Marciniack, and my hands weren't just pulsing, they were throbbing!

I just have to share this with you Torarota--my mate, the man I live with, loves to watch me "go to work" in the produce department of the grocery store, he stands there just 'a smilin' watching me, <blush> he thinks it's adorable to watch me touch the fruit (Shhhhweeet, huh?), and he never rushes me along in this process... I'm such a doddler in a grocery store, it's my "toy box". 

Maybe I should explain "toy box."  Cooking is one of my crafts, I was a professional cook for ten years and now have my own little Personal Chef business, though it's not thriving , I don't have to worry about its survival because I don't work out of a store front.  Anyway--I'm an apple pie maker from way back, I couldn't even begin to guess how many apples have passed through my hands... and maybe I'm bragging a little here , but I've even won a Blue Ribbon for my Apple Macadamia Nut Pie.

I truly believe a meal made with loving energy is a meal that may taste the same as one made otherwise, but one made otherwise won't do for your body and soul what one made with love does. 

I find myself wanting to quickly add here for those who aren't Reiki folk--I don't think one has to be a Reiki practioner to instill a little lovin' into a dish of food.  It's about the energy, not necessarily the title. Reiki is a particularly focused form of healing energy, given the use of so many different symbols... it has its place, but not to the extent of discounting innate loving care.

What's chamomile? I'd check it right now but I'm about to fall asleep...and why not have a friend do the work for me?? hehe, just kidding (or am i...)

Does Yoga really stems from Qigong?

I guess we'll only know for sure when I can get Ark to ask this question. Hehe. Or when I make a trillion dollars I can make it public that I'll pay a hefty reward for anyone who opens up communication with 6D STO...

Humour aside, yoga and tai-chi, etc are all stemmed from eastern-technology. This is very interesting as it means that it is the only thing I know of that has survived (even if fractionally) the Iron Age. No one really knows when Qigong truly started. Whatever is said is speculation and not fact. Qigong comes from Lemuria, in my opinion anyway. Qigong methodology is advanced and erases the illusion of death from disease being such a common annoyance. It's rubbish when you realize that the human-body is a power-house. A little retro-virus is going to end US? Give me a break. The day I see a Qigong practioner die from Cancer, is the day I throw in the towel. Remain vigilant people because our food is chemicalized, our milk filled with hormones (with everlasting compound residue) and from what Stuart Wilde says, we got ghouls crawling up our arses! Vigilance indeed!

Of course we have to keep our sense of humour.

Not to throw the babe with the bath, I'll have a look at the website.  Rosicrucian's teaching meditation on a website, that should be interesting.

The idea in a nutshell is to concentrate on the object, concept etc. It works better if you are able to see it as an energy-point rather than having it floating around in your mind(which is not concentration then!).
The second part is, with the same focus point, to contemplate it and look at whatever comes to your mind, not interpreting it if possible but just try to get the gist of it. He explains it a lot better actually.

Do you see contemplation as inner listening or as something else?

You HAVE to fish to EAT, to LIVE. In a lake like our little blue-marble earth, there are many fish of all sorts. We chew and learn. We discipline ourselves not to swallow that which doesn't taste right. Once we notice that there's something in the water, we realize that many people around us who are fishing are eating worms and not even fish. We try to tell them that their eating worms but they look up at us with a worm sliming into their mouths like long spaghetti and a dumbfounded look on their faces, and we sigh.

If meditation on a subject is boring, reflect. If you do not meditate your mind, then meditate your body. How? Yes, breathing. However make sure you are not breathing from your chest as commonly done in western culture. Breath from your dan-tien, which is right below your navel. It is the power-center of your entire body. Qigong is basically stretching, with focus on breathing on certain postures, and then exhaling back at regular stance to release toxins. By releasing toxins, the body alleviates and amplifies the immune system and the Qi-flow (vital energy) flows smoother.

Even if you don't get into Qigong, try to breath from your stomache instead of your chest. Long-term effects of changing this "habit" range from alleviating the "tense" qualities that many of us share to better sleep-cycles.

Why not? The link of stuart wilde that Montalk gave me (www.stuartwilde.com) refers to Yoga (stems from Qigong) as harmful in many aspects. However they bring up ideas of "ghouls" which still needs to be discussed, so be vigilant.

I'm not familiar with that technique. Just did a search on Max Heindel and couldn't find info on the particular method he recommends. Could you please give me a link or a summary of his method?

That's like saying all the fish we could ever eat are in the lake. Even if we own the lake, we still have to find bait, put it on a hook, and cast it into the lake until a fish bites.

   
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Tom!  When you went with this fish analogy had you read my last  post on Orbit Alert?  Is this the biggest synchronicity I've ever experienced, or not?  Naw, you had to of read it.

On a lighter, and way funny note (and not meant to desist the relativity of what you write in your post)--I was once ocean fishing and we got over a school of fish, and believe it or not they were just flying into the boat!  It was the most hilarious thing for us to see and deal with, as you may imagine, but I'm sure not so for the fish.  Now there's a big difference in size between a fish bucket and even a very  small boat, but what you wrote made me laugh and I just had to share this.