How the Tao comes through

What a straightforward (as it gets) ancient text on Chinese philosophy and appreciated commentary by Jung comparing the East to the West with guidance of how to approach the East as a Westerner and explanation for what exactly is the Golden Flower, the Christ, the image of psyche as singularity. The breadth of life within the microcosmic orbit (although not called as such here) from Mantak Chia does, I think, originate here (though these are exerpts from other texts with some scraps of their own thrown in over time). Thounsands of years of wisdom. I think there is a feeling in the Western scientific mind that as time goes on, we let go of more primitive things. Everything gets disproven in time, we go with the most current and forget that our thesis is that it too then will soon be of no value, will be replaced by something else altogether soon enough. And so sometimes old things get burried and overlooked. For example, the I Ching in China. Most contemporary Chinese people see the I Ching as nonesensical language, fortune cookie material, future telling bologna when that is a gross misunderstanding of the purpose and the synchronisity of physical and psychic realities which it shows if approached in the right way. The best translation of the I Ching was also done by this same man, Richard Wilhelm, to whom Jung writes towards the end may have been the man from whom Jung received more from than any other man. We too now ( do) have the priviledge of benefiting from his work.

Finally, much of the Taoist lifeforce energy work has to do (for a man) with semen/ejaculate retention…which I have found to be powerful and track my progress in on one of my goals pages.

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