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Jim and His Karma
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 Posted - Mar 24 2006 : 01:00:01 AM
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Alvin, I didn't say that. I did say that I'm guessing it takes about 3 or 4 times the length of the gap to get back. Maybe a little more, though it's hard to tell.
I didn't say - and certainly don't believe - one has to start from scratch. But I'm absolutely sure of one thing: the mud builds up pretty quickly if we're not religiously wiping it away. |
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Alvin Chan
Hong Kong
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Posted - Mar 24 2006 : 06:53:34 AM
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ic. Thanks. I'm just asking, and i didn't mean you said that. Probably you said that in your reply since I don't find that in the first post of that thread.
3 or 4 times. That's not too bad. |
Edited by - Alvin Chan on Mar 24 2006 07:43:13 AM |
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - Mar 24 2006 : 09:51:40 AM
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Ah, sorry, Alvin, I see I misread.
There's one really critical point....I've said it a couple times but it bears repeating: when you stop practicing, and the old conditioning starts to come back, it feels "normal", because all the old ways of feeling and being are so familiar to us. That's in stark contrast to the effect of doing yoga, where every tiny infinitessimal opening brings such unfamiliar feelings.
So we can't go forward too much too fast without feeling overwhelmed and shooken up. But we can back slide very far indeed without hardly even noticing. It's like a ratchet wrench, and it's a dangerous and precarious thing. If you slack up in your practice, you can slide much much further back than you'd ever imagine without hardly even realizing. And you sure don't slide forward with the same speed and ease! |
Edited by - Jim and His Karma on Mar 26 2006 11:55:02 AM |
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Alvin Chan
Hong Kong
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Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 08:36:54 AM
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um...It makes sense. Thanks, Jim.
Jim, I know you had been trying many different practices before, may be on and off, and completely off now. Do you think you have wasted your time? (because their effects, if different from the AYP you're doing now, should go away already)
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 11:56:33 AM
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Alvin Chan
Hong Kong
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Posted - Mar 27 2006 : 01:14:55 AM
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But can be better used. That's what we usually mean by "time wasted".
ok, this is all just sematic. What I mean is: are there anything left on you that is due to, and can only be due to(rather than something which you will come to sooner or later without those practices) those practices?
I am especially interested to know what you gained (and still have) by practising the microcosmic orbit, since this is a practice originated in my home country China. |
Edited by - Alvin Chan on Mar 27 2006 05:15:17 AM |
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