CycleCoach wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 2:03 pm
Why did I say spiritual?
Because you said this:
Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:17 pm
All I know as a feeling and as an imperative within me is we are a product of imbalance, a product of a universal dichotomy, that may be temporary, caused by the big bang, that in our terms will take an infinite amount of time to re-achieve balance. Within that universe every small part of it including us as individuals desires that balance but cannot resist exploring the imbalances - we follow our path (tao) of our own making until balance is achieved at death. Perhaps the universe achieves its own balance eventually in its own death.
What I 'm referring to isn't anything to do with religion, it's to do with the need in all of us for "something." With me it's sport - for other people it is whatever their own thing is.
I have no *need* for this, it just happened, a combination or what I learned from training in a Taoist art, it is not taught in words, it just becomes obvious. This creates the interest so you then explore the literature. If you do that first before you understand internally it will make no sense, in many ways the literature is like Zen Koans, without your experience it is pretty much meaningless. As I was told at the beginning, you don't learn tai-chi, with practice you become tai-chi.
There is absolutely no spiritual side to this, unless you are talking about chi (qi). For you that may seem spiritual being an etheric energy, but for me it is experienced everyday in everything I do the same as I experience my body moving and my brain thinking. It is the third leg on the stool that stops us falling over, with most of us it is on auto-pilot. It just makes everything work. It is also what creates birth and decides on death. We would still have the mind and the body but the energy that powers it has gone, very simple really. The energy that *is* life.