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#25 Daniel Reid on Sex, Virtue, and the Tao · Salish Wolf

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  Every time we do something say something or think something?
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  We are taking energy from our personal field and projecting it
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  out into the world and it needs a vibrational traits in our
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  field. And so every time we speak act
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  or think we manifest the energy, we manifest we put it out into
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  the world and the only way it becomes der virtue is if it is
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  Guided by wisdom and prompted by compassion Dow.
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  Simply means the way welcome to Sailors wolf a podcast bringing
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  you inspirational stories of extraordinary Endeavors.
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  I am your host Todd Howard. Just south of my Vancouver
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  Island home as a tiny archipelago on which for nearly
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  a decade lived. And most astonishing animal, a
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  lone wolf takea as he would be named survived and thrived and
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  an environment where likely no wolf had ever set foot.
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  In the process, he captured the hearts of the community and
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  showed us even the most unlikely as possible.
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  His story is not dissimilar to those of the individuals
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  interviewed on this podcast. At some point.
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  They each had to turn to their inner Lone, Wolf from there,
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  they were able to lead. And Inspire my intention is to
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  your journey could take. You more than two decades ago.
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  The Dow of Health sex and Longevity by Daniel Reed became
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  a pivotal book and guiding my life journey toward natural
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  medicine and healing philosophies his prolific
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  writings Chinese medicine, martial, arts, taoism nutrition,
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  and T have likely shape. Countless other personal
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  Journeys. Daniels, life is replete with
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  Rich experiences and cultures growing up in East Africa.
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  And then studying in California, his early life was influenced by
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  the free-spirited recreational drug culture of the day.
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  While listening to the introductory University lecturer
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  in Chinese history, that would shape the direction of his life
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  and life's work. Daniel, was tripping on LSD
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  after earning a master's degree. Degree in Chinese language in
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  Civilization. He moved to Taiwan, and spend
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  the next 16 years luxuriating, in the culture of ancient
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  philosophy, healing and nightlife, he eventually
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  relocated to Byron Bay Australia with his wife.
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  And they now reside in Thailand, Daniel is a scholar, a many
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  topics. And we leap into several of them
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  here, including Sexual, Healing Arts, taoism Qi, Gong and high
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  mountain oolong tea. We also talked about some of his
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  escapades that comprises two. Mr. Shots from the hip Daniels
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  life has been a constant dance with the principles of taoism
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  and even today, living in a foreign country and time,
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  whereas freedoms are restricted. He draws on teachings of Sage's
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  to find the way his Candor is refreshing.
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  His humor alluring and his wisdom.
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  Well earned please enjoy this episode of Salish Walt what
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  Daniel Reed. Daniel, welcome to Salish wolf,
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  thank you, glad to be here. I am so glad to have you here
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  and I just want to start by way of introduction and letting you
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  know, how much you have impacted my life and career.
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  There were basically as I can, recall three bucks.
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  And my formative years, that probably led me into natural
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  medicine. One was spontaneous healing by
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  Andrew while one was a diet for a new America by John Robbins.
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  Yeah, and one was the DOW of Health sex and Longevity by you.
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  Well, got to put to hear. Every that's the one that always
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  gets people. So I've got to just thank you so
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  much for that impact and what it has had on my life and for you.
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  Now, this is 20 plus years later for me getting able to sit down
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  and talk to you. It's such a privilege for me, so
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  thank you. Thank you.
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  Now, I want to know what all I've got.
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  So many questions, so I'll try to pick a starting point, but
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  let's start with a dow here. I want to know how the one led
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  to led, the three led to 10,000 things and then how you arced
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  back to the Dell. So, just by way of a starting
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  point, why don't you talk about that turning point for you?
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  When you started to return to the 1 or the Well.
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  Started when I was in Berkeley. Starting my senior year, I
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  hadn't declared a major. And I talked about this in the
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  second chapter of the, first volume of my Memoir.
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  And I went to a lecture that I had to go to to join that course
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  for for a credit requirement. Well anyway, it was a famous
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  Professor. I didn't know anything about
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  China. But I went to that course and
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  that day I was sailing on LSD, actually, I was the wild hippie
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  hood and that 90-minute talk. And the way he talked about
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  China, he was one of these, China friction itself, either
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  the very famous percept, Professor.
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  And he didn't want anyone to take the course who wasn't
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  interested. So that's why we had to go to
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  it. So basically, he told me all
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  about China and 90 minutes 5,000 years of history.
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  And of course, the Dow came into it.
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  And I basically felt that I knew all this.
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  From whenever past life, whatever.
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  So I I took an individual major and East Asian studies and
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  started studying Chinese thing. And then after I graduated, I
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  went down to a school in Monterey to, to learn the
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  language, got a master's degree in Chinese and then I went to
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  Taiwan and you grew up in East Africa.
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  Is that correct? Yeah.
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  How did that come about? Well, I was born in 1948.
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  My mother was a German war bride.
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  And so when my father came back with her and we were born, he
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  was working for a trans World Airlines, which no longer
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  exists, actually and the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie
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  wanted a an airline so, he contracted Six or seven people
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  from TWA to come and set it up for him and very few people
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  wanted to go at the end of the war, everyone else to stay home
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  in America and all that. But my dad took it And you again
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  drugs, come into it, they found themselves with six dc-3s.
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  That was no sheets in them. And of course, their mission was
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  to fly cut. What is that?
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  Khht. Cut is a plant.
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  It's got little berries on it for chewing and I mean,
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  everybody in the Yemen is hooked on it.
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  So it grows only in Ethiopia and it has to be taken Fresh.
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  So they were setting it down on donkeys.
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  Caravans and they were falling. They were written dropping off
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  the mountain and everything, so they a wanting to deliver the
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  stuff by air. And make more money and they say
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  he told the crew, the the team from America.
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  That as soon as we are only enough money, then we'll buy
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  bigger planes and we'll do a passenger airline.
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  So that happened a couple of years later, they start doing
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  passenger service. It's one of the best airlines in
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  the world maps. So we lived there for about 10
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  years, and from there you ended up in Berkeley.
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  Yeah. Well, we yeah, we moved to New
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  York for high school and then Kelly.
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  Barney. I went to two.
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  I went to Columbia for a year and then transferred to
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  Berkeley. And after getting your degree in
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  East Asian languages and going to Taiwan, what was that
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  experience? Like for you?
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  Well, you know, do arrive there and speaking fluent Chinese, and
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  To be able to spout, Chinese poetry, I felt again very much
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  at home to be in that culture and of course, Taiwan is the
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  traditional culture. I'd really tried to go to China.
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  I didn't realize it, but the cultural revolution was in full
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  swing and they weren't allowing anybody.
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  So yeah, beautiful Chinese women and friends and everything.
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  While I was there in within the first two years, I met people
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  who are involved in T-Bone and traditional Chinese medicine and
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  so I started when I was first working in the hotel business
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  but I just, you know, I just didn't shoot me, I didn't like
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  schedules and all that. So, I quit and The couple of
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  editors from Hong Kong show that they were referred to me because
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  they wanted to do a book on nightlife in Taipei and their,
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  everyone told them that I was a guy who's she, I was staying
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  home, flat broke. And they said, we want to a
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  chapter on nightlife in Taipei for East Asia Guy.
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  I did that. I said, I am not a writer and
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  they said, well, you got a degree and I said, yes, you did.
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  Everything, a term paper. I said yes.
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  And the guys that you can write and I really needed the money.
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  Everything 500 dollar payment, which is a fortune today, gave
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  me 10 days, I wrote it, they liked it.
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  They went back to Hong Kong and told everybody, they the Buddy
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  in Taiwan writing now it's Taiwan was picking up in the
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  tourism business. And so I started out as a
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  freelance travel writer and you stayed in Taiwan for quite some
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  time, didn't you? Yeah.
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  I was there for 16 years, was that the intention when you went
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  there or you just went with a open-ended ticket?
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  And an open mind? Yeah, I had a one-way ticket and
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  had no plan. I didn't think I'd stay there
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  that long. Long but I just loved it so
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  good. What was something that impacted
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  you? Most about the culture there?
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  Well, you, you know, I consider myself a scholar, I always
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  studied things, I like. And so, I had a lot of
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  background in Chinese culture, and civilization, and it seemed
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  that every time, Regardless of which aspected Chinese
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  civilization it was and in Taiwan of which traditional the
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  food, the sex, the chi gong. It all came back to the Dow, the
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  way, the way of everything, and it applies to every aspect and
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  you know, Chinese civilization, go to 5,000 years.
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  And so they just apply the basic principle unit Yang the five
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  elements. The balancing Harmony.
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  It was there in everything cooking.
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  I love to cook and you know the flavors that the Five Element
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  Elemental energies, then they have the five flavors and that's
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  used in producing a good dish yin and yang acid and alkaline
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  came into it, as medicine. And so, once I became a
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  freelance writer, I just kept getting assignment.
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  So like my first book on Chinese herbal medicine, got a friend of
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  mine, who was a Chinese doctor there we helping you the
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  research and I wrote that book and I got a cookbook. and every
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  time, I got an assignment to do a book on some aspect of Chinese
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  culture, also the art collection, and the National
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  Palace Museum. The same principles came
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  through. So that's how it all kind of
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  boiled back down that one word doubt.
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  Did you have any formal education in traditional Chinese
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  medicine? Because you wrote about three
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  books at least. One more than that, more than
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  okay. Quite a few of that.
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  No, I never went to any school. I didn't go to because I didn't
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  think I want to be a Chinese doctor.
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  I wasn't planning to Ichigo master, we're going to
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  meditation in the temple is something.
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  So I just educated Myself by doing the research, my book,
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  it's incredible. Their wonderful books.
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  Very brilliant resources. And one thing I love about all
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  your books is, they are so easy to digest.
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  They're, they're written in a way that although you're talking
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  in some cases about very esoteric Concepts.
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  I find it's easy for the reader to be able to absorb that.
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  Yeah, that's what most of the reviewers say to is that your
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  the very difficult subject that I've read about for, I can't
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  understand what they're talking about.
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  But my books it makes sense to So I seem to have a knack for
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  that. And when you talk about the Dow,
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  of course you and I are familiar with that, but can you give a
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  bit of a glimpse for listeners? Who may not be familiar?
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  What with what the Dow is? And if you can also kind of
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  share how that has influenced your life, Well okay.
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  We start with the word down. It simply means the way it can
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  mean a path. It can also mean to speak or to
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  know But the original ideogram indicates a the word way and in
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  the daodejing the classic that the old ancient Sage called
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  louder. Oh, he's you talked about the
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  Dow or he you talk about something that can't be talked
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  about. The way which can be spoken is
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  not the real way and he's an Indian didn't even know what to
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  call it. So he said so as it could have a
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  nickname You take the word doubt, way because it explains
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  how everything works, and it's also the source.
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  Original source. So what other civilizations
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  might call God or grandma or Enlightenment or whatever they
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  didn't Darwinism with the talking about the same thing,
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  the saying, the source of everything, which then manifests
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  in a certain way and then creates the 10,000 Things so,
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  that made a lot of sense to me and sort of like, There was
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  nothing, there was this infinite potential and then there was the
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  Big Bang. And the Big Bang is infinite
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  potential, which is basically awareness.
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  Manifested its life. In.
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  And then sort of refracted into the five Elemental energies or
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  five rays of color. And from those five energies,
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  interacting and all the Myriad things came into creation.
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  What we see is formed. I mean, end of this.
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  Also comes from Buddhist Buddhist teachings and I I
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  follow a path called The Junction kitchen.
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  Of course they talked about emptiness and there's no such
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  thing as form and what we see as Foreman's just because of our
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  eyes and our five senses are too crude to see that where they
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  really is just a bunch of energy flowing around in certain
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  patterns to frequency. And the way is the way light and
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  deprive rays of color from Life, interact to produce what we call
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  forms. When we touch with our hands, it
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  seems solid, but it's not any quantum physics verifies that
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  You can go inside the atom and atom which is supposedly the
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  building blocks with bricks and mortar.
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  And actually then you have subatomic particles and you can
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  keep looking closer and closer and suddenly they just disappear
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  and there's wait wave energy. Which is the essential.
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  In with that energy that in part is how we are all connected.
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  How we are all one. How we are?
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  All the Dow. Is that correct?
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  Right, because on the energetic level, everything is just one
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  big soup or ocean. But you can say in ocean has
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  infinite drop of water in it and each each one has Own particular
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  utility and nature, so, but everything is connected.
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  Only in when you illusion that things are have solidity.
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  Informed. We say, okay, well this is
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  separate and that's how we get the idea that well, I am looking
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  at that outside and it separates for me.
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  But in fact it's not you are actually projecting the image of
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  that from your own mind. It's real nature.
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  Is this energy and life. With Chinese medicine, the
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  philosophy in taoism, we are each of us is born with a
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  Destiny and inherited Destiny. And as we are born and go
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  through life, we tend to as I call it Arc away from that, we
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  start to develop habituated patterns in order to avoid Pain
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  and Gain pleasure. And that some individuals You
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  are able to reconnect with a dow reconnect with the one and often
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  that's through a crisis or some sort of turning point in life.
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  Did you have any sort of event crisis turning point that
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  reconnected you on that path with a dow?
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  Or did you never really deviate from it in the first place?
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  Oh, I've done plenty of deviations.
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  I'm not surprised. My Level I would, you know, I
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  don't consider myself and then light mask at all.
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  I have a lot of knowledge. I consider myself a scholar. and
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  a building of these thing, and I'm quite serious, about it, the
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  dial and it's auction teachings, which related to that and
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  Buddhism and it all goes back to the source, you know, where we
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  all came from. And what we're doing here.
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  And when you talk about Destiny, That's a hard one to say.
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  Well where do you get the destiny?
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  I think it has to do with with karmic traces in your field.
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  Essentially. Each person is maybe you want to
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  call it, a drop of spirit of the great spirit or you can call it
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  the soul. I call it the field.
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  Our real Essence, the true nature, which is basically a
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  field of energy and light. That's shining as luminous, the
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  Luminosity is awareness and the energy is comes from that light
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  and that's how we function And so we come into the world as
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  human being. In this particular universe. and
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  we got we are born and we go through life and every time you
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  Do something and action. Or say something.
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  For think those are the only those are the three gates of
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  energy. We have is energy.
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  And how are we going to interact with the world?
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  But other people do things build.
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  Things write a book, cook a meal, go to a demonstration and
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  throw rocks at the police, whatever you are using your
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  energy. To impact the world and other
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  people. Then we do something.
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  Say something or think something we are taking energy from our
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  personal field and projecting it out into the world and it needs
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  a vibrational traits in our field.
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  So it really depends on the intent.
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  If you're doing something or saying something or thinking
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  something positive to be helpful for someone that's called quote
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  good karma, karma just means action.
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  And if you do something harmful or you have an intention to do
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  harm, then you are going to even negative traits.
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  And so it's the net accumulation of these traces in our field of
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  things. We've done that determines.
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  Where you going next after you die?
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  Which is the whole idea of continually going through
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  endless numbers of lives until you sort of transcend, your
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  karmic record and get to a level where you don't need to have
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  this training anymore. What we call Life, you've
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  learned your lessons and you can start going to the higher levels
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  higher Dimensions, which don't involve physical.
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  And is that what we would call Sage?
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  Or is that even higher than a sage?
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  I saved you the person on the path, you know, life.
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  I would say more like you know they called the theft but
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  Enlightenment or realization I think realization is better
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  because it's realizing your true nature.
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  And, like I said, it's you three things essential Emptiness.
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  Formlessness is the wisdom there, and the nature of the
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  light, the Luminosity of awareness is unconditional love
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  compassion. That's not a goody two-shoes
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  interpretation. It's just the nature.
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  Of of awareness. Create the stories have the
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  light, creates it creates with unconditional love and so we
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  have to realize that. And then the third thing is that
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  we have besides essential emptiness.
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  From which you can Harvest wisdom because it's going Beyond
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  knowledge. Knowledge in the world tells
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  you. Yeah there's all these forms and
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  you can have knowledge about many things but that's illusory.
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  The only true knowledge or wisdom is that that there is
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  nothing that's lasting. And so and so anyway with with
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  awareness, yes the light Equals love.
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  Unconditional love, not romantic, love and there.
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  We have our energy which would project and that's power.
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  When it's used properly, it's powerful.
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  Its you can use its creative. You can create things.
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  A practitioner. Whether it be of the Dow or
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  Buddhism or the Hindu teaching, as long as they're all on the
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  same page of what they're doing. By being in this world, we are
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  on the path is on the path to realization of what our true
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  nature is. And then transcending the need
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  to come back in a physical body. Now, the daodejing talks a lot
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  about knowledge and wisdom and I find not always in the most
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  positive light allowed to sometimes talks about the, the
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  danger of knowledge and wisdom. Yeah, he doesn't talk about
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  Danger. The danger of knowledge.
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  Okay. What does he mean by that?
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  Well. the more things, you know, and do in the world of form And
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  emotion and desire and all that, the more trouble you get
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  injured. You have a lot of things to say
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  about rulers. She said well you know the more
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  laws you make the more people are going to break a lot.
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  The more restrictions there are and he's basically tells people.
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  One of the My Favorite Things is fill their bellies and empty
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  their mind. Because the mind is not the
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  spirit, the mind is the ego. It's when you're born here, we
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  all have to have an identity, we call it the ego.
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  I like the Chinese word, the Chinese world is showa, little
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  little me and your spirit is dawa, big me.
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  And so little me is running around the world doing all that
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  getting in trouble and the more today.
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  It's so perfect lousy would going nuts today.
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  Advertisements TV, social media, Facebook.
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  All this stuff, just a continuous barrage of bits of
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  useless information. And it fills our mind and
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  distracts us from what what we really are and leads us astray
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  and you people don't work out of wisdom.
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  Compassion and power, and the egos in the driver's seat and so
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  it's greed. Anger ignorance running rampant,
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  look at the world today. What is the Dow have to teach us
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  right now in the world where we are being rolled?
• 28:27
  Perhaps more tightly than ever before there?
• 28:31
  What can we find in the dowel to help us through this part in the
• 28:34
  way? The one and only way the real
• 28:38
  way? And then say well what's that
• 28:39
  mean? Well the reflection of the way
• 28:43
  in this world. Is nature.
• 28:48
  Nature, the way the trees grow, the way, the weather works, then
• 28:52
  we messed it up so much with chemicals and electromagnetic
• 28:58
  radiation. All the ignorance and violence
• 29:02
  in the world. But if you want to go back with
• 29:05
  the Dow would say is return to the way return to the source.
• 29:10
  And in this particular World in this particular solar system in
• 29:14
  this particular Universe the way the Away.
• 29:18
  The infinite way is reflected in the way, nature works when left
• 29:25
  alone. So Rick a traditional Chinese
• 29:29
  medicine. What's the medicine plans?
• 29:33
  Minerals. Not cult are, you know, the
• 29:38
  byproducts is many Pharma drugs, which the oil industry is sold
• 29:44
  to the pharmaceutical industry, waste product, hazardous waste,
• 29:48
  and they Jiggle It Around in the lab and make drugs from it,
• 29:53
  especially drugs for the nervous system.
• 29:54
  The toxins. And so they affect your, how
• 29:58
  your nerves work, but they do a lot of damage.
• 30:00
  So the Chinese medicine because originally did all came from the
• 30:04
  Dow, the Chinese culture. So they you had these sages
• 30:09
  running around up in the mountains, they were Hermits.
• 30:14
  Looking for plants that would confer longevity.
• 30:19
  And so they tried them all and none of them work that way, but
• 30:22
  then I found out how they do work.
• 30:23
  Oh, I hate know, I don't know. I couldn't have a problem with
• 30:26
  my bow and I was fixed. So that's how these these 20,000
• 30:33
  plant medicine, Chinese medicine of which maybe 2,000 common
• 30:37
  huge, how their functions were all figured out.
• 30:40
  And what do you think combination?
• 30:42
  And so the same goes for everything eating well, hot
• 30:44
  watch what, how an animal eat. Watch the diet of a chimpanzee
• 30:50
  if you want to see how a human. Would do besties.
• 30:55
  You said I think leave nature alone.
• 31:00
  Yeah. And follow nature follow nature
• 31:03
  and I feel like we've become so disconnected because we don't
• 31:08
  by, and large consider ourselves to be nature, but we are.
• 31:13
  We're part of Nature and I feel like we've created so many
• 31:18
  trillions of interventions and our lives that were completely.
• 31:23
  Enacted. Yeah, the Western idea because a
• 31:27
  lot of this problem comes from Western civilization and I mean
• 31:31
  also in the East, but if you go back to the original way,
• 31:35
  civilizations arose is, isn't the whole essence of Western
• 31:40
  Civilization to conquer nature. Congra nature.
• 31:45
  You know, we'll get by all these things.
• 31:47
  Will go find a shortcut and all that, but all you do is go
• 31:50
  against nature. And then you have problems with
• 31:53
  your health, you have problems with your mind.
• 31:55
  What you're thinking And it just doesn't work and we can see that
• 32:02
  now. Yeah.
• 32:05
  We're even trying to do it with this whole so-called climate
• 32:09
  crisis because the climate's always changing whether we're
• 32:12
  here or not. Yeah about climate crisis
• 32:17
  comments from me. Yes please do nothing to do with
• 32:23
  smokestack industry and too many cars that causes the air
• 32:27
  pollution. That's bad for you, but that has
• 32:30
  nothing to do with the climate. That's nonsense was happening.
• 32:34
  You're going to climb it on. This planet is controlled by the
• 32:37
  Sun. And the sun has gone into
• 32:40
  remission. I forgot how many every how many
• 32:44
  thousands of years were in a cycle of remission?
• 32:46
  The Senate is cooling off. We're going into into a mini ice
• 32:52
  age. Not global warming.
• 32:55
  No, well, they've stopped using that term because it didn't fit
• 32:57
  the narrative very well, right? But I agree with you completely
• 33:01
  Daniel and I actually just interviewed someone for my other
• 33:03
  podcast the other day, who's an environmentalist and we got into
• 33:07
  this. And she actually said something
• 33:09
  that really resonated with me and that so-called climate
• 33:13
  change is, it's not actually a problem because the climate is
• 33:16
  going to change, it's always changing.
• 33:18
  It's just that humans don't like the impact that it might have
• 33:23
  on. Us and thus we're trying to
• 33:26
  control it. Yeah, of course, there's money
• 33:30
  to be made. And yet we're spending money.
• 33:34
  I find on, I would call it bogus governmental initiatives to look
• 33:40
  like they're doing something for the climate for the environment
• 33:44
  but they're not spending any money on cleaning up the
• 33:46
  environment. No, no, of course not because
• 33:49
  then it is no money debate. Now you got to spend money to do
• 33:51
  that. Now, I mean, look at the fossil
• 33:54
  fuel industry part of this whole global warming thing.
• 33:58
  Is this a you look? We're burning too, many fossil
• 34:01
  fuels. We got to get, we got at.
• 34:02
  So we're going to get more expensive and we're running out.
• 34:07
  And so it's another way to make money Cole to all of that stuff.
• 34:12
  But You Don't See Much investment be putting into into
• 34:20
  non-polluting energy system and I think that some have been
• 34:29
  invented and suppress Nikola Tesla.
• 34:35
  It was brilliant and he had a, he had advice for converting
• 34:41
  incoming energy from the Sun and the Stars into electricity.
• 34:46
  I don't know what happened to that, basically free energy, but
• 34:49
  there's no money to me to be made by that.
• 34:51
  And the other thing is consumption.
• 34:53
  Do we need so many cars doing? Do we need so many appliances,
• 34:59
  it's just the more people consume, the more, the suppliers
• 35:03
  make Spent most of it is useless stuff.
• 35:06
  This is what lousy was talking about you is the more things you
• 35:10
  have around the more people go let you go wrong and do harm to
• 35:15
  the environment and to themselves.
• 35:17
  So they just talked about, going back to a simple basic lifestyle
• 35:22
  with the daodejing. We always talk about the Dow.
• 35:28
  I find there's very little talk about the day.
• 35:31
  Can you speak of what the day is?
• 35:33
  And the Dao de Jing the day? Yes, Like play?
• 35:39
  No, no, like the Dao de Jing. So 0 Delta, G 0.
• 35:46
  So I know it's the day, the day or the day.
• 35:48
  However, it's duh, the Dell do that.
• 35:59
  Yes, I always wondered about that too.
• 36:02
  And then my favorite translator of The daodejing and Chinese
• 36:08
  poetry Arthur Waley. Okay, with an English.
• 36:11
  We never went to China. Yeah, he taught himself Chinese.
• 36:18
  In the British museum during WWII, he was assigned to the
• 36:22
  print collection. that the Chinese print collection and you
• 36:27
  sitting there all day, you know, bombs going off in the air and
• 36:33
  and nothing to do and then he had to go.
• 36:35
  How am I going to organize these Trends?
• 36:37
  So he found a dictionary there also in the book collection and
• 36:41
  he taught himself classical Chinese.
• 36:44
  That's incredible. And they can transfer the
• 36:48
  incredible. Okay, so you have the daodejing
• 36:51
  and the title of his book is the way and its power.
• 36:58
  Very interesting. So you look at that word doll.
• 37:02
  I already told you means past or way.
• 37:06
  Okay, now Derbies power but in the sense in the English word
• 37:11
  power, you know, electric power, you know, and atomic bomb.
• 37:16
  There's a word in English that fits it perfect which is virtue.
• 37:20
  Yes, the word virtue means power originally and but it means good
• 37:25
  power you your A good way. So you have virtue.
• 37:30
  So the down down, Jim. It's it's Jane is a classic text
• 37:38
  classic book about the virtue of the way.
• 37:43
  IE the power. and the power of, basically, being the power of
• 37:48
  creation, To create something new from the Basic Energy.
• 37:55
  And when you speak of a virtue, can you elaborate a bit on that
• 37:59
  that term? And that the implications
• 38:04
  remember, I talked about, okay? This is something almost
• 38:07
  everyone with any interest in this stuff Eastern thinking,
• 38:10
  know, is we talk about emptiness, which is basically
• 38:13
  lack of form. Took no substance light.
• 38:20
  Luminosity and energy. Okay.
• 38:26
  And in the Dowd in the doll is the same thing.
• 38:30
  So from those three aspects of our true nature we Harvest.
• 38:39
  We when we put it into action into words into thinking from
• 38:45
  the essential emptiness of knowing that everything is
• 38:48
  impermanent everything that we see around us and okay, we gain
• 38:51
  wisdom and from the light of awareness Nature of that is
• 38:57
  compassion. Unconditional love, and with
• 39:01
  energy, properly used with wisdom and compassion the energy
• 39:06
  to becomes virtue power. To do good.
• 39:13
  To heal. To help.
• 39:17
  To repair things to make things better.
• 39:20
  So power can be abused, or it can be used properly.
• 39:25
  Can only be used properly? From when it's motivated by
• 39:31
  compassion. And when it draws on wisdom,
• 39:34
  when you start using knowledge, you make an atomic bomb physics.
• 39:40
  Atomic science, you make a bomb, you can kill people or you make
• 39:45
  the electrical power system grid that ruins people's healthy or
• 39:52
  you make 5G. And ruin everybody's brain and
• 39:56
  cut cause cancer. So that's when you work from
• 40:01
  knowledge. Power becomes destructive.
• 40:07
  When you work from wisdom, power becomes virtue.
• 40:11
  It's put to good use. And it can only be prompted by
• 40:15
  compassion, not by greed. Or anger.
• 40:21
  So it all fits, it's very simple.
• 40:24
  That's another thing about that. It's one word, one syllable.
• 40:31
  And yet, it's all there. Would you say that knowledge is
• 40:36
  the language of the Mind? Whereas wisdom is the language
• 40:40
  of the heart. Yeah, that's exactly precisely.
• 40:45
  I wanted to say mind, we're talking about the human mind.
• 40:48
  Yes, the ego ego? That's correct.
• 40:52
  Knowledge. And so the ego and what is it
• 40:55
  that you call that the shower? Charles War shall War.
• 41:00
  Yes, that's perfect. I love that.
• 41:05
  Privacy and of course, big me which doesn't care how many
• 41:10
  millions of lives you have. Before you wake up to sits back
• 41:16
  and says, alright when you're ready fine but it that's that is
• 41:21
  you big. Me is the essential you and I
• 41:24
  suppose. Yes, suffering is generally.
• 41:29
  The path that gets people to wake up and just brings in the
• 41:33
  Buddha, the four noble truths. I mean, there's no, there's no
• 41:38
  conflict between Buddhism and Taoism, the talking about the
• 41:42
  same thing, it's just a different culture and a
• 41:44
  different aspect, but the good has first teaching, the Four
• 41:49
  Noble Truths, the nature of life is suffering.
• 41:55
  You're alive. You got a moment, you're going
• 41:57
  to suffer. So okay.
• 41:59
  Well then the 20, what's it called?
• 42:01
  That's the second one. The cause of suffering is desire
• 42:05
  acquisitiveness. Well, the third one then is,
• 42:08
  what's the solution the end of suffering?
• 42:11
  Is the end of Desire. Well then how do you overcome
• 42:17
  desire it so powerful where you follow the noble Eightfold Path,
• 42:22
  which is basically virtue, right?
• 42:25
  Right, action, right speech, right?
• 42:28
  Thought right livelihood, right? Meditation, those eight things,
• 42:33
  you follow that path to do it correctly and you overcome
• 42:36
  desire and you stop suffering. And you're ready to leave this
• 42:41
  cyclic existence, it's really like polishing yourself, like
• 42:45
  we're all diamond. You know, we're clear empty
• 42:51
  form, we put out light and all that but we've got all this
• 42:55
  grease and muck all over us. And so you go through life time
• 43:00
  of Lifetime and you just gained more and more of that.
• 43:03
  And until finally you start to Suffer enough that you decide
• 43:08
  something wrong and then if you're lucky, you find a teacher
• 43:13
  for teaching and then you start on the path.
• 43:16
  See, that's another interesting thing.
• 43:19
  And I would think that the Taoist Master would agree on
• 43:23
  this. In Buddhism.
• 43:25
  There are six Realms of cyclic existence the gods, the demigods
• 43:31
  humans animals, Hungry, Ghost and hell.
• 43:37
  And basically, when you die your crime account pops up and it's
• 43:42
  just that it's all vibration like attracts.
• 43:45
  Like, and there you go to that place.
• 43:47
  So they say that, you know, six different forms or worlds, or
• 43:53
  dimensions of existence, existence, you have a body of
• 43:56
  some sort, only, a human being, Has an opportunity to encounter
• 44:03
  the teaching of intruder Dow or Dharma if you're able is because
• 44:10
  we're sort of on the cusp there, between the demigods and then
• 44:13
  animals below has animals. Just go on Instinct, and never
• 44:16
  mind ghosts and Hell beings their lost billions of years.
• 44:21
  The demigods are too powerful to one of bother about teachings
• 44:26
  and the gods themselves also, but they all end up dead.
• 44:29
  Dying and dropping down to a lower level.
• 44:32
  But a human is on the cusp. They can either. follow the
• 44:37
  three poisons of Desire anger and ignorance or they can make
• 44:44
  the choice to follow the teacher or to seek a teacher or just
• 44:51
  teaching to to return to the source to return to their true
• 44:58
  nature and to get off this wheel to a to a higher level.
• 45:03
  You just said of the three poisons ignorance.
• 45:07
  We often think of the opposite of ignorance as knowledge.
• 45:10
  Yeah, but it's not wasted. It's wisdom.
• 45:13
  The most ignorant people in terms of spiritual work or no
• 45:18
  bail. Winning scientists because they
• 45:22
  think they know everything. They've got it all figured out
• 45:26
  and so they are almost totally impervious to something like the
• 45:31
  Dow. For the door, the Dharma or the
• 45:37
  light of great Perfection, as an adsorption teaching except for
• 45:41
  would argue, maybe Einstein. He seemed to know about energy.
• 45:46
  Yes. You get any talked about?
• 45:48
  Yes, it's true. And then some scientists do.
• 45:51
  But I'm just saying the more knowledge you have, you know,
• 45:54
  I've got four phds, I want to know Bells live in a big house,
• 46:01
  like a lot of money now and everything's fine.
• 46:04
  I've been honored by Society, what do you want to?
• 46:08
  Would you want to go meditate? You're not suffering anything,
• 46:13
  so knowledge can be the great impediment basically.
• 46:18
  According to the Buddha. Anyway, the thing that gets you
• 46:20
  on a path of suffering, but seems to be the crisis of
• 46:25
  existence that Gets people arcing back towards the path.
• 46:30
  Some sort of be it, a midlife crisis, or a loss of some sort,
• 46:34
  or some sort of trauma. And the universe is going to
• 46:39
  continue to put those opportunities in front of us
• 46:44
  into we choose to Arc back towards the Dow and you know,
• 46:49
  spring where you get always find out.
• 46:52
  If you trace it back, we just love to blame others.
• 46:56
  Yes. Then the government blame your
• 46:59
  wife blame, the dog, whatever. But we create our own suffering.
• 47:06
  What is the doll teach us about blaming and victimization.
• 47:11
  Without well, or any of the, the ancient Traditions, all of them
• 47:19
  you have these these propensities as a human being to
• 47:24
  do certain things and, you know, it's scientific Karma.
• 47:29
  Everyone thinks it's a Hindu religious concept.
• 47:32
  It's not, it's just a Hindi word for a universal principle action
• 47:37
  and reaction. You do something and there's a
• 47:40
  reaction. Push back.
• 47:44
  So in Buddhism and taoism basically when things go wrong
• 47:51
  the advice is to look, look look into yourself and see where you
• 47:55
  went wrong and then to change. People is another thing.
• 47:59
  People think. That the only thing they got to
• 48:03
  be careful about is what they do.
• 48:06
  Right? I don't want to break the law.
• 48:08
  I don't want to get busted little bit more restricted is
• 48:14
  what you say. Well you could you could say the
• 48:17
  wrong thing to the wrong person and get smacked in the face.
• 48:19
  But basically you can say anything you want.
• 48:21
  I got free speech. Used to have free speech Daniel
• 48:25
  and we used to have three speeds.
• 48:27
  Yes. Okay.
• 48:29
  And you know maybe you can you can yell at the kids and you can
• 48:32
  yell at your wife and all that But we are, well we can think
• 48:36
  anything, nobody knows what we're thinking that we can still
• 48:39
  do that, right? Humming.
• 48:41
  Don't people throw all kinds of poison out there against people,
• 48:46
  they don't like, well, it doesn't matter.
• 48:50
  Go back to what I said, before, real nature, as usual field of
• 48:55
  energy and light with sentient, we have awareness that's a
• 49:00
  global awareness glow. That casteneda the Don Juan He
• 49:05
  says an old books at least a thousand times awareness glows.
• 49:11
  Okay. So that's the Luminosity of our
• 49:13
  field is awareness and with our awareness and of course Lord,
• 49:20
  download a bit Consciousness human consciousness.
• 49:25
  The ego. And so everything we do say and
• 49:30
  think is simply, we are manifesting into the world, our
• 49:35
  energy. And it leaves.
• 49:39
  It needs a vibrational imprint. Energy, does that?
• 49:44
  It's a digital record. well, really, I think the things that
• 49:49
  people think are some of the most horrible of all.
• 49:53
  Probably you're very careful, you know, you do a lot of harm
• 49:58
  to people, but also you have to be careful not, you can say
• 50:00
  things. So you can think anything you
• 50:02
  want and turn that when the egos in control, it has all kinds of
• 50:07
  evil thoughts and he'll intent. But we think, oh, I see, nobody
• 50:13
  knows that. It's okay.
• 50:15
  But it's imprinted in your field.
• 50:17
  And that's that's all you have left.
• 50:19
  When you die you lose your body, you lose your ego.
• 50:24
  We don't go into the Bardo, the in-between stage between life
• 50:29
  and death, and the next life as John Smith or Daniel Reed.
• 50:35
  We just go as a field or are were stripped down into naked,
• 50:40
  awareness, naked, awareness with a field of energy and life in
• 50:44
  which is imprinted A Digital record of everything we ever
• 50:47
  done in other existences. That's what brings us back with
• 50:51
  all these various different propensity.
• 50:54
  And as you said, wisdom and compassion together, equal
• 50:57
  virtue. And if we're thinking, Lll
• 51:02
  things, we're putting out that energy.
• 51:05
  We're also not in a place of compassion and so it's
• 51:08
  impossible to be. Virtuous also is not wise
• 51:12
  because we forget that the bounces back on us, we have the
• 51:15
  knowledge, we think we can get away with it, right?
• 51:18
  And I think that seems to be where victimization it kind of
• 51:22
  comes from. And it's part of that, because
• 51:24
  the state of being a victim is not a state of compassion, it's
• 51:28
  a state of blaming, it's a state of not Reflecting internally,
• 51:33
  it's a state of doing whatever you can do to avoid that
• 51:36
  internal suffering and acting externally.
• 51:40
  Also mean, if you want to look at it victims of this becomes of
• 51:44
  that, essentially, the width will, why view is well, I
• 51:48
  deserve it, it's a bounce, back, something happened.
• 51:52
  I did something at some time. Either in this life or in a
• 51:55
  previous life how do you know? But in any How else does it
• 52:00
  explain? It's not random.
• 52:03
  You have some people had this endless.
• 52:05
  Good luck. Now the village in that endless
• 52:07
  bad luck, but it's not luck. I don't believe in wreck life is
• 52:12
  too intricate and complex to be a chat off-chance.
• 52:19
  Everything is interconnected and it's going along the way.
• 52:22
  It should go. And so if you are a victim of
• 52:27
  this or that or the other, you're just calling yourself a
• 52:30
  victim. That's the word saying someone
• 52:33
  else trying to hurt me but in fact you hurt yourself on some
• 52:36
  level at some point in time and you just, it's Just the bounce
• 52:40
  back the payoff. Another concept that find the
• 52:45
  Dow goes greatly into, is this concept of naming and by naming,
• 52:51
  we create distinction. And the more we named, the more
• 52:55
  we separate ourselves from each other.
• 52:58
  And from the one, what are your thoughts on that?
• 53:02
  Well, it's like dogs aren't having an ego.
• 53:06
  When you come in to manifest form in this world you need an
• 53:10
  identity. You can't just call yourself and
• 53:13
  field of light you can do that. That's why Dallas.
• 53:19
  And she would have been far mountains and living in tibetan
• 53:22
  Masters live in caves where you can actually see your real self.
• 53:27
  What you really are, but when you're interacting Society,
• 53:31
  you've got to have, you have to have a name, okay?
• 53:36
  And that's your human mind and all the Myriad things that have
• 53:43
  come into form and that we have also produced, I won't say
• 53:47
  create, you don't create anything, but we are produced
• 53:53
  Need names in order to deal with them.
• 53:56
  Confucius had something to say on this too.
• 54:02
  He said, it's very important to name things properly and today,
• 54:10
  with social media, and the government, all the propaganda
• 54:14
  and all that, you know, they give you the name, things to
• 54:18
  confuse, people, they call it medicine, it's poison.
• 54:23
  Are you a vaccine? You're going to cure, you could
• 54:25
  kill you. It's got the wrong name.
• 54:27
  If you really named it properly and told people what's in it?
• 54:31
  No, no one will go near it. So give it its real name.
• 54:38
  Confused to talk about that confusion is very much into the
• 54:41
  Dow. He went to visit loud.
• 54:44
  It's just that he had a different idea Confucius had
• 54:47
  great respect for Liza and all that but could use wasn't
• 54:50
  interested in meditation. And all that said he wanted to
• 54:55
  straighten out Society. You live in the time called the
• 54:58
  Warring States and all these little teams are fighting each
• 55:02
  other and he wanted to get The Kings to start ruling, according
• 55:08
  to the Dow. So that's why he was saying,
• 55:13
  name things naming things properly to reflect what they
• 55:16
  really are so that people can deal with them properly.
• 55:21
  And today that's not done. I mean propaganda and social
• 55:25
  media and announcements from government spokesman is all a
• 55:29
  bunch of lies because they misnamed thing.
• 55:33
  What do you think the impact is on us and having 100 different
• 55:37
  religions, countless races. 50 names for gender.
• 55:43
  How is that impacting humankind by doing all that naming and
• 55:47
  labeling confusion, causing the confusion and conflict versus
• 55:54
  confusion, or what's what? And then conflict not religion.
• 56:00
  There's a difference between religion and spirituality, the
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  Latin word, I believe religion is to reunite.
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  So that right there, the assumption is your Or a sinner,
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  it doesn't matter. Which religion you go to Islam.
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  Christianity Judaism, human beings are bad, born back.
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  And so you need a religion to reconnect you with God.
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  And you need to intermediary. So you need a cleric.
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  You need Dogma you need doctrine, you need the Bible, or
• 56:40
  you need to holy book and also something in between
• 56:45
  spirituality, just really different.
• 56:48
  Everything has spirit. It couldn't exist as a came from
• 56:54
  Spirit from source. So we have a, like, you talked
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  about my, The Head and the Heart in the heart, basically, light
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  of spirit, which people, ignore and spirituality is simply
• 57:08
  Awakening. Awakening yourself to that
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  aspect of yourself, which is eternal Immortal, that's the
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  light of spirit, which has wisdom, compassion and Power.
• 57:28
  but everything else in the world naming names and having 100
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  different gender titles test in the head, that's in the head and
• 57:38
  the more of that you have, the more confusion you have to push
• 57:40
  goes back to the daodejing and now there's that empty their
• 57:43
  heads until their bellies. Everybody wants to eat and needs
• 57:47
  to eat. But you don't need to think of
• 57:50
  so much, and you don't need all the names.
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  I mean, why, why do you need a hundred different names for all
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  these different genders and different mixes of how people
• 58:01
  like to get off on sex? Let's do it.
• 58:06
  You're still either born male or female and sex is a certain kind
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  of energy. And that's, you know, it's
• 58:13
  nobody's business. How you manifested?
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  You don't need a special bathroom for someone who has
• 58:19
  changed the gender for one to the other function.
• 58:24
  And a composite vision and conflict.
• 58:27
  Lots of says, it's important to know when to stop naming things.
• 58:32
  What does that mean? Well, I think you get to a
• 58:36
  certain point in practice. Practicing what with them,
• 58:44
  compassion and power as a Healer.
• 58:48
  Or martial artist. A meditator or whatever, and
• 58:54
  what you then going, you're going the other direction,
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  you're moving back to Essence back to the Real.
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  The true nature, your own true nature.
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  The true nature of reality which goes all back to one thing the
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  source And so are you saying, it's you need to stop naming so
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  many things with different names, since they all have the
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  essentially the same source, and the same nature if you want to
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  live. A wise life with virtue.
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  You want to keep avoid making too many distinctions between
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  different things because then it gets into confusion and conflict
• 59:41
  people inside. One person sides with the word
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  that says, Communism one with capitalism, and more and more
• 59:51
  conflict has caused more problems are created.
• 59:54
  And when you said stop name, So many things and empty the heads
• 1:00:00
  fill their bellies. You saying just get down to the
• 1:00:02
  basics. As long as we're alive, we got
• 1:00:04
  to have Chiller belly, but simplify simplify the human
• 1:00:09
  mind. So it doesn't get into the way
• 1:00:12
  of bigamy. So little me doesn't completely
• 1:00:15
  get distracted and from our real nature.
• 1:00:20
  So we are all one. We are all the same.
• 1:00:23
  We are certainly all connected and the more we named, the more
• 1:00:26
  distinctions we Give the more labels we give the further from
• 1:00:29
  that we move and an obvious solution is to stop.
• 1:00:34
  Looking at what separates us. Stop looking at what makes us
• 1:00:37
  different and start looking at what makes us the same exactly
• 1:00:42
  the common denominator that's it.
• 1:00:44
  There's only basically the awareness, the final common
• 1:00:48
  denominator is simply awareness. In this world as human beings.
• 1:00:53
  Well we've all got to sit, we are body, it doesn't matter.
• 1:00:56
  What color your skin is whether you're male or female or the
• 1:00:58
  body's function, basically works the same.
• 1:01:03
  You may have 200 different brands of cars with different
• 1:01:08
  shapes and sizes that the, basically, the motors were the
• 1:01:10
  same. So, with the wisdom and the
• 1:01:13
  compassion, we have the do the virtue.
• 1:01:16
  Yeah. And the only way we can have
• 1:01:18
  that is if we stop separating and start aligning and being
• 1:01:23
  one, basically, the thing about virtue power, put to proper use
• 1:01:32
  So what the daodejing is saying, what allows us saying and what
• 1:01:35
  whatever saying to is, we all have this basic essential
• 1:01:40
  energy, you got no energy, you're just a piece of wood or a
• 1:01:43
  rock. And so every time we speak act
• 1:01:46
  or think we manifest the energy, we manifest would put it out
• 1:01:51
  into the world. And the only way it becomes der
• 1:01:54
  virtue is if it is Guided by wisdom and prompted by
• 1:01:59
  compassion. And now if it's little me doing
• 1:02:03
  it, okay? It will be guided by knowledge
• 1:02:06
  and prompted by greed. You spoke earlier of Desire
• 1:02:14
  leads to suffering and the Eightfold Path to Virtue can
• 1:02:18
  help us to end desire. Taoism talks a lot about sex
• 1:02:24
  yeah how a desire play or not play into that role of sex and
• 1:02:31
  taoism like with everything else it's the way you go about it.
• 1:02:37
  There's nothing wrong with set and there's nothing wrong with
• 1:02:39
  enjoying SEC. Its attachment that causes
• 1:02:44
  problems, but sex itself, as a saying in the doll and also in
• 1:02:51
  the so-called tantric traditions of Buddhism, that were a tundra
• 1:02:56
  and tantric is misused, not only reason there is such a thing as
• 1:03:01
  applied to sex. But nevertheless, Sexual Energy
• 1:03:04
  is really powerful. I mean it is the most powerful
• 1:03:08
  energy because it's meant for procreation.
• 1:03:11
  So there's that drive. Now what's the dollar sex or
• 1:03:16
  tantric uses of sex between a male and a female involves
• 1:03:21
  harnessing that energy? I have three or four you read my
• 1:03:24
  book three or four chapters on? Male retention of semen during
• 1:03:33
  sex. Well, if you want to know about
• 1:03:36
  sex without desire as a motivator, try that the male and
• 1:03:40
  female are different. Now, for the female, the idea is
• 1:03:43
  to encourage orgasm, there's no loss to a woman, and her energy
• 1:03:50
  is incredibly powerful, far, more powerful than the male.
• 1:03:55
  And a man is basically dispensable.
• 1:03:58
  It's like You know the Black Widow eats her made after she's
• 1:04:01
  impregnated and the drawings are driven out of the hive and all
• 1:04:06
  that. So that kind of practice which
• 1:04:09
  is requires the mail too. To not go for the quick.
• 1:04:15
  Shot of Desire is a way of harnessing, a basic energy of
• 1:04:21
  life, to increase your own energy and your health.
• 1:04:25
  Now, there are occasions. I won't name names but Buddhist
• 1:04:32
  Tibetan Lamas where monks and monks have a vow of celibacy.
• 1:04:37
  But at a certain point in their lives, when they're in their
• 1:04:40
  80s, maybe 70s. It's determined by The Physician
• 1:04:46
  they need Sexual Energy and so this is kept quiet, quiet.
• 1:04:52
  Obviously, because of the way people look at that and so there
• 1:04:58
  will be a partner will be found for them for practicing sexual
• 1:05:03
  yoga. The contact with the female
• 1:05:08
  energy Sexual Energy in a way like just to recharge the
• 1:05:12
  battery. Food is not enough, herbs and
• 1:05:16
  tonics and not enough at a certain level.
• 1:05:18
  At some point, it's recharging the primordial battery.
• 1:05:24
  Is that the connection with someone else?
• 1:05:26
  Is that what the recharges? Well, it's sexualize.
• 1:05:30
  Yeah, it's a connection, it's physical, say, yes, but without
• 1:05:35
  it's done in a certain way, of course, in certain attitude, if
• 1:05:38
  it's done, right? It is not discomforted by saying
• 1:05:42
  or lecherous purposes which that happens to it as many scandals
• 1:05:47
  and going on forever with you, all of the sex and cult.
• 1:05:53
  But When done properly, the idea is to excite the female and to
• 1:06:00
  keep your not to lose your semen which for a male is very
• 1:06:04
  important, especially at that age and to get a recharge of the
• 1:06:09
  sexual energy to the two Fields essentially were few and it's a
• 1:06:15
  veggie is the most powerful energy there when it's
• 1:06:18
  manifested in the female orgasm. As long as a male doesn't
• 1:06:22
  ejaculate. His Is polarity remain.
• 1:06:27
  So the more female energy is radiated out from the woman who
• 1:06:33
  is experiencing multiple orgasms and the man keeps in his semen
• 1:06:40
  to the polarities the moment you ejaculate, you lose your
• 1:06:42
  polarity long as he keeps that polarity going that energy from
• 1:06:50
  the from the female it's like a magnet.
• 1:06:53
  It just gets drawn into the field of the man.
• 1:06:58
  We're not talking about something physical here.
• 1:07:01
  We're talking about on the energy level, but it works.
• 1:07:05
  It does work. As you said earlier, we are all
• 1:07:07
  Just Energy, there is no physical, that's right, that's
• 1:07:11
  right. Have you ever found yourself in
• 1:07:14
  a place where you've just said, I don't know how the fuck I got
• 1:07:17
  here, but if I follow the Dow, I'm going to get out or I'm
• 1:07:22
  going to get through it. All the time.
• 1:07:27
  Especially now I'm in a situation here where I think I
• 1:07:34
  made the wrong move coming here and leaving the place I was
• 1:07:37
  before in this particular time, especially now with the world
• 1:07:41
  situation is. So it's causing me some
• 1:07:44
  considerable suffering and I think all the time How did I get
• 1:07:50
  here? Why did I do this?
• 1:07:53
  And of course, the answer is you needed to, I guess and it's a
• 1:07:59
  hurdle that I have to cross. I've got the kitchen, so It is
• 1:08:10
  up to me. Yeah.
• 1:08:11
  So physically right now you're in a geographic location that is
• 1:08:14
  not as comforting to you as where you were right.
• 1:08:19
  I also not a citizen in this country and the time when
• 1:08:23
  visitors and visas are getting more problematic and you can't
• 1:08:27
  just hop on a plane and go somewhere else.
• 1:08:29
  It seemed like a good idea at the time but now it doesn't look
• 1:08:34
  that way and there are hurdles coming up, right?
• 1:08:38
  Can you say Where You Are? Daniel, I'm in Chiang Mai.
• 1:08:41
  Okay Thailand. And it's like my Thailand and we
• 1:08:45
  lived here before, but we came back.
• 1:08:47
  But again, you know, there is no hurdle that can't be crossed.
• 1:08:55
  If you know how to do it. Basically, I'm still pretty
• 1:08:59
  healthy and 72 years old now and I know what I'm doing, but
• 1:09:04
  there's a lot of obstacles here. I mean there's a lot of
• 1:09:08
  pollution got 5G Towers everywhere and other things.
• 1:09:14
  So maybe I had it too comfortable, right?
• 1:09:17
  Or How do you know this opportunity is right?
• 1:09:21
  For you it's because it's the opportunity that you're going
• 1:09:25
  through. That's what you're presented
• 1:09:26
  with. In that case, my wife more
• 1:09:30
  enlightened than me because she deserves such thinking about all
• 1:09:33
  this stuff. Here we are, which is be here
• 1:09:40
  sink or swim. I found if nothing else that has
• 1:09:46
  carried me through more in life, just that knowledge of knowing
• 1:09:49
  that every Occurrence, good or seemingly.
• 1:09:54
  Bad is an opportunity and it's part of our learning and it's
• 1:10:00
  presented to us with intention. Yeah.
• 1:10:06
  Yeah, but you know, when you read my Memoir eventually, okay?
• 1:10:13
  Just an incredibly colorful. I lots of fun and good luck were
• 1:10:19
  all the way down the line and it could be that you know that I've
• 1:10:25
  had great teachers and just maybe I haven't been working
• 1:10:30
  hard enough on that stuff and so the Dow turning the five
• 1:10:36
  elements and what's needed, what's needed just happens,
• 1:10:41
  especially if you're connected with that.
• 1:10:44
  If you're connected with the teaching, then the teachings
• 1:10:47
  will get just like a teacher and say well, how are you?
• 1:10:52
  You've been skipping class. Let's get to To work here.
• 1:10:57
  You've written a couple books on chi gong.
• 1:11:00
  Yeah. Is that a regular part of your
• 1:11:02
  life? Absolutely.
• 1:11:06
  There's two things that are regular part of my life always
• 1:11:11
  show. They had been seized not 1985,
• 1:11:15
  she gone. And what I call Kegel key, being
• 1:11:21
  a particular type of Chinese tea from Taiwan.
• 1:11:24
  I've written a book about it, called the art and Alchemy of
• 1:11:28
  Chinese to do. You know, this book, I've seen
• 1:11:31
  it, but I haven't read it. And we have a key website.
• 1:11:35
  So what is this tea? This tea is a kind of a oolong
• 1:11:41
  tea. There's three kinds of tea in
• 1:11:42
  Chinese cheaters. There's green tea.
• 1:11:46
  Yeah, this picked and dried and that just not oxidized commended
• 1:11:53
  And there's what we call black teeth.
• 1:11:56
  They call it red key fully fermented and then that's all
• 1:12:01
  which is the difference between fermentation and oxidation which
• 1:12:06
  is allowed to oxidize on the floor in the basket for about
• 1:12:10
  anywhere from on a scale of one to ten anywhere up to finger
• 1:12:16
  between three and six it's semi Oxford semi oxidized and that's
• 1:12:21
  the tea we drink and this is the one with the most Potency for
• 1:12:25
  hell. And then when the Chinese
• 1:12:29
  nationalist, I came to Taiwan, they brought this along to their
• 1:12:33
  grew, it in the mountains around Sherwood that gave birth to what
• 1:12:36
  we know is high mountain oolong tea, and that is the gold
• 1:12:41
  standard far. As I'm concerned, there's many
• 1:12:43
  good teams around, but this has so many properties.
• 1:12:46
  I won't go into it. Use this whole interview, just
• 1:12:49
  to promote the tea, I drink, but there's a reason for it all my
• 1:12:52
  teachers. Is from Taiwan, I learned
• 1:12:56
  everything I learned from my future's there, I would say 80%
• 1:13:01
  of it at the tea-table, I'd go to the house.
• 1:13:04
  Well, they come to my house and we make cheap, it has remarkable
• 1:13:08
  property. In many ways for health and
• 1:13:12
  healing. And so, basically, just wrap it
• 1:13:16
  up here. I start my day in the morning, I
• 1:13:18
  get up, I drink a glass of water with a little bit of sea salt in
• 1:13:21
  it, and then I do like tchibo. And after that, I met Pete and
• 1:13:27
  while I'm drinking tea, I'll go and do another, two, three forms
• 1:13:32
  of Qigong and all that. And that's the day.
• 1:13:35
  And then at night, I do some Qigong before I go to bed.
• 1:13:40
  So I want to talk about the Qigong.
• 1:13:41
  Let's stick with the tea for a second oolong by far.
• 1:13:44
  My favorite does it matter if you're ruling is Monkey Picked
• 1:13:49
  or handpicked by humans. Basically, let's get down to the
• 1:13:53
  brass tacks here. There's a lot of good tea in
• 1:13:56
  China. The most of it is contaminated
• 1:13:58
  with chemicals. It is not pesticides and
• 1:14:02
  additives, is this the air or the ground water, heavy metals,
• 1:14:07
  and pollution in the groundwater from industry.
• 1:14:10
  It's just hard to get a purity. And in Taiwan T Growers as
• 1:14:16
  Specialties we get, we get all of our ideas organic but we
• 1:14:20
  don't even need certification. I don't mean we my, the people
• 1:14:24
  we buy from, we have a personal connection with these Growers.
• 1:14:29
  They sell every leaf. Every time this is such a demand
• 1:14:32
  for, they don't use any chemicals they use.
• 1:14:38
  Fruit peeling and peanut shells and stuff approval eyes in that
• 1:14:41
  chemical fertilizers etc, etc. So it's t at its best growing in
• 1:14:45
  the mountains. And the unique thing about it is
• 1:14:48
  that because it's taiwan's on the ocean and T is going in the
• 1:14:52
  mountains at night. The Ocean Mist comes up And it
• 1:14:57
  just blankets the tea fields. And so that minerals from the
• 1:15:03
  ocean are taken into the tea leaves minerals are powerful to
• 1:15:08
  the nervous system very important.
• 1:15:11
  So all in all, if you like it alone, T, you should try our Chi
• 1:15:16
  grunting RT. Is you try something from to my
• 1:15:20
  menu? I could have it sent to you from
• 1:15:22
  Taiwan, please do. And the other way to do it.
• 1:15:28
  Maybe is where are you in Canada.
• 1:15:30
  I am on the west coast on Vancouver Island Victoria
• 1:15:35
  because my guy was doing my editing for my Memoir is in
• 1:15:40
  Montreal, he just ordered some right there any way we can work
• 1:15:44
  on that later. I love to get some the tea and
• 1:15:48
  it's made with a little pot, but if you like key and your
• 1:15:52
  chiidren, you'll I don't need to say anything.
• 1:15:54
  It speaks. But I'm just saying, is, because
• 1:15:56
  of the wave, two things chemical contamination is a big problem.
• 1:16:02
  You don't want that. And the other one is unique
• 1:16:05
  properties. In Taiwan of the ocean are
• 1:16:07
  dropping the minerals on and using organic fertilizers and
• 1:16:10
  all that, and everything is hand-picked With the fingers,
• 1:16:15
  which have tea. Yes, and you don't cut the leaf,
• 1:16:20
  you don't break the lead. All of these factors mean, that
• 1:16:24
  that's the creme de La Creme of tea oolong tea, which I say, and
• 1:16:30
  I stick by it and I could defend.
• 1:16:33
  This thesis is, most power is the best thing in the world in
• 1:16:37
  terms of what he's supposed to do, and it's really a great
• 1:16:41
  Health and Longevity timing. And how does that compare with a
• 1:16:45
  Chinese puer? That's a whole different thing.
• 1:16:50
  The pore pressure is a lot of fake stuff there.
• 1:16:53
  It's a scam sometimes. And sometimes night the poor is
• 1:16:58
  a tea. That's fermented.
• 1:17:00
  It's packed in a real brick or a wheel and put in a in a room.
• 1:17:07
  That's got humidity in it and allowed to ferment sometimes.
• 1:17:11
  I mean the best ones, 50, 60 years and then 450 grams is sold
• 1:17:16
  for a million dollars. This is ridiculous, it's absurd.
• 1:17:23
  And at this I don't see it but the poor people are Fanatics.
• 1:17:28
  They think, I stood a lot of timing, you know that everywhere
• 1:17:32
  I went, you know, 40 this to you know that I asked my Leticia.
• 1:17:37
  I said, what's the most expensive poor?
• 1:17:41
  You're a fan. He merely said a 450 gram wheel
• 1:17:45
  for 1 million Renminbi. That's like two hundred fifty
• 1:17:50
  thousand dollars. U.s., wow, we are very best
• 1:17:55
  teas. Thousands of times better
• 1:17:58
  tasting in my opinion because all poor to me to stop.
• 1:18:02
  Seems like old socks. No, I just don't see, I don't
• 1:18:08
  get it. It has, okay, what's it for a
• 1:18:11
  particularly good for Digestive properties.
• 1:18:13
  You need a lot of meat. Which the Chinese do or dairy
• 1:18:18
  products. It helps digestion, but it
• 1:18:20
  doesn't have the properties of a good for good.
• 1:18:24
  Hold on. No.
• 1:18:26
  All right. Well, I definitely want to get
• 1:18:27
  some of your hulong. Let's talk about chi gong.
• 1:18:31
  Yeah. Are you doing the same forms
• 1:18:34
  every day? Or do you have a variety of
• 1:18:37
  different forms that you do? Well, now, at my age, I've
• 1:18:41
  served with boiled it down to my favorite.
• 1:18:45
  I've learned so many hundreds of different moods from different
• 1:18:49
  teachers. I have a handbook, I don't know
• 1:18:52
  if you know about this one, I've written two books on Qi Gong is
• 1:18:56
  the big one which has the history and all that.
• 1:18:58
  And then my, it's actually the last book I wrote Before the
• 1:19:03
  Memoir, it's called the essence of g, go.
• 1:19:05
  Yes. Handbook, forms for Davey
• 1:19:07
  practice. Shambhala published it, okay.
• 1:19:11
  A lot of people really like that or doing well, there's not much
• 1:19:14
  texting is 56 forms in their Illustrated and with a lot of
• 1:19:21
  detail on how to do them. So, anyone who has any kind of
• 1:19:25
  background and she going can learn from that book.
• 1:19:28
  It's really meant, as a practice book.
• 1:19:31
  So what I do every day, Is in that book.
• 1:19:37
  Although I don't do that many. I don't do that lied to about
• 1:19:40
  half an hour, 45 minutes in the morning and about 20 minutes at
• 1:19:45
  night. And basically, I do the same
• 1:19:48
  forms for the once in a while. Like this this morning, I
• 1:19:51
  brought in a form that I haven't practiced for a long time.
• 1:19:57
  Occasionally, I will make an adjustment in But there's a
• 1:20:02
  basically, a routine that I like to follow, by the way, doesn't
• 1:20:06
  matter any tree going form that you really like, or maybe two or
• 1:20:10
  three, if you really like them and you just practice them
• 1:20:12
  longer eventually, the energy runs all your Channels with any
• 1:20:16
  one of those forms. What is the benefit you get from
• 1:20:19
  chi gong, what do you feel? Well, it's done with your, okay.
• 1:20:25
  First of all, this is the first stage, which I call warm up with
• 1:20:29
  where you just do certain. It's basically stretching
• 1:20:31
  Loosening the body, you know, you go to a gym, you compact the
• 1:20:34
  body weight training, and all that.
• 1:20:37
  But that's not what we want to do.
• 1:20:39
  You want your joints to loosen up and you want to stretch your
• 1:20:42
  tendons. So there's a few movements,
• 1:20:45
  which have nothing to do with breathing just to loosen up the
• 1:20:48
  body. It's and then you get to the
• 1:20:50
  main practice, the main form, which is a synchronization of
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  the breath with particular body movement, the body move,
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  Movements Focus, the flow of energy on particular channels.
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  Maybe the heart channel of the lung channel of the river
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  Channel, although it and ends up traveling, all your channel.
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  So, what it is, is like this, your breath Which is something
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  you can control. Yeah, you can't control many of
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  you autonomous functions. Now, if you just don't pay
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  attention to it, you'll breathe. That's autonomic part of your
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  nervous system, but you can also take control of your breath.
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  You can regulate your breath by breathing in a certain way. and
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  that is, Our access direct regulator to our internal energy
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  system. We have it, we have net
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  meridians, we call them. I think in India, they call the
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  noughties or whatever we have invisible channels going through
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  our body through which energy flows, this is not even accepted
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  in Western medicine, but we know that it's there.
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  And so this and these channels feed energy to your organs net,
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  and they can get blocked, they can, they can be deficient and
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  all that. So when you breathe in a
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  regulated way soft, smooth, With and deep, it doesn't have to be,
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  you know, there's no breath retention or anything involved.
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  It's just basically rhythmic, smooth, breathing, and combine
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  that, with a particular movement of the body and synchronize it.
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  So, at the top of the breath, you reach the top of the
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  movement, and at the end of the breath, end of the movement, you
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  tap into your energy system and you can get your energy system.
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  The channels open and the energy flowing through it.
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  It's a way the breath breathing in a certain way, is a way of
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  getting into your energy system and regulating its, its flow and
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  Sochi the word. Chih-hao means two things, that
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  means air breath or energy, I'm going is just work.
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  So, chicken is energy work. Done with the breath.
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  I'm a huge fan. And I practice a few different
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  variations of the, a brocade. And it actually got me into
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  archery, which is another one of my favorite now, forms of
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  meditation because doing some of the movements that are Archer
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  esk. I was doing those so often I
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  thought. Well, why don't?
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  I just got myself a bow and then yeah, that's one of my favorite
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  forms. Absolutely for me too.
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  I'm soon, interviewing Kenneth Cohen who's oh yeah, well known
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  Qi. Gong practitioner and writer.
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  Yes. But thank you for that
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  explanation of both your Qi Gong.
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  And your tea Kong. Yeah, it's risky.
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  It was without that, I'd be gone.
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  It's your daily ritual, daily connection.
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  Yeah and you know the T does various things to it keeps
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  alkalize your body fluids. Keep the slightly out to end and
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  that's the healthy way and all diseases involved with the city
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  conditions and the tri breathing properly.
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  Also, alkalizes, your bloodstream and keep the energy
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  moving and you don't need to go to the gym.
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  Is there any particular facet or philosophy or teaching of the
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  dowel that resonates most strongly with you or has had the
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  greatest impact? Well I had to say because the
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  Dow always goes back to the daodejing I would say it's the
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  basic principle that had the biggest impact on me because I
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  see them everywhere. I mean, the most basic one from
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  the primordial, primordial, Unity of the Dow eun-jung and
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  then Community from there. The five Elemental energies
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  balance and Harmony, but I see those principles applied and
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  coming out in everything. And if there's something wrong
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  with something, the taste of something or something's not
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  growing properly in your garden. You're going to find that you
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  get their young or the one of the five elements that are out
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  of out of sync and you straighten it out with that.
• 1:25:30
  So what I liked about the dollars, its simplicity That's
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  all. It's not that that's what's
• 1:25:37
  inspired me the most about it. Well, all of your books are
• 1:25:41
  incredible. Thank you for those.
• 1:25:43
  Can you talk a bit before we wrap up here about your, your
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  Memoir, your two volumes shots from the dab?
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  What's the what's the first subtitle sex drugs in the Dow?
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  Yeah. Sex drugs in the Dow that takes
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  me up through. it starts at Berkeley and my brother and I
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  were about to embark on it because if we were in the
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  airline business, my family I we had free passes we went to
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  Bombay things happen and then it takes me up through my Sixteen
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  years in Taiwan. so sex drugs in the doubt, basically there was a
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  lot of sex to the valley drugs and then there was this thing
• 1:26:30
  that I've discovered amidst all that Merchants the Dow.
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  The second one is called Energy Light and luminous space.
• 1:26:40
  It's basically when I settle down linked up with my wife snow
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  and the covers up the life, I had in Thailand and in Byron Bay
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  Australia. And that's also NG light
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  luminous space. I was more getting into the
• 1:27:02
  nature of Reality spiritual, not so much spiritual practice and
• 1:27:07
  I'll consider myself a meditator or anything, but understanding
• 1:27:13
  the things we were talking about and also things that went wrong,
• 1:27:18
  I had some some rough hurdles to cover which is in the last few
• 1:27:22
  chapters I don't know how people are gonna respond to this so
• 1:27:26
  far. It's been pretty good but I
• 1:27:29
  think a lot of people think from my books they're thinking I've
• 1:27:32
  been the dress. My website as dr.
• 1:27:35
  Reed gets in there, dr. Reed, I think I'm a doctor or
• 1:27:41
  even more. It's sort of embarrassing.
• 1:27:43
  Master. You know, they think maybe I
• 1:27:47
  wear robes and very clean liver in terms of the conventional
• 1:27:54
  view of that. So what I talk right about my
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  book Shows how I actually got to where I am now through a
• 1:28:04
  colorful life with ups and down. And I don't know what motivated
• 1:28:09
  me to do that. I guess it was just to show
• 1:28:13
  people that if I can do it, anyone can do it.
• 1:28:17
  Well, thank you for doing it. I haven't read them, but I'm
• 1:28:20
  really looking forward to reading them.
• 1:28:23
  Okay, well, I'm doing some last-minute uploads on the
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  second one, which will be done in about two weeks and then
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  that's fine. The first ones.
• 1:28:36
  Okay, perfect. And you're a prolific writer.
• 1:28:41
  You writing anything? So is this it for now?
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  Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to write any more
• 1:28:48
  books. It depends what happened here in
• 1:28:52
  the situation we're in. I mean, I've got some real
• 1:28:55
  problems. I'm living in a very noisy
• 1:28:57
  place. Here, I can't write very well.
• 1:29:00
  So, I've got to find another place to live or if it becomes
• 1:29:02
  possible to go somewhere else. Like I wouldn't mind going back
• 1:29:07
  to Taiwan, but here there are some obstacles for me to just
• 1:29:15
  actually have the conditions of peace and quiet in which I can
• 1:29:18
  do my writing. But I'll probably get over that
• 1:29:22
  but I do have some ideas. Yeah, great.
• 1:29:27
  Well, if they ever materialized, I look forward to those as well.
• 1:29:32
  Yeah, door Daniel. Where can people find more about
• 1:29:36
  you? I know you have a website.
• 1:29:39
  Yeah. My website then read dot org?
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  Día, en, R. EI d dot org orgy.
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  And my Books, of course, you're out there.
• 1:29:51
  I think they're all still in print, but I don't, I don't do a
• 1:29:56
  blog or anything. Occasionally, something new will
• 1:29:59
  be posted on my website. I have a poetry page, some
• 1:30:02
  poems. I've written over the years and
• 1:30:05
  I could occasionally post articles.
• 1:30:08
  On health and that stuff that the website and it's a pretty
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  website at a Korean designer, a woman.
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  Did it for me, other than that, that's enough.
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  Yeah, that's great. I can't thank you enough for
• 1:30:22
  doing this tonight or tonight for me today for you.
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  Yeah, I'm happy to do it anytime you like, oh, it's great.
• 1:30:30
  It's again, such an honor for me to be able to sit down and talk
• 1:30:33
  to you and I said something like, 20, 22 years.
• 1:30:36
  After first reading your Book, which has been so impactful for
• 1:30:40
  me. So contact me for an interview.
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  I think I was just going down the books on my shelf, which I
• 1:30:51
  often do. And I find, I find the ones that
• 1:30:54
  are most impactful or inspirational, and then I will
• 1:30:57
  often reach out to those writers.
• 1:30:58
  So, a lot of my guests are writers and I reached out to you
• 1:31:02
  a while ago. I don't know how long ago.
• 1:31:04
  I didn't hear back from you. So I think I followed up again
• 1:31:06
  more recently. And this time I hit I hit Pay
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  Dirt. So thank you for that now.
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  You contact my website, did I give you my personal email?
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  Yeah. Yep, I've got to know.
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  Yes, if you want to do get some key go on to the T website and
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  have a look at it party, is more expensive than most T websites
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  because it's it's, I mean, it I can vouch for it. and can I tell
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  T dot org. I'll put that in the show notes
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  for people. Yeah, it's all L.
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  Ong Dam Dash, T perfect. Well I look forward to trying
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  that and I will, I will certainly have a pot of that
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  while. I'm reading your Memoir.
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  Okay, perfect. Thank you so much sir.
• 1:32:13
  It's been a pleasure. I really enjoyed this.
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  Okay, me too. All right, take care.
• 1:32:20
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