Another kind of Master
One cannot but help feel a little smug. Two blogs ago I said I had never regretted for one moment leaving the buckfast abyss of commercial dealings, and one blog ago announced having been tempted back in. My goodness me, what a blinder was that! Very nice. Now back to retirement, until re-awoken.
Meanwhile, back in the Tao, as if one had ever left it, Step 4 was such fun I felt inspired to trawl around a few Taoist web sites to see what others were doing. All having fun, by the look, feel and sound of it. But what a puzzling thing - I found that I knew many of the webbers, had trained with some and had trained others...and yet, where was I? And yet, yet, yet, where Master Mantak Chia?
In every sweatlodge I honour my teachers by name. On my web pages and blogs I express my appreciation for those who have gone before, by name. This began as a feeling from my heart. It was also of course a courtesy to those to whom I owe whatever I have attained in the world of Tao. Then, in the evolution of the internet these high-minded good intentions began to bear some very rich and tasty fruit in that those names I had honoured came up in web searches - on my web pages! Lucky me! or was what went around coming around? Regardless, I'm very happy.
For those who choose not to mention their Teachers, I wish them well, but to quote Sai Baba: "Mankind can win happiness only through unity...if thoughts and feelings run along the routes of division and distinction happiness is beyond reach and peace cannot be experienced."
So I thank my masters, from Mwala Ibuti and Nthenge Ngubi through Howard Wills and Mantak Chia, Richard Bandler, Roger Evans and Paul Mckenna and others meaningless to you, in appreciation for the benefits they continually shower upon me, my appreciation that when people search for them - they find me! Come by any time.
And as an afterword, hosting a visit by the Indian spiritual teacher Ushaji has given rise to an invitation to Anamarta and me to teach Zen Shiatsu Immersion and Taoist Practice in her home village of Dharamsala in the Indian Himalayas - right next door to that other villager HH the Dalai Lama (whom I had the honour of meeting a few years ago and from whom I learned that light can be love.)
In passing, come by for Master Chia's visit in November. He has some new and interesting subjects to teach. Click to learn what
Meanwhile, back in the Tao, as if one had ever left it, Step 4 was such fun I felt inspired to trawl around a few Taoist web sites to see what others were doing. All having fun, by the look, feel and sound of it. But what a puzzling thing - I found that I knew many of the webbers, had trained with some and had trained others...and yet, where was I? And yet, yet, yet, where Master Mantak Chia?
In every sweatlodge I honour my teachers by name. On my web pages and blogs I express my appreciation for those who have gone before, by name. This began as a feeling from my heart. It was also of course a courtesy to those to whom I owe whatever I have attained in the world of Tao. Then, in the evolution of the internet these high-minded good intentions began to bear some very rich and tasty fruit in that those names I had honoured came up in web searches - on my web pages! Lucky me! or was what went around coming around? Regardless, I'm very happy.
For those who choose not to mention their Teachers, I wish them well, but to quote Sai Baba: "Mankind can win happiness only through unity...if thoughts and feelings run along the routes of division and distinction happiness is beyond reach and peace cannot be experienced."
So I thank my masters, from Mwala Ibuti and Nthenge Ngubi through Howard Wills and Mantak Chia, Richard Bandler, Roger Evans and Paul Mckenna and others meaningless to you, in appreciation for the benefits they continually shower upon me, my appreciation that when people search for them - they find me! Come by any time.
And as an afterword, hosting a visit by the Indian spiritual teacher Ushaji has given rise to an invitation to Anamarta and me to teach Zen Shiatsu Immersion and Taoist Practice in her home village of Dharamsala in the Indian Himalayas - right next door to that other villager HH the Dalai Lama (whom I had the honour of meeting a few years ago and from whom I learned that light can be love.)
In passing, come by for Master Chia's visit in November. He has some new and interesting subjects to teach. Click to learn what
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