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Gems of spiritual traditions..the hairy hands of joy


Lead me from dreaming to waking.
Lead me from opacity to clarity. Lead me from the complicated to the simple. Lead me from the obscure to the obvious. Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace -from the Upanishads- Unless you know the emptiness and bliss inside yourself..you'll be a robot forced by the same emptiness and bliss trying to know itself..by pain.. ...inside your self also..trust me!..said the mahayogi!
*note*..lovely site from Phil..worthy of examining his hairy wisdom muscles,indeed...Dignified and upright, emerge and make contact with the variety of phenomena, unstained and unconfused. Function the same toward all others since all have the same substance as you. Language cannot transmit this, speculation cannot reach it. Leaping beyond the infinite and cutting off the dependent, be obliging without looking for merit.
Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091-1157)(http://kriptodanny.blogspot.com/2011/04/conduct-of-moon-and-cloudsfrom-hongzhi.html) ......

The Conduct of the Moon and Clouds

The consistent conduct of people of the Way is like the flowing clouds with no grasping mind, like the full moon reflecting universally, not confined anywhere, glistening within each of the ten thousand forms.

Dignified and upright, emerge and make contact with the variety of phenomena, unstained and unconfused. Function the same toward all others since all have the same substance as you. Language cannot transmit this, speculation cannot reach it. Leaping beyond the infinite and cutting off the dependent, be obliging without looking for merit.

This marvel cannot be measured with consciousness or emotion. On the journey accept your function, in your house please sustain it. Comprehending birth and death, leaving causes and conditions, genuinely realize that from the outset your spirit is not halted. So we have been told that the mind that embraces all the ten directions does not stop anywhere.

-- Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091-1157)
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check out his hairy hands ..formidable black hairs of wisdom he grew on his intensive 10 fingers buddhist meditation insight non-dual practice,indeed...kisses to him for his site..lots of useful links there,and if you've got the time....then read his journal too..his main site is  Phil Servedio..I am always fascinated and pay my mahayogi respects to people who actually write about the way of HOW they meditate...because these days,it seems to me that everybody is some nutcase non-dualist...everybody knows the truth,and they have grabbed the truth by it's balls,it seems..if you ask them ,,how you meditate,,??..you get the response ,,I watch the breath,,...or worse..,,I pray to my local Shiva gold lingam..since Shiva's penis would save my ass,,..or,,I bow down to Allah the Mighty 5 times a day..then in my spare time I am a suicidal terrorist ,since by dying I go to heaven..or even worse...,,I pray to my guru forever,since he was the only ONE..ever...he was god,and I am the fruitcake whom begs god for mercy...or even wayyyyy much worse...Jesus died for my sins..so I can sin freely since he saved my ass..and he is my personal savior,since I talk to him daily,and I have a personal jesus ..yes..I have a personal jesus out there..and if I pray to him,he'll fulfill all my wishes,since he is a good jesus,and he obeys my fruitcake's wishes,and he does as I command..all I have to do is pray to the sucker and say,,Thank you Jesus,,..thank you ..you were a good Jesus for fulfilling my wishes..thank you again,praise the Lord you Jesus in my large BOTTLE..YOU'RE my genie in a bottle,if I rub(pray to you)  the right way...you''ll do it,no?..then rub the mahayogi good..maybe he'll be your genie too..and you won't have to do any spiritual work,no meditation..all you have to do is to rub my overgrown 12 inches wisdom brain muscles..methinks ..maybe I'll do it,indeed..you numb-nuts!

In any case..asking people about how they meditate is a no-no these days...trust the mahayogi(loved in the 3 realms,respected in 10..celebrated in the 18th also by himself)
They always tell you HOW it is..everything is set up in stones for them...the universe is this..the reincarnation is that..the bliss is this..the truth is that...the mystery of creation is the Shiva Lingam...Jehovah is the best and the only one if you're a good Jew...Krishna is good also,but he never heard of Jehovah.....there are no shortcuts to their insanity..
This is what bothers me mostly..their self assurance that there is nothing left for them to discover...
They got the truth of the universe by it's balls..and that's it...REALLY???
This is when the universe and the KRIPTO spirit within them will give them so much pain,I wonder how they'll avoid it by just watching the breath,or by saying..I am that...or.I am happy...and I am the only one whom knows best..be aware that the whole PURPOSE of life is to Know your source..The source is immortal eternal bliss,but by getting STUCK in manifestations and imaginations of it's own(your attention gets stuck) only time will tell indeed if you want to understand that it's your own doing,and maybe in the end try to understand that there is NO GOD other then your true self...there is NO power outside of yourself,but it is fractal power..what you believe will happen...ponder grasshoppers from heaven..the future of the humanity depends on this secret..only time will tell if you will understand this esoteric principle..trust me..
Only time will tell indeed..for I'll not be alive when that happens,that's for sure...Buddha died,Socrates died...Jesus died..Mohammed died...and I'm not feeling too good either...kiss from the mahayogi:)
-added by danny-
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I've had already very bad experiences with sites going offline...maybe I'll just post all his hairy gems of spirituality just to be sure they are locked in the kripto locker ..for now I'll just post this formidable explaining from Naropa  ...very good indeed...clearly he knew the truth,but don't bet your ass that you'd understand his words..really..unless you're close to his level,his words will go thru your left ear,and leave in a sudden fart of disappointment right thru your right side of your grasshopper ass  ...while singing like James Brown..

I feel good to reject the wisdom you'll say..I feel GOOD not to meditate too..,,..since your own personal ideas,beliefs ..and secondary consciousness factors inside your grasshoppers selves will decide for you what is good or not...and not the real Kripto YOU within..story of humanity indeed..anyway...this is the primary reason people don't start meditating..is BECAUSE they believe is must be automatic,not realizing those extra negativities in them who rule their lives!!..how they COULD KNOW unless they make an effort to escape suffering?...and enter true samadhi ???...they even say their suffering is bliss!!..such is the state of the humanity and of the individuals these days...... I love you too grasshoppers from heaven..always did..thus loved the mahayogi!..kiss:)
-added by danny-







The View, Concisely Put


by Naropa
translated by Erik Pema Kunsang


Homage to the Vajra Dakini!
To the omniscient Lord of Refuge,
The protector of beings, I pay homage! After pursuing statements and reasoning
I have condensed and established the true meaning. 

All these apparent and existing phenomena
Are nowhere apart from mind, your own awareness.
Since it perceives and is cognizant,
It is like experience that is self-known. 

If this mind was not like that
There would be no link and therefore no experience.
This is how I have established the relative:
"Understand that all phenomena are based on mind," as it is said. 

The very basis of phenomena, which is mind essence,
Can be analyzed, dissected with reasoning, and so forth,
But this naturally luminous mind
And the momentary defilement of thought these two,

Whether they are one or different Is a topic of extreme profundity .
Because of this depth, scholars analyze.
Though they explain, I shall not write about it here.
This mind that knows emptiness

Is itself the awakened mind, bodhicitta.
The buddha potential is just this.
The sugata essence is just this.
Because of tasting what is,

It is also the great bliss.
The understanding of secret mantra is just this.
Means and knowledge is just this.
The vast and profound is just this.

Samantabhadra with consort is just this.
This space and wisdom, perceiving while being empty ,
Is what is called "knowing original enlightenment."
This self-knowing, while one is still defiled,

Does not depend on other things,
So self-existing wakefulness is just this.
Being aware, it is cognizance.
A natural knowing that is free of thought.

This self-knowing cannot possibly form thoughts.
Without conceptualizing a 'mind,'
Since it is not something to be conceived,
This original wakefulness, cognizant yet thought-free,

Is like the wisdom of the Tathagata.
Therefore, it is taught, "Realize that luminous mind
Is the mind of original wakefulness,
And don't seek an enlightenment separate from that."

Nevertheless, this mind does become disturbed
By the defilement of momentary thoughts,
Like water, like gold, like the sky,
It may be either pure or impure. 

But the naturally luminous mind
Is free from even a hair-tip of concrete substance,
Like the analogy of a sky flower .
It does not exist as it seems to be,

Therefore, it cannot be established to be non-existent.
As everything is mutually dependent,
When one side is invalid, the other side does not exist.
Mind is neither existent nor nonexistent.

Since each of these [ constructs ] is negated.
It is also not both,
Since existing and not existing are a contradiction.
It is not a living being Nor other than living beings. 

Therefore, it is free from all constructs.
This is how I have established the ultimate:
"Mind is based on space," as it is said.
This unconstructed self-knowing

Perceives while empty , and while empty it perceives.
Experience and emptiness are therefore indivisible,
Like the analogy of the moon in water.
This is how I have established non duality:

"Space is not based on anything," as it is said.
This unconstructed self-knowing
Is itself the very basis of samsara.
Nirvana as well is also just this.

The Great Middle Way is also just this.
That to be seen is also just this.
That to train is also just this.
That to attain is also just this.

The valid truth is also just this.
The renowned threefold tantras
Of basic cause, method, and result,
And what is known as ground, path, and fruition,

Are just different situations of this.
The basic consciousness, the all-ground,
And all possible aggregates in samsara,
Are known as the' dependent,' and so forth. 

Emaho!
The creations of this mind essence, while one is still defiled,
The six classes of beings, and so forth,
Extending to the bounds of space,
Are the magical machinery of suffering,

Which surpasses the grasp of thought.
This unconstructed self-knowing itself
Which is free from the defilement of thought,
Is the non dwelling nirvana. 

The Vajra Being is also just this.
The Sixth Buddha is also just this.
The six families are also just this.
Manjusri Kumara is just this.

Vairochana is just this.
Dharmakaya, the great bliss,
And the state of unity are also just this.
This itself is the fourth empowerment.

Innate joy is also just this.
Natural purity is also just this.
All these and other different indicators
Known from the sutras and tantras,

Are for the most part based on this;
Simply combined with this in whichever way is suitable.
Emaho!
The creations of this undefiled mind essence,

What comprises the kayas of form:
The buddha fields of utter purity ,
The magically created mandalas, and so forth-
All these creations of great wonder-

Appear, extending to the bounds of space.
The non-Buddhist Tirthikas,
In their ignorance of mind itself,
Are submerged in an ocean of erroneous philosophy

Involving a self, a supreme godhead, and the like.
The schools of Buddhism, such as the shravakas,
The pratyekabuddhas, and the followers of Mind Only,
Maintain the duality of perceiver and perceived,

And conceptualize non duality as being the true,
Moreover, they get caught in the web of concepts
Such as whether the perceived is real or false.
By not mistaking the view in this way,

You attain enlightenment through the meditation training and conduct,
That are in harmony with the real,
Just like a well-trained race horse. 

Unless you are in harmony with the real view,
Your meditation training and conduct will be mistaken
And you will not attain fruition,
Like a blind man without a guide.
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Song of Experience In Clear-Light Cave


Milarepa left White Rock Horse Tooth Cave and returned again to the Clear Light Cave of Gungthang. While he was staying there clear illumination grew stronger in this concentrated mind and he sang this song.
Homage to my holy lama!

I, the yogi Milarepa offer my experience and realization
to all meditators of the ten directions.
My mind is relaxed in its natural state
without rigidity or tension through gentle,
undistracted cultivation. 

I look straight ahead with the eye of critical awareness,
station behind the watchman of recollective awareness,
and hold body and mind comfortably alert.
My mind rests in its natural state,
unaffected by drowsiness or depression.

The aberrations of mind's eye
and the various experiences during tranquilization
dissolved and sent back to their natural place.
In the experience of thought free tranquilization
the clear mind possesses its own force,
naked, limpid and pure.

This is correct tranquilization experience.
Some claim this is insight, I don't agree.
So upon the horse of good tranquilization
I mount awareness which comprehends the
selflessness of both persons and things

through fine inspection by analytic wisdom.
Carrying as provisions my lama's blessings
which were sought with plaintive prayer,
I'm accompanied by wisdom and method
with personalities of voidness and compassion.
Driven on by the profound,

great iron goad of strongly motivated good wishes,
I look again and again at basic reality with gentle,
undistracted cultivation,
free from hope and from despair.
Know that having traveled this good meditation path,

I see it now with insight.
Know I've arrived in the untraveled country,
know I have flour without grinding.
Know that I watch the unseen spectacle.
Know that I've found an auspicious homeland.
Know that I've found a constant consort.
Know I proved welfare for my self and others. 

These are the treasure of Milarepa;
If I'm on the wrong path, please set me straight.
Eh ma! Till you practicers of the ten directions
attain perfect buddhahood don't deny cause
and effect of action! 

Till you've realized the actual state,
don't make senseless, empty talk!
Till you're able to exchange your interests with others'
don't say, "I've attained the production stage!"
Till both stages are attained, don't say, "
I'm a yogin of secret mantras!" 
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Tilopa's Song To Naropa

Mahamudra, the royal way, is free






from every word and sacred symbol.
For you alone, beloved Naropa,
this wonderful song springs forth from Tilopa
as spontaneous friendship that never ends.
The completely open nature
of all dimensions and events
is a rainbow always occurring
yet never grasped.
The way of Mahamudra
creates no closure.
No strenuous mental effort
can encounter this wide open way.
The effortless freedom of awareness
moves naturally along it.
As space is always freshly appearing
and never filled,
so the mind is without limits
and ever aware.
Gazing with sheer awareness
into sheer awareness,
habitual, abstract structures melt
into the fruitful springtime of Buddhahood.
White clouds that drift through blue sky,
changing shape constantly,
have no root, no foundation, no dwelling;
nor do changing patterns of thought
that float through the sky of mind.
When the formless expanse of awareness
comes clearly into view,
obsession with thought forms
ceases easily and naturally.
As within the openness of universal space
shapes and colors are spontaneously forming,
although space has no color or form,
so within the expanse of awareness
realms, relations and values are arising,
although awareness possesses
no positive or negative characteristics.
As the darkness of night,
even were it to last a thousand years,
could not conceal the rising sun,
so countless ages of conflict and suffering
cannot conceal the innate radiance of Mind.
Although philosophers explain
the transparent openness of appearances
as empty of permanent characteristics
and completely indeterminable,
this universal indeterminacy
can itself never be determined.
Although sages report
the nature of awareness to be luminosity,
this limitless radiance cannot be contained
within any language or sacramental system.
Although the very essence of Mind
is to be void of either subjects or objects,
it tenderly embraces all life within its womb.
To realize this inexpressible truth,
do not manipulate mind or body
but simply open into transparency
with relaxed, natural grace
intellect at ease in silence,
limbs at rest in stillness
like hollow bamboos.
Neither breathing in nor breathing out
with the breath of habitual thinking,
allow the mind to be at peace
in brilliant wakefulness.
This is the royal wealth of Mahamudra,
no common coin of any realm.
Beloved Naropa, this treasure of Buddhahood
belongs to you and to all beings.
Obsessive use of meditative disciplines
or perennial study of scripture and philosophy
will never bring forth this wonderful realization,
this truth which is natural to awareness,
because the mind that desperately desires
to reach another realm or level of experience
inadvertently ignores the basic light
that constitutes all experience.
The one who fabricates
any division in consciousness
betrays the friendship of Mahamudra.
Cease all activity that separates,
abandon even the desire to be free from desires
and allow the thinking process to rise and fall
smoothly as waves on a shoreless ocean.
The one who never dwells in abstraction
and whose only principle
is never to divide or separate
upholds the trust of Mahamudra.
The one who abandons craving
for authority and definition,
and never becomes one-sided
in argument or understanding,
alone perceives the authentic meaning
hidden in the ancient scriptures.
In the blissful embrace of Mahamudra,
negative viewpoints and their instincts
are burned without remainder, like camphor.
Through the open door of Mahamudra,
the deluded state of self-imprisonment
is easily left behind forever.
Mahamudra is the torch of supreme liberty
shining forth through all conscious beings.
Those beings constituted by awareness
who try to ignore, reject or grasp awareness
inflict sorrow and confusion upon themselves
like those who are insane.
To be awakened from this madness,
cultivate the gracious friendship
of a sublime sage of Mahamudra,
who may appear to the world as mad.
When the limited mind
enters blessed companionship
with limitless Mind,
indescribable freedom dawns.
Selfish or limited motivations
create the illusory sense of imprisonment
and scatter seeds of further delusion.
Even genuine religious teaching
can generate narrowness of vision.
Trust only the approach
that is utterly vast and profound.
The noble way of Mahamudra
never engages in the drama of
imprisonment and release.
The sage of Mahamudra
has absolutely no distractions,
because no war against distractions has ever been declared.
This nobility and gentleness alone,
this nonviolence of thought and action ,
is the traceless path of all Buddhas.
To walk this all-embracing way
is the bliss of Buddhahood.
Phenomena on every plane of being
are constantly arising and disappearing.
Thus they are forever fresh,
always new and inexhaustible.
Like dreams without solid substance,
they can never become rigid or binding.
The universe exists in a deep, elusive way
that can never be grasped or frozen.
Why feel obsessive desire or hatred for it,
thereby creating illusory bonds?
Renounce arbitrary, habitual views.
Go forth courageously to meditate
in the real mountain wilderness,
the wide open Mahamudra.
Transcend boundaries of kinship
by embracing all living beings
as one family of consciousness.
Remain without any compulsion
in the landscape of natural freedom:
spontaneous, generous, joyful.
When you receive the crown of Mahamudra,
all sense of rank or attainment
will quietly disappear.
Cut the root of the vine that chokes the tree,
and its clinging tendrils wither away entirely.
Sever the conventionally grasping mind,
and all bondage and desperation dissolve.
The illumination from an oil lamp
lights the room instantly,
even if it has been dark for aeons.
Mind is boundless radiance.
How can the slightest darkness
remain in the room of daily perception?
But one who clings to mental processes
cannot awaken to the radiance of Mind.
Strenuously seeking truth
by investigation and concentration,
one will never appreciate
the unthinkable simplicity and bliss
that abide at the core.
To uncover this fertile ground,
cut through the roots of complexity
with the sharp gaze of naked awareness,
remaining entirely at peace,
transparent and content.
You need not expend great effort
nor store up extensive spirtual power.
Remain in the flow of sheer awareness.
Mahamudra neither accepts nor rejects
any current of energy, internal or external.
Since the ground consciousness
is never born into any realm of being,
nothing can add to or subtract from it.
Nothing can obstruct or stain it.
When awareness rests here,
the appearance of division and conflict
disappears into original reality.
The twin emotions of anxiety and arrogance
vanish into the void from which they came.
Supreme knowing knows
no separate subject or object.
Supreme action acts resourcefully
without any array of instruments.
Supreme attainment attains the goal
without past, future or present.
The dedicated practitioner
experiences the spiritual way
as a turbulent mountain stream,
tumbling dangerously among boulders.
When maturity is reached,
the river flows smoothly and patiently
with the powerful sweep of the Ganges.
Emptying into the ocean of Mahamudra,
the water becomes ever-expanding light
that pours into great Clear Light
without direction, destination,
division, distinction or description.
from Mother of the Buddhas by Lex Hixon
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The Summary of Mahamudra

Homage to the state of great bliss!
Concerning what is called Mahamudra
All things are your own mind.
Seeing objects as external is a mistaken concept;
Like a dream, they are empty of concreteness.
This mind, as well, is a mere movement of attention
That has no self-nature, being merely a gust of wind.
Empty of identity, like space.
All things, like space, are equal.
When speaking of 'Mahamudra'
It is not an entity that can be shown.
There the mind's suchness
Is itself the state of Mahamudra.
It is neither something to be corrected nor transformed,
But when anyone sees and realizes its nature
All that appears and exists is Mahamudra,
The great all-encompassing Dharmakaya.
Naturally and without contriving, allowed simply to be,
This unimagined Dharmakaya,
Letting it be without seeking is the meditation training.
But to meditate while seeking is deluded mind.
Just as with space and a magical display,
While neither cultivating nor not cultivating
How can you be separate and not separate!
This is a yogi's understanding.
All good deeds and harmful actions
Dissolve by simply knowing this nature.
The emotions are the great wisdom.
Like a jungle fire, they are the yogi's helpers.
How can there be staying or going?
What meditation is there by fleeing to a hermitage?
Without understanding this, all possible means
Never bring more than temporary liberation.
When understanding this nature, what is there to bind you?
While being undistracted from its continuity,
There is neither a composed nor an uncomposed state
To be cultivated or corrected with a remedy.
It is not made out of anything
Experience self-liberated is dharmadhatu.
Thinking self-liberated is great wisdom,
Non-dual equality is dharmakaya.
Like the continuous flow of a great river,
Whatever you do is meaningful,
This is the eternal awakened state,
The great bliss, leaving no place for samasara.
All things are empty of their own identities.
This concept fixed on emptiness has dissolved in itself.
Free of concept, holding nothing in mind,
Is in itself the path of the Buddhas.
For the most fortunate ones,
I have made these concise words of heartfelt advice.
Through this, may every single sentient being
Be established in Mahamudra.
This was givin orally by the great pandita Naropa
to Marpa at Pullahari. (From Songs of Naropa by
Thrangu Rinpoche, translated by Erik Pema Kunsang).
The student asked: “A sage's response to changing conditions

is unlimited. Does he have to study beforehand?”

He should worry only about his mind's not being

clear, and not about the inability to respond to all changing conditions.”

— Wang Yang Ming (1472-1529)
To nourish the vital energy, keep watch in silence;



In order to subdue the mind, act with non-action.



Of movement and stillness, be aware of their origin;



There is no work to do, much less someone to seek.



The true and constant must respond to phenomena;



Responding to phenomena, you must be unconfused.



When unconfused, the nature will stabilize by itself;



When the nature stabilizes, energy returns by itself.



When energy returns, the elixir crystallizes by itself;



Within the pot, the trigrams of kǎn and lí(heaven and earth) are joined.



Yīn and yáng arise, alternating over and over again;



Every transformation comes like a clap of thunder.



White clouds form and come to assemble at the peak;



The sweet nectar sprinkles down Mount Sumeru.



Swallow for yourself this wine of immortality;



You wander so freely—who is able to know you?



Sit and listen to the tune played without strings;



Clearly understand the mechanism of creation.



It comes entirely from these twenty lines;



A true ladder going straight to Heaven.-Daoist text -

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To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !." - Tamil Poem-

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"The center of the cyclone is that rising quiet central low-pressure place in which one can learn to live eternally. Just outside of this Center is the rotating storm of one's own ego, competing with other egos in a furious high-velocity circular dance. As one leaves center, the roar of rotating wind deafens on more and more as one joins this dance. One's centered thinking-feeling-being, one's own Satoris, are in the center only, not outside. One's pushed-pulled driven states, one's anti-Satori modes of functioning, one's self-created hells, are outside the center. In the center of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us.

Here we find that we have created Them who are Us...

Lilly's Law

"In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the(true mind..added by danny) mind, there are no limits."" -- John C. Lilly -

Unless you know the emptiness and bliss inside yourself..you'll be a robot forced by the same emptiness and bliss trying to know itself..by pain..inside your self also..trust me!..said the mahayogi!
"The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it. Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring."
– from "The Way of Transformation.....Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim Montmartin (October 24, 1896 – December 28, 1988) "
In silence there must be movement, and in motion,
There must be silence.
A small movement is better than a big,
no movement is better than a small
silence is all the movement's mother.
In Movement you should be like a dragon or a tiger.
In non Movement you should be like a Buddha.  
-- Wang Xiangzhai(November 26, 1885 - July 12, 1963}
Those whom have ears to hear,let them see..those whom have eyes to see..let them hear good...Kripto Yoga  2.12