Sorry! Back to start
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Hey! This year, I’m gonna take a deep dive into the realm of our Xin Ling (the spiritual heart). We’re gonna start with trust. It is one of the key heart qualities of opening the heart, and… …one of the MOST difficult qualities to work on. Of course, the work on your Xin Ling starts with the foundations in Life Cultivation. And why? I'd rather skip it...so much work, puh! I’m gonna catapult you back into the year 2024 (where I was sharing stories from my chronicles of the highs and lows of running an enterprise with the crooked game in my kingdom). Here it goes. Enjoy! The One Where Mirjam Is LosingChronicle Date: December 28th, 2019 Know that moment when you’re coming around the corner in Sorry! and you just 'know' you’re about to enter the Safety Zone leading to your Home? It goes like this: You draw a card, and you already see the Safety Zone of your Home, 3 pawns already entered their Home, waiting for the 4th to come. (Your sis is already wincing every time you draw a card getting closer to the Safety Zone and winning.) You’re 5 moves away from making Sorry! history—you’ll hit Home with the next card from the Draw Pack. Your sister takes her card…hoping towards hope…and SLIIIDE! Removing YOUR pawn ON the Slide… Sorry! Back to Start. (Moving her own 4th pawn into her Home). Your moment has arrived. Then you jump on the table, whooping loudly and doing your "Go, Shorty" dance. Because… Sometimes losing in Sorry! (and in life cultivation), and experiencing a "setback" back to Start might be the exact thing you need to see an error in your application and practice in your favour. 'Cuz here’s what… There is a major trap in Life Cultivation. Ming and Xing in balance. What do these Chinese terms mean?
Ancient life cultivators understood the value and importance of cultivating both Ming and Xing, as the following two ancient sayings excellently remind everyone who is serious about cultivating and uplifting their life: #1 'Cultivating Ming only (without cultivating Xing) is the number one illness of life cultivation.' #2 'Cultivating Zu Xing (True Nature, Shen and consciousness), without cultivating Dan (a very condensed, pure form of Qi) makes it difficult to attain sainthood even after countless years or lifetimes.' Work on both is indispensable. Daily practice and working on 'Ming and Xing' in a balanced way may sound like a good idea to most life cultivators, but putting it into practice may not always be so easy. The not so surprising part? I have so much to do. Cultivating life, I have a job, I have a family, all of them need my attention all the time. Where do I get double time to practice and balance Ming and Xing? Xing is far more important. I found ways to use tactics I already knew, making things more simple and more efficient. I wanted the shortcut. The magic trick. Who wouldn't? Jingshen is the master of Qi and life. It's instructing how Qi changes. And the Qi of the body is listening. The crooked patterns constantly sabotage the 'zheng' Qi. If you work on the saboteurs, you automatically work on your body and Qi. I wanted to kill two birds with one stone. Until you’re infected by the illnesses of life cultivation. In other words, if you only focus on the work of consciousness and heart (and Shen), and you totally ignore, abandon, or neglect the work on the body and Qi, the result will be an imbalance. It’s an incomplete way of working on life. Sliding you back to Start. Sorry! The health of Jingshen is pivotal to the health of body and Qi, but in no way does the work on Jingshen reflect any intention to diminish the importance of the body and Qi. Since Jingshen is the master of Qi and of life, and impacting the body and Qi, it does not mean that the effort to take care of Qi and body itself should be spared. In other words, if you only cultivate the internal and ignore or give up the work on body and Qi, this work will be ineffective because it lacks the foundation for developing Xing and life as a whole. Ming and Xing are equally important, and neither one should be ignored, abandoned or neglected. What else is there? Now please lose at Sorry! (and in life cultivation) and maybe you can better embrace the teachers who are giving you the lessons you most need to learn and grow. xo, Mirjam P.S.: Want to work on your Qi? Then Learn Tian Yuan, designed to lay strong foundations, with Jeanne → Mirjam Blank |