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Robert Cowham wrote:
Personally I agree that there is a lot of just experience required. And yet in preparation for that I believe that thinking is absolutely required too.
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Yes, I'm thinking a lot. Reading a lot. Taoist classics about neidan, qi gong ...
He also did.
There are the discussions with my teacher, pondering the explanations of Dan, listening to the lectures of Endō sensei ...
It helps a lot to have at least an idea of what to look for. And to have at least an idea of what the old have experienced. Maybe it's impossible to get something without knowing something. Well, actually I think it is not possible.
But I also know that you get nothing from just pondering, thinking, "knowing". You have to do it, to experience it, to make it live. And very often you understand just by doing. You do, you read - it suddenly fits, the words "open up".
So we have a circle we walk, round and round, while moving on ...