There are basically two approaches to life, the back-foot one and the front-foot one. The back-foot one waits to receive before it gives. It is constantly going through the process of receiving, recognising, categorising, assessing profit to be gained from giving and then, and only then, giving accordingly. Its two main tools are the eyes and the rational mind. The front-foot approach is always moving forwards – always giving first in order to constantly kick-start a healthy exchange that benefits all parties. It relies on energy rather than the eyes, and heart rather than the rational mind. The back-foot approach is all about maintaining a general status quo – matter and energy can move around, can change hands, but are never created or destroyed, so if you leave a situation richer then someone or something somewhere is poorer. The front-foot approach is about transformation and about creativity. We could call it an anti-entropic approach – one that uses the vital life force within to bring more positive feeling – more heart – into the world. It operates from the basic premise that it is a simple matter for two beings to come together in an act of communication and actually create energy. Not only is it a simple matter it is the responsibility of every entity in the universe to behave so, at least in some way. Such behaviour is natural, at least when one's essential nature wakes up. Unfortunately most yielding in most TaiChi is back-foot behaviour. Heartwork is a body of knowledge and a body of work that draws participants onto the front foot. Whether those participants chose the struggle to stay on the front foot is a matter for them. It will require a very active engagement with faith, sincerity and courage, and the unsettling truth that one cannot be on both feet at the same time, and neither can one rock back and forth – it's far too exhausting and is still back-foot behaviour. Yin and yang are an illusion – a consequence of back-foot living. A front-foot person has no time for such constructs, they are too busy creating the world.
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What a wonderful compasion and hearth!.
If God exist in some kind of thing or no-thing he sure is front food. And evil back-foot.
But, if time is and illusion front and back are only illusion. God and evil the same thing and run and run forward a kind of fear. Fear to listen, fear to stop, fear to stop "travensing" others, fear to stop wrong action, fear to undertand that creating or doing things is other illusion.
Fear maybe front or back foot. Violence maybe front or back. Compasion, hearth, justice, love does not matter about front and rear legs.
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TaoTai
Adopted teacher of adopted method of doing or not-doing things or no-things.
(I dont need to publish this, only if you want, is only for you to enjoy)
We call the practice Heartwork.
Anyone can change, they just have to realise how important it is to do so. Only then will they have the courage to stomach the difficult aspects (the most important aspects) of the teaching.
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