A Tribute to the Tao
Thunder
The Tao is an expression of all things, all manner, all material.​
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Literature on the Thunder Trigram of the Tao.
Thunder releases the energetic principle that enables light to become magnetized and find its way to Earth.
How to live on the edge of Thunder. What you do in the meantime is sit where you are and watch which way the storm is forming. When you sit still you can almost apprehend the expression of the experience just before it is about to go down. And though this may not stop you from getting soaked by the storm it lets you know there's a new and more pertinent need. Shelter. Shelter is where we all go when we need time to formulate a plan. When we need time to see what is unfolding. When we need time to catch our breath. When we need time to see.
Excerpt: Season 1~ ‘And That’s All I Have to Say about That!’
The Right to be Who You Are
by Janice Brown (February 11, 2022)
The one aspect of your life that you most desire.
We are talking about the right to be who you are as if it is some elusive quality.
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It is the most natural resource that exists to man today, and it is simply abdicated in misunderstanding. It is not on purpose; it is not in despair or disappointment that the higher self comes through to save the day.
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It is that the higher self, your true nature, was left at the roadside years ago by some gross misunderstanding of the rightful term of love.
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Love and your divine nature, your true self, are abundantly participating in your life on many levels that you have no conscious awareness of, and for this reason, I’m laying some cold, hard facts on the line for your understanding and, quite frankly, relief.
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Your true self is not some elusive butterfly waiting to alight on your shoulder in just the right moment of dread and unease. Your true self is naturally present in all aspects of your life. The thing that you consider your bit of whimsy—that playful, flirty, fun imp—that is your true self.
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The one aspect of your life that you most desire and most want to come into congruence with is your high knowing, and your perspective of this is awash in verbal abuse and misunderstandings.
What do I mean by this?
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Well, quite simply, each time you belittle yourself, you call your true nature a name. Each time you cast about an old memory of some misperceived hurt, you cast your best friend out in the cold. Each time you call for help and turn away as it arrives, you slam the door in your true self’s face.
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These are not intentional misgivings; they are completely blindsiding you in a way you could not possibly understand.
Without the constant and steady approval of love and light from your higher being, your higher nature, you would be lost in the darkest cave of your experience. You are not lost. You are not terrible. You are not waiting to be found. You are simply unrecognized for who you are. You…are You. And that is all that this means.
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You are waiting for some grand knight to swoop in and save the day, and it’s always going to be the one you look dead straight at when you stand in the mirror every day that is going to do this for you.
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You are your higher self, your high nature, your true wisdom.
You are the one that comes to the table each and every time you have a problem to solve, a score to settle.
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And misunderstandings about who you are in nature IS the source of every personal problem that has ever come to lay its weary head on your shoulder. You’re just so damn tired all the time that it finally has a chance to start shining through, through the cracks in your armour.​​​
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Whatever you think your true nature to be, know that it is only this: the opportunity to know yourself in truth.
And by this, I’m laying the sword on the table and saying, ‘Enough of this foolishness, enough of this casting about’.
Simply settle down into your life like you are walking through the forest of your life with your best friend firmly rooted in your inner consciousness and awareness.
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Call your true self and your true nature to the forefront of your mind each and every time you are wandering through the dark, and it will be like flipping a light switch on in your mind.
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You are the one who can access your true self, your high nature, your true wisdom. You. And you alone are the one that shuts the door or brings your best friend to the party.
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And so, for the time being, simply resolve to be the one who speaks to yourself in love and compassion instead of this makeshift bed of fear and unspoken worries that plague your mind like a terrible disease wandering the corridors of your mind in an unspoken frenzy of self-abdication and disapproval.
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Find the one simple reason you could offer yourself kindness and compassion and hang on to that, like it is the lifeline that you have been waiting for.
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It is, you know.
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The truth of who you are will set you free like no other form of renewal program can.
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All you need is love, and that’s not the first time you’ve heard that phrase, and it won’t be the last. The true nature of all mankind lies within his Heart Mind, and for the time being I’m going to call this little term your super consciousness, simply because it’s a term that’s much more agreeable than some oft misunderstood terminology that has been used throughout time and over the eons of mankind’s self-deprivation.
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It has lost a little bit of its oomph and certain resolve. We’re going to bring that term back into fashion again for you in good time, but for the moment, let’s simply call it this place of profound delight and alternate awareness that you never knew you had going on.
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This is where we’re coming to the table in a platform of understanding that will help you come into congruence with your true nature, and that’s the term I’m going to use from now on. I just threw all those other terms on the table because I want you to know that that is what we are talking about—all the aspects of you that you wish to know and understand but simply never knew you have the opportunity to do so. It is time.
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All right… Get on with it.
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And don’t forget to tell them, ‘I said so.’
~ A Girl
Inspiration is a wild horse; it must be set free. It’s not meant to be corralled into the limitations of the fearful mind; it is meant as an access point to the soul.
Emotional Divination* is the Key.
Limiting Beliefs are the Lock.
And Feeling is the Hand that Turns the Key.
by Janice Brown (June 25, 2019)
It’s an Inspirational way of Seeing that you have,
but it is wonderfully accurate and astute.
What you have given people is a road map. The journey is an individual plan, and you are a roadside service station offering assistance along the way.
What began as simply an understanding of beautiful words is forming itself into a great monolith of wisdom. You could build an entire career on these few words alone, and yet you will reveal every landmark along the way. Filling in the background with the wisdom of the ages with the voracity of a teenage girl on prom night.
The place we diverge in our thinking is that you have an opinion or a filter about that comment, and I do not, so I can speak it, as it is only a word of understanding, and you have aversion to it because you have a limiting belief with a societal overview.
It’s not the words that are misplaced. It’s not the intention that is wrong. It’s that perception muddies the water of every damn thing that is ever said, heard, believed, or understood.
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”
No truer words were ever spoken. The failure is the system. The system is an integration method, and yet the programming is unique to every individual; there is no common error code other than limiting belief, which can be the one simple and easy way to approach every situation.
There may be a diversity of understanding. There may be a diversity of choice. And yet there is only one way down this path... through the forest and into the woods. Now what exactly does that mean anyways? Are those not the same thing? And in fact they are.
They are a discriminatory aspect of belief and understanding. Were it not for a forest, there could be no woods, and yet isn’t there so much more than wood in a forest? Isn’t there trees and birds and sunshine? Mountains and rivers and lakes? Aren’t there blue skies and flowery lanes and meadows of extraordinary beauty? Oh, a forest is so much more than the simple wood it is built upon, and yet, there could be no forest if not for the wood. If not for the trees that life is built upon.
And you wonder of the Earth. And yes, this is true, but it is the dynamic life of the tree that brings life to the forest. It is the structure and the strength and the integrity and the unity of a construct. And like the forest, the body is the same. Were it not for the supporting construct, there would be no joy, no wisdom, no life.
Ah, life. Therein lies the rub. What is life if not for the bird singing in the trees, the gentle rustle of leaves, the tiger on the prowl? The tiger on the path is simply an understanding that all life exists in the forest and there is a place for everything if it will be understood in its intention and intensity.
A limiting belief is meant as a guidepost. A pivot point. An understanding. And yet there are those who will build their whole life upon it, for it is the bedrock of the subconscious mind, and the subconscious mind is a place of dynamic and infinitesimal growth, of minute shifts and gaping black holes.
Where does one put a belief that no longer serves? Into the black hole within the mind. This is a place that is commonly found and often misused. It is a place of forgetfulness, and it is a place of unerringly accurate deception.
The deception point is the place where a limiting belief may reside for an entire lifetime. And so we say that the deception point is the stronghold of the mind’s inaccuracies. And though this is not a landmark or a location, it is an energetic vortex of such perpetual strength that it can clear an entire field of conscious thought.
It is a place of ethnic cleansing of sorts, scrubbing out each and every remnant of comprehension and understanding around a dynamic life force. And so we say this is a pointed point of understanding. When you begin to see that all understanding is being cleansed and whitewashed into a specific understanding, you will know that there is the work of a limiting belief at rest.
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A limiting belief at rest is different than a limiting belief in action, and ‘what we say when we mean this’ is that the limiting belief is the ground, the anchor, and the motor, all tied into one complex unit. It will engage at all levels and be completely indiscernible at rest, and yet it will coordinate and conceptualize all understanding as if they were an unformed thought just coming to the surface of comprehension.
This belies the power of a newfound inspiration. It has the resonance of an ancient being and the youthful exuberance of a newborn child. It would not be disconcerting for the one who understands this to think of it as Yoda on steroids.
The formation of an internal limiting belief carries with it the wisdom of the ages. It has a backbone, and yet it is simply a construct of the mind, and yet it is formative, and yet it is nothing, and yet it is everything. Do you understand this? There is nothing more powerful than a limiting belief in its strength and in its purpose, and yet it can surely be resolved, dissolved, and solved.
It is not that there is no placement of the key upon the lock; it is that no one has understood the mechanism of the lock and key. It is surely as though you are trying to jam a key into an imaginary keyhole when all you need is the combination. The combination exists. The key exists. The lock exists, and through the formation of your understanding, you will see that the landscape is rife with locks and keyholes. Combinations and swivels.
It is like looking at the internal mechanism of a clock, the backing removed; it is more intricate and beautiful and complex. No wonder people cover it in glass and simply wonder at the beautiful sight of it all clicking together. It is like this. Exactly like this.
There is a singular formation of purpose and intention in the construct of a clock. To tell time. To announce an agreed-upon fact. And yet, is there any fact in time? Is a minute really a minute or simply what we said it would be? You see, there is nothing more purposeful than an agreement of construct, and when you are the one who is in agreement with the construct of a limiting belief, you are the one who tells time. You are the one who confidently announces that the hands are upon the twelve. It is surely midnight. Or is it noon?
The diversity of thought exists in an exact pointing, and yet you would say that you can only know the truth of the hands on twelve, were it to be noon or midnight, by the looking at the surroundings to see if it were night or day. And so we say it is with limiting beliefs. You don’t decide what it is until you begin to interpret by what you see around you. And this is the verification of fact, and so it must be true. But is it? Not in the slightest. It is the announcement of a rhythm that has taken hold, and it is nothing more than an abject way of looking at the surroundings around you and defining them by a constant contact of reference.
When you take the reference point away. It is simply an empty frame. What will you hang in its place? There is an abundance of choice. There is an abundance of intentional behaviour that may mimic the certainty of the mind in the construct of a new and supporting belief, and for this to occur, we say it is simply the most powerful thing that can happen for any person anywhere.
And so we begin on a new chapter of supporting beliefs and the documentation, purpose of aligning, and writing through intention. Intention is a personalized construct, and it exists for you as a defining point and as a metric. Am I on target? Am I in belief? These things allow us to see where finetuning is necessary and are not the contractual obligation that some people believe them to be.
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It is no more than a wish in workman’s clothes to some extent, and then it is also the constructural understanding of every piece in its place that makes it such fascinating work.
You will see more than anything that the work we are talking about is always rooted in the mind, and so we would say that tending the field is specifically and energetically the most profound work that anyone can do anywhere at any time.
This is the new and vibrant way of being in the world, and so we say good night and good rest, and don’t worry. Don’t fear.
It’s simply a new and delightful way of understanding. Understanding in purpose. Understanding in context. And understanding in conceptual alignment. These are all constructs of the thoughtful mind.
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* Emotional Divination and Limiting and Supporting Beliefs of the Tao are an aspect of the work of Dr. Debra Ford Msc.D. You can find her work at SolePath or the Academy of Inner Wisdom.
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The exploration of interactions of feeling dynamics and counterpart relationships of the Tao is the mainstay of my work.
Interested in training on the Tao?
If you are looking to study Foundational materials on the Tao, training is available and is essential to your own comprehension of the materials.
There are wonderful programs that will explore the Foundations of all these materials. They include: SolePath Foundations Program (SFP), SolePath Metaphysical Philosopher (SPMP), and Celebrant and Spiritual Practitioner (CSP) which must be completed through the Academy of Inner Wisdom.