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I want to fly above the rooftops of Taipei with my good friend Meei Meei  —high on the chi of the universe. Romantic sounding to be sure, but we might get to do some rooftop flying before this year is out.

Grandmaster Yuen is going to Taipei, Taiwan in the middle of November for  Module 1, Nov 14th-15th and Module 2, Nov 21st-22nd, and if anyone can lead the way over the rooftops…

Among the many attractions of Taipei in addition to rooftops is the National Palace Museum, or the fourth ranked  museum of the world.  OK, so I guess fourth is pretty good, but…

Taipei is also known for its legendary night shopping which sounds even better.   Who wants to sleep when there’s some serious shopping afoot!

It reminds me of the olden days when I lived in San Francisco.  Night shopping in SF China Town was magical and is much missed. Chris would be purchasing strange herbs from bearded inscrutable Asians, and I would be trying on the colorful, silk Chinese jackets.

First on the Taipei list is temple sight seeing, though.  I’ve heard that most everything pales when it comes to the many, glorious and grand temples of Taiwan.

I have a bit of enticing info about three Taipei temples: One temple for wish making, one for calamity prediction and guess which one just is what it is… The Taoist temple, of course.

Lung Shan Temple (211 Kuangchou Street)  “Make a Wish Temple”

Lung Shan Temple or Dragon Mountain Temple can be found in the Wanhua district, right in the heart of Taipei’s old town.

Here’s my advice:  Everyone who visits the Lung Shan Temple should probably make a wish. Legend has it that the temple was built because a goddess was granting wishes on that very spot back in the 18th century. Once upon a time, you see,  a man left a Kuan Yin (Goddess of Mercy) amulet hanging from a tree, and when night fell, the amulet began giving off a brilliant light.

The people in the neighborhood soon found that the charm had the power to grant wishes.  After enough wishes came true, they respectfully decided to build a temple to the goddess of mercy, herself.

You have a better than average chance of finding your favorite god or goddess there, as more than 100 deities are housed within.  The temple is now known as ‘the meeting place of the gods’.  I wouldn’t mind meeting a few.

Zu Shi Temple (81 Kangting Rd) “The Nose Knows.”
Another temple we should probably visit is the Divine Progenitors Temple. The first thing I would want to do is check and make sure the nose of Panglai is residing on his face.

Legend has it that every time a disaster was about to happen the nose would take a ‘nosedive’ onto the floor. After the calamity or threat of calamity was over, the diving nose would spring back up to it rightful position. Talk about ‘the Nose Knows”.

This temple was constructed in 1787 and it houses the seven images of Divine Progenitors, Panglai reputably being the one with the most power.  We shan’t, therefore, name the  6 lesser deities. Hopefully, they will not take too much offense but if they do… who cares!

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Bao-An Temple (61 Hami Street) “It is what it is.”

Bao-An is located in the middle of the Da-Dung District, or the spiritual center of Taipei. Affectionately known as the Temple of Da Dao Kung, which literally means the temple of the Great Taoist Master, construction was begun in 1805.

This fine temple required a full quarter-century to complete because all the different wood and stone materials had to be brought over from mainland China.  Even the artisans were imports.

One of the biggest draws of the Bao-An Temple is enshrined in the middle of the bell tower—-the Goddess of Birth, Zhu Sheng Niang-Niang.  Flanking her, are 12 female aids, each charged with the task of with assisting child birthing during a particular month. Here is a good tip I found on the internet about getting the gender you want out of your pregnancy.  I lifted it straight from a website dedicated to the Birthing Goddess herself.  And I quote:

For those who didn’t have a chance to get any baby (after long period of trying), they could also visit Zhu Sheng Niang Niang Temples to request for babies. The couple just needed to prepare the following items:

For Baby Boy, prepared White Flowers (of any type), white flowers represent positive or Yang, after offering this to Zhu Sheng Niang Niang, she will get the message and bless accordingly.

For Baby Girl, prepared Red Flowers (of any type), red flowers represent negative or Yin, after offering this to Zhu Sheng Niang Niang, she will get the message and blessed accordingly.

In the old agricultural society it was considered lucky to have many children and grandchildren, so women from far and wide would come to worship the goddess.  They most often petitioned for sons and still do, as a matter of fact, especially on Zhu Sheng’s birthday.  When is her birthday you might ask. The 20th day of Lunar 3 month is the answer.

This temple features the usual dragon pillars at the entry way, and also a pair of stone lions that are not so usual.  Normally, the male has an open mouth and the female a closed mouth.  (There’s a big cultural difference!) But both of these lions have open mouths!

Bao-Sheng Da Di, the god of medicine, is the the temple’s main man/god.  Reportedly, he was given human form by a skilled medical practitioner in China’s Fujian Prvince, back in 979.

As you can see in the picture of the colorful and perfectly carved roof, the temple is in excellent condition. Not so, always, though.

A seven year restoration project of major proportion was launched in 1995, because of the termite infestation.  At the completion of the project, there was a three-day sacrifice or ‘chien chiao’, to celebrate and thank all the gods.

As you can imagine, there was a lot of god thanking and celebrating going on. People like to think their fortune and prosperity rises and falls with the temple’s ups and downs.

Included in the festivities, was the ancient custom of fire walking—”stepping on burning coals with bare feet by the young wizards who hold aloft the deity’s sedan chair”.

Fire walking is one of  the Taoist practices left over from the olden days–you know, young men proving their magnanimous strength of mind, body spirit by showing off.

Thanks to Dr. Yuen, we’ve moved on…

Right, Meei Meei?

Watch out, It’s gong to run out.  I don’t care how many times you pay somebody new at a motivation seminar to make you jump up and down about life, folks, passion eventually plays out.

Don’t be sad. Anything that is dependent on the production of brain chemicals like endorphins and serotonin is bound to dry up.  Didn’t we all learn that back in the Eighty’s?  Even Cocaine couldn’t keep those happy brains chemicals pumping forever.

The best line of coke I ever had was the first one I turned down after I said adios to the habit.  And the second best line was the last one–so many years ago, but it could feel like yesterday if I hadn’t deleted the negative accumulation of those dreadful all-nighters.

Nothing like seeing the sun come up when you’re tweaking your brains out.  Speaking of brains, above is a comparison of two brains–one on cocaine and one that is supposed to be ‘normal’ (whatever that means).

Anyway, now I’m off on a tangent. My main point got upended: I was talking about  the practice of using positive emotion as your motivation for achievement. Not a good practice. We all know people like that—positive emotion junkies.  They ‘love’ everyone and everything, including their pain.  Check out the release technique videos for a strange example. People undergoing that type of ‘therapy’ have to repeat out loud over and over how much they love their pain.

It’s a little bit better than using a negative emotion such as anger to get you going, but not in the long run.  By the time you’re Sixty, all that forced passion along with that positive gleam in your eyes will be wearing you thin. You’ll probably be so wired that everyone runs when they see you coming–not only that, but you’ll be jumping into equally passionate negative states at the drop of a hat.  Don’t scoff.  I’ve seen enough of those types to know that they are a quickly multiplying sub-group of humans.

What is motivation, anyway? ‘Anything that drives us’ is a simple definition.  Here’s the thing.  Do you really want to count on emotions to take you to your destination?  How about true purpose?

If you join Dr. Kam Yuen’s club (millionairehealer.com), he’ll tell you how to get to your very own true purpose.  Shaolin Grandmaster Kam Yuen was the inspiration for the Kung Fu TV Series back in the Seventies.  Since then, he’s been all over the world teaching an intuitive technique that sure beats counting on your emotions to drive you.  Excuse the pun, but the last thing I want are my emotions behind the wheel.

Today I was talking to Dr. Yuen about a certain type of people—the ones who think ‘they’ve seen it all’,  he called them (with no judgmental attachment to his voice).

“Oh yea”, I agreed, “the ones who try to fit the Method into something they already know, as opposed to  those who leave room for something new to come along.”   (I like to explore human mindsets, you see.)

Pause to explore.

And now the question:  What type of person, do you think, learns the something new faster?  The one who thinks he’s seen it all, or the one who thinks there might be something new to see?  The one who has a been there/done that attitude, or the one who looks for something new to experience? The one who tries to fit the everchanging peg into the neverchanging hole or …..Time’s up!

If we try to fit the Yuen Method into the reality we’ve already structured for ourselves, a large part of its infinite potential is lost from the get-go.

Why can’t it be OK not to know everything about life?  What if someone else knows something more about it than we do?  We aren’t going to lose face or die, or lose the ability to think for ourselves, are we?…..Oh well, enough said.

I find that Dr. Yuen’s technique constantly changes and evolves, but thanks mostly to Dr. Yuen.   I truly believe that if it weren’t for his fearless, nonjudgmental approach to limitless existence that the whole method  would be more like a religion.

The first thing many of us do, consciously or unconsciously, when exposed to the Yuen Method is try to peg it—make it fit with what we already know.  It’s kind of a logical mind thing or a security issue we have with boundaryless states of existence.   Sad to say, most of us want our boundaries like a baby wants a pacifier.

Dr. Yuen’s approach to life , on the other hand, is limitless and, therefore, much more freaking fearless.  Thank goodness, too.  It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it—be nonjudgmental and fearless enough to connect with any and all of the answers out there.

Somebody has to be OK with not boxing up chunks of infinity.  Someone has to be open to everchanging questions, everchanging answers and the truth of infinite human potential, even if most of us can’t stand that approach—even if 99.999% of us want to put a box around life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not to mention the afterlife.

Now that I’ve mentioned it, the afterlife, religions are notorious for putting a  box around what is possible and what isn’t, well into the afterlife.  OK, OK, sometimes the box is bigger, as in the case of Snake Handlers sometimes it’s smaller, as in the case of the Born-Agains, but there’s still a box. Let’s face it. Those dudes who head up religions have your afterlife in a box!

Here’s the bottom line, people. Let anyone who boxes up infinity dictate your life too much, and you’ll confine your search for answers to a structured box someone else made.  It’s a security thing or a karmic thing, or some other thing…but whatever the thing is, infinity gets severely affected.  Infinity is not meant to live inside a box.  It’s sacrilege!

The problem with Infinity is, it’s pretty much an impossible concept for our logical minds to deal with, and the poor logical mind wants logical answers.  Infinity just ain’t logical, but ((big but)) that’s where intuition comes in.

If we want to connect with all the answers for existence, we need to be able to access infinity.  If we want to access infinity, we need to use the Yuen Method.  The fact that the method pushes us toward destructuring reality as we know it might make us feel shaky at first…at second….at third.  But, just because it’s something new, shouldn’t stop us in our push towards limitless potential.  Try to put the Yuen Method into the box you already know and you’ve lost most of what’s available.  Just experience it!  just feel it!

Here’s some type of conclusion.  If we want to learn the Yuen Method faster, we open to the possibility that it is something new, something we’ve never run across before.   So we just shut our logical minds off, pretty much, especially when they start rampaging in a critical direction.

We let something new seep in, if no other reason, than just to see how it affects us.

Full speed ahead!

Strong…..Weak… Strong…..Weak….Strong…0101010101010101010?!?!
Feeling the difference between strong and weak is not as simple as it looks. How do we feel the difference between strong and weak?  Shouldn’t it be obvious? 

This is the one of the first questions I hear from people when they are learning Dr. Yuen’s technique. I’ve seen some of the best go down under the pressure too—everybody from medical intuitives to ministers.  Even a few health food store owners have been known to crumble.

Seriously folks, I used to ask this question a lot and I still ponder it on occasion. At least I’m past the point of lying in bed at night with my hand on the midline for hours— toes pointing in, toes pointing out, toes in (strong), toes out (weak). During the day, I’d stand or sit and do the same drill. Toes in/Toes out.

In the beginning, the method seemed so foreign to me. Feeling strong/weak was different from anything I’d ever tried. There were times when I got discouraged and even ashamed not to get the feeling of strong and weak right away (very weakening emotions those two).

It’s just that I not only expected to be able to do everything right away, I figured I’d be great at it! Stupendous! The best in the world!

I’m so psychic and so intuitive and so in touch with my feelings and all the psychological reasons behind each and every one of them. I’ve delved so deeply into my childhood traumas—dug them out wth relish and dissected every small detail of parental abuse, uncovered every reason for self loathing, purged the religious dogma from every last thought process… only to find that nothing had really changed. After all those years of delving nothing had really changed.

Pause.

Surprise, surprise! Being psychic only complicated ‘strong and weak’. And my intuition…well let’s just say it was too gunked up to feel much of anything, much less anything as neutral and pure as strong and weak.

So here I am, further on down the road. I have to smile when I think about strong and weak. How can we not feel strong and weak? It’s around us every second of our lives. I think those feelings are so much a part of our daily routine that we just don’t recognize them any more.

I mean, don’t we make countless decisions every day based on what we think is strong or weak? Don’t we make some feeble attempt to compare these two principles, consciously or unconsciously, every time we make a big decision for our families, our finances, our careers, our health? Aren’t we constantly comparing stuff?

Actually, comparison is still a good way to do it.  So back to the basics: Toes in/toes out. Hand on the midline, hand off. Circle the wagons, uncircle the wagons.

Too basic for some of you? Try this, then. Take a concept you are sure is strong and compare it to one you are positive is weak.

How about war and peace? (Careful now).

War and peace—-two basic concepts that seem obvious in their effect.  Right?  Tarzan say, “ Peace Strong. War Weak!”

(Not so fast, all you tarzans out there.) Is peace always strong?

Peace can feel every bit as weak because it brings up or triggers its opposite. Or peace can feel weak because you are motivated to action by battle. Or peace can feel weak because you believe you have some debt to pay to the karmic society of spirits.

In the Yuen Method, we make ourselves strong to both—-Strong to war and strong to peace, so that neither causes a weakness in us—us being our body mind spirit triad. If this general correction doesn’t work, we look for that programmed memory, such as the time we broke a peace treaty with Geronimo. (just a random example)

That’s why the Yuen method is so amazing and creative. It doesn’t presuppose the answer to any question. It tests the answer with intuition—-at first someone else’s intuition is preferable, then you can use your own—-after it’s been de-bugged and de-gunked, of course, with Yuen corrections.

In other words, after Dr. Yuen uses a simple correction to separate your intuition from the other mental and spiritual functions of the body mind spirit (BMS) triad, along with the dead weight of accumulated negative emotions, you are on your way big time.

And what a lighter way it is!

Here’s the thing, folks. Getting the answer to strong and weak is not based on what you think the answer should be, or what you feel ahead of time the answer should be, or what anyone tells you the answer should be, or even what the spiritual teaches say the answer is—it’s based on what the answer truly is for you, or tests to be.

Let your mind formulate one question at a time and then shut it off. Teach your mind to share time with your intuition. At first your mind won’t want to. It may even pile question on top of question or argue its case. (Don’t shut me off, Laura, you need me, Laura, you can’t learn anything new.)

Shut that mind up, folks—- Give your intuition a chance to connect with the answer. That’s what intuition was born to do—connect with answers. The answers are out there. Let your intuition test your answers for strong and weak without any interference from the logical part of your mind. It will thank you later down the road. (Thank you, Laura. Thank you , Laura.)

Your mind might try to get back into the act, though, by making something pop up into your head real quick. Now don’t be fooled by the first thing that pops in your head—it’s not necessarily in your head ‘cause your intuition found it. Rather than always going with the first thing that pops in your head, you’d probably be better off pulling petals off a flower like the loves-me loves- me-not game till you get down to the last strong or weak petal.

Yea, that’s what I said—pulling petals off a flower is better than going with the first thing that pops in your head.

Before too many flowers get plucked in to an early grave, though, let’s hear someone else’s ideas about strong and weak. How about yours?

Laura signing off with happy feet: toes in toes out toes in toes out….