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Barefoot Doctor Bit: Does Popularity Inevitably Breed Contempt?
February 25th, 2010 | 
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Barefoot Doctor: “Just as every coin has a flip side and every chalice has its poisonous element, so popularity will inevitably include a measure of condemnation and notoriety bred from envy. But notoriety is only notoriety and usually won’t kill you.
However, seeking anything from life but peace is ultimately misguided.
By seeking the centered state of inner peace, which assumes all material conditions are in place to support it, including income and social inclusion, then all the details of how to achieve it will take care of themselves.
If you have to seek or aspire to anything more than peace, let it be social congruence, implying that the unique gifts you have to contribute, find their appropriate resonance in the most amount of people possible.
By contributing value, you gain value, the seeking of which after all, is the driving force behind craving popularity.”
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Barefoot Doctor Bit: When Does Wanting to Stay young Become Immature?
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Barefoot Doctor: “There are many important keys to living a full, successful and joyous life but perhaps one of the most compelling is to always retain your childlike fascination for all aspects of worldly reality, to remain constantly in the innocent, gleeful state, regardless of circumstances.
For this joyful childlike state, as opposed to where you’re cloaking yourself behind the mantle of assumed adulthood, is whence springs your vitality and enthusiasm for the new and exciting.
It’s especially important now as there are countless among us, well into their 50s, like me for example, who still like to participate in the party of life.
And the advantage of the ageing process is that while you grow more youthful of spirit, you’re also learning more how to conduct yourself responsibility and effectively (the only benefit of so-called adulthood) and so are able to make more of a contribution to the world. Hence you mature while growing more youthful. At least that’s how it works for me.”
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Barefoot Doctor Bit: How Can You Reduce Envy and Jealousy from Rivals and Enemies
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Barefoot Doctor: “The basic laws of metaphysics state that outside conditions, including behavior of others, reflects internal landscape, hence envy and resulting dastardly deeds of competitors and rivals are a mirror of unconscious superiority complexes and/or un-acknowledged latent envy of others.
Purify the heart of superiority notions and/or envy and before too long your outside persona will reflect that and incidents of others expressing envy towards you will decrease.
However sometimes no matter how pure the heart, you’ll run across those who are so entrenched in the negative, you’ll foul. At such times treat it in the same way as stepping in dog excrement – shit happens- simply give thanks for the reminder, desist from taking it personally, clean your shoes and carry on as you were.
In practice, if you operate from a pure heart and are moving with the positive stream, life will protect you from serious harm regardless of the degree of virulence of any rival’s attack.”
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Barefoot Doctor Bit: How Can You Avoid Being Sucked into Other’s Stories?
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Barefoot Doctor: “You can remain free of it only when you’re centered within, aware of your body, of your breathing and of your presence in general, rather than being scattered in your thoughts with attention unfocused so you don’t notice what’s going on between you and others.
Everyone hypnotizes everyone else. That’s how we gain the attention of others in all the various aspects of our lives, it’s necessary to be part of the everyday game of life and survival.
We all emit signals through body language, posture, facial expression, vocal tone and cadence, clothes, actions and so on – we do this automatically and usually unconsciously. These signals essentially boil down to ‘buy into my story!’
We each have a story going on inside – our life stories – and we all assume everyone else is in, or should be in, our story rather than vice versa.
We come together and create wonderful things by merging stories – or we come together and create horrible things, depending on the relative balance of creative or destructive energies in the mix of stories.
However once we wake up to this dynamic, once we become cognitive of doing it, we simultaneously become cognitive of everyone else doing it too.
As soon as we’re aware of any such syndrome, we break its compulsive aspect and are hence free to exercise options, the obvious one of which in this instance, is to remain centered and observe how the other is hypnotizing you into their version of reality or story, as a witness-bearer rather than colluder.
This ability comes about through practicing being in a meditative body-aware state on a daily basis, mostly achieved by remaining aware of your breathing and being sure to keep breathing slowly while conversing or interacting with others. As simple as it sounds, it’s all you actually need to keep you centered and aware of your own path, instead of being absentmindedly pulled off into theirs.”
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Barefoot Doctor Bit: How Can You Avoid Being Sucked into Other’s Stories?
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Barefoot Doctor: “You can remain free of it only when you’re centered within, aware of your body, of your breathing and of your presence in general, rather than being scattered in your thoughts with attention unfocused so you don’t notice what’s going on between you and others.
Everyone hypnotizes everyone else. That’s how we gain the attention of others in all the various aspects of our lives, it’s necessary to be part of the everyday game of life and survival.
We all emit signals through body language, posture, facial expression, vocal tone and cadence, clothes, actions and so on – we do this automatically and usually unconsciously. These signals essentially boil down to ‘buy into my story!’
We each have a story going on inside – our life stories – and we all assume everyone else is in, or should be in, our story rather than vice versa.
We come together and create wonderful things by merging stories – or we come together and create horrible things, depending on the relative balance of creative or destructive energies in the mix of stories.
However once we wake up to this dynamic, once we become cognitive of doing it, we simultaneously become cognitive of everyone else doing it too.
As soon as we’re aware of any such syndrome, we break its compulsive aspect and are hence free to exercise options, the obvious one of which in this instance, is to remain centered and observe how the other is hypnotizing you into their version of reality or story, as a witness-bearer rather than colluder.
This ability comes about through practicing being in a meditative body-aware state on a daily basis, mostly achieved by remaining aware of your breathing and being sure to keep breathing slowly while conversing or interacting with others. As simple as it sounds, it’s all you actually need to keep you centered and aware of your own path, instead of being absentmindedly pulled off into theirs.”
Discover the Taoist super-skills and find out more about the Barefoot Doctor at
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