Post by Alena on Dec 26, 2006 20:46:14 GMT -5
Greetings all. I'm Chinagrrrl. I'm female, a mother, and a life-long student of the Path. I'm a practicing mage and member of a school of the Dark Arts, which I have found incredibly beneficial to my development.
Growing up I had little rules and few boundaries and as an adolescent I rebelled and challenged everything I came in contact with. I eventually became very nihilistic, hedonistic and was on a deathpath to hollowness.
At the bottom, I found freedom. Like in the movie "Fight Club" it is said; "Only when you have lost everything, are you free to do anything."
I began to temper my darkside knowledge with the wisdom of Buddhism and applied the 5 Lay Precepts into my life. I studied the 8-Fold Path and the Four Nobel Truths. I became a DharmaPunx and agree with the saying of the Buddha;
"What good is sorcery over the material world, when you cannot control yourself?"
My path has developed into a practice of the physical (yoga, martial arts), mental (education, meditation, dialog) and spiritual (force training, magick, interdependance, coupled with an appropriate use of personal accountability.
I make every attempt to live my a Nobel Code and to extend that to those whom my life enounters.
I live and breath in the Force and will always be a student to it's ultimate teachings.
I live and breath in the Force and challenge the corrupt and unscrupulous (no matter which side of the Force they practice on)
I live and breath in the Force and was recently informed that my personal code of ethics and action was in alignment with the Jedi code.
"You're a Jedi" says a friend.
I guess that I am. Teach me and we shall learn together.
Nameste
Chinagrrrl
Growing up I had little rules and few boundaries and as an adolescent I rebelled and challenged everything I came in contact with. I eventually became very nihilistic, hedonistic and was on a deathpath to hollowness.
At the bottom, I found freedom. Like in the movie "Fight Club" it is said; "Only when you have lost everything, are you free to do anything."
I began to temper my darkside knowledge with the wisdom of Buddhism and applied the 5 Lay Precepts into my life. I studied the 8-Fold Path and the Four Nobel Truths. I became a DharmaPunx and agree with the saying of the Buddha;
"What good is sorcery over the material world, when you cannot control yourself?"
My path has developed into a practice of the physical (yoga, martial arts), mental (education, meditation, dialog) and spiritual (force training, magick, interdependance, coupled with an appropriate use of personal accountability.
I make every attempt to live my a Nobel Code and to extend that to those whom my life enounters.
I live and breath in the Force and will always be a student to it's ultimate teachings.
I live and breath in the Force and challenge the corrupt and unscrupulous (no matter which side of the Force they practice on)
I live and breath in the Force and was recently informed that my personal code of ethics and action was in alignment with the Jedi code.
"You're a Jedi" says a friend.
I guess that I am. Teach me and we shall learn together.
Nameste
Chinagrrrl
