Cool drops of water: Inspiration and insight from The Path of Life

[Saber]

A few weeks ago my son and I visited Niagara Falls.  It was a lovely fall day, leaves turning different colors with the clear scent of winter seeping into the area.  We walked all over the parks, getting wonderful views of the falls.  What struck me was how much people from all over the world come to see and hear the roar and torrent of water flowing over the falls.  This profound transition between two lakes attracts the attention, be it romantic or industrial.

From the parks on either the Canadian or American sides, it is possible to see a relatively calm stretch of the Niagara River starting to pick up speed and begin to have an edgy look about it.  Still, ducks paddle around and you can even put your feet into the water coming from the perfectly calm Lake Erie.  Then the falls happen.  Certainly you can picture it, the water pours over the cliff and completely changes form.  Something like 200,000 cubic feet of a second rip over the edge with a roar.  The calm water seems to stretch and change form.  Some of it violently smashes onto the rocks, another part rises into the air as steam that rains down on viewers. As the water makes contact with the river on the bottom that flows into Lake Ontario, whirlpools and currents are everywhere, some currents are even moving upstream.  Finally the water begins a rapid trip down into the calm Lake Ontario where it will eventually enter the Atlantic Ocean.

As a PanGu student what you see is a transition between two calm states. If water could think, how might it imagine, as Lake Erie, what is in store, what are its potentials, that it will be transformed into a powerful force and later become infused into the ocean.  To continue the metaphor, only by going through the transformation can it finally become the ocean.  How would one explain to the water of Lake Erie that it will soon have unlimited depth and embrace the world, or that it will become salty and have fish as large as houses will swimming on it? That it will roll and heave to the forces of the sun and moon? It might sound quite impossible, even mentioning that some of the water has repeated this cycle thousands of times in the past would appear fantastic.  
Yet there it is for all to see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Niag715.jpg

[Olivia]

I've never taken the regular flu shot before, and I'm pretty sure I will not take the swine flu one.  I think practicing PGSG is sufficient from preventing the flu.  However, I'll have to spend more time persuading my husband to practice.  A much good-luck is needed  . 

Hey rliang, how are things going? Yeah, more pgsg practice is better than a vaccine which could make you sick while 'protecting you'. I have been very healthy, no sickness since I kept on practicing pgsg everyday. No flu, no cold, no cough ... no sickness and no medicine for 8 years! Anyone wants to join my good-health club? In fact, once you learn pangu shengong, you get the ticket to the good-health club. The key is whether you really practice it.

[Michael]

Here's a very good article about flu vaccines in the November 2009 issue of The Atlantic called "Does the Vaccine Matter?" My experiences with vaccinations have not been good and based on more research, I wouldn't take another. PGSG, vitamin D, and other ways to maintain good health are better and safe than the needle, in my opinion.