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with time and patience  the mulberry leaf  becomes silk... Taoist Quote

Breathing Without Breathing by Master Jou, Tsung-Hwa [from The T’ai-Chi Farm Almanac, Vol. X No. 1, 1995] ...To learn “breathing without breathing,” concern yourself only with the continuous contraction and expansion of the abdomen (dantian). If you truly have all your mind on the movement of the abdomen, you will forget your breathing and it will happen naturally. You may ask, “But when should I inhale and when should I exhale during the abdominal movement?” The answer is actually simple. Think about what happens to the mouth when one sings from the throat: nature starts to take its course with what happens to the mouth. When the focus is on singing from the throat, the mouth functions more effortlessly. The same idea applies to your breath. If you want to inhale when you pull the abdomen in, then inhale—if you want to exhale, then exhale! Don’t focus on it. This is the path to “breathing without breathing.” There has always been a lot of argument concerning the concept of prebirth...