Bubbles: 'Go Play,' Harbin Gate, What Harbin is About

After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one Harbin resident who has worked there for years often says "Go play."

The interaction 'energy' is good. {He has some native American ancestry, and grew up on the east coast of the U.S., and has been a resident at Harbin for almost 2 decades}. His words in a way say what Harbin is about.

Emerging from the 1960s and 1970s, Harbin is about freedom to play {at Heart Consciousness Church}. A lot of people have come through the Harbin Gate, too, and so many come to play. Harbin is fun (as a response to modernity?).


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Lao Tzu is supposed to have been asked by the gatekeeper of his city (possibly some 2300 years ago), as he was leaving some strife there (as I've heard the legend), to write down his philosophy, which became the "Tao te Ching" ~ wussu.com/laotzu/index.htm. Successive generations have translated and transcribed this over millennia, and it's a remarkable 81 chapter poems and book.

The Harbin gate seems to work in reverse, where people are welcomed in to soak, and play {and some also create}.


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Soaking in the waters soon, just past the dragon gate ...