SantaRosaGuy

It's been bothering me for a while now ... the whole past lives thing. It seems like if anybody had past lives, like they'd remember something about them? Does anybody else think this whole past life thing is made up nonsense?

I ate greens and carbs. I probably needed B-12, now that I think about it. I probably didn't need to eat steak. At the time, though, I thought it was funny to break a vegan period with a little steak. I had a big old bellyache from that little steak.

If women don't act like woman should and aren't the receptive to the male's active, then what happens? It turns into a bad situation, is what happens. I'd go further but it isn't politically correct in today's culture to talk about the Tao.

if you believe science, then humans probably 'evolved' over the past 10,000 years they started domesticating dogs, cats, etc. Which means we probably evolved according to something they call 'history', meaning a historical record. Like we probably evolved wearing clothes, cooking food, eating grains, etc. If we go back to the caveman diet, it doesn't mean we'll necessarily love longer. But if it works for you, by all means, don't let me stop you.

I get spacy. I've tried the raw foods thing, but the problem is, I get spacy. I was vegetarian for a while, and I just couldn't stay grounded, so I ate a little steak. I'm probably the wrong one to talk to about this, though. I don't think my experience is the same as everybody.

I used to worry about my diet and my quality of life. But since I'll die anyways, now I try to get by the best that I can, by balancing the death anyway thing with my hope that I could somehow cheat death. The hope isn't happening, BTW, I get older, etc. So I don't really worry so much about eating raw foods. Cut out hydrogenated oil from your diet, and you'll end most of the zits. This is what I found. Anyways, maybe I'm just jaded. Like that book in the Christian Bible. All is vanity or is it? I don't know.

Death is just the end of life. Buddhism/Taoism kindof says that if we meditate that we won't lose our attainments through meditation after death. If we become enlightened/"immortal" that we get to keep that. But how can anybody really know how to die unless they already did it?

I think it's interesting, though, because the whole natural foods, living foods kick is what a lot of animals do anyways. If they're not eating people or other animals, they're eating fruits & veggies or grains, etc., right? But they still die.

It's too bad we all die anyway. Maybe someday somebody will come up with a cure for death.

Well, maybe you'll get something if you pay for it. I guess with people like you around the Verdesis of the world or others charging thousands for lessons won't starve.

Well, I was searching for the Mo Pai, but now I'm just posting like anybody else.

I was actually a Buddhist for years. Now, I am of the opinion that science and humanism are the great meeting ground where as humanity we can make the proper choices and agree upon them, rather than killing each other over and over again and destroying the environment. I came to this conclusion based upon the fact that everybody I've met seems convinced of their spirituality or lack thereof as the case may be. We have to agree upon something realistic, with physical evidence, and that's science and humanism. Because with everybody's subjective opinions of religion/atheism, we will never be able to agree upon that.

I've been thinking about this a lot because my room-mate killed a spider, and I looked to see if I could see any kind of spirit coming from it, but I couldn't see anything at all. Do spiders go to Heaven? Or are they just dead and all animals until the Resurrection. Will God resurrect the spiders? But a lot of people are just so convinced of their beliefs in God, or Goddesses, or Buddha or Science or atheism or agnosticism. It just seems to me that without proof of God, or Goddesses, or atheism, then how can we agree on it? A lot of people claim to have experienced supernatural occurrences, but there isn't any physical evidence for any of them. So is it just delusional? Obviously, not everybody is correct where their beliefs contradict others.

Where did God come from, 'magic land'? If you believe God made stuff, then who made God? Oh, always there, without beginning or end, the alpha and the omega. So, universe ... always there, without beginning or end, the alpha and the omega. To assume some deities is just an assumption. There's no proof. Whereas there is physical evidence of science, at least.

If you really look at it, science could be correct -- it could have been a big bang. There is no evidence or proof otherwise, no matter how many people claim God this or Gods (or Goddesses) that.

And the proof that there is God or any Gods is ... oh, that's right ... no proof anywhere.

You ask yourself, "What do I want to believe?" Then, you believe in whichever Gods or Goddesses you want. It's got nothing to do with somebody else's reality.

I am to the point now that I think that charging for martial arts or meditation beyond a basic room fee or something is just wrong, and rife with potential for abuse. Maybe it's just better at least for me to leave all these teachers alone and nevermind them. If they feel they have to make a living or at least a good chunk of change teaching what they do, then I think I'll just look the other way.

If you look at the traditional diet of any long-term culture, it typically has a pairing of grain-legume. When I was a vegan, I looked to Japan, and the macrobiotic diet, so for that, it's rice and soybeans (tofu). They use Miso for the B-12. I'm not sure how other cultures how they got B-12. I wasn't very interested at the time.

You need 3 things. a. Grain protein b. Legume protein (beans or peas, peanuts count) c. Vitamin B-12 Oh, to edit, I think if you do lacto-vegetarian, then you don't need legume protein, but I could be wrong.

Do they still charge so much? Didn't they have a book or something at some point? I don't want to spend $1500 just to learn some stuff that they learned from other teachers for free.

Looks like the site is down now: www.mopaineikung.com.

Another reason it might not be popular is if a large portion of the population were 'spiritual vampires' then they might not like to be outed as such. They might not want people to think they're bad or know what they're doing.

I look at the birds flying around, eating, mating. How'd it all get here? Why are there birds? Animals? People? 1 billion Christians would say one thing, 1 billion Muslims something else, 1 billion Hindus something else. They can't all be right, though. Maybe I shouldn't have found out about the Magus of Java. Before enlightenment was enough ... I was like "I want to be enlightened." Whatever that meant -- I have no idea of what I was thinking at the time. Now I want powers. LOL I guess I should be satisfied with what I have.

I don't think I ever had any child-like wonder of the world. Now, though, I just can't make sense of the world. There is so much good, yet so much bad. I think I wonder now much more than when I was a child.