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Master Zhou Ting-Jue He has a practice in El Monte California. He is known for healing 'lost causes' and 'untreatable conditions'. His training utterly changed my life. Welcome to the Bums mate... I wish you well.

Hey there moment. Great idea for a thread honoring the quiet teachers! I'll add Richard Huang from NYC. Master Richard is a true Tortoise. Observant. Powerful (woof!)... Immovably grounded and yet effortlessly flowing by turns and always full of Humor. I had the great fortune of meeting and studying with him for several years back in the 90's. At first, it seemed he was teaching me to strengthen my body. Looking back, Master Huang was much like you describe Master Harris, always nurturing character, not interested in expanding the school. He never asked us to bring more students. Never advertised. And folks just looking to get tough and kick ass, never seemed to remain interested in the school, they just trailed off. I recently saw him again just last month after a 17 years hiatus. He hasn't aged a day. True to his nature... that Tortoise is quietly wending his way through the wide world. I envy his students and greatly appreciate the veils he helped lift from my filters. Such a magnificent thing... these men and women who wind their way through our cities, quietly making such impact.

Being a red head... (recovering), I retain VIP access to all events Neanderthal. We should talk...

Welcome to the Bums. I lived in Brooklyn back in the 90's... Park Slope, back before it gentrified. Met my second Kung Fu teacher there. Never been drawn to Tai Chi, but I played a lot of Shao Lin Five Animal, Aikido and Jeet Kun Do in Prospect Park. Couldn't effectively practice in my apartment, so I was in the park a lot. I remember Master Richard regularly reminding us to practice indoors on foggy days, due to the pollution. Back then, I never encountered anyone else playing Qi Gong, Tai Chi, or Kung Fu in the park. It's quite different now, here in So Cal. Every morning in our small local park there will be a dozen folks playing Qi Gong as the sun rises. And then in each park as we head to school to drop my son, there will be folks gathering Qi among the trees. Always makes me smile to see the people gathering power and health.

I love classical guitar work, particularly 12 string. This is fascinating, I'd love to hear them... Found this list of Carlo's compositions Surprisingly long list, I didn't find the I Ching compositions on first perusal.

Long Pork.... (In Papue New Guinnea, when hunting humans for meat they would say "we are hunting the long pork".)

I've returned folks dog shit to them on a few occasions when my then toddler son was playing the in very grass they just left it in. I love the gal driving this motorcycle. Deeply, respectfully identify with her spirit in this matter.

ack no! too much pressure for me, just be

but not sorry to be

Yes... #1 was and is a seething pot of violence and hate. Screaming to the point of his spit flowing around the room. Threatening with violence and then throughout his life, becoming violent. #1 had what I call the three levels of his truth. First, he would tell you the truth. If you weren't capable of understanding, he would begin to shout the truth at you and threaten you. If you were still unable to comprehend, (he often assumed it was willfully denying truth) and would then hit the truth into you... for your own good. When we finally and formally cut ties with him and forbid him from any further contact with us or our son, he respected us enough, or hated us enough to comply and we did not complete the process of a court issued restraining order. #1 is a terrifying bundle of justifiable violence for the greater good.

I have found it interesting that the four people in my direct family who invariably at all family gatherings will often bring the conversation round to instigate and propogate passionate discussions about government being too large. 1 retired military officer 2 retired public school teacher 3 retired federal court reporter 4 retired police officer These four people rail, scream, #1 will nigh on foam at the mouth when talking about the bloated nature of the governing process, yet in each case, they assert that their branch was/is/remains necessary. I sense they are all necessary to a point. This point may always be pushed to a useless/parasitic extreme. Humans don't seem to be balanced by nature... we seem to operate on a sort of energetic flowing by braille between the extremes of behavior and experience.

Reminds me of a family that tried to live for a week, without purchasing a single thing with plastic in it, or around it. Watching them try and shop for groceries and basic life supplies was painfully comical.

Sounds like the very potent practice of Ho'oponopono. When i encountered this practice it was a great stone dropped in my pond. so potent. I love you I'm sorry please forgive me thank you Forgiveness does not free the one being forgiven. Forgiveness is an intentional, internal shift that frees the heart and mind to cease participation in the stories. Forgiveness is the intentional release of the forgiver from the entirely self perpetuated prison of their identifying with memories, stories and subsequent rejection of things as they have passed and a desire to somehow affect the future with a notion of justified retribution. It is a release from the notion that through ranting in the mind about the wrongs of the past, that they are somehow affected. All that is affected is your heart and mind peace in the now... where likely, none of the offending processes remain. Forgiveness releases the forgiver from the heart/mind perpetuated hell of vengeance and stories of the desire for recompense and justice. let it go just let it go if we release everything... that which remains is....

quiet heart when eating sincere heart when cooking kind heart when sharing

then you have also taken car of the Falcon and her family.

rivers are not pushed it is the nature of rain to fall down... in the desert it grows thorns and in the gardens, flowers. No raindrop falls in the wrong spot.

eat, drink, be merry! relish the process of life! without grasping... flow.

zero? zero point field . within that great yawning O, owe, oh, lie all the past and future, unborn and undying and the present sits here... like an uncarved lump an empty, grinning idiot what audacity! what authenticity! truth?

all perception... is gamble.

Boy it's incredible to read these words, distilled from centuries past, that are living and resonating within my comprehension and experience now. Source is never separate. Quiet the self, turn the senses inward and connect to all that which seemingly lies without.

High skill exhibited by you there Rocky. *bow* Respect Sir!

I've come to perceive anything I take into myself, particularly my food, as a medicinal. This mindset has developed naturally through my experiences. As my sensitivity has increased, so has my experience and understanding that every single thing I take in, affects the whole, exhibits an effect. We self medicate with food daily, most of us and pay it little to no mind at all. The manner and quality of my breathing, is perhaps the most potent medicine I have encountered. The palpable experience of how much impact everything I take into my body has... has altered my perception of power and increased the level of mindfulness in all things I ingest. Last few years it's even more imporatnt to me, what I allow to enter my mind and thoughts in the form of news, conversations and what I will allow my mind to ruminate on as these affect my heart and determine to a large degree, the tone of the subtle which infuses the physical. Everything I ingest and the quality and manner of my breathing and my relational thinking to them are all of vital importance. Medicine can harm or heal. My wife and son are both very sensitive to the concentrations of most pharmaceutical medicines and usually take half of what folks their size would take to gain benefit and avoid harm from their doctor prescribed meds. I on the other side of the spectrum usually require 50+% more of a compound for efficacy or any affect at all. Dosage, reason for ingesting, relationship to environment, mental and subtle tone.. all vitally important.

manitou... deep abiding respect and love

Thanks for sharing this! I've never heard of Manuka Honey until now, but my gal and I were just chatting and wondering the other day about more possible natural remedies for her to try to treat her regular bouts with ulcertative colitis. Will be getting some of this next time we're at Trader Joes... thanks for the tip. I began using honey medicinally and regularly some 16 years ago, at the prompting of a nutritionist friend, when I shared with her that I was rather severely allergic to some of the plants out East of us here in the desert of Southern California and they regularly kicked my ass. It took some time, but my allergies steadily decreased and have been gone for over a decade completely.

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