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If we were evil at our core, we would have died off long ago. The basic human drive is to help one another and pick each other up. Else, we would long have since ceased to be.

That sounds awesome! There's a big hunk of beach about 3 miles from my place... I'll bring a djembe and my singing bowl... This Sunday about an hour before sunset?

I adopted one philosophy of Wing Chun that relates to this and that is when I practice any form, I do my weak side twice for every rep I do on my dominant side once.

I'd like to share something that happened last night while making love with my gal. I had a powerful release of energy during orgasm that channeled up the Du, then the sensation was quite different than what I expected, I could feel the pulse of the energy completing the cycle, though it wasn't going down my Ren channel, it was going down hers and then back up my Du channel. There was more going on, but I was no able to focus on the minutia. The cycle continued for about 20 heartbeats before subsiding like a wave and mellowing in intensity. I have found that there is no loss of energy when I'm engaging in love with my gal and after some study on it, my suspicion is that it links back to the foundation of my practice. Not losing the energy may be related to our heart centers being open and to the link established in two open people in an energetic cycle. Kind heart, quiet heart, sincere heart, opens the valves and channels. When two are linked this way, the cycle will manifest in various ways through both while engaging in the intention to share love, joy and pleasure. As I've said before, I find nothing wrong with celibacy. Both my wife and I have naturally practiced it for months on end at times when it was natural to do so... however, I find it a fallacy to believe that all acts of love making result in a loss of jing and energy. My teacher confirmed this suspicion in so far as he was able to... at 81 or 82 he and his wife engage a couple times a week on average and he's thriving. Works healing and teaching 10 hours a day and never gets sick... More and more, I'm finding no use for the judgements of my self and others. My greatest rewards come from love and then being able to express that love and even more importantly, openly receive that love from others. This charges my system and brings my vibrations very high, where few things can knock me off center...

enjoy! thrive!

from what I gather... the gist is that the religious right loves the opposition to gay marriage and abortion anyone in business likes the promises to deregulate, so unmitigated greed can pave the way for another collapse...

I'm open mindedly skeptical about things I haven't experienced. I'm open to the possibility that this could occur, however, to believe this one man's story is tough, given how shoddy the records of births would have been in rural china 270 years ago. So I can't just take him at his word, even given the Chinese Government's claims. They claim many things to bolster their process... But I'm open to it being possible. I've run across this article a few times (though wiki is useless in my opinion) and it makes me wonder. One thing that makes me feel it's possible is my teacher, who is 82, looks 45 and works 10 hour days healing and teaching while never getting sick, or taking a nap...

I don't think the Sage is devoid of hardship, or challenge. I don't think they rejoice in the simple, nor judge the complex... They do not, based on my readings of such, define themselves by either. Nor do the pleasant things become who they are... to be in the world, but not of it is sagely... to me.

corporate oligarchy

I've been an independent since my Father explained to me the two party system and the electoral college back when I was around 12. I started losing interest in my 'choices' as an adult in the mid 90's. Any more the charade and the farce outplay any semblance of service or achievement in the 'chosen elite'.

Agreed, I juggle at least a few times a week. I leave the balls lying around just to entice me to pick em up.

I also hold the possibility that the master watching... may be 'you'.

In my experience, the only person who can fine tune any work of this sort, is a master, in the room with you, watching you as you move.

I encountered the veracity of the10,000 hour rule in the field of acting, live theater and comedy. I'm now applying it to meditation and qi gong. Just don't quit, stay on in your path and you'll arrive at great accomplishment.

Just shared this story with my son the other night, so it's very fresh in my mind. After blinding Polyphemus, Odysseus bragged who he was, but only from the safety of his ship as he and his men sailed away. Had he kept quiet, there would have likely been no revenge, but when Poseiden asked who had done this to his son Polyphemus replied, 'Odysseus'. Poseiden asked what he could do for the Cyclops in revenge and the request was something of this order. "I ask that he be killed, but should the Gods decide not to, then I ask you that never reach home, unless it be after many years of hardship in a ship not of his making, with none of his loyal men by his side." Then the ten years of wandering the Aegean Sea began...

Ms. Kushimoto laying down some awesome rhythm and melody simultaneously...

I'm a right hander, and work with my hands as a woodworker/fabricator. I was consulting a TCM Herbalist about 15 years ago who suggested that I start using my left hand more in my daily life to help balance my liver energy. I can't tell if it helped balance my liver energy or not, but I certainly have appreciated the benefit and challenge of that process. edit: I picked up some baoding balls for this work and those have been amazing. My right elbow and wrist have less flexibility than my left since my right hand is used for more of the force work while the left, stabilizes the piece I'm working on. I've noticed much improvement in my right elbow rotation and wrist flexibility.

very true about vocalizing drum intentions. I was taught that if you can make the rhythm with your tongue, you can make it with your hands.

yea, I'm happy when I mark the bullseye with a standard shot... and I'm pretty sure, if I tried her second shot, I'd be in traction

My son is a lefty but yesterday while doing homework, without thinking about it, he picked up his pencil and answered one question with his right hand, perfectly. When he then 'thought about it' and tried to duplicate, he was unable to match the clarity and precision. That was interesting.

This one made me chuckle... Christianity: because you're so bad, you made God kill himself...

I get this consistently. It can come from a snippet of conversation I overhear, or from the ad on the side of a bus as it rolls by... Or the way the crows chase away a hawk. Life is always speaking, sometimes I listen...

I do... and wow. How much time does it take to get to that?

My teacher has a standing rule and make it well known when scheduling treatments that no one is permitted in the office wearing scents of any kind. He specializes in helping people with 'untreatable' conditions and some of his regular treatments involve people with such severe sensitivity to chemicals that just being in the room after another has been in it wearing such, will cause intense reactions. My wife just got accosted by some bad incense yesterday walking into a grocery store. They had this 'cinnamon incense' that they had coated on the fake flowers around their entrance... about two steps into the store her eyes got puffy and red, the itching and waterworks started and it was about 4 hours until the reaction subsided completely. ack.

I started out detoxing what I ate... after feeling the difference, I walked into the bathroom one day and went to grab whatever ridiculous body soap I was using and promptly threw that, my toxic shampoo, my ridiculous tooth paste and my nasty deodorant in the garbage and went out for non toxic alternatives... It hit me, how many chemicals I was rubbing into my skin on a daily basis... yee-uck.