silent thunder

@Maddie yes. I've trained and studied in many forms and watched and participated for decades. No one style has ever revealed as 'the ultimate' to me. Certain practioners will rise and diminish, but no one style is 'the ultimate' in my perception. BJJ is effective in certain circumstances, but is still a sport based form and is not the be all and end all of combat forms. The Gracies met their 'Gracie hunter' and several generations of them were owned by him for about 17 years if memory serves. All combat is situational and dependent upon many factors... most seemingly the training habits and current overall health of each combatant. Sport combat is not full combat. So all speculation about superiority is based on projection of assumptions and bias about perception of such, (at least for me).

Nope. I haven't seen any form wide fraud, or one form of utter dominance. Only flaws, or excellation in personal expressions of forms, that varies from bout to bout and with opponent to opponent.

"We will wear you down with our capacity to love." Woof! Thanks for sharing mate.

Robots of flesh and robots of metal... I find i am intrigued by the process of conditioning (programming) that arises in either.

i've been experiencing mild to strong magnetic pulsation, a stirring or pulsation of intense bliss and bouyancy and a sensation of liquid flowing that is centered on this location for many years. It arises and ceases tzujan (of itself) without my prompting or seeking and i do not use local awareness toward it in any way other than observing it. i do not seek to hinder, nor bolster it... my only action is to release into awareness of it and allow it to be as it is. There were times on retreat with Wang Liping where it became so intense it blotted out all other phenomenon or noumenon in awareness and made following or attempting the formal praxis or placing awareness on anything else, impossible.

Awareness to me seems the central pivot of ultimate stillness and the endless varieties of manifestation and motion. So, were I to offer a suggested direction of further exploration or possible refuge... Awareness would be it. Anything encountered, imagined or experienced, will be in Awareness.

Say what you will about them as musicians, or as men... they nudged and poked the Western Psyche as few others did... Back then... and now. talk about alchemy!

At this point I'm no longer clinging to extending life and I'm no longer concerned with avoiding death. It's a bit like Wei Wu Along The Way or now and then....?

My son loves his Occulus. I love watching his view on the monitor while he plays. It's second gen and still baby steps but it's really impressive to me. There's only one game I play on it, which is Aircar. You get to drive one of the police cruisers from Bladerunner around an open future city in the rain with a stellar soundtrack playing. It's so immersive I sometimes get vertigo while cruising. Great stuff. I'm looking forward to upgrading in another generation or two. My wife and I got back into online gaming a year ago and now she and I are currently running an end game content guild in the MMO Elder Scrolls Online. We've gathered a group of fantastic gamer folks from around the globe. We meet twice a week for scheduled hard mode runs, then fill out spots during the rest of the week with dungeons and achievement runs, or just hang out in chat and talk shop and life. It's pretty remarkable what gaming has become in my lifetime... (from pong and Monopoly to VR and world wide gaming runs). In our scheduled weekly roster runs we have folks from Germany, Australia and India along with a couple Canadians in addition to the US crowd. We've also picked up a solid group of retired and elder folks and it's been amazing to see the benefit they get from not only socializing, but the rather intricate needs of each person in a 12 man roster needing to fill specific tasks and roles in order for the group to succeed. It's team work, communication and a hell of a lot of laughter. Play for love, play for joy.

"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." ~Hamlet (by way of Shakespeare)

almost always... c'est la vie.

When you read a line that is so well written, you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute. ~Anonymous

Dropping pearls mate. Appreciate you.

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Yes the original poster.

This revenge and threat fantasy reads as coming from someone young and quite naive, if well meaning. Instead of power, I hope you find wisdom.

No one mind is or can be the Arbiter of Right/Wrong or objectively knowing what is best for anyone else. Insofar as we are each an extension of The All. If you really want to influence The All, work on your self.

It's one book, self published under two titles. Dragon is the revised version. RIP steve

And you are not a qualified observer.

Many pages of great shares in this thread... check it out. I've picked up many new artists over the last few years from it.

It took so long, for me to realize, How strong your heart is... and all this time my mind was working in... strange ways. Sweet Tides. Pools of Light. Your eyes are full of.... Sweet Tides... Pools of Light

Daniel... when he doesn't appear to be talking to himself, he's mansplaining. I only see when folks quote him any longer. another one on ignore