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I'm with marble on this one... I always know two things for certain... Where I am and what time it is... I'm here and it's now.

Nice one!

Many people, while having a decent IQ, have a remarkably junior high emotional IQ... Let others think what they want about me, I'm not thinking about them.

I've done this boiling water trick when it was -20F

I think we come to the training that suits us when we're open to it and it's appropriate. When I was young I trained hard styles for years. As the body broke down, I discovered a great teacher of Qi Gong/Nei Gong and recovered my body strength and flexibility, I realized even though I could return to hard styles, I have moved on and no longer am interested in training that way. It's an organic process to find a cultivation method or style of training. I feel that we come to the training and stick with it, only when we are suited to it, young, old, thriving, sickly... I don't worry about not having spent my youth training in soft styles or in seated meditation. We find what suits us when conditions are right, then we flourish.

I'm bringing my ldt into the shop for some work next week...

This thread has a we wei vibe... I'm diggin it.

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I grew up in Minnesota, moved to NYC for seven years and have spent the last 14 years in Cali...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/road-project-in-iceland-delayed-to-protect-hidden-elves-9021768.html They take their elven folklore pretty serious even today in Iceland. This is going to their supreme court.

I remember hearing my pee fall as ice while using my dad's buddy's outhouse on a winter fishing trip to the cabin. I remember my nose and eyelids freezing shut while waiting for the bus to school many mornings. I remember breaking a tooth on a candy bar that flash froze on the way home from the corner store, it was a Charleston Chew... I remember my best friend nearly dying the night he tried to get home with -75 windchill and blew a tire. I remember moving to Southern California where... Today it's 75 here and my son, that same best friend and I just left the gaming store, in our t-shirts and sunglasses...

that was so awesome, I very nearly spit tea all over my monitor... great laugh... thanks!

1,2,3,4, Jurassic 5 Awesome rap from elevated guys without a trace of hate, rage, misogyny, or misanthropic taint. Quali-T!!

I've had similar revelations while reading the works of Damo Mitchell, Mantak Chia and Dr Yang Jwing-Ming. My teacher speaks only a few phrases in english and I have long breaks in between lessons as he's in China most of the time, so I'm grateful for these authors sharing road markers. It gives my monkey something to play with so 'I' can play on my own more freely.

If a thread deletes in the digital forest...

Ok you add a 0 and I'll add another 1 and we'll get... one of the most beautiful sequences of numbers in my not so humble opinion...

I'm drawn to silver and a variety of specific crystals and minerals. Gold I see as something to invest in, not wear. Silver I wear consistently.

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No Cow juices for me... Reproductive enzymes from another mammals endocrine system... no thanks.

I am highly skilled artisan and charge $500-1000 per 10 hours of labor for my services when freelancing depending on the piece. This is above cost of materials.

One of the reasons I chose the heart's magnetic field for the analogy was that it is registered scientifically in consensus reality. As our instruments get more sensitive, perhaps a similar discovery will yield to the more subtle energies that those of us in cultivation experience first hand, but cannot share due to the subtle/personal nature of the experience. I sense the image of the cauldron may stem from exactly what you describe and the mind assigning a symbolic image of reference with which it can relate to...

One of the most attractive things to me, is a person speaking passionately about what that they love and enjoy.