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Hi Franko & TaoLilly, The book club works by, basically, discussing things we like about books The Tao of Pooh is such a commonly recommended book that I picked up a copy last year. I loved the pictures but have never had the time to really read it. So I flipped a few pages and got captured by the Cottelston Pie chapter. I was going to do a quick summary, but it's a few pages long and I'm enjoying reading it. So I'm going to keep reading rather than writing. Thus the failure of my clever plan, sooner rather than later in this case p.s. I'm not ignoring Marbelhead, I'm just being quite as I really should be reading journey to the west

Hell yes. There are a few bum's down under, we really should have a gathering one day but we are rather spread out If you do come to Queensland I'm in Townsville.

Kunlun Level 1,2 and 3. This edition, unlike the original book, also has five elements I Jong traveling hands golden flower red sun. (page 6 on the preview )

I went looking for Slavic Natural Health System Zdorovye (a different spelling I guess) and all I hit was a thread here http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/2194-z-health/page__p__167084__hl__sonnon__fromsearch__1entry167084 and this one http://www.naturalhealthweb.com/articles/brackbill1.html so I don't really know much about it.

Cheap enough to be free (well almost ) http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/kunlun/3366444?productTrackingContext=center_search_results And the one with the colour pictures http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/kunlun-special-edition/3367066?productTrackingContext=center_search_results

Anyone used one of these? http://www.sleeptracker.com/ I thought it could be good for my partner who does shift work and has to wake up at strange times. Personally I use my digital zen alarm clock as it has a nice "soft" wake up for me and since she knows it's "my" alarm sound it won't wake her up. Unless I'm really tired and it gets to the end of its 10 min cycle where it's chiming all the time

"Since you move differently in bed during the different phases, Sleep Cycle uses the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement to determine which sleep phase you are in. " Very clever, thanks for the link. My partner brought my mobile back from hongkong many years ago. It's still going strong, but rather down on features compared to the ones these days.

I tried a few times, but I kept dropping the mudra and falling asleep So no success for me

Nice, I so enjoy these posts Blasto.

Yes the body is pretty clever, as long as you have had enough sleep you can seem to wake up just before the alarm most of the time. Jess thanks for the review, it does sound a bit annoying, I quite like lazing around in bed waiting for the alarm to go off. Having one beep you as soon as you actually wake up might not be the best option. SlackerBee any more info on the Iphone app? I'm wondering how it would measure your sleep cycle. I need to upgrade my mobile one day, the one I have doesn't even take photos !!!

I chose to send a public message to let people know that the matter was under review. I do apologize for the conflict of putting that moderator response and then tagging my personal opinion along as well. Like many things in this thread perhaps that was a hasty, rather than thoroughly thought out, response. So yes I regret that.

As a Moderator ANY threats against another person is not cool and we DO NOT condone that sort of rubbish here. OK. the policy is simple So perhaps (another) reminder about the insult policy is needed (again). This matter is under review by the moderating team. Personally. Scotty's comment rubbed a lot of people the wrong way (myself included) but I think it did come from an honest desire to help people. 5ET I note your IMHO over the top response to IMHO an evenly worded PRIVATE MESSAGE and I also note you didn't post your response that contained a threat but rather more PRIVATE MESSAGES that furthered your own agenda. That sort of thing really offends my sense of ethics. Consider yourself on a very short leash.

Well it works if you use insert medial or do it like this {media} {/media}'> {/media} Thanks to Jack Runner as I looked at his post to work out how he embedded a youtube

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I love that Father Ted show, so funny. Scotty, It's all good. At one stage I really wanted to get into Kunlun and be with Max's 1st generation students. So sometimes it gets to me that I'm stuck on the wrong side of the world and isolated from that. But it does make sense. If you want to learn someone system i.e. Max's Kunlun your best bet is to talk to people who have gone through the appropriate training needed to bring the Kunlun to you in the most efficient way. Perhaps one day someone with come down under

That reads a lot better than the 1st statement " No matter who you are! " Anyhow it's practice time now for me, have fun my friends

I didn't. I read it as, if you are not part of the club you can not have any good information. Seemed rather exclusive and dismissive to me. I could guess at your motivation for doing so, but my guess may not be correct.

Wow

Don't think.... FEEL

Oh where did the "links" go I use it all the time to look up trunk's site as I can never remember how to spell it correctly. Guess I should just stop being disorganized and bookmark it

Don't let it get you down, I've been going through practice systems since the 90's That was suppose to be reassuring, not depressing I'm happy to have experienced all the different things that I have on my path. Ideally it might have been nice to find that "one true system" at the start of my journey, but would I have recognized it then? Perhaps I dismissed it and moved on. Anyhow that's not how things went, no sense wishing it was different. Perhaps you may get some more info in your other thread. And congratulations on actually having a go and practicing. That's a lot more than many people do.

Senseikarma, If it helps (with regard to choosing practices) I'm not sure if intellectual comparison is the best approach. You may make up your mind on a "best" practice. But when you actually start practicing it, it could turn out that it just doesn't click for you. Regardless of how good a system IMHO you should enjoy your practice. For me I have no real interest in kundalini awakening. Then suddenly KAP just appeared as the right thing for me to do. And I do mean suddenly, it had already been discussed quite a bit and I just never paid any attention as I wasn't interested in what I thought it was. So I'm going +1 for the old saying "when the student is ready the teacher will appear" Do you just find yourself drawn to one more than the others?

I see Cameron is on that list. That's awesome. It's great to see a long time 'bum finding something that works for them and progressing. Your posts have made a nice evolution over time too Scotty.