Nungali

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  1. Where is Jeff? I would like to contact him

    Thats a fine philosophy ..... IF you are a Christian . I wonder how many people here are Christian ?
  2. Long hair and feeling connected to nature

    Okay, I get it ... and I laughed as it was a problem my fruzz gave me . So I keep it shorter than that. Thats what I meant by short . I sleep on both sides so in the morning when my hair is longer, like now , it is swooshed up both sides to a peak in the middle what I consider a v.bad look .... yet apparently some men cultivate it ! ! They have a part on either side and comb it up to the middle to form a peak . When its longer it looks like an old ladies 1960 'perm' - I often get old ladies looking at me with envy when its that bad So when a bit longer than 'iron filings ' I use hot water and olive oil to tame it in the mornings . Hence longer hair takes 4 mins longer in the morning for me . I suppose with longer hair , one can have fun styling it
  3. What are you listening to?

    These guys are rather unusual - Mongolian Rock They got stuck in Sydney due to quarantine
  4. Long hair and feeling connected to nature

    And riding a trike
  5. Long hair and feeling connected to nature

    Ehh! How can that be so ?
  6. Three Gunas in Taoism?

    I also see it . Eg ; Ch 42. Why is it 'nonsense ' ? Your explanation seems faulty ; ' Yang ' is also the most yang ( have you noticed the area of yin within it ?). Same as yin , it has yang within it . Similar to how rajas and tamas have mixed yin yang qualities but one is more yin or yang than the other . Sattva is going to have both 'yin and yang ' as it is the mediating principle between two polarities . The clear terms you mention I see as very clearly and simply expressed in Ch 42
  7. Three Gunas in Taoism?

    That's the principle of three in Platonic philosophy
  8. Three Gunas in Taoism?

    Could you explain the bolded bit please .
  9. Long hair and feeling connected to nature

    Here is what happened to me ; as a youth I had a mass of hair .... wuffry ! ( x between wavy and fruzzy ) , when wet it was half way down my back and when dry at my shoulders . It was a hassle the 'longer' it got . Then one summer during an intense heatwave I had enough, I was hot, sweaty head. itchy, no air getting to my scalp and top of head. So I went to the barber shop and got a No 2 buzz cut , in those days a 'crewcut' and walked straight from the barber to the clean bright surf and dived in . Man ! Never had long hair since . The feeling of my head going through the surf and foam and underwater - bing ! Regarding the monks 'hairdo' , try it , you might be amazed at how much time some spend on 'hair grooming' . I am running on about a No. 4 at the moment ; there is a little pre winter chill about .
  10. Long hair and feeling connected to nature

    " Now ..... imagine me as a young woman with flowing long copper hair ..... " Hey ! Come on now ! ..... I wuz just balancin' his chakras for him .
  11. Three Gunas in Taoism?

    The Tao begot one. One begot two. Two begot three. And three begot the ten thousand things. To me that is the principle of 3 in Daoism. The 3 Gunas are the principle of 3 in Vedanta . ' Deity ' - God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the principle of 3 in Christian divinity . Of course we are not going to find the 3 Gunas in Christianity or Daoism , just as we will not find a Christian 3 phase divinity in Daoism . But for those that study all systems, they will observe certain 'Universal Principles' ... or perhaps I should say ' Archetypal Principles ' that are expressed in different cultural clothing AND express various phases of these principles . The ' Three Gunas' in Physics ; Strong Force, Weak Force and Electromagnetic Force; in alchemy ; sulphur salt and mercury : in astrology (personal ) Mercury Venus Mars ( extra personal / archetypal ) Neptune Uranus Pluto The 'Key' to these principles is understanding how hey manifest in variation and difference in different situations .
  12. I asked this before - but no answer . IF ziran is ' spontaneous action ' and spontaneous is ; ] performed or occurring as a result of a sudden impulse or inclination and without premeditation or external stimulus ' From what does it arise ? Sudden, spontaneous, without premeditation or external ( and observable ) stimulus can be from an unaware or unenlightened stimulus ( eg, wrath or jealousy ) . No ? Is tzu jan 'one's nature' or 'what is natural' ? This seems more interesting and relates ( I feel ) to one's ' khvarana ' - 'archetype' , ' incantatory mission ' , 'true Will, etc - which can be confused or hidden as well . Wabi Sabi ? IF one accepts one's 'limit' or 'imperfections' that are those that come within the boundary of one's development potential, does this not hamper development ? A danger here is a type of complacency that accepts limits inside one's potential of expansion. Another danger is imagining one's potential way beyond the boundary of one's possible development . But ... in short , one must ACT to develop and fulfil these ideals .... no ?
  13. Long hair and feeling connected to nature

    Gimme a head with hair. Long beautiful hair, Shining, gleaming, Streaming, flaxen, waxen. Give me down to there - hair. Shoulder length or longer. Here baby, there mama, everywhere daddy daddy , Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair Flow it, show it Long as God can grow it My hair
  14. Well, if this ^ is what you are doing ( now ) as a practice and you are still acting to change stuff you are either being hypocritical, failing at your practice or using wrong sentence structure . So ..... after all the above you decided to change the question . If you are happy with the temperature , no - dont put on the air con or the heating . ( I mean ...... JEEEEE - ZUS ! dude ! ) If you are happy not eating a big Mac, then dont eat one . If you are happy at home and dont feel the need to drive off and look at a sunset .... then ( guess what ) ... dont do it . There ya go ! I hope this advice helps you to sort out these difficult life decisions .
  15. I found the shoes that Lord Josh trains in
  16. Okay, I'll fess up . I used to go feet commando a lot of the time . One time even in Sydney when I went to the park , but had to get there first - yuk ! and when I did get there to train the ground under the fig trees was covered in half rotten figs and bat guano , to add another layer , then sealed it in with more street grime and then caught a train , ugh! Never again . I do it a bit here, but we got all sorts of things down there , stinging ants , bull joes, funnel webs . I went out to the loo one night recently , was going to go bare foot but slipped on the shoes anyway , and trod on a bull joe , so after that, I wear them more nowadays . In training , for some reason I like to wear shoes when doing weapons , but like barefoot for kata, and forms . Sometimes at the door of my cabin people hesitate and " Should I take my shoes off to come in ? " Me; " Not unless you want to get filthy socks ! " Sometimes I will go bare foot in the forest , in the real deep (old growth) understory forest, thats fine as not much grows there and ground is soft . Otherwise you just need to be careful where you tread . The Aboriginals said they liked walking with me in the forest ; "You walk around all the new little plants and dont stomp on them and where there is a small faint animal trail, you follow that . " I was , "Yeah .... what do you mean ? What do other people do ? " " Just walk through the bush stomping on little plants and tree seedlings . " I suppose,, as well as not being aware , with boots on they dont need to avoid things, just stomp along , Do shoes block off the energy flow, to an extent between you and the ground ? You betcha !
  17. Mhe. Its a free market . These just in today ! Kill two birds with one stone ! Nike Air Max Trainers. Made Of Astro Turf . £110
  18. I suggest barefoot .... but on astro turf .
  19. Oz agreed to join in the opinion to investigate China as a man made source. Now we get our bottom smacked economically. ' In the space of a few days, China has dealt heavy blows to both Australian barley and beef industries, raising suspicions that Beijing is using trade to punish Canberra for lending support to the international call to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. :' https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3084062/chinas-restrictions-australian-beef-barley-seen-retaliation
  20. Ahhh .... the original question ! We seem to have similar observational complaints . Before I go off on THIS tangent . I hope you appreciate my attempts to actually your question , which is supposed to be the topic here . Just today, earlier I wrote this on another forum ;
  21. AHA! Where do you think they arise from ?
  22. Paintings you like

    Tuna Fishing by Dali Looks like shit here ..... internet repros ! Soooo different ! eg ; This one is a littl better . The original is fantastic - and huge , I got sucked in to the rippled water at bottom left - no matter how close i looked on the original ... it seemed photographic .