IntuitiveWanderer

The first time I stumbled unto this info was when I saw a video by a Unkrainian breathing instructor(?), who had put up a few video presentation of doctor Buteyko's findings and the physiology of breathing, but I didn't study it in depth yet, I only try to control my breath whenever I notice that it is incorrect, in order to develop a habit, but haven't yet started exercises. Anyway, thanks for the links, I'll search Stough's method and check out those two sites.

I didn't know that, thanks! I would also add that it is also optimal in itself to breath less, it is simply healthier to maintain a correct ballance between oxygen and co2 at all times. The body is a finely tuned system, in harmony with the Tao, and we must act in accordance, this includes breathing correctly.

This is quite interesting, I would like to ask a few question regarding this issue: When the slave trade began, did the Americans go to Africa, deep into the jungle and kidnap the poor men, women and children? And if so, how could they do it, how could they survive: 1. The horible natural dangers and 2. The great african warriors who knew the jungle as the back of their hand and also knew self-defense? Also, did only individuals with white skin own slaves, or were there also individuals with skins of other colors who owned slaves? (not that skin color matters, I am not a RACIST..God forbid)

Thanks for the warm welcome manitou. Empathy and the desire for safety (peace, although I think it is slightly naive to call forced peace safe) is a typical feminine aspect so it is perfectly natural. Wisdom lies in ballance and morality lies in harmony, but harmony cannot exist without discord, thus we live our whole lives in conflict. My body is constantly decaying and falling apart, I must eat to maintain harmony (act moraly), thus I must slay plants or/and animals thus creating discord within their system which is imoral from their subjective experience but not imoral from a global perspective since the cicle of nature is the cicle of life and death (which maintains the material biosphere), history also represents the cycle of life and death (of civilizations, which begets His story). The cycle of imorality and moraity, immorality begets morality and morality begets immorality. Some call it Hell, others call it Heaven, It is neither. (need to learn to stop compulsively editing after posting )

Personally, I always take my intuition seriously by default, and it is wise to do so. Here is what the Bhavagadgita has to say on such matters as conflict and suffering: "To him who was thus overwhelmed with pity and sorrowing, and whose eyes were dimmed with tears, Madhusudana spoke these words: The Blessed Lord (Krishna) said: ' In such a crisis, whence comes upon thee, O Arjuna, this dejection, un-Aryalike, disgraceful and contrary to the attainment of heaven? Yield not to unmanliness, O son of Prithâ! Ill doth it become thee. Cast off this mean faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of thine enemies!'" - Chapter 2 of the Bhavagad Gita, Swami Swarupananda translation (1909) "I do not see anything to remove this sorrow which blasts my senses, even were I to obtain unrivalled and flourishing dominion over the earth, and mastery over the gods." " Having spoken thus to the Lord of the senses, Gudâkesha, the scorcher of foes, said to Govinda, "I shall not fight," and became silent. To him who was sorrowing in the midst of the two armies, Hrishikesha, as if smiling, O descendant of Bharata! spoke these words. The Blessed Lord said: 'Thou hast been mourning for them who should not be mourned for. Yet thou speakest words of wisdom. The (truly) wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. It is not that I have never existed, nor thou, nor these kings. Nor is it that we shall cease to exist in the future. As are childhood, youth, and old age, in this body, to the embodied soul, so also is the attaining of another body. Calm souls are not deluded thereat. Notions of heat and cold, of pain and pleasure, are born, O son of Kunti, only of the contact of the senses with their objects. They have a beginning and an end. They are impermanent in their nature. Bear them patiently, O descendant of Bharata.'" -Chapter 2 of the Bhavagad Gita, Swami Swarupananda translation (1909) Here is a link to the text for those interested: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbg/sbg07.htm

Who is it that will find itself asleep, the past or the future?

There is no such thing as death. Who is it that lets go into death? Can the Atman die? A cow farts silently.

Thank you.