blue eyed snake

I've had my troubles too, play with fire get burnt

sure...sure... o wow, a whole month, now that's convincing. But don't you come knocking at my door for help when things turn out wrong, you were warned.

well, every once in a while we get people who have played around witch chi/energy/whatever you wanna call it and fucked themselves up. "help, what do I do know." that's the reason that some practitioners worth their salt are critical ( to put it softly) about homegrown practice.

i must admit i not remember too clearly, but did start out with a different avatar. something like this.

thank you

yess, of course

Your initial post exclusively addresses male bums. Thereby you ignore the females on the forums. You also objectify and denigrate women. Most people would think that sexuality is a shared activity, hardly two separate things... The way you talk about women here is repulsive. Furthermore, males are much more prone to problems with regulating their sexuality then females, that is something well known in Daoist cultivation. You're mirroring your own problems here on the opposite sex and laying fault with them. I for one won't have that. I do not deny that sexual overindulgence, whether solo or with (a) partner(s) can reduce jing, that’s a given, for all genders. Women do not steal or take away jing of males. They do that their-selves by being overly attached to sexual acts or sexual fantasies. Years ago the forums were flooded with posts like these, about fapping and the perceived stealing of Jing by women. Subforums were then created, imho this one belongs in the subforum for men. So when you have a problem with fapping I suggest you go there with posts like these. @steve Am I right by thinking this thread belongs in the male quarters?

yes, that could very well be a fan, thankyou

hm, you realize there are female cultivators? some more skilled then any guy some being daobums.

the western European doctor that tended to me as a kid was a firm believer in keeping warm too. He admonished me not to sit on cold surfaces. I also remember warm but itchy woolen underwear. My esteemed teacher told us to keep the body warm and regarding going barefoot he judged that it's mostly to cold were we live.

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trees can grow to be enormous energetic beings and I see you sitting there, under those long trailing twigs. When that feels good to you it's okay. I seem to remember that there's a difference between trees with laves and trees with needles, probably to do with the sap stream. Needle tree have an upwards movement in winter that trees with leaves do not have. But at least here it's to cold and wet to do anything outside when the sapstream in the deciduous trees has temporarily reversed and stopped. I've always had a strong connection to trees, as a kid I went up to guys that were about to kill a tree and yell at them they should stop. visualize that, a preschooler yelling at those big men they should stop But not everybody has the same connection to trees, interestingly my connection with trees was better then that of my esteemed teacher. Which at the time surprised me. and trees do remember you, you can befriend a tree although the connection is much different from the connection between humans.

that's the reason I mentioned it , I can see Chinese characters just fine, but your Javanese script gets reduced to little rectangles with a cross inside.

I have ubuntu and only see little blocks with a cross in it

teacher had the complete floor from the dojo removed ( a sort of concrete and iron) and there was a new floor build from wood only, think that's telling. further it seems to me that whereas chi/energy/whatevers very easily goes up, it's a lot harder to get it down. The barefoot standing does help to get it down, especially in combination with a good posture and an empty mind.

ah yes, 501 it was I know of one such a tree in the neighborhood but easier to find is equisetum. Not for me though, have been housebound for many years now. Even light gardening is not possible anymore, but have become a good knitter. this vineyard is still young, 20 or 30 years I guess I hear the wine is very good quality. It was started by a local BD-farmer who saw that big, overgrown piece of land close by his land and asked the owner whether he could start a vinyard there. and it was all arranged and after lots of work and some very hard first years it now is a beautiful place that gives good crop. In times unremembered it was the veggie garden of a big house and walls on all sides make the micro-climate slightly warmer then the surroundings. But also more humid with risk of mildew and mold

nice to see you dear

I have been stirring water with one of these alchemical thingies for a vineyard here in the neighbor hood, I found it interesting experience.did it together with someone else as it was a big rainbarrel and hard work for me but soon you fall into a rhythm and then it goes all by itself. "t was to make the abundant leavegrowth more resistant to err... mildew and mold like things. They have beautiful soil

Oh yes, of course I do believe in Santa. Santa is not a person, Santa is an idea. When it gets darker outside and cold we have to be more inside. We cannot go out to play or walk when tensions between familymembers rise. So we do our best to react more amicable, we thoughtfully make or buy small presents. Together we clean our home and add some decorations reminding us of light and sprouting greens. For the smaller ones among us it’s magical, they believe the big man dressed in red and the elves looking in every corner of the house have physical reality. The green smell in the living-room and the glittering decorations add to that magical sphere. The grownups and the big kids create the atmosphere of magic and then are caught in it themselves too. When all is ready we have some festive days with our loved ones, days of rest, love and connecting. After Christmas very slowly the days are getting longer again and we start to look forward to the next year, to new growth both of plants and our own development. Leastwise, that’s what Santa means to me.

I would not take that as an ad hominem, I did not mean it as that. Comparing you to him is more like an honor then an insult. As to Kundalini being naught more then a physiological reaction. It's useless to talk about that with you. You're obviously sure you're ideas about it are right, or in other words, you're cup is full and new information cannot enter.

Narrating about his youth he jokingly did call it a course, yes. But in fact he had been living at that place as an intern for over a year, which is quite a commitment for a 20 something guy.

the number of times you have had the most contentlikes for a day. at least, that's what it reads when you hoover over the number with your cursor

first, congrats on finishing your degree i cannot be of much help but this scheme might make a bit of order in your thoughts about how to progress from here. Looking back on my life i think I mostly jumped on the trains that were passing, when not fast enough I paid for it with scratches from falling. So my advice would be: look out for a train that passes and invites you to jump on.

apart from the idea of friction that Dwai introduced there is of course relativity think of a bucket with lukewarm water. a person with cold hands will perceive that water as quite warm, almost hot. The person with nice warm hands will perceive same water as cool, almost cold. same water. that's with a lot of perceptions, my son is colorblind. He sees the world totally different, which world is more real? I cannot perceive depth due to some inborn fuckery, I see the world very different from the next guy what perception is real? (if any )