blue eyed snake

"The worst" Now that's quite a judgement. This is a forum, not a teaching environment.

I do not see any reason to keep out lurkers, whether before they become talking members or after, or when they never become a talking member. There is no difference. I would not chuck out silent types out of the pub either.

may her journey be full of light she'll be sorely missed thanks for informing us

I am not impressed with Neirong, to the point I've put him on ignore maybe you'd better look at other options Just my personal opinion ofcourse

So he has made his jump to the stars wishing him well on his continued journey thanks for informing us @steve

I seem to remember that the carbondating was done on the fibers from the repair patches which would make the dating invalid we'll never know I suppose Its an intriguing artifact

Not a buddhist but reading some nice things here I do sort of like that although lately I've tended to see emotion as information ( or flow of information) that information ( or energy) imprints itself in both body and uh, the thinking mind. Thinking mind is meant here as thinking mind, not ego perse. The part of us that makes shopping lists so to say. maybe imprint is not the right word, its like emotions sort of wind themselves through body and thinking mind. like connective tissue does in the body, or the circulatory system, it's everywhere. Long did I think that indeed, the ego is formed/has shaped itself around all the shit we perceived in life et cetera. which is still true but there might be more to it. Becoming aware how the old reaction-patterns can wake up, ' me' looking at it happening, becoming aware of body reactions ( like heartbeat going faster) and mind reactions , like "hey this person touches old pain" and thinking on how to respond to that. But it's all a bit detached so to say, so...eh....the same reaction is happening, the ingrained defending of "the ego" but somehow the fire has diminished/gone out a bit. The emotion still following the old ingrained pathways, but sort of diminished. It's interesting and about destructive emotions, in my time girls were brought up to be nice and helpful and obedient, loving, sweet, caring et cetera ad infitum. All such good traits uh, woman should be compassionate When you sink in/identify with that society-induced role it happens to be that all those "good traits" are pretty destructive and disgusting. Where unloading yourself from anger or sadness ( ooh, a woman screaming, bad emotions) can be healthy to regain balance. ah well, just rambling a bit

Nice, 't reminded me of: you're not a drop in the ocean, you're the whole ocean in a drop

from the other side, a lot less elaborate then the post above this I do not want ( or need) any jing from a person i consider to be below my expectations.

imho it is relevant. many people are overbreathing and in those people hyperventilating before holding breath can make that worse. I think that's what you do? first hyperventilating and then holding breath? Have done that as a youngster, before deep dives. You temporarily change something in the balance of the bloodgases. Thereby tricking the brainstem as your co2 will stay low a bit longer. It's the brainstem that gives the signal to take a breath, it gives that signal when it deems the CO2 getting too high. Not when there's a shortage of oxygen. a healthy person should be able to hold breath for about a minute, if it's much less, even after training it something is off in that balance. Another way to gauge it is how many breaths you have per minute when sitting relaxed. when you look up buteyko method you'll probably find a better explanation.When you are indeed overbreathing I would look for a way to fix that, it'll make you feel better, more relaxed. but regardless, when whatever training is causing damage to your body you should either stop or change it so that there's no risk

breath retention decades ago I did something else which involved holding my breath uhm, how long do you hold your breath? does it give tension on your body? and if that is so can you either hold your breath a bit shorter or find out a way to not have tension (on the underside) meaning when this is causing a worsening of hemorrhoids something goes wrong so you either have to stop or change the way you practice

thank you from making such clear words about it. You come at that point thinking it over and that, for me , is helpful as it makes words for my lived experience it seems to me that i am crawling out of the worst of my illness with a heightened awareness of that bubble, somewhere I read something like: at first you'll become aware of a nothingness inside you, and later you'll find yourself inside of a nothingness. But forgotten where that comes from. seems cognitive faculties are failing me more of late.

thank you for posting. been mulling it over. these pictures show what I call the bubble around the fleshbody. As to such a bubble appearing in a kidsmovie, a lot of young kids are able to seen those bubbles. They quickly learn not to talk about it as in this society they are met with disbelief. through my life I've sometimes seen those bubbles, they were generally whitish in color, only once did I saw one with a true golden aspect. a toddler that was @dwai wrote that the golden body is the causal body, now that's interesting, could you point me to a site which tells me a bit about it ( from the Hindu viewpoint that is, I'd rather skip the theosophics)I've looked but could not find much. But the golden body I saw was not a bubble or eggshaped, it was shaped like a human form and it shone bright as the sun.

thank you, the pictures above remind me of a "golden lightbulb" that always accompanied me until I lost it sometime in my forties . As a kid I called it the golden eggyolk, 't was visible with closed eyes. some weeks ago all of a sudden It was there again, which was quite a strange experience. Maybe I need to look at your picturebook essay Regarding the goldenbody, I do not know anything about it but the memory of one remarkable practice session where all of a sudden a golden body appeared in front of me, have been staring in openmouthed wonder. Adding to your series of pics, this is a fresco in chora church Istanbul and this one, Fra angelico 1440

yes, the effects of glycine on the body can be very good.

yes, I read that, but I am not sure that's the correct Chinese name as there's a vertical channel with the same name. So I'd rather call it chest channel.

under the new snow the seeds are laying dormant waiting for the spring

nice, i would make that the expression of our true nature though. As: not what we are ( which seems to me a vast emptiness/ stillness , for want of better words), but how we interact with the the world/ the ten-thousand things.

yes, now I know what it was in this post. As a kid I was taught never to take anything ( especially but not exclusively in the department of morality) on someone else his word. "Always think for yourself, always try to find the behavior that is just so that you never have to regret your actions." So that's the way my mind is molded/conditioned. I was a hell of a stubborn kid in that department, blatantly calling out teachers on unjust behavior for example. Now I see how well this has served me through this life, in many ways. Also, how strange it is that I did take my teachers words seriously almost from the start

As far as I know there are several channels/ Mai encircling the body in a more or less horizontal way. One of them encircling the chest. Like on this picture, the belt channel is known as dai mai, not sure about the given name for the chestchannel though.

a raw awareness of things generally unseen the next layer falls

yes, although reading a bit can be helpful it's the personal meaning that counts. When that has grown a bit the old texts ( or the words of a teacher) get another meaning too. teacher once told us:when new things/experiences happen do not (try to) give meaning, jot it down and let it rest. after about 5 years the meaning will be clear(er) to you. Methinks that encompasses what you say here. that's interesting "What does the dao look like when it is embodied in a person? It looks like de." yes, and De does not need to look like conforming to the current societal morality. It seems to have it source at the location of the heart. When younger I believed that, now I think it's not the source but err... the place were heaven and earth meet to shape our/this behavior ( De) will reread your post later.

well, once you've seen it you cannot unsee it anymore, imho the length of that thread shows how ridiculous it is to try to explain it. Nonetheless, there are many very interesting posts in that thread, totally worth a read.