blue eyed snake

“I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.” ― Jean Webster from an old book for young girls

grok

eh, those cookingpots on their heads, do they liken that to errr ... you know, your english is loads better then my Chinese... --- My teacher says, you can liken the lower tantien to a cauldron ( which is a sort of oldfashioned cooking pot). Do these cookingpots symbolize upper tantien to these people?? It is strange, those pictures, these people

“There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what's good for it.” ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

Nice, i've read it and seen the youtube in its totality thanks for posting

thanks silent thunder, for saying it soo well I bow, not to you, but to the way that you are

on innocent searchers of MoPai, there was a strange thread about the possible death of John Chang, i haven't visited the forum in long time. I sincerely hope this thread has been removed by now. That thread felt bad to me.

well, for one thing this thread is reasonable civil. It has not been dumped down into the pit/hundun. So there's no real reason to ban mr coffee. ( about coffee, somewhere there is a thread about the use/non-use of coffee and why. Don't touch people' s food preferences ) earlier I already mentioned that it is nice to see mirror-processes on the go, always easier to see when others are doing the mirroring, big mirror here too. But it's useful thread, an overwhelming amount of reasons not to join Mopai will help people/ young guys not to go there I think. edit : typo

Nice!

thanks, that's indeed what I meant. difference being this is an open forum where we hope and expect everybody to get along with each other without necessarily agreeing on things. I think that openness is conditional to growth

err...do you realize what you're bringing into this forum... constant arguments....

thanks, i'm ware of those three points too. But as I could not find much about it i left it for what it was. But now reading your post, i could not but ask. nice!

springbeauty

could you give some information on this? last year I've been looking for information on that but could not really find something

thanks

thanks for posting Luke, no, it doesn't make sense, and at the same time it does. It doesn't make sense because we need to think of things as going from here to there. But chi seems to be something different and we cannot grasp it with our ever rationalizing minds. I'm aware of something flowing trough my body, I call that chi, for want of a better word. At the same time I know that I do not feel chi flowing but i feel a reaction of my physical body. and I know that my teacher is able to energetically influence people over quite a distance. I do not think much about it, I cannot grasp it. And in that regard it is like those modern physics theories, we cannot grasp that anymore ( at least I can't )

Brian isn't playing games, merely very patiently trying to explain to you what objective evidence means. Y Seems to be a very patient guy.

well, if you've read all my threads you must have a lot of spare time, hope you had fun with them.

Brian has said it all really, and his English is decidedly better then mine. About my education, if you would read more threads then this one it would not be hard to guess, best wishes again

well, shooting from the hip loosely there is made a difference between ' psychiatric' disorders and psychological problems/disorders. The first being rooted in the setup of the body. Whether found in the DNA or not, these are regarded as baked into the person, so ( latently) being there at birth. For example Bipolar disorder, autism, schizophrenia the other category are manmade, these are problems that have their root into rearing and adverse events in a persons life. Depression, anxiety , borderline are examples. even though there is discussion abut this and where the cutoff line should be. The difference seem to have validity. But...when you have a ( still latent ) inborn disorder, changes that that disorder will come into being are much bigger when rearing is suboptimal and/or when adverse life events occur. Plus People with inborn ( latent) disorders are in general much more sensitive to what happens with them and can be " difficult" children. Thereby the factor of suboptimal rearing and the risk of adverse life-events ( such as bullying for instance) become magnified. end of it being that people with ( latent) inborn disorders have a much larger risk on having problems in growing up. Suboptimal rearing and adverse life-events are stressors. An overload of stress is closely related to the ' psychological' disorders like depression and anxiety, which are more often then not co-morbid wit the " psychiatric" disorders. ( would that my command of English was better, but it isn't) Personally I'm not very happy with this duality, but it does have some validity. Even though lately epigenetics is rearing ts head. Meaning that maybe things that are deemed genetic and therefore unchangeable may not be so unchangeable as we think. Point of my rambling, to me the various forms of meditation, sitting or standing, walking are all helpful in dissolving emotional blocks that are the result of being human, being reared in a culture. Being identified with the things that form the " I" . Whatever ' disorder' people have, this baggage is present in all of them. People wit a disorder have more blocks and these blockages are rooted stronger then in people without disorders. And I would like that for them careful ways of getting rid of these blockages would become available. Meditation, both sitting and standing, has done a lot for me. But I needed to take it in very small bits at first. Meditators who do not have these adverse life-events do not really get how fucking much you have to go through. psychologist do not get what meditation is and what it can do, both in the positive, when measured right. And in the negative, when overdosed.

O yeah, it's clear that we disagree. For many pages now. But being a scientist myself I don't class that video as objective evidence, but this probably has been explained to you before. i'm sort of sorry for people who let themselves be trapped in, indeed, a cultish sort of thing. but then, hey its your life

at the same time you seem to ask of people here to believe you just because you say so... with a video as only ' proof' oh well

tasty

awesome indeed