blue eyed snake

see, life starts at 50, I'm 51 :-) from the same website: We attack these creatures that drain us Of our energy and time, but now I can see That it is not worth a drop of breath To engage these creatures I rather look at the sunset It looks quite beautiful today

that's a concise description of the way my qigong teacher acts

yeah, those things mostly come together, in males....

you're cute...sometimes

I wonder about you're mentioning of ascorbic acid, I think that's vitamin C? or am i wrong. Could you give some information about which food or maybe which herbs are good? Due to illness I started a diet about two years ago. ( even though my diet before that time was good compared what I see other people eating). By now my digestion is such that i can slowly introduce new elements, i'd better choose those who are good for me. My diet now is mostly veggies, fruit, beans etc. nuts, oats, speltbread, brown rice, cheese and eggs. No milk. sugar or alcohol. I use tapwater which is neither fluoridated nor chlorinated. Can't do better on that. i supplement with some vitamins and minerals. Sometimes I have craving for protein, then I take pills consisting of essential aminoacids, my body is not able to digest meat or soy so familydoctor described them for me. At the moment I wonder whether or not to take calcium as a supplement. Body is still very weak, i went into menopause awfully young and both mother and eldest sister have osteoporosis. But I'm having doubts about it, would like to hear your opinion, BES

as a new member I was surprised about these stars in my profile, not daoist at all imho. I use the like button when i really get something out of a comment, or when it is an answer to a question of mine, or when it makes me laugh, feel it's beautiful, some such. If you want to have something like stars and dislikes i would indeed use the already present like button and maybe a change to see how many people ignore your posts...But I'm not for it to be honest. It's all egoplay

thought does make it so, why don't you leave the thinking, return to stillness

Honorably and humbly, always....thank you There shouldn't be talk about 'higher', not ever

I agree, every coin has a rim, some coins are thicker than others. And some people just heal you by looking at you, listening, making tea... But I didn't say that teaching how to heal yourself is the highest goal. I said that healing and teaching should be balanced ( or harmonized ). Seems to me that is both for the student and the teacher the most balanced way ( or something...)

when I read someone writing about soulcrushing pain, i conclude that the matter is not only to have a dialogue about general issues . reading the comments I was not the only one. I asked you to delete this offending talk, I do so again. Doesn't interest me if you find that political correctness, i believe there's rules here that ask of us to keep a civil tongue in our heads What you write on that page is mostly nonsense, I've worked for years with autistic people. It's not a personality disorder. For many of them it's a hard and irreversible disorder that they have to carry with them all their lives. I have deep respect for my clients. Using the name of their handicap as a denigratory label is inexcusable. Of course there are two parties to the story, always is... Life sucks, and will go on sucking. When you get yourself worked up about it you make it worse, for yourself. That's what you're doing, i quitted that, happily. Life still sucks, but I will not let myself get worked up by it anymore (mostly, it's a process, not a switch). Yes, you feel insulted, but reading those posts I don't see it. What I do see is that by generalizing your own problems to a societal problem ( which it is, you're right in that) you try to get more attention for your own problem. I already commented on this, the OP had clear personal tone and you went along with the responses I would I could help you, for i do feel empathy, even though you can't believe that. But, sadly, I can't. BES

I have read this thread and part of the external link but didn't comment beacause my opinion on this is already clearly formulated. Seems to me that the original poster is outstepping forum rules by offending people who tried to help him. Above quote I find offensive on behalf of several autistic persons i know personally. I ask Owledge to delete this and the other offensive remarks. About the topic itself, Owledge, i've been where you are now, for many long years. And I do know how it feels. The advice you got is good but it is your's to take it or leave it. I think what I see above is a repetition of a pattern that you're going trough, people sincerely try to help you and you reject them. Step out of it, and I for one know how hard that is, wish you the best, BES

I would say they are two sides of the same coin. Healing consist of both helping someone clearing (a) blockage(s) they can't clear themselves and teaching them how to heal their body's by themselves. If a healer doesn't teach he's carrying water to the sea.

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gives me an idea where in germany you live dutch is about the same word: klank instead of klang, and i don't know a better translation but sound doesn't give the right feeling. In dutch singing bowls are translated as klank schalen for me, the sound of such a big gong, especially such a beautiful one, i imagine that is what you'd hear when a very large tree is singing. congrats and enjoy!

Both, darkness training didn't ring a bell with me at first, but I do remember that when I was younger I had a very good nightsight and looking back, that nightsight left me about the same time that 'seeing' other things left me. so it does interest me. Looking forward to your post.

I would like to know more of this than the broad outline you give here. Could you please give some more details of what in your opinion would be good for decalcifying, and which influences promote the calcifying? happily I live in a country where water is not fluoridized ( thanks to ONE familydoctor who has made himself a real pain in the ass for people who were all for it ) ------------------ we're going off topic maybe this thread can be split

ah, now I understand why my ( chinese) teacher calls taichi taiji, and, the way he says Dao, it's somewhere between D and T I grew up with Peking, now it's Beijing. My name is unpronounceable for native English speakers, I forgive them beforehand and feed them a name they can pronounce. ( and when they still want to try we both have a good laugh ) But I will never let my name be misspelled, so I'm fine with pinyin

life is everchanging, whether real or digital. The goat is beautiful, both gentle and fierce. The first thing I learned in the year of the woodgoat is how addictive this site can be. A good reminder to work on several addictions this year. But your offline page was nice too thanks for creating and keeping this website online

The norms stop you now, but they will not forever, you're meant to be free.

oh well, I should know better though, on your own head be it. the BBC-link, interesting examples, but I wouldn't dub them placebo- effect. that't doesn't cover it. It's a tag misused imho. Many more examples are to be found in the realm of psychological research. They don't know what causes it, to tag it placeboeffect is imo not a resolution. First, they should learn to do proper research, repeating experiments as their beta-collegues do, but that a sideline here, just my continuing dissatisfaction with the way psychological research is put to work. They start fiddling around with research-designs before they've properly replicated it. that's no science, that' s stacking of a bunch of explorative designs until you have so many trees that you can only see the wood instead of the group of trees that you were investigating, sorry, rambling.... Most heard and realistically idea is something as shared (sub) consciousness. Can be seen in a lot of animals, think of sheep. One sheep comes aware of a predator, next second the whole herd is preparing for that predator. So it clearly an adaptive mechanism. The more individual things are mind, it's true that people can think themselves ill. It far more difficult to think yourself well, has much to do with how deeply your biochemistry is out of whack and underlying genetic causes play a role too. Lately I've read some research about the same thing happening with plants .Research-design looked sound to me. researcher couldn't find better words than "shared consciousness" his colleagues were not happy. All small seedlings did send their roots in the direction of the most nutrition, even though the seedlings at the far end of the row weren't able to detect that because in their direct vicinity the nutrition was not heightened. Had some more details of course, but that was the gist of it. As adaptive as the sheep-example. so, best hypothesis is something like shared subconsciousness. The BBC story ends with: <he says. (expectation) “It is not enough to overcome disease – but it is indispensable.”> so that's not your line, but it is mine. The woman having a near death experience, if this is a true story, which I assume it to be. what I know of it, these experiences have an enormous impact on people, they generally feel touched with grace, describe golden light or energy and an all-encompassing feeling of being loved to the core. Just as this woman tells us. Earlier I've said something like: ' unexplained' healing comes from moving energy, this energy touches neuro-biology so that the biochemistry of the body can heal itself. The amount of energy that she was immersed in was..huge...And the expectation that you'll be healed is an important factor. Chi follows where yi goes. She had every reason to believe, she was given the choice to go back. And trust me, that is a feeling she is never-ever to forget. As a sideline, there are reasons to believe that part of the meridian-system is embedded in the lymphatic system. This story is a beautiful illustration of my idea that both energy and expectation are needed for healing that is not brought about by western medicine. Now, when you're coming back with the: the woman believed thus she healed. My answer would be that this woman is dissolving her ego. Imo ego has its foundations on useless old emotions, fear the most important one, ingrained in our mind. You just can't let go of these ingrained emotions, you can't suddenly change that, unless you let your ego dissolve, which is not something we see daily.

being quite illiterate at this subject I still find it interesting, because kundalini just came for me, and I don't care to repeat it. neither body nor mind were up to it. Although maybe I understand that a little better now. reading this, it feels like: it's not about the object that gets the devotion, wheter it's a deity or a guru. It is about changes in the person "doing the devotion" That feels like, that what we ultimately want to embrace, or maybe are meant to merge with, is just too far away that we could feel real devotion , or maybe is surrender a better word? So the devotion to a guru or deity is like a crutch to make a human develop a little further towards his destiny. On the other hand Jetsun writes that not only devotion but also inquiry into the truth of things is part of the developmental path. That suits me, it's what i'm doing here and I think I feel in that way I'm like hundun, I wanna know what this is about and see how the path goes further. ... seems both are or could be needed, depending on the person, there might be totally different paths too Hundun poses that he searches kundalini for selfish reasons, because he wants to know, because he feels himself driven that way. Seems okay to me, why should devotion be a better ( in a moralistic sense) road. just as long as you take care of yourself. remembering my own experience, not sought at all...it seems to me it'll come when the time is ripe, and if the time isn't ripe, it won't come. still...I find myself changed and the word devotion fits in... Even though brought up an atheist it feels like: " thy will be done" in the end it's gonna merge with "my will be done" because in the end, they should become one. I find myself eh...not trying but more like being devotional to that concept/idea/feeling

being skewed can be beautiful too

Thanks for the translations, looking at the pictures they' re correct. I'm not good at birds names but I do like to watch them. The names are mostly what I learned from my mum... But I now find that with internet it's easy to find them and their names. yesterday I saw two marsh harriers, swooping and swirling around each other, like the first flirtation prior to nestbuilding https://www.google.nl/search?q=marsh+harrier.&client=ubuntu-browser&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=F1zfVLXaNITtaI6pgZgO&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1189&bih=918#imgdii=_&imgrc=vVzg2DZQ5W-PuM%253A%3BjAQmzyIJ1tFfEM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.rspb.org.uk%252Fcommunity%252Fcfs-file.ashx%252F__key%252Fcommunityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles%252F00-00-01-24-39%252F1321.Copy-of-Mins-30-apr-11-031a.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.rspb.org.uk%252Fcommunity%252Fplacestovisit%252Fminsmere%252Fb%252Fminsmere-blog%252Farchive%252F2013%252F05%252F24%252Fmystery-of-the-male-marsh-harrier.aspx%3B2382%3B1932 Beautiful, but the swarm of sparrows at the feeder is fun too

Thanks for posting, found it interesting and seems to confirm my viewpoints. See no reason to discuss it further here. our viewpoints are to far apart