windwalker

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.” ― George Orwell, 1984 The funny thing is, government is held accountable but private media corporations are not and yet cited as part of what holds government accountable. They'er commonly referred to as the 4th estate and held up as what is unique about the US demorcy playing a key part... really Now playing out in real time. The fake news and surveillance social media sites have become the "way" that much of how free speech is expressed but is not part of the government and yet there is 91% negative news feeds about team Trump. . Oddly enough or maybe not, people ask why team Trump is so "xxx" fill in the blank it needs to be brought down. Wonder why, or maybe not. They are now expressing the need to protect us from us....how nice and thoughtful. “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” ― George Orwell, 1984

The dangerous part is by doing so they are ceding control of themselves to others. Its always someone or something else that causes the problem, if only they or it would be, could be, or want to be different. need to know that change comes from within.

social media = surveillance companies free press = fake news

unknown artist back in the city

Back in the City for a little while, saw this murl on the side of a house Asked about the artist, the guy I spoke with mentioned her web site and other work http://www.alynnpaint.com/ the pic posted from her web site, couldn't get the same angle. more of her work from the web site

just wondering

Michelle Gong, might be a good contact for those looking someone to help them find a taiji teacheror new to taiji and wanting some lessons. She knows a lot of the teachers in the city as well as being an accomplished taiji player her self... a good friend and fellow taiji class mate. Michelle, Beijing Tour Guide, Taiji teacher Followed her dream as a young girl growing up in a small rural village in China. She learned taiji as young teenager, traveling to the “temple of heaven” in Beijing to study under the taiji masters, and would later go on to win an international competition in 2009. https://journeytoemptiness.com/2017/01/12/taiji-beijing/ can be contacted at http://www.tourguidebeijing.cn/

The expression of the from is different, how she played is done for different reasons.

There are giants that walk this earth Some are not friendly

In the mountainous jungles of Taiwan never know what one will find.

out and about....

a little different style

why were you shocked

You've been through the process?

For those interested in the "jan" Michelle, teaches movement and basic practices using the "jan" that can help with with balance. focus, and relaxation.

Something about a mirror comes to mind. Interesting how on a site that many claim to practice inner disciplines, some people are still attached to an outer self. One that likes labels and being seen as one them not of the other. What is being asked and promoted by some here, is reflected by the larger whole, who some might say share the same ideology as those called "liberal" The Trump, thread essentially voicing reactions to what some see including myself as a clear and present danger to the freedoms many of us enjoy, respect, and use. In this sense its not about "Trump" IMO never really was or is....

"According to Buddhism, everything in human life, all objects, as well as all beings whether in heavenly or hellish or earthly realms in Buddhist cosmology, is always changing, inconstant, undergoes rebirth and redeath (Samsara).[10][11] This impermanence is a source of Dukkha. This is in contrast to nirvana, the reality that is Nicca, or knows no change, decay or death.[2]" The "dukkha" is strong here

"Impermanence and Attachment As long as there is attachment to things that are unstable, unreliable, changing and impermanent, there will be suffering –" Sounds like there's a lot of suffering going on here

"`l'd rather have the Trump Talk thread gone -- and those members back". And what happens when you would rather have the thread stay and the members gone. One might want to understand their own attachments, what they are, mean, and are based on. After all this is a site, dedicated to the introspection of oneself and belief systems that facilitate it, as some have said..

But that's what some want, to silence things they don't agree with. I do find it interesting that when things start to come out in the trump thread proven true, the most ardent detractors suddenly grow silent. I also find it interesting that so many who claim to follow an inner way are somehow attached to outer things allowing them to be affected. Wrong choices, might be right choices . For those cultivating an inner way, "The highest goodness resembles water Water greatly benefits myriad things without contention It stays in places that people dislike Therefore it is similar to the Tao"

freedom rider up in the mountains, "some where, out there".