Earl Grey

Here's your rainbow body and the friends you can make at the current level of understanding you have:

They are most definitely not hippy! Hippies and hipsters are not the same thing either, and even if he sounds like the latter in more recent works, he still sounds unique. As for my age--I'm late Generation-X and that is all I will say... If you want to talk music, go to the boombox in my PPJ instead so we don't derail this thread further.

Yep, I'm pretty sure you didn't even read that. With all the time you spend Googling and skimming for keywords, you could actually, oh, I don't know: take an actual class with a reputable teacher and read the relevant books on the concepts you bring up time and again and don't understand?!

He sounds like a guy I know who told me he found this super authentic DVD from a master whom he was sure was 100% Chinese and didn't need to waste his time with other teachers because all the secrets were on it for mastering martial arts and attaining good health. ...it was David Carradine's Tai Chi....and he insisted David Carradine was 100% Chinese... The same guy also said he could make alkaline water by throwing a battery into a glass of water, and countless other dumb things...

Maybe you should seek professional help for your symptoms that are seriously beginning to resemble schizophrenia and paranoid delusions instead of posting here or using Google for your "research".

I wonder if you would actually be able to spell the word samsara without autocorrect given that the way you describe samsara so vaguely is like a dunderhead describing mathematics as "a bunch of numbers that are used to do important things that are good for computers and science".

We all know he doesn't read anything at all--it's a given based on the absence of any intelligence or anything that resembles a coherent thought and original idea. I raise these points so that anyone else Googling who finds these terms (rainbow body being a common search term) will know he's just posting bullshit and stimulating the algorithm.

Kid, the only reason you think I'm a troll is because you're so certain of yourself and maliciously stupid enough to believe the garbage you keep posting. The onus of proving things is on you, not me, and if you keep insisting that your assertions of the same theme in every thread you start or invade are true while rejecting people who actually know what they're talking about, all you'll do is continue to make a fool of yourself. Seriously! You're derailing this thread enough already! Don't make it worse by stubbornly insisting that aliens are ruining your lives by titillating you! And if you think I'm trying to belittle you each time I poke fun at you, I'm actually telling you this for your own good! Stop already if you know what's good for you!

Do you even read the things you post? It's like you find a meme and a link here and there, but you've never actually studied Dzogchen to understand the things you talk about with so much certainty...

Way to go! You're now the king of stupid crap for trying to correlate Julian Assange with your alien entities hoax! That's like saying there was a hurricane in Brazil after your uncle farted and you forgot to light a match!

If you actually throw food out the windows, I’d love to see how you handle in-flight meals on airplanes.

Every time you post, you sound more ridiculous each time. The sad thing is that you really believe it, apparently. The dumbest thing I ever heard came from Flat Earthers saying that Australia doesn't exist, it's Hollywood and actors are paid to make up Australian accents and have elaborate sets. @Nungali I'm sure is amused. You, however, may just take the crown of stupidity soon. Keep posting, future king.

In case you didn't know, he is not in charge of giving PPDs, Hannes. He is no longer admin. Sorry. You will have to ask @sean, who is unfortunately on indefinite leave.

You learned ZZ from a book. That’s why you didn’t like it as much: you were 100% doing it wrong. You need a teacher for these things. They aren’t for everyone for a reason.

Listened to that last week. It was one of the few 21st century releases by them that I enjoyed. I sadly didn't like most of the releases in the 21st century--I am eternally stuck in the hard alt-rock and grunge or metal sounds of the 1990s, and still prefer Antipop over the latter efforts, with some exceptions here and there, although sadly the sound of new Primus is closer to Hipster Millennial experimental sounds in the 2010s than anything else.

5-7-5 for haiku, not 5-7-7 like ya did there, bruh. Truncated and adjusted to continue the chain uninterrupted. "Future comes, Biden or not: be graceful, be still: 'Que Serra, Serra'"

Touché, old friend. I suppose I should have reviewed what I wrote because the I-Ching also stresses the virtue of humility, not necessarily inaction, which I wrote and now realize. Humility includes reconcilliatory measures, which I took with Gendao too and sped up resolution. Not acting and having no virtue of humility as you imply would have definitely lengthened conflict and resentment--and to the credit of @gendao, he himself approached me first and welcomed me back privately, thus opening the door to me apologizing there first, and then publicly after. So he deserves as much praise for this effort too.

You married a cheerleader? We could all only dream of such great achievements that no one else on this forum can claim either (so far). We salute you!

He might not have access to it, unfortunately, and getting access for that or a PPJ is not happening when Sean is not even coming here at all.

How funny that you’re the second person posting Primus the past few days. I’ve been listening to Les Claypool’s work from beginning to recent collaborations the past few weeks.

You are still young in terms of understanding if you feel a need to have something that you characterize as needing flow. Perhaps you should stop Fragrant and switch to Flying Phoenix then. Also, many people claim to know Zhan Zhuang, but 99% of the people I meet don’t actually know what it is but claim to do it regularly. Even people who study with BKF or read LKC don’t know it properly. If you learned ZZ properly, you would be like many practitioner students I know who have said things like they find it more exciting than skateboarding or roller coasters. Don’t take my word for it—I still have a lot to learn and ten years is not a long time to study. And you may be 49, but some masters I know started even older than you are and simply worked hard.

I'm calling a town meeting right now to highlight the issue of self-governance now that we are in a state of total anarchy without mods to enforce rules, or any rules whatsoever at this point. There are issues going on with people derailing threads and spamming them to suit their agenda. This is a fine example and was Sean's last moderation, but there were no punitive measures taken. There are plenty of other threads here that I need not bring up because it's not hard to find a topic title and find people deviating from it and forcing an agenda completely unrelated. Two arguments that I hear often are "Just ignore them or use the ignore function" and "Be spiritual and tolerate", but the problems with those two approaches are 1) they normalize bad behavior, 2) they distract and detract from the discussion (especially for those not logged in who don't have the ability to use the ignore function that members do), 3) it makes every thread a bait-and-switch because a random search for a topic that was once Mr. Rogers and spirituality for example becomes laden with conspiracies involving the CIA and someone declaring his own authority as a Christian and educator, 4) for members who come here to talk about cultivation or philosophy, history, or relevant issues, it's like tuning in to watch Mad Men and trolls coming in to change the channel to watch Fox News and spammers making you watch infomercials instead. Obviously, we do not have the ability to suspend or ban and remove or hide threads and posts. But behavior such as threats (several members have sent out very obvious public and private threats) also accompanies this unmoderated dialogue. So while some may argue to tolerate it or get out, this means "Accept spamming and trolling, accept threats and abuse". I also believe in exceptions, such as this and this, where we are dealing with potential dangers to other members on the forum. On the one hand, the topic is deviating from what was posted in these two examples, on the other hand, why let seeds of what is harmful be planted and even allowed to grow and take root when we can stop it from even happening? Some may say that this is an eclectic community and we are not a VIP club or elite group, but then there runs the issue that runs with playing with qi and how misinformation and disinformation can seriously harm complete neophytes trying to avoid spending money on teachers or who just don't have access to quality teachers and lineages at all, and the sad fact is, many are coming for power and techniques. These can ultimately cause harm to people and to the forum community as a whole. I've come to a point where I had to take a two-week stress leave because it was becoming too much, and while I am not proud of my behavior with personal insults and getting angry (to put it mildly...), I do believe that it is understandable given the fact that a simple thing like having a discussion on topic without having to worry about spamming, trolling, seeing misinformation and disinformation, or being threatened, should be here. I propose discussing what we can do collectively without moderation privileges to enforce rules and without resorting to mob mentality to create some sense of balance and order here rather than chaotic unrest, the bad chaos, as opposed to primordial chaos and true creativity. So, talk amongst yourselves.

The problem with links and quotes is that people edit out the offending material before they’re caught and this documents it. There are plenty of free hosting services like drop box and imgur.