Earl Grey

Hey, some people enjoy hands-on experience.

Everything you wrote and the quote of Jack Nicholson here reminds me of this clip with The Fonz:

While you're doing this, this reminds me of a lesson from a friend when I was in university whom I wanted help with dealing with some jerks. He told me to chill out and relax because upon looking at them and how much they were pissing me off for being assholes, he said that many people do more damage to themselves than I ever will. This was reinforced later on with a friend who told me the old maxim, "Never argue with idiots: they will beat you with experience." The I-Ching then reinforces this in many of my readings: sit down and wait--let the Tao handle things naturally. Acting only delays resolution and changes the natural resolution by the energy I add to it. Gurdjieff apparently only needed 24 hours--he apocryphally told people if they said anything to them that he would only respond after 24 hours, allowing insight and reflection between the two before a response was made.

You don't have any scientific knowledge to begin with, old fool.

Everyone can only dream, right? In all seriousness, I know people in the industry and it is a "job" for them too: meaning it requires hard work (no pun intended) and has the same issues of politics, HR being crazy, some cool and some uncool colleagues, and some enjoyment. Racism still exists too (try asking people who don't belong to the normal racial preference; e.g. Asian men or black women) about how much they earn. The OP should probably note this: Money streams have nothing to do with sex but sexual energy: the creative and will are tied to one's sex drive, and that drive can be redirected from spreading one's DNA to ambition. Here's a humorous piece that looks at the issue, which is by no means authoritative, but the standard by the OP Heartbreak is so low that it hardly matters anymore: https://www.cracked.com/article_18559_6-famous-geniuses-you-didnt-know-were-perverts.html

Again, you are the guy who has no understanding of Taiji and Qigong and makes bold claims but can't back them up--all you can do is say you speak Chinese and then pull up a Baidu search to show something--which is exactly what the idiot in the OP keeps doing.

At no point did you provide an expert--you have a video of someone talking about the subject, but you again are too lazy (and frankly too stupid) to do any due diligence to find where she learned, how she knows, what qualifications she possesses. Here's a lovely example: someone claims to be a doctor of psychology in her website. Check it out--she went to Beurin University. Look it up--the school is a for-profit place. Check out accreditation--it claims to be accredited, but the accrediting body is not an officially recognized institution, it's a private group owned by the same person who founded Beurin University--he essentially accredited his own school. This is all from basic fact searching, without even looking at the content of their coursework and the people who work there. If we were to do that, the lack of quality and dubiousness would reveal itself quickly, just like anyone with any sense can see that your video is full of shit, as are you. This isn't arrogance--this is just people with common sense and brains--two things you will never have in your life along with meaningful work and satisfactory income unless you drop your misogynistic victim mentality. All that came from a few Google searches and due diligence. All you did was post a video and you called her an expert. I could post a video of myself wearing a Hi My Name is Dr. Dre sticker on my shirt and you would think I was a doctor with your stupidity.

I'm sure it was! In all seriousness, porn stars and escorts can make six figures. Sex sells, and this video reeks of Judeo-Christian sexual guilt. Sex sells even more when trying to get people to not feel guilty about it or to feed people's need to feel better about not getting sex. Sex is natural--you and I and everyone who practices something worthwhile can all agree that anyone who says sex itself is bad obviously never read some of the Taoist sexual alchemy techniques for health and longevity... Heartbreak will never see that because he's too wracked with Judeo-Christian sexual shame and hiding behind his dubious index card collection of quotes from various New Age references to Eastern texts he likely has never read (and many that are probably made up and don't exist).

Nothing I said has anything to do with being owner of the forum--it is simply about how you have proven once again you are a complete gullible idiot. At no point in your endless stream of posts do you ever come close to saying anything close that resembles a coherent thought or sharing anything of value, other than to show how much time you waste trying to show how ridiculous you are posting the first few results from Google or YouTube than actually spending time in a library or with qualified people who demonstrate skill. Everyone who reads your posts and the things you like risk becoming dumber, if not already irritated, by your attempts to show your "research" that sadly does not reveal how clever you believe yourself, but rather how pathetic you are. Seriously: you watch one video of a woman whom you haven't even vetted talking about concepts you're just parroting without any understanding of whatsoever, and suddenly, you are worshipping her and acting like you've got authority, while having no skill whatsoever? S-U-C-K-E-R. By the way: I don’t need to be the owner to point out you’re doing something stupid and enforcing rules, just like an idiot smoking in a restaurant deserves to have water thrown in his face by other patrons when he acts impiously like you.

Yup, same.

Here's a proposal that I think @ralis and others seeking a means to find order and punitive measures for people affecting the quality of life on this forum. As we don't have the ability to ban people and Sean seems to not give a crap anymore, I recommend the following: Open a thread, maybe in tech support-moderation logs Title the thread the name of the user and violations Post screen captures and a short description of violations for record keeping Discuss amongst the community what is unacceptable. Discuss why and what can be done to improve behavior Post updates and if there has been any resolution, especially self-initiated corrections and effort of the offender to recognize and rectify their behavior voluntarily As this is voluntary and nothing can be enforced, at the very least, it will maintain a record of things Sean or whomever comes here to moderate can see and address in the future for the specific individual if it has not been dealt with, or to see historically what has happened in case another member repeats such actions again I haven't asked the Akashic for this, but I'm proposing this to the community to see what we can do about this or potential weaknesses of this approach, and how to improve this.

Boredom and mental illness are usually the reasons behind this behavior. I sent him Fragrant qigong before from a video I made myself and supplementary materials to help with his health, but it appears he is focused on being a pest these days. Sadly, it is more so than when he first came here, and additionally, his incoherent bizarre private messages to multiple people also highlight a growing issue.

Limahong knows exactly what he's doing. He thinks he's being cute when all he is doing is distracting from the conversation, much like a guy who makes snide remarks and mouths his own sound effects while someone else is talking.

Heartbreak, you have so far demonstrated yourself to be gullible, stubborn, and lazy, and by posting this endless stream of misinformation and disinformation so frequently here (while also not even continuing the conversations on threads you start as you create multiple threads along the same theme), you are causing harm to people as gullible as you. This video is just something that either appeared in your algorithm or that you sought out to reinforce what you already believe--at no point are you doing any due diligence to fact check anything, and you don't even have the skill from any internal training or TCM/Ayurveda and formal training to make the absolute statements you repeat ad nauseam. Give it a rest, kid. Find a teacher who can guide you, or seek a therapist instead of subjecting everyone to your victimhood angst that is extremely unhealthy and misogynistic.

I'll be looking for old episodes of Baywatch and issues of Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition alongside Victoria's Secret catalogues. Joking. There was a march and sit-in here that was pretty significant! https://www.rappler.com/nation/253768-filipinas-claim-spaces-international-womens-day-2020

You must be young and lacking exposure to the arts if you need something for fighting and aggression. You probably should go learn a martial form like Xingyi or Bagua instead, though the "power" you want that comes from standing in Zhan Zhuang and circle walking will likely not satisfy you too based on your stated desires.

Nope—level 1 alone already is fantastic for healing. Level 2 is more for longevity and understanding. The system and likely anything else will reject you if you pursue the illusion of power and power levels over depth from foundation. With this approach, you won’t go anywhere with any system. Stick to what you have and level 2 can wait—some people train in level 1 for years before moving to level 2 and see why it’s so powerful already. Level 3 is not for public consumption.

As I said: even if you want to just learn level 3, THEY WILL NOT TEACH YOU UNLESS THEY WANT TO BECAUSE IT IS ONLY GIVEN TO FUTURE MASTERS.

Nope—they don’t teach it to people who want to learn it. They choose who will learn it because only masters of the lineage will learn level 3. Just because someone wants to be a master doesn’t mean they’re going to give it to them. It’s too powerful.

Can't remember when and where, but I recall reading somewhere in the US or UK that it got so cold one time in history that your breath would freeze and become solid before falling to the ground, and you had to cover your mouth when breathing because it could coat your lungs.

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE Spam®: it’s made in Chernobyl! It’s pink and oval!

Interesting point to share about having balanced emotions and projections of emotions. I have a few Jewish relatives, and they fit the Jerry Seinfeld/Gilbert Gottfried/Fran Drescher/Jason Alexander image of being loud and opinionated. To some people in California and especially to Southeast Asians (particularly Filipinos), they look like they're angry all the time. They aren't actually angry, it's just their tone and their New Yorker/San Franciscan demeanors. I personally have a stoic face and it make Californians, Filipinos, some Southern Europeans, and yoga reiki students think I'm "intense" or "angry" and "uptight", but when I'm around Eastern Europeans or Scandinavians, I fit in naturally because we share the opinion that "Yes, we're happy, but that doesn't mean we have to go around grinning like a fucking maniac all the time" just like how having a poker face doesn't mean we're unhappy. And similarly, a lot of Mainland Chinese share the opinion that smiling a lot is something that they would associate with being a mentally retarded person. Steve, I don't think you're angry--maybe short-tempered and reactive, but not angry. Again, the point is that a lot of these nuances are harder to read online from text on a screen. Who is your audience and who are your students here? Josh is interested in being Josh, not the traditional kind of Taoist that Walker elaborated on wonderfully earlier. A lot of the community here wants to get along, but most of it is kind of like a picnic outside of the temple rather than dropping all pretensions and entering in the appropriate blank state necessary for traditional initiations. One thing I have to remind myself of often: who are you talking to and who are you speaking for? At the very least when I'm dealing with someone posting misinformation like I have for rudeforever or ChiDrag-On, it never reaches to them directly, but it's for the benefit of others who might find those posts and be misled by what they write. And okay, a lot of what I write can come out of my ass from my frustration, but I'm also quick to own it and try to have a technical explanation behind it consistent with what is relevant. Shouting and swearing might be funny to you if you're smiling and happy being playful the way the comedians I mentioned above do, but we can hear their voices and see them smiling, and we don't see that with what you're typing. Anyway Steve, I won't say any details about your dragon nature here, but I will say that a dragon sees things others don't, and helping them see what you see and understand it is downright frustrating just like when my puppy used to chew up my slippers or crap on the carpet. Shouting at a puppy won't get the puppy to understand, it will only freak it out and be scared of you. So people want to understand, but they may not want to agree, which can suck when safety and integrity issues come up that a dragon can see ten steps ahead of them. See what you can do and give us more of those wonderful write-ups like you just did here.

Even Sunzi says that retreat and withdrawal is not surrender, as it is a viable strategy to reassess the situation and prepare accordingly. And again, catering to his interests here: the marketing language he wants to use isn't saying, "I know a fantastic Taoist wizard, and he was in Seattle, and he was my teacher", it's instead saying, "I'm a sailor boy on leave, I've seen a lot of shit that could change your life, so you listen to me or you get the fuck outta here!" There might be a demographic that enjoys the marketing language of the latter approach...but I don't know too many people like that honestly. The Steve Gray I know offline is a lot nicer and an interesting guy, and I hope people get to know him more one day, because he would make a lot of friends and increase his market value overnight. Then again, the same could be said about others I know...myself included....

Yeah, so it is his interest to reconsider what he is saying, edit it, or take a reconciliatory approach.

I get it. It's hard for others to know because we only see words on a monitor screen (or phone or tablet...), but your intent and who you are become a little harder to glean given that digital barrier. Sure, maybe the more vocal and active members here are not the people you've determined would be your students or purchasing copies of your book, but there are also the silent minority (and oftentimes silent majority) who are reading things from lurking. They aren't even logged in--they're seeing this from Google searches, too. I only discovered recently that I have a reputation offsite because some people have told me how they heard about me from the forum or finding my name in websearches. Consider the above because you have a bigger audience than you may believe.