Taomeow

Cultivating Xing 性 and Ming 命

"When in years, months and days the season has no yi, the hundred cereals ripen, the administration is enlightened, talented men of the people are distinguished, the house is peaceful and at ease. When in days, months and years the season has yi, the hundred cereals do not ripen, the administration is dark and unenlightened, talented men of the people are in petty positions, the house is not at peace." -- Shu Jing, Book of Documents. The "yi" here is that of the Yi Jing (I Ching) -- signifying irregular, out-of-sync, unpredictable changes, unlike the regular, orderly, harmonious changes of the seasons of tao. "We have yi when things are off track, when chaos irrupts into our life and the usual bearings no longer suffice for orientation." -- The Eranos I Ching

My butterfly of the day always shows up on Fridays, when I practice taiji with friends in the park. We call him General (there's a story behind this), although he could also qualify as the Yellow Emperor. I don't remember if I saw him when it was colder, but in the past six months (at least), he hadn't missed a single practice of ours. He usually shows up only once, makes a circle overhead, surveys our progress, and then he's gone. This is what he looks like:

I have the "Putinsize" drink guessed at from a documentary -- the exact recipe is not revealed, but the journalist who was allowed to follow Putin in all his daily routines, morning till night for a few days, commented on the ingredients in the power smoothie Putin shared with him, which he drinks every day after breakfast. My approximation: all greens I have handy -- this may be lettuces and kale, parsley and cilantro, spinach and dandelion greens, any of these or all of them, depending on what I have; a chunk of white cabbage; one or two tomatoes; a clove of garlic; a piece of horseradish root; any other roots I have on hand -- parsnips, celery, burdock; run this through a blender with some water, some sesame oil, a pinch of salt. The benefits can be seen here:

Strong ties bind me to the world of space and time can't break them if I tried they are such strong ties strings of pulsing light I feel their pulse strike break and crystallize I feel the rip tide pull me out into forbidden skies Strong ties mystery of mysteries I've heard lies ringing in our histories of strong ties pulling me along into the wrong skies where the sun is wrong and where all songs are mirrors that reflect all other songs Strong ties and a deeper secret yet the wrong skies roaring like a turbo jet and strong ties pulling me along they know where Time flies when Time flies home and where the sound dies in the depth beneath the crystal dome

Not to nitpick on spelling or anything, but this reminded me of another amazing weapon, from a contemporary Russian novel -- Buddha's clay machine gun. It was rumored to be the most horrible weapon of destruction ever, but people only half believed it existed. Well, at the end of the novel, it was produced, and used on the enemy. The way it worked, turns outs, was by shooting out blasts of Nothingness...

Hypothetical. Your friend complains of hemorroids. You have pity on him and heal him, because you can -- instantly. The friend, thrilled, tells his wife. The latter relates the story to her aunt who also suffers from hemorroids. The aunt comes running to you and asks to be healed. You oblige. She then tells all her neighbors. Ten of them show up at your door the next day. You heal them. China is a big country, and a country where word-of-mouth still travels faster than the speed of the internet. In a month, you wake up every day to a thousand or two hemorroid sufferers lined up at your door. You are a taoist, you have your routine, yet you can no longer follow it, because your fame is now that of a miracle worker who heals hemorroids. What are you going to do in this situation? I've just put you in the real sage's shoes -- this wasn't hypothetical at all, it was a real story. Curious what your actions would be under the circumstances. Please share your scenario of how you would handle your sagehood if you were the one.

This can go three different ways... and mind you, no voting is involved in any one of them! Something else decides which scenario will unfold... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykDZ8Xl3jCs

I'm very sorry for your loss.

No, it won't do him in. It's just that "real cough medicine" and "real beer" will have the same effects on him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction

Me and a friend share a beer. The friend has alcohol intolerance, but decides to take a sip to find out if he still has it. He takes a sip, and within a few seconds, even before he puts the glass down, his face turns red like that of a boiled lobster, and he's already at the hangover stage, bypassing the buzz stage. I drink the rest, order more. I don't know how much more I would need to get a buzz, alI I know is, one or two amplify my enjoyment of seafood, three make me sleepy, and I've never had more than three. Now, my friend and I shared the same beer -- but whose beer was real, mine or his?..

Definitely. Here in CA you hear "we're a different country" all the time... Sometimes it's a joke, and sometimes it's a credo. Half the time I half agree. Oh, and some senator (I think) recently proposed to split California into six separate states. Wasn't following up on what happened to the project, but it was no joke, there were some thought-through arguments behind the proposal as I recall.

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By the way, this just in via Reuters: one in four Americans want their state to secede from the United States. http://blogs.reuters.com/jamesrgaines/2014/09/19/one-in-four-americans-want-their-state-to-secede-from-the-u-s-but-why/

It's like divorce... you can't refuse to grant a divorce to a husband just because the wife doesn't want it. And, on the other hand, you can't terminate a marriage just on the grounds of one of the spouses having thought about divorce.

A negative view of history is, alas, the only one that does not edit out historic reality that actually took place. Communities, tribes, etc., are not unable to live with each other -- it's just that if one wants an empire, communities must be united by force, and kept together by force -- and then, much later, they may eventually find their stability via loss of their human and cultural biodiversity. Generally, unions to the tune of "empires" have an easier time functioning only after they've muscled their way to prosperity over countless dead bodies of their opponents. I'm yet to see a union that prospered any other way. And NWO is just the same tendency taken to its logical extreme. Break up artificially, unite artificially. Communities used to do neither. They united naturally (via intermarriage, common endeavors, etc.) or stayed separate but equal. They separated naturally too. At the time the white man arrived on this continent, there were more languages spoken by the local Native American tribes than there were in all of Europe combined -- by an order of magnitude. And the linguistic differences between some of them were more extreme than between English and Chinese. And yet this diversity didn't result in their inability to live with each other -- until the imperial man came... and after all was said and done, the remnants of hundreds of tribes were lumped together and shipped to their unity over the Trail of Tears. There's unity and there's concentration camps. For the United Kingdom to become a unity, how many concentration camps had to be erected along the way?.. So now it's nice and peaceful?.. Let's hope this lasts. But you never know...

And what's the Russian Empire, chopped liver? The Soviet Union mostly (with some exceptions) consisted of what was a union to the same (or greater) extent as the United Kingdom for centuries. The name was different, but an empire by any other name is an empire. Love it or leave it is an option never available to ALL of its constituents. Yes, NWO starts by restructuring the power structures of yesteryear, but one has to look at who's doing what and what for none the less. There's a multitude of factors... timing is (as always) the crucial one. E.g. if California wanted to rejoin Mexico, that would be untimely, Mexico lost it too long ago. But there's places united or split within our current lifetimes -- current lifetimes of people living there -- and that's a different cup of blood altogether.

The Soviet Union?.. It's not that simple these days as "union is good, breaking up is bad" OR "independence is good, second-rateness within a union is bad." It's more the question of "good for whom, bad for whom?" -- and what is being done is seldom a grass roots movement toward, or away from, breaking up or staying together. It's geoengineering, political technologizing, it's all artificial. Breaking up countries by supporting nationalist and other extreme or fringe groups and breeding causes that lie far, far away from people's true interests and goals is being done routinely, and the term "balkanization" was in political circulation long before the most recent events unleashed on the Balkan states. Divide and conquer -- this kind of pretty traditional, but currently taken to a whole new level of sophistication, geoengineering of "independence" or "democracy" movements is often the underlying principle, and the announced goals may be freedom and democracy, but the real ones, of those launching and manipulating these movements, colored revolutions, etc. -- "destabilize, break up, colonize by new and less obvious methods, and loot away." Each situation needs to be examined closely to be understood. Sometimes "unity" is another word for "destabilization through inner conflict" -- sometimes, on the other hand, it is a reaction to a break-up that occurred earlier which needs to be mended -- sometimes, a reaction to being unable to handle the purported "independence" that was declared without any realistic political, economical, social tools to act on it -- I could go on and on, with many current examples (of which I'm familiar in-depth with only one, and it makes my head spin just thinking how many hours of lectures in history it would require to begin to explain to politicians and lay folks alike what it is they so bravely and so quickly form an "opinion" about without the first idea of what it really IS.) But if I were to take a bird's view to come up with a generalization, I'd say the criterion should be, is it (whatever "it" under scrutiny is) a step toward, or away from, the NWO. And from this perspective, whatever it is, if it is a step toward the NWO, I don't like it. If it is an attempt to step away from it -- I would advise (if I were in the position to advise) stepping very very carefully... but not stopping, and not retreating, and not surrendering.

Where I come from, at one point it was a label for political undesirables. People are impossible. All of us.

Those willing and able to take it.

My sympathy is with those who tried and lost. They couldn't win -- nothing is won via any "democratic process" whatsoever these days (or any days for that matter). As Al Capone once said, you can always get what you want with a kind word and a gun. They had the kind word -- please let us go -- but they didn't have the gun. So, the outcome was predestined. And don't worry about those Bavarians. If no one arms them and sicks them on anybody, nor anyone arms their opposition and sicks on them, they'll stay put. Everybody stays put until/unless this is done. But if/when this is done... then we get something else altogether.

You almost quoted Joseph Stalin verbatim: "Any voting anywhere determines absolutely nothing. Who counts the votes determines everything." I guess he had a pretty good idea of what he was talking about. No, wait... he was talking about an undemocratic totalitarian voting style, right? Whereas elsewhere... elsewhere, of course, we the people determine everything with our votes, don't we? And we the people count the votes too, don't we? Let's see... In the US, millionaires constitute 1% of the population. In the US Congress, millionaires constitute 50%. That's because we voted for them, right?.. ...Still, I hope whoever counts the Scots votes will make sure there's no "independence" mentioned in the outcome or we'll have to have the EU hit Russia with some more sanctions. And then whether Europe freezes over this winter or not is anybody's guess. Winter is coming.

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Rats enjoy a feast: Monsanto's lab in full swing. Everybody dies.