Aetherous

Even with these phase descriptions, I still don't think it fits the natural seasons so well. Wood expands...in the summer, heat causes the pores to open and our energy to expand. Fire ascends...like our emotions in seeing the beautiful red, orange and yellow trees. Earth rotates...in the fall we become aware of the cyclical nature of things by seeing leaves fall from the trees. Metal contracts...in the winter, the air is cold and contracting...snow and ice are water contracted. Water descends...kind of like in the spring when there is rain again, where ice and snow melts. Harvesting happens around fall right? If this were earth element (or even phase), it would make much more sense...we're literally gathering the product of the earth.

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On the surface, Buddhist and Taoist energetics can seem similar enough. Buddhists do breathing, and use the three dantien usually as well...at least the Tibetan ones do. Theravadans might focus on the breath leading to jhana...this will also cultivate the energy (very firey awakening). But the two traditions are far from similar IMO. In comparison to all Buddhist ones, Taoist is focused on longevity of the body...as well as the entire vibe and the teachings of Taoism in comparison to Buddhism. In those aspects, it's something that is so different. However, in the end result, it may very well be the same phenomenon...direct realization that form is emptiness and emptiness is form...appearance of rainbow body...transmuting the body into spirit immortal...how can we say these are different? Some say they are, and some say they aren't. Direct experience, rather than blind faith, should determine the truth.

Every major and minor city should have parks with chess boards.

Okay, maybe fair enough. Yes, please resurrect the global warming topic. I am looking forward to rereading the thing.

Dude, come on. You think the scientific peer review process is a sham? That's lunatic fringe, man.

I tend to have a lot of respect for your judgment, Lucky...but maybe you've been a bit blinded-by-the-light here.

Your post reminded me of seeing this a couple weeks back... She posted this video about a month before taking her own life. Why did none of the boys stand up for her? ... Incarnation of compassion...this is how I believe men are supposed to be. Women...I don't have a say in what they are supposed to be.

What do you mean, K?

AHHHHH It's Richard GERE!!!!!

Didn't read the rest of this thread but... Yup.

Definitely, I just came up with it. I was going to say 99%, but I thought I'd be lenient.

Well, I don't think it's a scam at all...listened to scientists and seen a few things. I know you've posted stuff here in the past about how it is...not interested, mostly because I'm not educated enough in the subject to argue. But at least from my POV...you've got probably 90% of educated people against you on this subject. Also...that is a disqualifier? And you're voting for Romney/Ryan? I'm not getting it. Well, part of it had to do with addressing this monstrosity. Foreign policy is not really a separate issue in many cases. Of course Romney had to try and ride the tide of the Libya bullshit. By the way...if you watched it on TV, you missed the actual debate and instead simply watched two puppets put on a show. I urge you to check out the expanded debate (starts at like 33:30 mins and includes Obamney's answers) for some real perspective.

So you agree this is blatant trolling, moderator?

Those poor trees.

I don't think you're a tulku, or Tibetan...nor am I racist, psychotic, hallucinating, or a criminal. I think you're someone who recently had a screenname here of "tulku".

Any acupuncturists out there, feel free to weigh in... Since kidneys are important to spiritual practitioners...since this point benefits both kidney yin (which is rare) and yang...since it's the shu stream and yuan source point for the kidney... Why don't we talk about massaging it daily? I've only seen this method mentioned once anywhere. You can access it in the spot between your medial malleolus and Achilles tendon at the ankle.

In JSJ, if there are issues at this point, you simply hold energy lock 15 (put your hands on the place where the legs meet the hips in the front, or over the hip flexors). Holding that area opens the energy flow and clears blockages at the inner ankle.

Did you learn his sambahvi mahamudra technique, or whatever "inner engineering" stuff there is?

Forget about sensations and kundalini, and live your life like a normal person. Work out early in the day if doing it later gives you insomnia. Find ways to relax, and do what other people do for insomnia. Twitching/vibrations/muscle spasms...those are not bad symptoms whatsoever. Vertigo would be a bad symptom. Having a whole body rash would be bad. Insomnia is somewhat bad, but that might not even be kundalini in this case. It can quiet down completely to the point of being normal. Of course...you're not exactly normal compared to the average person. But it can seem so, and you don't have to go around thinking you have this kundalini problem. At least this is my point of view, at this time, for you.

Watching the expanded debate tonight (including some of the other active presidential candidates) on Democracy Now...I can't help but want to slap most Americans upside the head for not paying attention. Or paying attention to the wrong thing.

LOL...apparently you mistook me for someone who is on the opposite side of the argument, despite what I said.........

I don't think that's the correct interpretation. Why do human beings then use tiger skins as a meditation mat, when they will also die? If we're talking purely on a symbolic level...then it can symbolize intuition and intellect overcoming instinct. Also...once again, the weird obsession with religion and death...

I don't like to use this source, but this article* was decent in giving a rundown of the chimp thing. So my POV must be, it's questionable (as well as probable) just like every other theory/myth. Edit: Actually, maybe I'm wrong, but doing the math I think it's actually anywhere from 30 - 800 million different nucleotides...and would equal anywhere from 300k - 8 million dollars if you had a penny for each one.