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Thomas Kuhn's book is about the sheeplike nature of scientists and how few are worth anything. In any case by the time anyone gets round to taking any action, fossil fuels will have run out, so who cares. What should be far more concerning is the degeneration of human culture, the reducing brain size of humans, the self-domestication, self-slavery, and loss of meaning and purpose, and the level of ill health in body and mind of people. In the same way the lowest among them hurry to become their leaders, so they also become the teachers of the next de-generation. Existence is impartial, it does not care which of the 10,000 acorns become oak trees.

You need to feel the truth of what you are doing, both for yourself and if you teach. And you have a considerable amount of experience good or bad, to work from.

Many teachers that are recommend on TDB do exactly the same thing and if you listen carefully to what they say, they often drop hints, if anyone notices. The fact that you care at all makes you a candidate for a good teacher. Make straight what is crooked ! If you wish to teach then think carefully what and why, and what you have that is valuable to teach. For things you are unsure of test them or discard them. If you wish to learn then choose carefully, and perhaps you can find someone from whom you can repair the rotten wood with fresh wood. Or alternatively start again. Life is like this. In all things be more conscious and make a man of yourself. What good is clinging on to lineage anyway. There are great men in the world, surely they stick out clearly. There are certainly many qigong sets that are without copyright and which are effective and can be taught, but they do have to be learnt. So ... how did you find out about what the teacher was doing ??

6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

As I sit here, in the garden are many small creatures. Many of them are struggling for their lives. Right now. They fly, they crawl for them they must struggle every second to harvest, to collect, it is their only choice, and their only chance. We monkeys are clever, over the billions of years we have worked out a way of giving ourselves "leisure", free time. And we inherit it, the knowledge, the technology, the world systems. We stand on the shoulders of many generations, eras and societies, and we harvest and kill many creatures we devour the Earth in order to gives this to ourselves. And what shall we do with this time. After we have taken so much, we have been given so much. Our "leisure" time is the product of many hands. What shall we do with it ? Are we worthy of it ? Or shall we p*** it out the window ? Do we even remember that something can be done with it ?

You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that… but you have no right to judge me. Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and mortal terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. You have to have men who are moral … and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling … without passion… without judgment… without judgment. Because it’s judgment that defeats us. - "Kurtz"

Unfortunately the quality of tap water and other resources are decliningj year on year. Ultimately it is not a recycling / energy problem.

There is much bullshit in this world, and there is also much desperate bullshit. Better to train well in something simple but real than badly in bullshit. The best teachers are not teachers, but students who work hard at their own studies. There are 24 hours in a day, instead of looking for shortcuts, look for longcuts. And if this is not what you actually want to do, no problem, stop. Ask yourself what you actually want to do, and then do that instead.

Let us know how you get on ...

I had an intention to express some ideas not completely formed in me. That corruption is occurs due to unnatural growth. Often it seems to occur from trying to grow at a faster pace than is possible, and not responding the natural step by step growing. Trying to have too much, or to replace actual growth with imagination and false promises. Being part of the chain of life, life to life, we must learn to nurture our charges at the right speed and timing, when the mouths are ready then we feed like a good mother, but not too much, neither too little, and it must be a good nourishment. Otherwise corruption. Will think more about this.

55secs "Take that person out with one or two weak spots in his body" ... scratches nose (knows it's bullshit) 5mins onwards, number of fat man kicks .... he's totally off balance and looks to be in poor shape. Then all the DVDs etc... well everyone has bills to pay It's all good, except I value my life. The whole problem is the idea of learning to fight which is more of an old man's fantasy about lost youth. Then using Taiji as an excuse to be fat and out of shape rather than actually training for combat. Then not having any higher goals for yourself. Life is seen as a place to gather tricks.

If he's so qualified why are you on here asking if you can eat all the unhealthiest sh** in the supermarket ? Anyway, goji berries are the easiest way of fixing this problem.

Yes indeed and shortly after Silberstorff defeated the 3 guys, 3 more guys came out the bar and beat the living shit out of him. Violent people have ways of ensuring they win, you can forget the idea you are going to be met by an old man in a mac who wants to dance Tango with you. That's not how it's going to be. So, I suggest if you want to fight you do something different. And if you do Taiji you set different goals for yourself then winning fights.

Does not take into account consciousness, and also seems to be standing on certain Constants that through measurement over time are not constant. Therefore it is unsound. Being is born of non-being simply means that when you move beyond the ordinary insane mental identity then you are in non-being (a different place), and that's where real life happens. The limitation of floury words is obvious and a real teacher of meditation will transmit to you states of reality energetically.

Who says you have yin deficiency, maybe you are just fine ? Why not buy 2kg of goji berries and eat a handful a day, blend them into what you are eating.

A valley is powerful, it drains the mountain. A better translation is ... returning, or holding, or carrying, or following, or allowing, or working with, or channelling. A valley is formed over millions of years until it shaped by nature, shaped to perfection. It carries the water, it carries the glaciers, and it is shaped as it carries. As it yields so it is perfected, smoothed, so that it carries more. As it yields it yields more. It channels great forces skillful and carefully, using their power to create the channel. And so it masters great power as if the great power was its, although the great power does not originate with the valley.

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Is it ? Silberstorff tells a story that he was in a fight and it was over in maybe 2 seconds, 1man vs 3. There is no such thing as "I am going to do this" or whatever thinking. Too late. Either your Dantien is already awake and intelligently moving you automatically in milliseconds, or it's not. Thinking with the head is out of the question. Even these "instructions" from Clear (yes I like him) are far far far far far too much. You have to stop taking instructions from a man. And enter the practice so that you listen to energy, that's it. There's not help or someone talking to you whilst you do this. It's like meditaiton, there is no meditation if someone is talking to you at the same time. Monetizing Tai Chi and Qigong has been a total fing disaster. I noticed two very highly respected qigong teachers in the last couple of years stretch out a single form or practice into multiple DVDs or video what nots so that it ends up being several hundred or thousands $$$$. And I happen to know other people who learnt the same form from the original oriental teacher, and teach it in 3 minutes, simply. But it's all about making "income -streams" in the USA. The USA is based upon the idea of setting up income streams out of your students, your shares and your what not. You need more instruction when you have no intention to do any practice. I am sure sick to death to see these pushing hands demonstrations that bear no relationship to fighting and are usually conducted by fat people. Also I notice several high profile Taiji teachers who love to talk about fighting ... sometimes talk of the broken bones and fights they have got into and as they get older don't look so good.

Who really cares about fighting ? The only really purpose to fighting as part of Taiji is to sanity check what you are doing, to make sure you are not a fing bullshit artist. That's the reason for "application". It's not to become good at fighting other humans or beasts of Earth, because your chances of success are going to be low .... you can be shot or cut easily, randomly. Fighting is not an intelligent approach to living in a deranged world. Normally 1 or 2 years are spent doing Zhan Zhuang. And practices gradually added. The video that the OP posted, this man is talknig about spending 15 minutes doing a short form, whilst during breaks at work. Well that's stupid. Better to do ZZ for 15 minutes, and then when you work you retain the form of ZZ, in whatever position you work. Then it becomes continuous throughout the day, you leave 5% of your awareness to check that you are in ZZ Sung, all day or whatever you can do. Silk Reeling is where to go next. Forget about the fing forms. Just do the intermediary movements, Silk Reeling or whatever the equivalent is in Yang, like Yang stepping. Just do that. Forget everything else. Push hands, well if you are with intelligent people you can do that, otherwise it's just for idiots. When there are 24 hours in the day there are no limits to what can be achieved when you go very slowly. Then when it is time to die, you continue with Sung. Then Existence will remember you for living as a Man.

"The infinitude of the private man". Emerson

Train ! - Hmm, I trained this morning, I don't feel like it. Good ! Then train on that, train on your endless negativity. Where better place to begin. Pulling out the foundation stones of lethargy and negativity will have tremendous effect on your existence. Much better than adding more forms and energies and stupidities. - How am I to do that ? You must learn to do it. This life requires things from you, so do those things, be competent in daily life. And with every other moment let it be a celebration and journey into the truth, into the very Real, following clear and profound teachers exactly, and working until your dying breath. What profit is there in the pitiful consolations mankind tries to find in the dust of his life. Isn't it clear that something has to change, isn't it clear that everything must change. And that we must change it, now. There is nothing here. Inasmuch as it has pleased the Lord to create the people who live on Earth, and for them to be as they are, and live as they do, and do what they do, then may we wish them whatever joy can be found. For those who's time has come to climb, let us climb.

A more sustainable way of living. I lived like this for a time in India, but I wouldn't know where to go to make this permanent, I don't know where this could be done.

"I don't understand what people are doing, out here". Diana Laurence Seems she no longer lives there.

Wu wei is not the cessation of activity, but the beginning of effortless intelligent activity of the Dantien, that comes from deep training .... that is according to the book Chen by Silberstorff. You don't get something for nothing. The destination is the origin in the sense that you bring into life potentialities that exist within you. But if you do not do the work of bringing them to life, they may as well not have existed.

The problem is likely inside you. Perhaps if you can begin with one type of emotional reaction and describe it in more detail, where you feel it, what it feels like and so on, be curious about it.