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S'cuse me is too!

yeah you can realize what seemed like truth was a lie, ever had it happen the other way around? Things that seemed like lies now you realize were true. Being embarrassed or ashamed or broken hearted. Can seem like the end of the world when you are young and going through it maybe someone tells you you'll be fine and you'll get over it and doesn't seem possible. But eventually you're fine and you get over it. Then you have kids and start to see a few things even from your parent's point of view and understand why they did things that didn't make sense to you when they said and did things. Perspectives and times keep changing and it's all a mind warp. Some truths are absolute but most are personal and relative.

Darkness really is good- at least in this case. On a partly cloudy night, we saw 25 stars last night, my son kept counting them, they shouldn't be countable. http://www.darksky.org/

My grandma didn't use math and recipes. It was handfuls and dashes and just enough. She certainly wasn't a Taoist master, but she was an excellent alchemist.

Don't put quinnoa in soup. I tried to use it as substitute for rice or barley in a soup and it basically disintegrated.

yeah, a lot of things can be self taught. A lot of dojo training is fantasy and top students and gym guys wouldn't stand long against bar thugs.

jinx, I just mentioned quinoa on his other thread

then eat quinoa if you want protein in the diet with grains and not meat.

huh, you really can! Ninja posts.

Which one should I choose? no big deal easy to fix not now my head hurts

but now it's more than 6 hours, so..., yeah once upon a time better, too much math distracts from the story.

Oh, I think Marblehead meant another butterfly, but the ones in Brazil are especially beautiful. I can dance drunk (once I danced in 3+ inch stillettos that I was wobbling about in even walking in at first, but somehow was able to get down and even jump up and down, but not fall anywhere) or I can go to bed drunk- but not both at once.

yeah, that's what I meant start from lower and/or middle dantien and from this arises of clarity of mind. Using will to sublimate the ego and try not to let things like criticism matter to you doesn't work so well, but as qi rises ego things that used to matter fade back of their own accord and mind becomes free. Clarify and refine your mind, but don't get rid of it. Logical thinking is a useful tool, but not a panacea.

Nothing but storm clouds, rain's pouring down.

Reason is great for thinking about reasonable things, unreasonable things can not be understood by reason. Of course there is no reason to understand the unreasonable, but it is madness not to.

What's below...rumbles Kitty purrs on achey feet stillness dreams run on.

Mind over matter, or if you don't mind it doesn't matter? Things like criticism, mocking and loneliness don't bother me like they used to. No longer feel separation even if I am alone and criticism can be more helpful than praise. Mocking is rather mean, but brings more compassion for the mocker than shame. But I don't feel sensitivity to these things decreased due to force of will or actively squashing my ego, but sort of faded away somehow. But are compassion and connection to other beings are of the mind or of the heart? So 1st dantien, 2nd dantien and then perhaps mind can become clear and brilliant?

to pee or not to pee. If we couldn't laugh, then we'd all go insane (and shit ourselves).

be a jellyfish.

Red Rock West. That was his movie I liked, poor guy couldn't get out of town. Old movie might even have been made for HBO or something.

Whew!

cool site http://opensourceecology.org/

Thanks, that was terrific! Thought I should write a litle more about what it was, but you did a better job than I would have anyway. Haven't been getting prepped, but probably am better prepped than most people. My parents have a farm with well water and wood heat, basically a compound with half the rest of the township farmers and related to me too. Trying to talk my dad into getting equipped to make biodiesel. The downside would be having to go live with my parents My fiance is considering buying a retirement/vacation/apocalypse house in a county with a lot of Amish families too. An Amish farmer bought it at an auction for the land and is selling off the house and most of wooded area. We are waiting til winter to make an offer, hoping once it turns cold and he has to heat it price will go lower. Is it wu wei to be perfectly content to let other people do the work and mooch off them?