soaring crane

I saw this at the Guardian. I think she's nothing more than corporate product, and it's all very sad and tragic.

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bump :-)

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Oh! Still Off Topic but with a bow of appreciation and respect :-)

Osho makes a pretty strong case for meditation being the state/condition, not the method.

Hey Leon - is there a specific reason for posting this in General Discussion? I'm going to move it, quite possiby to the "what are you listening to" thread, unless you can make a strong case for its being here, ok? Thx

Looking at your picture, I'd guess you're here to offer up your peaches :-)

Silly seagull spends a lot of time sitting on this sign, which reads "Entry to sand dunes prohibited".

I just updated my PPD and noticed this post: http://thedaobums.com/topic/33926-tales-from-the-meadow/?p=618858 I guess that pretty well describes my approach to communing with plants :-)

That's Daoism....

more than 2,000 fewer than the Church of Heavy Metal. That's an interesting list, with some, er, interesting entries, thank you for posting it. What is considered "Chinese Religion", I wonder? There are more of them than Confucianists.

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yes, I was going to add that to my post, lol

I've been introduced to quite a few NLP'ers in the past and the one thing they all had in common was an uncanny ability to completely turn me off of ever wanting to start with it. I can appreciate that the approach may have its merits, and it always does sound good on paper, but it seems predominantly to attract people who maybe shouldn't be trusted with that kind of information or technique.

ich kanns lesen

I remember suggesting years and years ago in one of these threads that Soaring Crane qigong (He Xian Zhuang) is specifically designed to prepare the practitioner for safe expression of spontaneous qigong (Zifagong). One of the strictest rules of He Xian is that you do not start the Zifa without a minimum of six months steady practice of the base forms. And you don't do it alone. I believe, based on a lot of experience, that jumping into spontaneous practice without a solid base is physically, mentally and spiritually very risky. And doubly so for the kind of people who are strongly attracted to it. Maybe the more one feels drawn to this kind of practice, the slower one should proceed.

ditto And I've had many of the sort described in the OP completely misread me.

yeah maybe but not comic sans, no

It's all a lot of fun until someone gets sued.

I clicked because I'd read it as "Brian" in the topic line. goood article, though :-)

Banksters (that's the term for them) tend to be far better educated and more difficult to pin crimes on than say drug dealers, or football association administrators....

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boah... I think that depends a lot on what you're practicing to begin with. Generally though, change is good. Do something different for a while. How would you answer that question had somebody else posted it?

Taomeow wrote a pretty extensive reply to my question on this subject in her interview. See question #2: http://thedaobums.com/topic/35367-taomeow-ttb-interview/