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ahem ;-) I hope you didn't get the impression that I was comparing you with DB (I'm sure you know me beter than that!). But the format is very similar to the powers he unilaterally declared for himself (I doubt he would have protested at other people sharing the same privelege) and would attract precisely that kind of person. In an anarchy, someone has to enforce that one rule, and it's no difficult task to identify the personality type that the position would attract. It would also attract the kind decent, cooperative and open-minded people you describe, of course. So, I'm not "against" it at all, but I have my misgivings about it, as I said, and I think ultimately, it would have to be policed by staff same as any other forum/thread.

haha, well, I take it to mean "deosn't exist physically" (hence, you shouldn't feel it physically).

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bump anybody else enjoying the book?

Just saw this now. I confess to being less than receptive to the whole premise, but I like that idea a lot :-) One of my reservations with the concept is that it could be a forum for spammers. It would, in fact, be profoundly ironic if it were to come to be after Decbelle's ban. It's precisely what he was yearning for all the time: A soapbox (and one that can be linked to, allowing a larger audience than a personal blog can attract). Btw, I've been practicising the "yes" technique for a little while now. I learned it long ago under completely different conditions but came across again it in a new book I'm reading. In meditation, when a thought arises, just think the word "yex". edit: oops! That was supposed to be written with an "s". And it seems a pretty Freudian typo, lol.

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Precisely. One rule. Break it and you're banned. Guaranteed someone would post something in the gray area and then it's back to the committee...

I find it a challenge to identify a system with more totalitarian tendencies than anarchism.

Perhaps you could write up the ground rules you propose, more prosaically so everyone understands them.

We have a thread like that: the haiku chain :-) No, srsly i don't think it's technically possible to "ban" someone from a thread or individual forum.

huh, no, I wasn't thinking of that angle, but it's an important one, thank you, Rara. I only meant people can have these problems whether they live in the "first world" or the "third world", or wherever.

and if that person ended up publishing a book and you learned about it first on Oprah? If you found out that someone had actually become a millionaire by stealing your words from this website, you'd be 100% ok with that? I'm really asking, no sarcasm at all.

but what if someone actually began making money from your posts? I know, highly hypothetical but still.... How would you react if you came across a webpage that not only reproduced but took credit for your writings?

I think the term really is a bit elitist (or perhaps a hell of a lot of elitist). There are people living in developing countries who have "first-world" problems. Does anyone ever refer to a well-to-do Guyanese as having a first-world problem when he whines about the SD card on his phone being full and the electronics store is closed Sundays? I don't know, but I doubt it. In Germany, we call it a "luxury problem", btw.

Thank you TM :-) But I can't think of it as "creating" one another anymore. Affecting one another, yes, but not creating. As you said, they're there, in the wuji state, without movement. Five potentialites, or whatever is the best term for it. Five possibilities. Five states. And all five of them are there at every stage, just in different concentrations. Movement is the dynamic of them drawing and repelling one another according to their individual special properties and the way they react to one another (I feel like I'm describing living creatures, lol) For me, the liquid flow of melted metal is more like an aid in visualizing the process. The heart and lungs are next to one another and the heart helps the lung qi to sink to the kidneys, yes, but the kidneys are already water and always have been, or better said, the water potentiality was there first and the kidneys formed around it. I guess I just like wuji What really has to happen in the lungs is filtering out the bad qi and allowing the good qi to pass on into the system. Same as the LI that has the task of eliminating the bad and absorbing the last bits of good. Metal is discernement.

I think the challenge for most of us is in limiting the movement specifically to this area, and not going higher. It's not simple. It's eaiser to rise up to the diaphragm and back down to huiyin.

Writing on a phone is SUCH an annoyance. When will someone FINALLY develop a phone that writes what I WANT it to write?!?

There are a lot of reasons. One of them is that metal is for making slicing tools which we use to separate the good from the bad. Metal is among other things the ability to let go of things that are damaging us. Think about the large intestine. And also the way the lungs filter out bad influences at the other end of the chain.

are any complaints legit anymore?

Hello Softly Seeking Shen, and welcome to the forums! Glad you found your way to us. There's no pressure on anyone here to participate, but feel free to jump in wherever you like. That's an interesting history you posted, thank you :-) Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, SC and the TDB team

Hello westenra, and welcome to the forums! Glad you found your way to us :-) Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, SC and the TDB team

oh and every time the Canadian Taoist Wizard gets mentioned here, I immediately think of Alex Chiu. It's like pavlovian or something.

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except you were referring to the erminology of cordless charging whereas I'm referring to complaints about the terminology of cordless charging

First world problems... ;-)