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I was referring to the people outside of Paris, and even France. For sure, this is far more personal for you and your countrymen and I'm very sorry :-( As far as them having big hearts, it could well be a cultural thing. I've looked into a lot of their material in the meantime and see a lot of puerile, juvenile ca-ca jokes aimed predominantly at minorites. But of course there are comics here in Germany that would look totally absurd to outsiders. So, I'll qualify my previous comment with a "in my opinion". Regardless of all that, I still don't need a reason to oppose mass murder and the really ugly truth is, there are far, far worse attacks happening, worldwide, every day, every hour, as we speak, on people who never provoked anybody in any way other than simply being born the wrong sex, or to the wrong family, in the wrong place, at the wrong time :-(

I actually feel just that way. I don't have to show allegiance with that horrible publication to demonstrate my position on mass murder. I think that 99% of the je suis crowd aren't even aware of the content they publish. I'd of course never heard of it before this, but I looked into it.

do you know when the new year begins?

unconcern complete, now I lay me down to sleep, the martyr's defeat.

Hi, I think you'll want to cross post it in another forum. The question is which one? I suggest General Discussion. Good luck with everything :-)

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Thanks for the heads up. Starts at about 3:50

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I wish I lived in Oslo :-) http://www.taiji.no/ http://www.oslowutan.com/

well, that sounds like a positive development but, fwiw, you could well be sinking too deep into the knees, most people do. What you can try is first locking your knees to the rear, enough that you feel the stretch in the hollows of the knees. Hold that for maybe ten seconds, then release the tension very slowly. Your knees will give and feel very light, and will not really be "bent". That's the feeling you want to maintain during your sessions. Repeat the little warmup exercise three times before settling into your qigong routine. And do it once ina while during your qigong, too. I believe KC is one of those authors who uses comments like "knees slightly bent", without any real explanation of what is meant by that. The knees should be relaxed, that's that priority. If they're not, there's no flow. Think of all the joints in the body as locks in a shipping canal. If the locks are closed, the water doesn't flow and the shipping lane shuts down. And the longer a lock stays shut, the faster it dries out... And in the body, the bigger the joint, the bigger the effect on the whole network. And going into a knee bend has to be accompanied with more adjustments to the posture. The knees, obviously, but also the pelvis/lumbar region. I'm picturing you standing there with bent, knock-knees and a sway back, and I'm thinking, get thee to a teacher. But in the meantime, don't "bend the knees", just do that little exercise I described (well, give it a try, anyway). Personal instruction is important. A good teacher will show you how to initiate all this stuff from the pelvis and hip joints, and how to coordinate it with your breath. There have to be tons of qualified teachers and schools in your area.

Haha! I know an elderly couple who got matching smart phones for Christmas. I can easily imagine them doing exactly this!

all will be revealed...

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yes, in the Misogynist Hall of Fame.

here's a metaphor:

It's been said twice, but worth repeating -- Teacher. School. Neither of the two disciplines are going to open their true spiritual sides to you without a huge investment in time, and very diligent practice. And to acheive that, you need a good teacher. Here's a test to identify a bad teacher: S/he can answer your question with one or the other alternative.

Ok, great, thanks for the further information. Much different than what I was picturing :-)

Well, my reaction really was spontaneous, but I kow it's because I think of "awakening" as something that must be done by yourself. I shy away from anyone who says s/he can do it for me or has the tools I need. I would expect the results to be more short term and imperfect.

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That's the only purpose I can think of. Unless a person is unusually environmentally conscious and wants to reduce the number of condoms polluting the world?

well, I have to honestly say that I consider the way you mention "it's good to have that perspective here as well", and that perspective turns out to come from some nameless "school of thought" with no basis for the statement, rather irresponsible. That's what I mean with baseless fears. If you're going to implant the grain of doubt, the fear, that this procedure can be the "absolute worst thing" a person can do, in a thread started by a person who has had it done, then you should really be prepared to back it up with more than what you've offered thus far. Does this school have access to statistics or something like that? Have they witnessed time and again men failing to progress on their spiritual path due solely, exclusively, to having had a vasectomy? I doubt it. It just sounds like run of the mill spiritualism dogma to me. As confirmation of the validity of their view, you only offer a defferential, "they're the teachers of that school", and that actually go a ways toward solidifying my opinion. JB and I have already pointed out that the procedure doesn't actually change anything other than the route the sperm cells take out of the body. There's solid, empirical evidence of that fact. Nothing else changes, except the man can feel a lot more comfortable during sex, and the woman, too (meaning, the positives could well far outweigh any sketchy, unfounded fears or prohibitions, especially of the spiritual kind). Sorry if this comes over as too confrontational but your original statement rings of programming, and that's one of the things that I've had a lot of personal experience with, and don't harmonize wíth.