soaring crane
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soaring crane replied to IntuitiveWanderer's topic in Forum and Tech Support
Practice a little self control by simply not coming here anymore? If you want to attain anything, you can't take the easy path. -
Requestion account deletion
soaring crane replied to IntuitiveWanderer's topic in Forum and Tech Support
I'm afraid it's not that simple. Accounts just aren't deleted. If you want to erase "yourself", you can go to every post you've made and delete the content. Most people replace the text with a few dots ... I'm sure someone else from admin will add to this info. -
keep that instructor! Seriously.
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hahahahaha!!! Not as poignant as The Onion, though.
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Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
soaring crane replied to Vmarco's topic in The Rabbit Hole
yes no It wasn't a judgement call. It was a cold, grammatical assessment of the materials as presented. Your welcome. -
Wisdom Teeth Energetic Function
soaring crane replied to eye_of_the_storm's topic in General Discussion
Yeah, there's a lot of mystery surrounding wisdom teeth. I've found that many people believe they don't even come in until we're at least fifty years old. I happy to have all of mine. Impacted wisdom teeth are a nightmare, and dangerous, and I assume that's the simple reason that they're removed as preventive medicine. But it seems to me that people could at least wait and see if they grow in correctly or not before resorting to the operation. -
Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
soaring crane replied to Vmarco's topic in The Rabbit Hole
To that I would suggest, if you can't come up with arguments that don't get you suspended, you should consider weighing your desire to participate in the forums against your ability to do it civilly. To the other, I'll just point out again that my comment was directed very narrowly at the paragraph which was quoted, with no further context provided, whereas you're bringing the context of the entire book and your knowledge of the author into it. I've already allowed that the man has a lot more to say than is revealed in the quote Vmarco posted. Btw, when you say first and second paragraphs, are referring to the bit about Joseph Smith? They seem to be from different passages in the book. That's how they were presented, anyway. The descriptions in the quote are, in my view and taken prima facie, "sweeping generalizations", a hallmark of bigotry. It's very simple. But it is my view in the end and I'm done defending it. You haven't convinced me, but then maybe I'm just dense. Now, moving on, it may well be that he continues in the book to expand on the statements and makes a strong, detailed case for his conclusions. But I don't have that information yet. The book does look interesting and I am considering buying it. Have to get to work ... -
Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
soaring crane replied to Vmarco's topic in The Rabbit Hole
I'm not sure what could possibly be crude, excruciatingly or not, about a short, logical reply to a very short excerpt from a book. I don't know anything about the man or the book and my comments were/are based very narrowly on the short passage provided and nothing more. Looking back, I don't see where I erred in my understanding. Perhaps you can explain the linguistics better? What am I missing in that short statement that Vmarco quoted? (without the context of the entire book, mind) -
well, yeah, you can zoom and all that, but if if it's a scannned book, the effect might be like zooming an image. If it's OCR i.e. a text image then it should simply increase the size of the text, but I'm not 100% sure.
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When I was heavy into ultramarathoning, my normal resting breath was down to two a minute and my pulse was down below 45 bpm, even below 40 at true rest. I didn't do any yoga (but I did a lot qigong ). These are normal numbers for people in these endurance sports. That only means that my circulatory system was so effecient that two breaths and 42 beats of my heart per minute were carrying enough oxygen to all my cells to keep them saturated and that's what's happening with any practice that results in "less breath than normal". One breath is doing the work of five "normal" breaths. In the case of yoga, I think it's basically due to the absolute absence of any blockages at all (and a LOT of practice). Blockages are emotional/mental and physical. Regarding qi -- There are a 1000 kinds of qi and breath is one of the classic definitions.
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see my post #10 above. It depends on the file. The Kindle does all that stuff very nicely, and has bookmark funcitons, dictionary, translator, etc ... but only if the files are the proper format.
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The thing with pdfs is that pdf is not necessarily pdf. There are a lot of ways to make one of these files. If it's a good quality pdf with real text, then scrolling generally isn't a problem. A monthly magazine from the publisher in pdf format will scroll like any other file. A scanned book in jpg/tif/pdf format will not. And then you also can't change text size or font, or do anything else that can do with real text. The Kindle lets you hide images and use a simple text format (I assume all e-readers have this function), but only with files that are formatted correctly.
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The basic, non-backlit, Kindle handles pdf's pretty well, but lags with large files. You can get one cheap today, but it would be a good idea to compress the pdfs to the smallest possible size before copying them to the device. No-light version Honestly, though, I'd get the one with the light. You don't have to use the backlighting, but it's a huge benefit and nothing like looking at a computer screen or tablet. Kindle's and tablets are the only thing I have any experience with, so can't speak to other e-readers. I should mention that my wife and I are weaning ourselves off amazon. So, we're actually looking at alternatives now, too. My mother had a Nook last time she visited and it was pretty nice. I assume it does pdf, too.
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Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
soaring crane replied to Vmarco's topic in The Rabbit Hole
"people do not want to hear that Islam supports violence in a way that Jainism doesn't, or that Buddhism offers a truly sophisticated, empirical approach to understanding the human mind, whereas Christianity presents an almost perfect impediment to such understanding." Translated: Islam supports violence. Period. Buddhism is sophisticated and empirical. Period; Christianity is an impediment to both. Period. Without broader context, those are the thoughts of a bigot. My original reason for responding to the OP this way was to point out that there seem to be passages in the book that more accurately represent the geist of the work. It seemed to me that VMarco had chosen a paragraph with potentially incendiary language. And then I quoted a passage that I liked very much -
Take out the Christmas decorations? We just put them away!
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Hello IntuitiveWanderer, and welcome to the forums! Thank you for the thorough introductio, happy to have you here :-) 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 TTB team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Note: all female members are more than welcome to join the discussions at our new Women’s Cultivation forum, moderated by rainbowvein and zanshin
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Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
soaring crane replied to Vmarco's topic in The Rabbit Hole
I was just thinking of it as the animating force. Shen. Enthusiasm has a similar root. And the German word "Geist" as in Zeitgeist (spirit of the current time) and Teamgeist (Team spirit) describes the same thing. -
Well, my thoughts are that it's a) not important to feel anything like that while practicing and that B ) the qigong we practice that feels least effective is in fact often the most effective. This is why we practice every day, especially on those days when we don't feel like it and have the impression that we're "just going through the motions". With your comparison evening vs morning sensations, I'd say it's just more subtle in the morning because you haven't done anything beforehand except sleep (and I'll take a guess that you sleep very well). In the afternoons/evenings, you've accumulated a LOT more sensory input previous to your practice and what you're feeling is the sorting out processes. Both sessions are beneficial and if you can get in at least a short morning routine, every morning, without high expectations, you'll feel the subtle benefits. Standing still (after a little vigorous warm-up gymnastics) is a good morning exercise. Theoretically, the optimal time to practice is in the Lung phase as shown in the chart that Chang posted. BUT that's theoretical and quite ancient. If getting up at 3am does nothing but rob us of sleep, then it's not a good practice to get into.
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Giving away my new Kindle book! "50 shades of yay: great thinkers on happiness"
soaring crane replied to Grigory's topic in The Rabbit Hole
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Hello Chris, and welcome to the forums! That was a lovely introduction, 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 TTB team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Note: all female members are more than welcome to join the discussions at our new Women’s Cultivation forum, moderated by rainbowvein and zanshin
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no, soryy, I meant, what are you feeling that you're describing as "qi"? I'm curious about the sensations you're experiencing when you do feel it, whenever that might be.
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They come to Wunsiedel every year. So, we'll what they do next year. It seems as though this or something equally creative is going to be done again at other rallies in future.
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Hi and welcome -- what exactly are you feeling?
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Giving away my new Kindle book! "50 shades of yay: great thinkers on happiness"
soaring crane replied to Grigory's topic in The Rabbit Hole
But wait a minute. Did you actually write anything? Or is it just a collection of other people's work? I don't get it. Why not just make a blog post or something like that? -
Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
soaring crane replied to Vmarco's topic in The Rabbit Hole
Well, of course, they are examples of bigotry. And unless he used the word invidious ironically, he knows it. I feel this is a better example, from that first chapter: Before going any further, I should address the animosity that many readers feel toward the term spiritual. Whenever I use the word, as in referring to meditation as a “spiritual practice,” I hear from fellow skeptics and atheists who think that I have committed a grievous error. The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, which is a translation of the Greek pneuma, meaning “breath.” Around the thirteenth century, the term became entangled with beliefs about immaterial souls, supernatural beings, ghosts, and so forth. It acquired other meanings as well: We speak of the spirit of a thing as its most essential principle or of certain volatile substances and liquors as spirits. Nevertheless, many nonbelievers now consider all things “spiritual” to be contaminated by medieval superstition. I like it :-)
