soaring crane
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well, I think it may be time to start re-thinking the approach to agriculture and land management in general. It takes something like 15,000 liters of water to produce one kilo of beef -- under ideal conditions. When the temperature rises, that amount can double.
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Hello ihadjatom, and welcome to the forums! 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
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Lake Mead is sinking to the point where the water pressure soon won't be enough to run the turbines on the Hoover dam. When that happens, expect an expansion of consciousness. The Ogallala aquifier is drying up, too. Alternative science is going to be trending pretty soon. I hope. The 'great plains' are historically a deathly-dry desert area. The timing was kind of ironic as the early European settlers arrived there at a moment when it was unusually fruitful. Also, Las Vegas should never have happened.
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was my birth my choice? I'd like to see the world, please. It's so dark in here.
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[TTC Study] Chapter 46 of the Tao Teh Ching
soaring crane replied to Marblehead's topic in Daodejing
well, yeah, from my little paperback ddj that I always have with me: That picture on the cover looks like the ugly duckling if you look at it right, but it's really two cranes, of course :-) -
[TTC Study] Chapter 46 of the Tao Teh Ching
soaring crane replied to Marblehead's topic in Daodejing
I can't read Chinese at all and so can't comment on your choice of words but I want to mention that your work is similar to German translator Gunther Debon (who happens to be my favorite :-) My literal translation of his German, with multiple possibilities for some of the German words he uses: Kein Frevel größer No wickedness/outrageousness/sacriledge/iniquity greater Als seinen Wünschen nachzugehen than after his desires to pursue Kein Übel größer No evil/malady/curse greater Als nicht Genügen kennen than not satiety/surfeit to know Kein Mackel größer no flaw/stigma/blemish greater Als nach Gewinn zu streben than after profit/gains/spoils to strive/aspire Wahrlich: Forsooth/Truly: Wer Genügend kennt am Genügenden Who sufficiency recognizes in the sufficient Wird ständig genug haben Will constantly/always/persistently sufficient have Maybe you'll find some useful alternative English words in there? -
well, nothing against Mitchell or against reading books, or expanding knowledge, but I think the routine posted in the OP is every bit as effective as the set described in the book, and the instruction is spot-on, imo. But, regardless what I think, D Mitchell writes in the introduction of his book, "I ... come to realise that people move into Nei Gong training when the time is right for them. It is more of a calling than anything else." So, the author's own suggestion seems to be that EarthDragon will follow his heart, with or without our input :-) One last quibbling point from me: I actually prefer Tom Bisio's "Decoding the Dao" for getting a clear understanding of the history, background and techniques of Daoist cultivation.
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heard it all before heard it all in fact, before, before I was born
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I suggest sticking with a solid routine as in the OP for a good solid twelve months before getting into things like neigong via book. My thinking is that the most important elements in advanced practices are discipline and consistency. It's better to develop them first, otherwise you run a pretty high risk of either failing completely later on, or thinking that you've reached a level that you're miles away from.
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Just read an article about the emerging dustbowl that was once the American Southwest ... Geologists are getting to investigate the basin of the Colorado river in ways they never dreamed of.
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Interesting post, Stosh, thanks. Can you elaborate on the closing statement?
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Opening the Jade Pillow/Upper Gate
soaring crane replied to idiot_stimpy's topic in Daoist Discussion
Nice older thread. No one mentioned "beating the heavenly drum"? -
well, real tyrants need to mask themselves as non-tyrants who actually do care about the community at large, don't they? It doesn't follow that someone who says he wants cold objectivity in moderating an internet forum has tyrannical motivations. It could be that he actually does want to do his best for most people, full in the knowledge that he's not perfect and that there will always be the occasional skeptic among the membership
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wow, I've never seen a single episode of any show mentioned thus far. I liked The Odd Couple in its day, haha
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Looks perfect. Twenty minutes is just right. The pre- and post-exercises are very important. I like his voice, too :-)
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There are many energy nodes in the area I live in. And a lot of very old churches that were built right on top of the sacred celtic and germanic sites that honored them. There's a very large monastery called "vierzehn heiligen" (fourteen holies) nearby with a vortex that even the most non-energy sensitive people feel. I get sick in it.
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Swing and a miss. The rules at this website are clear and infractions will be dealt with in future as objectively as possible. It matters not one iota if the insult comes from an enlightened being swinging the singing knife of complete reality or a knuckle-dragging troglodyte swinging a club with a nail in it.
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Hello meditator00, and welcome to the forums! 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. That low rumbling noise you heard while meditating isn't uncommon, but your experience with the binaural beat was all yours. I think you did the right thing in opening your eyes. But that's the kind of anecdote that draws attention quickly here, so I expect you to get a few more views on it. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, SC and the TTB team
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that is weird. Is that like one of the first threads ever at this website?
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not necessarily spammers in the classic sense, but that's close enough, I guess.
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I've done a lot of fasting in the past and with me, the third day was when it got easy and the euphoria would set in. After that, it was just normal. It's a good experience, but I don't think it really pays off in the long-term. (I'm talking about three-week fasts with nothing but a little vegetable broth and mineral water). I'm thinking now about having one fasting day a week. I think this is natural. One of my teachers has been doing this for a while (he also gets up at 3am, and never eats anything after 12pm. I'm not about to do that). Btw, fasting just one time in your life (I've read) turns on certain genes that are responsible for slowing the metabolism and retaining fat. It's a survival response and once it's activated, can't be turned back off. It might hokum, but it makes sense from a biological standpoint.
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Not even close, I'm afraid. There's a lot more to doing it correctly than assuming a strenuous stance and gritting your teeth till you collapse (not saying that this is what you're doing, but it's what many, many practitioners think of as Ma Bu). Can you stand in Wuji now? Wuji is actually a Ma Bu (horse stance), too. It's just a skinny horse. The deep mabu (fat horse version) is a progression of the higher stance. The Wuji stance gets overlooked in forums (because it looks like boring old-people qigong?) but it's far, far more effective for most of us, imo. edit: good post by Daeluin up there ^^
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J. K. Rowling: "Hermione should have married Harry!"
soaring crane replied to Wells's topic in The Rabbit Hole
tscha. And me an old Cracked fanboy. That's actually quite a fantastic article there :-) -
Couldn't happen to a nicer Bum, congrats Zanshin :-)
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J. K. Rowling: "Hermione should have married Harry!"
soaring crane replied to Wells's topic in The Rabbit Hole
I had hoped at the time that Harry would turn out to be a red herring and someone else was the chosen one all along.
