Pietro

Oh Boy. I wonder what our friend Ron would think of this. It looks like apart the chemtrails his other leit motives are all there! Anybody managed to get access to http://www.no-porn.com/ ?

Cat, of course, it was not my idea to post three times the same post! The board was down while I was writing, and I sent it multiple times, thinking it hasn't been accepted. It is unavoidable when those upgrade are made that there is a certain time when things are up and down as the webmaster fix things.

First of all congratulations for the transition, and the hard work. Now we have the possibility to vote on posts, that's awesom! I was reading the manual of this board: http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/official.html and there seem to be tons of really cool feature. And I bet there are also plugins available. http://community.invisionpower.com/files/category/102-ipboard-30x/ Are you cool if we give feedback, and ask to activate some of them? Of course if the plugin needs money to be activated the person suggesting can chip that in.

The problem is an economic one. For many people monkhood is an easy way to solve the basic human necessities. So people in some countries just chose to be monks to have a place to sleep, and to receive food. Plus of course a better social status than beggers. All together people who have nothing to do with their life, will be very tempted to just get into monkhood in some places. I keep on thinking that the gov should provide basic food and a sleeping place for everybody. Nothing fancy, dormitories, and basic food. But enough to survive. So people are not forced to go into work against their principles, or into slavery just to survive.

What's the matter? Loosing reality?

Please do not confuse this pope with Christianity.

I feel I am about to be harrassed. Could you please act? Thanks

Go for it!

Thanks for the great link!

I think a good translation of De is Power. Which for me it makes more sense than virtue. As natural ability to do something. But I might be totally off :-/ It seem to me that before going forward we need to distinguish between education and instinct. I think nowhere as in the "pick up" community could I observe the clear difference between education and instinct. I would say you cannot be successful in picking up girls if you are not really clear about the difference between education and instinct. Here are some actual claim from the community that point out to this difference. "You can never convince a woman to have sex with you" "if a woman will not sleep with you it is always your fault. You did something wrong" "Every women will betray their partner at the drop of a had, under the right conditions" I am not writing this to offend women (although no doubt some women will get offended, don't bother, that's not the point here). You can surely find similar claims for men, also. Another interesting fact that just points to our deep differences are the difference between men and women, when they receive similar education. Most of us, and even more, most of our parents have grown up under the myth that education defined everything. According to my father, he thought so until he found himself parenting a girl. Similarly the author of "the female brain" describes how surprised she was when her baby-boy would just use dolls to shoot, and someone else described how their daughter would put to bed the train, tucking it under the blankets for the night. So there is an education level, then there is an instinctual level, and I would say there is a deeper level too, under that. A real education would help a person to reach that deeper level, but how often does that happen? Socrates got it right, when he clarified that what is good cannot be good because the gods said so. (A) because the gods disagree between them all the time. ( because even if all the gods were to agree they could still all change their mind. Instead what is good must be inherent in the action in itself. On this I just found this page from wikipedia, which looks really good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma If an education is just giving you a list of precepts, that is just covering the layer of dirt with a sand mandala. That taoist, the greek philosopher, even christians, suggest that the only way to morality is through internal digging.

Do you know the meaning of the word "paranoid" :-)

WHat Little 1 said is absolutely true. It is true nevertheless that there are practices and techniques to permit to a person to contact their natural morality. I will not repeat them (no time, sorry), but I spoke about them before. So maybe with a search you might be able to find them. Using those techniques most people will discover that they will not harm, rape, kill, and similar. Most people means most. Not all. Some people will and can do all this without having any problem whatsoever. From an individual pov it this is a problem. From a social pov those people make really good efficient soldiers. Not to mention people who can take an incredible amount of stress and abuse without crashing. After all what they are receiving is not different from what they themselves would naturally do. In other words... fits them.

they are good. Especially the hundred days is a good program.

Another difference between neo-taoism and real authentic taoism!

Thanks sabretooth, I'll keep that in mind. Merry Christmas, Pietro

Correct, but it's not a chakra. The relation between chackras and DanTien is a complex one, and I would invite you to look at the archives, as it has been discussed multiple times. The position of the LDD is generally is inside between the belly button and the starting of the pubic hair. Said that there was even a book that claimed that the LDD could be above the belly button, if someone was born under the equator. Mah! Never did I found another source claiming the same. Ok, so I need to try this out before going further. Cheers, P

If there is no objective world, how can the phrase "is there an objective world?" hold a true answer. The problem with the claim "there is no objective world" is not iv it's true, but if it can be true.

Thanks Drew for the explanation. I still don't see the relation with the previous paper. Also I would love to see some studies done on this. I don't doubt that you do get the success you do by sitting in meditation, I am just not convinced that your explanation is the correct one. For me I know that staying cross legged and concentrated on the LDD is usually enough to recover the energy that is starting to build up in the sex organs. I asked about it to Bruce, and he just said: "oh, that's just that the energy goes where the attention is, you concentrate on the LDD, and then the energy gets sucked up from the sex organs). It looks like a much simpler explanation. But maybe they are both true. When you concentrate cross legged in the LDD you suck up the energy, and when you do that in lotus, a different type of alchemy happens. Some time ago there were some threads about ionizers, and stuff that released ions in a room. I notice you use the same word. Are they related?

No, Non, you are still not there. It is not the tingling in the penis that generate the morning wood. If this was the case the energy would be warm. But it is not. It is cold. There is a whole dimension of reality that you haven't explored yet. The dimension of cold energy and its effects.

Thanks Drew, I have read the paper. I got a few things from it. But the main is that female, in some parts of their cycle are better equipped to deal with stress. In tho other part of the cycle (post-estrous) they essentially react like male. But this has nothing to do with climax. Those rats were not climaxing. Nor where they sexually stimulated. So I seem to miss how can you claim that: Should I find that in the Sapolsky's book? Or is ionization something totally different from this stress management? I ask this because you seem to keep on refering to this "ionization", but as I mentioned before I don't know what you are speaking about. Thanks, Pietro Btw, very appreciated the reference to a proposer academic paper. Thanks durkhrod, I think from the context was very clear that Vortex was quoting a book, to help me realize that the book does indeed speak about those changes. Since my question was indirect (I was not asking what is that..., rather where can I find information on...) his effort has in fact made me realize that I do need to recover that book. I think this is incorrect. I am not convinced that you have morning wood because you need to urinate. When you are young you might feel so, but when you get older you start to feel periods where you do not have morning wood at all, but you do feel the need to urinate in the morning nevertheless, and then the two elements become separated. I think this is incorrect. I am not convinced that you have morning wood because you need to urinate. When you are young you might feel so, but when you get older you start to feel periods where you do not have morning wood at all, but you do feel the need to urinate in the morning nevertheless, and then the two elements become separated. Thanks. I'll look into it. :-) make me celibate... but not yet :-) wasn't that S.Agostino?

Thanks, so would chastity be another name for abstinence? Also, I like the clarity of this division, although I suspect it hides part of the complexity that reality has. In other words different people in different traditions use words in slightly different ways. I remember just on this site Lin explaining how just the fact of calling a practice "retention" was already setting it up for failing. "If you are retaining, you will release.". Somehow words matters. I think you really hit the nail in the head when you speak about celibacy as a lifelong vow. I think at Gandhi, for example. But tell me, am I right that this clear cut division comes from the Hindu tradition. And that Daoism might not use it so much (although of course there will be people doing "retention", "abstinence" and celibacy, although they might not call it in that way. Drew, I will read the paper before asking more. Little1, same, same Yours, Pietro