Pietro

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tai chi is qi gung. and a good tai chi teacher will give you qi gung exercises while you are learning the form. So the question is more what is the best teacher you have access to.

What about the answer: not enough gods/demons around or ghosts over here just do not want to get married Those are problems

guys... behave yourself

not to scramble the results, I suppose if you voted on facebook you should not vote here. Correct? And if you did you should probably PM Stig with your vote so he can fix the results before presenting them

A moment of attention, please Just received the email from Amazon. The book Laughing at the Dao, which gives some interesting insights into medieval Daoist to Buddhist dialectic has just been reprinted and is now available for 30$. Previous used price was about 250$. I should have sold my copy back then ;-(. End of the pause, you can now go back bashing each other.

I strongly support the Jedi Council suggestion!

use dream yoga to change past

Maybe it would make sense to start with changing in animals, and bilocation, and so on. But having multiple selves, and the hexagram the army or the hexagram number 8, are they really so different. Try to embody a revolution. Or the young fool! Haven't we said in the other thread that the young fool is P'o? Actually in my understanding of the water methods, alchemy comes after dissolving. And then you learn to change your body of individuality into the various bodies of individuality available in this universe. This to move from understanding who are you to understanding who is the universe. So it seems that all this work would fit well just over there. Have you ever met people that seem to fully embdoy a principle? Like Gandhi with Truth. Some Christian saints with Love. I remember an old neopagan who had the energy of an oak tree. And a big round female shaman who had the energy of the whole earth. I would say those are people who are at the point of working on this really. For me it does feel a bit over my limits .

I think I found the solution! I was thinking about the number 72. Because 72 is not a random number. 72=9*8=8*8+8=64+8 So if you have 9 transformation for each direction of the ba gua, you have reached 72. But that is like saying having a small bagua in each direction, and then the center, and for each of those composed directions, a transformation. Now having a first choise of a direction, among 8, and then again one among 8, gives you 64. And with reason, for those are exactly like the hexagrams. You first chose a trigrm (among 8) for the earth, below, and then a trigram for heven above. So if each hexagram was related to a transformation, you would have 64 hexagram. If then you add to this a transfomration for each trigram, here you go, you have 72. So this is my guess, that the 72 transformation is the ability to transform, and embody the energy of each of the hexagram (64), and then to also embody also the energy of each trigram (by itself) (8). And if you can do this, then you can embody change, and thus whatever life, pardon, heaven throws at you, you will be able to flow with, through, and in it. You would be an immortal for sure. And this is also interesting, because it is quite easy to have peak experiences. But unless you can embody change, you are going to lose it. So also this part of the story fits. And the reason why you dn't find the list, is because it's obvious :-) So, I don't know the answer. I have only read the beginning of the book, until the journey starts (but in a wonderful translation). But this is where I would put my money.

I don't think the 72 are just 72 version of basically the same (shapeshifting). For example monkey king could fly, right? That would be a standard one. +1 He could change his size (very big and very small), +1 He could multiply in many copies of itself at once (I don't know if he could do it, but it happened to me in a dream time ago, so I assume he could as well) +1 become invisible? +1 wisthand heat (remember when they tried to burn him in the pakua?) Also there where a bunch of things he could do with his wand. Would they coun? Essentially Idon't know, apart the first few. But maybe we could read the book monkey kind and just take note. Then next to each we could cite the passage where it is refered to. Those are the situations where Stig. wiki might come out as being invaluable!

let me add, every year a different one is "active"(?), I think the 10 refers to the 5 energies in a yin and a yang aspect. When you combine the 10 and the 12, each changing every year you get that the whole pattern repeats every 60 years. And this is why in China it is believed that after 60 years you start again, and your life is supposed to last 120 years (2 cycles). When you practice wu ji qi kung you "take in" the energy from the 10 celestial stems. After having absorbed the energy from the 12 earthly branches. Pietro

It's even more interesting. If I got it right, the taxes were introduced to force the people to share and sell the products of their land. Think about it, if you have a kingdom where everybody owns their farm, and live off it. You have very little taxes. And very little market. But if you insert a tax on the property, now everybody need to find ways to pay that. And to do that they need to produce more, go to the market, sell, get cash, pay with cash. And in one swift move the authority got money (from land), market, and more money (from market exchanges). We still have thins kind of problems. For example the GDP counts exchanges. If you grow your own food the GDP does not grow. But if I grow your food, and you grow mine, regardless of the taxes, the GDP grows. There is a whole discipline that is trying alternative method to measure the richness of a country that are better than the GDP. We have a whole ecology of different measures of happiness (from the one from the green party, to the one from Buhtan - I think-, and so on). And since when you have many, you cannot rely on anyone, we are back at square one.

Most people here were criticising Findley for smoking pots for the damage that it does to the body. You took those people and called them racist, and explained that native people used pot by being able to dispell the toxins. In this you acknowledged that there are indeed toxins. But Findley is not (to my knowledge) a native american, or someone who has been taught how to use them without being damaged by them. So the critics still stand. In fact they stand even firmer now that even you have acknowledged that using them can be damaging. While in the meantime your critics of saying that people that use pots are racists seem to be in even more flimsy grounds. I understand you might like to stir the "anthrill", but there are real people on the other side of the computer. And a bit more discernment in writing would be appreciated. Thanks, Pietro

White Supremacy bandwagon????? What the fuck have you been smoking?

This is correct. I lived through this so many times. You feel great, but it's a superficial kind of greatness. Something inside is empty. You leave, and it takes a long time before you realised that you have walked away with much much less than you could have had. Essentially you used him to reach a confirmation about what you are doing, and not for a clarification on what you could/should be doing. And by and large you brought out essentially the same you brought in.

You welcome. My suggestion is not to consult the i ching, but to read hexagram 4.

SereneBlue, for goodness sake. Ground yourself. Not in order to protect yourself, but to avoid going too much in circles with your worries, and thoughts. Go for a walk. Stay with non meditative people (that's very good). Do not do any energetic work. Just be in this reality. Here now.

I was raised in the after ''68 culture. Where I would treat everybody as peer. I don't know how many great occasions to learn I burned with my arrogant silly approach. I was also at times liked as masters are also really annoyed with people who put on a mask with them. There is a middle way. I suggest you read the hexagram 4 about 100 times. Read it all, read it again. Read all the lines. Read different translations. Meditate on that, a lot.

In this day and age there are plenty of people who put their lessons online. There are whole courses being dumped online. Some of the best ever. SO I would like to know, leaving aside (for now, we recover them later) anyone who is giving us any alternative view, has anyone spotted some really good quantum physics courses online. And I mean real courses. The ones done by students of physics as the prepare for the exams. With the equations and everything else. Pietro

I acknowledge that you read Sensei!'s post.

Thanks for clearing that out. There are good reasonw why I generally keep myself off quantum stuff. I never understood it while at the Uni. And I had to give an exam on it! I certainly will. Pietro

I thought the idea was that eventually a universe with all blackhole would explode back into a new big bang. After all the big bang is the only whie hole we kind of have (indirectly) observed ok, so for t>"quickly" energy+matter cannot be created or destroyed. Do we agree on this?