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I'm curious to hear her descriptive points of a healthy path.

For making a link:There's an icon that looks like a world with a chain-link at the bottom of it. The icon is just above the edit-window when composing a msg. I took the liberty of adding links to your above quote. I noticed that you also spent time with the Karmapa. I don't think that there are words adequate to acknowledge the line-up of teachers that you've been so fortunate to spend time with. Keith

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I'm finding several things: 1) All of my practices have become richer. Kan & Li, fusion, standing (vertical integration). Impressive improvement with little effort. 2) Some tensions (jing stagnation, basically) are being jostled loose in a way (or area) that's somewhat new. The bound-up tension that gets unbound can sneak up on you. I find its important to be extra attentive to LTT breathing for a day or so following massage of the LTT through the rectum. Also, I've resumed taking cod liver oil (actually bought some shark liver oil, also), as it is effective in circulating (clearing) and nourishing at this layer of energy. I think that both of these (breathing, CLO) are especially important for those just starting this venture - as you're likely to be going into new territory that is potentially loaded with stagnation.

Jon Stewart interviewed Bill Bennett and brought up the topic of gay marraige, and eloquently re-framed the debate. Or, rather, got closer to wording what the debate actually is. Here's the video. Below, a quote.

I disagree! Chia is not an herbalist!

I think this is one of those methods that, in 6 months, everyone will just act like its always been here and its the most obvious thing. Right now: hugely innovative and a big step forward. Thanks Owl!

Those Sonnon exercises really .

by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about the 2004 election http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/104...election_stolen

Just wanted to add that now Hard Light is offering regular podcasts of classes. The newest hip way to catch the enlightened vibe.

Whaaa? , "Fluent in modern and classical chinese"?!?!? That helps tremendously in TCM studies. * big sigh of relief * Glad to have you around.

I was already over-whelmed by the raw blends, so I wasn't in a position to notice. The last few days I've been taking a break and eating "regular". Back to it soon.

I've used it for an avacado pit, (I was a little worried dropping it in there but it) works fine.

Welcome aboard, Brett! You might check out my site (all free, and link below in my signature) for a quick over-view of the body-practices part of Taoism.

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Also quite possible that the prostate itself is swollen, from what you've said, probably a whole lot of tension all through that area. Aneros has a forum where you could get more informed responses to your concerns.

I'm not saying this is the way this guy is doing it, just one way it might be done: A lot of push hands is not force; its being profoundly integrated, its subtle. Most people hold their body together with various non-integral tensions.. that have little (if anything) to do with heaven~earth. Much of development is to let go of that, and promote heaven~human~earth integration. Like most of cultivation, a lot of is has to do with doing less. In push hands, you learn to feel the other person, you feel where they are non-integral (where they have no true power) and just give a little shove there. Its deeper than the person is familiar with feeling, certainly deeper than their habitual tension holding patterns, and the tension holding patterns give way. They sort of relax in a way that they're unfamiliar with. The result is that their body loses strength (even if the person is a weight lifter etc), falls back a little ways and needs a few steps to recover structure. ie, It could be more subtle than if you gave someone a physically hard enough shove to send them back some dozen feet or so. As I said, this is just one way that it might be done, and certainly I can't speak for what that teacher is doing. Again, I encourage you to look at the teacher's body in sections. Watch from his belly to the ground for a while. Then look at the shape of his back for a while. Then look at how his back connects to his neck & head, for a while. What do you see? Then look at those sections of the student. The kind of repeated, detailed corrections that you might receive from a teacher like this - studying in person over a long period of time, are just so valuable. The things that we do by habit, under the level of our awareness that are warped into our structure, are difficult to see and correct on our own. Personal study with an accomplished teacher, consistently, over a long period of time!

Its interesting to watch different parts of their bodies. Look at one guy from belly button to feet for a while, then the other.

Cool. I've read stuff something like that.. somewhere before. I haven't bought an aneros (yet?), but I have started using the blunt end of a plastic brush (that no one else uses, and that I clean thoroughly) several times a month. I'd found that I had a lot of tension locked around the prostate and seminal vesicles. I'm now of the opinion that its really healthy & important to do this every once in a while. Here's the paragraph that I put on my site a while back:

I gotta chime in on this, too. My experience is that that are quite a number of low profile very advanced teachers. Authentic, sincere, blow your socks off, real deal Teachers with anywhere from 5 to 50 students showing up for class / events. That's where, personally, I've found the best opportunity to learn. I readily acknowledge that there's some serious heavy-weights that are very popular (the Karmapa, for example), the skillful means to studying with someone like that is to meditate upon him or her from where ever you are, receiving inner teachings from a distance. At least, for me, I'm not attracted to crowds of multi-1000's. Selling sensation and marketing it as spirituality.Sowing the seeds of confusion and suffering.

The review board is very, very cool for most areas - but awfully political (or something near that word) re: teachers. Hypothetically, let's say there's a widely known and popular teacher on that list that I think is not worth a rat's ass. I'm way too pc to put up a review, give them zero or 1 out of ten, say why, append my name to the review - for all people to see for all time. Maybe all you rowdies would, and maybe I'd even applaud you some for it (if the reviews were honest and well spoken).. maybe I'm missing the boat and the opportunity of this.. Opinions?

Maybe a 2nd thread on how to manage the detox and body adjustment to blended & raw diet. Seems common that the blending creates and/or releases too much heat. Solutions? Here's my ideas so far: yin blends less greens and yang fruits more roots and yin fruits example, today's blend: gou qi zi (lychi berries), he shou wu, almonds, dang shen (Codonopsis) - all soaked overnight carrot gradual blend only several times a week, and eat good healthy food otherwise raw, nourishing, not blended - I think there's something about blending that liberates a zing! that's too much at first - personally, I've been eating a lot of salmon sashimi (raw salmon cut up and soaked in lemon juice & soy sauce for 20+ minutes). Eggs & other stuff could be on the list. detox, circulation & ventilation - drink plenty of liquids - exercise for circulation (walk, jog, swim) - acupressure, & joint exercises Interested in feedback & tips, as I am just learning about this. I guess an even more basic question is: Is the heat thing from blended raw just a detox & adjustment phase, or is it a danger that will always be there with blended raw?

I was reading Yoda's blog, and was inspired to go out and buy a pretty stout blender. Now looking for more reading on raw food, raw recipes for blenders (already got Max's and freeform's soups from Yoda's blog). Any links appreciated. Oh, and I own "We Want to Live" and am diggin into it.

Tsongkhapa is the bomb. "...bestow blessings, that we may achieve The wisdom of ecstasy and void conjoined." - Seventh Dalai Lama

I like the splash that says "Now with 28.7% more credibility!" The guy has a sense of humor about himself and his site.