Trunk

Just watched it also. Brutal. I'm not up on this stuff, but it Frank was threatening to break his leg (or seriously f### his knee). Right?

Thanks again, people. *heart swells to three times as big* Nope. Almost all of the photos on the site I've found online. The pot-on-the-stove (fire-under-water) I found as-is. For fire-over-water I searched for good fire, drips, photos and then pasted them together. I think they illustrate the kan & li dynamic well. (I like 'm, too!) I've been trying to add more photos; it's funner for everyone.

..just pasting my post into the relevant thread... Looks like the Luk book is already chosen as the first one (which is fine by me), but I like the idea of the Eva Wong book, Taoism overview. She has a good rep. I don't own it, but would go out and get it if we club it. Count me in for a vote for that book, whenever it works out. I've always had an aversion to Kelsang Gyatso: his picture kind of creeps me out and I avoid his books. (Not to make a big deal out of it or anything.) The topics of that book are, basically, the six yogas of naropa and mahamudra. There are other sources for those topics if anyone wants to look a little. Just my two cents. I think the whole book club idea is really healthy, and anything that gets chosen is a step forward imo.

Sweet. Very nice.

The late Sifu Kenny Gong (shing-yi).

Looks like the Luk book is already chosen as the first one (which is fine by me), but I like the idea of the Eva Wong book, Taoism overview. She has a good rep. I don't own it, but would go out and get it if we club it. Count me in for a vote for that book, whenever it works out. I've always had an aversion to Kelsang Gyatso: his picture kind of creeps me out and I avoid his books. (Not to make a big deal out of it or anything.) The topics of that book are, basically, the six yogas of naropa and mahamudra. There are other sources for those topics if anyone wants to look a little. Just my two cents. I think the whole book club idea is really healthy, and anything that gets chosen is a step forward imo.

Website, TheRealNews.com. Has a different funding base, to stay away from special interests. Interesting, substantial videos. What online news source/s do you find helpful?

Wooo-hoooo! Well done!, good start!

Good idea! ~ later ~ You know, choosing classics and going through them together.. keeps our attention off of eachother (and from other groups), so we're less likely to brawl (hopefully ). Plus, probably we'll be able to choose books that're a lot less stupid than ourselves, so it'd be elevating. Lots to like about a book club. * hope it takes off well, imagining it being a happy TTB regular *

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Welcome! Beautiful artwork! What I resonated with most - naked earth, some of the abstracts, and then the watercolors(!!!). Thanks for sharing. Trunk

Was the main topic here for years, could be that many of the regulars are burnt out on talking about it, ton of information archived at alchemicaltaoism.com.

A fairly common pattern within the community (including myself). The PR in the books mostly does not match reality (for most). Again, common. When I hear stories of "I retained for __(insert amount of time)__ and it felt good", I think to myself "ok, but what happened in the days, week, following that?". A more moderate approach to "jing gong", a more realistic frame for most, is to use the exercises to smooth and harmonize your natural cycle of activity ~ inactivity. (Versus trying to make some segment of that cycle last forever.)

I'm not following the race as closely as I was, but I saw the first minute or so of this video of Ron Paul being interviewed. What struck me is that the anchor-woman actually blushed, I think, when she started interviewing RP. I've never seen so many news-people (men and women) be ... charmed by a presidential candidate. They see that he is intelligent and honest and (almost) always they have this big heart-opening sometime during the interview. It's really very sweet.

Every time I thought they'd mined out the joke, they took it up a notch. Very clever, must watch all the way through!

It took me a while to discover "view new posts" (top-right, doh!). Once I did, it simplified things a lot.

So, a friend lent me "sunshine" yesterday. On the outside: immature mis-fit crew goes to re-ignite the sun on this hardly credible sci-fi adventure. On the inside: star gazing and sun worship. the sci-fi setting is really secondary; it's a stage for sun worship. And some of the pics of the sun are brilliant. (Some disturbing scenes near the end make it not for young kids.) Writing is at turns mediocre and inspired. Worth it for the inspired parts.

Glad you like it. Are you finding that the extra knobs are useful? ..not really? ..kinda-sorta? ..so good you couldn't live w/out'm? I feel like I got a 'short course' in hitting from this thread; a number of suggestions I've put to use and this part of my practice (which was really lacking ) is suddenly in a whole new place. Score another one for community.

bada-biiinnggg!

Good reminder Ian. Obviously it's a free world (forum) and it's up to each person to make their own decisions, employ their own discernment.

Welcome!

"Cloverfield". Saw it. I usually don't go to / like scary movies. This one was excellent. Worth seeing. Oh, also saw "No Country for Old Men" some while back. It's a Coen brothers' movie. Need I say more? (Neither for kids.)

Yes, did see it. They did tease it out, but the movie does show it. It's a fine enough monster and all, especially with modern digital effects... but the way the movie was done aside from the monster was just so well done.. and fresh. If you go for a "good monster movie", you'll have fun - and if you go for a "good movie", you'll have fun.

imo, the kunlun energy-blend, when it goes interior, flows through the fascia (sinew-channels) - as well as other places. If you look at body-movements in internal-arts systems (where sinew changing is prevelant) you'll see curved movements, like from when kunlun is working something out (or trying to). We all know from Sonnon's, and others', work that there are often all sorts of warps stored in the fascia. Seems to me that Sonnon's intu-flow, or any more traditional sinew-changing system would work well to complement kunlun.