Cameron

It's sort of like this afternoon this hottie was inches away from me exposing nice, tan breasts and cleavage and I just wanted to melt right into them and then she turns around and her ass crack is showing. And I am sitting there coughing all over the place and sneezing and just have NO focus. It's just like that! What do you do in that kind of moment? You think your a cool guy and then when you have such a clear opportunity to score you drop the ball because you sick and getting a woman is the last thing on your mind in the moment because of it! Actually, it's not like that at all..is it! *sips tea*

Dude has made it into the online Encyclopedia Wikipedia. Pretty much all I use tor resarch subjects anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Furey

Welcome! My mother is from Sydney. Definetly one of my goals to visit again in the next couple years. I am planning on bringing the royal court back into my routine soon. I love those excercises. Cameron

Sean, this work with awakening to what is is by far the most important work IMO. I really have a good feeling exploring these things and seems it is mostly where it is at(along with my other practices which I love). I am excited to explore this deeper with you know who in June. Like you said, you don't ask your jits teacher about how to open your qi channels

Knee is healed Plato, thanks.

It was all ego. Inherently there is no argument. Rmax material is not emptiness meditation or qigong. Now, Scott can say the practices have some of the same or in some cases better results than qigong but they are different practices. It reminds me of my time in Aikido. Everyone came and trained in the techniques of aikido but I really felt to get anywhere in Aikido(or in life for that matter) I would need to find a spiritual and energy practice. For the most part I got more into those practices than anyone else and I think it definetly helped my aikido practice but unless someone really was interested, for the most part I didn't say aikido is lacking a major component that I am exploring. If others got what they needed from it without exploring qigong, meditation enllightenment etc who am I to come and tell them what they need or how someone should teach there system? I see your path as being close to my own exploring all these things, like BJJ, your Magic stuff and Sonnon's stuff. And trying to develop a harmony between them. But getting them to all work together is mostly your own path. Maybe you can go further than Scott and develop your own fusion of his material with the yoga and meditation you love but that is your own path and process. Cam

Is white good?

Yael, I have been getting my teas from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. My favorite right now is called Rasberry Ceylon. But I remember the tea at 7 cups being very good and was thinking of doing an order online. Which teas would you reccomend as being the best?

The interconnectedness of this community rears it's head! http://www.circularstrengthmag.com/forum/v...pic.php?t=10040

Bruces stuff is cool. The teacher I practice with live now, Dennis Lewis, uses Bruces ice to water to gas(emptiness) technique. You may like checking out his book "Free your breath Free your life" for more on opening the breathing spaces.

I am happy to share the state of Arizona with such an interesting Woman(not girl!) Cam

Here is Bill's latest where he gives big thumbs up to Scott Sonnon's work... http://www.meditationexpert.com/yoga-flexibility.html

I am happy to have such a cool friend to share the age of 30 with Best, Cam

Adya.. http://www.adyashanti.org/listen.php?filet...Video&type=high

I don't know much about her but she died.

Nice!

I was planning on getting the DVD sooner or later. I'll make it sooner. Cool, that you study with him Live Craig.

Finally! http://media.ebaumsworld.com/wmv/mcpassion.wmv

Amazing guy. http://gvod.blogspot.com/2006/03/bruce-lee...-from-1971.html

Max, I remember reading some artilces about this in Tricycle:The Buddhist review, years ago. From what I can remember, most of the Buddhist scholars(Like the Aikido master and Zen priest John Stevens) were saying that Buddha never rejected any food he was given as part of his "begging practice"(apparently this has something to do with how he finally dies if I am not mistaken). The teaching, from what I remember, is it is ok to eat meat but not ok to kill. In other words, I can eat all the meat I want as long as I don't kill the animal myself. LOL, you probably will respond and rightfully so. The reality is, I most likely would not kill for my steak if left up to my own devices. I have grown up in a culture where I can go to the store and buy a delicious cut of meat ready for me to purchase without me ever killing any creature. My Dad is vegan, hasnt touched meat in 20 years. I respect it. If your following that path I respect it .I am being honest, I love meat too much to give it up. Maybe I can start to cut down a little by little. I just ate some tuna today and a protien shake, no red meat.

I saw them live in NY years ago. Very athletic with some martial arts stuff mixed in. Funny, I was walking in after eating some meat and the monk met me at the door waving his hands going "no meat! no meat!" I walked around the corner, drank some water or something and came back a few minutes later. So, obviously they have a type of orthodox religious Buddhist stuff. Actually, I don't ever remember reading Buddha say anything bad about eating meat and don't think he was a vegetarian but think the practice of vegetarianism was adopted later on for other reasons. In any case there acrobatic skills are superb.

That's interesting Freeform. In my western religion class at school I did research on Judaism a couple weeks ago and the difference between orthodox and reform. Orthodox really emphasizes the kind of set in stone structure of the old Testament, Moses as the primary prophet and really doing it the way they were taught thousands of years ago. Reform is more about the process. Gods revalations to humanity are not a static but ever evolving process. New teachings are included as the understadning grows and in interaction with new cultures and times. To add to the study my teacher was an ordained Catholic Priest who left because of the limitations of free thinking and the whole no sex thing. The first day of class he said he thought Taoism was very useful to Westerners since it emphasizes simplicity. Of course, there are probably some more complex , ritual based schools of religious Taoism just as in Buddhism.