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1. No! It is because we are goddamn stupid thick-headed inconceivably dense, ignorant foolish people. And we're quite comfortable with that!! haha!!❤ 2. There's nothing else worth talking about. Is there? 3. Obviously, this is a person who deliberately wanted us to experience this. 4. We all seem to talk a lot more about it than this person did, if you think about it!! (ed note: add points 2, 3 & 4)

Absolutely! It is empty of emptiness!! This is living awareness filling the void; no different than manifest potential. As for your chair~ it is as real as you are!! heehee!!❤ I say that something exists because it is deluded within delusion but doesn't know it. Since awakened individuals know existence as delusion, they see that all things have no independent permanent self— and so aren't bound by karma. One is free to adapt to conditions by virtue of immediate acquiescence. This is not the way; it is the virtue of the way. One activates the mind that can match the living potential essence of creation. Creation is not real, but potential is complete reality. One picks the real out of the false and seals it away. One simply does not speculate in that which has no reality. Buddhists call this mutual response; taoists call this the virtue of the receptive. When arrow points meet, response is mutual; when one matches mind to potential, virtue is inexhaustible. In witnessing the absolute, it is by virtue of non-existence of self. This is relativity taken to another level by seeing sameness of self/not self. Usually when one says self:other, we unconsciously think other things (usually other people)— but when we know sameness, self and other are cancelled and since nothing does not exist, the result is seeing suchness as is~ which is not empty. It is full, silent, on the brink in perpetuity. "Other" is the same as impersonal awareness; immutable, never having origination. It's empty in that it is even absent of nothing. It is impersonal nonpsychological awareness, unborn and undying. This is spirit. Nothing is not this, therefore nothing has no reality. There is no such thing as nothing, yet spirit is essentially empty and nonpsychological awareness is essentially spirit. People insist on seeing the spiritual as some kind of thrilling amusement-park ride, something exciting and perceptible. It is not perceptible; it is awareness itself, miraculously awake, invisible, open, calm, inconceivability. It is possible to enter the realm of inconceivability. When one first sees nonbeing being, one sees the absolute in terms of the absolute. This is witnessing beginningless Change. Those who know the Change of the primordial cycle then exist outside the created and are not subject to change. Subsequently, one uses selfless awareness to match potential in terms of created cycles alternating endlessly. This is entering the tao in reality which is the same as transforming endlessly along with changes without going along with conditions. Emptiness is nonsense; it must be penetrated experientially to be employed spontaneously in ordinary situations unbeknownst to anyone. In transcending emptiness, one steps over eternity, shatters space, sublimates oneself physically and spiritual and enters the tao in reality. (ed note: embellish penultimate paragraph)

+1 Spelk's comment This is not only knowledge of the absolute but also of the relative. Sure, we all can look to this absolute as some sublime thing and see that as emptiness, but even when we contemplate suchness as being empty of emptiness and say so— or even know so …there is that which hovers in the void; an image arrives as we first turn the wheel: this too is empty. Not because it is a vision but because it is the knowledge of subsuming sameness. And this sameness is empty too. There is no end to this nonsense. Beyond sense. Inconceivability, aware, living, presence. The created is empty and the uncreated is empty of emptiness, but when this is activated in real life situations, how is this brought to bear? By this same nonsense that arrives at suspension of self and other; presence, living, inconceivably aware sameness. Activating sameness is removing what appears until there is nothing to perceive but suchness in ordinary affairs. When we experience multifarious worldly affairs in our everyday ordinary situations, nondwelling activation of mind cannot adhere to characteristics while self and other cannot be denied in terms of karmic evolution. This is how we see suchness through ordinary situations— not just because we see through conditional manifestation, but because the conditional is the same as suchness. There is absolutely no difference in truth. Through the power of knowledge of emptiness of self and other, we learn to practice through the potential of nonbeing, unborn and undying. There really is something to these teachings after all. Of course, I'm only describing emptiness in terms of sameness, living, aware, presence, inconceivable. (ed note: +1 Spelk's comment and change "suchness" to "sameness" in last line)

Oh, thank you so much, al!!❤

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taooneusa said: No taoone~ just interested in the dawns of proto-taoist realities, because I love the most ancient elements I can get my paws on!! heehee!!❤ I've had my fill of Complete Reality taoism. It's not hard to find or hard to do. Swallowing the gold pill and managing endless transformations in ordinary affairs is my day-job. Maybe I should admit that I actually have an academic degree from the University of California. I quit my major in Dance and studied under a former Berkeley machinist who studied under Mao Tse Tung's tutor. My program was called Comparative Cultures. My degree is in Social Science, not the Humanities. "Scythians" are an interesting conglomerate trending over a period of thousands of years. The "golden age" of Scythians was after they had been absorbed by yet another nomadic group. The name was coined by the famous Greek cronicler, so the name just seems to pop up everywhere— as you have also illustrated.! People (long-dead Semitologists) and their spawn have latched onto it ever since. Even if the real Scythians were accountable in terms of a place and time, they didn't start there and certainly didn't end there. What is represented in a name is Itself an intangible potential in conventional reality. As in Complete Reality, there cannot be said to be a definite origination. I have no desire to find a thing to hang on to. I'm interested in just finding out likely stories about their possible incipient sources. So that's why I can't be complacent about where it supposedly started~ I say, ok— but where and who did they come from? I'm just interested in the mystery of it all, so I don't have or need anything tangible to "lock onto". The first thing that came out of my old university Professor's mouth was "History is a likely story". I don't have anything invested in the view that X started here and Y is the result. Reality isn't linear. Academicians have an occupation. They have to argue for a living, and subsequent careerist academicians stand on each other's coat-tails for money and reputation and security. I don't have to believe, I only travel the path returning to beginningless incipience— everything is the same for me in this regard. When one knows the flavor of incipience, one rests in perpetuity. If you take an arbitrary distance, and divide it— and keep dividing it, you'll never get to the end. And since my livelyhood doesn't depend on defending academic or even sensational views, I don't take up the notion of what is the other side of "here"— much less what's in between. Since it is endless divisions on one hand and beginningless incipience on the other, I just follow my curiosity back in time, deducing the most likely story as I go. I'm not even saying that it had to have started in Africa, but it seems likely. Like I said before, it seems any claims as to where it started, might be dependent more on when than who. The culture of Nomadism is an immense convoluted human phenomena beyond the ages of sedentary agriculture and habitation. It is still being practiced, at least in terms of seasonal survival— but some of the cultural aspects are being preserved as well. So why am I interested in the proto-shamanic cultures that inhabited the vast areas north of the greatest mountain chain on this planet all the way to Siberia? Even the Alchemic classics state that the celestial court is in the Kun-lun Mountains to the west. Taoism owes its incipience to these shamanic roots. Because it's a mystery. It's bleak and desolate— how can anyone ever find out? The answer is never— and that's romantic!!❤ (ed note: typo in the 2nd paragraph and wrote Sinologist instead of Semitologist in the 3rd)

Oh!!❤❤ Thanks joeblast!! haha!!❤ Now I know! Ya— photo bucket! Let me know if you can draw it out ok. I have another schematic with independent bias adjustment for two power tubes too. I have an old Navy TV-7A/U tube tester— I don't know anything about modding those. (ed note: add last line)

Way to go, HE!!❤

Eh …I kinda shy away from zoze sings Dainin, but I doo doo that other high mountain old school Scythian thing, you know… climb up icy, rocky, snowy slopes and turn around and slide back down (if there is enough of the fluffy stuff in between the steep and not fluffy stuff. I don't know what they called it then but now it's called alpinism! heehee!! Back to the salt mines… this is a very good source! Eurasian Warrior Women and Priestesses; Petroglyphic, Funerary, and Textual Evidence for Women of High Status by Jeannine Davis-Kimball Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads My link Back to Bactria: The Tillya Tepe Warrior-Priestesses The manifestation of the powerful Mistress of Animals,[66] the female riding sidesaddle on a feline, returns to Bactria richly emblazoned in gold, and now in association with several nomadic Yüeh chih warrior priestesses. This came about following a series of historical events. In western China, the powerful nomadic Hsiung-nu confederacy had maintained such severe military pressure in central China that the Chinese were forced to construct the Great Wall. Turning their interests elsewhere, the Hsiung nu advanced upon the five tribes of the Yüeh-chih confederacy, who were nomadizing in pastures adjacent to the Silk Roads in western China. The Yüeh-chih in turn retreated arriving in Bactria (northern Afghanistan) along the Oxus River ca. 135 BCE where they subjugated the local inhabitants. About a century later (ca. 35 BCE) the confederacy came under the domination of a single chieftain, who founded the widespread Kushan Empire that fostered the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia.[67] The early images of Kushan Buddhism reveal the nomadic influence in this religion: Bodhisattvas and deities wear the accouterments of the nomadic costume as worn by priestesses and Enareis, i.e., long skirts, large headdresses, and great strands of beads or torques. (Figure 13)[68] In northern Afghanistan during the seasons of 1978-79, Viktor Sarinidi of the Soviet Institute of Archaeology, in conjunction with archaeologists from Afghanistan, excavated at Tillya Tepe (Gold Mound) located along the Amu Darya (known as the Oxus River in ancient times). Tillya Tepe had seen numerous cultures and people pass through since the initial construction more than 3000 years ago. Its lowest layer had been a fire temple with a columned hall and fortified towers, most likely associated with Zoroastrianism. Constructed before 1000 BCE, it continued in use until it was laid waste, then magnificently rebuilt in the middle of the first millennium BCE. Not long afterward a fire demolished the structure so that when Alexander the Great marched through ca. 328 BCE, he found only ruins.[69] A couple of centuries later when the Yüeh-chih confederacy controlled this territory—and it may well have been the consolidating chieftain that gave Tillya Tepe its new role—it became the final resting place for the most prestigious of Yüeh-chih religious leaders.[70] Shamanism and Mythology Beginning in the Bronze Age and continuing through the Early Iron Age, Sarmatian and Saka nomads came into contact, interacted, and developed symbiotic relationships with semi-sedentary tribes in the forest-steppes to the north, such as the Hansi-Mansi.[93] Practicing exogamy, interracial marriages resulted between the Asiatics, Mongolians, and Caucasoids. Still today, some Kazaks (roughly an admixture of 33% Caucasoid and 67% Mongoloid)[94] have blonde or red hair, freckly skin, and light colored eyes. Many Mongols of the Oriat tribe, who live in the western Mongolian Uvs aimag, have blue or green eyes and yellowish brown hair.[95] As social and religious customs are transmitted especially through the female, it may be possible to extrapolate from recorded historical sources additional insight into the religious and cultic modes of Early Nomads as they affected the women of the tribes. Buryat Mongols have preserved a much more pristine version of ancient Mongolian mythology in their folklore while the orally transmitted Western Buryats epics conserve valuable information about the pre-Lamaist Mongolian religion.[100] Mongolian mythology, as found among the Western Buryats, is matriarchal. The creator of the earth is female, and her daughters are the ancestress of all of the deities of the Mongolian pantheon. The culture hero of the Buryats, Bukhe Beligte, is significant in his function not because of his being the son of the syncretistic god Hormasta, but rather for being the son of the sun goddess Naran Gookhon. In many Buryat epics the heroes are women, the most prominent of them being the decidedly Amazon-like Alma Mergen, daughter of the ruler of the water spirits, who is both a warrior woman as well as a shaman.[101] Thus she is the precursor of warrior-priestesses. From "the Ancient Eurasians" section of a large, complex site called http://www.imninalu.net/ My link In fact, the most cherished British myth is not British at all, and is not Anglo-Saxon either: the Legend of the Knights of the Round Table, is Sarmatian. The probable origin of this myth in Britain is to be found in a Yazyg contingent that the Romans distributed in Northumbria to guard the frontier from Pict invaders. Their general was called Artorius, who may be identified with the legendary king Arthur. All the other elements of the legend are Sarmatic, and belong to similar myths among Hungarians, Ossetians and other peoples that keep the ancient Sarmatian traditions in their own cultural heritage. Herodotus mentions the sword worship in connection with the Scythians; the magic atmosphere surrounding the "sword in the stone" is found in the ancient Anatolian traditions as well as among the Huns and Magyars, and the name Excalibur is related to the Sarmatian iron forgers; also the name of king Pendragon, the lady of the lake, magicians and sorcerers, the chalice hovering in the air and all the main elements of the Arthurian legend belong to the Sarmatian mythology. It was after the introduction of Christianity in Great Britain that the legend was adopted and adapted according to the patterns of Medieval British society as their own myth of origins. In Summary Concerning the peoples here defined as Eurasians, they have left a genetic legacy in most of present-day European nations, though hardly a cultural or linguistic heritage - with the exception of Hungary. Archaeological findings, external written records and some toponyms are the main or sometimes the only witnesses of their presence. As well as Scythians and Sarmatians, the largest number of them have been Slavicized (Bulgars, Croatians, etc.), others have been Germanized (like the Juts), Romanized (peoples settled in present-day Romania), or were assimilated within the Hungarian nationality. In the Caucasus area, tribes of the same peoples have evolved into a more defined Iranic identity (Ossetians) or else a Turkic ethnicity. Therefore, it is still difficult to define which was their original culture and language; different schools propose controversial theories in opposition to each other: the Iranic on one side and the Turkic on the other. As it has been said in the introduction of this chapter, they have been gathered under conventional definitions in different periods of history, and since Turks appeared long after they existed, the Iranic background is more plausible. Notwithstanding, an accurate research credits the Mesopotamian-Anatolian origin for most of these peoples, and perhaps Iranic for some of them. (ed note: more links, etc)

I always wanted a tatami, so I made one out of 5~6 layers of burly, large appliance cardboard cartons, about 75mm (1.5") thick and cut down to the size of a full mattress. Cheap. It rests on 1x4 pine slats. Obviously, I like very firm surface to sleep on (My day-job involves sleeping on rock, ice or snow ledges). haha!!

Yay!❤ Thanks, -K-!!

Yes, there are currently some hot Tuvan acts!! I heard an interview on the radio in the last couple years. I've just started searching "Scythian thought". I'm reading this now: Scythian and Spartan Analogies in Herodotos’ Representation Rites of initiation and Kinship Groups by George Hinge The transsexual diviners called Enarees (Hdt. 1.105.4, 4.67.2) or Anarieis (Hipp., Aer. 22.1) are not a separate class, but isolated gifted individuals. Thus, Aristotle ascribes the effeminacy disease of the Enarees to the Scythian kings (Arist., Eth.Nic. 7.8, 1150b) "The common origin of the Indo-European languages is an undeniable fact, and language is not only about vocabulary and grammar, but also about formulating the world. In the Indo-European grammar of thought, the tripartite structure was but a brick, which eventually led to analogous structures in similar daughter cultures. The Greeks and the Scythians have inherited and developed an analogous mythic-ideological grammar. The Scythian myths and rites in the Histories of Herodotos originate from Scythian sources, but the actual realisation of the single myth has been formulated on the basis of the syntax of Greek mythology." My link In this document, the Hungarian author (by virtue of which it is evident he has had to cut through a lot of cultural detritus in an attempt to focus his research) shows that Scythian and Sumerian language is related. I love this~ Rudolf Dud�s wrote: George Hinge's piece mentioned records of Scythian males going out to live in the proximity of Amazon encampments and eventually pairing off with them. I guess this is where I didn't know I was headed— haha!! My link My link Cathryn Platine writes: ed note: just adding stuff that I like— but if I don't stop right now, I'm going to become I4L's evil twin!!

I'm learning the hard way— that's the cool thing about a big old classic amp to learn from! I've been getting new and NOS tubes from Tube Depot. I think they are in Memphis. My dad is an old HAM, so sometimes that is a help— but there isn't much of an overlap on that account! But you seem to have a real audiophile background, blasto! I have a schematic for building an adjustable bias (uses 5 pots and, like, 12 caps), but what a hassle just to use some old, but killer, disparate tubes. I have a stash of RCA 6v6s— I told the person who found those tubes that he's gonna have to find a properly bent-up old single-ended amp we can fix, just to put them to good use! Shows you how much I know~ just cuz I see Harmon Kardon, I label you as …an …audiophile!! Eeeeeww!! (ed note: add last line)