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In general during meditation I was taught to breathe in and out through the nose. An exception being in a moist hot environment breath in w/ nose but out through the mouth.

mellow heterodox.

What attracts such negative entities? Bad ethics, bad luck, bad karma.. any specific actions or beliefs?

if I may ask. Which aspects make it extremely esoteric?

A good martial arts program automatically have an awareness component built in. Few things sharpen the senses like the potential of getting hit. The question is, can you take heightened sense of awareness with you off the mat?

I'm kinda hoping that if I ignore that side of beliefs, they'll ignore me. While there's a certain amount of childishness in that, to what extent does it work? Do firm believers tend to have spirit problems and skeptics don't? Or like the person who thinks they have entities but it's say.. schizophrenic, do skeptics do the reverse? ie think they have mental problems and string of bad luck when its entities.

Taoism is very into seasons. Giving them colors, pinning organ/gods to them. Characteristics of wet or dryness and distinctive sounds. Really oriental 5 element theory is much about how seasons flow and change.

, I'm only carbon on my mother's side, and bipedal on my fathers. Welcome to the bums. I look forward to your contributions. I've never heard of Drifting Cloud Qigong. I think there are innumerable qigong styles out there. It'd be interesting to learn the origins and lineage of them.

Just made and ate some flax & cottage cheese 1% fat. Blended 2 tablespoons oil w/ 6 cottage cheese. Had to add a tablespoon of milk to get smoother blend. Drank about 2/3rds. Nice yogurt-like consistency, but didn't taste good. Like a butter milk base for a dressing.

I've enjoyed the Gateway series. It tends put me under. They've never given me OBE's but gotten me deep trance states. I've enjoyed the ones where you answer various questions and build things once your in state. There are times we're receptive and others when we can't go as deep. Because its biaural, good headphones help alot. I listen to them lying in bed, with as little distraction as possible. That means being a little tired helps too. If I'm too wide awake I won't go under, at least not as deeply. I also recommend not going to fast. Getting well familiarized with the very important level 10 before jumping from tape to tape.

Gracie trained fighters eat 'kickers' for breakfast. The two cops attacked quickly, attacking high and low simultaneously. The only problem was the fighter's hands getting very close to one of the cops guns. That, is the big problem in the fight imo. The MMA fighter wasn't even trying for it, but his hand was just inches away from it. Not staying on your feet and controlling distance is not good when you've got a gun.

I'm close to a bright city, but I'll go have a look see.

He had a funny SNL skit with the character interviewing Michael Jordan; telling him he was 'good enough'. He made a movie with the character that was actually pretty good. One of the better SNL to movie formats. I liked the Conehead movie too, but that might have simply been nostalgia.

I think only a sadist would make an angel sit on a pin. It could also be my attention span. By the time he's on the 4rth 'no-thing' and 6th 'cause', my head is spinning.

got some flax today, organic cold pressed $11.99 for I believe 12 oz. I'll try it in mini blender and see how it tastes tonight. Probably put in some cinnamon, maybe a little milk if its not blending up. Later experiment w/ half a banana and some blue berries.

What if I offered it to you at 75% off? I can't get into these pure philosophy questions. In my mind they're mostly 'how many angels can sit on the head of a pin', style questions. I suppose if they're pondered like a koan it can be fruitful, but intellectually what does a question like this affect?

I'm afraid it'll scare the moose'ss. And be very very expensive.

Think Zhan zhang's easy? All I can say is try his position for 10 minutes, unmoving. I think you'll be in for a surprise. Squats and weight lifting build up testosterone.

Trunk, could you provide a sample recipe from the book? Or what the basic ratio of flax oil to cottage cheese is? edit> Here's what I dug up. From http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/budwig-diet-flaxoil-quark-mix.html (as always seeker beware, this is apparently viewed as controversial by some, though I can't see what harm it could do. Especially viewed as complimentary nutrition, not instead of convention treatment) "As mentioned, the basis of Dr. Budwig’s diet or protocol is the ingestion of a special oil-protein mixture in the form of organic cold-pressed flaxseed oil plus cottage cheese or quark*. In fact, the Budwig diet is often mistakenly believed to be just about “flaxseed oil and cottage cheese”, likely a major reason why many may feel hesitant to more deeply research it due to its sounding simplistic and hence unbelievable. The fact is that Dr. Budwig was a brillant scientist whose ground-breaking discoveries in the field of human health still await proper recognition. See Who Was Dr. Johanna Budwig?. * Quark is a dairy product readily available in German-speaking countries made from various types of milk and roughly similar to cottage cheese. Dr. Budwig used quark because quark is a traditional food item in Germany, inexpensively sold at every corner and used in a wide variety of dishes, sweet, salty, in baking etc. Cottage cheese (Hüttenkäse) is a relatively recent import (I would estimate it was introduced in the late 60s) and isn't even remotely as popular as quark. Preparation of the Budwig diet flaxseed oil plus cottage cheese/quark mix This is how the Budwig diet mix is prepared: for each tablespoon of flaxseed oil, add 2 tablespoons of low-fat cottage cheese (or quark). The flaxoil/cottage cheese (quark) mixture should be fully blended until no traces of oil remain visible, proving that the highly unsaturated fatty acids have become water soluble (a hand-held mixer or a blender works well when you add some milk as suggested by Dr. Budwig). For those who like to go into even more detail: using a measuring tablespoons of 15 ml, the flaxseed oil/cottage cheese (or quark) ratio is about 1:2 by volume (going by weight, the flaxseed oil/cottage cheese [or quark] ratio is about 1:2.4). It seems preferable to rather use a bit more cottage cheese (or quark) than too little. Dr. Budwig used 42 g flaxseed oil (3 tblsp) mixed with 100 g quark in her breakfast muesli, a central part of her diet. Low-fat yoghurt and yoghurt quark Since organic cottage cheese may be hard to find, and if available, may possibly be cost-prohibitive for many, you also have the (less optimal) option of using yogurt. If yogurt is used, 3 times as much yogurt as cottage cheese is required (i.e. for each tablespoon of flaxseed oil, add 6 tablespoons of yogurt) and even then it may not be as effective as cottage cheese/quark because it lacks the protein density of cottage cheese and may not fully mix with flaxseed oil." I make various colorful shakes. Green-avocado/spinach, orange-whole clementine/banana, brown.. I wonder how I could incorporate this into a shake? Shouldn't be too hard to play around with. Maybe add milk, banana, cinammon and sweetener to it and wallah done.

In 1914 (and next 40 years) it wasn't wholly uncommon to marry someone wealthy then move to have them committed for life in an insane asylum. That was a nasty form of pseudo legal life imprisonment. All you needed was to pay off the right doctors and lawyers.

I hope you're doing better by the time you read this. When things seem crazy, GreytoWhite's advice holds much wisdom Often thats the only thing we can do. Good luck, God bless.

In Shotokan karate (from highschool days) my instructor told us "If someone comes to fight you, tell them 'Hold on, go get some friends, because you are not enough'". In later years Aikido classes included situational awareness and tactics such as giving away the wallet and saying 'have a nice day', as well as running like hell in a safe direction. Both had fighting techniques but my Aikido sensei's approach made more sense to me. <edit matter of fact the Aikido approach echoes a story told by the founder of modern Karate, the great Funakoshi, who told a story in his autobiography of being robbed on the way to Karate class. He thought he'd be shamed by the teacher instead he got a compliment from the old master who'd never said anything positive to him before.

To get back to the OP's intent. How can we Tao Bummify the TTC, first verse? The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth The named is the mother of myriad things I picked the translation above at random. here's what i got. The post written is not an eternal truth The topic named is not the point of discussion Rather the writings are reflections of our temporary inner state Ramblings that point inward to our scattered thought

TCM runs so deep it can be intimidating. I haven't studied it, but I use and contemplate Chinese 5 element theory. When making decisions try to see which element is at play and whether I want to add, negate or evolve it.

You can get so theoretical you overlook the particulars in a situation. Why does society want to lock the person up for life? What infractions do you think causes that reaction? It may well be that you also want people who do that kind of thing locked up.