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I do quite often. Mostly in the form of patience and restraint

I think weekends. Less stress, more time to prepare before and chance for quietude afterwards.

That sound really nice. What your salt of choice? Epsom or something fancy? A shower doesn't have the same dissolving mellowness. But you can buy or make sea salt and almond oil scrub mixes that you rub all over yourself. It a different, more energizing and cleansing versus the yin of a salt bath.

I don't have a Taoist answer but sometimes in the tumbling ball of love and lust we seem to imprint on another. The thought of them, the feeling as you approach them, throws you off kilter, makes your hair stand on end. Such an endorphin powered high can last for months. It can be wonderful, dangerous and Pavlovian. Its also a flame that can get too hot and burn itself off. Riding it out and giving the other person space can move it into a nice simmer stage where. Where you can be more separate and regain control of your thoughts and life and a solid relationship can build. I don't think it should be fought or broken off unless its unhealthy. We usually look back on such infatuations and early loves as a very special time in our life.

You should start one up in the PPD. Plus cut and paste, with permission, the best of comments during the years it's been discussed. Make a best o Mo pai, like I've done a best of Tao bums. You'd control it, but being in the PPD it'd have fewer 'eyes'.

For Paleo no grain recipes, here is a very good source http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-paleo-recipes/#axzz2gn549HjS The rest of the site is pretty good to.

My reply was rude, sorry. I don't know much about Mo Pai and didn't think of it as foremost a martial art. Rather a system for powerful cultivation, self knowledge and learning what behind the curtain. So when I read..I wonder what we could blow up with it? Trees, tanks, the world? I couldn't help thinking it seemed like a question a teacher wouldn't want to hear. I taught martial arts to kids and every now and then, on day one, you'd get the kid who'd ask: "Let's get the important stuff. How do you kill someone with this" and you kinda groan. That's not what we're here for.

I think I understand why he'd no longer teach Westerners.

In the stories I heard about the Yellow Emperor, his teachers were woman, particularly the Plain Woman, who taught him Taoist philosophy and bedroom arts. Daniel Reid writes about him in one of his books.

Is there a place to discuss Daoist web sites?Good idea. I just started one in General Discussion.

What other sites have good information and/or good forums on Taoism. Let me open this up to any good meditation, esoteric study site. Whats the address and why? Let me start with this one: http://www.healingtaousa.com/ The forum there is our 'Mother' site. Not that we're connected, but when it had problems and lost years of data, Sean created this site as a back up place and for deeper discussions. Good site, many experienced members, less moderation so it occasionally seems more chaotic. Good article section too. FWIW I've studied with Michael Winn and found value in his audio and DVDs.

Just found a wonderful little coffee shop in Evanston, The Coffee Lab. Every cup comes from beans ground after you order, then its a slow pour through process into a beaker. Beans are single sourced. Only one worker, takes a few minutes each cup. Classic kind of place. <haven't made the egg coffee yet> <edit> Just did. Very good. I like Trader Joe's Instant coffee. It makes a dark, slightly burnt consistent cup that as easy as stirring water with a spoon. I put 2 eggs into a glass, stirred them up, slowly added water that was a minute off of a rapid boil, kept stirring then added instant coffee, a little agave, cinnamon, nutmeg and a little salt. What nice thick glass of java. Not overly thick, you can't taste the egg, but there's a soothing creaminess to it. I liked the ghee and butter recipes, but those felt oily. This was perfect. Eggs are very yan, and nutritional powerhouses. I can see making this my go to breakfast drink. I see there's a little sliminess at the bottom of the cup. Maybe needs a slower pour, or less hot water.

'Survival of the Fittest' caught on in popular jargon, but the truth is its 'Survival of the most Adaptable'. Specialists, within species tend to deal poorly with change.

The same thing I do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!

There are threads that run for pages with only a single user posting. Its obviously there focused on a personal interest and one that few or no one are answering. Yet its at the top of the screen every day for weeks. There's nothing wrong with it, but it more properly belongs in a PPD. I'm particularly thinking 'Compound Bow Hunting'. Drew is posting on it every day, sometimes multiply. Its his personal diary, which is fine, but it'd be better in a PPD. Frankly so would the 'Fukishima' thread. Its his daily posting obsession not others. I'm not a fan of the 'America is Declining' but it gets a variety of posters and views represented. Whereas the other 2 are Drew using the board as his diarize his obsessions. To me the best solution is to ask him if he'd allow the mods to put them into a PPD. Odds are he won't. Which might be his right. Still I don't like the clutter.

From Marksdailyapple.com If you've tried butter & ghee then its time to take the next step . note. Just found this and haven't tried it yet. Primal Whole Egg Coffee Think of this as a whole foods-based protein shake. Ingredients: 1 cup (240 ml) coffee 2 pastured eggs 1 tsp sugar Pinch of salt I started by beating the eggs together, whole, as if you were making scrambled eggs. You could also blend them. For a 1 cup dose of coffee, I did two whole eggs. Once the eggs are beaten or blended, slowly drizzle in the coffee. You don’t want to cook the eggs. You want them to stay creamy. If you’re really concerned about the avidin in the raw white, dump the coffee in to ensure maximal heat exposure. Otherwise, just drizzle. I think a higher egg:coffee ratio (using a large shot of espresso, for example) for a stronger coffee flavor would work really well. Also, two eggs in this recipe created a nice and creamy concoction. I suspect three eggs might even be better. Again, I added a little sweetener plus some salt. It made the coffee taste a bit like a liquified custard. Really, really tasty.

I gave out a crazy idea earlier(and got 3 likes!). Here's an illegal and immoral one (not fattening though). Create an identity 'A Mo Pai Guy', then create Personal Discussion page. It'd be the first one in the PPD and the creator would have full editing control. box, what box? I'm already outside.

I don't like cluttering up the board with too many stickies and sub forums. It gives less screen space for Thread tittles and once things go page 2, they're more likely forgotten. Here's a crazy idea. The Confucius subforum is under used. Throw it there. Hopefully the flamers won't notice and the virtue of Confucius will leak in, making it a more polite focused space.

Pretty cool. That gives me some new ideas for uses of the Royal Belgium Vacuum coffee maker I have that TaowMeow recommended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbVwvI9P7lU I liked the easy yogurt making idea.

I believe in the interview the woman said she did yoga. An instructor level could have given there styles founder, a lineage list and said 10,000 or 100,000's, depending on if you want to include hard core yogi's over the millenniums. Enlightenment is a slippery term meaning different things to different people. Immortality too. In classic Taoism there are many levels, some not so nice. Look around, try some things, don't fall for grandiose literature unless there's someone you know and respect giving it a good review. Once you have experience, get married to an art and go deep. You may not get enlightenment, immortality or majick abilities but you'll get a lifelong discipline with fruits of peace, health, flow and perspective that put you ahead of the game.

""How long has your guru been teaching?" "Well, uh, over thirty years." "And how many of his students have achieved enlightenment?" "Well, uh..." "That you know of personally?" "Well, uh, I never..." "That you've heard of?" "It's not" "That there were rumors of?" "I don't think..." "Don't you think it's reasonable to ask? They're in the enlightenment business, aren't they? Or did I misunderstand you? Do they have something else going?" "Nooo, but they..." "If Consumer Reports magazine did a report on which spiritual organizations delivered as promised, don't you suppose that the first statistic listed under each organization would be success rating? - Jed McKenna - 'Spiritual Enlightenment:The Damnedest Thing'" I've listened to this on Youtube. It always struck me as verbal bullying, he was picking on a woman who was clearly freaking out. He could have asked someone with experience and confidence but then he couldn't manipulate the conversation. It was like demo's I'd see where a 6'5" instructor picks a 5' woman from the crowd to 'prove' his martial expertise. Speaking of expertise- I noticed he didn't answer the question himself. What's his enlightenment rate is. As long as he's guru busting, he may as well come clean about his own wonderous method and the 1,000's he made as egoless as himself <sarcasm. Back on topic: Majick and immortality are pretty grandiose. A little bit like saying 'I want 10 billion dollars, how do I get it?' Personally I'd say worry more about gaining good fundamentals for the next few years and put Majick & immortality on the backburner. What are the fundamentals. Breathing, sitting, meditating, moving strongly. It could be a martial art, yoga, tai chi, chi gung, look around your area. Watch a class. Ask to try a free class. Talk to students afterwards, see if they're level headed. An exception I'd make would be Franz Bardon system, IIH, someone mentioned above (abardoncompanion.com has good info on it as well as a few indepth audio practices and they're free). Because its slow and methodical and heavy into knowing yourself and learning self control. I'm sure there are others. The 30 Day Mentorship thread pinned is for people who want to learn a simple thing in 30 days. You could post you're looking for a mentor in beginning meditation, or breath work, or some simple aspect.

In our culture suicide can be real dick move to friends and family. Despite whatever rationalizing a person makes it often causes massive pain and lasting suffering to those close, who don't share ones transcendentalist views. Few emotional events can ever be as wounding to a parent. And if you go by the rules of karma, pain given will ultimately be pain reflected (something like that). I understand the happily I live, happily I die philosophy, but it can too easy to call it quits when your at a trough in life. In despair people forget things change, life can get better. Cutting off new experiences, lessons and joys. In hopes for something that might not come. It may be different for the elderly and those in chronic pain, but many of the same concepts apply.

Still tangental, but I found an interesting article on Neanderthals I thought I'd share. http://blog.23andme.com/ancestry/find-your-inner-neanderthal/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=owned&utm_blog=inner_neanderthal&utm_content=23c_Digital_Media&cvosrc=content%20engine%20.outbrain.inner_neanderthal and since I hate 'naked' links, here is an excerpt. Find Your Inner NeanderthalPublished by ScottH under Ancestry They had bigger brains and muscles, but for some reason Neanderthals —thick boned humans who thrived for hundreds of thousands of years in Europe and parts of Asia— died out about 30,000 years ago, while we modern humans survived. Why we, Homo sapiens, flourished and our Homo neandertalensis cousins died out is an evolutionary mystery that biologist are trying to unravel. In the last few years, scientists have uncovered clues not just to what the lives of Neanderthals may have been like, but also clues that tell us more about what it means to be a modern human. Most interesting of all is that, although Neanderthals disappeared long ago, their DNA lives on in all non-African people. 23andMe now offers a lab allowing customers to connect with their prehistoric roots. The lab, developed by one of our resident computational biologists, Eric Durand, compares two modern human genomes with the Neanderthal genome to determine what percentage of your own DNA is Neanderthal. Before coming to 23andMe, Eric worked on the first draft of the Neanderthal genome and on analysis of the Denisova genome, another of our early human cousins. The method we use to determine the percent of Neanderthal DNA a person has is similar to the one Eric helped develop while working at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. See Eric’s white paper for a technical explanation of the methodology. Most people have Neanderthal DNA, on average about 2.5 percent, but there are outliers, who have much more... Me> In the comment section they have results from people who've taken the test.

Hi and welcome. Many of us started with Glenn Morris's book. His work has been carried on through the KAP program. Take a look at this video from one of the instructors (I picked this one at random). If you like it subscribe to the Youtube site. Tao Semko and Santiago have quite a bit of free material out there.

Tomorrow's a new month. Not too late to offer lessons or ask for mentorship in a discipline. edit> We've had 2 set up this month.