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Here is a bit of a tangent. I never considered myself a runner, but at 48 I downloaded a Zombie Run Couch to 5K app for my smart phone. A 30 to 35 minute run program, it has a 2 months of gradual training program, but more importantly it puts you into a post zombie apocalypse story where you are runner 5, in training. Great writing and voice actors make it fun. Each run fills out the story, as you meet new survivors and get new missions. The best thing about running is its so useful in life. Yesterday at a play (book of Mormon, very good) my wife was chilled by the air conditioning, thus I had a real life mission to run to a store find and by a cheap sweater within a 15 minute intermission. Failure could mean being locked out of the theater, missing the 2nd half, while holding a dumb sweater. But I ran, was lucky, and mission accomplished. Thankfully no zombies around.

Took me a few minutes to place you. Old Chi is nice but Green was good too. Sometimes it's a month or two before I figure out a name change.

Can't say I'm familiar with that episode, but from what I've read and been told, Guatama seemed pretty compassionate. There's sutras, stories, smears and various add ons based on 'my god/religious leader is better then yours'. Some sources are more accurate and less 'mythological' then others. Did the author of this tale have such power that he really knew what was going on in Hell? silas, on 05 Jul 2013 - 15:46, said: "Buddhism treats reality as illusion - and so, compassion is an illusion too." Not the Buddhism I've studied. It takes reality seriously, compassion even more so.

While visually interesting, I think I'll wait for the book.

Marblehead, thats the exact same thing/song that came to mind when I read the post. Still it may not be so much a matter of forgetting, as much as 1)don't cling 2)follow the best of a tradition, its most humane, charitable form.

Grabmywrist, that sounds vaguely Aikidoish. Welcome to the bums. Unless you practice excessively or are very energy sensitive I think the MCO is pretty safe. Take it slow and steady, get in some time sitting in emptiness afterwards, balance it with walk outside and most people are fine. Its the beginner who does 2 hours or student who starts having there 'circuits' blown and decides to push through it that get in trouble. 20 minutes consecutively w/ close down is probably much better, then slowly work up. As a practice tool, Minke De Vos has a guided meditation on MCO on her Tao Basics CD. Yours Michael

In highschool Shotokan Karate which I enjoyed not so much for its effectiveness, but it had a hard purity and philosophy behind it. In College there was a Taekwondo dojo close so I did that, but found it too commercial and lacking meaning. Outside college I found Ki-Aikido. I enjoyed the philosophy; it had meditation and healing components. There was serious time spent on on breathing, sitting, awareness plus bokken and short staff routines. I stayed with it for 13 years getting to Ni-dan before I felt it was taking too much of my time especially with child #3 on the way. Aikido may not be for everyone, certainly there are faster martial techniques, but it offered a well rounded package that was just right for me at the time. Yours Michael

Great answer. It can be as good/spiritual as you make it. Which might be hard, but possible.

Alright! .4% according to Vmarco. Whahoo. Is there a particular place in your in your anatomy you pull these statistics from? on the more positive side, I like what you say about Buddhism. Going back negative, I don't think its universally true of all types of Buddhism, but then little is. Going back positive, letting go of beliefs may be the secret to a more enlightened attitude. Yet, it may be clinging the beliefs that hold us back. Knowing, having them, keeping them in the- I think, but don't 'know'. May be more powerful then believing nothing. Can too much emptiness result in plant like existence? Does it make us stagnate along the path? Don't we need some momentum? Aren't most of the greats rebels or followers of some system, thus getting momentum beyond nothing is real? A cave may be an ideal place to visit but it seems wrong for a man to set his sights there. There's a practice of putting your mind to good things before one enters meditation. Not so you think or of it or are distracted, but so that it creates quiet positive echoes in the mind. Maybe at a high state even that is not needed. But skipping stages leads to imbalance. Without some positivity its too easy to fall into nihilism. maybe..

Is this true? The only truth I see is how gullible some people are. Whoa I found another picture of the Dalai Lama with the pope that means he must be Catholic. Wait there's another with the Italian President, so he's also Italian.

I think its being in your head too much that diminishes chances to live in the Tao. Seeing thoughts as oneself instead of ones tool.

It took a few lines before it smoothed out and became readable to me, then bam the mind decodes it on the fly.

I like my card: The Ace of Clubs Person The Desire for Knowledge Card The desire for knowledge, accompanied by the desire for love (Two of Hearts Karma Card) are the main ruling influences for this card. Combine these together and you have a person who is a student of love as much as one who would find their ideal mate. This card is known for promiscuity, but this is only true until they find the person of their dreams. They would rather be with anyone than be alone but will not give themselves fully until the right person comes along. Like all Aces, they are impatient and restless. Their curiosity leads them to be avid students with immense libraries. They are very smart and can use their brains and creativity to generate ample funds. They can make money in things associated with the arts or groups of women. Their later years will not be satisfactory unless they turn to spirituality for guidance. They are the divine discontent card and need travel and changes in life and their work to satisfy both their desire for knowledge and their inner restlessness. Not that I believe such things, but I've been doing quite a bit of travel lately, which i believe is good for the soul and opening up the mind. Ashrams, Yeshivas, hiking, biking and rappelling down waterfalls.. next Burning Man this August .

You want Yang, you can't handle Yang. Just kidding. One Yangy practice I do is standing meditation, Zhan Zhuang. I 'juice' it up by doing it to Rawn Clark's Archaeous program which is a hermetic based element practice. MP3's lessons are free at abardoncompanion.com.

You're wanted here. , without you the Bronies here would lose valuable leadership and a distinctive voice of reason and humor.

Hmnn, I wonder if happiness is (acceptance based) yin and power is (changing something) yan? Its hard to feel'em both at the same time because they're toward opposite ends of the scale.? Not opposites, just on different sides.

I apologize. I saw the 'master of dim mak' and let my imagination run with that. Actually your credentials are impressive. While I'm out of the game now, I've spent over 20 years in the martial arts, but your style is so different then mine, I should know better then to claim any expertise by watching it. Again, I apologize for my overly negative post. Too often on the net people write first, often glomming onto an initial impression and think later. <also I edited down my initial writing>

I just joined the Shinzen Young 'channel'

I disagree. I'm more into action then thoughts. Screams of profanity in the empty woods doesn't cause vibration that spread around the world. They may be just blowing off steam. I judge others by there actions and even thats tricky, but at least its real. Versus someones thoughts where we can assume anything. You assume a lot about Paula Deen but she's an easy target, a 66 year old woman who grew up in the South in the 50's and 60's. Frankly, she has black friends, I cut her slack, obviously the game is played by taking short quotes that make the person look bad and ignore all other evidence. A victory for the PC thought police. Ultimately we can't control others, we can only be examples. Watch this- Jesus Christ is great. How negative do you feel? How much do you need to correct me, tell me I'm wrong? Let it go. Spread tolerance not hatred or negativity towards groups. And if you have to, at least wait until they've acted poorly, don't become the mind police and attack because of there thoughts.

Yeah. Seems suspiciously spammy to me. Geez is the damn GC Bible so crappy it can't be sold or given away. Don't answer and don't keep hawking it on this site. We've had 7 or 8 posts the last week trying to sell the damn thing. Which is 6 or 7 too many. We aren't Ebay.

I'd like the Spam, Spam, Eggs, Peas & Spam. Minus the spam please.

I was going to say Steam Boy, but that's anime. Wild Wild West movie remake was pretty steam punk, so was the original 70's series.

perhaps a bit too negative.

Hmnn, I don't think the power would go to my head if I had the power to eliminate spam; to become Spaminator. To delete, ban and destroy those who send etrash. Then again, maybe it would .

I think they've been working on it. They cleaned up most of the ecrap already. It's just as dumb as ever, but its finding more insidious ways to invade. Has anyone pattented eweed yet?