thelerner
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Good idea. Fasting is good, least wise if you do it with a positive attitude. Our systems need rest so they can fully cleanse and regenerate. A break from food, news, internet, its all good. Be addicted to nothing. Michael
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Dragonfire's Devil. We fear him, pity him, most of all ignore him. In our fantasy's do we banish him? With open hearts do we reach out, offer to understand and help him? Thats a dangerous course, because he's real. Maybe angry, probably drugged out. The gut fears, the open heart murmurs reach out. We move quickly away from him. A high energy, open hearted person could work miracles here. Dragonfire's devils are everywhere, maybe a new years resolution is to help a devil. Maybe a small one. Michael
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My world view tends to be pokerish. Thats right, I am Pokerian, not that I play poker, but my world paradigm, belief structure is we're given cards and its up to us to play'em. New cards come in, old cards discarded. I think happiness comes from realizing it doesn't have to be cut throat game and we can all play as friends. There is luck, but praying for a particular deal isn't of much use. Neither is rabbits tails or 4 leaf clovers. Knowing the game, the table, the odds, can help, but the dealer..Lets forget the dealer for now. I find the nature of luck to be impersonal, without memory or rules or moral conscience. Thats not to say our circumstances are so ..random, we control how we play the game. I believe much karmic consequence is based on personal often partly subconscious conscience. I believe I did something good, so when good things happen I notice it, my positive mood creates actions that make it more likely. I find the good thats already in the world. And so the reverse. I do think God plays dice with the Universe, but I don't think he keeps score, we do that ourselves. What are your views on luck? Michael I
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Your input appreciated as well . This site gets turbulent from time to time, but most of the people here, maybe all are peaceful philosophers at heart. They(we) just tend to scream at other peaceful philosophers who disagee with us. Shalom and Salaam Michael Godwins Law - circa 1990 "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
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'If you are a taoist who do FU, you can use the bath cleansing fu' Out of curiosity, roughly how much would such a FU cost? Thanks Michael
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Glad to have you here (being nice ), but (being less) I (in conversational tone) find the rhetorical use of nazi comparisons when someone disagrees with you to be a nasty habit and the sign of weak argument. There may be uses for it when discussing mass murder, but using it in lesser disagreements is verbal bullying. Raising the stakes, so disagreement with your point is nazism. My 2 cents Michael
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I think you may be over simplifying Zen's no mind philosophy. I tend to see it as being mind/thoughts/plans are tools. Good tools needed to live, but we forget to drop them. If we go through life-hammer hammer hammer hammer hammer hammer hammer. We don't see whats going on around us and forget what important. They're a tool we don't need most of the time, but we've forgotten how to drop them Michael
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Community's opinion on max. frequency of posts
thelerner replied to genmaicha's topic in General Discussion
I appreciate Mak Tin Si's presence here, his views are closely aligned to what we'd get from a Taoist temple. One that makes income off of Fu dontations. His style of writing and the frequency of his creating New Topics create surprisingly nasty blow back. He comes off as impolite, I know its not intended that way, but it is. He doesn't see it that way and its a loss for the community here. To: MTS No one has set up any rules. There are a dozens of posts and many Discussions asking you not to over Topic. You ignore them. You either don't understand the board etiquette or feel you're above it. Its not China who is after you, its a part of the community here, that would rather see you volumous postings be done on the Personnel Discussion site that Sean created for you here. If you used it your topics and thoughts would be in one section, easy to find and not quickly forgotten forgotten as more topics move them several pages away. As I pointed out earlier, a few days ago page 2 was mostly your topics, over 15 of them. When people overtopic it makes the site worse and tend to be more about Them then Taoism. Michael -
I have a little metal plaque that says "Masquerading as a normal person day after day is exhausting" Its a nice reminder. I got my wife a couple of kits of cube people. Little office dolls for adults, they come w/ little office furniture, fax machines, computers, cell phones, even tiny little signs in there cubicles. They're a nice way to express unsayable feelings. There's boss and coworkers so you can set up a nice little city within the cubicle. They were a big hit in her office. Michael
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I admire Rawn Clarks writings about Franz Bardon (abardoncompanion.com). The magical system is work. Lots of self analysis. The focus is hugely on knowing, controlling and the process of perfecting oneself. Spells and whats considered magic are by far secondary, his Magician is first and foremost a complete human being. The 'trap' is by the time you've spent the years on the first few levels the desire for power and control over people and things tends to vanish Michael
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Well its better then the 4 tiger system, but can be beaten by the 6 tiger. Sorry, couldn't help myself. Good luck finding information. Some arts are just not widely known.
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how to get ride of unwanted sexual desires?
thelerner replied to mewtwo's topic in General Discussion
I'm just quoting a wise taoist about said problem. When my sexual desires arise I head for the bedroom and my wife . Michael -
how to get ride of unwanted sexual desires?
thelerner replied to mewtwo's topic in General Discussion
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I believe, everyone should believe what I believe. Whether its within religion or its against religion - THAT belief is the poison that starts the shit rolling. Michael
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In winter I find Genmai type teas particularly satisfying. Its the style where the tea is mixed with puffed rice. It feels extra nourishing. Michael
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I agree with Scotty. If you flip to page 2. You'll notice over half the topics are mak ti sins, over half. You over create topics. I know you don't consider it rude, but it must be clear to you that many people here do. You're increasingly getting ridiculed here which so sad. You don't see the problem?? You're fine with being a source of ridicule instead of source of authentic knowledge because rules of online ettiquette don't suit you and you feel you can ignore them. The price we all pay is you're teachings and our discussion are pissed down the discussion page where they can't be found or discussed. Your thoughts and ours great and small are send down river by single people over posting new topics a day. Can you understand that if we had 3 or 4 people like you on board continually posting 30 or 40 new topics a day that any indepth discussion would grind to a halt? For the sake of balanced discussion and to be able to have longevity in your posts you should take up the offer to post in you're own Personal space. Part of being in a community is being sensitive to it. Please show sensitivity to this site, its horrible that you're viewed as a clueless spammer instead of an experienced authentic Taoist authority we can learn from. Michael
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The Most Powerful UFO Film That Ive Ever Seen
thelerner replied to gossamer's topic in General Discussion
I tend to agree with Anabhogya and H.urhriar (sp). They're not saying no, just that proof is lacking. Its very interesting that people, especially (some) high energy meditators see them regularly. Yet highly religious (past & present) people will see angels and spirits around them. I can't help but see both phenomena as linked. They're real, but is it an internal or external phenomena. Projections?? Projections made real as psychic phenomena?? I think its a bad sign when people get over heated in the debate, approaching it with religious fervor. I'd love to see a UFO. If I did, I hope I'd go up to it and knock on the door and see whats up (honestly). The sky is my friend, I love looking up at it. So far no Ooofo's. Michael -
While strangely put, he's right. Number 1, stop it. Cold showers, better yet, don't let the mind get on M. track, hands above the sheets . You're young the body has great powers to heal itself. Healthy diet, daily fish oil, and time. If that don't do it see a professional. Thank goodness Picala is writing smth, otherwise Agent Smith would detect his name and get us in the Matrix, or worse send the Cohen Brothers . Michael
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The jing bounces in the palace heated and frustrated. Love and anger flip like a coin. The effort exhausts itself and jing is released. Or best of all Jing sublimates - We truly love ourselves and reflect it like a star. A scholar walks up to a holy man says "I spit on your traditions" and spits at him. What does the holy man do?
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The Middle Way - what does it mean to you?
thelerner replied to Wayfarer64's topic in General Discussion
The concept of the Middle Way is very Buddhist (&wise), aligning with the Budda's precepts. It seems to me Taoists keep there focus on nature and seek to emulate her. Nature shifts, changes, cycles. It hits extremes and bounces back to norms. Michael -
I think there is something to it, but I worry that the purchaser of a $50 Fu, then $75 Fu will be in line for a hundred and thousand dollar Fu's. Michael
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In Aikido we'd warm up with fast vigorous vibrational shaking. In Kap its more muscular bigger shaking. In Kunlun its a spontaneous shaking induced by the posture. Shaking is always good. Brings the nerves to life, awakens the muscles and pathways for energy.[ Michael
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Yes, I'm convinced it is. and after I'm dead I want to come back as a sexy blond too. Why let LaoTzu have all the fun
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Open Letter To Tao Bums About Mak Tin Si
thelerner replied to gossamer's topic in General Discussion
His own Personal Practice section makes mucho sense. That way his information would get less lost. What happens now is his posts get taken off the main screen so its hard to find and/or discuss them. What irritates Gossamer is the effect of one person posting 7 or 8 (12?) new topics in a single day shoving other conversations off the main page and forgotten. He's such writes on so many subjects his own posts are quickly lost to old pages as well. His own mini forum in the Personal Practice section would be just the ticket. Michael Michael -
Why do I exist?? Dancing.. Mom and Dad met at a dance. Various causations...me. Looking through earlier thread of cause and effect reveals more. Grandparents also met at dance. Moving through earlier human generations its still dancing dancing dancing as the root cause. Even before humanity, there was a dance within the evolutionary systems. Moving billions of years earlier onto the molecular level, still dancing and spinning. Why do I exist? Dance