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If angry, be angry but don't feed it. We can honor emotions, feel them, be human, but don't obsess. Let it pass. Don't let your thoughts be like a dog chasing its own tail. That's with the negative emotions. Positive emotions, love, beauty, respect, cheerfulness, sharing, helping, a smile.. don't obsess but be willing to go out of your way to find and appreciate them. They are all around. Don't ignore the ugliness of the world, understand them, pick a problem, roll up your sleeves and do something, however small. And know you recharge your energy with proper rest, nutrition and a bit those positive emotions. We stay sane with balance.. honoring the Middle Way.

I think you jump to extremes at the drop of a hat. That's is a little bit crazy. Especially if you do that constantly in your mind. Someone listens to a speech on wisdom.. thus.. laughing at alcoholics (just like the Buddha?? where the heck do you get these things?) .. being kind is extinguishing yourself?? If they catch you you're crucified?? Wow!! Do you live by your exaggerations? Sorry for setting you off by mentioning kindness, thoughtfulness, respect.. not following the first selfish impulse are all good things. Not because you get points or are being watched, they simply make for a better life, imo. To some extent we reflect the kind of world we want to live in. Being helpful, courteous, the cliche Boy Scout ethics (dropping the homophobic one), strive for them and there are rewards. Life, while perfect is happier, pronoia. Your friends, neighbors, family.. often even strangers reflect those values back at you, it makes for better living. I suspect if you live by the paradigm mankind is filled with monkeys, zombies and horrible people. You repeat that to yourself, and write it out 8 or 9 times a day, tell it to everyone who'll listen to you; how much people suck. While one's ego may blow up, since they're a wonderkind in a world of rot, that for the most part, they will be very unhappy.

Often its good to do better then your ordinary self. Take the time to see when potential actions are motivated by the ego(anger, selfishness), take a step back and act with a little more patience and kindness. Perhaps not in a fight, but I don't fight too often, matter of facts its pretty rare. I do have situations daily where given a little thought, I can act thoughtfully and feel better afterwards. Its why I study dharma lessons from the wise. Wisdom, kindness, respect for others and a little discipline make life run smoother. Giving in to the moments anger, impatience.. harshly judging strangers make life bumpier.. easier at the moment, but in the long run, thoughtfulness pays off big time. Is it fake? I don't think so, rather its maturity. One that increasingly becomes the ordinary self.

I like Rawn Clarks stuff, more Hermetic then Daoist, but many free unique energy practices. I like the Archaeous, CSM and YHVH canticle. abardoncompanion.com .. note the site is down at the moment.

Here's what I know. Suicide hurts family, friends, acquaintances, neighbors.. horribly. It creates sadness and despair for them. It also kills off the person you could be. The one who's snapped out of depression and is happy. There are countless stories of those who've come out of hard times, depression, melancholy and found happiness and purpose or at least a reason for going on. things change and they do get better.

Maybe G & T is a health drink!?? Tonic water gets its name from Quinine- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine) Quinine is a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis.[2] This includes the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to chloroquine when artesunate is not available.[2][3] While used for restless legs syndrome, it is not recommended for this purpose due to the risk of side effects.[2] It can be taken by mouth or used intravenously.[2] Malaria resistance to quinine occurs in certain areas of the world.[2] Quinine is also the ingredient in tonic water that gives it its bitter taste.[4] Common side effects include headache, ringing in the ears, trouble seeing, and sweating.[2] More severe side effects include deafness, low blood platelets, and an irregular heartbeat.[2] Use can make one more prone to sunburn.[2] While it is unclear if use during pregnancy causes harm to the baby, use to treat malaria during pregnancy is still recommended.[2] Quinine is an alkaloid, a naturally occurring chemical compound.[2] How it works as a medicine is not entirely clear.[2] Quinine was first isolated in 1820 from the bark of a cinchona tree.[2][5][6] Bark extracts have been used to treat malaria since at least 1632.[7] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system.[8] The wholesale price in the developing world is about US$1.70 to $3.40 per course of treatment.[9] In the United States a course of treatment is more than $200.[10]

@WHITEROOMENERGYMINE1 , I enjoy your writing. Just wanted to suggest breaking it into more paragraphs would make it easier to read.

I never went into a seminar with too much enthusiasm or high hopes. They all tend to advertise miracles and produce less. Thus I haven't gone to one in a decade or so. Yet, I don't regret the ones I've been to. If I pick up a technique or two, its worth it. Meditating with some higher level people is worth it.. soaking up some wah. Also, when the student has a totally bad time, they need to accept some of the blame for it. Teaching is a two way street. I hope the rest of the seminar, if you're still there, goes better for you. A problem I found with Healing Tao is they focused on so many techniques, when to me, going deep is better then going wide. What I'm working on these days in my meditation is 'no intention'.. a paradigm change from the past.

Use Citadelle, a french gin. To me, hands down the best gin. Clean, dry, citrusy and herbal. don't forget the lime either. if you wanna be fancy, give the wedge a half squeeze and rub it around the cups rim before dropping it in. tastes good and protect yuh from the scurvy. lastly, because some find tonic water too sweet, you can add quite bit of ice to it or add 1/3 seltzer. To make it visually interesting you can add a few drops of grenadine on top (don't mix), to make it bloody good. A few drops of blue curacao make it Martian G & T, drops of Chambord or any colored liquor make it a tad more interesting, plus you can buy mini bottles. addon> you could serve it deconstructed, ie little bottles of chilled tonic (Schweppes is good), glass of ice, lime wedges, and shot of gin then have them mix there own. That way they can taste the individual ingredients separately before making the drink. The bar at the Drake hotel used to serve them that way. Very classy. Course I could be over thinking it. Sometimes a gin & tonic, is just a gin and tonic.

Its too bad Facebooks gets so hyperpartisan, but thats people and the current atmosphere. I find it a good tool for keeping up with some old friends and a few groups. Its the only avenue to keep in touch with a few of them. I probably use it once every week or two. New tools tend to be misused. I'm hoping once newness settles down, a bit more civility and control settles in. In the 50's and 60's when the number of cars exploded, kids/teens would circle the neighborhood in caravans; driving in long circles. Kinda pointless, but it was new, gas was cheap, and why not. It takes time, but often silly, pointless things, like arguing with strangers, thinking it means or changes anything, dies down. People wise up naturally. Though it takes awhile. Perhaps at some point even the echo chambers will quit so much echoing.

I think I'd be happiest as a goat. One of my sensei's said 'Don't act like a tiger. They're tough, but gang members score points if they take one down. Neither be a sheep, they're soft targets. Be a goat, they've got horns, awareness, flexible, tough to get at. Not so much a target.' So maybe a goat, somewhere on a relatively uninhabited mountain range. Where the sun is bright, the air is thin, enough food if you know to look, and a great deal of peace abounds.

The word unnecessary is slippery though. What is necessary? We just justify many a self serving action with the word.

Mae West lived in a pretty restrictive time. Her 'evil' was speaking her mind, doing her thing, being sexual and willing to party. Paraphrasing sci fy author Robert Heinlein 'the only evil is hurting others unnecessarily'. Not bad in a libertarian manner, though I'm sure one can poke holes in it. I mostly agree with it. Don't hurt others, yet be open to new things. Judge societies taboos for yourself, neither mindlessly follow or rebel against them for the sake of rebellion. Its a shame if you life with only one hat on. Know yourself and that takes time and experience.. and mistakes.. with sprinkling of regrets.

penquin university is supposed to be good, except for all the damn birds.

Soundstrue.com has some of his courses. Including his Lotus meditation on sale for 60 cents. Just a tiny bit of the course but might be a way to see if you connect. https://www.soundstrue.com/store/nsearch/?q=robert+peng addon and as zerotao link below points out. You can sample the 14 week course.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable but I have experience. In that I do Wim Hof breathing which has 30 fast breaths and a long retention after the final exhale. I like the feeling of relaxation, stress and back to relaxation breathing in after a long empty exhalation. There's much written about the physiology happening during the technique. My yogic breathing comes from a CD from Silent Grounds. It has 3 part breathing, you follow the tones to signal in-hold-exhale. The tones move on to longer and longer holds. For example I can sustain 8in 24hold 16exhale, normally but after doing Wim Hof I can do 10in 40hold 20exhale. The programs starts at 8 8 8, you keep the player on repeat til you can do it comfortably, then move on to 8 10 10 etc., Nice peaceful feeling, especially when you dial your longest setting back a bit. Wim Hof has some health benefits and improved my sense of breathing big. Yogic breathing gives a nice sense of calm. Both practices leak into my meditation, making the breath cycle longer without conscious doing.

roll it back, we're 30 years in the future. We have Fusion, ie cheap electricity; why would batteries be cumbersome and heavy? Right now they're smaller and lighter then a car engine. I'd imagine in the future they'll get even smaller, charge faster and hold more juice. Why use a finite source like petrol then need to mix it with other things to keep it from polluting when when we have free electricity. Seems I'd use one of the smaller powerful batteries that we developed back in the 2020's. The combustion engine is very complicated. Look at a Tesla engine and its much simpler, practically solid state. And the tech is just past its infancy. When it grows up a bit, it will be the future. We won't be able to rely on a finite fuel source forever, better to use the petrol for things only it can do, which is a whole boatload. Why burn it up for transport if we don't need to?

Are you willing to become a tibetan buddhist? Spend decades learning, join their priesthood if that gives you a shot at there version of rainbow body or maybe sets it up for another life time? Since this lifetime might be spent learning and preaching. There's a certain 'Americanism' of thinking.. how many months will it take me? What's the secret exercise to perform to get it? Whereas the truth is probably closer to, if you want a shot at the real thing, its a whole dedication. Mind body and soul. Cause you do have have priests, monks, disciples who are born into the traditions, know it intimately and realize they aren't achieving such lofty goals, or rather have other goals in life. Go up to a monk and say you're meditating 5 hours a day. Odds are they'll they'll reply something like 'that's good for a beginner', cause they do so much more. I'm not saying its not a worthy or possible goal, I just want to point out that its serious enough so that it's not a do this exercise and you'll get it. Rather its change and evolve your mind body and spirit to such an extent that rainbow body might no longer be a goal. You're heading somewhere else, maybe even towards regular mundanity, ie living a simple life. I've been reading Hua-Ching Ni's work, he's a 101 year old Taoist and with an enlightened mind that seems as likely to happen, and its really not so bad. After siddhis and accomplishments, being a wise and foolish old man. On the third hand, if you were looking for quick and dirty, I'd point you to Max Christenson's Kunlun, it has a rainbow body as an end goal. Not that there's any guarantee, but might be a route to get it or fail faster ie a few years.

hmnn, thinks about it.. ahh 2 Garlics. While kidding there is some truth to it. There are garlic soup recipes, Chicken with 40 clove recipes.. Crushed and left to sit a few minutes increases garlic's potency. Wonder if some pepper would help? In many herbal recipes its a 'carrier' that helps the main herb's potency, so maybe a sprinkle of pepper would strengthen the delivery.

My sensei turned me on to old black and white Japanese films. In a couple there'd be an evil character. It was a cultural thing, because the individual wasn't bad, yet was unlucky.. born under a dark star. What ever he did would result in bad happenings. That seems unfair, yet there are days where I've found I'm on a roll, when its bad, the best thing to do, is nothing. No decisions no actions. Just let the day come and go.

Evil can act quickly, rashly, destructively.. while good generally takes time to ponder the consequences of its action. Still in the long run evil tends to be self destructive. In that good can trust good, but evil knows evil and doesn't play well with others.. not in the long run.

Those white men produced a pretty enlightened document in the Constitution. Laying out the blue print for a government that could and would evolve towards greater freedoms at a time when common rule was whims of monarchs and aristocrats. They set forth a paradigm where the common man had much more voice in the government, imperfect at the time and while not perfect now, set the tone of freedom, and in general freed us from tyranny of the monarchy and dictatorship. Setting the course for the modern world.

Both cases mention are maybes that haven't been enacted yet. I agree at some point there will need to be a road tax on electric cars. Maybe when the number of pure electrics come closer to 6 to 8% of the total vehicles (now <2.5% i think) taxation will follow. Perhaps an addon tax to high voltage charges. I'm guessing people are generally smart enough to charge there cars over night when its much cheaper, certainly if its a viable option. Going back 10 or 12 years there were plenty of predictions of $200+ a barrel gasoline. It was on that trajectory for awhile, but conservation and fracking have brought it way down. But that won't last. The world's use is astronomical, we go through an billions of gallons regularly, and its not like its being recycled. When its gone, its gone. Fracking was an amazing hat trick, but I don't know if we have another lined up to give us more. In a decade or two, I assume we'll be back on the $200+ barrel track. Maybe.. hopefully longer, more electric vehicles should move down the peak oil date. Seems to me in a generation or two or 3, we'll need another fuel supply. Which follows mankind general pattern. We ran out of trees, ran out of whales, coal was choking us.. we move on to whats cheaper and hopefully less polluting.

If you have bigger pieces of meat, taking them out and putting under a broiler for a 2 or 3 minutes caramelizes and adds nice flavor. Likewise stirring ghee or olive oil vigorously into the sauce adds adds wonderful creaminess to it.

Great subject, I'd love to hear reviews on it. I use and collect old fashioned audio hypnotic and guided meditations, daoist, shamanic, trippy, healing.. It'd be nice to see how it goes with the next generation of gear. Oculus is being used mostly for gaming. I hope the time comes soon when its in hospitals and in common use by people with disabilities. For communication and healing might be its best use.