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There is a TV interview on his page there that is pretty interesting even though the interviewer has a typical annoying over the top television personality.

Hey tumoessence, ditto Trunk ... forme me it was and still is to an extent a stepping stone for moving bound up tension in the sphincter muscles and whole pelvic area. I think it's a big piece that I imagine most guys, maybe even especially the ones most resistant to it, could really get a lot out of. I think like anything (IMO) it's only a diversion from your path if it's no longer on a thread of bliss you are following and you are just entangled with it for some other imagined, probably mental reason.

Biggest bang for my buck so far has got to be the AYP practices. You start out with around 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening and it's packs a nice punch. Does she have a video? I get burnt out on reading. And also on google searching my own answers apparently.

Damn, that would be some next generation shit, pengjin integrated into grappling. Hey Cam, I forgot to tell you, I am going to start supplementing my BJJ with an incredible traditional Indian kushti/catch wrestling class I found in Berkeley ... I called them up and they do free sparring and everything. Sean

Pass by tommorow! Many you should be gloating about this until your final breath. And if it gets stale just keep embellishing in tiny increments so even you don't notice until by the time you are 120 years old (thanks to Taoist practices) you will have defeated both god and demon to earn this grade. Congrats man. That's cool you worked Kabbalah in there also. Sean

How about "cultivating life"

I don't know if we have any certified experts here, but have you given the deer exercises a try. Maybe take a couple of these and see if you can get things going again. Actually your best bet is to ignore my advice and go to a highly rated TCM doctor in your area and discuss your issue in depth. In any case, welcome to TTB man. Sean

Aziz is pretty cool. I read his books a few years back and really enjoyed them. I was in brief correspondence with his secretary trying to get some tapes of his when he abruptly decided to go back into hermit mode. "Aziz is currently withdrawing from the teaching work. He is going to be in seclusion and retreat for the next several years." Sean

My reasoning with the button was that it would encourage people to donate but it seems not very popular. What if it was more subtle. Just black text saying "Sponsor". Yoda, director of TTB marketing, wanna start a poll? And maybe ask what perks would encourage donation? How about access to an "insider's forum". On a barely related note, I can't wait to unleash this new TTB skin I've been working on. *rubbing paws together*

Hmmm.... it should come with some special skillzzz shouldn't it? Alright, how about an upgrade to 300 storable private messages (from 100 normally) and the ability to remove the "edited by" line from your posts if you want. (countdown to Cam becoming a paid sponsor and promptly abusing this latter promotion). ImageReady. It's part of photoshop, at the bottom of your toolbar click "Edit in ImageReady" and you can make multiple frames, etc. Sean

Ok this time it's only 2am, am I getting warmer?

Those look great freeform, I'll go with one of those when I get off work. Which wording do you like better "supporter" or "sponsor"? Also, could you put a thick flashing rainbow border around those icons?

Thanks for the support guys! Hehheh, yeah I guess I half-assed the icon at like 3 in the morning. Anyone else want to take a stab at it? Freeform you're a Photoshop guy aren't you? Otherwise I'll just tweak up a new one after work. Thanks again.

You have undergone the secret initiation ritual Doc. Welcome to the elite inner circle of Taoist madness. Muahahahhaah!!! Sean

Slept in today and woke up to find that the entire server I host dozens of websites on was hacked. I restored The Tao Bums first. Looks like I've got a busy day. Sean

el_tortugo posted a link to this cool movie in the alchemycalmonkey Yahoo! Group yesterday and I'm watching it right now with the Lezlizzle. Yoda, your girl Esther even plays a big part in it, check it out: The Secret of Conscious Co-Creation Sean

Hey beautiful! Headstands! Driving around for hours in my beater Camaro. Acid. Running through cemeteries at night. Denny's refills. 35mm photos. Brandon Hanlon. Acid. Compiling intricate scrapbooks of art and poetry that it seems only angsty sexually intense youth with abundant free time are capable of. Ahhhh... those were the days. It's great to see you here.

Aleister Crowley spent a great deal of his life intensely studying and deriving magick rituals from the similar word "]"abrahadabra"[/i]. Most Thelemites follow suit, here's a whole site devoted to it. 418, the gematriac value of this word among other things, has a lot of significance to me. Sean [edit]shit, I fucked it up. When I first posted this it was 4:18 on the dot, completely coincidentally. But I edited the post to point it out and it updated the time.

In spiral dynamics terms Israel is primarily green (which puts it developmentally higher than the US actually) while the Arab states are almost exclusively red. Higher development doesn't mean right or wrong though, in the same way as a child is perfectly capable of making a more ethical choice in a situation than an adult. Obviously both sides have blood soaked hands. But spiral dynamics does highlight a vastly different value hierarchy between these nations that is nearly unbridgeable outside of waiting, say, 40-100 years for red to slowly integrate with the rest of the world and move up to blue (fundamentalist. red is not even at fundamentalism yet. pretty bad) to orange (scientific, entrepreneurial) to green (communitarian) and on upward. It's scarier in todays world though when adolescent rebellion is armed to the teeth. Sean

Yeah, the timing with the Israel post is uncanny. We weren't targeted specifically though, it was the whole host so I don't think it was anything we said or did.

Hey, I've been getting various requests for different materials out of the library that I've circulated and lost track off. Maybe as TTB gets bigger we could find a solution for tracking materials better. For now though, let's do a group check in and have anyone that has borrowed anything take a minute to say what it is that you have. I'll do the same but I have to wait until I get home from work to check it out. Thanks! Sean

Via Zenhall.org "Master Sunim was born in South Korea and entered Songkwang-sa Buddhist Monastery at the age of twenty, where he became a disciple of Zen Master Ku San Sunim. After ten years of training in Zen Meditation halls, he spent six more years in rigorous practice alone in hermitages in remote mountain areas. There he followed a raw food diet, eating what the mountains made available. One early spring day while sitting in the Zen hall suddenly all his doubts were resolved and he wrote the following song of enlightenment: Even existing dharmas must be discarded, So how can we cling to Dharmas which don't exist! Ah ha! Futilely the Ancients busily pursued enlightenment, then departed. The countenance, existing of its own accord I wonder who named it buddha or sentient being? Even one true Dharma cannot survive. Outside the window, the cherry tree is singing this news. While Sunim's primary teaching focus is Zen, he also stresses the importance of protecting and balancing one's physical health and energy through Taoist practices. He teaches that through consistent training in Zen and Sun-do, one can personally experience results, and emphasizes that one should practice for oneself and obtain this personal experience. Only then can one directly understand this path to awakening. During his years in the hermitage Sunim met and trained for ten years under Taoist Master Chong San. In 1982 Sunim was given sanction as a Taoist master. He later taught in Switzerland and throughout North America. Acknowledged as one of the great zen masters of his generation, he is the Abbot of the Sixth Patriarch Temple in Seoul, Korea, and the Sixth Patriarch Zen Center in Berkeley, CA. He is the author of "The Unasked Question," which was published in Korea in 2003, and is currently being translated into English." Impressive. Trunk talks about Sun-do sometimes. This touches on a recent conversation about Zen teachers rarely discussing qi. It's great to see Zen teachers with an understanding of Taoist practices who are willing to address internal energy like this. Sean

I have a bunch of stuff, but most of it has been donated. The stuff I have on loan is God's Playing in the Cauldron of Original Chi (from Peter Falk) and Fusion I audio (mike andre)... Hey does anyone have Winn's Chi Kung Fundamentals 2 audio/video and or the Primordial Chi Kung video? Someone wants to borrow those. Thanks, Sean