Apech

It feels like a big waste of money just to have a meditation timer. But hey this is 2017!

I just got an iPhone and am on Insight Timer as apech. Seems a nice idea

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/dec/26/this-is-possible-we-did-it-the-week-portugal-ran-on-renewables See ... it's possible.

hiram holliday

You do both. But Xing is based on not-doing, while Ming is based on doing - superior and inferior are used in a technical sense.

Happy Christmas - which is what these 'holidays' are called.

I fell into a burnin' ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire, the ring of fire

As long as no-one asks me to kiss their ring

#frodobagginsstolemyring

So you say .... but you never call and you forgot my birthday!

Do you mean sanskrit or Tibetan?

I think you are a very abstract thinker - which shows in some of the ideas you express and examples you give. You seem some way towards to post-modernist idea of gender as a social construct - but I am not sure if you have gone that far. All I can say is that a lot of this kind of thinking conflates the idea (which I fully support) of individual freedom with the actualities of existence - for instance whether you are born a man or a woman. The historical subjugation of women is a feature of the middle historical period - not so much in the very ancient world - and thankfully not so much in the modern western liberal societies. In between are some very oppressive and demeaning interpretations of what it means to be a woman. I think these crimes against half (or more than half) of humanity have tainted the argument. In terms of Daoist practice - or at least Qi Gong, Nei Dan and so on - energetic practices - differences are recognised because they have to be - on a very practical level the subtle body is slightly differently configured and so practices are adjusted to take this into account.

Good luck with wrapping up a DBs discussion

As someone who actually does Buddhist yidam practice - I would say it is very misleading to pick and trade quotes from various unrelated sources and different systems to try to arrive at an understanding.

We all admire Russia these days #putinhackedmyemails

In part of course - the distinction between men and women is based on physiology - society's 'roles' are in part based on this e.g. the capacity for child bearing for instance and in part by an overlay of cultural attitudes to these fundamentals.

Well sometimes I think this site is nothing but trolls and sock puppets - so I don't want to derail this thread onto a different topic - so I'll leave it here.

http://mneumann.tripod.com/pinochet.html

Thanks - I have to admit I don't know much about them - are they the same as the San (Saan)?

Can you give an example of one such society?

We tried fascism - it doesn't work.

Have you forgotten biology?

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/aleppo-falls-to-syrian-regime-bashar-al-assad-rebels-uk-government-more-than-one-story-robert-fisk-a7471576.html An article worth reading. It is fascinating and very worrying how the narrative of news stories are changed in order to influence public opinion at home. Who exactly are our friends and enemies in the Middle East?

stop sitting on it!