Apech

Still not a Textual Study is it?

Again I kind of see where you are coming from. However with Kundalini syndrome for instance it is possible to list the symptoms and therefore run a checklist to see if you have or have had it. This is fairly specific and definable and testable. So assigning a term to it seems perfectly reasonable. Of course many people may have it - but be unaware of the Sanskrit term and call it something else. If you accept that kundalini is term which can be validly applied to a certain aspect of the subtle body - then you can say it exists as much as you can say your liver exists, or that a thought or idea exists in your mind. Unless of course you are going down the objective realist school and saying it does not exist unless I can put it on a table and bash it with a hammer. But then you have to doubt the existence of thoughts, feelings, concepts and so on. Which means you have already limited your acceptance of 'real' in a very limited sense.

Why is this thread in Daoist Textual Studies? It's about chakras which are not Daoist and does not concern a text.

I kind of agree with Karl here - this statement is full of big undefined concepts - which I am sure mean a lot to you but the sense is lost in communicating to others. If you are saying that because absolute reality is ineffable anything you say about it is provisional ... I'm not sure metaphor is the right word exactly but I'll go with it. Then doesn't that mean that everything is a metaphor? In which case you might say a rabbit or a box of chocolates is a metaphor? Kundalini is a term for a real psycho-spiritual-physical experience ... I don't know the science of it but I am sure something could be measured with MRI scans or whatever. Its a specific term within the yoga schools - e.g. Kundalini yoga, Raja Yoga and so on. It is seen as essentially female in nature and personified as a goddess ... although again this could be your metaphor. It's real in that sense while it might only be 'real' in an absolute sense - along with all the 10k things.

Kundalini is a metaphor? A metaphor for what?

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As you say - the body is intelligent - I think that is a good observation. Of course you want a break through this is natural. I have always found that breakthroughs come at the end of striving. It's normal to strive and try hard to change - but it's when you exhaust that and kind of, give up, relax into the centre that break through comes. I think the trick is to practice diligently but remove expectation - because expectation means you are always looking out for signs and results. Often something starts to happen and your mind goes 'wow!' and then because of this it stops. It's difficult to negotiate this kind of thing.

Breath is like a bridge between your conscious mind and your energy body. The feeling of whole body breathing is one stage in this as the breath becomes linked to qi movement/circulation. What I think is important is to avoid extremes. Such as you mention energy pooling in certain parts of the body - this is probably because you are sinking in too much and there are obstructions. In the full cycle of the breath it will at times be heavy and at other times light - like a feather light touch. I think its important to keep it simple. You have to deal with obstructions at all levels - e.g. physical tension. energy blocks (especially at three gates), emotional entanglement, racing thoughts and conceptual confusion - also purity of intent. However if you think about this too much you will just make it worse. So always return to just watching breath without any expectations or reaching for a result. Just some thoughts.

I thought he meant this site. No ads on AYP just checked.

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Ach no. It's a strategic game - Putin is putting down a marker to stop the EU/NATO encroaching any further in Eastern Europe - after all the ex Warsaw Pact countries are now in NATO.

No I hadn't either ... just found this by googling around.

Not one for quotes usually but :

Something nice and classy:

game of Thrones - everyone in North - the Wall, Winterfell - various northern accents ... Kings Landing Lannisters and wotnot - southern.

Dick Van Dyke ... that's all you need to know.

Definitely up to WWI and probably still by WWII people from different parts of England literally could not understand each other because of strong dialect. Even now there's a strong difference North to South (and to a certain extent the West) - I remember going once to a town North of Newcastle and the accent was so strong I felt I needed an interpreter. Also until fairly recently most people in France did not speak what we know as French, there were hundreds of languages.

Did you mean 300million? I have read that the power of English as the modern lingua franca is that you can mangle the grammar without destroying the meaning - so as a language of trade people who only pick up a smattering of English can still deal reliably with each other without too many blunders.

Royalty are a very few and quite a lot of them were German not English. Most of the English were poor and stayed in England.

As the language is called English I'm tempted to say that the 'correct' way of speaking is standard British English - BUT actually some American accents are closer to the original form - so in the end variety is the spice of life.

So Obama Care is Nazi? You are comparing a scheme to provide health protection for the needy in the richest country in the world to the Nazis? So in what way is it like the Holocaust, or the invasion of most of Western Europe, Russia, the persecution of minorities and so on? And if you think that of Obama Care which by the standards of Europe is a very mild policy then what do you think of the NHS - introduced I may add by a landslide Labour Government elected by the British people who had spent the previous six years in deadly combat with those same Nazis. Perhaps you should think more of those who struggled, risked their lives, lost loved ones or were injured during that struggle than make cheap jibes which insult their memory.

It's not a lead it's a flea collar and it lasted about 3 minutes before being removed.

Big cat or little cat?

If I had an ego I'd be quite pissed off by now.

This thread is getting silly.