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If you are reasonably proficient at meditation then i would recommend fairly long periods of breath counting. This should if you are persistent take you to deeper levels of relaxation and more importantly link your mind to you body such that the breath begins to both release tension and become a whole body thing. At this point the pressure to contract your abdomen will change and the energy stored in your body will be allowed to circulate. If things are very chaotic it may take so e time but gentle persistence will win out in the end.

Fred Astaire??? Can’t dance???

The Reconquista in Spain (and Portugal) was from the Arab Muslim Caliphate (not the Ottomans) which had ruled much of Iberia for centuries. Also after this Barbary pirates raided the coast of northern Europe (and Italy) from 1500 onwards taking white slaves to the Ottoman Empire. So there was plenty of contact with Islam in Europe throughout this period and then later of course in WWI when the Ottoman Empire was defeated. Before that wars between the Eastern European states like Austria and Poland and the Ottomans were a regular occurrence. However the term antisemite was coined as you suggest as a euphemism for Jew hatred ... which was common and widespread in Christian Europe up until the present (for various spurious pretexts) it was the Holocaust which finally made it unacceptable.

Scottish Christian.

I just bought some 90% cacao chocolate made by Moser Roth. The ingredients list cacao pasta (paste presumably) cocoa butter sugar and ‘ emulgente soya lecithin and vanilla extract. it’s very bitter. Also warns of nut traces? Why not sure. Don’t like it much.

There is no new owner it is the same owner.

I think we might understand all the figures in the scene as being aspects of the Self. Even the cave which must have what I might call yoni relevance. I think if you can relate the struggle to your spiritual journey in that way it might begin to make sense.

… but I found the stone rolled away and the tomb was empty. Had a nice chat with the gardener though.

There is such a difference between simple proper food and slop. They are almost like totally different things. But why are we encouraged to eat slop? Who benefits? Who are the slop merchants?

It’s just samsara.

Cheer up Steve.

good yesterday and today!

This thread is about slop. Not about serious industrial accidents.

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