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I believe they call this trolling... Just sayin'

I sure hope so... Thanks for that link.

A nice resource for finding the profound in the obvious, Is there knowing before and beyond life? And if so, who is it that knows this?

Absolutely! And how many of us have peeled away enough of those layers? THAT is the work First you have to reach your genuine self to express it. How to know when we find it? Wonderful thread.

You have taken meaningful spiritual questions and created a complex path, created of the mind, to reach a goal of answering those questions. The answers you refer to above have become practical matters of navigating the path, no different from "where do I live" or "what time does the train arrive?" Is it possible to question without the paradigm? Can I face these questions naked and unaided?

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If you battle with depression, please be cautious with entheogens. They are extremely powerful and I find that folks that tend toward depression can be extremely sensitive (in general, not necessarily to anything in particular). Lots of potential energy in that combination... just sayin' Be healthy my friend

thanks - I practice a few Qigong forms. My body often tells me which of the elements in Xingyi I need to practice, I think. At different times, I find myself gravitating to practicing different forms. I guess I should have confidence in that feeling - Wu Wei baby

One interesting theory is that experimentation with entheogenic drugs around 20,000 years ago caused a transformation of consciousness. Love it! That's certainly more likely than aliens with high power rifles but ya never know... :lol: Imagine that...

That's a little like my Taijiquan thread!

Time certainly feels restricted to us but there are some pretty slick Quantum Mechanics experiments that show cause and effect to work both ways.... I'm just sayin' Edit - Oh, and Price's book looks at how this human-linked directional sense of time has no basis in math or physics and profoundly biases our construction and interpretation of experiments. Pretty cool stuff though a little technical for me...

Awwww, that's nice

I'll definitely check out Walela - thanks

Did you ever read "Time's Arrow and Archimedes Point" by Huw Price? Time is a funny thing. Do you think Cause and Effect are time-dependent or -independent?

I don't care what anybody says, 陳 泮 嶺太 極 拳99 is the best in world.

So I'm sorry for fucking around... Yesterday, after doing the 99, I was SO juiced that I wanted to post, And I immediately thought of all the old threads about ' this style is better,' and Chen's original and martial, and Yang is this, and so on. So this was sort of an inside joke to anyone that got sick of those threads but it sort of flopped! But the real message was that whatever form you do, THAT is the best. My problem lately is that I'm lazy and haven't been working hard enough so I was feeling good about myself. Today, I'm back to normal. Chen is better because I haven't tried it yet = desire I just need to practice...

Thought is a reflection of experience. Either a recap immediately capturing, explaining, or commenting on experience in the present; or a memory, knowledge (which is memory), as a recollection,; or projecting knowledge (memory) into the future. Thought seems to be related to time. Is there cause and effect between thought and existence? It's how our mind likes to look at things but why should there be? Is there cause and effect without thought putting it there?

Genocide... It breaks my heart. There just aren't enough tears But I guess it's just clinging to something that is gone. Life is change, huh?

I don't think so - but I could be wrong.

Don't mind me, I'm just baiting people. There is no best I did my form today and it was the best It's just a form Chen guys fall into their step a lot - that looks off balance to me They're all just forms But MINE is the best!

It almost sounds like you're saying a memory of someone or a name defines existence. I exist. Names are boundaries...

Schweet!

I've never studied Chen style and would love to someday... Mine's still the best!

This one is my favorite video but the best video is waiting to be made...

Yes - Chen Pan Ling Tai Ji Quan - Mine's better!