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One more is that Chinese computer-servers use a system that can be downloaded here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html The electricity is 50 cycle - not USA 60 cycle and it is 250V so if you carry a laptop - bring a converter. The wall plug is different too. New! a Hong Kong to Beijing train On the web page It says Kowloon to Beijing - but Kowloon is a city in Hong Kong http://www.train-ticket.net/asia/china/bindex.htm The ticket prices are in Hong Kong $ which are 7.75 HK$ to every one USA $ ( 100 US$ = 775 HK$) It's a 24 hour trip - non-stop - the prices are varied according to th sleeper provided... Also the tickets are one way - Buy the return ticket in Beijing. The Beijing ticket may be in Chinese Yuan (also called RMB) so ask before you go as there are many, many foreign $ exchange shops in Hong Kong. You will get to see the entire eastern portion of China. (1500 miles) in one day. I've been the southern route from Hong Kong to Burma some years back for 75 US$ - by bus - it took 2 weeks but it is something I'll never forget... I got to see China as developing. I was the first blue eye most had seen. Entire villages with one T.V. antennae that were located beside a cave where they mined the red earth to make bricks for their homes... Old wooden carts, with wooden wheels, being pulled by the farmers family to the market to sell their organic produce - on a newly paved super highway. I flew to Beijing - the Great Wall, Forbidden palace, Many Major Taoist temples, Tienamin Square, Confucian temples, Buddhist monestaries, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace and more are less than an hour's bus ride away - Including a Shop 'Till You Drop that is a professional shopper's l "Shop 'Till You Drop"... The Chinese way of going places is to become a part of a tour group which usually comes with a guide, a historian and hotel rooms at the destination as well as a contract with a bus company that will take you around. The average tour group is about 20 people - some will speak English.

Some years back I took a medical course where I needed to memorize 500 new words every week & be tested on it. I finished the course with a 4.0 and a new confidence with sleep learning. I played the recording of the class about 20 hours per day - while working and sleeping and driving - but not in class. Recently I decided to learn Putonwa - so... I looked around Hong Kong and found this little set of a 200 page Phrasebook with a Spoken CD to get you accustomed to hearing it and speaking it. By the way - the Chinese call Mandarin: Putonwa. When I went looking for Putonwa - I searched for something I could sleep learn with. I bought it about 3 weeks ago and am Very happy with it. I just play it at night as there's no test deadline... ISBN 978-0-00-724681-6 Collins Mandarin Phrasebook Travel tickets are less expensive here in Hong Kong and even less in Macau but I trust Hong Kong more - write me before you come and I'll ask a friend to help you By the Way - you look a lot like a friend of mine that I knew in Oahu named Larry...

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Welcome, peaceful heart. English needs more practice And more patience but it works. In China, philosophy takes the place of religion. In the western world, Religion takes the place of philosophy. Personaly I prefer philosophy but it can be just as destructive as religion. I've been wondering - do Qigong practioners feel the energy currents in the air? When I was about 4 years old, I can remember my first meditation - watching clouds. I first began to feel the air energy when I was about 9 years old - oddly - I was in Church. There is a well known instructor, fairly close to you, that may know some students in your area. Name is Stuart Alve Olsen - he did an interpretation of "The Jade Emperor's Mind Seal Classic" that I like. If interested, I would begin searching for him this area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota You have Nice website: http://www.tianhuacanada.com/english/index.html there are 11 words. Here is Stuart Olsen's website: http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&a...sa=N&tab=wi

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In Confucious time, China needed most what he focused on: order. Tao = all that there is AKA the universe. Tao of Confucious = China's social repair mechanic. Tao of Buddha = China's meditation and mental health clinic. Tao = The Way = the Scientific approach to analyzing the situation An interesting point is that Confucious was the father of modern western science. Confucious used the dialectical approach of Yin & Yang Dualism to express and define his ideas. http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=2176 Even today the easiest way to understand chemisty is through the valance approach of positive & negative balance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_(chemistry) From: http://www.vibrationdata.com/tao.htm TAOISM AND CONFUCIUS Taoist authors often poke fun at Confucius. Confucius valued duty and morality. Confucius was concerned with a very deliberate effort to attain virtue, particularly by following rituals and by obedience to parents and authority figures. On the other hand, Taoist believed that people who sought virtue through outwardly duty would do so to earn the praise of men. This desire for praise would turn virtue into evil. A Taoist's quest for enlightment was a personal, inward process. Again, Confucius was concerned with outwardly duty and loyalty to authority figures. Taoists also distrusted political authority. Basically, they believed that power corrupts. Chuang Tzu wrote a parable in which a prince appointed him as prime minister. Chuang Tzu rejected the appointment by saying that he would rather be a "turtle dragging its tail in the mud."

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