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Your only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime!!

Ah, I get it, last line first, thanks. When shaken not stirred Water becomes a fire then merges with air Oh darn, a minute before mine which means I'm off track again.....lets try to tie it up..... For he was no more Earth, water, fire, air or essence Neither Paul nor Father

Mal, I wouldn't worry too much how it's supposed to be spelt in Cantonese, no one can really say for sure, not really, as there are a few too many romanized Cantonese systems, and none are really 'official'. In Mandarin though it should either be 'Tai Gong' or 'Da Gong' in the official PinYin/Romanized Mandarin.... However I'm not 100%you mean 'Tai' meaning great/big or Da, meaning to hit someone or something, I have seen the 'T' being used as a 'D' sound an awful lot, 'Tao' being a very good example. Another interesting thing is 'Tai Chi' is actually a mandarin word, in Cantonese it should be 'Dai Gek'.... and dont quote me on the Cantonese spelling, it's just the phonetic sound. really none of the systems including the official one for Mandarin is very satisfactory in translating the Chinese character and sound. It'll make ya head hurt.

Thanks very much, my anus is already much happier with that technique. And it's good it's not named KRP, cos thats way to close to KRAP/CRAP, which isn't a good slant but is however connected to my anus, interestingly enough.

I was not suggesting there is no possible way of dealing with feelings of possessiveness, I was just questioning if in this situation that was really the answer. And yes, I do know Daoist techniques work. As for your children it's not really that simple, no matter what you say or communicate to a kid, no kid wants to be thinking of his/her mother doing the mattress mambo with anyone except his/her father. It creates split loyalties that a kid finds really hard to deal with, and if/when the marriage breaks up all the subsequent difficulties will be blamed on someone. You see, no matter which choice you make at this point it will likely to have some negative effect, actually from a wider perspective all decisions are right and wrong at the same time. That simply means you can only do what your gonna do, and it seems you have already made up your mind and know what you want to do. So I truly wish you all the best with that. Good luck

AHHHHH, So he did say 'Kundalini Awakening Process' BUT did he abbreviate??? It's not a serious question. I'm very pleased that KAP doesn't suck, I would find it hard to believe that anything that came from that man would suck...... It seems a ninja brothers honor has been restored, my work here is done.... I will now ride off into the sunset. By the way, I have a quick question, if I may be so bold, is the contraction of the anus when I've merged the balls from my feet into the ball at the perenium in order to fire it up my spine really necessary, I find it most distracting, and the main problem is I'm not sure I'm doing it right although I do get results, it just really puts me off my breathing you know. It feels as though it goes up anyway these days.

Searching For Nothing Yet Finding Everything Full Of The Unknown Heart

Hmmmm, This one has a few too many layers to be simple. Jealousy..... you had/have a mother, when you were a baby you could not and did not differentiate her and yourself, she was key to your survival, any fear of not having her attention and therefore staying alive, makes the basic survival instinct kick. it's our first experience of jealousy, especially if you had older brothers or sisters. This when you become an adult is transposed/projected onto the woman. It is admirable that you are trying to work on this, what you are really working with and doing generally is called 'inner child' work, the inner child is thought to remain inside with all its feeling base even though our social learned self is layered over it. But when 'it' considers its position is being threatened it kicks off its feelings regardless of logic. He/she has no logic, it/you did not develop past that stage. It is connected to the shadow, and all the so called negative feeling we have that we repress due to social conditioning, however, there comes a time when it will not be ignored......and then the sh*t really hits the fan. I disagree with the previous poster who said your wife is not your possession, in actual fact as far as I can make out you are trying your best to go against that feeling as can be seen by what you are trying to do.... I do agree no one should consider a wife/husband a possession but the inner child just doesn't give a toss, to him your mother was one of the same as you, your consciousness had not developed beyond that, so your logic says 'not my possession but your emotion says 'screw that, definately mine!' The battle you are trying to win will take you deeper and deeper down to the shadow, not necessarily a bad thing....but...... I gotta say man, this is all wrong, yes you have kids, but I would like to remind you that marriage is a human creation. And yes you care about her, that much is apparent, but your love is that of a brother or close friend. The pair of you are selling yourselves short....and yes I know you have kids.... but so what, so you have to stay like this for the next ...what...15 years...... . I will not congratulate you for that, I'm sorry but it's cowardice on some level, you are misguided by societies mores I think....Daoism has no mores. What psychological damage do you think will occur when one day your kids find out this situation....and they WILL find out, your an adult, you can take it, what about them. Divorce is not so bad, actually every person I have known from a so called 'broken' home has been very wise emotionally, there are no right answers, every decision is right and wrong at the same time, it simply depends on perspective. I salute your desire to work with your jealousy....BUT.... were not talking about you being possessive and not letting your wife out the house are we? We talking about the fact that your in a marriage where both people are actually close friends, and thats nice.... it is. But, let me tell you from personal experience when one plays away, one day, maybe not today, but sometime, someones gonna fall in love and want out! And once that passion kicks in all hell will break loose, and it seems your the one who's gonna pick up the pieces.....don't tell me she just wants sexual experience, that's YOUR thinking not hers, she wants what almost every woman desires at some point in their life before their dreams may have been dashed......deep burning love and passion, all encompassing..... you can't fight that dude... you just can't, people kill for that. You are also negating your own desire for this, I cannot believe you don't also have this urge, it is a normal human urge, I think you have just better ability at repressing it for the sake of practicality and following societies expectation than your wife, that's also understandable as most women are much more in touch and honest about their feelings than men. I think you need to go way back man, and take a look at why you chose this woman, instead of a person you felt deep passion for and her the same, it's connected to your upbringing somehow. It seems you both chose security over real feeling, and you are still choosing this, she however it seems knows she needs more. Dude, trust me, from one who knows..... this is gonna go pear shaped. Creating rules and so on may work for a time, but honestly, if I were married to you(I know that's a horrific thought cos I'm male)I'd leave you for a person I felt deep passion and love for...... and let me tell you something straight..... if that guy can rock her world in the bedroom department you can be sure her emotions will kick in at some point, especially if she didn't have much experience before you. Some females here may be inclined to disagree and say 'no no, it's this or that, not that', but let me tell you as a man who has excellent bedroom department references ie. 'that was amazing', 'the best I ever had' and the best one of all 'ooooohhhhhhhhhhhh', followed by an amazed look in the eyes and abdominal contractions that last for 3 minutes........ after that they fall hook line and sinker, I don't presume to know why, I only know it's a hundred percent the case. I'm not telling you this to be an assh*le, I'm telling you this cos you seem to really wanna keep the relationship together and are really working hard on it, but your work is misplaced my friend and will ultimately come to a sad ending. I have been on both sides, I know what I'm talking about. This is a long reply, and I apologize for that. You seem both like you are close and good friends, but if it goes on like this it may end very badly, and then people will get hurt anyway. In daoism people learn to let go....... that includes outstayed relationships my friend. Your passion is elsewhere, and so is hers. It's natural. You need to stop repressing yourself. We all fear change, yet still water stagnates, life is not meant to be that way, it's not your fault or hers, we didn't decide marriage was right and proper, someone else did hundreds of years ago and we are still paying for it with our conditioned beliefs, the tao knows not structure. People may disagree with me, but I'm from a divorced family and I highly recommend it, much better than seeing both parents miserable and arguing with each other. I wanna see people happy, that includes my parents. I just don't buy the whole 'stay together for the kids' line, in my experience it simply covered a fear of change and ultimately cowardice, and that's ok, we are all cowards in some way...bu we're not meant to stay that way. Good luck.

er..... So, the basic gist of this discussion is KAP sucks and that because Glenn Morris invented it and died at 62 it must therefore suck. I have a slight contention to make, Dr. Glenn, 10th dan Ninpo man, when he first synthesized his method of awakening the Kundalini experience and put it in his frankly great book 'path notes of an American ninja master' never actually referred to it as KAP, he simply said here's what I got and try it. After some years a couple of his students in that developed further techniques that apparently made it better, then they called it KAP, I'm not sure Glenn Morris ever called it KAP, and if so this whole argument is defunct. I might be wrong though. Actually I don't believe anyone has suggested awakening the kundalini leads to longevity. It's not like there are ads around saying 'fire a snake from ya perenium and live a long time or your money back!', actually that would be a good one, there'd be long gone by the time they would want their money back. All I can say is his method in 'path notes' produces results. KAP, BBC, ABC, 123.......ohhh look, we've by chance got onto Michael Jackson, he died young too, he didn't practice KAP.

I'm wearing slippers, no laces to look down at, actually my laces were put in the washing machine about an hour ago along with the shoes due to contracting some strange fungus from the beach. Since you're up a mountain It would be wise for you to not look down Thanks a lot for the warm welcome everyone

Hello all, Having studied Ninjutsu and other esoteric stuff I have to say Dr.Glenn Morris really wrote a fantastic book 'path notes of an American Ninja master', I have not had the pleasure of reading his others as of yet. But I will say in Ninjutsu circles most of the things he speaks of is not openly spoken about, which can at times be really frustrating, although there are reasons for it, martial at its root, but because he sought his own path many of the things he learnt himself he could therefore teach openly without going against any of the traditional secrecy. His style of writing about Ninjutsu and other esoteric subjects was down to earth and refreshing. He certainly gave me a more rounded understanding of my training and path and where I should be heading. Many if not all of the things he talks about within ninjutsu can be verified, by aware students of the art. For example he talks about teachers being able to convey short simple messages through telepathy, an experience I myself have had through one of my teachers. It's a real shame he is no longer on this plane as I reckon he had a quite a few more books in him and other valuable experience to offer, still I'm sure wherever he is now he's having fun teaching directly through energy. Perhaps that is much more fun, more than we can imagine. He is the only ninjutsu teacher to my knowledge to have put the true point of ninjutsu training and the ultimate goal within the system in book form, namely enlightenment, and explain much of it clearly, Togakure ryu is the school of the hidden door, and the hidden door is the exit point of this world and the other dimensions within it, it's not an easy door to open much less get through, I hope Glenn Morris found his hidden door. I never had the honor of meeting the man or communicating with him, but I give a big salute and thank you to my Ninja brother wherever he may be.