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Lol you're requesting us to get our heads checked from one inconclusive video that you built a narrative around? Thats quite lame, Walker, seeing that one person threw one set of PPE into the bin, which, for all we know, some bird could have pooped on and rendered useless. Its inconclusive, at best, and I remain open to more convincing arguments. As for the trouble you took to refute my views, its appreciated, although there were one too many assumptions and self importance attached to raise the question whether the overall content is worthy of further scrutiny. Not to mention the frequent need to insult to prop up your views, which inadvertently renders your opinion less valuable overall. Not sure why your demeanour here have devolved to this extent, because the Walker from before, if i recall, was someone whose views I'd appreciated highly. Quite sad really. C'est la vie.

The highest vibration you can generate is from cultivating a heart of loving kindness, simplicity, patience and joyful giving. With loving kindness, your food will naturally be suffused with good vibration. With simplicity, you make little demands on what is consumed, so you become free of craving and greed. With patience, you generate forbearance for those who only care for their own satisfaction, and those whose work generate heavy karma from having to kill and slaughter animals and other living beings so as to make these available for consumption. With joyful giving, you will break the hold of self-cherishing, and find happiness in sharing what you have with others in a spirit of brotherly/sisterly affection. So, don't worry so much about the effects of microwaved food. Learn to cultivate instead what is truly vital for your inner well being, and everything else will fall into place. Nothing will have a hold over you enough to displace your serenity, and even if you were to have only one spoon of rice or a slice of bread for sustenance, you will be blessedly sustained.

Entertainment for nouveau western Taoists... little to zilch benefit because it leads to self cherishing, which is ultimately of a contractive nature and defeats the purpose of charging the food. That being so, no matter how much one believes that the energy of the food eaten was somehow 'raised', its just a feel good thing, with no lasting benefit. You'd derive more benefit from merely eating calmly and unhurriedly, and with full attention to the whole process, from purchasing the ingredients, to cleaning, storage, raw preparation, cooking.... right through to the eventual expelling of the waste, which in itself contains a compassionate visualization practice of Yama absorbing the sorrow of living beings' neuroticism into his bottomless belly.

Alas.... Trump is only behind himself lol He don't give a rats behind about any research, only what he & his cronies can make out of a potential wonder drug. Isn't that already obvious to anyone with a fair degree of awareness? An awareness, perhaps, of the latest fiasco with the 200k masks going to commercial entities in NY would be a good starting point for reflecting on the degree of his resolute greed and fear. Fear that he will no longer be the centre of attention. Fear of losing the election. Fear that he, his family and his close buddies will not gain financially from this unseen enemy slowly crippling the country.

While all expedients, including and especially scriptures and texts, are found to be lacking ultimately, nonetheless their unique and universal functions in enabling the fruitfulness/futileness of Tao should not be underestimated nor dismissed as not-Tao. It may well be frugal to lean in with the notion that experiential discoveries based on the teachings and guidance of masters may well uncover what the Tao is not - and through a constant process of endless negations, one is likened to have arrived at the gate of the nondescript, although in truth, one's passive activity throughout remained only that of pursuing what is not Tao. Effectively, one has not impinged on Tao through active seeking, and can therefore be said to have 'done nothing'.

Thanks, Dawei

nope, but regionally, we're practically neighbours. Thus I'm quite familiar with the goings-on around these parts. And I'm not a sympathizer of the CCP by any means - I find their human rights policies unsavoury, plus I think the way they invaded Tibet was despicable, but at least they were upfront about it, and made no attempt to sugarcoat the invasion, like what the other superpower in the West habitually does, and none too successfully, I might add. So, the definition of oppression have subtle nuances, and one must take all angles into consideration when attempting comparisons.

In some ways, the CCP is similar to Nature. Work in accordance with its principles, and one can attain all of what one desires. Exert your will upon it, and sooner or later, one comes to a dead end. No govt hands out free lunches, and the CCP is no exception. At least they make clear and are more overt with the rules of engagement, and except for Tibet, have always been quick to render solutions to those who reach out for aid, without any threats nor arrogance in the negotiation processes, unlike the US.

This Hydrochloroquine wonder drug that Trump is harping on about is believed to be supplied to the Fed Govt by Rising Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of the bankrupted Aceto Corp. Ordinarily, this won't be so interesting, but with Trump plugging a drug linked to a bankrupted company, that is revealing in itself. Was denied access when I wanted to find out who were sitting on Aceto's board of directors.

Unlocking the eternal secrets of Tao is not that mysterious or difficult, after all.. haha btw, thats a poached egg on the top

thanks for the laugh-a-minute quips, good shit.

Oh, you wouldn't know how much I wish this was true.

speaking of avo on toast....

Thanks for noticing lol You wouldn't know content if it smacked you on the forehead. Maybe thats just what you need to temper that foul mouthed demeanour of yours.

Proof's in the pudding. You ought to be well clued in on that at least. Just mind your dreams ok. Ciao lol

You take care too, bro. I have met many Filipinos in my time.... all good people. A natural flair for singing! _/\_

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If anything, you really are a humorous distraction on TDB. Thanks for the laughs. Good Shit, man.

Same here. 3,333 today. And, under more agreeable circumstances, thats meant to be an auspicious number lol

You have been scanned, yet have no clue where, when and how. Maan... you really are hopeless.

Oblivious even after being exposed as a fraud. The epitome of delusion, poop slinger.

nobody worships a poop slinger, and GS (good shit perchance?) had an infamous rep for it. Still do. Even if you were God reincarnate in whatever form you claim to be, you'd still be ridiculed. Too bad. You brought it on yourself. It could've been different had you approached differently. This is the sort of foolishness people with a slick mouth & idleness get up to. Games and ego polishing. Empty in the wisdom dept., just foul mouth and foul mind, slinging shit.

Yes, perhaps they are, and they're not alone. Indonesia too have been adopting quite a liberal stance for the rest of the country except for Jakarta, and they have 270 million people, and comparatively, with only 1800 cases, Sweden's definitely not doing too great with their plan. I believe Indonesia recorded initial cases before Sweden did. One very odd thing I noticed with Indonesia though is the over-reaction from the central government - something does not sit right when it was revealed recently they have just drafted in an additional 6000 personnel, both medic and non-medic, to prepare for a major response. Thats certainly reactionary. In fact, the overall Asian vibe seems rather reactionary at this stage. Even India, with its known challenges in terms of sanitation, cleanliness, and massive urban populaces, has so far recorded only 2,069 (USA 226,000??) cases. Im aware these numbers should not be taken at face value, but if it was somewhat close-ish to accurate, then maybe there really is something thats not gelling too well with this so-called 'pandemic'.

The origins: The earliest Daoist school emerged during the Later Han period 後漢 (25-220 CE), when the political centre lost its grip on the provinces. It was especially the northern region of Shu 蜀, the modern province of Sichuan, where numerous religious movements blossomed. The leaders of these movements were healers that promised their followers the liberation from diseases if the believers repented their sins, underwent a series of exorcist sessions and ingested charms dissolved in water. The two earliest movements were the Way of the Five Pecks of Grain (Wudoumi dao 五斗米道), called so because their leaders, the Heavenly Masters (tianshi 天師), levied a certain tax from their believers in the shape of millet or rice, and the Way of Great Peace (Taiping dao 太平道). Present time: It is hard to tell the exact number of Daoist schools. There were greater, famous and more influential schools like the Quanzhen or Zhenyi Schools, and also some less known ones like the Bojia School 帛家道 or the Lijia School 李家道, and others are actually only side-branches of one tradition, like the Xuanjiao School 玄教, the Longmen School 龍門派 or the Tianxin School 天心派. In some instances, it can be said that some schools were later stages of earlier schools and had developed out of them, like the Five-Pecks-of-Grain School, the Longhu Church 龍虎宗 or the Zhenyi School 正一道, or the Shangqing School and the the Maoshan Church 茅山宗, the Lingbao School and the Gezao Church 閣皂宗. Depending on the grade of difference in their teachings and practice, they are described here as different schools. Concerning some of the Daoist schools, there is not a sufficient amount of historiographical material to provide a deeper insight into their teachings and history, like the Wudang School 武當道, the Laoshan School 嶗山派, the Sanfeng School, the Sazu School, or the many branches of the Quanzhen School, like the Longmen 龍門, Suishan 隨山, Nanwu (or Namo) 南無, Yuxian 遇仙, Huashan 華山, Yushan 嵛山 or Qingjing 清靜 schools. For some younger schools, doctrinal differences are so small that they can barely be called separate schools, like Lu Xixing's 陸西星 Eastern School of the Inner Alchemy (Neidan dongpai 内丹東派( and Li Xiyue's 李西月 Western School of the Inner Alchemy (Neidan xipai 内丹西派) which are both currents in the Quanzhen tradition. Open to being fact-checked.

Atop the bare birch faeries dance.. the sky, heavy a sphingidae snores