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the ones that my clan provided me sure work fine. i kinda want to ask for some more

yeah the frog jumping in weight vests stirred my memory and when you said the word sadistic , well that sealed it hahaha one summer me and 2 friends wore those damn weight vests not just for workouts but 24'7 for 100 days. when we took them off and went to a tennessee tavern, as soon as we walked in everybody wanted to buy our drinks. cant imagine why.

i am gonna go out on a limb and say soard and sin kwang the'

i watched this film this past week. despite the title it isnt about the current gun debate (or is it) http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/menwithguns/production.html edit> it is about the uglier side of fascism

i am thinking i know your teacher edit> 55 pound weight vests perhaps?

mud stepping is going to be a much faster direction change then crane stepping i have 3 friends who only crane step, presumably to be able to step over the fallen ones you change directions with your palm changes waist still leads

wu wei is very simple thing yet it is very difficult to explain just like "sweet" and "hot" it needs to be experienced to be understood. so understanding comes from the experience and not from intellectual talking about it. how do we get the experience? my meditation is based on wu wei and zi ran and from meditation i gain the understanding if i tell you i feel wu wei is not forcing the action and being in harmony with the natural rythmns there is still much that does get conveyed

ok the last cat i posted is actually a self portrait hehehe ok not really but i would drink dos equis with that cat this next cat may have drinken yeah i said drinken too many dos equis in nawrlens yesterday

We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/notedweed.html

i think we need to understand how fortunate we are to have a practice/cultivation and like you say it needs to be done daily. all daily hahaha halfway joking there ; ) and experience , yes. and experience for experience's sake alone. and BE authentic and true edit> and from my perspective, with a good cultivation practice comes responsibility, my idea about responsibility is not like taking the blame for sth but rather it is the ability to respond

some questions to some random posts here i could sit down and die right now if i wanted to can you rise up and truly live? force-feeding us. go on a fast TGIM its great we've got jobs mondays are great becoz i dont have to go to a job TOO MUCH WAR yup All the same same as it ever was an Anarchist brother! I plan to live forever immortal brother!! power to emanate love true power to truly survive is to be happy. surthrive

i am not attacking anything except that there could exist empirical truth. it is good to see PFL back on the forum

yamu, that is a very mundane post. and i heard somewhere,, chogyam trunkpa i think, say that embracing the mundane one gets there somehow. of course the post has no weakness and i like this nugget > " Laugh and enjoy yourself " and i agree , one could relax put their "carefree and natural" on and walk around all day with a smile. and it will be a good practice. soon you will notice others smiling back at you and friendly exchanges. it will be wonderful for your health. and spirit will be raised.

empirical truth? now that is hilarious. there could be empirical data or maybe even empircal evidence. empirical truth??? cmon man usually i see empirical conjecture, but i digress

sime is very wise

you saw my post tho? coz you had me in the spirit and ready to rrrrrrrrrrrrummmmmmmmble hahaha

edit out as well but dang luke i liked your style

i enjoyed the link very much, thanks for sharing

i have that book, my friend lazy cloud was kind enuff to leave it on my bookshelf. i like jungs contribution in that book. " A thought is a thought" i like that and i may use it , if its ok? most likely i will use it anyway. anyways a thought has power, the spoken word has enuff power to cause creation and yet it is the thought that comes b4 the spoken word. or should hahaha

and just like that the little cat prances off ? it is a wonderful post gatito. on the path, there are always comings and goings. sometimes cats do get curious tho and maybe they come back to check on us from time to time. your star burns bright and clear. be safe and happy

stick with it konchog uma @phi92 heraclitus and parmenides were being discussed when i first joined ttb. there was also a stoics/taoism thread. lots of philosophers get mentioned and looked at from time to time here. but what i liked most about your post is "it's very personal." sometimes folks talk about religious Taoism and i am in an esoteric sect, for me Taoism is just life @reed, i stumbled in too, and am still stumbling around here

i dont see rampant but i do see spotty remnants. this is a great site. some of us have been on here for years. there is a good reason for that.

seth, and everyone. i am gonna give an example , maybe not as easily understood, but still appplies imo i live in rural appalachia, its cool with me and i prefer it here than anywheres else. but, us folks in the hills frequently get called hillbilly, redneck, hick, inbred, all kinds of things that other groups ie blacks for example simply would not tolerate and becoz of the focus about discrimination against blacks, most folks are mindful of language used around and about them. for some reason it is still acceptable to call someone a hillbilly. i take it as the highest compliment, but many would consider it derrogatory.when the feds dea and big pharma and the banks colluded to intentionally unleash oxycontin thru-out this region, immediately terms like pillbillies and hillbilly heroin arose. such labels only fuel wildly innacurate stereotypes and belittle folks facing serious social economic problems. so i understand. and i do object when someone uses similar tactics against other groups of folks. becoz the reason they do it to us is to keep us subjected and to keep us down. to come in and rob us of our natural resources. they have used the us military to kill americans here in appalachia many times for a labor coal strike etc. but if the general public at large has been told that we are just a bunch of unruly hillbillies that wouldnt know how to take care of ourselves anyways, there wont be an outrage, the reality will never be known. earlier today i posted a film in the facism and solutions threads about guatemala. they are not looked at as being the descendants of the Maya. they are portrayed horribly and for the same exact reasons, so they can be robbed and murdered for their natural resources. so seth, K, it is good to see you bums speak out and take action.