zerostao

focus on the flame of a candle and be aware of every flicker ,motion, color, expansion, flames within the flame, etc

nice.

for sure i have never contemplated anything endlessly yet. i liked your post alot oodjee, that is why i responded. but it is you that brought up determinism,time, space, infinite, cause and effect, motion,,, i have never been aware of my body or awareness occupying infinite space, so i cannot speak to that. you seem familiar, but i guess that cant be, as this is our first meeting, i suppose? welcome to the tao bums. yes it is taoist forum, thanks for the reminder. interested to hear more of your views on taoism. the quote is pulled from a new topic i started in the off topic section.

under the aegis of the john templeton foundation and the copenhagen university research priority area on religion in the 21st century. some of my favorite personalities got together with some others and i first was aware of this becoz of paul davies about 4 years ago. anyways i have mentioned this book before here on TTB and recent threads about quantum physics, free will, spirituality, religion, philosophy, have brought me to posting this thread. the book i have mentioned a few times here is http://www.amazon.co...ture+of+reality here is a short video from the nour foundation. henry stapp was in attendence at copenhagen (and shares my admiration of heisenberg) dang i hope he does go into the zeno effect! http://www.youtube.c...&feature=relmfu http://www.esalenctr...id=161&pgtype=1

http://www-physics.lbl.gov/~stapp/FW.pdf many personalities expressed ideas at copenhagen for now i am going to explore stapp. free will. and how science may be getting closer to actually acknowledging and accepting many ancient Taoist ideas (truths) such as immortality, co-creation,,,,,,,, stay tuned for further updates

"However, the dynamical structure of quantum theory contains certain causal gaps. In particular, the process-1 agent-generated choices of probing actions are determined, within the theory, neither by the physically described aspects of nature, nor by any non-human agency. Thus, within the framework of orthodox quantum mechanics, the process-1 probing actions are, according to the specified criterion, manifestations of human free will, and they have, by virtue of the dynamical rules of quantum theory itself, the capacity to influence, in consciously intended ways, the physical actions of the agent. Thus the passage from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics converts human beings from mechanical automata to causally efficacious conscious agents whose conscious intentional efforts can, by virtue of the quantum laws themselves, cause to occur the intended physical action and increase in knowledge."

i call it top-level -control.

wu wei is being in harmony with nature (the Tao)

that bonus tune almost made me feel lonely. it is bluegrass festival season here in the hills, but i will spare ya'll heheh this song crossed my path the other day, thought i would share reckon i will see ralph stanley and friends september at big poppy

i prefer the sparrow,wren, and the hummingbird to pins and needles, but that is just me, i reckon. or golden pins and silver needles , you choose

sword foundations dvd if you have ever watched a DGS dvd you have noticed at the beginning he is doing the iron shirt and then Chris Matsuo is looking at you and making small circles with his sword. the sword foundations video gives the insight on this. and if your goal is martial arts, then this is good material. and if your goal is energetics, then this is good material, if your goal is Shen, then this is good material if you have not connected your ldt to your palms yet and you wish to do so, this dvd tells you how to quickly it may be called sword foundations but do not take that as beginning level basics only it is excellent material and knowledge on here you wont expect to find on here

doesnt a person (or anyone) have free will, if and only if, they are free to choose the will that they want? seems to me that some folks have freedom of will and others do not.

yes there is but it is called sth different. what is the goal of taijiquan?

choose your drinking partners wisely(i reckon) didnt a couple of Taoist immortals meet in a similar way? show me the way(to the pub)

up in my neck of the woods, it is a better service to stop filling up the hummingbird feeders soon after labor day. that way they will head on down and visit MH for the winter. but it is great to put out bird seed here in the winter , that way local birds i never knew exisited show up and hang out. and the birds behave in the most polite manner with each other around the seed. birds are really very personable and friendly, their presence and company is very enjoyable. i never understood how some folks viewed sparrows and wrens as some sort of pests. they are both truly amazing and fascinating creatures. wu wei has been brought up a few times on this thread but i didnt notice if ziran had?

yeah! look forward to your return, tell the Tao , i said howdy

welcome

one great thing about america, is that we can openly make fun of and laugh at our elected "leaders" and while i do like obama, when he comes out with sth like which may be partialy correct???? but can lead to this sorta thing

last night with a strong lightning storm, strong winds, heavy rains. i was sitting on my front porch, and i noticed this sparrow, that was riding the storm out, resting on top of a column that held up 2 main beams that met at the corner of the porch. so this sparrow had a very safe dry spot shielded from the winds and rains. she didnt seem to mind my swinging on the porch swing. and we both just enjoyed natures wonderful storm together.

there are most definately benefits to rubbing the ldt and also the mdt. i dont know about the 300 or 81 numbers. 36 and or 24 should suffice. also an accumulating qi method of drawing a spiral pattern above ldt, without touching the body.with right hand cw. for men ccr for women, gradually increase size of spiral over your body as far as you can reach and then graduallu decrease spiral back to ldt and repeat as many times as you like. will accumulate qi quickly. allows genuine -qi to fill up your dantien and increases potential for qi to pass thru qi circualtion paths. after you have stopped spiralling , the genuine -qi will condense towards your center. kinda like the sensation of swirling water in a bucket. qi is gathered and will fill your entire body in a short period of time.

http://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Worlds-M-C-Escher/product-reviews/0681891203/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 nice pictures http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item1175269/?site_locale=en_US nice pictures

on many of the roads close to me , you could meditate for hours undisturbed. aligators are not very aggressive. crocodiles a different creature. when i lived in florida i swam amongst aligators. later gators, afterwhile , you crocodile.

ever since i saw keith richards wearing one of those in undercover of the night i always wanted one