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thanks for sharing

http://screen.yahoo.com/hamster-plays-dead-on-command-29512190.html the article on the rising ocean levels leaving the ocean floor dry and exposing atlantis looked interesting

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"This state lasted for about an hour. Then I cried for another hour, and the effect gradually disappeared." sounds very purifying. lightning calls the thunder.

vmarco, you have alot of wars going on. no fear. millions of viscious dog bites each day and trillions in religious subsidies ? self reliance and self responsibility. try it.

"As for the best quality schools around this here area, would have to be Richard Clear in Maysville(or Maryville, will check and edit) and the Yin Fu school in Knoxville." maryville. for the yin fu and clear. i still favor scotty and ricky

Dale Dugas, it is always great to have a baguazhang artist join in TTB discussion. welcome.

baguazhang is great fun each step one takes along the path is a step well taken. empowering great fun it is. some of us forest dwelling baguazhangers here in kentucky are always willing to play and share. it gives us great joy to do so. do drop in sometime. baguazhang is? a. martial art b. medical qigong c. healing art d. spiritual art e. taoist alchemy f. shamanistic g. other worldly h. humbling yet empowering http://dragongatesanctuary.com/gallery/baguazhang/ i am lucky to have baguazhang friends from 5 different schools. baguazhang is always baguazhang all of it is useful

i know , right?! beating the dead horse may seem inutile. who keeps starting these heedless threads? alot of folks here in usa seem to think that this years election is going to define the future of this country. imo it isnt such a big deal. i just participate in these threads for the practice of folly and i am aware of it. others may not be so aware of their folly and waste of good energy. those who keep repeating the same lies and positions until (they hope) it is accepted as some factual truth imo demonstrates fascist tendencies and behavior . maybe such is the way of present day american politics. it is only going to heat up during the summer. sigh.

erwin schrodinger. (1964) My View of the World. Cambridge University Press "It is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling, and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago; rather this knowledge, feeling and choice are essentially eternal and unchangeable and numerically one in all men, nay in all sensitive beings. But not in this sense - that you are a part, a piece, of an eternal, infinite being, an aspect or modification of it, as in Spinoza's pantheism. For we should have the same baffling question: which part, which aspect are you? What, objectively, differentiates it from the others? No, but inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason, you - and all other concious beings as such - are all in all. Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance." and "Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering. And not merely 'some day'; now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end."

i thinks The Real Elucidation of Zhou says that to we can use pre heaven qi to return our post heaven qi to the state before our birth. to reach this goal we need to know the secrets of how and why, the way of doing this is hidden in the five elements. sun lu tang in his 1916 book The Study of Bagua Fist delves into this.

in the valley of the shadow its just you, alabama, and me majordomo billy bojangles sit and have a drink of tea with me reserve me a table for three "For anyone who calls themselves a Taoist, and supports the right wing of the Republican party is not a Taoist. " :lol: is someone who supports the left wing agenda a taoist? are you a taoist ralis? (i thought it was thelerner who decided who is or who is not a taoist?)(inside joke) taoist and politics mix or do not mix? some say anarchists are taoist? the taoist who votes is not the true taoist? i dont reckon it matters about ones politics if one is taoist or not. there is more than one view. believing your own perspective is the only correct one is very limited and limiting and very telling. speaks volumes , really. apparently this is a big favorite in berlin if ya cant see the forest for the trees? hoping ya can follow abstract thought

as a single drop of water

yeah we are , but not so easy for everyone else. it is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. if one is soft they can also be hard. but being hard is no guarantee of being soft. being hard only is being stagnant and dull. being soft is being agile, swift, flexible and sharp. only a softie can manifest proper fa jin. most folks never ponder, play, or grasp the secret of softness.

yeah, there is a need to know when to go from soft to hard or hard to soft. kinda like in the xingyiquan, stay soft until the moment to go hard. i understand softness as the way i need to be to freely flow the energy. if i am soft i can send it where i wish.

archetypes in the matrix i keep getting confused: with order/chaos which is yin , which is yang?

so today a friend handed me alan watts' The Book looking forward to the read.

a couple of days ago i was way out in the woods and met "hank" a pit bull / jack russell mix. he was the coolest. as everyone were firing their rifles and guns, and they offered for me to shoot as they had 2000 rounds to fire that day. but i was content playing around with hank. such a friendly doggie.

muscle tendon changing classics are some of the very best exercises there are. you can tell who did and who didnt do these. just do them.

this thread? sometimes the energy that was present when the thread was started , kinda like the original qi for the thread, or pre heaven qi, and then the post heaven or other energy contributed into the thread that propels it, well i really dont understand any of that, but this thread? anyways, primus and their ponies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d0M3ivSi4k&feature=related

hell yeah, owl was elected king i kinda liked turtle tho. and owl and turtle were my two top choices. i know one bum will not be too pleased to hear of the owl's rise to king. hope we dont have 14 viscious owl threads pop up.

this dvd starts off with the bamboo palm. i watched it again last night this dvd contains alot of information and training methods. it was one of the first two i ordered , along with iron shirt. this one dvd kept me busy for awhile. and i think this dvd with the other 3 i have already reviewed will give anyone interested in baguazhang a great start. maybe if you have this one , there is not a need for the bamboo palm dvd. i am glad i have both however. but i started with this one. it still gives and gives. Lao Xie covers alot of material quickly , but he gives the important points along the way. this dvd is a bit different from his others. the deadlier side of baguazhang is touched upon here. edit> i had posted the wrong image of the dvd, title is still the same. here is the one i have

i aint no vicious dog, i aint no vicious frog but i may be the big bad wolf here is just a howling wolf thinking he is a little red rooster schmoke sctack schmoke-ing join the chorus

ribbbit hey bull frog , doin it again?

Jaysahn, you were testing your iron shirt against a ford ranger? i know, i know, i should've seen the truck, right?