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you are welcome to come find some rest in kentucky and regroup. should be interesting. its out in some nature and you would have to come up with your own cigarettes. otherwise dont sweat the small stuff. edit>>i am not claiming to be a master or an expert on anything. i got the bum thing down good tho.

of course Coelho is gonna be a pirate arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

yeppers it is just another wonderful day in the tao as long as any living creature continues to be attacked i will continue to be their advocate. when the attacks stop i will shut the #$%^ up. in the meanwhile, i really dont have anything better to do.

for informational purposes, i co-sponsored the grab a corona and call in sick act. i knew politicians would pass it into law becoz then each of us would have more time to pay attention to the politicians and not be bothered by senseless activities like work. which would interfere with their craving s for undivided attention from their constituency. (not to be confused with the constitution by the way) sinfest your posts are so concise and lucid, so taoey. i once had a turtle named taoey. american politics not very taoey. still they give great comedic entertainment value. and if one needed a quick study on how best to lie. they hold class every single day. open enrollment.

the ping heng gong thread in the taoist discussion area may be of interest to you. there are many older threads here about moving, manipulating, sensing qi.

",...I, like many others who don't spend their days on the internet ridiculing from partially comprehending posts" pure gold that one. "we need to draw our attention to what is false in us, for unless we learn to recognize the false as the false, there can be no lasting transformation, and you will always be drawn back into illusion, for that is how the false perpetuates itself" Eckhart Tolle vmarco keep reading this one until you understand it "The owner, a white trash woman" is this how a truly spiritual person refers to their neighbor? i am happy that we are making progress at least you stopped calling all hawaiians terrorists.

good and true friends will do that. let the boys be boys. sometimes we try to bash (figuatively of course) the other guys brains in to make them aware of when they need to be made aware. i always appreciate it when a hard hitting bum knocks the daylights out of me.

i hear ya brother and they don't just go away and they dont play nice either. i am looking at a long run approach. not sure if you know about timisora 1989? it is true they gained their freedom but it was bloody costly. the powers that be are already concerned , that is why they passed that punk legislation.

"Give them some snacks" simple yet brilliant. be a buddie to the dog! go figure. "Here on the taobums we are your friends." yes indeed yes indeed

great post Serene Blue i especially agree with the seed bank idea. i live in a very rural setting and have many of the skills you have mentioned. for example , i know some easy ways to work up the ground without machinery. and i have discussed on this forum how our food supplies (becoz of hybrid seeds ) are in fewer and fewer hands. and this type of thing folks seem to accept without reservation. scotty i share your concern over the obvious tryanny, but lets start with the small practical things and then as we become more self sufficient and less dependant on the large corporations and the govt, we can then tackle the larger concerns. let us build our foundation first.

change will not come from the elite leaders at the top. change will work its way up from the bottom/grass roots levels. in fact it is already underway. the leaders at the top havnt noticed becoz they are full of themselves. shhhhhh be the change you wish to see

my posts may exhibit as vmarco says " incomprehensiveness " but now i understand how he can say that each day millions of people are terrorized by viscious dogs. his definition of terrorism> "if a dog terrorizes (through barking, growling, lunging" "For those here who are not interrupted 20 times per day by barking, growling, lunging, vicious breeds," dogs do bark this is how they communicate. i am sure you hear dogs barking 20 times a day or week. if the dog is growling at you while you are walking past his yard. he is communicating to you, hey dude keep on rolling. letting you know he is watching you and your actions. in fact all dogs bark and growl and lunge not just "viscious breeds" the lunge is also communication , it lets you know that you shouldnt think about entering his yard. this is one way a dog earns his keep and pulls his weight. so yes i am sure that each day millions of dogs bark. this does not make it terrorism. if the dog didnt bark to warn you it would be rude on the dogs part. "live in fear-based countries like in the America's (with the acception of Costa Rica)." i live in america and i dont see alot of fear. it is very rare thing in my neck of the woods. what is to fear?

if you are just getting acquainted with your qi maybe sending it to your head is not the safest way to begin. maybe out your fingers or palms then try your feet. store in ldt.

i also find Gerard inspirational i have not yet met a baguazhang player who is not inspirational. lifeforce you can still continue with the xingyi too. if you have heard tons and tons, then you have not met my friend scott yet , as he will further peel back the onion to reveal tons and tons more. he is also in the opinion that he can teach bgz to anyone. it gets labeled as being complicated , it kinda is but in a simple way. it may be complicated to keep up with all the inner workings going on, but the external movements can be simplified. as far as the month idea, you will know when it is time to change. everyone keep sharing about the baguazhang and keep playing with it.

thanks for noticing my arrogance btw, i have often wondered if it was just delusion. and again it goes to perception. i noticed sth else. where you used the word uncontrollable. and if we put some label on something. in this case that something being a living creature and that label as viscious, by this classification do you think there is more "control" over it? and if we can not control it to a level where you feel more comfortable, let's just do away with this thing entirely. this world , this life is filled with uncertainty. and i think your cognitive schematta is looking for a way aimed at "uncertainty reduction" we all have differing tolerances for handling uncertainty. and we have here an example of how extreme the bipolarity can go. life is not so tidy or simple as everything is either good or evil, black or white, caring or viscious, unless we keep this black and white mentality. life consists of alot of grey. between my extreme view and your extreme view there is alot in between. when we start making inferences instead of facts we come dangerously close to an attrubutional attitude. we are acting on our self -serving bias'. some blame outside forces for whatever thing goes wrong for them. is the this an external or an internal thing going on? there is alot of things on our planet that are uncontrollable alot of these things are dangerous. we are not going to systematically rid ourselves of these types of things. learn how to live with them. edit> i was going to mention the obvious bias of someone named "cat" speaking about dogs.

gingrich is probably too smart to be president imo. we need to keep this dummy on down policy going on. i am not sure we can ever find a candidate who can match GWB 43 as the perfect dummied down president. and what a mess obama had to deal with in the wake of GWB43 who took bailout/stimulus to a brave new height. well , if you actually think the president actually really has any input in the process, i dont think he does and he hasnt in quite awhile. gingrich is totally full of himself. but he or whoever wins the popularity contest will take their orders from the billionaires club. in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. http://www.youtube.c...feature=related wonders how the delegate count will look after super tuesday. its not too late to toss the hat in the ring. for entertainment purposes, and for me that is all politics offers, i want to watch a brokered convention. for me i still like that america is from rags to riches and riches to rags. here one can go from the bottom 10% economically to the top 1/5 and has a 1 in 12 chance of doing so. think about that. this is still the land of opportunity. you can learn alot from a dummy.

aussie vodka???? now i have heard it all. cmon, some ol' codger made it out in the bush in his still, right?

just imagine if Jetsun's tibetan attack dog licked you! @Vmarco, ok, i have the empathy for you and others. listen i only come off hard on a very few bums. only those that i know/feel/think can hold up to it. some bums like a scotty or a sloppy zhang a blasto and joeblast can withstand pretty much anything. ime of course i still have great respect and empathy with them too. i am sure i had suggested i could help you with dogs early in this thread, right? i never offer if i cannot see it thru. being truly relaxed and without fear imo/ime works. have playfulness as your mantle . of course there is another piece to the puzzle but with these i have mentioned here should experience less problems. hang in there.

Ya Mu, i hear ya brother.

NOPE NOPE NOPE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8YhED4IgQA

i will second the Yep. Yep Yep but i still say Nopa to SOPA

first i do apologize to the OP for my further de-railing of this thread. i did however make a great suggestion to Tux about which teacher to find. here is the type of thing i have been referring to on my de-railing posts. "go visit a panther/wolf inhabited forest," Vmarco , where do you think i actually live? you continue to give suggestions and draw conclusions to and about folks that you know little about. and "and enjoy your brief harmony" i am the one talking about harmony, you are the one spewing hatred. i hope your spewing becomes brief. harmony is something that lasts (long long time) and " Perhaps you could practice your harmony with creatures " this is exactly what i do each and every day, all day. please support the following with factual basis "What about the millions of people everyday who are terrorized by Vicious Breeds while minding their own business," millions of people every day?? you say you personally know ONE person attacked by a dog. it is unfortunate that even one person was attacked. it is not however a reason to exterminate entire breeds of dogs. there are laws to hold owners accountable. i am all in favor of enforcement. "They account for a fraction of all attacks" 1 is a fraction of a million too. "sharp teeth and claws and powerful muscles in their jaws and legs and can inflict serious injuries" yes they can and generally they do not. "My suggestion" there you go again! edit>> i think i found the problem. Vmarco how many times did you use the word "fear" in these posts? here is your "no-brainer">> when you go out in the forest and show or try to mask fear, guess what happens? if you go out in the "hood" and show or try and mask fear, guess what will happen? if you walk past a pit bull and have fear, guess what will happen? life is too short to live in fear. if you live your life relaxed and without fear it is a much smoother journey. display equanimity. you are on the right track, sorta but not exactly. remove your fear. you have to master yourself first. No Fear ! when there is no fear then there is peace. first remove your fear. if you have fear , well your gun is not going to help much either.

yes it is the ChiDragon style and ChiDragon will translate the long version for us, right?

" A Bodhisattva is much like a mother who identifies with her sick child,...7 billion fold. " could be , idk, anyways there are no Bodhisattva participating on this forum. " Non-attachment to the Six Senses is not to be un-identified with all others," this was a point i made in my last post. "As for your question,...for example, if I'm repulsed by a pediphile or rapist, does that mean I'm a pediphile or rapist, because I see it? " no, that was not my question. "Light is neither soft or harsh,...except as perception views it as such" the bolded is what i was trying to point out. vmarco your view of all pit bulls and all pit bull owners as being malicious terrorists demonstrates your benightedness. we can not go on continuing this broad sweeping categorizing demonization that you will not let go of. anytime any living thing , be it some plant that has been called evil and needs erradicated, or some animal that does not meet your approval and you think it needs done away with. i will not sit quietly by and let your demonization continue without my speaking up. for the record , i have never "owned" a pit bull. but as a fellow creature i expect i can live in harmony with it.