zerostao
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but sometimes it is positive and imo/ime that makes it (well) worth dealing with those other times. i guess i have been lucky and i get alot of positives sent my way. i try and reciprocate.
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yeppers, i do. this past weekend of full moon qigong was incredible.
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i am in the great smokeys often, as they are in between cherokee national forest which i also visit often and daniel boone national forest where i live.
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imo true wu wei does not aim to be at wu wei. and from alan watts "On the other hand, those who understand the Tao delight, like cats, in sitting and watching without any goal in mind. But when a cat gets tired of sitting, it gets up and goes for a walk or hunts for mice. It does not punish itself or compete with other cats in an endurance test as to how long it can remain unmovable -- unless there is some real reason for being still, such as catching a bird."
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it is but a dream. a dream that i share. it would require that folks would be self-responsible. self-reliant. self moderating(like here on TTB!) it would require that folks genuinely cared about and for their neighbors. not exactly anarchy proper, but a useful model imo is the Iriquios Confederation. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/294660/Iroquois-Confederacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois did they have a perfect system? perhaps not. was it workable? yeppers. -K- does make some good points that would need considered. seemed the iriquois were thriving until those (us) darned europeans started involving themselves into the mix. smaller scale intentional community may be the way to go.
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Gerard. i am thinking one day our paths will meet. big dipper, yes. pole star, yes. sunrise qigong.yes. eastern austrailia ? i had imagined you walked around the mountains of china. maybe in past lifetimes we had already been there, done that?
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good advice, thanks. i am wondering if i had siad i would try and limit my circle walking to 3 hours a day.....lol so many clouds to gaze and tea to sip, animals to befriend. edit> what i get from chuang tzu is that there is an intuitive way of understanding the Tao without "spiritual exercises"
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you sat in full lotus for 9 hours? awesome! i like the pscilocybin ones, always have some around i have traded for. but i use very very sparingly. i find the shiitake makes me physically stronger. i am hoping to begin my reishi adventures soon. this past year i had morels grow in my yard.
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i am trying to get to the next level. i feel circle walking is the single most beneficial thing i can do for health, martial , and spiritual results. with each and every step i am gaining something good. 3 hours a day , yeah, but what else am i gonna do with my time? well some 8 mother palms and various qigongs and meditations. plus my vibrating palm play. this weekend i get my teenage fellow bagua wannabees started on 9 palace stepping. this is what i do, becoz it is what i enjoy to do. circle walking is also shamanic
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this weekend i will also be doing some moon qigong, along with my circle walking. i look at the moon as the most yang of the yin. last time i did the full moon qigong the magnetic push/pull was physically moving me, a step back , a step forward. sth i pulled off the net about this full moon. "this first full Moon of 2012 highlights the opposition between the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Cancer, and speaks to the nurturing, creating and protecting aspects of life and society. It brings up the archetypal powers of mother and father, the issues of nurturing and protecting, and impacts our emotional body as well as our social body. The energies of family and state begin our new year, the structures that bind us together."
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i know , right? i do realize how wildly lucky i am to have a room mate who is a 30 + year BGZ player. i also greatly benefit from the kind generosity of chris matsuo. i have set a personal goal of circle walking 1,000 hours this year. doesnt matter if i actually hit that number or not. it is just an arbitrary number that i came up with.
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" the greed of a select few are already working against the greed of other select fews, etc." i am most thankful that i do not have the traits of greed or jealousy or fear. one of my flaws however is optimism. i remind myself to stay indifferent to it all but somehow optimism springs up. we are in a world of competition, i choose only to compete against myself.
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i have made a resolution to avoid participating in political topics on TTB in 2012. i aint gonna vote anyways so why pay attention to this nonsense? sometimes i do tune in for entertainment purposes only. and to observe the further devolvings. if folks could only take personal responsibility for themselves...... and joyfully care for one another. an ethical world free from the tyranny of those who would control you.
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i am interested in what the "full lotus computer forest farm hermit" has to share about mushrooms. my life long passion is with wild herbs. my next passion may be with mycology. from my limited experience with them i am amazed at how powerful and beneficial they really are. i occasionally run across the amanita muscaria here in my local woods. @ Harmonious Emptiness, i use the wilhelm translation. i have also benefitted from a couple of books by Da Liu. other translations and works about the I Ching have been recommended to me here from various bums. i feel the I Ching realizes my (lower) level of competency and finds a way to communicate with me in a way that i understand. it kinda needs to be blunt with me sometimes. i share Seth Ananda's vision of an ethical pro-eco world that is not corrupted by the greed of a select few.
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"No! I did not get Undivided Light from Walter Russell" where did you get it from? i did read this; https://www.philosophy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=82 walter russell is a unique thinker, so was hegel, and now hegel has been rendered obsolete by 20th century physics. defining matter , either by science or philosophy is problematic (big time). i am in the camp of folks who feels that light has traveled some 13.7 billion light years since the big bang. this "event horizon" does expand with time becoz light does move. some galaxies we now observe as flying further away from us. at some point they will disappear across the event horizon for good. some of the these galaxies seem to be speeding up. Vmarco i do enjoy your posts and i can almost conceptualize some of the ideas of russell. then i am reminded of eddington, dirac, planck, gibbons, hawking. entropy does exist. i would like to recommend the book Information and the Nature of Reality edited by Paul Davies and Henrik Gregersen
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i also have the swimming dragon set from liang shou yu but the set i will be playing comes from chris matsuo @scotty, i thought your teacher was a snake bagua guy? no circle walking?
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yes i got the house under special circumstances altho it was foretold to be by the I Ching. it was hit by a flood in may 2010 and i was the only one willing to give it the tlc and nourishment that it needed to go on. yep, i also rely on the I Ching.
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much improved post! keep it up. @-K-, "I'll bet if I threw you into a lake you'd have no problem explaining how it works." well i did learn to swim that way. nothing like a cheating cherry tree. and some trees are more aggressive than others too. usually the birds got to my cherry tree quicker than i could. maybe Taomeow's cherry tree would best be used to make some nice piece of furniture? even if i am sure it is very lovely while in blossom. edit> maybe the tree just needs some bees to visit it or it usually takes 2 cherry trees to do the wild thing. http://www.ehow.com/info_7943373_pollination-cherry-trees.html
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"btw, I'm not looking for a huge political debate, but a forward thinking discussion of where humanity can go from where we are and what we have, and what we can do now with what have, where we are, and what our goals are given the knowledge we have acquired in learning from so many civilizations, including modern science, technology, and ecology both ancient, modern, and arising." very refreshing! and i am interested on how we can lean forward with the resources and tools we have. and also when i started actively participating here on TTB i was hoping there would be a return of DrewHempel. "So I lived on five dollars a day spending money for food and expenses for about 10 years in the U.S. I relied on dumpster diving for food." impressive accomplishment and i am thinking you are a city dweller? i have gone from october 2008 until now on about 3 grand and i acquired and maintain a house and i am constantly traveling the southland. of course i live in the rural countryside which i feel gives me certain advantages. but the point is (i think) these types of things are possible and can be done. i did draw financial aid for college one semester. but otherwise no assistance from any government.(no food stamps etc) i relied on foraging for wild herbs and giving free qigong lessons.
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Lao Tzu , interesting name by the way. maybe you could start your own threads to express your views and ideas and not try to derail others threads? here is a thread about two of my favorite topics Trees and Qigongs and how there are tree qigongs. Jamyang Dorje has sincerely started this thread looking for other bums' ideas and experiences. i look forward to hearing others views, there are also similar past threads on this topic that the Op may want to search for. i have yet to meet a cheater tree in my life. and myself and many others here have personal testimony that qigong has been of great benefit to our health.
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evergreens are good. whichever tree you choose do so when the tree still has green leafs on. face the side of the tree where the sun is shining onto the tree. do the tree qigong before noon. use your lao gongs to scan the tree for where you feel the most energy and then begin your qigong session with palms aimed at those places of the tree. of course maintain your proper qigong structure. if there are roots from the tree that you can stand on, do so. always introduce yourself to the tree and ask humbly for permission to exchange energy with it.
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my current level of understanding has me thinking that wu wei is not forcing, never forcing. it is going with the flow or flowing with the flow. it is not rigid. it does yield. it is not spitting into the wind. it is to be light, free and easy. floating along. i am certain that Thoreau totally understood wu wei. edit> the sound of the water rippling down the creek that flows past my backyard says what i think.
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hmmm is that what it was?! enlightened taoist? really? certainly not me. i am in awe of the mystery and the great unknown. but i pretend to be indifferent to it all year of the water dragon? is it synchronicity that the bagua form i will be playing with this year is called the water dragon? yes Gerard i am a fellow circle walker. my room mate is also (altho he is much better than me) also a fellow circle walker. as are roughly a third of my firends!
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i think just about everyone can relate to Rumi. from winds of mercy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3XkBULBgE&feature=plcp&context=C3e19cacUDOEgsToPDskI9kdaZ5jEi_6VFtFA8Kk4a
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thanks Qlites:) very reasonable prices imo for that level of quality.
