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nice post Gerard. i wish all the best circle walking for you this year. sometimes we hear the question, "if you could meet anyone in history, who would you want to meet most?" my answer would be that i would like to meet one of those ancient mountain taoist circle walkers.

yeah i like the way mYTHmAKER looks at this. thanks mYTHmAker for all you have shared with me. i always get a really nice contact high when certain tao bums share with me. they are too numerous to name here but mYTH is certainly one of them.

that 5 gates breathing/meditation is still working well for me. just sitting and focusing on a candle flame, noticing every single flicker and change of colors, radiance, auras, is a good place to start imo. there is a wonderful little book can be found on used book sites for about a buck Tai Chi Chuan and Meditation by Da Liu.

hang in there!!! those who do not know their opponent's arguments do not fully understand their own. "let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to the truth." longfellow

enron is still in bizness, well that figures climate is variable, i agree:) there are many variables to consider with global warming. i do respect you (joeblast) and ralis and your posts. @informer "You make it look like one of those top 1% and their cronies vs everyone else." i just provided a wiki link is all-_- it is probably coincidental about the 1 % thing no, it is not a comprehensive list. however most agree that 49 of the top 50 climatologists do feel that global warming does have human influences. i am just some kinda weird pro-eco/anarchist.

thanks steve +1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming

or even the shortened version "lots of stuff goes wrong when the government simply thinks' challenging times, indeed. what can a poor boy do? except continue to play his baguazhang......

hmmm, maybe i have acquired it for the benefit of another? it can stay on the shelf awhile until needed.and to think i traded some good ginseng for this:( i had thought it would be good for muscle cramps/ charley horses? so, today there is a party at the town library, 7 year old jim beam, straight out the bottle. then i will need a ride home:lol:

"we are one big soup of energy. The movement of consciousness will begin in the area of greatest strife." "There really is nothing they can to to stop the cosmic wheel. The tipping point they hate is all of our hearts opening at once because they do not have a continued existence in that place -only we do." i sit here in equanimity.

howdy Babs

i reckon things are worse than i had realized. thanks taooneusa for sounding the alarm. http://news.yahoo.com/cops-ready-war-094500010.html yes, it has gone too far.

today i traded for (acquired) a bottle of quinine whiskey. seems like it could be a useful product. anyways i will be researching about quinine for a bit before any sipping.

"Compassion without intellectualism doesn't really exist after all. " really? "I think your apparent lack of understanding of the differences between sympathetic and empathetic compassion (which is what I feel you are talking about) is probably due to the fact that you haven't experienced much suffering. I think it is very difficult for one to come to an understanding of the nature of suffering, without also experiencing" i do sense your suffering and i have sympathy for you.

maybe if we had a regulary scheduled "chat hour"?

imo you are way over thinking this thing. i am not qualified to speak about suffering , maybe i have had a few brief moments one could call suffering but i really cant recall any. do i recognize suffering in others? yes, and i find myself standing on sympathetic ground. it has no intellectual basis at all. why look for motivation? why does everything need to be neatly categorized into its "proper" box? reality is largely intuitive.

i am confident many(most) would refuse to attack US citizens. there are also many rivalries amongst top brass. there is more to consider than having a better paying job. "daddy, what did you do at work today?" " i brutally squashed an uprising downtown, your best friend's dad was dancing in a no dance zone." i do appreciate your "supposedly depressed economy" . after all how many dollars were printed up to float the economy? the cash/underground economy is booming. resourceful folks just need to think outside the box. money is everywhere.

anyone have a review of the Taoist 5 Element Touch Point Healing dvd? is it like an acupressure thing?

good point. and i also liked this very much 1.The Ultimate Teaching cannot be taught through the senses, however, by metamorphesizing a winged inner sense, metasensory Gnowing can reveal, this mystery to the Heart of our Essence. 2.Space is not understood, but merely perceived as That, which is filled and unfilled with form; the Ultimate Teaching is not dependent on object-ivity, the Whole can only be realized through Wholeness. 3.can a hole be defined by what's around it? that's not describing the hole; likewise, Wholeness is unrecognized outside itself, concepts and forms obscured through illusion. 4.to have a center there must be an boundary, as the ambits dissolve, the center disperses with it; the here becomes meaningless without a there, then the truth of Mind is no longer unfamiliar. 5.what shape and colour is a banana? absorbing all spectral light and reflecting yellow doesn't make it yellow, while under a microscope, neither has it a shape, until we think one is there; the Unborn Mind's essence is beyond shape and form. 6.the predispositions of a thousand eons is incapable of concealing the Still HeartLight of Life; similiarly, the self-imposed cycle of suffering has no power to cloak the HeartLight of Mind's Essence. 7.there is no void nor vaccum in space, it is either defined or undefined; although the true essence of Mind is Light, that StillCauselessLight cannot be seen, only gnown. 8.the essence of Mind resembles space, in that it embraces all that is perceived; Rest, and Be a Silent Witness, for through Love's Stillness, all worlds dissolve. 9.look at the body/form through a microscope, the Mind which you do not see, transcends that Duality; Rest Effortlessly upon the hidden jewel that's you, Letting Go of object-iveness uncovers the Ultimate Teaching. 10.the HeartLight of the Ultimate Teaching cannot be revealed through New Age discourses or preceptual Scriptures, neither from the Mantravada, Paramitas or Tripitaka; the HeartLight of Mind is shrouded by concepts and whimsy's. 11.attachment to morals or immorals cloaks HeartLight's resplendence, yet by holding ones tongue still, the intellect quiets its fears and hopes; then the Causeless fulcrum is embraced, and the efforts of Duality's struggling seesaw vanish. 12.free from the bondage of beliefs, the fiction of discourse and Scripture become apparent; the Ultimate Teaching unbounds the bonds of self-repression, useless suffering and useless pleasure fad away, and the DiamondLight of the Ultimate Teaching glistens authentically. 13.ancestral fear driven zealots deride the Ultimate Teaching, theirs is a life not experienced directly, always viewed from a predisposed past and anticipatory future; Real Compassion and Authentic Teachers do not avoid, when either touches your Heart, ecstasy will unfurl. 14.Joy is realized only by Letting Go of the desire for Joy; desires arise from ordinary knowledge, they want for things which are not; In Reality, everything already is. 15.transcending the effects of Duality, all struggle ceases, the Still Nowness of Life reveals the HeartLight of Mind; embraced by zero, the origin of ecstasy where fear filled pasts and hope laden futures never existed. 16.Unborn Mind and Truth are synonymous to seek truth is to believe there is a lie; the intent of a path is to get, not to Let Go. 17.Enslaved to illusion and its transient conditions, Duality, is like a projection on a theaters screen; belief in the dream entanges the believer in a space-time construct, yet nature's melody does not exist outside of things. 18.renouncing all social and moral rules, liking nothing, hating nothing, and repiring in amoral innocense; aware of Effortlessness is the Sly Man's way to uncovering who we are; walking without footprints, the Ultimate Teaching is realized. 19.we divide life into self and not self, the here and there, subject and object; and then try to intregrate illusion with reality; Enlightenment is the awareness that there is no Duality. 20.Light is not seen, only the conditions which keep it obscure are seen; the Light at the Heart of Essence has no beginning nor end; zero dimension, razer of logic, is the Holder of the Whole, through Unborn Mind, the illusion of motion is evident. 21.Truth is not a path, but a Stillness, a passivity not realized through concepts; concepts are derived and inferred from perception, perception validates only illusion, not Truth. 22.there is nothing to discover, but only to uncover, positive and negative do not exist outside intellect; all situations are neutral and impersonal, in CauselessNowness the Ultimate Teaching becomes clear. 23.Perception sees itself as the center of the universe blindly seeking a complete unification with separation; identification with the universe is an attachment to the dream. 24.Divested cogitation can gaze upon the Unborn Thought, divesting useless suffering invites Peace, divesting useless happiness welcomes Love; fear clings to past as hope clings to future. 25.The nature of a river meanders, reposes, curves and winds, yet because Nowness is believed to be useless, predisposition demands that the current follow you, instead of you flow-ing with it, through that behavior, fulfillment remains elusive. 26.Triggering transformational experience is not difficult; Connected Breathing, when activated, can jump-start an atrophied thymos, Fixed Gazes, with auric vision, can open time to be seen as one, holding the tongue still, can bring Stillnes to thought's sense. 27.Through unfeigned surrender, HeartLight itself, resplendently springs its metanoia; clear rapture coalesces from tranquility and insight, a continuum of awakenings dawn real Compassion, thus Birthing Human Beingness; Ascension is merely the Letting Go of the descension. 28.Then gaining long-life and eternal youth, waxing like the moon, Radiant and clear, with the strength of a lion, You will quickly gain mundane power and suprem enlightenment. May this Ultimate Teaching, Remain in the hearts of fortunate beings. vicente 1988 0

i dont think that these armies on american soil will work in unison with each other. i do not think the US army will let the police use these types of weapons against american citizens. soon there will be no place here for the faint of heart. how many veterans will stand by and watch the deterioration? they have the same training as current troops. and how have they been betrayed ? is the true purpose of the police to protect and serve the citizens or to maintain the current status quo? chaos is a real possibility. common sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein-hawking_formula if eddington and dirac had the information available to us now well that planck guy too

im a lowly bum brumm ba ba bum playing me drum always fresh clean air and crystal spring waters here im just a poor bum too brabumabumbum

a wave function is an encapsulation of all that is known about a quantum system. when an observation is made (changing the the encapsulated knowledge)the wave function changes. which subsequents quantum evolution of the system. informational structures play an undeniable role(casual) in material constellations,as we see in, for example, the physical phenomenal resonance , or in biological systems, such as DNA sequences. a gene after all is just a set of coded instructions for a molecular system to carry out a task. no evolutionary theory can have explanatory function without attending to the instructional role of DNA sequences (plus other topological structures) attention must be paid to the phenomenon of resonance. informational events are quintessential at the lowest levels of quantum reality. informational structures are quintessential as driving forces for the historical unfolding of physical reality.

The Usual Suspects 1995

ah,"your ghost" is actually calling him by name and trying to conjure him up? i suggest he is found in some of the most unlikely places, when you least expect him. he can be a subtle one, well given if he exists ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl0H1EUQ_38