zerostao

yoda is always appreciated i do understand your post. there is one point i will contend with. when you used the word "bored" you found the one little(not so little) idea that is my pet peeve. i apologize to all in advance for any resulting rants. if you had suggested that after one felt they had accomplished everything in this life they felt compelled or called to do and THEN at that point , feeling satisfied of accomplishing these good works, found it was a good time to lay down and rest (yoda) if this was/is the case then i cannot contest. have you not said you have a mission here to attend to? a great work to be sure every person above the "ordinary" has a certain mission they are called to fulfill. why being bored is not one of the listed cardinal sins , i am just in amazement. i often hear people in the prime of their life( i have yet to hit my primetime btw )or younger , even teenagers with all of that youthful energy complain about being "bored" ..well... a useless life is an early death. a truly resouceful person is never ever never never ever bored. mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. imo being bored is a great insult to the universe.

we were patiently waiting for you to sphongle. thanks for doing so (finally )

there are diferent transmissions. i imagine the transmission that lu dongbin received from zhongli quan would be much diferent than the one i received from my teacher. did you receive any type of transmission from ya mu?

i think it is part transmission. it is an important part but not the whole enchilida. qi-lization!! i will be using this word alot saturday thanks, exocist_1699

ten thousand lotus' blooming. as they refine and further refine .

got it , thanks.

with all of that wonderful scenery you shared on another thread,, you wouldnt want to wander around in wonder of the sublime natural beauty of nature? occasionally crossing paths and having fellowship with other wandering hermits? sharing experience with the brave and rare adventuresome hikers and (under 100 yr old)seekers? what's another 500-800 years anyways?

in my case i feel that breathing into lower dantien during qigong helped calm my spirit. then, when i began to spend more time in meditation the spirit becomes even calmer and inner awareness is raised.

going for the supercharger effect? add white peony,licorice,cinnamon, tumeric.goji berries. in august i will have some wild ginseng(hopefully) that i use to trade with.

thanks guys

i went in there once. it was just me and tao

i think they archived 2 of those videos. you might contact the folks at eceti also.

In the counter-culture era many communes sprang up. How many made a real go of it ? I know of one and have heard there may be another somewhere. http://www.mushroompeople.com/ While we are fantasizing about it. How would the community support itself? I can imagine many practical problems for a start up intentional community. Too many Chiefs or Gurus not enough Indians. A certain % of people who think they could handle this type of environment when they actually entered into it would realize it was not exactly what they had hoped for or not willing to put the effort to make it work. Dreaming is cool, merging it into a reality ?

seriously i am not trying to confuse or complicate. i am like you having a little brain . hex 42 will have no meaning for you becoz of the approach you had when you cast the reading and tossed the coins. hex 8 is what you should be looking at becoz of your level of understanding I Ching at this time. and it makes sense to me that I Ching told you to inquire again . but first maybe do a little study and have a specific idea of how you will deal with the changing lines but i also feel it gave you the answer. it also said "those that are uncertain gradually join" isn't it speaking directly to you? 8 it is hexagram of holding together. you asked the I Ching about if it will help you understand the tao. here it is holding and uniting your quest for learning. it is joyous you have asked it to teach you about tao. it invites you to continue asking it. there is a union of the I Ching and tao. it gave you the confusion in regards with the changing lines becoz you didnt have a way prepared to deal with them. so begin to learn about that.

well. many people do use one changing line for the secondary hexagram. there is much debate about this. i am not trying to confuse further . i should have worded my initial response more carefully. in that is the way I do it. there are many approaches to dealing with changing lines . some choose to find a way to eliminate them all together. imo what is important is to have a specific approach in mind when you cast the reading. i do it the same each time in trying for consistent results. many people will disagree with me about this. the I Ching is well ready to share with the different approaches. once you understand the mechanism at work here i feel you will realize what i mean. take the time to personally becoming aquainted with the I Ching. study and ponder. you will find your approach as well. once you and the I Ching (think of it as a person)(a very cool and wise person) become comfortable with each other and form a trust, then everything will fall into place. once you have studied more about the upper and lower trigrams , the significance of each line's position. then you will have a better idea how it all works.

non, i like your concoction. have you ever tried fo ti or siberian ginseng? thanks for sharing here. tcm class would rock. i have been on a herb fast for a couple of months. tea also seems to help me. the tienchi imo was a great choice.

cool cool. the name of my favorite band is the Fab 500 far flung stars. sometimes they inspire me to take a far flung adventure.

howdy windblown when you toss the pennies and get a hexagram that has one or more changing lines (did you start at the bottom and work up?) you will get a second hexagram. in this case it will be hexagram 42. the changing lines in hexagram 8 are what give you counsel. not hexagram 8. it will be hexagram 42 that will do that. but the counsel that the changing lines from hex 8 give will be telling. once you get to hex 42 , realize that the lines have already changed to produce this hexagram. so do not consider the counsel from the moving lines in hex 42. just the hexagram itself. i hope this helps some? it does go deeper than this as one needs to have an understanding of the pre heaven and post heaven bagua and the ten wings. take your time to study and ponder the I Ching. once you get a better feel for the underlying principles and the attributes it will make more sense to you.

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i never have had the pleasure of seeing longview together as a unit. but i have seen all the players . longview does play frequently as a unit. imo they are a collection of hall of famers. claton delaney(not his real name) was a drinking/smoking buddy of tom t's. he was also the best "picker" around. his advice to young tom t. was to stay away from guitars and music because "there ain't no money in it". clayton passed away at the ripe ol' age of 19 0r 21 something like that. when tom t. was 7!! life was a little diferent back then.

dammit, i stayed out of the D.O. thread only to get sucked into this one. i will hang out to see which paradox gets tossed into the play.

is the dragon qi? edit> when i get visitors now they come in pairs. ta other nite one had a very low stance and was very coiled his/her? partner had on a fearsome/ferocious look on his/her face. well i hope they are in pairs and there is not another one lurking close by that i dont see i wonder what dragons think about threessome relationships??