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If you have excess heat in your head you need to talk to your teachers, and learn their methods. Cooling and drawing energy out of the head is a very basic practice you should have been taught in your qigong lessons. Many ways to do it, not via ingesting liquids, but by neigung.

Yes, it would be romantic if done between lovers with great love. Our language is fine. We dont have to adopt prevalent negative attitudes.Language is ours to redeem, to own and to love.

It can be simply of no account whatsoever what is done by ignorance. Cheese is put into burgers by McDonalds, but this is of no significance to me when I want to eat some. If I kept dwelling on it I could begin to despise cheese, and that would be absurd. If one were to live reactively, instead of from choice, other people's choices would be deciding one's own also, right down to one's use of language. Taoism is not about being hemmed in by what others do or do not do.

Nice definition from Gilles Marin : Chi is not neutral. Chi is the energy carrying the deliberate intent to promote life and existence. It is a power that comes with an intention. It is the breath of creation. The classical chinese character for chi is air/vapor/breath.. the second is 'rice' or 'essence'. The rice ideograph symbolizes the presence of the life force, the energy and the information that brings life. Chi is often translated as 'the breath of god'. Communist ideology simplified the character of Chi by removing the 'spark of life contained in a single grain of rice" ideograph, keeping only the 'flow of life' ideograph.. thereby eliminating any spiritual connection with the concept of chi, and translating it as neutral and to do purely with energy and breath.

I dont think there is any problem with our sexual vocabulary. I think there is a problem with our sexual attitudes. I'm not thrilled with the word 'vagina' because it means sheath for a sword, which is a bit phallocentric, really. ( just a tad) But 'jade stalk' is a cool - in the temperature sense - term. I mean it is unpassionate. And it would be used for dispassionate sex, presumably. For working with energies while remaining lust free. cunnus is latin for vulva,hence 'cunnilingus', and cunt is a word in usage in middle english and is very earthy and I think it's beautiful and sexually expressive. That's because I'm used to it being used in a sexy and reverential way. Cunt Power! Very Profound Power. pussy is a sweet and lovely word for ladybits. I have had it referred to as 'foofoo' also, which is very affectionate and intimate. Coochie is bit euphemistic sounding, to me. honey pot is nice. There are zillions of words for ladyparts.. But the whole thing is as Drew put it, the telepathy of the heart. If your heart is pure, the language you use is pure, and prudishness itself is an offence. For malebits, well, is it a schlong or a weiner? Either it's a beautiful cock or an annoying wang.. it depends how you feel. There are plenty of words. The poetry comes from your intent. 'Lingham' isnt embedded in my psyche. It isnt erotic to me, maybe I'd need to use it a lot to make it mine, for now I like the old english words. And 'willie' is nice and friendly. Style, warmth, refinement, art, we have it all, in our language, I believe, if we have the art of the heart and the warmth and refinement of sexuality to use what we have. btw, I'd like to see whats in de_paradise's basket.

fab. the point of the iPad is that it's elegant and intelligently designed and fun. hugely important qualities, and not just in people.

I'm glad you are going to the doctor, from what you said in a previous thread. It may be what ninpo says, or it may not. How cold is it? Listen into that area and see into it, what does it have to say to you? If it were me I would focus on that area and see if I could warm it up, see your heart centre as warm and glowing red and radiating warmth outward throughout your system. get in there and investigate, dude, in a spirit of love and caring.

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There was a good thread in 2007 on definitions of enlightenment and a poster called agharta gave what is generally considered to be the corrrect answer : So now you know.

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Good idea. Each layer peeled back reveals more and more of our toiling within the confines of our unconscious conditioning. Is there a will at all when we are free? Or just a dwelling in truth. And a passion for it.

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