Trip

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Me agree with da dude who say ya all should stand in the tree instead of making war on da TB forum (unless ya wanna join us for some Chess)! Trying to achieve nothing, who's got time for anything else...? Greetings to all, MPD'd or not! Trip

Pietro, It's quite interesting to hear about your experiment. I'm glad you're well. What were you trying to achieve through this lifestyle? I actually miss the ability to sleep longer (as time goes by)...

By the way, there's an excellent hypnotic/NLP procedure that works with our "parts" by Connie Rae Andreas called "Core Transformations."

How about Smeagol spelled backwards: Log A(i)ms? Or, annagram you: Me as Log?

Your pontificating and condescension are exactly what make you an attractive target for anyone who enjoys puncturing illusions (and that's not me). Please don't try and go one-up on us, and good luck in your practice. Trip

Really, Lozen, you do go on! Must I have been "paying attention" to post to you? (Sorry, I haven't.) When I ask about the one thing you wrote I found of interest, you stick your tongue out and laugh. But a great deal of what you say isn't as "really obvious" as you'd like. For example, in your first paragraph you write you "don't really care" whether or not I enjoy Ron's posts. You PERSONALLY feel different and are pointing out "THE effect" Ron has in this forum. It seems I am being selfish. You also write that "luckily there are lists [you're] on where people speak freely without having to worry too much about the aftermath," and miss entirely the irony that you would remove this forum from that category, at least from Ron's point of view. Meanwhile, you belong to a "sacred fire community that holds fire circles" (oh my!). And you tell "a lot of raunchy jokes" (oh no!). But you do this in an appropriate way (okay!) because you have learned THIS REALLY IMPORTANT THING about the SACRED called "timing." Please. The sacred supports the points you're making the same way God supports the fundamentalists (west or east). As I said, I enjoy reading what you write (as I come across it, no more homework please) but that's because you're an obviously intelligent person working through their issues, spiritual and (mostly) profane. Actually, I think you're a lot like Ron. And I'll repeat my request that you share with us some of those stories that we can't find in books or on the Internet. I'd be very surprised if anything you could write would shock us. Enjoy, enjoy. Trip

Hey, now I'm really curious. Tell us one of your obscene goddess stories about Baubo or Coyote Dick, please.

Yeah I forgot, I also luv kicking Ron's butt around the chessboard and he luv doing the same. So if you're looking for a mate, come to http://www.taobum.com/ronnietsu/webchess/, now featuring a cool shit-for-chat feature that should appeal to the loquacious.

Lozen, Ron has made me laugh more in the last seven years than anyone I know. Real laughter, big laughter, tan tien laughter. And that, me thinks, is more valuable than all the highly intelligent comments posted on all these boards put together. Please don't tempt us by hinting at the quality of your thought which we're missing because you self censor. Personally, I enjoy what you write, but your self censorship is just that, YOUR self censorship. Ron doesn't have that problem and you might wonder why you do. I would also respectfully suggest you could seize this opportunity and learn how to ignore without resorting to "Ignore." Then you would have got something from RJ too. Trip

Hey, take a tip from fellow desert rat T.E. Lawrence: "the trick is not to mind."

Hi Yoda, It's basically a counting thing, so I can tell which set of 10 I'm on: I do the thumb first, for numbers 1-10, and then switch to the pinkie. The pinkie, looking at my left hand palms down, is the first finger in, and numbers 11-20 fall on it; the ring finger (2nd) catches numbers 21-30, the fuck-you digit (3rd) gets numbers 31-40, etc; when I work my way back to the thumb (5th finger), numbers 51-60 fall there. Pretty anal, I know. Thank God in the HT we just have to count our blessings and not our breaths. Probably at first you won't feel the tendon, or much of it, but this should change with time. Remember to keep your shoulders down, arms parallel in front of you, and initiate the movement from the scapula and then the elbow. We're just tacking this tendon work onto the beginning part of the squat; as I said, I don't try and hold the stretch through the squat itself, so it doesn't add too much overhead. Enjoy, Trip

I haven't had time yet to check out the video and articles you guys have been mentioning (I've only read the CC book), but I've started combining Hindu squats with some light tendon work. The basic idea is to feel the tendons connecting through body: the thumb connects to the big toe; the pinkie to the little toe, etc. So taking the thumb as an example: As I pull my arms towards my body and inhale I (1) LIFT and pull my thumb slightly back while keeping my other fingers level and (2) press down slightly on my big toe. Lifting the finger and pressing on the toe stretches the tendon (be sure to keep your elbows and wrists parallel); as I drop into the squat I tend to release the stretch. On the next rep I (1) DROP my thumb while keeping my other fingers level and (2) press down on my big toe. So I do ten reps (five with the thumb going up and five with it going down) and then shift to the pinkie and little toe. And I continue this way, working my way through all five fingers and toes, ten reps a finger. By the way, this makes counting reps a snap too, as you're only counting to ten. Doing all five fingers ='s 50 reps, so it's easy to keep track of your total number of reps. After a couple of months, this has begun to get interesting and I can feel the individual tendons running through my kua, in my neck, etc. I'm going to keep playing and see where this leads. Trip

And Yoda, you've got one from me too!

Warriors, come out and play!