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CCA

Christians are the comfortably numb. The Christ-like are the painfully aware.

Various green leafed plants.

Stop attention on persons. Attention on person's message see.

Word. And word.

I got it Cameron... Summary: makes no sense.

You're the only one!? Well c'mon, share a little sumthin' about it...please...a new thread would be best.

This thread concerns a visually observable activity, movement of the human body. Therefore the visual medium for presenting variations of said is highly relevant. Thus Spectrum's request. To reveal something about one's self is to be truthful, helpful and genuine. To not reveal them is to not be those things. And to reveal things about one's self is the way of humility...and the hallmark of the Bodhisattva...the simultaneous expression of both wisdom and compassion. Those not restrained by teachers please be humble and reveal the variations in body movement that are meaningful to you. To teachers that restrain your students, release them so that they may exercise their humility. And grow. I know you know Spectrum, it's the trying that counts, not the outcome. Thanks for trying, may it be better met... xeno

Uh huuh.

Sorry. Brief aside. Try to take the hook out before you type Cameron.

Edit: Jesus was a Bodhisattva Hope you guys work it out. Love you all. xeno

Ummm, a little looking around and you'll find a naked picture of me here...nobody asked me to post it...thought it would help... Which is all I'm ever trying to achieve here...a lot of the horse to water thing more often than not...if I could pour you a double IPA and just hang and talk I would...alas... Whether you believe it or not, Loving you... xeno

Are you Dick Cheney? Edit: later dude...suggest take Spectrum's last (or any) advice. Still puttin' the Love your way, xeno

Scotty, Identify yourself in my words, or not, as you see fit.

Bait catches the most fish. Flashy lures next. Flies that mimic the real thing catch only the wiliest fish. All the suckers in the pool have been caught...Max is now flyfishing. But willing only is he to send emissaries describing how happy were the fish to be caught. Bullshido! How credible is the word of a fish about the value of the line he bought with the hook still in his lip? When deception is not a tenant of Kunlun will it's credibility be enhanced. Haahaahaa...shall I look for the last time you said that?

I apologize somewhat...trying to make people THINK...for throwing the bait of my second comment. Your assertion that the philosopher's statement regarding "modern humans" is applicable to INDIVIDUAL humans ("modern" or otherwise) is a syllogistic mistake of reasoning. My first comment should have made that clear. But you're OK in my book altiora. Love. xeno

Understand, what you think does not all persons' experience contain. Syllogistic assertion.

C'ept for those whose experience has formed their beliefs.

1) Taoist Secrets of Love-Cultivating Male Sexual Energy: Affected my Life in the most profound way imaginable...humility dictates that I not discuss how...may offer the book which relates said for publication posthumously. May you live longer than I 2) Tibetan Book of the Dead: Irrespective of how one conduct's one's self in Life, all should know how to conduct one's self upon Death. Feel deep sorrow for those with no knowledge of it's content. Feel even deeper sorrow for those that know of it's existence but have no knowledge of it's content. Since the following are really the same book, by the same author, written 50 years apart gonna count them together as number 3... 3a) Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch: Henry Miller's treatise on how to Live one's Life as a young man. Modern (late 1940's) day parallel to Bosch's The Millennium...an autobiographical discourse on making one's own paradise and the...joy...of being...simple. 3b) On Turning Eighty: Henry Miller's treatise on how to Live one's Life as an old man. Written on his eightieth birthday...reportedly in two hours. Makes hearts smile . How's this for an opening paragraph?..."If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you can sleep without first taking a pill, if birds and flowers, mountains and sea still inspire you, you are a most fortunate individual and you should get down on your knees morning and night and thank the good Lord for his savin' and keepin' power. If you are young in years but already weary in spirit, already on the way to becoming an automaton, it may do you good to say to your boss-under your breath, of course-"Fuck you, Jack! You don't own me!" If you can whistle up your ass, if you can be turned on by a fetching bottom or a lovely pair of teats, if you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked." How to conduct one's self as a young man, how to conduct one's self as an old man, how to conduct one's self upon Death and how to transcend the human experience to become aware of one's self bereft of ego and thus know the Tao...what else is there? These books have not so much changed my Life as have they formed it

Just to be clear, I think Christianity is an abomination. And I think Jesus does too.

Jesus is high-fivin' Gautama to know it Mal.

Jesus was a Bodhisattva. To lead a Christ-like Life is to be a Taoist.

Artichokes and garlic are up, lettuce in the coldframe and mrs. x is planting seeds in the greenhouse. All is well in xeno's little pocket of the Tao vortex, Seeds of Change is a great seed supplier...they have garden sage (salvia officinalis), didn't see white sage...but their garden sage is yummy!