Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan

The true self is amazing. Let me know when you find us

I've always sought a balance between the two. on one hand, i tend to lean toward the 'power' aspects, but not solely because i want the power, not for the sake of the power, but for what i can do with it to improve my life and the lives of others. I dont know what a footless pushup can be useful for, but im sure that attaining the ability would lead to plenty of physical benefits that can be used in many other areas of life. Spiritually speaking, i dont know much about spiritual, even though i tend to swear by it. I believe deeply in a spiritual way of life, but have no real or genuine experience in spirituality outside a one time encounter when i was too little to understand it. or maybe little enough to still truly know it?

wouldnt put it past water to be healing

Okay, first off, i am going to channel my english teacher in here for a second: Leon, great research, now let's hear your thoughts in the matter, why did you show us this link in the first place? You sure stirred the pot, but you havent added anything! okay now, im reading it and i make it to "started out as a sex cult" and stopped abruptly. i dont see any reason to believe much of what is written beyond this point, and have come to question anything that has been said thus far as legit. Fact of the matter is that anything dealing with higher spiritual influences can leave a person much more open to unconditional forms of love, which directly oppose many preconcepts of monogamy and certain traditional approaches to daily life, especially "westernally". In my experience with what little of tantric i've read about and practiced, it's very humanistic in the instinctual terms, and transposes mind with experience, literally becoming the moment and not just observing it, analyzing it to no end (hehe, cant spell analyze without anal). In my limited experience with yoga, it is only understandable that we're opening ourselves to something greater than tradition or religion, something beyond observation, that melds perfectly with experience. Sure, we can learn a little from a book and teach others this, and we can even learn a lot from a yogi who has been taught by a true master of the art, but until we, ourselves, become masterful, i dont think we should expect or judge the practice, let alone act like we know what we're doing. I know a significant amount of basics in yoga, taijiquan, qi gong, karate, judo, aikido, and philosophy, but i'll never rely on that to suggest i know anything significant about these subjects. Except philosophy The article seems pretty ignorant, but it does have one good object that can stand to be addressed, and that's "buyer beware, enter at your own risk"

yeah almost exactly like that! If you dont mind, it doesnt matter... Like dude, i dont mind if you attack me or try to mug me, it doesnt matter, i'll curbstomp ya or whatever, i dont mind you mugging someone else Nah, im jsut kind of raving here.... <.<

sweet charioteer. a desirable muse to pursue; empty

MIND OVER MATTER! WHAT. okay, so i will be a little, or a lot, more concise. Energy responds to the mind and it's subtle intent, a discussion that had cropped up a couple weeks back. when you intend to move your arm, energy complies and allows your arm to be moved by your will. However, this is a most simple example and has some certain elements involved that gaurentee success, needing onyl exercise to improve percision. In more abstract areas, like making a mate want you or become available for example, a tremendous amplitude of thought and meditation and concentration and consideration msut go into it for any viable or even measurable results to occour. Practice is a big issue, much like exercising that arm. However since it is not immediately connected to us, it requires tremendous practice to initially make that connection, a great deal of energy must be utilized, through intent, before it can be exercised, also through intent. Like building a log house, one log isnt enough, you must cut down at least 16 trees and stack those logs, one log at a time. each log is an example, an interval, of intent.

hey, that's my line! lol

that's a weak statement, but then again, i have been protected on high by whatever you wanna call it, spirits, autonomous chi cultivation, god, fuckall even the devil. been through some nasty places after dark, past 10:00, 11:00, 2 AM, man, no one messes with me, i am protected. but i beleive quite firmly that it is something that falls under 3 categories: 1. how you present yourself; go out with yo draw's hanging down about half your asscrqack showin and walk with swagger and a bandana on your head. wrong color? oops i got shot! how'd that happen??? a. just stand upright, wear comfortable clothes and dont try to stand out. dork. 2. mindset. this falls over a wide area, including how you present and carry yourself, but if your mindset is victim, expect to be a victim, if your mindset is protector, you'll probably be looking for victims and want to step in if need be. both these are likely to get you hurt. Just keep in mind that you may have to defend yourself, and be confident that you can, but you aint looking for trouble! DORK. 3. Spirits/Chi/God/prayer. These are all lumpped into one sum, and all work in strikingly similar ways and also fall under mindset. imagine a bright white light of protection around you and anything and anyone you want to be safe. it works for me, but maybe that is a coincedence.

Hey, thanks for those responses, i am not generally a patient person, and i do forget the value of patience a lot of the time. I admit, i am more patient than i want to be and more than many people, but in teh same breath i am also the least patient person i know, i just learned how to hide it well, which, i guess, is patience at work I'm impatient, in that i spent the first 16-18 years of my life playing videogames and sitting on the internet (emphasis on sitting) 18+ hours a day, and when it finally hit me how out of shape i was and how much i really and truly value the martial arts and the potential and amazing things i could have done if i had done proper training and whatnot, i am in a hurry to "catch up" to what i could have been... i guess... Admittably, i want to be able to do backflips and fingerstands, and flip backwards into a finger stand and knock you out with my left testicle (as an exaggeration to enunciate my 'point' )... all sorts of things they showed in movies, like the matrix, 3 ninjas, rush hour (1, 2, or 3), jackie chan movies, jet li movies, etc. all the martial arts, no matter how real or fantasy... They inspire me to be better than i am, and that is an impatient task, because i will always be "me" and never good enough, which is why i put an effort into it, to be better... But it is never enough, to catch a barrage of bullets and remain unscathed, to blend into my surroundings and become invisible right before your eyes, to run 60 miles per hour, to levitate, to do "footless" pushups (where i am doing a pushup without my toes touching the ground or anything), to expand my endurance indefinitely, to fire a Hadoken!, to beat the ghost of bruce lee in combat, to hold my breath for 60 minutes, to take 60 minutes in one in/&/exhale, to see spirits/ghosts, to project my own spirit and witness the astral realm(s), there is no satisfaction... So i train, i try to learn everything i can, i try to make time to practice... But every step forward is followed by a step or more back. perhaps this inconsistent "leapfrog" approach has its benefits, but of them, i can only suggest it is patience, my eternal lesson.

... and yogic sex is like a really fucking good carwash erhm... nevermind me

I think teh psychopaths are the me, the myself, and the I, and the people who believe they are the me, the myself, or the I. let's all take a look at it, shall we: You cant spell slaughter without laughter! "Slaffter"

Not completely true there.... the most significant source i currently have on most teachings is this forum... I keep an eye out for what i can, but i cannot presently afford to pay for teachings, nor do i have a significant time to defer from college and household chores, which is the only form of "rent" i can currently pay. I cant afford my own place, let alone a non-college class in martial arts, or tai chi, or yoga, or whatever else, otherwise i would gladly be hocking up the cash! I learn what i can while i can, but it isnt satisfying my desire to learn and practice more. Typical american, i guess.... but i feel that everything else is of more pressing need, the chores for my place to sleep, the college, which is semi-obligatory for the same reason... leaves me with so little personal time, usually 4 hours..... TO GET SLEEP...! The only other thing i can do, to meet my personal goal, is to sell everything i have and find a buddhist/xiaolin temple and train hard every day... but my personal debts, i wish to repay first and foremost, which means more college and less personal time. Time management is not a skill i possess

It's not necessarily that teachers are greedy, but that in a world with a failing global economy, this is not a cash cow, but a recipe for extinction. The fewer the people that can afford to learn it, the fewer the people that are going to inherit it's secrets, thus the fewer the people there will be to keep it going around, or alive. Nothing wrong with paying or making an exchange to learn a tradition, practice, or art, but it cannot always be completely required in many cases. Not only is there a scarcity of teachers, but there is also a scarcity of people who can afford this rare teaching. How many people here would, if they could afford to, learn all the secrets of any given art, or even all arts? I know i would... if i had any money to spend on it/them.

sets free the phoenix "End days"; Reincarnation The Phoenix Rising.

Copyrights are only inhibiting the sharing of valuable information. While i disagree with the practice and adherence to copyright laws, there's nothing i can do about it/them. I believe that if there is a system of physical practice or art, that it should be shared freely by anyone who knows the art/system. Spread the knowledge, expand the enlightenment, help others help themselves. Why does everythign have to be about the money? IF that's teh case, then the original cultivators should be getting royalties for their descendents for eternity for the art and practice of Taijiquan, Qi Gong, Yoga, and so on and so forth.... sheeeeeeeesh....

But of course!

SOMEthing is happening...! It almost seems like it's deliberate. No sooner than i had posted this thread, than i walk to my ride home and see grafiti all over the sidewalks in Barstow, CA "Fuck the police they lie. www.crimethinc.com" and im not expected to thing this seems all too coincidental? but worth sharing...... http://www.crimethinc.com/about/ http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/downloads/zines.html Well, something meatier to chew on for now... Hope we can accomplish great things here soon! P.S. i tried to memorize the url, easy as it should have been, but it's been three or so days since i first noticed it and today i jotted it down in my notebook on eth way to school... ha...

That is so well put. And true of almsot anything. I play videogames, have lots of fun, win a lot. In the event that i play to win, my skill declines, which is ironic, because i have more fun losing, but cant enjoy it if i am trying to win! WHAT.

Who am I, what am I, where am I, Why Am I?

no shit huh? Well at least we're getting something out of it.... I'll have to keep the link in my personal practice version of the thread (it's linked in my sig lol) along with everything i think is particularaly helpful and benefits the objective.

Y'know, i've only ever heard "about" the ACLU, never looked into it cuz i never really heard anything significant... but maybe i ought to take a clsoer look at a lot of organizations that already exist... Still got my heart set on T.A.O. maybe only because of the (anti-)witty acronym

I feel that part of the doing may require some alignment, a helping hand of sorts for those who cant jsut pick up and do it as they are. I dont feel taht there is any inherent negativity associated with being, or calling oneself, an Anarch, except the preconcieved notions of chaos from peers. It is like all things, good sides and bad sides. And like some things, the bad side tends to get the most attention. But that doesnt stop me from promoting the ideal community independence, and individual interdependence. But that is, like i said about diversity, My preferred model of Anarchy. How to DO it..... depends on cooperation of others; interdependence. I wholly agree that an incorruptible organization giving out real news and truth news would be a great resource and only help contribute to making self governance a real possibility, but that is no different than everything else i've asked of everyone: It comes down to "us" to Do It. I would like this as well, and would gladly offer anything i knew or had to present, but it, again, comes down to us doing it. We're not going to get something from nothing, and we're certainly not going to see any genuine self governance just debating about the semantics. As my life pans out, I intend to acquire land which i can use as a basis for organizing a working Anarchy. When I get there, I'll let you know. Until then, I am going to find everything i can (and everyone I can) that can contribute to the goal.

Might you share a link or instructions? sounds fun