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Great replies, thanks i suppose with Burmese posture you mean this: http://www.dharmafield.org/medinstonline.htm and.... siddhasana... http://www.yoga-age.com/modern/asanas.html http://www.holisticonline.com/Yoga/hol_yog..._siddhasana.htm By the way, i think i understand why the 2nd site mentions a closed energy system: when the feet are not pointing towards the ground, but instead touch the 1st and 2nd energy center, instead of energy going out of the feed, they are fed back into the 1st and 2nd energy center, and so, most likely creating an energy feedback loop .

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"just because you could doesn't mean you should" - and actually also: just because you can: make careful considerations why you shouldn't. (or likewise should, consider both from time to time.)

Quasi-funny isn't funny, ambiguous isn't quite throught-provokingly. Generally, i'd much prefer a topic that's 1/10th or less BS than a post that's 9/10th or more BS. Unless it's meant to be funny. And not quasi-funny. Some might say that humor is a matter of taste, but i would like to differ to that socalled opinion "just because you could doesn't mean you should" - and actually also: just because you can: make careful considerations why you shouldn't. (or likewise should, consider both from time to time.)

Does anyone know how i can cultivate my own AFA algae? (Aphanizomenon flos aquae) Most importantly where to get the algae themselves? It seems very important to me to do this for myself, and i thought that maybe someone here might know something. (it's very difficult to find so far) p.s. Sorry for a possible off-topicness, but it's not entirely off actually because they are superexcellent for a very good diet, energy, and potentially also other things relative to inner and outer cultivation. Thank you!

it is neither a religion nor a philosophy in my opinion, but it is more than those two

Yep, that would be a pretty good find. (although a bit expensive ... wonder if it is possible to buy 1 or 2 canisters instead of the 5 ..... ) I think the algae will survive in a good closed can with water for a few days shipment anyway, the fact that it is frozen may also add to the 'quality preservation time', even more if the can also would be insulated with soma aluminum foil or a styrofoam box to send it in. Anyone near the actual lake? (i believe it's the Kalamanta lake?) You could possibly make a small business of it, fresh culture. could be a nice idea. i think i would, if i was near it... but that's just because it's right up my alley of interests and hobbies anyway.

I believe this would be a good video about it (yugas, photons, astrology, etc.) http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=tsar...;aq=f&aq=f#

I believe that essentially and basically all that one needs for freshwater algae is a tank, water, sunlight and oxygen (and the water should probably not be still and kept ariated, but the oxygen pump would do that.) and ofcourse a healthy good set of the algae. (then more 'pro': a food dehydrator probably and something for quality control of the algae to just keep them healthy and safe.) There are some particular websites that go on into cultivating algae (mostly for small garden ponds with fish) But i will have to put some time into that, so will have to come back to this topic later.

that doesn't mean as much as you and others have been told. it is a story made from a story. the real issue is astrological and, if you will, also astronomical. when there is less light energy upon the planet, it does not mean it has to become bad, it just means that potentially the other states are somewhat different. but it should not be used as an excuse. (it was not intended that way originally even, i believe.) it's comparing apples and oranges and debating which is better. that is the real metaphore. not the other one, even in the slightest, it is originally not. it is a ...... how do they say it? ....... a misconception taken farther and farther. (like other examples as well, take your pick, it's okay. The hidden message imo, for both of these, and they Are unfortunately connected, is to use the good side of everything. that's it. although it's easy to keep following the wrong way, untill it is simply correctly corrected. That wouldn't be a wrong thing. But let's start now, anyway. I think that's the idea too. When you have a time table, you plan ahead. Much like you do with a paper agenda.

It's because when politics do wrong things (against nature and actually dao and so) and people are lied to and made confused, then the openness has less good virtue. and it becomes a 'secret'. this is not a mere opinion, this Is... as some would say. but because of the point made before this one, it becomes clear that even a Truth can be concealed and has to be discovered.

hemp-rope shoes, espardilles, vans hemp surfshoes, maybe lined with wool or cotton if that exists (or extra thick socks?), waterproof them with 'textile waterproof spray'

i have a kind of weird chi syndrome, when i practise working with chi, i can usually feel it as warmth, inside the bones or on the skin, or as both a warmth and a 'field of pressure' when projecting it outwards, the thing is though, that i am losing this feeling of chi when either i am working too long, being too stressed or after sexual activity (even if there is no physical climax and nothing from my body, at least, is/appears lost) the feeling of chi comes back later though, but temporarily, i can't feel it. and i have some questions about it .... maybe someone can tell me. - is this always like this or only in the beginning, somehow, when perhaps, you do not have enough chi stored yet to make it more or less permanent. - why is this happening even if there is no physical discharge? and can i do something about that, rather than to not engage the physical sexual activity ever again? 2 very important questions .... i would rather hear from someone who can actually say for sure than mere guesses. (or point me to someone who would know) thank you all very much

Not exactly an answer to your specific question, but i think that most or all temples accept anyone and that food and housing is also free (and if you just want to stay a couple of days and nights or weeks or whatever, that they ofcourse would welcome some payment for it also, just whatever the guest really wants or can do best, i think. ut also i have heard that they welcome people to them for free also in exchange for what you can teach people there also, for example english, or help in some other way. do many monestaries actually also have internet nowadays? i am wondering. because if they do then it would be easy(er) to ask them. about the acceptance is just 1 temple that i have heard of through people who have been there, but i am assuming the possibility that this is similar with other temples and things also. it would be good to know what you can offer on forehand though, and just let them know

what i have some times is like in the video of lama thunderbolt (lamathunderbolt.com) when lama thunderbolt touches one of his students on the forehead and he inhales very deeply (etc) i have that sometimes spontaniously also, although a little bit less in intensity than as shown on the video i thought this might be connected to some sort of an autonomous event and possibly relating to chi, (and it's own effects, all by ITself) in my body. i feel it is connected to a nerve also. and maybe it is actually the same as what you are talking about, or related. i am just not sure. can any other practitioner shed some more philosophical light on this perhaps?

no really. i would like to voice my opinion and i'd rather vote, and my vote would not read a no-vote, but it would read 'none of the above', because my opinion is that they are possibly all true some time. i believe that's possible many times, also in real life, for example, when you don't have the option of what you think, you make an extra option that reads what you think and vote for that one. so here is my vote: none of the above. a vote of '1' but maybe i'm not even the only one. i don't know. who knows... i'll see. p.s. even though i registered almost a year ago, i had come to read the forum some time before that. fwiw.

I remember 3:1 also, but also higher, 5:1 to 8:1 or even higher up to 11:1 or so. i think it was to do with sports, but i'm not sure. and also the ratios between *everything* like potassium to sodium, calcium to magnesium, calcium to potassium, magnesium to potassium, and so on .... it's quite a lot and quite a science, really.

hm, why isn't there a 'none of the above' button? i'd vote for that, because i can't particularly agree with any of the others.

I wonder what that would be in layman's terms?

Maybe it's about and ideal ratio between certain minerals. And maybe and eating habit can lend itself for that very well. (a taoist recipe book anyone?) But first... to find out the ideal ratio's first and the ways to do that first. ---- Add: Maybe it's about the body adjusting itself for another kind of balance, if that's what you, over time, use it to. And maybe it is a bit of both and who knows...more. ---- Note: I have read somewhere that you need more potassium than sodium, anyway (a couple of times more potassium as sodium)

well, to say it more or less neutrally, i think you probably could, but ofcourse you don't have to, only if and when you want to and if you would like it. i hope that the right thing will come to you, or that you may find it

Has anyone experienced a burning sensation in the middle of their soles or palms? Do you know how you made that work? Me, i have experienced it a couple of times, but i have no really good idea how i did it, and i think i kind of would prefer to know (burning sensation in this case and instance should be read like: just very concentrated on 1 spot, say about 1cm or half in diameter (or less) and quite warm, more like hot (if i had to quantify i would say about the warmth of a candle flame at 20 to 25 cm from one's skin when holding skin above flame at that distance)

That sounds really great. Just what it's all about, the greatest ingredients. not like chocolate that's mostly sugar, i guess there's almost no health in that, but with this .... i bet it tastes great and isn't bad in any way. I'll contribute something also by telling that i melt my chocolate and add nuts, dried goji berries and dried pineapple to it. Then i let it cool down and break it into chunks and then in the refrigerator. I like it so much more to make everything healthy and taste even better!

Hi drew, "Anyway people can SEE my neck pulsating -- the vagus nerve in action." Isn't this shown in John Chang's video also? You see some thing pulsing in the video. "and I'm broke since I work a part-time clerical job -- then my diet has not been up to par" How would you feel about teaching to others what you have learned yourself? Just an idea.

i have come to a bit of an unusual theory that the nutrition and elimination system can work in a different and more effective way. i am coining up the idea that the elimination system is used too much and is under too much stress, i theorize that the elimination system is doing too much, that it basically was only designed to get only unwanted substances out, either accidentally consumed or that it can be used to get unwanted things out by for example eating more fibrous substances. but in essence that it should be treated as a failsafe mechanism, basically, that is to say that one should consume only which is best for one and try to do it so that most if not all that is consumed is used or converted. this is essence means that it can be used to the most effective mechanism. in addition, consumerism like it appears today is not the best for the individual and also not the best for the collective. it is not tailored to the above mentioned specifics or standards. it is instead some whole thing else. more to come later as i think about it some more and give it some more pokes and shots peace all