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Just thought I would add to the mix here that, now that our moderating team have fine-tuned our Moderation Guidelines, we have been instructed by Sean to "turn up the volume" in our efforts to keep the quality of TaoBums at a higher standard. If you care about TaoBums and would like to help with our efforts please make full use of the "Report" button at the bottom left of every post. Cheers

Seeing we are in a Taoist Forum: "The process of spiritual attainment proceeds through six phases or levels, beginning with personality refinement and conscious refinement and culminating in becoming Tao. Step One: Chi refinement and Natural Meditation as the cultivation of chi. Step Two: Teh Tao: Receiving or discovering the path and learning the Tao. Step Three: Wu Tao: Enlightened by Tao. Step Four: Ming Tao: Lucidified with Tao. Step Five: Teh Tao: Gaining Tao, and Tao also gains you. You live beyond your personal cares. Step Six: Chen Tao: Attaining Tao. Your physical presence gradually merges with the invisible reality of Tao, but you are still able to respond, if you choose, and appear in form. You have achieved spiritual immortality, not physical immortality in the ordinary sense of a life that needs to eat, sleep, and pay taxes." P65, Ni, Hua Ching, "Enrich Your Life With Virtue", Seven Star Communications, CA 1999 Blessings

Agreed.

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

Hahah! Great shot: From left: Lionel (French Political Sciences professor), Vicky (LA producer), Kimberly (Kimberly, an American studying in Paris), Gregory (a qi gong student and Brit), ME !!, Jessica Statue of Laozi at Luyi, the purported birthplace That would me in the centre praying like mad that I don't screw up my "surprise" presentation at the press conference Daoist Author Michael Winn Laozi, Father of Daoism Some our of delegates and handlers from the conference at Longmen. Great images Jess ... Cheers for this

Perhaps innocence is all about not trying to define innocence

I hear what you say loud and clear, and I agree that the specific methods / techniques shouldn't be shared openly. I am sure a middle ground could be found where we get a good feel of the event.

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Awesome !!! We expect a full expose

when will she return? love's image on whispered wings, fly back to me love. Hey Mark Foote, you missed a whole string of other people's haiku

We will see, if providence moves in my direction, which it tends to do, then I may well go. Nothing confirmed yet though. It would be great if one of us bums went though.

Is this the Tao Bum's??? Shontonga's back in da house! TaoBums saved at last!!! Heya lass ... How be it all going for ya?

Well said.