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If laws are all that will be required, there should be no murders in the world. And no crime either. There had been, and still are enough laws to stop all that. But I could not but recall the 3000 year old teachings of Lao Tze in that Taoist Bible , the Tao De Ching Verse 57 which go somewhat like this The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land. The more ingenious and clever men are, The more strange things happen. The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

We seen that stature of Clinton since those days, to the present time. That represent to me the Statesman Clinton And for what you have said, I like to wonder which come first, the chicken or the egg. Clinton was walled in by all those society rules . Should anyone be walled in by those rules? He should have turned around and tell them all it is not their business to ask and not for him to say and that they all go take a hike. Sadly, he did not do that. I am not American to know if he could do that at all? As who am I? Just an Idiotic Taoist

True...True It was the fear of that landing that detracted me from the peaceful and pleasant sensation of flying through the air.

The slimmer and the thinner book that you can buy of the Tao Te Ching, the better off you will be. The thicker the book, the more crap had been added on by those producing the book. What kind of taijichuan are you looking for? A lovey dovey one, then go eeni meeni miney mo among those choices and you can do no wrong. A gung ho kick ass one, then go eeni meeni miney mo and do that once more and you can do no wrong. The Idiotic Taoist http://www.shanlung.com/oldtaijichuan.html

You need a good Master with a stick and watchful mind. To give you a whack everytime you go thinking again. Like my Taiji Masters. Everytime I used muscles and Intent instead of tingjing and total relaxness, they knew it instantly and the next instant I go flying to greet the ground in a fresh new way. To the point you get frightened shit scared of using muscles and intent. Flying is painful.

Time to evoke WuWei and act/do things the natural way. Drink when you are thirsty Eat when you are hungry Fornicate if you are horny All within the Tao, especially if you do not think too much A oerfectly Idiotic outlook on life is a good outlook Go max your happiness and min your aggro (including sending the one who want to kill you into his next incarnation) Idiotic Taoist

Hmm.. You hold interesting concept, that you determine what is Taoist , or not particularly Taoist. Brothels in those days were places of art and culture. It is peculiarly Western, or should I say American that treated sex as lowly and uncultured lust with little redeeming virtues. Quite amusing to me the way Americans tried to cruxify Clinton for what I felt was no crime and no sin at all between consenting adults. Idiot on the Path

Getting unsolicited advise how to drive and where to go from Dommie when we were in the Sultanate of Oman Escorted by Dommie along mountains of Oman, with Riamfada on shoulder Closing this chapter//Buwah off Harban with Dommie// Beautiful Wadi Qurai http://shanlung.livejournal.com/108103.html Dommie coming into the ocean tide pools when I called. 9-11//Dommie final visit to ocean Ramadan 2010 & unsheduled Riamfada free flight//The Day Approaches http://shanlung.livejournal.com/119935.html As said, I do not have pets. I have companions. The Idiotic Taoist aka Shanlung http://shanlung.com/

I am the Idiot. I tried to be the fool but I failed. I play a lot of chess and registered myself as Village Fool in a chess playing site. Everyone else called themself KillerOfKings, NewBobbyFisher,GrandMasterXYZ,BlackKnight, WhiteKnight etc etc. I won and won. Making them unhappy that they lost to the Village Fool. And when they won, they felt they had no honor in winning the Village Fool. I refused to change my name and they kicked me out. So I cannot be the Fool. I have no idea that anything can be off topic in a site that professed to be a Taoist site. Folks found the Tao in flower arrangement, in tea drinking, in looking at a bamboo grove, and even in the chopping off of human heads and arms aka Musashi and his Five Rings. I find the restoration by Cecilia Gimenez and others trying for the Cecilia Prize http://pinterest.com/ceciliagimenez0/www-ceciliaprize-com/ to have closer resemblance to that Ecce Homo by Elias Garcia Martinez than what a HotAirWorm talked about as taijichuan to real life taijichuan. I fail to see how the HAW can decide what is on and off topic on anything. I am welcomed and known in many bird forums even when half the time I talked of the Tao (without mentioning the Tao). I talked of my cats too. I never was taken to task for not talking of my bird all the time. When I first set sight on her, I knew her name to be Tinkerbell and that her karmic fate was entwined with mine. I could not take her with me when my contract was over in Taiwan. That was during the time of the bird flu shortly after the SARS scare. I spend a year teaching a family how to look after Tinkerbella and gave her to them. About every year since 2004, I flew back to Taiwan to spend 2 weeks to a month with Tinkerbell. She is the only entity that I flew halfway around the world to be with. My last visit to her was in 2011 June/July. I knew more of the Tao and spoke more of the Tao through her. Try to find time to see one of such writings Tsaoling Revisited http://shanlung.com/wtsaolingrevisit.htm'>http://shanlung.com/wtsaolingrevisit.htm And try to read this too. Tinkerbell Revisited - The beyond humaness of Tinkerbell http://shanlung.livejournal.com/11658.html I am at a loss to the title of today. I just could not find the word or the words. What Tink did in the last 30 minutes before I left her for the day was so haunting that will be imprinted into me, and I suspect into you all as well. Humaness might even be the worse possible word to use. We have shown ourselves to be so capable of evil, spite and cruelty to both ourselves and the other creatures living with us that perhaps I should change that title. The only reason I could not is that as I have said, I just could not find the word or even words...... http://shanlung.livejournal.com/11658.html It does not matter if Tinkerbell fly high in the sky or your Wujing crawled with belly close to the ground. The Tao is every bit as much in them as in you and me. Idiotic Taoist aka Shanlung http://shanlung.com/

I did not know my earlier embedded URLs did not get through in this posting. This is to rectify that. Taoism - Some thoughts on Wu Wei http://www.shanlung.com/oldwuwei.html (this also give a sketch to my earlier days and involvement in martial arts) My take on taijichuan as martial art and another attempt to explain fajing Taijichuan martial arts http://www.shanlung.com/oldtaijichuan.html Idiot on the Path http://shanlung.com/

Vice to one might well be virtue to another. Do remember the 7 Taoist Masters and the different roads that they took to final enlightenment. One of them found that road by living in a brothel and heating water in a kettle on his dantien to brew tea. Taoistic Idiot

Profound! I wish I know what you know. Taoistic Idiot

*smile back* *Communications without the need of words* With a million more words, and legions of MBAs to conjure even more words, why is the world even more precarious than ever before? Do you feel yourself to be economically safer than in the past with much fewer words? Do you feel personally to be safer than before? Do you feel more wise because you hear more words? The Idiot on the Path aka Shanlung Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

That was exactly what I have done. I found a better thread on taijichuan, with more knowledgable folks there, than the starter of this thread. I moved my entry post on taijichuan over there. This is the last time folks will see me in this thread. I will talk of my taiji experience in that other thread. http://thetaobums.com/topic/24575-taijiquan-styles/page__st__32

First of all, I do not do taijichuan anymore. The last time I did that was about 11 years or so. That was when Tinkerbell, the other entity in the photo, came into my life. With only so many waking hours in life, a choice had to be made, and taijichuan was shedded. Tinkerbell was the love of my life and she was like a daughter to me. She sprinkled me with her fairy dust and opened my heart and my third eye. My life was never the same after she came into my life. I do not give up taijichuan easily. I felt tingjing, dongjing and fajing was almost within my grasp. But to have more time with Tinkerbell, the choice was taken from me. A choice I readily made and with absolutely no regrets at all. Before that, I did as much as 6 hours daily in taijichuan. 4 hours on my own and 2 hours with my Master and fellow students. Even when I was just ticking over, a minium of 90 minutes of so daily was spend on taijichuan. In here and other threads, I have read that 5 or ten minutes will be sufficient. That must be spoken and written by genius or those close to Gods. But then, an Idiot like yours truly felt even those hours spend daily were hardly sufficient. I am a native English speaker, courtesy and legacy of the old vast British Empire where the sun did not set on the British Flag. I am also very good in Chinese even if I came late into that language when I was yanked and dumped into Taiwan. Where 99% of the folks there just could not communicate in English, you must get into Chinese language or you die. I chose not to die and got into the Chinese language. I got to the point I dreamed in Chinese. Talks or assertions that if you do not understand Chinese language meant it would be impossible to understand about fa jing is nonsensical. One of my Masters was Chen Hsiao Wang, the ChangMengPai of Chenjia taijichuan. I thought he was good, until I met others who were better in Taipei. They were perhaps 90 lbs, and I at my peak about 220 lbs. They moved me and my body anywhere that they wanted to. I did the paipai with them and disciple in the old sense of the word. They hold nothing back from me. Fajing is not something that you can explain with words whether in Chinese or English. But that Sifu MUST be able to fajing at will, even if he cannot explain that process. Comparison of fajing to peng missed the point. Fajing can be done whether it is peng lu ji an , or even in hai di jeng as I found out to my surprise in a sudden Taipei roof top encounter with a sixth dan shoto kan man who wanted some 'practise'. I defused his enthusiasm to my great relief. I was nowhere at the level of my Master at HsingKungYuan, and I at best can do a fajing out of 3 or 4. I was nowhere like them about to do fajing even in their sleep. Fajing must come from tingjing (supranormal awareness). If you cannot tingjing, you have no hope in hell of doing a fajing regardless of how rooted you think you are and how connected that you think you are. Those by the way, are just concepts crafted out with English words and barely represent the process. Even so, and even if you paipai me, I find I cannot explain the process of fajing. My son is in aikido and I cannot find the words to tell him in English or Chinese. For all it is worth, I tried to talk of Fajing even if it was in the context of Wuwei here Might amuse you all even if you came from that no wiser. Taoism - Some thoughts on Wu Wei (this also give a sketch to my earlier days and involvement in martial arts) My take on taijichan as martial art and another attempt to explain fajing Taijichuan martial arts I know folks might just want to do taijichan as an exercise. Nothing wrong at all with that. BUT they must do it with a Master who know taijichuan as a martial art. I make a further distinction. That Master must truly know taijichan as a martial art and not his interpretation of martial aspects of taijichuan. Taijichuan is not just waving and moving slowly of legs and arms. That is nothing but a parody of something truly profound. Almost like looking at the Ecce Homo restoration by Cecilia Gimenez and thinking that was what Ecce Homo by Elias Garcia Martinez all about. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Warmest regards Shanlung 山 龍 Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/ aka The Taoistic Idiot

Chidragon Congratulations! I decided I gain nothing useful in ever seeing any of the rot and hypocrisy that you can write! I decided to put you into a dustbin and ignore you so I never ever have to see anything that you care to write.

Marblehead Words words words Labels, labels and more labels Definations to the right, and explanations to the left. My search for simplicity and the Tao within became entangled in words and labels and definations and explanations. Or is it just the Idiot in me ? The Taoistic Idiot aka Shanlung Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

Tinkerbell was the love of my life and she was like a daughter to me. She sprinkled me with her fairy dust and opened my heart and my third eye. My life was never the same after she came into my life. I do not give up taijichuan easily. I felt tingjing, dongjing and fajing was almost within my grasp. But to have more time with Tinkerbell, the choice was taken from me. A choice I readily made and with absolutely no regrets at all. The Taoistic Idiot aka Shanlung Mountain Dragon http://shanlung.com/

How wonderful! You should not waste time with an Idiot like me. Go get into the cage of MMA and show them your prowess and make yourself famous and lots of money

In the dream world, it does not matter at all be you a butterfly or a fish, or just a dream. For all we know, the reality that we think we are in are just figment of a vast vast dream.

Chuangtsu essays were Rorschach blots after Rorshach blots. That he used words were just incidental. Idiot on the Path

Or is he a butterfly dreaming the dreams of a human Dreaming the dreams of a fish. Taoistic Idiot

Ha ha ha ha! For something thats lacking in humour, I wonder why I have this big grin on my face and laughter in my heart! But somehow, any talk or mention even, of my old friend ChuangTzu brings me joy. I love the way he talks of the Tao without even having to mention the Tao. He can talk of everything without mentioning anything. The Idiotic Taoist

Ha ha ha ha! Why do you give a load of stuff that not even a Chinese can make any sense of? I am a Cantonese by the way. That last video was in Cantonese. I do not even think that speaker in Cantonese knew what he was babbling about either. Should I ask my son to write to you for you to explain to him what Fajing is? Something I found I cannot explain. And by the way, have you fajing that you know just what fajing is all about? Or is it those that know, just do it. Those that do not know , talk and talk and talk and talk about it. I cannot even agree with your note Only Tai Ji Practitioners have the Fa Jin ability From all that I have seen from my fellow students and others doing taijichuan. I think at best, one in one hundred might be able to fajing. And perhaps one in a thousand, can fajing at will. It is like chess that I love to play. Millions play chess. One in a ten ousand can be a International Master. And one in 100 thousand a Grand Master. That does not mean that chess is less because you cannot be an IM. For those interested in chess, and my exposure to chess, you might be amused at my being a bouncer and protector of my chess hustler friend. And yes! I had to rescue him a few times Some chess memories, hustler foil, Bali http://shanlung.livejournal.com/104619.html And come to think of it, perhaps one in ten thousand or 100 thousand can fajing at will. Your implication and innuendo that tajiji players all know how to fajing is a joke. Your other note No other types of martial arts have this kind of ability. Others have answered. Hsinyi chuan, pakua chuan , yichuan, liuhebafa chuan all fajing. I started taijichuan with Sunjia , founded by Sun LuTang. He was a Master in Pakua and Hsingyi before he came into Taijichuan. I have travelled widely in China in mid late 1990s. Into remote areas and Taoist grottos in Ching Cheng Shan as well into better known places like Wudang Shan. I can tell you fajing is not done just by taijichuan people. Do try to get out of your well. The world is a bigger and more astounding place then the narrow view you have of things. The truth can be more amazing, and delightful than the fiction you surrounded yourself with. The Idiot on the Path

This is so terrible to me! I am mortified! My reputation all gone! I am the Idiot, and being a genuine Idiot, I am not supposed to pass any test. And if I am in a test, who test the tester? What doctrine will the tester be based on? When even the good Tao Te Ching denied itself as the authority in the first few sentences. Tao ke Tao Fei Chang Tao Ming ke Ming Fei Chang Ming The Tao that you think is the Tao Is not the Tao The Name that you think is the Name Is not the name. Further more. Can there be answers to questions that cannot even be asked? It is much easier for me to tell you the sound of one hand clapping. Except that I being the Idiot, I do not have the words to craft out that answer with. The Taoistic Idiot http://shanlung.com/