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The vicar chuckled merrily as he replied.... "Think nothing of it my dear. It was indeed fortunate that I happened to be passing the village pond when you fell in". Agape "My my, such firm muscles you have Mary, do you work out"? Leered the lascivious lector. Eros

Head, Chest, Stomach is close enough. All else is faff. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=faffing

Ta. I teach philosophy of ed for a living. Philosophy is all good, all contextual and all contested, thank goodness. It's indoor work and no heavy lifting involved. This you do not get by ticking the box marked 'coal mining' when it's careers day at school.

Scissors cuts paper. :-)

"Wow that was compassionate", exclaimed Mary as the vicar wiped her down. HTH

I learnt a while back that any attempt to convince or convert a 'true believer' is futile.. You go right on believing whatever suits you young man. Until you wake up.

Yep cultivation wise I do agree but for house building you can't beat stone for preference or brick if you can't afford stone.

Buddy if that shit worked the DL and his entourage would not decamp from the chilly north to the balmy climes of South India each and every winter. Those guys love the warm weather a much as the rest of us do and if you really think that Tibetan monks are daft enough to sit outside in the snow meditating for fun then you are sadly disillusioned and have possibly never spent time in the Himalaya. Up north in India they sit indoors with charcoal braziers, gas fires or kerosene heaters on full blast in order to keep cosy and warm.

.............. If it works for anyone who needs to believe in it then by all means order the books or DVDs and go for it but if you can attain the same results naturally then why waste money buying , in order to use; artificial 'man made' means? Techniques sell DVDs and books. I've met the DL who was a neighbour, his winter palace was, and is ; not far from our compound in Hubli. The old boy appeared to be breathing in and out quite normally in the same way as everyone else in the room was.

....... How I was taught it sorta completes a circuit, the metaphor GM Chang who taught us used was electrical wiring, but it is only a metaphor for ease of visualisation. Say you are doing MCO. On breathe in with tongue up the circuit is open down, round and up from LDT to the sinuses/ third eye. Then drop tongue to create the circuit from third eye back down to LDT and breathe out. Also by breathing out through mouth you can articulate the required sound if you are doing those.

............. Mrs GMPs fruit cakes. One of those puppies could put weight on a yarrow stalk. I've only been on holiday four days so far and I'm already 2 pounds heavier than I was last Tuesday. No more fruit cake and mince pie suppers until Tuesday next!

Enacted, as it should be; compassion takes the verbal form.

My great aunty Hesther's mum and dad worked in one of Fred Engels cotton mills in Manchester, he was a right bastard to work for by all accounts. Housemaid impregnator Marx never did an honest day's work in his life and subsisted by sponging off Engels so Das Capital was funded, in part; by my Great Aunty Hesther's parents' sweat. Anyone who is not a Marxist in idealistic youth has no heart but one who remains a Marxist into adulthood has no brain.

Compassion is a verb. By the very nature of websites we spend our time here chatting and that doesn't or shouldn't define us. I was at the funeral of Mrs GMPs aunties husband John, a very good chap; last Wednesday, he died aged 94. Nobody at the wake spoke about what John had read or what he believed in nor how he cultivated (Gin, women and golf mostly) but everyone there seemed to have a story of how John had made some positive difference in their lives. A job here, a helping hand there, wise advice given and acted on to good effect, paying his invoices bang on time every time so that suppliers knew they would get their money when they needed it , extending credit to firms he knew needed a bit of breathing space. We'd not be living here now were it not for the fact that we first came to know this lovely area whilst staying as weekend guests at John's, a happy experience oft repeated until we finally made the move here. Read and quote all the sutras you like, cultivate 'til the cows come home by all means, but without practical compassion it's all just a steaming pile of words signifying nothing lasting of any merit at all.

Those mega churches in the USA seem to clean up by the looks of it from what bit one sees on TV I don't think we have anything to compare to those here in the UK. There are four churches in this village, CofE, Congregational, Baptist and Methodist and if they get 70 people in total between them of a Sunday I'd be very surprised. The city churches don't do too well either apart from maybe the cathedral.

Money is the root of all spending. Pastor of a shabby store front church says to his congregation.... "The good news is we have more than enough money to build a new church. The bad news is that it's still in your pockets".

More please. If I had Bill Gates's money and Bill had a feather up his erse then both of us would be tickled.

She was foxy in the original series.

We had this on Dharma Wheel a while back. Apparently there has to be six syllables in the mantra for it to work. No more, no less.

Allegedly (it was on the Simpsons but I heard it elsewhere too) there were some TV Manga cartoons shown on Japanese TV that sent some people off either into trance or epilepsy.

Now a zombie apocalypse would have been worth seeing. We had drunks staggering home from the inn through the village late last night. Close, but not as good as the real thing.

Use only 70% effort is a good motto, funny really, I know that's a mantra in cultivation but it's also what they recommend at Mrs GMPs gym. Those hulking great Muscle Marys who weight train and eat steroids and such are a right mess. Apparently their 'one eyed trouser weasels' shrink to the size of a button mushroom.

Spiritlugion Now with added caffeine and in even bigger bottles. Buy one get one free. Drink sensibly this Christmas.

Yep sorta persevering at not persevering. The harder we try the further away the target seems, letting it just flow n go seems to work. That whole doing good deeds schtick for example. Somewhere it says about giving out good.... Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,that sense of almost unconscious compassion that just flows from and with the Qi rather than from 'me'.

Rocks. They sorta hang around.