GrandmasterP
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I rest my case. :-) Another one from Romania. " People from Timisoara are so mean that they cut off their cats' tails." Me neither. Way I was told it if the cat has a tail then when it goes out the door the door stays open that bit longer ( cos of the tail) hence more heat is lost from the room. Try as I might I don't find that funny. This one though in Kitchen Hindi is a hoot..... " Dilhi going. Bilhi bringing." Translates as... " My friend went on a trip to Delhi and beought me back a cat for a present." You do need to know that Delhi's wall to wall full of feral cats though.
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Automatic Writing Practice:Anyone want to ask God a question?
GrandmasterP replied to Horus's topic in General Discussion
Well, relatively speaking; all of what he says his true. Insofar as his relatives benefit from the book sales and related merchandise income. Guru- ing is a lucrative trade as is 'system-selling'. Yea verily as the good book remindeth us... " Truly I say unto thee. There is one born every minute." :-) -
Errrr. A " triangle in three dimensions". Shome mishtake shurely? :-)
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You'd be unlikely to get planning permission in England. Even if one did, the upstairs bedrooms would be tiny.
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Why are there NO reputable writings or research on kundalini ?
GrandmasterP replied to mike 134's topic in General Discussion
Found this.... "Just recently, a five-year, four-million dollar grant for a multi-site randomized controlled research trial of Kundalini Yoga for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health. The research design involves comparison of three 12-week interventions: Kundalini yoga, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and a stress education intervention. The main prediction of this study is that patients who receive the Kundalini Yoga treatment will show equivalent GAD response and symptom reduction compared to participants who receive CBT, which is well-established as a standard-of-care treatment for GAD. The effects of these treatments will also be examined 6-months after treatment as a measure of long-term efficacy. An additional aim of this study is to identify the underlying psychological and physiological mechanisms by which yoga and CBT affect change in people with GAD. The lead researchers of this study are Stefan G. Hofmann, Ph.D. (director of the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory at Boston University as well as the Director of the Social Anxiety Program at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders), Naomi Simon, M.D. (an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders and Complicated Grief at Massachusetts General Hospital) and myself (SBSK)." -
What is the energetic effect of water/a moat around a building
GrandmasterP replied to skydog's topic in General Discussion
There's a story about St Cuthbert the Lindisfarne guy. He was a great cultivator and had so much energy about him that it kept the other monks awake . So Cuthbert schleps off to a little island just off shore from the bigger island of Lindisfarne and builds himself a hermitage ( which is still there). When he was cultivating Cuthbert waded out into the sea up to his chest. That sorted out the issue. -
The qualities of a true leader "princess"
GrandmasterP replied to mewtwo's topic in General Discussion
Obama. Leading question? :-) -
Moishe the pickle seller is in hospital recovering from an operation. The surgeon visits him and asks... " Are you comfortable Mr Cohen?" Moishe replies... " The pickles give me a living Doc." OK you don't HAVE to be Jewish to get that joke, but it sure helps.
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Thoughts continue.Where else would they go? However , over time; it becomes easier to observe those thoughts without becoming enmeshed in them and led astray from cultivation. As someone else has posted on this excellent thread, that takes time. Regular, disciplined cultivation is the key, sitting or cultivating at the same times for the same times each and every day. Always and without ceasing. There may indeed be sudden and blinding illumination, our Rinzai chums reckon that's the case. But what happens the day or even the hour after that sudden illumination has happened? Is one 'there' always and forever more? I doubt it. I'd say ( and they do) ' Continue cultivating'. Suchness is what it is.
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Looking Into New Practices For Mental Health, Enlightenment and then perhaps Immortality ;) (in woteva order) (Formerly: Taoist Systems of Practice)
GrandmasterP replied to Satya's topic in Daoist Discussion
Sound advice there Antares. Excellent post. There are far too many quacks out there ( and on here sometimes) peddling rebranded information that can be had for free online or at minimal cost from a qualified teacher then adding stuff they have simply made up to boost profits. A fool and his money are soon parted and whatever anyone chooses to waste money on is their own concern but when these quacks begin to 'play doctor' then things can become seriously dangerous seriously quickly. -
Both right. Nature generally abhors symmetry in landscape, flora and fauna but there is some symmetry and geometry in the natural world. Sunflower seeds form 'round' in a Fibonacci series for example. That said, they were presumably doing so long before Fibonacci was born.
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The qualities of a true leader "princess"
GrandmasterP replied to mewtwo's topic in General Discussion
Before my time was Churchill as a politician. I do remember his funeral though, that was a huge event here in all sorts of different ways. I was raised in a mining village and Churchill was universally loathed by the old miners. He'd once sent troops in against striking miners and some miners were shot dead. They never forgot that. On his funeral day, in the Miner's Welfare Club in our village, they held a party. -
I'm an old soldier but I really don't think that she was alluding to that 'grab the ankles' riff that we both know and remember. Or maybe she was and I missed the nuance. Doubt it though, she comes across very prim and proper elsewhere throughout the book. :-)
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You got that right. She had them rolling in the aisles with this one ( page 109)... " So beginning with how you think, have firm and calm faith, sincerely let go of everything and go forward ( here comes the punchline)... This is the meaning of 'grab hold of the ankle'." Apparently, in Korean; that's really funny. In English though..... Meh. Not a book I'd recommend.
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Deliberate, calculated Rebellion.
GrandmasterP replied to Unseen_Abilities's topic in General Discussion
For sure older people are different people than who they were when they were teenagers or young marrieds or parents, then grandparents and so on.Our lives change, our circumstances change even our physical bodies completely change over time. Cultivation can be a constant as can meditation for those who do them. However, beyond and around those two I don't think that very much remains the same for anyone in life. -
The qualities of a true leader "princess"
GrandmasterP replied to mewtwo's topic in General Discussion
Cometh the hour cometh the leader. Churchill for example in World War 2. Not necessarily a great leader or brilliant strategist but people needed someone to believe in and rally round back then and he was the man for the job. Apart from dictators, leaders do tend to rely on the consent of the 'led'. -
A cult is simply a religion without political influence. Whenever a cult gains political power it becomes an established ( and establishment) religion. Not all cults make it into the major leagues but all major league religions started out as cults.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wake-Up-Laugh-Teachings-Daehaeng/dp/1614291225/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399150565&sr=1-1&keywords=wake+up+and+laugh Wake up and Laugh The late Korean Zen Master Daehaeng's unusual book. Not many laughs in that at all but it maybe lost something in translation.
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Why are there NO reputable writings or research on kundalini ?
GrandmasterP replied to mike 134's topic in General Discussion
It does to an extent when energy costs less than allopathic treatments.Our National Health Service has spent quite a lot on Mindfulness and that's offered as a cost effective treatment for pain management and also - as MBCT - for some forms of depression. Kundalini though, I suspect you'd need to look for research in the Indian universities. They tend to teach and publish in English so there'd be few language issues. The Yogi Bajan Kundalini Research Institute looks to have funded some peer reviewed work. Might be worth looking at. Possibly Punjab Universities as that's a Sikh led organization. -
Erses well and truly kicked. We Lost 25-12. I was not the bowls nor were the bowls me this afternoon. Hey ho.
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The qualities of a true leader "princess"
GrandmasterP replied to mewtwo's topic in General Discussion
That might be construed as a 'leading question'. -
Just the punchline to that missing post then... At that the sadist, with a wicked smile; turned to the masochist and said. " No, I shan't do it." :-)
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His prostate must have been pretty sound too. Six bowls of tea here and I'd be up and down like an elevator.
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"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone." ( Ella Wheeler Wilcox). Shame there was no TTB back then for old Ella to 'weep' on. We'd have sympathised with her and offered advice for improvements for sure. :-)
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Who 'sacralises' geometry these days? Back in Pythagoras' days the Geos Metros mystified how they resurveyed farmland after the Nile floods so that each farmer got his own fields back intact without losing land to a neighbour. That was a father to son business so it was in their interests to mystify the practice a bit like a proto 'Trade Guild' to keep out the competition. It was a sweet deal. Pythagorus rocks up and realises how they did the 'trick' using a long rope knotted equidistantly 3-4-5 and two sticks to create perfect right angles. He tells Pharaoh how it's done and the cat is out of the bag. The Geos Metroi put out a contract on Pythagoras so he high tails it out of Egypt with their 'secret'. And the rest, as they say; is history. Mystifying number, shape and space is a complete dead end lads. Gets you nowhere. You need some land surveying then geometry is your man. If you want to enjoy music then ears will do the trick. What sounds harmonious in one culture ( teenagers for example) can sound like a dismal cacophony to other ears. For the numinous you need cultivation. That cannot be quantified, ever.
