Songtsan

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  1. Wanting to know and needing to know

    this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDdqvftRlaQ or maybe this one?
  2. How to develop unconditional love?

    you should come back then
  3. Your Views Please

    Now I want to study martial arts again.
  4. Loopy thoughts

    Trying to change things is trying to control nature. Do not try to control the Tao, or the Tao will fight you back without making any effort. Each action has an opposite but equal reaction in the opposite direction.
  5. Loopy thoughts

    I know dis! What I do is when I have a thought that stops my mind for a while...I think - cool! and then I share it, hoping it will stop someone else's mind too - wicked and devilish, I know.
  6. Loopy thoughts

    When I say the truth that you are saying, it means something different to me...is it still true?
  7. Loopy thoughts

    I am almost always delusional, I think?
  8. Loopy thoughts

    I usually dont know what I'm talking about too.
  9. Loopy thoughts

    thinking is in Tao and games are in Tao
  10. Your Views Please

    also, in regards to my last post - everytime you stress your center by sending action energy in one direction beyond the locus of your dan tien/center of gravity, you are either forced to play catch-up by reinserting energy in the opposite direction to counterbalance, or else you can follow your own energy direction and allow the action-energy direction/vector to turn you in that same direction, thus circling/spiraling towards that vector. A savvy opponent could take advantage of you if you have to play catch up, by following your own action-energy with one in the same direction and further unbalance you - either by toppling you, or even by attacking the limb itself - adding his/her own energy to the vector and crushing that limb...Additive forces are powerful....This is why two martial artists can hurt eachother both by attacking force with force head on. If a person uses your own force to manipulate you, they now control you and you are in their domain until you can spiral out of it....they can keep you trapped once they have you by keeping you off center off gravity, always playing try-to-recenter
  11. either ridicule everyone or no one, to ridicule only some makes you suffer inside as you carve up your own heart into bad/good states - then you feel bad/good yourself when those states are apparent to your awareness. Dont carve up your own heart!
  12. How to develop unconditional love?

    you can go now...just dont leave
  13. How to develop unconditional love?

    but not always, because we wouldnt know you then, and we would miss you
  14. Let's Talk About Afterlife

    form disappears into mind matrix memory
  15. Let's Talk About Afterlife

    are you saying this one is after death? or at death? or no death?
  16. Wanting to know and needing to know

    I bet I like music you like....put something up and I will match it with something similar
  17. How to develop unconditional love?

    just stop saying stuff always/never of the time
  18. Ayahuasca

    10/10
  19. Your Views Please

    well, I'm no martial artist nowadays...but one thing I noticed is that, especially in the promo video, the form has a lot of energy reversals. Instead of following the action-direction with a flow that uses the energy to make a continuous circuit, it uses back-n-forth, which is inefficient because you actually have to fight yourself to re-activate the energy wheel. See that move where you do a sort of sweeping kick, land and do a return kick (around 00:08)? This creates a place where there is a pause and you then have to fight your own energy to come back in your kick. It looks nice, but seems to waste your own energy on yourself, whereas if you designed it so that your own energy took you somewhere else effortlessly you could maintain the energy-momentum and spiral it into something else far more deadly by adding to it, instead of subtracting from it....like bagua circle-stuff. from an aesthetics point of view I like it...it looks nice and snaky. I understand that you use the rebound or bounce energy to activate your come back...but I have seen forms that have almost no rebound/bounce moves and they seem faster, and also less predictable...you can almost tell that that second kick is coming...its one thing if you are chambering your kick, but landing and then forcing a new kick from the same leg leaves that split second in between where a person who is aware can use that space to plan/counter/etc. Is this your own personal form, or traditional? I know almost nothing about martial arts nowadays...my principles come more from analyzing physics and theories of action/reaction...circular forms avoid action/reaction. Keep in mind that every action has an opposite and equal reaction, so when your foot lands on the floor, the floor is landing on your foot. When you do a spring down and bounce back up move...you are not only allowing the energy to bounce you back up, but since the floor is also pushing you, you are also pushing the floor - so energy you built through momentum is lost through the floor. Try to keep your energy in you, instead of losing to the environment - if you lose it to someone's body in a fight, that is OK, as that is the point, but whenever you lose energy to the floor, etc. you have misplaced yourself. Every time you have a stop, you have to have a start again. It takes effort to start, because objects at rest want to remain at rest. You want to keep energy building, in a circle/spiral, never leaving the circle/spiral, because to leave is either to let the energy dissipate, or to fight the circle-direction. Also, think of a snake moving, it seemingly has a back and forth - but it is actually a wave like motion, so its actually more spiral like, relying naturally on physics laws to minimize energy laws...look at nature for the most efficient use of energy. The snake is relying on on a principle that uses its own body weight and the effects of action/reaction on the relaxed parts (muscles not active in that phase) to slingshot its leading part into the next wave section...it uses almost no start-force...its continuous. So try not to stop and start. Try to do wave/circles. Moving from dantien is partially based on gravity laws, and in fact center of gravity is exactly dantien. When you overextend and have to fight to get back, you went outside the locus of your center of gravity...maintain balance by using forces besides major muscle-movements (like action/reaction laws). Once you have the energy momentum - all changes should come from extremely subtle changes in posture, costing almost nothing...direct the flow with the smallest of energy inputs to create direction changes in the vector. The energy is maintained without excess pushing/pulling. So your energy reserves are 10x as strong and can be unleashed in a storm of spiraling/building chi expression. If you do have to pull into a stop, always pull the energy back into you too. If you are pulling back, use the energy that is created as your body weight pushes into the floor (which means that the floor pushes into your body)...you can absorb the force of the floor pushing back into you through that bounce back energy - this is its proper place. Using body weight is taking energy from gravity...fighting body weight with your own muscles is taking energy from you. Avoid unnecessary energy expenditures whenever possible. Don't fight yourself, fight your opponent only (and gravity as is required). Forms look great by the way...beautiful. P.S. Here is a fun experiment - active your start energy with your initial launch, then see how much movement you can create from this initial burst, with no extra added energy from muscle movement (except to maintain balance of course - don't fall to gravity! ) See how long you can make it last. See the video below for explanation too...notice how with the initial energy added, it spins for quite a while: they took my vid..those greedy boys! I put nother one in:
  20. Super Saiyans are REAL!

    Right now I am limited to ones on Netflix...have to figure out how to stream to blueray...maybe youtube? thanks for the reccomendations - thats plenty... first anime I ever saw was: Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji(Legend of the Overfiend) seen?
  21. Let's Talk About Afterlife

    It is the one that is 'before death'
  22. How to develop unconditional love?

    No I havent been back at it yet....I'll get to it though...there are commands to memorize and you have to train it to your voice...the thing is it comes with a standard dictionary, but all the eastern terms people use on this site might confuse it, so I am going to start by letting it analyzing my writing....I've just been busy. Guess I jumped the gun the other night....
  23. Try this sometime

    Get a good size piece of gum and chew it until the flavor goes away. Next, hold some other food item, say a fresh baked cookie, or some good smelling food, under your nose. It feels/tastes almost exactly like you are eating that food item. You could have a full course dinner this way, without actually eating anything. Great way to go on a diet.
  24. Yin Yang Left Right

    as the left side of the brain is the logical side, and is associated with male, and controls the right side of the body...whereas the right side of the brain is associated more with art, creativity, etc. and controls the left side of the body, I personally would go with the right as Yang and left as Yin... I also notice that my right hand (my dominant hand) is my action hand, and my left is more of a support, or carrying hand...my left hand even feels more feminine to me and the right masculine...
  25. How to develop unconditional love?

    It wasnt a reading by my shakini...it was just me....if I did it for you I'd probably be lying I'll see what I can do though if I see posts by you I will hit you with my sword made of synthetic gems that shoots lasers out of it.