BaguaKicksAss

I don't think someone here is wrong necessarily, or in many such debates (this one is just a really good example). There are several different realities, several different ways to go about things, several different "universes" (for lack of a better word, you know what I mean :>). Hmm, I doubt SM calls their yin qi anything like MP yin qi... Perhaps different qi's or perhaps accessing different frequencies or whatever of said qi. Perhaps different qi's for different things? I know what you are saying, is all others are really variants of yang qi, but perhaps there are variants of this. A rainbow has more than black and white (OK red and white, whatever lol). Or the whole shades of grey thing... so many billion frequencies (and realities). I practice magic (as everyone already knows I'm sure); and I've heard some folks say such and such path doesn't have any power (and I agree in some cases lol), however it is more about the person than the path. What I did realize in all this (as each of the two paths were saying the other didn't have any power) is that each could not perceive or feel the frequencies outside of what they worked with and what they were used to! I found this rather interesting, and actually experienced it myself. Perhaps it is sort of like some folks can walk under power line conductors or past the power stations and not feel a thing, where I get pretty messed up (confirmed by double blind accidental experiments unfortunately). You are asking us to be able to allow, open up and dream enough to accept that the MoPai stuff is reality, yet you are now allowing yourself to accept that you can achieve this in a lifetime. You are perhaps selling yourself short. I'm one of those believe anything is *possible* and just put 100% effort in . I also think that opening up and accepting what most feel is impossible is a good thing. I think that perhaps the chances of you convincing TTBs about this particular Yin qi thing has about the same probability as the folks who come to my door with bibles convincing me to join them . Though I do remember my ex used to invite them in for tea and have long discussions with them. I did tend to feel a little sorry for them lolololol.

MPG, you owe tech a beer. Just sayin' . Wanders off to merge more "this post was deleted"

How I personally do it, is I just choose one post (usually the most recent one) in the thread, and mention that this has happened several times in the thread. If it is the thread I'm thinking of, I have reported it asking for a pitting of it, so the mods have at least read it I figure, so they will know what you mean.

More_Pie_Guy, I don't think you need to consolidate every post (if any, I'm still trying to figure that bit out) unless it's a yin qi specific pile of posts .

But, do they have Bagua there? I heard that Hong Kong is quite expensive?? Or just perhaps compared with China. I love the dim sum restaurants here (we have a very large chinatown and whole suburb with asian people and restaurants here . So I've had a LOT of dim sum, would be awesome to try it in Hong Kong, as all my favorites are from there. I'm not much for large cities and lots of people though, so it is likely I would try every single street vendor (oh wait a minute, they are safe to eat? Awesome!) then get out of town heh.

I have found that the travel with at least one other person just isn't going to happen (at least until I hit my first hostel over there that is hehe), so planning for it to just be me. I have tried to entice all my martial arts friends over there though! However also most north americans that I know personally, would not be willing to travel in the same conditions I am (hostels). Yes I have definitely heard that before about an asian woman traveling with a westerner, sometimes they get called some pretty horrible names as well apparently. It is unfortunate. The Cambodia and Vietnam trips must have been awesome . It is so beautiful over there from all I have been told about it. My fellow hostelers have convinced me that at some point in my life I need to go. I tend towards a backpack (customs just loves this, not lol) and no jewelry for these very reasons . That scenario is always a little unnerving! LOL When I first went to Mexico, it took me a few days to get used to machine guns everywhere! I do have a photo of myself with a group of Mexican police holding their machine guns and me doing the peace sign thing . That sounds amazing . It is definitely a place I would like to travel to. The magic of the area fascinates me, as do the artifacts. I have some that I bought here about 25 years ago, and they most definitely do have a life to them. This is what first interested me in the area. Now that I know one person who has a house/family over there, and another that lived there for 10 years or so practicing the local martial arts! Oh most definitely about a local, I traveled through Albania that way, it was wonderful! I was taken to places tourists would never know about or be able to get to. Him telling people I was Canadian convolute helped at times too ROFL. They actually stopped some road work that would have taken hours to let us drive through hehe. The best part was a castle in the middle of nowhere no one really visited much.. given the keys and allowed to go look around, entire place to ourselves! We took the opportunity to perform a few rituals of course. The caretaker also said that yes we could stay overnight and bring a few other people if we wanted. Sooo tempting for the most awesome retreat ever. I have heard about that aspect of china! I'm guessing some knowledge of the local language is necessary, or no? Probably easier in the larger cities. Definitely the large knife in india thing. I guess it might be handy that I train martial arts. Not 100% failsafe obviously, but helps I'm sure. While staying in an ashram though, damn! I even keep that stuff in mind when traveling to the USA! Aside from dangerous, I also think it's quite rude to wear expensive jewelry in countries where people can barely afford food. I also wear a moneybelt when I travel overseas and keep just a few small bills in the section where I pull money out to give to someone.. Yes it took me awhile to adjust in Egypt to that idea, not sure why it took so long there compared with other places. The funny thing is that quite honestly I experienced more and longer culture shock in TX than I did in Egypt! I'm not joking.. Thank you for the advice and encouragement, and your awesome travel stories, FT .

Fortunately for Indonesia I have a close friend who has a house and family there, so if/when I go it would be with her. I also have other contacts over there. I am most definitely tempted. The airfare though...

This is a very good point. I wasn't sure if my friend was being realistic, or a little too cautious in his advice. I remember when I was in my 20's I used to go camping alone every single weekend (worked 10 hour days so I would get 3 day weekends every week). Well as you can guess everyone freaked out (especially my poor parents) and told me not to do it. This may sound odd, but I decided I'd rather take the risk and live life how I most enjoyed it, then stay home in fear in the city each weekend. I never even had a slight problem camping alone ever, not even an uneasy situation! I know not all are that fortunate, but I also go on my instincts and will not camp in areas I get a bad feeling from (and there have been a couple, believe me). The whole rape thing, or in a similar context the being mugged thing.... I have found that the unsavorables here do bother some women, but not me. I do really think that attitude can help a lot. It isn't 100% obviously, but does tend to help. I naively have always believed that I could kick ass in a bad situation (an from what I have been told hold myself like this as well). I did find out otherwise when I took up martial arts ROFL, but I think the attitude has helped . I see a lot of women who who don't have the werewithall to day "fuck off" really get harassed or treated inappropriately. I figure this skill is learned by much international travel lol. This sort of reminds me when our family went to Morocco... my mother learned the arabic word for "fuck off" the first day . It served us well, but the looks on people's faces was priceless! This was circa 1982; they weren't as used to tourists there back then.

That is just awesome! May I ask if she is white? I find that my friends who look more Asian get treated quite differently in some places... I have to say this is very encouraging though. I wish to get to the places without the horrendous air pollution, which from what I hear are out of town a ways lol.

I remember reading your burning man adventures on here, pretty cool . In Israel, that must have been interesting. A hostel over there would be even more so! I have found that the folks who stay in international hostels are always the most interesting, and also very open. I'm curious how come you chose Israel as your main place of travel?

I have always wanted to visit South Africa! I might get to as a client lives over there, here's hoping! That is pretty awesome about going that long on $1000 :>. I have heard of folks who live in India for about $1000 per year, which sounds like a lot of fun as well. I don't mind those sorts of conditions.

That is one thing which is a bit annoying about some other countries I travel to, they never heard of PLATONIC, hello? lol Even if wearing a "wedding ring" I have noticed... I could perhaps learn the word "lesbian" in several different languages . In Egypt at least they compliment you first ROFL . Thank you for saying this, I'm glad that it is generally safe. Generally when I travel I avoid the tourist places like the plague. How well do you know the language? Unfortunately I don't at all. Not that this has stopped me in any other country, but China could be different. I'm wondering if I would need to hire a guide/translator or not? That whole heart open up thing, yes definitely, I have found overall that folks in the various third word countries can be amazingly open and loving, giving, and so forth. It is a nice contrast sometimes. I always find it interesting that some can be living in poverty, terrible conditions and so forth, but usually still be smiling and genuinely happy . Hmmm, I'm not so sure about going alone or not, it is difficult to tell. I mean either gender in this. Whenever I travel I tend to dress down (actually I do all the time anyways lol, but I put a conscious effort into it when traveling), and I feel this helps. Still though the shoes I wear are a year's worth of income for some folks. I feel I could probably go alone if I made at least a few contacts before I left. The couchsurfing thing would most definitely be viable. Also if there are any hostels. Also the hotels tend to look after folks, especially if a woman is running it. I only felt slightly unsafe twice in Haiti, once when my friend and I went to the market alone (we were given hell after by our Haitian friends for doing that), and when I was carrying a rather large sum of money through town (though in that case it was likely more my fears). I found Haiti to be less safe than Egypt (Egypt's economy is run on tourists so we are taken care of, and we are always right in a police dispute), in Haiti, not so much lol. Still though the people treated us well, and didn't try to scam me like in Egypt. The couchsurfing was so much fun, it was in an apartment full of women, and they were trying to teach me Haitian dancing and even invited me out dancing with them . One of them even came with us so I could see the local cemetery. Also a woman I know of lived in Haiti for about 8 years, and I mean in the backcountry of Haiti!!!! That is pretty impressive. She is from the USA. No I did not, thank you . That reminds me how much I would just LOVE to cycle around Albania for a year. Albania is gorgeous, and most of the roads would work for this. The only thing is... bicycles in these various countries tend to suck, and my good bicycle would likely get stolen within a few minutes, or at least parts of it. Not that they don't where I live now, but still lol.

Thank you for posting all the planetary sounds in one place Starjumper . Those are pretty awesome! I'd not heard the sun one before either!!!

MPG, this would be a moderator decision in this case since the thread was about "Stillnes Movement" in particular.

Mine was?

I think I've only meditated once or twice in my life!

I personally kinda like this version below *Hands MPG Notepad++* I tweaked it a little, I took out the quotes below the spoiler so I can use them again above it. Seems to be a bit better of a solution. ___________________________ Edit: I took the quotes off the material below the spoiler line where archived replies are staying, seems to free up some quote space so perhaps this is fixed temporarily. ___________________________ Zero contradiction. 100% oversight on your behalf. If you feel otherwise go find and quote me on it. You must be grounded to the earth no exceptions is what I've said. That could be via a grounding wire or sitting in the dirt. You pick. The grounding wire suggestion was given for those who couldn't sit on the ground outside. Zero contradiction. 100% oversight on your behalf. If you feel otherwise go find and quote me on it. You must be grounded to the earth no exceptions is what I've said. That could be via a grounding wire or sitting in the dirt. You pick. The grounding wire suggestion was given for those who couldn't sit on the ground outside. That is correct. As you meditate you will not be feeling yin chi move in your body. Perhaps in an insanely powerful field of yin were present like chang injecting you full of yin energy you would feel distended like your bladder is being squeezed and fullness inside your body, you would not feel a cold rush or energetic movement in your body as yin chi poured in. ___________________________ Previous replies contained in spoiler below:

:wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: SPOILER FEATURE :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: Feel free to use it many many times and often! (so not quoting that entire long post heh, nice move though MPG)

While we are waiting for a second mod to confirm the pitting of the above thread, the tech team (me) would like to entertain you all with some nice music

ROFL Though I'm SURE 2-3 posts per thread would be OK instead of just one . PS the OCD tech would like permission to edit SOME BLANK MILE LONG SPACES out of your last post?

Oh I can do all the same things in the tech sense a mod can, but cannot make mod decisions (even a sole mod can't). The main reason a tech shouldn't make mod decisions is to prevent burnout. Well that and I have realized that the job of mod for me personally doesn't go so well, I'm one of those want to be extra strict kinda folks heh.... Now being able to decide on my own what do to with mopai threads would be kinda cool heh (pit pit pit pit pit pit pit) lol

*hands MPG a whole pile of [[[[[[[[['s*