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  2. Intra ocular pressure

    Just Asian squat? What about horse stance?
  3. Haiku Chain

    Soon I will be soaked I'm coming unglued in mist it must be the beer
  4. of course. In terms of our convo above sealing means maintaining a thoughtless mind, particularly not putting the focus of your attention on the 'yuanjing'. In general sealing is the opposite of leakage ę¼ loĢ€u to leak; to divulge; which in turn means no thoughts arising (not loss of semen as popularly thought). However thats a vernacular use of the term. In the neidan classics sealing 封 feĢ„ng to seal is not used at the MCO starting stage. Instead the technical term 'to seal firmly å›ŗ封' refers to the next stage: the year after the 100 days.
  5. What are you listening to?

    So. Much. Yes!
  6. Wild cats

    many cats will know in a second or two if you are cat person or not...
  7. Wild cats

    I dropped by Mickey D's the other day to pick up a double bacon cheese burger for the cat. She likes the bacon and beef from the sandwich. I take the breading off a couple chunks of the sweet and sour pork and shred 'em, she loves that. She'll eat cream cheese, if I make small pieces out of some. Likes chicken, but not fresh-cooked, for some reason. Needs a day in the refrigerator. Tonight she gets a little of the salmon, her favorite (aside from the double bacon cheese burger). Oh, and she eats canned catfood too. A little bit of expensive cans... Sophie the cat.
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  9. I need to process your post, but about this what I'm saying is, can you please tell me what sealing means if you have managed to understand it? Because I do not understand it.
  10. S:C, Stealing is the term used in the Huiming Jing. It means that when yang moves from the kidneys to the genitals as the natural response of arousal (in the form of the male erection) in the body's preparation to provide some yuanjing to the supposed baby, the method is beginning by stealing that energy away from the natural process using breath and intention to guide it away, then circulating it in the Ren Mai and Du Mai to transmute it to yuanqi
  11. where is the cat thread?

    even domesticated cats that get outside a lot retain a certain amount of wildness and hunting traits, as in clearing out all the free roaming mice and some other critters. (including over populated rabbits which we had some of) I remember seeing something on TV years ago where parts of Australia had major rabbit over-population? Then again too many cats may kill to many critters...
  12. Wild cats

    Cats are obligatory carnivores. Aside from this being a much-ignored axiom, there was this study with cat diets done by Francis Pottenger, MD, in 1932-1942. Of the thousands of cats divided into groups they fed different diets, the only diet they found adequate (resulting in perfectly healthy cats with perfectly healthy posterity) consisted of 2/3 raw meat, 1/3 raw milk, supplemented with cod liver oil. All cats that received versions of different diets (with cooked meat, pasteurized milk, or some combo of raw and cooked/pasteurized) fared much worse. And that was the era before commercial cat food, so those cats didn't eat what today's cats eat: corn, wheat, soy, artificial preservatives, artificial colors and flavors, carbohydrate fillers (aka cellulose, which deer and goats can digest but cats can't), sweeteners, vegetable oils, and something the labels call "animal digest" which is cattle manure. A long time ago, I did an internship working with patents, and saw many that were for chemicals designed to make what cats wouldn't normally eat attractive to them. Complex neuroscience behind each of those! Best scientific minds working on fooling cats, compromising their health and shortening their lives.
  13. Dao Bums (here i am)

    Raises hand. I'll take the extra horse. I'll need it for my stuff. by the way, anyone got a spare wagon??
  14. Dao Bums (here i am)

    guess I'll just own being the Dao Bum's attention whore then lol
  15. where is the cat thread?

    Its just under this one .
  16. where is the cat thread?

    here it is
  17. Wild cats

    Whatā€™s the appropriate cat food?
  18. where is the cat thread?

    The cat thread is in the Rabbit Hole. It was originally conceived of as dedicated to what its name says -- Wild cats, but other kinds of cats show up from time to time too. Commercial cat food is a sad topic... "Research" experiments on cats is a sadder one. I try not to go there.
  19. where is the cat thread?

    Btw, we had a very good cat for 14 years but he got some type of cancer in his right shoulder and leg. A vet said he could could cut it out but that the cat would then be very crippled. We decided not to do that to him since he spent a lot time outdoors doing cat stuff and him needing all four legs to do so. Well he did not suffer too much from the cancer while still with us and continued his outdoor activities for more than year until one day he did not come home. We figured he fought his last battle with a feral cat or fox that got the better of him. I hate to think that back then we may have helped bring on the cancer since we were feeding him big name cat food!
  20. I was trying to find the cat thread started by Taomeow to post there but didn't...anyway I came across some health tips for cats that some people may be interested in, there is an advertisement angle to it but the info sounds pretty good concerning dubious big name cat food suppliers that put only god know what into their cat food being that there is little or no regulations for same! For instance pet foods with all sorts of fillers and grains that are not good or detrimental to your cats health. The vets name and cat food product is from Dr. Marty which can easily be found with a web search. And I'm pretty sure there are other vets that are in agreement with his warnings about all the fillers in cat and dog food since they are supposed to be mostly be eating like carnivores.
  21. I was trying to find the cat thread started by Taomeow to post there but didn't...anyway I came across some health tips for cats that some people may be interested in, there is an advertisement angle to it but the info sounds pretty good concerning dubious big name cat food suppliers that put only god know what into their cat food being that there is little or no regulations for same! For instance pet foods with all sorts of fillers and grains that are not good or detrimental to your cats health. The vets name and cat food product is from Dr. Marty which can easily be found with a web search. And I'm pretty sure there are other vets that are in agreement with his warnings about all the fillers in cat and dog food since they are supposed to be mostly be eating like carnivores.
  22. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    I am a little mercurial but I do appreciate your ideas. I think at one time I would easily agreed with you - but maybe itā€™s my age but now I am quite conscious of the bad in the world (not just extremes but the general degeneration of order) and have found increasingly that battling against it is important for us.
  23. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    Yep, I assumed you got my meaning and just added some characteristic -- and much appreciated -- humor. Maybe itĀ“s the playful cat in you, smart and feisty. ThatĀ“s a combination of attributes that, in my judgment (cough, cough), seems to be going around.
  24. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    Despite my flippancy I do take your point about being non-judgemental.
  25. stolen by a thief? how's that? how do you even know, you've lost it? sorry thats not my quote. these are the words of @Yae we are all in the same yellow submarine, lads and lassies both you used that word first, you did not ask me to explain it, so i did not i never say anything thats my own opinion. i just repeat the words of my teachers coming to me through their books. Hierarchies are important because a method is a tool. Dont we need to know if we are using a hammer or a screwdriver? A tool must fit the task. the discussion of xing first or ming first is a teaching device, for analysis and understanding. In practice there is no such split between xing and ming. Yet if you are interested in Xing first, for starters we can look at this passage of LYM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Yiming sure, i dont even know what ego is. glad to be of any help.
  26. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    me too - my peach tree had a sort of ecosystem involving ants and greenfly which I solved in more or less this way.
  27. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    you are wise brother Luke - I shall remember that although I charge 20 dollars an hour thereā€™ll be no extra for the touching.
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