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  2. 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...
  3. 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.
  4. 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??
  5. Dao Bums (here i am)

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

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

    here it is
  9. Wild cats

    What’s the appropriate cat food?
  10. 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.
  11. 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!
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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 it’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.
  15. Letting Go of Good and Bad

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

    Despite my flippancy I do take your point about being non-judgemental.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    you are wise brother Luke - I shall remember that although I charge 20 dollars an hour there’ll be no extra for the touching.
  20. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    I´m not from any Old Country, unless Placerville, CA in the 80s counts (and maybe it does!) but I remember painting our fruit trees like that.
  21. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    "(Qi) blowing differently on 10,000 things so each can be itself." -- Zhuangzi The artificially achieved commercial uniformity of fruits and the natural variety within a particular kind are as different as a uniformed and identically disciplined army is different from a group of friends brought together by similarities of interests, experiences and abilities. Tao likes variety, it's true, but it also likes boundaries -- the devil is in the details. Natural biological boundaries make sense on every level -- if you plant cabbages, you don't want to be surprised by harvesting cacti. If a couple decides to have kids, they expect (and are likely to prefer) human kids, not baby elephants, not even kittens, cute as they may be. Changes and differences within sensible boundaries are part of normal on the Way. Neither excessive erratic changes nor arbitrarily imposed boundaries are. Yes, even erratic changes are part of it, but there's a boundary for the extent and amount of those as well, and if this boundary is violated and erratic unnatural changes become the "new normal," this is a sign of a departure from the Way. Ditto the excessive imposition of unnatural boundaries. In the "old country" they painted the bottom part of the fruit trees with lime -- instead of doing nothing about the bugs or using pesticides. This imposed a sensible nonlethal boundary on many kinds of critters that would otherwise damage the crop and surprise you with a worm inside an apple. Not that it never happened, but normally you wouldn't get a worm in more than one apple out of a dozen, and it was easy to spot -- you just examined the surface for the hole and if you saw one, you cut the apple open and kicked the squatter out.
  22. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    Seems to me there´s a subtlety to the idea of letting go of judgments that I have yet to communicate effectively. I´ll try again. To me, letting go of good and bad does not mean letting go of discernment. It doesn´t mean pretending we´re all the same. It doesn´t mean being soft on crime and doesn´t lead to moral relativism. We can let go of good and bad without turning our brains off. In Breema bodywork there´s a principle called "no extra." Practitioners are supposed to touch their clients (and live their lives) with no extra. What is extra? To my mind extra is the judgment, it´s the machination of our monkey minds, always busy, always adding too. It´s a precious thing to be touched by someone without an agenda, with exquisite neutrality, alive to what is and nothing else.
  23. Intra ocular pressure

    You might want to check a couple of videos by Meir Schneider, especially those where he teaches palming and eye massage. I've met him personally and he is legit.
  24. I will share my own method for Xing-first cultivation. It's about as simple as breathing so I don't see much reason for caution for anyone considering trying it. I call it, "Doing the Microcosmit Orbit", wait for it, "While Standing Up". The two ingredients Fire and Wind as used in the Huimingjing for other purposes are used here. They are Intention and Breath. Start by circulating the MCO, while standing. On inhale, start from the base of the perineum and move your point of intention up the back of your body in a straight line to the top of your head. On exhale, move your point of intention from there in a straight line on the front of your body to the base of your perineum. Note: Make sure the tip of your tongue is at least touching your hard palate at the front of the roof of your mouth if not the entire roof of your mouth because that is where the energy moves to continue the orbit. This is one complete repetition. Continue doing this a few times and you should start to notice your body undulating a little as you go up and as you go down. This is the movement of yuanshen I guess. You have activated it. Then you may repeat a few times for a strong activation, then stop and relax in place. Allow the movements to arise. It will take control. The energy is intelligent. I don't really think there is any danger to yuan shen, yuan qi, or yuan jing being in your body. Wu Liu Pai has a method to close the process but I can't share it haha. And this is not their method. If you've done the MCO at all you've probably stimulated it before and not realized it. I really don't think it's bad. It probably disperses on its own left unchecked. The idea of this method I think is that the energy already knows what to do and it opens channels as needed and then theoretically sets the MCO in motion itself (moves the MCO considering what Taoist Texts said about it although I would like more supporting documentation), creating the alchemical pill and thereby starting the growth of the yang fetus? Although if that's true then after stage 2 the methods are identical. Let me know if you have questions about the method. I just noticed, I think the Ruyao jing zhujie (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine) might actually be about the xing-first method, not sure... That's how you look doing the spontaneous movements Commentary by Wang Jie on part 1: Magpie Bridge = Tongue on palate which connects the Ren Mai and Du Mai, the two channels composing the MCO In Heaven responds to stars = going up the back of the body the energy is inclined upwards Earth tides = going from the top of the head down, in the same way it is naturally drawn down the front like a magnet (this is explained in the commentary)
  25. But you didn't explain what sealed means. Why are you so bent on giving methods hierarchies? The only way it starts on its own would be through the xing-first method I think, whereas the method in this book would be the ming-first method. By mid-level or low-level methods, I don't know what else you could be referring to. And this method is already quite efficient considering you become an Earthly Immortal in 100 days if it's done correctly, if I'm not mistaken. Do you know of any books that discuss the Xing-first method? That would be very interesting. So far the spontaneous movement method is the only insight I have into that. It's actually extremely intuitive to activate... Also I'm not really asking your ego anything. I want textual or other valid support for your claims. That's normal for any serious student of the science of internal alchemy.
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    Welcome @Christiaan, Trunk
  27. stolen by a thief? how's that? how do you even know, you've lost it? (is that cause for the bad attitude against women around some newcomers? is a woman not at the same risk to a thief? why/or why not?)
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