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Condolences to you . I lost my father when I was 17 . I became a bit estranged from my parents when I moved into adulthood ... my direction and life choice confounded them . I used to think they were strangely 'bland' and had narrow interests . later I realized that it was just total devotion and focus on the kids . That passed on to all their kids , who did great parenting . I havent had my own but have had to step in a bit and help with young ones at times . Thanks to my parents , I am supposing . if we have not had abusive parents , we often are not aware of that , but if you didnt have abusive parents ; you got a BIG head start in life , and a seed was planted so we can find space to care for others . Some times its good to share that appreciation with them .... their good works will pass on down through the generations .

Best wishes for your Dad and family, I'd say MD Anderson in Houston, Tx. has some of the best cancer care in the world, if you and your folks are in the process of looking for care options...

Surya, Best wishes for you and your dad and your entire family. I think it says something good about you that you were willing to reach out and be in touch. LL

Sorry to hear that and thanks for sharing.

Good news for of course in proper context none of that applies to the (pointer of ) Self... or to the Buddhist (pointer) version which follows: "There is, monks, an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated. If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, there would not be the case that escape from the born — become — made — fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, escape from the born — become — made — fabricated is discerned."

don't know about "swaggering" but I'm a friendly drunk... (which is seldom now a-days at my age)

@old3bob So maybe you can recall the secret, lost for many centuries, of making that most desired trade item that was known as the Tyrian purple? It cost more than three times its weight in gold, and only the royalty, nobility and the Roman high clergy could afford it. I know it was obtained, via an incredibly laborious process of procurement and production, from certain species of Mediterranean snails. The snails might still be around... but the technology is lost. If you knew it in that past life and could retrieve it, you could make a fortune. The mega-wealthy still hunt for things no one else can afford, and pay incredible money for the items that come with a guarantee of no mass access to them. Of course countless modern purple pigments exist, but none can replicate that royal color. (In fact, I know the color purple has the potential of being striking, but in modern clothes, in most cases, I find it ugly. I do own one exception but that's it.)

MCO stands for Microcosmic orbit(小周天) and Macrocosmic orbit(大周天). If it is not a breathing exercise, then, there would be no such thing as MCO. It would be a myth to think that moving substances through the Du and the Ren meridians. However, the old concept of MCO was only a legendary concept was passed down from century to century. The same old story was always repeated with no proof. There are no living reference. It was only told by the word of mouth. The story comes out differently each time depends on who told it. I had challenged these ideas about MCO on a Chinese Qigong site. So far, no one has taken the challenge with contradiction but just took it silently. I will go find my post and place it here with translation.

During the last year or so, it started to dawn on me that my childhood and family situation might have been quite a bit harder than what I had been willing to admit. Three months ago, I told my parents that I needed sometime without contact. Today my mother called and told me that my father likely have cancer. Strange thing is, I didnt really feel anything at all the first hour, but sent him a message that id call him shortly. During the trip home, my perspective thankfully changed a little. He is a good man at heart, no doubt. And he wants the best for me. And he has had a really hard upbringing. I do love him, in the end. We all (the family) love each other, and do our best under the given circumstances, even tho we might not always know how to express that love. During the call, he told me that he did have cancer, but didnt know that much more untill tommorow, when he will call me back. He seemed to be taking it in good spirit. Ofc it is not good news, but worrying about it will do no good, he told me, before saying that what was in store for me was more important (for him) than what was in store for himself. That is his character. What will I say when my kids ask me who my daddy wasI thought about it for a while and I'm at a lossKnowing that I'm gonna live my whole life without himI found out a lot of things I never knew about himAll I know is that I'll never really be aloneCause we gotta lot of love and a happy home I used to practice with my mommy on the pianoI still get nervous every time I know she's at a showNow my family comes first before everyoneI had the perfect dad I wanna be the perfect sonThough I really feel sometimes I am on my ownI know I got a lot of love and a happy home I hope this thread might help you in remembering what truly matters in life, and perhaps some of you might include him in your prayers. Take care.

Cancer is very frightening but depending on the type and spread, it's not necessarily the monster it used to be. It may be presumptuous of me to say but until you find out otherwise there is much room for hope. Yours Michael

While I am a relative beginner at this, in my understanding the MCO is not a breath exercise. It’s moving actual substances through the du and the ren with internal pressure to stimulate the brain to replenish and change the body. To do this you need to have accumulated a sufficient supply of these substances, built the mechanism to move them and opened the transport network enough to carry them. I didn’t hear any reference to this foundational work.

Thanks a lot. My hunch is that they will put their faith in the public healthcare system of Norway, but as we get more information, I’ll give him a call and reach out to you on PM in case it get relevant.

I believe the ignorance the Buddha referred to was the ignorance of not knowing the truth of our nature. And not so much as them being unaware of the trail of victims from their actions. But, I could be wrong??

Karma imo: Uncleared crap in your head is the cause; your current life is the effect. Clear the crap -> no Karma.

Not sure about Roman concrete -- I seem to remember they used egg whites in it, but modern industrial processes have long been way too stingy for that. As for herbal birth control, I have this Chinese medical book, A Barefoot Doctor's Manual (too lazy to re-tell the story of its origins and contents but you can look it up), and it has a few plant based methods of birth control. It was developed as an entirely practical book, no tall tales, but a couple of birth control recipes there blew my socks off... There's a monthly method -- fertility is on hold while you take that herbal brew, and when you stop it gets restored within a short time. And a yearly method -- a remedy you take just once a year that switches your fertility off for that year. Also reversible. So those plant methods weren't lost everywhere... although I don't know the current fate of the plants that went into making them. Pre-civilized people always controlled their birth rates, and not via infanticide as our so-called "scholars" (indented slaves of the system, with perks) would have us believe. Women of our species, let alone matriarchs, were neither ignorant about things nature nor numb as doorknobs back then.

It must be 'Cheeky Week ' ! First some person that is now 'turned on ' to indigenous wisdom ( she spends10 minutes in the recent 300+ indigenous smoking circle ceremony that everyone else did , tells ME ( one of the fire keepers in that circle , friend and student of some elders , friends with the last generation of elders , done ceremony with the present senior elder , etc etc ) I need indigenous education and have not learnt what she did . Then one of my lizard friends that come inside and who I hand feed nips me twice on the little toe while I am reading inside . Parrots making a racket at the door ... what now ? Ohhh , the bird bath is not full enough ? I am filling that up and one swoops... ''Alright alright .... I'm doing it okay ! '' Then a possum falls out of bed and lands against the window , hanging by one paw , and has two large furry balls pressed up against the window .... and stays there ! Well, thats just lovely isnt it ! ... what a view . '' I had one piece of bread left for a quick breakfast before I go to town . Mum butcherbird comes in and steals my breakfast off the toaster! And in town , I am having coffee with Uncle W . ( who is still around .... the one in the video with a bullroarer ) . Tourist people are looking as he looks very 'tribal' and has taken to wearing a large bone through his nose ( a 'point the bone ' bone ! ) . I leave and say goodbye and he calls out loud ' Goodby Auntie ..... ( to them ) ... that's my Auntie ! '' What the ..... ? Its supposed to be ME that is the cheeky one ( last generation of elders named me Baaliigin - 'cheeky quoll ' < ... eyes dart left and right .... waiting in anticipation for the next 'one' .... > .

What ever happened to the recipe for roman concrete. And that plant based method of birth control lost when Nero was emperor.

Indeed ! Who needs all that 'extra trouble' . I was watching my boss once do 'paperwork' , he had a bunch of different stuff laid out on a table , including harassment from the taxation department , bills, insurance , some type of health and safety issue , the wages , and managing a repair on his private expensive vehicle and an issue with the trucks etc etc . ' heart attack ' material , in my book . I winced at it and he ' What;s that look for ?'' '' Ughh, I hate that stuff , that's why I am a bum and live simply and happy, do my work and at the end of the week , put my hand out and get money in it . Then after a few weeks I go back home to my cabin in the forest . .'' Boss ; '' Do you want to swap jobs ? ''

I am feeling nostalgia for a time I want to have . Yesterday I said to someone ; '' I am going to make my own commune and say who lives there or not ! '' Friend; '' Who might that be ?'' '' Me for a start , then various birds, including some tawny frogmouths, a flock of crimson rosellas , a wedge-tailed eagle, a collection of pademelons and potoroos, two wombats , a pond with some fish and three donkeys .

If that happened humans would realize their own authority

When it comes to magic, it's really rather simple. Certain words contain ideas, that when a person understands the meaning of them, can be used to harness the brains focus and the body's energy to send forth energy into the universe, and a person can act upon them. Words like chaos, order, love, hate, good, evil; when a person uses these words they harness the energy from them, and that energy is mentally applied to the world. I think a lot of occult tools are a waste of time, why not go to the source of the words instead of these rituals?