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🤣 I was kidding about the poll but … 🤷‍♂️ I still like Taomeow’s horsey best.

If not you can put up a post and get people to either like it downvote the post

This can not be happening .

For your consideration..

You are assuming there are any adults.

To my thinking, the virtue of Taomeow´s horse is that it accurately reflects the astrological energy of the year: it actually looks like a Fire Horse. A rather nice one. Nungali´s horse makes me smile and, in it´s jokey childlike way, has some artistic flair. The mischievious boy in me likes the idea that this image Nungali made for giggles could actually be our banner. If we did make a poll, I suspect that Nungali´s image would have a surprisingy large "cult following." But it´s not really a Fire Horse. There´s a paradox that lies at the heart of what this forum is about. We´re Tao Bums. Which is to say that many of us are serious spiritual practitioners (that´s the Tao part), but, at the same time we´re also Bums. Most of us have a little of both of these qualities though proportions vary. On a good day, I´m 30% serious Taoist, 70% Bum. This likely explains my impish advocacy of Nungali´s image. I suspect the final decision will be made by the adults in the room.

I think we need to set up a poll

Especially big tough , armed , armored, government validated and funded men ! They cant , en masse even defeat a single lone ...... Mud Wizard !

Yes, that would be easy to do. It´s also possible to adjust the colors, brightness, etc. All suggestions are welcome.

I even like this one better!

If there is a poll, can I enter the Swan as an option please. Failing that, I vote for the horsie uncropped, this one:

I vote for the top one.

Btw, some men are not just strange but very stupid to think such a thing. ...so we now have grizzlies in the mix. If one is ever in the town of West Yellowstone, Wyoming they have a grizzly bear enclosure where one can see the bears up closer than as normally viewable in many zoos. The massive and incredible build of muscles in their shoulders and front legs is hard to believe until you see it ! Me and and an old buddy got charged by a brown colored bear in a brushy wilderness area near a creek many years ago. It was scary as hell but he broke off his charge, I guess we were lucky since apparently he was not very hungry that morning but could have had us for a snack. Understandably We didn't hang around to verify if it was a grizz or big black bear in the brown or as also called the cinnamon variation. There is a saying that your hiking buddy in bear country should be a slower runner than you, that way you might have a chance to survive per the regretful sacrifice of your buddy. Btw. running form a bear is supposedly the last thing you want to do (easier said than done) since they would then see you as prey and can easily outrun a human!

Same as St George: the personality will needs to be controlled and transformed as a precondition to enlightenment

That is likely to be symbolic - a more severe account than the tradition of St George taming the dragon and leading it through the market. That is a reference to the human learning to control its personality will. The intelligence of the personality will, as a precondition to first stage enlightenment, is moved by the human spirit, from defensive control of the personality to a new role of creativity.

A fully grown grizzly bear can weigh 1,500 pounds (about as much as 12 of me) and can outrun a horse. Its bite force can crush bones effortlessly, its claws are massive, and its instincts and strength have been refined over millennia to make it into the apex predator in its habitat. And yet 7% of men, according to polls, believe they could win a physical fight against a grizzly bear. Men are strange.

[Taoist Ritual] Supreme Mystery Gate Daily Recitation Morning Classwork Scripture | Wudang Mountain, Hubei I like this song. I copied the subtitles and also found some similar mantras on ctext. Taishang Xuanmen Morning Liturgy pinyin.txt Taishang Xuanmen Morning Liturgy partial draft.txt Here's what i have so far. It's far from complete, and I won't be embarrassed if there are mistakes. It's not an academic translation or ordained for service. Just wanted to read along with the singing and to know what it says. That said it is still handled with respect and reverence. There is a downloadable mp4 at https://archive.org/details/wudang-mountain-daoist-temple-chanting-morning-evening-liturgy but it is missing the last ten minutes.

Mundane people can be scammed, deceived and be delusional. (cult members) Their consciousness is weak. Magi see truth - objective reality. Third eye development allows to see all energies, "not a particular energy". I am sharing objective reality scan, that has been peer reviewed (blindly) with several advanced practitioners and masters. It is 100% accurate. When you stand on scale, the information they show is not an opinion. It is a factual data representing your body mass. The public scan is available in the latest article https://ancientmasters.org/library/johnchang-faqi-mopai

I vote for the hand drawn horse it is my favorite!