silent thunder

I could see the potential for hair to act as branches and leaves do for trees in gathering and interacting with Qi. However, the branches and leaves are living and the hair is perhaps, not so much. Interesting.

I feel inherently, that one moment I will awaken within the 'real world' in the same way lucid I have become during the dream state lucid a multitude of times.

I had hair down to my mid back throughout my 20's. For the last 17 years, I keep it shaved close. Never noticed it affecting any of my experiences, except when people admire the shape of my skull. That and it takes me 13 seconds to wash and dry my hair now...

I couldn't get into Korra. The change in atmosphere and the intense nature of the conflict with the 'resistance' just put me off. I'm sure I'll give it a shot someday.

yup

Like Alan Watts says... it's like trying to bite your own teeth.

I recall vaguely, the story of some intensely psychic Russian twin sisters from the late 19th, early 20th centuries, whose abilities, or the intensity of them were linked to their incredibly long hair... I can't find the article now that featured them, perhaps it was a book. I'll quote it, if I find it, it addressed this very thing as at one point they were threatened with having their hair cut in an interrogation setting.

Yup, I'd call it philosophical as the process of philosophizing is reflective and thought-form based interaction. I'd call it Taoist as there is nothing which can exist beyond or separate from Tao. edit: and it's relating to a process of attempting to reconcile mentally, the natural/conditional processes of the Cosmos. It's philosophical taoism as it relates directly to the process of relating thought forms in the form of words, either as a dialogue in my own mind, or in written text shared with others, or spoken to a friend, in a process of fostering a mental framework of understanding, of the processes of nature/Tao, which are experiential.

Philosophical Taoism for me is the process of rational reconciliation of my mind state with the experiences within the conditions of nature that are beyond words and thought forms. It will utterly fail to fully explain the experiential processes, yet it has great value on the level of thought-form/rational mind to balance my thinking mind with my emotional/energy body and my experiential awareness.

I like to stand the wrong way in elevators. And I like to stand backwards in the grocery store lines. This works for me sometimes...

To thine own self, remain true. Dinner's on! Let's all eat! Turkey bacon and toast and tea for me it's an alliterative breakfast.

dinosaurs used to eat mammals karma is real I guess....

good one... going to chew on that bone for a while...

Some of the recent adjustments have made a marked improvement in my experience here. Seems there was almost a concerted effort or a planned assault and the response to it by the mod team was spot on in my opinion. Feels like the flow is effortless, as if a stream were cleared of fallen leaves.

I go barefoot much of the time. My feet are supreme nudists. For me, walking barefoot is a form of prayer.

So this is a bit odd. All of the text on this site is now bold for me. I can manually change the font to be normal when I reply, but everyone else's posts are bold... It's only on this site so far. I've killed the cache and cookies. I've reinstalled firefox. It's odd and I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered it?

So this issue was finally resolved yesterday when I was unable to install a program due to a faulty/missing font. Reinstalled the font and viola, the entire forum is no longer perma=bolded for me.

Ha... busted. Semantically I agree, but experientially it can get confusing.

might have to check this out myself... have had a long, influential relationship with them myself. Thanks!

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I love this post. I engage in internal contradiction daily. Externally too incidentally.

neither do i

I'm still wondering who 'you is...

That first one I have bookmarked. It's one of my all time fav's.

As the wave pushes upward, it necessarily crumbles under its own weight. Yin spontaneously manifests within Yang. Tide's shifting quickly now.