Nungali
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Damn ... typo in the title (and cant fix it )
Haka tsuru !
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Is anyone familiar with this ? Instructor sprung it on me last week ( I knew of it, and had 'followed along', now he says I should know it, so I learn it over the weekend and yesterday ). But it is unlike any other hakatsuru I have seen .
Supposedly it was developed by Bushi Matsamura , some say it came from Nabe Matsamura (his student) then to Hohan Soken. But although that is the path of the style I practice, it is also unlike Hohan Soken version.
Then I heard, in this tradition there is a 'sho' and 'dai' ( 1 and 2 ) versions. Maybe what I learnt is one or the other and the one I learnt is different from that on old videos ?
- I cant show a film of it as I cant find one of this form. Basically (and if Bushi did compose it ) it seems to be a blend of some white crane moves and techniques from other kata all put together ( Rohai, Kusanku, Gojushiho, ) and some rather 'inexplicable' moves ' (some say it was originally an exercise for development of power balance distance, timing, etc )
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On 3/09/2017 at 11:41 PM, SHINTO said:If you read my post the words
Experiment and north Korea appear in it.
Isn't it a prediction of events.
Many times i am not sure
If i predict the future or
If i influence the future .Its influence . You write something here and it happens. Now, if only we could get you to write properly, all this crazy incomprehensible shit would not be going on all around us !
[ My nutty volatile Latino XGF was a musician and songwriter , one time she wrote in a song ; when I am sad it rains and when I have joy the sun comes out.
I had to ask, " Don't you mean its the other way around; the rain and overcast weather makes YOU down and the sunshine gladdens YOU ?"
Nope ! She was adamant about that ... the supreme self centred egotist
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On 3/09/2017 at 1:09 AM, Kar3n said:What does this have to do with the topic of this thread? I am still wondering what evidence to have to back your claims about TBD and CIA experimnets.
Staying on a topic , follow through, answer questions, evidence ... proof .... lineal construction of ideas ...... logic ... sense ....
I can attest that Shinto has never committed such sins here !
... and feigning such innocence Kar3n ..... tut tut ...... we know you are one of the 'operational supervisors ' in your secret organisation !
And Sean ? .....
Spoiler
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On 5/09/2017 at 0:48 AM, tantien said:I travel a lot and I'm sure others here do too... I want to ask what the most powerful temples, churches, locations, or objects you've experienced coming in contact with. It would be helpful if you would list:
1) The name of place or object
Cathedral Rocks NSW Australia.
On 5/09/2017 at 0:48 AM, tantien said:2) Your tradition
'Tradition' ? errrmmm .... eclectic .
On 5/09/2017 at 0:48 AM, tantien said:3) Your experience with said place or object
Various. Most notable; on the path in from the car park, at the beginning are 3 large roundish boulders with slit eyes, huge foreheads, no nose and small mouths , reminiscent of a type of 'alien' head . As one walks up to the peak (see pic 2 ) , in places the track is a narrow corridor between rock faces, these are shot through with seams of white or black quartz. .
At the very top ( pic 3 ) there is one last step up to the top rock, under that rock is a ledge with a small deep cave around 10" wide. I had an overpowering compulsion to feel around in there. I told my companions and they said "Why? What do you think is in there ? "
" I don't know .... gold ? a black snake ? .... ? " But I had to stick my hand in, it was deep, I had to lie down on my side right up to the rock and put the whole end of my arm in and feel around. I felt a rock on the floor of the little cave so I pulled it out, it had a small black quartz crystal rod attacked to it . Okay, Buggles, I keep that .
When I got home, I told a friend and they " You should talk to L. he got a back crystal up there somewhere. I did, and he got it from the same little cave, and had a similar feeling about it. He said " E,. got one there too ."
So I went and saw E. Hers was large and spectacular, she had the same feeling, and stuck her hand in, but palm up, and the crystal dropped from the roof of the cave into her hand .
- but I cant spend more than a couple of hours there ... I get a massive headache if I do, and I do not suffer at all from headaches.
On 5/09/2017 at 0:48 AM, tantien said:4) Approx. date or year of said experience
around 2005 - 2007
On 5/09/2017 at 0:48 AM, tantien said:I would like to collect these in one place for their potential as tradition-agnostic. For example if a buddhist has been to many places, but their most powerful experience was in a buddhist temple - then that would be accounted for here. Furthermore, if a Hindu, Buddhist, and Jew all had a most powerful experiences in the Himalayas or Pyramids, then that would be interesting to account for here as well! I also want to account for the potential of experiences with objects - like coming in contact with the remains of a Saint, for example...
Sorry, I have no experience like that. I think they are man made illusions. However a temple may have been built on a 'power spot' .
I think anyone can have a 'powerful experience ' at the pyramids , Himalayas, Uluru, a Gothic Church , etc .
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7 hours ago, SHINTO said:Especially the toilets at the US embassies in Australia ;
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10 hours ago, Marblehead said:I thought Y'all just hung them up-side down.
Yes, that can be done with a northern hemisphere clock that is used down here, You need to attach a new face with the numbers though. A stick on face can be got from the state department of time zones.
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On 6/09/2017 at 8:01 AM, SHINTO said:To defuse it, circle clockwise
Unless you in the southern hemisphere... as clocks run the other way around down here .
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You might have a lot of hot air to dispel .... but not that much !
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6 hours ago, phil said:But there are still many open questions. From a scientific position it's just coincidence that through random adaptation on the surrounding nature something like humans evolved.
Also, where is consciousness coming from.
And why do octopus die when giving birth so that they are not able to pass on their knowledge and experiences to their child's?
They would probably be the most intelligent creatures then.
But they do ! Who told you they do not ?
6 hours ago, phil said:I think the question is what is consciousness, and did it maybe even exist before the first DNA-molecule in the universe?
it is a quality of response and reaction to the internal and external environment .
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Meanwhile ..... you guys ( and India ) are getting my spring rain !
( which reminds me , I better jump in the river and make sure the pump intake is well below the surface ..... brrrrrr ... )
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14 hours ago, Apech said:'What is the sound of one hand crapping?'
A zen Master with a bad Chinese accent ?
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31 minutes ago, Apech said:My prowess is not in question.
No, I have no questions for her
Spoiler -
You have no staying power ..... to get a greater reward at the finish .
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22 hours ago, Apech said:Very evocative - not sure what of though.
This perhaps ;
"Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song"
Love unrequited, robs me of me rest,
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers,
Love, nightmare like, lies heavy of me chest,
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.
When you're lying awake with a dismal headache and
Repose is taboo'd by anxiety,
I conceive you may use any language you choose to
Indulge in, without impropriety;
For your brain is on fire, the bed-clothes conspire of
Usual slumber to plunder you:
First your counter-pane goes, and uncovers your toes,
And your sheet slips demurely from under you;
Then the blanketing tickles, you feel like mixed
Pickles, so terribly sharp is the pricking,
And you're hot and you're cross, and you tumble and
Toss 'til there's nothing 'twixt you and the ticking.
Then the bed-clothes all creep to the ground in a heap
And you pick 'em all up in a tangle;
Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to
Remain at it's usual angle!
Well, you get some repose in the form of a dose, with
Hot eye-balls and head ever aching,
But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams
That you'd very much better be waking;
For you dream you are crossing the channel, and
Tossing about in a steamer from harwich,
Which is something between a large bathing machine and
A very small second class carriage,
And you're giving a treat (penny ice and cold meat) to
A party of friends and relations,
They're a ravenous horde, and they all come on board
At sloane square and south kensington stations.
And bound on that journey you find your attorney
(who started this morning from devon);
He's a bit undersiz'd and you don't feel surpris'd
When he tells you he's only eleven.
Well you're driving like mad with this singular lad
(by the bye the ship's now a four wheeler),
And you're playing round games, and he calls you bad
Names when you tell him that "ties pay the dealer";
But this you can't stand so you throw up your hand,
And you find you're as cold as an icicle;
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks)
Crossing sal'sbury plain on a bicycle:
And he and the crew are on bicycles too, which they've
Somehow or other invested in,
And he's telling the tars all the particulars of a
Company he's interested in;
It's a scheme of devices, to get at low prices, all
Good from cough mixtures to cables
(which tickled the sailors), by treating retailers as
Though they were all vegetables;
You get a good spadesman to plant a small tradesman
(first take off his boots with a boot tree),
And his legs will take root, and his fingers will
Shoot, and they'll blossom and bud like a fruit tree;
From the green grocer tree you get grapes and green
Pea, cauliflower, pine apple and cranberries,
While the pastry cook plant cherry brandy will grant,
Apple puffs, and three corners, and banburys;
The shares are a penny and ever so many are taken by
Rothschild and baring,
And just as a few are allotted to you, you awake
And with a shudder despairing
You're a regular wreck, with a crick in your neck, and
No wonder you snore, for your head's on the floor
And you've needles and pins from your soles to your
Shins, and your flesh is acreep, for your left leg's asleep,
And you've cramp in your toes, and a fly on your nose,
And some fluff in your lung, and a feverish tongue,
And a thirst that's intense,
And a general sense that you haven't been sleeping in clover;
But the darkness has pass'd, and it's daylight at
Last, and the night has been long, ditto, ditto my song,
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I don't think leaving the rat race implies being lonely at all . It didn't use to, one could drop out and join a commune, or go to an area not so 'rat racy' .
For me 'rat race' means certain things;
Primarily it is based on expansion and increase - not stability .
It also implies devoting a lot of your time to it at the expense of other parts of your life and joining in the high powered (supposed ) competition to scramble to the top or upper levels . One could work part time for living minimal expenses and devote oneself to fishing , surfing ....
It also implies being in competition wit each other, updating everything and not being satisfied with old and outmoded stuff that still works anyway . But they are working to fix that, by making stuff designed to fail.
All this can be dropped, well, I was able to , many years back. But you gotta find a good spot. No point in planning to live cheaply in an area with an intense climate and not much chance of growing or finding food, shelter, etc .
Still, part of what I call the rat race is after me ! The small local town has changed a lot, and just over the last few months ' beautification' is in place (ie. make it seem more like the other hyped up tourist places . They spent over $3000 on each new street waste bin ! Now they snazzy designer colours - wow ! (They could have got the guys working at the local 'men's' shed to construct them out of wood, and got their unemployed trainee woodworkers to make them ..... maybe those ones would not have been 'set fire' (or maybe if they were not made of plastic and fiberglass, the paper in one would not have set the bin alight when someone threw a fag end in ?
..... I guess the new planners didn't think of that .
They ripped up the concrete on the footpaths outside the shops and relaid it as nice pale brown concrete with ... and little bays and gardens ..... loosing about 30 car parking spaces . Its the modern way, to discourage car use in urban centres . Except we out in the country with no public transport , idiots !
So, as I say, I move further up the hill into the rainforest ( I already have, that means I just go more feral and hermit ... and hermit means ... alone . Soooooooo ...... there ya go ... I argued myself out of my own starting position
But then again, if people are really devoted to an ideal, a whole lot of them can escape together, and have a great healthy and happy life
But you migh have to work hard , not step on top of other people and not have an easy arse, fuck the environment consumer attitude . Yikes !
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Regarding fishes
My experiment seems over. Tomorrow is the first day of spring and all fishies are alive and well .
- The aquarium guy said I would need a heated a tank to keep them ...... nope !
Fish tank heater Schego 560
$94.00( and probably needed more battery power and another solar panel to run it )-
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2 hours ago, Michael Sternbach said:Why a 2000 year difference?! The frame story in Critias tells about a visit of the Athenian lawmaker Solon (c. 638 BC – 558 BC) to Egypt, where he was told the Atlantis story occurred 9000 years before his time. According to this, the difference would be about 1000 years.
Ooops . a 1000 years then , Still off by 1000 years .
However, personally, I always gave more credibility to Cayce's dating, supported by the evidence gathered by Bauval et al. - which, as I found out just now, agrees rather well with the time when this cataclysmic impact event happened.
Ooohhh ... so that's why , because it backs up Cayce
However, this comet impact did have far reaching consequences - affecting, besides the American continent, especially the Atlantic ocean. A good match for the proposed scenario.
If that is the one I think it is, and supposedly supports Atlantis demise theory a la Cayce , /its already been debunked . ... although the source of your link is rather good
I shall return with the study on it - just gotta refind it .
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Mmmmmmmm aybe .
Neighbour was out in yard , chickens pecking around, turned her back, turned back and there is a chicken running around without a head spurting blood, nearby was the head . She scouted around and up in a nearby tree she saw an eagle perched on a branch. Must have been a 'fly - by' .
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Well, that is vey advanced form .
But, if you are in a gang and you are going to attack a lone person ( with swords ) ... just make sure you are following the right person .... and not the local Master.... who has understanding of Thousand-Armed Kannon in practice .
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7 hours ago, Chang said:First class advice to which little can be added.
Awareness of your surroundings comes first. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is never good. Some people have no sense for trouble and danger and the Casualty Departments are full of them, especially on Friday and Saturday nights.
Walk or run away from trouble and danger if you can for that is by far the simplest method of self defence. Again there is no shortage of those who are simply blind to danger and do not see it coming until it is too late. This tends to be true for all kinds of trouble - not just the violent kind.
Trouble is, when everyone 'walks away' that allows crud to continue. I stopped a fight in the middle of a large busy intersection, they were fighting on the road, cars stopped all around, a truck came around corner, nearly ran over guys head ! and they continued ! about 50 people were sitting there dumb, doing nothing ! Someone could have got killed !
7 hours ago, Chang said:If you do find yourself in a dangerous situation and you are not in a position to walk or run away then you must give the appearance of supreme confidence.
Yes, that stopped the aggressor; as I approached and yelled at him to "settle down: he looked in my direction, that allowed the beatee to get up and half escape. But the older bigger guy grabbed him at his car door and started beating on him again, still no one does anything, except his GF who is hysterically screaming. So I " Right then ! " and walked over, the guy turned to face me, allowing the other to get in car and escape. I didn't say anything but 'looked' at him and thought (in my best Bene Gesserit ' internal voice' ; I would not try anything , if I was you . He faulted took a step backwards, a few more then ran to his car and took of .
7 hours ago, Chang said:Attackers will generally only pick on those whom they consider easy victims as only the mentally deranged would attack someone who is sure to give them a good hiding.This is why such people often work in gangs as it provides them with safety in numbers. Even those who have strength in numbers will still seek easy victims, those under the influence of drink and drugs being favourites. It has been said that the only safe place to get drunk is in the safety of your own home and there is much truth in this.
I believe that it was Morihei Ueshiba who said that fighting multiple attackers is the same as fighting one. This would be true for the supreme martial artist but is little use to the novice or to those who know nothing of martial arts.
He must have been 'off chops' on sake that day ! Of course it isn't the same . It might be the same for Ueshiba ... who goit used to just looking at his students or wagging a finger and watching them 'take a roll' ,
Seriously ! Just watch some vids of him doing randori .
7 hours ago, Chang said:In such a situation the circling and spiralling movements of Bagua or Aikido are of the most use as whilst dealing with one attacker you are using them as a shield to protect yourself from the others. The person who can accomplish this has reached a high level of achievement.
In a way. but dancers can do it, military drills, marching girls..... a good football player senses the play as if he was watching it from above . Bruce Lee claimed to be able to watch his own fights, while they happened, from above, and know what to do next in the fight. yet some can only see whats under their nose and in front of their face .
7 hours ago, Chang said:This is the exact opposite from the sort of group attacks you see in the world of Hollywood where the group kindly attacks our hero one at a time. Obviously this makes for better choreography and the hero is better able to show off his moves. Alas it only occurs in the world of make believe.
and randori
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Hakutsuru
in The Rabbit Hole
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Thanks ... now all I have to do is sit back and wait for the avalanche of replies !