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The are many levels of sleep. In my spiritual path - practice during sleep is an advanced practice - because first you have to understand how your body works and how the dreams are formed. When I say understand it doesn't mean that you can read it somewhere and then know it but it's more like a developed mussle that takes time to build thorough knowledge and practice. Once you reach that level you can control your body in the sense that you disconnect certain circuits and then you won't have dreams which take a lot of your energy. In this state your body recharges twice as fast and you need only 3-5 hours of sleep at most. Any other type of meditation/exercise practiced at a lower level will work only for a short period of time after which it will just wear you out and usually ends up being a waste of time. Sleep is meant to recharge the body.

That's some pretty good stuff, sir - thx

I really like the Zen meditation - it's simple and clear and there are a lot of Zen centers where you can go and ask for a little bit of guidance.

associative thinking: The pope smokes dope, God gave him the grass The pope smokes dope, he likes to smoke in mass The pope smokes dope, he's a groovy head The pope smokes dope, the pope smokes dope God is high on mescaline, Satan's high on smack Popes in Rome get stoned on grass, Jesus freaks are back Jesus Christ, a super-hippie, never shot up junk Popes in Rome get stoned alone, priests in church get drunk

What kinda mushrooms r u growing if it's not a secret ?

Good choice Ada we got it all here including truth - in different versions.

Lol I just watched first time last night too. Good movie

good one lmfao

yep, that's "grandpa" - Kadochnikov at the end of the video he is almost 84 now - retired from the Army in '62. Here's a site with more videos from his system and his son is teaching http://www.kadochnikov.info/video

Hey Vaj, first of all I do like Silat a lot and although I never trained in it - from what I know it has a very strong practical external martial art side. I hope to be able to study in a couple of years. Is the Silat in the link below the same style you trained in ? Second, I was picking on Bagua because I did practice it along with Taiji/Qigong for a while and I had a lot experiences with that stuff. My teacher was Cesar Culda - here's one of his websites http://www.qigong-keidelheim.de/qigong.htm he is the guy with glasses but he is so humble you would rarely see him in a picture posing in the front all by himself and this was one of his teachers in China . His Bagua is actually very good and he is extremely dedicated to his practice and I have all my respect for him - however for real fighting I just can't recommend it. Now your story with the penis retracting technique - although very amusing - I find it quite irrelevant - as I don't think you need to study any type of martial arts in order to do that. You know my granma was so ferocious that she could bite your teacher's balls off in one lightning fast move if you messed with her despite all his silat wisdom and she couldn't even do one pushup but we were all scared of her to death. Now I totally agree that all these stories with "my shit is better then your shit" are getting old - but I'm also quite annoyed with all these exagerated taobums soap operas where somehow everybody here seems to have met or heard of an unbeatable freaking genius who is at least 1000 years old born before Christ and can shoot fireballs outta his ass but when asked to step on the tatami and prove their skill - either backs off using some weird religious/moral excuse or ends up accepting but then desperately tries to poke you in the eyes.... I wanna see an art of some sort - a technique, a smart move applied against a real opponent not compiled in some old fashioned chinese dance(taolu) - I want it to work and be better then the regular punching/kicking/chocking attack that any punk can learn in 5 min on the streats. And until I see that with my own eyes I am still going to pick on all the martial arts "philosophers "- because to me it seems that it's a healthy reaction to all the lies in these discussions and keeps the bs to a moderate level. V/R, Orb '

I'm looking forward to meeting people like your teacher.

oh yeah - you see, in his birth certificate he keeps his secret plan on how to take over the world and reveal himself as a muslim. I think you should pack and flee the country asap 'cause once he gets to be in that presidential seat he's gonna step all over Dubya's incredible legacy and then we'll be totally screwed.

If your attackers are all from Bagua like in the Frantzis video you'll do just fine with BJJ, as they'll bump into each other while trying to complete their Eight Palms Circle Walking . But if you have serious fighters then you are right BJJ is not enogh - that's why my recipe is a couple of years of BJJ + MUY THAI and you are good to go.

That's way too much reading

AMIN to that. It's good to know that there are still Tao Bums out there that like to keep it real.

You can't talk about systema without mentioning "grandpa" or Mr Kadochnikov who trained green berets way before most of the taobums were even born and actually initially it was called система кадочникова (or Kaochnikov's systema) and his explanations involved always scientific examples like physics - the Christian Orthodox faith is just the russian religion by default - but has nothing to do with the practice - you could be of any religion. Here's systema in Israel for example and Mr Kadochnikov of course

Since they seem to punch and attack very much like girls I think they are just gay. Perhaps it was a course of self defense for gay couples only and that's all.

It's the usual russian neocommunist propaganda "We are so special that - we have our own martial arts!"

These are the kind of statements that make my day. Some other genius was saying that Jesus Christ was just a mushroom. Now it turns out that Jesus was in fact a karate guy and he taught it to the russians in secret.

That's like saying "Does basketball help maintain your chi?" Chi exists whether you know it or not and by cultivating it you can become aware of it and maybe control it to a certain degree. But if you don't make a conscious effort in that regard I doubt that it will present itself to you just because you are boxing. You have to educate yourself - there are many methods that are even studied to a scientific level, you need to know what to train for and how. A lot of martial arts include a certain knowledge and training methods in order to cultivate it, so it doesn't mean that it can't be used with boxing.

You meant to say we would have been officially screwed with Sarah Palin in the seat and our budget spent for her wardrobe and McCain's mavericky rides in the middle east.

According to my spiritual path you are in the best situation for training. If you manage to achieve and maintain your balance in life with your kids with your wife while working your job and taking care of your family and dealing with all the headaches more power to you and no monk in any seclusion with any esoteric knowledge will ever match you. This is the only way to make real efforts and to advance in your inner practice.

I am very interested in these "simple side-effects" that you are talking about and I don't give a rat's ass about their delusional nature either, and personally I think there's more truth to Harry Potter then to that Yogananda book that I read when I was 12 and still couldn't believe a single word in it.

any taobums attended the ceremony ? http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/200...peru.shamans.ap

good answer and attitude sir. Thank you