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Cool channel dwai Where or with who did you learn the temple style form ? Enjoyed very much watching you do your stuff!

Hello dwai! Yes, we can motivate each other. Thank you my friend Please,tell me more about the form you practice when you can.

Hello Taoway! Thank you for the videos. I will watch them carefully as soon as I have the time I'm learning yang and chen forms. Like you sometimes I don´t have the space and need to place myself somewhere else to continue with the form. I'm also a slow learner but I have a life of practice ahead, no problem with that. Thank you so much for your kind offer of teaching me but I guess I live very far away from you. Portugal. The point here is to motivate ourselves to practice. Feel free to pm me if you want to telling me about your practice.

My view on kundalini is that it is a natural process related with spiritual growht. Spiritual growht can't be forced... Still today I'm trying to find a practice that is balanced and safe. Never had any problems in feeling energy with intensity but the point is to control it safely, right? So if your plan is to "step on the tiger's tail" at least you should know what to do afterwards... and you better know how to run and where to run. Not going to beat you up over mo pai. Know very few about mo pai but don't doubt at all that they deliver results... Again what I wrote above. Gopi krishna, an experienced yogi, awakened the kundalini and was left by himself to deal with the consequences. He wrote something like: " There I was in India, an experienced yogi in the craddle of yoga, and no one really knew how to help me. So, people talk a lot about kundalini and that's basically it... talk. On the other hand, there are many people that completed the process and don't even mentioned it, at least openly. Read them please. All the known enlightned masters... Buddha, Jesus, Lao-tzu and so on. That I would advise you as being the best practice.

Sure, start by reading Gopi Krishna "Kundalini":The book that started it all. Also, check out the kundalini help forums online. Many, many experienced people there helping people completely lost in the process.

I understand your position perfectly, anything is better than living a life of mediocrity, but again the point here is to arrive safely and wisely and not trying some kamikaze strategies that will give you kamikaze results.

Hello J0urn3y, The kundalini awakening is the most serious and risky thing you can try in your lifetime. Are you sure you want to try it? My advice to you is that you spend a lot of years, and I mean that, gathering information on the subject and talking to experienced people before you even consider it. There are lots of safe and interesting practices out there energy wise...

There's a bird watching thread in this place somewhere... Have fun

Always loved this scene

I know a great movie about wu wei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpBNAERkSqI

Not taking a position here about the pros and cons of consumming hashish, but history is history... http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/12/where-did-the-word-assassin-come-from/

Welcome to the dao bums Gustavo! (you will) Enjoy your stay

Yes rainbowvein, I've experienced that peppermint reduces sexual drive. My doubt I guess is that if peppermint reduces sexual drive would it decrease the natural production of jing in the body ? Some foods and herbs increase very much the sexual drive. I remember for example the first time I stopped eating meat and replaced it very much with eggs. My sexual drive increased a lot. The same thing is true with superfoods in general like garlic. So, what I'm trying to figure out is, that if it is at all productive taking such foods and ending up losing so much jing. Don't think it's sensitiveness but awareness rainbowvein. Maybe the ideal would be a good balance between the effects of foods/herds in the production of jing. Have your scrambled eggs, but don't forget taking a cup of peppermint tea afterwards : )

Peppermint tea is also known as a great helper in reducing the sexual drive. Will that affect the quality of the jing itself? That I don't know... Just a doubt and an hint for cultivators.

Found this amazing interview yesterday, the wise words of a lao-tzu (old master). Hope it gives you as much peace as it gave me.

Thanks man, great music!

Brilliant James...

Sometimes there's wisdom in crowds, rarely though... at least in my opinion. You put together a group of nice, peaceful dogs and they become a wolfpack. Again,just my observations of nature. Can't remember that part you mentioned about the expression "flesh eating demon", if you can tell me exactly where it is... For me there's great hope in his message since he lived so many adventures, so many up's and downs, and all was part of it, of the education he had to receive... Another thing is the expression of the wisdom of the Tao te ching in the words of this lao-tzu (old master). Someone who may never read the book and get's to the same conclusions. There's a sample of one of his books in googlebooks. His writting is however more christian/biblical influenced which is understandable. The message is there just the same. If you aspire to live in wilderness and removed from the world you may like the following video. Another one of my favourites

Hi dustybeijing I can relate very well to your present situation right now _ maybe a time to forget time and focus in the present moment (?). I guess that's my main reason of wanting to seriously practice tai chi, knowing that it will help me in staying in that "moment" where freedom and answers come from. Hope too that your year improves and you find new answers and solutions in tai chi or somewhere else. Take good care of yourself. Oak

Great to have you as a tai chi friend, Steve! I will PM you soon. Thanks

My look is as clear as a sunflower. I usually wander the roads Looking to the right and to the left, And once in a while looking back… And what I see at each moment Is what I’ve never seen before, And I know it very well… I know how to have the initial awe Which a child would have if, being born, Would notice truly it was born… I feel born at every moment To the eternal novelty of the world… I believe in the world as I do in a sunflower, Because I see it. But I don’t think about it Because thinking is not understanding… The World was not made for us to think about it (Thinking is being eye sick) But for us to look at him and agree… I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses… If I speak about Nature it’s not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and I love it because of this, Because the one who loves never knows what he loves Neither does he know why he loves, or what loving is… Loving is the eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not thinking… Alberto Caeiro in "The Keeper of Sheep" (1914)