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I am starting to think that spontaneous qigong / shaking / dancing is essential to channel the true wisdom of the subconscious by allowing it to be free and express itself without programmed exercise, this adds a certain kind of lightning to your work on yourself, and I can't see how it could be harnessed elsewise. I do a workout every Sunday, pilates abs legs and arms with resistance bands. You need some weights to really work the arms and the bands are awesome very light take anywhere. Legs you can press with bodyweight.

Another particular virulent form of this disease is in relation to issues such as feminism, LGBT, certain countries in the ME and WW2 etc.... If you have alcoholics in your society you have two options : either you help the alcoholics get sober, or alternatively you teach your own children to start drinking, and then the adults can carry on perverting themselves. But ... oh when people are sad, don't you have compassion ? Aren't you tolerant and have respect ? Here it starts with the betrayal of the truth, the bending of feelings towards a dark aim. And in my opinion underneath the so-sad-eyelids is revenge, revenge by people for a perceived crime that never actually happened. The media teaches women to fight back against a inflicted patriarchy that never really existed. Energetically it is something like this : media tells you lies and then you get angry and starting emitting negative energy then your soul is preyed upon Something like if the darkness can get you to release a lot of energy, for instance in masturbation, then it will feed on that energy, and of course it feeds you a little bit too so you get a "hit". That's how it works. Just like the intestinal parasites who tickle your hormones so that you eat sugar so that they get fed. Same thing but through energetic means. This world is a continuous test of sanity and integrity, I don't know how many people make it through. Most succumb and just start repeating the sludge.

I feel those things, and then when I reconnect to the source it vanishes, it's completely illusory, it's imaginary. It's a very confusing world, maya. Best advice is make rapid progress forget about anything else. It's the kind of world where you get very excited and want to get out the car and play, but the best advice is to keep moving forward faster and faster, outside are many snares of all sorts, many games that you don't want to play. People can be a lot like kids, they scream and cry and make all sorts of tantrums, and then they feel better and suddenly they don't care and are very arrogant and strut around like peacocks. And then tomorrow it all begins again. Mad house. It's difficult to know what to make of this place, but the ancient wisdom is not to get ensnared but assume danger and move rapidly. Humans live in an "image" of the world, they have this inner TV with its stories and beliefs. It's a sort of life support system. This whole universe and it's concentrations of mass, we are imprinted with this idea that this is it. When actually this is simply a region of existence where the vital force manifests, but we originate elsewhere. We can leave the whole thing, body and even the vital force can be left, and become an objective being of the light. There are some spiritual texts that seek to help help mankind with his "difficulties". Others speak of a world so far away and so distant that the goal is simply to move very far leaving these illusions behind. What spirit ! I love that stuff

Ultimately mankind is in a bad state and it is tragic. Hollywood movies and Hollywood Bodhisattvas give us the dream that one day it will be okay. Teachers try to help us by telling us we don't exist. Can you imagine how bad things have to be for that to happen. Yes and then it is quite terrifying when someone tries to "give you a hug" and it is obvious that this guy is suffering, and he lives through hugging people .... very bad energy. Because people who are needy have weak energy defence and the parasiting begins, feed off the weak. Of course it's all unconscious, so who can you blame. But you can put an end to it, and realise the danger. We can only help with the excess that we have after securing our house. Only that excess is available. No more. Help only those who are not idle, I have heard it said. On such a planet stark choices have to be made, and illusions shattered. Carrying on with the helping is a miserable spiral imploding. When a man has stood on that white ball of rock up there, and on the South Pole, get off your knees. Everyone must use their life to build create and generate. Otherwise their energy is destructive and sucks the sunlight out of the Earth. This reminds me of an old story : Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany 12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary therefore took a pound[a] of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it[c] for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

That's not what victimhood is. What is is ... is that a persona has been trained to live through "helping" and being "helped". Like they are disabled or something. Rather than be intelligent be self-directing be self-actualizing be self-reliant. Oh ... helping helping we are too weak. It's a disease. Look how much stinking noise the mankind is making, when there are baby seagulls sitting on the room when it's -15C and pouring with rain. I see no complaints. But for humans how degenerate we are, somebody stubs their toe and it's a national emergency. I had an image half an hour ago of the American Football with all those shoulder pads. Ball is in play for 10 seconds before the flags are thrown on and then there is a group hug and a Chevie advert. For FS. The cult of being weak and lusting after helping, is nauseating. Dependence and dependence gives every false self a position, either as helper or helpee. It's pathetic. The other creatures on this planet must be ashamed of us. Even the cockroaches. Or as David Icke says "Get Off Your Knees". Of course not all of this society is like that.

Often when people think they are "helping" you they are just transferring victimhood. It's a disease that's gone very deep into our species. The idea that there could be something wrong in playing the violin together is absent. It's the greatest cover for the false-self, after all if you are "helping" who can criticise you.

Thanks for the suggestions. I was also looking at something flexible and non-waterproof-crunchy, I saw Salomon have some trousers meant for Nordic Skiing, which stretch maybe they are the ticket for the lower half: https://www.salomon.com/uk/product/lightning-warm-sshell-pant-w.html#article-2419980-2

I would be interested to hear any specific recommendations for good clothing for practice in autumn / winter conditions. Preferably light flexible quiet clothing footwear ? Thanks

Okay let's call it a draw.

Yes you keep talking about school. But hey ... I vented my spleen yesterday I am surprised nothing more came back in my direction. It would have been "deserved".

46 When the Tao is present in the universe, The horses haul manure. When the Tao is absent from the universe, War horses are bred outside the city. There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

45 Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet cannot be exhausted. Great straightness seems twisted. Great intelligence seems stupid. Great eloquence seems awkward. Movement overcomes cold. Stillness overcomes heat. Stillness and tranquility set things in order in the universe. I don't see any paradoxes, it's just poetic writing. But let's taking it back home, and see it in action. Where can we find "Great accomplishments" that seem "imperfect" and that "does not outlive its usefulness", meaning it remains useful right till the end of its life. Is it too boring to say that if you do Qigong in the park, others might see you and say well that's not very good. But actually it is good because it preserves your life. What is Great accomplishment ? Is it something small and good but unnoticed by the carnal foaming-mouthed masses. Great fullness .... when you are full of spirit do you need your bling ? Thus others might say he is empty-of-bling. Bling can be exhausted when the credit cards run dry, but your spirit is not of this world. Although being monkeys we must also play and muck around, and not read this text as a reason to be boring and stagnant old wise farts.

We evolve towards Truth .... perhaps we can just say we evolve and explore ... talking about Truth is a bit pompouso.

And there is a relationship between your perception that there is disillusionment and your own situation. It's interesting that you use that word disillusionment because that is what we are taught, that anyone who wants to leave the Titanic is disillusioned or negative. This stench has been going on for thousands of years. Actually, it's only when you want to leave that you are even a little alive.

When I was very young I was happy. But then I was young angry. And then as I entered the world I was busy and rich and sort of happy. Now I just want the final answer. I want the truth. Is the truth that human society, what was I think this morning as I was walking through Waitrose supermarket ... maybe it was that I don't care that everyone is unconscious and living as if half dead. Why should I care. I care that I Am. And that is my job. Oh and another thing as I was walking out ... of Tescos this time it's been a busy morning. I feel quite disturbed this week .... and ... "I dig that about you !!!" Because it's when you are disturbed that you are actually motivated to do some work. Mankind ... oh yeah this was my idea .... our society is so fat and comfortable and it just does not work. Humans are too low down the ladder of consciousness to grow in any situation other than pain. Pain is necessary, but our society right now is full of making things comfortable. Even the miserable news gives comfort through distraction and excitation. Love help, give them money .... and all that. It's wrong. It's totally wrong understanding. Humans need pain and love to grow. I remember once I was interviewing a lodger for my property and I thought "she'll be trouble" .... but I took her anyway because you need trouble or you will sit like a fat **** on the sofa and do nothing. Know thy self. And provide thy self with enough trouble as required. - That's my man ! -

Our societies teach us to lie hide and disguise what we feel, so here I am revealing all. It's catharsis.

You are 100% responsible for what you experience and your actions. Am I responsible for gravity ? No. It is collective Am I responsible for being half-mad ? No. Existence is responsible as well. It's a punishment to ... try to fix all your errors, because you smell, clean yourself up. Oops something else went wrong. You are wrong. Fix it up. Fix it up and fix it up. Take responsibility. Wow what hatred. What misery. Where is the room for creative expression creative solutions creative dancing humour and growth. There is no growth, just clean yourself up you smell, you don't exist, damn you damn you. How much religious violence has been caused by such views, tragic, nasty, barbaric. Law of Attraction also expresses that you reap what you sow ... but in a expansive explorative future-positive way. Choose what you prefer. Because you were birthed to BE. Existence wishes you to BE. Please BE. Please grow into BEing. Please explore as the ambassador of the divine song. May you sing beautiful songs of your own creation. Undreamt of music, epic yearning love. Yes. We must learn to wield, love, hope, humour, exploration, the source ... we are the herald of the source announcing his arrival. One very important conclusion is that you must protect yourself, and conceal your strength. The crowds out there always want to see inside you inside your flesh, they don't like it if you conceal things. But this is your destruction to accept that. Growth happens through careful practice in closed centres, the esoteric is guarded, the exoteric is thrown outside the door for the masses. One must conceal one's light on this planet, one must guard it, shield it, and create circumstances for it. Any naive notions that we are all one - if they cause you to open yourself you will be eaten alive. I think that is important. Though it is always wonderful to acknowledge the degree to which the circumstances you find emerge from you, but we can't limit ourselves to an isolated or idealistic or negative view of what that means. We live on a planet where most of our species are deeply unconscious and seemed to have little hope of feeling the path in their lifetimes. This is not a good situation. One can imagine how it would be if you were born on a planet of higher consciousness. We seem to be just below the threshhold, just at a place where there is a lot of pain. So we can only be brave, work hard, travel fast. However difficult it is, every shock or trauma, must lead to action. Many enlightened beings went close to death to realise, and were also happy to die afterwards. So ... if you can harmonize all those various ideas into one life ... well you'd have done pretty well !!!

For whatever good these practices may do, and given the desperate state of many humans understandable. However this quote about Wang Liping just shows how stupid and mendacious and disempowering these ideas are. There is far too little masculine energy in it. The philosophy of I don't exist is an old rationalisation to existing. What's wrong with existing ... yes as an individual ? Is there a problem with that ? Oh you feel the One do you ? Good. So do I. But I am not the One. I am the One in this individuated expression and I do not know the thoughts of the One. The One controls this whole universe. Do you ? Of course not. You are an individual. You are individuated. OmManePadmeHum OmManePadmeHum OmManePadmeHum OmManePadmeHum Stop doing that ! Stop trying to escape.

It is difficult for me to feel at ease unless i actually understand what is happening. For instance if I am with people who enter this guilt helping do-gooder attitude ... what do I do ? I feel quite frightened actually. If they came with guns then I would know how to do. But this energy relies on abusing social conventions. It's important for me to see / feel what the energy is doing so that I can defend myself. I am not the first one to feel alien in this world. Clearly I haven't worked it out yet.

Well it's an open and imminent question for me. I question the whole fabric of this society, it looks one way, but inside is different. I think society is sick, deeply sick and the things we take for granted are actually diseased. And it's old. Why is there any compassion at all ? What does that mean, that people are idiots and can't help themselves ? Dependence and dependence, and old game of slavery. Sounds so nice ... "I'll help you". But maybe it's your undoing. On this planet you see nature documentaries, and this animal sitting on a branch with big eyes looking out ... along comes another animal and slurp it's eaten all up. Eaten alive. and this animal is still sitting there on a branch with big eyes looking out. Like nothing happened. That's this planet. It's completely unconscious. Asleep eating each other. Nobody even notices there is a problem. Mankind is far more like that animal on the branch than you might think. Who wants to know the bitter truth. Are mankind's problems just "an accident". Or does it speak of what we are. When you switch on the TV, what's the subject. Always the same, "helping". Who is "helping" and who isn't "helping". There is total unconscious deceit in all this, truly you would be very fortunate to escape the sludge. But hey on most days I drift through the streams of people. Be polite, pat the dog ... but what does my heart really say ? Is there something very very wrong. When I was young I was the same, it was how I was raised. The rainbow coloured plastic toys waggled in my face, coochie coo little idiot baby. And I would watch these "adults" do this and already something felt quite ill about it. I was smashed to smithereens, lucky to survive on several occasions, and only that has catapulted me far off trajectory. But still here. Perhaps I value these possessions and so on too much. I was thinking about selling up today and moving to Ecuador, a perennial dream. It is not that desire is wrong actually. But desire when you are born into such a species is not worth it. That's closer to the truth. Maybe we are in transition here, pay extra and take the express that's the best.

Hey, if I didn't have a problem with this stuff I wouldn't start a thread. I find it hard to deal with this stuff, it's dirty insidious. Much easier when somebody turns up and starts shouting and punching you .... at least that's straightforward and honest. But these emotional / yucky wraiths, they have been taught everything wrong about life. Terrible. That energy attacks man through the emotional or sexual centres, parasites them. It's like a creature that takes possession and stimulates the sexual/emotional energy so that the poor host feels some of that energy himself as he is being drained. The next thing is these people infiltrate the church the media and politics, any area of power. Education. It's a plague. That's why Buddhism ("There is oooh suffering") is so popular right now. It's seduction like the Sirens. Fighting back against the stormtroopers is easy. But against the do-gooders ? Yet a community that understood would treat them similarly. There is just too much at stake and this plague is a dirty one. I am not sure if there is such a thing as a healthy human community, but if there is one it would have to be firm in the face of this energy. Too tough is better than too weak. Says that often in the IChing.

He also left the city after failing to reconcile his situation there. But anyway I am not saying I do know. I just wanted to talk about elephants. This thread needs a bit of levity, or gravity, or ... stuff. My understanding is that mathematicians still cannot solve sqrt(-1). Has that changed ?

Mathematicians cannot solve : sqrt ( -1 ). They don't know how. So in order that they may still make some progress with equations what they do is call i = sqrt( -1 ). So they define i to equal the square root of minus one. Why ? Well .... because they want to do some work with their equations and they sort of package up this unknown thing into the term i. and that allows them to proceed and at least some work with their equations. You might call i a white elephant. So a normal number is 17. Seventeen. A complex number is 17 + 5i, seventeen plus five white elephants. What is a white elephant it is i or the sqrt ( -1 ) that we can't solve right now, so we call it white elephant. So if you have 2 complex numbers : 17 + 5i ..... seventeen plus five white elephants 20 + 2i ..... twenty plus 2 white elephants ... then if you add them together what do you get ? You get 37 + 7i .... thirty seven plus seven white elephants. or (17+5i) + (20+2i) = 37 + 7i

Instead of thinking how can I stop doing bad things .... instead of thinking like that .... think like this how can I start doing right things. You have no hope of stopping things unless you replace them with the right thing. Firstly spend as much time with people any people and start talking more show yourself smile and get to meet people, especially women who you like. Try and maybe it's a little difficult, but hey the birds and bees and lions and fish do it .... so can you. Is it a little difficult at first ? Maybe maybe not. If you like someone and they like you then things are easier. If you try it on with someone you don't really like .... then it's a mess. Just be honest. You like or don't like ? You want to speak to her or not ? Then get out in nature and go to the gym, wake up early, tidy up. Make today just a little better than yesterday. Also .... don't fill your head with violent video games, movies about killing, and alcohol drugs .... because that's just another kind of porn. Get better friends. Tomorrow a little better than today. Forget about "stopping". Think about "starting". With the porn keep it simple and make it fast. Don't feel guilty. Also stop fantasising about anything at all, just stop, be here and now. Also with spiritual practice, be nice, don't to the Buddhist violent meditation stuff. Also do qigong so that your energy is full and smooth. Don't be edgy be friendly. Good to do forgiveness meditation on parents.

Well I think that's a very good question, a practical question.