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I.e. Self confidence, sincerity (with others, with themself, within there Life.), knowing themself and honoring it all. Oh, Yes! "Good personal grooming." Is to be complemented for sure, lol We do not want to catch flees when snuggling with a man!!! And I don't care if ones into PU's, UPS's, SnM's, Or MnM's If you've been intimately involved and lost in that special embrace (or any other posture of choice) Someone on here mentioned getting tested? ALWAYS A SMART thing to do. After any relationship it couldn't hurt. I Know around here they say 4 out of 5 folks have an std.!!! Why they are wanting to give vaccines to kids who's bodies haven't even finished growing, sheesh. Good luck Prannaman, You've gotten some good advice up here. She's young but how much are you willing to put yourself through? Support works both ways, if you decide to go that route. You can't do her work for her can only be support and witness to such things. Good luck in whatever decisions life brings your way! Shon Have known so MANY PUA's they do have charm, but they work off of percentages, lol. Don't go that route, If u do don't go over the top with it!

OOOooooo. There needs to be more women bum's on this site, I swear! LOL,Who better than women to know what works with "picking up" women! Dude.

LOL, thanks! The Tao adapt is Tao Adhering on not! Doesn't make a difference how sticky he/she/it is! but I'm a pisces so it's all the same water? Hey Etchetu ya low! (It's a good thing! ) (... Ie.It's all Tao ... and yes, I'm tired! It's ok, last post of the night!!!) (I know I can't spell,lol) Peace kids! Shon

our flesh made from dust I Think? ... my drumming neighbor would make a nice drum

Had posted a question in the personal practice section on tai ji but it was suggested to throw it into the general discussion area ? My questions are about alignments and how do you learn them? Or improve them! How do you test them on your own? Have worked with others holding a "pose" then having someone push from different angles, different places, I like that. Like push hands too. Feel and see a lot with both of those but am practicing mostly on my own these days and not in any classes with other students. So How can it be done? Self testing alignments? Any experiences or stories of how you learned or are learning would be great! Connections you feel as things "link"up, what tricks did you find to help you feel them clearer? (like tucking the tail or some such?) Or just anything you'd like to share about taiji, Love to hear it! Stay well, Shon Hey? Thanks to you guys who replied to the other questions too! I do appreciate it!

Mmm. Relaxing is such a constant thing being worked with. To hold a pose correct or not, i can see how it could cause tensions to form. top of the head to the ankle... there are times i find this clearer than others. In standing it's quite easy to find, or while holding poses, but through the transitions I do lose the connections. At times from the tail sticking back out other times am not sure why. Will have to practice this also! Thanks for the advice with the article also, do an old Yang style but will keep that in mind when i check it out! Thanks Bill! I appreciate all of your advice, sorry I'm slow in the reply! Does come back to practice. ... again and again, lol, ok. Thank you all for taking the time though Your feed back, as well as being sound, is encouraging. That was what i think was really needed. Hard not getting to talk things over with folks practicing. This helps alot. and gives me some fresh ideas to work with! *bow* Shon

Thank you Adam. Yes. It come down again to correct practice. Teacher is good but not seen as often as i wished ! and mmm, looking for conformation on my own, I guess. Thank you for the sound advice, much appreciated. Do know how the results are relative but didn't know another example to give : ) Still like that exercise alot and find it very informative both about this self and the one/s that are worked with. Princibles. yup. ok. will do. yer right. No escaping them is there, lol! Thanks! Hi! I hadn't seen that article? Will check it out! Do need to get a mirror at some point ... Have taken videos! And, Oh My Goodness. That is a Humbling experience, hahahaaa! Thank You Dainin! : ) Feet first. Yes. Will make a meditation out of that! Usually start Way Deep, Way below the feet! Sometimes the best way to get this child to feel present in her body! Find if i concentrate on the feet ... end up with burns from inside out . But if attention moves not such an issue? Am careful in standing (Hold post/treehugger's pose) because of that. I think some good experiments will come from your words! Thank you Spectrum!

One; then we return. How many pieces of dust make a single man?

Think I had seen some videos of these guys involving incredible leg strength? And the ways they produce/practice such strength? Not sure, would have been a few years back? Think maybe there was some "free running" involved? Not sure? Will have to look for them as time allows! Stay well, Shon

Sorry, Mantis, but so not impressed. Look like games kids play? but then maybe we played a little wilder back then? LOL What do you think of it yourself Mantis ? Have you learned to roll in your school? Thanks for sharing it! Shon

thank you all *bow*

Funny how some posts make me dream of virtual stun guns Nice how when folks have nothing nice to say they can't wait to say it It's a good thing i don't have children certain things really make me want to bang some heads together. this is very good practice thank you all Shon

Would be cool Like to see something like that go down would be fun. Don't think folks would be so apt to share addresses over the web and all? There should be some lind of virtual way to make it happen! Have an ongoing post called "Box" or something? Have folks put in things they love. Could be quite a powerful little box I think. Maybe have two boxes one for cherished "items" The other for things we wouldn't mind so much to send on? Like your idea Patrick.

hayeah That's my normal sitting position, too. ...anytime. keeps my back and knees from hurting. Lotus hasn't impressed me for any reason, yet? No problem doing it just don't find a need. Wish that second sitting pose was more comfortable If I did that for a few hours though Don't think the legs would work for a week or more! Zafu? Pillow? I don't use a pillow under the tail but feel much better if i have a shawl or blanket! Don't like the kidneys feeling cold? Siddhasana ? Is the difrence in the feet, is there more to it? Am sure there is! What?

Yeah, think so? Tradition of/in most "old"religions, though not always something that was "written" ? But still something that is the same substance "essence" as the "god/s" or that "primordial energy" Sorry, i don't have any references about such things to post though? Wonder if someone else does? Maybe someone on the bum's does? Don't know. Thank you for posting that YMWong, very interesting. Hard for this tired mind to read, had a hard time with the writing style : ) Seems like it was a lot of little bits of stuff, would have liked them to go into more details on each part or thing that they spoke about? ...Always do though! LOL, oh well. But then it would have been a book you where posting! Would be far To long Have enjoyed your posts thank you! Do you yourself have any comments about this one? What was it that caught your interest? Thanks again! Shon Hey! I REALLY Liked the Notes and References! Great stuff!

thanks for that Patrick. ...would feel bad too, enjoy that kid! Like the diversity found here at the Bum's Hate to see folks disappear? See you! Shon Oh and being single is still frowned upon, lol. I could go on a rant about that but need to go to work instead! Peace kids!

interesting. yes, thanks. to reach understanding? to let the screens fall away? Sitting alone enough? what else is needed for folks?

For me the bottom one opens the hip qua differently? Not sure if how i do anything is correct though. When those qua are open the energetic connections are felt more clearly, Can still feel them no matter what, at times more "open/closed" but the cross legged one, it's better for establishing them, for me? Also sitting on my knees sure doesn't make my knees happy??? Am sure there are adjustments one could make, if so inclined, to gradually get a body used to it? Others can probably word this better, I hope! Like to hear some experiences folks have had with them too? Thank You Froggie! Shon

Hahaha, yup. I tried the enie-minie-moe(sp?) thing .... just for kicks but i didn't like the one i picked Lol, didn't see the spot to write in a name until after the fact. Would have wrote in Willie Nelson! Hey? He already knows the white house well enough! Right? and I Like Him. And He is a Black belt in Aikido! He's been exposed to the real working folks and to the big corporate world. He Knows the issues facing out country and facing our world? He'd plant sunflowers around the white house and have parties on the roof! For better or worse, lol, I would have written him in. Wouldn't have mattered anyway. Still don't like the choices. Like seeing folks so happy and relieved though even if i don't share their elation! For me the act was just for the act itself. Voting for the sake of voting. An act for the future generations and for fear of my ancestors knocking my head real hard if i didn't!!! ... U think I'm kidding! Shon do believe in voting But the ways things are done ... : ( i just don't know.

Haha! That Is increadable. Great video! Wish there was a musical bone in this body!!! 11 years old??? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Flashbacks HURT. DARN IT. LOL I was um??? ... Learning the art of invisibility and climbing my neighbors chimneys and pine trees Self defense skills sucked, LOL, so hiding and out climbing worked well!!! kept me (mostly?)alive, i think? Was raising other peoples children and collecting tin cans to try and raise every nickel i could, was hard to earn a dime! Still can be and dreaming about training a dog to go and get peoples wallets out of their shoes on the beach, LOL, don't worry never did ... was far to honest. Sure coulda made a killing though!!! Was raiding my neighbors garden (raiding honestly though???) and had a terribly incorrect view that anything that grew could be eaten, ugh. NEVER EAT JAPANESE LANTERNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEVER. (a bad flashback to about 7 years,lol) It might kill you? And learning to clean dear and many saltwater fish? Any two legged or four legged is about the same but fish still confuse the daylights out of me! Was probably more of a vegetarian because of it ... might be a reason for having raided gardens? Sitting at night in meditation and in contemplation. Was sleeping under houses and in trees and in swamps! and as weird as it might sound was loving every moment of it (except for the ones that were chasing me, they sucked.)! Over all guess not much has changed! Still trying to earn a dime. Still Loving the trees and swamps. Still sitting at night? Still needing to learn self defense and get chased once in awhile. ...Not so into the neighbors gardens as much And as for the dog I was going to train??? I wonder if my little mutts would be interested in learning some new tricks through the winter,LOL? ... still to honest. ...kinda?...might be able to get over that though?? How about you ddilulo_06? What were you up to? Have things changed? Shonton Ga

Hahaa! I liked it though Gossamer! Jump on in ! very cool. So what was that last line ??? Ahh? This was it, right? "a spirit chaser. Hifullutin name for beer! Sparkling water..." *************************** Sparkling water... crown of the head, down to toes drip,drip,drip,drip, dry!

hey? looks interesting, i missed this post somehow! Thanks for putting the link up here bookmarked it so i can check it out better as time allows Wanted to "bump" it up for others to check out too! Stay well, Shon

Hi Hyok! Just a quick question come the last day of december what typically happens with the calender ??? It's easy We turn the page ... not something that has to be traumatic? Might get a paper cut or something but... Folks have been worried about the world coming to an end since it began. They've been afraid of it happening all my life. Some reasons do carry more weight than others, sure. But. Folks like to get caught up in stuff(myself included!) Can't tell you how many folks came and told me in the past two months about "the giant mother ship" that was coming last month. (hmm,about 80 of them i'd say!) (they say it came by the way???) They were all preparing for it in different ways? I haven't seen it but haven't been looking either? What I'm trying, so badly, to say is ~ Enjoy life. It is precious. It is perfect. Enjoy it while you are living it. As for the sun... check this out!!! Very cool for some folks maybe! What does it mean? Only that we are specks of dust that really don't know much of anything! And as one already mentioned, Secrets are only secrets if we don't know them. We are all always learning! Check this out though : ) http://www.livescience.com/space/081103-mm...ic-portals.html Shon

Have been told of some higher up's in corporations walking around parking lots and "taking note" of who's cars are stuck with Obamas stickers! ... just incase they need to make some cut backs! Be a good thing to have one of those magnetic ones I think! Am sure that's not true? Is It? but i thought it was funny. (My humor is a bit warped... and i don't work for such a place? yet? ) Oh! And I do want to thank you all for posting and giving me some other points of view to think over. Some very good points were made. Appreciate it. Hope there are many more!!!