liminal_luke

My partner Jose is a sweet and gentle person and also someone who suffers with psychosis. Several years back he was considering carrying a knife around with him because he was convinced that strangers wanted to hurt him. I told him: no knives. It´s easy to imagine him attacking someone if he was convinced he was about to be kidnapped or killed -- in his mind it would of been self-defence. People like Jose need compassion and treatment, not punishment.

I´m a guy but I did like this quote. It actually doesn´t take much to be considered a difficult woman, that´s why there are so many of us. - Jane Goodall

Individual experiences vary. Sorry but I don´t feel like going into detail about my own. If you want to find out what it would do for you, you´ll have to practice.

The "kunlun system" is what Max calls his entire suite of various practices. If you just want Jenny Lamb´s yi gong -- what Max has called kunlun -- you might still be able to get it by buying her Qigong for Self-Heaing dvd. Eastern Internal Arts Institute

Doing fine, thanks zerostao!

It´s good to use our own irritations as an investigative tool to bring our own less-than-enlightened qualities to awareness. Not so good -- outside of very special circumstances -- to use other people´s irritations to suggest they have a problem. Most people don't take kindly to that maneuver.

There´s a lot to be said for following where the energy is, finding what "hits the spot." My mom has done commision paintings before but always thinks the work she does for herself is better quality -- probably because she chooses the subject and it´s always something that interests her. I think I might know Person C. Qigong, to me, is like a specific tool. You´ve got your qigong hammer and your qigong wrench, qigong to tonify the liver, qigong to open the hips. Taiji, by contrast, is more holistic -- each form is the whole shabang, the entire workshop, a mini version of the universe that mirrors the larger Universe. Similarly, other Daoist arts are also the whole universe. Feng Shui can be the whole universe, flower arranging ditto, tea, etc. To a certain kind of person, qigong can be frustrating because when they´re working on tonifying their liver qi or whatever, everything else that is not that qigong, all the rest of it, tugs at their consciousness. Some people want to work with the whole or nothing. Anyway, this is my theory. Not sure if it would mean anything or not to Person C.

I´m trying to think of something funny to say, but faster, whittier Bums keep jockeying ahead of me.

When i signed up for this mod gig, I was told it would be easy. I think I was taken for a ride.

I´m used to it though. Some Bums are always trying to cause a stirrup.

I disagree. This snakey behavior is so last year.

Normally the contentiousness would bother me, but this year I´m feeling rather equine about it.

Agreed. Especially since we had a gallop poll and everything!

Maybe they figured with me hangin´ round that one flamer was enough? https://youtu.be/gfpsnT5BBgs?si=Bjzcg1NF31LkOJMN

Take it from a drifter, if you´ve been practicing the same system for two years and feel the benefits, you´re doing pretty darn great!