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Welcome Jon!

Beautiful! And really nice to have someone here steeped in Judaism. It occasionally crosses my mind that that’s one where I’m nearly entirely lacking in education. One of my pet theories … something like … a series of different polar potentials, integral yet separated by semi-permeable membranes (physical or otherwise, could be just space). The above could be applied to things as big as the sun and the earth, or as small as microscopic living cells, or heaven ~ man ~ earth … similar to the stained glass. - Trunk

My view is that basic mechanics are the same across traditions ... we all are human, after all. You might find that JohnDaoProductions.wordpress.com (free, concise) gives a very broad overview quickly, which might help you orient more effectively to various other more detailed avenues.

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.. to recap .. For those that're fairly new to TheDaoBums ... The qi sphere tips that Sifu Matsuo gives in his Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong (KYMQ) video (ordering info in the youtube description) make the practice startlingly effective. Basically, most of the people that I've seen (or heard of) that try it for the first time: they feel it *immediately*. Like, not after a month, not after 20 minutes of a really good session: *as*soon*as* they try the practice, for the first time, with no prior qigong experience. And alignment with deeper principles is built into even the most basic parts of the practice. It does the right things. So, if you're curious about that, there's the links. .. and to kick-off .. I mentioned in a previous post that that a friend collects gems & minerals (via ebay) and had a mineral sphere and I thought "hmmmm, KYMQ around it" and results: Kicked up the energetic intensity enough that it was a jolt, within seconds. Subsequent practice sessions confirm. No extra time nor effort. Not years of focusing to the-next-level-of-purity... This is an easy up-my-game, and feels like it's gonna be a fun ride.

i’m thinking I should split the above few posts off into a new “crystals” thread. I’m out and about right now; I’ll do it after I get home sometime. It seems like I’m just tickling the surface of a very big topic on its own. OK, I split the recent few posts re: Crystals & KYMQ (but could easily expand into all kinda crystal stuff) into a new thread: @silent thunder

Interesting how people resonate~gravitate into various aspects of the path. Pretty clear that you’re enjoying a latter stage development … Curious what specific/general/tips you might have re: effective crystal practices for beginners? Anything that you feel inclined to share.

@stellarwindbubble, I’d overlooked the entire classical genre, and I love Wagner. thanks, Keith

Amy Winehouse is just killin’ me. I’ve heard her before some, but now diving in. OMFG! Here is the SAME song (preceded by interview) sung solo w/ 1 acoustic guitar only. Her *VOICE*. o-m-g

This story comes up in my mind this morning, and maybe it has nothing to do with this thread … Back in the ‘80s I was studying with my first meditation teacher in smallish group and the teacher was amazing and everyone intended to be enlightened (though we didn’t know what that was nor how to get there). High goals. And there was this one meeting where students were sharing what their spiritual goals were and I remember a remarkably wise, much-further-along-than us-noobs, humble and centered student said, “I just want to keep cycling through”. Deepening, integrating, resolving.

Agreed that breathwork is a vast subject… but there is a simple basic direction to it: integration. (which might be said of all of the internal arts principles & methods) We are integral but heavy & light stuff in us tend to separate out such that they overlap less, from top to bottom: mind breath body. When we are stressed breathing is shallow into the body and awareness floats even higher. The BASIC direction is that you start blending, unifying those things more deliberately: you focus your awareness deliberately on your breath and train to breathe more deeply into your body. These things blend (stabilized awareness, breath, body) and alchemy occurs: more unification and through layers. And, so, over a long period of time (if you’re into this sort of tribe you end up doing it your whole life) - you get so you more fully feel like you are aware with your whole body and that you are breathing with your whole body. A practice session might not *start* that way, but gets more integral, more smoothly, more quickly over time. So, I wouldn’t expect “whole body breathing” to be the only breathing method that someone would practice (as you’ve already implied), but the result of working with the breath generally, and in a variety of specific ways, over years to integrate to that level. In “Tsongkhapa’s Six Yogas of Naropa” contains a method called “palm and sole breathing” that is notable and in the Tibetan tradition (unsure if this is relevant to the branch of Buddhism that you practice in). Probably you know a lot of this already from your studies. - Keith p.s. Iyengar's "Light on Pranayama" is a modern classic book from the yogic tradition. It's a thick one. p.p.s. You'll find that, in most body-wisdom-disciplines that are movement based - the breath is integral with the movement. Either in a general way or more specifically. Breathwork (stabalized attn + breath + body) is *EVERY*where. Every yogic stretch. Every qigong movement.

Welcome! Some cautions re: retention that we've accumulated over the years

I'm current admin. I'll send you a pm and we'll work it out. - Trunk

My old utilitarian-very-simple car was totaled earlier this year (no one got hurt). I searched for a fun car with the settlement $ and found an affordable 2001 cloth-top convertible. The stereo (it had a cassette player in it which I upgraded to CD) is lit. Even with the top down in freeway traffic the sound system creates it's own atmosphere: it sounds like the music is coming from *every*where and resonating. The car is so small that essentially the whole inside front of the car is a convex resonator being fed by the actual speakers at each side (and behind). So, as I burn CDs for-carry in my new little space capsule, I'm looking for music that was produced, engineered with that "coming from all directions" atmosphere in mind. Notable ones that I've found so far, below. (Not sure if that experience is preserved in youtube recordings). So, I'm looking for musical suggestions to explore: What music have you found that especially creates that "coming from all around you" experience? (Please quote or tag me in your reply - or simply 'like' this post - so that I know I have a new reply.)

People have been reporting UFO's for so long ... ... and most officials have been denying it for so long ... and various officials have been coming out for yrs n' yrs giving exposes ... Now, the public is blase about it, like, "aliens? .. *yawn* .. of course". No panic, no surprise, just, "yeah, we all 've known this for a looonnng time".

I gave you regular member security rights, so you're set now. - Trunk TDB's admin

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The amino acids have recently left me feeling a little dry (despite protein rich diet), so I thought I'd jet to Whole Foods and get some friendly oils. Then I remembered the Budwig Diet - the main idea of which is basically that friendly oils + cottage cheese makes both the oils and the protein assimilate easier. (The Budwig Diet people try and cure serious diseases w/ it, and take it pretty extremely. I just add friendly oils to my cottage cheese as a take-away, not expecting miracles.) Really appreciated the results of cottage cheese + friendly oils + amino acids.

I somehow missed the theoretical importance of collagen, recently 'discovered' it. Basically, collagen is the main protein for the entire continuum of connective tissue: fascia ~ tendon ~ ligament ~ bones, which is a main component of what gets developed in qigong, internal martial arts, Daoist internal arts. A friend of mine mentioned that she'd been taking collagen for a while and her hair was noticeably softer. The reviews on amazon: people notice better hair, faster growing nails and joint pain disappearing. These are signs that a lot is going on on the inside that is *very* relevant to connective tissue growth. from Wikipedia I'm pretty sensitive to this stuff, and I start anything new with microdoses. Disclaimer (and I'm not kidding): Health is an *extraordinarily* complex and personal thing. Impossible for me to tell whether this'd be helpful or harmful to any of you. Be discerning.

We must be groovin', because that was exactly on my mind in my approach here, now ... The topic was pinned by default, as it was pinned in the previous PPD section, and I was too lazy at the time to sort it. Now that I return to the idea, I'm deciding to leave it pinned. The FPCK thread has been at TDBs approaching 1/4 century (since Dec, 2009) with steady quality contribution. I think that having the thread pinned is an unusual courtesy well earned. - Trunk

~~~ admin statement ~~~ The owner of this thread, @zen-bear , asked me to move this thread to the General area. - Trunk ~~~ admin out ~~~