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  1. Hi everyone. I have a close friend who will be traveling to China making a trip to see a few high level masters.

     

     

    I know one master is near Beijing. He is also traveling to Lung Fu Shan in Jiangxi Province.

     

    Also he may be seeing another master but I am unsure where he is located, so as I get more info I'll post it.

     

    Money is tight and I was wondering if anyone would be willing to help him.

     

    If you are in china and would be willing to accommodate him he is a high level student, kind and sincere.

     

    If you live or rent in china and would be willing to help please let me know.

     

    I believe he will be leaving in around or before Christmas I believe.


  2. as normin who liked stormin once said...bovine scatalogs...pie dude...shit son...it aint dullness...thats just whats in yer head...shit...disconnected...it aint that boy...its BEIN connected...gaddam...ya aint payin attention boy...n whyd ya go n sign up a new name mat...that cabin a yours got tha net n all that...kinda kills tha point a bein in isolation dont it...or did ya chickin outa that...hell if ya wanted a new name we coulda fownd one for ya...sumtin snapie like doormat...hahahahaha...damn...ya...all them folks meditatin all them thousands a years jest ta be DULL...gaddam...shoulda listned ta them folks who told ya ta lay offa them squirel brains...

     

     

    I am going to quote master Lin here, I hope he wont mind.

     

    Three Secrets of Practicing Qigong Effectively

     

    1) Go into the emptiness

     

    Countless different Qigong and meditation exercises exist. All teach the basic idea of

    using consciousness to go into the emptiness where thoughts ultimately cease or greatly

    diminish and sensory connections to our bodies fade. We and everything in our world are all

    from the emptiness and will go back to the emptiness. It is a state of pure energy where we

    are one with the universe.

     

    Our bodies naturally direct us to the emptiness. When we get sick, for example, the

    first place we go is not to the hospital, but to bed. When we sleep, we feel relaxed and

    peaceful. We bring our mind and body into the emptiness. Everybody does this automatic

    meditation without noticing it during sleep and periods of deep relaxation. Most of our daily

    energy blockages are opened and resolved in this way The deeper you go into the emptiness,

    the faster your body will heal. By practicing Qigong we go into the emptiness where we

    effortlessly balance the Yin and Yang, the female and male energy. As the balance of energy

    comes back, the body heals.

     

    2) Keep it simple

     

    My masters told me the most powerful is usually the simplest.

    Many Qigong exercises are too complicated and cloaked with mystery. Qigong, in its

    fundamental form, is very simple. For instance, it is very easy to open energy channels.

    When you open your fingers, all the energy channels in the hands open. When you move

    your heels up and down, you open all six energy channels in the feet. It is not necessary to

    learn complicated movements to open channels and release blocks.

     

    3) Use your consciousness

     

    When doing Qigong exercise, we use sensation of the body to feel the moving Qi. How

    we use our mind influences the flow of Qi. Positive thoughts, for example, encourage you to

    gain back your health and instantaneously direct Qi in optimal ways. Negative thoughts, on

    the other hand, discourage you from fulfilling your task, block energy, and create sickness.

     

     

     

     

    -Chunyi Lin Spring Forest Qigong

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  3. Sometimes people need to look closer to claims like this and question them better. First of all when someone says they have been "Hacked" you might ask them how exactly do they know and what proof do they have?

     

    some ideas here.

    1. how would someone who knows so little about computer know they have been hacked, not to mention who may have hacked them.

     

    2. Don't you think if someone had proof of being hacked (actual proof) that the authorities would have taken action.

     

    I have dealt with false accusations made about me by a single individual for several years now, I invite you to ask these questions and find out exactly what answers you get. if you wish to ask me anything, please feel free to email me.

     

    I did actually have an online account to a paid service hacked (brain.com IQ training software) they changed my username to gayfaghole and I never could get my password back. I called the owner of the site and spoke to him, he dodged the issue and eventually the service shut down. I called the local police about investigating, they told me to call the cops in the town where the business was located, I called them, they told me to call the fbi, I called the fbi and was given the run around. So even if you have proof most authorities don't care about cyber crime unless they have a bug up their ass about something.


  4. my goal in meditation is to go into the emptiness, the void, beyond death. To a point in which reality breaks down, I can't feel my physical body, or the outside world. It's a wonderful place to be.


  5. St. Johns wort in clinical trials has been shown more effective with prozac. Fish oil and b-vitamins also boost its effectiveness. lifting weights and chi kung sitting emptyness, standing emptyness, and active chi kung exercises will help you tremendously. If you haven't allready heard about spring forest qigong I highly reccomend it. also there is a book called the tao of meditation which is very awesome.


  6. I don't give thanks, but I ask for the forgiveness of the life that was taken so I could eat it. One thing since I was a child that has really really bothered me was the fact that everything I consume was slaughtered (even vegetables) just so I could eat it.

     

    I know this sounds insane, but I view myself as a society of cells, and my consciousness / ego is the government. It seems as though I conquer other lesser societies and slaughter them to take their lives resources and integrate them into my being.

     

    It all seems so wrong, I wish I could photosynthesize my own food sometimes, without killing anything to do it.


  7. I think some of us here (like me) are just extremely skeptical, and burnt out on all this spiritual marketing bullshit, there are 100,000,000 newagey type books published every month and almost none of them have any legit information. I've watched friends from high school piss their life away believing they can accomplish anything via magick (like hollowing out mountains, and creating animated skeletons) taking it to delusional levels.

     

    I don't know if I count as a know-it-all, but I do believe some practices are more effective than others. Twirling around with a spellbook chanting a spell and brewing a alchemical potion isn't likely to get me anywhere nearer towards my end goal of liberation, for that reason I want to make sure any practices I use have been tried and tested and produce results.

     

    I like to practices which have been validated, with hard evidence. gTummo, and Mo Pai are two such practices. I am also interested in other forms of qigong/neigong but I really don't care much about anything else unless there is good evidence to validate it.


  8. http://chinese-medicine.suite101.com/artic...i_aging_effects

     

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/...81110090619.htm

     

    Anti-aging Properties of Astragalus

     

    This same process of using TAT2 from astragalus to enhance telomerase production, reduce telomere shortening and increase the ability of cells to divide is being looked at as a way of slowing the aging process at a cellular level. But research into this potential use for astragalus is just beginning.


  9. If Joomla offers a repository for centos I would try adding it to get automatic upgrades in the future. It may be a compile from source only app though, I would subscribe to its newsletter for any future security updates. Also any other 3rd party apps you have which don't come from a repository, I would try to keep up on security updates on them also.

     

     

    Linux

    CentOS 5 + Plesk 8.6

     

    The problem was not the operating system but that Joomla 1.5 early versions left a wide open path. Joomla uses mysql database but is also a web-based system; all editing can be done online. My mysql database was intact, but the css files, template files, and configuration was screwed. I have already done a new latest Joomla install. This is a secondary static site so it really wasn't any big deal. I always look at what some perceive as negative as an opportunity; I was briefly somewhat miffed but this mode of perception of looking at everything as an opportunity allows no negative energy feedback.

     

     

    gossamer,

     

    He was hacked because he didn't keep his 3rd party packages updated not because he was friends with you.

     

    Dear Ya Mu,

     

    He is (I believe) commonly reading the private (PM's) here at 'Tao Bums'.

     

    While I have NO "proof", because you did a kindness for/to me, YOU PAID the price for doing it.

     

    I'm very sorry that this happened to you, and I strongly suspect that this happened to you because of ME.

     

    Bummer. :(

     

    Your friend in Dao, gossamer/Albion


  10. were you using unix or linux on your server? If it was linux what distribution?

     

    G,

     

    Don't worry, I have no concern about this. I don't keep sensitive information on computers connected to the internet, I often do computer upgrades and do clean windoze installs every few months, so no big deal to me to re-do anything. My web-sites are static and easily re-done. How do I know that Spirit wasn't saying "Time to re-do the Site." :o In fact, I think it looks better already!www.stillnessmovement.com

     

    The google re-direction bug has been experienced by many and apparently comes from opening .pdf files with earlier versions of adobe software (UPGRADE often is the advice ). And the laptop wasn't really mine but belonged to a family member. I think the .pdf was on an agricultural site.

    The problem is that the antivirus programs DO NOT find this bug, it has to be removed manually; very easy to do.

     

    It is known that earlier releases of Joomla 1.5 offer a gateway in and that there are robots on the net searching for these versions of Joomla. I simply hadn't kept up with it. But Joomla is pretty cool; it is FREE!

     

    I am thinking now though that I will go back to Ubuntu or Mint for personal internet use. It is OK, I go all the way back to Unix on the old Dec PD-11/70 micro computers.