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  1. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Jonesboy said:

    I think Flowing Hands TTC is very, very good.

    His first 81 pretty much parallels the Feng/English translation.

    His LZ-channeled ones reveal (as best I recall) a moralistic undertone. 

    Which is all fine and good - but adds extraneous concepts imo, and muddles up the clarity of the ddj. <--That's just my take; we each have our own understandings. (-:

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    1 minute ago, Song of the Dao said:

     

    Wow. And here I thought I was being outlandish....

     

    Yep. That's what happens when someone comes in to the middle of a forum's history... and thinking they know what's what, and what's "best". 

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    1 hour ago, Song of the Dao said:

     

    Would you let a tiger sleep with your children? It is a natural response, and only people who do not see  the Dao do not know what is dangerous or not.

    I suppose we could all just add sentences to The Dao De Ching and you would be happy with that?

     

    Going at someone personally should be the last thing we are concerned with here!

     

    Well...that's what flowing hands did. 

     

     

    On 3/14/2014 at 3:41 PM, flowing hands said:

    I am going to beg Li Erh Xian Shi (Lao Tzu) to teach me the rest of the verses which he originally wrote while staying at the border keepers house.

    These texts or verses are basically called the 'sacred or spiritual verses of the Way and its heart'.

    The term DDJ was given to these verses at some time after Li Erh wrote them.

    I will start off with verse 82 and I hope he will honour me with his teachings. This will be a first and a great gift to humankind. If he doesn't want to teach me, well there's nothing I can do, but look to see on this post whether I have been successful.

     

    On 3/14/2014 at 3:41 PM, flowing hands said:

     

    On 11/16/2014 at 9:29 AM, flowing hands said:

    Hi Folks I have taken off the verses that I had put on before. I have decided that really what I am being taught is a unique and special thing, no other holyman has ever been taught these verses, so I am going to publish them up to verse 108. I have taken them off because I own the rights to them.

     

    I'll let you know when they get published. Hope you really appreciated them while they were here:)

     

    Some of FH's  ddj verses can be found in the quoted parts of other member's posts in that linked thread above.... I think he was up to DDJ 97? when he pulled it all off. 

     

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  7. Posted

    3 minutes ago, silent thunder said:

     

    Howling in the mist.

    Twin wolves, one of heart, one mind.

    Who is it they call?

     

    Who is it they call?

    Kindred spirits, those who sing;

    those who always hear.

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  9. Posted

    3 minutes ago, silent thunder said:

     

    may know the whole world.

    i sought to change the whole world.

    now content, right here.

     

    now content, right here.

    even in times of hard breath,

    still okay with now.

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  13. Posted · Edited by rene
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    3 hours ago, Patrick Brown said:

    The UK will boost its defensive capabilities by hosting a major international military exercise for two weeks from 30 March 2019.

     

    More than 10,000 military personnel, 35 warships, 5 submarines and 59 aircraft and helicopters from 13 countries will take part in Exercise Joint Warrior until 11 April.

     

    Holy shit.

     

    3 hours ago, Patrick Brown said:

    So it would seem we are not going to leave the EU. The government/establishment are in effect declaring war, by default, against the British people for not carrying out their will to leave the EU. In effect from the 30th March 2019 all people of the UK will be at war with the government and those that choose to stand with them. I expect civil disobedience i.e The powers of the police will no longer be accepted and the laws of the land will no longer be legally binding. 

     

    If this happens it will be the end of the UK, Europe and eventually the whole of the modern world. We've always been aware of the scheming masonic groups around the world but now they are trying to truly enslave us and take away our freewill and god given rights.  

     

    Yes there's a one hour pause before the war begins and that will truly be the calm before the storm! 

     

    Stay safe, friend.

     

     

     

     

     

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    11 hours ago, silent thunder said:

    @rene  I recall March in Minnesota.  Relentless is the word I'd ascribe to it and on average it starts with a glimpse of Spring to come, then is the heaviest snowfall month of the Season.  I never minded Winter all that much, but March was an endurance test.

     

    Those drifts are very real.  Respect.

     

    It was all worth it for me when those Earth shaking Thunderstorms in April kicked in though.  Gaia how I miss those!

    Ohhhh I'm so looking forward to the rains too - they'll help with melting all this. 

     

    We got our first glimpse of Spring yesterday morning!!

     

    springbegins.jpg

     

    The seasons here are two months behind; heavy snows used to come in January...but all that's likely changed. Good thing no calendars on Peaceful Mountain. No clocks either lolol. We just go with what comes, when it does. (-:

     

     

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  20. Posted

    11 minutes ago, Pilgrim said:

    @rene  Here it is large and the picture does not do the actual experience justice, The ring should be more golden and well the colors are far more real and vibrant than I can produce with my skills.

     

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    That's really nice. Vivid & engaging! Thanks for the journey! (-:

  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, Lost in Translation said:

     

    It's my belief that a man can improve himself. When enough people realize this, they target their focus internal, and as if by accident the external world improves. To focus on the external first is a waste of time.

     

    1 hour ago, Stosh said:

    I am of the reverse opinion at the moment.

    But ,Yes people do look for that internal magic key, but I don't see evidence supporting it...ever.

    Spiritual battles take place in the physical court.

    If you can see it as a classic which came first chicken egg thing, we can jump to practical application.

     

    I'm not sure the internal and external are all that unconnected.

    As above, so below. As within, so without.

    Changing one's surroundings affects our internals...

    and once we change the way we look at things - the things we look at change.

    Or so it seems to me.

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  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, Stosh said:

    This is a point I have wrestled with , In a finite world I can see it viewed that ones gain is anothers loss.

    Always. Every action and non-action, every moment of change, is one of equal creation and destruction. Such is the way (-:

     

    2 hours ago, Stosh said:

    Then , on the other hand , ,,, I ,and others, do feel like the world is better for having its myriad creatures, and that there is indeed an element of progress to human endeavors, as we see it,, ,but on the fourth hand, improvement is still my and their subjective view, notwithstanding .  Yet on the fifth hand...  for all our declared progress, we are still overpopulating and destroying. 

    ( the other two hands I have mentioned recently and go without repeating) 

     

     

    Right! Seeing these things as not mutually exclusive is what ends 'either/or' mindset. 

     

    2 hours ago, Stosh said:

    Last night I watched a vid on Andaman islanders , it touched on what may be unique ancestry ( ties in with the Atlantis thread) and it also touches on this thread because they were thought to be mostly cannibals. Which coincidentally makes them possibly one of the smartest peoples on earth , since when Europeans and other Moderns showed up they threw spears until we left. ( which is probably why they may be still existent,  for so long, just as they are, and throws in question ,what might be deemed progress) 

     

    Forgive my use of my native tongue , if one can follow it it saves a lot of typing

     

    Your words are clear to me; glad you're using them. (-: