Apech

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  1. [TTC Study] Chapter 8 of the Tao Teh Ching

    Maybe 'go with' their own nature (?) ... something like that ... would have the right meaning. I'm a commoner as well ... in fact commoner than most people ... that's why I just spat on the carpet .....
  2. [TTC Study] Chapter 8 of the Tao Teh Ching

    I kind of assumed that translators use 'follow' because the Tao is 'the Way' - so you could follow the way ... like a path or road without it being authoritarian etc. Also the word follow can mean 'be aligned to' or 'in accord with' ... I don't see the problem. People seem to have a problem with hierarchies when we live in universe which is naturally structured and has inherent grading and hierarchy (for instance the electron shells in the atom ... lots of other examples.) So you could say that a hydrogen atom follows the way of hydrogen in its chemistry for instance ... it does not behave like Calcium or Argon. However they all follow the natural laws of chemistry in their actions and reactions with one another. As human beings we are not all the same ... we have differing constitutions and personal history ... we each have to find our own way ... but this does not mean that there is no Way ... which we are all involved in.
  3. Haiku Chain

    Carrot roots, dirt clumps. Love this gritty soup you made Pass the dust bowl, please.
  4. A big fat holiday greeting

    Feliz natal. Hope an old guy in a red dressing gown comes down your chimney this year.
  5. Mindstream

    The heart could be seen as a modal center for sentience/feeling and is where we open up to the infinite field ... with the proviso that we are talking in terms of fields without making them eternal sub-strata of reality (that's for you Vaj.) ... so it is not so much that the heart-field is an infinite field but that our hearts open to the infinitude inherent in that which is. That's how I see it anyway.
  6. Belief and Faith

    Surely any 'belief' gravity is reinforced by the empirical experience of falling over or dropping things. Is that still a belief?
  7. The Highest Buddhist Consort Practice

    "Stick erect penis into a vagina" yes, any old vagina will do obviously ... I thought perhaps it would be nice if the penis and vagina went out on a couple dates first ... "Hi I'm Dick, " "Pleased to meet you my names Conny" ... that sort of thing.
  8. Belief and Faith

    Hurrah! Gold I may start believing in you!
  9. Haiku Chain

    These halls have no walls, The Christmas tree has no balls Chicken not turkey.
  10. Haiku Chain

    Melted clock tells time Jesus looks down from heaven At burning giraffe.
  11. Haiku Chain

    Robe rustling in wind Its a testing icy chill So winter draws on.
  12. Haiku Chain

    knifes into Swansea. yes those Welsh gangs are the worst, London guns shoot steel.
  13. Haiku Chain

    Moo echoes from ranch Is a cow stuck in a tree? I thought you said branch!
  14. Wikileaks - Thoughts

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12005930
  15. Haiku Chain

    nursing home disco Ouch! Ouch! I think mine has slipped Old age lumbago.
  16. Was it an ordinary painting or a nagual painting? The ability to produce violent physical reactions at a distance is an impressive siddhi. Much better than those distant orgasms that Drew used to go on about. You could market this nausea gong and make a small fortune not to mention the carrot recycling potential (why is it always carrots that are left over ... perhaps the TTC has the answer I must check).
  17. I found your story compelling and yet at the same time deeply moving ... so deeply in fact that I had to rush to the bathroom ... you may well have proved a point ... CC was in truth a genius.
  18. Haiku Chain

    into bridging art graffiti the golden gate spanning for ever.
  19. Haiku Chain

    Fresh log-in fireplace. Your username and password For a living flame.
  20. Wikileaks - Thoughts

    I think they have dropped the appeal. Oh no - forget that.
  21. Cat, That's interesting. In fact I would say I don't like or feel right about CC himself and specially 'the witches' and all that - seen them on youtube doing magical passes ... er ... no thanks ....I've read the Amy Wallace kiss and tell ... which I thought was a stupid book but doubtless factually accurate. He seems sexually jealous and obsessed by his own semen ... which doesn't impress. But I get a completely different reaction to the books. This is why I am drawn to think that someone else was involved. Can't prove it but I think there was a DJ or someone at some point in his life. I have found a lot of the insights useful. I read them all when they came out ... they get worse towards the end ... so by the time all the debunking started I wasn't unprepared ... it didn't really bother me and I didn't feel angry/betrayed the way some people do. He opened up shamanism in a way that no one else did. If he borrowed all the ideas from here and there ... then he did ... but I still don't know how he managed those books ... its an extraordinary literary feat if that's what it was. I'd challenge anyone else to do the same and be as effective.
  22. Wikileaks - Thoughts

    I don't understand the poll - is the third option supposed to say 'wikileaks?' cos it says 'wikipedia'.
  23. If you post your new avatar I will try to change it for you (no promises though!).