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  4. Posted

    Ki is the energy that powers intention

    Whew, that was a close one, good thing I got that all cleared out :lol:

     

    PEACE OUT!!!

     

     

    Also it's not a tangible specific thing but it's distinguishable enough to be called something

    I hear one name for chi is pressure, there is air pressure water pressure and all sorts of different pressure, but it's all same in a way that makes them be called pressure

    People can make themselves feel warm chi or cold chi and give different feelings to it

    Still talking about the same thing

  13. Posted

    Omg

    I just noticed

    I think all the movies got uploaded a year ago or something but whatever

    So many movies and they are free, like, really free and not in illegal way

    http://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm/videos?sort=p&view=0&page=1

    Here!

    Old Russian movies in Russian but since it's youtube, you can turn on close captions

    With that CC button thingy

    Here I left a link with most viewed videos and since they're most viewed, they must be good

     

    Just saying for these who are interested in movies, and I think most of them can be fitted into that enlightened movies thread but that would be a pain

     

    Ok, I recommend for a start this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjG-LTi0BuI&feature=plcp

    and this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DDY1qHxKYs&feature=plcp

    Both are comedies but the first one is a bunch of short stories while the second one is a big movie

     

    This one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V0g1gM2P6o&feature=plcp

    is an action flick but it has a different pace from all these westerner films

     

    Don't want to give all the good stuff away or else it would be boring

    But then not all movies have captions, only these that have English names

    Like this one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UBJz8GJk0&feature=plcp

    and this one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjlNAWZ4dVQ&feature=plcp

     

    I don't think there will be much of a culture shock from trying to understand the movies

    This one is about New Year which is celebrated like Christmas

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_m017ebtD8&feature=plcp

     

    Hold on, this movie has captions but you can't tell from the name

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hooaKxdXbfM&feature=plcp

     

    Oh, and some movies have parts so you will have to look for the second one yourself if you liked the first one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNZkUt0ePas&feature=plcp

     

    JUST SAYING!!! :lol:

  18. Posted

    Hmmmmmm let's see what Taoists do...

     

     

    Taoists like to take long walks

     

    This is probably from my listening to the Korean side of Taoism where there's a lot of taekwondo and leg exercises, and the terrain is covered in hills so might as well use the strong legs

    There's also a lot of mountain climbing and on these mountains there's a lot of circle walking, and as long as you live on a mountain you need to learn how to breath right

    I remember a story about a long living person being asked by a general about longevity and one of the tips was long walks and sitting in seiza with the butt not touching the ground so there will be some exercise while there's nowhere to walk

    By the way, HORSE STANCE!!!

  20. Posted

    Long before meditation stuff I was a moderator on an anime site

    Since I was sitting there all day and everyone else was going "Hey, What's good?"

    I had to find out what's good

    But I kinda got tired of anime, movies, entertainment, video games, stuff

    Most of the time it feels like I'm not getting something out of it and that feels like a waste of time for me

    I used to watch One Piece a lot until I realized that the manga is far ahead of the anime

    And since then I was only reading One Piece manga and I don't care about any other show

    Well, I'm kinda curious about what's going on in Bleach and Naruto even though they don't have anything special

    I also like Detective Conan, though it has no rereading value since it's a detective thing

    Also thinking about shows in general, I only watched them because they were on TV but now I don't watch TV

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    And that's all I have ever to say about anime :lol:

     

    Yeah why not, maybe someone else still likes it :lol:

  21. Posted

    It's gooooooooood

     

     

     

    I guess we will have to see in the second season if she improved or something

    Would be kinda weird if she was walking around like super avatar person instead of herself

    Also, ummmmm how to put it into nonspoilerific way, in the end I think instead of boo-hoo no more fun stuff, she was contemplating letting go

  24. Posted

    I said ability because I didn't want any spoilers, you're right Zhang that's what she's afraid of

     

    But it's not nice trying to guilt people out of wanting to be something great

    There have been a few threads about what makes meditation harder to do, and for Korra it was almost impossible

    Being locked up helped a little but that wasn't intentional, she just had nothing else to do in there

    After she left for the Republic city, she came under pressure from the society

    An analogy would be a sage coming down a mountain, everything is great and perfect on the mountain but in a chaotic society the sage stops acting like an enlightened being

    She wanted to learn airbending but Tenzin left back the Republic city, Korra didn't get what she wanted and so she followed him, kinda bratty but that's fine

    Then she found out how scary the world is and for a while got distracted with probending

    More confusion came with Mako/Asami thing and also THE THING HAPPENED (avoiding spoilers as hard as I can)

    Her mind got even busy and then Tarlok with his responsibilities showed up and pressured Korra into helping him

    Later Amon took away the probending distraction and as the story progressed, more things were added up to her mind

     

    Korra might have the grand title of Teenager but she is still like a kid

    She seen only the surface of things and she needs to learn how to see through that

    She is also greedy and want's a new better toy because she sees only the appearances

    We didn't see Aang being like that because right after he found out he was the AVATAR

    he got crushed by his responsibilities

     

    There's not much point of being on top without climbing there first and I do think she got there herself

    Just wanting never get anything done, changing your outlook on the world doesn't change the world itself, it just leaves the door open

    If you think something is impossible, it will stay impossible

    If you think that impossible is possible, you give yourself a chance to prove that

     

    These billions of praying crying people are pushed to do what they can to survive

    Hungry eat the closest thing they see as edible, angry kill their enemy and start riots

    If they decided not to feel anything, they would die hungry or get killed by their enemy

    If Korra instead of crying herself into enlightenment, as you put it, went with her friends, she would have felt better and the struggle would stop

    It won't matter that she's weaker now and she will accept that this is how it is

    Ego would be gone and she would become a fully realized... normal person

     

    There are actual times when people decide that there are things to die for

    Korra is either the Avatar or she in nothing, that's what her ego taught her

    She could have became a carpenter or a monk in some air temple

    If she meditated enough, she would have seen that nothing actually matters

    The world is so big and there are infinite possibilities and outcomes

    Somewhere later in life she might see through all the illusions and become a Buddha

    And only then she might unlock her Avatar powers

     

    But she can't be nice and understandable, she is the only Avatar in this time and people need her

    A lot of people lost their bending and you can't expect them to meditate on how it doesn't affect their life in general, they want help now and in the future something else might happen that will need her

     

    There are still people in martial art clans and families and different lineages, where a person wears a vial of poison around their neck that they drink if they fail at something they aim to do

    Some people who have their resolve set on reaching enlightenment or some other goal don't reach that goal because they have another way out

    Unexpected things happen, maybe one day you will be walking down the street and then some punk will stab you and try to get your money, that would be it for you if you didn't reach your goals

    or http://www.cracked.com/article_18810_the-5-most-epic-one-man-rampages-in-history-war.html