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Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬 tsuji-giri, literally ‘crossroads killing’) is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during…[Read more]

Thankfully, by the 5th century, straw dogs replaced real dogs as sacrificial victims for prophecy—yes, model dogs made of straw.
-http://www.ancientartpodcast.org/blog/62/

“The sky and the earth do not care,
They regard the myriad things as straw dogs;
The sage does not care,
He regards people as straw dogs.”
-Dao De Jing

What is the Taoist belief about why humans were created in the beginning?
The Taoists believe that humans were created to take in the Universal, Cosmic Particle, and Earthly Forces and to consume these in the form of light with 80- 90% efficiency. When humans began to lose sperm and menstruate, their efficiency deteriorated to a 10-15% ability to…[Read more]

An inert gas is a gas which does not undergo chemical reactions under a set of given conditions. The noble gases often do not react with many substances. Inert gases are used generally to avoid unwanted chemical reactions degrading a sample. These undesirable chemical reactions are often oxidation and hydrolysis reactions with the oxygen and…[Read more]

Anatta is a central doctrine of Buddhism, and marks one of the major differences between Buddhism and Hinduism. Buddhists do not believe that at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is any “eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman”. Buddhism, from its earliest days, has denied the existence of the…[Read more]

“The victims themselves were bad men,” says Lillienfeld. “A lot of people would think, ‘Good for them, shame on them.’ But I worked on that case for three years, and it was a real eye opener. You develop compassion for them. They weren’t that different from you or me. They had families, hopes, dreams — they just happened to turn left where you or…[Read more]

Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, God in human form…from 10 July 1925, until his death in 1969, Meher Baba was silent. He communicated first by using an alphabet board and later by unique hand gestures which were interpreted and spoken out by one…[Read more]

“I’ll Walk with God” is a popular song with music by Nicholas Brodzsky and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, published in 1954. This song is best known from the movie The Student Prince, in which the title character, played by Edmund Purdom, but sung by tenor Mario Lanza, performs this song at the coffin of his grandfather, the king of…[Read more]

In April 1959, Lanza reportedly suffered a minor heart attack followed in August by double pneumonia. On September 25, 1959, he entered Rome’s Valle Giulia clinic for the purpose of losing weight for an upcoming film. While in the clinic, he underwent a controversial weight loss program colloquially known as “the twilight sleep treatment”, which…[Read more]

A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms that are correlated with each other and, often, with a specific disease. The word derives from the Greek σύνδρομον, meaning “concurrence”. In some instances a syndrome is so closely correlated with a pathogenesis or etiology that the words syndrome, disease, and disorder end up being used…[Read more]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA86dBNq9t4

Fairly straight forward but when left in Chinese with translations of the names and the more modern number system used for TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) they all seem to be quite mysterious. But by the time we are out of school most of us already know that being struck in the temples, neck, back of the neck or between the legs is painful and…[Read more]

Sorry for my broken English.

I personally wouldn’t use any longer time mantras from language which I haven’t mastered to certain degree.

So called bija mantras are of course something else.

Anyway if one takes practices which are first of all in their nature religious, one should take care to develop right kind of attitude.…[Read more]

The Lotus Sutra describes Avalokiteśvara as a bodhisattva who can take the form of any type of male or female, adult or child, human or non-human being, in order to teach the Dharma to sentient beings. Folk traditions in China and other East Asian countries have added many distinctive characteristics and legends to Guanyin c.q. Avalokiteśvara.…[Read more]

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, “common, universal”) is a social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money,…[Read more]

Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, CD (/ˈjuːseɪn/;[9] born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter. Regarded as the fastest person ever timed, he is the first man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records since fully automatic time measurements became mandatory in 1977. Along with his teammates, he also set the world record in the 4×100 metres…[Read more]

http://www.catersnews.com/stories/video/monk-fish-shaolin-monk-breaks-world-record-for-running-on-water/

This incredible footage shows a Shaolin monk breaking the world record for running on water.

Forget walking on water, Shi Liliang managed to sprint an epic 118metres across a reservoir in Quanzhou city, China.

It took him six attempts…[Read more]

Count Juan Raphael Dante (born John Timothy Keehan, Chicago, Illinois, 2 February 1939, died 25 May 1975) was a controversial American martial artist figure during the 1960s and 1970s who claimed he could do extraordinary feats such as Dim Mak.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dante

Can one take this kind of advertisements seriously?

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Don Juan said then that in the strategic inventories of warriors, self-importance figures as the
activity that consumes the greatest amount of energy, hence, their effort to eradicate it.
“One of the first concerns of warriors is to free that energy in order to face the unknown with
it,” don Juan went on. “The action of rechanneling that energy…[Read more]