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The special nature of Tai Chi Chuan practice was attributed to the ninth generation Chen Village leader, Chen Wangting (êÍõÍ¢; ³ÂÍõÍ¥; 1580¨C1660). He codified pre-existing Chen training practice into a corpus of seven routines. This included five routines of tai chi chuan (Ì«˜OÈ­Îå·), 108 form Long Fist (Ò»°ÙÁã°Ë„ÝéLÈ­£©and…[Read more]

Supreme Being, higher being, and higher power are terms for philosophical conceptions of God. The terms are used by theologists and philosophers of many religious faiths, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Being

Partial, incomplete, and evolving intellects would be helpless in the master…[Read more]

Gyalpo spirits are one of the eight classes of haughty gods and spirits (Wylie: lha srin sde brgyad) in Tibetan mythology and religion. Gyalpo (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་པོ, Wylie: rgyal po), a word which simply means “king” in the Tibetic languages, in Tibetan mythology is used to refer to the Four Heavenly Kings (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ཆེན་བཞི) and especially to a…[Read more]

But his love for the pontifical institution has inspired him to support and sign a canon-law petition that asks the “Catholic Church to require that Georgetown implement Ex Corde Ecclesiae, a papal constitution governing Catholic colleges.”
If that effort fails, the petition signed by Blatty and 2,000 other Catholics calls for “the removal or su…[Read more]

The Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Devanagari: भागवतपुराण, also known as Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahā Purāṇa, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam or Bhāgavata, literally meaning Divine-Eternal Tales of The Supreme Lord) is one of the maha (Sanskrit: ‘great’) Puranic texts of Hinduism, with its focus on bhakti (religious devotion) to Supreme God Vishnu (Narayana), primarily focusing on…[Read more]

The Atman is all-pervading, bright, bodiless, pure, untouched by the sin or evil action, omniscient, transcendental and self-existent. The atman is totally independent and it never depends on anything else.
-SWAMI SIVANANDA SARASWATI, The Essence of the Principal Upanishads

In the beginning there was nothing in the universe except a formless…[Read more]

Zui quan (Chinese: 醉拳), which means “Drunken kung fu”, is a general name for all the styles of Chinese martial arts that imitate the movements of a drunkard. It is an ancient style and its origins are mainly traced back to the famous Buddhist and Daoist sects. The Buddhist style is related to the Shaolin temple while the Daoist style is based on…[Read more]

Cavendish was a shy man who was uncomfortable in society and avoided it when he could. He conversed little, always dressed in an old-fashioned suit, and developed no known deep personal attachments outside his family. Cavendish was taciturn and solitary and regarded by many as eccentric. He only communicated with his female servants by notes. By…[Read more]

Maracas, sometimes called rumba shakers and various other names, are percussion musical instruments—rattles—that originated in Latin America. They are classified as idiophones. Players hold them by their handles, usually in pairs, and shake them. Traditional maracas consist of hollow balls made from dried gourd shell (cuia “koo-ya”) or coconut s…[Read more]

Even Regular Exercise Isn’t Enough To Cancel Out Too Much Sitting.
-http://forum.healingdao.com/general/message/25153/

Why Up to 90% of Asian Schoolchildren Are Nearsighted

By Alice Park

Why Up to 90% of Asian Schoolchildren Are Nearsighted

Researchers say the culprit is academic ambition:…[Read more]

Luria would go on study S for the next thirty years, and would eventually write a book about him, The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book of Vast Memory, that has become one of the most enduring classic in the literature of abnormal psychology. S could memorize complex mathematical formulas without knowing any math, Italian poetry without speaking…[Read more]

Sorry but I think this should be still be acceptable.

This is a Buddhist way of developing the mind for those who follow so called right hand path.

It’s something very practical.

HOWDY

http://www.unfetteredmind.org/mindtraining/fullindex.php

Homage

I bow to Lokeshvara.

1. Groundwork

1.1.1

First, do…[Read more]

1. Ben Underwood
2. Michel Lotito
3. Monkforce
4. Tim Cridland
5. Choi Yeong-eiu
6. Bahau fishermen
7. Veronica Seider
8. Thai Ngoc
9. Wim Hof
10. Uberboy

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Shot is a collective term for small balls or pellets, often made of lead. These were the original projectiles for shotguns and are still fired primarily from shotguns, although shot shells are available in many pistol calibers in a configuration called “Bird Shot” or “Rat-shot”. Lead shot is also used for a variety of other purposes such as…[Read more]

You would think measuring Time – the calendar business – would be a somewhat stable commodity. But wikipedia lists 28 different calendar systems around the world. It suggests that our perception of Time is strongly shaped by cultural influences. One reason I appreciate Chinese astrology is that it is generally based on actual natural cycles of…[Read more]

Saint Pantaleon (Greek: Παντελεήμων [Panteleímon], “all-compassionate”), counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletian persecution of 303 AD. Though there is evidence to suggest that a martyr named Pantaleon…[Read more]

The word derives from “Old English syn(n), for original *sunjō… The stem may be related to that of Latin sons, sont-is guilty. In Old English there are examples of the original general sense, ‘offence, wrong-doing, misdeed'”. The Biblical terms translated from New Testament Greek (αμαρτία – amartia) and from Hebrew as “sin” or “syn” originate…[Read more]

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French: L’Être et le néant : Essai d’ontologie phénoménologique), sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 book by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s main purpose is to assert the individual’s existence as prior to the individual’s essence. His ove…[Read more]

The novel is structured around a series of homosexual love affairs and male prostitution between the author/anti-hero and various criminals, con artists, pimps, and even a detective. A common theme is the inversion of ideals: betrayal is the ultimate form of devotion, petty delinquency is brazen heroism, and confinement is freedom. Genet…[Read more]

Swami Janakananda Saraswati is a tantric yoga and meditation teacher and a writer, who has had a significant influence in the dissemination of yoga and meditation in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. He is the oldest active sannyasin disciple of Satyananda Saraswati in Europe.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janakananda_Saraswati

Rina Takeda…[Read more]