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Only easy day was yesterday.
-U.S. Navy SEAL motto

I think it’s possible to turn any mode of movement into discipline.

So also this free running aspect is interesting.

Actually most immediately important ninja skills are primitive survival and free running in my opinion.

HOWDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7QNWEGcNI…[Read more]

“You cannot jump higher than your knees, and it is absurd to try to kiss your own elbow.”
-MULLAH NASR EDDIN

When the recitation was completed, Socrates requested that the first thesis of the first argument might be read over again, and this having been done, he said: What is your meaning, Zeno? Do you maintain that if being is many, it must…[Read more]

“Indem ich der Menschheit eine unbegrenzte Wohlthat erweisen will, gebe ich ihr meinem Dithyramben. Ich lege sie in die Hände des Dichters der Isoline, des grössten und ersten Satyr, der heute lebt—und nicht nur heute …”
-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE,Dionysos-Dithyramben

Tips or ends of the blood, flesh, tendons, or bones are called dou. Hair is th…[Read more]

Non-Taoist posting…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac181Xp2-Dg (acceptheadoverheels)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg_I8j6LrIM (judaspriestrawdeal)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmacdougall/2014/10/13/porn-in-the-post-youve-got-male/print/

When the Finnish post office announced it would release a set of stamps commemorating a…[Read more]

Traditional Chinese medicine primarily is based on systems of correspondences, which reveal the relationships between the universe and the human body. Bridging the relationship between macrocosms and microcosms are classic Taoist cosmological diagrams, including the He Tu and Luo Shu. Each diagram has profound applications in the theory and…[Read more]

One of the more widely known of such lines of transmission is the Qian Feng Pai or Thousand Peaks school, whose popularity stems from a book by Zhao Bi-chen “Secrets of cultivation of Life and Destiny”. This book was translated into English by Lu K’uan Yu, known also as Charles Luk and published under the title “Taoist Yoga, Alchemy and…[Read more]

The eight main psychic channels: (1) the tu mo or channel of control rises from the base of the penis and passes through the coccyx up the backbone to the brain; (2) the jen mo or channel of function rises from the base of the penis and goes up along the belly, passes throught the navel, pit of the stomach, the chest and throat, before going up to…[Read more]

In terms of kyérim―‘generation’ or ‘development phase’ of practice, the goal of which is to purify our perception into the purity of our inherent nature―samayasattva ( Tib. དམ་ཚིག་སེམས་དཔའ་ , Wyl. dam tshig sems dpa) ―commitment being―is when we arise in the form of the deity, having first practised the three sama…[Read more]

New Chen Style’s curriculum includes silk-reeling exercise (chan si gong), which are simply repetitive drills taken from individual movements in the solo form.
-MARK CHEN, Old Frame Chen Family Taijiquan

Spiral movement is the essence of Tai Chi Chuan , and the resultant force is known as ‘cocoon-spinning force’ or chan si jing in Chinese. To…[Read more]

Some rituals are not only rituals, but dynamic mnemonic system for more advanced internalized practices.

So combined use of mantras, mudras and visualizations can be a method to preserve information.

HOWDY

In the autumn of 1996, he let psychologists in Los Angeles take his EEG-graphs, The results were astonishing. During the practice of certain techniques, his brain not only produced beta-waves (which are characteristic of the waking state), but also alpha and theta-waves, (which normally occur only during deep meditation or deep sleep), while he…[Read more]

“I don’t regret anything about my life. Crime is always a wrong move. It’s true. However, we live in a society that is worse than criminality. Better to be crazy than to be a dreamer.”
-RAFFAELE CUTOLO

Bottles filled with wine of beautiful vibrant colours refract the soft sunlight of the evening. The colours exude health and many studies h…[Read more]

We find in particular one symbol that played a great part for this little company of men. You get the symbol when you draw apart this “Solomon’s Key,” so that the one triangle comes down and the other is raised up. The symbol thus obtained played, as I said, a significant part even as late as the nineteenth century, within this little community o…[Read more]

She is a healing practitioner of Medical Qigong Therapy. Minke is passionate about dance and movement modalities, and has trained 8 years in modern dance and 4 years in Eurythmy, “Visable Speech and Song” in Germany, as well as being the founder of “EnChant Dancers”, a multi-dimensional art form, which brings into vivid expression the poetry and…[Read more]

In the process of the Inner Smile, practitioners take their smiling attitude to each
organ in turn, feeling it physically and in its energetic vibration, visualizing it in its respective color, and sending positive thoughts and intentions toward it. They then allow its psychological dimension to activate, become conscious of any emotional…[Read more]

The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas. The Road consists of a 0.8 km (0.50 mi)-long northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular to subrectangular limestone blocks. Various claims have been made for this feature being either a wall, road,…[Read more]

Mozi (Chinese: 墨子; pinyin: Mòzǐ; Wade–Giles: Mo Tzu, Lat. as Micius, ca. 470 BC – ca. 391 BC), original name Mo Di (墨翟), was a Chinese philosopher during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (early Warring States period).
Born in Tengzhou, Shandong Province, China, he founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism and Da…[Read more]

One of the more widely known of such lines of transmission is the Qian Feng Pai or Thousand Peaks school, whose popularity stems from a book by Zhao Bi-chen “Secrets of cultivation of Life and Destiny”. This book was translated into English by Lu K’uan Yu, known also as Charles Luk and published under the title “Taoist Yoga, Alchemy and…[Read more]

An issue tree, also called a logic tree, is a graphical breakdown of a question that dissects it into its different components vertically and that progresses into details as it reads to the right.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_trees

The Necromanteion or Nekromanteion (Greek: Íåêñïìáíôåῖïí) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy…[Read more]

Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory and fibrotic medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs caused by the inhalation and retention of asbestos fibers. It usually occurs after high intensity and/or long-term exposure to asbestos (particularly in those individuals working on the production or end-use of products containing…[Read more]