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Pope Sylvester II or Silvester II (c. 946 – 12 May 1003) was Pope from 2 April 999 to his death in 1003. Born Gerbert d’Aurillac (Gerbert of Aurillac), he was a prolific scholar and teacher. He endorsed and promoted study of Arab/Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy, reintroducing to Europe the abacus and armillary sphere, which had…[Read more]

Chen Changxing is a slightly mysterious character and much controversy surrounds him. He is most known as the teacher of the great taijiquan master Yang Luchan, but there is much disagreement over which style of martial art Chen Changxing actually taught to the family outsider.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%27en_Chang-hsing

The accuracy of…[Read more]

Avidyâ is a Sanskrit word whose literal meaning is “ignorance”, “delusion”, “unlearned”, “unwise” and opposite of, Vidya. It is used extensively in Hindu texts, including the Upanishads, and also in Buddhism.
Avidyâ, in all Dharmic systems, is a cognitive limitation to be overcome by each individual and does not imply a failure or t…[Read more]

Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: “reduction to absurdity”; pl.: reductiones ad absurdum), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin: argument to absurdity), is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its denial, or in turn to demonstrate that a…[Read more]

In Scientology, the tone scale or emotional tone scale is a characterization of human behavior. It is based on the idea that some people appear to be more lively and alive than other people; this increased liveliness is orderly. Author L. Ron Hubbard spelled the idea out saying, “just draw a horizontal line on the page. Put the people who are less…[Read more]

This (contra-survival engram) is any kind of engram which lies across the dynamics and has no alignment with purpose: Fight between mother and father shortly after conception. Father strikes mother in stomach. She screams (first percepts are pain, pressure, sound of blow and scream) and he says, “God damn you, I hate you! You are no good. I’m g…[Read more]

If somebody is interested about I Ching one particular book by Robert Temple is quite nice.

First part of book about Mediterranean oracle centers is very nice and the second about the Book of Changes is very unfinished, in my opinion. Also some totally unrelated material is presented like in his several other books.

But it’s the bibliography…[Read more]

All books by M. Chia excluding those too numerous sex manuals.

Essential books by Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Swami Niranjanananda’s Pranayama book & Dharana Darshan.

Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods Of 72 Arts Of Shaolin by Jin Jing Zhong.

Wong Kiew Kit’s The Complete Book of Shaolin: Comprehensive Programme for Physical,…[Read more]

The Kawasaki ZX-7R was a sport bike made by Kawasaki from 1996 to 2003. It replaced the more race-oriented ZXR-750 in the 750cc supersports class. It remained largely unchanged through its production. Between 1990 and 1995 in the US market the ZXR-750 and ZXR-750R were known as ZX-7 and ZX-7R respectively. Starting from 1996 Kawasaki dropped the…[Read more]

So if one is someway very unsure for example about negative emotions etc. my suggestion would be also to become familiar with some ninja like material.

This Black Belt magazine collection form Stephen K. Hayes is quite nice.

It’s bit too philosophical (very Buddhist, but in secretive way) and not enough technical (too many hazy photographs),…[Read more]

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/why-thousands-of-iranian-women-are-training-to-be-ninjas/252531/

Why Thousands of Iranian Women Are Training to Be Ninjas

Max Fisher

Feb 3 2012, 12:46 PM ET

In a society that treats them like children, sports — and especially martial arts — offer a way to express strength…[Read more]

‘Ā’ishah bint Abī Bakr (b. 613/614 CE – d. 678 CE[1]) (Arabic: عائشة‎ transliteration: ‘Ā’ishah, [ʕaːʔiʃa], also transcribed as A’ishah, Aisyah, Ayesha, A’isha, Aishat, Aishah, or Aisha) was one of Muhammad’s wives. In Islamic writings, her name is thus often prefixed by the title “Mother of the Believers” (Arabic: أمّ المؤمنين umm al-m…[Read more]

If an enemy attacks, peace reigns in my soul, my breath is
concentrated, I am courageous and brave. When thoughts
and breath are in peace and steadiness, only then QI,
flourishing and powerful, is born. If an enemy attacks,
there should be no place for worry. The enemy, full of fury,
attacks; if “six souls” fly into a rage, then no r…[Read more]

1.So long as I have not attained the stage where my six faculties are pure, I will not venture out into the world.
2.So long as I have not realized the absolute, I will not acquire any special skills or arts (e.g. medicine, divination, calligraphy, etc.)
3.So long as I have not kept all the precepts purely, I will not participate in any lay…[Read more]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO1p2yFPb1U (batmanninja)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJjpFYVvwBo (iranianninjutsu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdy2q6aBFOE (crimsonepitaph)

Pressure releases are the visible deformities within and around a track left either by the pressure of the animal’s foot as it was making the track, or by the release of that pressure as it lifted its foot. For example, when a child jumps into a sandbox, it first causes a deep depression and an explosion of sand-much like jumping into a mud…[Read more]

The Japanese term k¨­an is the Sino-Japanese reading of the Chinese word gong’an (Chinese: ¹«°¸; pinyin: g¨­ng’¨¤n; Wade¨CGiles: kung-an; literally: “public case”). The term is a compound word, consisting of the characters ¹« “public; official; governmental; common; collective; fair; equitable” and °¸ “table; desk; (law) case; record; file;…[Read more]

The Hebrew language phrase ruach ha-kodesh (Hebrew: רוח הקודש, “holy spirit” also transliterated ruaḥ ha-qodesh) is a term used in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and Jewish writings to refer to the spirit of YHWH (רוח יהוה). It literally means “the spirit of holiness” or “the spirit of the holy place”. The Hebrew terms ruaḥ qodshəka, “thy holy spirit”…[Read more]

Mathematicians or people who have very mathematical
minds, are often led astray when “studying” physics
because they lose sight of the physics. They say: “Look,
these differential equations – the Maxwell equations – are
all there is to electrodynamics it is admitted by the
physicists that there is nothing which is not contained in
the equa…[Read more]

Sorry for my broken English.

I have impression that with some practices this really happens but not necessarily with all.

In my opinion one shouldn’t in these conditions stay practicing only at certain level with these energy formulas, but to get as soon as possible overview of the whole system.

Best would be to have ‘Basic Practices of…[Read more]