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Your crew projects jekyll and hyde type personalities. Your method of “shocking” people mixed up with warped sexuality gives a rather sick feeling in the stomach. I am just letting you know in case you are not aware of it (but I think you are).

pity, or worse, ambivalence.

>>”You both should follow this advice, more than anyone else here.”

Another arrogant missionary answer. How do you know how much I train, and if you did who are you to judge my inner process anyway?

Think seriously about what ron would invite in real life if he were to talk to someone face to face like that.

I have been teaching martial arts (capoeira angola, and stopped in 2000), music and meditation since 1997.

In short, the experience of teaching quickly shows you your own weaknesses, and places to work on.

I train privately with this guy in QE park who does a root form similar to both taiji and bagua (bei kuen), the family that brought it here still lives in richmond, but is not active with classes right now. I have been training 1 year and a half, and have only learned the first third of the set.

I took classes with SYL, Victor Fu, and Diane…[Read more]

Max,

All that stuff you just wrote means nothing if you can’t recognize the fact that ron nas a serious communication problem. Since when would anyone in real life talk to someone else like that? Yelling trash? What comes out of your mouth is the true result of whatever cultivation you do. I mean the least he could do is learn how to be…[Read more]

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Everything is a process, we all learn from each other whether it is negative or positive. I reacted in the way I did because of the perception of a sometimes condescending attitude.

I didn’t say there was anything inherently wrong with teaching, but see it more as a responsibility and part of the prodess of my refinement than a…[Read more]

I for got the link, here it is:

http://www.chinawudang.org/

Farooq,

you might try Diane Kehoe in Delta (Riverbank Taichi), she does not look like a typical martial artist, but has the best push hands and structural training of principles out of anyone I have met. Don’t make any judgments about her until you’ve checked out how solid her root is, and listening power. Her and John have been practicing…[Read more]

“Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water, but for attacking the hard and strong, there is nothing like it!” – Lao Zi

>>”Do you want to compare who got more hot girlfriends- effeminate and geeky people or dominant and strong?”

Max, you are confusing having a strong will with having a dominant personality. Each person will…[Read more]

Have a nice time in those heavenly clouds of chaos-unity.

Max,

This was an interesting post. It appears that you have rather rigid views of what the roles in a relationship should be. I gather that the man is supposed to be dominant and the woman submissive?

This reflects a cosmology that rejects the physical or yin aspect, and tends towards excess yang, or intellectual understandings, as most…[Read more]

Is it a judgement or an observation?

I agree that we have all we need to be complete, the question is whether or not we choose completion, balance and harmony, or are able to achieve a high level of that in our lifetimes. If we accept that people are born with an imbalance of energetic forces through ancestral inheritance, geomantic and…[Read more]

Specifically on the mayan calendar, I think it was inherited from a previous civilization; the Mayans were founded by a tribe of Atlanteans, as were the builders of the architectural wonders in Peru.

I think the earth has gone through many cycles of intelligent life, some human and some not, some indigenous, and some visiting travellers.…[Read more]

On page 162 of “Fingerprints of the Gods” by Graham Hancock, he quotes J. Eric Thompson’s book “The Rise and Fall of the Maya Civilization” discussing the Mayan Long Count Calendar, which says:

“On a Stela at Quiriga in Guatemala a date of over 90 million years ago is computed; on another a date over 300 million years before that is given.…[Read more]

Very interesting, you know I vaguely recall that line after doing the “sing-along Messiah” a few months ago here in Van, but it didn’t click. I would like to learn more about the alchemical symbolism in there. Handel was quite the sound-architect.

Convenient glossing over of previous discussions.

>>”And we all have free will, dont know why you make such a big deal of it.”

If we’re already perfect, than why bother to cultivate?

I think Fajin has pointed out the difference between a cosmology (chan) that attempts to dissolve the self into the collective, and alchemical daoism, that encourages the development and fusion of the many into one, which can then return and integrate into the collective maintaining the free will and knowledge of the individual. Is that why you…[Read more]

Your choice.