Steven

Yes, there is a balance issue involved here.

On the one extreme, a person can be so concerned about getting into inappropriate situations that they retreat from the world and break most contact. The obvious problem with this is then the lack of human contact and interaction. It can be a very lonely existence . . . one that is not only lonely…[Read more]

This is where the difficulty lies.
Action and suppression are not the only two choices here.
When a person gets deeply grounded, one can detach from their emotional and impulsive urges and observe them neutrally. One can then decide in a neutral way whether it is healthy to indulge in them or not.

If it is unhealthy, because there is a power…[Read more]

We get an eclipse AND a supermoon on the equinox. Even better . . . S
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Solar eclipse, Supermoon, Spring equinox: Friday will see three rare celestial events

Andrew Griffin
Monday 16 March 2015
The Independent

As the eclipse plunges the UK and other places into darkness this Friday, two other rare if less…[Read more]

Come on. Did you forget the original thread?
The original topic had to do with child pedophilia and rape scenarios.

I don’t need to have committed child pedophilia or rape, or need to have been a victim of it, to recognize it as twisted behavior. Note: I’ve not been in either of these from either end.

My direct experience of it, is…[Read more]

Let’s back up a minute.
You personalized this with your angry inquisitor attitude, barking “Can you give me examples of times when your unnatural behavior caused you to realize that you had fucked up, and so on?”, whilst simultaneously judging behavior of mine to be unnatural when you don’t even know who I am really. The post you were replying…[Read more]

tsk tsk
so angry at the world you are

It’s possible; it depends on the skill of the acupuncturist. It also depends on your individual constitution as to how well you respond to such treatments.

In the meantime, keep working with the microcosmic orbit, which is designed to help circulate the energy in a loop . . . it provides a downward channel path to balance any upward flow.…[Read more]

Exactly. And promoted by the very same church, I might add.

Yes I do have a PayPal account, it’s the same as my e-mail address, but there’s no charge for an opinion. It’s not as if I’m “teaching something”, where a fee is deserved.

>>>In your version, are you actually smiling? If you are smiling
>>>then is that wu wei? Isn’t that directing and leading
>>>the meditation rather than reacting to the…[Read more]

Simply doing “what you want” is not always supported by the lifeforce. The ego would like to think that it is the one in charge, but sadly it is not, and it never was.

I get lots of folks telling me that maybe I should study sacred geometry or somehow mix HT with mathematics. But for me this is a no-go.

I like broccoli.
I like ice cream.

But I don’t want broccoli-chip ice cream. 😉

Bleecchh.

For me, I’ll enjoy both, but kept mostly separate and enjoyed on their own. 🙂

The natural emergence of the “unnatural” should not be an indicator, we should “embrace this” or alternately “suppress this”. It is a sign you already fucked up, and you need to go back to the source rather than giving in to symptom relief. This is the problem that I feel so many are stuck in. They see symptoms and want to know what to do with…[Read more]

>>>So UT/HT don’t have really techniques
>>>how those who hate and despise their
>>>eternal self to terminate that connection?

Even in the Judeo-based religions that believe in hell, there still isn’t ever total separation. In that model–hell or whatever–it exists only at the whim of God. It’s not out of his mind or separate; it’s just…[Read more]

I quit the PhD program in Math, stopping at ABD PhD.

Long sordid tale, but the important part is that I realized that I don’t want to spend the rest of my life publishing papers in mathematics so advanced that only .00000001% of the world’s population can understand them. If you are a research mathematician, you basically need to make it your…[Read more]

Any of these spiritual paths where they try to repress sexuality, you always see this stuff happen. Sexuality is completely natural, so when folks try to block what is natural, then you see the emergence of the unnatural . . . most typically child pedophilia and other forms of sexual abuse.

It’s endemic (for example) in the Catholic church,…[Read more]

While it is true in my long history on the forum that at certain times I have cut off dialog on certain topics because I felt like the discussion was turning into “a free HT course”, that wasn’t the case with your original post about your TCM questions. So let me alleviate you of that concern. My reluctance in answering was more about the fact…[Read more]

>>>I think the reason some people don’t want to
>>>pay for something is because they read something
>>>once that said highly evolved spiritual people
>>>have no desires for money or material things
>>>and give everything away. Why do they need money? 😛

Yes, there is an idea that somehow “highly-evolved spiritual people” should be so…[Read more]

I agree that in spiritual teachings, it should be made clear to any students what is going to be taught for the money paid, just like a person should know what they are paying for at a restaurant when you order food. If the person (you are getting teachings from) can not answer in a straightforward way what it is you will receive, then you…[Read more]

It’s an old recording of Master Chia in his 30s, done by a camcorder. You see him teaching a group of people on a tennis court. It’s not the highest production value, but it is better than nothing.

Li Ching-Yuen was an herbalist who–by legend–supposed lived to be 256 years old. I don’t know whether that is true or not, but he gave some advice for optimal longevity that I think is really smart:

1. Tranquil mind
2. Sit like a tortoise
3. Walk sprightly like a pigeon
4. Sleep like a dog

The third recommendation “Walk sprightly…[Read more]