Steven

>>>Taoist observed life, created a way of life based
>>>on what they saw, now what they did not see, observe.
>>>Yes, I am certain enough not to chase the dream.

And you’ve “seen” the fact that you die . . . ?
That I die . . . ?

Are you some kind of fortune-teller?

You can not say what the future is.

You have no way of knowing if…[Read more]

False. You are making a HUGE logic error.
Observation of many cases does NOT imply truth of all cases.
Please reread my post to see exactly where you are incorrect.

Moreover:

Neither you nor I has experienced death.
It has not transpired.

You can not be certain about something that has not yet occurred.

What you have is a BELIEF,…[Read more]

What do you mean by “they”?

>>>Isnt this just way of the human body.
>>>All things have birth, grow, decline and ending.

You assume a lot.

This isn’t anything other than a belief either, an opinion.
Unless it constitutes a mathematical proof, you can not
legitimately say “all things”.

If you examine 10 rooms, all of which are filled with oranges,
this does…[Read more]

So certain are you about things that
have not occurred yet and have no 100%
guarantee that they will occur.

S

I’m in the one percent regarding avoiding death altogether. 🙂

As mentioned recently in another post:

I choose to believe that I was NOT born with the genetic defect that
so many others seem to have that leads to their inevitable demise. 😉

Mathematicians know that even hundreds of billions of examples
do not constitute a proof.…[Read more]

I’ve always loved the names of the solar terms.
They really create a lot of imagery.

I didn’t know about the 18 days thing before . . .
thanks for sharing . . .

Qi,
Stevenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_term

>>>Sorry but this idea of immortality is so outlandish
>>>that again became almost irritated with that.

Lots of things are outlandish, but it doesn’t necessarily
mean that they are impossible either. Take physical
immortality for instance. Most of us would agree this
is impossible. But actually, just because all of the
billions of…[Read more]

>>>But if I an allowed to go back to Swami Satyananda
>>>(=somebody who loves truth) Sarawati’s list
>>>(Socrates, Christ, Al-Hallaj, Joan of Arc etc.),
>>>my question is that if you would need to choose
>>>some genuinely bad guy who also might have been
>>>in very special way spiritually (or actually demonically)
>>>inspired, who…[Read more]

>>>This is the very attitude that
>>>makes people here so paternalistic.
>>>It is not coming from a space of love.
>>>It is “I have given you such and such
>>>and I demand that you show gratitude”….
>>>I’ve heard this from most of my asian foreign
>>>friends (esp. Vietnam and China). Just think,
>>>is this how you treat your shen?…[Read more]

I do know that Western culture has
really “invaded” Japan. There are
a lot of young people in Japan that
have abandoned traditional Japanese
culture, and speak English among friends.
During my brief 1-day layover in Japan
on an overseas flight, I was amazed
to see how some Japanese youths were looking
even more “American” than…[Read more]

Let me give you an analogy:

If I go into someone’s home, and they expect people
to take their shoes off at the door, and I don’t do
this (because I’ve decided I’m wearing shoes no
matter what, just as I do at home), then I’m being a jerk.
You don’t go into someone else’s home, and expect
people to play by *your* rules.

>>>Living…[Read more]

>>>My husband by the way has made a decision NOT
>>>to learn or use English because he does not want
>>>to become Americanized or westernized.

Not to be contradictory, but a language does not
make one “this way or that way”. It is your personal
values that do this.

If one lives in a foreign country, one should make
an effort to…[Read more]

Day/night makes sense, but . . .

I would expect “war” to be masculine,
and “peace” to be feminine.

War is expansive, fueled by too much testosterone
and power-hungry men.

Peace is passive, more yin.

Of course, it may actually be reversed
in a different language, as the article discussed.

I’m sort of glad that English is mostly…[Read more]

But that’s OK.
Important things sometimes need to be said multiple times. 😉
S

I always thought Aikido looked interesting,
it was the other martial art I considered doing
when I was trying to decide between that and Tai Chi,
years ago when I started Tai Chi (which ended up leading
me to the Healing Tao).

According to Zen, it is said that each moment and breath
in life is unique, therefore nothing is truly a…[Read more]

In Polish, fire is masculine and water is feminine, so it is the same as Russian.
In German, both fire and water are neuter, even though German has 3 genders.

In English, they are neuter, as is true with 99% of nouns in English

S

>>>I do Dao practices within the framework of “THE TAO OF PHYSICS”
>>>by Fritjof Capra. It is a kind of verbal or mental Dao practice:
>>>every word in Russian has its own gender and one should correctly
>>>use this word in its gender context.

That is an interesting practice . . . different
than doing physical qigong or alchemy . .…[Read more]

I find a lot of people do get bored doing
the same thing, and constantly need new
and exciting adventures to keep them stimulated.

I personally don’t really resonate with that.
I can be happy doing the same thing over and over and over again,
and never get bored or disinterested. I find that there
is plenty of richness even within the…[Read more]