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May 8, 2012 at 3:18 pm #39242StevenModerator
>>>”When pursuing knowledge, something new is acquired each day.
>>>But when pursuing the way of the Tao, something is subtracted;”
>>>–Tao Te Ching, Chapter 48, Part I>>>I have simple question based on this Tao Te Ching citation.
>>>How Taoist these various Taoist systems of energy formulas
>>>are if one is practicing them as they are normally taught?
>>>If above would be true then doing nothing is the real Taoist path.I would say your question is actually quite deep.
In the above quote–“something new is acquired”–the context
here, I believe, is the acquisition of facts and information.The more facts and information you assimilate, the more you
filter the world through some mental construct–as opposed to
simply taking in the world as you see it. The more mental
ideas that you have of “how things are”, the less in harmony you
become with the actual reality.“Something subtracted” (therefore I feel) means the idea
of subtracting ideas. The more you can just experience
life–without preconceived mental concepts of how you expect
things to be–the more you actually experience life as it *actually* is.If each experience is new and fresh, and completely free
from judgments against a mental idea of how you think
things “should be”, the more in harmony you become
with the actual moment and with life itself.The ultimate limit of this is the complete harmony
with “what is”, the way things actually are, and with zero
interference and deviation from that.But life is always flowing, changing, creating, so
“doing nothing” is not harmonizing with the way things
actually are. In fact, “doing nothing” is just
another funny idea that doesn’t match *how things actually are*.
Instead, actions that harmonize with the Dao, or help you
to harmonize with the Dao is a better approach.One can debate about how “natural” the Daoist energy formulas are.
Are practicing the formulas doing something harmonious
with the Dao, or are they themselves just something added?
This is an interesting question, but I don’t think one
can actually know. At best, one can say that they are simply
something to do with the time we have here–with a potential
nice side-effect. “Potential nice effect” can be any
one of the worldviews put forth on this list, from
“becoming a Daoist immortal” to “realizing you already are
immortal” to “merging with the Tao”, etc. Which of these,
IF ANY, is actually correct . . . only time will tell . . .
Until then, like anything else, they themselves are purely
preconceived ideas . . . so one should not attached to them,
and one should just let whatever will be, be.Steven
May 14, 2012 at 6:31 am #39244c_howdyParticipantAnthony Cave Brown’s book, “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, states:
Menzies had known that Turing was a practicing and aggressive homosexual; this had emerged soon after his employment at Bletchley. But since he caused no offence to his colleagues at Bletchley, and since he was perhaps the only man in Menzies’s service who might have been called indispensable, his services were retained… Early in 1944 a suspicion arose that he might have been the man responsible for molesting schoolboys at the main public library in Luton, a large industrial town not far from Bletchley. While no proceedings arose, it was decided that the need for good order and discipline required his removal but not before he had done his finest work.
In January 1952, Turing met Arnold Murray outside a cinema in Manchester. After a lunch date, Turing invited Murray to spend the weekend with him at his house, an invitation which Murray accepted although he did not show up. The pair met again in Manchester the following Monday, when Murray agreed to accompany Turing to the latter’s house. A few weeks later Murray visited Turing’s house again, and apparently spent the night there.
After Murray helped an accomplice to break into his house, Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation, Turing acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that time, and so both were charged with gross indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.
Turing was given a choice between imprisonment or probation conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido. He accepted chemical castration via oestrogen hormone injections.
Turing’s conviction led to the removal of his security clearance, and barred him from continuing with his cryptographic consultancy for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK signals intelligence agency that had evolved from GCCS in 1946. At the time, there was acute public anxiety about spies and homosexual entrapment by Soviet agents, because of the recent exposure of the first two members of the Cambridge Five, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, as KGB double agents. Turing was never accused of espionage but, as with all who had worked at Bletchley Park, was prevented from discussing his war work.
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Historians of science seeking to understand the origins of how Dirac came up with his revolutionary equation and the concept of antimatter have often compared him to Newton. Strangely, Newton and Dirac share a number of similarities. Both were in their twenties when they did their seminal work at Cambridge University, both were masters of mathematics, and both shared another stark characteristic: a total lack of social skills, to the point of pathology. Both were notorious for their inability to engage in small talk and simple social graces. Painfully shy, Dirac would never say anything unless asked directly, and then he would reply “yes”, or “no,” or “I don’t know.”
Dirac was also extremely modest and detested publicity. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, he seriously considered turning it down because of the notoriety and trouble it would generate. But when it was pointed out to him that rejecting the Nobel Prize would generate even more publicity he decided to accept it.
Volumes have been written about Newton’s peculiar personality, with hypotheses ranging from mercury poisoning to mental illness. But recently a new theory has been proposed by Cambridge psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen that might explain both Newton’s and Dirac’s strange personalities. Baron-Cohen claim that they both probably suffered Asberger’s syndrome, which is akin to autism, like the idiot savant in the movie Rain Man. Individuals suffering from Asberger’s are notoriously reticent, socially awkward, and sometimes blessed with enormous calculational ability, but unlike autistic individuals they are functional in society and can hold productive jobs. If this theory is true, then perhaps the miraculous calculational power of Newton and Dirac came at price, being socially apart from the rest of the humanity.
-MICHIO KAKU, Physics of the ImpossibleTo understand human life we must must consider it to begin with from two distinct aspects. From his former lives on Earth, man brings with him the faculty to conceive the Cosmic-the Cosmic that works inward from the Earth’s encircling spheres, and that which works within the Earth domain itself. Through his senses he perceives the Cosmic that is at work upon Earth; through his thinking Organization he conceives and thinks the Cosmic influences that work downward to the Earth from the encircling spheres.
Thus man lives, through his physical body in Perception, through his etheric body in Thought.
That which takes place in his astral body and his ego holds sway in the more hidden regions of the soul. It holds sway, for example, in his destiny. We must, however, look for it, to begin with, not in the complicated relationships of destiny, but in the simple and elementary processes of life.
-RUDOLF STEINER, Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts-From Nature to Sub-natureThese kind of questions are somehow too complicated (and big) that one should be too serious about them.
I mean that one should be able to discriminate what is really essential and what is not and for that one should come to situation where one finds some method how to make that distinction.
I would say that for example mathematics and physics represent pinnacle of culture which can exist and really advance in particular kind of conditions.
And there are in my opinion some especially harmfull influences which could become hindrances for that.
What comes to Perelnikov, he is example of somebody (hey what they say about Newton and Dirac?) who in certain kind of conditions, where arbitrary human impulses and vanities wouldn’t be so dominant, would be model of professionality.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=momI8meuRXUMay 14, 2012 at 7:19 am #39246c_howdyParticipantAccording to legend, Chinese characters were invented by Cangjie (c. 2650 BC), a bureaucrat under the legendary Yellow Emperor. There are quite a few variations of the legend. One of them tells that Cangjie was hunting on Mount Yangxu in modern Shanxi when he saw a tortoise whose veins caught his curiosity. Inspired by the possibility of a logical relation of those veins, he studied the animals of the world, the landscape of the earth, and the stars in the sky, and invented a symbolic system called z¨¬ (×Ö) ¡ª the first Chinese characters. It was said that on the day the characters were born, Chinese heard the devil mourning and saw crops falling like rain, as it marked a second beginning of the world.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_charactersDom DeLuise, celebrity fat man (and five of clubs), has been implicated in the following unseemly acts in my mind’s eye: he has hocked a fat globule of spittle (nine of clubs) on Albert Einstein’s thick white mane (three of diamonds) and delivered a devastating karate kick (five of spades) to the groin of Pope Benedict XVI (six of of diamonds). Michael jackson (king of hearts) has engaged in behavior bizarre even for him. He has defecated (two of clubs) on a salmon burger (king of clubs) and captured his flatulence (queen of clubs)in a balloon (six of spades). Rhea Perlman, diminutive Cheers bartendress (and queen of of spades), has been caught cavorting with the seven-foot-seven Sudanese basketball star Manute Bol (seven of clubs) in a highly explicit (and in this case, anatomically imrobable) two-digit act of of congress (three of clubs). This tawdry tableau…
-JOSHUA FOER, Moonwalking with EinsteinI know it’s not very important, but I’m sorry for two mistakes:
perelnikov should be actually perelman (not including some transformations) and
5 raised to the 2nd power minus 4 raised to 2nd power equals 5 plus 4
HOWDY
May 18, 2012 at 1:56 am #39248c_howdyParticipant…but even that would pale compared to the impact a bizarre religious cult would have on the reputation of Japanese cops. Over the course of several months in 1995, the Aum Supreme Truth sect almost single-handedly destroyed the great sense of security that japanese so treasured about their society. In March that year, Aum grabbed world world headlines with its unprecedented nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway. As no other case did, the investigation of Aum raised troubling questions not only about the approach, but about the general competency of japanese law enforcement.
Long before the subway attack, while the Bubble was at its peak, Aum embarked on an extraordinary, six-year crime spree. The cult’s law breaking knew no bounds: masssive consumer fraud, land fraud, medical malpractice, extortion, drug dealing, firearms and explosives violations, manufacture of biological and chemical weapons, kidnapping, murder, and mass murder. Year after year this went on, nearly all of it within seventy miles of Tokyo. The response of Japanese law enforcement is a virtual case study on what not to do in fighting terrorism and organized crime. leads were missed or never followed up, witnesses and evidence ignored, and agencies refused to cooperate with each other. Perhaps japanese cops had come to rely too heavily on confessions, for the case revealed a striking lack of basic detective work and forensic science. Authorities were warned repeatedly about the cult-from concerned parents, defecting cult members, and crusading journalists. But no action was taken, until one day Tokyo cops awoke to find world’s busiest subway attacked with nerve gas at the height of rush hour.
-DAVID E. KAPLAN & ALEC DUBRO, Yakuza-Japan’s Criminal UnderworldTodya the Yakuza/Aum Shinrikyo is one of our deadly foes, and it will be involved in the planned, scheduled destruction of the United States within three years from now. One major part of the plan seems to be to start destroying the U.S. central power grid and system beginning about two years from now, very gradually at first, and then escalating fairly rapidly until the system is essentially destroyed and in ruins. Thre are already sufficien terrorist assets inserted into the US-being ready and waiting- to destroy the nation,particularlywhen the use of Yakuza strategic and tactical scalar interferometers are factored inOne keeps hoping that the Administration will brief that fact to the US public, but it appears it will not be done, regardless of whether we have a Republican or Democratic administration in power. Too many high level goverment people take the attitude that the American public just could not withstand such information. Further, within the goverment the entourage seems to have gain suppressed the information that Defense Secretary Cohen confirmed.
-T.E. BEARDEN, Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons and their Terrorist Use: Immediate Strategic Aspects of the Asymmetric War on the US (2004)How reliable is Tom Bearden as conspiracy theorist still after all this years?
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