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HAHAHAHA. You can NOT make a thread like this without getting this video... LMAO! I wonder what the devil was in that chimney... lead and asbestos probably. Let's see... "affidavit" as "affidavid." It ends with a "t," not a "d." The word "Arctic" has a "c" in the middle and is pronounced "ARC-tic." It also applies to the word "Antarctic," which is pronounced "ant-ARK-tic. The phrase is not "barb wire." It is "barbed wire." Dilate," meaning to enlarge, as "DI-late," not "DI-a-late." "Cornet," the valved brass instrument as "kor-NET," not "kor-a-NET." People use generic "duct" tape, not "duck" tape "February" as "FEB-ru-ary," not "FEB-u-ary." There are two "r's." "Federal" as "FED-er-al," not "FED-ral." It has three syllables. "Foliage" as "FO-lee-ij," not "FO-lij." It has three syllables. "Jewelry" as "JU-el-ree," not "JU-la-ree." The first two syllables are like the word "jewel." The larynx, that part of the trachea that contains the vocal cords, is pronounced "LAIR-ingks," with just two syllables. Do not pronounce it "LAR-n-icks" or "LARN-icks." "Voluptuous" as "vo-LUP-tchewus," not "vo-LUMP-tchewus." Whew I could go on forever! Of course, American English is the proper standard LMAO!!!!... so anything else is... BTW @jdc7733 Your beard is amazing!!! You look so gorgeous with that beard! Love it!!!

No need to fight. Create me wherever you go. I am love that has no limits. Put me wherever you like, and I will be there. In the trees, in the sky, in the grocery store.

Well, damn! What an Honor! There is no other place I would rather be! I love you two! Two goddesses! WOW. @Princess Arabia @Sidra khan

Hahaha... oh, man. I do love it thought! Crazy thing is... princess already knew what I was going to say!. Hahaha... ah man... y'all two gals tickle the giggles... lol You know I literally am a Leo (bday july28), so I am Leo lol. Amazing art princess and sidra and every one. It's an amazing tribute to Leo and I love all your work.

Wow! Wow! Amazing! 2 weeks. That is really outstanding! I am very impressed! What meditation did you do? Do you have a thread discussing your experience? WOW just WOW!!! As for finding what I am looking for... I am close, within 5 years I imagine.

Getting there can be challenging to say the least. We are talking resistance here. LOL Well, to be honest. I was reflecting back on my own personal journey and what it took to get where I am today. It took consistency: reading, learning, meditating every day. It took a great deal of financial planning to attend seminars, retreats, classes and the like. It required the determination not to stop and keep going no matter what. Daily practice, long hours and resisting many demands to stop and take it easy. Intense study. It took handling extreme reactions: fear, exhaustion, unpleasant emotions, sickness. The feelings I was going to die, anger, hate, depression I had to keep my heart and mind on what I wanted to achieve. Feeling like disembodies spirits are possessing my body. lol It took willingness: It took willingness to allow anything to happen to me. It took willingness to be different. It took willingness to become severely ill. It took willingness to accept any negative body reactions. It took willingness to be judged. It took willingness to be scolded by family and friends. It took willingness to lose everything that I value. It took willingness to lose my wife over this. It took willingness to be destitute. It took a willingness to be brave and stick to what is true to me, even if the entire world disagreed with me. It took the decision to be able to experience anything, to have anything happen to me. It took the idea to be able to have the view point that problems and difficulties are part of the game and that I can’t lose because it is all part of the same. It took the decision to absolutely admire anything I put into my existence without judgement. This journey has taken more than 20 years to achieve this. Maybe other people have been much more fortunate, and I tip my hat to them and kiss their feet in admiration, but for me… well… wasn’t so effortless. Maybe if I had a different viewpoint, it would be different... LOL, I was saying that in a partly joking way as I am sure that many other members will add their two cents into the subject. I also wanted to save myself the trouble of opening up that subject, because to go into that subject, and try to come up with a more unique and different facet or perspective… It would require me to tax my mind and go back to many of the aforementioned experiences that illuminate a particular aspect usually covered by common umbrella concepts discussed in spirituality vernacular. Besides, the concept of ego doesn't really exist much in my mind anymore. I usually forget what it is, I have to keep reminding myself what it is in order to talk about it. Every time it is discussed, I have to reconceptualize it.

Wealth comes with an incredible number of obligations, responsibilities and problems. These can be some serious distractions and barriers to overcome. Also, public image is a factor. Very few people are fully self-sufficient and rely on reputation, or sponsors of some kind. They depend on some form of popularity, at least publicly. It would not be advantageous to say something controversial or contentious that is in direct opposition to public opinion. If they do make statements, it would be quite diluted. Besides, spirituality is a lifelong commitment, requiring a great deal of commitment and dedication as well as ambition. You could call it a career path. Pro-bodybuilders do almost nothing but eat, sleep and train. Most people are not Pro bodybuilders because they won't make that commitment, they would rather do something else with that time. Of course, there is the "ego" thing... but I won't get into that lol

Wow, what a masterpiece of a response! I had to take a moment to take it all in. So well thought and well done! Beautiful! History tends to repeat itself because the basic mistakes continue to persist. Most of the time, when one looks at the past for mistakes, it was not the basic mistake. Rather it was a result (after effect) of a chain reaction of mistakes. The danger in relying on history is in missing some critical data points that contributed to the sequence of events. For instance, Sun Tzu mentions 2 methods of attack: There is the direct and indirect(tactical). You could also view it as the common and the uncommon, in which the uncommon is generally a variation of the common methods, modified by deception, calculation, expectations/assumptions and creative insights. Therefore, one could adjust their viewpoint to discern it into 2 main variables, while maintaining the integrity of the idea. The expected and the unexpected variables flowing together, resulting in randomness… unpredictability. Sun Tzu also mentions that everyone can see how the battle is won (or event that occurred) but they can not see all of the long series of plans, calculations, circumstances that preceded the battle(event). There are of course, some parallels that exist between there and now and history can be useful for gaining insight into selecting a potential approach. However, such pearls of wisdom must consider the assessment of accounting for the flow of expected and unexpected variables. As this, is a result of the randomness of “common” or well-defined facts (or contingencies) that appear. There is indeed lessons from the past, however the evaluation and of good or bad is merely contextual. What happened was through the lens of people who no longer exist and all we can do is infer or speculate. The facts are quite limited through the imperfect and biased beings who recorded the events. It is like getting emotional and contentious or debating over an event that occurred and deciding it was the cause of our current situation. When people get serious over stories, they are off the track of controlling the present and creating the future. When there is blame and justifications over the crusades… it is just that blame and/or justification… nothing more. I do love your comparisons about past immigrations and N. Korea, however, that is a very astute observation, and I really enjoyed you sharing that insight with me. You have a keen eye and sharp mind! LOVE it. I don't get it. Even SD Beige and Purple have attacked each other over differences in "us vs them". It seems to me... same shit, different name. There have been warmongers from many countries from U.S., UK and other nations that has made covert actions to destabilize the middle east for profit and ill-gotten gains. Race and Religion is an excellent misdirection tool that can be used by cruel and savage opportunists. If I wanted to benefit from other's misfortune, I would do it by instigating conflict by attacking values and demonizing one side or the other and watch the fireworks fly! "us vs them" and smile at my intelligence for being the puppeteer and would get away with it too. After all, I would present myself as a friend with a just cause and I will do what I can to help... for a fee, of course... lol

If you knew all the answers to your questions. Your questions would not exist. If you knew the answers to all your problems(including "how to actually make it happen?), you would no longer have problems. If you could solve any math problem, that problem would not exist. Even now you wonder how can you be God and be a human? You may have a knowing, but you don't know the answer. If you knew that, you would not be wondering. Do you know for sure what the definition of a spirit is? You know that you are unphysical, but do you know why you are physical and made of matter? How can you use your full potential? Do you know what your full potential is? When you know... the knowing ceases to exist. Is it fundamental to know? Is knowing fundamental? What do you think? Every person has a reality. If it's true for you, its true. It is based on what you consider or decide to be true. It can change or not by choice.(you can have fake realities too) You correct on this❤️ Wonderful post❤️❤️❤️❤️ LOVE P.S. as for nondualism an their views on enlightenment... I have not a fart in the wind.. I only watched Leo's video on the subject.

Have faith that whatever you get yourself into, you can get yourself out of it. HAHAHA don't mind me, I am being silly.

Awesome. There needs to be more people spreading this message. Something that is definitely worth going viral.

History is full of nonsense. Fantasy and opinion galore. I want at least 1000 people who actually lived during those time periods to tell me what was actually going on. Mad men make decent people do bad things, that is a constant recurring pattern. Chances are, if you lived in those times, you would be doing evil things too, no matter your religion. Don't think that you wouldn't. Survival is very persuasive. I trust my own perception and thoughts on the matter, not someone's interpretation. Don't bother with history, focus on what improvements you can do right now. The present is the only thing you can actually do something about.

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The war is the blame war. The middle class is tearing itself apart by criticizing and blaming each other. Meanwhile, the poor become dependent on the government and the rich gain the resources to control and own the government. We are headed toward an aristocracy with peasants and indentured servants. Only through self-development and spirituality and loving and accepting all people regardless of their opinion and beliefs will we undo the inevitable future. Only when we drop the need to be right and for others to be wrong can we bring people up to a level where they can have hopes and dreams and believe that they can create a future for themselves, can we grow as a species of prosperity and dreams. In other words, to change your life, change your mind. Decide to make your life go right, despite all of the noise. Find a purpose and go after that purpose with all of your energy. Decide that you will achieve that purpose no matter what. Decide you are the source of beauty and love and joy and put it in everything you do. Have an optimistic vision. If you face problems and seemingly unstoppable difficulties... stay true to your vision and purpose. It is better to die happy than to live in fear and bring in visions of your demise. LOVE

What is the definition for power? What is the definition for wisdom? What is the right direction and how do you know when you get there? What is the definition of virtue? What is the definition of masculine? What is the definition of feminine? We all have a reality based on how we perceive the world and what we know. Therefore, for the sake of communication, it is important to see things clearly and similarly.

@Sugarcoat Very cool! Awesome. Thanks for that detailed explanation.

Ok, thank you. It is kind of weird for me, I think much differently. Influence means inflow, so the environment (outside the body) changes you... I guess is what you are saying. Hmm... thank you for your response.

@Danioover9000 Great assessment. I have noticed that many of his original students also practice a "behind closed doors policy". For instance, about 20 years ago I had the good fortune of having a private seminar with Steve Golden. He doesn't actively teach or take on students, but he does work with advanced students privately. There isn't much available online but here is a sample that I was easily able to find. He prefers to work one on one with students, teachings Bruce Lee's principles with your own moves. Through your own techniques, you learn JKD. I think that was BL's original teaching method. Incidentally, Ed Parker had a similar approach however, the whole American Kenpo Karate, also denigrated to trash. Thank you for telling me about Paul Vunek, I actually didn't know about him! Awesome! Wonderful thread, I really love your explanation about how "capitalism, pragmatism, and skepticism" infects the quality of martial arts techniques, philosophy and spirituality.

@Sugarcoat Actually, I don't quite see your viewpoint. I would love to know more about it. I believe a person is as free as they are able to assume multiple viewpoints. Very interesting! Thank you for sharing. Could you provide some examples? "how suffering is independent of outside" Outside of what? the spirit? the mind? The body? Your environment? Your security? Your financial/social situation? Your possessions? Your past? The voices/energy/thoughts that are not in alignment with your intentions? Your ability to handle things? Your problems? And yes tensions is ambiguous... I don't get that either. "by focusing on yourself you’re dealing with it directly" Dealing with what? The focus on yourself, or the need to focus on yourself? Dealing with what? What exactly are you dealing with or not dealing with. Here is my understanding of focus on yourself means... "Focusing on yourself means prioritizing your own needs and desires rather than those of other people." This can and does often lead to selfishness and sexual frustration and reacting to those frustrations as that is not conducive to for healthy relationships as opposed to flexible considerations and viewpoints. I don't understand. "instead of looking for outside solutions . " What does this have to do with the male/female dynamic?

@Danioover9000 Would you say JKD relies heavily on skepticism in that it aims to reduce techniques to its most basic and simple form? Especially its focus on combat effectiveness. The basicness of form transcends to all areas of life. I have been contemplating this lately. I also admire the transcendence of intention in that the only goal is to strike and to intercept all counter intention. I do agree with you on the video in that they are not focusing on the essence of form but rather arbitrary actions that do not substantiate the actual teachings.

Communication is great. You can always stay or leave whenever you want. I am pro-communication. I try to make friends everywhere my love, it is about me loving unconditionally maturity and spiritual growth. Not what someone did or what happened to me. I would take it as an opportunity to exercise my ability to love and admire people, without restrictions. You don't have to continue the relationship if you don't want to.

@Danioover9000 What are your views on martial arts spirituality?

That's amazing! What a miracle! You have a great game in front of you. Keep up the good work! Success is the sum of validated improvements. The higher the quantity of improvements the better the success. You have the wonderful opportunity to start practicing. Just keep looking for improvements and acknowledging those improvements. One cobblestone at a time.

To me, the value of face-to-face interactions cannot be understated. If it were me looking for a guy, I would get involved in activities that I am interested in and would more than likely find like-minded guys that share common interests. If not, I would be willing to move to a place (city or country) where I would find such guys. If I want something bad enough, I will do whatever it takes to get it. No excuses, no justifications, just making plans and working constantly to make it happen.

Sure, do it. Just have a purpose and intention to know. What are you hoping to achieve? Decide to get it.