I'd rather the markets would wait to tank until after they have risen to stratospheric heights, causing me to sell to assure my gains. Not that there would be much, you understand. But now it's even less. Today's sell-off was a surprise to me, perhaps showing that I am not paying much attention to the markets until they do something nasty. Or, my surprise at today's sell-off might simply be an indication that I do not understand the markets. I'm thinking they're driven by magic dust, which generally keeps far, far away from me.
Speaking of magic, I received a free edition of a Korean newspaper, in English, over the weekend. Inside the newspaper was quite alot of information about Falun Dafa (Gong) and how wonderful it is. Something I read in the literature attempted to define some of the power of the "self improvement meditation practice" as similar to what those in the west call magic. One claim in the brochure (or was it on the website to which the brochure referred?) was that David Copperfield once walked through the Great Wall of China. That was not magic, the claim said, it was an example of this amazing power of Falun Dafa.
I was willing to explore a bit until I read that the earth has been destroyed by civilizations several times before, by people who far surpassed our intellectual maturation and whose technologies were many times more advanced than ours today.
Yeah, I dunno, I think I may have a bit of trouble with that. Maybe the exercises are good, but the belief system is too far off the edge of reason for my taste.
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I was willing to explore a bit until I read that the earth has been destroyed by civilizations several times before, by people who far surpassed our intellectual maturation and whose technologies were many times more advanced than ours today.
Hey, didn't something like that happen in Planet of the Apes, too! (-:
Is Falun Dafa the same thing as Qi Gong? I don't know much about it either, but some people seem to feel the breathing exercises are very restorative -- but then, I think many kinds of breathing exercises are helpful.
HI I'm a Falun Dafa practitioner who has greatly benefited from this practice. 2 of my 5 children also practice while my husband also does not practice.
There are many things that our present day science cannot and will not explain and rather than be true scientists will ignore concrete manifestations that objectively exist on this earth.
Rationally it is quite unreasonable to think that we have not had civilizations prior to this one.
Just cause present day science cannot explain them does it mean it did not exist?
Humankind needs to change its rigid mentalities and it will take a leap forward. Some true scientist's have already done this today calling it quantum physics and they have found that matter and mind are one. They have also found that life is love or God how ever you wish to name it.
Just some things to think about . Falun Gong has answered all my questions about why I am here and what are we.. and It continues to increase my understandings of this great cosmos and all life within it.
Keep reading the book and everytime you read it you learn more as your understanding and levels increase.
howdy , I would say that if one wishes to practice Falun Dafa then one should do whatever they choose. However, if a person doesn't wish to practice then they can do whatever they choose to. Some of the things in Zhuan Falun, such as the concept of prehistoric cultures is very hard to prove either way with current technologies and understanding. There are anamolies (sp?) in some archaeological finds that are puzzling. There are creation myths around the world that tell tales of creation and destruction of the world, but who knows?
Falun Gong is not exactly qigong, although in the very beginning it was introduced in form of qigong. There isn't any practice of qi or breathing exercises, so technically it isn't a form of qigong. But qigong is kind of a blanketing term similar to yoga. Falun Gong is "xiulian" or cultivation/self-refinement practice. Hope this clarifies.
This is just my understanding...Take what I say with a grain of salt :)
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