Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Face of Saturn





Saturn represents the intensity of one’s ambition, the inner pressure to become or accomplish something. Saturn also indicates the Achilles heel, the mind-set in which doubt and fear or an overly conservative attitude works against success. When Saturn is strong in a businessperson’s chart, they run a tight ship with an authoritarian management style and excellent administrative abilities.

Monday, September 26, 2011

How to find your passion...she knows here stuff

Passion Webinar: Jen Gresham on Careers from Leo Babauta on Vimeo.


I like to re watch this just to remember about finding my passions and finding out what I don't like. A lot of things are out of sight and out of mind in this life and if you don't keep them right there are you doorstep they get shoved in that little back corner in the closet where the moth balls gather. We have to keep our goals in sight.

Monday, September 19, 2011

The Cars Heartbeat City


The first album I ever bought. Kenny Rogers the Gambler was the first album that I got. It was an eight track that I broke my dad's eight track player because I listned to it so much.
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Friday, September 9, 2011

Ira Glass on Storytelling, part 1 of 4

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.


Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

THE MARGIN OF ERROR - mistakes human nature

How munch of a margin of error do you have in your life

Do you give yourself room to, to put it bluntly, fuck up.
 
Giving yourself little or no room to mess up can make you a total fucking nut job you will become so tightly wound that you will stress out over the simplest things
the littlest things
 
A this just creates more and more anxiety there are things that probably require a zero margin of error like rocket science flying and landing a air plane and preforming surgery

but most of us are not doing these thing we are simply living our lives stressed over not messing up

if you fail badly or totally screw something up it is not the end of the world 


as u can see doctors do make mistake that go bad

rocket scientists do screw up ad space shuttle,s break at the wrong time
truth making mistakes and errors is human nature we are not robots and computers where everything is so measures and precise we have to have room to breathe and make errors no matter how much we want perfection


QUOTES ON MISTAKES

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.
VINCENT VAN GOGH, letter to Theo van Gogh, Oct. 1884
The errors of a man are what make him really lovable.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to James McHenry, Aug. 10, 1798
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.
BILL CLINTON
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE, Lady Windermere's Fan
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Governor Dinwiddie, Aug. 27, 1757
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
If common sense were as unerring as calculus, as some suggest, I don't understand why so many mistakes are made so often by so many people.
CARY WINKEL, as quoted in Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context
To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
A double error sometimes sets us right.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY, Festus
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Fielding Lewis, Jul. 6, 1780
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.
DIANE F. HALPERN, Thought and Knowledge
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
WERNER HEISENBERG, Physics and Beyond
I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Joseph Reed, Jan. 14, 1776
All men may err; but he that keepeth not his folly, but repenteth, doeth well; but stubbornness cometh to great trouble.
SOPHOCLES, Antigone
Hindsight, or our ability to see our past clearly, is a learning function that, when damaged ... renders us unable to look at the past to guide ourselves through the present and into the future. Without this ability, we cannot learn from our mistakes. We cannot clean up the wreckage of our actions. We are locked into a cycle of repeating the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. This is commonly known as the definition of insanity.
BARBARA S. COLE, The Gifts of Sobriety
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Major-General Armstrong, Mar. 26, 1781
It's a good deal easier to resist the first step on the road to ruin than any of the thousand that inevitably follow.
MARK FROST, The List of Seven
If you don't have a margin for error, error kills you.
S. M. STIRLING, The Sunrise Lands
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Mistakes occur through haste, never through doing a thing leisurely.
CHINESE PROVERB
No error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
HORACE MANN, Thoughts
If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do ... you will never learn from your mistakes.
CASSANDRA CLARE, City of Bones
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
ELBERT HUBBARD, The American Bible
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favour of that which is old.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
We are never so liable to fall into an error, as when we have just escaped from one.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Even honest men mistake oftener in their own favor than in other peoples.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters and Reflections
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN, Contemporary Russian Literature
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Fearless - Jet Li - tea & martial arts

Grading things...destroys them

  • Mr Huo, according to what you say, you really don't know the nature of tea.

  • It's not that I don't know, I really don't want to know, because I don't care about evaluating teas. Tea is tea. But each tea has its own character and properties. What is the purpose of grading ? These many teas are grown in nature, all of them. Is there a discernable difference ?

  • Yes, once you learn this, you can tell the difference between the teas.

  • What you say may be right, but the way I see it, the tea does not judge itself. It's people that judge its grading. Different people chose different things. As for me, as far as I'm concerned, I just don't want to make any choice.

  • Is that so ?

  • Drinking tea is a mood, really. If you are in a good mood, the grade of tea doesn't matter.

  • I've never looked at it like that. I understand that there are many wushu fighting styles. Are you saying no style is greater than another ?

  • That's what I'm saying.

  • If that's true, I want to ask you, if wushu does not differ in any way, why then do we fight each other ?

  • I believe for all the styles of wushu, there is no single one that is superior. All of those who practice different styles of wushu, they would naturally have a different level of skill. Through competition, we can discover ourselves. 
     
  • What you just said makes me have more respect for you. Enjoy

  • You first

its hard to enjoy life when their is so much grading. I've come across people who grade this computer is better or that camera is the best, but to say this is better than that one when it really doesn't matter. All that matters is that you enjoy them.

For the items themselves don't grade themselves, it is people who say this is good and that is bad when in reality there is no good nor bad...as everything has a strength and everything has a weakness.

If you are enjoying what your doing with what you have then that is all that matters.  When we start grading we begin to be unhappy.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Metallica - Fuel for becoming more Yang




I must say when it comes to the world being so Yin these days listening to Metallica really gets the chi going and creates an intense surge of Yang energy....

Yin foods.

 Raw vegetables, and even more so fruits, juices, sugars, alcohol and drugs are more yin (watery and expansive). 

Also, anything made with water is much more yin such as soups, smoothies, and watery foods such as eggplant and all fruits. 

Dried fruits are less watery, but are still extremely yin due to their sugar content.  Most raw plants and herbs are also very yin. 

  Also, chopping a food into tiny parts, grinding it up, blending it, pureeing it, or juicing it also causes the substance to become much more yin in nature. 

In contrast, whole foods that are not chopped up are more yang.  Let us discuss specific types of foods:

WHY ARE SO MANY BODIES YIN?



                  Traditional Chinese medical practitioners would say the reason for so many yin bodies is deficient chi or vital energy.  Many factors can deplete the chi including one's diet, lifestyle, stress and other factors.
                  In particular, since 1940 or so, several factors have combined to render most bodies extremely yin.

·           Ionizing radiation. The atomic bomb, through testing and accidents, has spread radioactive fallout all over the planet.  Low-level emissions occur from nuclear power plants, smoke detectors, computer monitors, television sets and fluorescent lamps.  Widespread medical and dental use of x-rays, radioactive dyes and radiation therapy add to radiation exposure.  Uranium mining is another source of low-level contamination.  Fortunately, humanity has learned a lot about radioactive fallout and the safety is improving.  However, the problem of rogue nations developing weapons and using them remains a serious problem. 
·           Electromagnetic pollution.  This is also very yin and growing at an astronomical rate with the advent of cell phone towers everywhere, computers in every home, especially laptop computers and hand-held devices like portable telephones.  These all give off fields that are very yin and chaotic.  Riding in airplanes with large spinning turbines in them near your head, and even riding in automobiles with large alternators spinning nearby also give off electromagnetic waves of varying degrees of chaos.  Even house wiring and common radio and TV signals are quite yin, though not nearly as bad as cell phone radiation.
·           Toxic metals and chemicals everywhere. Industrial development and growth of the chemical industry has spread thousands of yin toxic chemicals throughout the environment.  These include toxic metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum and beryllium.   It also includes thousands of toxic chemicals such as solvents, pesticides, plastics and many other classes of compounds. 
·           Changes in the food supply.  These have been massive in the 20th and 21st century, and almost all are more yin.  They include: soils depleted of minerals due to soil mining, essentially, use of hybrid crops, use of pesticides, use of superphosphate fertilizers. For example, wild fruit, like crab apples, are small, hard and not too sweet.  Cultivated fruit is often larger and sweeter (more yin).
                  Also, food is grown far away and transported thousands of miles in many cases to get to you.  Also, some is irradiated, another very yin procedure. 
·           Food refining. Most food processing and refining have made food far more yin.  This includes refining of wheat, sugar, rice and other grains.  It also includes adding thousands of toxic chemicals to prepared food, most of which are yin or have a yin effect.
·           Dietary changes. The diets have also become more yin, with the consumption of much more white sugar, white flour instead of whole grains, and less red meat and fat consumption.  Items like soda pop, beer and wine are also far more yin than water, tea or coffee.  Sugar-eating is probably the most important of all of these dietary shifts.
·           Medical drug use. This is a more yang approach to health care than some types, but now has turned yin because it is so overused.  Especially the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in America in 1967 and similar socialized programs in other nations, have resulted in tremendous use of yin chemicals as medicines.  Almost all prescription drugs are yin.  This includes most popular drugs such as antibiotics, anti depressants and many others.  Surgery and radiation therapy are also extremely yin. 
·           Recreational drug and alcohol use.  This includes marijuana, heroine, alcohol, tobacco, ecstasy and other psychedelics, all of which are very yin.
·           Planetary pollution. This has caused a mixture of more yin and more yang conditions.  As explained earlier, toxic metals are yang, of themselves, but they cause chaos in the bodies, making them much more yin.  Oxygen in the air is reduced in the cities, which is more yang.  However, this also causes disease that is yin.  Polluted air, water and food, overall, has a very yin effect on mankind today.
·           Planetary cycles play a role.  "The age of Aquarius" is not just the name of a song.  It is a planetary position in the 25,000-year cycle of our solar system through the Milky Way as the galaxy revolves around our central sun located in the Pleiades.  It will last about 2000 years.  Its qualities are a time of change, reflection, questioning and the chaos that goes with it.  It began around 1940 and will last until about 3100.
                  It is a time when a more yang approach to life and yangizing influences are needed to offset new ideas and concepts which tend to be yin.  It is also an age of information which is yin and it is a radioactive age – with nuclear weapons and so on, which is also very yin and these must be balanced with a more yang diet and lifestyle and attitudes that are more yang such as taking responsibility for oneself.  The former age, the Piscean age, by contrast was a more yang time with lead in the environment, for instance, and required more fruit and juices and salads in the diet than is required today.

With these rather severe changes have come new diseases, while some older ones such as tuberculosis and typhoid fever are not as prevalent.  This is how yin and yang, as well as nutrition, interact with disease states, another complex topic for another article.