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Do as "the way" is quite common in all the Zen literature. But usually doesnt refer to Dao as understood in Daoism but as the way meanig the Zen way or the buddhist way. For example: “From thought-instant to thought-instant, no FORM; from thought-instant to thought-instant, no ACTIVITY—that is to be a Buddha! If you students of the Way wish to become Buddhas, you need study no doctrines whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything.”― Huang Po, The Zen Teachings of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
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LDT meditation without a teacher
Taoist Texts replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Daoist Discussion
Right. Here comes the bitter pill. We, the neidanists, presumptuously consider ourselves the real buddhists because buddhism is 1/3 of neidan. And we have a special word for what the modern buddhists are doing: stubborn emptiness. Modern buddhists use it as well but they dont know what it really means https://terebess.hu/english/hsin3.html “stubborn emptiness” (wan kong 頑空, also “biased emptiness”). And what it really means is that while your conscious mind is being self-less and object-less, your subconscious mind is feverishly spinning behind the scenes blocking the neidan yeah its a toughie. There is no guarantee whatsoever that it is possible for you or anyone else, OR that you or anyone will not hurt himself trying, but like i said the info is abundant. try reading from page 174 to 208 https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/the-secrets-of-chinese-meditation.pdf also @ChiDragon maybe you can repost your experience on abdomen breath for our friend here Exactly, sarira is another name for neidan -
It seems like many meditative traditions prefer to teach simpler methods to the public. Perhaps because the methods we are talking about here tend to be destabilising, and therefore not all sentinent beings should engage in. The descriptions in hindu yoga, tibetan buddhism and daoist tradition do overlap. Not at the beginner level, but later on. 1) Because they are destabilising to the self. 2) Teachers are maybe not so self-less after all. Should be, since they are based on similar principles.
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Dissolving the Sense of Disconnection in Relationship, Spirituality & Life
johndoe2012 posted a topic in General Discussion
A nice talk by Scott Kiloby -
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LDT meditation without a teacher
Chang dao ling replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Daoist Discussion
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Thanks for the reminder about Foundation. Got the books coming from the library and will check out their vids. It seems the greatest impediment to my sitting meditations is back pain…I can't seem to make it past a half hour without needing to drastically switch positions. Fortunately, I've been able to not come too far out of my state during the shift to a new position, but I do feel like I'm "losing some ground." After getting past the back hurdle, I suspect I'll have to wrestle with the legs falling asleep, but that's a problem for a different time.
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From the Title of the OP, I think you have some idea about the Neidan already. LDT meditation is the key to reach the realm of Neidan. If you know how to do that, then, no teacher is required.
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Welcome! Everyone is talented for cultivation. Cultivation is to make someone to become a better person and put some spices in life. That is why we cultivate! Finding out about cultivation is your first step to cultivation. Please enjoy your presence on the site. Have fun!
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Regarding femurs and other "relics": Walpurgis Night an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night, also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve), is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of 30 April and the day of 1 May. This feast commemorates the canonization of Saint Walpurga and the movement of her relics to Eichstätt, both of which occurred on 1 May 870.[7] Saint Walpurga was hailed by the Christians of Germany for battling pest, rabies, and whooping cough, as well as against witchcraft". Christians prayed to God through the intercession of Saint Walpurga in order to protect themselves from witchcraft, as Saint Walpurga was successful in converting the local populace to Christianity. In parts of Europe, people continue to light bonfires on Saint Walpurga's Eve in order to ward off evil spirits and witches. Others have historically made Christian pilgrimages to Saint Walburga's tomb in Eichstätt on the Feast of Saint Walburga, often obtaining vials of Saint Walburga's oil. It is suggested that Walpurgis Night is linked with older May Day festivals in northern Europe, which also involved lighting bonfires at night, for example the Gaelic festival Beltane. Local variants of Walpurgis Night are observed throughout Northern and Central Europe in the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, and Estonia. In Finland, Denmark and Norway, the tradition with bonfires to ward off the witches is observed as Saint John's Eve, which commemorates the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. (Wikipedia) I can just imagine the remedies Walpurga applied to cure rabies and whooping cough. Get your Saint Walburga's oil here, nothing like it for making those old femur crowns shine! Meanwhile: Beltane or Bealtaine (/ˈbɛl.teɪn/; Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲal̪ˠt̪ˠənʲə], approximately /ˈb(j)ɒltɪnə/ B(Y)OL-tin-ə) is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking the beginning of summer. It is traditionally held on 1 May, or about midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Historically, it was widely observed in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. ... it marked the beginning of summer and was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect cattle, people and crops, and to encourage growth. Special bonfires were kindled, whose flames, smoke and ashes were deemed to have protective powers. The people and their cattle would walk around or between bonfires, and sometimes leap over the flames or embers. All household fires would be doused and then re-lit from the Beltane bonfire. These gatherings would be accompanied by a feast, and some of the food and drink would be offered to the aos sí. Doors, windows, byres and livestock would be decorated with yellow May flowers, perhaps because they evoked fire. (Wikipedia) Get yer ritual gear on, and proceed with the bonfires!
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I'll have to look for it.
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Down in the catacombs, with the surrogate corpse...
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LDT meditation without a teacher
blue eyed snake replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Daoist Discussion
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LDT meditation without a teacher
silent thunder replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Daoist Discussion
Bees and flowers and spiders and lakes and sand and waterfalls and... -
LDT meditation without a teacher
blue eyed snake replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Daoist Discussion
Surprised, but delighted to see something so common and available on the end of your link. Just in perusing the linked book: I think almost the same is to be found in the golden flower, (also from Cleary I think) I did indeed interpret as about the human body, roughly meaning at the start of you practice you become aware of "non being" "chi" ZongMai in the middle of your flesh body . late in the practice comes " when you sense being ( ie the fleshbody) within nonbeing ( the aura, or the subtle body) within what I call the bubble. ah yes, found it, not Cleary https://thesecretofthegoldenflower.com/ch3.html the lineage of my teacher has some Tibetan roots among others. A millet pearl dropped into my body, it was like " huh, what's this" adding to this, My teacher steered me away from any reading and a lot of things happened. When I asked questions he mostly told me "you just practice, it's going well. Later I started reading and found descriptions that rang a bell. https://thesecretofthegoldenflower.com/ch3.html -
OK then. I feel this coming together. So I no longer have a "self" and have the day to day experience of "form is emptiness/emptiness is form". There is just objectless "beingness", but I haven't seen any luminous gold or red shiny balls precipitate. What would cause one to do so? Where would one see or find such a thing? This reminds me of some of the stories about the remains of dead Tibetan masters, and how the leave "pearls" after death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śarīra#
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LDT meditation without a teacher
Taoist Texts replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Daoist Discussion
well yes when the neidan appears you are indeed without self/awareness. But here being is the neidan if by form you will mean the literal form of a literal thing then yes well it sounds outlandish but it is a literal new thing in your body: varying between a luminous golden pearl (or a millet grain) to a bright red shiny tangerine-sized ball. -
...and the terms "Dao" and "the way" appear in some of the last Buddhist Mahayana Sutras, originally authored in Chinese.
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By being it seemed to me to be suggesting (to be)... presence without self, or awareness. No? I read it as a non-dual statement: When you sense form within emptiness, the it can only be called a true "emptiness"? The internal elixir is (neidan) in this case is... ?
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Hello Seniors, Some of you might've seen my other post in welcome, but for those that haven't, i'm a real fanatic when it comes cultivation. I have always admired it and the aspects thereof, but i don't think i have the talent for it. I don't have the resources to get a teacher, if there even are in my country. SO what i want to know is: How do I check if i am talented for cultivation? Any help will be hugely appreciated! Yours truly V, PathOfbeansGod
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LDT meditation without a teacher
Taoist Texts replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Daoist Discussion
Thanks and sorry. This is something lost in translation. This passage should be read not with 'being' as in 'human being' in mind, but 'being' as 'a thing' Like below whereas the thing in question is the internal elixir, the neidan -
i'd use a change in wording to say: enlightenment or the Self is what we are, for if it could "become" then it could also unbecome. We or It realizes that we are not just a human being, mind or soul which is a form used or even a god which is also a form used. (for the Self is not a thing or form and only it is truly enlightened, although and granted it does echo through beings, pointedly more through very evolved, wise and compassionate ones but it is still a kind of (technical like) mistake to say that such and such a person is enlightened for if the Self is unveiled and working more through a particular being then it knows that that particular being that many people may see, proclaim or talk about is really a passing vehicle, whether relatively young or countless eons mature in form.
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I use acupuncture and herbs (mainly Jing) tonics to increase jing and qi for health and longevity.
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When it comes to the actual practice, what I do is described in the WuZhenPian. Or, to be fair, what I do can be interpreted as being similar to that process. In reality, who knows.
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I do not lol
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