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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 (/ˈbÉ›l.teɪn/; Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲalÌªË tÌªË É™nʲə], approximately /ˈb(j)É’ltɪnÉ™/ B(Y)OL-tin-É™) 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 sÃ. 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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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 can echo through beings, (including very evolved ones) but it is still a kind of mistake to say that such and such a person is enlightened for if the Self is unveiled it knows that that particular human being that many people may see, proclaim or talk about for what it really is. (a passing thing or 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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Someone mentioned earlier that enlightenment can't be defined. I agree. It is like a taste that can't be described, it must be eaten. There has been much cogitation on this thread around the subject of enlightenment. The kind of knowledge used on this thread has pretty much all been head knowledge, which isn't enlightenment. That's 'knowing about stuff'. Enlightenment is What You Become. It no longer is a head trip, and it matters not whether you still have remnants of religions inside you. It is obtained by soul searching and getting those things out of the way that have been imprinted since childhood. You walk around with the 'good of all' being on your mind more than it ever way, because you realize that each and every person you see is 'god', is You! And it seems to deepen and deepen, as your connection with the Whole deepens to the point that your whole being becomes infused with it, more day by day. The post-Enlightenment life is a practiced in merging this Whole Love into your life, regardless of whether you're a social worker or a sewer worker. I'd love to hear @Dwai or @SilentThunder describe their post-E life, and how it has changed. Or anyone else with a post-E life. It seems to be that how you wear this thing is a learning process day by day. But it's no longer a book-learning thing. It's more of a 'how to love life' proposition. The odd thing is to walk around with this secret, this magnificent secret, that very few in the world know. Men have been put into rubber rooms for less.
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Then you should have a full understanding of Ming practices.
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You can probably search this site for boran kammatthana.
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I would be one of those lol
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There is at least one branch/school of TCM that was heavily influenced by what we tend to call neidan.
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