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Hello! I’m a five element ‘style’ acupuncturist that I use within intuitive healing. I recently have been very drawn to using the I Ching and found discussions from this forum on some searches. So here I am. Nice to see so many Daoist lovers here. 💞

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There's the taiji way to go very low and the not taiji way. The not taiji way is gaining flexibility chiefly via overstretching the ligaments -- which eventually wreaks chaos with the joints, but starts out looking impressive. The taiji way is via gradually creating space inside the joints and lengthening the spine, separating each joint into the lower (yin) part and the upper (yang) part and moving in a way that maintains that space and safeguards against the cartilage grinding, synovial fluid leaking, alignments compromised, the whole structure suffering damage. That part of the taiji skill that is referred to as sung, relaxed dynamic softness, largely depends on this kind of joint use. (Every time the teacher reminds the students, "drop the shoulder," "drop the elbow," "suspend the head," etc., it's about that space you are learning to create.) The knees are a bit different from other joints because we walk on two legs and something somewhere has to make sure we don't turn into this toy from my childhood (don't know if anyone growing up later, or elsewhere, has ever seen those -- you press the bottom where all the threads are connected and it collapses. You can get it to dance this way and that way like one of those for-show wushu practitioners... fun when you're four years old! But eventually the threads holding it together overstretch and it can't do shit anymore!)

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The Flash Meditations on Vol. 5 work better if one has done all the FP Standing Meds. in Volumes 1, 3, and 4 first...and has the Volume 4 Long Form memorized and feeling its fine benefits. I like to do them in the evenings very slowly--the first 4 meditations on Vol.7. Then I do one or two of seated MSW Mediations on Volume 2 or 7 before going to sleep (--except of course, you NEVER want to do the last med. on Vol.2 (90 80 50 20) at night--if you any intention to sleep!) I remember that around Year 2 of this thread, someone posted that the Volume 5 meditations were like "bon bons". They may seem like that to the uninitiated trying them for the first time without having mastered the preceding standing FP Meditations. But if one has steadily worked through Volumes 1, 3, 4 and established all of the Meditations, when you get to Volume 5 meditations, you will FEEL their effects like nuclear longevity pills (tan). GM Doo Wai taught the " Fei Feng San Gung" ("Flying Phoenix Spiritual Power/Cultivation" ) system to me and my L.A. cohort (from 1991 to 1998) in exactly the order as they are presented in the DVD series. In fact, the last meditation on Vol.5 with (80 70 50 40 30) is NOT an FP Qigong exercise--but a primer meditation for Bat Din Gum (8 Sections of Energy Combined, a legendary martial Qigong system that GM Doo Wai said repeatedly was "more rare than the Do Do Bird"), Out of respect and in reverence to his teachings, I placed that BDG meditation at the end of Vol.5 because that's when he taught it to me and to only two others in the learning circle. All that is to say that the none of the five meditations on Vol. 5 are "bon bons"! LOL. Enjoy your practice and stick with it. Sifu Terry ttps://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html terencedunn.substack.com

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Well, maybe in Portugal . Here we gotta pay for it !

I’ve been avoiding the Sleeper on Vol 7 (50 20 10) because it knocks me out too hard — I’ll sleep 12 hours and be groggy in the morning. Does anyone else have a similar experience?

The masochist in me subscribed to the medicine subreddit -- populated by MDs and other professionals -- and aside from sheer horror from reading their conversations with each other (well, some people like watching horror movies, I don't, but this is sort of my equivalent, I read it when I feel like getting my hair to stand on end), I learn some valuable behind-the-scenes stuff... So today they discussed allergies mentioned on patients' charts. They are, generally, livid about it. How dare a patient claim an allergy when it's merely a side effect! So half of them said that they just remove the "allergic to" entries from the charts because they find most of them ridiculous. And they were mocking the patients incessantly for mislabeling their symptoms from drugs "allergies." Some of them don't believe anyone can have allergies to any painkillers or to penicillin (well I do, incidentally) and unless there's proven anaphylaxis in the history, they mostly don't believe anyone is allergic to anything. Fun read.

The problem with their talk is that it does not align with reality. It is a classic case of pulling the wool over someone's eyes or engaging in scamgong manipulation. Do I need to point out that Nathan Brine looks extremely unhealthy and frail? Is this the result of secret lineage 20+ years of personal training under grand master wang liping? Daoists make bold claims about health, longevity, and immortality, yet all we see are sickening footages of individuals suffering from the effects of a modern American diet. They are frequently found in worse health than the average person who does not practice any Daoist arts and has never heard of the "wonderful health benefits and immortality practices." I don't think you should advertise or endorse morbid obesity. Yes, it is a different kind of belly. Different kind of fat as well, usual fat is bad, but this one must be a holy one. And no, they are not dying like all other mortals, they simply enter mahasamadhi and ascend to divine realms. It reminds me of the copium statements made by some people defending "Gurus" who smoke cigars and drink whiskey (and take God knows what substances behind the scenes), as if this is an external show to humble their followers' egos. Certainly, it is not a dreadful, harmful addiction or a lack of self control. The truth is, addictions stem from a weak mind incapable of controlling the body. They also arise when there is no leverage between the mind and the body, and when there is no adequate spiritual development to begin with. Such a human would truly be an animal without an active spiritual component.