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Good afternoon everyone! My name is Christopher and I'm glad to have found this. I love everything about energy. I've been studying yoga Qigong breath work and meditation for most of my life. Some of the conversations and other social media platforms are not so useful so I'm looking to hear from all of you. What have you found is most helpful in this day and age to balance life work relationships all of that?

Coronal Mass Ejection. But what of the earth's magnetic field potentially weakening... or even worse... flipping poles. That might not be the funnest event of the century. Although it might foster... enthusiasm for... daylight savings time.

I'm convinced its the flares ...... ever since we stopped wearing them ..... nothing ! .

oh my ass, for gods sake.

100% Our foundational knowledge of science has not advanced at all.

It may be that most soul-bearing species are not embedded in linear time.

The standard translation of the DDJ is a forgery!

The fundamental nature of prior heaven is empty, [nonexistent] primordial qi. In short, it is emptiness, that is all. I found this to be useful, if understood as in page 47. Using two traditional Chinese terms, the unconditioned and conditioned domains are respectively defined as precelestial (or prior to Heaven, xiantian, lit. “before Heaven”) and postcelestial (or posterior to Heaven, houtian, lit. “after Heaven”). The postcelestial domain is distinguished by multiplicity and relativity; it is the state that features transitory events and phenomena that succeed one another within space and time. The precelestial domain, in one of the approximations that might be used to describe it, is the constant and omnipresent original state of Oneness, which contains all events and phenomena independently of whether they do or do not occur, and with no distinctions of space and time, here and there, before and after. I interpret this from the theravada abhidamma theory, which makes it comprehensible and in line with my experience during practice. I find this slightly too abstract in it self though. When the alchemical texts use the word “original” (yuan), they refer to the Origin (yuanshi), i.e., to a primordial substance that is not born in the postcelestial state. Therefore the Shihan ji (Records from a Stone Casket), attributed to Xu Jingyang (also known as Xu Xun, trad. 239–374), says: 元陽即元精，發生於玄玄之際。元精無形，寓於元炁之中。若受 外感而動，與元炁分判，則成凡精。 Original Yang is the same as Original Essence, sent forth from the bourns of the Mystery beyond the Mystery. Original Essence has no form, and resides within Original Breath. If it receives an external stimulus, then it moves: it separates from Original Breath, and becomes the common essence. So yuan yang = yuan jing, and yuan jing resides within yuan qi. And according to Huang Yuanji, yuan qi is also Xing. And the unified qi of the vast harmony is the unborn ming suspended between heaven and earth, which is also real xing and real ming. About here, I usually waves with a white flag and return to the buddhist terminology.

Yes but... You see?

I'm curious - can different Nei Gong systems be trained in concurrently? e.g. can Damo Mitchell's system be studied at the same time as Wang Liping's?

Party pooper...

I'm curious, who has the time to delve deeply into two systems?

Yeah, it's easy to overthink this (ha ha). My take is that there's a certain negation in "don't know mind", because the mind does know, that's it's nature. And a certain affirmation in "'yes, but' mind". Some teachers say "root out discursive thought". Gautama described mindfulness of mind in a more affirmative light, IMO: Aware of mind I shall breathe in. Aware of mind I shall breathe out. (One) makes up one’s mind: “Gladdening my mind I shall breathe in. Gladdening my mind I shall breathe out. Composing my mind I shall breathe in. Composing my mind I shall breathe out. Detaching my mind I shall breathe in. Detaching my mind I shall breathe out. (SN 54.1, tr. Pali Text Society vol V pp 275-276) In my experience, that sequence is natural, and any attempt on my part to "root out" a particular kind of thought leads me in a loop of thought. Gautama spoke of observing the mind the way the king's chef observes the king, to see what he favors on a given day and what he does not. He also said: As (one) abides in body contemplating body, either some bodily object arises, or bodily discomfort or drowsiness of mind scatters (one’s) thoughts abroad to externals. Thereupon… (one’s) attention should be directed to some pleasurable object of thought. As (one) thus directs it to some pleasurable object of thought, delight springs up in (one’s being). In (one), thus delighted, arises zest. Full of zest (one’s) body is calmed down. With body so calmed (one) experiences ease. The mind of one at ease is concentrated. (One) thus reflects: The aim on which I set my mind I have attained. Come, let me withdraw my mind [from pleasurable object of thought]. So (one) withdraws (one’s) mind therefrom, and neither starts nor carries on thought-process. Thus (one) is fully conscious: I am without thought initial or sustained. I am inwardly mindful. I am at ease. (Gautama repeats the above for “As (one) contemplates feelings in feelings…”, “… mind in mind…”, “… mind-states in mind-states, either some mental object arises, or…”) Such is the practice for the direction of mind. And what… is the practice for the non-direction of mind? (First,) by not directing (one’s) mind to externals, (one) is fully aware: My mind is not directed to externals. Then (one) is fully aware: My mind is not concentrated either on what is before or on what is behind, but it is set free, it is undirected. Then (one) is fully aware: In body contemplating body I abide, ardent, composed and mindful. I am at ease. And (one) does the same with regard to feelings… to mind… and mind-states. Thus (one) is fully aware: In mind-states contemplating mind-states I abide, ardent, composed and mindful. I am at ease. This is the practice for the non-direction of mind. (SN 47.10, tr. Pali Text Society SN V pp 135-136) Maybe you have better luck with "only don't know" than I do!

It is certainly possible to look ahead but is the future fixed? If the future is fixed then do humans not have free will? Time travel technology came into the possession of different governments and organizations in the post-WW II era due to extraterrestrials conducting a ‘temporal war’ over Earth’s future timelines. This all began when the German Vril Society achieved breakthroughs in torsion field physics and antigravity technology in the 1920s, which Nazi Germany took over in the 1930s and soon after, reached agreements with Draco Reptilian extraterrestrials to set up a breakaway German colony in Antarctica to safely develop space-time technologies. https://exopolitics.org/time-travel-temporal-ware-fare-and-humanities-future-a-second-look-part-1/

Thank you all very much, my father has been very ill and passed early this morning. I value all of your good wishes and friendship.