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In fact, since the checkpoints for all lineages are often the same, the inner core of all practices is often identical. At a basic level, it's possible to empty the mind for 3-4 hours. Same with Wang Liping, vipassana, or Mo Pai. The only difference is in some external movements and rituals. And most of those gurus who advocate not mixing different lineages are actually concerned with monetizing spirituality and their bank accounts.

Keith, that's fantastic! You are blessed with a very "wise" (prajna) teacher. It is also a very Dao answer. Stop pushing! Actualize the fundamental point! Reminds me of a quote my teacher loves to use:

How do YOU see the DDJ? ...not the SAME, but pointing to the same thing. Zuowang is also the same. They are all ways of framing a much deeper understanding that is free of qualities. Non-duality isn't a "state" it is actually primordial - omnipresent. It is the Dao, it is Rigpa, it is Brahman - reality as it is. Truly, no "person" achieves it, and if they understand it fully (not just a glimpse, or something they see sometimes in meditation) the realization that there IS no doer. In fact, it also clarifies our relationship to time/space/self. Where there is complete and permanent realization, worrying about what happens next isn't high on the agenda. Things have a way of taking care of themselves (the Dao does that). The teachings aren't. What is revealed after practice and with insight is, in many traditions. Using your own definition, what do "enlightenment", the "Dao", the "dharmakaya", or "Xing" mean to you? What I mean by realization is "gnosis", which is quite different from "knowing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis It's isn't something you read and understand, or even do a practice and come to understand, it is a sudden perspective shift that reveals permanently the non-dual nature of reality. It dashes all of your beliefs about how things are, and rewrites your understanding of reality. Where did I say that? I think you must have misunderstood me. Many Buddhists without realization do things they don't fully understand - the "goal" of realization isn't something an everyday student of any religion or set of practices can understand. Only someone who has realization could possibly have some understanding of non-duality. In any case, it isn't important to defend Buddhists. What we are talking about isn't Buddhist OR Daoist. What is it you are trying to get across with the video? I'm not sure I get your point. - I asked you this earlier: I'm asking again because I am really curious about how you might answer. ...sorry, one more: Do you meditate? Are you familiar with the Zuowang practice?

Mixing practice is bad, under the context of many people are without physical/good teachers, depend on free online material, forums and lack of reading and exposure. Yet if there is a community of cultivators, even different lineages, beliefs, and with some medical support, then trying out other practices when one has some experience is quite natural. So it was how many cultivators received their training from a number of teachers.

And therefore useful. We all get attached to name and form, and any method that aids in releasing that bond is useful (until it is not). Isn't that one of the reasons that energetic practices can be useful? We dissolve the attchment to the obvious and material, and gradually learn to sense (and identify with) something more sublte. And then (rinse, repeat).

I think ‘evil’ or ignorance has to be shown the door, it doesn’t self destruct. If we get a hundred monkeys to destroy ignorance, then things might start to change. Right now yes things are bad, but like zerostao said they’ve always been bad just more hidden. The bad is showing its hand, and the other faction are standing against it. We’re in dangerous times, but we have been here before and the good has won.

Dzogchen, Cha'n and Zen see NO details... no "devil". It is entirely possible to go directly to resting in Xing/Shikantaza/Dzogchen/Zuowang immediately, though it may take a realized teacher to point it out. Does the Dao De Ching have any "details" or intermediary practices? Great realization is happening all the time without ANY of that in Daoist and Buddhist practices. What is your real interest - chakras and energy channels or lifting the veil on the base nature of reality, and being in alignment and ending delusion? That was not the point of my quote from that teacher.. Please go back and look. You have reduced his teaching to that single point. It is the least of his points from a teaching perspective, so, yes it was you who brought his dream work. ..or mine, but you miss the point. He mentions this because it is a way to realize that identity is "empty". Further, it is his deeper teaching that enlightened mind is present in ALL mental states (waking/dreaming/deep sleep) that is truly useful, a realization I can verify myself. Fake Buddha? There AREN'T any. It's all Tao, my friend. What is it that you are hoping for with your practice?

The most important thing is HOW you do it. In YXP they actually do "warm up" before they do 5 organs exercises. That warm up is part of daogong system that is comprised of a few IMA exercises and if you do it right it is good way to activate your channels before you do anything else. Also there are few more secret exercises from neigong/XingYi some instructors taught which are very good to mesh with anything else you do. Nothing wrong with channels activation if it is done correctly. But if you take some random exercises from other systems and mesh them randomly there can be conflict of course. Correct warm up is quite important but it is not easy to find it, in most cases people do it incorrectly and also they add other exercises not having understanding of what they do

It turns out that reality is more complex than usually taught: - parallel timelines where other incarnations of our higher spirit can share learnings with this 3D timeline - bifurcations of this timeline showing alternative personal futures - discarnate relatives lending a hand - higher level sponsors dropping thoughts into the personal mind - a group-being connecting with its members - intelligences external/internal to this planet guiding suitable candidates - pre-packaged learning energies - resonances with nearby timelines - entities that do not exist in time or space - stuff I have yet to see

First, I'd say you could be jumping to conclusions by assigning a lable to the piece of consciousness that contacted you. It could be as simple as your intuition taking specific forms, or your surfacing sub-consciousness. With that, what are your up and down sides? From your words, you were told that discarding some sintetic substances you could improve your health. WHy don't just follow the advice? The upside - your health could improve, the downside - you won't be taking in some sintetic substances and save some money along the way. Unless you have very clear signs that these substances have helped you already. If they do help, it is not very clear, but is still worth it, in my opinion.

the manifest is connected to the unmanifest thus I'd say it can not be just an illusion per se. (or the "ten thousand" are connected to Tao thus are not just illusion per-se...so it follows that the only illusion is in the lack of full or correct perception .

"But you put those comments under a quoted post from me , which is why I responded the way I did. By the way , this reply IS meant for you". By Nungali, Ok you are right on that, my bad, I was still caught up in the earlier post. Have to think about the rest...

Yea I read it, pretty cool book! Describes his experiences with a different master from Master Zhou or Master Jiang Feng. I won’t say too much about him because it’s pretty interesting, better to let readers find out for themselves. It’s not packed full of instructions for how to do things but if you read between the lines there are a lot of tips that you can take and apply to your own practices. Like little anecdotes showing why certain things are important to do.

I would disagree with that. The golden elixir is pre heaven, so exist before manifestation.

How wonderful that your future self is taking such an active interest in your present! Very cool. I would take the suggestions under advisement, evaluating them as you might any other advice. When I go to the doctor, I see myself as getting an expert opinion which I then research and make a decision about. I don´t automatically do what anybody tells me but rather figure out what makes sense to me. So the question is: do the suggestions your future self is making make sense to your present self? If so, I´d take them. If not, you can still tuck them away in the back of your mind and see how things develop. my two cents, LL

real good/Spirit is always present but relative good and evil come and go

IMHO Ginna is good to be applied on an unskilled fighter.

I think evil is getting bolder. I feel it's always been there, kinda lurking, being stealthy, Now, it's openly shameless. Imo

Here's a taoist legend for you: When the Jade Emperor decided to put twelve animals in charge of the twelve Earthly Branches, he announced a race -- the animals were to compete for their place in the calendar. In those ancient times, the Cat and the Rat were friends, and the Rat told the Cat that it could safely take a nap before the race -- I'll wake you up in time, don't worry. And then the cunning rodent tiptoed away... and didn't. So the Cat who had every chance to win the race (remember, the fastest animal on Earth, the cheetah, is a cat) overslept. By the time it was done napping the race was over, and the treacherous Rat won, becoming the number one animal in the cycle of twelve. Ack, you're too late, the Jade Emperor told the Cat, no spots left in the calendar. Sorry. Go get that treacherous friend of yours, nothing else I can suggest at this point. And unlike in Casablanca, that was the end of a beautiful friendship. In Vietnam, however, they kicked out the Rabbit and have the Cat in its place in their version of the calendar. Some say that's because they mixed up the characters, but in thousands of years they would have figured it out... yet the Cat stayed. To justify its inclusion they pointed out that the Cat was a worthy and useful animal for hunting mice and rats, while the Rabbit was only of culinary interest.

Methodology is only show someone how the do it. Macroscopically, It doesn't help to appreciate more deeply into the art. You can repeat and repeat of what you are doing. However, there is something might be missing from further understanding of the art. That might prevented you from progressing to a hidden level.

Guru says breath is transformed into Prana, gastric fire/bile (jatharagni) into Tejas, and vital fluid/semen (Virya) into Ojas. These are used in Kriya practice to progress to different states of Samadhi. For more detailed explanation and the correct way to use and develop these would have to be learned from a Guru. I don't suggest trying it yourself without guidance. I personally think I experienced both prana and tejas, no ojas. The difference I experienced was that pranic breath in the central channel (sushumna-nadi) was definitely a wind-like breath without breathing, definitely felt correlated to regular air-breath though. Tejas did not feel like air, wind or prana, it was a slow moving fire-heat that was not in direct correlation to the breath like how that pranic breath was. Kinda. Pranic breath also was hot-cold, but again definitely different in experience. Prana was fast like the breath can be whereas Tejas was slow moving. Ojas is said to drip down from sahasrara, I don't have any experience of that. I think you need to mastered in pranayama first before something like is developed enough to happen.

Another possible issue is that chinese cararcters have both visual and sound meanings which do not necesseraly match each others and on top of that, Mandarin may not be the original dialect in which these caracters were pronounced. An interesting topic related to these issues is 'sound symbolism' which has an fundamental role in 祝由 Zhu you/Zuk jau. By definition, without lineage, there's no traditional transmission, the concept of lineage is inherent to traditions otherwise they can't be defined as an unbroken transmission through generations and Taoism without traditional lineage is nothing more but a modern 'new age' degeneration, sorry indeed🙇🏻