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Sorry I cant concur. I know what he is saying bs. He is not a Pai he doesnt know what A Pai is and John isnt dead.

Greetings. I'm new to this forum and the topics of Taoism, Buddhism, TCM, and other physiological/spiritual practices/disciplines. so I hope i am doing this correctly. I have joined this gathering in hopes of finding answers, improving my health, and possibly finding my own path in life. I am an American - who has had very little human interaction outside of public schooling and college education - so I have little idea where to start and much I hope to learn. the most I have done is searching the internet for general information (which eventually lead me here), attempted to find a teacher for meditation, and practicing the hatha yoga I learned in college at home. I have a low amount of funds to spend but a decent amount of free time on my hands. So any pointers on where to start with learning my fundamentals and building a foundation for safe learning would be appreciated. with that introduction over. Being an uninformed westerner I'm not sure what else to say. although I have a few questions that have been bothering me since I started researching. First can anyone learn and practice? is my age a limitation? second does learning one school of practice lock you out from learning another? Third and I hope this Question is not offensive. Does the religion I prescribe to limit my compatibility and ability to practice? Fourth and I apologize if this is offensive. does learning require that I divorce my self from the hobbies that I enjoy such as reading and writing fiction. Fifth and most importantly to myself could someone please direct me where I can obtain concrete information on how to properly meditate?

Thank you For the moment i am interested in internal alchemy, after some negative and tough experiences. A ”guru”, which i discovered later that he was involved in a hideous tantric sect, made saktipata to me, without my consent, in 2009. I felt some kind of energy, or pressure in the forehead area who goes to the top of the head, in an arranged situation by him, some kind of ceremony. 5 years ago i collapsed, i experienced a psychical break down: psychical numbness, depression, a kind of dissociation from my body, most felt in relation with some difficult people. Now I practice a form of qi gong, wuji gong, and try to find proper methods to practice internal alchemy. At the beginning, I read some Mantak Chia, but feels hard to fallow his theories and methods, some Michael Winn, Taoist yoga (...correction ...) by Charls Luke which i found to be very interesting, ( i like that book, but i think it is a little more cryiptic )

http://www.egyptianmyths.net/heart.htm

I think that's a key point --- most of us don't want to spend years (or even 20-30 minutes a day) waving arms and imagining things. But I would bet that 99.99% of energy practices are exactly that. I suppose the same can be said for mind-based practices. With Buddhist meditation, you may end up spending many hours practicing with no noticeable result. Then one day, some large chunk breaks off and things are different. I couldn't stick with it in the absence of the class. I have only met one other teacher in the same vein--- you could feel the heat radiating from his lower dan tien. But he was very demanding and wanted people to spend all their free time on Tai Chi. And he lived pretty far away. I took Hsing-I recently for a couple of years--- but those guys wanted to fight and I kept getting hurt. I could not abide by the violent mentality. I had a meditation teacher who once said it doesn't matter if you meditate perfectly for an hour if you spend the other 23 training in distraction. So in this case, you would have to choose between mind-practice and energy-practice in daily life? Nice!

The “I am” is ever present. Try this as an exercise (repeat it several times a day if you don’t get it). In a fraction of a second, without thinking, answer this question “who am I?”. After a while, you will have a sense of the answer. That is the “I am”...it is the gate to our underlying reality.

When I first joined this forum I tried to be perfect in my execution of the various forms I was taught, and thought that by doing them very well I could "max out" their benefits so to speak. Later I painfully learned that how you practice (your mindset) is much more important than how well you execute the various meditations and forms. For example, if you are not relaxed and rush into it, if you do it with a perfectionist mindset, or a confused mind or body. Look honestly at yourself before even starting your form, ask yourself why you are doing it. Are you trying to sedate yourself, to run away from responsibilities, to gain a feeling of safety, to gain power, is it an ego thing ? When you get the "How" part down, when you are sincere and reconnect to your deepest consciousness, then the form won't add that much to your experience. I found. It's just an icing on the cake. Then later on I also painstakingly realized that the time you spend not-practicing is more important than doing a 30 form in the morning and a meditation in the evening. Because there's 23 other hours in the day. If you live an unbalanced lifestyle, no magical form is ever going to compensate for that. And for spiritual matters, I found cultivation is real life. So I found that true cultivation is rough, it's an every day, moment to moment adjustment of your energies. For example, for lower dantian development I don't think it's wise to meditate 10 minutes in the morning and then let your energy float the rest of the day. So at first I was trying to do a lot and fill myself of all kinds of energies. I tried to fill up my container actively. Now I see the reverse. I am already full and take a bottom-up approach. I avoid leaks to the container by appropriate lifestyle changes, you could say correct energetic hygiene. Of course I still practice, but when I do, it's not with the mindset of being a performer. If you are aggressive in the way you view your practices or attach tightly to them, then this energy will also reflect in your form. So you need to work on yourself, as a human being first and as a practitioner. How you move will reflect who you are. That's what I learned.

Well I think we're in complete agreement - and your point illustrates what I mean perfectly. You’re demonstrating great progress in your practice. You’re certainly not doing the same thing you were doing a year ago. Note that I didn’t say you should be changing your form... it normally takes decades to really master a classical practice. But you should be progressing in that form as you’ve illustrated beautifully But I see a lot of people just repeating some movements, thinking that the movements have some magical effect in and of themselves. And I’m trying not to name names, but there are very well known teachers perpetuating this notion. This error might have come from mixing ideas of ceremonial ritual with the Daoist internal arts (the familiar newage mishmash misappropriation of spiritual traditions). Ceremonial ritual and the internal arts are completely different. In the internal arts, the magic is not in the repeated movements - the magic is in how you use these movements to create change in yourself. And for that to happen, the focus and approach needs to be very different - much more aligned to how you’re describing your progress through your own practice. And yes - it takes time - a lot of time...

Because I don't see it as a static practice. It started off very mechanical and was slow going. Over time, I started to link the movement, breath and mind into a changing, fluid form which initiated healing, strength, flexibility and elasticity of body, mind and spirit. It has changed me in ways I never thought possible when I started. Once ingrained into muscle memory, it became automatic. It wasn't me doing the practice, the practice was doing me. This, I believe, is possible for anyone, whatever practice it is they do, provided they practice diligently, day after day, over a long period. Take a method, do it consistently and it becomes part of who you are.

The book has been well edited and polished, and has been republished on Amazon. The Magus of Seattle Note: This is a new title, the original version is still available under the original title: A Lineage of Dragons The Magus of Seattle - The hidden Taoist Immortal who was Bruce Lee's uncle and kung fu teacher, and a life journey from the mundane to the supra normal. A true story of Masters and Students of the Mystical Life Force Martial Arts and beyond This is about the powerful qigong master and Taoist immortal who was Bruce Lee’s uncle, mentor, and main kung fu teacher. A true account of the hidden Taoist spiritual practices, it describes the nei kung he used to become one of the most powerful, and the amazing things experienced by the author. This book describes the Taoist spiritual path of the warrior wizard, a rare and powerful physical, emotional, and spiritual cultivation system. It describes some of the other amazing students of this master, some of who are reincarnations of dragons from the spirit realm. Contents 1 - The Andes Mountains 2 - The Art of Flying 3 - The Bruce Lee connection 4 - “We are Dragons” 5 - Early Adulthood 6 - Sai Baba 7 - Meeting the Master 8 - Practicing the Path of Power 9 - Enlightenment Experience 10 - My teaching 11 - The Star Wars Connection 12 - The Path of the Warrior Wizard 13 - The Taoist Path of the Immortal 14 - Chi Kung vs. Nei Kung 15 - Masters of the Way

I do see the 3 dantians as each being brain-like in their own way and worth spending a lifetime developing, but I've always struggled to see all the organs as having consciousness.

WTF is going on, he asked - not expecting an answer.

Long man PAI ... not long man pay

the following just arose in awareness: as above, so below heal the heart, heal the whole

It's presented a bit bizarrely, and is one mans creation but from my limited reading, watching and correspondence I'd put LMP into an area like KAP, a very talented person creating a synthesis, a distilling of many energetic systems and traditions into something that draws from tradition, but without the trappings. SoG may look like he comes from a Mad Max movie, but the man has the mind of a scholar. He knows his stuff. I haven't been in contact with him for years, but he seemed to be a person of integrity who walked the walk. If you're looking for power, high energy route, this kind of 'Jeet Kun Do' of the energetics world could be worth a try (not my cup of tea). For that matter so could KAP, but I get the feeling that KAP is a less manic style of training.

LoneManPai is just ego run a muck. John says he is a kung fu master wont even call himself a taoist master but lonemanpai says he is a necromancer. Then Lonemanpai declares John is dead. An that people should join lonemanpai because it is just as great as MoPai. I mean Wow! What an ego. I mean John only had to find a real teacher baishee study for decades and then inherit his master teachings and school. But now some no name guy can make up his complete Pai (saying indirectly that he is better than Pak John). An people should join that.

LoneManPai? The name itself is an oxymoron... Questions. 1. Who is this guy? 2. Who is his teacher? 3. What skill did he master? Personally my time and energy is too precious to spend on a guy who's credentials I cant verify. There are too many real taoist masters out there to spend my time on a fake one. Chinese culture isnt bullshit they have lineage charts for a reason. Plus just teaching and having a couple of teachings doesnt make a Pai. An informal or formal one. Honestly just sounds like a bunch of kids who read Magus of Java too many times and are having fun on the internet and just making it up as they go.

Always figured those Kentucky woods were full of critters.

Wow. Quite the novel.

The Tibetan Yogas of dream and sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a lama in the Bön tradition of Tibet This book gives detailed instruction for dream yoga, including foundational practices done during the day. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006OHK2QK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o03?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This idiot learns things from others, incorporates it into 'his' sect and then tries to explain how it works. Of course he doesn't really know and so changes things as he gleans more info from the web etc. He removes any negative comments from his youtube videos that might show him up as a charlatan. He works by bombarding the web with video's and ceremonies that he invents and makes up based on some that might really be true. He has almost hundreds of videos with virtually meaningless content. Someone should really close him down and his fan club that are all in it to rip the general public off, just like Peter Popoff did, but in a different way.

Yeah, releasing resistance and going with the flow. The Art of Allowing. The Art of Feeling Better and Feeling Good. The Art of Relief. The art of letting go and letting god. LEtting go and letting flow. The art of Freedom. The art of loving unconditionally. Sometimes when people release allot of resistance, they often cry tears of joy. Due to a sudden surge of newly ALLLOWED flow, that feels so good, that the releasing of resistance expresses in a tear of joy, that tear actually contains the negative energies and toxins of whatever the negative resistant idea or believe that draw it causing discord and has been released. Reallowing full emergance of greater allowed fuller flowed consciousness of greater consciousness. This conscious practice of releasing resistance, that is the practice of meditation, is so beneficial exactly because one realises the actual true benefit of releasing resistance, because of their being fully consciously present as they're meditating and releasing resistance. While when someone sleeps, they also release resistance, but they're not always fully conscious of allowing it to happen. Often people then wake up and emmediately and unintentionally activate the habbitual thought patterns of resistance, and they feel bad and tired again instantly after awakening. And constantly going back to sleep everytime you feel bad, well, that can also be a path towards finding alignment with their soul. But it takes a longer while. But if one has the freedom to sleep whenever they want, surely, it is one way to go about it. But when one takes such a tiny small effort of meditating, which is really the most easiest practice, one can benefit for their entire life evermore. And when one meditates untill one can truely find that alignment and allow it and maintain it throughout their entire day. The benefits are not that different from what Jesus could accomplish. But one has to care more about how they feel, more than anything else. Meaning, unconditional love. For the purpose of allowing their soul, and furthermore, God, to fully flow through them for benefit of all, including self. It begins with the selfish desire for the benefit of all. But also a selfish desire for the benefit of self. For one realises, the greatest benefit that one can allow for oneself, is also the greatest benefit one can allow for all. To allow your true being to be always right here and now fully flowing through you. As all that you've truely become and will be the ever becoming of evermore. Ever so more fully allowed to flow through you here and now, as you meditate. Relax and focus on a sight or sound, untill your mind quietes, and you full self is naturally allowed to flow again. Full harmony of physical and non-physical consciousness is allowed again. For the benefit of self and of all.

The reason the heart is the central intelligence of your body, is not because it is the central intelligence of your body. It is because it is connected to the central intelligence of your body. Not because it is connected to the central intelligence of your body, but because it is connected to the central intelligence of all of existance and creation. The emotions that you feel, is due to a resonance or discordance between your physical energy and your non-physical energy. So when the Source of All Creation evolves evermore, expands evermore, non-physically, your non-physical greater being or Soul is always fully connected to that, and it also becomes the fullest most expanded version of all that you've become. This becoming is also due to your physical being experiencing life here. Your physical being is directly connected to your soul at all times. However, your soul or God, that is like 99% of all of creation. It is pure positive energy, it is not only always perfect, it is ever expanding and ever becoming. This becoming, is also due to your physical being here and life experiences. However, your physical life experiences may be the exact reason why creation evolves evermore, that doesn't mean that the physical body and being is bound to go with that flow of everbecoming. Your physical body is free, and can choose to go against the stream of non-physical energy that is at the Source of All Creation and Becoming evermore. When this physical energy deviates from your non-physical energy, it causes a discordance, that is indicated always perfectly by your heart felt emotions as negative emotion. So your sense of feeling emotion, is the most sophisticated energy translator that you have in your body. Your mind is also translating energy, but it translates it into a different pattern, of thought. These thoughts can deviate from all that "God" has become so to speak. So you might be thinking about something, that is not related to your soul purpose here in this life, and then you feel the discord of energy in terms of negative emotion. So that negative emotion is indicating you are energetically and trajectorily deviating from your soul purpose here in this life. In much the same way, when a truck driver deviates from the road, and hits the side bumpers of the high way, he emmediately feels he's gone off track, because his wheel is vibrating, and the truck driver realigns or steers the vehicle back into alignment with the original intended soul trajectory. Your physical senses of sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste, are also energy translators. But your emotional energy translator is directly speaking to the most important energetic relationship for any individual in their life always and ever. The relationship between your physical consciousness and your non-physical greater consciousness. This consciousness is energy. Your physical being can focus your mind into different energetic patterns. Focusing on the thought patterns and thought forms, causes the mind to emmit an energy, that expands, by virtue of aligning energies, and synchronising energies. So thought patterns become thought forms, etc. When these energies do not agree with the energies of your non-physical eternal becoming, you feel discordance indicated by your negative emotions. That doesn't mean the entire world is going to end. Because your physical mind does not create this physical realm, unless it is in alignment with its own greater non-physical intention, which means, your non-physical greater consciousness of your "soul" knows exactly what your purpose is, what the thing that has been decided to become is. So when you meditate, and you let go of thought, any discordance in your physical energy being relating to your greater non-physical energy being, is released. This is evidence by feelings of emotional relief. Thus then, when there is emotional relief, and furthermore, the clarity of mind, to focus in free direction. One can focus again, in such a way that is in alignment with your greater non-physical knowing that it has become, and is evermore becoming the evermore of it. So lets say that 200 years prior to now, has been many physical beings, who've been living life and experiencing the variety of contrast of this environment, and they came to certain conclusions of what could be better. Their physical life is one where this improved version of the life of humanity is allowed, because the Soul already has become it, and God even further so. However, this becoming is not physical, YET. And it will ALWAYS be that way. For even when humanity enters a state of paradise, where the lag of time between the Souls becoming and physical manifestational expression is allowed in less than a second, this high frequency, extra dimensional expression of ever expansion and evolution, quasi-physical or non-physical, still means that expansion is happening evermore, but it's just allot faster, that's it. Our physical life, may seem slow, but that is because we are not aware of all the massive immense complexity that is at play here in the evolution of humanity and this physical time space reality. And when we do become aware of it, one realised, that when you appear to be experiencing "negative circumstances" is actually do to an extremely positive preferred and deeply desired "thing" that is part of the greater soul becoming of also your soul. But most people are not even aware of their own soul's becoming. You did not come here into this physical life to want something, and then focus on how it doesn't exist yet. Because the life that you perceive now, it didn't exist a few hundred years ago. That didn't prevent it from becoming. And especially, it didn't prevent the soul and even God of those people who lived then, from becoming all of this we perceive now and more. Further so, our soul and God has already become all that we have asked for. It is a non-physical energetic being and becoming, that is always perfect and everbecoming. When you feel love, joy, or bliss, or any emotion that feels really good for you, doesn't matter what you call it or name it. That is an indication that your physical being, is energetically in alignment and in harmony with your Soul's Greater being and ever becoming, in that moment that you feel those positive good feeling emotions. That doesn't mean that you're suddenly reached the paradise of the future, it just means, that you're now fulfilling your life's purpose here. Which is to enjoy all that this physical environment has become, including you, while at the same time, you are moving along the path of least resistance, energetically trajectorily, towards all that will be evermore. Simple as that. That becoming takes a while, and you play your very important part in all of that. Simply by enjoying your life evermore. And the less you enjoy your life, the less your are joining your soul, the soul of everyone and every single thing in creation, and God, in the process of ever becoming. So you would only temporarily be in a state of resistance, or discordance, while remaining physically focused here in this life. That doesn't necessarily serve any purpose and it doesn't really affect the greater totality of being and ever becoming, including the totality of ever being and becoming of who YOU TRUELY ARE as a totality of being. Things are always improving thus, but it happens steadily. And the reason it may appear slow at times, is because we are in that moment not fully enjoying the ever becoming. Creation is not in a rush. Your existance is eternal, so the potential for joy is eternal, that is why you do not necessarily need everything to be perfect in order to come to realise how it can be perfect. And when you realise how it can be evermore so perfect, that is when you re-align your physical being with your Soul's Greater Non-Physical Conscious Knowing. And this happens through the guidance of the heart. That doesn't mean your heart contains the intelligence of your soul or God, it is just the energetic relationship between your physical being and non-physical greater totality of your being, that your emotions are indicating. Thus re-aligning your mind with what you truely love, as is the purpose of every single individual here, re-awakens the individual back into the infinite intelligence and inspiration of your Soul and furthermore of that which people call God, or any name you wish to give it. With God I am pointing at the always furthest most expanded state of being and becoming of ALL OF EXISTANCE, that is primarily non-physical, extending into physical through all of us aswell. But 99% of that is non-physical. Imagine how this entire universe is huge, and that is simply 1% of the totality of the being that you are part of. Each and every single individual here that you perceive, including you, has a Soul that is eternal and infinite, ever expanding and ever becoming, and every single one of that Soul is greater than this entire universe. Within this Soul, exists the entire universe, and through this universe, that the Soul has created through resonance within its consciousness, for the purpose of coming to know itself in all the way that it can, your greater consciousness of your soul focusing a small part of that consciousness into your physical body, right here and now. This entire physical universe you see around you, is all existing within your Greater Consciousness of your Soul (or whatever you wish to call your greater non-physical consciousness). And everything you perceive in scopes cannot be measured in non-physical, because your being is truely infinite and eternal. Most humans however ask "how come we don't already just know this stuff?" And the answer is simple. Simply because you simply can... Not know all that stuff, that is. Simply because your existance is infinite and eternal, and also thus infinitely free and capable of creating any experience you so wish, whatsoever. So you choose as a soul to come here into this physical environment, and forget everything. But that doesn't mean you are actually disconnected from God or Soul. That is simply eternally and infinite inpossible. Not possible. However, we did come here to forget, and become lesser consciousness, smaller consciousness. Focusing through the lens of your physical body, for the purpose of exploring THE FURTHEST MOST EXTENDED VERSION OF ALL OF CREATION AND EXISTANCE. Do you realise then how powerful you are, and valuable and important and worthy? You are literally on the leading edge of ALL OF CREATION of all that has ever been or ever shall be. That is focused you are. That is how fully you have become. How specific, how high of a resolution, how real. Even tho you appear to be less conscious. Back to why you can never be disconnected from All that is, non-physical and all of creation and soul and god. Because you are an extension of all of that. And when your connection or extension is becoming less of an connection, you feel negative emotion. The most disconnected state of being any human can ever experience here, is one energy that is indicated of its discordant energetic relationship between their physical being and non-physical greater totality of being, by the emotion of despair or fear, or even terror. If this discord and resistant energy is maintained for a longer duration of time, the disintegrated of the physical being ensues. So when the consciousness withdraws from their physical body, it re-emerges back into greater totality of their being, consciousness of pure positive energy, and emerges back into the totality of all that it has become, even beyond the scope of this physical universe. However, in the state of despair that one would feel in that case, they still are not ever going to be capable of fully disconnecting from ALL THAT IS, and this emotional indication of despair is the exact evidence of their connection. Furthermore, it is indicating a resistant connection, a less fully allowed connection, a more unnatural occurance. It is painful, and it is always going to want to release that resistance that is at the core of the reason why they feel that discordance. So that painful emotion is part of the infinite intelligence of your soul, and eternal wisdom and Source of All Well-being. Because when you feel negative emotion, you know exactly what it is you are thinking in that moment, that is causing that negative emotion. You can say "This doesn't feel good to me!" And so you would be saying "my soul completely disagrees with this. This is not of my purpose, furthermore it is the furthest most deviating thing from my life's purpose. It is thus the further most irrelevant thing to me and why I am here and why I've come here, and why I am evermore becoming." And it is usually due to a flawed premise or misunderstanding or flawed perspective of the physical environment which the individual is exploring through their physical being. The physical environment itself, is perfectly well and good, and in alignment with the Soul's greater intention of ever becoming. And it is most conducive of your ever becoming, in a way that is most joyful. As that positive good feeling emotion is an indication of your physical bodies consciousness being in full alignment with your soul's greater knowing. Which is your entire purpose and the purpose of this entire physical universe that you see all around you. When one allows themselves to focus their mind in such a way that allows the individual to feel love again, their physical being is in full alignment with their reason for existing and being here. That doesn't mean you are knowing everything that your Soul knows in that moment, why? Because your physical body is not existing for the purpose of knowing everything your soul knows. Your physical body is existing for the purpose of focusing a small part of the totality of consciousness of your soul through the lense of your physical body here for the purpose of exploring the furthest most extended version of all that has ever been, is or ever will be. The highest resolution so to speak. The most specific creation of your soul and oversoul and God and All that exists. And your emotions are always guiding you personally to align with your most important relationship in this life here. Which is with the greater totality of all that you are. Once that relationship is fully maintained and established, then one can live here in harmony with all that exists and will be becoming evermore, and you become a vessel or antenna for the allowing of the higher dimensional energies of your soul to flow through you here in your physical body and life, and express here in this physical life, for the purpose of physical expansion and becoming aswell. Just like how Thomas Edison felt high passion for light and flowed that love that is non-physical primarily, an idea, and imagination, for the purpose of feeling the love for all of it and excitement, which led the way to evermore expression and becoming, physically, on a journey of allowing their greater soul's knowing, to fully express here in this life, to fully become here in this life, for the purpose of the joy of the journey. And all that joyous journey, bit by bit, led to the eventual becoming of a light bulb. It may seem like a small insignificant thing to feel all that love and passion for a light bulb, but if you look around you now, you see light bulbs everywhere you look infact, going into space, you see the entire world lighting up on the night side. Every single individual here may not always be fully in alignment with their soul and flowing all of that infinite and eternal knowing all of the time, infact, not even Jesus was fully in alignment ALL of the time. It is also not required to always be so perfect. Realising this, just living life with the intention to feel better, emotionally, one can step by step fullfill their reason for being here. But even by not doing so, you still, in the greater totality of your being, always fulfilling your purpose. Even if you feel bad most of your life. There are always those moments where you feel good, so no life is completely unnecessary and worthless. For by that point, the individual always withdraws their consciousness out of the physical body. At which point the doctors declare you dead, or you've simply fallen asleep or fainted. But we don't need to die or even sleep or faint in order to reap the full benefit of all that we've become and will be the becoming of evermore. You can instead just fully allow your entire soul to flow here fully through you, by simply choosing to feel better, and thus eventually feeling good. So when you allow yourself to release that resistance, however you find relief from that discordant energy, meditating, or even imagining things you love, for the purpose of focusing that energy and feeling it more fully and allowing it to flow more fully through you, you thus then align more fully with your soul aswell. So whatever you do to feel better, is like doing nothing, and leaving nothing undone. You do nothing but you achieve everything that can ever be important for you to achieve here ever in this physical life experience, forevermore. Your aligning your energy with your soul, is an energetic alignment that affects your life on all dimensions! So when you feel good now, you are literally improving your entire future and past, through your here and now. That is truely how extra-dimensional you are and how divine your physical being is. And how worthy you are. You come back into alignment with your true reason and purpose for being here. So whenever you want God to speak to you. Simply listen to your emotions. If you feel worse, you are disagreeing with God, so you are less fully allowing your true purpose and true being to be here and now. If you feel better, you are agreeing with God more. And when you meditate, you release all disagreement, energetically, and thus, your full agreement, your harmonious energetic relationship and alignment of your physical and non-physical energy, naturally happens and occurs and re-aligns, effortlessly, automatically, back to your default state of being in full harmony, indicated by positive emotions. Full allowance of your soul to flow fully through you here and now. Even tho you are just a "tiny physical human being" or so it seems. But you'll never ever be disconnected from all that you truely are and will be the becoming of evermore.

The Synchronicity Key: The hidden intelligence guiding the Universe David Wilcock Crystal Grids Power. Ethan Lazzerini The Mystery of Iniquity: The legal prerequisite to the return of the Messiah Michael Rood The sermon on the mount Emmett Fox Pyramid Power: Science of the Cosmos Patrick Flanagan Sacred network megaliths, cathedrals, ley lines & the power of shared consciousness. - Chris Hardy The dark side of the brain Harry Oldfield The Planetary Matrix: Primary Ley line network of the earth Roy Snelling Everything you need to know but never been told David Icke

I have no idea who ”we” are or should regard worship of the Taoist Gods, but for myself i regard it with respect and curiosity. My own worship of Guan Sing Tai is under instruction and development trough Sifu so i regard that with comfort, serenity and more curiosity. In beginning it i chose to accept what would come from it and be sincere. I regard his effigy as if it were him and i pay my respects and beg forgiveness and patience when i see his house or altar improperly set up. For me Guan Sing Tai, Pak Tai and the Gods are what they are, i treat them with honesty and respect because i know they would not ever treat me without any consideration. I cant say exactly how or what they are, embodiment of principles, ascended immortals, supernatural or natural beings or whatever, it’s not perhaps so important to classify them or something when they can in fact be interacted with and it is possible to build a sort of relationship through worship. Ask me again in ten or twenty years?

Sifu is native cantonese speaker and he’s always said Yam-yong, except for when he says it in Mandarin by way of English and the he pronounces it Yim-Yan and the final g is almost silent. However the times i’ve witnessed him speak with strangers in chinese young folks have trouble understanding his dialect and he expresses himself in a pretty old fashioned way apparently, kids today huh?

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Hello, Chrissy, and welcome. Your membership is approved and we're happy you found your way to us. We look forward to accompanying you on some of the way that you still have to go. Please take the time to read the post pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum Terms and Rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, Fa Xin and the TDB team Hi Chrissy, Welcome. This community is very important to people who are truly on the path, as we know, it can be a lonely one. I hope you enjoy You are welcome to jump right in to the ongoing discussions, revive an older thread, start a new thread of your own, or start a discussion in the "Newcomer Corner" sub-forum to expand on your introduction or ask general questions to help you get started. May you enjoy your time here. Fa Xin

Yes, it is ... and must be, of necessity. Everyone must rely on their own experience ... and no two will match. Lonely ... But not sad.

I just wish i’d realized sooner that the basics and those ephasizing the importance of them actually knew what they were doing, instead of fantasizing about the advanced practices. I know today that speaking about these thing with people IRL is going to just be a way to alienate us both. To have a few people to discuss with would be great, i have two, which is enough. Energetic practices are not for everyone, the whole concept of actually shedding expectations and judgement to become intimate with what is real and so close at hand that it’s imperceptible almost is going to be hard to share with someone. Despite the internet this is a lonely road, and growing accustomed to self-sufficency should come earlier. People within and without will look at me funny, like i know deep inside already i should shun them. I’d tell myself: If someone says ”this is highly advanced” you should distrust them. If someone offers praise you should shut your ears and walk away. Only listen to the source and resonate with it. There is no prize, no acceptance, no destination of manifest truth so quit believing it will feel like you’ve arrived one day and just keep going, enjoy life in actuality. Peace

Can't she just behead everyone?????

True. There's also a big difference between this is what I think and this is what I was told to think. That's the main issue I struggle with, since my entire life is spent in pursuit of the question: what do I think? That's the essential reason why I am not doctrinaire in my thoughts. I am not a Taoist although I follow Tao. I am not a Christian although I believe in God. I am not a conservative although I believe there is much that deserves conserving. I am not a liberal although I take a live and let live approach to life. It's maddening to hear people parrot talking points in lieu of their own thoughts. That's the worst part of people, but I understand why it is so: following doctrine and embracing orthodoxy is easy; It's also lazy.

For me, a big realization occurred after having dedicated taijiquan/daogong practice for close to 15 years (around 2015). cultivation needs to evolve from physical/energetic to spiritual. If we follow the path and have a good teacher, we will evolve naturally. These techniques (any cultivation technique being used - qigong, taiji, etc) are means to an end. The objective of cultivation is (or should be) purification of the mind (in that, the tendency of the mind to attach to "this and that", and judge, and take positions, etc etc). A pure mind results in stillness of the ever fluttering veil that hides our true nature from us. The result of all practice should be end of practice and abidance in our true nature, constantly. Most importantly, the cultivation practices should be accompanied by spiritual (jñāna) teachings and study, so that the mind has a proper direction (this can be taoist, buddhist, vedanta, tantra, etc etc, but a proper framework is required). Missed the part about an easy daily set -- I still do the taiji single form/daogong forms. But it has now transformed into dissolving of the physical. A constant bliss always exists (a deep sense of well being, even when I might be physically unwell). Whenever I tried too hard for it (after having a taste), it went way. If I just let go of the desire for the bliss, it came back. Eventually I realized that it never goes away. It, along with the True Nature, is always present. Only the mind needs to be relaxed. Transmission to my younger self -- i was too dumb for any advice. You know our teacher already told us all we needed to know, but it took a long time to get through to me

I'm going to have to disagree with this point. I have a practice that I've done daily for 17 years now. Over the years this practice has given me such wonderful health benefits. I still enjoy doing it. It makes me feel so good. It has grown with me and it is a part of my life. I couldn't imagine NOT doing it. Even though I've tried other methods, I've never strayed from it. There is a saying: "Repetition is the mother of all skills", which, through years of dedicated practice I have to agree with.

Illness and discomfort should be gone. Endless positive energy that is always refilled no matter how much we use should be the norm. All relationships should be positive and be able to give the gift of uplifting energy to those who are down. In professional work we should be at the top of our game and show others how to exceed. In life and returning to simplicity we have effectiveness with less effort. What is simple for us could be unattainable or hard work for others. To show others the ways of energy healing and give them responsibility for themselves instead of people playing a victim card is important . These things can be passed on in an informal, non teaching way and within the working environment personally without any mention of the discipline we may practice. Give light to others as if they are part of your own family.

I lay no claim to any particular tradition ... except in my practice of taiji and then I follow the forms as taught by Chen Zhenglei. As for my Daoist views and energy practice, I proceed from the point of view that Daoism cannot be simply a philosophical mental exercise, that there has to be a physical practice in order to appropriately balance the physical, mental and spiritual aspects. Its like a three legged stool. Lose one leg and you're gonna have a problem. My practice tends to be sporadic. I will practice regularly for a while and take a break and then resume again. My practice is a simple ZZ, although I do use visualization in my practice. I did a little Zen Buddhist style study and practice for a few years but did not find it as meaningful and satisfying as Daoist approaches. What would I tell myself as a younger person looking into Daoist related arts? Keep going boy, you're on the right track.

What understanding did you come to, sweet friend?

'Chi Kung, Way of Power' by Master Lam Kam Chuen. I had to buy it used from Half Price Books. It's the only way I knew how to get it. I don't think it is in print anymore. It just arrived today. It took 2 weeks to get here, but it seemed like forever. I'm so excited to read it. It looks like it has a lot of different content than 'The Way of Energy'. I might be up late tonight reading it.

Stick around you'll be fine man!

You 'liked' my post here about his books: Maybe go with more specific questions. Here is my experience with him, which I have likely shared but I'll do so again. The books I recommended should be understood in order: I was able to re-produce everything he shared in those two... down to each form and MCO. In the second book, Tai Chi Chi Kung, see page 80-82, Arching the Arms or Embracing the Moon on the Chest. This must be tested fully. If you can re-produce what he says should occur, then you are truly ready to keep going on in energy practices. Qigong massage should be read by anyone who is doing massage... It covers the 12 meridians in a way everyone in energy arts should understand. The various points, gates, and direction to employ is great. The reflexology at the end is very good. If you really get through the first three, then Root of Chinese Chi Kung seems redundant... that is his problem as he tends to recycle his material too much. Root is a good first book to see his overall theory but the first three books in my list are better detail. This book adds a bit of qigong history and theory. Embryonic Breathing is in some ways a very disappointing book due to the lack of clear guidance on how to actually do the practice. The greatest gift of the book is page 153 onward of translations of ancient texts. This is my final opinion: I think his early materials are golden but he later resorts to recycling his material but adds something new in most cases. He comes from a martial art point of view and has hundreds of publications on that too... so I don't feel he fully grasps the Qigong, energy art side given someone who has published for so many decades. He is best to feed the martial art group, IMO. My Medical Qigong teacher went to meet him and while JMY claims to teach 'push hands' as his highest art, he refused to do it with my Medical Qigong teacher... and he was very smart to refuse. My Medical Qigong teacher only uses one hand to do push hands and he uses the other hand to manipulate his opponents Qi to seek out their weakness. He did this in Asian in competitions for many years.

I have been reading his book Embryonic Breathing for 8 months. It last because it's boring in the way it's written, many many repetitions... boring but interesting, the guy is a scholar with a large background practice and seems to be very serious in his study. Honest also, he says he doesn't masterize all what he promotes. I enjoy to find traduction of old alchemical books. I'll keep reading.

As much as i would like tai chi and contemplating nature to be my primary practices they're not! With few time to myself at this point in my life i need to be adaptive and practice what I can with the life that is given to me. So... after many internal struggles with myself because it is not , in any way, quite the contrary, a daoist internal practice I've finally let my instinct lead the way and started having as a primary practice 100 push-ups a day. I do them 3 at a time which makes me breath deeply for about half hour giving me the energy I need to keep up with my stressful life. A cold shower follows. Also pray everyday, Also try to be as mindful as I can of sensations in every short break that I have. Also, during the long trips on the passengers seat of my boss's car I keep practicing mentally my tai chi and my hatha-yoga, and... do I notice improvments in my practice? yes I do. Also find a few moments for walking meditation almost everyday.

I've found that physical exercise is a form of 'spiritual practice'. It definitely helps one develop Chi and mental strength. I've been exercising regularly for about six months, and I'm emotionally stronger and more confident and powerful in my interaction with others. There have been many studies done that demonstrate that exercise helps with emotions like depression and anxiety, and also stress. It doesn't require a ton of exercise to get the benefit. I just do a few sets of push ups, body squats, and calf raises, and curls with a dumbbell. I do each exercise twice a week. It sounds crazy that physical exercise is a great spiritual practice, but I've honestly found it probably at least as effective as meditation.

You ' know how to present evidence and argue it successfully, ' ..... not really . Why bring your long and boring argument here? . . . . the 'world of the internet ' ... sigh .... I realise it is the year of the rooster ... cant you find some other barn to crow from the roof of ?

You may also try boosting your kidneys and clearing your kidney meridians...

The classic taoist technique is to click your teeth together 32 times, then brush them with your tongue and swallow the saliva. Yogic: visualize a heavy weight attached to your chin and slowly lift it. Russian: chew a tablespoon of sunflower oil for 15 minutes. Do not swallow. Ayurvedic: brush with Vajradanti, an herbal tooth powder.