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Hi everyone! Been practicing Qi Gong on and off for a little over 5 years but first came across it more than 13 years ago via books - very excited to learn from this forum and connect with like-minded individuals

What I want to say is that the more Ming you accumulate during this life and the more virtuous your karma is, the less likely you are to encounter unpleasant situations during rebirth, and the greater your chances of attaining a fortunate rebirth. However, it’s also important to remember that practitioners who follow incorrect methods may find themselves in very distressing circumstances during the process of reincarnation. That is why it is so important to follow correct methods during current lifetime.

For most humans, rebirth is an inevitable reality, happy or not; it matters not. Reincarnation, the circle of samsara, is a well-studied mechanism over thousands of years that forces you to reincarnate. It does not guarantee progress, but it is built with evolution in mind. What you cannot learn in a single lifetime can be mastered in hundreds or thousands. Accidents happen all the time. The only question is that, while being the same soul, a new life might shape to be an entirely different personality. If you don't make it to cultivation in a current lifetime, there are even fewer chances to do so in subsequent lifetimes. For me, it was like a destiny, a higher power guiding from the first moments of life. I could not even resist or choose in this matter, although I was given the choice. Think of a train with an established path; it will be difficult, if not impossible, to stop it. The momentum building up through multiple reincarnations, walking in the same direction (cultivation), is unstoppable. An advanced practitioner could also pry open the human mind and dig into their past lives. I used to be asked to scan whether a person had engaged in any magical cultivation in their past lives. As for entities that feed on humans, they get more when you are alive; humans are like powerful batteries that have no awareness or control over their astral and mental energy vessels. You will not even know if they are feeding on you, not be able to defend oneself and can easily associate the distress caused by entities with some mental ailment or behavior disorder, or simply a lack of energy and willpower. When you are dead, you remain in bardo space (in between lives) as long as you do not run out of energy. Once you run out of all energy, your soul will be sucked back into the elevator of souls. Waiting to get dragged back on earth with a chain hook, during some sexual encounter between a man and a woman.

It probably got its 'Holy' reputation as it dispels nasties ( like the ones in stored grain and also in the soil ) . I am doing an experiment at the moment since my soil seems to have nasty nematodes in it - I have planted some out in separate containers ( from the garden beds ) to see if certain veggies grow better next to it . Also the excess ( as it grows so fast and well here ) makes a great Thai food ingredient . I recommend you also take some in the medicinal form . https://health.clevelandclinic.org/benefits-of-holy-basil .

The reason the plant is called holy is that there is a higher deva over-lighting the species. Give the plant light from your heart every time you look at it, and the deva will take you into its care also

I was recently gifted a holy basil plant and it's very easy to care for. The seeds spread and sprout easily leaving you with lots of baby plants. Once the seed stalk dries out just prune them. For purposes of prayer the traditional structure is usually placed in the center of the courtyard making it is easy to circumambulate.

... It means to not be afraid of people, by asserting that possessions and humiliation of oneself will never deter one from the "spiritual life". It's basically a way of saying that nothing in this world is actually as/more important than the inner quality of oneself. It's an enlightened person telling others to remain enlightened and not deterred by the evils of the world.

...well - there are different interpretations or "stories" about the death of Jesus... some people cite sources that say Jesus in fact was never crucified, but Judas was. Anyway you slice it - Christianity was a religion that combined symbols/stories/enculturation from other pre-existing ones and concurrent ones at the time of its proliferation by the Roman Empire. Anyway - the symbol of the cross has been observed throughout many religions across history. All of them - basically revere the symbol as a representation of balance. Christianity basically appropriated the symbol to be one of "sacrifice"...because the story goes that Jesus sacrificed himself for the greater good. That story is actually lifted form the Egyptian myth of Horus, having to sacrifice himself... which dates all the way back to sun worshippers witnessing the natural movements of the sun during the winter solstice... which lasts 3 days. Hence the whole sacrifice of the sun and 3 day time frame of resurrection. Western magic sources use the symbol of the cross as balance and interconnectedness. The Celts also used it in the same way. Christianity isn't really a good place to find truth...as it was completely made to subdue people into extortion for political gain. Some of it is able to be learned from, like the book of proverbs, the book of genesis, and the sayings of Jesus at times... but the dogma of it - is really confusing and mostly worthless in the pursuit of truth.

The theater of robots is a program that translates the text of a literary work into the appearance of virtual characters and their movements. Of course, it can be changed to control androids. For the demonstration work of the program, a sacred work is selected and an additional program is used, which forms character design according to the sacred meanings of words. In this case, the characters are composed of various elements that are selected in full accordance with words. In this case, it cannot be said that the program literally makes the staging of the text, like a film or performance, it uses the internal sacred properties of the text. Of course, the text can be inserted in any, but it is the sacred text that makes this program serious in a sacred language. Characters can also be forced to pronounce words, but it is very difficult to get a speech translator, especially since we are talking about a sacred language. And so to make the program say the words is not so difficult. Possible application - various training programs, for example, language.

After death, a person loses their yang aspect and remains in the yin aspect unless they are a highly advanced practitioner. Anyone who has ever experienced an out-of-body state understands what this means. In the yin reality, there are many different entities, and a person becomes open and vulnerable to them. All those stories about blissful experiences at the moment of death are partly true, while separation from the body is not yet complete, one may feel a sense of release and even happiness. But then the yang gradually fades away and few can tell what happens after that. I assume that one can end up in very unpleasant situations within the yin reality. Relying on a happy rebirth seems rather naive and unreasonable.

No, death is not suffering. The suffering comes for those who are alive when someone they know dies. For the one who died, it is a massive purge, a release, beneficial as it heals the damage acquired over the lifetime. It is also, for most people, an eternal rest. But for those deeply on the cultivation path, death is not an end. It is possible that in next life you will awaken inside a new body. The thrill of living again is indescribable. Cultivation of self is not an egoistic goal; by becoming more advanced, you become more valuable to the system, and it will find a better use for you. On the other hand, useless chips that have no practical use or value can easily get recycled. Planet prints trillions of new souls every year using all kind of random rubbish as a base. Enjoying life and connections in it is fine, but it is important to make meaningful progress. The opportunity to step on a path of evolution is hard to come by, and it can shape future for hundreds of upcoming lifetimes. The thing is --- it is possible to imbue objects with energy (Qi), and it is possible to compress energy. Energy is a force that can do work, so it would also be possible to program it. It is possible to find an object with inherent qualities yin/yang/element acting as a carrier for the energy, that would also contain and deliver an energy to a particular function or organ internally. So, with the above everything is possible. On other hand, that might be extremely expensive and impossible to obtain. Similarly, very few people on the planet are in the possesion of a genuine magic artefact. Everything takes time, work, energy, highly advanced things also take a lot of investment, I am talking about tens of thousands of hours of difficult training and learning. Now for the most people out there, they are not really willing to put even an ounce of effort into cultivation.

Thank you Steve, and condolences for your recent loss as well. Thank you for your vote of confidence. As I am a professional and have changed a bit the last couple years, I would rather not get into offering my opinion on forums as much as possible unless asked because it has led to too many arguments, misunderstandings, and if not my own prior volatility, other people reading it as hostility despite my intentions to be restrained due to my tone being too robotic or my attempts at sarcasm seeming rude. People who do want my opinion can ask me or just go to my page linked above. Such is a reminder that we are not unnoticed especially in our absence! Hello, old friend! I sent an email to you earlier this year and am glad I got to hear from you during this brief visit. Glad your health is better too.

Yeah, what happens then in your next incarnation? You remember all your skills? No warranty you get physical body again, some people souls can stick to the Yin reality after death for aeons. No warranty you will find right methods of cultivation. Daoist say you must cultivate in this life time

You can love yourself and people around you and then die. Is not death suffering? Buddha said life is suffering but there is the way how to overcome it. Right relationships matter but it is not only what you need to cultivate in your life

Not physical but what precedes physical manifestation. If your yuan jing is leaking you can't even dream about " spiritual unfoldment"