Taoist Texts

i remember reading him a long time ago. It is an ok read for an absolute nubie but otherwise a waste of time, particularly his Taijiquan books

i am a master of my domain oh i just ask questions, i never argue;) ...and i never get angry;)

sure. ask any WLP student what did they get from him exactly? Ask how WLP got in cahoots with David Verdesi and how they disowned each other over the seminar fees? Ask what WLP got and where is he now? All of this is so past century anyway;) ...its like arguing whether the Ninja Turtles can beat the Transformers, hehe

it is actually a red flag. however i was speaking of personal achievements. Brine is teaching neidan. Without having the neidan. Which is hilarious but hey, to everyone his own;)

he is excellent. the gold standard in the field.

depends on what you want to get out of him. he is par for the course meaning he got nothing, also a boomer.

i took a look. he is par for the course meaning he got nothing.

Since you are in neidan you will know these two books, only through which the west first learned about neidan back in the previous century: https://www.amazon.com/Taoist-Yoga-Kuan-Charles-Luk/dp/0877280673 and https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Golden-Flower-Chinese-Book/dp/0156799804 The first one is directly WL and the second one was disseminated in china as a part of the WL corpus There is a little bit on the history of the Kunlun Xian Zong Pai here: Daoism in the Twentieth Century Between Eternity and Modernity Edited by David A. Palmer and Xun Liu University of California Press https://escholarship.org/content/qt13w4k8d4/qt13w4k8d4_noSplash_8e98d381b968a669408d84dbcf68a8a9.pdf?t=lyu9kg and here is your WL connection

Of course. In my reality, the trad ones verbally explain the milestones very clearly (e.g buddhist jhanas). the modern ones who attain the milestones also do so (e.g one of my students). But thank you very much anyway.

in general when the modern mystics try to share, they undermine it by not providing definitions and by not providing concrete examples. While the intent is commendable, the message is fuzzy. If you want us to understand what you write you should explain that in your mind a thing is not an object. because it is kinda clashes with a dictionary. Then, pls provide an example. like here. i am very interested in what @stirling says but i have to ask him for an example 'how the emptiness feels like, what do you see?' otherwise i dont know what he is trying to say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning

to trigger the parental instinct of the listener “Feo Fuerte y Formal” what he said

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/low-voice-pitch-increases-standing-among-strangers/ lower pitches seen as more attractive and formidable formidable, sacre bleu!

Nagarjuna, an ancient Indian philosopher, and a teacher of Mahayana Buddhism: "Nothing of Samsara is different from Nirvana, nothing of Nirvana is different from Samsara. That which is the limit of Nirvana is also the limit of Samsara, there is not the slightest difference between the two."[38] this is a pretty horrible transl. this one is correct. Also this paragraph is not about 2 objective, external, true/false realities. It is about the men losing dao in their minds.

陈泥丸云：人人皆可 he does not have any, which is good because they did not dupe him. he studied books, which is bad because he did not understand them.

oh wow thats a long time. You must have made great achievements by now.....right? you sure must be one of them...right?

i find it fascinating how the amateurs always directly 180 degrees oppose the tradition. They do that because they are materialists. Spirit is a direct opposite of matter. The more you try to prove spirituality - the more deluded by materialism you get. Now the human mind is matter. The more they the try to prove spirituality through massage, zapping, healing - the more deluded by their materialist mind they get. (also the more ridiculous they look hehe) lol. if your spirituality is not just in your head - then it is a delusion this is exactly what i mean by materialism directly opposing the tradition. its textbook hehe. of course in the tradition iddhis (sic) are the direct opposite of physical bodies/things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iddhi so funny, gets me every time;)

这有什么有趣的呢？

nice pajamas hombre him who coined that old hat puts it best 'I sit and forget everything.' Zhongni changed countenance, and said, 'What do you mean by saying that you sit and forget (everything)?' Yan Hui replied, 'My connexion with the body and its parts is dissolved; my perceptive organs are discarded. Thus leaving my material form, and bidding farewell to my knowledge, I am become one with the Great Pervader. This I call sitting and forgetting all things.' ........Zhongni said, ' Zhuang-zi says it is actually a Confucian thing. Since he was the first to write that term down , he probably knows

good job on translation. just one small thing: what you rendered "sitting with concealment" “隐机而坐” is actually this posture leaning with one elbow on a small table or a pillow

¡Santiago y cierra, España! of course. things have to get worse before they get better;)

oh totally. just like Spain was in 722. -“She is risen!” -“She is risen, indeed! However, Police Scotland has since said in a statement that the author's social media posts about transgender people are not being treated as criminal. https://www.newsweek.com/jk-rowling-transgender-people-jordan-peterson-megyn-kelly-1886421

a motherload https://www.amazon.com/Meditation-Health-Thomas-Cleary-ebook/dp/B005P8E6BG

it is ok to be confused because this passage does not specify the MCO by name 周天 but implies that it has happened. Here the MCO is mentioned under the code formula of "reversed the five agents and have brought the eight trigrams together". The translator adds to the confusion by never using the term 'orbit' (instead he uses 'celestial revolution') https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=55952&remap=gb so this passage describes how the MCO has been completed and the embryo has been 'firmly sealed' as i mentioned earlier 牢固封闭 to answer your question, this passage says: 1 first circulate the MCO, 2 then stop the MCO , 3' firmly seal' and heat the cauldron which by now contains the embryo. https://www.goldenelixir.com/files/Ruyao_jing_Commentary_SAMPLE.pdf page 28

Look @blue eyed snake, first of all i agree with you that any method is dangerous. So thanks for stressing that one more time But 1 no method is more dangerous than everyday living. look up the traffic accident statistics 2 as to a trusted teacher - A) there is no such individual, because you see all the marks are ripped of by someone they trusted, otherwise they would not get ripped off B ) a teacher guarantees nothing especially a digital one hehe. check out their ads - not a single guarantee there even if its not, it is still hilarious how they got triggered and ganged up on you;) very amusing. particularly because they have no relation to subject matter (well except @SirPalomides he is a jolly good fellow) the important thing is never to get angry at the hecklers. the show must go on.