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He used to post here under the name Dao Zhen. You can check out his posts to get an impression of him. His archive here is great.

You could try Jesse Lee Parkers immortal arts online academy. I think it is really great. He just started it and hasn't uploaded all the material that will be there eventually but there is plenty of content for a long time already and he holds a live online workshop every two weeks or so as part of the academy.

I have seen people say that this form isn't proper Chen style but a form made more just to look cool. Is that true or is it genuine Chen style? It sure looks good though. I want to learn it regardless. I just wanna move like that. But it would be interesting to know if it is a proper form or not.

I have read about a memory exercise supposedly described in one of Wang Lipings books where one tries to remember everything one did throughout the day from the moment one got out of bed. Can anyone tell me in which of his books he writes about this?

Jeffrey Martins research on people who have had some sort of awakening found that severe memory issues was very common. It is also reported by numerous public teachers. It seems like it may be partially explained by many not feeling emotions strongly, or at all, anymore. Memory is very linked to the emotional charge one feels towards a memory. It seems it may also be partially explained by the loss of the ego structure that puts importance on what happens to oneself and sees oneself as an actor in a linear timeline. This blogpost covers this issues in more depth: https://thegloriousbothand.substack.com/p/more-on-memory-impairment-in-non I am wondering what the Daoist take on this is. I am almost certain I recall Freeform writing that this was well known in his tradition and seen as an imbalance they had practices to counteract. I would love to know more about that. I think Freeform has mainly practiced within the Longmen Pai lineage. I also think maybe a memory exercise that is in one of Damos books may be one of the practices used to counteract this issue. The exercise involves trying to remember everything one did throughout the day from the moment one stood up. One is instructed to try to remember more from the bodily sensations rather than emotions or cognitive memory because the bodily memory is supposedly more precise and less likely to be distorted than the emotional memory. If loss of emotions due to awakening is an important cause of these memory issues than maybe training oneself to remember despite feeling little emotions may be part of how this is dealt with within the Longmen Pai. Any information or perspective on this issue is highly welcome.