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I've been hearing about the wudang orbit and want to know how it's different/better than the more widely practiced one's.

I'm surprised no one here has any hands on experience with this red dragon method. I'm going to assume that's it's all marketing hype.

I asked this question about a year ago lol I'm still kind of curious about this. Is this some sort of "add on" for a standard orbit? What makes it so special? Is it even worth learning and delving into? In some respects it sounds pretty dangerous too. This method is being marketed as being more effortless and more powerful than any other orbit method out there. Is there any truth to this?

What makes the practices difficult?

Thanks for the replies I have a few other questions regarding kunlun. 1) Is kunlun a truly more effortless form than healing tao (especially Michael Winns version of the system)? 2) Does kunlun specificaly aim to achieve the goal of learning to remain/become conscious during the state of death? I think a truly effortless practice is perfectly suitable for me. I wouldn't mind putting in 90 minutes a day to spiritual practice. 2 hours or more is pushing it in my very hectic life.

While in traditional qigong forms progress can take many many years of diligent practice and study, in reiki progress takes up to one year. I've heard of reiki masters opening up their microcosmic orbits in 15 minutes time. Qigong practitioners can take up to two years in opening up their microcosmic orbits. Why is this the case? When I speak of reiki I mean it in its original form consisting of three levels (shoden, okuden, shinpiden).

This makes much more sense. A big jump in ability in the beginning followed by stagnation later on. I hear of beginners in qigong taking many years before they can even sense ki. By reiki 2 (okuden) people experience ki and even more so by shinpiden (level 3). I'm not implying that reiki is the best energy system since the beginning of time. I only wanted to know why initial results tend to be much faster for absolute beginners compared to other systems. Is it the attunements?

What are Tulpas and what do Taoists recognize them to be? How do Taoists go through with bringing them about energetically speaking?

I can only find sources that link back to Tibetan Buddhism. I wanted to know what uses this may serve for a Taoist and how Taoists go about in creating them. As far as I know people online create them through meditation (takes many months) and there are also ways (which I'm unable to find) to create them energetically and it's typically much quicker and not limited to psychological phenomenon.

Anybody?

Is kunlun a subset? I hear of very speedy progress there as well. And it's neigong. Not qigong.

It still takes a SIGNIFICANT longer time to create a qigong master than a reiki master.

I just want to know your opinions. Immortality does exist in nature (jelly fish) as does immunity to deadly viruses (crocodiles). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T0lvxTm2iLg

How is this achieved in Taoist practices? Any lineages that teach this?

That's depressing. I tried to fight it (my constant need for sex) and go full monk but I just couldn't do it. I went into a depressed and unmotivated state until the promise of sex showed up and it lit a fire inside me. I need sex in my life and typically it's all I think about. I wish I could find one of those elusive nymphpmaniacs. The only place I ever hear of such women are in porn or on the Internet so I'm beginning to question it's existence. I find that many women would put on the act of being a nympho but once the relationship gets more comfortable the frequency of sex takes a nose dive. The sexual slavery comes through being manipulated through your need for sex.

Has anyone tried the seasonal qigong series by Robert Peng? http://www.robertpeng.com/jieqi/

I'm sure some of you here are familiar with the Feldenkrais method. Can't the same benefits along with effortless movement, increased sensory awareness and lightness of the body be achieved through activities such as tai chi, tao yin, aikido, karate & judo?

I'm not even sure if I'm asking the right question. On one end I get the response that Taoists do not believe in reincarnation and on the other end I'm told that at death all the different shen split off from the body of a person, go about their own way and merge together elsewhere with different energies to form an entirely different person. Can someone clear this up for me?

Probably more widespread in India because of Hinduism.

I found this audio course by Ken Cohen http://www.soundstrue.com/store/taoist-healing-imagery-4206.html I want to know if anyone is familiar with it and it's effectiveness. What are the visualizations like? Can they be considered "advanced" and on par with their Tibetan counterparts? Also, how are your experiences with Ken Cohen? SoundsTrue offers excellent products and usually the teachers are awesome as well so I'm thinking this is gonna be a great and extremely useful purchase.

I thought chi gung was also banned in China and people had to practice in secrecy unless they migrated to Singapore or Taiwan. For some reason the Chinese government isn't having any of it.

I've never taken kyokushin but I really like the system. It scares me off though because the training appears to be really brutal. On the other hand those guys can endure some vicious beatings and you can't really hurt their body due to their conditioning. I seen Muay Thai guys (with shins developed to be as hard as a ball bat) hit the body of a kyokushin practitioners over and over again AT FULL FORCE for the duration of a fight and these karate guys do not go down and keep coming at the Thai's like a raging bull. I believe they use iron shirt and other forms of qigong (kiko in Japanese) throughout their practices. Pretty insane. So I need some opinions. Should I even consider taking this if I'm concerned for my long term health and does a well conditioned body stay strong and healthy after many years?

This was taken from http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/dharmadata/fdd48.htm

There is also arguments stating that the Buddha was NOT a hindu as there was nothing remotely close to hinduism established at the point in time he was alive. Also, as mentioned before, Shakyamuni was never a proponent of reincarnation. Reincarnation in Buddhism is accepted almost exclusively by Tibetan Buddhists. You see hindu deities being spoken of in Tibetan Buddhism as well as the shingon sects in Japan.

It's primarily the vajrayana schools (Tibetan Buddhism) that concern themselves with reincarnation. The theravada and mahayana (zen) schools mostly reject the Brahmanic and Hindu concept of reincarnation. Most Taoists that also practice Buddhism I assume would fall under the mahayana (chan/zen) schools. They believe in rebirth but it's not the same as reincarnation. Rebirth means that the person is consistently changing into a new person every moment.