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  1. Posted

    Good stuff... Kosta sounds so smart, practical and down to earth and it's a great pleasure listening to him.

    It was good to get a few first hand facts also.

    My favorite: "...Sean ? which Sean? I don't know anyone name Sean ..." Lol

    The interviewers sound lame and stoned as usual...

  3. Posted

    Tribal people live effortlessly so much closer to the Way. Why do these arrogant christians feel the need to shove their beliefs down everyone else's throat? It's kind of neat to see this guy get the tsbles turned on him.

     

     

     

    I highly recommend his book. That is a very rare culture that somehow didn't get destroyed yet by the modern world...

  4. Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I would like to organise a Yi Gong seminar in Australia with Sifu Jenny Lamb later this year. See her website below:

     

    http://www.easterninternalarts.org/

     

    "Yi Gong is one of the highest Taoist Maoshan esoteric practices. Its system includes two aspects, spiritual and physical. The spiritual aspects have not been revealed to the public. The physical aspects include three levels, the spontaneous adjustment, celestial master points the way, and great water fall."

     

    In order to make her visit viable we need to see how many people would be interested in attending. I'm personally based in Melbourne, but we can have the seminar any place that would be most convenient for all.

    Please let me know if you are interested by either replying to this message or email me including your preferred city:

     

    [email protected]

     

    Regards

     

    Robin

     

     

    Could you please ask her if she can demonstrate her chi - in which case I would definitely sign up.

    Thank you.

  5. Posted

    I can claim to have met Sogyal Rinpoche in my friends flat in Manchester in 1973 (probably) ... he would have been at Cambridge doing comparative religion I guess. We were so disrespectful that we called him Soggy Old Rinpoche (we had no idea how to pronounce Tibetan names).

     

    I read his book years later of course and saw him give a talk ... also that bloody awful film he was in ... Little Buddha was it? Anyway I would say he is far from being a great master but of course that's my op.

     

    He likes to sleep with a lot of women .. so what? Some of those women feel used ... again ... not surprised. Its kiss and tell almost ... happens to politicians, rock stars, business men, sportsmen ... so again ... so what?

     

    Its all rubbish lets get on with our practice.

     

    Cmmon now, how can u compare and old tradition like that to a miserable life of a rock star or a politician and you are saying lets get on with our practice ? Practice what ? Your imaginary Dantien?

     

    You need a real teacher in order to learn anything (because a lot of serious mistakes can be made) and the best way of teaching is by example. And what if your teacher turns out to be a weak, pathetic useless jerk off who just knows the theory and can give a speech but in reality has the level of being of a hookworm?

     

    Wouldn't that concern you at all if you found out?

     

    These monks (or whatever they are) were supposed to carry the sacred flame and instead they "vaginalized" the most pure aspect of humanity.

     

    IMO they should have to pay somehow and never be allowed to represent a certain tradition (or any tradition for that matter)

  6. Posted

    I am not sure what you seek: A utopia of perfect beings? I hate to be the one to tell you, but you were born into the wrong race. Even The Great Way (Dao) would tell you this: Life arises in variation; as soon as we label it, there is good and bad; pretty and ugly; perfection and corruption. IT EXISTS because IT ARISES. Don't you ever see that among nature?

     

    What is it you really want in this life?

     

    This kind of denouncement of "money, sex, drugs" makes me smile... welcome to life. Learn to navigate your path.

     

    I am not seeking anything...

    I just didn't expect smb that's a "Lama" to be so weak and cheap, that's all. I know that the catholic church is full of sex abuse scandals but as a contrast in my experience I've met quite a few tibetan lamas that seemed to be very remarcable people - an impression that I've never gotten from a representative of any other religion. But now this just taught me to be more careful about my "labels".

    And I am sure other people will find the article interesting.

  8. Posted

    Yup, just attack me, like a child. In 5-10 years, I'll be a master, and you: You will still be exactly where you are. And you know what, that actually makes me sad.

     

    LittlePie!!!!!!!!!!!

    You are full of surprises man!

    Look how short and nice your post was! I knew you can do it.

    Congrats. See! That was easy!

    Oh and don't be sad for me please. I can't be a master even if I wanted to, I have very low IQ (and I am a junior high dropout :( )

  9. Posted

    I majored in philosophy at Northwestern University, and I have a genius I.Q. You think you understand what quality teaching is more than I do? You simply don't want to listen. Fine. You're not my responsibility. Perfectly ironic name, btw.

     

     

    WOW

    "genius I.Q" LMFAO

     

    I think u r so totally on the wrong forum Mr PHD "my Sh#T don't stink" LittlePie!

    You are way beyond anybody's level of comprehension around here.'

    You should join David Verdessi's site 'cause that dude has a GENIUS I.Q X 10... and can sell u more crap...

    Let me guess I bet u already signed up for Gary's amazing Gas Savings Card Scam that he advertises on his Chi Kung website didn't you :D ??????????????

     

    GTFO!!!

     

    I love Thetaobums!!!!!!!!!!!! it's just like the famous box of chocolates ... Where else would you encounter specimen like these............ FUN FUN FUN

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  10. Posted

    This reads like a commercial lol, LittlePie are you Gary ? :D

     

    I had exactly the same thought. Cause if you look at Gary's webiste - it's exactly the same style of selling that system. Very hype with prepared prelearned answers to all possible questions and flooding you with a never ending chat. I recognize that type of energy The Gypsies in Europe act like that when they are trying to get your money - all they need to do is get your attention, after that you get sucked into their trip and you will give them everything you have and even thank them at the end. They do have a certain skill but it's not what you think ....

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    I am not reffering to Qigong. I know Qigong can heal you.

     

     

    Any strong faith can heal you. You can call it Taoism, Jesus, Steve or Joe Pesci. It's about strengthening your mind and spirit. If you concentrate on one thing for a long time (I mean years) your mind will become stronger - that doesn't mean that you will know how to use it in the right way though...you still have to learn qigong. For example a champion weightlifter is superstrong, yet he can still hurt his back while carrying a piano

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    PS: Knowing that forums, I guees there will be some people trying to ridicule me and discredit me without any reason.

     

    Nobody will discredit and ridicule you here for no reason. You sound honest and genuine and speak from your own experience(a rare thing on this forum). Thank you for sharing your succesful story with the rest of the readers.

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    Orb,

     

    A HA.

    what's that mean "我可以帮助支付水平排名第三和第四个层次" ? Is it in Mandarin or in Cantonese ? Sounds like this sentence ("我可以帮助支付水平排名第三和第四个层次") is translated by "translation software".

     

    Orb, stop pretending you know Chinese --- the most beautiful Writing language. Sure you know the Gangs of ID "the taobum" scared by the policeman's trapping, return the money to "More_Pie_Guy". Even though, "the taobum" scared to return the money to "More_Pie_Guy", the case is not over.

     

    WTF, I just saw ur cockblocking reply now.

    I don't pretend I know chinese, Gaxtal. Of course it's a translation software, genius. I was interested to see if the manual has any good info and doing my best to get a copy of it. That's all. I was suspecting and now I know for a fact that it was a scam. And I couldn't care less if it's written in mandarin, cantonese or motherf@#$ing swahili. You can keep your "most beautiful writing" to yourself.

  21. Posted

     

     

    So all these new users as soon as they join TTB with an honest desire to learn and/or contribute to the taoist way of life - 3 different users they all make a first post about the misterious Master Young who has a very nice smile and just can't wait to share his abundant chi with other people. Also all 3 posts use exactly the same style of writing - probably due to the essay writing skill transmission that Master Young included as a bonus during the free session of unlimited Chi giveaway. I mean the guy didn't even bother changing the title. All 3 posts have the same title! Or I'm just bloody paranoid!!!

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  22. Posted

     

    The Master has not the need to transmit anything

     

    Q

     

    I am afraid I have to disagree with you on that one. If you learn something only for yourself and for your own benefit then you are not going to get anywhere - guaranteed. It HAS to benefit others as well. And then, also there's an old esoteric law that states that for a person to move to the next level - first he has to put somebody else on his level. You can't move up without putting somebody else in your place. That's why most of the times you can judge a master by his students. If he can't teach a certain level - then he didn't master it yet. So a master totally needs at least one student even more then the student needs the master.

  25. Posted

    Anyone not a student of these Tenaga 'Masters' can punch any one of them in their useless faces.

    Put any master anywhere who claims to be able to use his chi 'only' to flip someone away, or to deflect his attacker, with zero contact... put them next to any real martial artist who is trained to fight, Including me, and watch them/me punch the noses right off their tenaga faces... lol

     

    Now all nonsense aside, Full respect goes to their energy cultivation system, but over and over again these lame ass demo's have been shown to only work on that masters students, or on students who really believe in that masters abilities...

     

    Some one show the golden bamboo school to this noob.

     

     

    So true.... every single word. People would rather believe anything they hear then test it. It should be the other way around. Don't be afraid to test your masters, people. It might help them out too. Some of them are just too naive.