Earl Grey

10 hours ago, stirling said:

Earl,

 

We haven't interacted much but it was always clear to me that you had experience that was valuable to share. 

 

I takes a special kind of bravery, and more than that, a surrender, to admit those aspects of our humanness that live in the dark corners of our psyche. Your first post in this thread is is definitely the way to burn off some karma! My deep congratulations on your insight into your own mind. How fortunate that the way through is all around you! 

 

Deep bows from me, sir. I look forward to seeing your avatar on the board again.

 

Thank you for the warm welcome and vote of approval. I definitely could have avoided most arguments here had I known better, and I ascribe that same understanding to others here, including those who are still provoking me privately. 

 

Many times we do not present in the best way our intentions and information, and others in turn despite our best efforts project and misunderstand. So if we are barely seeing the truth buried under poor presentation and poor understanding, how can we really get mad and hostile when clarity is not always present? 

 

The onus is on me to step aside and just take the loss to any argument, as even now, some people think my Akashic, qi, and sadhana and spirit encounters are all made-up. It doesn't matter--I will remain in my lane and they can stay in theirs, but I wonder how they can continue driving when they are not focused on what's in front of them due to the distractions they get from looking at other people...and I am guilty of this as well.

 

I won't be here too long as I need to focus on my True Will as my dear friend below talks about...but I will make the most of my visit.

 

1 hour ago, Nungali said:

 

It turns out my email is  faulty and every thing I responded to did not get sent    ( apparently due to me not setting my phone up properly on purchase ... I didnt 'allow' all sorts of things relating to  'spying' , following , my 'location' etc .  

 

Hopefully I fixed that with a new emali address working through my lap top  ???    Anyway, I'll give it a go   ( I'll send it in a PM  )  

 

Good on you for being thorough and protecting yourself though. From what I have seen in the Philippines that I will share privately, data security is really important given that this country is patient zero...

28 minutes ago, bradley said:

 

 

I noticed on your site you have a section titled divine art.  Do you have any interest in sharing some images of your work on this site? I liked what you said on your site "From Buddhas to celestial beings or abstractions and personal messages, art communicates things beyond the boundaries of language, often bringing wisdom, healing, and connecting us both to our deepest psyche, offering guidance from beyond." The connection between art and spirituality/enlightenment, as well as self understanding, has also interested me greatly.  Good thing is, you can never argue with art, as it is its own expression and experience :  )

    

 

I share it on my site, primarily. Bits and pieces here and there, either of bodhisattvahs or celestial beings. Other times I make non-linear art that comes from feelings when connected to the Akashic or after long sessions of sadhana and neigong. 

 

In future posts I will share some spirits I have seen when mountaineering...in fact, this is a draft of what I am writing now for my next post on the site.

On 10/26/2025 at 12:41 AM, steve said:

Very nice to hear from you @Earl Grey!

I appreciate you sharing your experiences and insights and I wish you continued growth and success on your path.

See you around, for a while!

Best,

steve

 

Thank you Steve, and condolences for your recent loss as well. 

 

On 10/26/2025 at 12:50 AM, seedling said:

Good to hear back from you Earl Grey.

 

I hope you don't stop expressing your concerns about practices. When I joined the TDB you were the one to advice me on looking into Qi deviation and sickness. It led me into reading and learning more about qigong, eventually quitting the practice.

 

 

 

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.

 

On 10/26/2025 at 1:39 AM, forestofclarity said:

Hello EG. I figured you were still alive since you were posting on Reddit.

 

Good luck in your endeavors and hopefully your practices continue to bear fruit (for the benefit of all beings)

 

 

Such is a reminder that we are not unnoticed especially in our absence!

 

On 10/26/2025 at 5:28 AM, Nungali said:

Hi      Good to hear from you.  I am still alive too ... for some reason    ( although the 'close calls' seem to have gone away lately ) . 

 

    You have come through a lot  ( including what happened during covid, volcano eruptions , life 'difficulties'  ....   etc .   I am glad to  hear you 'held the course' and now do what you were trying to achieve many years back , got over the setbacks and hurdles , learnt  how to deal with and work  with  your 'special talents'  ... in short ; followed the path of your  True  Will .    .

 

 

 

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. 

53 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

Good to hear from you, Earl Gray.  I still remember some details from the Akasic reading you give me several years back which I found very helpful.  It sounds like you are doing well.  So glad.

 

(Incidently, you are not the only neurodivergent Bum that has gotten into repeated skirmishes with the mod team.  I suspect this happens a lot.  Leadership here seems to value people who can easily let things go and happily disengage.  I´m no expert, but believe that this kind of easy-going attitude is not associated with neurodivergence.)

If there is proper diagnosis and early intervention with the right treatment plan, neurodivergence can be manageable and we can be easy-going.

 

As I grew up in an abusive family and developed many traumas, my neurodivergence gives deeper wounding to an already sensitive nervous system that registers sound, light, and touch more intensely than neurotypical people. Thus, it makes me more on edge and combative due to one trauma of being unworthy and often taken advantage of, by both teachers who financially manipulated me and students who devalued me.

 

I don’t lament my suffering and struggle now, as I see my suffering as a gift and this body as an even greater gift to burn off karma and recognize many people do not have awareness, support, resources, teachers, or drive to better themselves. So it makes me more patient and accepting of some of the posts that some have made that used to irritate me for years here. Let people go where they want and I will remain in my own lane.

 

I will try to disengage if anyone does try to provoke me during this brief stopover, and if moderation doesn’t seem proportionate to what I hypothetically may encounter, I will just bite my tongue and return to creating content for my site and podcast, along with raising capital from investors for appropriate equipment.

Sri Matre Namaha and Namo Amitabha Buddhaya,

 

Hello everyone, 

 

Just passing through. I was informed of a few deaths and saw that I was mentioned a number of times since my departure for a couple years. 

 

I was reminded of my mortality many times in my pilgrimage the last year, and immediately after while repairing relationships since then after some shifts.

 

Here I am sharing a few insights I wanted to share that re-contextualizes past conflicts here and has vastly improved my life.

 

1. I was diagnosed last year shortly after turning 41 that I have Autism and ADHD--otherwise known as AuDHD.

 

This means I am tone deaf and sound a lot angrier or more argumentative than I need to be without realizing how it would be perceived by others.

 

My info dumping is a feature of neurodivergence, and this can be seen as being disingenuous by others, even if I and many people like me believe that clarity will help free people from wrongful assumptions and mischaracterizing my intentions. 

 

My hyperreactivity also comes from rejection sensitivity dysphoria, or RSD, a feature of ADHD. Many times I would perceive some remarks from people as a personal attack and overreact. It is better to assume good intentions and take the loss before getting into an argument since nobody wins.

 

2. Cultivation absolutely affects my condition for better or for worse. 

 

The right cultivation with qi, diet, and spiritual balance (separate from energy work) can moderate the physiological and neurological differences in my body. The wrong cultivation can make them worse, especially when bringing excess energy to my head. 

 

It is not my business if people want to do practices that can harm them, as they are not my students and I am not an expert, I am just a specialist at best. I don't get paid to argue and I don't teach for free. 

 

3. Anyone and everyone can eventually be better when we yield that responsibility back to them and God/Dao/the Universe

 

I lost many friends, including TDB member Nature Beeing or Beeing Nature, also known as Natursein on YouTube, who passed several months ago of Liver Cirrhosis around April or May as his partner informed me via WhatsApp. Some of those relationships were healed just before these people died, and some never got that resolution. 

 

As I can't wait for others to come around, it is on me to work on myself and be better instead of waiting for them to come around as a prerequisite to improving myself or reconciling. 

4. Neurodivergence does make me more sensitive to energy and spirits

 

Before my diagnosis, I noticed things in nature that I didn’t realize others couldn’t perceive. After my diagnosis, my therapist told me it’s common for us to see things and because I see better when relaxed and peaceful while when stressed I don’t perceive anything easily, I realized neurodivergence is a unique operating system,

 

As such, I read oracles better, can notice energy quickly, and as there are several levels of third eye opening, I can sense the other side a bit better, but still need more refinement since it could be a lot more given the new responsibilities given to me by new teachers whom I have met. 

 

Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. I will stay around for a week or so to answer any questions if people had any related to my practices or me. Otherwise, you can visit my new site at innerexpeditions.squarespace.com.

 

Thank you everyone. 

 

Sri Matre Namaha and Namo Amitabha Buddhaya.

I saw this thread a while ago and I am posting here in the forum one last time to say goodbye because I am done discussing, arguing, and being taken advantage of by people who have sought me out to learn only to demonstrate undesirable behavior (e.g. lying about what they could afford and cheating me because I'm "unknown"--just like many hidden masters in the East; or arguing about another teacher or video they saw instead of following the process.

 

Yes: I don't come here or publicly discuss cultivation anymore because it is no longer my thing. But: I did make some friends here and can say that just under 7 years of being here did contribute to some of my own learning.

 

So this is goodbye with a video of me doing fajin and another video of me rooting on my YouTube channel, which is not martial or cultivation focused, but highlights parts of me. I am also linking to my ko-fi page to show that I am doing art--visual, musical, and literary art, alongside my vlogging.

 

I'm not re-enabling my inbox here to be contacted by anyone, but if you really want to get a hold of me, you can do so through ko-fi or YouTube. I accept there will be trolls and people mischaracterizing me or calling me all sorts of insults (including one member whom I thought was a friend who somehow keeps creating new dummy accounts all the time). But at this point in time, I'm at peace with being me, and whatever you feel is your responsibility, not mine. I'm only in charge of what I say, do, feel, and think, and that's already a huge task for anyone to manage.

 

 

 

Here's my ko-fi page too: https://ko-fi.com/waterpoint. If you want to commission short fiction, poetry, an illustration, or even a session for Akashic/psychic/cultivaton stuff, drop me a line.

 

I'm currently on pilgrimage in nature in the Philippines, supported entirely by donations since December, and hope to raise a little more (to the tune of $400 or more) to make it to the final mountains in April through May.

 

And to all admins and people I've had conflicts with before, I apologize for any hurt or harm I have caused both deliberately or unknowingly, and I leave you with peace and love in my heart.

 

Don't quote or reply to this post--I am logging out forever unless admin demands to talk with me for one reason or another.

 

Peace to all of you, and farewell. 

There is no golden body, it’s an exaggeration from a mistranslation.

 

Anybody claiming to teach it is a huckster.

 

The OP has publicly made disingenuous and dishonest posts pretending that his demanding and disrespectful PMs to various people never happened. Also, he has been extremely hostile towards the few who offered help to him out of generosity, which he also pretends never happened.

 

Anyone who insults yet demands help for free in the same message is not a newbie, and deserves neither guidance nor coddling, no matter how well one appears to be a victim to those who know no context.

5 minutes ago, searcher7977 said:

 

How is it you can represent such a legit system as Flying Phoenix Chi Kung, and yet so ruthlessly mock people, particularly newbies posting on here looking for help? I've seen your reddit posts too. 

 

You make your lineage look bad. 

k

 

Unless you’re a master with understanding of qi and TCM, making up your own qigong set is only going to either waste your time and achieve nothing, or harm you.

 

Let the people who make up their own qigong sets from watching YouTube be your evidence by looking at what lack of development they have, no matter how New Age they may appear.

1 hour ago, BluePhoenix133 said:

I was thinking of getting a Kuan Yin statue but non of the ones i have looked at are close enough to what i saw in my minds eye, i do however like this one and am considering buying it.... now if only i knew where to put it.

 

Please create a separate thread about purchasing a Kuan Yin statue so people can focus on Flying Phoenix. 

 

1 hour ago, centertime said:

How would he know what a good teacher is and where he can find them?

 

Look at the students of anyone claiming to be a teacher and judge by the fruits of their teachings.

Whoever you were then, that's not who you are now. Welcome.

A late message, but just posting to say thank you to the mods for granting my request to restrict my access here for my voluntary exile. The clarity and peace of mind after working on several life projects has been immensely helpful.

3 hours ago, Chang dao ling said:

My goal is to learn. Do you know any neidan teacher living in India?

No. Good luck.

3 hours ago, Chang dao ling said:

Hi, how jing is converted into qi and how it is formed as a golden core? If someone achieved gold core stage this person won't age? Can we call him human immortal? What are the properties of golden core?

If your goal is to learn, find a teacher. If your goal is to discuss, prepare for many contradictory answers from different people here.

Look at Osho's students and see their development.

Look at Osho's crimes and see if you want him as a model to follow.

Look at people teaching from Osho's drivel and see how their development is.

 

This is all you need to know about if you're seeking to develop the third eye from what you've read in Osho's work.

15 minutes ago, Trunk said:

The powdered collagen I find very convenient.  (I bought mine at Trader Joe's; I've not tried the super-duper one at Amazon).

I started out with 1/2 the rec. dosage and have moved to much less than that, lol.  ... but I get to micro-dose regularly, super convenient.

The one thing I was concerned with is that it feels that it draws in deeply into some dense tissue ... some things need to percolate *out* (especially if health situation is complicated).

I found that a couple of amino acid products produce really good circulation and (by my feel) complement the powdered collagen nicely.  (After some experimentation separately, I now take them all together).

Branch Chain amino acids

L Arginine w/ Pine Bark

 

- Trunk

 

Ah, I can't buy powdered collagen easily here, and so I just throw an entire chicken, bones and all, plus any other chicken bones, into an instant pot to pressure cook for three hours with a pinch of salt and tbsp of apple cider vinegar. The gelatin and collagen that comes out is still pretty good.

 

Drink it in the morning when you wake up and after dinner--you'll quickly find your health improve.

I make mostly chicken bone broth for both me and my dogs. Good for gut health and metabolism too. The best thing besides helping my joints is that my dogs farting don’t stink up the room anymore.

4 hours ago, EFreethought said:

 

Is that decision permanent?

 

You'll have to ask him as he had temporarily made them available digitally very briefly, but then decided upon consultation of the I-Ching that it was not in his best interests...so he stuck with DVDs for now.

On 1/27/2023 at 4:24 AM, a5a5a9 said:

Is there a downloadable version of the FP DVD?  I do not live in the U.S .

 

On 1/27/2023 at 4:40 AM, ChiDragon said:

 
You can watch it here.

 

No. There was an announcement a while back that the series will not be available digitally as decided by Sifu Terry.

 

This video is not the DVD. It's just a demonstration of the long form, and does not include the breath control sequence.

Hi admin,

 

Please deactivate my account from the time of posting this message until at least March 15, with the option to extend as requested. I was originally going to ask to have this until November, but I will see how things are by March.

 

Need a break to handle some important things. Anyone who needs to get ahold of me can go to AG (also taking a pause, but keeping account active for emergencies) or contact the user pak_satrio.

 

Any FP-related stuff, I trust him to answer questions in my absence or tell me if it's really important.

 

Happy holidays.

9 hours ago, Chang dao ling said:

In mo pai there are 72 levels. My doubt is these levels are exclusive to mo pai or they apply to all daoist traditions. 

 

Replace "Mo Pai"  with "India", levels with "languages" and "Daoist traditions" with "Asian people".

 

This is the same strange reasoning.

 

Stick to your own practice and avoid Mo Pai (not India, actual Mo Pai).

1 hour ago, Chang dao ling said:

Can you explain please explain what are the steps

 

Learn from a qualified teacher.

1 hour ago, Chang dao ling said:

Step 1 is meditation on lower dantian meditation step 2 SHO  and 3 is project

 

Wrong

 

On 12/20/2022 at 1:57 PM, Chang dao ling said:

I read in a book

 

No wonder.