KuroShiro

This translation by Cleary is in my wish list, this is good to know, thanks. OK then, could you please consider translating it to English?

He seems to be a Quanzhen Master and Vice-President of the Chinese Taoist Association, who teaches in Belgium and France: http://taoisme.be/activites/activites-ponctuelles/article/11-15-avril-2015-seminaire?lang=fr

I certainly was! Besides even if I wasn't, interesting conversation might arise when one slightly goes off on a tangent.

You want to believe? Let me know if you are truly interested and I'll take some time to put together a well thought out post linking several topics with common sense, western science and medicine, society, conditioning... and why I think your search for evidence of abilities is not the Way to go.

You don't seem to have understood my post. I don't understand yours.

Is an online random number generator a physical system? Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" and κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis (from τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement" ), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Belief/not belief is perhaps only in the mind. There seems to be a lot to discover outside the mind. Why are scientists put on a pedestal? How would a scientist prove the existence of LOVE?

Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" and κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis (from τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement" ), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws. Extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense or second sight, includes claimed reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as intuition, telepathy, psychometry, clairaudience, and clairvoyance, and their trans-temporal operation as precognition or retrocognition. I don't understand why there seems to be the need for some sort of compartmentalization when defining these terms. It's usually the mind that takes center stage: psychic ability/not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind. @Ilovecoffee (how do you guys make those blue @username) that video seems to be showing qi projection? To the OP: Qi projection moving objects, etc. at a distance is real. I can tell you that clairvoyance is also real. I don't understand the need to compartmentalize.

What are PK abilities?

Can you please send me the link of this post? This rings true, thanks. May I ask where have you learnt acupuncture? In the West (Western teacher) or in the East (Eastern teacher)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1j5W5IdOao 4 books: https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Pavilion-Taoist-Peace-Healing/dp/0804830606/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1527168189&sr=8-6&keywords=gold+pavilion https://www.amazon.com/Taoist-Meditation-Mao-Shan-Tradition-Philosophy/dp/0791413608/ref=pd_sim_14_7?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0791413608&pd_rd_r=ZTDGN8M08SVAFSD0CR4J&pd_rd_w=KsXMT&pd_rd_wg=mo7ZK&psc=1&refRID=ZTDGN8M08SVAFSD0CR4J https://www.amazon.com/dp/1456481657/?coliid=I3KSOAIGXCBGDC&colid=1L9JC9J3HZ6HS&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it https://www.amazon.com/dp/0985102829/?coliid=I3PHRFR28C6XNJ&colid=1L9JC9J3HZ6HS&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

The Yellow Court Classic Translated by Stuart Alve Olson - Vol1: https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Court-1/dp/1542393868/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527117340&sr=8-1&keywords=yellow+court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Court_Classic

Yes.

Bingo, this is hard. I don't know if watching the news and trying to make no judgements is the greatest challenge but I have been struggling with this.

This is not my view. These are the teachings of Classical Chinese Medicine but like I've said I'm no Dr. so no authority on this subject. Don't take my word for it as it might be wrong. Best to find a Dr. of CCM or read books. Did I already say this is complex but fascinating stuff? The Body, Mind, Spirit can't be considered independently, they are Three that form One. I'm not saying that the body causes emotions, they are the result of our interaction with the world and this is done through the senses. What I'm saying is that the imbalance of the emotion is rooted in the Organ. The emotion affects one's qi and is not just a mental process. When I say Organ I'm not referring to the physical organ, this is explained in Nei Jing Su Wen. An imbalance in the emotion anger is detrimental to the Wood Element - this is addressed by acupuncture.

No, the imbalance is in the Organ(s), the mind might be affected because of this. What if the patient doesn't get angry because someone tried to overcharge him (a normal reaction to have)? When he doesn't seem to express (even suppressing it) Anger in a healthy and balanced way?

This is complex but fascinating stuff You have to study it in the context of Classical Chinese Medicine and theory of Wu Xing - 5 Elements/Phases/Movements. Western Medicine only looks at the mind (this is changing) but it's more complicated than that. Anger is not just a mental process of getting angry. It's the emotion related to the Wood Element. There are 12 Organs in our body and they dwell in the 12 Main Meridians. The Liver and Gallbladder are the Wood Organs. If you go to a Five Element Acupuncturist he'll check for signs that might show disharmony and unbalance in the 12 Organs in order to make a diagnosis (please note the patients symptoms have no importance here). He might check for your emotion of anger to see if it's balanced. Even if it's only present in one Organ, that disharmony and unbalance affects the cycle of the Elements and can eventually cause damage to the other Organs as well (they're all connected). Having made the diagnosis the Dr. will then have to choose at what level to place the treatment: Body, Mind or Spirit. (Please forgive the oversimplification as I'm no Dr.)

I think now this makes sense to me: "From now on I'll (try to) not leave things piled up. I'll store things or take them home." Then I look at it as an opportunity to let go of these things, whatever they may be and move on. This seems to be important, no higher levels without transcending the ego. Would you say that when fully integrated into life this "cuts right through" is the ultimate finish line of this teaching? Suffering leads/seems to lead to a connection to the Divine, no inner cultivation needed, I find this very interesting. Could you please share more details? Do you put it in practice in the same way as Steve has explained regarding the application in daily life? Was this teaching introduced to you in the context of Wu Xing or any other? Very interesting! Could you please elaborate about that shifting relationship? I think the Classics say personality disappears when one is no longer "operating at the frequency of Wu Xing"?

This is the teaching that impacted me the most when reading about Wu Xing. Thank you for your beautiful post.

Thank you sir/madam for rear-ended me. I would pay to see his/her reaction.

The opposite, you try to stop the blaming. But this is not an on/off switch, that would be easy, you can't "chuck blame out of the window now" - unless you know something I don't in that case please share how you do it.

I don't think you can forget blame, at least not until you're at a higher level as Steve has confirmed. To me this seems to be a path to walk on, (perhaps) complemented by other practices. You try to put it in practice and that will change you, gradually. Then there might be moments of sudden realization and if I understand it correctly once you're at a higher level there is no such thing as "shit life throws at you".

I think I've read he only found true teachings in his seventies or eighties. That gives some hope. This has brought back a very old memory. I went to youtube and sure enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2G3OCVRNk Thank you! Thanks to you too! This is pure gold but now I think I've just laughed the equivalent of 3 months as the Classics warn of overjoy.

I'd say go to a good acupuncturist.

I understand what you're saying about the Dzogchen teachings but blame should be irrelevant only when you're already at a higher level, no? Don't you have to deal with blame if you're just starting to put these teachings into practice? I'm having trouble understanding how what you're saying might not lead to blaming oneself. This would make more sense to me: "I see it as my failure for leaving things piled up rather than storing things appropriately or taking them home. Then I look at it as an opportunity to let go of these things, whatever they may be and move on." Forgive my ignorance, I know nothing about karma. I thought it was related to good/bad, right/wrong. Let's say in this situation one has made progress and no longer shouts and honks at the other driver. No external reactions but thoughts of anger... still arise, what do you do then? Do you let go of that thought and jump to "try to see it as my responsibility to anticipate their maneuver, their need, and accommodate them."? I try to do that as well - defensive driving - mainly to avoid accidents, etc. Now that I think about it, this does seems to lead to some sort of self erasing, putting the focus away from the self during the drive. When I drive on the highway lots of cars very close to each other pass me and I blame them - these guys don't know how to drive, there shouldn't be any accidents on a highway...