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And it's also pretty clear that WYG wasn't talking about Kunlun but Wun Yuen Yat Hei Jeung where you do stand on your toes in certain practises

It's good to clear things up.

Hey Daoist Bum

It should be pretty clear by now that you shouldn't be standing on your toes for standing kunlun.

Yeah I had kind of a wild day yesterday.

Or you could carry a saw and cut down a tree so it's the perfect height to sit on.

This sounds completely awesome! But I have three reasons for which I can't make it: annual family reunion, a wedding of a friend, and I really need to stick to the basics of kunlun right now before trying other energy work. Dang.

I will need to attain gold dragon body WITH my guitar so that I can move at the speed of light there instead of making the trek across the country at human speed again!

I watched the first 15 seconds of that and started cracking up

I just got this book in the mail today. It was recommended in an Umma Tantra email newsletter...something which Vajrasattva from the board is involved with.

The quality of the book is really lacking, but the content totally makes up for it. If someone is interested in chi, and haven't really found a good way to experience it, this is the ticket! It contains what looks to me like great instructions on all of the classical stuff (tendon changing, marrow washing, eight brocade, five tibetan rites) and then some! Practice guidelines take you to completion...it's really a home study course so that you don't require a teacher, although of course that's the best way to go if you can find a good one.

Anyway, check it out if you feel so inclined.

Yeah the indoor wood one was most likely 51. Originally it was on Wisconsin Ave, then they moved it closer to Menasha.

Anyway lol, welcome to taobums.

Area 51? My good friend's family used to own it! Awesome, if that's what you're talking about!

Well, kunlun progresses really fast each day! Hopefully they bring a seminar somewhere in the midwest...untapped area here! I can't wait to go to another one!

Wow I'm doing a lot of "!"

Anyway I'm in Appleton for another week at my parents, then I'm moving up to Marquette Michigan in the UP. How about you?

Good practices! Kunlun is great, especially after going to a seminar! This is the first time I've heard of hunyuan.

Yeah! Humid, overcast, then sunny, then storming...what the hell is going on! Anyway what kind of stuff do you practice?

Great state.

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Hi Scotty.

 

By "advanced results" I was referring to the previous posts about disappearing...

 

are you disappearing? Beaming up? Or what?! Tell, dude!

Definitely beaming up! Or down? But no I don't disappear. My mind has a few times with red phoenix practice, but I guess that's not as advanced of a thing as having your arm disappear?

I'm getting what I consider advanced results with one transmission. Each day it gets greater.

Hey! Good part of the country! I'm in WI/Upper MI.

Well you did call us kunloonies.

But in all seriousness, I wasn't only saying that about you...

By the way, I know people have asked before, but is there a good source for info on the kunlun/bonpo connection? I look into some bonpo stuff on the net but it's hard to see where it connects. Thanks!

It's so crazy how this could turn into a kunlun vs kap thing. Why do that? Both are great from what I can see! What's the point of all this?

Actually running it in reverse counters the negative effects of the proper orbit...at least that's what Jwing Ming says in his book, The Root of Chinese QiGong. Here's a little excerpt. I'll just put the important info and leave out the rest:

"The fire path (regular orbit) is the way qi naturally circulates in the human body...

 

...Post birth qi, which contains undesirable products from the food and air, is considered fire qi because it has a heating effect on the body. Original qi is considered water qi, and it is pure and cools down the fire qi. Diluting and cooling down the contaminated qi is the first step in cooling down the fire in your physical body. This process will slow your body's degeneration...

 

...Generally speaking, the wind path (reverse orbit) of qi circulation is not as popular as the fire path. Because it circulates qi in the direction opposite to the normal flow, many qigong practitioners believe that it will disturb the natural qi circulation and cause problems...

 

...There are two reasons for circulating the wind path: 1. To slow down the natural qi circulation in the conception and governing vessels by circulating qi against the flow. If the qi flow in your fire path is too yang because of excitement, injury, sickness, or even eating poor food, your whole body will become too yang when this qi is distributed through the twelve qi channels. This yang qi will damange your organs, and make your mind excited and scattered. The wind path can regulate the qi circulating in your fire path and rebalance the qi in your body. 2. An important qigong practice is raising up the pre-birth (essence or water) qi generated in the lower dan tien to cool down the post-birth (food and air, fire) qi which is generated in the middle dan tien at the solar plexus. When this is done, the clean water qi will be able to dilute the contaminated fire qi before it starts to circulate. This raising of the water qi is done through the wind path."

Well they say that the chi is cosmic, which is similar to the ultraviolet 3 in deep space idea. They do "induced chi flow" which is a lot like kunlun level 1...not in the form but in the fact that the chi flow is moving the body and does the same thing to people. Other things I can't recall right now...

Yee haw! Giddyup!

So yeah, I also don't see why you can't learn stances from a video or book. Maybe just because the teacher can't give you on the spot corrections, like if you're leaning too far forward or something...but that is just corrected by consistent practice, so .

As an aside, shaolin wahnam qigong reminds me A LOT of the k-word.