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  1. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    Ah, Franz Bardon, yes, I have his works on my shelf as well. Hermetics are fascinating. Thanks for the link.

  2. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    That sounds pretty cool, that elemental classification makes sense. Before I got into Daoist practice I was for a short time a member of Robert Zink's EOGD branch, long story, and I would do Israel Regardies' Middle Pillar a bunch but what you work with sounds more to my liking than that.

  3. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    So I'm visiting my folks' place where I kept these, which is why I didn't post them before, but these are two separate pairs of shoes I used. These aren't the only ones this happened to, and some of my classmates had the same thing happen, but you can see the wear and/or holes on the part where the ball of foot meets the shoe. I, we, would grind our shoes so often and to such an extent that it literally wore down the shoes. So you could see I was being quite literal. That's our method at work.

  4. anatomical basis for meridians, is it fascia network?

    CityHermit! replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion

    Outside of TCM and meridians though, aren't doctors and scientists still unsure what fascia is for? I believe I was reading something like that recently. Also, not too many years ago, they found something that may correspond to the Triple Burner/Heater. Whatever the case, we have so much to explore in Medicine and it would be to everyone's benefit so we can all live healthier, longer, happier lives, as opposed to investments in research or science fields that do not yield this or to the same degree.

  5. anatomical basis for meridians, is it fascia network?

    CityHermit! replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion

    A lot of nerve and fluid circulation, not merely the blood stream but also things like lymph, pathways align with where meridians are said to be. I don't think meridians would correlate to just one thing. I mean, for instance, when doing acupuncture, the depth of the needle counts as far as what's being attempted. So at one level you might be closer to a nerve, an artery or vein, etc. Not to mention the acupoints themselves are, at least to some degree, at the skin level are they not? And while its said that a meridian corresponds to an organ, what I think is also the case is that it has to do with the flow of vitality, whether nervous system or endocrine based, according to time, since some meridians are said to be more active at various times and the body of course is also doing things each day according to time and circumstance. Although I'm not a TCM doctor, I have and read the classics plus more, including a lot of Western Anatomy texts, and have figured out a lot of this not only through the materials available but through my own experience from the inside out so to say.

  6. Days won?

    CityHermit! replied to old3bob's topic in Forum and Tech Support

    I don't know. They've all been rough years.

  7. Days won?

    CityHermit! replied to old3bob's topic in Forum and Tech Support

    Who cares? Remember the time when S1va tried to suspend me and I wrote some emails and messages outside the forum and then we all talked about it and I left for a year voluntarily anyway and then Marblehead died? Then how I came back to pay respects to him and left for another 4 because apparently no one here knows how to stand up to the CCP?

  8. Junior needs guidance

    CityHermit! replied to You Dare?!'s topic in Welcome

    So this is how you share information.

  9. Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day

    CityHermit! replied to Sanity Check's topic in The Rabbit Hole

    Indeed. It was a good day yesterday.
  10. Yes, I've seen that. They've been making comments that more and more mirror things I've been saying, saying to them among others, especially about tax money. This is something that is going to gain momentum. No point in poking fun or scoffing now, just keep an open mind and be patient because while its picking up it's not going to be forced or rushed either.
  11. Don't be so surprised. I saw the same things, before the Navy Pilots did, and how fast they move. I saw it in a way that it was unequivocal what they were.

  12. Could anyone introduce me to the basics of daoism?

    CityHermit! replied to NaturaNaturans's topic in Daoist Discussion

    https://terebess.hu/english/tao.html Here you go. Dig in.

  13. Could anyone introduce me to the basics of daoism?

    CityHermit! replied to NaturaNaturans's topic in Daoist Discussion

    Why would you ask strangers online instead of just reading key texts, which are free, and figuring out what you can on your own, before you find a teacher, if you want to, or can?

  14. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    Please find someone else to talk to.

  15. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    You're not sorry.

  16. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    At home. But what a pointed question. TDB is the same as ever, as are some other things. I don't see much of a future for this place.

  17. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    Not really, sometimes I walk around that way though.

  18. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    A real Mokkori fellow eh?

  19. Your Experience of Standing Meditation

    CityHermit! replied to Nuralshamal's topic in Daoist Discussion

    All the methodologies I've learned I can and have applied in a standing position. I work a day job where I'm on my feet as much as 8-10 hours a shift. My Sifu taught a method that involves building a root and generating internal power by squeezing the ground with the balls of the feet and making circles on the ball of foot. I still have old pairs of shoes where I made holes at the part where the ball of my foot contacted it, holes made through rubbing on the ground so much and so often. I don't recall how many pairs I did this with but its at least a few. If I'm standing, then I'm always practicing my posture and structural alignment. if I am moving then I am always practicing my footwork. I crack my ankles often like people crack their knuckles. My feet are dangerous.

  20. How did you come up with your username?

    CityHermit! replied to Unota's topic in The Rabbit Hole

    Mine is a pun of City Hunter and a passage in the Wu Chen P'ien.
  21. So this method isn't Spring Forest Qigong related, Wang Xiang-Dang was said to be from LaoShan. There is a book of his that talks about his Sword Finger Qigong method and his general thoughts on Qigong but the only copy I could find was in the Library of Congress and I had to interlibrary loan it to the school library I was going to at the time. It was an interesting read. If you try that please return it because its rare obviously. He wandered a bit through the US in the mid 90s doing some seminars. I saw some video tapes of him doing interesting things. I liked it, it was the first method I worked with for a long time and helped me with a case of pharyngitis I had early into it, and as I quit tobacco back then. It's relatively simple and takes like 20-30 minutes to do, or longer if extending some forms.

  22. coffee put into concrete

    CityHermit! replied to old3bob's topic in The Rabbit Hole

    I was reading about this too.

  23. Good exercises for the back?

    CityHermit! replied to Unota's topic in Healthy Bums

    If you don't want to use weights, there was a standing back raise exercise that I saw a guy from WuDang do. If you are standing with your feet a little wider than shoulder width, you lower your head towards either foot, since this is an alternating exercise that you can do with each side, as if touching your toes but more like trying to reach your foot with your head, and then raise your torso back upright focusing on the lower back and lumbar area doing the work. You can do as many reps as you feel comfortable with and it can help strengthen and stretch the lower back.
  24. Sifu is no longer with us. What's your question?

  25. Current Events Discussion

    CityHermit! replied to steve's topic in Forum and Tech Support

    May I have access to the current events section, please?