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Yin and Yang ... are creative, they are the creative union. Everything else is death, only the Yin Yang union creates. Children are one example of this but it works on all levels. That Creation is the magic of life ... that is the origin of everything, at all levels, it is a secret force that emerges when the Yin and Yang partake in the union. Everything else is perishing, falling, crumbling. Our society is a consumer society, everything is eaten up. It eats what was created by previous generations; and it does not give back. If this continues it will perish. Only a producer society a creative society can survive. That is why it is said, when yin and yang divide, death follows. But if one has such high minded ideas and walks into life he is deluding himself; start where you are. Be comfortable with yourself, your life ... don't press your self righteousness onto the faces of others. >although it is good to have high goals Find your tribe. What is a man job ? Is it to slither on the floor talking about compassion and dreaming of daisies ? If he does that ... who will take care of business ? If he is not going to do it ... then others will have to do his work for him. Who will do what needs to be done, with no commission and no omission ? Who will give everything in one moment, and then forget it in the next ... so it will last forever ? --------------- The consumer society is consuming human beings. Now that money is plastic rather than gold ... the real currency is how many human souls you control. The functions of human beings are being consumed one by one. Their mind, their sexuality ... their health ... all will be consumed, until nothing is left. That is when "materialism" (miserable-ism) infects a society and they look for their answers down ... rather than up. Look up.

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Just make sure they have what you want. Check, and check again. Don't take any excuses. Then, work hard.

You are right, there are many "men" and "women" who are very malformed internally due to the deeply ill soil in which they are planted. There are not that many men who grow into men or women who grow into women; in many social groups, even in generations, there is a sickness - people don't care if they live or die, or if they have any meaning or accomplish anything. On an economic level the corporations have stripped bare society so now only a few people have any money; they take money not only from the present but from the future as debt, they liquidate all culture, all reasons to live, until even basic functions of human beings like their mental state or their sexual function is parasited ... until nothing is left but walking corpses staring at phones, with desperate and unnatural ideas in their heads. But in truth .. the social economy is still workable as long as you are not swept into the belief system of the modern world. Those who are on the internet tend to be the worst I would imagine.

Daoism is not mindfulness and it is not Buddhism. Spirituality is being destroyed by the charlatans of idiocracy.

Well, this seems very commendable to me. Well done. You seem to be able to do things. Many of the responses here are quite negative ... and from my own observation ... same people here saying the same unhappy things each week. Can they help you? Maybe not, maybe you are far ahead of them. So, best thing is to continue ... you seem to know what you need.

Faceless you seem much healthier than many people here, so continue

You could keep the celibacy for one season of the year diligently. Then the rest of the year explore.

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One way is to play some gentle music that makes you feel love, whatever that is. Then gently breathe into the heart. As you breathe in feel this area, and as you breathe out rest deeper within. The location is roughly between the nipples on the centre line, depth wise start on the surface of the skin but rest further within. When you do this be honest about what you feel. Often painful feelings come up at first ... let yourself feel them honestly. This is Anahata Chakra.

What would like to do ? To feel your own heart, or are you looking for romantic love ?

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The theory of "emptiness" in Buddhism is very much like the theory that "you are saved" in Chritianity. So that as you slowly move towards the edge of the cliff, not going anywhere, and not doing anything at all like Buddha or Jesus ... then you have a real good excuse to give yourself. ... Buddha first port of call was to find a teacher who had already reached Jhana no 7. And from him he learnt and he also reached Jhana 7. If you also approach in the same manner, you won't have any problem. Then you are a "Buddhist". Otherwise not.

Neigong for Kundalini ... isn't that like steak sandwiches for vegans ?

Of course you do. Your personal intelligence has reached the level when you can agree with groups of people ... "what Buddhist say" or "what other people say" .. Well .. it's a start, just build on that, perhaps one day you can have an opinion that does not come from a group ... but comes from your self.

The central message of Buddhism is : "Every man for himself"

The thing is that ... many people are career Buddhists. Which is ironic given the message of the man, which was to find your self ... not to attach yourself to one of the culture's current favourite flagpoles. People who are stapling themselves to a popular tradition don't really want to discover themselves; there is a lot of courage and pain involved in walking away, as Buddha did many times. And there is a time and a place to do it.

Well walker, you finally jumped out from your hiding place and sprung your silly trap. But, I already covered dependent origination and the stupidity of it further up. ... "when a Buddhist says" .... What do you think Siddharta would say to see you hiding behind ... "when a Buddhist says" ... trying to retreat into a flock of sheep. You think he wants you to repeat some garbage, or think for yourself? The whole point of his journey was to become an individual.

Hello walker. I don't like that you aren't showing yourself. I am not interested in your question, sorry. I think I have said everything I can say about the subject.

Our structure inner being path and realisation is not "Buddhist", it is an aspect of reality. Buddha was also not a "Buddhist" and after he had trained with various established teachers ... he stopped following; and trusted his inner reality; then he arrived at self-realisation. This trusting of your inner being, or your inner intelligence, of not following fools and foolish ancient words ... is the main point. The last thing "Buddha" did before realisation was to touch the Earth and realised that he himself as he was ... was worthy. He no longer needed to cower behind other people's garbage. He trusted his reality. As for "Buddhist theory" ... many of the often repeated lists of numbers, the 4 this, the 8 that ... if you actually look them up you realise that they are not authentic and do not originate from the man Buddha. Why people keep repeating the 4 this and the 8 that is because they are stupid people as they should know they are not authentic. Next thing is the theory of dependent origination and 5 aggregates : the idea is that you analyse yourself to death then you will find you don't exist. Interesting theory, people talk about this a lot. They go over it again and again. Dependent origination. But who's five aggregates are supposed to be empty? Yours or Buddhas ? You think you are the same as Buddha ? Buddha was able to grant realisation to his students in a few days. Can you ? No. Why the hell would what is inside you be the same as what's inside him? So if you analyse your 5 aggregates and find them empty .. what does that mean for Buddha? Nothing. Because he has much higher abilities than you. He is not empty. If you want to analyse anybody's 5 aggregates .. then analyse HIS. Because he is the enlightened person. Furthermore Buddha awoke his students in a few days or weeks. Today this does not happen. Therefore what is happening today is not "Buddhism". It's mindless time wasting. He taught by direct mind to mind transmission, he did not give "dharma farting talks". Buddha's exemplary behaviour was : 1. take available meditation training work hard achieve results (8 jhanas) 2. dump your teacher because realisation is about you and not being a sheep 3. confront yourself and become yourself, touching the earth to recognize your own personal intrinsic worthiness Vipassana The next item on my hit list is the technique of Vipassana where you scan your body in a minute and subtle way and then determine its emptiness and therefore your emptiness. Right ... or not right? Well the obvious question is ... who is doing the fking scanning? Forget about the body, who is scanning? Can you feel ... who it is. That's you. Okay ... where do you think you are hiding ... in the sock draw? Under the fridge ? You are not under the fridge ... you are doing the scanning !!! Who else? How many people are in here anyway ????!!! You are the one who is reading this garbage I am writing ... you are the one doing the scanning. Forget about the body, and turn the scanning beam around. Start there. In fact Samatha (anapana) practice is much closer to turning the beam around and imo is the real practice. Samatha should include Vipassana within it. As you "concentrate" (i.e. focus your attention) you should sensitively feel the origin of emanation of the concentration ... i.e. you. And you should merge with this origin in the forehead and wake the fk up. It requires sensitive feeling inside. As your attention rests on the nostrils .. feel inside the forehead for he who is the origin of attention and merge with it like you are getting into a warm bath.

It's not empty. It's just empty of your mind. When the mind is quiet ... are you dead ? For instance between thoughts ? No you are not dead and you are not empty, it is just that it is very unfamiliar to you to be without noise ... so you can "oh wow it's all empty". Well ... it's not empty at all. You are used to having an "identity" based upon the images and mind noise and whatnot ... so when the mind is quiet something deeper is revealed. It is not empty, but like a new lover it takes time to get to know what you actually are. To be honest the lack of intelligence of people saying ... you don't exist, nothing exists, there is nothing to do, everything is nothing, everything is empty ... but still let's do meditation really hard for 20 years ... does that really make any sense? No. If that what the case then why bother. And for many people who churn around these miserable negative ideas ... they never really meditate. They just want an excuse to die slowly on the cushion whilst never making any effort because "it's all empty". Then they repeat their miserable ideas to other poor victims ... just like drunks offer you a bottle because they like company. These ideas are very silly and also dangerous. There very much is something to do and something to gain, and that thing if you get it ... is yours. Are you willing to use your intelligence ? If it doesn't make sense to you and you keep doing it ... you are refusing to use your intelligence. Does it really make sense to you to become nothing ? Of course not. Humanity is scared to develop their own intelligence ... even if inside they are thinking "why the hell do I want not to exist?" .... they just keep doing it and they just keep saying it. They are afraid of their own mind ... their mind says .... "I hope there is a better reason to do all this shit then not existing because not existing sounds like it sucks" ... but they don't listen. Then they say ... "oh no my mind is hurting me, kill the ego." Your mind is not hurting you ... it is trying to provide intelligence, it is trying to understand. For thousands of years people just repeat the same old crap. Some teachers tell you how to take evasive action if "mind attacks". For instance if your mind is saying : "this is a rip off I am being overcharged" ... then these teacher show you how to not listen to your mind !!!!!!! Ha ha. It is good to disidentify from the unconscious mind ... so that you can experience the inner space and your inner being and merge with the universal space of god. At some point you will have to integrate that with the mind and make the mind more intelligent and learn to use the mind and so on. Many areas of work.

Are there any recommendations for good and easily accessible 5 Element Qigongs that are strongly exertive and actually work ... meaning they work to cultivate the 5 elements rather than other things ?