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  4. Posted

    9 hours ago, NorthWide said:

    If you're having issues posting clear your browser cache

     

    I wish browsers had a button to clear the cache. That always seems to be the answer.

     

    Kind of like back in the days of VCRs: If the picture got bad, you had to "adjust the tracking". That was always the answer, even though nobody knew what "tracking" was.

     

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    18 minutes ago, Robin said:

    It has been a source of much confusion to me how rude and dismissive he can be when responding to people's questions. Doesn't seem to jibe well with his claims about his own spiritual development and how much he values compassion. Some people seem to think it's a kind of "crazy wisdom" and that he's just giving you something to work with in your meditation. Another explanation is that he's something of a bully, or maybe has Asperger's. Great material, and I'm grateful he shares it, but his "bedside manner" sometimes really sucks, IMO.

     

    "Crazy wisdom" is BS. It's a term assholes use to justify their behavior. People should not fall for it.

     

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  7. Posted

    6 hours ago, Maddie said:

     

    I honestly think you're a nice person and I don't think anyone denies that but it's only been a week and I think such a viewpoint is extremely naive.

     

    He pardoned all the Jan 6 crazies (on top of the fact that he has never offered any evidence that the 2020 election was stolen). I think the real issue is that Trump is a signal to all the crazy people that it is okay to hurt people.

     

    I recently bought a gun and took a few lessons and got a membership at a local range just in case I need a gun. I also bought a few other handheld weapons recently.

     

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    9 hours ago, silent thunder said:

    It's rather tame compared to the Buddhist grunge and all the mopai trash that heaped up a decade or so ago...

    I was not around for the mopai wars either.

     

    In the past year a now-banned member accused another member's wife of being a prostitute (simply based on her country of origin) and that second member threatened legal action. That was pretty interesting. I wonder what happened with that.

     

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    On 1/6/2025 at 12:23 PM, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:

    Here is some info about Tao Tan Pai from one of Sifu Terry’s newsletters:

     


    (b) The success rate of the Five Dragons Qigong is only 33%. Our long history at the Taoist Sanctuary of Los Angeles and San Diego has shown that one third of practitioners get deathly ill;  one third has full-blown, clinically diagnosed psychotic breaks from doing the Five Dragons; and one third of practitioners gets good results, trebling one’s energy level at the very least (when one learns this Yoga in their 20’s or 30’s), and in a manner that fulfills all five functional criteria for authentic Qigong:

     

     

    So if someone is past their 30s, is Five Dragons off limits?

     

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  10. Posted

    17 minutes ago, qin00b said:

    Changes in health:  Main thing I noticed was a respiratory issue that's been bothering me for years cleared up towards the home stretch of this _gong_. Couple other minor but persistent things cleared up as well. I think my eyesight changed a little as well (got better). Hadn't been sick despite the wife getting very ill a couple times since I started. 

    [REST CUT FOR SPACE]

    Thanks for the info.

     

    Another question: How did you learn it? Did you get the DVDs from John Dolic's website? Or did you do a video conference?

     

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    3 minutes ago, qin00b said:

    All right. Just completed 100 days of Level 1. I was considering a move to Yi Jin Jing, but remembered there was a level 2 for this. Seems like I will continue with 100 days of Level 2 and see where it gets me.

     

    So what changes have you seen from 100 days of Level 1?

     

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    On 11/15/2024 at 7:40 PM, zfer said:

    Sorry i couldnt choose another category, when i clicked on another, it didnt worked. 

     

    So I did an exercise advised by my friend for 5 hours a day for 3 weeks. The exercise consisted of imagining white energy forming under my navel when I breathed in, and spreading out when I breathed out.

    I have an old hobby, which unfortunately doesn't work anymore because I'm really afraid of it. I did the 5 hours of practice every day not because of that, but because I suddenly had a lot of free time and couldn't do anything else. So after 3 weeks I tried that thing again and I felt like I was full of fuel that I hadn't been before and I could face my fears, I just lacked the will. But I didn't do it right away and I noticed later that I was getting less and less of this fuel, on the 4th day it was back to how it used to be. I know that I should do it for a maximum of 1.5 hours a day, but I was really bored and thought it just using 3times more energy so its not a big deal.

     

    Is there anything more to the exercise than "exercise consisted of imagining white energy forming under my navel when I breathed in, and spreading out when I breathed out."? Or is that it?

     

  24. Posted

    1 hour ago, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:

    It is definitely a weird cult. But I have heard that their practices actually work.

     

    Sounds like TM.

     

    I wonder if there are (or will be) groups that split off and do the method without all the weirdness, as happened with TM.

     

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  25. Posted

    6 hours ago, forestofclarity said:

    Sam Harris has suggested it might be Star Wars. I can only imagine what type of religion could form around an initial discovery of the first trilogy, then a schism when the additional movies are revealed. :lol:

     

    OT, but here is a joke I read recently:

     

    Why were the Star Wars trilogies release out of order?

     

    In charge of the schedule Yoda was.

     

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