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I always knew that horse stance burned Jing because of the stress the body goes through. What are your thoughts on this? And what about the stretching part, doest it also builds jing?

Never ever say "hello world" again. I tried to learn programming and now I'm traumatized. Oh and welcome btw (yes I have a weird sense of humour, probably some chi deviation in my brain)

I feel like we don't have the same energy anymore, old people left, the ones who stayed don't post that much. Yes I know there are new people carrying the forum on it's back, if it weren't for them to post we would have like only a few posts per week. Cheers to those new members I also used to hype this forum when I started, good times back in 2019, and that wasn't even the peak, I came too late to this forum, envy for those who participated in those times Seems like in the past 3 years we went downhill bro I'm also out of ideas to post so I can't contribute, I tried to annoy people the other day but it wasn't a good idea Recently I started to look for Tantra practices, and I had to PM 2 members here to get answers because no one commented on my post Then I found Reddit, and reddit forum about Tanta, Hinduism and Buddhism are full of people, for vajrayana I found a whole forum dedicated to it, just like this one But the qigong reddit is poor, very poor... And there is no other place like The Dao Bums So the best place for qigong/daoist related topics is still The Dao Bums, but unfortunately for some reason we couldn't incorporate well other traditions, it would be nice to have more people here and everything in one place, but I have no idea how to make this happen, buddhism is quite relevant here too but as I said, in COMPARISON to other places this is not the best unfortunately Oh well I coundn't use all of the emojis Anyways, I feel sad to have to use other forums for other traditions related questions. If I'm wrong please correct me

The title is a quote from this comment I found on the Reddit about Tantra, the person who did the post said the following: "There is nothing such as Vajrayāna Buddhism, it is Cināchāra with Buddha-Pādukā, Buddhism has nothing to do with Vajrayāna. Just because Buddha-Pādukā is present, doesn't mean it's origin is marked by buddhism. The whole Vajrayāna Flourished as A part of Sahajayāna of Kaula dharma. Whatever these fanatic Modern day Buddhists believe does nothing to us Nepalese Following Sarvāmnāya. I bet these Rascals "Buddhists" doesn't even know what āmnāya they follow as well. Hypocrites" I'm new to the "Tantra world", I understood Vajrayana Buddhism as being a form of "Tantric Buddhism", but it seems like the majority of the deities there comes from Indian Tantric Systems and he says that Vajrayana is not even buddhist. Anyone who knows more about this or disagrees, feel free to share your opinion.

It's been some days since my last shower, sorry for the smell Everithing is "dark force " for you bro How can you trust what you see if your own view of the world is distorted into illusions and worries? I don't think those great clairvoyants believe that "dark forces" are trying to corrupt humanity, just saying... People who work with real spirituality aren't addicted to youtube videos on "how a shape shifter reptilian infiltrate the White House"... These great master cultivate loving-kindness for all humanity, but the only thing I can feel from your words is hatred. I'm just trying to bring you back to reality bro... Yep, I'm trying to help but I knew you would say that, it's obvious, you're using the same argument every conspiracy theorist uses, so anything I say you will say that the "dark forces" are acting on me and now I'm the bad guy, so there's no way to argue with you "Demons" are only our inner demons, the "external" demons you mention are the spirits of deceased people, so they aren't demons, these are people who died and still lost around here, they can be in our houses and connected to us, but they aren't demons, this is the point. I'm no expert in Daoism, the point of view I'm giving you above is from the buddhist perspective. Yes I've seen these "demon exorcism rituals" in daoism and in daoist magick and it's hard to say but it really seems to me that they use "demons" but they mean only "bad spirits", not literal demons, Daoism don't believe in demons the same way christians and catholics do. See? You have no arguments and all you can say is "don't trust him" "the dark forces are deceiving you" "I know the truth because I'm fighting the dark forces" AHAHAHAH bro seriously you're making me laugh. Oh ok I'm really the bad guy here, yes I need to admit that I talk with the dark forces daily, they give me money so I can enslave people like you oh dammit you found out about my plans!!! Now I need to call my reptilian friend to ask him what we should do next... As you said:"when someone develop their spirituality they start to see them". So yea, I will be seaching for "reptilians, greys and non-human races" in the teachings of the great enlightened masters, so spiritually evolved as they are, I'm sure they have lots of these encounters and reports about such creatures. I'm sure I won't find it only in your youtube videos and books about conspiracy theory, right? RIGHT?

You got it wrong bro, this is just another conspiracy, entities don't want to enslave humanity. When you say this you make think you believe that entities talk to each other and have big plans like "oh let's enslave these people"... You should care to save living beings than freeing them from these "evil entities" otherwise you will need to do it forever... let me explain, if someone vibrates the energy of an alcohol addict, he will heep attracting entities who were alcohol addicts, and trust me, there are many. Wouldn't it be easir to help the guy to be free from his addiction instead so he stop vibrating in that pattern? Now I'm visualizing this scene in my mind. To fight what? There's nothing to fight against bro, relax. You just got into a big conspiracy theory.

Negative entities can be defined as the people(like you and me) who died but had some kind of attachment with the world, so after death they go seeking for those worldly desires they once had. For example, someone who was addicted to drugs will find someone who is addicted to drugs to connect to, someone who had depression will find a depressive person to connect to, because we while alive we vibate the energy who attracts these "negative entities", once these "negative entities" connect to someone, it's true that they can influence living beings, for example, someone who is addicted to cigarettes probably has a entity who once was alive and addicted to cigarettes connected to him and it can enhance the need for smoking, this is true, but taht's all, demons aren't real. No you haven't, sorry, this is conspiracy theory. Buddhists learn techniques to send these "negative entities"(dead people) to auspicious reincarnations, with love and compassion for them regardless of their acts in life. Why don't you learn this instead of trying to just "ward off" or "dissolve"() them with light? You understood it wrong, "demons" in this context refers to your internal demons(negative emotions), not literally red demons with wings....So the text refers to "clear away negative energies and negative emotions". Catholic church belief here, again, demons aren't real and most of the times the word "demons" was used metaphorically to refer to negative emotions/energy. No bro, the world was not "hijacked by the dark forces, don't put the blame on something external, the world is the way it is because people are bad, people have bad intentions, people make mistakes, people have bad decisions, people do bad things. The "dark force" you mention is nothing external, it's just our inner demons(fear, lust, anger, envy, etc..) at play. And when we stop putting the blame on external factors and accept that WE need to become better persons, then we can start to make the change in the world, if the fault is on external "dark forces" then we should just learn how to throw chi balls at those bad entities(or dissolve them with light as you said) and free the world from pain .. yikes No bro, again with conspiracy theory. Again, you understood it wrong! Stop interpreting things literally, when he mentions "demons" he mentios our INNER demons, which are our bad emotions, you can even do your research on google if you don't trust me. To make things easier I googled it for you, here it goes: "In the context of Liu Yiming's quote, "demons" likely refers to negative, destructive, or limiting forces within and around a person, rather than literal supernatural beings. These "demons" can be understood as negative emotions, harmful habits, self-doubt, and anything that hinders spiritual growth and well-being. The "true human" in this quote represents someone who has achieved a high level of self-awareness and cultivation, capable of overcoming these inner obstacles and manifesting positive qualities. "

it depends what is the mantra and if you can chant it without initiation

You are a begginer so let me explain to you why it's a bad idea: 1- He has no idea what he is talking about 2- There's no way you can kill entities in the first place, so why the hell are you going to learn something that is not even possible? I bet you can't even see entities in the first place... 3- Assuming it's possible to kill entities(which is not), but WHY would you want to kill them? How deep do you know about spirituality in general? If you still believe in demons or something similar, I'm sorry to tell you, but demons don't exist. These "entities" you want to kill are people just like me and you who died and still lost around here. We need to have compassion towards them. 4- Qigong done wrong can have bad side effects, real bad, search "qi deviations" to learn more about it, it can cause illnesses, mental and physical.

yes I think you used the right word here "secrecy", it makes a lot of sense now

hahaha to be honest I don't know either! I was just spamming different emojis at the end of every sentence. But If I need to guess, I would say it should be used when you try to hide something or you did something bad and maybe you want so say "it wasn't me", but I really don't know, it's all people's interpretation at this point

I used to do that a lot when I arrived here, best way to learn new things haha

We're not a subreddit! (just kidding bro, I get your point) I think I never gave Dao De Jing much attention, can you be more specific on how it helped you achieve the peace of mind?

is this loving-kindness practice? I learned to do it and it works, weirdly it works. One variant is to just feel compassion towards he people you hate or did bad things to you, so when you remember of that person just counter the bad thoughts with the feeling of love and then it just doesn't bother you anymore. When we think of a positive thing about the person who hurt us it's just an easier way to access this feeling of love

THIS! I feel this too when I can fell this love for all beings, somewhat rare states of lucidity and it feels so good. I just don't know if it's me being in peace makes the perception of others be better or if it in some way truly changes their behavior towards me.

I was just testing your anger Saturdays are so boring I'm just seeking some dopamine spike #peace

WHO CARES??????

How to be free from emotional pain? If someone does bad things to you, that person faces no consequences and just walks away, there's no justice, nothing else you can do and now you need to live knowing that nothing will happen to that person, how do you free yourself from the emotinal pain?

I would like to hear more about this specific point, is it true?

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why you saying buddha didn't exist?

I hope so, because in the past I did "Om Namah Shivaya" for a week and then stopped, I really feel drawn to do it again but I'm not sure if I can keep consistency, my life is a mess

Hi, can you please give more detail on this? What bad could happen if someone start chanting a mantra and then suddenly stop?

Oh what a disappointment, I though they would teach how to throw fireballs

Finally people talking abou the dangers of these retreats. I've heard stories of people who commited suicide after these intense meditation retreats or went into psychosis and mania after some time of meditation. Not sure what exactly triggers the mental illness or if they already had one prior to attending the event, but it affirms what I heard from other sources "Even simple meditation can be dangerous", which is even scarier when we think how meditation was brought to the west as a form of relieving stress for anyone lol They're just as lost in samsara as anyone else in this forum No true spiritual development system focuses on the powers, it's just a sign of good practice and that it's working but they all say you shouldn't stay there, in these guys system powers seems to be the end goal, so I don't think they can call it a "spiritual development system". If you do this I will be your biggest fan bro