seedling

Good to hear back from you Earl Grey. I hope you don't stop expressing your concerns about practices. When I joined the TDB you were the one to advice me on looking into Qi deviation and sickness. It led me into reading and learning more about qigong, eventually quitting the practice.

Hello mods, could you change my username to seedling?

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Thank you for all the responses. I would not differentiate practices based on the intention, the stages or indicators of progress and the methods used make them more defined. In the hindu tradition, one can attain a rainbow body or immortality or be reborn again, it's the intention of the practitioner.

Some of the folks here seem to practice both Buddhism and qigong/taichi, so I thought I’d ask if the two practices are compatible? Do Zen and Vajrayana practitioners also progress through the same stages of neidan?