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That is post-heaven Qi. Filling your entire body with post-heaven Qi is not the same as filling it with pre-heaven

Any more questions? I believe that covers basically everything

There is a separate substance. They are energetic substances. Yuan Qi is a real, energetic substance. The same goes for Yuan Shen. When the two fuse, you get something more than what they were when separated. You are essentially on a path towards returning to ‘original matter.’ Original matter is very very high level, up towards heavenly immortal level. I believe this is where the alchemical substances originate

A quintessence. An alchemical substance

Subtle body. Some you open or clear, others have to be built

Thoughts are energy, burned up by fire

It is a modification of consciousness and mind, yes. However, it is also more than this. The channels are required to build the elixir and the elixir rotates through the channels. It’s like an engine that you have to build.

A mix of form and formlessness. There is a substance, yes. It contains the properties of form and formless. It is an energetic substance rather than a physical one.

This is correct. More complicated but yes. Yuan Shen contains genuine fire. Yuan Qi contains genuine water. This is the difference.

Tough questions

Hidden knowledge is addicting yes. Practice is the way to retain the knowledge and use it

Different states yes. But you can only truly say that Yuan Jing and Yuan Qi are basically the same. Yuan Shen is a bit different. The metaphor is just used to simplify it. Because Yuan Shen and Yuan Qi fusing gives you the elixir, they cannot be the same. The metaphor doesn’t hold if you are simply fusing vapor and water

How indeed? Those with the elixir still have a self(a personality) that operates within the world. It is just a more clear sense of self without distortion

True, they can. Though, it still needs to be accomplished by the student

Present, hidden, and need to be worked with. Channels don’t necessarily already exist though

Like ice vs. water. Yuan Qi needs to fill entire body. Need to melt ice to get correct amount of water. This also changes your physiology

They still have their uses

I doubt anyone on this forum could answer that experientially. And, in fact, the only answer to that is to experience it yourself. The experience of those cannot be put into words. Do you have a Neidan practice? I will give the textbook definitions anyway as it’s relevant. Yuan Jing is the energy of your fate. It sits in the background of your life, kinda steering you in certain directions. It can be manipulated and improved to a certain extent. Yuan Qi is original breath. It is the same as Yuan Jing really, just a higher refinement of it. You use this up in daily life. Like the oil in a lamp. Yuan Shen is original spirit. This is spirit devoid of any distortion. Think of it like awareness of awareness itself. This is the one you truly have to experience to understand. It is devoid of all mind, naturally. It fuses with your personal nature and clears your mind of all distortion. Your lens becomes clear. Now, if you’re asking, what does it feel like when your Yuan Jing is replenished, can you experience the definition of Yuan Jing and Qi directly? what is it like to refine the Yuan Qi to Yuan Shen? What do you experience when the elixir is formed? These questions are only really answered by your direct teacher. And the answer isn’t complete or satisfactory until you experience it yourself. No explanation will change anything about your own being. You will simply read it and think to yourself “that sounds right, but I don’t feel any different from reading it. Hasn’t changed my life much.” Thats why you need a practice. Everything else is irrelevant without a practice

Then, there are arguments surrounding gate keeping, charging money, fate of students, making the teachings easier to access, restricting knowledge, ect. These are the arguments that get more heated. That’s all you really need to know. The rest is method

Common to all Neidan traditions is the pursuit of the elixir, which can be nourished into the embryo followed by the birth of the embryo into the Yang body. This involves parallel or dual perfection of Xing and Ming. It also requires the transmutation of Yin Shen into Yang Shen. This is done by replenishing the Yuan Jing, refining it into Yuan Qi, refining Yuan Qi to Yuan Shen, refining Yuan Shen, then fusing the refined Yuan Shen and Yuan Qi. Fusing Xing and Ming. Different traditions utilize different methods, which result in slightly different elixirs. The elixirs are always a fusion of Xing and Ming and always transmute Yin Shen to Yang Shen. Where the traditions differ is how they utilize the connection between Xing and Ming to accomplish the various refinements. A divide is created between southern and northern schools according to the natural law of Yin and Yang. If the methods work, the patriarchs/matriarchs of the lineage have the elixir or above.

For Neidan, it is Yuan Jing that is refined into Yuan Qi. It must be clarified that it is pre-heaven. That’s the difference between alchemical refinement and Neigong refinement. And, yes. For all Neidan systems, this is a prerequisite. It may just happen in a different order. Because Yuan Jing is the root., the blueprint, It makes the most sense to start with it, then progress towards the rest of the tree.

The Yin Hun contains all memories of your lifetime and it can be searched with perceptive siddhi. He has used this on multiple students without permission or trust. He can also detach his awareness from his own mind and latch it onto your own. This is a useful ability to help students while meditating. To see exactly what is holding them back. It can also be misused and be used to observe someone in day to day living. All this leaves karmic imprints which can be traced.

Now that it has come to this: the correct thing to do both karmically and for his own practice is to admit that he has done such a thing and has used perceptive siddhi on his students without their trust or permission. He should then vow to his students and his community to never do this again. Also, it would be great and selfless of him to clear my name from slanderers who know nothing about my character. I greatly respect Damo. In fact, I love him. I hope his school continues. I hope he reaches the level he wishes too. I wish nothing but the best for him and I know he helps a ton of people throughout the world. It is simply the right thing to do, to recognize the academy for the cult like mentality it is promoting. And to be completely transparent and admit his mistakes.

Oh don’t get me wrong. I am in no way concerned about the perceptive siddhi. It hasn’t damaged me the slightest. I am just bringing it to the awareness of the people in Damo’s school. You’ve got the okay with having no privacy and having your whole life analyzed. That’s why it’s a disempowering process to apprentice under a teacher. In ancient times though, it was understood that such abilities morally and karmically should not be used without the expressed permission and trust of the student. I am simply stating the truth so people can be aware of what they are a part of. The fact that they now claim I am psychotic is highly laughable. You can see if someone is prone to a psychotic break by examining the channel system

Yes. Even when all the answers are staring them in the face, people still can’t find it. It truly is Ming. The guiding force that influences the mind and events around you. I have tried to at least help those with the correct Ming sift through the madness but I am not sure if it even is effective. Nothing is random. People just emerge from the woodworks spouting lies and showcasing the distortion of their mind. Sometimes I feel it’s hopeless. However, I will keep pushing forward because that is what I do and that is what I always have done. I continue to believe that those with the correct heart and the correct Ming have the correct eyes and ears. They have the discernment to sift through the charlatans. They can spot the truth when it is spoken. And they are able to spot the path even in the darkest of nights. So please, if you can spot the path, take up the torch and walk down it. As you can see, we need more of you, for the path wants to get lost in this dark era. I explained what it is. I explained what it isn’t. I explained who the false teachers were. I explained how you go about finding the true teachers. I explained how you can spot a fraud when you question them surrounding why they charge money. I explained the basic concepts so you could spot the teacher who doesn’t know. I explained the signs to ask for in case someone like Taoist Texts makes a false claim. Use your discernment. If someone says a teacher’s methods don’t work without any evidence, don’t believe it. Try it for yourself and meet the person in person. If someone says a teacher’s methods work but lead to a different destination, take that path if it calls to you. If someone says a teacher has a tendency to misuse powers, don’t completely disregard it just because you place that teacher on a pedestal. Keep it in the back of your mind and always be constantly evaluating their actions. If they don’t inspire you, don’t learn under them because students are a reflection of the teacher. If someone on this forum claims to be a student of so and so, yet they constantly insult people and show poor understanding, you can see that maybe the teacher is the same way. Use your inner judgment for it is the only true guiding light. I do not intentionally spread lies. I intentionally spread the truth. If you don’t want to hear it, that’s your problem. I work on my character day in and day out. I work on refining my soul lifetime after lifetime. If I reach a high attainment, I lower myself continuously to help others do the same. The path is infinite. It is never over. If you are on a finite path with a definite destination, you aren’t on the highest path. The highest path is infinite. The trials are no longer held, but the laws take care of it all the same. In any case, good luck to all of you! I hope to god that you know who does not instantly post right after this proving every point I just made