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They are. I have yet to see many beings who have finished this kind of cultivation.

I have to say ideas of humans about this world, are only ideas, of humans. Immortal beings are something entirely else. I had access to some "secret teachings" which turn the "human person" into the "hive mind" consisting of 1000 "people" combined together. The methods and the practice are absolutely secret, but can you imagine the abilities and comprehension of 1000 beings fused into one, compared to 1 being. 1 core processor vs 1000 core processor? It is not just quantitative change, it is the qualitative change, you are no longer a human being in its normal meaning anymore.

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The power has many names, in Daoism, it is called Jing - Essence, Qi - Energy, and Shen - Spirit. I would say those 3 powers are just a generalization of 99+ powers humans may possess and develop. Its when all of them are full and accumulated one is moving towards the enlightenment, and if you are deficient, it is like a boat with holes in the basement and no sail, no engine, trying to cross the pacific ocean.

Asking advice and guidance on the forum is not the best thing to go, i.e. better to find a qualified teacher in those arts that you think are suitable for you. The paths are many.

Of course, there is power, and there is no wisdom without power. Wisdom without power is called an illusion, or surface awakening. True enlightenment gives powers that will freak out the most of fantasy novel readers and Goku wannabees. All people who avoid cultivation of power and energy end up being weak and fragile and have no real enlightenment to speak of. This world is not for the weak and not for the fragile, its full of demon beasts, full of challenges, of life and death cycle, of suffering and disease, your beloved ones will die, your family will die, your kids will die, you will die multiple dies in great pain. How do you plan to go through all this without sufficient power? Power is what makes gliding across life easy.

Enlightenment seems to be a trivial thing lately, everyone has it.

I am unfortunately not able to afford any of those pills, much less do I know any master who sells them and sends via DHL courier around the world. I do think it an interesting and powerful topic, but it is not accessible unless you are lucky to be in a school where those methods are cultivated. Nor do I know of any of those schools.

Idk how anyone can say Qi is not physical, last time I did simple Qigong, I could hardly move my hands physically under the pressure of two massive magnetic fields that I could see as well with my eyes.

That's an actually good point, all the wrong people lately become millionaires and celebrities, all due to "Hype" - a modern term, which means public attention, followers, and money. As there are actually very few people who are talented but a lot of who is a degraded, most common way to achieve "Success" in life right now, is to produce something extremely disgusting and obnoxious, that which will be discussed by many. What is happening with Tik Tok culture, is that kids who do drugs, and have a negative amount of working brain cells, attract a lot of attention and as a result become a beacon of success and popularity, earning hundreds of millions of dollars for doing nothing, but degraded stuff online. The society has turned upside down for quite a while, and girls whoring themselves publicly are living a much better life than anyone with a hint of self-identity and conscience.

I have seen delusional people in each and every tradition. The only way possible to safeguard is to have a very strict screening process, followed by a much more strict training process, and still, there would be some delusion, or some people with delusion, as getting completely rid of delusion is an overly massive task. You just have to accept that 99.999998% of humanoids are living in a massive delusion they call life. As for how WE avoid delusion, it is by using our Psi powers to see through things. If you claim you are enlightened, it does not take much effort for me to get inside your brain and look for myself, whenever you are enlightened or it is just a conclusion of internal dialogue masturbation.

A rule of thumb if you meditate less time a day than taking a dump takes, you won't progress far.

2mins might not be enough

I fail to see greatness here, a casual talk between ordinary people. Nothing extraordinary.

Gonna say all the karmic entanglement, connections are all a made-up bs. There is nothing. Unawakened shen can awaken under the influence of awakened shen, but this has nothing to do with sex or intimacy. Also, this process is subtle and fallback is quick if the person is not cultivating.

This does not work. For you do not have the energy to go through MCO, to begin with. The first step is to build up DanTien. Intention causes blockages all the way. If your teachers can levitate burn stuff and e.t.c I would take my words back, but so far this sounds like Mantak chia crap.

Most teachers who do teach in public, make their teachings affordable. So money is never really a big issue as I think. Some things may well be worth millions, billions and maybe even trillions of dollars, but nobody would charge this much in public because nobody would be able to afford it anyway. Being a teacher of spiritual and esoteric stuff is not the most profitable thing, although Damo and few others do make like 20000$ in 2 days of teaching. But it is more like an exception in the field and a result of doing it for 2 decades. Anyway how much would you pay for immortality? Not everything that is a "product" is a result of fair work and employment. Much of it is a scam, corruption, theft of resources. Many computer games and developers lie and deceive fanbase, to get more money while not delivering a good quality product. IF someone is paying for everything is just opening yourself as a victim to parasites, a victim to unethical practices, and scammers, as well as talentless people doing a crap job. I agree though, that if you enjoy, or benefit from something good, supporting it with money is the same as voting. You vote for the good stuff to appear more often in this world. But if you vote for everything as some people do, we end up with bad games, bad movies, bad products, corporations ***** people all around the world. There are a lot of companies and corporations that should have long ago gone out of business, as all they do is obnoxious scamming practice, yet people do not have brain cells to see through deception and avoid being scammed. There are whole zombifying concepts and approaches as to how to manipulate humans to spend more money here and there, how to create an addiction, how to create a victim. The same way there are "spiritual" teachers who sell garbage and dangerous non-beneficial practices.

The absolute power is the only thing truly worthy of cultivation, the power than can break through all limits and limitations of a human being.

Visualization is only useless in Daoist practices and in most of them, that deal with internal energy due to the idea that internal energy should be self-maintaining. It should be able to work without conscious control from your mind. I believe visualization is a powerful tool used in practices far higher than Daoist arts. A master that is capable of visualization is capable of the art of creation. If you develop visualization to the highest level you would be able to create Life. Materialize things out of thin air. Create a universe. Daoists don't teach anyone visualization because they are far off the level of creation and materialization. The intention is manual control, attention is semi-automatic control. The difference is intention is temporary, attention can become permanent. I am able to circulate MCO with my intention but it won't work permanently like freeform's, due to the lack of all Daoist work with this practice. If you put in 500hours with attention-based practice it may become a permanent ability that will not need any more work to sustain itself.

Hello, I have come here to find some knowledge and maybe consultations on topics of interest. Daoist Neigong and Daoist Alchemy, I have read about John Chang and his impressive abilities, and interested in cultivation.

Chi is just energy, it can take any forms. It can be electric, magnetic, it can bring heat or coldness, it can also be a physical object that you could touch, or an image you could see.

Is it possible? Have you heard of anyone who could levitate? Walking on water is a kind of levitation too. High skilled cultivators are supposed to be able to walk in the air as if it was solid ground. Levitation essentially is a counteracting measure to the gravity field of the whole Planet. Would you like to develop this ability?

Just don't buy it if you don't like it, it is a free market, you can't blame someone for charging money for their work. Usually, people who do talks have free talks and paid lectures.

Talking is work. Hosting information on internet costs money. Recording information costs money and time. Hosting a website on the internet with domain costs money. Developing a website for you to see on the internet - costs money. Why don't you just go and work for free, if you are so smart and dedicated?