Forestgreen

It seems like many meditative traditions prefer to teach simpler methods to the public. Perhaps because the methods we are talking about here tend to be destabilising, and therefore not all sentinent beings should engage in. The descriptions in hindu yoga, tibetan buddhism and daoist tradition do overlap. Not at the beginner level, but later on. 1) Because they are destabilising to the self. 2) Teachers are maybe not so self-less after all. Should be, since they are based on similar principles.

When it comes to the actual practice, what I do is described in the WuZhenPian. Or, to be fair, what I do can be interpreted as being similar to that process. In reality, who knows.

Then you should have a full understanding of Ming practices.

You can probably search this site for boran kammatthana.

There is at least one branch/school of TCM that was heavily influenced by what we tend to call neidan.

That is because after the great reforms that hit buddhism, these methods were made less publicly known.

I agree that the term is used in a wide variety of was, and the risk that we are talking about different things is rather large. I might add that I do not practice daoist neidan, I'm doing a buddhist alchemical practice.

Neidan is supposed to work on reversing the flow, to return to the pre-heaven "substances". As far as I know, TCM doesn't do that, but I would be delighted if you can prove me wrong.

If you write "via TCM", the likelyhood of that is really small.

No, that's not it.

Side doors and crooked paths resonate more with desire.

I never found the suttas helpful in this regard. The abhidhamma texts are more relevant, but describes what you are trying to achieve rather than how to achieve it. There are "qigong " methods that, in an unsimplified form, access sensory processing in a very efficient way. Unfortunately, simplification is the rule.

All Shaolin is supposed to be chan-wu-yi, I only truly understand the tradition I am involved in though. The name of my practice will be of no help, as far as I can see no public teacher writes about this aspect, in a world where seminars are sold the buddhist aspects of the art have no market value.

Yes, same place, different methods.

Shaolin. Or, at least one of the traditions affiliated with it.