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  4. Posted

    This is without question a blessing. There is the saying - "price and quality" - whether a car or a pair shoes we all want the best price and hopefully with that - quality. This is beyond that. To be able to study with Master Wang in and of itself is stupendous; to be able to study with him; to be taught by him for the price given is almost ludicrous!

    ...ver considered the right time to be able to study under a truly gifted and authentic master with an incredible lineage - this is the time. You will not find a better price than this - again thanks to Kathy Li etc., for keeping the main theme in mind which is to teach others about the many facets of the Tao and not to just seek a profit.

     

    I'm not arguing that the price is not adequate.

    I'd just like to know what the situation will be like when one gets there.

    It makes a difference to me whether there's a group of 20 or of 300.

    It also makes a difference to me whether I sleep in a double room or with six people in one room.

    It would also be cool to hear whether Master Wang will teaches classes all day and every day or perhaps only once a day.

    And I wouldn't want to go there and not being able to understand what is said during lectures.

    So, those are my points. Not the price. The price is basically something that has been discussed many times in the past years and is just a fact that one has to accept if one wants to participate in these seminars.

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  5. Posted

    Sounds great.

    Do you have some more information for us:

    1. How many people in total will participate?

    2. How many classes will Master Wang teach?

    3. Is cost of translation included? Who will translate? I'm assuming English here.

    4. What will the daily structure of classes be like?

    5. How many people will sleep in one room?

     

    I couldn't find these points in your links.

  7. Posted

    It's nice to hear the video.

    But like most other posters I was a bit disappointed that only a small part is about MoPai. But then the interviewing people seem to focus on WTSHTF and conspiracy theory stuff.

    It would have been cool to hear more from Kosta on things like:

    * Is he still doing some inner practice?

    * Kosta often mentions ChenXiaoWang of Chen TaiChi and I think also WuTaiChi and their NeiGong practices. It would have been interesting to hear a comparison.

    * Comparison between MP and well known yoga pranayama would have been good, too.

     

    I was also a bit confused that he talked about MP at all after I read his 'Don't hit the snooze button' article, which he also mentioned. It seemed that he had closed the MP chapter totally and doesn't want to talk about it. I might have misunderstood it, though, and he only wanted to refer to his idea of presenting MP to the whole world.

    Again it was interesting to hear that he said that MP is basically only for practising as a hermit.

     

    From the interview I got the impression that Kosta is a very smart and also calmly thinking man.

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  8. Posted

    The science came in a few months ago from a large ongoing study reporting that, yes cell phone frequencies do cause tumours over long term use when people use them for about 20 mins a day plus. The heat thing and the disorientation is your brain and inner ear being fried. Of course this has been known for a long time now but like GE crops if they delay and keep the debate going it muddies the water so much that another debate starts and before you know it everyone is mass-debating when they should be actually suing the companies for suppression of health risk studies (like with what they did with the research on smoking/tabacco, remember that people? :o;) ) You can get EMF things that nullify the effects of the frequency. Paul

     

     

    Can you name a device that actually works in nullifying the mobile radiation?

    From what I've heard most of these (if not all) are scams. We are talking about these little, sometimes cute, colourful stickers (like Hello Kitty) that people stick to their phones believing they have an effect, right?

  9. Posted · Edited by genmaicha

    I've always been skeptical of mobile phones and can only recommend to use as little as possible.

    For me also old-style wired modem for internet and wired telephone instead of WLAN and wireless phone.

     

    Apparently it's not only the heat that is created by the electromagnetic field of the mobile causing the cells to move but the brain/blood barrier is lifted by the high pulse frequency allowing toxins to enter the brain.

    Here (in German) are some info and picture of rat brains without and with mobile wave exposure (page 2);

    http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/risikomobilfunk.pdf

     

    A Prof. Dr. Peter Semm, Universität Frankfurt, and Prof. Leif Salford, Neuro surgeon of Swedish University Lund are quoted.

     

    Sure it's controversial. And of course using a phone is very convenient. And of course one shouldn't panic. Follow your intuition.

    And there are WLAN stations and DECT phones that don't emit when they are not used (the majority of the devices apparently emit all the time, whether someone is talking/surfing or not):

    http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/der_widerstand_lohnt_sich.pdf

     

    (edit for typo)

  11. Posted · Edited by genmaicha

    This is the site to the book written by James McNeil with some excerpts which I couldn't find yesterday:

    http://onemansdestiny.com/

    This book will be an auto biography and it seems that is hasn't been published yet.

     

    This one: http://www.littlenineheaven.com/lovemaking_dp.html is a different one by the same author on Daoist love making. I had somehow mixed them up before.

     

    (edit to distinguish the two books and sites)

  13. Posted · Edited by genmaicha

    Iron Crotch has been mentioned here before as I can remember.

    Mostly it was about Tu Jin-Sheng and his 99 schools first only in Taiwan and in the best years also in the US to where the master seems to have moved.

     

    And then there was this site: http://qigongpenis.com/

    It looks like the typical internet scam site with half truths but I haven't seen the product.

     

    Some people talked about the practice which involves attaching weights to one's penis and then swinging them and irrepairable damage to practitioners.

     

    Recently I came across the Little Nine Heaven's (LNH) group.

    LNH is apparently an old Daoist art that was passed on to Chiao Chang Hung who moved with Chiang Kai Shek to Taiwan. He seems to have had a very good standing in the Taiwanese martial arts community.

    His main students seem to be

    Carl Kao (Kao San Lun; www.xisuigong.com ), who is originally from Taiwan, but now lives in the US, and

    James McNeil ( http://littlenineheaven.com/ ).

    Both studied with the respected Tang ShouTao (system including Hsing I, Pa Kua and Tai Chi) founder Hsu Hong-Chi before studying with Chiao Chang Hung.

    Furthermore credibility is given by the fact that Scott Sonon, one of the prominent kettle bell teachers, is a student of the system.

    James McNeill's site is quite flashy and includes iron crotch which can be found here: http://littlenineheaven.com/shih_shui.html

    A picture that is also on Tu Jin-Sheng's site of a guy hanging weight from his crotch can be found here as well as of Mr Mc Neill letting a woman swing on a rope that's tied to his crotch while he's standing on a roof.

    There used to be the links to

    1) www.sexforhealth.net (not accessible now for some reason but can be found via archive.org) and

    2) a site especially for a book written by Mr McNeil called "Ancient Lovemaking Secrets" (info here: http://www.littlenineheaven.com/lovemaking_dp.html ) with excerpts on his initiation time in Taiwan into the Daoist love arts.

    The first site (sexforhealth.net) reminded me of the Matt Furrey internet sales sites and the excerpts of the book on the second site were a bit unbelievable.

    Also there seems to be controversy about the lineage of the art of Splashing Hands that Mr McNeil says he has learned from a Master Lefiti.

     

    Anyways, my questions are if anyone has any experience with any of these teachers like Mr Kao or Mr McNeil and what they think of both the LNH and the Iron Crotch system. As weird as parts of Mr McNeils sites' content is the lineage seems to be authentic.

     

    Also has anyone been to one of the 99 schools in either Taiwan or the US by Mr Tu Jin-Sheng?

     

    edit to repair link

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  14. Posted

    As with most things there seem to be different opinions on how long it will take to recover one's yuan qi.

    On the Longmenpai Blog it says the following:

    "With that in mind, let examine how much time you need to complete the foundation (before you can do any actual inner alchemy). Foundational (ZhuJi) practice in longmen pai can be roughly understood as to replenish all the yuan qi that one has lost. The peak level of yuan qi that a human being can have happens when they are 16 years old (for men) or 14 years old (for women). So one can say that the foundation is built properly when the level of yuan qi in your body has returned to when you were 16 (or 14) years old. Now according to the Ling Bao Bi Fa classic text, one year (360 days) daily practice (6 hours per day) of Yin Xian Fa can replenish 10 years of lost yuan qi, and the 6 hours mentioned by the old masters refers to the practice being done in full lotus (of course!). "

    http://longmenpai.blogspot.com/

     

    So, in this example (depending on the age of the practitioner) one year of six hours per day in full lotus practicing Yin Xian Fa.

     

    In Bagua a different number of days is quoted.

    "Your body requires one week to recover after one sexual intercourse. i.e. come back to the condition before the intercourse. One hundred days is required to recover Original Qi (Yuan Qi) completely (i.e. recover to the condition before one had any sex). About three years is required to open Small Heavenly Circle."

    http://www.chinafrominside.com/ma/bagua/machuanxu.html

     

    Do you know of any other approaches and what happens once yuanqi is recovered?

  15. Posted

    My recent experience is exhilarating.

     

    I always had excess pain while doing the full lotus position. Recently, after sitting for about 3-4 minutes in double Lotus the pain suddenly leaves my body and I am set free without any pain(almost).

     

    The feeling is beyond anything I felt before and I can sit for a very long time without any special pain. As if my previous excess karma has been eradicated(after suffering hardships). It feels like flying and my head is spinning etc.

     

    Even more strange is that half Lotus gives me alot more pain than full Lotus, hence I only do full Lotus now. The body transformation in Falun Dafa demands full Lotus too and I feel magnitudes of difference in the strength of body transformation between the two poses. In full Lotus the energy flow is massive, like a warm water flow circulating around my body.

     

    For how many minutes does this pain-free state last then?

  17. Posted

    I forgot all about this thread, lol. For anyone who is doing Push Ups now I recommend you don't forget to balance them out with rows. The easiest way to do this is to get two chairs and put a broomstick on top and pull yourself up to the broomstick. This is so you don't create a muscular imbalance in your shoulders.

     

    Would a pullup accomplish the same?

  18. Posted

    I once came across an interview with a guy called John Lear (just checked it now) who claimed that the moon is full of bases or something similar.

    The interesting part about this guy is that he's the son of the Lear Jet inventor, Bill Lear.

     

    It sounds all quite far-fetched, but in this time of swine flu apparent hoaxes and panic mongering, etc. who knows what is really true and what isn't.

  22. Posted

    Have you seen this video yet?

     

    It seems to be an interview in Japan. It looks like the master in question is not Japanese though, with the person on the right interpreting.

     

    Can anyone understand what that master's tradition is?

     

    How likely is it that the Japanese TV would have allowed such a possibly fatal demonstration?

     

    It reminded me a bit of this video about the fire yogi of Tanjore:

  23. Posted

    The biggest reason to not eat meat, to me anyway, both now and in ancient times, comes down to health. Humans can eat rotten fruit and veges and be ok. If we eat rotten meat we can become quite sick in a hurry, not to mention get infestations of worms or other parasites.

     

    I'm not so sure about this.

    Check here:

  24. Posted

    Regarding Kundalini Yoga there seems to be the Yogi Bhajan branded Kundalini Yoga with its 3H organisation and the traditional Hatha Yoga that incorporates or is linked to Kundalini Yoga. The two might have some common points, but AFAIK are different.

    Regarding the late Yogi Bhajans Kundalini Yoga it should be noted that there are reports of cult like exploitation (special women workshops with the guru, people working for low wage in the organisation's companies) and that the lineage and authenticity has been questioned. Of course I don't know if this is true or just some bad mouthing. However, it is a fact that Sikhs shouldn't practice any kind of Yoga (apparently that is advised in one of their scriptures) and a number of Sikhs seem to be surprised by Yogi Bhajans' activities.

     

    Kundalini meditation to my knowledge would either be a name for a kind of meditation that Bhagwan/Osho made up and/or part of the authentic kundalini yoga. I doubt, though, that there is some kind of meditation that in India traditionally gets called Kundalini meditation.