Apech

I would suggest some meditation on what it actually means before translating. For instance why is the invisible that which produces heaven and earth. What is heaven, what earth and so on. Otherwise you are working in the dark so to speak.

What exactly is your wife placing her hand oh?

Thread locked because of tiresome drivel. FoC may reopen if there is a reason to. A.

Jesus H. Christ.

None of those things are therapies.

Have you tried a martial art?

I thought it may be your responsibility to strengthen your self control.

I think people who know serious things, if I can put it that way, are nervous about posting their ideas and being greeted with ridicule or low IQ takes. It’s a frustrating and depressing experience. As is immediate derailment into the world of slop.

Less dimwittery and slop.

There’s quite a lot of historical crossover between Tibet and China. There are tankas with the trigrams on for instance. And the 10th Karmapa regularly met with sifus and they attended his funeral. So I don’t think we should think things are very rigidly separated.

What does ‘grok its quale’ mean?

Moderator Note: In the interest of intelligibility and inclusivity we would like members to provide translations or at minimum transliterations of posts that include words or text in Chinese characters. This will give posts a wider reach and promote more wide ranging discussion. Thanks. A.

In order to perfect your meditation it is very important to not stop thinking.

Zouwang has something of the dzogchen about it.

Don’t bother answering the question will you?

My teacher from way back had a ‘family book’ which he occasionally mentioned but was cagey about what was actually in it. It seemed it included some Feng Shui apart from other stuff. He was also something of a Sino- supremicist and a bit sneery about anything western (including toast for some reason). Yes he was a toastist.

I know what you think, I wasn’t asking you.

Thank. Does pure original Neidan even exist?

Second set Luke leads one set to love New balls please

A bit of googling revealed that it is quite common to reduce Neidan to a kind of biochemical health system. How weird … is this the CPC approved strategy?

Hi You are not the first or the last to discover this - like you many people use google instead.

Yes I know it’s called abdominal breathing but I just wanted to explain that you don’t breathe with your abdomen.

I read the title of this thread as ‘Saving Private Neidan’ on first take made me laugh.

You need someone more expert than me to go any further on that topic.

Yes I realise that all I am saying about Neidan is vague. He was teaching art and calligraphy in a studio above a restaurant in Manchester China town. I approached him about Tai Chi but he taught me qigong instead.