Wu Wei

Aw come on, I like your description of angry red faced sex no condom God!

Just kidding.

 

I agree with you. My stance is that if we get to the true core (removing the control-factor core) of these teachings we find much more in common than not.

I remember a medicine man showing me an exercise that was done after a healing in order to clear the energies. It was identical to a qigong exercise I had previously learned. I get flack from different religious folks some time about my teachings and book. The Christians that give me flack don't realize that my book was edited by a Ph.D Christian Theologian who happened to be one of my students at the time.

Truth is truth no matter where it comes from and no matter what name is put on it.

We can utilize qi, combined with INTENT, to create, or manifest.

Why would I want to waste energy trying to make rotting food clean? It would require transmutation instead of simple cleaning. It could be done but I would only do the transmutation if I was starving and could not get anything else to eat.

You pushed my Yuck! button

Didn't mean to push your "yuck!" button. Hope it wasn't too close to meal time.

Someone I know just explained that using Qi on food could actually energize it.

In turn, energizing the consumer...hmmm...

The "cleaning" is removing the sick qi from the food. We do the same thing when we do medical qigong, we project qi and remove the sick qi. Generally speaking, sick qi will be perceived by most people that can SEE as a black cloud of energy.

In medical qigong, you are using chi on the living to heal. Can you remove sick chi from the dead?

How does this relate to food and can you make rotting food "clean" so that it can be eaten?

Just trying to push some buttons!

Darin,

For what it's worth, I was raised Catholic.

I was taught that the "Almighty Father" IS judgemental.

Hence, "judgement day."

To say there is a God separates us, mentally, from the universal energy.

My arguement with my priest (in my youth) was that if God embodies

everything, am I not God? Boy! Did that statement piss off our priest!

The Tao does not seperate us. We are one.

I personally am not a fan of Reiki for many reasons. But Qi utilized with INTENT can clean most anything, doesn't have to be defined as "live" or "dead".

Maybe I'm not familiar with Reiki, but I thought it was a healing art. With that in mind, how can you heal

food, such as plant or animal, that has given up its life? And "cleaning"? I don't understand?

Gratitude is a way to live. I thank the God/Tao/ the universe for my health, job, girl and life in general depending on my mood. I dont expect an answer, I just like the effect it has on me. I like to live in the attitude of gratitude. I got this practice from watching THE SECRET. I have a habit of reading a list of things I am grateful for every night before bed.

 

Where exactly are you pulling "thanking a god or creator for our food, in taoist terms is like thanking my invisible playmate" from? What Taoist source?

The concept of God comes from Middle Eastern and Western mythologies. An entity that judges. The Tao

just "is". I have no problem with thanking the universal energy, the Tao. I just have issues with the concept

of a God. But that's fodder for another topic.

Gratitude is a way to live. I thank the God/Tao/ the universe for my health, job, girl and life in general depending on my mood. I dont expect an answer, I just like the effect it has on me. I like to live in the attitude of gratitude. I got this practice from watching THE SECRET. I have a habit of reading a list of things I am grateful for every night before bed.

 

Where exactly are you pulling "thanking a god or creator for our food, in taoist terms is like thanking my invisible playmate" from? What Taoist source?

I need clarification on your question of "taoist source." Is there more than one tao?

As far as thanking a god or creator for our food, in taoist terms,

is like thanking my invisible playmate. The tao is not an

entity as is believed in religions.

Now, when it comes to Reiki, my understanding is it works on

the living. Does it work once the plant or animal has died?

Hi all!

New to this site and I found this topic interesting.

The North American native view point is to thank

the origin of the food (i.e. the plant or animal from which it came) with the idea

that one day our bodies will return to the earth and give back in the form of nourishment

to other plants and animals, therefore, completing the circle.

They believe that we are not above or below any plant or animal, but rather, equal as

living creatures. Creatures existing on this living, breathing, vessel called mother earth.

Hi, everyone!

I'm very happy to have found this site!

I have been fascinated by Taoist thought for almost two decades.

Hoping to share ideas and smiles!