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chakra, you could try without the warm-up. In fact I found the FP meditations to be warming up the body in themselves without a separate warm-up exercise.

Regarding the DVD this is from an email from Sifu Jenny: "The DVD contents: 1. Ten Essential Qigong Exercises 2. Spontaneous Adjustment Qigong (Yi gong level 1) 3. Opening Channels Exercises 4. Tapping Qigong 5. Strike wall with back 6. The best time to practice 7. Plus extra bonus material On the DVD is what I teach at my seminars. Of course, having a teacher present is the best option, but you can learn what I teach from the DVD. I also offer retreats. You can see what they include from the description on my website."

I'll answer from my own experience, since Sifu Terry will be away for some time. When I don't have that much time I do a very quick warm-up, warming up the knees and then circling the arms forward, then backward. Sifu Terry mentioned somewhere that one do not need to that much of a warm-up when one has done lot of "gong-fu". I think he is correct. Warming up is helpful in creating increased blood flow, especially in the morning. Monk Gazing a Moon shouldn't hurt in the back. I only experienced a "internal massage"-like feeling in my shoulders, not real pain.

funny, you should ask; yesterday I felt really compelled to check out African percussion. I really like the primal sound, it makes you go into no-thought in no time

Any benefits compared to Chinese energetic exercises?

I think articles like these can help get you moving and question your beliefs. However more work is needed to have experiential knowledge, aka wisdom.

Focusing and similarities between it and vipassana as taught by Goenka

regarding that book, you can dig out the methods from it, but probably you should read Discover your subpersonalities instead. Rowan also recommends Inner work for working with these personalities. Personally from my short reading of "Subpersonalities" it seems to be a good approach to solve inner conflicts.

I don't think Wang Liping has written a book? Do you mean Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard? Probably doesn't contain any secrets...

thanks cat. Initially I had a bit of aversion to the suggestion of a book with psychological self-help exercises but then I looked within and found that all methods should apply in self-healing. What's your view on transactional analysis?

Source, please? It doesn't sound like Buddhism to me.

Where do you get this idea from? Buddhism for me is about practical methods to achieve awakening and stop suffering at the core. I'm not sure what precisely in the results of Buddhist practise you dislike? At a practical level it just about seeing the world objectively instead of getting attached to your experiences. There are no authorities in Buddhism. What you perceive is your reality just as it is not as it should be. Regarding the article: Anatta (no-self) is the correct term and not ego. Personally I find my own limited experience of no-self is that I'm not separate from the world. I'm just a bunch of vibrations and sensations arise without my doing so they cannot be me, whatever "me" means.

My experience with the FP energy and vol 4 is that the long form has not shown its expression yet so much as a stand alone exercise and in the other meditations and that's with about 5 months of doing vol 1 + 2. However I'm doing vol 4 in the morning where my sensitivity is lower than in the evening. I'm pretty sure that the effects will come just as they came after about 1 month of doing Monk Serves Wine. Patience is necessary. My personal favorite at the moment is Monk Gazing at Moon from vol 1. I wouldn't miss this for the world It seems that you can explore each FP exercise for a long time to discover its subtleties.

If you are interested in the power of the mind you should read the Seth books. There are some books on facebook.

I kinda agree with on this however knowing that it could be a play of my mind. I have studied my mind lately and found that people who I really did see as having so many negative aspects suddenly didn't had them anymore. I was quite baffled to see this change of perception. So at this stage I try not to listen to my thoughts so much, silencing the inner judge and just be.

ha ha, yes, maybe, let's see welcome back to TTB by the way, I gotta read your personal practise section

thanks for the link to the video. The way he spoke reminded me of Bruce Frantzis in his description of the water method, by the way. Maybe it is because they have let go of so much tension that they seem so relaxed

Metal dog, Personally I don't care much about Wikileaks. News has about zero value for me these days which I why I try to filter everything that do not lead me somehow to enlightenment. I like to be ignorant. TTC 48 "In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped." TTC 71 "Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease." I don't presume to know the truth. I don't care about the "truth" as the truth is presented by one side or the other since this truth is colored by their own limited perception.

Read my post again. There is a question mark there. I do not judge the link I provided. But if you want to discuss copyright infringement, it should probably be taken up in another thread. Tor is open source, all the community hackers can look at it, so I would trust it more than I would trust surfing without it. That's IF you care about anonomity. What's your source on the Pentagon link and Tor? I highly doubt it. Even though Pentagon employees have hacked on it, does not mean it is unsafe. NSA has provided security modules for open source software, this does not mean that the said software is unsafe. The US government - as other governments - is involved in open source software. This is based on cost, it is simply a cheaper way of doing the work (it has other benefits also). https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en

it is not a physical router, it's software based http://www.torproject.org/ anybody can use Tor to anonomize their internet browsing with a click of a button (Firefox). I was once very paranoid regarding these things, now I don't really care anymore since it puts me back to square one in terms of clarity in the mind. What S-Curve writes, I agree with. Take a back seat and enjoy the show

A win for Spanish citizens? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/how-wikileaks-killed-spains-anti-p2p-law.ars

GIH, your posts in this thread are awesome, Regarding the quote I have snipped, would you consider the Buddha to have been total apathetic? I guess he couldn't be as he chose to spread his teachings which I interpret as not being apathetic. Viewing Buddha's enlightenment and thus end of suffering as an outsider, it seems that for an enlightened individual there is still a will to change things, and care about the world still exists.

You can find the answer for your question here http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWBBM. Looks like end of December we'll see what the WBBM team comes up with.

Run, Forrest, run...