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  2. Posted · Edited by Informer

    uhmm...at what point did I say what you're implying? There is a conversation on sung, and a conversation on the video by the original poster. I saw fixed patterns and immediately was aware that this is some type of training drill and not actual "Taiji" sparring.

     

    Anyway, from your past posts, you seem to like to debate over small stuff, so do you, bro. Do you. :)

     

    Haha, BUSTED! :D

     

     

    Doesn't matter small or big, whatever seems off that maybe I can increase my understanding or help someone else. Seems win win.

     

    I think we will get along fine if you don't easily take offense, I don't take anything personal so you can say whatever you want to me.

  4. Posted · Edited by Informer

    Why don't you critics post a better example then?

     

    I used to talk about what I thought was sung, until I met someone who let me feel sung. I don't talk about what I think sung is, even after feeling it. I can talk about the things I experienced, but until I know what it's like to be on the giving AND receiving end, I don't feel as if I can talk about sung.

     

    I liked what Taomeow says here. If you can figure this stuff out without a teacher or someone who is more sung than you to help, then big ups to you-- I however do not have this ability yet.

     

    As for the original post-- that's not Tai Ji Sparring-- hell it isn't even good Sanshou.

     

     

    You just said you don't have enough knowledge to judge yet then you judge . . .

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    LOL i used to belong to the group of people who thought that secrets were dirty and that teachings and truths should be freely available to all. Then i realized why masters keep their cards close, because fools get REALLY threatened when you talk about not being subject to the same limitations they are!

     

    Sounds like my kind of people, what group?

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    I guess that means the choices are to find a teacher and learn the art intuitively through guided practice, or strike out on one's own using whatever resources one can, as Dr. Morris did. Taking the self-guided approach, a person can attempt to discover a more objective description through trial and error, using oneself as the subject.

     

    Did you write that Mark? I like.

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    For what it is worth, my experiences in the last few years have been very similar to what ShaktiMama has described. As one removes obstructions and grows in sensitivity of the energy flows, you can feel the flows connecting everything. Feeling those flows, one can connect and even "merge".

     

    If you would like to learn more about it, the ancient writings of Naropa describe it.

     

    :)

     

    I would be interested.

  15. Posted · Edited by Informer

    I don't see where you see the chicken and egg problem tbh.

     

    Deduction could lead to the cause of each phenomena and explain away chi. Then you know what "Chi" is really through physiology and anatomy. Not some mystical thing or crutch. Didn't most of the guys that invented this concept of chi think that the earth was flat and the center of the universe?

  16. Posted · Edited by Informer

    Glenn would say never tell people what happens.

     

    He was a smart man. Darwin didn't publish what is now known as the "Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection" until after 23 years of accumulating evidence and correlating facts.

     

    Darwin waited almost 23 years before publishing his theory of evolution in his book, Origin of Species. His voyage on the Beagle ended when he returned to England in 1836. He had developed his theory of evolution by 1838, but it was after another 20 years, in 1858, that he publicly announced it. His complete book, Origin of Species, was published the next year.

     

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_did_Darwin_wait_before_publishing_his_theory_of_evolution

     

    I was suprised to find that Doctor Glenn Morris wasn't a science major. He seemed to have a good scientific look at the phenomena regardless.

     

    1980 Ph. D., Wayne State University; Communication Rhetoric and Public Address, emphasis on organizational communication, industrial psychology and psychotherapy.

    1973 M. A., Pennsylvania State University; Speech with emphasis in group dynamics and teacher training.

    1968 B. A., Pennsylvania State University; General Arts and Science with emphasis in theatre and anthropology.

    http://www.umaatantra.com/glenn_morris.html

  17. Posted · Edited by Informer

    If everyone practiced to not take offense, then there would be non to take offense.

     

    :)

     

    Which not taking offense is something we can all have control over, being offended is a choice you can make. Whether someone is offended or not is not a choice for you to make.

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  18. Posted · Edited by Informer

    This is metta:

     

    Visuddhimagga instructions

     

    Contemporary instruction for the cultivation of loving-kindness – such as is found in the works of Sharon Salzberg,[11] the Triratna Buddhist Community's Kamalashila,[5] and Matthieu Ricard[12] – is often based in part on a method found in Buddhaghosa's 5th c. CE Pāli exegetical text, the Path to Purification (Pali:Visuddhimagga), Chapter IX.[13][14] This traditional approach is best known for identifying successive stages of meditation during which one progressively cultivates loving-kindness towards:

     

    oneself[15]

    a good friend[16]

    a "neutral" person

    a difficult person[17]

    all four of the above equally[18][19]

    and then gradually the entire universe[20]

     

    One should avoid choosing someone to whom one is sexually attracted or who is dead.[21] For a "neutral" person, choose someone that you might come into contact with every day, but who does not give rise to strong positive nor strong negative emotions. For a "difficult" person, traditionally choose an enemy, but avoid choosing a person who has just wrecked your life, unless you are very well grounded in awareness.

     

    Matthieu Ricard has recommended that metta practitioners choose to meditate on a person for whom it is very easy to feel unconditional love and compassion.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett%C4%81

     

    It is something to think for some and may seem to be something that people "think" but the experience of love isn't inside your head really. Those are the ideas you have of what it is not really what it is.

     

    It could very well lead you to the thymus, or heart center, or whatever you choose to call it. The palace of love.

  19. Posted · Edited by Informer

    How would you describe what you feel as chi Apech?

     

    Could it be you noticing the EMF of the earth and its effect on the blood flowing through your veins? Or higher amounts of oxygen making the blood flow more apparent?

     

    Or maybe Oxidative phosphorylation? :

     

    Oxidative phosphorylation (or OXPHOS in short) is a metabolic pathway that uses energy released by the oxidation of nutrients to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Although the many forms of life on earth use a range of different nutrients, almost all aerobic organisms carry out oxidative phosphorylation to produce ATP, the molecule that supplies energy to metabolism. This pathway is probably so pervasive because it is a highly efficient way of releasing energy, compared to alternative fermentation processes such as anaerobic glycolysis.

     

    During oxidative phosphorylation, electrons are transferred from electron donors to electron acceptors such as oxygen, in redox reactions. These redox reactions release energy, which is used to form ATP. In eukaryotes, these redox reactions are carried out by a series of protein complexes within the cells intermembrane wall mitochondria, whereas, in prokaryotes, these proteins are located in the cells' intermembrane space. These linked sets of proteins are called electron transport chains. In eukaryotes, five main protein complexes are involved, whereas in prokaryotes many different enzymes are present, using a variety of electron donors and acceptors.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidative_phosphorylation

  20. Posted · Edited by Informer

    @informer

     

    You need to design an experiment which can only be explained if qi exists ... i.e. is real and not a subjective sensation.

     

    ?

     

    Yes, I don't think that is possible though, so I'm sticking to the scientific facts which can be correlated with various phenomena that has been described mystically for so long. If all these phenomena can be correlated to science, then there is no need for "Chi" to be used to explain it.

     

    I see "chi" as a similar crutch that religion imposes, an answer to something you don't know or can't explain . . .

     

    This is what I've been doing here since before I registered to these forums which is correlating these things to actuality. Hence the disclaimer no one can use these idea's for profits, only to give away. I think it is part of the reason some of the guys here are trying to shut me up, because I give it away free and they want to sell it.

  23. Posted · Edited by Informer

    Happiness is being able to go anywhere in the world without causing harm or offending a single person.

     

    You probably don't say it much because maybe you realize how un-realistic it is?

     

    Some places you go people will be offended by the color of your skin, or your language, or you hair-cut, or what you are wearing, what is that anything to do with you?

     

    Say someone is prejudiced about people of your skin color, were you the cause of him being offended, or was it only him choosing to be offended?

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    Yes goosebumps, tingling, heat, cold etc. physical effects from qi I think that's normal.

     

    Why do you think it 'comes from the brain" ... maybe the brain is involved as a trigger but I don't see qi as coming in waves from the brain.

     

     

    I think this is more in regards to "pre-heavenly" or "celestial" chi. (like the entire body bliss thing shakti describes) I think that because it feels to begin in the brain. Sometimes the energy or sensation never even leaves the brain. Obviously this is from my subjective observations that are being used to formulate the hypothesis, but the scientific correlations coincide with the locations as described in internal alchemy. Like how the pituitary gland is marked on the MCO diagram as well for instance. It is part of the MCO process and marked as the seat of the soul:

     

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    This is a hypothesis that is testable and can be disproven. (as any good hypothesis should be able to be tested and disproven which is why it is tentative.)

     

    The thymus is used and marked as rejuvenation center, and becoming aware and utilizing this could simply be educating T-cells. Which do help the immune system and would provide evidence for being healthier, aside from "qi":

     

    The thymus is a specialized organ of the immune system. The thymus "educates" T-lymphocytes (T cells), which are critical cells of the adaptive immune system.

     

    Each T cell attacks a foreign substance which it identifies with its receptor. T cells have receptors which are generated by randomly shuffling gene segments. Each T cell attacks a different antigen. T cells that attack the body's own proteins are eliminated in the thymus. Thymic epithelial cells express major proteins from elsewhere in the body, and T cells that respond to those proteins are eliminated through programmed cell death (apoptosis).

     

    This hypothesis also has within it the ability to be tested and disproven.