Master Logray

I suggest wide reading, agree or disagree on the contents, but at least one can know there are so many things outside.

This is the general views in the East, where there are worlds, our world, and other worlds with numerous entities and beings, some benevolent, some vicious or different from time to time - just like us. There is not a single and only source of evil which emanates out. So no evil running wild in the world. Both worlds and perhaps many other worlds mingle and is a big ecosystem. I believe the concept of a single evil stems from Abrahamic religions - one God one evil.

First of all, people 1000, 2000, 3000 years ago fully used their lungs. They were mostly farmer, or laborers. The official and intellectuals were a very small minority. There were no vehicle, machines... These people could overuse their lung more than under use. If these ancients still used 50% of their capacity, there would be important biological and evolutionary factors that maintain this proportion. Secondly ancient Taoist did not want a slow, long, deep breathing. They wanted a small, fine, long, silk, consistent, deep breathing - at first. In the advance stage, the breathing is supposed to be stopped or to be so fine that one cannot hear or discern. Then it becomes spore breathing when the lung is not really used. Then modern science says there is something called oxidative stress. When you have more than enough oxygen, you die earlier with numerous symptoms. It is why there are so many supplements to lessen it. Oxygen can be lethal. A few more percentage of oxygen in our atmosphere, we all die. The theory of oxygen does not stand.

Qinna is normally called grappling or joint locking techniques. They are not Taichi original methods like the 13 stances, but rather imported into it. Qinna exists in all styles of Taichi and in other Chinese martial arts and outside China. So I suppose the good execution of Qinna could be independent from Taichi.

Why did the ancients develop Neigung/Neidan/medicine/martial systems to get more oxygen? They have more oxygen than now.

If you imply there is only 1 evil, then I would disagree. There are big evils, small evils, outward evils, hidden evils, latent evils.... All these change all the time. And all of us are or have evil inside us too. If everyone has god nature, then everyone should have evil nature. It is just the level that matters.

Then how about experience falls in this formula?

Tian = Field Dan = Crops Neidan = Growing Choice of Locations = Acupoints, Chakra, Places with more nerve endings and hormonal glands

Recently the site is operating smoothly, but don't know for how long. Last time when the search function was used the system slowed down. So if we all use Google to search, it would alleviate the system's load.

Sub forums tend to die of dwindling interactions. Am I correct? especially for a not so popular subject.

A sub-forum could be useful in dealing with crawling bots. But it won't be that private as so many already have 20 posts. And it would not be effective vs. trolling, spamming, bashing and so on.

The good thing is there has never been so much interest in Neidan.

Why not give it a try? at most we are back to where we are now.

This is a very informative piece that all newbie should read. It is just that I would like to add Neidan involves pre-natal Chi. Purely work on the body like posture/thinking/breathing would not produce the transformative result. By the way is it possible to disclose how did you come across that gentleman in England?

Quite true, some schools view manipulation of breathing as lethal. It is why wide reading is essential. A single danitan, a single breathing method is not true.