Master Logray

Sushi is meticulously prepared in a temperate climate from deep sea fishes in Japan. It is not the case in South East Asia like Bali or Thailand. The don't mix practices caution also applies in food.

Taoist concept is that Jing Chi Shen exist in different levels. The lowest level is body fluid. Conservation applies in everything. That means firstly you should not over exert yourself, physically, emotionally, sexually, financially, academically, philanthropically etc. Better still is to keep a margin, say 80% of your maximum capabilities. It applies to everything all the time. Sexual restraint of orgasm is more on sexual health. If you indulge on these sexual/health techniques, you cannot conserve Jing too.

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My idea of boredom is more like being bored, devoid of attractions and stimulation, that dull the senses, not so much as an emotion reacting to something.

I love this paragraph. For Taoist meditation, yes, some of those have so much things to do during meditation that I sometimes wonder if the term meditation is correctly describing it or not. Boredom is very useful and essential. If boredom is an issue, how can a person can sit more than 10 minutes after the initial "fun" or relaxed phase. For me, I found boredom gives me a more quieter mind during the Covid period when the whole society was bored including myself.

I would suggest caution. Since there are many techniques, it is natural many of them could be against each other. Mantra with the god's name is a good example. He won't want to call wrongly. Meditation works on the sub consciousness. Choosing a wrong approach could make adopting future systems difficult or even dangerous. I would still say define the purpose first is the most important.

There are many types of meditations, for many different purposes. They range from sitting to walking to varied movements, from immobile to slow or even faster. They may empty the mind yet some actively engage the conscious mind. Some can be learnt in 10 minutes and the others could take 10 years to start off. It is like walking. Walking is merely a process for your purposes.

Yesterday I checked on Japan's earthquake statistics. Each year it has 1600 earthquakes, exclude the very small ones, it is about 15 percent of the total quake in the world. There are a couple of over scale 6 per year. And in average, each year got 1 scale 7 or 8, or even 9. The whole Japan is on a trampoline.

I can. Not much clue. I visited Taiwan to buy Sun's book only.

You are right. Huangs' photo it is.

Huang Yuan Ji's writing is simply one of the greatest in internal alchemy. The drawback is not very organized as it was a compilation of his lectures. The problem in following his teachings was he didn't offer a system by himself. He cited methods here and there only. Those were not his own inventions but probably open methods at his time. Ge Guolong is a professor well versed with IA, yet he just translated a modern version of the old book. He is not a teacher and not sure how much actual experience and level he attained. In short, he is a scholar but not a practitioner. Sun Chang Lu looks very old in his book.

I can't comment on Thai or Burma or Japan, but a certain corruption is natural. It is human nature. It is just that this gentleman is doing it in a scale that is awesome. News say he has lots of money overseas, wives and children etc. But he has turned a temple into a modern group that comprises media production, publication, martial arts training, tourism, medicine and e-commerce. The Shaolin brand name is being pushed to the world as a hallmark of Chinese culture. He even saw the Pope. If he is not a monk, he should have been very successful and is certainly CEO material. A pity.

Then this priest is very decent. He still takes bus. There are videos showing Buddhist monks are all in luxurious cars.

I am sure those aim at mosquitos are not useful. But somehow they are being sold everywhere. So may be some mosquitos and dogs can be repelled but others not.

They seem useful. I searched, there are gadgets using sound waves to ward off wild dogs. Would they be useful?