Master Logray

Being spiritual would lessen the importance of the body and associated needs. Then sexual needs, gender change would not be that necessary comparing with general population.

你的post並沒有討論合宗明道集，而是研究作者。 爲何不直接討論大江西派呢？

I am dealing with translation and formating, some background first. Source, internet. "Zhuangzi": "Yan Hui said: The limbs are dropped, the intelligence is deposed, and the body is separated from the body to know. It is the same as Datong (great access). This is called sitting and forgetting." Those who sit and forget forget their bodies externally and forget their hearts internally. Datong, the great road of righteousness, can be combined with the great road if you can sit and forget. According to Taoist practice, we should forget to know and forget in advance. Tang Dynasty． Sima Chengzhen wrote a volume of the monograph "Zuowang Lun". If you want to cultivate the great road, you must first have no intention, so there is a saying that "no intention is the way." No mind means that there is no "shadow mind of six worldly conditions". If there is no mind, then the wonderful and true mind will manifest itself and take refuge in "the death of the heart and the resurrection of the spirit". This is how we begin to “be the same as Datong.” If you want to achieve without heart, you should forget your mind, that is, you will get rid of seeing, hearing, and awareness, and there will be no need for intelligent thinking. Zhuangzi's method of sitting and forgetting is not fully revealed in Zhuangzi's books, but "Zhuangzi. "Qiwu Lun" has already described the main end of it. The so-called sitting and forgetting has clearly pointed out that the posture is not standing or lying down, but sitting. This sitting posture is neither cross-legged nor flat, but "sitting with concealment".

For reading or practising?

It is not long ago there was a discussion that the forum lacks Taoist or cultivator posts. Then we have someone like this member who is very interested in such matters coming up. The result is not what most imagined. This world is interesting. It gives you what you want but in a way not expected.

My teacher said, prolonged meditation itself will change a person's character to be more mild, more understanding, more peaceful. May be he is not entirely correct.

WLP stands a lot? They are using standing as the base? not sitting? Standing cannot go deep enough and while it is useful to kick start as you say.

How so? Any more info?

Zen doesn't improve the body, so are some Taoist practices in the early stage. When your body ages, maintain a full lotus could be giving harmful effects. Not only the knee, but the lower back too. In Taoist training, the person will easily snap into place when the Chi comes. The problem is the long period before getting the real Chi. Damages could have been done. For older people especially who starts middle aged, it is better to take it easy, or even easier along the way. Anyhow your objective is on the mind, why struggle in pain for decades.

It doesn't matter if doing something has a zero chance of success, as long as it is not a all or nothing type. If one trains to be the richest man on earth, then even a 1/10000 success is quite a big sum of money. A 10% success rate will make most people envy.

Modern world, it is unavoidable. The initial step of concentrating on LDT has been a great hurdle for many people.

The common explanation is, when the LDT is full, it starts to flow down the channel and start orbiting on its own. Most teachers would tell you that. It is certainly true. But then why MCO is regarded as Yau Wei Gong (Doing Something) instead of Wu Wei Gong? If Chi can do everything by itself, safe and sound and smooth? Because the person has to concentrate on the LDT to gather and build up Chi, start the firing trigger, keep the Chi running along the proper channel (actually it is a trunk road with many junctions), don't omit sections (common), stopping in the journey (the 3 passes, the bathing points), determine when to go again or start its downward journey, adjust the speed etc. There is not much Wu Wei left, at most just don't force things. Given the involvement of the conscious mind, WuLiu MCO can hardly even be classified as meditation when this term generally refers stilling the mind and doing as little as possible. It is more similar to Qigong or even Hatha Yoga where a lot of interventions are needed.

There is a practice where the Chi is moving between LDT and MDT, similar to OP's thinking. It seems to be safer too. But I don't know how this practice fit in the grand scheme of Neidan.

I think the term "master" implies a certain preaching/teaching/writing. A solo cultivator (I don't mean anyone we know) does not count. Someone who knows the truth of the universe, unless he preaches/teach/write, he is a nobody (again no name implied) if he keeps everything to himself.

Yes, master = philosopher + special powers. If Jesus never demonstrated anything special, would Christianity even exist with his teachings alone?