Antares

What is the "local cosmos" in daoist terms? I think you'd better participate in "Esoteric and Occult Discussion".

Daoist techniques or just "esoteric" ones? Do you see any distinctions between them?

Well, I am not sure CMC taiji is alchemical. I think it is yangshengong at the best. So there are no stages in it. May be they can develop LDT and then it would be that stage I mentioned above. I mean first major stage, but one can invent dozens of degrees like relax shoulders, neck, close your eyes and breath deeply... Better to read Daoist classic text I think he meant opening 8 extraordinary channels but this is not the stage, this is a requirement for stage one to happen. Not sure what he meant by this. What qi should be sunk? If LDT has not been built yet how to sink qi there? May be he meant that "fire" should be sunk?

May I ask what Daoist method/school you practiced then (and now)?

It is not a stage, just requirement. IMO the first stage is: from Huiming - jing - one of the Wuliupai texts

What I want to say is that the more Ming you accumulate during this life and the more virtuous your karma is, the less likely you are to encounter unpleasant situations during rebirth, and the greater your chances of attaining a fortunate rebirth. However, it’s also important to remember that practitioners who follow incorrect methods may find themselves in very distressing circumstances during the process of reincarnation. That is why it is so important to follow correct methods during current lifetime.

After death, a person loses their yang aspect and remains in the yin aspect unless they are a highly advanced practitioner. Anyone who has ever experienced an out-of-body state understands what this means. In the yin reality, there are many different entities, and a person becomes open and vulnerable to them. All those stories about blissful experiences at the moment of death are partly true, while separation from the body is not yet complete, one may feel a sense of release and even happiness. But then the yang gradually fades away and few can tell what happens after that. I assume that one can end up in very unpleasant situations within the yin reality. Relying on a happy rebirth seems rather naive and unreasonable.

Venus symbolizes Lucifer. Are you Luciferian? What brings you to this forum?

They do not heal other people until they have abundance of pre heaven qi. Also it is not only about their own qi, there is smth else that is used to heal people. I would say they are mediums. But if one is trying to heal others having their own jing leaking there will be waste of yuan jing. So persons own leakage must be stopped prior to healing of other people. And healing is just additional skill, main goal is immortality and even work on more higher levels. I think development never stops. Now compare this approach with another one mentioned above. PM me

Yes, but there are healers systems in which one can become immortal. At least I know one of them. And at the initial stage they dont do healing - they do it after some level has been achieved and their spending do not harm much. In case of Rudi's system I don't know how far one can go with it.

IMO this is supreme Goodness, but it is not only like good behavior. Majority of people can't recognize it due to strong post-heaven shen influence which caused by post - heaven negative yin factors (energies, that is also called karma but not in Daoist teaching)

What you think about this concept? (taken from The inner teachings of Taoism. Chang Po-Tuan commentary by -- Cleary Thomas )

Then it is all about $$$. But wasting his yuan jing. It is like you have been collecting jing for one year and then you decided to show up with your incredible skills wasting half of what you gained during last year

Yeah, what happens then in your next incarnation? You remember all your skills? No warranty you get physical body again, some people souls can stick to the Yin reality after death for aeons. No warranty you will find right methods of cultivation. Daoist say you must cultivate in this life time

You can love yourself and people around you and then die. Is not death suffering? Buddha said life is suffering but there is the way how to overcome it. Right relationships matter but it is not only what you need to cultivate in your life

Not physical but what precedes physical manifestation. If your yuan jing is leaking you can't even dream about " spiritual unfoldment"

Mixing is not recommended until you are good at one system. May be doing SOME TTP exercises is good along with FP (what Terry recommends btw). Kunlun and FP energies might be not compatible. I know that even mixing Sunn Yee Gong and FP is not good idea until you are good at one of them

But you are right. Better to start by determining how comprehensive the system you are going to practice is and what the teacher's personality is like, as well as what they have achieved themselves. Unfortunately, most of the systems currently available in the market of so-called 'spiritual development' essentially represent a commercial product for sale, which serves as a means of enrichment. Some systems are quite effective but lack all the methods necessary to be complete. Mainly, this refers to Yangshengong, which is also not bad, but does not provide the results that were originally intended by the Daoist practice systems. In such cases, there is simply no point in mixing incomplete systems, and some may even be incompatible.

General issue with mixers - they do to many things and non of them properly, burn out their jing... red flag

Sorry, he is 56 but looks older

Cant say Welcome to 666. Why not 999?

Standing for the sake of standing, seating for the sake of seating, eating for the sake of eating... You have to understand what you are doing while standing. And in first place the question if this gives you qi or may be you burn your qi. Devil is in details. Majority of people just burn their yuan jing by long standing, so you must know how to collect yuan jing before that

This one is very external one.

how i can sense it, it is neither inside, nor outside of the body 真土無位，真意無形，神哉神哉 true earth has no location, true intent has no form https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/紫陽真人悟真篇註疏 〉