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Thanks for the link Drew! Ignore the spammers. Master Lin is great but these hosts are insufferable!

Your foundation of logic has a fundamental fallacy, that the range or degree of motion of an exercise such as push ups only benefits activities with the same parallel of motion/location of the body/muscles (prone horizontal). Why do push ups? For one, they build muscle, albeit an isolated set of muscles, that is universally applicable in any strength enduring feats. Why do sit ups OR push ups if one couldn't imagine a scenario in which the exact degrees of motion would be needfully replicated? Because the increased density of muscle mass/fibers from said conditioning will assist in, again, any feat requiring strength utilized from the utilized muscle areas. Push ups, even situps will help with pull ups, pull ups can help with leg raises, all of which will help with moving/lifting heavy objects, saving oneself or another from being unable to life up over a cliff, defending oneself from a heavy brute force attacker, etc, all worthy benefits imo. Range of motion necessity is psychological, if not totally irrelevant.

Oh the wonder of the changing seasons. . . the subtle feelings of seasonal change. The full fruit of a labor of love lives in the harvest, and that always comes in the right season. Peace and Love all

Can't say I have much experience with it, but I suppose they might call it "internal alchemy" for a reason.

All I can say is congratulations! Enjoy the ride if you decide to embark on the Path of the Way Help is here, in many different forms. Misinformation/certain unsavory characters is help too, The Way is boundless and knows no difference It's waiting for you! excuse the semantics guys =) peace and prosperity! -fiz

I believe that proper/yogic stretching technique and of course aerobic/anaerobic exercise are highly important and often overlooked aspect of energy development, definitely will help with distributing/placating energy throughout the channels, not necessarily "expelling it" but giving the same desired effect.

Why not? Subscribe to principle. Do what you feel is right.

Just practice and all will come. I'm not trying to be pompous, it's just the way it is; most who do achieve understand that inexperience is the only folly, not a lack of conceptual understanding and improper emphasis may hinder one's path. Do you really want a picture of your garden before you allow any time for your seeds to grow?

everyones third eye is already 'open' in a sense, just not in the sense that it is really being utilized for any of its functions, for that to happen one must clear the energy channels leading to crown chakra. Some masters are capable of immediately opening someones third eye through transmission, however this is a very hit and miss alternative to opening. Many believe that if one is not spiritually prepared for his third eye to open, not prepared for what is to come once this pineal gland becomes energetically active; your third eye oopen, interdimensional stargate type apparatus, then some very unwanted symptons may occur. Ever wish you could wake up one night, unable to move or breathe, but energetically spasmic, and see horrible entities within feet of you, sucking your chi/emotional energy (yes, because youll be scared shitless and they will vampire your energy and spirit)and have nothing to do about it? well that might happen if you prematurely open your eye, like my friend did while he was on ecstasy and shrooms at the same time, he stared at this thing on the internet that was a bunch of spinningness surrounding a dot, and from what he told me he felt, he openned his third eye; he was no tao bum, not at all. third eye opening; this also, besides from a transmission, primarily done through simple meditation (complete emptiness is best IMO).... and ... if you were to drop stored negative energy and stop perpetuating that energy, free yourself from desires and materialism, more energy becomes available and your system will clear and your third eye will naturally become 'active' as in chi will flow through it in the MCO. I've had incredible third eye sensations during meditation (lotus, standing, laying esp.) and each implies a subtle distinction, as if the amount of chi or lov energy available to the pineal affects it variably.

I practice because I believe Taoism is the Path nature intended humans to take, humans just hate believing theyre not above nature.

A friend of mine told me through practice he believed he opened his third eye and ever since he did he's been able to flex it, describing it as a very odd sensation of somewhat unique/uniform shaped energy center. Anyone else have any experience with this?

Very interesting interpretations. Well anyways, the answer is the ego according to Bill Bodri.

Original post written as if some sort of authority; fallacy is written all over it.

I think part of one's spiritual progression/practice is to overcome this typical social anxiety when it comes to practicing in a public area; it's just your ego talking. Yes, I always practice outside for more reason than one.

this thread is funny since there's actually a very ancient TTB post completely and accurately detailing the red phoenix in its entirety, lol.

Drew Hempel can sit in full lotus for 4 hours.

Unfortunately some practices require half/full lotus posture. Powerful practices.

Phenomenal Memory is a 100% legit/working course, regardless of whatever marketing tactcs used. It is also a unique product, and I don't believe there are any wild claims about the time it takes to complete it; everything is pretty straightforward.

drew hempel could help you out.

Do you smoke marijuana or any other energy affecting substances?

In what practices is it pivotal to refrain from practice for a certain amount of time if one has ejaculated?

Mushrooms, grass and yes, even MDMA have tremendously assisted me in a spiritual nature. However, drug experimentation is a double-edged sword. While those substances did indeed greatly help me, I became addicted to heroin (and somewhat to cocaine) during my drug field trip. The Tao saved me. There are a lot of sketchy people in the drug scene, and I cultivated lots of horrible relationships with DEMONIC people. Emotional energy vampires GALORE, one in particular when I finally detached myself from, I felt emotionally 100x better, tenfold the energy and willingness to practice, lost the complete urge to indulge in escapism drug use and even lost an affliction of kleptomania; these all being original traits of the energy vampire; this is something I really cannot explain in-depth. Emotional/Positive/Chi energy vampirism is VERY real, and very tired into drug use.

From what I've heard, yes heart problems can occur as a result of improper practice with the Mo Pai system; for example, hypothetically, if one were to start level 1 and only practiced on their 5th story apartment, their yin/yang will be imbalanced; more fire than water, and serious (ie: cardiac, dan tien horror stories, including permanent damage) problems can ensue. However, that's just one example of incorrect technique,

I expect no less from the bastids.

There's nothing 'antichrist' about this alleged practice itself; the detailing of it is simply in an e-book called the "antichrist" training manual. The author is Raymond Holder. Feel free to amuse yourself: http://openlibrary.org/b/OL8430182M/THE_AN...TRAINING_MANUAL