Rara Posted January 15, 2020 22 hours ago, SirPalomides said: Is this true? It would explain why some of those early Quanzhen guys so callously abandoned their wives and children. Interesting. Let's talk about that...! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
exorcist_1699 Posted January 20, 2020 On 3/11/2019 at 7:45 PM, freeform said: LYM claimed that the most complete and simple map to the Neidan process is all written in The Journey To The West. Likely it is true. However , reading " The Journey to the West " does need very high Chinese ability , especially those Taoist poems at the beginning of each chapter . 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
exorcist_1699 Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) Taoism emphasizes jing and qi , and pays attention to the bodily changes , so there are "secrets " of Ming gong(practice) . Buddhism, ignoring Esoteric Buddhism here, is mainly a pure spiritual practice so hardly does it recognize any " secret " to find in order to gain a leap forward . There are only varied levels of the emptied Mind you have to attain , and whether you get a higher/ deeper one or not can only be confirmed by your sifu who had before you attained such a level . I think likely Taoist one is more full and meets what people really experience for what we eat , what we drink , how we sleep.. all affect our practice . Ming and Xing gong ( a series of deepening , emptied minds..s ) are in fact difficult to separate ; Taoist criticism on Buddhist way is reasonable and must not be ignored. Jing and Qi are too important to be mistaken as just "forms " ( "相" ) that people are vulnerable to be trapped in . In fact , Taoist Ming gong is not that secret ,especially after a modern guy Zhao pi-zhen( 趙避塵, 1860- ) , who belongs to the Wu-Liu school, had written so much about it explicitly that anyone can google it by Chinese . It is more a problem of low Chinese language ability of the Western people than a problem of so-called Chinese Taoists sticking to their vanity of keeping secrets not releasing them to others.. Edited January 20, 2020 by exorcist_1699 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
