steve Posted 12 hours ago (edited) 47 minutes ago, ChiDragon said: That may be hard to breathe the same air in one room. Not if you’ve mastered fetal breathing! 😉 Edited 12 hours ago by steve 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DynamicEquilibrium Posted 12 hours ago 1 hour ago, forestofclarity said: I don't think we have the software for that, and even if we did, I don't think it would matter. It is fairly easy to take a screenshot and pull text. Indeed ! Screenshot and pull text to ghost write the new lyrics of the same broken record, so actually it doesn't matter 😁 Got nothing, hair and hangover 🥂 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChiDragon Posted 12 hours ago (edited) 41 minutes ago, steve said: Not if you’ve mastered fetal breathing! 😉 So far, I've mastered the vital breathing. You think that I can counteract the fatal one? Edited 12 hours ago by ChiDragon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve Posted 11 hours ago 1 hour ago, ChiDragon said: So far, I've mastered the vital breathing. You think that I can counteract the fatal one? Temporarily 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChiDragon Posted 8 hours ago (edited) 2 hours ago, steve said: Temporarily Luckily, after all these years, the fatal breathing has not been caught up with me yet. Besides, I don't want to live that long anyway. That's all I did was just breathe. Edited 8 hours ago by ChiDragon 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChiDragon Posted 8 hours ago (edited) 7 hours ago, cake1234566 said: ..... then the neidan subforum can be used for people who only want that specialized info and are fine with waiting for someone who can genuinely discuss the topic? Who decide and determine who is genuine? Who wants to be the first one to be kicked out? Edited 8 hours ago by ChiDragon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
idquest Posted 6 hours ago Just can't understand why hide neidan content from general public/unregistered users. It's not like TDB is flooded with posts on neidan anyway. Also, there already exists a Taoist Texts subforum and the activity there is not huge. Making an elitist club out of neidan? Says something about TDB... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted 4 hours ago (edited) 1 hour ago, idquest said: Just can't understand why hide neidan content from general public/unregistered users. It's not like TDB is flooded with posts on neidan anyway. Also, there already exists a Taoist Texts subforum and the activity there is not huge. Making an elitist club out of neidan? Says something about TDB... Nope, the idea was not an elitist club, anymore than a tennis club that wants its members to be tennis players rather than football players bent on preaching to them about the correct shape of the ball they should be playing with. Or a football club that tries to stop tennis players from running around the field swinging their racquets at the goalkeeper. TBH that idea was born out of sheer frustration... a pipe dream... something along the lines of that tree house rule: Edited 4 hours ago by Taomeow 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sanity Check Posted 2 hours ago 1 hour ago, Taomeow said: a tennis club that wants its members to be tennis players rather than football players bent on preaching to them about the correct shape of the ball they should be playing with. Or a football club that tries to stop tennis players from running around the field swinging their racquets at the goalkeeper. In all honesty, you shouldn't do this. Especially if you can't be bothered to get your basic facts straight and are operating from a foundation of intrinsic inaccuracy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
S:C Posted 1 hour ago (edited) On 25.12.2025 at 5:16 PM, forestofclarity said: based on well-recognized texts, established schools and lineages You will still have the secrecy problem, as members will often not want to state where they belong to. Every teacher has a right to be left alone. Something that could help, would be an obligatory entry for a poster, containing : stating what in their opinion is the subject and the goal of the practice (premise), then define the basic ingredients (framework, reference, contents), name the old chinese characters and their English translations thereof. Then who wishes may be able to ‘re-translate’ the meaning, e.g.according to XYZ 命 [= Ming, means 1. breathwork only in the context of CDE 2. grilling the fish that has a wanting to go upstream, in the context of old daoist fables] Might be long and wary, but so at least one has a chance at understanding each other (tower of babel problem) and words are not empty vessels or carry an unintended message downstream. Else someone might unintentionally pass something like ‘severe punishment’ in the wording of ‘unconditional love’ and tries to connect it to e.g. 靈. No way to guarantee a beneficial meaning, but at least for the reader it becomes more obvious, what in the minds eye of someone is going on, (e.g. it is ND according to CD, so to me it’s ChiDragoning, not Neidan in the thus-thus school, or the like, no offence…, CD!) Thus like minded people could easier connect and also students with teachers. If both want to and see potential. Edited 1 hour ago by S:C 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
