Mudfoot

You might be right. Maybe none of these methods prolong life. Although there are some evidence that taiji (simplified) is good for your health. You just haven't been able to prove your point, so at this time it is your opinion.

That's the great thing with conclusions: Anything goes.

So, some dudes, while being good at internal arts, still lives relatively short lifes. Not exactly how you formulated it. Granny and grandpa both died at 93, didn't practice any internal art. Hard to reach a conclusion here, not enough data.

And you know this for a fact? Cool 😎

Or get information from more reliable sources?

You mean actually practice? (shudders)

They always come back. Even those who "delete all passwords" come back. Where else would they be? Instead of derailing this thread again, I will make a short comment here to the answer below : Any punishment (as banning) can be done to punish the perpetrator or to protect the group. I do not belive a ban would change you, but a person who exhibits aggressive behavior towards others might have to be separated from the group for the sake of the harmony of the group. Since there are people coming to this forum with hurts trying to heal, and in search of whatever, conforming to the rules might make their stay more pleasant. They can face their daemons in real life instead of here.

Maybe it is fair to make a difference between energy work performed by a buddhist on one hand, and buddhist energy work on the other.

I would say look at tantric buddhism. So you can improve your physical and mental health, which is useful. If you work with the wuxing, you can learn about change and impermanence. If you work with the five elements, it will give you an experience of the more basic energetic states which will give a deeper understanding of impermanence. And you will open shit up, releasing knots and start up processes that will transform you. The Kong Jing state is useful for this process. This is quite similar to the daoist path.

When you change/evolve/develope, the same exercise will give a different result. At least that is my experience.

They retracted it. Bad for the ecology.

To this date: Have more people gone to space through the hard work of becoming astronauts, or by booking a space flight?

Makes me feel old. The new internet generation:Youtube yourself to enlightenment. No effort or change needed.

Clinically, you are taught not to identify with the pain, because that leads to greater consequences in life. So you feel the pain, but it is not you. But if your way works for you, good.

This is why the health care have adopted a version of mindfulness. You practice to feel it, but also to be aware of what it is instead of being it.

For those sensitive to it, changes in the amount of hours with light is also devastating.

Here it is

This one is readable. Ok, I cut the heading. Typical

The aeteology of depression. The more modern approach to depression is to look at learned helplessness/hindered flight. That means that you have a threat that you see no escape from, which gives you elevated cortisol levels and a suppression on your behaviour. And there are many ways to treat this, and there is really no difference in efficacy between the methods.

You will find that Jerry Alan Johnson's books are a great source of information. If you're not on a tight budget.

I wish I was that guy. Because then youwouldworshipmeandIWOULDTOTALLYRULETHEDAOBUms (ehm carry on everybody nothing to see here )

Longish

Called the doubt principle. Doubt build frustration, frustration might lead to insight. Or alkoholism.

Around 200, but Yes they are costly. And they have so much information in them you hardly know where to start or which exercises that you should focus on.

I have read somewhere that if you fail to unite your hun and po, your po will dissolve at your death and the remains might be reused as components of another living creatures po. But I am not a daoist, so I do not have the full daoist thought on this subject.