SantaRosaGuy

It makes me want to start my own neigong style and write books and make videos. I could just read stuff from books and then change it a little bit, and claim I had some secret teacher that nobody can validate. I remember a while back trying to find some validation of Erle Montaigue's taiji teacher. Couldn't find it anyplace.

If that website http://www.mopaineikung.com/ is the real official website, does that mean that Shifu Lin is now head of the Mo Pai? Or has permission from the current head to teach? Anyways ... oh, well. Yeah, as somebody else said, it really turns away people from wanting to pursue the Mo Pai, all this negativity.

The whole thing if you do bad stuff, bad stuff happens to you, and it's your karma is kindof B.S. There are plenty of people who die and suffer from horrible diseases and accidents that did nothing wrong to deserve it. That doesn't mean that there aren't people who do bad things that bad stuff happens to that do deserve it. Maybe there is something about karma. But plenty of innocent people suffer every day. We could all probably use a little more compassion of our fellows.

Mr. McMillan doesn't seem to have a high opinion of the ancestors, calling them in his book spirit demons or something like that. Maybe he doesn't see how funny it is because he makes the argument that John Chang cannot be searching for nirvana as he puts it and still be a Christian. However, if Mr. McMillan is a Christian, then by the same thought, how could he be studying the Mo Pai -- aren't they searching for the same thing? I get what you're saying about Chinese culture, though, but in my opinion Chinese misunderstand Westerners. I had my Chinese teacher of baguazhang tell a visiting Chinese person things about bagua without even taking lessons that he never told me right in front of me. Don't you think that such racism is going to bode frustration or resentment? Also, the Chinese seem to think that it's okay for them to steal anything they want from Westerners in terms of borrowing culture, teach Western ideas to other Chinese without permission, etc., whereas if the Westerners try to borrow Chinese culture, teach Chinese ideas, etc to other Westerners without permission, the Chinese say it is stealing. Anyway, both the demon attitude and the stealing attitude seem totally unhelpful, but maybe that's just me. Maybe things will get better some day.

Just wondering if any of you all are going into samadhi. I was reading a book by Jim McMillan on the MoPai and he mentioned that John Chang was trying for nirvana or something like that. I never read anything about samadhi in Taoist literature or Mo Pai or anything like that. But in Hindu meditation literature they talk a lot about it. Just wondering if anybody knew the link between Taoism/Mo Pai and Hinduism, or if there was one at all.

There you got me ... what do you mean by down-to-earth? Here's one description that I like from a book called Magnet Therapy I found on google books: "When the breath from both nostrils is equlized it means that the ida and pingala are balanced (or the positive and negative biolectric forces are in a state of equilibrium). When this happens the sleeping Kundalini is awakened. Shakti (cosmic energy), which resides in Kundalini, begins to rise along Sushumna. Shakti traverses all the chakras and joins Shiva. the union of Shiva and Shakti results in that blissful state called samadhi.

Wow, Hern Heng has a slew of little Amazon e-books. Nice covers, too. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Hern+Heng&search-alias=digital-text&sort=relevancerank

Uh, searched WhoIs for mopaineikung.com, and the email is [email protected]. Search 3 temples, find the following Micah link for Three Temples Martial Arts: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Three-Temples-Martial-Arts/236917413005309 So, what, Micah, if you would want to share, is your proof or evidence that there is in fact a Sifu Lin that isn't you?

I dropped my search for the Mo Pai years ago because it was obvious that there was bad juju, so bad that I didn't want to pursue it any longer. I started it up again, and here we go with more bad juju. Is there any way we can all get along, or will martial artists continue to fight and bicker so? I used to be kindof the same way. Necessary vs. sufficient, though ... reading Jim's work -- it sounds like he spent a long time with John Chang, and it doesn't lend any credence to Sifu Lin to say that he had incorrect training, if he learned with the master. Also, the secrecy component of Sifu Lin's real identity doesn't really work for sending him money if that is what is required to study. To some anonymous Pay Pal account? Nice website, though, and nice book layouts. If it is a con job by somebody they put some work into it.

I think you have to post multiple times to the lobby before it allows you to post to the forum. (That's what it says).

Just wanted to say Hello from California! I first started meditating years ago, but I don't have any Taoist powers or anything like that. Just want to find out more information about Taoism and other related fields.

Well, at this point in my life I'd consider it luck. I guess I've come to believe in luck. Anywhere in California, I think is doing pretty good these days.