Taoist Texts

Because all humans are born with "a soul". A soul is a part of our mind that innately knows these things. This innate knowledge is called "a religious belief". Humans connected to their souls are called "believers". Humans disconnected from their souls are called "atheists". Humans trying to reconnect to their souls are called 'thedaobums.com forumers".

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the real yoga is an ethnic-exclusive and/or caste-exclusive religion. anything with a name yoga on it which is not that - is fake.

i mean there is a western fake "yoga" and there is a real yoga. which one do you mean in your glossary above?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindu_(symbol) nice effort. however that someone will have to keep in mind that these are western terms for the western fantasies about the original. There is a word for these words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

I always do and i will, thank you very much but in the meantime do you think you can answer the question above? what exactly is AV? Examples: Daoism is joining Dao Buddhism is relinquishing desires Christianity is believing in Christ AV is..............................................? (please fill in the blank as to what differentiates the core AV from other teachings) sorry for repeating myself. what exactly is the AV way? what do you do on that way? what do you get on that way? you guys surely must know the answer but somehow you keep ignoring the question;)

i am not quite sure what are you trying to say here Sterling-sensei: is your own tradition of Buddhism quite equal to Pastafarianism? Oh i had no idea, please forgive my ignorance! But... err, what exactly is its teaching and which exact Upanishad contains it?

yes definetely before because it is so simple yet comprehensive then you can read this one of Luk which is more complicated: The Secrets of Chinese Meditation. finally this one of his which is horribly complicated and badly translated, yet very valuable: Taoist Yoga, Alchemy, and Immortality.

good job. Notice how every word in Daoism comes from a historical proven source, chapter and verse. whereas '"Advaita Vedanta" language comes from nowhere;). what would that tell about "Advaita Vedanta" to a reasonable man?

well you see there are old martial artists....and there are bold martial artists...

of course. thats the only thing rank amateurs can build - cultish fiction somebody remind the russians the Titanic was superbly designed as evidenced by her sister ship sailing for 24 years just fine. The Titanic's capitan on the other hand had no formal education.

yes he did, but only about the short 20 years of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor at most, more likely only about his coronation circumstances, not the entire 1000 year old history of the HRE. (had to get that off my chest, had i ) thats true. if it was unconscious we would not know if it is there. collective is wrong too, its just the humanity sharing the same hardware which gives rise to the same archetypes

not quite two 20th century practitioners of Ninjutsu, of the Bujinkan school, help each other draw their Nodachi. Since the miao dao was too long for most men to draw in the normal fashion, a buddy system was used: each soldier would carry his partner's dao. To prepare for battle you face your partner and draw your sword from his scabbard as he does the same. http://cookdingskitchen.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-brilliance-of-chinese-longsword.html

no..they are not, woe be them thats when they really sandbag you the freaking demons

sure, unfortunately not academic ones or you can consider the connection to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtaitou_Festival but its not just the dragons, the Yijing is choke full of references unknown to the reader and thus making the translation moot. E. g when the yao says 'observe the jaw' and we make a footnote 'the jaw refers to a pattern on the scapula' what is a reader supposed to do with it;) for an expert or an aficionado - certainly

i guess the same way you define OK;) Anyway in the first chapter, there be dragons. Dragons this, dragons that, headless dragons... etc. But why dragons? Nor the chinese author of the wings, nor the later chinese commenters, nor the western translators and readers had no clue what these dragons were in the original yaos. They thought the dragons symbolize either other men or the divinator himself. Except in the original yao's the dragons are 1) the constellation of the Dragon 2) a clay figurine of a dragon set up in the field to ensure a plentiful harvest. Absolutely not what the translator and the reader thinks those dragons are. So i would say the accuracy of the translation is not important given that no one even understands what the original is talking about. You could substitute dragons with cabbage, would make even more sense hehe

means whoever sees this managed to calm down his mind sufficiently so his mind registers the internal nerve impulse of the optic nerve. Then the mind objectifies it as an external image.

Right. Here comes the bitter pill. We, the neidanists, presumptuously consider ourselves the real buddhists because buddhism is 1/3 of neidan. And we have a special word for what the modern buddhists are doing: stubborn emptiness. Modern buddhists use it as well but they dont know what it really means https://terebess.hu/english/hsin3.html “stubborn emptiness” (wan kong 頑空, also “biased emptiness”). And what it really means is that while your conscious mind is being self-less and object-less, your subconscious mind is feverishly spinning behind the scenes blocking the neidan yeah its a toughie. There is no guarantee whatsoever that it is possible for you or anyone else, OR that you or anyone will not hurt himself trying, but like i said the info is abundant. try reading from page 174 to 208 https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/the-secrets-of-chinese-meditation.pdf also @ChiDragon maybe you can repost your experience on abdomen breath for our friend here Exactly, sarira is another name for neidan

well yes when the neidan appears you are indeed without self/awareness. But here being is the neidan if by form you will mean the literal form of a literal thing then yes well it sounds outlandish but it is a literal new thing in your body: varying between a luminous golden pearl (or a millet grain) to a bright red shiny tangerine-sized ball.

Thanks and sorry. This is something lost in translation. This passage should be read not with 'being' as in 'human being' in mind, but 'being' as 'a thing' Like below whereas the thing in question is the internal elixir, the neidan

Not quite. In chinese neidan always meant only one thing: the drug. It is not a set of practices nor a body of knowledge, it is the tangible resulting object of those. In english medicine means 3 things: a drug, a set of practices, a body of knowledge. When the westerners misappropriated the word neidan they ascribed these 3 things to it. Thats what i mean by the modern western invention. defo, they wont;) Two things here: 1) saving all beings, is not what you guys think. Not by a long shot. 2) like you correctly noted neidan is useless for the most people, and those who are really interested in it will easily find very ample scholarly info on it, not the teacher garbage. not sure what that means but DDJ says evil arises from good Hehe, no is not possible because it is the seminar-hoppers who create seminar-sellers. Nor desirable, because the suffering humans crave hope, and i am too kind to deny them that even if i could. Absolutely no harm, but like i said no good either. Just another 15 minites of useless typing down the drain. All in all good questions, man, thanks;) Unfortunately it is not possible, the medicine of neidan being a quantum thing: either you have 100% of it or none at all.

no;) not recorded there http://www.shixiu.net/dujing/daojiaojingdian/1019.html the term's history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neidan#Terminology maybe he should, but he wonders what good will possibly come out of it? I am a chosen one. Yet i am a total loser in all other respects, so i dont have any illusions of grandeur. My gift is not bankable. Its more of a curse actually.

Neidan is a made-up western word which means 1) the teaching of alchemy, 2) the practice of alchemy 3) the product of alchemy (the elixir). These are 3 different things yet the westerners lump all 3 of them into one fake term The westerners made up this fake term in order to delude themselves that they can A) understand the alchemy, B ) practice the alchemy C) teach the alchemy - without ever D) producing the elixir. To answer your question: NO. For normal people, with or without a teacher, it is not possible. YES . For a particularly gifted, 1-in-a-billion person, it is possible . This exceptional book explains " LDT meditation technique" for virtue, health, power and wisdom in complete detail. Who could get these results from this book will be able to advance to neidan.

Hear ye! Hear ye! Ye olde folks! King @silent thunder is right. I'm a lurer, i'm a flaker, i'm an interwebs storymaker. Pls shame and/or ignore me. Exactly like i predicted you chose to twist my words. I never said "your problem comes from practicing neidan or Qigong." I said: Your problems of violent thoughts and headache comes from fantasizing about Yes, i know you dont see the connection but it is not my problem anymore. Over and out. Surely it is not a Quanzhen lineage. Because as a real lineage holder of Quanzhen, the very first thing that I transmit is the danger of anger and how to get rid of it. It is the fundamental tenet of real Quanzhen patriarchs. Strange that your holders never mentioned it over 12 years. You sound very angry at my silliness. Here, i have a write-up for you, it should help:

sorry could not find the technique with ggl. And who is your teacher IRL?