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  1. Electric chi

    sigh... in my professional opinion as an electrical engineer thats not how it works but thanks for trying. and for the chuckle. many did not believe in this healing yet still came to be healed by it? i find it hard to believe. thats not how reasonable persons act. wow that sure sounds like a long travel to take for skeptical unbelievers;) ...and on an organized trip too i donno. i have yet to experience being ripped off in a shell game. yet i think i understand the rules;) hmm this is new. the electrical touch of death! (sorry amigo i this point i could not help LOLing) hint:#2
  2. Electric chi

    two guys asked me back channel about this stuff. so i explain how it works. first of all for it to work no qigong or any other training is necessary. therefore training and qigong has nothing to do with this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slain_in_the_Spirit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer now lets see what happens in the vids above with the electrical qigong and other mumbo-jumbo 1. people who come to experience it self-select - they are believers already full of nervous tension, coming long way, paying the fee. a non-believer simply would not come. 2. the ritual. taking of shoes, standing on a towel has absolutely no sense in terms of electrical conductivity. electrical current would not go through the carpet and the floor whether shod or not. but this ritual heightens the tension. (and proves that real electricity has nothing to do with it). 3. in the demanding presence of other believers, being taped, given a lecture beforehand - the tension keeps heightening and finally when the charismatic master makes mysterious gestures - the tension climaxes in an electric feeling. thats all there is to it. the electric shock is self induced to the patient by the patient. and the master is self -deluded. at best. (or a scammer. at worst)
  3. DDJ 40

    from 于 于 于 yú to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle; variant of 於|于[yu2] 于 於 yú (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by yes it is. when the 物things are born into being 有 , they become 有 22) 佛教语。相对於“空”、“无”而言。因各个宗派思想体系不同,解释各异,又有“假有”、“实有”、“妙有”等之分。
  4. DDJ 40

    your 'translation' makes no sense. it is a word salad. can you explain what your 'translation' means? you may want to explain it in plain language with a real life example. if you can not do that then your 'translation' is gibberish.
  5. DDJ 40

    first, you made up words in brackets which are not in the original second, you make up concepts of manifested(Tao) and non-manifested(Tao) which are not in the original third, what you say is unintelligible. what does it even mean?
  6. DDJ 40

    all the 3 are not only wrong but nonsensical. what do they even mean? this line is very simple 物生 things are born 于 into 有 being,有生 being born they go 于into 无 non-being。 thats all there is to it
  7. Shen Technique

    it is Grandmaster David Harris. sheesh have some respect!
  8. Taoism; how does it all work?

    it depends. which teacher did you get it from?
  9. Unpopular Opinions

    oh i know! its because you guys dont read the fine print! exactly. fine print. life is a cabaret my friend. we get what we pay for.
  10. Unpopular Opinions

    why not? IRL this happens very rarely. most of the time the content matches the advert on the cover. so not sure this is a good analogy. (this subj interests me because it bears on scamgongs. and those are useful as laboratory experiments for the real thing.)
  11. Adam mizner taiji course cheap

    never met anyone who knows;) sorry man i just made an unfunny pun because you typed schaden- frau- deude instead of scha·den·freu·de. well Frau is a woman schaden is pain so i go 'ah mrs. pain my old mistress'. See? not funny. just cute.
  12. Adam mizner taiji course cheap

    nah i have die Frau Schaden to keep me company
  13. Adam mizner taiji course cheap

    Ah Frau Schaden, meine alte Geliebte
  14. Adam mizner taiji course cheap

    actually I am. but i have a threefold coping mechanism. first i think about the gullible innocents who are craving powers so they get cheated out of their hard earned 500 bucks, their year's savings, by the tawdry clowns. And i get bitter. Then i remember that the innocent ones do get an illusory hope in exchange for their sweat blood and tears - and i get serene. then i think about the name of the Dao dragged through the mud by the clowns and i get bitter. Then i remember that the Dao does not even have a name while the clowns aint gonna like their next rebirth - and i nod my head in acceptance. And finally i remember that i know the Dao while no one else does - and the bitterness is gone. as if it was never there.
  15. Adam mizner taiji course cheap

    come on people. those cubans and glenfiddich aint gonna pay for themselves. it takes a village.
  16. From Fiction to Fact

    thats a real affordable immortality, must be on sale or something
  17. Disorientation after Meditation?

    interestingly these 'problems' are the signs of a solid progress
  18. Unpopular Opinions

    calcium supplements
  19. Lotus Nei Gong process; how long?

    a month did your teacher confirm that it is possible in principle to heal your problem with his system?
  20. Help Needed to Translate Alchemy Book

    which book of HYJ is that originally? or what 10 chapters of his book? Also it is not clear who is the author of the translated book Huang or Guo?
  21. Unpopular Opinions

    it is a heinous crime indeed. although it is a recent development. not christian but satanic. not quite. there is only one kind of sin - a bad one. while the karma can be either good or bad.
  22. << 三茅真經 >> A translation

    no it is hollow
  23. << 三茅真經 >> A translation

    is porous is a void The root of the word śūnya means “to swell,
  24. << 三茅真經 >> A translation

    of course it is not. alchemy is determined by elixir 丹. no elixir - no alchemy. 《九天灵宝金华冲慧度人保命茅君真经》 “Jiǔtiān líng bǎo jīnhuá chōng huì duó rén bǎomìng máojūnzhēn jīng”
  25. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-lied-about-ufo-sightings.html