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  1. The ultimate goal of Neidan

    yes i am telling you thats what i want, what i really really want seems like a loaded heart not an empty one;)
  2. The ultimate goal of Neidan

    the same as buddhism no they dont. unless you saw those with your own eyes. at least they are honest . because neigong is a marketing label with no concrete meaning heaven is not "this world". and xian does mean immortal 仙 仙 xiān immortal 《释名》:“老而不死曰仙。 its a good question with no easy answer for the most huh? does this mean anything concretely?
  3. trans Broughton he is not the one to talk;)
  4. Very unpopular opinions

    yes https://drkatsurasuzuki.com/western-philosophy-vs-eastern-philosophy/ yes i do it may or may not, i just dont care if it does;) this whole world is illusory let alone a stupid house because i investigated it on my personal experience and found correct if you say so;) Now for a concrete example: i was bullied in school. if i would still carry that chip on my shoulder wishing for the bullies to be punished by some karma then i would have that karma. but i forgotten all about it and them long time ago. i dont care about it and them. my karma is gone. others may say that it is not. but somehow i know better than them;)
  5. Help Needed to Translate Alchemy Book

    this
  6. Help Needed to Translate Alchemy Book

    i would love to know what are the exact criteria for excellency (in a nutshell)? some time ago a guy asked me for it in a PM, i just gifted it to him it exists for those who tell me what they want, what they really, really want;) it is much simpler than that. first thing i tell my students that there is no such thing as Jing;) that is correct;)
  7. Help Needed to Translate Alchemy Book

    oh good;) i have translated all of these works years ago;)
  8. Very unpopular opinions

    of course. the westerners are so materialist that they are loath to even look up the definition. They make karma material like a house or some such thing which is totally opposite to the real eastern concept:
  9. Very unpopular opinions

    there is no karma apart from thoughts in my head;) etymology is not a definition. a concrete example is. i am suggesting that you guys think in fuzzy generalities incapable of concrete examples to wit
  10. Very unpopular opinions

    when we are done building, the process of building no longer exists because it stops. the house is a different matter altogether because the process of laying a brick is different from the brick laying in place. Karma is an eastern concept thats why no westerner can quite grasp it. mostly because they reason in western ideas of results and sins. Those have nothing to do with karma, only the human thought does. no, its a western one, because you did not define it;) Ya'll prolly mighty anxious to finally enlighten youseself what real (meaning eastern) karma is. Here youse go: 放下屠刀,立地成佛 fàng xià tú dāo , lì dì chéng fó lay down butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the spot
  11. Very unpopular opinions

    you see, there is a magic word: "because", i find using it makes everything clear i find dictionaries uncommonly helpful as well
  12. Very unpopular opinions

    it is. once there is no intention no more - the slate disappears.
  13. Piruz the ex-yogi!

  14. look at your link. There are chinese equivalents for various terms but curiously not for 'dissolving'. Why not? Because there was no chinese equivalent. Both of them 'borrowed' this term from Mantak who in turn made it up based on TCM not on traditional qi work. Same with kwa. Its a made up term intended to hide the real IMA work from the external students, particularly foreigners.
  15. Refining the elixir

  16. Refining the elixir

    it is fine for a beginner. of course Olson does not know what he is talking about but so is the reader hence it is all good.
  17. No we don't need those brainwashers. Our overlords do.
  18. What’s the meaning of doing without doing?

    There is no such thing . if there were there would be no evil in the world. Doing is jumping into the water and trying to catch fish with your bare hands . Not doing is angling for fish with the bait and the hook.
  19. Nathan Brine

    muscle Origin late Middle English: from French, from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus ‘mouse’ (some muscles being thought to be mouse-like in form). If only the scientists invented a small popular handheld device with the ability to capture and disseminate moving pictures. .. well maybe someday...
  20. Thank you for forewarning us about them all! Apparently his money didn't buy him happiness.
  21. end goal is Daoism ( and comparison to Buddhism's end goal )

    It is a one single technique for destroying the human mind in order to create an immortal soul
  22. Zhang Bo-duan

    In this case, this is about the timing, not the location.
  23. Zhang Bo-duan

    Back in the times of the Song dynasty, there was an elderly military official named Zhang Bo-duan, a remarkable man, whose magnum opus, Awakening To The Real, gave rise to the venerated Southern Lineage of the Taoist alchemy. Being around 80 years old, and meeting his teacher in Chengdu, province of Sichuan, Zhang spent less than a year with his teacher, till teacher’s passing. In order to fulfill his teacher’s wish to disseminate the teaching freely and fully, Zhang first preached unsuccessfully, then wrote the Awakening, then recruited students, (which ended in a spectacular failure), so much so that Zhang swore never to teach in person again. Instead, he transmitted the Awakening, a book on the Buddhist-Taoist alchemy, which ends with a poignant Afterword promising a full transmission to anyone who studies it closely. The Afterword is a deeply moving passage, a magic window into the real Daoism of a thousand years ago. This Christmas, let us rejoice in celebrating the old man Zhang and a brilliant scholar, Paul B.M. Crowe, who gifted this gem to the public domain in the now oh-so-distant 1997.
  24. Can jing be replenished?

    well luckily whom Master Wang had was not just any old teacher. Them were several invisible teachers.
  25. Can jing be replenished?

    excellent question. Who better to answer it than the maestro himself?! now a question. who has ordinary people's wants? hint: not a taoist. but wait! could he be an ordinary man with daring ambitions to bootstrap himself out of abject poverty by riding the qigong craze tsunami of the 80ies? why yes Virginia, he could! Thats how Master Wang learned his trade. But why there is not a single mention of jing in his first book? Simple: because jing (as a sexual term) was not a part the qigong craze repertoire. Such jing came into vogue in the 90ies, with the neidan craze. (well actually same qigong masquerading as neidan). Since then jing is all both the neidaneers and the qigongers chatter about, 30 years and still going strong. still hilarious.