Taoist Texts

one should learn to think in full sentences. a student of what? a teacher of what? if it really does not matter of what exactly, then discipline will be like digging when in a hole.

not for the people just in business for themselves. not cool. not cool at all

so What is the dan in neidan and dan tian? 丹 There is a true lineage super secret parable about what this exact dan 丹 actually is. Goes like this: once upon a time there were seven blind gropers getting together to grope an elephant with a view to find out what the elephant looks like. But since they were blind they walked past the elephant, bumped into each other, made a huddle and got to groping each other all the while believing they are groping the elephant. The end.

yes thats the reality gladly since we are on a roll . Lets welcome everybody not just dummies. Below is something to start us up

may the heavens bless you both not anymore not to my knowledge. All its predecessors such as Xiantiandao were neidan. But YGD changed the tack for the imminent salvation by Maitreya which makes ND useless, since the deserving ones will be saved anyway, while the evil ones will not be regardless.

all civilisations have myths of archaic gods who were teachers or shamans so they are ones of those similar e.g to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shennong

the directions per se are indifferent. it is what you do in that direction either clashes with it or does not. I personally dont find any geomancy useful but to everyone his own. not really since i dont do any fengshui, i just know how it works. but this seems to be ok https://imperialharvest.com/blog/9-flying-stars/

yeah me 2! this is the forum for the incredible stories! wwow! thats so amazing! who is he?! does he have a video of flinging heavily armored heavyweights?!!!

they can't kill even one. e.g this is physical force plus cooperation from students who fall down on cue. not FJ here the old master is good at jumping but still hits the student muscularly, putting his foot behind the student's who of course is not resisting. nice trick but not FJ the one i posted reportedly did

and yet there are still flies in the world

no problem. videos usually turn out to be cringe like two senior overweight dudes pushing each other with the remainder of their muscles and gasping for air.AND claiming thats fajin lol hehe;)

maybe you first need to explain why. if it is an idle curiosity let somebody else to bother

thats the analogy the founder of Yiquan used. In his time there was no video. Can you post yours?

dan/neidan that would be an english expression, not wenyan. here 之 refers to what was 'lost by me' anyway 达者惟简惟易,迷者愈惑愈繁。

these two sentences have a completely identical grammar and subject matter (it=ND), yet you transl them differently. Cleary also messed them up but in a differently naive way: with same grammar but but he mistook the subject for self instead of ND.

Cleary got this line wrong while Pregadio omits the line altogether. Should be: 如何谓之返还？返者，我已去而复来之说，还者，我已失而又得之谓。 Reversion means I let go of something and now I bring it back; restoration means I lost something and now I get it again. (a big diff in meaning obviously? may be not )

this is not bad. the trad picture is that of a bow or 5 bows. but the actual mechanism is closer to a wind up crossbow

thanks;) listened to it. it went about how i expected it to be (new-age) but i was cleaning the house and loading the dishwasher so not a complete waste of time. A facepalm: 'in taoism there are no books of commandments'. In fact the most public part of taoist lit are the numerous books of precepts. He ended by ranting on Bezos and Musk so i tuned out. yeah arguing is always useless

Well actually ppl do not talk about it at all for a good reason, they dont have it: in western neidan dan is replaced by 'opening the mco'. Yet Dan is a new energy in the body something never experienced before. The practicers who never obtained the dan think that it is the usual mind-induced qi with its feelings of energetic movement, expansion, vibration, heat, etc, i.e the usual qigong qi, - but is not. And those who have obtained it will not describe it publicly, one reason why not because per se it is a useless piece of info, like explaining what does the torque feels on a ferrari to a man without one. Thats why the misconceptions abound. For example the screen shot above claims ZBD says 'the dan elixir is like the moon' 1. He does not. 2 per se the elixir is nothing like the moon;) , instead ZBD's moon refers to the state of mind produced by the dan. 月者喻元性

maybe 10-15 years, i do it for health and qi, my fajin cannot even kill a fly, but it is an internal fajin, not hand waving

Zhaobao Taijiquan, naturally

it is such a force which cannot produce either a sharp, spring-like move OR one which cannot launch an opponent

what you posted is an external physical force. the real internal force is only shown in uncooperative push hands. like this not sure if anyone can spot the difference

i do but unless you post a video by anyone showing what you mean by internal force i dont know if we talk about a same thing. so is there a concrete video?

he is a chinese scholar which in china means a bureaucrat, a state functionary. as to how rigorous his personal practice is any, there is no data. he does not. all of them are that. in modern ND there is no transmission, let alone verified one, peeps read new-agey books, hook up with a self-taught chinese OR invent one, set up a website, declare themselves teachers, smooth talk the nincompoops into forking over the zoom fees, thats it. not many because the ND grant pasture is not large. https://cas-e.de/teammembers/mozias-ilia/ this one is another larper.