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  1. if you're asking for help with pirating material...you're gonna have a bad time.

  2. Hexagram 56- Sojourning

    ValleyStream replied to ValleyStream's topic in Yijing Hexagrams

    First yin, 3rd yang, 5th yin ( I think i can call them that XD, what do you call each yin/yang?) basically it changed into #25 which translates to Wu Wang, "innocence", "fidelity" or "the unexpected". ''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' ''''' ''''' ''''' ''''' '''''''''''''

  3. Hexagram 56- Sojourning

    ValleyStream replied to ValleyStream's topic in Yijing Hexagrams

    I came across this one when casting today and thought that it was a particularly interesting hexagram. I did not intend on posting the hexagrams in sequential order. I started with the paired 1&2 in order to establish a basis of understanding to branch out to all the others. Nah'mean?
  4. 54

  5. I Ching Lunar Phases

    ValleyStream replied to Harmonious Emptiness's topic in Yijing

    I am very interested in understang the coorelation between Yijing and the lunar phases. This thread is full of very useful information. Thanks, guys!

  6. Full Lotus Position Tips

    ValleyStream posted a topic in General Discussion

    I am currently trying to limber up enough to sit in full lotus position. I am not unfamiliar with proper stretching techniques and all the basics of fitness. I was only wondering if anyone had personal advice concerning specific techniques to limber up to successfully sit in full lotus.

  7. Sovereign Set

    ValleyStream replied to joeblast's topic in Yijing

    The link to the MCO thread is also great. A new horizon of study for me. Thank you, Joe Blast.

  8. Hexagram 2- Earth

    ValleyStream replied to ValleyStream's topic in Yijing Hexagrams

    Aha! I 'see' what you are getting at.

  9. Sovereign Set

    ValleyStream replied to joeblast's topic in Yijing

    Awesome information eloquently explained.

  10. Hexagram 2- Earth

    ValleyStream replied to ValleyStream's topic in Yijing Hexagrams

    I am new to relating Yijing to anything really (let alone lunar cycles). Is it applicable?
  11. so true. As they say, grain of salt.
  12. I am reading it right now and i am just considering it to be a story. Nothing more. It is a life of extenuating circumstances where as mine is a life of study. I do not plan to emulate his training because that would just be ridiculous. lol For real though, it is a good story and it is well written.

  13. Hexagram 1- Heaven

    ValleyStream replied to ValleyStream's topic in Yijing Hexagrams

    -beyonder Of course, there can be no discussion about Yang without including Yin. I should be posting topics concerning the hexagrams in pairs. To analyze one hexagram without the corresponding hexagram would provide no contrast and therefore no picture of how Yin Yang is relating. As for "What it means to emulate the heavens"; It is a general statement to invoke discussion from the populous. Perhaps it could be considered rhetorical because like you said, it is too big of a concept. I do like your simplistic way of applying pure yin & yang to mental activity though ( if i understood that last part right XD ). Good stuff.
  14. hahaha I was mistaken by the definition of autobiography. Goes to show that I am a Computer Engineer major and not an English major. XD As for the correct placement of this thread; I do not mean to delude the focus of the sub-forum and in hind-sight I do believe that it belongs somewhere else if the focus is for scholarly discussion rather than opinionated interpretation. I guess it would be better placed in general discussion. Moderator!
  15. This book is the story of Wang Liping (aka. "WANG Yong-sheng"), who is the 18th generation transmitter of the Dragon Gate sect of the Northern Complete Reality School of Taoism. Sure this school may have some Confucianism and Buddhism tied into the Taoism but it is still mainly Taoist. I believe that any autobiography of any transmitter of sorts of any sect of any school of Taoism would be considered Taoist textual studies. Each one of these people lead by example and we may learn a lot about the Way through their experiences.
  16. why not?

  17. ValleyStream replied to Songtsan's topic in General Discussion

    To share with others; the good and the bad. Mutuality.
  18. I believe this. It is not what he does that makes him a master. It is who he is that makes him a master. Just by acknowledging his existence can help someone.

  19. Energy Drinks & Zazen: The secret formula or impending doom?

    ValleyStream replied to woodcarver's topic in Healthy Bums

    Also, (after a bit of reading) you are right. A 5 hour energy has 200mg caffeine; which is over double of Pu-erh ceremony. So i retract my previous comments of it being equivallent or even a good choice. I just avoid all that BS and stck to the herbs and beans.
  20. Will do. I just recently started (on chapter 3 today) so i will take this into conseiderartion as i continue. Great advice as always, Daeluin

  21. Energy Drinks & Zazen: The secret formula or impending doom?

    ValleyStream replied to woodcarver's topic in Healthy Bums

    Well, I am not familiar with Zazen so I don’t know if energy drinks will aid or impede with that technique. Yet, I would think that excessive anything in a nutritional sense would not help any kind of meditation. Usually energy drinks have excess sugars and caffeine so i would not personally intake one prior to a session. I know that some types of energy drinks have less caffeine and no sugar. 5 Hour Energy is a good example, its main energy components are caffeine and B12 vitamins. (As much caffeine as a typical Pu-erh Gong Fu tea session) If you really want to have an energy drink before meditation i would say that tea or coffee (1 cup) with some honey would be your best bet (nutritionally and financially). No excess sugars or caffeine. No foreign chemical doing whatever it is that they do to your body.

  22. Full Lotus Position Tips

    ValleyStream replied to ValleyStream's topic in General Discussion

    A deeper horse stance will help my Taijiquan also! Good advice.

  23. Energy Drinks & Zazen: The secret formula or impending doom?

    ValleyStream replied to woodcarver's topic in Healthy Bums

    Is this a troll thread?

  24. Full Lotus Position Tips

    ValleyStream replied to ValleyStream's topic in General Discussion

    Great Stuff and exactly what i was looking for. I definitely bookmarked this.

  25. Full Lotus Position Tips

    ValleyStream replied to ValleyStream's topic in General Discussion

    I guess this would have been the right course of action before starting a duplicate thread. Was not thinking straight. XD Thank you.