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Humans repair their own teeth using their saliva. An injury to a tooth would not naturally turn "rotten". Modern food and dental procedures cause decay and tooth loss. Brushing teeth removes the remineralization the saliva is doing. Strong paralyzing herbs like peppermint interfere with saliva. Bad food alters the microbiome in the mouth and alter enzymes and other factors in your saliva, producing rot, and also causes deep tooth and bone mineral loss due to buffer reactions to acid conditions and acid solvent foods. Fluoride prevents teeth from interacting with saliva, so prevents remineralization and preserves cavities as cavities until your next dentist visit. It IS possible to actually grow new teeth. But not if you live like modern civilized people living lives based on fraud and industrial fairy tales. If you do that, forget Qi cultivation or manipulation outright. You won't achieve it or even understand it. Qi is not a substance. It's just movement between the poles of any polarity. Thinking you can "send" "that" to your teeth to repair them is a mistake. Rather, you would want to use your mind to alter the polarities involved, which are many. It's far simpler to understand the physiology and toss the dental fraud and just do what it takes to naturally have teeth. Modern way isn't producing that. -VonKrankenhaus

Yeah. TaiJi is YinYang - Polarity. So Qigong exercises, for example, are altering the flow ("Qi") between the poles of various polarities. The polarities are identifiable and observable in the body (Structure and Function), and these were correlated to the timing and appearance of both the 5 major planets (Wu Xing) and to the stars of the Big Dipper moving around the Ecliptic Pole (Lo Shu, Later Heaven sequence) and these are about Time. and also correlated to the geography and movement on Earth (Fu Hsi Early Heaven Bagua). The Channels or "meridians" are where flow is happening, between Environment and "Organ", and between Organs and other Actions and Structures. Qi is just movement between the poles of those Polarities, or "YinYang". Changes we make to the polarities change this movement, which changes also structure.. -VonKrankenhaus

I didn't say to eat vegetables for this issue. Substance in a simple soup is generally and mostly Water (Yin), and Minerals (Yin). Don't make a Yang soup. Make a broth, with seaweed, and a few bits of Yin vegetable. Also good in some cases is small red beans, like make red bean paste with, cooked with thick seaweed until soft and not dry. -Vonkrankenhaus

Just more of food with Substance is required, and less foods that are volatile or Active. Salt is Yin, but will draw water out of your tissues and make you dry. Alcohol and refined sugar and drugs are all yang and can deplete minerals and Yin substance of the body. You lose Yin minerals in buffer reactions - maintaining homeostasis when taking too much Yang stuff. You don't specifically need meat and dairy and salt - for example, beans and seaweed, and soups, and many other better and more easily assimilated Yin foods will do. Dehydration also a factor with Yin deficiency, so stay hydrated with good liquids - but not ones with sugars or volatile chemicals in them - more like congee and good soups with seaweed & mineral-rich vegetables, etc. -VonKrankenhaus

You are in that monastery already. I was showing how to get out of it. -VonKrankenhaus

Not "The Energy". Just your basic Health and functioning. This you can approach by diet and how you are living. If you, for example, eat GMO food, at all, or live in a modern building - most of the stuff in modern life - then this is not traditional cultivation, or person, or "energy". Un-natural or sanitized biomes, environment, means diminishment of your functions. Fluoride in water, amalgam or ceramic tooth fillings, vaccines, most "medications" - all these take years and years to recover from to form a base for any real cultivation. Daily showering, for another example, washes away skin layer making hormone conversion - not normal for humans. The way many modern people are constructed now, it can take over 30 years to get to a base level where any exercise is any different for them than any other. -VonKrankenhaus

"Spiritual" is a material perspective. Spiritual and Physical arise at same time - like Movement reveals or establishes Stasis. What is connecting to Spirit? What is it that has "perspective"? Isn't it you and others? Are you not physical? No physical = No Spiritual. Thought is Yang. Mind is Yin. All movement is Yang. How did Physical happen? A Thought appeared in Mind. By what mechanisms do you think? Objects move in the Physical, as described - your physical "functioning". "You" built the structures that are doing this. "You" are just a crystallization of overall Environment. "You" built yourself, from yourself. You are a thought that appeared in Mind. Physical and Spiritual are not separate or "standalone". -VonKrankenhaus

Fix that first. Establish full health before getting into details of cultivation. Otherwise you may "cultivate" imbalance. -VonKrankenhaus

Awareness - To me, this is bio-chemical - like neurotransmitter hormones determining awareness On or Off. Consciousness - To me, this is one effect of the above. Mind - This to me is what the above two things are connecting with, and this is always present and existing beyond any individual "awareness" or "consciousness". None of these seem to mean or require any "ideas" at all. -VonKrankenhaus

I think that you will find these to be polar opposites. MANY start out looking for "Power". When they get that, they eventually see what that really means. That's when "Cultivation of Self" begins. Because the first idea of "Power" is almost always a False Idea of it. And "Cultivation of Self" is all there really is for anyone to do, and will produce the only real "Power" they will actually "obtain" And that "Power" will be exactly NOT what the first idea was about. -Vonkrankenhaus

This is 8 Soil Year in 9 Palaces astrology. Mountain. Time to accumulate and build up. After all the flaming and burning in the 9 Fire year we just had. -VonKrankenhaus

I think my Martial Arts has evolved into Static Meditations. While at the same time, my Static Meditations are actually doing what I used to do with Martial Arts. Doing both for so long - they reversed and disappeared. I am surprised now when I see them at all. But I know they are still there, like the back of my knees are. Because that's how the backs of my knees were built. -VonKrankenhaus

There should be no need. If you have "hated enemies" in the first place - THAT is the issue. If you see even one "enemy", then find out how THAT happened. What weakness causes you to see Enemies? And what further weakness causes you to Hate, anything? What can you not accept? Where did such limited capacity actually come from? What has weakened you? That can be the end of the "journey" - it's right there at the beginning. -VonKrankenhaus

Just want to clarify: It's not about fan or not. His video, posted in another discussion - stuff he shows is not accurate. That's all. Just not accurate to what he is supposedly teaching. He is doing a "schtick" in that video. -VonKrankenhaus

What kind of experience you looking for? Brooklyn Bridge? Pinocchio? Wizard of Oz? If you just really want to learn real things about Daoism, TaiJi Philosophy, Classical Chinese medicine and actually learn and apply these things, then you can find things like that in a diner. Somewhere they are serving coffee and cake. Or a guy in the back of a book shop. So, going as a tourist is maybe better. Like "6 Flags" might be "interesting", but what people say who live nearby is always much more interesting and informative, and actually, "real". I bet some of the most interesting things have settled at the periphery and have been observing. -VonKrankenhaus

The "Unseen World" is inside of you. What is outside is easily seen by everyone, and not mysterious. The unseen "Spiritual World" that you experience in meditations, dreams, and following death is inside of your own body. Your body will die from the periphery inwards. And you will retreat into the point in the heart where you first appeared. On the way, dying cells will release their information and you will "see your Life pass before your eyes". This is happening inside of you. Deep inside the head, pineal gland is making "mental" imagery of the data from these dying cells. The manifestations you see are of your own generation. True meditation transcends this process entirely, recognizing it for what it is. -VonKrankenhaus

That's a popular idea in the media. The media is owned by the people who "control every aspect of humanity, the way we think, the foods we eat, our monetary, political, educational systems, etc." They would like you instead to look, not at them, but for elves and aliens and fairies. In this way, they can continue functioning, "unseen", to "control every aspect of humanity, the way we think, the foods we eat, our monetary, political, educational systems, etc." -VonKrankenhaus

Is this the place with "Master Gu"? -VonKrankenhaus

What "substance" is it that you will be storing? How? Is Qi Yin, or Yang? What is Qi that you can store it, and how is it that storing Qi could make you become too "Yin"? -VonKrankenhaus

Moving body and body parts is expression. In disease, intake is the issue. Because that's what is being expressed in symptoms and behaviors. Body and brain, etc, are 100% built from the Environment, in the form that we call "food". If they are malfunctioning, we would first look to see what they were made of, and how. And the entire body can be rebuilt to function better in any environment - but not by just meditating or doing exercise. In other words, not by only altering "expression". If "intake" is okay, then expressions will also be okay - "appropriate" - no need to try to change them, etc. -VonKrankenhaus

The very premise is odd: "Anyway, I grabbed a couple other translations and started looking at the different ways they expressed the same sentiments--or, as I quickly discovered, how much poetic license Mitchell and other translators were willing to take with the original text. I don't think this necessarily matters all that much; many current English language versions are by people who don't know Chinese well, if at all, and I can't read or speak it myself. To that extent, then, we're *all* (unless we're fluent in Chinese, that is) at the mercy of, at best, a secondhand understanding of what Lao Tzu said." This means two impediments are often there: 1. Not understanding Chinese, which is language this book is written in. 2. Not understanding Daoism. So - not much going on. Besides - why are people so interested in this DaoDeJing? People in the West and modern people seem to think DaoDeJing is some kind of "manual" of "Daoist philosophy". It's an assemblage. It's a manual for running a municipality that "features" some Daoist philosophy and some bits from an "Internal Training" text. It is NOT a "manual" of Daoism. Many concepts of Daoism do not even appear in it. -VonKrankenhaus

"Death" is inactive. It cannot "do". Like the way Dark is not the reverse of Light, but merely the absence of it. Inactivity is "no activity". "No activity" requires no "Lord" to conduct it. -VonKrankenhaus

Qi is Movement between the poles of any Polarity, like Electricity is. How can we protect against the misuse of Electricity? Or Convection? And in the body, there are many polarities, all featuring various Movement. How can we protect if these are misused? -VonKrankenhaus

Most that I am in under any related topic. Not sure which ones are best, but should be searchable in this forum. -VonKrankenhaus

Spirit and Body are the same thing. You cannot cultivate either without the other. So you must see and understand and develop this life and body and spirit. -VonKrankenhaus