vonkrankenhaus

I am here on TDB for a few months now, and I am reading many, many arguments in various thread that contain something like: "You got no results" So I am wondering - what are the actual results people are experiencing and achieving from their own learning and training practice? From the vehemence of the arguments and statements here, these must be quite substantial, and it seems that everyone would benefit from reading what kinds of results various people have, and, perhaps, even how and why they are reaching them. -VonKrankenhaus

I have been doing almost completely "home-made" qigong for decades now. But that is after many years of serious trainings in gong-fu. And I still do many of old exercises. They are genius, for the most part. I do not believe it is very likely to develop 100% home-made qigong with no prior experience. This could result in any sort of silliness. Not that I would discourage anyone! But after 10-20 years of learning and proving basics, gained understandings make more personal exploration possible. -VonKrankenhaus

Materialization (contraction) and de-materialization (expansion) are two aspects of same thing. Spirals - in and out. No need of "reversing". Already going on. That is normal growth and maturation of Life. -VonKrankenhaus

"Purpose" is a relative concept. In modern society "puspose" is like "role" or "job". Relative to the objectives of the corporations used to create an entire false culture. Programmed into people by education and media. So it is like asking "what should I be doing for the corporations right now"? They are the ones who need you to do something. If you don't, they are stuck in a dream. So they have a purpose for everyone. To do and be and act as they are programmed. To do the work. To accomplish. The subjugation of Life and defeat of Nature. To render these, and you, unto private use by a few. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- ",,, but I do believe that we humans are part of the Earth/the Cosmos/Dao in search of consciousness. We are their eyes/brains." ----- Human conception is a contraction of the Infinite. Each one is the Infinite. We could say as a notation: 1/Infinity. We see physical limitations (material facts). But spiritually, no limited (spiritual facts). -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Waysun Liao says that Dao is a live entity... W. Liao is a highly respected practitioner." ----- en·ti·ty ˈen(t)ədē/ noun noun: entity; plural noun: entities a thing with distinct and independent existence. "church and empire were fused in a single entity" synonyms: being, creature, individual, organism, life form; In English language, he is incorrect. And also, Dao is neither living nor dead. -VonKrankenhaus

Dao Dao is like "the way" of making a sandwich. Pull "the way of making a sandwich" out of your pocket. Not "a piece of paper with instructions on it". But the actual "way" of doing it. Impossible. Dao is not a thing. -VonKrankenhaus

Re" ----- "Still , i would not want a culture with no rules/total anarchy. Most people seem unfit to me to make a happy neighbourhood without rules..." ----- It took a lot of work to make that happen. To insure dependence. That even snails do not need. -VonKrankenhaus

The idea of supplements comes from the practice of refining and fractionating foods. To somehow get back some of what was left on the floor of the food factories. And sell it. And the fractionated people as a result. Seek the rest of themselves. But outdoors, not the chipmunks and squirrels and bears and deer. Until we give them factory-made "animal chow". -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "So in America a popular way to get to know someone or to break the ice is to ask what a person does for a living." ----- Really it is "for a corporation" moreso than for a "living". So in america it is asking "so, what do you do for the corporations"? A "corporation" is a "fake person". -VonKrankenhaus

Is the limit of the mind not a limit? ----- It would be, if it existed. But the limit of mind does not exist. ----- If there is no limit, then why don't we see people altering in extraordinary ways? ----- Firstly - we do. People, acting on faith and belief, have altered the whole world. It is a mess. Second - if by people "altering" it is meant like a magician or sorcerer they wave hand or think and something physical changes like "magic",,, ,,,we need to understand that their faith and belief is in some other mind. That appeared on TV, radio, online, and in newspapers,,, -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "And just because we our mind has the ability to alter certain aspects of our body doesn't mean it can alter anything to any degree." ----- I have much experience that shows me this is not accurate. There does not seem to be any limit regarding what can be effected or altered by mind. Except that which the mind believes. -VonKrankenhaus

How could anyone "reach" "the Dao"? As if we said the "way" of making a sandwich. It's not a "thing", this "way" of sandwich making. How do we reach it? -VonKrankenhaus

Media must be installed before modern democracy. Modern democracy is used to insure conformity to corporate interests. By stifling any but mainstream majority opinion. In a modern democracy 99 idiots beat 1 intelligent person every time. Media insures a majority for such democracy to "work". In any given week, the products that are most advertised are the best sellers. Doesn't matter what they are. Nature is a better way to judge correct actions than any human system. Hence, the race to "defeat" Nature. -VonKrankenhaus

My experience with the small circulation (MCO, or "microcosmic orbit"): The best MCO exercise is to eat real food in a natural environment. And become like a human being. All others are compensation. Ren & Du channels meet in entire ailementary tract. -VonKrankenhaus

"Gravity" as opposed to "Light" waves. Gravity itself is YinYang. They will not see that with any device or telescope. None is needed. The "waves" are the effect on surrounding, and not the actual "gravity". -VonKrankenhaus

Perpetuates the myth of technological progress and the ongoing corporate illusion of conquering nature. It is not clever technology. It is an invitation for people to appear mentally ill. Motivated by fantasy. As recognized by the creators and distributors of these fantasies. It is an invitation for people to be damaged and hospitalized. Nature is the only true "superpower". Diminishment of Nature is a removal from any real "power". And those who understand and live in it are the only ones touching any true "power". -VonKrankenhaus

Old stories: One must include the Ice Age that ended 10-12,000 years ago. And the Maunder Minimum more recently. The Ice Age caused much North-South movement of people. People went South during it. And North afterwards. Many old stories are about precession. And the Ice Age is half of that cycle. The movement of people gave rise to many stories about North people, and the Vedic "Krishna" stories seem to me to be "political" and about the combining of the Northern with the Southern people. -VonKrankenhaus

Most of what we seeing as "aging" is actually just destructive effects of modern living. Organs being fossilized by chemicals and so forth. Inactivity. Not going outside of homes, cars, buildings much. And most "diseases of aging" are actually just degenerative conditions from bad food and medicine. Doesn't have much to do with age. But the longer people do it, the "worse" they look and function. This body is what is gestating the spiritual infant in same way that the placenta gestated this body in the womb. Gestation is being warped. And foreshortened. "Breathing" can only do so much. Compared to all the tortured animals and synthetic chemicals eaten over decades and decades of "living". THAT is what is doing the "breathing". No seminar or workshop can reverse this. No teacher can. Teachers also subject to this. But you must do it. In order to begin or continue real cultivation. -VonKrankenhaus

The problem of "the needy" is not really a problem that "humanity" created for itself. Political, industrial, and financial systems were created by and for a small elite. Who have actually by force denied other humans access to the Earth accordingly. As a means of controlling and exploiting "humanity". As an asset. And the material (the Earth, natural resources, etc) that is traded to provide this illusion - who originally bought that? Or is it originally simply "taken"? And "humanity" held off by threat of force? So the question seems - how many days weeks, months, or years before you are broke and more or less living on the street if you stop doing what these people want and cut yourself off from their stratified punishment/reward/control system? Would you be helpless to conduct your own life on Earth without this false "support"? -VonKrankenhaus

Happiness. True unconditional Happiness is impossible without Freedom. True unconditional Freedom is impossible without Health. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I'm trying to become self sustaining so I can get off foodstamps dude. Get off your high horse... :huh:" ----- Economically, growing in soil is cheaper. Health-wise, growing in soil is more natural. For economy, think about using less and doing less - and working with nature. Nature is very powerful and competent. And is there for all to see and learn from. Including the way plants grow. My horse is not on any medications. -VonKrankenhaus

Anyone familiar with the system using ordinary playing cards? http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9781402286162?gclid=CP2X87WW3MoCFceQHwodvWEDxw -VonKrankenhaus

Wondering why you would choose hydroponic method for growing food. "Food" is just the part of the environment that is informing us. But if we abstract that and create a "different" or "artificial" environment, then food is also become "diferent" or "artificial". Plenty of that already in supermarkets. -VonKrankenhaus

I am curious to know what is meant by "body hacks". What is "body hack"? -VonKrankenhaus