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Here's one of these monks from Romania - just read between the lines and it's pretty easy to understand through the christian dogma the actual state that he is describing. It's interesting that he describes it as a failed personal experience, but you can at least understand the amount of effort and dedication required for this kind of practice.

IMO it doesn't matter what are you saying there during the meditation, it's mostly to dedicate yourself to the specific exercise and to push it to very high records without damaging yourself (I'm refering to the idea of super efforts of course). One big difference between the Taoist and the Eastern Orthodox practices is that although often a dedicated hesychast would achieve an extraordinary ability - let's say one-touch healing, levitation etc... - it was often disregarded from the start and the mental focus was on "Jesus" or "God" whatever form his knowledge might take achieved through this constant 24/7 prayer(or mantra if I may) and a lot of fasting and solitude - while the taoists seem to have taken these abilities and explore them to the max and develop them into a science. Tibetan monks actually have very similar type of approach but they might take it further to a total distruction of the body while in Christianity - that would be considered a big sin.

It's actually quite a mainstream practice in the Orthodox Monasteries in Romania, Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria. I think all the Orthodox priests have to study Philokalia and in Eastern Europe you can find them in any public Library it is part of their religion. What is interesting is that when they say the prayer of the heart - they associate it with a breathing exercise. They do the same with their prostrations which is very similar to some buddhist/yoga/mantra practices....

I totally agree and also think that she has a nice rack.

Your qigong practice is based on what people said 2000 years ago.

the paperback ver Codex Sinaiticus: The H. T. Anderson New Testament

Have you actually done it or just read about it?

It's a process of elimination. That's what makes this site better then others. Keeping it real. Tell me who u really are and tell me how u really feel and keep the "namaste" and "kumbaya" to yourself.

I strongly believe that the idea of chakras mostly relate to the endocrine system and the colors associated to them represent the vibration level of each of the glands and the correlation between them - kinda like the musical notes. The endocrine system is the source of all our internal states and different glands influence our states by injecting its chemical substances (or hormones) into our bloodstream in order to be carried to a specific target. Those substances are very powerful and very different from each other so one can get you angry another one can get you scared or sad or happy etc... (they also can be combined and get some amazing twists - for example a certain combination could make you very smart...) I believe that the old yogis knew this system in great detail and the great masters could control it mentally or with substances (i.e. hallucinogens) and that's how they would get the desired state - let's say bliss or compassion etc.... In time the understanding behind it kinda washed off and today we are just left with a vague and childish representation of the ancient science. All these flowerlike representation of the chakras that we see in ashrams and yoga studios - they are just diagrams that we lost their meaning. It's interesting that in our days if you follow certain yoga traditions you can still learn how to control those functions but without really understanding what are you doing. So the best thing that can happen to a hard working yogi could be smth like a "stupid saint" - you got the power and you can use it - but in reality you have no clue how it works.(one example would be the mantra practice for different chakras - the theory of vibration behind it is very hard to comprehend so you just repeat the mantra until if finally works

All right here's my advice to you - I see u live in TX which is far away from the racist Hawaiian terrorists and their s vicious dogs so let them be on their island let that be their problem - I am sure they r not going to come after u in TX - so half of the problem is gone. Now the vicious dogs from around your house maybe u should try this - Give them some snacks. I know they are horrible animals and would love to do you a lot of harm, but if you control your anger and give them a good treat you might become their friend. And seriously you should let it go man, the whole thing - the dogs and people's ignorance aren't u tired of this? Here on the taobums we are your friends.

LOL I think my cat shares the same feelings I guess I could make him an account of TTB

anybody here ever thought that different people "naturally" breath in a different way then you do? Just like different people have different body postures that they "prefer" throughout the day, the same way there are quite a few different "natural" ways of breathing possible and it's not that one is more correct or anything like that.

Do you mind sharing with us the kind of practice that you follow? Thank you.

WTF, this is disturbing man. I've been about 3 times on Oahu and Maui and didn't see anything like you are discribing. I've never been on the Big Island but I was planning to go there very soon. I know they have good BJJ and Silat, but supposedly Taiji is garbage and some Kung-fu monkey style for kids. Did anything ever happen to you personally - or these are just stories that you heard? I know they hate whites but I've never heard anything about crimes. Anybody else knows anything like that about the Big Island?

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You know what's the most interesting part? Although this message is very clear and has been put out long time for a reason nobody understands it. There are all these idiots out there that are convinced that their book or their teacher actually "knows" about breathing and they keep doing it. Only much later they get very sick and they never make the connection to how and why it happened.

The only method that works is the following - basically you have to die and then (assuming that you have already built a soul) you reincarnate in a different body type than the one that you are in right now. Some body types keep a strong thick hair all their lives - but keep in mind that they have their own issues that they have to face which can be even worse. Other methods are - you just shave your head to keep it even and get a nice hat. or - make a lot of money. or - develop a gigantic penis <- this one might even be more impossible then the first method. I think that covers most of your options.

The only method that works is the following - basically you have to die and then (assuming that you have already built a soul) you reincarnate in a different body type than the one that you are in right now. Some body types keep a strong thick hair all their lives - but keep in mind that they have their own issues that they have to face which can be even worse. Other methods are - you just shave your head to keep it even and get a nice hat. or - make a lot of money. or - develop a gigantic penis <- this one might even be more impossible then the first method. I think that covers most of your options.

Do you see yourself saying any of this?

good comeback, girl

This is not a new experiment it's an eternally reoccurring drama of humanity. It's been done before thousands of times. Jesus and Gandhi did they same thing and they both failed but that's the nature of their sacrifice. Prophet Muhammad tried a different approach and still failed. Buddha was the "wise" one and failed as well. Moses wasn't too happy either when he had to leave. All the religions failed so far. The success is for the most part individual . I'm sure Jesus and Buddha and Muhammad are doing just fine wherever they are compared to the rest of the alerted souls...

Did you have any success with his books/DVDs so far? Do you believe it's possible to learn it from his DVDs without having to learn it directly from him? Or better said - could you elaborate a little bit on your personal practice? The reason I'm asking is because I spend a lot of money on things like that (DVDs/books/seminars etc) and I would like to avoid it if it doesn't work. Thank you.

I live in VA and I'm getting old and wanna learn Taichi. When I was young (15-17) I practiced the Yang style for like 2 years. We used to practice just one move for a week or more and also practice started with 5 min and extended up to an hour of low (shaolin style) ma-bu stance. We got to do push hands only after 1 year of practice and only if you were lucky enough for the teacher to pay attention to you. But that teacher moved to a different country and then I moved to the other side of the planet and that was that. Recently I went to a Chen style Taichi seminar with some famous chinese dude in NC and it was good (the guy definitely knows his Taichi) but - at the same time I didn't learn enough for me to practice alone. and in 3 days we covered the short 18 form version and the long version (I forget how many forms in that one) and push hands and most of us were beginners. So....needless to say basically a big clusterfuck. The problem is - I am still going to learn Taichi one way or another, it's just not clear to me from where or from who. Those guys from NC are at 4 hrs distance from me . So I'm trying to learn from DVDs and so far I hate it. So I'm just looking at other styles and methods of studying it... I am not interested in the Yang style anymore(nothing against it - but since I've done it in the past I want smth different). So that's my situation in a few words.

Why not?

Wait Lao Tzu... why did you touch Chunyi Lin's head?