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Thanks everyone for your input. I appreciate the insights. Rain & Cat it was like you were sitting next to me. Indeed Kunlun is a deep yin practise. Whats in a name?

I have been reluctant to post this due to all the shit flying about in regards to KunLun and didn't want to add fuel to the fire but here we go. After doing Kunlun for a couple of weeks I had a very vivid dream.I won't bore everyone with the details but it involved a run down house a very strong female prescence and Max saying to mean "You have to change your name." In the dream this seriously rubbed me up the wrong way.End of dream. Since then I have attempted to practise Kunlun but it no longer has the same impact infact if anything it seems to drain me of energy,so I had to let it go. Perhaps another day I will be willing to change my name

That photo just had me laughing,God I love pussy-woops.

All I can say is I'am over forty and I still don't know what I want to do with my life, having said that I have done a great deal in my life with many wonderful adventures.The only regret I have is wasteing time wondering what I should be doing instead of having fun.

Hey M. I found Dr Yang Jwing-Ming Qigong Meditation book an excellent resource for dechipering Taoist alchemy.He has a wonderful command of language and backs up all his refrences from the Taosit cannon.

I love how this thread has changed

Once I read an account of a fellow who was mauled by a lion, he described the exprience as "euphoric". Also saw a documentry on a women who was mauled by a black bear,absolutely ruined her life on every level. They had to sew her face back on. She couldn't chew her food properly do to muscle damage, so had to mush everything up.She couldn't walk properly.Was constantly assailed by nightmares and lived in a perpetual state of fear. On a personel level being attacked by a crocodile sends the shivers up me.Something about those reptilian eyes and being draged into some under water cave to slowly rot.I had better stop now.

Colon;Same old shit I agree with his obsrvation of to much energy building up in one area or organ.This I beleive particularly holds true with western diets and culture. I remember doing a similar exercise of going through each organ and just spending sometime. I remeber my lungs being particularly unhappy. To much smoke.When I quit smoking they were pleased but still pissed off that I would have done such a thing. Indeed each organ has a spirit of its own. The liver seems the most sensitive and is easily insulted,lots of green tea and singing seems to cheer him/her up.

Mythmaker the story you shared truly represents virtue.Thankyou for the wonderful post

just trying to get back home

yeaaaaaaah

wise words Smile, I can feel the love

Great quote Mal. Cheers, I'am off to jump into the cool abyss.

:lol great avatar joe,reminds me of a dream I had recently.

Karen and Matt, thanks for the information and the link,sounds like a wonderful alternative to sugar.

The basis of daoist medcine lies in the understanding of humankinds relation to the heavens and the earth.This relation is expressed in the energetic configuration of jing qi and shen.The manifestation in humans of this belief system is effected and demonstrated through the application of the science of acupuncture.If one is curious about qi and its role the correct application of acupunture can clearly provide a practical demonstration. This requires little money and no master setting things a light and flinging people about the room

Great post Wayfarer.It is certainly a challenge when dealing with the care of others,to provide the support but not get attached to the outcome.It is easy to say let go, but it is only when we are in the furnance do we know if we can handle the fire.On a certain level I think it is impossible to interact in the world and with other people and remain impassive,thus the urge to head to the moutains and cultivate in solitude.

From my limited expience Kunlun is a incredibly simple form, which enables ones meridians to be unblocked and opened.It is a fantastic aide for meditation allowing one to reach a state of stillness. This practice is most definitely aided by the retention of jing or sexual fluids and the importance of this should not be under estimated if one hopes to grow deeper into the practise.

Yudelove, ha what a great name. Cat when you say the hair of the head stores excess heart energy,how so? My understanding of tcm is that the hair is directly related to kidney essence,perhaps that is why, as we get older the hair becomes thinner. I haven't cut my hair in over two years.Besides getting in my eyes I like the practical advantages to longer hair. Keeps the sun off my head when its hot and keeps my head toasty warm when its cold.The cold wind when I'am in the ocean in the winter can't blow into my ears or disturb the back of my neck and head which are sensitve to cold winds. Also seems to balance out my excessive yang. Although I believe all of the above to be true, no doubt there may be others who see it as a simple manifestation of a mid life crisis.

Ihad to laugh when you said yang style people do it backwards because they get bored.Well that is precisely why I started to do it.My teacher didn't like it,but I found it was good for my left side and helped to open up the movement of my left shoulder and arm not to mention clear out some cob webs in my head.

Hmmm First off I'am not trying to fit an argument of my choice or anyone elses, nor am I trying to prove anything.I'am simply curious. We must have different copies of Kaptchuk book because I can't find the your quote above"Postnatal Essence allows for modification of prenatal essence." Agreed that Nei Jing quote only speaks of jing in terms of amount and time. Following the Nei Jing quote Kaptchuk states the following. "Qi helps transform food into Postnatal Jing,thereby maintaining and expanding that life. As for the other quotes they are both by highly respected teachers.And I have no reason to doubt them. From my understanding, Jing is the concept of time as it pertains to the material world. The process of birth growth maturation decline and death.This is a circular path,the whole from which the foudations of all life run their course. Do you beleive that there is no thing called postnatal Jing? One teacher I had stated that what your parents gave you, is all you got, and the best you can do is maintenance. Yet another believed, that what we put into our mouth and eyes and ears can indeed replenish or destroy our prenatal jing. This discrepancy seems to to be at the heart of what your stating. No doubt you would have to agree that the term prenatal jing does figure in current tcm and taoist literature.As to its correctness-well I look forward to your reply.

Carlos Castaneda had nothing to do with the Yaqui nation. The Toltec tradition is a hold different kettle of fish. Don Juan fictional or otherwise was supposedly from the Yaqui nation,The tradtion of sorcery he instructed was not.

Shit 2012, I haven't even formed my immortal baby yet!

Here in Australia theres a nasty jelly fish called the box jelly fish. One Remedy for very painful sting-you guessed it- start peeing

Postnatal jing (hou-tian-zhi-jing) is the second source and aspect of jing.It is derived from the purified parts of ingested food.The posnatal jing constantly adds vitality to the prenatal jing,they comprise the overall jing of the body.Ted J.Kaptchuk.The web that has no weaver. "Original essence is the fountainhead and root of your life.As you absorb the jing of food and air,you convert their jings into qi to supply your bodys need."Qigong meditation DR Yang,Jwing-Ming Jing is restored,replenished, and accumulated by regulating the body through the practes of fasing,ingesting herbs,maintaining a certain diet and exercises.Master li ching-yuan (reported to have lived to 250 years) The chinese character for jing is comprised of the main radical mi,which symboliizes uncooked rice.It also contains the radical sheng,which holds the meanings of life and birth.Lastly the radical tan is employed meaning essence of life.This sequence of radical which comprise the jing, clearly illustrate the dual products of pre and post natal jing.