Earl Grey

Friends respect boundaries, which you could consider how you're breaching them at this moment. Please stop.

Your response was to Kyoji. At no point is there any reference to prior posts I've made or the flow of discussion here, instead, continuing off of your previous posts earlier rather than the focus of this thread. I think it's time I request the mods to close this thread instead, because apparently, the section, Healthy Bums and the focus, my experience with covid, is no longer being respected.

Can you please review the OP and look at how this thread was originally about my own experience getting covid and reflections on it instead of pushing your agenda? @dwai already cleaned up unrelated posts and I'd like to not have it be hijacked, and if not, perhaps this thread should just be locked.

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It's also the "nei"part that one is so used to saying again and again and then it slips as I did.

Yes, good to clarify.

I really don’t want to get drawn into another long thread, but I do want to point out that qigong is just an umbrella term as is neigong, and you are best focused on looking at systems and getting guidance from your teacher because you will certainly harm yourself with such a vague and overly generalized view of qigong and neigong. tl;dr don’t mix and match, qigong is not the same amongst systems and styles, nor is neigong.

Some snippets of wisdom from Robert Anton Wilson, formerly used as a personal reminder in my old signature: "Everyone has a belief system, B.S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone's B.S. too seriously, especially your own." "Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean that I’m wrong." "Only the madman is absolutely sure."

Not long ago (which every mod in the past couple years can attest to), I wasn’t much different from him. If he’s really studying and practicing Dharma as opposed to just finding quotes expressing his current understanding, he’ll eventually come around and his amicability with others will reflect his practice. Give him time, because he isn’t giving himself time to look inside as well as around.

same… like you, content and quality of thought transmits easily.

I suppose someone would like to find a quote relevant to the importance of virtuous speech after reading all this?

I have the same problem. I also use creativity waves. If I write, sometimes my fiction takes weeks to perfect a 2-3 page short story, or I may even get 15 pages in two hours and a first draft that doesn’t need many changes.

Thanks for sharing a preview of the contents of your next best seller!

So I’m fully recovered and now want to share something about living with Covid-19. My unpleasant neighbors who don’t mask, don’t vax, don’t distance, and don’t wear a face shield somehow still disdain me, but are also throwing parties every night. And yet, I’m the bad guy for getting Covid as they continue doing passive-aggressive things like locking me out or leaving notes about every little thing I do such as feeding stray cats OUTSIDE the property in front rather than inside. I also found out a friend of mine died a couple weeks ago, someone who makes me immediately think of how the Covid-19 discussion led to more bad blood between people here than Trump could ever hope to accomplish. Our friendship was a bit strained because he was a pro-Duterte authoritarian and CCP propaganda shill, who then naturally evolved into a bully who ridiculed me for believing the vaccine con and was a proponent of ivermectin. Our friendship the last few years was passive sniping in Telegram, on political issues we both disagree with and links that neither of us would read or respond to, and now, his widow responded to my last snipe today that he died after two months in the ICU on life support after his medically induced coma and blood drive due to preexisting conditions. Can everyone just PLEASE GET ALONG? I am too exhausted to argue any point anymore no matter what anyone believes because all this polarization and bad blood means I never got to enjoy my last few years with a friend. Granted, it was a tough position given that he was a bully and condescending, but what kind of choice is that? To put up with ideological abuse to maintain a friendship or cut ties because I can’t stand to have my own struggles disregarded by an old money lad? Someone who never rode public transport, never learned to wash his own clothes, and never had to decide if he would eat or his pets would eat? That decision about what to do when you can’t see eye-to-eye and have a good faith disagreement anymore is something that needs to STOP everywhere in the world, but until people learn when they should remain silent and when people should speak up, I don’t want to imagine if things can get worse and want to hope that it will all get better. Mic drop.

Noise sensitivity is common especially in the beginning. Using music and white noise is fine, just not with headphones or earphones.

It was once written somewhere here that basic cross-legged sitting is okay if you can’t do half lotus, and if all else fails, sit in a chair.

Your parents sound like my own mother and stepdad. One thing I've learned is that you can love and have gratitude for your parents for bringing you life, but you don't have to like them. "Love your parents for bringing you life, love your teachers for saving you from the inevitable suffering that comes with living through their teachings" (whether those teachings are Dharma or Dao). A good way to help is to remember that they don't see themselves as 66 and 75, they are children--children of their own parents who still feel like they aren't adults or have the lives they wish that they had and like you, are crying inside wishing that someone gave them the childhood they grieve over never having, hence the snide remarks for you trying to just get support and love. Hang in there.

If you’re only 14, you’re too young for most cultivation practices. The safest options are to practice Fragrant qigong (don’t learn it for free; most material is 100% wrong) from John Dolic, or to buy the Flying Phoenix DVDs from Terry Dunn. Work on using these safe methods, stay away from chaos magic or trying to self-teach. You’ll end up harming yourself even if others encourage you to pursue more in-depth practice, as neither your body or mind can handle a lot of cultivation from credible systems and teachers, which you can begin with in your twenties for alchemy. This is my only warning for your safety, if you or others disagree, I’m not sticking around to argue. If you’re after internal martial arts, it should be fine depending on the teacher.

Actually, @Zhongyongdaoist Mentioned something about Thunder Magic before somewhere in the forum, but I’ll leave that to you to look up or him to answer if he feels like he needs to elaborate beyond what he’s already expressed in a very detailed summary.

The links from the post 2 years ago show you a prime example of how this is just all an ass pull.

Scam.

At least in the system I practice, this is better done at separate times in the day. Flying Phoenix at least this doesn’t matter which order or how far apart your practice is, but it’s not exactly the same as Pranayama.

Keep them separate, don't do them simultaneously--don't do it while standing.