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Thank you very much! I've experienced this first hand with my Teacher's Teacher, it's incredible

Are you sure about this? In his book Master Peng says the ability to discharge electric Qi was developed after his Small Death. I thought high level YJJ skill was being able to sustain heavy hits to the body without pain and injury and breaking stones with fingers as it works on Wei Qi. Would love to hear more from you about Yi Jin Jing, anything that you can share. Do you practice it? There is a Daoist and Buddhist Yi Jin Jing right? Are there several versions of Daoist YJJ?

Thank you very much! I've been thinking about creating a post to ask some questions about Grace but perhaps I should use the search function first. Isn't Supreme Clarity the name of a Daoist Tradition? Does it refer to the "Ultimate Realization"/Completion, sort of a last level?

Graziani also translated that way: "When qi is guided, it starts to generate;" He read the character Dao/道 with its verbal sense: "guide";"route". I think that once you have/consider qi ducts you also have Qi being guided, even if it's natural and "not deliberate". Qi flows in the channels naturally.

I was thinking about the possibility of When qi is guided not being about deliberate cultivation, in fact not about cultivation at all. If you read Taoist Texts translation below it doesn't hint at any deliberate guiding:

I thought whether the "you" is supposed to be just a continuation of talking about the Sage... but it seems to me this is not the generative process to life [from seed] but talking about life itself. Yes, thought and knowledge are about life itself. I was referring only to it is generated possibly being about the process of Life. I read the you as a Human Being with the potential to become a Sage.

Can this verse be referring to the pre-cultivation status of Human Being? Can the it is generated be the mysterious and miraculous process of Life? From Seed to Human Being? When one gains knowledge one must stop and start cultivation? Next 2 lines: Whenever the forms of the mind have excessive knowledge, You lose your vitality. Yes, omniscience makes sense but I don't know if it relates to that specific verse. Why are you associating 知 with thoughts?

That would be great thanks! Is the Neye held in high regard and studied in all Daoist Schools?

Naturally "opening" Xiao Zhou Tian an Da Zhou Tian comes to mind.

I got the translation by Romain Graziani: 精 也 者 Regarding what we name “Essence” 氣 之 精 者 也 It’s the quintessence of qi. 氣 道 乃 生 When qi is guided, it starts to generate; He too didn't choose to read Qi isolated and in his notes says the expression qi dao reminds of another one: qi li. Would there be any difference by replacing transforms to transmutes?

Thank you very much. As in years for the LDT work?

Yi is not the Spirit of the Fire Element but it's all connected as we are One.

Thanks. Are you also a Longmen Pai student? So daoist walking, sleeping practice can be learned and practiced fully without the caveat mentioned by freeform?

Do you know if there are any Longmen Pai Teachers teaching for free in China or in the West?

Is this the same text as "Ling Bao Tong Zhi Neng Nei Gong Shu" but different translator?

Can it also be MDT?

I'm starting this thread because of this post by dwai which I think touched on a very interesting and important subject. Even if we're not talking about enlightenment personality by itself is a fascinating subject. I would like to know if there is an equivalent word for saint in Chinese and if so what are the Chinese characters. It would also be great to know the equivalent word in other traditions. What changes in one's personality, emotions... in the path to enlightenment? The masters talk about a constant inner happiness not dependent of the external circumstances/outside world, I first read about this in Chuang Tzu. Does this happiness relates to Love? Do you know if enlightenment (or something else beyond it) is what we are meant to "achieve" in this earthly realm (kind of a kindergarten) and until then there is reincarnation? The conversation has started, these are the posts from the other thread:

Do you speak the words? Can it also be more subtle like a knowing instead of only words? Did it ever happen without stilling the mind? Thank you.

Do you have a place/time for it? Very interesting could you please elaborate? (are there any teachings/books about this?) Do you think there's something else regarding suffering, besides sincerely seek its cessation, that connect us to the Divine? There's no contradiction but never mind. Because of the very nature of the practice. To me it seems the same/very similar. The visualization of the mco uses a pathway that's already there, Qi is already circulating through that pathway. Yes, of course. Can you tell when it's introduced? To the beginner or more advanced student?

Thank you both for your reply. If there is a mental exercise the Qi is stirred and there is circulation of energy, I understand what you're saying about the positive emotions and the need of calm equanimity, but even so I think there might be a possibility for harming the Organs. Freeform, you say this practice "develops a very good memory and a very sharp mind" and "helps to open certain congenital meridians" but can't it be compared to what you're talking about visualization the other day? Shouldn't a very good memory and a very sharp mind come as results of practice without having to engage with memories? Same with opening the meridians? Which meridians are you referring to? Thanks.

If it can be picked up by a camera it can also be seen with the naked eye, right? Do the masters you know perform healing miracles or is there a special reason they choose not to?

Do you know how long will it last and what will come next?

Can't this practice be harmful to the Organs?

I like this sentence, are you describing Wu Wei? Could you please elaborate further regarding what you're talking about here and Wu Xing? Not that a ‘true person’ would need acupuncture treatment but do you know if Wu Xing theory from Classical Chinese Medicine still applies to a Zhen Ren?

In your opinion are alchemical immortality or attainment of sainthood "levels" beyond enlightenment? Because there is no death? Do you know or have any theory why is this so? I'm not referring to what causes it (personality, conditioning...) but why is it obscured? So that it can be "discovered"? Hypothetically, could we all have our personalities, conditioning and never ever got our true nature obscured in the first place?