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Well, there's 玫瑰 rice. You may try it with noodles.

玫瑰

hand dexterity

deep fried snickers bar

Good morning!

Hey Doc

good idea!

Hi amoyaan, What you wrote above makes sense to me and it seems that you've had some experiences and now you're trying to make some sense out of them. About this matter I'm only going to talk about my experience but with some reservations. Concerning the upper and lower dantians (Shang, Xia) I've never experienced anything which would make me think they're not the same as the respective chakras (ajna, manipura). Concerning the middle dantien (Zhong) and the heart chakra (anahata) what I can tell you is that from what I've experienced they are not the same.The heart chakra is about deep spiritual experiences while the middle dantian seems to act like a energetical battery as you stated above. I'm going to quote steve now because what he wrote makes alot of sense to me and I will tell you why: I see people here mixing many chi gung systems and having experiences that afterwards they don't have a clue about what was that cause them. Did the creators of these chi kung systems lack the scientific method that they seem to lack so much? Don't think so. The advice that I read frequently in this forum of establishing a practice for 90 days (?) makes much sense to me. Thanks for the topic.

Sorry TM, it wasn't my intention to confuse you, just not to be too specific advertising a product. Some jian experts recommend the wooden jians made by "little raven" saying that they are very well balanced.

you know what "they" say about little raven...? Hope to buy one soon

Rishi Das

Hola William! Bienvenido. It's not often that someone arrives here really interested in the daodejing, so, congratulations for that in my humble opinion you're aiming at the right target. The DDJ is the book I offer the most always telling people: this isn't something for you to read, this is something for you to have! So, if someday you want to read it you already have it. Let me tell you why this is so: when I bought the DDJ for the first time it made no sense to me, so I left it on a shelf for two years untill the day (two years later) I picked it up again and fell in love with it. Sometime later e remembered a dream that I've had, years before buying the book, with the clear simbology of the DDJ, So, I guess it was somehow "destined" for me Read the book if you can, if you can't, nevermind ( as Lao Tzu suggests ) just don't be anxious about it. All the best oak

Youre having one of those days... go buy a lottery ticket.

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Dont forget the flower!

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Tower of Babel

Pas du tout

Beer bath

Bud

Your post is the omen of an interesting weekend! I'm hoping it will be

It even has its own technique of opening the MCO (for those interested in giving it a read)

This is working for me: http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_handwriting_practice.html