SeekerOfHealing

DSCB57 if you enter arupa jhana and formless states you would be have very low opinion on 99% practices and how people blindly follow them without understanding principles of self cultivation. Also some monks used various energy practice like quasi-qigong or yoga for healing and support for cultivation basic mindfulness.

At the end of the day is all about results - where are people who attained thru this book anything?

It's not against taoism - you just proved what is says being touchy and clinging to appearances. It's just explains taoism and it's difference to buddhism without personal attack.

I told you, Gerard know the thing. Check his old posts so you can learn about pretty good amount things from TCM to meditation. He have to many pattern to deal with so definitely professional is needed.

Taoism = Buddhism generally. Buddha knew all ways of immortality and taught to couple of arhants in sutras so... Taoism = Buddhism

Yuan Qi is related to the lights which you can see.

Taoism = buddhism

What is more interesting is that there is ming method to become human immortal.

Testimonials. Dear Master, today (16/12/2016) my Spirits Guardian had telepathically said to me that I had passed my lesson of self-conceit. This afternoon about six o’clock, my parents and I were having dinner, (we always have dinner sitting on the floor), while watching “The magic sword”, a Chinese martial arts TV. The movie was so so. As the movie progressed, the story's events turned out to be exactly what I had said to my mom the day we watched the first episode so I blurted out: Mom, see? What a genius judgment I had! I was right. But it instantly dawned on me that it was wrong so I quickly apologized to my Guardian Spirit. I received a telepathic message: That’s alright my son. I forgive you this time. Don’t repeat your mistake though. Now, go on with your meal. While chewing my rice, I promised to the Spirit that I will not make such statement again, and the message said that I was forgiven. Then, as I continued to think about it: Perhaps I'm not as smart as I thought. My correct prediction must have come from my guardian and not from me. The Spirit laughed : “Haha. Good boy. Now you are getting smart. You have learned your lesson. Do you know what is your biggest drawback? - I do not know Sir. - Conceit is your biggest weak point. I am afraid that when you have some achievements, your self-conceit would rise. If that happens, all the years you spent cultivating the Way would be wasted. You must write this lesson in your heart, engrave this lesson in your bones to help you curb your big ego. I mentally replied: divine Spirit, without your help I have nothing, my understanding and knowledge all come from divine Providence. - You are right my son. Understanding that and you will be able to remove vanity and conceit. Ha ha... Good boy! Good boy! I could feel that my Guardian was happy and pleased as he was laughing and stroking his beard. When I wrote these lines I received the holy force's guidance, I was filled with divine energy and feeling warm all over, feeling like my Guardian was right next to me.

Try to go to retreat metta with Bhante Vimalaramsi, his students get into arupa jhana very quickly and effortless with right guidance suffering only exists in regular consciousness.

Do metta meditation if you need to feel okay or feel not negative because it's all about it. No need to beat up around bush.

Saying that someone is snake oil salesman is positive as it's exclude negativity and falseness in peoples life. Your correctness is disease because with such logic negativity will eat you up endlessly. Your logic is followed by those who call uncomfortable truths (like islam terrorism = oh you are racist) there is no sense in it. People who saying negativity is part of life and stuff like this are the worst kind as they spreading their disease thinking they spreading cure. Also @Shad never ever do conclusion based on your ignorance, unsatisfied state or when you fed up, it will actually drag you down more. Building more wall with your thoughts and trying to understand/grasp something is like enter burning house, you can feel pretty safe for a while but you will end up smoked.

Negativity is not part of a life but results of ignorance - that why is good to study buddhist with taoism. and you teaching meditation? you just attained snake-oil seller level which is a shame. @Shad if you want to use meditation to relief suffering (which is results of ignorance) the only way is path of buddhism - if you are looking for permanent solution.

Pardon me, but this conclusion is totally wrong - you seem to not understand motion of meditation or healing techniques. "Escapism" is not related to things you do but how or with what feeling, idea you doing that. Running to meditation and healing techniques is right if the meditation and methods are right.

What is awaken Method?

Emptiness for most people is just concept not real experience so it's makes no sense to say "Oh this is empty" - how it can help ? It's like saying to poor person on the street like hobo "hey you get rich" and thinking you did something good. Without understanding limitation of people you can not really point out emptiness by slogans like that for them. Nightmares are typical signs and depression of weakness of kidney.

If Hakuin would practice buddhism he would not have such a problems but those problems bring great methods and insight. Sometimes pressure hurts but it can benefit progress of attaining knowledge/methods.

The guy up saying that you need to convince yourself into believing that dreams are empty so they will be not affecting you which is not the right way or effort as Buddha put it about. (actually people speaking about emptiness have no idea what it is beside intellectual understanding which gives literally nothing beside talking unpractical gibberish) What you are experiencing is just results of disturbed and stagnant Qi. There are various ways to cure it. The best would be some qigong exercises, secondly chanting for mantra purification (try usnisa dharani from usnisa dharani sutra - miracles and cleanses Qi like nothing else). Do not try to cheat or make conclusion about it. If someone is really about emptiness and have such high achievements let them put fire in the hand or go into cold naked - we will see if the same stuff works. Just do not be hypocrite. If you know how to realize threefold or fourfold emptiness then you would be godlike as body related things, seasons, influence of the planet, thoughts, feeling would cease to exists on experiencal besis. So right now do not treat your condition as empty but as very real thing which needs to be balanced by acupuncture, herbs, proper meditation related to balancing and calming, opening jing mai and other ways to first build the foundation. If you do post natal meditation you need to keep celibacy otherwise it's make no really sense to do such things.

Yes they are.

Exactly, wai dan have one way the same as neidan, same stages and results.

Exactly, what you said here is worth tons of gold but only few will catch up

Same type of site like "find god here" and yellow subtitles on the youtube videos. I would not argue about those things as anyone interested will research on it's own. The end results for the country was better then before and that's what matters to the topic. We need to look at this as they are thru reality rather then romantic lenses or we will get wiped out.

Alchemist turned copper into gold and it's in British Museum I think - nothing new, but this is just more scientific way

Do you know that two people with rifle can wipe out there whole society? Pinochet was a fascist and it worked but I'm not talking about fascist which is a lot of stigma to this word and a lot of misunderstanding. To create perfect society people would need to be mechanical and like robot which is not possible (now). The question is we can not have equality as equality means 0 and 0 = death of society which slowly getting more apparent in Europe.

but those got nothing to do with collective behavior in case of governing or gender roles.