SeekerOfHealing

Very nice post awaken, what about ling (lingshen) ?

This is more related to lung infections rather then flu patterns.

Make juice from fresh radish and olives and drink juice, or eat them if you like - should be all right quickly. Those random remedies here are scary for example raw garlic can things make worse in heat type flu and cayenne can easily dry you up making sickness much longer then it's needed. Those popular remedies granny type are rather "hit or miss" type remedy which should be taken with caution. You can use brown sugar also for ginger. Those things like chemical honey making flu worse is rather superstitious so you do not need to worry about that. The aim is to bring balance so little honey like that will not do much harm.

Hello. I study TCM here and there, can you explain more if your flu is more cold or hot ? Do you feel aversion to cold? or you feel hot? Firstly use ginger well boiled and simmered till the water becomes "muddy". Add the honey after and drink thru the day. If infection still will be developing then tell me how you feel and I will set proper food so it will come off in 2-3 days

I understand that point. Diamond Sutra speaks of it very clearly but do not rebuke helping others constantly even if there is no others and your mind dwells in dharmakaya reality cease to exists in blissful vapor of mind ground but the still things are going so you are not dwelling here and there but do myriad things here and there. It's generally not that complicated.

Yes, but there is no enlightenment without bodhichitta in buddhist terms and we speaking here not nirodha/nibbana but Buddhahood (prajna paramita). Hard work is needed but when you develop the muscle with 12kg it will become light the more you use it so it is with bodhisattva path, the more weigh you can take with equanimity the more results of it will become. You need to hard work, hard practice and everything if you want succeed on buddhist path - there is no way around. If you can be like Nagarjuna sit in cave and free myriad sentient beings - okay, but keep it real base on your own experience without delusional judgement and imagination which is very important.

Okay. I do not know if someone will be interested but I doing experiment like Win Hof. I shot myself couple "safe" bacteria to generate immune system response. I waiting couple hours to kick in to have flu like responses or cold like which start kicking in. I will see how Flying Phoenix will affect such state from start to end of such infection.

Then this is not understanding of dzogchen. None of Longchenpa's, Garab Dorje's, Dujdom Lingpa's etc would you find such things. Dzogchen is seeing thru duality or detaching your awareness or consciousness (but not the 6th if we base our understanding and definition of consciousness on the basis of Yogacara). Once we see the base of mind, reality, self (whatever) karma do not gets purified or dissolved we seeing thru it. When we speak about Rainbow Body we speaks about dzogchen teachings. Dzogchen is not path of purification or anything it's enlightenment in the less of blink of an eye but to find proper dzogchen teachings like Dudjom Lingpa and other types of people is super hard. Most aspire for Mahayana path and most teachings are related to being born again and again to help other people - If you practice such teachings without motive of Shantideva or Atisha then you will be in big trouble, mere vows of saving all beings are not just prayers - it's real karmic connection and basis for buddhahood. Anyone who fools himself to practice buddhist teachings without being on path of bodhisattva it's just fooling himself. Sorry for harsh words and do not take me like some kind of totalitarian but if we speak about buddhism, dzogchen let's speak right way with proper understanding. Taoist freedom and non-care formless style understanding is not good - that's why I practice Taoism and like formless school like Xiao Yao Pai as they are very fit for most of people mind. Being on buddhist path is very hard work, working on character, merits, keeping vows, sacrificing yourself and doing everything to get off suffering from others. Do you know what that mean? Every step you breath, you think, every action you do for others for their sake, every piece of bread you take half or more then half or everything and give out without even thinking you gave out something. Forgetting about yourself you are finding yourself. Do not take those teachings such lightly - it's better to practice Taoism or other free-spirit tradition. Sorry for my tone in this post but Rainbow Body is reward body, you can sit and watch sunlight all they thinking you practice thogal - do not fool yourself. Till you not get rid motion of self you will never achieve it without emptiness and fruit of Heart Sutra.

The best way is to try itself what is true by practice.

Not really, those are fixed things. they are related to our Qi and how it moves so there is no thoughts in that matter - sages developed insight into this matters which can be proven by various practices. Thoughts are business of regular people which creates confusion on profound matters. People have thoughts about those things because they didn't reach state of sage when they can see everything the way it is and workings of myriad things. It's not something you can think of or phantom. Regular people who try to think their way on this are like blind people trying to critique professional painter.

Rainbow body and dzogchen teachings are supposed to be easy and quick, like instant soup for 1$ but like most teachings with times got degenerated or just explained wrong way from people without proper realization to speak from it. Dzogchen thru process of insight unclogs your consciousness, then your body and your mind dissolves in something which can not be expressed after stabilization your body turns actually into light so Rainbow Body is results of insight - not anything else. Nobody can achieve rainbow body really - as such it's wrong notion and someone who says that practice unauthentic dzogchen teachings. It's very thin line between intellectual understanding of view and actualizing the view which results in realization. Dzgochen teachings last about couple seconds or minutes with understanding and applying the view -> realization -> rainbow body without any practice or anything like that.

You are speaking of course in terms of esoteric buddhism? There are various ways. They have many ways depends on the tantra/school/lineage. They open in by cutting up the skull a little and opening with the special "tool" to trigger third eye opening. This is one of secret practices. The other is thru opening and thrusting channels in the eyes. I have luck to being known in the second practice of opening third eye and it's very hard to do so and it's gives enormous superpowers or siddhis. Even basic opening or little stage of accomplishment you can know things about past and future in your mind - very interesting experience.

Fingers are related to the various aspects. There is a way to touch certain parts of the finger to change people destiny if they know how, there are one finger zen neigong focused just on one finger. I think fingers are very powerful in personal cultivation. There are many ways to do practices with fingers, many ways. The simplest explanation is that the ring finger related to earth element so activating it certain way will ground you.

You guys can try here wu liu pai daogong and try to experience results by yourself.

Sorry for late reply. Use copper bracelet or copper ring on the ring finger of the left hand to ground your energies.

Use copper for grounding or I can send you some hand positions for grounding.

Some or many of taoist do not believe rebirth or reincarnation. Depends on which region do you ask. There are many theories and ideas when it comes to it and related to the dynamic of yin and yang. Generally boring stuff, you better develop yin shen and try explore this death world by yourself.

Slapping is one of methods of acupressure (beating is better). Stretching helps Qi flow more easily like in some yogas. They are some health benefits from it but I would say fragile unless they are pointed exact to the cause of problem.

Taoism is the same as (Chinese) Buddhism but with less focus on body in some chan traditions. Generally there are some buddhist ming practices or qigong practices, but those ming practices are either lost or not complete.

The best things to set up for Qi sickness is Fragrant Qigong or mantras to set up Qi.

The most important question - do you ask experimentally or academically?

The most funny effect I have that I could clearly feel channels of jing mai in my legs and body when the heat was pouring there.

They changed password.

Fully accepting imperfection would be perfect for me.

No worries. This topic is well research that we can go on with different theorem - like you have something happening and our understanding is limited to theorem but not to practical matters which are fixed to it's own mechanics.