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Nice post. I'm not sure if the gross (meaning: less subtle) levels can ever be asexual and complete, though.

Ah I see. Well, I disagree.

(14) Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will give rise to sin for yourselves; and if you pray, you will be condemned; and if you give alms, you will do harm to your spirits..." - Gospel of Thomas

Yes, something is wrong. I would stop practicing that! Lightly massage the perineum for a few minutes while belly breathing, to help heal it. If you're having sex, focus on opening and surrendering instead of any forcing. Whether the semen goes in and up, or down and out, it doesn't matter, since you've already trained this for a good amount of time. Just my opinion.

That is hilarious...and accurate!

Benny Hinn is freakin weird.

I think muscle stim units are DC (good ones have to be, otherwise it's not safe to have an alternating current). Done it myself up to 400 volts...or amps...don't know much about electricity so I could be wrong. Edit: my bad, now that I think about it, it must be 400 amps, not volts. The voltage must have just been standard for America...110v.

OMG MJ IS IN NEVERLAND STILL! No but really, I haven't seen a video like that before. It is clear that is wasn't just a shadow to me. Looked like light being bent...like in Predator. I wonder if they just edited it in after it was shot as a joke or something. Doesn't seem like a real ghost to me. EDIT: here is a better video showing that it was actually a shadow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3jlzS_BZc

Yes, I think so. The more you try to achieve, the less you achieve. Aiming for mindfulness is like banging your head against a wall...mindfulness happens without effort! And no matter what, progress is occurring if you just live simply, according to your heart, and be a good person. This is what I think.

Really interesting, thanks.

Well she isn't doing a pulse diagnosis, or talking with you in person (to see your face, hear your voice, etc)...so she could be missing something. Or maybe not.

There is no line. What's experienced and who experiences is inseparable. It could be said that there isn't a self. Or that all experience is of the self. I think it makes sense to people that pure awareness is their "true self"...even though that's not accurate. You can't take out pure awareness as a thing. So it's really like there is no self at all...and just experience of life. Everyone is always fully present, they just don't recognize it. If you are taking up the power of now practice, you're not practicing correctly. If you've got a grasp of the technique, it'll slip through your fingers. Right now there is enlightenment...yet what stands in the way?

Durkhrod, Why?

Interesting movie. It seems at times that some people really must look like that on the inside.

Get an actual diagnosis and don't do it yourself.

But when he danced, it was pure wu wei! Kidding...I'm not a fan of his. Don't know what the hype is all about.

I'm not sure...I think they're just tea leaves...I found it in google images randomly.

It's how we were designed to self heal.

Interesting info, dwai, thanks!

The guy on the Thick Black Theory website, Jonathan, used to post here and advertised his wudangquan website a lot. He had a very "marketing website" style, yet when people here called him out on it, he said that he was trying to do it all for free. Later on, we found that it wasn't for free...which isn't a problem if you're just up front about it! No offense meant to him as a person, but I wouldn't spend money on it.

It took me a while to find the evil in good.

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Yes I drink yin/yang water everyday...except without the honey. Not necessary!

Some extra things you could look into... In Dr. Baolin Wu's qigong book, one exercise to do is flick and rub the ears to make them red and hot...which heals the kidneys. After starting doing this a few times a day for a couple of weeks, I have noticed a great improvement in the upward draw. A common thing for the Chinese to do is eat and drink warm things. Cold things apparently mess with the kidney yang. Drinking warm water is actually kind of enjoyable...it's just like tea without the scent or flavor...now I actually prefer it to cold water. In Taoist Yoga by Charles Luk, gentle and even abdominal breathing is used for the microcosmic orbit. When you do it, make sure that the diaphragm is going to the kidneys a little bit as well (instead of only the front abdomen)...this specific type of breathing is more like "dan tien breathing" which you can find by a google search. And also, you might want to go to a different Chinese doctor just to get a second opinion on the issue. It's pretty common for people to lose their libido if they don't regularly ejaculate.

What's interesting is that my best friends in life have generally been the people who I think suck the most initially. But for the most part, no...reading people is one thing that I'm pretty good at. However, one time my sister was dating this guy...I didn't like him at all right away, but he acted nice so I forced myself to like him. Later on he ended up showing his bad side (not a good dude!)...so it turned out I was right. That was one time when I second guessed myself due to getting mixed signals. Yes, I have...but I also heard that they tend to cheat when being tested, by using a special kind of mask. By the way I'm not trying to make these things happen. I don't know their exact method, but I think the purpose is to develop this ability. The purpose for what I practice isn't this. Sometimes it's as if seeing with the eyes open, yet not limited to body positioning, so theoretically if I could control it I could see behind me. Would it be accurate so that I could prove it? No clue...it doesn't seem accurate so far. And sometimes it's more 3-D and more of a feeling type of seeing.