Deltrus

I managed to transfer a mirrored copy of vol 4 onto my ipad. Took like 4 hours of troubelshooting and finding the right programs, but I did it. I'l try working on it tomorrow morning.

Man the only criticism I have for the DVDs is that they should have been mirrored. I find it so hard to move left when the character on the screen is moving right. I see a lot of people saying volume 4 is good but I tried learning it and it seems so hard. I don't think I'l ever be able to do it properly.

I love how your questions inspire me to think so much. Haha. You're great. You should have seen what I typed up, before my ipad crashed. I really need a new tablet thingy. I'm definitely not a busy body, just a busy mind. As for you, no idea. I think a question like that, I'd have to know you better.

My minimalism refers to minimal life and possessions. Efficiency over excess. Seperate from thoughts and concepts. My simplicity refers to concepts. Simple things, are just things as you see them. For example a leaf falling from a tree. Complex things would be thinking about the forces on the leaf, why the leaf is green, how the leaf is alive, whether the leaf is made of energy, whether the leaf exists in dimensions we can't see. And yet within all the complexity, a leaf is a leaf. Edit: holy shit I just wrote like 5 paragraphs on the concept of simplicity, abstract thought vs non-abstract, spirituality and religion. But my ipad freakin' crashed on me. My goodness I had such muse there, all gone now though.

@zen-bear I keep falling into a sleep like state when doing the exercises. For example in bending the bows I keep going to a deep trance and forget to bend my knees at the right times. I contribute this to concentration meditation, focusing on the sensation of breath on the nose, that I did for a few years. I got into the same deep state when I was doing that. Any advice? Should I keep on practicing even though I mess up? It doesn't happen with eyes open. Edit: I probably just need more practice time.

Wisdom is getting better at "being you" and also "acting in accordance with the laws of the universe". People naturally get better at this as they age. Or maybe the laws of the universe get better at acting in accordance with you as time goes on. Same thing. Two sides of the same coin.

Well maybe it is different, I was thinking spontaneous movement = spontaneous qigong. I do a mixture of qigong moves and "exercise" ish moves. Idk. It looks a little similar to yours at times.

@nature beeing funny that you recomended me this thread, I'm actually getting better at spontaneous qigong myself. I'm actually using the same intuition that I developed previously that I followed to take the proper supplements. After a while intuition can branch from qigong to medicine to life. You just have to "feel" it. Honestly I really need some custom qigong for myself. In my right shoulder and leg, I have lumps in my muscles, bones, blood vessels, and nerves because of an injury combined with long term illness. And I've found a qigong that really moves all my body parts and corrects my problems wonderfully. What I do is get a wide horse stance, feet planted in one spot, and move my ankles, knees, and hips in various ways. And also in horse stance, I rotate my arms like I'm doing skip rope or full circles with my arms. Horse stance really is what saved me and my posture. Zhan zhuang as well. I need to introduce the various internet communities I know to zhan zhuang. So easy to get into horse stand and related postures. It seems like the key to the arms, elbows, and wrists is various forms of rotation. The key to the legs, ankles, kneeds, ribs, neck and jaw is back and forth wave like movements in horse stance. Honestly around half of my spontaneous qigong is wave like movements currently. The waves really erode what needs to be eroded.

My views on the divine pretty much come down to an amalgamation of a few of the most popular interveiws on batgap.com, but with my own opinions. All I'm pretty sure of is that we will know everything at death, or there will be non-existance. That seems like a pretty good deal imo. There are a lot of hyper spiritual people that say that the life after death would be amazing and actually have a brand new system, or we reincarnate, or something like that. These people probably know a lot more than me. Religion seems to be a way to feel something already inside ourselves, be it the divine or THE divine or a part of physics we don't understand or an aspect of our brain. It's hard to say really. But yeah I'l know when I die. At any rate it seems no matter the standpoint, the idea seems to be to be that all of life is a lesson that we have to learn to love, be open, adapt, etc. As you can pretty well see, I'm open to all religious/scientific standpoints at the moment, if you want certantity then maybe ask me in 50 years.

Questions: do all exercises end in 3 deep breaths and the last breath being through the mouth? What happens if you take 4 deep breaths by accident? Is the aim for the spine and head to be straight up in all exercises which don't specifically say to bend? Like suspended by a string at the crown of my head? Edit nvm I see the last standing exercise in vol 1 has the back bent in parts, but the question still stands for exercises 1-4 in vol 1. For monk gazing at moon, do I have to have the intent of looking forward even with eyes closed? I've just been relaxing my eyes. In "bending the bows" and "monk holding the pearl" should the elbows be straight outwards and in a line or relaxed and bent towards the body? Should the hands be touching the stomach in this position, or hovering in front without touching? How many times should "bending the bows" be repeated?

Things I'm noticing as I practice: - much easier to not make mistakes if I stay exactly in the current moment, the present. - everything is getting easier as time goes on (was super hard for me at first) - Easiest way to use the dvd is to select each individual meditation, review the start, then pause at the breath sequence. Then just press "next" when done to go back to the meditation selection screen. I'm currently doing 4/5 standing exercises every morning.

EDIT nevermind, my laptop broke @zen-bear would you mind if I looked through the thread and made a FAQ / info compilation? I'm thinking of looking through the entire thread anyways over the next month or two. Also would you mind if I posted basic notes from the DVD? (Names, breath sequences, legs straight/bent, recomended duration/repitions, additional info from thread etc) Just basic stuff that is so easy to forget, to stimulate people's memory after they watched the vidoe for a few weeks.

"Lysergi" has a legal lsd analogue and has been pretty popular. 1p-lsd is what it is called.

Thanks, I was too just thinking I was opening myself up to these thoughts too much, I should just block them off and go to how I was before I had this surreal dream. EDIT: Locking this because I currently believe that I had a one time psychotic episode and shouldn't look too much into it.

http://aprilcrowell.com/asian-medicine/the-liver-in-chinese-medicine-controller-of-vision-planning/ Liver controls planning, was the liver entity a representation of my habit laziness destroying myself? What is liver wind? I seem to have many of those symptoms: I guess qi isn't just energy, it is how we use it as well, and I never plan to use my energy for things, only choosing to rest. Is rest and laziness a symptom, or the root cause itself? EDIT: Nvm exterior wind moves quickly and doesn't stay long, while I am having chronic problems.