CityHermit!
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Where can I find a good school of Baguazhang?
CityHermit! replied to Vuk's topic in Daoist Discussion
I couldn't tell you who specifically to look for but I've heard better things about Yin Fu and Gao Yi Zhen lineages. -
Thanks, I like Mandelbrot's work.
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Form of meditation of Lao tse and Chuang tse
CityHermit! replied to wandelaar's topic in Daoist Discussion
They're definitely not strictly those if anything because of the political climate they lived in during those times. Chinese philosophy developed much along the lines of questions related to sociopolitical concerns. However, in searching for solutions internal cultivation discoveries could be an unintended result. The manner to govern a state or govern oneself is not sometimes so far off from one another. -
More or less it should be ok, probably helps to balance Yin and Yang aspects, activity and quiescence, etc.
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Having good posture if I'm sitting up, or relaxing more when I'm laying down, helps. Also letting my sensorium shift from audiovisual more to feeling, whether on my skin or internally.
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Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets
CityHermit! replied to Lightseeker's topic in General Discussion
It won't stop autocorrecting the second part, I see why its fused without a space. It's another name for Laozi. -
Anyone willing to share the Hidden Secrets
CityHermit! replied to Lightseeker's topic in General Discussion
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Can anyone teach me Psychic techniques?
CityHermit! replied to Lightseeker's topic in General Discussion
That's pretty interesting, thanks for sharing. -
Can anyone teach me Psychic techniques?
CityHermit! replied to Lightseeker's topic in General Discussion
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What role does faith play in the taoist perspective?
CityHermit! replied to Boundlesscostfairy's topic in Daoist Discussion
Something like that. Again, the Tianshi were accepted as official by Wei but that was a tumultuous period. By the Tang the Lingbao and Shangqing came into being too and I think it was these latter schools that held more sway than Tianshi did during the Tang. Even with Buddhist clout during the Song, the Tianshi reformed and was absorbed into the Zhengyi while Quanzhen was founded too. But you've probably seen this at some point or another so I post it for other readers. -
Can anyone teach me Psychic techniques?
CityHermit! replied to Lightseeker's topic in General Discussion
I see. Do you mean to say you found a school or ran a branch? In either case you linked it to OTO afterward, If I am reading correctly? -
What role does faith play in the taoist perspective?
CityHermit! replied to Boundlesscostfairy's topic in Daoist Discussion
Zhang Lu was the third Celestial Master and gained favor with Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period, so by aligning with Wei the Celestial Master sect thrived. There was of course further chaos after the fall of Wei to Jin and the gradual dissolution to the Jin but the Tianshi survived and even though declined from favor compared to growing sects like Lingbao and Shangqing they experienced a kind of revival under the Zhengyi sect. There's still the lineage of Celestial Master popes today apparently. -
What role does faith play in the taoist perspective?
CityHermit! replied to Boundlesscostfairy's topic in Daoist Discussion
A number of things about the Tianshi sect, a hereditary papal lineage, holy water, confessions, rituals and magic including control of spiritual armies not unlike angels, sex including ritual sex, tithes in the form of pecks of rice, liturgies, demonology, etc. Sounds a lot more like Christianity than Buddhism to me. They didn't do much in the way of meditation either if I am not mistaken. It's also said that Zhang DaoLing was born in 33 A.D. or so. -
What role does faith play in the taoist perspective?
CityHermit! replied to Boundlesscostfairy's topic in Daoist Discussion
Well, if anyone wants to say otherwise feel free but I'm pretty sure that the early Tianshi was very unlike Buddhism. Some later sects, such as Lingbao and Quanzhen much much later, did resemble Buddhism more. Tianshi, I would say not. The thing is also the Tianshi embodied some things similar to Christianity before the first Council of Nicea. Buddhism, although present, when the Tianshi began also wasn't nearly as established as much as some centuries later either, so in other words Tianshi was probably better established first. -
Hidden lands inhabited by Mo Pai masters
CityHermit! replied to Lightseeker's topic in General Discussion
I think I forgot some of the other places, I remembered that one best. -
Hidden lands inhabited by Mo Pai masters
CityHermit! replied to Lightseeker's topic in General Discussion
Yes because it is an answer to the OP's question. -
Signs of Verification of Turning Around the Light
CityHermit! replied to Cheshire Cat's topic in Daoist Discussion
I've focused less on that text than the Celestial Mechanism described in the text and in others before it. -
Yes
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What role does faith play in the taoist perspective?
CityHermit! replied to Boundlesscostfairy's topic in Daoist Discussion
It's not something I am advocating either, but its difficult to avoid the subject if learning about Chinese and Taoist history. Again, some of the similarities are very curious and I may be overlooking something in the literature out there but I haven't seen a thorough analysis of it yet. It could mean something from a geographical/cultural diffusion process at the least. -
Hidden lands inhabited by Mo Pai masters
CityHermit! replied to Lightseeker's topic in General Discussion
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I've seen some people who've been really attached to that stuff, and unfortunately in a manner that seems more detrimental to them than anything. It must be very taxing to the brain to process that way.
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What role does faith play in the taoist perspective?
CityHermit! replied to Boundlesscostfairy's topic in Daoist Discussion
It's sort of where religious Taoism began, though some earlier examples which occur not that much further back may be arguable. Some of the similarities are very curious. -
What role does faith play in the taoist perspective?
CityHermit! replied to Boundlesscostfairy's topic in Daoist Discussion
Tianshi Dao, the Celestial Master sect. There's a lot about them that had semblance to Christianity and they developed as contemporaries somewhat as well. -
It is debated by some how much good and evil is a human construct, but how about law and the social means for exacting ends based on perceived wrong doings? https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html#Kap57
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Hmm, it does say this https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html#Kap02
