mcoolio

I actually have the full movie. Did you see the full movie or just this 1 minute vid? Based on that movie I would think that he is a decent martial artist. Don't know much about martial arts though. Also, got a few books of that author. One of them has a short section about the history of that school. Seems like around that date a number of clans and their masters united into one bigger organisation of sorts. No names though. Also mentions how at multiple points in history, this school changed names a lot to stay hidden. In fact, if you know french, you can read that entire section in the sample edition https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopédie-pratique-Tao-bien-être-French-ebook/dp/B07J1Y2DTB?ref_=ast_author_dp

There is a lot of emphasis on lower dantien work all over online and in these forums, but from what I have been reading lately in books, seems like heart is really the key that makes all of this work ...

That's quite the claim. Care to explain?

Anyone ever say, fuck it. And just go somewhere in a quiet place and do nothing but practice and study spirituality stuff for at least a year or more. So I guess what I mean is a retreat or something. Edit: Okay, after thinking about it a little bit more, maybe a long solo retreat is not necessarily the best option. So what I'm really looking for is to take a significant time of from working. Probably leave my home country, been here to long. And I want to go deeper into spirituality. I have to admit that I'd rather do some exploration on my own rather than have some teacher, but I know that's probably a dumb idea. So yea, solo retreat seems like an obvious option but there might be other good ways to do this. Any ideas is appreciated.

I've been training on my own for a while now. In the beginning I was really thinking about how I need to find a teacher. But to be honest, I love trying to figure things out on my own. For me, the practice is like a kind of research. There must be some people in the world for who going teacherless is the way. Maybe I'm one of them ... I modified my original post such that instead of only sitting, I mean just practice and study all kinds of spirituality stuff. That might of course include periods of only sitting meditation, but in general, I like to study all kinds of stuff. Also, it doesn't have to be a solo venture per se. Another idea would be to live together with 1 or 2 other people that are also practicing spirituality. Or some other kind of spirituality community type of thing where you still have freedom to practice your own stuff and where you at least have your own room to retreat into. Anybody got experiences with that? (@C T your idea is not bad at all, gonna explore that a bit as well)

So NOW you are asking me ? I dont think I can answer the more 'interesting' question though as I have have never had more than two people in a couple relationship . Well, no ..., but you may answer :D! And not more then 2 in a couple, but do more with (2) in a couple. What a great pick-up line ! " Hey baby , wanna help me anchor a star system to planet Earth ? " I bet fake gurus use pickup lines similar to this all the time

Ummmm .... yes . I found it hard to take the question seriously and that someone would NOT know about this .... also that 'divine usage' can be with a single person . But yes .... It's obvious that the divine can use a single person to 'do stuff'. But for me then the interesting question was simply what it can do with 2 people that it cannot do with only one and even more interesting, what could it then do more with 2 people in a couple relationship. I agree that it seems like dumb question, don't care. Ls answer was cool. Gonna look for female now and anchor star systems to planet earth .

Ummmm .... yes . I found it hard to take the question seriously ... Well I didn't ask you

Okay cool, so there is specific ways that 2 (or perhaps more) people in a close couple relationship can be used by the divine towards achieving higher purpose?

Interesting. How can close relationships be part of someone's work?

Well, gotta admit that whatever happened there, could have just as well been induced by my own enthousiasm going into a new system. I do have the impression that everytime I do a new practice, it always starts pretty strong and then weakens a little bit to then slowly grow stronger over time. Still, I am suspicious ...

Makes me think about something else to be wary of. Having suspiciously strong energetic sensations that stay only for a short while and especially when this happens in the beginning when starting out in some school. Very easy to get hooked in by this. Suddenly having your channels open or whatever mechanism working correctly for a week or 2. No more sensations of cold or heat, feeling of having rocket boosters in your legs, ... And then having these sensations fall away as mysteriously as they came. Can be both good and bad I guess. Something like this happened for me. Was a blessing and a curse. Blessing because it made me aware that there is an energetic aspect to life that was completely unknown to me before that. Curse because it got me hooked into a system in a way that is certainly not healthy. So yea, it's not all bad, but experiences like these do not mean that some school is good. Still need to see if you can achieve some actual sustained transformation in the system (probably takes a while), look at how the teacher and other students behave, ....

Can't see how this is a sound logical argument Transfer of (healing) qi doesn't imply that the patient will actually get better. But even if someone would be able to transfer some qi into a patient such that it could cure, that doesn't mean that the healer is able to revert certain fundamental processes in his own body (or in the patients body). I'd think that would be a little bit more difficult.

this is surprising. Please tell us more.

Ahhhh, I see now Your posts from the past weeks, ... very insightful. (not in terms of shared knowledge about dao and spirituality though) Yea, why not simply close up the whole forum. These things just cannot be discussed rationally, right?

Can't say I fully agree. In the beginning, qigong will have little effect, especially if you do only qigong. And if after a while there are no longer discernible effects, you are definitely doing it wrong I think. It should become stronger and stronger. Average adult body is simply too stiff, too much rigidity in the joints, stiff spine, especially sacrum area, tight and tense muscles, or on the other hand too weak, flabby muscles, instable overly loose joints, .... Doesn't matter that much if you did a lot of sports in your life because most sports will build up some kind of imbalance in your body in some way. Will be very difficult to effectively move qi through such an overly rigid or overly loose body. Is like a guitar string which is either too tight or too lose, the vibration will not pass through. So especially in the beginning, probably need to do something more physical to prepare the body. Pilates is excellent because is very effective for mobilizing the lower back, stomach, hip area, which is obviously and import place that needs to be open and without tension. Once your body is more open, qigong, neigong and breathing will become much more important and will allow you to reach and mobilize those deeper "stuck" zones that you were not able to reach with only physical work. The fastest is probably to have both a little bit of physical work and some qigong stuff in your daily routine. They will work in synergy and then you just have to experiment and see if you need to do one of either a little bit more, mix up the order in which you do them, ... So my advice for OP is too keep doing qigong stuff but also add in some daily physical work. But, to be honest, if the school you learned your qigong from was not already advocating the same thing, I would have my doubts ... I think having a real transformation through qigong takes a long time and perseverance. I am still walking that path. But 100 days should be enough to feel something positive and usually when a "sleeping" body starts to "wake up" it will produce a reaction.

Pilates is very good qigong/neigong preparation IMO.

Here is a course on buddhist neigong recently released by alex kozma: https://lineofintent.com/product/buddhist-nei-gong-for-martial-cultivation-longevity-and-enlightenment-foundation-course/ I don't have the course so can't say much about the content but Alex is a cool guy, and I guess this shows that there are in fact buddhist body cultivation methods. I wouldn't be suprised if there exist qigong systems that allow you to enter the meditation state achieved from sitting and stillness while in motion. As far as I know, where daoist systems in the beginning keep a rather clear separation between body and mind cultivation techniques. Ultimately, it should evolve towards more unified practices where all is trained at the same time. At the same time it is perhaps interesting to discuss what the actual goal of qigong is. The main focus of neigong certainly is to cultivate or build the body. But qigong is perhaps much more a multi purpose thing? There certainly are qigong that focus specifically on health and also some which come from martial arts systems which perhaps have an intent of expressing and cultivating the qualities of this martial art system. Both qigong, but the intent is rather opposite. Perhaps there are also qigong for things like magick, prayer or, ... cultivating the mind.

Something you can try without consulting a professional. 1. Try switching to organic foods only 2. Try not to eat too much

Hi, may I have a ppd? Thanks!

Don't know more than what I already said above.

As far as I know (book knowledge) Small orbit stays constrained to yourself. It's benefits are limited because you are working with your own energies, some of which is bad. Once you master the small orbit to a certain level it will start to spill over and you can move on to the large orbit which is an extension of the small orbit to include the outside world. This outside exchange is very much connected to the heart center and by extension also to the 5 gates: palm of hands, bottom of feet and the last one perineum, or crown of head. Large orbit and small orbits are tools, but as far as I know the key to project to and (and absorb from) outside is really the opening of the heart center. But I assume you always get that once you get the large orbit. So I guess once have an open heart center you could start thinking about how to use that for healing with palms. I expect it to be more complicated then simply opening heart center though. But I assume that would be a start. Feel free to correct my ramblings.

your pizza is all over the place;) I think @mcoolio is wanting to read some menus and yelp reviews before settling on his choice… I’m sure he’s not expecting all that in one meal If I could get my hands on such a pizza. I would go for it. No matter if I choke or not

A sacrifice for the sake of progress towards a more open spiritual arts community No but, it's like you say. Some of it is certainly warranted. But some of it perhaps not? I think the same holds true for all the daoist metaphysics studies stuff BTW. Astrology, fengshui, qi men, yijing. Yes, you can find many books and stuff, but when it comes to open exchange online, you can just feel that there is some holding back going on. And there you don't have this issue of it being super dangerous to test out things. At some point, these methods do still become powerful of course.

your pizza is all over the place;) Is it? I would say that these ingredients complement each other pretty nicely. Well done BTW, as always, whenever somebody asks you a serious question, you always manage to divert the conversation to something else.