voidisyinyang
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for humans its drugs - for hyenas - ? Also all female mammals have clits - so that means all male mammals start out in the womb with clits. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/01/science/hyenas-hormone-flow-puts-females-in-charge.html
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yeah there's a pdf link of that book online just google.
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I actually just got a hold of Way of Energy. The page on internal energy is very great - very simple yet direct instructions. Previously this was described as "Motionlessly relaxed" - for horse stance - but the Way of Energy describes it better. This is really the key of the whole practice. chapter 3 "Internal Movement" p. 51. So I used this secret of full lotus. This really is the secret of training - summed up.
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Requirement for Celibacy in Neigong Training
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http://thedaobums.com/topic/38379-requirement-for-celibacy-in-neigong-training/page-6#entry627105 ClosedDao: wrong, think again. -
Requirement for Celibacy in Neigong Training
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ClosedDao caught blatantly lying again. Hilarious! http://thedaobums.com/topic/38379-requirement-for-celibacy-in-neigong-training/page-6#entry627105 wrong, think again. -
The genetic engineering of algae is fascinating - the algae switches off a gene that sucks in CO2 when the CO2 levels are high - and so 2 genes are changed to keep the sucking up of CO2 going - to increase biomass growth. Maybe this stuff will take over the planet Franken Algae as the new Oilgae fuel and food source.
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Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/chinese-police-eaten-endangered-giant-salamander-banquet This article exposes a critically endangered animal as the focus of a local elite banquet with the media taking the photo being attacked. The government says they will crack down on shark fin eating also. Sharks are facing extinction now due to the shark fin eating. Tigers - tiger what? yeah tiger penis soup. https://news.vice.com/article/china-outlaws-the-eating-of-tiger-penis-rhino-horn-and-other-endangered-animal-products Rhino horn. All "outlawed" along with elephant ivory. Obviously this trend - is not limited to the Chinese. The beaver furs were key for French lady hats in Europe in the 17th to 19th century. Commodity fetish - Sushi is another great example. Tiger skin rugs for yogis. There are tiger farms in China for tiger skin rugs, tiger penis, etc. But the "legal" sale of tiger parts is a great way to hide the illegal sale. There's just a few thousand wild tigers left. Tigers in the wild could go extinct in our lifetime - very easily. Just think about it - humans take for granted these indicator species but this is it folks. Sharks, tigers, etc. It's not just them but the whole ecological balance - the global temperature average has not changed within 1 degree over thousands of years. A delicate balance. So Taoist alchemy is based on sublimation of life force energy - which is the basis for religion to get rich - in the West it's called the Protestant Work Ethic. Professor David Palmer in his tome Qigong Fever documents how this body sublimation training was the key for the Chinese government to channel the energy of the people for quick Westernization as industrialization. So now China leads the world in carbon dioxide. The U.S. still leads "per capita" but overall china leads for current out put. So then we have qigong masters who charge a lot of money for their spiritual healing and teach this healing energy - but at the same time it's a global business with a late-capitalist focus - bourgeois - airplane traveling - high energy use. In other words it's not much different than folk Taoism eating endangered animals because they have unproven healing effects. Maybe eating a giant salamander really does have healing properties. Meanwhile the real ecology is being destroyed while we pursue our personalized longevity tactics for spiritual happiness using tactics and means - cars and airplanes and fancy hotels to attend conferences, etc. for qigong teachings. It would seem that the Qigong Fever really is the best example of the commodity fetish for the fastest latest development of global capitalism - the best way to sublimate your energy for personalized success to save up money to spend it better for materialistic happiness. The sushi craze for example - we all know seafood is great health food for Omega-3 and vitamin D and cholesterol and zinc, etc. but the fact is that tuna is going extinct, cod is going extinct and just now the Pacific sardines are crashing. Sushi is even common now in India - it is truly a global craze health food. We are eating the ocean to death - literally in a generation the main fish foods are facing extinction. For tantra people need to eat more meat for more jing energy but the main soy source for pork in China is from the Amazon distributed by Cargill, the world's largest private corporation. Most people have not even heard of Cargill nor know anything about it. I have researched it - but what's even the point of sharing the information. Do Chinese know they are eating soy -fed pigs from a Minnesota-based private corporation that buys up and promotes the destruction of the Amazon rainforest? haha. It's a crazy late-capitalist global economy. We want to be spiritual and to be more in line with Nature and it would seem Taoism is a great way to do that - but in actuality Taoism is driving this craze to eat and use medicinal health foods from species that are going extinct!! It's the great contradiction of what I call the "trajectory of tantric technology." learning about this giant salamander is kind of like the final straw that broke the camel's back. -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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http://downthecrookedpath-meditation-gurus.blogspot.com/2012/06/dalai-lama-and-proximity-to-cia.html -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
voidisyinyang replied to voidisyinyang's topic in General Discussion
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Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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John Stevens is a Zen scholar and Aikido instructor who has also written The Way of Harmony and Sacred Calligraphy of the East. He is also a Professor of Buddhist Studies in Tohoku Social Welfare University in Sendai, Japan. -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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The Buddhist organisations that are thriving during the debt crisis by Mary Finnigan in The Guardian Posted on November 18, 2011 by dialogueireland In times of financial hardship, meditators are still willing to pay large fees to hear the teachings of high-profile Buddhists Friday 18 November 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/nov/18/buddhism-debt-crisis -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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http://downthecrookedpath-meditation-gurus.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-11-23T04:28:00-08:00&max-results=4&start=28&by-date=false This blog is a great source of the numerous scandals rocking the Eastern religion guru scene. -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/CriticalZen/Zen_Master_in_America.html -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2008/06/bg-073-the-darker-side-of-zen-institutions-defining-reality/ corroborated by this googlebook https://books.google.com/books?id=zTCoXPEXWNwC&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=nan,+hui-chan+buddhist&source=bl&ots=jaRswV-YVH&sig=02jFAVwNn170hivVZib0ZUL3nXU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n0dqVfeOFcOvsAWPqoP4CA&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=nan%2C%20hui-chan%20buddhist&f=false Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography And Biography in Early Ch'an John J. Jørgensen BRILL, 2005 - Social Science - 862 pages -
Commodity Fetish of Folk Taoism as Late Capitalist apocalypse
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But wait there's more! http://www.newrepublic.com/article/washington-diarist/magazine/103092/google-buddhism-business-chade-meng-tang-corporation -
That must be epidemic. All the females in my family refuse to turn lights out but then I realized it is not just a lights thing - it is anything that does not directly benefit them. For example - leaving the greens out on the counter - after taking greens to eat, leaving the container out. I have repeatedly explained that ruins all the rest of the greens as they oxidize and wilt. It must be some immediate gratification thing. Think of bees - they have to visit thousands of flowers to make one drop of honey. They work so hard and think of how much planning that takes in advance. I know bees also have neurohormones just like us - dopamine and serotonin, etc. - which means they also have emotions, just as fish can get sad and lonely when their owners go on vacation. Let's look that one up again. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3042921/The-dolphin-turns-PINK-s-angry-sad-Mammal-baffles-scientists-blushing-gets-emotional.html o.k. so we have blushing dolphins. I know blushing is an extreme parasympathetic nervous system reaction - flushing the face with serotonin. It's from too much stress causing an opposite extreme. Too bad the dolphin was almost killed in the Japanese annual massacre. o.k. so looking for fish depression - I find a fish forum accusing the person claiming fish depression as "anthropomorphising." Yes it is truly amazing that attributing emotions to animals is still considered to be a psychological projection by humans! a nd I guess the science is still out on this but the fish lack the prefrontal cortex or something that would enable "sentience." https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ciwf.org.uk%2Fincludes%2Fdocuments%2Fcm_docs%2F2009%2Fb%2Fboyle_2009_neuroscience_and_animal_sentience.pdf&ei=cTJqVfH9NYXysAWjxoII&usg=AFQjCNHUYeRin66UhgT07esxQ8AkWu4xNg&bvm=bv.94455598,d.b2w&cad=rja pdf link on the topic. Personally I think - right brain visual dominance would not necessarily require prefrontal cortex for sentience. I think - I mean even if there is no vocalization with left brain dominance.... there is "awareness" - but maybe not self-awareness? and But sentience? That is "feelings" versus emotions. Interesting. and It appears than that "fish sentience" is very much a matter of scientific debate and current research! That author argues all vertebrates are sentient.
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Even flies are smart. Instead of trying to kill just turn all lights off except an outside light. Then open door and fly will find the light and freedom.
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Requirement for Celibacy in Neigong Training
voidisyinyang replied to opendao's topic in Daoist Discussion
So that's another logical fallacy - confusing the map with the territory aka killing the messenger. Here's the logical fallacies that consistently show up. 1) appeal to a secret authority (in this case secret masters with no evidence of efficacy). 2) contradictions between principles and methods 3) ad hominems when the above are pointed out. 4) using semantics (insert proper fetishized term here) instead of actual meaning - out of context - (proven in the case of celibacy, saliva, and even the lower magpie bridge - the claim that farting causes loss of energy). This means quoting half-sentences and lying about the rest - as was done by ClosedDao above regarding my statement about saliva. He quoted a phrase of my sentence and then lied about what the meaning was. I have now disproven his lie and proven what I originally stated! 5) confusing an author of a text with the actual principles pointed out in the text. (For example consider sports training - lots of coaches have had experiences in the past but that doesn't mean they continue to maintain the same skill level). The texts questioned are based on ancient principles that are actually trans-cultural going back to the origins of humanity! 6) Willful ignorance - refusing to investigate and provide any evidence on your own, sitting like a spoiled boy at the Mall crying to your mom that you're never getting what you want to consume - essentially turning the process into a commodity fetish. I call this "Mall Science" - it's the typical method of the skeptics who need to have a replicated, standardized commodity as science. That need actually kills the requirements for real training since it's based on nonlinear quantum infinite complementary opposites! 7) Anachronisms - trying to say that something happening later in time was then the cause of something earlier in time. This is a variation of the logical fallacy of claiming that just because something happened earlier in time it is the cause of something later in time. (so in the above case it is claimed that an early Taoist practice was "New-Ageism.") Hilarious! 8) A Negative advertising campaign (instead of trying to prove your product is the best, you just attack everyone else's or strategically, inversely, flatter the possible customers, and then the implication is de facto you are the real thing). Hilarious! All that stuff are distractions that cover-up an agenda. I've seen this agenda before - for example the U of MN had a committee of professors and administrators - about to approve a contract for monitoring of working conditions for the sports clothing - the monitoring was to be done by a firm created and supervised by NIKE, the source of the problem. So I distributed 400 pages of documents showing why this is a problem and how an independent monitoring system could be set up. Now consider - I did this as an independent volunteer - just like I am posting on this forum. Of course I did have past experience doing independent activism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and so I was relying on my contacts there to forward me information. Unlike NIKE - I wasn't trying to sell something and then claim I was monitoring the conditions it was made in. This is a similar situation here. The constant distractions and denials about the actual real methods of qigong training (insert proper fancy term here) are a huge waste of energy. So at the University it took me a year of nine meetings were I directly argued with the lawyer running the University along with the public relations administrators. They resorted to the same above logical fallacies that I've seen from ClosedDao - lies, distortions - anything to avoid the conflict of interest involved. But after a year - I finally said I'm going on an unlimited hunger strike. See I had my secret backup plan - the qigong training I did to finish my master's degree. So I knew I could go on hunger strike while also not losing energy. The President of the University emailed me urging me not to go on hunger strike and soon after he signed in for the University to join the Workers Rights Consortium. So I wasn't acting alone obviously - other students helped me - but I started the initiative at the University and then I let the other students move into the leadership positions. The point being is that people are irrational - logical debate is very superficial - it is a left-brain dominant activity. Qigong training deals with the subconscious. In the end we get out the actual real information for the real training. And keep in mind again - that this information is provided based on my actual experiences. haha. Now one of the ad hominems was that I have stayed on thetaobums for too long. Yes - I have seen several different businesses selling their wares here - come and go - as fetishized trends. There's no need to go into details - but I will say that in each case they were more interested in selling their product than they were interested in providing detailed analysis of issues and questions related to the training. So then when each different business appears over the years - advertising themselves on thetaobums - that is just fodder for me to learn more - of course it has to be done "against the grain" as the conflict of interest of profit precludes the free sharing of information. So as a case example, I focused before on the issue of celibacy. Now keep in mind the new business has fetishized the term Neidan - so that there has to be "real" neidan while anyone using the term qigong is fake, etc. And so then this is applied to any of the terms used for the training - since real celibacy can not be marketed then it has to be twisted around. So the "End of Leakage" obviously does not refer to actual real celibacy as a requirement (even though it obviously does). And constant reference to the Genital Gate must actually mean castration! Or any ancient Taoist school requiring celibacy obviously was New Age! haha. O.K. so I covered the evidence for real celibacy as a requirement. Now let's cover the issue of saliva - which is actually created from the sublimated semen being purified and ionized by the pineal gland. The semen high in lecithin and serotonin from the internal vagus nerve bliss has been documented to be in the cerebrospinal fluid - and so activation of the vagus nerve has been documented by science to increase serotonin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid. The internal orgasm is through continued vagus nerve activation. Meanwhile male ejaculation triggers the switch from dopamine (violence and lust) into cortisol as stress - a switch from the parasympathetic nervous system to the sympathetic nervous system. So if the parasympathetic vagus nerve energy is built up this ionization enables increased serotonin in the brain which then increases ACTH levels of the pituitary which then increases the potassium ions as a positive ion or yang qi energy, just as an electric eel works. Of course real alchemy works on what science documents as quantum resonance - superconducting protons from the quasi-crystal state of water - this is "cold fusion" in action. The ultrasound resonates the microtubules of the brain - and this causes water with the collagen of the brain to have acoustic cavitation as sonofusion - mini black holes that turn into white holes for real increase of alchemical energy. That level of energy through proton superconducting resonance is actually non-local entanglement which means it bends spacetime as the Emptiness of the universe - so that precognition is enabled, etc. So that is what creates the unified Yuan Shen and Yuan Qi in the brain which then increases the water levels as alchemical ambrosia - saliva that flows down the roof of the mouth from the tongue being connected to the roof of the mouth. In other words, as I've documented not only is saliva not an allegory (and obviously the actual saliva is not the same as normal saliva but there are stages in the training). Yes increased saliva is from activation of the parasympathetic nervous system - but that is the first level of the training! It's like the practice of smiling - that also increases the parasympathetic nervous system - as does reverse breathing. So no one is saying that those things are real - it's just that reverse breathing advances into immortal breathing just as swallowing saliva advances into ambrosia or (instead whatever numerous fancy Chinese terms you want here). -
Requirement for Celibacy in Neigong Training
voidisyinyang replied to opendao's topic in Daoist Discussion
p. 144 Cultivating Perfection, Louis Komjathy https://books.google.com/books?id=rnp-GwZAGVsC&q=saliva#v=snippet&q=saliva&f=false p. 198, Komjathy p. 203 p. 204 p. 204 Yeah there's more details in the book. -
Requirement for Celibacy in Neigong Training
voidisyinyang replied to opendao's topic in Daoist Discussion
Louis Komjathy, “Mapping the Daoist Body” 81- 82 / Journal of Daoist Studies 2 (2009) -
Requirement for Celibacy in Neigong Training
voidisyinyang replied to opendao's topic in Daoist Discussion
I never said it was easy but it does require celibacy at minimum. Paypal may disagree. Btw ur founder is very clear in his huiming ching the end of leakage refers to no ejaculation. There's an image showing that in the book. It's copy blocked so people gotta go to the link i posted twice but then willful ignorance is also not helpful. Haha.