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Drew, Everything you said is worthy of contemplation but ultimately you haven't convinced me that the term "Dao" solely describes the unique environment of planet earth and humanity's relationship to it. You suggest I am projecting a western reality by asking my questions, but I'm not convinced that is so. How is my question more eastern or western than Zhuangzi's question about the butterfly? It strikes me as presumptuous for a modern, monolingual (correct me if I'm wrong about that) American who has never lived in Asia--much less ancient Asia--to conclude that somehow Daoist thought precludes the kind of question I ask, when abundant evidence suggests to us that throughout history many people we look back on and call Daoists were very interested in asking all sorts of questions. Given where you're standing in 2018 Minnesota, unless your teepee has a time travel function, I have to ask: really, how the hell would you know where long dead people's lines of inquiry would stop, and why? During the Warring States period, when Laozi and Confucius and countless other teachers wandered from place to place teaching, people were certainly not all in agreement about much of anything--one can pick up any book with "諸子百家" in its subtitle and see plenty of primary source evidence that the idea of some unified way of viewing the world that can be called "traditionally Chinese" is not based in actual historical fact. Heck, the doctors over the centuries couldn't even decide just how many zang and fu organs there were! Anyway, while you seem to base many of your conclusions on the notion that Daoists got their ideas from observing the heavenly bodies (which some of them certainly did do), I base many of my conclusions on the notion that Daoists also got ideas from going "inwards" into stillness and finding something so original that it is not even contingent upon the existence of this planet, this sun and moon, and even the long dead first stars that supplied the dust that those later things are made of. As Laozi put it right there in the Daodejing, they found something 先天地生: "before + heaven + earth + born." It cannot be named, Laozi said, but if forced to give it a name... You're well read but you're quoting an endless list of non-Daoist books written by non-Daoist authors to back up your thesis. Given your deep interest in Daoism, doesn't it ever cross your mind that you might want to learn classical Chinese and start working directly with the tradition you're commenting on? There are a few millennia worth of books waiting for you, to say nothing of the living oral tradition, which can still be found by those who look for it. Even if this path isn't for you, though, might I suggest that you reread Laozi and Zhuangzi from time to time, and when doing so, with no intent to "figure out" what they're trying to say? Instead, just let the words into your mind, and then let go. Reading like this isn't my idea--many an old Daoist teacher suggests taking this approach from time to time. For the record, Red Pine did not say "qi is not emptiness." He said that Daoists are not interested in or don't talk about emptiness--something to that effect. well - thanks again for the thoughtful reply - yes it is fascinating to think that there was no agreement on how many "zang" or "fu" organs there were (so you can maybe respect my lack of knowledge on that subject). As far as what "is" (fill in the blank with a phrase or word) - I defer to music. Every human culture uses the Octave, Perfect Fifth and Perfect Fourth as 1:2:3:4. Now we as Westerners happen to "not" use the actual natural resonance harmonics - and even more so - we look at those numbers and think either: arithmetic or geometry. But as you know, there is another option of "complementary opposites." As I discovered 2:3 as yang and 3:4 is yin - and it is this "concept" that I have deferred to as a secret lineage - going back to the dragon and tiger - or principle that is transcultural, via music and a certain training. Dr. Victor Grauer did the research on this - his book, "'Sounding the Depths" was a free blogbook. Anyway - yes I'm glad you called me on my "game" of my claim about Red Pine. But anyway I would like to point out that your use of the word "contingent" is a Western loaded term - implying randomness and I would like to point out that randomness is a Western concept based on the Platonic use of logarithmic entropy: Drew, Everything you said is worthy of contemplation but ultimately you haven't convinced me that the term "Dao" solely describes the unique environment of planet earth and humanity's relationship to it. You suggest I am projecting a western reality by asking my questions, but I'm not convinced that is so. How is my question more eastern or western than Zhuangzi's question about the butterfly? It strikes me as presumptuous for a modern, monolingual (correct me if I'm wrong about that) American who has never lived in Asia--much less ancient Asia--to conclude that somehow Daoist thought precludes the kind of question I ask, when abundant evidence suggests to us that throughout history many people we look back on and call Daoists were very interested in asking all sorts of questions. Given where you're standing in 2018 Minnesota, unless your teepee has a time travel function, I have to ask: really, how the hell would you know where long dead people's lines of inquiry would stop, and why? During the Warring States period, when Laozi and Confucius and countless other teachers wandered from place to place teaching, people were certainly not all in agreement about much of anything--one can pick up any book with "諸子百家" in its subtitle and see plenty of primary source evidence that the idea of some unified way of viewing the world that can be called "traditionally Chinese" is not based in actual historical fact. Heck, the doctors over the centuries couldn't even decide just how many zang and fu organs there were! Anyway, while you seem to base many of your conclusions on the notion that Daoists got their ideas from observing the heavenly bodies (which some of them certainly did do), I base many of my conclusions on the notion that Daoists also got ideas from going "inwards" into stillness and finding something so original that it is not even contingent upon the existence of this planet, this sun and moon, and even the long dead first stars that supplied the dust that those later things are made of. As Laozi put it right there in the Daodejing, they found something 先天地生: "before + heaven + earth + born." It cannot be named, Laozi said, but if forced to give it a name... You're well read but you're quoting an endless list of non-Daoist books written by non-Daoist authors to back up your thesis. Given your deep interest in Daoism, doesn't it ever cross your mind that you might want to learn classical Chinese and start working directly with the tradition you're commenting on? There are a few millennia worth of books waiting for you, to say nothing of the living oral tradition, which can still be found by those who look for it. Even if this path isn't for you, though, might I suggest that you reread Laozi and Zhuangzi from time to time, and when doing so, with no intent to "figure out" what they're trying to say? Instead, just let the words into your mind, and then let go. Reading like this isn't my idea--many an old Daoist teacher suggests taking this approach from time to time. For the record, Red Pine did not say "qi is not emptiness." He said that Daoists are not interested in or don't talk about emptiness--something to that effect. So now I will throw down the Western gauntlet - which is to say that the idea of "contingency" has actually destroyed ecology on Earth - by which I mean life governed by the Moon cycle - because randomness from logarithmic math inherently implies that civilization is "order" while contingency is based on entropy. So for example "random" heat is entropy as "noise" - scrambled information that is unpredictable. (insert previous discussion of Hundun as "chaos" that I posted on this site). So anyway other than that - I get your drift - and I would just state that the Sun and MOon are "necessary but not sufficient conditions" of the Dao. So in other words - let's use Western science as an analogy (I realize probably even most Chinese now consider Western science to be the standard to define reality - despite their religious revival, etc.). So Lee Smolin took his first quantum physics class from the same professor teaching the same class that was my quantum physics class also. Only Lee Smolin went on to get his Ph.D., etc and so he published a book on the evolution of life in the Universe - I think it's called the Self-Evolving Cosmos? hold....Life of the Cosmos.. O.k. so his big point was that spiral galaxies are necessary for life to evolve. Now - consider Mantak Chia - I quote him in my 2000 master's thesis - stating how spirals are some kind of Daoist gestalt.... Epicenters of Justice | Theory | Systems Theory - Scribd https://www.scribd.com/document/39436920/Epicenters-of-Justice Epicenters of Justice - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read ... (27) Taoist qi gong Master Mantak Chia states, Through observing nature and the .... The spiral of the law of growth is fundamental to yin/yang transformations and ... Yeah so Mantak Chia says how spirals draw in and condense and transform energy.... and so we can use them in meditation. Anyway - so, my point is that even for the huge universe of trillions and trillions of light-years seen by the Hubble telescope - there is still a "form of the formless." So even the simple 1:2:3:4 concept has a secret "form of the formless." And so in my master's thesis - I was still imposing this Western logarithmic symmetric math (i.e. fractals, chaos math, etc.) without really having "Unlearned" the Westernization - that is a very deep mind control. So anyway music as natural harmonics - the latest science has shown that these "small numbers" as harmonic ratios are found in our neurons - as I quote on my blog - and also so then found in other mammals perception system - and even birds prefer natural harmonics, and even mosquitoes use the Perfect Fifth harmonic when mating. haha. So as Chunyi Lin says "the simplest is the most powerful."

https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/08/mind-seal-classic-undivided-yin-yang-is.html Because of my close study of Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality - I just noticed an error made by Stuart in his commentary on the Jade Emperor's Classic book. I last read his book around the same time I first began studying the Taoist Yoga book, in 2001.

I was asked several questions via the OP - and I will respond here - the answer is neither the body, nor the mind, but rather the absolute Void radiates light externally. So if you see light internally in your head, that is still the "relative void" and is just the yang qi manifesting. It is a good first sign but the energy has to keep building up to access the Yuan Qi. When the Yuan Qi is accessed then the body fills with qi and the skull gets soft and pulsates and the fontanelle of the skull opens up - and you enter into immortal breathing. I was asked if there is anything needed after this - yes the Yuan Qi has to keep building up - this is chapters 7 to 12 or so in the book Taoist Yoga. So the yuan qi has to "crystallize" via the yuan shen - or else the yuan qi will get deconverted back into the post-celestial or mundane state. It is stated this is difficult since the fuel (the jing) is so close to the fire. So the Qi has to surround the Shen - but if you lift the qi up to the brain to much to check on the power of the shen - this causes a spacetime vortex - as dizziness. So this is described in chapter 11 of Taoist Yoga. I did experience this but I did not understand why it happened. I would describe it as the difference between special relativity and general relativity (but I won't go into details here, lest we stray off topic). And so that was my "Emptiness" experience - as Taoist Yoga states - when you achieve the first level of enlightenment, the T'ai Chi, you have serenity for a week but there will be great confusion from this. So when I came out of this spacetime vortex - I knew very clearly that I was neither my mind, nor my body. But what this meant in terms of training - only studying the book in more detail would have given me the answer. As I have said - people on this website said the book was "too dangerous" and so should not be studied. haha. All I can say is keep studying the book. As I have stated recently - the secret is the "Golden Nectar" has to build up - to build up the golden light from the yang qi - of the jing. And yet this golden nectar as the elixir - the energy is not "material" - in that it is "yin matter" from the future - as this spacetime vortex. So for example precognition will be experienced more frequently - and longevity as well. But these are just hints. The ability to change the past and - from the qigong masters I studied with - there are means to exorcise and heal ghosts and to be helped by ancestral spirits - and to see the past and future of locations in space. But the Yuan Qi as the Emptiness is an eternal process within the Yuan Shen - called the Doing of "non-movement" of the Yuan Shen. So this is also described by other traditions and by science (again I won't go into details right here). So we are taking about a process that is eternal and so the process does not change - we could call this the 5th dimension that is time-like or the Emptiness or the Universe - but it's also called the "three in one unity." Westerners commonly confuse this with some kind of static oneness that is spatial - I made this error after my first experience - since again I had not studied the philosophy training manual enough, etc. So the complementary opposites remain - the Wuji=the Taiji. The True Yang=undivided yin-yang and the True Yin=undivided yin-yang as well. I will add that in no way could my experience have been possible without the "empowerment" from http://springforestqigong.com so I encourage people to try getting phone healings or also from his assistant teacher http://guidingqi.com with whom I also studied with privately as well. So there is the initial "first half" of the training - called the T'ai Chi as enlightenment - but this is just laying the Foundation - but you can fall out of this as well. I "fell out" of enlightenment but because of the empowerment from the teachers - I still have the "ancestral cavity" open - so it is just a matter of continuing the training.

Why "True Yang" is actually yin-yang undivided and "True Yin" is also yin-yang undivided. http://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-four-hundred-character-treatise-on.html This is also called the Double Reversal. You will find several blog posts documenting this secret of Daoist alchemy -

Your question is a good one. For me the answer is pedagogical - meaning from my direct experience of taking classes from qigong master Chunyi Lin, he said that in China you just strictly obeyed the master's orders - no matter what - you did not question the master. In fact to "ask a question" in China to the teacher is considered an insult - so it was an "adjustment" for him to answer questions here in the U.S. And he has joked about how he has become "Americanized." So I was able to see that process of him "Before" he was "Americanized" and "After" he was "Americanized." haha. So my take on this is that - another example is that the story was given how to heal a boy in China, then the boy had to be slapped - and not in front of the parents of course, but in the West a qigong master would not be allowed such "discretion" - and yet the instructions of how to do the healing are from spirit information signals from the Emptiness. And so even the qigong master can be "surprised" by the instructions or visions he receives or she receives - but learns from experience to trust the Emptiness. And so for me, trying to learn what the actual "teachings" are is complicated - for example Chunyi shared in 2015 how in his experience he discovered that when people open their third eyes then they commonly overuse their psychic energy and so then the person gets fat because they have to now rely on food for their source to replenish their energy. He said he has seen this many times now. But at first when he came to the US he taught the motto, "the more you heal, the more you heal yourself." Now he doesn't say that anymore! So he has learned from experience. Another thing he told me is that he has learned - he at first told a person to practice as much as they wanted - so it would not be forced. But now he realizes that for serious conditions a person needs to meditate at least 4 hours a day. So again this is something he has learned from his experience in the West. So then - having considered the differences between Western and traditional Chinese culture - then since we can not just strictly "follow" the orders of the teacher here in the West - then I was forced to research what are the general principles of the training. Here is my take on it - first I did the training by following the teachers instructions and also the book Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality. But I was told on this website that the book was "too dangerous" and so I should not read it. Then I was told if I have questions for teaching then I should just "ask the teacher" or "given him a call" - but to call the teacher here in the West is not cheap! I think now the rate is $140 for 10 minutes for a healing - and a healing requires that little to no talking should take place. So I stopped reading the book and I stopped "asking" the teacher (i.e. attending the classes) because I could not afford to cheap asking the questions. haha. So then I figured based on the experiences I had - then if what I experienced is biologically real - and it was confirmed to be real by the teacher who said I had an "enlightenment experience" - and so then if it is biologically real then it also must be transculturally real, since modern humans have less DNA variation than one troupe of chimpanzees. O.K. so then I figured - if there are general principles of science involved - then there is no need to rely on the effects of one teacher or another teacher or even one culture or another culture! A big problem in parsing out the teachings - on this website for example - is people are quick to judge a "school" based on its teacher! Well to me this is like saying a baseball coach is fat and therefore he team must be terrible. haha. For example Falun Gong is described as the teacher being fake but the principles of the training being real and achieving results. So there is a mixture involved - since obviously Falun Gong throws in Western concepts. Zhong Gong, a school that Chunyi also trained in, also throws in WEstern concepts - but this is something I had to discover on my own. So in other words the "qigong revolution" in China of the 1980s already had a lot of Westernization - I recommend Dr. David Palmer's book "Qigong Fever" for a fascinating overview of the role of qigong as a kind of "vanishing mediator" in the Westernization of China. And so the point being that a person could simply "follow" the instructions of the teacher but since the teacher is teaching in the West then their instructions are limited and even in China, traditionally, a student of alchemy would study many texts and Chunyi himself said he read many meditation texts as well. So then finally I realized that Western science was limited in its understanding of Daoist alchemy yet at the same time I also realized that you have to really study Western science in order to validate Daoist alchemy. In other words because of my qigong enlightenment experience, I was able to focus my mind, by sitting in full lotus all day, and reading one scholarly text a day, to read an overview of WEstern science. I have since corresponded with many science professors - math, quantum physics, philosophy, etc. And so the "promotion" of Western science - those "promoters" are quick to dismiss Daoist alchemy as woo-woo New Age nonsense - the so-called "skeptics" - but what I realized is that their WEstern science is not advanced enough! It is because they do not understand Western science well enough that they are unable to understand Daoist alchemy, a study that really requires quantum biology and quantum relativity. O.K. having said that - the qigong revolution in science also relied on turning to Western science. So for example the first qigong master to perform in the public in a big way - did so by doing qigong anesthesia - and

To "bust the balls" of "two balls in the sky"? Thank you very much for your excellent response! And so the book I "quote" from on Red Pine and the "character" of head and the Dao as face of the Moon is his commentary on the Tao Te Ching, translation. It is stashed in my teepee - that I just came back from - and I never did get a chance to look at it again. I didn't want to waste my headlamp battery, and I figured any reading of phonetic language would have just put me more back into a left brain dominance mode anyway. But it seems you know your Chinese well enough - or classical Chinese oracle bones, etc. - and what you say about Red Pine's response - and your take on it - all makes sense to me. But then we can also consider how the Daoists in the internal alchemy texts incorporated Buddhism - and so the terminology possible has several meanings - based on a Daoist or Buddhist "slant" on the reading. But my foray into this type of research is mainly only after I did the meditation training from Chunyi Lin who does have a Moon and Sun meditation C.D. set for his Level 3 class to open the third eye. And so my experience, as Chunyi says, the meditation is ten times stronger 3 days before and after the full moon - and my experience has been precisely this - that I could realize it was the Full Moon when the pineal gland magnetic bliss got that much stronger. Anyway ... And then there's another problem. If there was no moon, would there be no Dao? If there was no sun, would there be no Dao? What about two moons, two suns? Now this theoretical - well "opportunity cost" as an Economist would call it - the issue I have with this is that the scientific fact that we only see one "face" or one "head" of the Moon is due to the "harmonic resonance" of the moon's orbit with the sun and the Earth - and this is also the scientific reason that the moon can cause eclipses of the sun - despite their huge different in size and distance from Earth. And so in terms of the Dao - we have to ask, is this a "coincidence"? Again in terms of Western science this is part of the argument called the Strong Anthropic Principle stating in cosmology that the whole Universe is based on extremely fine tuning of constants, in order for humans to exist. Of course most scientists state, what to me also seems obvious, that the past, in retrospect, is 20-20 hindsight, meaning it only looks like "fine tuning" since we already exist in order to ask the question of why we exist in the first place. But in the context of what is human consciousness a la the possibility of consciousness of the Universe - and what is the role of humans in terms of life on Earth, etc. - science puts this in terms of entropy - and I won't get sidetracked into a science discussion. In other words it is quite a "left brain" question to start supposing - "what if" Earth had two moons, etc. because the Moon governs ecology of LIfe on Earth - and yet science - western science has destroyed already 80% of life on Earth - in the past couple thousand of years. In other words Western science - by assuming that life on Earth is not sacred inherently, and therefore could theoretically be switched around - (maybe we could power civilization using a black hole or something?) these types of experiments - like maybe nuclear bombs should be used for mining or we should mine the moon, and maybe create an artificial moon, etc. - the results of such theoretical questions have been turned into actual science projects that have destroyed the fragile ecology on Earth. In other words Daoism appears to assume that ecological life, controlled by the moon, is assumed and this would appear to be based on the evolutionary fact that human females, when living in Nature, as a group, are the only primates that have their "estrus cycle" synchronized precisely with the moon and this cycle is governed by the third eye as psychic energy - the pineal gland. So in other words to project a Western reality as the assumed background - that the background of reality could be switched around willy-nilly - is to inherently already go against the formal process of Daoism itself. Or as VAndana Shiva states, life grows from within, Evolution happens from within first and grows from within, externally. But we as WEsterners take an external approach first. So I don't really see it as a problem - the Sun and Moon meditation is to open the third eye and as per alchemy - when the Earth is created - this means the Sun manifests within the Moon and for Heaven - the Moon manifest in the Sun - when the Mercury is replenished. And I would take this back to music theory. In terms of doing a cross cultural examination - David Ewing Duncan's book Calendar is quite fascinating because the issue is how to subtract the lunar calendar from the Solar calendar and try to "line" the two up. And so to do the mathematics using a language based on ideograms or pictograms (sorry I don't know all the fancy terminology) - well it's like trying to do math with Roman numerals but even worse. Just as Chinese are known today to be able to count faster since the english language uses more terms for numbers, etc. And so David Ewing Duncan argues that the Chinese then incorporated the phonetic "rod-based' number system of 10s - into Chinese culture - maybe this is when the Chariots "invaded" China as well with their "hub" wheel metaphors? But the point being - that from the cosmology as music harmonics - for the Daoist harmonics - the lunar calendar is lined up with the solar - I think it is every 19 years based on 81 lunar months. I would have to quick check the math again. The point is that the math, of course, does not line up precisely - and that is not a problem in Daoist harmonics because the Lunar month is the "foundation" as the first number or number 1 - in the music harmonics. And so similarly in Pythagorean philosophy - "one" is Not a number - why? Because the full moon is actually the resonance of the Solar energy - and so the female number as lunar has the sun within it - and the source of the number 1 as spirit-consciousness is the Formless Awareness as Yuan Qi. So to say, for Red Pine, to say that Qi is not emptiness - I disagree with this. Yuan Qi is the Emptiness as a spacetime transformation as the hidden momentum of light ( to put it in science terms) - or as the "doing in non-movement" of Yuan Shen to put it in alchemy terms. So quantum physics has shown that the source of the Sun is quantum entanglement - this was coined as "negentropy" by Schroedinger in his classic 1930s book, "What is Life?" - again I won't go into a Western science side-talk - but I'm just point out that when you make the connection about the Moon and Sun, as hypotheticals, and not necessarily the Dao, etc. - that I don't think they are mutually exclusive - there are connecting levels to this or "gates" or harmonic nodes. Gurdjieff's philosophy gets into this and so does Sri Aurobindo - although I disagree with Aurobindo more so, as Ramana Maharshi also disagreed with Aurobindo. haha.

yes it is complicated - because you have lower body and upper body - and so it depends on the organ as well. For example the left EAR is tiger while the left eye is dragon. Why? Because the right side vagus nerve connects to the left side of the body but not the other way around - the left side vagus nerve does not connect to the right side of the brain. So with the eyes closed, the hearing becomes right side dominant which then connects over to the left side. And so also with the eyes - the left eye is dragon, the right eye is tiger, but if you rotate the eyes - the direction of rotation then changes the direction that the shen-qi is directed in the body. So for the lower body - for males - you want to sit in full lotus with the left leg on top - so that the Yang embraces the lower body (the yin). And for the upper body you want the right hand against the upper body - so that the yin embraces the yang. My point being is that the yin and yang are together and yet exchange polarities. So going down the front - the Dragon goes into the Tiger - as mercury-semen. But then up the back - the white tiger then goes back down the front as the Yang within the Yin. So with the dragon going into the tiger - it is the yin within the yang. But going down - the qi is within the saliva (ambrosia - cerebrospinal fluid) - so that is the yin with the yang qi inside it. The yang qi has "substance" - and so this is called White Blood. The pineal gland changes blood into cerebrospinal fluid - and then the shen-qi rises up from the heart and emanates out of the pineal gland. So the process takes place internally but it is only when the light is seen externally - that the Absolute Void is achieved. But the Absolute Void is actually the 5th dimension - that can not be seen. It is not the Light but the Yuan Qi. Science has corroborated this place. So - for example after the ancestral cavity is activated - the pineal gland is permanently magnetized because of all the blood turning into cerebrospinal fluid - it is increased from celibacy. As neuroscience states - "what fires together wires together" - or one researcher claims that the neurons are no longer "inhibited" - and so ... the point being that when the Full Moon happens then meditation is ten times stronger - 3 days before and after the full moon - because you can feel the magnetic bliss as stronger in the pineal gland. In other words - the external world is experienced holographically internally - there is a mirroring as the 5th dimension based on Shen or light and relativity as the void. So this is why "diagnosis" of energy blockages has to also include healing - at the same time. Because when an energy healer detects a blockage - it is through the shen, via the pineal gland as a psychic transducer of the yin qi. And so - if a person has a lot of repressed anger - the the healer's liver will get hot. If a person has a lot of sadness - then the healer's lungs will be affected as a blockage, etc. And then there is precognition - a precognitive vision is "More real" than being awake - all the senses are more vivid. So as quantum biology has shown, in fact, for example the sense of smell is based on quantum frequency and phase - and so it is nonlocal. Nonlocal phase is superluminal - as the 5th dimension. So qigong masters can smell over the phone - as Jim Nance has described to me. And if a precognitive vision is more real than being awake - as I have had dreams or visions like this - it means us being awake right now is not the source of reality - with our eyes open. So the Dao is an impersonal reality that is timeless but is accessed via Shen - think of black holes as the 5th dimension that stores information. The spin stores information via magnetic flux or Memristor as science calls it. So then a qigong master can go into the Emptiness and see the past of a place and see the future of a place - because the foundation of reality is based on time, not space. Growth happens from within - and so we have to go back to within to access the 5th dimension. There is a time lag between external reality - at the speed of light - so with the eyes open, the subconscious is activated before the conscious brain can react - because the prefrontal cortex is a more recent addition to evolution, based on the illusion of linear time. Humans require REM dreaming to process all the subconscious holographic information - but meditation is the conscious "processing" of the subconscious - to turn the holographic reality into the superconsciousness. Whereas the subconscious triggers our nervous system as a photonic signal that triggers the electromagnetic process - this is the "Gate of MOrtality" becoming triggered so it is now "dilated." Unless that subconscious holographic trigger is reversed - then our DREAMS become very REAL indeed. haha. So females are yang internally and males are yin internally. The male has to learn to embrace the yin in order to achieve the T'ai Chi as the Dao. And this brings us back to the Vagus nerve and the Ear as the jing energy. So with the eyes open - then hearing is left ear dominant due to left brain dominance. But music - listening to frequency as melody - is right brain dominant. And so this is why "trance" as meditation is necessary. And then when the lower body energy is activated - then first the right side of the brain is cleared out - and the left side of the brain. Then the white tiger can descend to the heart - via the cerebrospinal fluid overflowing out of the sinus cavity. The lecithin myelinates the nerves so that a stronger charge can be stored up. Once the yin qi is back to a 16 year then it opens up the third eye - by the shen from the jing rising up. For example when we wake up in the morning - if you meditate - you can feel the qi rise up along with the shen - and literally the shen is then going out of the brain and out of the eyes - and that is what it means to wake up! But then our left brain is telling us to move - because like birds - the humans, we have our motor cortex very close to the auditory cortex. And so this is why in alchemy it states with Stillness - no movement - then the shen can return to the Emptiness - based on the superluminal phonon "yin matter" secret. The relativistic quantum "matter" is created from light - being reversed in time. There's two directions to time - one is the "internal" clock of a particle - and the other is this 5th dimension that is superluminal, called the guiding wave or pilot wave. This guiding wave is the 5th dimension of the Universe - so it is beyond the 4 directions and beyond the sun/moon. But the 5th dimension has to be listened to with the eyes closed - to access it - to achieve this right brain dominance in silence. So even if a qigong master "goes into the Emptiness" - you will see their eyes get this blank stare - because they are turning the shen back around to the source in the heart - and it is the right side of the heart that is the source of the Yuan Qi - beyond death.

Here's the deal: Yes Chunyi Lin is a very "wonderful" teacher. He did the 49 day cave meditation, in full lotus, no sleep the whole time - at Mt. Qingcheng. He said he levitated up 9 feet, spiraling, while in full lotus - next to a pine tree. He has ancestor spirits help him when he does his healings. He can see past lives. And as for his pedagogical teaching - what I did was research the general principles involved. For example the "moving of yin and yang" exercise. You start out holding the hands with the right hand over the upper body and left hand over the lower body (navel and below). This is actually because for males - the left hand is yang (held against the yin) and right hand is yin (held against the yang). So now I understand the general alchemy secret to why the "moving of yin and yang" exercise works. Also the more you bend the knees then the more the sympathetic nervous system is activated - which then pushes to the extreme, causing a parasympathetic rebound. This stores up the qi - and flushes out the colon, converts the dopamine to serotonin, etc. So my pdf - free goes into the details - https://www.docdroid.net/VERjba1/voidisyinyangblogspotcom-the-idiots-guide-to-taoist-alchemy-qigong-enlightenment-neidan-nei-kung-neigong-training-for-males.pdf So once we understand the general principles of alchemy - the ANY "system" can be understood. For example I discovered that Westerners are teachers of Santi Shi without understanding the principles of the Dragon and Tiger involved! So people are teaching other people to stand - without teaching them that the left hand energy is to be visualized connecting to the right foot and right hand to the left foot, etc. https://www.pdf-archive.com/2017/04/10/idiot-s-guide-to-taoist-alchemy/ So for example why does Chunyi Lin switch the Om and Mua sounds in the Small Universe meditation - each point switches from Om and Mua - and yet in his explanation he says that OM is for energy going up the spine and Mua is energy going down the spine!? The answer is that the yin and yang energy are on different levels - it's from music harmonics .This is why there are 12 notes to the music scale and 12 harmonic nodes to the small universe practice. The Perfect Fifth as Perfect Fourth inverts from the opposite direction of infinity for each note - based on time/frequency complementary opposites. You don't find this "system" in Western thinking. haha. Unless you really study Pythagorean philosophy.

The OP asked about God and the Dao - and so the connection is the Sun and the Moon. Plow-based wheat monoculture relied on the solar calendar whereas farming original was based on the lunar calendar. So "original Sin" - this actually refers to the Moon - as I quoted - the Moon God of Sumeria was Sin. The original Garden of Eden story is from Sumeria. And I quote how this ties into music harmonics - in Sumeria and Babylon - the Gods (the planets) were based on music harmonics as ratios of tuning. And so we find this in Daoism as well - the first "note" of music harmonics as alchemy is the Moon. It is both the number 1 and also tied to the Moon calendar. So the Tiger, in ancient China, "rose up" in the East http://thegreatlearning.tripod.com/MOTHER-CHINA-2.htm So this is the mirrored alchemically - the male faces south, the left hand is yang as East, the right hand is yin as West. - The Moon is the mercury since it travels "faster" in relation to the Sun - so the Moon is the psychic yin qi energy. This yin qi energy is then gathered through the Earth - since the Moon controls life on Earth. And Sound expresses this jing energy - as sound is the byproduct of qi and form as jing.

Yeah - nice "commentary" - If you want to get into five elements and meridians - go for it - but try to remember that the "generation" cycle of the elements is not the same as the "reversal" of the cycle that occurs as alchemy. I agree with you about the yin yang symbol and how yin and yang go together but in alchemy the "lead is extracted to replenish the mercury. Once the yin qi is restored to a 16 year old - then the Yuan Qi as the middle tan t'ien is activated and the pineal gland opens up. Now at that stage, the Dao is experience also the T'ai Chi. So this is a "point" of contention obviously. I can quote a philosophy professor I corresponded with this. But Yuan Qi is "undivided yin-yang" - and so the T'ai Chi is the Wuji. Actually I corresponded with Pregadio about this as well. He embraces the "hub" concept of the Wuji as a static emptiness that is "before" the Taiji. I disagree with this. I embrace an eternal motion - with the Wuji equalling the Taiji. And so the subtly can be explained using relativistic quantum physics. Wang Mu states how the Yuan Shen has "movement with non-doing." So when light is turned around, because it has zero rest mass, it can not be "captured" but light does have relativistic mass. This relativistic mass is from the future! This is also called the Golden Key in Zhong Gong - aka "yin matter." So light as radiation converts to matter even though the mass stays the same. How is this possible? Because the relativistic mass is through hidden momentum as positive pressure - or phonons - acoustic oscillations as pure time-frequency energy that can not be seen. So Yuan Qi is the "mother" of Spirit and Spirit is the child of qi. So I said that this Yuan Qi (undivided yin-yang) is accessed through the yin qi. And so yin qi is "without substance" and so necessarily has to go "down" as the Green Dragon - to turn the Black Tiger into the White Tiger - so the yang now goes up with yin inside it. But then that yang has to go down again, so that the yin is within the yang - now as White Tiger of saliva or ambrosia - the "sweet Dew" - and as the energy develops this turns into the Golden Nectar. And so the Yuan Qi is then the Elixir - the White Tiger originates from the Water but functions in the House of Li or Fire. And so the Sun has the Moon in it and the Moon has the Sun in it. But the Dao can only be logically inferred - as formless awareness with energy - it can not be seen - but it can be listened to, in silence! And the Dao is self-organizing - and is superluminal - again this is confirmed by relativistic quantum physics but it is documented in quantum biology. So - you say Red Pine is wrong because he is not an "authority" on Daoism, but rather an "authority" on Buddhism and your conclusion is from his wrong answer to a question you gave on Daoist alchemy. So my question to you is - did you ask him the question, already knowing the answer? Cuz that's what I call a "fake question" - when someone asks a question that they think they already know the answer to. haha. And so why would you ask such a question? Seems like a waste of time to me. Or.... did you realize that Red Pine just didn't know the answer and so you were left to look elsewhere for the answer? If that was the case - then I'm just curious - where did you find the answer to your question? Just to clarify - Red Pine does say the Taji symbol is the phases of the Moon - but he says the word Dao has the character "head" meaning the face of the Moon.

yes - good Q & A - Dao is feminine. Pregadio states "Mysterious" is male (yang) and "Valley" is female (yin) - but in the cycle of generation Wood is the beginning. The Dao is female because with the eyes open - external reality is yang from Sun but the secret source of light is from the Dao - discovered with the eyes closed as the internal FEmale - the yin qi (wood). And then in terms of etymology - it is the translator - Red Pine - who argues Tao means Moon. http://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-tao-moon-red-pines-translation-of.html As I have blogged. And so - the reason being that the first half of enlightenment is the yin qi manifesting as the lunar energy through the ancestral cavity - out of the pineal gland. The light seen then is yellow-white like the full moon. And the pineal gland is then controlled by the lunar energy, as the moon governs life on Earth. So the original healers are female - most of Nature does not need males - as parthenogenesis is the norm for Nature. As for God - the etymology means Bull as in plow patriarchal farming for wheat monoculture. Brahman also means Bull. And so - a good book on this is "When God was a Woman" by Merlin Stone - that gives details on how the earlier matrifocal moon cultures got co-opted into the Chariot Patriarchal plow cultures of the iron age.... p. 49, Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus by Alain Danielou. My earlier blog has more details. From bull to god was a small gap to jump in Mesopotamian culture: anthropomorphic gods carried horns on their headgear, betraying an original bovine nature. According to the ritual, it happened by way of the death of the bull. It was important that it was not a working animal, not touched by goad or stick in the ritual, even less touched by civilization in the OB version of the oratorio Uru’amma’irabi an undomesticated aurochs bull. Balang-gods were given the title GUD.BALAĜ in An:Anum, a term translated as mumtalku ‘the one with whom one takes counsel, confidant’ in KAV 64 II 17. The same function was expressed in Sumerian with the title ad-gi4-gi4, literally ‘sound repeating’, in conventional translation ‘adviser’, or as we might say ‘sounding board’. Gabbay (PHG:103–109) pointed out that the designation GUD.BALAĜ is restricted to An:Anum, not attested as Sumerian word, and probably a logogram of ad-gi4-gi4 ‘adviser’. “(Sumerian) Harpist (= Akkadian) seer, BALAĜ = lyre.” [62] The conventional transliteration of the word for lyre is gi-na-ru12-um. The sign GI was used to write /ki/ elsewhere in Ebla texts, and the Hebrew word, kinnōr begins with /k/. The word na-ṭi3-lu-um has been understood to mean ‘to raise one’s voice’. [63] In Akkadian, it means ‘to raise one’s eyes, observe’, and at Mari is also as substantive, ‘observer’. An observer (igi-du8) working with the balang instrument, used to control weather-storms, is attested in Ur III texts (29, cf. Section 3c2). The Sumerian expression “its porch of the balang was a princely sounding bull (21)” may refer to the fact that the cover of the soundbox was a bull hide rather than to the actual cattle-like sound. wolfgang heimpel on sumeria To see this we will consider two Sumerian hymns to the Moon-god, Nanna-Suen, that were studied by my teacher Professor Wolfgang Heimpel in the Festschrift for Ake Sjoberg, where the stars are referred to as cows and cattle, living in heavenly cattle pens.“

Consider for example the book "Yogis of Ladakh" - as is noted - very few monks have the real Tummo abilities. And tummo is just the foundation of the real training! - and that book was from a while back. As Helena Norberg-Hodge notes - WEsternization has destroyed most of Ladakh very rapidly - aka "Little Tibet." So maybe there is some tibetan monk somewhere with these abilities. I looked into joining a Tibetan monastery. But first of all you spend years just studying the material. My friend was financially supporting one monk - as he did his study work for years. Then he died suddenly - can't remember the cause - before he did any real meditation work. And now the monks all have cell phones, etc. with tons of Western distractions. Like I said - this website is a great example. People on here claim celibacy is not necessary - and then post all sorts of low frequency cult type comments - and then readers are susceptible to such gaslighting manipulations. Then the moderators have no idea what's going on. And you find the same problem even in Tibetan monasteries - or in say Bhutan or Thailand - lots of abusive scenarios. But on the other hand - all I can say is "good luck." I could give you positive information - but as I said - if I did - then a mob of people would clamor to pull me back down. haha.

Sure - the "Hub" referred to in the Tao Te Ching - is the Chariot Warriors Indo-Europeans that invaded into Western China right? Just as they invaded into India around 1700 BCE - as DNA science has now proven (much to the dismay of the Indians). haha. "Dragon and Tiger" terms are proven to go back to 5000 BCE - tombs in China. So yeah no need to idealize China - but the original human culture, the San Bushmen, did not have war, nor rape, no homosexuality, nor masturbation - and that culture did spread around the world...(and is the origin of the spiritual healing training).

By chance - if you read Karen Armstrong's book "The History of God" - she does not even give the ETYMOLOGY of the word! Too funny. This is how deep our ideologies go. But if you do consider the word God as etymology - what do you find? It has the same root as Brahman - both are from Bull. p. 49, Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus by Alain Danielou. Suddenly you wonder if your "straight forward path" question has gotten misdirected! How could this possibly be pointing to a "straight path."? But you question appears to belie your "bias" - with Buddhism as a reform religion of Brahmanism, just as Christianity was a reform religion of Abrahamism. Too funny! And so you consider "Jnana yoga" to be the straight path? Without realizing that it relied on the caste system? haha. But this is the great assumption of Western Buddhism, isn't it. Can you sit in full lotus for example? As Vivekananda points out - Jnana Yoga is the most difficult yoga. Sure it may be the "straight" path - but - for example Ramana Maharshi went 9 years in samadhi, taking just one teaspoon of food a day, and he refused to see his own Mom, when she showed up. The traditional Brahmin priest training requires 3 days of purification if EYE CONTACT is made with a female. Such are the requirements of the "straight path" of Jnana yoga. haha. Westerners are easily fooled - but these are the days of Postmodern Global enlightenment right! Now back to your God comment - when the Tibetan monks fled into India - guess what happened? They all got this stomach bacteria that is not found in Tibet - why? Because the bacteria is from Wheat monocultural farming that spread into India (again God means Bull, as in plow-based wheat monocultural farming). So how you gonna have your Straight Path now? haha.

People love to call things "systems." haha. Like "ecosystem" - one of the most abused words in the English language. Really? Is Spring Forest Qigong a "system"? I don't think so. haha. It could be an illegitimate "system" and that would be great - wouldn't it?

I already linked the vid above - so you just need to "thumbnail" a "pic" from that vid.

It's like King of the Hill - if someone has a "straight path" everyone else around them will freak out so much and put all their effort into trying to drag that person back down to the bottom of the hill. So if you are trying to learn what the straight path is - you are going to find it difficult to see this person who knows the straight path since he/she will be covered by the mob trying to pull him/her back to the bottom of the hill. You will instead see this mob of confusion - and it will be called "thedaobums" website. haha.

Sounds like trick questions to me. What's the right answer that you seem to already know? haha. I wouldn't really call it "work" - and a couple sentences is definitely not "18 years" of whatever you want to call it. No the "work" is actually - main weeding through a lot of the misinformation, etc. disinformation - especially on this website. haha. I started posting on this website around 2004 - so I was promptly told "not" to read "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" since the book was "too dangerous." But, of course, that is the best book on training that I've come across. But it did take me a while to figure out that people on this website just didn't know what was going on. I would recommend finding a teacher who really has a "wonderful" level of ability. So Chunyi Lin - he has worked with the Mayo Clinic - Dr. Ann Vincent did a randomized controlled study verifying his "external qi" healing abilities - along with his assistant Jim Nance of http://guidingqi.com And so maybe I didn't mention - I saw Chunyi Lin making spirits that went out to heal people. So he was in full lotus meditating and then a spirit would form - shaped like a human, yellow light, above his head. Then the spirit would break off and float out to the room of students. Then another spirit would form and do the same thing. On and on. I didn't say anything to anyone about seeing this but then Chunyi said, "since someone can see this I will explain what it is" and explained how he was sending spirits out to heal people. So then I told this to Jim Nance and he said that he was not of that ability yet - that what Chunyi was doing was sending out "individualized spirits" - to heal each individual. As Chunyi says - he "embodies" the emptiness - and that if a person is receptive and resonates with the Emptiness then they can access their Yuan Shen for healing. So he is sending out the Yuan Shen of each individual - from the Emptiness - that is my understanding. And then he said that he knows masters in the mountains of China that are developing their golden light Yang Sheng bodies.

Since 2000, due to Chunyi Lin's "empowerment" and my own training - what he called my "enlightenment experience" - I have had permanent magnetic-bliss emanating from the pineal gland - out of the heart and lower tan-t'ien. I've had lots of other experiences as well - precognition, telepathy, telekinesis, strong healing, psychic tantra, seeing ghosts; and smelling cancer (nonlocally), answers to lots of practical questions and other insights, etc.

http://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/07/in-shadows-of-dao-microcosmic-orbit.html

if you just see light internally - that's just "yang qi" manifesting - also called the relative void. Once the qi builds up then you see light externally - called the "absolute void." The center of the brain - the pineal gland - opens up with the mysterious gate - and this only happens after the jing is restored - after the yin qi is built up so that the yuan qi is activated. The Golden Light only starts after the yang qi keeps building up - via the golden nectar. So first the yin qi (mercury) has to be replenished back into the lower tan t'ien (via the yang qi as substance going down as ambrosia). Then the light of inner nature manifests - this is white light as the moon - and so is the T'ai Chi - seen externally - this is the third eye opening up. Then celibacy has to be maintained and more yang qi stored up and purified - and then more colors of light are seen and then the golden light develops. The golden flower is then the combination of the light of the yuan shen - the moon light - from the yin qi - and then the light of the vitality (the yang qi) - creating the yang shen. So what happens is the light issues forth from the heart once the yang qi develops - via the middle tan t'ien. So after the yin qi or mercury is replenished. So if celibacy is not maintained - then the light goes away - as the qi gets lost - and the heart has to be purified - since the light is going out of the eyes with the eyes open. The shen will then cause loss of celibacy. So unless the qi keeps being stored up - and purified via the shen - then the light does increase.

Tai Chi Chüan: Harmonizing Taoist Belief and Practice - Jeaneane D. Fowler, Shifu Keith Ewers ALSO GIVES THIS REVERTED ELIXIR SECRET: So what is being referred to - is "normally" the mercury as yin qi - to quote Wu Ming Jen This is the liver qi that goes out of the eyes with the eyes open. So as Green Dragon - it first is reversed to go back down - and then it rises being heated - up the back. It is connected with the black tiger - so that the mercury now has substance as white tiger (the silver hidden in the lead). So - what "normally" sinks is Black tiger as water - and so it has to then rise up the back but then - it goes back down the front as the white tiger (see highlighted colored quotes above). So to reference Pregadio's translation of Awakening to Reality: So normally the tiger is female and the dragon is male. So Reverted Elixir is a double inversion as undivided yin-yang.

No need to get emotional (being sorry) as you have made an accusation without any evidence and so your claim has no substance. So let's be clear without resorting to vague metaphors. True lead (tiger) is yang qi. True mecury (tiger) is yin qi. The Hun Soul and Po Soul as manifestions are still yin shen. What makes this alchemy is they have to copulate - which means in meditation using the Shen spirit - the "red dragon" (which is the eyes open as yang) causes the yin qi (the dragon) to leave the body and get lost. So the light (shen) has to be "turned around" so that the red dragon has wisdom as the green dragon - meaning the yin qi then ionizes the yin jing (water) so that the black tiger (kidney water) turns into white tiger (the yang qi) that rises up. Now the real secret is there is a DOUBLE inversion - which means that yang qi now has to go back down the front to replenish the yin qi - (but it now has substance). So this is called Semen-mercury - or Dragon-Lead - which is to say as Green Dragon the yin goes into the yang - and now the White Tiger (with silver in it) returns to the Red Dragon - called White Blood. In other words the yang qi has to go down the front. The pressure builds up in the skull, as cerebrospinal fluid and then overflows out of the sinus cavity and then down the throat, as the ambrosia or nectar. As this builds up, then it is "Golden Nectar." So unlike Western thinking - we have to realize in alchemy - the yin goes into yang and then the yang goes into yin. And so this only happens without any emotion - and so the elixir is also now the Yuan Qi - that returns to the lower tan t'ien. When the Ambrosia (Golden Nectar) is swallowed, this created great heat in the pit of the stomach and the qi is absorbed back into the small intestine where it is stored. It is Golden because in the pineal gland, the Shen and Qi are infused into the cerebrospinal fluid. The lecithin (of semen) is what, when ionized, bypasses the blood brain barrier and also myelinates the neurons. The neurons are made up of collagen as microtubules, that are quantum coherent - and therefore the Yuan Qi is actually reverse time energy (the hidden momentum of the Shen). This is why the Yang Shen returns back to the Yuan Qi - because light is powered by relativistic mass - aka alchemy is verified by relativistic quantum science (that also acknowledges the secret powers of alchemy: precognition, telepathy, telekinesis, levitation, remote viewing, longevity, etc.). Why is this teaching so rare? It requires celibacy first of all. Any time the eyes are open - then the spirit can engage with forms at light speed causing subconscious blockages .

People often ask how does [insert secret real name of real ancient Chinese secrets] unify the yin and yang? In Neidan this is called "Extracting Lead to Replenish Mercury." Lead is then translated as vitality or qi and mercury originates from original spirit or yuan shen. And so first of all in meditation, the shen must be visualized as below the jing - or the fire below the water - so that steam is created. This is called turning the Red Dragon into the Green Dragon - so that the power of the shen, the liver qi, turns into wisdom as the female energy (external red yang goes internal green). Secondly ONLY the Quick Fire breathing or Warrior breathing has the power to sublimate the Lead - so that the black water is turned into the white tiger as True Lead - going into the brain. The pressure in the brain increases and this overflows as the Golden Nectar, after the white tiger combines with the Shen and qi that emanates from the heart, and out of the pineal gland. Thirdly - this White Tiger then overflows as ambrosia - the golden nectar - which contains shen and qi - as the hidden yang within the yin. And so at first the green dragon merged with the black tiger to create the white tiger - and now the white tiger turns back into the red dragon - meaning the Lead functions in the House of Li, the Fire. So this is the secret of how Dragon goes into Tiger and Tiger goes into Dragon - so that the yang qi returns as with "substance" - the overflowing ambrosia - and when swallowed, creates great heat in the pit of the stomach, which is then absorbed back into the small intestines. Fourthly - then the qi of Mercury through this process is replenished - so then the alchemical pill as the undivided yin-yang elixir then is restored, once the jing as yin qi is restored to a 16 year old - and thus the middle tan-t'ien opens up as the Yellow Sprouts (the Absolute Void of the T'ai Chi) and the light as shen then issues forth as the mysterious valley. (Mysterious is the yang qi, Valley is the yin qi). And so the central channel opens up as the three tan-t'iens working together. Fifthly - at this stage - it is now chapter 6 of Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality - the yin-yang (dragon-tiger qi) has to be crystallized to turn the yuan qi into shen - and thus achieve "cold storage" as the "inner cell" of the lower tan t'ien - to store the qi for safe keeping. This is achieved by the two eyes, each one being (left) dragon and right (tiger) - and so when rotated - this activates the shen-qi unification. Rotating to the right, raises up the shen-qi to open up the third eye. Rotating to the left, then stores the qi back into the inner cell of the lower tan-t'ien. And thus as the yuan qi continues to build up, then the Yuan shen continues to build up and the light gets stronger, seen externally, outside the body. Six: - then the Golden Nectar as the Yang Qi has to keep developing, thereby increasing the the Light of Vitality or Light of the Lead, from the Tiger, the Water. And so the first light of the T'ai Chi, is the first half of enlightenment. It creates the Yin Shen - and so a person at this stage will be a ghost immortal. The 2nd half first creates golden light and so achieves true immortality - of the yang shen, to preserve a new body. This body can be seen by others - but in the end it returns back to original vitality or "yuan Qi" which is the Mother of Shen.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/27/let-forests-restore-themselves/