Nintendao

Welcome back dude! Are you still practicing tai chi sabre?

I always thought pre-heaven and post-heaven was an odd choice of words and a little confusing. I prefer primordial and acquired, respectively. Primordial/pre-heaven (yuán qì 元氣) could be the incarnating force itself, or anything received from realms beyond the physical. Whereas acquired (?) qi is the energy gotten from food, air, light. That is one general way to see it but i'm sure there's an intricate continuum, especially when dealing with transmutation. If I make a guess it's that the small wheel takes mostly acquired qi, and the greater circulation works in more yuan qi, or at least interfaces with it.

Using the mind to look at the mind, is like that thing of where, if you ever have a floater in your eye, and you want to look at it. The instinct is to move your eye toward the floater to look at it, but of course as soon as you do, the whole system moved, and the floater only moved that much farther away all over again, so you just keep chasing until it is completely out of frame. The way is empty of volition, but stay carefully aware of it in peripheral vision. Simply existing, and the floater is there, and that's all there is. Eventually you can move a little, and the floater will turn a little bit, and you can get a look at it from different angles. At a higher level, if you want to become a conduit for cosmic forces, you need to have less kinks and clogs in your pipe. It's as simple as that. There are things i can put into my mind all day, but they are taking up space that could be used by things that heaven and earth have potential. Like lightning bolts connecting the sky to the ground. The thoughts and junk will act as an insulator, and inhibit that flow.

When experienced in "holding the ball" type of moves, in ZZ e.g., eventually can feel something literally pushing back. Like a magnet. I wonder if a similar mechanic is used by dragonflies when hovering in place. I used to hear somewhere that a purely aerodynamic approach to analyzing some insects' flight method kept failing to explain their particular maneuvering capability. When we breathe certain deep ways, the rhythmic movement of air maybe can help build up a charge? Or what if the actual rubbing together of fascia fibers, was like rubbing a balloon on the wall to make it stick. I'm not trying to start a whole "found a scientific basis for qi phenomena" thing. I think the qi is its own thing. I just found it amazing to imagine being a dragonfly within this context, swaying about and sensing the Field.

以此。 An interesting little phrase. Kind of like saying, "it's right there!" or, "the answer is right in front of us when our backs are turned."

Is this descended from LoneMan Pai? They are strong. Edit: Okay I just went back and read the site linked in OP. The above question was just a hunch based on the subsequent discussion, which I read before reading the actual page, like a typical short attention span having, drama baitable internet user. The About page is pretty straightforward about the school's origins. To automatically dismiss something for not being part of an official lineage or whatever, is almost as bad as automatically trusting a teacher just because they have a few Certificate of Completion, etc. 100 days of Netflix HD cost about the same as the 100 days challenge study. Which should we value more? Even if the school ends up not being for you, the personal development in discipline and overall subject matter you will undoubtedly acquire, make you a lot stronger whatever you do next. There is an understandable question of safety when learning energy work from just anyone. I will say this, that EarlGrey has been around the block more than a few times, and if he has taken the time to get to know and vouch for someone, that's saying a lot.

How long do you have to practice to be able to do that?

of woke and worthy signaling virtually among the earthly

good luck!

I noticed that the "fā" in zifagong 自發功 is the same as that in fajin 發勁. (Unless I'm mistaken. Wikipedia spells it as 発勁, but that might be a Japanese character.) 發 is illustrated as the path taken by an arrow fired from a bow, meaning to send or issue forth. Also the "zì" 自 (oneself) same as in ziran 自然, meaning nature.

Comma Kama

Karma Chameleon

Welcome @statusquovadis! Seems OP is taking a rest. In the meantime I recall something relevant to your first question regarding the Secret of the Golden Flower book (太乙金華 Taiyi Jinhua) It is mentioned in the following post and subsequently on the same page. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53618-the-reason-why-a-person-who-only-has-qi-in-his-lower-abdomen-cant-understand the-huang-tingjing/?do=findComment&comment=982086 I had also thought there were similarities. However that book is considered too diluted and mixed with other practices, falsely attributed to Lu Dongbin.

Internal martial arts, or the art of marshalling your innards? Some conjecture that slowing down the body’s processes ultimately includes reducing the need for cells to divide as frequently, so the chromosomes don’t wear down as fast.

Beavis and Butt-Head won't take it personally when called a dumb-ass if Lao Tzu calls you, don't lament lack of value in being straw dogs.

contrition and hope, are the names of my daughters. foraging new ground

summer laziness... a great opportunity ...to just be quiet

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth."

Hot dogs kick ass. I like to get the $1 per pound at wallmart. They are an efficient and advanced form of protein, if you think about it. Not everyone can afford fillet mignon. Ironically, I have seen organ meats go for even more of a premium. Unless you are worried about preservatives. Surely you have heard about advanced cultivators ingesting poison and not being harmed by it. So what are you afraid of? I suppose vegetarianism would be ideal. Either way, as Jesus said (Mat 15:11-20):

The best kind of spontaneous move, is when you automatically go to help someone. Like before you even have a chance to talk yourself out of it, you extend a hand to help an elderly person step up, if you notice them walking with a cane for instance. This way of growing your de, can shine in your heart even more.

Have you done that? Can you explain in clear and simple terms what it means to conceive such a fetus?

From what I've heard, Wuwei Dandao is a jhana (禪) practice. You only have to answer yourself one question: Do you see the Light? If yes, keep looking at it. If no, keep looking for it. Of course, there are different kinds of light, and finding out what that means at first can take patience. There used to be practitioners that would seal up in a completely dark room for days or even weeks, until eventually they are able to see and touch their food and other things, the same as if using their third eye. Where did the light come from? You have your own sun and moon! If needed, there are plenty of qigong that will grow your qi and get it to start enlightening. They are easy to learn, we just have to be disciplined to stick with them. Once that is the case, there is no need to memorize formulae. ☵ 坎 kan is that which collects, like a pool of water in a dip in the ground. The rabbit marrow stands still, reflecting the moon. ☲ 離 li depicts a crow raising its wings to depart, dispersing like the sun's fiery corona.

Instead of neigong vs neidan, should i say internal strengthening vs internal transformation? A little more clear, yet still open to virtually limitless interpretations of what they actually entail. The first time I read the terms rabbit marrow and black liver, i too was hopelessly resigned to musing upon some ancient wizard concocting with eye of newt and toe of frog, light years from relevance to my own practice, whether symbolic or not. Wugan and Tusui (a.k.a. black liver and rabbit marrow.) There was a post someone explained the symbolism with these two terms. Like how in English we have animals like the blue bird of spring, or the bull and bear on wall street, it's familiar so we don't register how weird it might actually sound. Then in Chinese the crow is associated with the sun for a reason, and the word for crow talks about black feathers, so that is the word wu that google translated as black, when really it's referring to a solar-like phenomenon. Gan is a word for the specific organ of liver, but is used commonly for many inner strength similar to the word guts in english. As for the rabbit, this one even I remember something from the fable about Chang'e and a jade rabbit living on the moon. So tu is to lunar as wu is to solar. Sui is called marrow, but it's also sometimes getting translated as pith, meaning a root or core of the matter. Wugan seems to be a way of directly experiencing yang qi, but not as a physical movement or electricity, like is used in martial arts and medicine. It is when the qi is already becoming more purified into light. I think the tusui may be related to the silver cord, a connection point to non-local dimensions of consciousness. It is the yin side of practice where at first it's easier to find oneself drift of into dreams. Wugan relates to the liver, same as the hun, the cloud soul. Tusui was at rest in the middle dantien, as the po, the white soul, resides in the lungs. These are shen, not qi. I do not claim to be in any way authoritative in saying this. It is a collection of notes and experiences recently enjoyed. Discussions on the Way.

what are you arguing about? Have you not researched enough on you own? Rabbit Marrow is Moon Core. Black River is the Solar Guts. The Crow.