Nintendao

ok i went and edit something out. was that the insulting part? thank you for noticing that opportunity. hopefully whatever had put such imagery in my head in the first place will remain at bay

For however many millions of motorists are driving around, there's only a super tiny fraction of them that are homicidal alcoholics. Guess who are also the ones that show up on the nightly news. Similar thing with churchgoers, IMO. Most congregations are very genuinely focused simply on fellowship and uplifting each other in the Word. If there is racism, greed, and other nasty stuff present, it's systemic to the society, like how the marketing of addictive products has intertwined itself to the gas station. What's more if i see someone driving like a maniac, I blame the individual, not the vehicle. Being in the car does amplify their capacity to do damage, though. Likewise problematic persons, if they just so happen to be weaponizing religion, draws a certain kind of attention. As for questioning the logic of creation and miracles. To me that's like using cleverness to try and stretch a gallon of gas by adding water to it. That's just not how the system is going to work. Doesn't cultivation eventually break through certain veils of illusory nature of all phenomena anyway? Many humans understandably will not have the opportunity to reach that far. Relying humbly and wholeheartedly on a Messiah seems valid enough for the time being.

I always have a hard time choosing sides. They are all pretty good!

"my dog wants to play" was Chuang Tzu's reply when asked: why reincarnate?

Something I've noticed, while looking around the average suburban roadway, either with my own eyeballs or searching on Google Maps, there's damn near the same number of churches as there are gas stations. Gas stations serve an obvious purpose, to help people get to where they need to go in their cars. But you know what else goes on in those places? Look inside and they are wall-to-wall filled with addictive substances! Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, salt, fat, even gambling. Way back in the day they had porn there, too, but that is mostly free now, so anyway. All of that is even besides the point. You know how many thousands of people die in car crashes every year? I am not even going to mention the environmental and political issues with fossil fuels etc. Now, according to Google: "Around 233 million people held valid driving licenses in the United States in 2021." Also: "As of 2021, estimates suggest that in the US, about 210 million people identify as Christian." Hopefully you can see where I'm going with this, so I'll go ahead and shut up

https://www.dztranslation.org/ has a very nice rendering of a couple of volumes.

The lunar cycle can be used for labeling locations along the orbit (as in XiuZhenTu) so this may describe something that occurs in the middle or upper areas of the body, and then swallowed back down to be re-digested? The footnote for this verse (Crowe, page 69) says: "Yuan Gongfu explains that in advancing the fire one has to employ the same kind of care as one would in cooking a small fish." Reminding of something DaoDeJing 60 said about not overdoing things.

yet rust never sleeps absolutely mythical haiku by shenlung

or at least a well-meaning sea lion (but only in appearance, of course) 😇

Aw i'm sure there's plenty of Vedic referential integrity, I'm just relatively useless at Sanskrit, so indulged in relying on Yogapedia

As a principle nivritti / pravritti looks close to one of the uses of the kan / li trigrams: ☵ awareness collected inwards (like pooling water) ☲ attention dispersed outwards (as flame and smoke) On the Daoism side I found a number of characters portraying reversion. Namely 還 as in Great Reversion Elixir Conceptualized in the Daodejing as 復 return, appearing in a dozen chapters especially 16: Golden Flower emphasizes 回光 reflection and 逆 inversion. 9.回光之功，全用逆法，注想天心，天心居曰月中。

Do you have a source for this? good question; I'd also say chapter 25 of the T.T.C. points that way. that particular part of the quotes wording that you copied is problematic to me in that mind in itself does not reveal the Tao or transcendent but when clear and still the Tao works (comes to manifest) right through it without any veiling, thus in such a case mind is a matrix for and with zero resistance to such working. also chapter 15: Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” 孰能濁以靜之徐清？孰能安以久動之徐生？

Nice! Well in the 80's I got pretty confident with a staff by imitating Little John of Robin Hood's Merry Men and Donatello of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Then in the 90's I learned Tai Chi from David Carradine and Kam Yuen. https://youtu.be/IIIrb5vxmcQ In the 2000's a coworker saw me randomly standing in horse stance during a break. He later confided in me that he used to teach Ving Tsun in the Moy Yat lineage. I spent the next few years learning as much as I could from him. After that I focus on internal training, taking Qi Gong correspondence courses from Hu Xuezhi on Mt. Wudang, and Dr. Wu Dhi on Miami Beach. Since 2020 my practice continues to be a Neigung transmitted by Daniel Kim, the disciple of Yang Style Tai Chi Master Gabriel Chin.

In the meantime it only takes vigilance and a little skill with netting to capture a Yuanqi on its way down from Mingmen. It knows enough on its own to combine with Jing to make lead. Employing Duragon to stack lead, and Tigeren to lick mercury, maybe considered MCO as much as building a computer can count toward running a program. If you don’t believe me, check Cui Gong’s notes on the mirror.

Right, I am off now to practice new kung fu move: Abbot phone-whips monk

All day.

ok i apologize for being a little quick to the punch back there. I've seen a lot of the thing Maddie explained where something posed as a question, but amounts to "why do you believe the wrong thing?" inevitably ends up in an exasperated facepalm. I don't think anyone is saying that it does. This. This right here might be at the core of a majority of vexation with regards to the topic. For individuals who have not personally experienced a significant enough decoupling of the societally enforced equivalency of the two, i guess i can see how it might be inconceivable that such a thing even exists.

so is is true what they say about 牢固封闭?

I meant that i was not talking about the visual imagery of the video but rather the informational content that was being discussed, itself capable of being received by audio. do you mean to the one other place i have recently linked a youtube of him discussing the location of acupoints, in a thread about the location of an acupoint? Yes, i like to provide sources for information that i found useful, in the event a reader might be inclined to follow through and actually receive said information for themselves. especially when they could have spent that time jumping to conclusions based on preconceived notions and making pointless accusations. you seem to know an awful lot about those.

Thats crazy. He has a lamp above his head i wasn't talking about in the video itself. I was referring to the energy field he described, that is able to interact with the nerves and qi of students to literally guide internal movement. I posted it in this thread as i wondered if a similar thing happens when Zen masters sit with someone, albeit at a more subtle level since they're not building and shaping qi but mind. So do you think he is hallucinating being able to move qi? Or worse he's putting all this effort into deliberately ripping people off just to be able to buy more whisky and cigars?

It was neat to hear him speak about direct transmission from a qigong perspective. Beyond the obvious benefits of in-person learning, there always seems to be this extra level of "stuff," depending on the teacher. Even given a strictly pragmatic explanation of somatic empathy, there really is a lot of potential in purely sitting and experiencing.

For schools that emphasize just sitting, do they generally practice in groups, or is sitting in solitude considered equally effective? What about sitting out amongst nature? The power of koan to knock the mind offline might be intended as an anesthetic. Less useful in and of itself unless the doctor is there and ready to operate. This thought occurred to me when listening to the following video. While Damo will be the first to deny he is any kind of enlightened, he do be emitting some light.

for someone who claims to have manipulated physical reality with your mind, this seems to be a bit limited of a perspective..