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This sounds great. If you could share it I’ll be so grateful!

Ok cool whatever. I guess no-one is going to help. Bye then.

Buddha reached nibbana in mere weeks. Some of his disciples reached nibbana in as little as 7 days (apparently). and you get Theravada monks who meditate for 10 years and barely reach the first jhana. How many hippies in california meditate all the time? How many get results? Exactly. I’m just looking for quotes, not an argument.

Yeah, I would like a teacher who lives nearby, can teach at low-cost, knows actual knowledge which gives actual results and is willing to teach. But I also would like to win the lottery tomorrow. Neither has much chance of happening, so instead it would be best to teach myself and not rely on the tiny, tiny chance there is an actual teacher nearby, that’s willing to teach me. And I can’t stand this eastern style master-student dynamic, where I’m supposed to suck up to some random guru or teacher and tactfully beg him to share his secrets.

Personally, as a Daoist, I don't think desire is a problem. It's your unconscious trying to signal that there is an inbalance in the body. Also, I do believe there is such thing as the self, while Buddhism believes it is an illusion. But that's just my opinion. I have nothing that i'm certain Buddhism is incorrect about. Though I hope there is, because the Buddhist concept of Nirvana/Nibbana and enlightenment sounds awful. Daoism and Buddhism have coexisted in China for a very long time, with notable Daoists disagreeing with Buddhism. I would like to know what about Buddhism they disagreed about.

Personally i’m not concerned about the trigram orderings simply because I have no idea which is right and which is wrong. Maybe they’re all wrong. Maybe they’re all right in their own way. Maybe only one is right. I don’t know. the reason why i’m asking is, why 6 lines, with 64 different combinations? Why didn’t they just use trigrams? If not, why not use 4 lines, or 5 lines, or maybe 7 or 8 lines? Why 6 lines?

Yeah. I know that. What I mean is, the trigrams are ordered in a specific way and each have a specific meaning. How do the patterns and meanings of each trigram also apply to each hexagram? and why were the hexagrams created in the first place? Weren’t the trigrams good enough?

I don’t think it is amazing if the animals do not align. They don’t align at all. What a mystery. Does anyone know whether the ancient Chinese connected yijing symbols with the zodiac? They seem to have placed yijing on everything, so maybe this will help to clarify things?

Since you’re here, how long did it take you to get comfortable with the full lotus position? I’m tall and male, so my flexibility in the hips and legs is naturally poor and it previously took me a lot of time to get flexibility in my hips before giving up.

No, sorry that was to the thread author. But i’m never going to complain whenever you reply

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So are you saying the ren and du channels are like an aura (as in it doesn’t follow the shape of he body?)? I thought they were something quite fixed in the body, like a special kind of nerve that follows the shape of the body because that’s how diagrams in books show it.

So you’re saying books like Taoist Yoga are wrong by saying breath is essential to moving the MCO? Your opinion is very different to what most are familiar with. Could you at least explain yourself or give evidence, rather than just have us take your word for it?

Interesting. Do you know of any reputable or ancient books (which have an english translation of course) which talk about these three qi in detail? Thank you very much!

Is it the wei qi which travels the ren and du channels? Is the wei qi found on the skin, or above it? I’m interested in Reiki and I think the Rei Ki (energy located just under the skin) is the Wei qi, am I right?

I am confused. Religions like shinto (which is very similar to Daoism) say we receive energy from above, which descends into the head and down the body. However, you have dharmic religions which talk about energy rising from the root chakra towards the head. So I don’t know which is correct. Are there any Daoist sources which say which way the qi flows? Up or down? edit: found this: Nei jing bo yi (1675) Luo Dong-Yi

The ren mai and du mai aren’t the same as the zhong mai, in my opinion.

According to Daoist theory, Po is housed in the breath. And Po is responsible for the sense organs (eyes, ears, nose and mouth). But I can’t connect the two. Changing your breathing rate doesn’t affect your sense of smell, taste, etc.

I have trouble with brahmacharya (just can’t ever get past 2 weeks. I always fail on the 2 week mark), and I believe I have a kidney yin deficiency so I can’t have too much spice (like curries) unfortunately. Also there are no good tcm clinics nearby (the few which are somewhat nearby seem to be fraudulent/scam clinics judging by online reviews) and I don’t know anywhere where I can buy ingredients to make the herbal mixtures you recommended I looked and could only come across a few untrustworthy tcm websites with quality i don’t trust. Doesn’t grains cause inflammation of the digestive lining though? You say that everyone suffers from dampness but I seem to be the opposite. I seem to naturally be the dry type (skinny, very high metabolism, can’t gain any weight, easily thirsty, etc) and nowadays I’m more yang because of my failures in brahmacharya (very hot lower dantian, sometimes have insomnia). thanks for your answers as always

Do you have any sources on how to absorb and integrate energy from the sun? Thanks Also, why wouldn’t you go deep in meditation? Meditation makes you very yin, yes? This will attract the yang energy of the sunlight perhaps.

Is there any symptoms of an opened root chakra, sacral chakra, etc?

Thank you very much for your help. Out of interest, is the yuanjing also carried in the body’s fluids like the post-heaven jing? I assume post-heaven jing is feminine/yin nature and yuanjing is masculine/yang nature?

Is a vegetarian diet important for maintaining high Jing levels then?

But I thought Neigong/Neidan was all about turning the Jing in the lower dantian to Qi?

Then why is the lower dantian supposed to be the storage of all the Jing? There isn’t much of the above there as opposed to anywhere else in the body. In fact, there is a lot of fluid and blood in the head, so why Jing is stored in the lower dantian, but not in the upper dantian doesn’t make sense to me.