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At least let it be an informed report. You aren't "reviewing" movies or books where it is largely a matter of taste. I fail to see the reasoning behind providing alternative approaches to a system when not required, asked or demanded by the thread. If the title were "Plz give me your opinion on systems i can practice" your posts would be spot on. Now you have missed the mark completely. I will not criticize you for being ignorant but please, for the sake of your own development, refrain from commenting on systems you don't understand.

@rideforever If you are vying for the attention of a master, this is the wrong kind of attention to attract. I don't practice FP either but i know better than to trash the system without serious knowledge of it's ins and outs. In my limited understanding, the blue fire it uses is not resident to our mortal realms. I have only seen it once in my life. Imho it is associated with higher beings. So whatever it does is very subtle in nature to be obvious to us. Please refrain from bashing systems you do not understand. At least try systems before criticizing them. All systems aren't suited for everyone.

In my experience, if you let the qi sink as suggested, in wu ji, then the arms will relax naturally. So will the rest of the body.

Try the wu ji position of zhan zhuang. Stay still for 20 minutes. Try it every day. You won't be able to maintain the position by being stiff. Your limbs will be rebalanced by the qi flow. Just don't fix your attention anywhere. Watch tv or sth to keep you unfocused.

If she teaches in underwear, she can teach me whatsthenameoftheyogasystemagain anytime!

Did you stop meditation and energy practices as you were instructed by experienced members?

Thank you!

I could write a book about it. Nobody would read it because it would read more or less the same every page! Wait! Omg your name is nobody! You would read my uninteresting book, wouldn't you? Just kidding. Have a nice day! Notes get lost sometimes. What is hidden in plain sight creates no danger.

I would like the privilege of recording my daily activities plz.

So if i understand correctly, the dark night of the soul is a transitionary period or side-effect on the way to awakening? Is it mandatory or an indication of something going wrong?

@Spotless Do you think it is possible to enter this state by chance without pursuing enlightenment? Can it happen to an average Joe whose only outside symptom would be an onset of depression?

@Marblehead He has the answers now the only thing that is left to do is cure himself. And for the love of whatever he holds holy, he must refrain from energy work unless it is part of the cure. This is one of the reasons Earl Grey was pissed at the revelation of the spontaneous five animals thread. He then told me of a case verbatim to this as a possible consequence to executing the forms wrong. @akasuna123 Where did you find the instructions? It is not important to me but some people can act to prevent the dispersion of this system so as to prevent future cases like yours.

PM the member @Earl Grey He can help you with this. Just don't try spontaneous five animals without a teacher in the future. I swear he described this specific qi deviation in a talk we had a week ago.

Ask your teacher. He should know. Yes you tried it on your own and maybe tried something different while doing the forms. Welcome to the wonderful world of qi deviations.... Search for a 5 animals practitioner. Maybe a traditional chinese medicine practitioner. Good luck and take care in the future. PS i thank this site for bringing this stuff to my attention. And @qicat for her articles.

He/she might be trully confused about what you wrote there. I also can't understand what you meant. Can you elaborate please?

I accept that. The problem is that he is accussing me of derailing the threads which isn't true. Furthermore i do not find the splitting of the threads honest as a practice. I have already moved away from the threads and will not look back.

Under no circumstances should a user's posts be moved without his consent unless he has broken forum rules. Furthermore these rights should never be given to a person who already abuses his PPD for reasons beyond recording of his practices. I DO NOT GIVE CONSENT for moving my answers. I answered where and when i believed i should have. If i knew that he could move my posts before hand i wouldn't do that.

Permanence is an illusion. (i know, i know, i cheated, it has been said already by the Buddha, but IMHO it's the greatest truth hidden in plain sight)

In sports some of the best techniques are far from natural at first. I mean that the average person would never try that without specific knowledge. Take the following examples: Fosbury Flop and the Front crawl. In other words, how do you define what is natural?

@Wu Ming Jen Have you ever read Valis by Phillip K. Dick? Your thoughtsphere is very interesting. I will not comment much as not to derail the thread. One big difference between Greek and Chinese philosophers is the former appeal to logic/analysis and the latter appeal to intuition/understanding. In a way both systems are valid. I don't wish to expand further on this thread. On Pythagoras (among others), since Greeks had contact with India some of his ideas seem to have been taken from there. Just an assumption. I cannot prove anything.

@Wu Ming Jen Plato's story makes sense. You just don't get it. It's obvious by your comments. There is no use explaining what's wrong with your thoughts. You just don't get it. The most obvious mistake is that DDJ and the allegory of Plato aren't talking about the same thing...

He is the "Magus of Java" of the well known book. There are some videos in Youtube displaying his abilities. He wants nothing to do with westerners. He practices Mo Pai. Search up "Mo Pai" in the daobums forum. Grab popcorn, king size preferably. Enjoy!

Correct. It all started with HMS Dreadnought.

True. Belle epoque in France comes to mind. WW1 caused a massive paradigm shift in how people percieved values as family, church, the state and the perception of the righteousness of war. People were so innocent back then....

Roflmao. I am familiar with breathing too!