waterdrop

@Taomeow oh wow , thanks ! , i made a question based on my understanding of damo mitchells guidance in his book "white moon on the mountain peak" and he says there clearly not to ask a yes or no question - and for some reason i thought my question was not one - but now i see it clearly is a yes no question - he gives example of two section questions - the example he gave is "What is the state of my role as the head of an internal arts organization ? am i fulfilling the role to the best of my ability ?" is there an option to ask a two section question about stretches ? cause from what i understand from your reply this are clear 3 different questions that shouldnt be combined in one divination ? - also can i phrase the first one - instead of what you wrote in 1 ask : "what is the impact on my health of the stretches I did up until now ? " - is that an ok question ?

@Taomeow from your band example - it seems like a con , a bad side , of using the i ching ......... *If i understood what you wrote correctly* .......... cause you just wanted to know something about a band , and instead you felt really worried for some time about something and vigiliant about something you not only dont know enough about - but have no good influence on ? i mean even if you would have guessed somehow its about the band , what you could have done about it ? i can see how im wrong about what i wrote - but i wonder what you think ? cause it seems by reading your comments here that the "i ching" can easily cause more harm than benefit ?

I found an online I ching .......... you just enter a question and throw virtual coins in thier program and in calculates and gives you a result ..... to use it or its harmful ? I never used I-ching and i know very little about it ... so i wonder if i need to do something after that ? can i over use it ? if i just want to try it out for fun and ask many questions can it be harmful ? should i give some offering after this (read somewhere you need to give some offering or something like that) ? anything someone wants to add on using this website .... or about I-ching in general would be appriciated since im not sure its a good thing to use it without knowing much or if it be harmful than i wouldnt recommend people who dont know to use it - but for people here who know about the i ching and want to check the website here is the link : https://www.ichingonline.net/uses.php

I dont know how much the TCM practitioner who wrote the quote below about coffee wants to publish this outside of facebook with his name connected to it - so i just put quote of his here ... and would mention he said he still drinks coffee himself - so that should be taken into account as well :

I wonder if this is compatible to take toghter with the damo mitchell course im doing right now ? If taking both programs together wont harm somehow my advancement in damo mitchell neigong course ?

Dmo mitchell will soon open an online course in his "internal arts academy" - here is a video he made about bagua :

Im looking for all videos in depth and shallow (though i am now leaning to the more in depth now - dont mind highly technical videos as well ) , this can be good resource not only for me but for all who read this thread and wants to watch broader stuff or more in depth stuff than what i will be currently looking for I want this for many reasons , would be nice to get a "Chinese Medicine perspective" on my practice , would be good to get an overview , would be good to heal some issue i have , maybe one day would like to be a TCM practitioner and i would have some good background Above all I am already spending a good amount of time watching youtube videos , so i would like to replace it instead with watching TCM related video ... since its not a hard thing for me to watch videos (including the more technical ones) and its replacing a not "productive" activity , than there is no problem for me to watch something i am not specifically looking into , that is too shallow for me or too in depth .... i just care about it being accurate that i wont watch BS videos that might unconsciously by diffusion insert false information

I have been looking for some good videos on TCM(= traditional chinese medicine) , but dont want to absorb any bad information even if just by subconscious diffusion , so would like to hear if people here have recommendation for TCM (= traditional chinese medicine) videos Also i ran into this youtube channel that seems to have good videos , but not sure if the info in it is correct, so it would be nice to read if someone who have seen it and think the information shared in it is correct or not : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXeKpuxltFA_FiLdMYLrXlA/videos

Wanted to share my thought , that the fact that its not possible to have a "block" option at the moment is (one of) the reasons i didn't explain in detail my view on why exactly i think a block option is a good idea , and i think probably its the same for other users who don't give their view on this subject - cause in some way its a bit of an effort and time waster (a full debate) , so i believe the moment it was written (and its good it was written) that it is not really a technical option right now, it took out the motivation of members to speak about the need for it .... so my point is : In the future if there would be an option to add a block option to this forum , it would be nice if someone (no need for an obligation - just in case some moderator remembers this issue) will notify the users here - by making a thread (i think better a new thread as opposed to bumping this one) about this and opening this option to debate (in a date when it would actually be a possibility so people would want to give their opinion on this )

is drinking water with your meals bad ? and why ? Im asking cause i heared something about it affecting the "fire" aspect of digestion or something like that if drinking water with meals have a bad affect in what areas does it have ? (as in a an effect from the qi aspect or from a spiritual aspect or from a health aspect etc ) how bad is it ? is it bad just for example until you build your ldt ? or always bad ? does drinking water with your meals have a good side ? what about drinking water in general not during meal ? (and since i seem some people get mad i ask this questions to make clear there is a reason - for instance to ask how bad is it , its not just nitpicking - cause i drink a lot of water with my meals - it would be very hard for me to stop this habit (i have a hard time eating without any water) , so if its bad i wonder how much of a difference it makes or how much i can ignore it)

I wonder if anyone here has a view about the TCM nutrition book : " Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition" written by paul Pitchford ?

@Taomeow since the above thing im going to shamelessly tag you just in case you missed - if you saw and just want to ignore for whatver reason - give my post is a like ( and if that will happen a few times than i will stop tagging you in genral) tagging you for my long post i wrote before - i wonder if you know the main questions answer :

Just to add in a comment and not just like - that i join taomeow will to have a block option (unlike the usless ignore option) And i see some negative impact it can have but i think the positive impact it will have is greater So if any day in the future - it would available (technically) to add this option - wanted to add that i think it would be a good thing to add

ohh and i felt im being too pushy lol That was a great read - I dont eat meat (but im down to hear about it and its effects and learn from that) so im trying to figure out what i can have as well as what i can find in my supermarket * For the record i have now enough to go by on my own - now its just fishing for extra info so you dont have to answer all - and in bold i put the main questions : I will try this - you mean they dont work immediately as in they take a few hours to feel an effect or that i need to consume them for a few days or a few weeks before i can see their effect ? so everything that causes liquid to be gelatinous are good ? the things have an effect only if i consume them in thier gelatinous forum ? i mean for example the parsley - if i eat its leaves just like that in leaf form do they have the same effect ? or for example do potatoes have the effect ? (maybe the potato starch powder is more dense - but it means the potato will also have a small effect?) - or potato startch but to add it to many dishes i make like pad thai , will that have a good effect ? - i have now a few things in house : pesto paste (From parsley from the garden - parsley little salt little garlic and lots of oil ) is it good? i got industrial jeli with sugar some and some with sugar substitute - both of them not good? jams are gelatinous but if it has sugar than its not good ? what about dairy products like yogurt ? or puddings ? cornstarch jelly? Mămăligă ? tapioca ? this things can be consumed with the meals ? like i do water ? like i will sit with the meal and a big bowl of " kissel " and just "drink" it with a spoon between bites like i do with water ? What about fruits and vegetables - some of them can be seen as gelatinous ... like watermelon , some peaches (the yellow inside ones) , cucumber etc ? i will go shopping soon - will look for stuff so im trying to figure out this thing better so if i ran into something in the store that is good i will take it thats why the many questions - so i get the basic rules i go bye

@Piyadasi Great replies , even partial answers are good (and defintly better than full nonsense replies) , from the replies i get from everyone on this forum (and the internet in general and books , teachers etc) take all good info i can and act as much as i can based on it Thats why i ask many questions (that some users in this forum are annoyed by the amount and the fact i repeat them with different (but important) variations and see it as nitpicking) like me wanting to get how much of an effect different stuff have ( how bad it is i dont eat the vegetable a second after its picked ... or a year after its picked) or to understand why stuff is recommended Another example is the drinking warm water which at winter time i do a lot even without connection to qigong (just warm water to warm up - i wonder if tea no sugar is also good?) but now at summer time where i live (especially in my house) its really warm and so consuming warm foods make me sweaty and cold ones cool me - thats another reason why i try to get as close as possible to understand how much of an effect things have

Does cold water effect the lower dantian ? does ice cream effect it ? how it effects it , in what way ? and how much it effects it (is it a big effect or minor one you can ignore) ? also lets say cold water can really cool your body but some ice creams lets say a Popsicle can get pretty warm before it really enters your throat - so does it really have a significant effect?

When i googled before this was one of the results i got : https://www.sacredlotus.com/go/foundations-chinese-medicine/get/jin-ye-body-fluids-vital-substance but how that sits with it as a method ?

@Taomeow just to make sure you see this - i would like to know what are the "slow yin fluids" - even in general so i can google search about them (cause by myself im not sure if the results i get are the same thing you meant) ( im re-tagging in case you missed the first one , if you dont reply than i take it you seen this just dont want to reply )

why do you say it gives a negative amount of qi ? because of the contraction and sting feeling ? does that feeling somehow make you think it drains qi or something like that ?

Its effect is cause the cold reach the ldt area (intestines?) and than causes qi to move slower there which makes it harder to make changes to the ldt ? would add also a question about frozen food that we reheat (frozen vegetables mainly) are they considered cold in some way or effect ?

What are your thoughts on stoicism ? Stoicism VS Buddhism ? ( differences , similarities, benefits , disadvantages ) Stoicism VS Daoism ? ( differences , similarities, benefits , disadvantages ) can you reach enlightenment with it alone ?

IS someone elightned - lets say a buddhist monk who is a buddhist monk for 60 years already - and is in a genuine path and has an actual enlightened teacher and he is truly enlightened would he feel qi ? see auras ? see chakras ? would he be healthy in his body ? could he heal himself and others ? or this stuff are just from the daoist,neigong path ?

@salaam123 this is the link to damo mitchell "internal arts academy" that costs 40$ per month (or 440$ for a year in advance) - that starts from the basics (and teaches also how to build the lower dantian ) : https://damomitchell.com/

As i asked before about the need for isolation when training in qigong and got the reply we need to isolate or else the yang qi escapes to the earth ( the yin qi moves freely and that is what should happen) and that you still get benefit from training barefoot on the ground you lose some of the effectiveness (if i remeber was told something like 15%) ... So the question is what is a good isolation material - what works what not : How thick the material should be ? ( 0.0001 cm / 0.1 cm / 0.5 cm / 1 cm / 2 cm / 5 cm / 10 cm ) What material it should be ? ( rubber ? cotton ? ) Are shoes good ? are tai chi shoes good ? are slippers good ? Are socks good enough ? what about really old socks that are worn out - can they work too ? A bed sheet on the floor - a very thin one (is it too thin?) ? A bed sheet folded a few times ? Can i use a towel i have ? or is a towel too stimulating on the feet so in that sense it takes off your mind from inside your body ? * Where i live its warm - if anything i go barefoot just to cool a tiny bit , the house tiles which are granite porcelain are ab it cool - but if i stand in place after a few seconds where i stand will be warm as well ( I ask about material for isolation but if someone wants to say his views about the subject of isolation its great as well - about the need for isolation , about how it effects us , about how much it effects our practice etc)

I found this book from a book swapping stand and i wonder if its good - the name of the book is "practical feng shui" by Simon G. Brown I had it for some time and already read it in the past , but now rediscovered it in the house and its dirty so i can read it where i dont want to read other clean books im reading which are more important to me to read (about qigong practice and buddhism) - but just as a fun read to pass the time .... but than i wonder if i can take some good concepts from it on the way , or maybe i can pick up (even subconsciously) some bad advice in case this book has a high percentage of bad advice So i wonder if this book is good or maybe the advice in it is not that good but decent or maybe it is even misleading with harmful advice ?