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"The Alchemical Garden" was a forum created by one of our oldest members here (Earl Grey, if I'm not mistaken). It's focus was to discuss about the same things we talk on The Dao Bums, it was like a alternative version. That forum also had it's own "Flying Phoenix Chi Kung" thread, I remember reading some years ago and there was also good info there, but I just can't access this forum anymore, anyone knows what happened, is it gone forever?

The best way to overcome anger is forgiveness. Forgive whoever hurt you, and do a lot of metta(loving-kindness meditation) towards that person.

What about women attraction and practicing the internal arts? That's very dope. I've seen a lot of people commenting on this topic on some posts here. Some agree and some don't. I definitely think there's something to it, I don't know if it's Jing or Chi or anything else, but it does happen. There's mentions about this on Yoga practitioners saying this can happen during the practice while your body is starting to change, and then after some time it stops, and obviously, this is not the point of the practice and shouldn't become attached to these things. There's also mentions about this on 2 of Damo Mitchell's books, in one he mentios this can happen while working on the central channel(sushmna or chong mai) and in the other he mentions it can happen because of a built and full LDT. Which is kinda funny because while in Yoga it's meant to stop after some time, in Damo's book it feels like it never stops unless you "unbuild" your LDT lol

Can someone please go more in-depth on this topic on why good quality sleep is needed or quote the original post?

I remember reading somewhere(maybe in this post), something related to FPCK and karma burning, is this true? By "karma burn" I'm referring to the act of burning bad karma from our bodies and this could result in bad things happening in one's life for a short period of time until it's all cleared.

How does this "karma thing" works? I've seen people saying that it's not something mystical like "do this and you will pay in thir or in the next life I still don't get it lmao I do believe in reincarnation and all but this karma stuff is weird So if I do bad things in this life, I will pay in my next life? But if this doesn't exist, or if it doesn't work the way we think it does, so one can do harm to others and never pay the "justice from the universe" unless he got caught and judged by the law of man? So what's the point? I'll just throw my car into a bus and never face any karmic consequences in this nor in the next life. My "karma" will be being caught by law and going to jail. So karma is nothing mystical as we think? I'm not sure if I made myself clear but maybe you could understand my point. So in other words, do we face consequences beyond the law of man or we are just random things doing random things in this world? If I throw my car into a bus and kill xx number of people, will I face any consequences bsesides the "worldly" ones? If so, how can you prove me karma does exist, what did you learn that who is your spiritual teacher, or there's nothing magical to it and karma is just nothing mystical, no "judgement from god" or "judgement from the universe

Ok nice, great answers bro, thank you very much!! I will be practicing again today.

Oh well.. this debunks so many stuff I think I need to read again half of the forum lol

yep I can't find nothing about it, I hope he is well and comes back soon I saw that his account wasn't there like 3 days ago but didn't gave it too much attention, I thought it as a bug or something

I'm not here to gossip nor anything like that but I need the intel Anyone know what happened?

Hello everyone! Just did another 30min practice of Monk Holds The Pearl sitting med from GM Doo Wai Youtube video, I'm doing this daily until my Level 1 DVD arrives. I think today 7 or 8 days until I started, I'm not counting and I forgot which day was my first practice lol Today what I felt was: - Hot and kinda "heavy" sensation in hands during practice - Lots of neck spontaneous movements - Some spontaneous movements in the torso - At the end of practice, around the 30min mark, I started feeling hot in my entire torso and head, not TOO hot but enough to make me lightly sweat, I was wearing a hoodie since it's very cold where I live. Is this good? - Change in breathing pattern during practice, similar to Yoga Breath of Fire, sometimes I would start inhaling and exhaling very fast, is this supposed to happen or I did something wrong here??? This happened in the last two sessions of practice too but I didn't give it too much attention, now I think I should ask if this is okay, maybe it's completely wrong I don't know, it happened for like 30seconds max and stop, and then it reapeat again some time later during practice and stop again I read only until page 12 at the moment and I haven't seen people mentioning this pattern of breathing nor the hot sensation during practice. ========================================================== I also have 3 questions regarding the ending of FPCK practice: 1- Can I do like 5 deep breathing at the end instead of 3? Just to make sure I do 3 correctly. 2- After the 3 deep breaths, can I do things like: rub hands and "wash" face, rub LDT clockwise and rub kidneys or this can be bad? Every system I practice before FPCK I did these massages at the end so it feels weird to finish without them haha 3- Did someone ever had acid reflux after practice, I had this twice this week after doing this med, I never have it so I think it's correlated to the practice, maybe a energy clearing reaction? Thanks in advance!!

lmao I forgot about facebook, oh well what happened..

Thank you!

While the DVD doesn't arrive, I'm doing the free meditation GM Doo Wai teach in Youtube. Pak Satrio reccomend it to me some time ago but I was afraid of doing the breathing wrong so I did only 3 days of practice and abandoned it haha Now I'm commited to it and it feels great, I'm having a LOT of neck stretches, I'm doing 30min sessions. After I finished the breath sequence today I felt a very distinct pressure inside my head, like it's in my brain or something. I think I have a lot of blockages in this area of my body. I'll keep doing it, thanks everyone for sharing information!

Nice, thanks!

What is TTP considered, also a medical form of qigong? What are these other 3 "martial qigong" you mention, can you explain more about them?

yay I'm happy just bought level 1 DVD it will probably take a month to arrive lmao while it's flying(no pun intended) to my country I guess I have plenty of time to read the whole post. wish me luck

I always heard good stuff about Bruce Frantzis but never practiced any of his methods, but from what I know people often have results or feel something with his practices.

Nice, thanks! Where did you learn this set of five standing exercises? Is it from one of the DVD's?

Which DVD's you bought?

I have this same question from the first quote. So you can't die healing people? I've seen masters who used too much of their energy on healing and ended up dying, heart attack, etc.. So when we use FP Chi to heal we aren't depleting our own energy too? So I'm not sure but from what I'm understanding, the energy used when you try to heal someone (people, animal, insect) comes from heaven, the same source as the energy from the practice? Or we use our own built energy of FP Chi, but what if it runs out and someone does too much healing? Do you know what happens?

So you mix both systems? One medical qigong(ZHINENG) and the other heavenly qigong(FPCK). I think this is the same as me doing Spring Forest Qigong and FPCK. SFQ is also a medical qigong but I'm not sure if it uses heavenly energy, master Chunyi Lin teaches us to bring energy from the universe, but from what I understand, the energy we use in SFQ is not from heaven, it's our own energy, we just use it for helping us clear blockages, so even if it collects energy from the universe, the explanation is a bit different from FPCK, in which the whole energy comes heaven and thus it's considered a heavenly type of qigong. Can you send me the link to this? Okay so from these 3 quotes I can assume FPCK is a complete system by itself, is this affirmation correct? What I've been doing is Zhan Zhuang and then SFQ, so I build more chi and then circulate it through SFQ moving exercises. FPCK seems to work in this way but it's all in one system, so I could just stop SFQ and ZZ to focus exclusively on FPCK. I thought FPCK only circulated the energy through the body with the breath control but it's a more complete system than that. Thanks for this information.

yo I thought about him but wasn't sure haha, the "K" got me thanks!

But what is a BKF? It reminds me of KFC and now I'm hungry

demons doesn't exist, sorry buddy what exists are disincarnated souls theres probably someone watching you read this message right now