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Tingling in an Acupoint during Zhan Zhuang?
Cleansox replied to Sarasin's topic in Daoist Discussion
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If you check your sources (use the search function) you will see that you are utterly wrong with this statement. At TDB, it's cannabis, not crack!
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You need to practice trust and acceptance π
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One of my teachers, a Police officer, had us training out in the snow, in stair cases, and one memorable weekend, in a bar (including the restrooms).
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According to the general gossip, a handful of Healing Tao instructors have gone out and said that that material should be retracted. I have read that myself somewhere, but I didn't save the source so see it as unsubstianted gossip.
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Part of that is "traditional", part is true (teachers seldom teach everything), and other parts is practical: On a forum there is always someone ready to bitch about other peoples practices, and not being too specific keeps the fecal flinging to a minimum. π I tend to do some flinging myself, in Chia threads, but thats based on BTDT (the sexual qigong, the Kong Jing Gong, the Bone Marrow Nei Gong, the really stupid Iron Shirt packning exercises (every time i tried that one, I developed a blockage, but being young and brave I tried again... π), the first Fusion book,....). Aahhh, the nineties. Brings back memories.
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I have his books. I like books π. I have a practice, and through the years it has led me to interesting places. Wouldn't recommend it though, hard to find a teacher that is willing to teach the entire system, and a lot of slow, hard work when one build the foundation.
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No, he has the tendency to rely heavily on visualisation, while other methods get result by "proper practice" (yes, that was mean).
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Yes, you have the difference right there. That is the essence of all critique of Chia's methods ever written. My guess is that it comes from a Mao Shan heritage, which influenced the reverse engineering of, among other things, the Zhong-Lu tradition. He does the same with the Emei Shan version of the Shaolin Nei Jin Yi Zhi Chan, so it's not personal against the daoist tradition.
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Two books on Nei gong. One book on Nei Dan. One book on dao yin. One book with miscellanious material. Three books in the coming.
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For the sexual part (although "avoid" is a relevant advice) James McNeil Nine Little Heaven. For the rest, you are more or less describing Damo Mitchell/Lotus Neigong. Both have strengths and weaknesses, but fulfil the criteria of easy availability. Many here have good relations to as interesting teachers, but availability might be an issue so the above might be a good start, if the goal is to check off your list.
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Maybe master Sandkuhl actually learned Falun Gong but forgot and had to rename it? A person who learned 50 forms of Qigong in 20 years, including a method 1000-ends years old that his un-named chinese teacher empowered him to spread to the West, is likely to mix things up. I would, in that position.
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I lack schooling in traditional buddhism, so I am going to wing it here π. The school I am involved in firmly believe that a practitioner needs a source of power to drive the development of insight. On the other hand, there are Vipassana groups (centered in Burma) that forbids their members to do any energetic practices (yoga, taiji, qigong and so on). I do not know if this is a modern/ancient division, or just different developments. The Vipassana school I am thinking of mainly refers to the Satipathana Sutta, so it might have been a development based on choosing a specific text as a base.
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the quote invalidates sitting in ones personal Void, and includes both daoist and buddhist practitioners. Some would call that dissociation. it does no invalidate daoist or buddhist methods that include working with different aspects of energetics. I interpret this as true spiritual progress is being able to feel both stillness and the ever changeing impermanence of the manifest world, not rejecting one for the other.
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Does that imply that they doesn't include replenishing in their curriculum? Nei Dan litterature sometimes discuss that problem.
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Is it accurate to say that the Buddhist and Taoist differences in approach to practice lies in psychological work vs energy cultivation?
Cleansox replied to Oneironaut's topic in General Discussion
I did Reiki in the 90-ties, basic level with teachers from two different Branches, and choose one of them to learn the rest of the levels. My opinion is that the major weakness of Reiki is that it is/was removed from its roots. One can easily see that in one of the links in @Oneironaut's post above, where teachers are grafting it back on the tantric buddhist tree that it was picked from. My preference would be to search out a teacher that knows any established root system, and, if that teacher considered it a good idea, work with a healing system where beginners are taught external qi healing (this is what you referred to?) after a minimum foundation in the root system is established. My teacher didn't consider doing that as a beginner being a good idea, so I quit using Reiki. -
If we look at the specific case that started this, you scanned a person and made public comments about that result, but I cannot recall that that service was specifically asked for. Had it been in the healing circle, or been preceded with a question if that was what the person intended, things would have looked different. Scannings are personal, and (I am not saying this relates to this case) easily crosses the border to an ad hominem attack if the scanner reveals some of the individuals flaws and weaknesses publicly without being specifically asked to do that. So, ethically, it is an area where one should walk with care. On the other hand, I personally see no problem with asking money for a service. In this area, it is "buyer beware", and as @RiverSnakewritestherearereferencestopayedservicesalloverthisboard@RiverSnakewritestherearereferencestopayedservicesalloverthisboard(and the editor jammed).
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Nonono, in my language one of the names for that area comes from an old word for wetland (marsh), you just don't produce sperm, thats all.
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Yes. That is how it works, they usually describe things from a point of view one have to work rather hard to get to. Among other things, it breakes your mind out of the box and help in the quest to experience things differently. I believe that the point of a book would be something like "if you find a subject that sounds intetesting/fascinating, seek out a teacher from that tradition and have a go.
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That would not work, since females and retentioners would be excluded from this site.
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But was it good? Would you prefer to find some old cached material rather than what is available online now? Or, use that old material rather than finding a teacher today? If so, there are many really cheap old used books covering this area, why not just use that instead of insisting that teaching should be cheap or free?
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The same effect when this happens while doing other traditions, the difference is probably that in some traditions the practitioner waits until it comes spontaneously, while others use it as a controlled technique. Yes, good post. It is nice that you write about the complexity of pranayama, and how one method depends on the development through previous practice. The question that remains is: Is such a complex practice useful?
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The same in my tradition. And then it passes, like so many other sensations that accompany practice.
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Just for the sake of the argument "if there is no fear there is no courage". Without fear, we have "recklessness" or "just doing that which needed to be done", or another term that describes the situation without inserting the word courage. This is why we have a large vocabulary, so that we can differentiate between meanings. I am aware though that this distinction might not be valid in all languages.
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My Transformation and Spiritual Enlightenment
Cleansox replied to Shanmugam's topic in General Discussion
The last one who said that here got involved in some heated arguments, and left. So, @Shanmugam there might be some scepticism in these walls.- 29 replies
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