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Definitely not. It is vital information for @Narayana that zifagong qigong does not involve breathing control.

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Really? lol. Please meet 自发功 zi4 fa1 gong1 - Spontaneous Qigong Spontaneous Qigong is a type of Qigong. It requires only natural breathing i.e. breathing normally without even thinking about breathing.

Good to know, thanks.

Exactly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waidan

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Exactly, these were definitely not the original intention. The roots of Tarot are RC. https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/in-season/2016/tarot

Exactly, definitely not a physical substance. Think chakra colours: mercury is silver-white; cinnabar is red-orange.

This type of questions do not interest me. I’d advise you to concentrate on grounding/getting into the body. Be well. Seeing your profile picture, possibly @Apech ?

Heaps, you’re the best!

I believe that is your understanding and opinion. I will not argue about that. I can only tell what it is, other than what it is not. Peace! (CD)

I dislike the term ‘meat world’. It is so disrespectful of our wonderful bodies, without whom we wouldn’t even be here! And also it seems so dual in conception (the meat body/object versus the online mind/subject).

Definitely not. “you” here used as ‘any human being’, including the “ancient Taoists”.

It’s the abdominal breathing that gives health/energy. But breathing must never be controlled/interfered with; only observed. If ‘you’ get out of the way, the body will settle itself to abdominal breathing. The body knows how to breath; ‘you’ do not.

Exactly.

Dan Tien as used by some Daoist, is an imaginary system. All such systems are mental constructs that can be discarded when the goal has been reached. “They are conceptual structures yet are phenomenologically based, since they tend to be located where human beings experience emotional and/or spiritual energy … there are a few centers which are found in all systems: lower belly or sexual center, heart, and in or near the crown of the head …” https://hareesh.org/blog/2016/2/5/the-real-story-on-the-chakras

I think you mean to say the energetic body is only part of one’s imagination, i.e. subjective.

That’s a contradiction in terms.

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Hi. A very happy new year to you too! Welcome to the forum.

Great intro. Welcome to the forum. Taoist meditation = Buddhist meditation, says @ChiDragon , so that’s already one thing less on your ToDo list:

unknowable = cannot be known

I agree, all people promoting mercury ingestion should be permanently banned.

Well you sound just like @Shadow_self , the same writing style too.

It’s like Déjà vu. No the “non-natives” do not ignore “compound characters” - well, the academics don’t. As for all the amateurs dabbling, just let them have fun.