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I cannot understand what you are writing.

I agree.

I think it’s in the top line in the picture. Probably’chestchannel’ is Bao Mai. @ChiDragon is it 包 bao1? And do you know the characters for dai mai?

(For Google) this is a picture of the ‘expargarate’. The expargarate is a bird with a build in mobile phone. I dropped the ‘creature’ part of the name, as possibly Google is zooming in on that. So I call it now the ‘expargarate’. P.S. @wandelaar I like the new picture. The old expargarate has lost it’s colour. Does that have a meaning?

Yes, right-brain associative thinking needs to be balanced with left-brain logic. Yes, imo the core of neidan is 虛心 xu1 xin1 (become humble).

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Hi ShengQi (is that 生氣 ?), I’m NL-based too. Welcome to the forum.

I think Chakras can be useful for understanding Daoism. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/50542-sink-chi-to-the-dantien-氣沈丹田/?do=findComment&comment=918953

ime by only 1 entity (me).

All 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

How the Western Chakra System Came to Be https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/4246-the-rainbow-body-how-the-western-chakra-system-came-to-be And some roots in Christianity: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/907415.Esoteric_Christianity (I haven’t read the book).

Thank you for posting this picture. Comparing the Chinese 3 dantien system with the western 7 chakra system, imo: 上丹田 (UDT, upper dantian), corresponding chakras - blue & purple 中丹田 (MDT, middle dantian), corresponding chakras - yellow & green 下丹田 (LDT, lower dantian), corresponding chakras - red & orange That leaves the white (crown) chakra which I associate with the Christian concept of a soul separate from the body. White light is a combination of all colors in the color spectrum. https://www.britannica.com/science/white-light

My preferred chakra system: https://www.dreamstime.com/chakra-s-summary-creative-colorful-illustration-human-chakras-full-text-description-each-image-person-visual-position-image101505022

meridians = nadis https://wellintolife.com/the-basics-of-subtle-energy-nadis-chakras-and-the-aura/

Thank you very much for this link. From the link: [imo vertical line along the spine] (both pictures from Barbara Brennan, Hands of Light) The microcosmic orbit showing the yin (descending, in black), and yang(ascending, flame) points. This is a dynamic conception involving the circulation of Ch'i energy. (diagram from Mantak and Maneewan Chia Awaken Healing Light of the Tao) [red chakra = perineum = Hui Yin 會陰 https://www.learnreligions.com/acupressure-treasures-hui-yin-ren-1-3182278]

@wandelaar made it. I just repeated it to maybe get Google to pick it up.

This is a picture of the expargarate creature It is strange that Google does not have this picture of the expargarate creature!

Exactly

Hi. Welcome to the forum.

You do you.

“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

All systems are mental constructs that can be discarded when the goal has been reached.

丹 (elixir) and 田 (field) came from 外丹 (external alchemy). Later reused in a different meaning in 內丹 (internal alchemy).

https://hareesh.org/blog/2016/2/5/the-real-story-on-the-chakras

Originally the Hindu chakra system had only 3 chakras (the primary colours). The Chinese have 上， 中，and 下 丹田