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That’s exactly the response I get to my DDJ translations.

Righto. I don’t know really but from your old posts I had understood possibly misunderstood the following : - it’s ‘the neidan’, as it’s a ‘thing’ (it also goes under the name of ‘the embryo’, or ‘the elixir’). - the ignorant Western neidanists con artists think it’s ‘neidan’ (no ‘the’), thinking it’s a process one can practice.

Shouldn’t that be, ‘Introverted but Willing to Discuss the Neidan.

Which “folk Chinese religion” is that? In your opinion, why is this? What is the meaning of the picture of the lion?

There still are some “blue-eyed people” in “Western Europe”; where did they come from?

Yes, it’s rare for people to change their minds. Yes, I think that’s important. You never know. Some years back I finally understood something a therapist had told me 35 years earlier.

I agree. All this ‘bone marrow storage’ might be based in mistranslations of 烏肝 (raven’s liver) and 兔髓 (rabbit marrow). ~~~ 烏肝 wu1 gan1 兔髓 tu4 sui3

Because you said this:

Hmm … me thinks all those stories you posted, one couldn’t make it up if one wanted to, and those would have taken a lifetime.

So we are in total agreement:

“girl”; I thought you were old.

Exactly, you are getting the idea now.

You look like a girl. Also … some more ‘best friends’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkT-gBPNZKs

Hi Rio! Welcome to the forum.

Click on this tag @freeform , to get to his profile page. There you can see all his topics and posts (click top-right on ‘See their activity’).

Also … the accidental killing by your ‘best friend’. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF80ofrxRrA

I myself regard ‘qi’ as being both physical (the vitality of the body) and non-physical (pneuma, what animates the body).

I agree that abdominal breathing is all important. And your descriptions of the physical processes involved in Taiji practice, ring true to me.

Exactly! ‘zen’ is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese ‘ch'an’. 禪 zen = 禪 ch'an (chan2 - homonym of Sanskrit ध्यान - dhyāna). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/禪 ‘Kanji’ means ‘Chinese characters’ (Kanji 漢字 : 漢 han4 - Chinese language; 字 zi4 - characters).

I agree there’s no need for any of that. Your method works for you and you are happy with your theoretical underpinning of it, based on the available scientific theories. Totally sufficient imo.

Yes, very true. (I looked up the meaning of 氣 in 3 sources: https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/56161-氣-qi4 /?do=findComment&comment=1039850)

So when/why was the Buddha’s wish overruled?

Never anthropomorphise individuals of another species, you’ll end up getting eaten by your ‘friend’.

wrong thread

I like that. I agree it’s very important to keep a clear line in a discussion. It’s not a good idea to let oneself get sidetracked by all kinds of other things, as then one can’t see the forest for the trees.