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Which Chinese character is this?

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Life is a terminal STD, sexually transmitted and sure to kill you.

Sympathetic magic re transcendence to immortality: cinnabar red - root chakra/earth —> mercury (silvery-)white - crown chakra/heaven

Also deadly. “In Chinese history, the alchemical practice of concocting elixirs of immortality from metallic and mineral substances began circa the 4th century BCE in the late Warring states period, reached a peak in the 9th century CE Tang dynasty when five emperors died, and, despite common knowledge of the dangers, elixir poisoning continued until the 18th century Qing dynasty.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alchemical_elixir_poisoning

@Shadow_self Be well my friend, enjoy your Way as I enjoy mine.

What is it you do not understand about emojis? Yeah, let’s start a “No, it isn’t”, “Yes, it is” contest.

Sympathetic magic, cinnabar is red. (Cf root chakra red). 下丹田 xia4 dan1 tian2 - lower cinnabar field, LDT. 丹 then came to be used as ‘pellet’, regardless of mineral components.

“nobody” knows, contradicts “the few” that do know.

The external elixer was found to be deadly after almost a millennium of use. Time will tell if the internal form will be any better.

Jeez. Duh. Obviously yes.

Now wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of life’s problems could be solved simply and easily by using some herbs. If only! In reality, most of the time what’s required is a change in behaviour. Being anxious about maintaining an erection might be causing you to rush to ejaculate. In almost all cases of erectile dysfunction, the cause is watching porn. When stopping porn completely, in most cases a normal response to IRL stimuli returns (after about 6 months).

(my bold) For me, this is the essence.

There wasn’t. During the Tang Dynasty awareness grew that ‘waidan’ was deadly and they started ‘neidan’. Waidan came first (approximately 2nd century BC) Neidan came almost a millennium later (approximately 8th century AD). You can Google this stuff, e.g. http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan.html

內丹 neidan (inner/internal dan) took the terminology from 外丹 wai4 dan1 (external dan). As the ‘external dan’ was deadly, my post was a warning against gullibility.

Duh, obviously. “neidan” 内丹 nei4 dan1 - inner cinnabar.

When I am joking, I put the remark inside emojis - Like this .

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Hi KK. That sounds quite an experience. Re. “focusing and cultivating negative Vs positive chi”, it might help to read some of the old threads. Welcome to the forum.

I think it’s wrong to “forgive” serious abusers. I first physically get rid of them out of my life. Secondly mentally let go of them by giving it all to God. Then happily live my own life without them. Definitely.

“Because of its mercury content, cinnabar can be toxic to human beings.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar#Toxicity

I’m a quarter-Taoist.

Interesting. I can relate to that on a personal level.