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Maybe the highest spiritual teachings are the friends we make along the way

@Neirong I also think a lot of people are missing the point of the thread. The original question was “Why were the highest spiritual teachings kept hidden/secret?” not “Should you learn from a teaching or random texts found online?” So, to answer the first question: 1) The average untrained person would not understand the importance of the teachings 2) The teaching could be dangerous to the average untrained person who’s body or mind is not developed enough to handle it 3) The teaching is kept hidden so the wrong people don’t abuse it and use it to harm others

So how seriously do you take your cultivation? Like an all star Broadway show, or the local Christmas pantomime in the village hall?

Lower dantian will not reactivate naturally and spontaneously

My friend, do I need to quote your own words to you again?

Exactly the same for Muslims too

First of all this is incorrect. You have saints in the Orthodox Christianity, the Anglican Church and others. Even in other religions there are the similar concepts of “saints” like the Wali in Islam, Boddhisattva in Buddhism and Xian in Daoism. I won’t comment on the rest of the post.

Yes, when you meet an actual “saint”, it is quite the paradigm shift realising that the stories of miracles (healing hands etc) are true. They aren’t miracles at all, but the results of many years of correct practice and mindset. I will never understand why people choose not to learn from a group that has already done the hard work of figuring out what practices are legit and what aren’t. It just wastes so much of your own time trying to figure everything out by yourself. Yes, surround yourself with people you can learn more from. To be fair, I believe some people are hard wired not to recognise legit teachings. No matter how much you try to help them or guide them to proper practices, they just don’t see the value in it.

It’s a waste of time anyway arguing over what the actual word is used to describe the motion, it doesn’t matter. Especially when we are taking about a tradition that never used English originally. What’s more important is that you do equal rotations one way, then equal rotations the other way.

Not really

It’s not a controversial thing. It’s quite important actually. It just boggles my mind that people spend loads of time practicing things they aren’t sure about or know the purpose of, especially from random bits of info from the internet.

You do realise the vast majority of this site is about Taoism and esoteric practices?

@Neirong and @Master Logray make good points, before you can run by yourself, someone has to teach you how to walk.

Actually @Boreas try this out. Only focus on doing Monk Gazing at Moon, Monk Holds Peach, and Monk Holds Pearl and Bending the Bows. Do all the Monk exercises for at least 10 minutes. Monk Holds Pearl can also be done seated and lying down so do that any and every chance you can, when you are on the bus or train, or before you sleep etc. Bending the Bows you can start doing just once a week to begin with (on weekend) but you must do 18 reps. Try that out for the next month and let us know how it goes.

Sorry to hear that. Maybe Sifu Terry can give you some advice.