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My friend is learning how to make them

Yea I should have gone back and read the original post first. @Stream I don’t have a concise explanation for eastern medical alchemy but I can say there do exist pills and other concoctions (called “dan” in Chinese) that can increase your qi production significantly, other have healing effects etc This is known as kanli dan. It is for producing jing, sperm, and blood, harmonizing yin and yang, balancing water and fire, and is good for all kinds of deficiencies and internal injury.

Actively converting jing to qi to shen Oh I failed, you said eastern alchemy, not eastern internal alchemy

If you don’t have an “activated” or “built” dantian, you can do all the cultivation you like but qi will not stay in your lower abdomen and will frequently rise. It’s not a problem in the beginning stages of practice but after a while if you are accumulating a lot of qi without a place to store it, you will run into lots of health issues down the line.

Yes but no cash is needed for dantian activation specifically. In fact you could just pay for one seminar to learn the method and nothing else and you would be able to activate your dantian yourself with diligent practice and good health. It takes roughly 18 months for a healthy person to activate their dantian with these methods. You could also go to see a master and they could activate it instantly, some charge for it, some do it for free, but the point is you don’t need to. You can do it yourself. Ok but that’s not answering the question that I asked relating to what you said: “There is also a claim that this group teaches one to be a conduit rather than a generator, so very few ever develop the ability to emit qi independent of the teacher.” Who is making this claim? It’s the first time I’ve heard of it, and it’s not true in any way. The whole point of the practice is to be a generator. It’s what we learn to do from the first day. How is this related? We are talking about dantian activation (or dantian “building”) not qi emission.

I don’t have previous experiences, I started with his method and Flying Phoenix Qigong which doesn’t focus on dantian activation at all. In fact it doesn’t follow the traditional qigong model but that is off topic here. As for how to know you have an activated lower dantian that can store qi? The easiest way without a teacher is that it will show up on those new full body airport security scanners. The machine will beep and on the screen there will be an alert where the lower dantian is.

Well I’ve never gone to meet him in person, and I’ve activated my dantian with the methods he’s taught. Many other students too.

It is possible, it will just take a long time. I will let you know when it happens.

And who is making this claim?

There is not a large amount of cash needed for activation of dantian, just your time and effort to do proper practice

Technically it would not be “building” the lower dantian but reactivating the existing lower dantian to be able to store qi. What we are taught is that everyone has an active lower dantian from birth, but for some reason it stops being active after puberty. So the first goal in neigong would be to make it active to be able to store qi again.

It’s very similar in South East Asia too. Black magic is prevalent amongst all religions and ethnic groups. In Singapore my Chinese friend’s restaurant would have black magic curses left by the back entrance from competing businesses. My Malay friend had a sibling that passed away from a miscarriage, almost every time they go to visit the grave there would be the leftovers of a ritual done by others over it. There is no shortage of hate too! Even amongst the Buddhist nations of Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia they are eternally fighting each other.

Just this sentence alone was enough for me: ”No, you don't have to build a Dantian”

Thanks for the answer! Will check out his posts

So who is Rob Coons, what lineage does he learn from, what attainments does he have etc