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  7. Posted

    On 4/7/2024 at 8:28 PM, Immortal4life said:

    You do make a legitimate point. As my argument went before though, what if energetic abilities go beyond just simple things like say taking your friends pain or tightness away by putting your hands on them, or making people feel a buzz in their hands or whatever mundane thing you might do… What if human potential goes beyond that level, however it may not be reproducible on command or could be very circumstance dependent? Or perhaps the concept of auspiciousness could be involved. That is hard to completely control and contain within a scientific experiment.

     

    Like you don’t wanna be one of those people who are like “oh yeah my systems got all that siddhi stuff too!”

     

    There is no what if, they do go beyond human comprehension. .

     

    For me personally I understand the limits of evidence,  gathering a team of scientists and professionals to observe under controlled conditions, and recording it on camera is the gold standard.

     

    That's as good as we can possibly do in terms of evidence. 

     

    The problem is that skeptics will always find excuses about how the professionals were in on the hoax or missed something, etc. 

     

    The only thing better than such evidence would be an in person demonstration. 

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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, Immortal4life said:

     

    Ok Madame Blavasky. You like pontificating and you like platitudes, but what are you bringing to demonstrate? I don't get it?

     

    At least others here brought something to put up. They were willing post videos and put their balls on the table so to speak.

     

    Going online for online discussion, but then acting like you're above it all and wouldn't waste your time with it when you could be doing productive things and bettering yourself in real life is  such a played out trope as well.

     

    I think really videos will only do so much.

     

    You need in person, one on one demonstrations under controlled conditions. 

  11. Posted · Edited by kakapo

    On 3/27/2024 at 3:06 PM, silent thunder said:

    Those who crave power seem to always be the most susceptible to being corrupted by it.

     

    Like those who always want and crave to lead.  I find these usually unworthy of following.

     

    While the fool is always absolutely certain, the sages walk in perpetual doubt.

     

    I think you make a valid point, and I think most of the time this is indeed the case.

     

    However not everyone who purchases a gun does so with the intention of harming someone else.

     

    There are valid reasons to need such power, that do not include dominating other people, or trying to take over the world.

     

    To achieve those ends, power is required.  For some seeking power to achieve those end goals is just a means to an end, and not the end itself.

     

    If I want to grow all my own food there are several prerequisites to being able to do that.

     

    I would need to own a few acres of property located in the correct climate.

     

    I would need a water source, and fertilizer. 

     

    I would need seeds.

     

    I would need lots of time.

     

    I would need the health and energy to garden, or the money to hire someone to do it for me.

     

    Needing time, money, energy, health etc,  all of those things are requirements to make my end goal happen.

     

    Working towards those things as a means to an end doesn't make me a megalomaniac bent on world domination.

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    6 hours ago, Apech said:

    Hi Healthy Bums,

     

    my latest eye test showed I have borderline high eye pressure which could lead to glaucoma.  I was wondering if anyone knows any good qi gong or herbal remedies that might help me reduce the pressure before my next test.

     

    thanks!

     

    Cut out coffee and caffeine.  Coffee even decaf raises IOP, so does anything with caffeine in it. 

     

    Ginger:

     

    Antiglaucoma Activity of Aqueous Methanolic Zingiber officinale Extract on Carbomer Induced Glaucoma in Rabbits.

     

    Abstract:

    http://www.informaticsjournals.com/index.php/jnr/article/view/82

     

    Full PDF:

     

    http://www.informaticsjournals.com/index.php/jnr/article/view/82/81

     

     

    Ginger:

     

    Effect of Orally Administered Zingiber Officinale on the Intra Ocular Pressure of Experimental Rabbits

     

    Abstract:

     

    http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijhr/article/view/47911

     

    Full PDF:

     

    http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijhr/article/view/47911/34280

     

    Ginger (among other things)

     

     

    The Role of Transforming Growth Factor β in Glaucoma and the Therapeutic Implications

     

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23322881/

     

    Targeting Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

     

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28169917/

     

    The Role of TGF-β in the Pathogenesis of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

     

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22101332/

     

    From other studies it shows that Ginger is a natural TGF-β inhibitor, but yet there are no commercial TGF-β inhibitors on the market for glaucoma.

     

    Trabecular mesh network which lets fluid flow out of your eyes, it seems that TGF-β causes this tissue to stiffen and reducing it allows it to become more elastic and allow fluid to drain easier.

     

     

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    On 2/16/2024 at 4:46 PM, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:

    Interesting article. What are your thoughts on this?


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6908769/Muslims-highest-life-satisfaction-thanks-feeling-oneness.html

     

     

     

    Many of the people I know from Indonesia are Muslim, and I agree they are happy as a clam.

     

    It is my subjective opinion though that Sikh's are even happier. 

     

    I've been to langar several times at my local gurdwara and these guys make you feel like you are on a MDMA Oxytocin speedball.

     

    I haven't felt that much love sincerely directed at me since my grandmother died.

     

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    1 hour ago, Unota said:

    Sorry, I am still learning about this kind of stuff. Is an immortal spirit body not the end goal of taoist alchemy? I thought this was like, the equivalent of enlightenment, in comparison with other religion. To persist after death, etc etc, in whatever form that may mean. *squints as notes* Did I misunderstand? Am I being an idiot again?

     

    I can't speak for all schools, but for some yes that is the goal. 

     

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    People go to internet forums, and assume the loudest voices are the correct ones.

     

    People go on to internet forums, and project that the other people they are interacting with are at the same level of mental health as they are.

     

     

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  21. Posted

    On 3/7/2024 at 6:06 AM, Chang dao ling said:

    Hi, Anyone send 20 dollars to him and received answers lol. Is he a instructor in SFQ? I recently reading his threads why he so obsessed with sitting in lotus posture? Anyone know him personally?

     

    The guy believed if he could achieve the 8th convergent harmonic, he could sit in full lotus on a toilet seat, and give O@Ds and use up his electrochemical energy which made his body smell like poop.

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    4 hours ago, Mark Foote said:

     

     

    Ok, now the Dao Bums mini-editor decides to split!

     

     



    From my own writing, about the above:


    ... consciousness of the stretch and activity behind the lower back and in front of the contents of the lower abdomen can become consciousness of stretch and activity behind the sacrum and tailbone and in the vicinity of the genitalia. Such experience is independent of the sex of the individual, and is offered here as a recurrent condition of practice.

    (From the Gospel of Thomas)

     

     


    From my writing:


    ... These days... I am practicing some kind of scales, as it were.  Gautama outlined the feeling of four states, the initial three and then the “purity by the pureness of [one’s] mind”, the fourth.  I’ve described that “pureness of mind” as what remains when “doing something” ceases, and I wrote:

     

    When “doing something” has ceased, and there is “not one particle of the body” that cannot receive the placement of attention, then the placement of attention is free to shift as necessary in the movement of breath.

     

    The rest of the scales are looking for a grip where attention takes place in the body, as “one-pointedness” turns and engenders a counter-turn (without losing the freedom of movement of attention); finding ligaments that control reciprocal innervation in the lower body and along the spine through relaxation, and calming the stretch of ligaments; and discovering hands, feet, and teeth together with “one-pointedness” (“bite through here”, as Yuanwu advised; “then we can walk together hand in hand”, as Yuanwu’s teacher Wu Tsu advised).

    (    "To Enjoy Our Life")

     

    When there is not one particle of the body that is not pervaded by "purity by the pureness of mind", then there can be "an image in place of an image".    

     

    More on the state that proceeds that "purity by the pureness of mind", the state where "you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot":
     

     

    Gautama characterized the third state of concentration as follows:
     

    … free from the fervor of zest, (one) enters and abides in the third musing; (one) steeps and drenches and fills and suffuses this body with a zestless ease so that there is not one particle of the body that is not pervaded by this zestless ease. … just as in a pond of blue, white, and red water-lillies, the plants are born in water, grow in water, come not out of the water, but, sunk in the depths, find nourishment, and from tip to root are steeped, drenched, filled and suffused with cold water so that not a part of them is not pervaded by cold water; even so, (one) steeps (one’s) body in zestless ease.

     

    (AN III 25-28, Pali Text Society Vol. III pg 18-19)

     

     

    In my experience, the base of consciousness can shift to a location that reflects involuntary activity in the limbs and in the jaw and skull. The feeling for activity in the legs, the arms, and the skull is indeed like an awareness of three varieties of one plant grown entirely below a waterline. The experience does have an ease, does require equanimity with regard to the senses, and generally resembles a kind of waking sleep.

     

    (The Early Record)


     

    Gautama taught that zest ceases in the third concentration, while the feeling of ease continues:
     

    (One) enters & remains in the third (state), of which the Noble Ones declare, ‘Equanimous & mindful, (one) has a pleasant abiding.’ 

    (Samadhanga Sutta, tr. Thanissaro Bhikkhu, AN 5.28 PTS: A iii 25; Pali Text Society, see AN Book of Threes text I,164; Vol II p 147)

     

    That’s a recommendation of the third concentration, especially for long periods. Nevertheless, I find that the stage of concentration that lends itself to practice in the moment is dependent on the tendency toward the free placement of attention. As I wrote in my last post:
     

    When a presence of mind is retained as the placement of attention shifts, then the natural tendency toward the free placement of attention can draw out thought initial and sustained, and bring on the stages of concentration.

     

    ... I practice now to experience the free placement of attention as the sole source of activity in the body in the movement of breath, and in my “complicated, difficult” daily life, I look for the mindfulness that allows me to touch on that freedom.

     

    ("To Enjoy Our Life")

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I guess we all look at quotes and see them through the lens of what we are familiar with.

     

    For me that would be extracting yin chi from the earth, yang chi from the air, collecting, storing, and fusing these two energies together to make a new substance.

     

     

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  25. Posted

    9 minutes ago, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:


    But once you have experienced the things in these myths in real life, you will see that there is some truth to them.

     

    “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” 

     

    Act 1 Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet,

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