Forestgreen

Quite a few traditions interpret reversal of the senses as an inward focus, with the senses. In Beth' s tradition, she talks about experience the taste of the body. This can be bypassed, but I'm certain that method is not the most common.

My teachers teacher, and my teacher, had/has as a main goal to become efficient external qi healers. Different goal than mine, slightly different tweak in the practice.

Means the foundations are not solid enough. It's not about your partner. It is always about you. My wife focus on gym practice. That is not a hurdle in my practice. You were right in your other post, the entire system must be integrated. Then you change which level you are working on. Or, one could just sit and breathe, whatever floats ones boat. A quail is satisfied with it's flying ability...

Nowadays, as since the WuZhenPian was written, and the goal was set to awaken to reality rather than health and longevity. Zhang Boduan is supposed to have lived 1000 years ago. Nowadays?

Didn't say visual perception. My tradition specifically bypass the five senses to get to the immaterial, per instructions in the classics.

Bickering, mostly. My spiritual dad is bigger than yours, that kind of things.

This thread, for one. A mighty fine thread, where we do not discuss the specifics of the splendid nature of the vocabulary of traditional chinese daoist alchemical texts.

So, you have his book(s) then? 😁

And stay away from these fine discussions?

As far as I can tell, one can percieve the finer levels of reality without being able to see through a wall.

Actually, those terms would be less confusing.

Seing through a wall (the skill claimed) would have been fun in high school, can't think of a use for it now really.

I find the daoist terms less useful than the hindu/buddhist ones.

My teachers teacher claimed that one ( buddhist practice). Never met him though.

Now, I corrected that statement for you. It does describe something meaningful. As damdao writes, it describes a location and a result based on the practice of certain methods. It is just a common practice in daoist and hindu traditions to write stuff in a way that conceals the meaning.