Forestgreen

So neigong is based on pre heaven energetics? And on the principle of reversal?

Noooooooo (What is the next fad?)

What if it was the other way around? A specific time and place when neigong was grafted on neidan? Think of it, the core neigong methods are secret and not mentioned in classic texts, the core neidan methods are discussed at length in classic texts. Edit: And the neigongers seems to refer mostly to the sinew changing classic and the bone marrow washing classic rather than any of the texts that discuss neidan. Weird, isn't it?

Facepalm?

Rotating the ldt?

Buddhist qigong would do that. Shaolin traditions, and I assume other traditions within buddhism as well, developed excellent methods that allow one to explore emotions and interpersonal reactions. Buddhism is so much more than jhana and samma sati. Seems to be almost 20 years old? There is probably new research in state dependent memories. Many, yes. All, no. Including buddhist methods that are created to work in a therapeutic way.

Indigestion?

Only if one compare TCM with Kundalini yoga. If one would compare a chinese energy based meditative tradition with Kundalini yoga, the overlap might ( depending on which traditions one compares) be substantial. In Kundalini yoga, the energy dormant in front of the tail bone isn't fully developed, and it moves up through energetic centers that in both location and function overlap with the ldt and the Ming Men.

The assumption here is that a person with enough emotional baggage will be able to clear that up in a meditative setting, and reach realization. And surely, you have met some that fit into that model. The question is, have you never encountered people who get emotional reactions as a result of meditative practice, who try to continue with that, and have emotional breakdowns instead of realization? I would say that for the broken, neither psychotherapy nor meditation works perfectly.

Sam agrees with you, but a gardener got to do what a gardener got to do.

If you google the difference between soul and spirit, you will find out why it is called spirituality and not soulality.

Does these twitches appear only in this context, or do they come in other situations?

You probably didn't have that in mind, but I would use that kind of language if I could not find any good arguments, but still had the need to feel superior to the other persons. Words like that are a way to try to shift the power balance.

Aaaahh. You cut to the chase.

I would gladly sacrifice my smartphone if there were nuts needing to be cracked in the vincinity.

Didn't you write that you hadn't actually read the Bible? If so, you have no ground for that statement. Personally, I never read through it, managed the books of Moses and the four first books in the new teastament, but I would be surprised if they are not full of contradicting info. If I recall right, in the pre-jesus material, genocide and colonization was recommended.

Your image of christianity is nice, but it excludes a huge amount of people, past and present, that actually read that book and form(ed) their lifes after quotes from it.

The effect of meditation on the Self has a lot in common with dissociation, and a person that already have issues with the Self might fare better if that is dealt with first (dissociation is often classed as avoidance). Not saying that concentrative breathwork and basic mindfulness are without use, but going deeper into a meditative process might be problematic. The method most often called out for being an avoidance is the habit of slipping in to a cognitive empty no-self state. A state without thought and where the experience is that this is not happening to ME is definetly a problem if the goal should be integrating traumatic experiences.

I would not go so far as to say it is a more advanced non dual insight, but yes, in traditional Chan as well as in the Theravada tradition, that experiental insight is part of the path. It is part of the alchemical process, so it fits very well in this thread.😀

Throw big rocks at the other trolls?

That is stepping through a hole in a tree. Stepping through a space usually works just fine.

The dhammas that the tree are made up of is real, the tree is the result of causes and conditions, and thus ultimately not real, while provisionally real enough to be a cause and condition for pain?

Being introverted, this would count as one of the lesser Hells.

Our sense of self is made up of several components: Autobiographical memories, cognitive schemas, and a handful of aspects of the bodily aspect are some of the more used ones. All these are accessible to change.

That is because we sit in our parents basements, and live out our frustration on internet forums.