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why were my posts removed from the original thread??? please restore post #6 of THIS thread to its original location. I address the OP, and I feel that up until that point, everything was perfectly on topic. Actually, everything was on topic to begin with, because the discussion was about identifying yan and yang. This split was unnecessary. To the subject at hand: if you raise your arms above your head, palms forward, all the yang meridians along the harder, outside of the arms are in the back and yin meridians on the soft inner side of the arms are facing the front, yin, side. This is the position that brings the flow into the natural state ie yang sinks, yin rises. I'm not sure how many more ways I can explain this. The back is yang, the front is yin. Just compare their characteristics. Ren mai/Du mai are the clearest indicators, I suppose.

antother great topic from Trunk. Thanks, man :-) I'm far from experienced or qualified to speak from personal experiences, but I have been lucky enough to attend two high intensity workshops with a teacher who I believe gives "the real deal". Just as has been stated above, the two things he stresses the most are the knee angle to the foot (the knee is a hinge joint) and the hip/pelvic work (do no perform autochiropractic alignments on your spine). To help with the knee joint, get into the habit of keeping the weight shifted to the outer edge of the foot (think of the yang heel vessel/ Yang Qiao Mai) and more "x-legged" than knock-kneed, but nothing like extreme. A 60/40 or 70/30 ratio is what to shoot for. This is basic stuff in any qigong, really. To help with the hips, well, you have to get in touch with them. Walk from the hips. We did a LOT of this kind of exercie in the workshops. When the inner hip moves downward to the rear (one way of seeig it) the outer leg will move forward, and follow the circle automatically. The outer hip then moves backward, drawing the inner leg to the outer. Then the inner hip moves inward, finishing the bai, inner step ... Ok, better stop here before I get too far above my station. The ZZ is of course a foundation of any form and the turned hip stance is a huge part of Bagua.

well, when you bring up acupuncture, I assume meridians. What kind of acupuncture were you referring to? Could you post a link to this chart? It sounds interesting.

I understood that, RV. But I've read a lot of the Osho books over the years and haven't suffered for it. In fact, I'd say I've only profitted from the experience. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and all that rot :-) I do believe a lot of the stories about him are exaggerated and even fiction, quite possibly done with his approval. But, honestly, it isn't important to me. And because I don't dwell on it, it has no effect.

Do you mean the diagrams that have the Ren ("Sea of all Yin") channel in the front and the Du ("Master of all yang") channel in the back? One big yang meridian, the stomach, is on the front while the two even bigger yang meridians, bladder and gall-bladder are on the back and sides. So, I'm not sure which charts you're referring to here, CD. Or maybe you read my post backwards? The back is yang to the front's yin. It's a classic, basic principle of Taiji. Like I said previously, the front is the soft, vulnerable side, the side we want to protect. The back is the hard, protective side, the side we turn toward danger and "evil" influences. But we can intentionally reverse the roles, and we do it all the time. That's what we do. And again, to the OP, yin and yang aren't permanent states, and are in and of themselves completely pointless. It's the tension between them that gives us what we refer to as "life". Nothing is ever 100% either/or. Yin and yang are in a never-ending, fluid, seamless battle with each other. They're constanting striving for perfect balance, but can never acheive it. I wish you would try to understand that, because that's where the usefulness, and the beauty, of all these mind-games is found. You really need those dots in your av.

well, on another note, based on the no-nonsense, down-to-earth, no BS approach he took in his talks (which were recorded and later published as"Osho" books), I recommend reading them and ignoring the source and the predjudices against him.

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Omergawd, that's sweet. Thanks, GMP :-)

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I think that's a very typical placebo response.

Nice :-) I'd say it's the ultimate expression, and definition, of life. Whatever life exists wherever in the universe, in whatever envionment, it breathes in some way or another. In with the new, out with the old. My old is someone else's new ...

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A tree is pretty good at non-doing. And a botanist is pretty good at telling you what a tree is.

I picture you looking exactly like you av, haha

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Dao?

enjoy! :-)

Night is yin. It's night. Goodnight.

huh. Had me going for a while there but it was kind of a letdown in the end. Nobody got stabbed?

what kind of hospital was this?

hahaha guess that answers my question! Not sure if I like the answer, but c'est la vie

So, what do you think of Joschka Fischer these days? lol

that wasn't German. It was Fraconian dialect. In German it would be "Du hast dein Recht und ich habe meine Ruhe" "Du hast Recht" translates directly to "You have right" but in real English, we say, "You are right". "Ich habe meine Ruhe" translates directly to "I have my quiet/peace"

repeated for emphasis.