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Here are two items I'd recommend, both taught by the founders of the respective systems, and around your price range: Pan Gu Shengong Moving Form Course Chinese Soaring Crane Qigong Kit

I wonder if she can be hired to cast one on Dick Cheney...

He was one of the more wild characters here back in the early days (I think he called himself Sheepish Lord of Chaos), and on Winn's board even before that (I lurked on these boards for years before joining). Another was Ron Jeremy aka Ronnietsu aka Mahalingam Al Salami, who would write in all caps in an "Ali G." type dialect. These guys were very combative, but often made interesting and valid points. There was less moderation back then. It looks like Plato is now in business selling semen-enhancing herbal pills: http://www.moneyshotpills.com/

Welcome curiousone. I'd recommend doing some research on Falun Gong before entering into that path. You could use the search box in the upper right corner (from the main home page) to find many past threads on it here, as well as Google. Read and then decide. Good luck with your practice.

Basic training, U.S. Army

Why settle for anything less than the Supremely Powerful?

Tibetan Buddhism (and Bon) does include several forms of physical (and breathing) exercises, including Trul Khor (aka Yantra Yoga), Kum Nye, and Lujong (there may be others as well). I get the impression that these are more commonly practiced in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools and less in the Gelug school. Also, I believe that the Theravadins are strictly vegan, while the Tibetans (including HH) may eat meat and other animal products.

I heard this song today while driving. The lyrics seemed relevant to some of the drama here on TTB:

I seem to wake up naturally around 5:00 AM. At times I've used these hours to practice, more recently mostly just to relax and drink tea.

Well, if we're talking hot sauce, I have to advocate for my favorite: Cholula Hot Sauce The hottest thing I ever tasted was home made pickled vegetables that one of my father's Jamaican friends made. Unbelievablly hot, and he would eat them like it was nothing...

What, no JOHN CHANG on the list???!!!!

If the Gnostics thought that Yahweh was the Demiurge, and since Yeshua (i.e. Christ) was the son of Yahweh, how can you have "Gnostic Christianity?"

This was filmed in Tibet or Nepal in the mid 60s, and did not involve marketing to Westerners. It is on a DVD called "The Message of the Tibetans."

"The Shift" is happening now, and always has been.

If the rooster did not come first, the egg would remain unfertilized and there would be no chicken.

The Buddhist part of Russia: Kalmykia

Older Bums might remember a similar "event" called the "Harmonic Convergence" back in the 1980s, a galactic alignment that was supposed to be the start of a new era. Shirley MacLaine and lots of other new agers went to Sedona and other "power places" to meditate on mountain tops to welcome this event...nothing happened. The same guy that promoted the Harmonic Convergence idea was also one of the major promoters of the 2012 idea. His name was Jose Arguelles. He died in 2011, so he missed out on nothing happening again.

I read a biographical profile of him somewhere a while back, and he studied a large number of different martial and meditation systems. I think that he created his own school eventually based on these studies. I believe that one of his teachers was Rudi (aka Swami Rudrananda aka Albert Rudolph) an American from NY who went to India back in the early 60s and was associated with Muktananda. He died in a plane crash in the early 70s. A few teachers are carrying on his lineage. I think that he also studied quite a bit with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and maybe Kalu Rinpoche. I took a series of classes on Flying Crane (i.e. Soaring Crane) Qigong from one of his former students a few years ago. He sounds like an interesting character.

http://youtu.be/UVZZAUmRYDE

I imagined that this group would be able to zap offenders with their wei qi!

Is expecting things to be a certain way truly Taoist?

People have been saying this throughout recorded history, in many cultures. Last year during the "2012" hysteria, I read a small interesting book, "Apocalypse Not" by John M.Greer that described the history of this line of thinking. The challenges facing the world today are very real, but so were the challenges of yesterday, and those may have been even worse: plagues, rampaging hordes, feudalism, etc.