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try the fire mantra first. If you have both the yin and yang mantras withing mastering the lower mantra, you will hurt yourself.

Just because you are doing an internal form doesnt mean you are practicing it internally, Just because you are driving a ferrari doesnt mean you are racing. see: http://www.thetaobums.com/Tai-Chi-Chen-Int...mple-t6418.html

As you can imagine there are many different species of garlic. The only kind that is strong enough to go through an alchemical process is 6 clove black garlic that was grown using Gan Lao Sui (see end of tao salt thread). Alchemy is the process of turning something normal into a superconductor.

What a wierd question... stranger is that there is an answer to that... Processing food is a triple burner or San Jaio event. So... all you need is more fire and you'll process better. the mantra for fire is "MAHHH" BUT... you must practice this mantra internally. You say it in your mind only. As loud as possible in your imagination. Technically, If you want to digest spicy foods, they are already fire element. so ... instead of adding more fire, you'd use the destructive cycle of the pentagram and do the water mantra instead... But for now... Mahh covers most all foods.

shim qi is core organ energy. nei qi is prana... or breath chi. wei chi is everything from the skin to the bones joints and tendons. This is a common issue and point of view departure ... BUT its all about yin and yang. to someone standing on the street, the living room is INTERNAL. if that person stands in the living room, the bedroom becomes INTERNAL. To someone laying in bed with a woman, we... we all know what internal means by now.

Re Palm Strike Look up the acupuncture chart... there is a meridian that goes from your 2nd dan juhn or dan tien to the right hand. all you have to do is compress the abdomen and relax the meridian going to the palm. this will cause the qi to flow to where there is the least resistance. Think about a basket ball with a tiny hole in it... the air flows out there there is the least resistance or tension.

internal simply has to do with whether you are using muscles to do a job or you are calling chi to flow to accomplish the job. One is universal. the other is contrived. BUT you must know how to use chi to be able to tell the difference... otherwise... this is just theoretics and symantics. Another way to put it is, is the movement coming from muscles or the organs? But you do really have to experience it to understand it.

All geometric diagrams represent mathematical real world dynamics. The above symbol simply illustrates the fusion between white and black, hot and cold, day and night. It explains that there is no hard line between yin or yang, rather that there are shades of grey. Metaphysically, these shades of grey can lead to a transmutation vortex, yellow, in this case. Generally this vortex is reached after the ninth trigram pass... in other words, after all 8 of the bagwa pal gae trigram have passed, the ninth is the transmutation phase that pulls into the center. If you apply this to taoist sexology, the application becomes clear. Clockwise is for tonification when penetrating, and counter clockwise is for sedation. In acupuncture, the application alludes to the ren mai, du mai and the chong mai with the yellow spot being the spine. If you follow the diagram, it shows you how to perform the microcosmic orbit breathing. This breathing is what is used to achieve lightness or mountainous rooting.

winpro, yes, you are correct BUT blood AFTER it has passed through the kidneys has much more JING in it than the blood right before it passes into the kidneys right? that's why they call it kidney jing. Ocean water is the same way. So all you have to do is figure out where the Earth's alchemical kidneys are located. This resultant earth water would be called, Gan Lao Sui or Sweet Dew or Jing of the Planet. There are only seven mountains that produce this energetically vital water. In China, Kun Lun Shan is the most powerful. In korea, Ji Rhee San produces this Gan Lao Sui. So, you see, you can't just make salt or even Alchemical 6 clove black garlic from just any mountain range. The Himalayas have other properties that make it powerful for other substances but as far as salt and alchemical black garlic, The most powerful for salt and herbs comes from Far Eastern mountains where taoists have settled. As a note, if you do travel to these mountains, the correct time to collect this running mountain is Tzu time or rat hour at the end of a long stream that is flowing toward the sun rise. Now, imagine if all of your blood, even the blood that is JUST ABOUT to get filtered by your kidneys was as vital and pure as the blood that LEAVES your kidneys. How much more vigorous would your vital organs be?

actually, since we are on the topic, if you want to personally try some alchemy... There is an elixir called Bai Fei Tang... or Baek Bi Tang in Korean. It is generally regarded as a mythological substance but I'll tell you how to to make it... and let me know how it feels afterwards. There are still martial taoist cults in china and korea that use this elixir to attain immortality today. ok. Basically you are trying to make a water that is high water. Take the nature of water then make it exponentially more wet. Water is basically a one layer hydration liquid... if you could make it even more wet, that's like taking five that burns on fire instead of fire that burns on wood. Take water that has been flowing a long distance (water element). The water must flow TOWARD the east (water element). (basically you can use tap water if you know that the water plant is to your west... or do the traditional thing and get water at the eastern base of a mountain). Then you take this water and simmer for 24 hours in a metal, not aluminum pot... BECAUSE... metal creates water... see 5 element wu xing chart. Start the low boil during hour of the rat and once again, stop the boil at the hour of the rat. Then, pour in a glass and place to the left of your head (water element directionally) as you sleep. Then... wake in the hour of the tiger to drink the water while your eyes are still closed. IF you open your eyes... this triggers the liver meridian (see any acupuncture chart... liver connects to eyes.) You dont want the water to go to your eyes... you want the water to go to your 8 psychic channels aka 8 extraordinary vessels. Now... here's the relevance... this water is water of water of water of water of water... to make it water to about the 8th power of water, add tao salt at your second hour of rat. salt is water element. 9 times roasted salt is alchemical. So... alchemical solid water (salt) gets mixed into alchemical soft water (tap water).. ps... make sure you stay in the dreamy sleepy meditative mode as you drink the water with eyes still closed. let me know what happens. It helps to be on a vegitarian diet for atleast a few days before you do this to feel a stronger effect.

Oh... i see what you mean... i spoke about the sea and the direction east referring to it as Wood element... i see how you could think it was a mistype since i mentioned the sea in the same breath. I was referring to the EAST being wood element. East is where energy starts. Sun rises in the east. Wood is where matter starts. You'll notice that east is the wood element in a 5 element alchemy chart.

Hello all. just a quick clarification re tao salt. since we are all taoists here i trust we all understand the energetic principles of feng shui and that the concept of alchemy doesnt scare anyone. tao salt is not bamboo salt or himalyan salt. tao salt is the thin top layer of film that bubbles to the top of a large vat of gallons of bamboo salt. The power of tao salt is NOT in the chemical or mineral composition. The effectiveness of tao salt is due to its extreme energetic polarity. the reason it is cooked 9 times is due to the bagua. if you take three binary positions, meaning, one position that can either be yin or yang, then you give it three positions... you have a total of 8, pal, ba, permutations. 2 to the third power. tao salt is burnt 9 times... if you've ever done a bagua walk, you circle the center until you finally enter the center and inhale the energy of the vortex you've just created. that penetration into the center is the 9th life. or ninth month or regenesis. Now, you cant just take salt and cook it alone in a metal pot. you've got to process it by counter balancing the salt against the others of the five elements. So... how tao salt is made is by putting pure eastern sun rising sea salt (this is wood element so cannot be from any mountain range - even himalaya. it must be from the sea) into bamboo (wood element), then you make an earth element lid of clay, and cook over a fire - fire element in a big metal vat. In the end, everything in the vat including the clay melts. after the bagua series of burns, only the thinnest film that bubbles to the top is tao salt. the remaining dense material that fills the whole vat is bamboo salt. Ps. harvard did a conclusive test on the anti tumor efficacy of tao salt a few years back. they were impressed.