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不單是設置可輸入中文的環境 , 還要懂倉頡輸入法呢 . 會倉頡輸入法的外國人 , 線上很少踫到 .

Forums like Xiulian , "知乎" , "天涯" .. did have quite lot of posts about Daoist cultivation before, but in recent years , as more restrictions imposed they become less active .

To be granted a 3rd eye ability means our gain of one more spiritual dimension to our existence , which is great to us as a 3D creature who claims to be intelligent( analytic cum intuitive ability ), yet always suffers due to our inability to see those unknown and uncertainties . However, we cannot attain it by focusing our mind on the upper dantian , visualizing something strange nor electrically charging some part of our brain . Assume that there is a 2D world living creature who now gets his brain , yet all his senses and minds are accustomed and stuck to the 2D world he lives in , how can we add that extra-dimensional ability ( now a top-view of his world ) to his mind's eye , allowing him to see those originally blocked dots and lines , or not yet emerged / happened events earlier ? The key first is to detach . Contrary to most people who think that mindfulness, more focus or higher levels of abstractions that might do the job, it is to detach from his world , his senses and his conceptions that can attain it . It is to the utmost of that series of detachment that an extra dimension comes in.. ; such a way is unique , and likely applies to n-th dimensional worlds as long as consciousness , or more precisely speaking , self-consciousness , exists in them.

This is quite a common trouble we can find on the internet..,anyway , some ideas: 1) As beginners , deliberately lead qi to somewhere or intensively focus on dantians / acupuncture points , is something you should not do. 2) Do not start by focusing your mind on Upper Dantian because as beginners , hardly can you grasp the strength of doing it . If the trouble is generated by over-focusing on some upper dantian/ acupuncture points on the head , then shift your focus to the lower dantian ( main source of qi in our body ) or acupuncture point on your foot sole , say Yongquan : can be the solution.

All organs ( lung, heart, stomach..) , their jing and qi rise to our head, enabling us to think, to see and to hear ; stomach qi is especially important for the ability of our thinking ; conversely, thinking too much makes our stomach ache , undermines our digestive ability . Old people whose ability to learn as quickly and easily as youth people deteriorates also experiencing a decline process of their digestive ability .

It is said that stomach , our digestion ability , is the basis for our post-natal energy . And , kidney , jing inside it is the basis of our pre-natal energy , which is always symbolized as some kind of Fire . The ability of digestion , to the final analysis , relies on how strong that Fire underneath be . People after their 50s likely understand this easier as they now eat less , easier to have a feeling of stagnation after eating ..etc . To make thing worse, eating less means weakening the jing inside our kidneys and further makes our digestive weaker .. so here is a bad , negative feedback circulation. How well ( easier to sense those delicate, subtle layers of emptiness , quicker to enter those statuses ..etc ) we can do the emptied Mind meditation is related to the quality and quantity of the jing we get ( this is crucial to differentiate the Taoist way from the Buddhist ) , so to any old -aged practitioner , of course, he /she has to pay attention to his eating and drinking . Seldom do Buddhist ways pay enough attention to this , but in TCM and Taoist alchemy materials , you get tons of materials about them.

Doing Taoist alchemy means your cultivating Tao, which is something you should not deviate , even for an instant ; that means no matter you go to toilet , sit on bus , have your lunch, you can do it , say emptying your mind or paying attention to your Dantien . However, if you in fact are doing some medical qigong stuff, say massaging some acupuncture points on your body , then you should avoided doing it before or after eating your meals.

用繁體寫帖好啊 , 勇氣可嘉 . 單是如何在電腦上輸入 , 就是一難題.

Death is not something happens in future , some many years away ; death happens right at and because of our everyday mediocrity . This is why people say : " You can't deviate from Tao even for a minute of time " . Always stay on the highland , in a high energy status so that everyday scenario , our habits and emotions not making us leak our jing, qi and shen ; without such a discipline and self-awareness , we are doomed to succumb to aging , diseases and death .

Medical qigong stuff , its characteristics either is attached to breathing or attached to dantian / posture / visualization..etc . Maybe good for trivial diseases .., but far away from anything great .

Quite agree . Teaching medical qigong , Taiqi ..etc as a commodity is okay , nothing wrong . Just like someone who teaches you how to play some kind of sports that makes you healthier and happier, and he charges you some money for it . Neidan is totally something different . If any guy who really knows the key , or any crucial skills about it , not those mostly are just medical qigong stuff , the first thing he does is not to set up a website boast of how capable he is , but how to hide among the crowd .. ; the Taoist saint walks on path totally different from common people's , if someday you meet him , it is because he deliberately changes his path to enter yours , not because of your chase after him .

It is strange to think that spiritual problems can only be answered in a spiritual way , not in a physical way ; maybe it is true for people who follow the Buddhist style of cultivation , but it definitely is not the case if you follow the Taoist way . An emptied mind , if you do it correctly , definitely will give rise to physical changes in your body , say diseases be cured or your aging be reversed even your having paid no attention to them . So, seeing this , you can estimate that likely you are on a right path of your spiritual cultivation . It is important to know that if your mind consolidates (not just empties ) , your jing will also consolidate ; (" 神凝則精凝" ) Note that having jing consolidated means it not leaking , can be accumulated , and no longer be deficient . Deficiency of jing , therefore deficiency and imbalance of qi , is the main reason of those diseases and aging.

If you are doing medical qigong , or try using the so-called "post-heavenly " qi to do some cure , then drinking some alcohol does help you initializing and enhancing qi ; or you mix alcohol with some herbs , say Ginseng or Dang Gui , to enhance its curing effects; you can find tons of these materials related to alcohol in TCM writings . If you are doing Taoist alchemy , then drinking alcohol is unlikely to be proposed as in that area, a delicate application of your mind is necessary ; drinking alcohol expands your qi and makes you not capable of consolidating your mind , besides, arousing sex drive ..etc all are not so beneficial .

From Zhongyongdaoist's post : It existed in China as can be seen in this quote from the Confucian, Mencius: It is the same Mencius further says : " 吾善養浩然之氣.. 其為氣也，至大至剛，以直養而無害，則塞於天地之間 " ( " I am good at nourishing that magnificent qi ..such qi fills the whole universe , so enormous and strong that we can nourish it straight without worry " ) so for both Confucians and Taoists , the precondition for those ten thousands things inside us , for such a great joy inside us is the common ground : qi ; without it , we can not overcome the sufferings and adversities in life. Yet the existence of a bodily boundary and the qi so weak we initialize separate the internal qi and the external qi , making us not sense them as a unity . Therefore most of us remain living in the world as mediocre folks, hardly appear as any kind of saints or heroes .

Likely qi fixes scoliosis , along the spinal cord is where the Du channel runs ..

Chinese Buddhist texts is one of the most difficult areas of the classical Chinese , I appreciate anyone , especially western scholars , who are brave enough to do such an attempt . Also because it is one of the constituents of the Chinese and Japanese cultures ,it seems to be something difficult to evade if you aim at high-level spiritual achievement

Similar to nature , heat air rises to the heaven ,then it gives rise to lightning and rain downwards..

Some may feel it as a stream of energy with heat , even with some light.

There are two things , as preconditions , you need to have in order to attain an eternal life or something spiritually great : 1) You are capable of initializing qi . Unable to get such an ability beforehand means you get no criteria to measuring how good or how high a level your spiritual practice is or will be . Note that praying , visualization or how well you imagine things , is some kind of subjective experience or creation , hardly any kind of criterion to be used to judge itself , and is unmatched to a criterion like qi so reliable . 2) You somehow know what a genuine emptied Mind look likes . In capable of tasting some flavor of it will either make you mistake those talks in Buddhist Sutra as philosophical stuff , or make you ignore those spiritual presuppositions that Taoist emphasize before doing your MCO .

People who follow the Buddhist way must know the Taoist framework of jing-qi-shen otherwise they very likely will fall into the trap of ignoring the importance of body energy; people who follow Taoist way must know Zen's criticisms about attachments to ideas, forms and statuses otherwise they definitely will be entangled by those tricks of MCO or visualization , not capable of achieving anything great .

Our Self , is not just composed of two big chunks: the upper consciousness and the lower biological needs and drives . If we look at it through the Maslow's hierarchy of needs , from top to bottom , there are more layers : need of self-fulfilment, need to be respected, need to feeling safe.. and the bottom, biological needs of sex , food and shelter . A male in depressed mood can be pressed to sex addiction , not only because he has accumulated lot of jing in celibacy ; it is just like some women who are urged to eating snacks or buying clothes under stress . So, conversely, those emotions, whether they are suppressed , not being noticed , or fully sensed but not controllable : fear , anger, jealousness, hatred , unrest .. can all be / should be used as ' fuels ' burning for the emptied Mind . Or, doing / thinking it in the way around , it is the emptied Mind that is the thorough , at one stroke way to solve all troubles . Also it is in this sense that doing our cultivation in earthly world is much more meaningful than doing it on the top of high mountain or in deep cave . In fact , only after having trained in those earthly hardships, can we secure what we have achieved .

Sex drive can be used as fuel burning for attaining an emptied Mind , the initial condition is just the ability of mobilizing qi . Passion and emotions , such as worries, jealousy , fear, vanity ...etc can also be used as fuels for it , not only jing and qi .

The result of sex intercourse is same as nocturnal emission as long as leakage of jing does happen. It makes no differences whether it happened in sane state or deep sleep; or whether it is accompanied with wet dream or without wet dream ; or, whether via your own hands or via other sex's body. In fact , people who adopt the paying-attention-to-the-dantian way of cultivation are especially entangled by this problem for the more jing and qi they have accumulated at their abdomen, the more momentum /urge that force them to release it , if not in awake state, then it likely in their dreams. The sex drive will disguise as your own self , making you think that you are acting at your own will , for your own interest .

"attached to the idea of non-attachment " means attaching to the emptiness , which is just another kind of attachments that fails many people's attempts to attain a genuine mindless Mind . Such a loophole , regardless of many people's ignorance of it , is fully understood by both Taoism and Zen . However, the ways to solve it can be very difficult , much more difficult than your trial of solving some abstract mathematical theorem /conjecture because "intuitive abstraction" * is much difficult to grasp than analytic abstraction that we do in daily life . Ways to deal with it can be : 1) " 為著有者說空 , 為著空者說有 " ( " To those attached to beings , you preach emptiness ; to those attached to emptiness , you preach being " ) 2) Negation of negation : You try negating the " attachment of non-attachment " , thinking that your intention of getting ride of attachment to emptiness can make you attain the genuine emptiness ... ; unfortunately , it likely only leads you to a series of negations without end or outlet . 3) " 當下無心, 悟無所得" ( " At one stroke you forget all minds , and expect no attainment, achievements.. from it " ) * A term sounds contradictory as people always view intuition as a direct , flash-like grasp of some truth in some area of knowledge or skills ; the fact that emptiness does get layers is the basis for such a claim .