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Lol, I think you'd have to play "Where's Waldo?" to find any bit parts. Let's face it, jive-talking CGI toons got 1000X more screen time than any Asian actors...in a series most heavily-influenced by Asian culture. Yep, Bruce Lee was "too Chinese" to put on TV...but Jar Jar Binks was not "too annoying" to score a lead role in a blockbuster franchise. Only in "liberally diverse" Hollywood are Asian men "too Asian" to play Asian men. And yes, Middle Easterners got left out too. Don't think Muslims are too popular in Hollywood for some reason, either..

Yup, one of the BIGGEST Hollywood series of all time - Star Wars - is a total, unapologetic rip-off of Far Eastern culture. Look, it's the Last White Samurai in Space! I just basically boycott Hollywood now. It's creatively and ethically bankrupt.

From my vague theoretical understanding at this point: 丹 "dan" is a red-colored essence/elixir. 田 "tian" is field. The "Neijing Tu" depicts this area as a farmer plowing a field. Which IMO, represents how the dan must be planted and cultivated like a seed with a lot of toiling effort. So until you cultivate this dan, your field is essentially empty - with little or no accumulated dan. Which, I'm guessing is why most of us don't feel anything there (as opposed to chakras). This is why a lot of Taoist masters say that you aren't born with a dantian - but it must be "created." Well, I think technically the dantian field is already there...but the dan itself must be "created." This is essentially the first major step in Taoist alchemy (Neidan).

What's the RA scale?

功夫 (gong1 fu5) = "human achievement" or "skill from effort." 功夫 is also a synonym for 工夫 (gong1 fu5), which signifies time. So, 功夫 is essentially the skill developed with lots of time & effort.

This is a sign of qi moving, yes? Anyone??

Awesome. Could you go more into your own personal sensations that you experienced when you finally opened your microcosmic orbit here? I think there's still a lot of people confusing some slight "false water wheel" sensations with a full-on MCO opening...which I believe is fairly powerful with numerous confirmatory signs & symptoms. Or maybe I'm overestimating it, so it would be great to hear more feedback from people who are really sure they have opened theirs. Here's an interesting account of a symptom of opening the MCO: And then describes the next step of opening the macrocosmic orbit:

It's to build up a critical mass of qi in the dantian, which will then naturally open the MCO. According to Taoist Yoga, this happens by converting your prenatal jing to prenatal yang qi. But if you have sexual thoughts, your prenatal jing will convert to postnatal jing and seek to drain out. So, you may have already gone down the wrong fork of the road at this point...even if you retain. Or at least, that's my foggy understanding of it so far... No, extended celibacy is not easy. Nor is meditating for hours daily, for months on end. Yes, this involves sacrifice and a lot of disciplined perseverance. You basically have to desire liberation like a drowning man gasping for air! Or else, your motivation will simply not be enough to put yourself through such extreme paces. I think you have to push yourself and your life to the breaking point...to make a breakthrough. Which is all why 99.99% of people out there don't even seriously try, or try and fail. If it was that easy - many, many more people would have already attained such things... I mean, I'd do whatever you can now and don't beat yourself over it. But, I think when you're lonely and single is really the best time to undertake this process. When you have much more free time, and much less temptation!

(Grandmaster Pak Eddy Surohadi in black jacket.) Yea, qigong appears to be a true fountain of youth. Here's another qigong "master" who is nearly 47 in this , yet also looks much younger: tL3Vc35F42k

Who's that??? Qi Compression Bone Breathing or Bone Marrow Nei Kung Nice! How does bone breathing or bone marrow neigong help open the MCO or kundalini though? Or is it more for general health?

1) Weight training primarily trains only muscles. That's why a lot of these huge bodybuilders might be able to lift a lot, but could still have bad posture or not be able to hold a straight handstand. Their may also look very physically fit, yet actually not be very healthy. 2) Bodyweight training trains both muscles and skeletal alignment (body mechanics). A prime example of this is a gymnast, or Vinyasa yogi. These guys are generally both extremely physically fit with fully-developed musculature and great body mechanics. 3) "Gym" yoga primarily trains your skeletal alignment (body mechanics). A lot of great "physical" yogis have great alignment, but may not be extremely physically fit or muscular. He may also have better-than average, but not necessarily great qi condition. 4) Qigong primarily trains your qi. Qigong masters will generally have great qi condition. This will often include great health, slowed aging, longevity and some siddhic powers. They will probably also have decent skeletal alignment, but may not be muscular (or even physically fit) at all. Personally, I focus primarily on 4 right now...and just barely dabble in 2 & 3. 1 is basically useless to me for my purposes right now.

Are you serious? Even if these people have no prior training? What is your methodology? Are you just that powerful a daigong, or what??? America has been taken over by ivory tower liberals and neo-Marxists over the last half-century. That is why our country is failing now and $12 trillion in denial/debt. Those who ignore history...are doomed to repeat it.

Make sure you work on counter-rotating your legs back from your hip sockets. Because the counter-rotation here is the key to full-lotus. IOW, your toes should not be pointing forward, but pointing up or even backwards in this stretch. Ideally, your whole body would be flat on the ground with your toes pointing back (no, I am not even close to doing this myself yet!): Taomeow - I heard Weilun Huang can lay flat on the ground in a perfect T. From his depth in "snake creeps down," I believe it. Stretching and sitting progressively towards full-lotus seem to combine cross-training for mental, energetic & physical aspects that all mutually crossover and support each other. So instead of doing a handful of separate exercises, this one alone efficiently covers several bases at once. And selected ones that specifically work towards the same goal. The stretching and posture itself help to open the kua. This is a fundamental foundation in martial arts. The groin is a key physical and energetic junction point, and so opening it should improve both physical and energetic functions. I seem to have more loose mobility and circulation in my crotch now. Also, most of us typically have a weak lower back and kidneys. Well, sitting straight up in full-lotus seems to target the lumbar region and lengthen and strengthen the muscles and ligaments there. After several months of just half-lotus, my handstands have improved a lot. Why? I think because my spine has gradually become more posturally aligned and my lumbar region also straightened and strengthened. Point being, working towards full-lotus is not a quick fix. It is a slow, incremental process. But one that may reward you with a host of various, sustained benefits. Disclaimer: Of course, common sense safety measures apply here. Know your limits and I wouldn't try this if you have lower body injuries. Take things very slow and don't force "progress." I drop down into the T-stretch veerryy slowly in order to bypass the protective myotatic reflex and reprogram my fascia to "melt" and release. Another tip here is to pretend someone is pulling the tip of your tailbone back, and to initiate your bend from down there - so eventually your a-hole is pointing straight back like a tailpipe. And I think the further back you tuck your feet towards your hips while in lotus, the less stress gets put on your knees.

I thought once you open your MCO or awaken your kundalini, it's permanent, though? Also, what is Gurdjeff's numbered list of levels? Seth - I have since found that the one key stretch is actually this one. That is actually quite on-point.

Interesting, according to Taoist Yoga, you should eventually start getting non-sexual hard-ons during meditation...before your breakthrough. Something similar also happened to Glenn Morris as well. And, do you mean hold both hands down in front of your LTT, or one in front of your 3rd eye and the other down in front of your LTT?

50 a day? Lol, were these spontaneous or what were you doing to cum 50X per DAY??? And, so after your heart chakra opened...your "regular" genital orgasms got "sublimated" into heart chakra energetic ejaculations? Did this translate into 50 ejaculations per day too, or maybe less but more intense ones? Also, how did you open your heart chakra and what was that opening experience like?

Hello TQ. Could you tell us the experiential symptoms and confirmatory signs of opening your Small Heavenly Orbit and Great Heavenly Orbit? It would be useful for this poll here...to help people know if they really opened these or not. Thanks!

Interesting point. Perhaps a woman's femininity (and possibly orgasmic ability?) is proportional to how open her heart chakra is? And most (inorgasmic?) macho-feminist American women today - probably have closed heart chakras? And I don't think anyone says siddhis are evil...just that they can become distractions from your main path if you let them. But, these alleged abilities sound like they've been exaggerated, anyways. I mean, if the guy still has a superhuman arm - can't he at least simply prove it now in a gym or arm-wrestling competition? Where's the hard evidence for any of these war stories?

Well, there were most likely several Chinese migrations to the New World. One speculation is that those fleeing the collapse of the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty helped found the Olmec civilization (which preceded the Mayans). There are a lot of cultural similarities which support this. The Chinese Buddhist monk Hui-Shen may have then landed in California or the Pacific Northwest in 459 CE, calling it Fu Sang. And there also appears to have been at least another Chinese migration into the Peruvian Incas, after that. Zheng He's hypothesized arrival could have fallen into this same time period, if not later. There's another old thread on all this here.

No, you can't, can you? Cuz no matter how "sure" you are...you can't be sure that you aren't just dreaming, right? And that after you "smoosh to the ground"...you might simply wake up... Point here being that regardless of how "sure" an outcome may be "physically," the entire underlying reality is never "for sure," is it? IOW, how can you ever be sure that you're not simply in some illusive "reality?" ANd therefore, whatever happens there...is also illusive?

Why do you have to explain it? I only explain it now if they seem interested. If not, I simply don't go there. Just like any other topic, I suppose..

Ok, you obviously already pushed her out of her comfort zone. So, if you want to get any further with her, I suggest you back out of that dead end and talk about something else that she's more interested in/comfortable with. Trust me, I already went through this phase the last 2 years too and have since learned my lesson! Most girls in this country file New Age or Eastern beliefs under the "weird & creepy" category along with cannibalism or headhunting.