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Wow are there even pictures of that? Cool! Where to look, maybe I can give a hand!

Thanks YM, for completing the picture, not a big fan of big cities, because of the aforementioned reasons. Fact is, you can still live a decent life in decent non-major cities with far less money than that, of course, still depends on one's standards. Good marketing skills can make people buy an ordinary rock's weight in gold and still think it's an unbelivable bargain. We digressed. YM, any views on the OP's post?

Guess this explains the proportions of the Buddhist Cannon, although the Daoist Cannon isn't flimsy either, people need to read, think and contemplate the eternal truths. Me I found out the hard way that a safer path to cultivating (a sort of） Ming is living a healthy life, diversified diet and to implement key type workouts depending on physical state, season, environment. While I'd sure love to find out more about the famed 丹诀, even if I did I'm afraid I'm already too skeptical to just accept a teacher at face value, and that's not something Chinese teachers find very confortable, specially coming from a 洋鬼子。 They'd have to prove their worth just as much as I'd have to prove mine. Information I don't need, have tons of it already.

Yes Chidragon, many of the mortals on this very forum have little idea about what you're speaking of most of the time. Can't say I blame them. Why do you think the term 性命双修 is so popular in the neidan world. Simply because there are traditions that emphasize 性 over 命 and viceversa. A classic example for the former would be 佛教 , the latter, well... it seems to be what you're doing or mean to do most of the time, cultivating life force. While each type has it's own merits, they work best in concert. Funny thing, 性 practices tend to be public and free teachings, notwithstanding the fact that they yield the most precious of cultivation fruits: wisdom and enlightenment.

Asked some of my Chinese fellows how do they feel about the price, you should have seen their faces LOL

3600$ is roughly 22 000 RMB, that's an astronomical amount for a 'student in China'; teachers are paid 2400-3000 RMB a month. A five star hotel would be 5-600 RMB/day, all inclusive, which I'm sure is alot less than what they get. Robbing the bank aren't we. Even if I had the money I'd prolly still be too cheap to go for it, so maybe it's me.

opendao 道友 你师父是怎么说的，能否联系他呢。若说师父著名，给我说下名字，俺自己百度去，看起来你也忙得很。

Thanks, I will visit Wudang prolly next Spring. Don't want to come across as a blunt knucklehead, but as far as I know, real teachings are not to be sold, not sure what exactly you guys teach to foreigners. Expensive is not okay either, I'm just a student, not a businessman

Oh I thought you just missed it Thank you for making the effort of asking your 师父

If sitting is not reccomended, standing might be what he's pointing at. The effects of standing on the body are hard to be dismissed. Welcome to the Taobums, opendao, and blessing for having the heart to share the truth here! I am in China at the moment (汉语言文字学硕士生） and actively seeking for an authentic teacher in neidan/neigong, if you have any pointers please share.

If sitting is not reccomended, standing might be what he's pointing at. The effects of standing on the body are hard to be dismissed. Welcome to the Taobums, opendao, and blessing for having the heart to share the truth here! I am in China at the moment (汉语言文字学硕士生） and actively seeking for an authentic teacher in neidan/neigong, if you have any pointers please share.

yup, sometimes for the better we wouldn't want the heavens populated by half-wit dick-head immortals now would we (if they were, then i see no difference between our plane and the next, so no reason to strive for it, right?), hence high fences that keep guard to these mysteries me, if i find any taobums mopai trollers in heavens, i know i'm outta there!

nice one, especially wrt 'living' and 'dead' horse; dead-horse stance, has a nice ring to it someone hurry and paste this up on the horse stance threads asap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIBqd1kxoQk best way to go to sleep, by samuel jackson

what she gives you in return is a child, and the chanse of growing you up into a full-blown adult during the 9 months of pregnancy - that's because it usually takes that long for it to sink in; thick skulled men, we are before you ask questions like this, think how different was people's life when these techniques first came to be

I remember a movie where Bruce Lee and his master were playing Chinese chess, holding the chess table on their knees, of course in 骑马式。 I don't think it's a matter of strengh in the feet. I feel this practice trains the heart (as an organ) more than anything else. It's a standing still cardio. IMO, horse stance, squatting and lotus pose should be trained together. Genuflexions!

don't set your time target lower than 40 min what is below that, consider it a training to get there, and when you do, stay there or go higher

a typical doomsday cult, mixed with elements of native religion and practice, with their founder as the only saviour, people starving themselves to death to become immortals (bigu) and different hysterical phenomena, sounds like OP's cup of tea whatever the destabilizing risks of any intense social phenomena might be, in China is more than tenfold, because of the population density and viral character of religion - the government has to work hard to keep it balanced the Chinese party did what it had to do; if you measure other countries' political views by whatever you understand as 'American democracy', be well advised; it actively destroyed many countries, mine is one of them I used to criticise China for many faults that now I discover are in fact strong points, and, sadly, vice versa...

You only hear the Falun Gong side of the story, the natives here have a different view on the matter.

IMO I see way to many posters like the OP on the Taobums lately, for Taobums' sake, not healthy. The amount of time you spend writing inanities here, you could do something more productive, like GTFO and take the goddamn shower...

why would this have anything to do with chackras? or anything spiritual?

the heart has many layers, 108, your gentleness has to go through each of them, when you reach the core, you are closer to... in fact, so does the dantian, IME, the layears of organs and their specific vibrations act as gates and layers that separate the upper mind and the intuitive mind in the lower abdomen

i think your method is good， focusing on one organ at a time， dedicating more time to decongest it and cleanse it。 people forget too easy that purification is the most important preparation you could make for meditation。 later on if you want to toss in another element of chinese metaphyisics， watch the appropriat time for each of the organs。 there is very little that can replace having the energy in the organs balanced and replenished ：）

you can add up a sort of 'energy organ massage' , like the method of liping's five element meditation, used to practice it some time ago, adds a nice touch... you just move your hands in front of the organ, massaging an energy projection of it, else you can feel the projection of your fingers massaging deep inside the organ

the movie and the book aren't related as far as i know