Gerard

No, I don't. There are many meditation techniques. They are all valid. You need to find and stick to the one that works FOR YOU.

Watch this video and you'll know the depth of what is really going on: Try this guide: http://kusala.online-dhamma.net/文字資料/南傳佛教圖書館 Theravada Buddhism E-Library/078 資訊 Information/Pa Auk Monastery/Introduction of Pa Auk Meditation Centre.pdf Probably needs an update but the monasteries are still there. Good luck

This Dragon, one of the 12 Elemental energies, is one to watch for in spring. Just saw it rising up to the sky in my Liver channel the other day during meditation practice. Let's appease the dragon with some robust raw puerh harvested from old trees. Pasha Mt 2015 should do the job. Hot water, some leaves a small white gaiwab and let the magic happen.

In this case, we can apply the following principle put down by Rousseau: "There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened."

Obstacles will pop up your entire life! Even Buddhist arahants claimed that the battle with the Mind is constant, on a daily basis until you are all free from any delusions and attachments of all sorts. Battle against lust, attachment to a physical form as the ultimate factors and then the whole lot: anger, resentment, fear, ego, restlessness, etc., etc. Then you as a beginner have to restablish balance of the internal organs (yin-yang & fine tune the five forces) and open up meridians and all joints. This is a very slow process. So, go easy, go slow and enjoy the ride plus the ripes of your own effort. There is also a lot of joy once you realise the full transformation you'll experience while looking back at your former 'self'', the old you.

That means you got a LONG JOURNEY ahead of you. Enjoy the blood, sweat and tears. As Mr Miyagi said in "The Karate Kid:" wax on, wax off, wax on, wax off...

For fighting, I'd personally choose Muay Thai over anything else. 1. Very effective 2. No frills 3. It's the foundation of MMA

I have the experience to say that healing the internal organs is a very slow process as you aren't really healing matter but your own energetic make up: -Water (the source of fear and panic) -Wood -Fire -Earth -Metal How long have you been practising for and at what age did you start?

What follows is a good case. The granitic outcrop known as "Peña Sirio" is located in La Pedriza nature reserve (Spain). The name to this cliff was given in the early XX century by some locals who noticed that the star Sirius was coming out behind this cliff during the night hours. Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word Σείριος (Latin script: Seirios), meaning lit. 'glowing' or 'scorching.' Incidentally this area is scorching hot in the summer months. Sirius is colloquially known as the "Dog Star", reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (the Greater Dog). The heliacal rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nilein Ancient Egypt and the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, the star marked winter and was an important reference for their navigationaround the Pacific Ocean. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius Doesn't Peña Sirio have an uncanny resemblance to a dog?

Indeed poor WC, but legit stuff is out there: Based in Canada.

The formula is very simple:

You want to learn an effective MA? Let me vouch for Muay Thai: Grab a punching bag, a pair of gloves and let's get started. You'll need sparring too as a means of using the art for practical purposes. Leave the wonderful Chinese internal arts for inner cultivation, fitness and health reasons. Combining an external with an internal art can be very tricky.

It isn't worth it. Even a supposed Ba Gua fighter has a chance against a MMA fighter as shown in this video: The MMA guy was gentle IMO. Imagine a Chen stylist. He probably would have been KO instantly. And any of those guys against a formidable opponent like Mike Tyson would have been severely injured with a high chance of dying on the ring.

IMO dead completely as such. According to the historical writings, after retiring from his military post to his native village-- the Chen village of Henan province-- Gen. Wangting Chen （陈王廷1597-1664) integrated the principles of martial arts and his own battlefield experiences with the Yin & Yang and Five Elements theories. This created the first modern form of Taijiquan– the Chen style Taijiquan (陈式太极拳). Since its emphasis originally was on martial applications, the movements in the first Chen style Taijiquan are alternatively slow, quick and explosive motions. Every move is performed with reference to battle. Source: https://www.utc.edu/arts-and-sciences/social-cultural-and-justice-studies/anthropology/wheelchair-tai-chi-chuan-program/story I'd love to see anyone today practicing the way they did back then.

You can't drive a car without a seatbelt on but you can jump out of an airplane without a parachute!