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I think it was the old original Kung Fu TV series where I first heard the word Daoism.

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Other people have this problem? Evening practice keeping them up?

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bump Its a credit to a great Anime show that it inspires such conversation. As I understand it they had talented group of spiritual practitioners and martial artists working with the writers.

Hi Dalmat, This comes a little late but better then never; the standard TDB welcoming statement- Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, Michael and the TDB team

Welcome. Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, Michael and the TDB team I did KAP and enjoyed it. my 2 cents is be careful with reverse breathing, like many energetic 'packing' exercises less (ie gentler) is more. Unless you have an experienced teacher telling you different.

Welcome aboard. Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, Michael & the TDB team It'd be fascinating to hear your stories about dakini's but just as importantly about what you think led up to meeting them. ie the practices or devotions that came before.

Here's a write up of my experience of it

Used to be, medical help treated badly in the Philippines would come here, to the US. Same with Haiti.. many places. And they were most welcome, we were lucky to have them. Nowadays, immigration has been closed tight. sadly

Liminal Luke's post showed me this excellent quote- There is Truth, the truth of the Truth and there is Peace. The truth is "the boy stole an apple", the truth of the Truth is "the boy was hungry" and Peace is "nobody stole anything, now, give the boy an apple." -Nachman of Breslov

Back to the OP You're from Auckland, NZ. That's that's on my bucket list of places to visit. I traveled with NZers in my back packing days, what a fun group. What's the mood there? How well are are the esoteric arts of meditation and qigong represented?

Whoa.. this isn't funny, but let me add- In 1883, it shook the world.

I've had this problem too, trying to upload some mp3s.

There's been a bad tendency lately to use the Welcoming area as soap box for what we're against, and it seems alot like trolling. People introduce themselves and ask about a practice or style and the thread becomes a flame war. In my opinion, its good to tell them your feelings on it and why, then leave it alone. After a warning, respect them, perhaps they'll listen and have some extra caution but it's there path. Lets not hound people or brow beat them into our way of thinking. At best give them an alternative, but we ought to turn down the rhetoric and not carry on arguments from thread to thread. If we didn't get involved in dumb practices early on, we wouldn't know enough to appreciate the good ones. Nothings so dumb, that we can't learn something from it.

During Aikido meditation classes, breathing exercises were considered separate from meditation. For the exercise we'd often use long even breath cycles, up to a minute. In meditation we'd let that go, but the advantage of practicing long breaths was that during meditation without trying our natural breath would get longer. Which I believe eventually happens during meditation practices but maybe we'd arrive at deep and long faster, due to specifically training on it.

The fact that you're asking the question means for you, there probably is.

My money is on the Thai's. The Tibetans are past there prime and while the Taiwanese have much fighting experience, the ability to close and finish plus other brutal techniques will give Thailand Buddhist masters the win. While it'd undoubtedly do well on Pay per View, I'm hoping it doesn't come down to a fight. As outlandish as that is, I recall there was one young newly chosen Zen monk who had to run for his life after being picked as the future Patriarch. Wikipedia- Succession of Hongren However, on the next day, the Patriarch secretly went to Huineng's room and asked, "Should not a seeker after the Dharma risk his life this way?" Then he asked, "is the rice ready?" Huineng responded that the rice was ready and only waiting to be sieved.[11] The Patriarch secretly explained the Diamond Sutra to Huineng, and when Huineng heard the phrase "one should activate one’s mind so it has no attachment," he was "suddenly and completely enlightened, and understood that all things exist in self-nature."[11] The Dharma was passed to Huineng at night, when the Patriarch transmitted "the doctrine of sudden enlightenment" as well as his robe and bowl to Huineng. He told Huineng, “You are now the Sixth Patriarch. Take care of yourself, save as many sentient beings as you can, and spread the teachings so they will not be lost in the future.[11] Escape from monastery He also explained to Huineng that the Dharma was transmitted from mind to mind, whereas the robe was passed down physically from one patriarch to the next. Hongren instructed the Sixth Patriarch to leave the monastery before he could be harmed. "You can stop at Huai and then hide yourself at Hui."[11] Hongren showed Huineng the route to leave the monastery, and rowed Huineng across the river to assist his escape. Huineng immediately responded with a clear understanding of Hongren's purpose in doing so, and demonstrated that he could ferry to "the other shore" with the Dharma that had been transmitted to him.[11]

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Peace- Peace B. I don't study his stuff recently but years ago I did. Very thought provoking, I consider him a pioneering figure in getting Daoist energy arts to the West. I think in live classes he'd be a great teacher but with just books, things get lost in translation without live instruction. I went on to classes with Michael Winn. Which of his practices do you like most?

While I enjoy Sadhguru's talks, this one is bizarre. I don't understand why anyone would study such a strange necronomic subject. But its a big world.

Strange stuff, but looks..invigorating. how do you like it? Is it similar to this? reminds me a little bit of the Golden Bell qi gong classes I took long ago, but those were mostly abdominal, at my level anyway.

I get the feeling Steve's Virtue Signaling is a natural phenomena caused by lots of virtue.

When I was playing that, my wife in the other room called out, 'Tiger Walking'; a Yang stylized walking sequence. Amazing, she got it, or was close, from the just the music!? I need simple. I'm a raw beginner at Tai Chi, don't know any forms and trying to get one from a video or even from a kind offer like Earl Greys, I don't think I'll get it or it'll stick. In the vernacular of the martial arts I am the slow horse, which has advantages, while slow to learn, tends to learn well. I've been watching a couple forms on the internet and none seem easy enough for me, though pieces of them are good. I'm sure its a game of persistence, but I probably need live instruction and the class I've been is canceled, no loss since I didn't particularly like the teaching style. I like Pangu, which is short and simple. I like Michael Winn's simple Chi gung forms, which I'm sure are pieces from larger forms, done repeatedly.