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yeah they look just like that but they move pretty fast

thousands of dollars is going to be one tough gut feeling

and i'd say why are you so focused on this? in the weight room we'd say SHUT UP & SQUAT here i'll tell you SHUT UP & MEDITATE

this happens to me too, i have replaced my rooms light bulb about 3 times now while my parents room has remained unchanged for longer.

ok man you go project chi to the floor and try to levitate

i think you have no idea what you're talking about

he looks like a douche bag

it's not so much about david being legit its rather the claims he makes (or made) that get people asking questions. for example he said he was still on good terms with the mo pai but several actual mo pai students came on the forum and said this was wrong. it's also not only $10,000, they offer treatments and pills that could add on thousands to the additional fee.

i think taoism is perfect for our time period, it allows you to cultivate while still being a functional part of society.

i noticed some people posted comments on his blog, i'd love to see if he plans on doing a seminar and if he'd announce it on his website. i also wonder what he means by female practices.

i'm a metal horse ... zodiac wise and physical!

for the mo pai do they encourage celibacy/retention?

i think that if you can sit in full lotus, you should. i don't find it particularly damaging if done correctly, i don't even stretch and i can sit in it for about an hour accumulated time (20 mins/3 times a day) and the only thing i get is a very minor feeling in my left knee, which was probably from me doing it wrong the first few times. every time i sit i feel it in my hips as if they are opening, how it should be, not on your knees. i don't meditate in it by the way, i removed the back of my chair and the arms so i can sit in it while i'm at the computer (which is where i spend most of my time these days). this also has the double benefit of forcing me to sit upright -> good posture.

i'm still thinking about this all but it seems like i shouldn't join, this is now the second person who's in the military who tells me it isn't a good idea (one of them right off of army.com!) this mixed in with the possibility of coming back with a mental disease or physical trauma (you don't have to die you can lose an arm or a leg or both) are giving me more than enough to consider. whatever decision i choose to make i want to thank you scott for your advice, it's helped a lot.

i don't even stretch and i sit in full lotus for 20 minutes a day

could you explain what the level 1 meditation consists of?

yeah, really "i read the classics" go die

i wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it, i just think a lot of people here get bitchy because they can't sit in it; because you didn't do that just now, huh? edit: the blog also does emphasize sitting in it, he clearly states that the two people who did open their small heavenly orbit could sit in full lotus for long stretches of time - why else would he add that bit of information?

lol... that's not what the article says at all... i'm not anti-lotus but it appears any posture held that long will have that effect on another note though it sure does seem like it's better not to practice anything when you don't have a teacher, he basically says that almost every "microcosmic orbit" practice is false; not in those words but that you shouldn't have to visualize anything moving or nothing.

that makes 3 of us!!! (south florida users) yeah!!!

well, you may be able to, it hasn't been so hot here as there has been a lot of rain; it's doable just take a bottle of water with you

i can feel energy everywhere if i focus, i can do it a lot when i'm going to bed haha

oh ok, yeah i figured it was then i didn't sleep but it was like ughh the bed looks great right about now haha i'll start doing shirshana and the other mudras/bandha's as preparation, definitely going to try to make an august seminar haha cat it'd be the next sexual revolution if people started getting those... "ladies, you thought you knew all you had to know about sex... you where wrong! introducing the munching urethra!"

if it was between 4:00 - 6:00 pm then yes i did and for whatever reason i got real tired and i had to lay down if it wasn't then well i don't know, i'm pretty much energetically retarded unless i focus, lol. woah... dude... JgVFlTQnP0w& what the hell? the shirshana i can do and i used to do it before but that... that doesn't look normal at all