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You wait and wait at a succubus stop then three come at once.

Congratulations that is supremely bonkers.

The more you sit and forget the better. Welcome to the site.

Who put the Dan in the Nei Nei Dan, who put the shen in the shen shen di woop?

Have you seen the price of copper wire?

Has anyone read this text (I am thinking of the one published by Golden Elixir Press trans. Fabrizio Pregadio)? And more importantly has anyone used it as a basis for practice?

Have a look here: https://www.goldenelixir.com/goldenelixir_press.html

I am no expert but would recommend reading the Cantong qi as the first historical Neidan text and Wang Mu for the steps in the process.

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NO! It isn’t!

Was it - mo pai broke my Dan tien?

Naked tai chi - it must be a thing - I’ll check google.

Do your worst!

Tai chi is the most fun you can have in pajamas.

Good but no downvote.

Vegan women with cats have no steak in their future.

Reliable thoughts are those that rally round to support you when you are questioned or challenged. They are on call 24/7 to talk about jhanas, shamatha and vipassyana, sitting and forgetting, the LDT and the MCO. You all know them well. Like the mustered troops of a well maintained militia they defend our freedom of thought and give good service in times of need, especially when our island home is threatened. I am not talking about those thoughts. I am talking about unreliable thoughts and ideas - not born of system or ideology - but the thoughts that point to un-being and truth. Picture the most perfected and skilful you - trained in the arts, master of reason, perfectly poised and focused - sitting alone, your mind is calm and tamed. Your house is aligned and harmonious. The air is perfumed by the most pleasing aromas. Small birds flutter past the wide windows between the trees and a gentle sunlight glitters on a limpid pond. Your breath is quiet and almost still, your robes folded in place, your feet are warm. Deep peace settles on your heart. Without effort your attention playfully light rides on your soft breath and sinks into an inner strength hid in a responsive fluidity. Nothing will disturb you now. One thing resolves to another. Time moves. A quintessential heat moves. Space itself hums with solid power. A gold sun bobs in a sea-like sky. You are there and yet not there. Nothing seems to move out of its place because the point of reference is everywhere, co-present, perfect, silent but not silent. Somewhere a gong sounds. You rise. It's dinner time at last. You have unreliable thoughts. There is no meditation at all. There never was. Laughing you stuff dumplings in your mouth and chew. At last you are useless and free.

I go by this ancient teaching from ‘Carry on up the Dantien’ ”When the fleet is in port the town is full of discharged seamen”

Football is the round thing you kick and not the game! Fools.

Such is their propaganda of course.

There was at one time but it was largely purged - though traces remain.

Yes I agree - something like intelligent energy - or information conveying energy - just as light has spectral information perhaps. It is quite difficult to pin down in definition and these are just words around the subject.

All matter is energy.

Thank you for your grim bleakness 😀

@Taomeow and @Taoist Texts In terms of divinatory methods ... is there a distinction between passive enquiry (such as what will happen if ...)/ and auspicious days and so on and active enquiry such as 'how can I best achieve this goal' or even more 'oh spirits make it so!' such as actually creating the conditions for something to happen?