Uncle Fester

You fall for your own assumptions and take them as truth instead of educating yourself on the subject. You're not a serious person. I'll pass on conversing with you.

All you've done here is made assumptions about a bunch of people you don't know. Nobody cares that Master Zhou likes to mess around with magic tricks. You have a guy who has proven himself legit many thousands of times and he wants to add in some magic tricks to entertain with. I've seen some legit MA guys add tricks too. I find it a rather cute aspect of Chinese culture myself. They want to add value to the presentation because they have some humility about their skills. And I guess it has another value. It weeds out the bad-faith actors such as yourself. Hey I can make assumptions too...You are governed by your assumptions and preclude yourself from firsthand experience with your entitled attitude. You reduce the experiences of thousands of people to nothing based on your childish assumption. And you are quite late to the troll party. There have been dozens of you over the years, use the search function and find out how many of you there have been. Meanwhile over the last decade and a half, while I could assume you have been learning to manipulate people with hypnosis, thousands of people have been visiting these very human masters to achieve better health and learn the neigong techniques. At least a dozen westerners who have started at zero, some here as Daobums, have been able to demonstrate their skills. Rudi is one of a group of regular dudes who sought this out around 15-20 years ago. He just went further faster, so now he is sharing.

uh oh double post my bad

Intimidation, obsessive last word duels, vomiting of secrets, cyberstalking…this is now a mopai thread.

I'd think the last thing you'd want is more advice from anonymous dudes on the internet. But your best local Chinese Medicine practitioner might be able to get you sorted. I hope you feel better.

Honestly if a group or individual doesn't want a continued public presence, for whatever stated reason true or false, why disrespect that and do the whole post-mortem TMZ meets Blue's Clues on a public forum? What is gained from it? Let the man rest in peace.

In the beginning mostly farts. And maybe some small deviations that we all mistake for progress. Then when the right things get activated and connected in the right order as the instructions from the teacher are followed, it doesn't matter how it can be categorized or what everyone types about it, because you are finally working with it directly and learning its behavior through firsthand experience and communication with the teacher.

Second-hand knowledge isn't knowledge at all. It's gossip.

Rudi is a very humble and genuine guy. What he isn't mentioning here, is that he is in Ukraine right now and woke up to explosions this morning. I imagine the call for feedback and price reduction might have something to do with wanting to get his ducks in a row in case he has to flee and put himself and his family into refugee status. So I want to support that with an update on how it is going for me now 5 months later. I had a bit of a head start in some ways, because I had done a few years of similar Waigong from a similar line of practice.So now after 5 months with Rudi, I am healthier. I've lost a good 25 lbs. The mellow energy of the stillness has permeated most of my days, with a balanced and stabled peacefulness. I react to stressful situations much more gracefully. But you want to hear about the qi of course, hehe. I am consistently and repeatedly showing signs that I am storing qi in the proper place now. I can warm myself up when I am cold, in a few minutes pretty consistently(though to be fair, we have only had a few days in the 50's this year here in LA). My lady has verified the external heat changes in my belly, along my spine and in the palms after practice as well. I won't get too deep into that, not to preserve some great mystery, but because I wouldn't want to ruin the process of learning for anyone. Same goes for the theory. It is not better to know the theory beforehand IMO. It takes away your ability to discover it firsthand sometimes. Leads one down the wrong preconceived notion at other times. I think some of the theory paramedics around here do everyone a disservice a lot of the time without realizing it, even in the cases where the theory is correct or close to it. Personal opinion, no disrespect to any individuals intended. Anyway, the first group of us just learned a bit of the preferred qigong of Rudi's current teacher. The opening is unlike anything I have done. The first posture is very much like things I've done before (as were parts of the other practices taught). It's crazy what a difference it makes doing things in the right sequence. What was just some wavy hands nonsense in one context, is a real way of moving discernible qi in the correct context once you have gathered a little bit of qi. Of course I am still just at the beginning, with a tiny amount of qi, but it is nice to experience something that isn't "well maybe I feel little something." And the effects on my health are undeniable.

The external one improved a little when I quit riding motorcycles. But what really cured them all for good was quitting toilet paper and installing a bidet shower (handheld butt sprinkler). Also got one of those little platforms for lifting your legs a bit when you go. It helps to circumvent the need to push hard. We are designed to squat for that after all. If you find yourself having to push due to some irregularity, TCM is much better in my experience than western medicine. I am not sure if that would still be the case if there were other manifested structural issues like polyps, though.

I used to be on here a lot when I was 10-15 years younger, thinking I knew stuff. Mostly arguing on behalf of this group or that group. You know how we do. I went and deleted it all. Glad I'm over all that. Anyway, it seems like this Neigong is really for the people who love to practice regularly and are open to the notion that faqi is but a clear, undeniable indicator of having enough qi to continue on to real applications of that qi in cultivation or medicine. I'd say from my little experience so far, it could also be for those who simply want better health or want to fix deviations from other practices. I'm here for the former, but finding I need the latter. And of course just a few weeks into the practice, I don't have a lot to report in the way of results beyond what has been described already by others here. But I have experienced some healing already. I had some wild qi due to practicing incorrectly with other groups amidst great work stress. It involved unwanted interaction with electrical devices and oversensitivity to practice sensation. I thought this was progress at first, until it became really uncomfortable. I also developed some acid reflux/bloating which may or may not have been a part of that. Rudi correctly diagnosed my issues via telegram as deviation and being too yang from previous unbalanced waigong practice. He prescribed doing just the stillness part of the training for a while. So now the stillness practice I learned from Rudi tames that wild qi, leaving me feeling warm and calmly energized. I am no longer interacting with electrical devices. I am much less sensitive to the practice sensations the were generated fro doing stuff wrong in previous practice. A bit of simple dietary advice from Rudi has eliminated the reflux for 5 days now. Not too shabby for a few weeks in. I have just started the neigong this week and I'm easing into it. As for benefits of Rudi's teaching style and methods: -Rudi is known amongst others who can faqi. He checks out there. -The practice is very simple if we let it be. -Rudi is very patient with us and our questions when we don't let it be simple. -Practice is spread out through the day in short sessions, which seems to have the side benefit of training one slowly over time to get in and out of the desired states quickly. -The class is via zoom and telegram for these beginning stages which is unheard of for this type of already rare neigong. -Rudi is dedicated to de-mystifying everything, yet retains enough explanation to ensure you aren't making up false results for yourself. -Considering what everyone else has had to endure to receive this training before us, we are extremely spoiled and fortunate. It is inexpensive at roughly the price of one car payment if you live in LA. If you want to do the ongoing training, it is less than your cellphone bill monthly. So, highly recommended if you are into this sort of thing. Get it while the gettin' is good.

I work in a non-glamorous part of the film industry. There are various departments for various types of work on a film set. The audio department has something nicknamed “butt plug” which is a transmitter that butts up against the microphone. The grip department has something nicknamed “butt plug” which is a thick cylindrical metal stand adapter. Now imagine it is your first day working as a production assistant on set and you get the call on your radio “Hey run to the truck and grab me a butt plug.” You might think of a third context for that term and wonder what kind of film set you are working on, right? Nomenclature isn’t necessarily universal, even in our concept oriented English. And it definitely isn’t in the much more function oriented Chinese use of language. One group's dantian is another group's xiatien is another group's xiao huandan and it may be called something else in the next stage of practice or if it has a different kind of qi, or it may be an object in this group or a function in another etc, etc. We sit around for years debating concepts we think are universal and have essence because that's what the Greeks taught us to do millennia ago. But It ends up being pretty pointless with this stuff. Personally, at this point I'm only interested in only using the right butt plug for the task at hand.

Greetings! I'd like to change my name to Uncle Fester if possible please. It's a nickname some workshop buddies gave me and thus they'll know who I am.Thank you!

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