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Are proper cultivation and sexuality on a physical or subtle plane always mutually exclusive? Do deities/spirits have any significance in daosim or are they to be considered illusion? Is having a physical teacher essential for proper cultivation, or can wisdom about the how and where arise spontaneously? These feel like naive questions for some reason. Feel free to omit all/any or even provide an answer yourself;) edit: rephrased

The reason is actually the vibrations and possible turbulences could cause a premature delivery so it's a really a health concern. Also I am sure it is no fun giving birth on a plane.

Dear Lin, thank you for your insights. You definatly have a point, my chronicly poor health can account for that I should mention that I made a typo in my earlier post. It should be B12 of course, not V12. If you are curious, Wikipedia has good entry on B12. Greetings, Gunther

It actually says it all in the intro text of the board:

Where did you see the discussion? Didn't they make the board paying member only?

Lin, I've tried to research a source of Vtamin 12 in the plant world, but I could not find any. So i get my V12 from cow's milk. I eat mainly ayurvedic and using milk is fine in that context (unlike eggs for example). Have I overlooked a plant source for V12? Thanks.

I am curious, if these kinds of experiences are just being manufactured by the mind, how come often visions proof to be true at a later time? For exmaple, from experience it seems to me that the astral body really can travel to remote places. At least external circumstances adjust themselfs to it.

I just noticed that these instructions can also be found at Dao Zhen's website with the advantage of providing a few diagrams showing the different positions which i found very helpful. Silk Brocade Practice at eternal spring tours

This is a great oppertunity. Thank you dao zhen. P.S.: Love your gallery

Just take the same stuff you put on meat and just put it on tofu!

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Yes, you need to at least eat diary products (if not meat) in your diet for the B12 vitamin if nothing else. It cannot be found in a useable form in plants and cannot be synthesized by the body. Personally I would be really interested in a vegetarian chinese cuisine book that adheres to the five elements philosophy. I already cook mainly indian (while paying attention to balance the doshas) with much success (and its yummy to boot!!!). Is it even possible to do proper five elements cooking without using meat? I would be curious. Chinese vegetarians seem to be quite uncommon

That sounds quite familiar. Do you know what kind imbalance is the cause of that?

I usually order from a german retailer (buch.de), which in this case would be much cheaper (half the price when compared to co.uk) . So i guess its price versus speed

I just checked, being in Germany it takes around 6 weeks to get Eva wong's book delivered (Taoist Yoga took "only" three weeks). I still whole heartedly support the choice though and I'm sure I can catch up!

On the Mac i use the VLC PLayer to play FLAC files. Itunes does not support it unfortunatly. And to play it on your ipod, it would probably be easiest to import the .wav file into Itunes. Although i do not i know if it is a good idea to use a lossy format for these kind of tracks. Maybe Itunes lets you import the .wav file as a lossless MP4 or AAC. If it gives you the option, chose one of those. Here is a nice selection of various temple bells. They even name the locations of the specific temple they were recorded at. You could create a 20 min. long .wav file with Audiacity and put a bell clip at the begining and at the and and burn the .wav as an audio track to a cd.

satyagraha: check the links below!

Just wanted to say that a book club in this fashion is a really great idea.

My my upper leg muscles start to twitch when i keep my mobile phone in the pant pocket. And no, it is not on vibrate

Haha great stuff, thanks

Another great film: Samsara.

The first thing that comes to mind is to make it uncomfortable for the body to sleep on the stomach. Maybe tie a tennis ball around your waist?

What kind of process happens when you do this? A diversion of sexual energy? Some kind of refinement? Thank you.

Here you can find all information on FLAC and also the software tools. Basically it compresses .wav files to about half the size or less without any information and quality loss (unlike mp3). They can be converted back to the original .wav even if one likes. I have taken the liberty and posted the original .wav file and a FLAC version to my server for everyone to download so this won't incur you any more cost. FLAC version (226MB) Original .wav version (740MB) Tools to play and create FLAC files