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Hahaha I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about but saying Tantra Mongoose just makes me crack up. My girlfriend actually teaches Tantric Yoga she studied in Thailand and India. Haha thats just a funny name.

You said alot there and to be honest I did not read through it all but I will tell you that this practice is very beneficial. You are looking for something else, yet you are already there. Once you find the original nature, you must accept it and steep. I don't know about AYP I do know some basic Yoga however, I can say that all these arts yield the same thing, if you achieve the same goal. I do not consider myself a Taoist, even though I have been gifted with many Taoist arts, I am grateful but I also know that many other systems from many different culturres yield the same thing. We are human beings and though there are many different techniques there is also the limitation of our beings, no matter how many different ways you augment it, eventually it simply becomes minor variations of the same thing. I have always sought universal principle, most get stuck in their way and become trapped by it's ideals, this is unfortunate much wisdom is lost by becoming one sided. Best of Luck to you in your training.

I have been struggling with this in my mind as well, I know I have something that few have, I will not say that non have it but I know it is very few. Though many believe they have it. Though I view it as sacred and profitting from it has always seemed so wrong. Perhaps there is a way where one can give good and get good back.

I partially agree with what songstan said. Kundalini experiences are good, but entity attacks can have very similar symptoms at least to what you said. It may not be a kundalini experience. Please do not feel as if you are being robbed of your gift when I say that, I am not saying you will not or have not had a kundalini opening. However, you should note that just having many bizzarre sensations in the body can mean alot of things. Dealing with things in this field is difficult to understand, and even more difficult to find help with. I have no personal experience with Sifu Lam, but everyone on here seems to speak very highly of her, I assume she is knowledgable. You may also visit feng shui shops and they may be able to link you with someone. Don't be afraid. See this as a personal journey and quest, get out there and find the answer and you will find many amazing things on the way. I certainly did. The best I can say is do not be afraid and stay calm, you can visit people of all types of traditions, I was once given a great deal of wisdom from gypsy mystic whom I met at a Bazaar. The process of learning to use energy will also have some side effects such as this, just be grateful for the transformation and don't turn into a weirdo Get out in the sun and be happy.

Seriously man this is a place of solace and peace for many people, this sort of government is out to get you stuff is for the unbalanced. The truth is the people of Craft and their founder Chris Kyle are heroes who have sacrificed a great deal for this country. Anyone could shop online and purchase some tan boots and bdus and get a couple shirts with the punisher skull or even actual Craft shirts. Police hire people like this for security consulting quite often. I think it's too bad that we assume they were there to do no good. If anything there may have been intel that an attack might occur, however as with anything else, without hard evidence they couldn't simply say lets cancel the marathon. Craft is comprised almost entirely of former Navy SEAL's, these people do not murder Americans. The type of hell they go through just for their right to protect America is legendary. Terrorists are getting smarter they even make us attack ourselves now.

I personally don't see anything wrong with this, except when you start producing teachers that are unskilled. I remember when my teacher told me that I could, "teach" if I wanted to. It was so casual, yet it was an important message, we don't have colored belts, we don't have gold laced certificates. My teacher giving me the go ahead meant that he felt my understanding and ability was to his satisfaction that I could pass on the art properly. Even to this day I still feel like I want to run things by him before I implement them. This isn't terrible and honestly five to ten years ago it would have disgusted me, however, I realize now that if we are not more open with our arts they will simply fade away and be lost, as so much already has to be sure. Not everyone will attain mastery that is the case even inside of the master's group of students, but a few will. Besides those are just basic yang derived postures, that are a common as water in the sea.

Hello

If the fool does not laugh at it, it could not be called Tao

Tao is very much related to Tai Ji Chuan, it offers the very principles upon which the art was created. You have an arrogance about you that only speaks to your own stupidity.

sorry I meant to say it is usually not necessary to destroy them.

I hope you are able to cleanse this energy from yourself if you are dealing with these issues. I had encountered many varieties of things you might call entities, many different shapes faces etc. I was fortunate to have been trained under a taoist group in the far east who dealt with this sort of thing. I cannot give much advice besides, staying calm and avoiding fear, these states please these things, some even say they can thrive off of that energy. Bathing in salts will help you overall, and ultimately continue to cultivate positive energy. You probably unknowingly activated your third eye region without proper spiritual preparation, this is essentially what happened to me. The half waken realm in which you encounter these things can be controlled to a great degree with your own will power. I will tell you now that you should avoid exapnsion of your energy and meditations that involve excessive visualizations, particular of glowing energy. Like moths to a flame. You can hide your light, but that does not mean you must extinguish it. They can be destroyed but it is usually neccesarry, and may bring repercussions. Calm, clear, use your will power.

Thats a very nice video you posted, it's good to see authentic arts, I myself have found it to be most discouraging to see so little of true Gong Fu. Particularly in my own study of Chen Style, so many people practicing high stance yang style and so forth with chen even, it can be somewhat discouraging to find so little to align with.

Hey Stigweard, I haven't been active on here in a long time did one post a bit ago but haven't had time to see whats new. This was a nice find. I haven't read it yet, but I look forward to it. Thanks for sharing.

You seem to know much of this way of thinking and it's philosophies, please expound. I have studied the Tao in depth and I am aware of the classics. However as far as Shiva and the path of it's development I know nothing. What practices does it prescribe ?

The basic hand position is fine, the idea is to produce coiling in the body. The lower body is actually more important and you should endeavour to stay as low as possible. This art along with Tai Ji and Xing Yi represent the three most difficult arts to master as they are internal. You will only be able to do so much without a teacher, but finding one will be equally challenging your going to have to do alot of research and visit many people.

Wonderful indeed, now if we can all be that way all the time then were in

It is not self indulgence to refine one's self. Reading too heavily into words confuses matters, in the east lao tzu was very famous but taoists there consider him to be overly well known and not really to be the center of study. Consider that if you do not build a strong body you have a poor foundation to work on the tao. If you do not secure a steady career you have no free time to work on the tao. Unless you wish to live as a homeless person and beg for food and money you will have to abide by societal constraints. One should not use the Tao as a way to justify laziness. Work hard, handle worldy affairs early on and gently cultivate along the way, once your responsibilities to your family and loved ones have been taken care of you can truly manifest the great way. It is said those who abandon their families in order to pursue the tao are not worth speaking of, they are selfish and vain, that is true self indulgence.

Yes, I agree with what you both said, my point is this though, to clear out everything is clearly quite difficult as much as we know that ultimately that is how it must be, I doubt there is really anyone here who would be so bold as to claim they have done it, and mastered it. Ok maybe a few moments here and there, maybe even for a few days, but eventually something comes up. I believe that at the very least we can try to avoid negativity as it is clearly harmful, extremes in positivity is also harmful yes, we can't just laugh like idiots all day now, and certainly that is not what I am suggesting. But I find that the place to start is to clear out the negatives, at least from there your gonna be a happy camper, you will enjoy your life. If you master that then maybe you can take the time to tone down the remaining emotions till there is none. But if you sort of try to do it all at once, it you may kind of tone it all down you still have negative thoughts, which make us feel bad no? Does anyone every really want to feel bad ? Does feeling bad motivate us to go out and do something and be somebody ? Some thoughts and emotions are bound to come up unless you have finally crystallized everything, but until then if your gonna have a thought or a feeling, may as well be a happy one right ?

Deepbluesea, I personally meant no disrespect either, you have every right to say and post what you want, and if you wish to test an absolute with an extreme by all means you should do so, I know when I said what I was saying I was probably just being overly realistic, and clearly we must not take ourselves too seriously sometimes. So please accept my apologies, your reply clearly shows me that you are not the sort who would seek to start an argument and I'm sorry I suggested that. In other words, by being humble you have humbled me. Good Job there cause I like that feeling.

Edweir, It Sounds as if you already have a strong force that works for you. All I can say is use that force to your advantage, destroy those evil things withing you and you will find yourself again, I am always happy that if only even a small part of something I say can help someone find themselves, that is enough for me. Good Luck Sorry to keep adding so many replies, I must tell you though Edweir what you quoted from Steam is about as right on as it gets, So Steam good to hear that man, alot of people run off from the world, I am very very happy to hear you say what you did, and your understanding that this is the work of many lifetimes, most don't know this, and most don't think about the fact that not only might it take many more lifetimes in the future, but the fact that we are here studying Tao at all means we've already taken many lifetimes in the past working on it, so we should not foolishly waste our lives and our countless past efforts. I find that some 98% of the people I hear Talk about the Tao aren't even close to where your at, Good Luck and Godspeed.

Hey guys sorry for going a bit too in depth, I do not want to seem self indulgent, to sum up the rest of what happened, the guy who my aunt brought over, turned out to be a taoist priest, he and his teacher took an immediate interest in me and I learned their ways, I would not say they are solely exorcists or anything, even though I might have said that in the past, they practice Tao and through their practice they have found a need from others for their help, clearly this is a path wrought with many unusual things, from a general western standpoint we feel we cannot even talk about it because people will shun us, or as Edweir says accuse us of being on drugs or something. Yoda, That is interesting, I think I've heard that before somewhere too, but I don't know where. High carbon sword steel is just baisically iron with 1-2% of carbon spread throughout it, a few others here and there varied but It's more or less 97-98% iron, so that is interesting. I didn't really even think of that back then, I just sort of did it. But after my studies and learning their Taoist arts in this regard, I was taught a few different stages. I have been back about 4 times, staying for about 6 months at a time, my first visit lasted nearly a year I was learning Tai Ji and during that first year. The first few stages involves spell like things they taught me which call their Gods to aid me, after sometime they taught me which one's are connected with me personally and they are the ones that aided me. On my second visit, I studied with the head master of the Temple and he taught me the higher levels of it, which pretty much involve use absorption type techniques, I said in my other post the first priest I met who is the masters #1 student was walking around my aunts house and he would raise his hand here and there, that was what he was doing, they just sort of absorb it and dissolve it. It's more of a will power thing, but your meditation training must come first and I cannot suggest this for anyone because if you don't have the ability to dissolve it your more or less pulling it into yourself and thats no good. I was also taught how to form weapons from energy, and will, he said if you choose a sword make a sword, something like that. My third trip I was told my God aide or whatever you would call that had changed almost like a promotion ? I dunno thats how he said anyways, so with that he taught me higher skills, he said that now I was on par with how he did things, dispelling these things by pure intent and will alone, no physical movement is necessary at times the slightest movement with a finger perhaps, I was still encountering these things though less often and far more powerful though, kind of like only the really menacing ones dared try their hand and messing with me. My fourth trip he gave me my final lessons saying that I need nothing else, no charms, no mala, etc, he said now there was no more left to teach and I should use what I learned to help people if they needed me. I have not seen or heard from anything since then, I can feel sometimes in certain places they are there, certain places they like to stay shadowy tree lines at the edges of parks for example, bodies of water late at night. But I now feel that they are either very intrigued by my presence or just plain flee, once I even heard heavy footsteps dash off as if in fear followed by a greenish shadow when I was out walking my dog late at night. I can feel their intent, alot of them are like us, they get scared, startled, angry, etc. I have encountered some things that I've been warned of, crazy types, they alluded these to psycho's in the human world, they flat out don't care if your dangerous to them, there just crazy baiscially. Since everything is more or less quiet now, and has been for the last seven years or so, I almost forgot about all these weird things, and sometimes thinking about them, I kind of even wonder if they were real or not. But I dunno with so many experiences over and over, I cannot discount that there was definately soemthing going on. Since I feel myself to be pretty level headed healthy athletic and not one to drink or use drugs, I more or less rule out that I was mentally ill, I mean I wasn't weird or anything, heck I'm not even the type to be superstitous, these things happened and I had no choice but to deal with them. Fate seemed to lead me to an answer, I am grateful for that. I am glad that you all have such supportive comments and insight, that we can share these experiences that would otherwise cause people to think we are off our rocker, is a very special thing. I hope you all can confide in me as I do you.

Erdweir I suggested a book for you in another post of your Vitality Energy and spirit, by Thomas Cleary. It is all you will likely need, for well everything, but know that it is one of those books you will have to read over and over and over, Specifically pay attention to the section call, "Compass Center Directions" to me it is the most direct explanation of the Tao there is, very deep , not easily practiced, but I have been all over the place and when I finally found real Taoists Priests their methods are more or less exactly as this section describes. As far as this experience goes, all I can say is try and roll with the punches, and don't get scared, hopefully it won't be as weird for you as it was for me, but umm yeah you might want to be prepared for something weird, just incase. Fizix, yes this is exactly what I went through, except rather than simply silhouettes they had tangible form and color, similar to the blue greenish blur than remains after looking at a bright light. You Know? you get a shape of that light after wards when you look away right ? It was as if these things were made of that blur, but detailed, like faces and forms and with depth and dimension, what was scary was well they would all be different. You know like different people, and not just people but things. This even happened to me when I was traveling through asia, and you wanna know whats funny ? There faces over there were yes you guessed it asian. These things whatever they are are clearly intelligent at least on some level, not all of them but some were, there would come right up to me look me in the eye, some friendly, even beautiful, but some horrid and frightening. I mhave to say thie first few times were probably some of the most frightening experiences I have ever had, because when this happens no matter where you were sleeping without fail everytime, thats where it happens. If I was on the couch, I would be on the couch, if I was at a hotel I was at a hotel, if I was in my room, well you get it, point is if it were just a dream wouldn't I be somewhere random ? Weird huh ? I think herb might have some opening effects on certain parts of the subconcious, cause I did smoke early on in highschool, but I was clear of it for more than several years before this all began for me. I think for me it was improper meditation, I think the energy wasn't settling enough, either that or it was something like the phase of things waking up, kundalini maybe, I'm not sure exactly. I hope you guys don't mind me deleting this, it has always been somewhat private to me, those of you who read it I am happy to share it with you and for those who didn't oh well I guess. Hope that doesn't bother anyone.

Yeah, used to happen to me alot, and yes very close to whats reported during OBE like Fizix said. I hated it because it happened like every night to me, and pretty much it was either that or lucid dreaming, at first it was kind of cool, but after a while, you just get sick of it, for some reason it seems to drain alot of spiritual energy from you when this happens. Don't worry, but I would do some more reading about this, and learn to control it. If you get paralyzed which I am sure will happen if this continues remember this, Do not try and get up with your body ie your muscle movement, this will only make the pressure worse, get up with your mind, think yourself up, I know it sounds weird but this is how it's done trust me, I have had probably close to a thousand of these experiences, which as far as I know is the most anyones ever had, even the people that write the books that are supposed to tell you how to have them. I remember reading these books and they said that they've had like two or three hundred of these experiences. I had them nonstop like everyday, for nearly four years. So when I say a thousand I am positive that is a safe underestimate. Use your mind to move, ok? And you will be able to float up through the pressure. This pressure can be scary at first, because it can feel like it's hard to breathe, just relax, also you will likely hear and see disturbing things in the transition state, entities, spirits, and old tale tells of the hag that sits on your chest. Have no fear, they can't really hurt you. Your lucky in a way, I had no one at all to relate this to when it happened to me, I wasn't sure if I was going crazy or what. But feel free to send me an e-mail if it gets worse and you need more specific advice, you will of course need to be more specific about whats happening to you, but I feel confident it will be nothing I haven't dealt with before. Take Care

I'm pretty sure when he said you should respect where you come from he meant well, saying what if your father was hitler is just silly. Is it not ? Do you really think that person meant that even if you were the son of the worlds most famous evil dictator you should humbly follow in his footsteps. Thats like if I said you should respect your parents, and you saying but what if your parents are murderers and rapists, and engineered airborn ebola to end the existence of humans. Come on man, really? One should not take things to be absolutes. What you said makes me think you almost want to start an argument.

I don't want to talk to much, but sometimes things should be clarified, for examply someone said being sad and being happy is the same or sad and joy is the same whatever, the truth is it is not. Being joyful and being sad is NOT the same. Happiness brings life, the will to live, the desire to make a good life, to live life and do things. Sadness brings death, desire to hide away, shrivel up and essentially die. When did someone who was truly happy ever kill themselves ? How is this the same ? Happy people build themselves fine careers make good money and live comfortably, they can then meditate all day if they choose, or practice yoga and tai ji all day as they please, eat quality organic vegan food if that is their thing. How are you going to train if you didn't set yourself up well and have to pull 9-5 er's all week long ? When you get home, your gonna just want to watch some tv and pass out. You can still do it this way I guess, but I find it disturbing that people don't realize that those people who made good money earned it, they were the ones that stayed home and studied while others went out and partied, some may resent them for their success, thinking that the way implies we should all be impoverished monks or something, FOOLISH! Nothing but. Make a good life for yourself, then you can do whatever you please, unless you think your hearty enough to go into the mountains and live like a mountain man for the rest of your life, with no electricity or running water, hunting every meal, building a fire for every meal, and simply not to freeze to death. I know survival skills well it is one of my forte's, most people dream of disapearing into the mountains like an immortal, but the reality is, until you are an immortal, you can't do this, you will simply die, if not of starvation, from a wild animal attacking you, or disease from the countless insects which will chew on you threw the night. Those that think themselves so tough in this regard should try not eating for just one week while they hike strenuously, out of ten seven or eight wouldn't make it through a day, and out of those two or three left, only one would make it through the next day. And that one would certainly be chewing on pine cones by the middle of the week. I'm not saying seek fame and glory, I'm saying set yourself up well, and you can train all day or whatever you want, that is the responsible way, the hardworking way. Just sliding by is easy anyone can do that. Throwing everything away is easy, anyone can do that. Running away from it all is easy. Facing life and taking it on and winning takes a true Human, a true practitioner of the Way. I sincerely wish you the best in this regard.