johndoe2012

RyanO, Thanks for sharing. Like you I also recently got interested in Kuan Yin, due to experiencing a lot of harsh thoughts and not so friendly an ego. Due to having quite a monkey mind, mantra reciting also interests me. Last night I was doing Om Mani Padme Hum with Trunk's suggestion of doing it together with the energy centers and I felt close to the same energy / vibration as doing Stillness-Movement - which I understand you also are doing? I think I will try it around the heart; metta I find a bit too complicated as my mind spaces out.

So how to connect to Kuan Yin? Reciting "om mani padme hum", lighting incense, more? RyanO, how have you benefitted? I wonder if the connection to the Heart Sutra also means a connection to the middle dantian?

aha, I had a hunch that Actual Freedom was actual a rediscovery of an ancient technique The thing is the Dao is much more than that. The Actual Freedom method does not open the channels and all the energy centers, maybe it is to be considered a Heart practise?

Well the no-meditation opinion is also what drives the Actual Freedom people. It seems their practise is about being happy all the time and thus short-circuit the brain somehow. This is done not on the cushion but in realtime and maybe it is like Lao Tzu means? http://actualfreedom.com.au/introduction/actualfreedom3.htm is more or less their method combined with cultivating naivete.

Agree with this. No master, technique etc. can solve all your worries in a single swoop. The self is a bit more complex than that.

It is quite hard to describe as it seems to bypass the mind. My first experience with Taoist Medicine in a workshop by Ya Mu was simply astonishing. If you ever have the chance to go for a workshop, do it

It sounds like a incomplete teaching to me with the perv attacks. Ya Mu teaches a simple method, but I'm not sure whether it also works for non stillness-movement practitioners since my impression is that it works with INTENT, not intention.

Have a look http://www.longmenpai.com/forum/showthread.php?92-Preparation-Practice

Do you mean that the language solidifies the concept making one more dogmatic instead of openminded? I haven't heard anyone claim that. In fact I see more of a questioning around here regarding the various energies and so on. Energy could be reduced to sensations in the body / mind, but then again sensations could be further reduced ad infinitum.

Who cares about models? For me it is a big fallacy to try and predict anything, when you can just use plain logic and open your eyes to see the destruction currently happening. It reminds me of the various people who told us about the good things about industrialisation while today we can see increasing numbers of people affected by asthma, reproductive issues, ADHD and so on. We see pestecides in our water because oh organic food is SO expensive - due to false choices presented to us by various engineers, farmers, scientists. The focus on economic resources is pure insanity, when you see the effects it has in eg. the European Union where you produce with lots of pesticides in the South and drive the whole thing to the North.

Not acupressure, but Jenny Lamb's Spontaneous Qigong has a "Opening Channels" exercise followed by strike wall with back and tapping "qigong" - involves hitting the body with open and closed hands. I remember feeling a lot more qi in the back after some time doing the above. Ya Mu's book contains a closing exercise which is supposed to open energy centers under the feet (and elsewhere?). Recently I have a lot of throbbing sensations under my left foot so I think it is working

The Water Method is IMHO very close to Goenka vipassana. So when scanning the body the objective is to see the three characteristics, impermanence, no-self and suffering. Personally after having done neigong for some time, vipassana seems easier, ie. it is easier to sit for a longer time with a higher degree of concentration.

Joeblast, Are you denying the climate changes in eg. the Arctic region? Or is this more related to CO2 as the driver for the warming / change? The problem as I see it, no matter what we do now it will take many generations to see the effect in practise, however, this doesn't we should sit down and do nothing. Common sense - like as low consumption of resources as possible go a long way combined with the use of clean energy.

Flying Phoenix Qigong (http://www.taichimania.com) - part of the medical qigong family. Burning Palm (http://www.wbbm.se) - I don't know whether this is characterized as a medical qigong but healing methods are part of the system according to the website.

from http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/climate-skeptics-perform-independent-analysis-finally-convinced-earth-is-getting-warmer.ars and so it goes. Skeptics can always find something fishy and the discussion never ends!

from http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/climate-change-cuts-a-frances-worth-of-wheat-out-of-global-agriculture.ars No climate change?

More resources: free ATMs http://www.kinesophics.ca/ overview of ATMs and discussion, helpful for the lessons on openatm.org http://feldynotebook.wikispaces.com/ I'm doing both Eliminate Back Pain Now and Eliminate TMJ Pain Now from http://www.utahfeldenkrais.org/feldenkraismp3.html Eliminate Back Pain has lessons from Moshe's ATM book and Hanna's Somatics.

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