Maddie

I don't think a person would do 1/4 exclusively but as a matter of emphasis or maybe not and they are well rounded.

I'm curious about your view on body only cultivation. I ask because I seem to be drifting in that direction because of the results I get.

Objective means what is actually happening in reality. For example if you go to a movie and the movie is playing on the screen, that is an objective fact. Subjective means one's personal experience with something. So going back to our movie example, the objective fact is that the movie is playing. A subjective response to that movie would be how various people like or didn't that movie. Hope that makes sense.

It's called the "Wen Bing Xue"

This is actually very common. As an acupuncturist usually when a new patient comes in for stress for example. Often they are amazed at how "high" they feel after the first treatment. Very often they gradually become disappointed that they feel this high less and less. It's not because something is wrong, its just the law of diminishing returns. If a patient comes in and after the first treatment we reduce their stress by 50% the next time if we reduce it by 50% again, compared to the original stress that is only 25%. And if we reduce it 50% again that is only like 12% of the original. It is a sign that things are improving. The goal isn't to be "high" but to be healthy. Being high isn't a sign of advanced cultivation. Otherwise every pot head is an advanced cultivator.

There are so many ways "heat" can get in the body, there is a whole ancient text just about that.

Basically he's distinguishing between objective reality and subjective experience.

1. You say that modern humanity understands world better than our ancestors. Yes 2. Secondly you say they were "hunter-gathers" Yes 3. Yes, probably they were... but 50 000+ years ago Yes and more recently than that as well. 4. a. I know you can bring many sources on that... Good, I'm excited to see them. b. but you should be aware who writes these "scientific" works, Scientists do.

What is it that you want me to prove? Also asking for evidence for what someone believes or thinks isn't "blaming".

Frame of reference yes. Orbital position no.

I wouldn't call a sustained sense of all being a bottleneck. I would call that quite an accomplishment! Okay but you feel like something's missing. Can you identify what it is that you feel is missing?

Sorry to hear that. And you weren't even trying to make that happen... geez.

Did you notice emotional stuff coming up when you did yours? I sure did, big time!

I don't want to sound dense but what exactly is the point of the MCO. When I began I was told do the MCO, and I was like "ok". After a while though I thought "why am I doing this". I never really understood so I stopped.

Thanks for mansplaining my feelings to me.

I think the problem with the word "enlightenment" is that it is too ambiguous. It seems to mean something different to everyone. There is the Buddhist definition of course which is quite technical, but to others it means very different things. So I think its important to establish which "enlightenment" we are speaking about when we discuss the topic.

Really, my being a little silly really ruined your day that much? :-( ..... sorry

Like at the grocery store and stuff?

Modern science appeared by rejecting the claims that had no evidence and accepting the ones that did. And now your question is answered.

Source?

Maybe because people rejected science and believed whatever popped into their head?

So you don't believe modern science or NASA, but you do believe that hunter-gatherers had a better understanding of cosmology than we do now? Well okily dokily.

We understand that the Earth rotates around the Sun and the sun around the center of the Galaxy now and we didn't used to, so yes.

I'm not sure if they understood "cosmic law" so well back then. They used to think the earth was the center of the universe and everything orbited it.

I've noticed this in the most unlikely of places. I've seen weightlifter bro dudes at the gym get to this zone, where I was looking at them and wondering to myself, did this guy achieve Samadhi? LOL