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Maddie
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I guess that sounds like a little bit of both the spiritual and the physical path I think. The building of muscle being physical, and the building of a "spirit body" spiritual.
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I'm just going to interject here because I have no idea what anyone is talking about lol.
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May I ask what you mean by "bottleneck"?
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I'm a TCM practitioner as well, the formula seems legit and would accomplish this purpose.
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Interesting article and thanks for sharing. I'm also a practitioner of TCM, nice to "meet" you :-).
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I first came across this via books and there were none of these warnings. So I eagerly did a lot of LDT breathing and MCO as basically one of my first things I ever did, and it sure did dig up past traumas!!
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TCM does not see the mind and the body as separate things. The heart is said to house the mind and that is how it is possible to treat the mind with acupuncture. Usually when treating the mind in TCM we treat the heart and the liver, and this affects the mind. This is also how it could be explained that exercising is good for our mood as well as our body.
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Often the question says a lot about the perspective that we bring to that question. To be "trapped" in our bodies assumes that we are really a ghost driving around a skeleton and meat suit. Another way of looking at it though is that we ARE our bodies. If one thinks about this for just a bit it has a huge impact on perspective.
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Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
This is actually the method that I use LOL. -
Interestingly I saw something or read something that was saying anthropologists think the very earliest evidences of religion in Homo sapiens had to do with afterlife ceremonies. This seems very deeply ingrained into us as a species.
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Eight brocades are one of the first qigong routines that I ever did :-)
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This is something I ponder (probably too often). It seems like objectively there is no evidence of an afterlife but that seems sad lol.
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What conclusion have you come to, if you have come to one? Do you believe in an afterlife or not? And what ever your position why do you hold the view you hold?
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Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
Not really the definition of enlightenment according to the Buddha, but it was a break thought for me on one level :-) -
Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
But people do, do this for sure. -
Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
Four steps. 1. breath in for 4 seconds 2. hold for 4 seconds 3. exhale for 4 seconds 4. hold for 4 seconds. A box :-) * I don't think it has to be 4 seconds, but you do the same count for each "side" of the box. -
Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
When I first began to meditate I was in a really bad relationship and this is precisely why I started meditating. The notion of leaving the toxic relationship didn't enter my mind at first. I wanted to somehow feel ok in the toxic relationship. Happily though once I began to shift to mindfulness I began to realize important things about this mindset. -
Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
Yes that is a good point. -
Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
My first meditation practices were usually Qigong or Daoist. Specifically in this case I did a lot of five element/organ meditations at the beginning. Typically after working on a specific organ/element for a while a lot of repressed stuff would come up to the surface and I would become aware of it and observe it and learn things about myself. The observation part I wasn't taught it just sort of happened spontaneously but this was basically mindfulness. -
Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
Samatha meditation is very much a Buddhist practice. I'm not knocking it and saying its not useful, but it was not working for me. -
Daoist meditation: water and fire methods
Maddie replied to snowymountains's topic in Daoist Discussion
This reminds me of when I first wanted to learn meditation. Every where I went I was always told to do Samatha type meditation of focusing on the breath and "making the mind quiet" This did not work for me. What I would notice is that I would do this for just a little while and all kinds of things would come to the surface, to which I was advised to just ignore. This seemed like odd advice since I had been led to believe that the point of meditation was to know one's mind better. To ignore what was coming to the surface seemed like suppression which seemed to be the opposite of the goal of meditation. Later I learned about mindfulness meditation where the goal was to observe what was in the mind. I have made much better progress with this type of meditation and it is the one that I specialize in now. -
What would happen if people collectivley decided that money/currency has no value in itself, and abanded it?
Maddie replied to NaturaNaturans's topic in General Discussion
I didn't even realize he was responding to me lol. Just because something is necessary for survival does not mean it is not perceived though. In order to gather survival basics one has to both perceive they need these things and also perceive what they need to get to meet these perceived needs. I'm probably going to get at least someone saying "but wait survival needs aren't perceptions they are real needs" to which I would respond, how do we know what reality is if now via perception? -
Jesus in India ( Himalayas)
Maddie replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
I do not know much about Judaism or Kabbalah. -
Jesus in India ( Himalayas)
Maddie replied to Chang dao ling's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
I did. Unfortunately I can not give you any specific examples off the top of my head but I have heard them say such things over the years here and there. -
What would happen if people collectivley decided that money/currency has no value in itself, and abanded it?
Maddie replied to NaturaNaturans's topic in General Discussion
For sure. I'm not arguing that people do not value things. My point is name one thing that has value to people that isn't perception?
