Maddie

The Buddha said not to believe something simply because of reputation, or lineage, or popularity but to see for yourself if it was true and made sense.

Careful that word triggers people here lol.

Acupuncture uses needles. Acupressure uses pressure. The points, meridians, and theory are the same.

They don't really like to talk about it very much but there's actually a lot of rabbis that believe in reincarnation and considering that Christianity split off of Judaism that's probably note worthy.

Prior to Constantine there wasn't one Christianity but it's more accurate to say there were christianities. There are many different versions of Christianity some may have believed in reincarnation but others did not. It wasn't across the board thing. The group that eventually became orthodox get away with other groups such as the ones that believed in reincarnation though.

I'm not sure where you heard that story but Constantine had nothing to do with the Bible whatsoever.

The books of the bible were decided upon at the council of Hippo in 393ce and Carthage in 397ce. Constantine not the council of Nicaea had anything to do with it.

omg yes! I am always sore after every BJJ class. I always do acupuncture on myself after class to work out the soreness.

Yes the council of Nicaea was about the doctrine of the Trinity.

This is a pet topic of mine. There is a HUGE difference between a non-acupuncturist doing "acupuncture" and an actually LAc. (licensed acupuncturist) doing acupuncture. My degree took four years of year round graduate school and two years to pass grueling state medical board exams. So it makes me feel funny feelings when a therapist, or chiropractor, or MD or what ever have you takes a hundred hour course and think they know how to do acupuncture. Sorry for the rant, I'm sure your physiotherapist does a good job, just made me think of this topic.

Acupuncture could do a lot for that.

One thing that kind of surprises me is how little people talk about working with the five elements as opposed to Dan Tien breathing and MCO. When I used to be big into Qigong that was my emphasis but I don't see it spoken about much.

I majored in history for my undergrad, yes I'm a nerd lol. It's always why I drive people crazy here asking for sources. Our professors would throw our papers back at us if we just made claims without siting sources.

As a history major I will tell you my opinion as to why I think this is. The thirty years war. It was an awful war that ravaged Europe in the sixteen hundreds. It's estimated that millions of soldiers and civilians alike died as either a direct cause of the war or due to effects of the war. The thirty years war was a Christian religious war between Catholics and Protestants. The war forever changed Europe's attitudes towards religion and government. It led to the enlightenment and to the ideas of separation of church and state which greatly influenced the framers of the constitution of the United States. It was under this enlightenment thinking that produced the freedom and space for secular thought and the challenging of religious beliefs that led to other institutions that Christianity had long endorsed such as slavery being challenged as well. So yes this movement did take place in countries that were predominately Christian but as a result of the reaction to the horror the Christian wars of religion and not because of Christianity itself, but rather in spite of it.

Ok forgiveness and love are pretty noteworthy, yes I'll agree. So, yes these advances did originate in countries there were predominately Christian, but in spite of the fact that there were Christian, not because of it. The advances originated from secular sources predominately. The "enlightenment" of the 17th century in Europe had a lot to do with it, and that was a secular movement.

It would depend on the cause of the congestion. The most common cause is usually wind and even then there's several formulas but an example of one would be "Te Xiao Bi Min Gan Pian".

No no no, this is the Dao Bums, you're not supposed to use source material. You're supposed to just make claims that seem cool and that come to you while you're brushing your teeth, and then make personal attacks if someone questions the authenticity of your claim.

I wonder what it looks like when a hollow earther gets into a debate with a flat earther? The debate of the idiots lol

He Shou Wu - best herb in TCM for hair health.

Is this from a comic book or story? Please tell me some clown doesn't really believe this.

Political power is definitely a motive.

I've only read the DDJ and I've not seen any such criticism. But to answer your question as to why they might criticize I have no idea other than human beings tend to be critical? I really don't know.

Of course

you're changing the topic. We were discussing if your claim about the Buddha's teachings being corrupted was true or not. I asked for the verifiable reason you believe this to be true. So far you have not presented one. If you were to do so I would find it to be an interesting piece of information and want to know more. Telling me to do "research" is a deflection.

you're projecting motive and intent onto me.