Maddie

Lol mantra is one of my main practices 😌

That's what I heard which is what got me interested in it in the first place but I did not find it to this effect. In fact quite the opposite I feel like it brought up a lot of stuff I have been suppressing and made my emotions more volatile. But this is just based on my personal experience. But it's also why I don't do it any longer.

Never ask for financial advice from a poor person.

And what's typically seen as the primary method to build the dan tien? Is it abdominal breathing? That's what I've always heard.

It's why I'm a vegetarian

That's the literal definition of subjective lol.

What I wonder is if the Dan Tien is an actual objective "thing" that exists or if it is more of a subjective experiential thing felt?

Ok this is more what I had in mind when I made this post! :-)

Or maybe I have a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and we were taught how unsafe this substance is.You completely ignored the rest of the study that outlines how dangerous it is. I think you're a troll, and dangerous and I'm done responding to you.

Your study that you presented spoke about how deadly mercury was and how it killed an emperor!

I don't know if this happens to anyone else or not, but I don't do any specific Dan Tien practices or at least I have not for a long time, but sometimes I will notice my Dan Tien spontaneously "buzz" every now and then for no apparent reason. *I also think anyone promoting mercury ingestion should be banned as the results could lead to permanent neurological damage or even death.

Welcome :-)

Thank you! Oh yes this is one of my pet peeves, non-acupuncturists pretending to be acupuncturists. Imagine what the MD's would do if I took an eight week course and said "I'm an MD now"? lol

You can do that with Gallbladder 37. It's on your leg.

No I have never heard of that. Though there is a method to needle Bladder 1 which is in the inner canthus of the eye socket which our professor demonstrated once on a student with back pain. Before she could not even bend over half way and then he needled the point in a manner like you describe and then she was able to touch her toes. But for what you are talking about, no I have never heard of that.

or.....Its also the exact words a sane person with even a slight knowledge of medical science would use.

Do not ingest mercury ever!

I think there is a loose relationship.

No its not, because that's not what it is.

The Buddha's view was also individualistic. One of his famous sayings is that "we are all the owners of our own deeds."

Delusion

I started off on my path via qigong/Taoism and like many westerners I assumed the two were practically synonymous. Then I discovered Taoism differed drastically depending upon whom you asked. If you asked many westerners Taoism was qigong or internal alchemy. If you asked someone from China or Taiwan the answer tended to differ drastically being that Taoism was doing ceremonies at a Taoist temple. To be honest I didn't like this because it seemed "too religious". To further complicate matters since I first got into all of this when I was a history major in college, I asked my eastern studies professor about what Taoism is and she made it sound like a philosophy of reading and studying the TTC. To this day I still don't really know what Taoism really is or is supposed to be. Honestly it was largely due to this confusion amongst other things that caused me to drift towards Buddhism eventually. So that being said what is Taoism, and how does one practice it?

I'm kind of a non-denominational Buddhist but if there's anything that I've studied the most then it's probably been Theravada Buddhism.

Is what you're saying that some people think things are okay when they're actually not? If only there was a word for this type of thinking 🤔

If someone doesn't like Buddhism or want Buddhism I could care less. If someone is going to misrepresent Buddhism I'm going to speak up about the truth.