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Alice? Alice! Wakeup Alice!

<pinch> Reality Check.

Have you been given instructions on how to proceed when you experience this state? Spectrum

fun falls hand in hand take me or leave me robot or man one counter one intuitive a one man band you just gotta stand one mind one body one hand Spectrum

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Kinda far to walk, not to far for driving. Sometimes a man must stand alone. Thanks for the dialog Cameron. Spectrum

Thats cool you have lots of motivation and enthusiasm for your internal studies. So close... meaning they are close to your house? That's even easier to do both then! Which practice is consistently breaking your metabolic barriers? Spectrum

Cameron, How was it? Spectrum

Complete Bullshit & Common Sense at the same time.

Your observation is correct. Therein lies the mystery. How to you exhale, regulate, and "relax" into it. Likewise how do you regulate on the inhale, creating the vacuum, and relax at the same time. Vacuum & Compression: this is what a carborator does and what a turbo charger does in a race car. Paradox: how to long breath, and forget yourself, at the same time. Any point of tension (to regulate the breath) draws the mind to itself in meditation, so regulation has to originate from an organ associated with the breath, less it be extra baggage on your "trip" that you drop along the way. Spectrum ref: Condensation Breathing

Level 2? There are no levels in chi gung, there is teacher and student. That is the problem w/ presenting information over the internet, there is little room for the realistic interplay between face to face teacher/student dialog, with that disclaimer; The very top and bottom of the breath cycle holds many insights for your personal observation. Breath Retention is another way to ask questions. I saw in another thread someone said they couldn't get their students to spontaneously start a form out of wuji because "they didn't feel any spontaneously occuring movement". I would challenge that assumption w/ action. Posture adjustment (into wuji) and have them hold their breath for a count or untill they "feel" like taking a breath... easy way to share w/ someone how to "listen" to the bodies needs, instead of assuming. So.... breath retention.... Consider retaining at the top of a cycle. (pressurization?) Consider retaining at the bottom of a cycle (vacuum?) Consider asking yourself if you started holding your breath on the way in, or the way out the next time you catch yourself holding yourself... for how can we hold our breath which slips away so delicately, or presents precious jewells. There are yogic postures that support specific types of breath retentions for clensing or packing. It's wise to already be in a flow when you experiment w/ them, you know, like a warmup set like the 8 brocades or a wei dan. Respectfully, Spectrum

Matra68, can you please explain how Kunlun fits into this context of Yin Yang? (ie "on a level beyond")

What a breath of fresh air. Thank you Smile.

Outta here for the week. Happy Wuji to you all. Spectrum

I think that qualifies you as a taobum agharta!

Bumble Bees Pray, meditate, seek about it... ask for sinseer help of the Tao. Not any specific entity, the Tao.... the nameness one, all will be made clear, have some patience w/ yourself... look for clues in what is natural... get out and take a walk, practice some chi gung, do something new in your life, eat some food you've never tasted before, do some volunteer work, break a sweat, read a book then sing a long breathy song .... Spectrum

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btt for Wun

Thanks Little1. My point is that size doesn't equal density. I agree that there is more to the story. You missed a very key piece here. Absorbsion/Digestion/Circulation of Chi through Movement. Breathing Eating Moving Spectrum

I wonder where that would come from? Playing The Flute Without Holes. Nice.

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Golden Cock. Catch as Catch Cam. Pour Form. Nice Nastiness or Nasty Niceness? Esoteric energetics play par 4 consumer economics. Polarizing statements towards blending opposites? Spectrum

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