Fire Dragon

Hello it worked for me. Hagar lives in a comersial video for choklate!!!

Very beautiful. It fits good into my yoga group, beacase we just have started with fusion of the five elements and I have been talking a bit about just taoist alchemy. Not that the content's in it where wery deep. But the video helps to realise on a deeper level that this things exists and are real, which might be a good to have in you when trying to have enough motivation for serious practises. F D

Hello. Yes perhaps. Or it might happen again, perhaps when you are not searching. Anyway what do I know? It seems like what you have got is a nice experience from your life Well there is descriptions of quite similar, I think, phenomenas in the novells by Jade Lee. Similar but not necessarily eqal. If I remember right she call it the ante chamber, but to be onest I not know if it is the same as your experience. Similar experiences and places have anyway name in the litterature, but I am not the right person to tell you what it might be. Also in Buddhism they are talking about different places like that. All good to you F D

Hello As so often. Trying to achive the same phenomena as before isn't the right attitude! When trying it that way you didn't do it the same way as when it first happened. When it first happened you didn't try to do anything more than feel the love and compassion, not for a purpose! It is so! Don't try to do or have the same feelings as before then they most sertainly not arrives! Just do spiritual work and be happy for whatever happens or not happens. F D

Hello, I recognise both of them. The most common (how do you know that?) seems to be identical with a standing form I learned from Yudeloves book "100 days to better..." The Less common have the same name to each exercise as in the book by Stuart Olson, "Qigong teaching of a taoist immortal". That book is about the 8 brocades. There is an translation of the old text, oldest qigong text, and with comments from the immortal, Li Ching Yun, and also comments to all this by Olson. I do this exercises Less common now regularly about 4 times each week. The most common form I did for about a year ago. The sitting form by Olson is much deeper and longer forms in time. The total 8 brocades and sitting and forrgetting takes about 1 hour following Olsons CD. The exercises are quite simple but anyway efective and deepening. There is an easy descripiton of the exercises in the handbook "Eight brocades taois yoga handbook" by Phoenix taois center. They also have instruction DVD:s on the eight brocades. And of course the book by Olson is al good material of this. F D

Hello Yes Loke. Propably you are right. But I haven't jet completely decided if the practise is ok or not, with regard of the green dragons. Otherwise the practise seems fine to me. But this is the crucial point. I think though that many people automatically have moral opinions that emediately says that this kind of practises are wrong. What exactly is wrong and why. Why can't there be many different things in the universe making it more beautiful? F D

Hello Taoist81 For the moment I have some difficulties in describing the system. Strangely enough even though going a course in it. I have been focusing on the eight brocades for the last months and not reading the actual white tigress practises. I myself writing my master thesis work for the moment and have not so much time left for reading at the moment. But perhaps later when I go into the other courses as well in the white tigress system I have more uppdated knowledge to chare with you. I will be back. Peace in your way! F D

Hello I have been woundering the same thing. Well about white tigresses stealing energy from green dragons. There is one thing to be clear about the white tigress practises, that is that it is not common dual cultivation practises. It does differ from that. Reading Hsi Lai the obvious reason for this is that the common dual cultivation practises are made to be perfectly ballancing for the male, not necessarily for the woman. The reason why dual cultivation have been the standard sexual practise is beacase the society in china is wery male dominant. They even kill there girl childs! The encounters with the green dragons are done following some strict rules. For instance they are only used 9 times each, if I remember right. I think there is no realy good explanation for why the practice might not be good for the green dragons. They are realy loosing some of theire yang energy, but only some beacase of the maximum of 9 encounters whit the white tigress. They who defence the system, often says that they will loose that energy anyway, perhaps. For loosing that energy they at least have had a sexual experience for theire life. Perhaps many men should think it is worth loosing some energy for that! Still that they not know what is going on, is something I myself feel a bit critical about. Even though I have learned to undestund the ideas of the system while reading Hsi Lais three books. To not be all to critical against this practise that is unconventional I recomend people to realy read and understund the underlying main ideas. It is so easy to have judgements from preconcived ideas. But there might be reasons to have an open mind for new things even though they feel strange at the beginning. I myself have not jet being involved in any sexual practises in this system. Well ok I have done the nine jade dragons exercises and been eating the herbs. But no dual practises jet. To understund the system you should also know about what the jade dragons do and are and theire pracises as well. I have heard about the healing aspect of being white a white tigress as well, from Hsi Lais boods. So it seems like the white tigreesses are giving of theire Yin energy as well, both to green and jade dragons. But this I am not completely shore about, since it was quite a long time ago since I read the books. I myself am continuing my white tiger practise whit Hsi Lai. I have been filming myself doing the eight brocades and are waiting for the girl, that goes the course whit me, to film here doing the willow wasit. Then we get critisism from Hsi Lai on our performance and continue with the next course in the system. Fire Dragon

Hello I add to my list above Urinate imidiately when feeling need to Don't be up late at night

Hi From a book by Fan Xiulan Eat at specifik time and regularly Find a good place to live Find a work that you like Cultivate good feelings Keep your feet and lover back warm. You can heat your hands by rubbing them together and then massaging your lower back kidney area with your palms. Heat up the kidneys. Don't owerworke or have not to much sex or ejaculations Keep a peacful mind especially during the cold period in the winter Eat: Millet Black soya bean yellow soya bean chinese chives fungus: shiitace peanut walnut Exercises like yogging, but not to hard, should not feel collapse afterwards but full of energy I read some of this advises the other day and you remind me to look in the book again. I will try to do this in my own life, with to litle kidney yang. F D

Hello Taking my master late in life am 40. Have been studying freely most of my life. Psychology, Massage therapeut, Practical surveying, Physics and filosofy. Later years my studies have been more practical oriented but when younger they where just for interest. I don't think educational level is of any importance for qigong practise at all. There might be differnce in how ot learn it and other things depending on educational level, but not important. F D

Hello This site the taobums, was it any problems for you. I couldn's reach it today! F D

Freaked out! Yes wery anoying!

Well perhaps it is gases then. java script:emoticon('', 'smid_14')

Yes the gas theory seems to be comletely wrong :=). In the joints there is a fluid like substance that is a sort of oil to the joints, the fluid works not allways perfectly well. It need some nutririons I guess to be good and oily, so that the joints works smoothly and nice. I guess when the fluid is bad there is some kind of lock in the joints that is relised when they pop. Also a energetic realise is at least felt for me when the joints pop. My text was realy unscientifik. F D

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Okay, I understood about the garlic now, but I want to try ginger root alone for a while, so that its effects wouldn't get mixed together with the effects of garlic and it would be easier to say what causes what """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Feel free to choose what ever you want! It sounds interesting that with green tea and ginger, I might try it myself some day. A litle weired also beacase green tea is Yin and ginger is Yang and the mix must be a bit crazy. Not at all said irronically just with curiosity. Please let me know if you have wery good result with it and I will try it faster. By the way for me the garlic drink is most used for the sometimes accute problems. To change a cronic illness with garlic, people say you need alot!!! And also by the way if you use it later there is an effect you need to know. You might get some anxiety by using it, and it is located in the hearth. It is not dangerous but might be a bit unpleasent especially if you not know the cause. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" As for the temperature it's ok, 36.6C is norm, I had 36.5 today, which is normal too. Going to check more times as you suggested. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Well actually it is not completely normal, but check it out more in detail so I comment more on that later. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" How complicated everything is I wonder if lungs can produce thoughts about death, when I feel sad it's usually along with a wish to die, not necessarily thinking about suicide at all, but sadness is tinged with a wish to get rid of it by dying. Sounds silly, lol, but it's as if it's not me feeling it, I have no idea what causes such an emotion. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I not know much about this. But I guess in that second emotion a wich to die lies also a key to your problem. Psychological archetypes and complexes might be involved that for some reason needs to be dissolved in your life. Of course even thogh not found of the idea, not completely anyway there might be an issuea of an ealier life, with some problems needing to be solved. But not at all neccessarily that might be a modern populat assumpion too. I hope you have a possibility to work with your emotional picture more in the future with some method that sounds good rigth and nice to you. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I hope you'll get more time soon, it's a shame that many people don't have enough time for practice. You're quite busy with it anyway, taking into account that you either visit or plan to visit various courses. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Yes time to practise is nice Hope I give me some in the future! My courses for the moment is internet courses, so I do the most at home for the moment, which makes the time issue more relevant. But also my yoga group and I meet twice a mounth wich always is inspiring. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""2 P.S. Maybe a strange question, but are you a lady? """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Interesting. Sometimes I refer me as a social woman. I have wery easy to understund and talk to woman more easy than men actually. Most of my friends are woman. If I have about 3 close male friends and I have about 10 close females. But I am white hetro man, of the group statistically sean as the most privileged I have been wery interested in psychology and similar subjects related to emotions. As younger I liked to read the papers for girls as well as others. I have also some sides that I see as more male oriented like I'm interested in mathematics and chess and science. Latley Qigong and Yoga which might make you more androugynous and developed if you are succesfull. Why did you ask? thanks for "talking" For me good night F D

Hello If you feel into the popping usually it feels nice doesn't it? I think the popping is a good thing realises some stagnation. But on the ohter hand if it pops alot, it might be a sign of weakness somewhere. I think if you need this relize often you might have some energy problem. My qigong teachers tell about there xin shen zhuang teacher that he do the exercises everey day and there is no sounds from hes body what sow ever! F D

Hello, sorry if I was unclear! """"""Could you elaborate a little about what you do with garlic, I don't think I got it. You mean one small piece of a garlic, as a whole and not pressed, right?""""""" No, it is pressed. You take one piece of garlic, cut it into quite small pieces with a knife. Then you smash it with the knifes shaft. If you use the ordinary "garlic pressure, the thing you put garlic in to get it pressed" you miss harder parts of the garlic. All parts should be mixed, but not the shell , beacase only when they work together you got the full medical effect! """""""""""As for parseley, how much parsley do you add to take away the smell?"""""""""""""" I don't know. The honey helps also but just a bit. I just use honey myself. So if you want try it out yourself. Make it so that it taste good. I also put in ginger and cinnamon, which make it even more worm and a different taste. Actually the drink taste good with or without ginger and cinnamon. If you use water instead of milk it tastes awful. """"""""""I'll check the temperature as you suggested, in fact I do get tired quickly, and the site you gave a link to mentions that as a side-effect."""""""""""" Good please tell me what tempereture you had. Do it several days to see if it not changes. If it changes alot it might be another illness. It was so for me and that is a part of my undertunding of my illness now. """"""""""I wish you good luck with it! Zhongyongdaoist,"""""""""""""""" The iron shirt. Yes thank you. I have some problems. Have to much to do for the moment. I am going a white tiger course with Hsi Lai. Have a yoga group trainging "Yudeloves taoist yoga and sexual energy". I am writing my master thesis work, which is difficult beacase of my tierdness. Still when doing all the qigong I feels fine. But have difficult getting the time. """"""""""It's going to take some time to look for these items! I think that probably they're sold here, why not, I saw a couple of Chinese shops before, although that was very long ago. Internet search doesn't show anything buyable here so far, but that's probably because I didn't translate the names of these herbs. You know, I wanted to ask you about liver qi that you mentioned before. I read somewhere else that stagnant liver qi is considered to cause depression, that's something that I kind of suffer from, I permanently feel sad and hopeless. And I mean it when I say permanently, it's an intense feeling and it interferes with my life a lot, because I avoid taking decisions or taking goals, out of fear and disbelief that they're reachable for me personally. Sadness also interferes, although it's hard to describe, there's nothing sad in my life, so it feels odd, as if it was sadness without a source. I think that could be a sign that it's true about the liver qi, and probably it's connected to the cold, or vice versa. Do you know something that could help it? Although stagnant qi is unlikely to be helped by herbs, but who knows """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Sadness is the negative emotion of the lungs. Self courage or somthing similar is the positive. The nose is connected to the lungs as well. You might have a emotional problems with sorrow connected to the lungs involved in you pattern. WHich you luck with your new knowledge and hope it will help you some or alot!!!! F D

Hello I have been practising mantak chia stufs seense the year 2000. So I have some experince even though only on a beginning or intermidiate level. I say you what I think. I think if you work on microcosmic. Work on the front channel much. If you know all the points. Take energy from your crown to your third eye. Wach the channel by taking the energy forward and backward from the crown to the third eye about nine times. Then go from the third eye to the tongue wach in the same way. Pusch with the tongue quite hard to the pallate point you have choosen, there are three of them from what I know and use. Pusch hard with the tongue at the palate and then after a while just let it softly touch the palate and feel the energy go into the tongue. wach betwean the palate and third eye nine times. Then from palate and tongue to the throught point wach nine times. If you have difficult getting energy down from the tongue do the pushing and soft tongue again. It helps you feel the energy going down. continue throught point to the solar plexus point whach nine times and at least solar plexus to the navel nine times. spiral always 36 times clockwise and then 24 counterclockwise around the navel and then into the dan tien. This washing of the front channel helps open it up and is the only microcosmic orbit you need for a while. After some time when you feel that your problems in the head are better, less energy there. Do some fulll microcosmic orbits. By the way. I think standing qigong is of greate importanse for you. You should do it at least as much as the rest of the energy work you do. Grounding seems to be of greate importance for you. Otherwise you might get problems. Also six healing sounds seems to be right for you. Be carful and not do sexual practises untill you are more grounded. This is what I think. with regards Fire Dragon

Hello all I was reading "Qigong teachings of a taoist immortal!" by Stuart Alva Olson. The immortal is Li ching-yun whose texts also are in the book. There is a photo of the old man when he is about 250 years old. He sais something like, to be able to live long you also have to train the spirit. I was thinking about this and then I realised perhaps I not know what it is. Even though have read about shen in some qigong and taoist yoga books. So I was quirious about how you on the tao bum looks at this. What is it to exercise or train the spirit and how do you exercise the spirit in your life and practise? Fire Dragon

Hello I think you should go to a vestern medical doctor to check if there is an infection. After that if they not find anything I think perhaps it might be good to masturbate sometimes, but try to do it moderately. And of course try to figure out what causes the pain to get better or what causes it to get worse. If there isn't a medical problem I am shore that you will find out how much or how less to mastrurbate is good for you. And with time the pain will be better. About the healthyness or non healthy ness to masturbate. Many of the old taoist text about mens health advises you to be moderate with your ejaculations. Less ejaculation in higher years. At your age it might be ok to masturbate everyday, but less might be better. I think also that using porn, if you do, might have a possibility to add some problems. That is beacase getting to arroused and getting to much yang without a woman to be with might hurt you. So my advise is to not use any porn at least not until the problem is solved. check with a doctor and perhaps also an acupunturist and be moderate and you will be fine. Why not try the standing exercise given as a suggestion. To do rooting migth add some earth yin energy that is cooling and that might help against the burning I guess. Fire Dragon (well perhaps it should be your name and not mine ) By the way there is realy no waste needed to be ejaculated, why should it. Reading about the woman taoist they even not need to have menstruation, there will not be any waist for them either.

Hello I realy enjoyed Esther Gokhale's work! Have always had a suspisious atitude towards the s shaped back! I noticed a difference from my iron shirt practise in the mantak chia system. We practise iron shirt with the tail bone in and not out as in her work. Otherwais the principles simes to be wery like. Well perhaps there is a difference betwean daily life and practise to. Anybody else noticed this difference? F D

Hello I have had a similar but not equal experience. In my practises in the white tiger/tigress system there is a meditation upon a point behind the eyes that is cald the ancestar hall or the original cavity. When focusing on the point I saw flaches of light. I also had dreams about my ancestors and theire importance in my life. Well I stopped that practise a year ago, but will continue now when I do the course with Hsi Lai. Fire Dragon