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btw i am not sure if the taiwanese are higher than the mainlander chinese but i can tell you for sure that there are many thai masters who are more powerful than the taiwanese or mainlander chinese.. take for example this Lersi below.. he is able to meditate in a pot of boiling oil.. can any taiwanese or chinese taoist masters do that?.. i hardly think so..

What's the difference between "magic" and "self-cultivation"? Do you think anyone is gonna be able to perform "magic" if he doesn't "self-cultivate"?

I know i shouldn't ask this but what's the reason for banning some members? More importantly, why were some threads banned? Please give examples of banned threads so we can learn to self-moderate. Ta

There had been quite a number of movies over the last 2 decades regarding time-travel and timelines. The most recent movie being Source Code. I have always been heavily fascinated with time-travel movies. After watching Source Code and the Adjustment Bureau, two timeline movies in the last month, I am tempted to post this thread. Over the years, there is talk on the internet about changing timelines. Some claim you can use technology to view and change parallel timelines. Some say use meditation. What are your experiences in changing timelines? Do you ever feel that the present reality which you are in have been altered?

Let me add one more fact of life here. The whole damn media and educational and major religious systems all over the world tell us to be loving and kind and to pursue the mundane path of going to college, get married, have kids and die. When faced with the prospect of siddhis which can heal disease, look into the future to avert disasters and other benefits of the supernatural, the media will just deny, discourage basically do everything to prevent the average person from developing his siddhis. The young are encouraged to go to college to study science, engineering, business, medicine .. you know the safe boring subjects.. and when a young person says he wanna study the art of siddhis, they say he is mad.. the main religious figures even say the accumulation of siddhis is DANGEROUS???!!!!! Wtf, you mean one cannot use science to commit sins as well? Look at Albert Einstein. Sure he created some pretty nifty inventions but he created the damn atomic bomb as well. George Soros.. The average person studies economics, business and accounting to run companies but SOros and Gang and their Lapdogs use their financial skills to bring lots of mom-and-pop shareholders to financial ruin.. Engineering.. Well what can I say? Do you know that the weapons industries is one of the top 5 most profitable industries in the world? This shows what kind of evil engineering can do for you.. Medicine.. The Pharmaceutical industries also belong to the top 5 most profitable industries in the world.. but what they don;t tell you is the plants which pharmaceutical companies extract their chemicals from HAS A SUPERNATURAL HEALING EFFECT which is NOT REVEALED TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA! Worst of all, they come up with FAKE DISEASES and murdered hundreds and thousands of innocent victims in the name of profit! So how is Siddhis dangerous in comparison to the subjects studied at school? If you have Siddhis, you will have the ability to heal you and your loved ones at very little cost to yourself! If you have Siddhis, you will get advanced warning of when some rich billionaire and gang is gonna use their ill-gained finances to wreck companies and countries in the name of profit. If you have Siddhis, you will learn about the nature of karma and that will prevent you from joining weapons companies which create tools of destruction in the name of profit. I think Siddhis will help the average person much more than a few decades of mundane life experiences and mundane knowledge.

btw, how do you search the forum for the most popular threads? The search function requires you to input key words. But how do you know sex and john chang are the most popular threads if you do not know what key words to input?

Hey Sifu Terry, A few questions here. 1) What are the results for a celibate person practicing FP qigong as compared to a sexually active person practicing FP? I know you said there is no need to abstain from sex but I need to know if one will progress faster on the path if one is sexually celibate? 2) What are the results for a person practicing FP qigong (most notably the seated FP qigong meditations) while doing the Mantak Chia's Microcosmic Orbit visualizations of moving the kundalini energy up the back of your spine and down the front of your body channel? And also spinning your chakras at the same time? 3) What are the results for a person practicing FP qigong (Seated or Standing) while in the state of empty awareness? 4) As there are too many exercises from those 7 DVDs, which seated or standing exercises are the most powerful/efficient/effective exercises? Especially in terms of activating one siddhi's powers and curing one health's problems? Say one only has 30 minutes of time each day. Looking forward to your answers.

The whole system of life in this world is specifically engineered to deny and discourage the existence of siddhis. Even mainstream buddhism calls for the lack of emphasis on siddhis yet there are terms like mahasiddhas floating around. There are many dimensions of realities besides our own and one of the prime objectives of any true path of spirituality is to fully communicate and interact with other-world dimensions. Also any true path of spirituality is to fully develop these siddhi powers for the benefit of mankind. What's the difference between the desire for siddhis and the desire for material wealth or women? None whatsoever. Material wealth or siddhis or even a knife can be used for good or bad purposes. But does the fact that material wealth or a knife can be used for bad purposes deter any of us from trying to gain wealth? Does it stop us from using a knife? We need money to pay our rent. We need a knife to chop up our food. And we NEED siddhis to determine which politicians are lying to us and which spirits of evil are negatively affecting our lives so that we can have a better life. So what's wrong with hankering after siddhis now? If siddhis can corrupt your ego, then I say material wealth or women or even a knife can corrupt your ego as well.

Without siddhis, how are you going to explore your inner awareness and communicate with your higher self? Wake up.

There was a recent thread explaining the various differences between fire and water cultivation practices. In that thread, examples of fire and water cultivation methods were given. I.e. kunalini is a fire method and stillness meditation is a water method. That thread seems to have disappeared though. Can the mods help me on this?

no that thread which i am looking for was started by someone else around dec, or jan.. in that thread, someone posted a long list of cultivation methods which belong to the fire category and a long list of methods which belong to the water category..

true enlightenment has nothing to do with opening one's heart or cultivating loving kindness.. true enlightenment has everything about cutting your mind to ribbons into the primordial awareness.. for those who think that true spirituality is all about cultivating love and kindness and nothing else, sorry to say this but you guys have wasted your time and energies on the wrong path

i searched for the term "fire" cos that term was in that thread. All the way till last year but that thread has been deleted.

One of the first spiritual principles which i learnt is that you have to cultivate your body, mind and spirit at the same time. There are several authors who talked about the different spiritual planes. The astral, the psychic, the etheric.. I am beginning to understand now that the fire cultivation methods of kundalini seem to be focused on opening up the energy centers and meridians of the body and the water cultivation methods of inner dissolving and ego-busting seem to work on the mind. What then of the spirit component of our work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasiddha Mahasiddha (Tibetan: གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ; Wylie: grub thob chen po; or Tibetan: ཏུལ་ཤུག; Wylie: tul shug; Sanskrit Devanagari: महासिद्ध; IAST: mahāsiddha, maha meaning "great" and siddha meaning "adept") is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates siddhi of perfection. They are a type of eccentric yogi in both Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism. Mahasiddhas were tantric practitioners, or tantrikas who had sufficient attainments to act as a guru or tantric master. A siddha is an individual who, through the practice of sadhana, attains the realization of siddhis, psychic and spiritual abilities and powers. bottomline you can't achieve enlightenment without siddhis

and how do you measure accomplishment if not by the amount of siddhis you have realized? siddhis are just your reports on how far you have travelled down the path

no.. can the mods help out here?

so what happens when you practice fire kundalini cultivation and ego-busting obstacle-busting blockage-busting cultivation at the same time? superspeed attainment of siddhis and correspondingly, enlightenment?

yes there is no doubt Kunlun is more special than any other practices in Max's eyes although Michael Winn has explained that .. if you only follow in the water style, this can lead to very slow progress at times. Sometimes you need more fire to transform your life or a situation. Only doing water practice can lead to stagnation and holding of water in the body. Physically, this results in overweight condition; psychically, it can result in unnecessarily slow spiritual progress. http://www.healingtaousa.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?rm=mode2&articleid=1

can a government sanctioned prison executioner of criminals be considered to be a taoist? afterall, he is executing the dregs of society

the mainland chinese believe in taoism which can bring about materialism

i guess this explains the wide difference in outlooks between different schools of taoism some want to jump out of the loop immediately while the rest wanna wallow in mud indefinitely

As a third-degree black belt in karate, having trained daily for nearly nine years, I went to study in Okinawa, the birthplace of modem karate and tae kwon do. Both because I met the minimum ranking requirements and because of a lucky personal connection, I was admitted to a select special research student program in karate via the Shorin Ryu karate system, called in Japanese kenkyusei. Here, the innermost secrets of karate are introduced to future teachers. Weapons training, night fighting, and special breathing and martial techniques not taught to most black belts were essential parts of the course. After a few months, it became obvious that many of the most "secret" techniques were ones I had already learned in my first two years of basic training in the internal martial arts of tai chi, hsing-i, and ba gua. Many karate people had to wait five to twenty years before being taught the sarne material in Shorin Ryu karate. This kenkyusei situation was quite similar to what was happening at the time with other karate styles in Okinawa and Japan. My instructor in Okinawa was the senior black belt after the elderly master of the style. I asked him how it was possible for me to have leamed these things from Chinese masters in Japan and Taiwan that he himself had not leamed? Besides being an exceptional karate man, this instructor was also a jazz musician. He was much more open-minded than the average Japanese or Okinawan karate master. He answered more frankly than one in his position normally would have to a foreigner. He said I was right. He had sparred with martial art experts from Taiwan and he had been both confused and beaten by them. He also acknowledged that the Chinese martial arts knew how to efficiently combine traditional Oriental medical principIes with martial arts training in ways that were mostly absent in karate. The Chinese martial arts, he admitted, also had a better medical knowledge of the body than was present in karate. He further said that the martial art material in Taiwan was of a higher leveI, although the Okinawans did have powerful and useful techniques that worked extremely well, which was true. I then asked him why he didn't go to Taiwan, which was next door to Okinawa, and learn more. It was obvious that he loved karate and martial arts in general, and his jazz background had given him a fondness for experiments that would expand his abilities. His answer was typical of the ongoing Asian battle between orthodox conservatism and new frontiers of knowledge. He said he knew that the martial arts in Taiwan were better than what he did. (This was quite a statement considering this man was about as good as karate people got.) He then emphasized that he was an Okinawan and, as such, would never consider learning from the Chinese because this would cause his style of Okinawan karate to lose face. It was a matter of national pride. Most importantly, however, it was a matter of "face." Years later, my teacher in Beijing, Liu Hung Chieh, would comment many times about life in a Confucian society, "You can go for one of two things in life, to be happy or to save face. It is your choice." This sense of competitive face has plagued the martial arts of Asia for hundreds, ifnot thousands, ofyears.* This attitude causes people to invest incredible status and pride in the specific martial art they do, rather than investigate how to expand their already existing body of knowledge by seeking new possibilities. Consequently, existing knowledge of martial arts stagnates and tends to be lost because of misplaced secrecy and pride. This situation is fortunately changing in the West. There, practitioners of karate and other martial arts take advantage of an open society in which they can freely adapt what is useful from other styles without experiencing a sense of betrayal to their own. This experience in Okinawa caused me to take a much more open point of view regarding martial arts than many of my colleagues at that time. (From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of borrowing from a martial art that was not one's own was unheard of.) It also firmly moved me in the direction of the internal side of martial arts, which I admittedly favor. I've observed that, if one wishes an investment to pay off in the long term, it is wise to be open to other proven, higher yielding investments, even if your feelings of possessiveness and previous accomplishment must temporarily be put aside.

It is an insight which can be applied to all areas in life including spirituality and magick.