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Take care yourself & Thanks a lot for your awesome posts !!

Get your own POWER!!! Practice some real meditation & nei gong so you can: ONE) Feel confident and strong in and by yourself. TWO) Be aware of and control your monkey mind - catch the rubbish and pointless thoughts and just STOP !

While Mo Pai isn't a taoist method i believe it would be classed under "hou tian" while Taoist Yoga would be "xian tian". Mo Pai is a martial school so their nei gong is geared towards combat efficiency, the classic Taoist meditation is a purely spiritual pursuit. I wouldn't say Mo Pai is a fast method, no one even got to level 4 which is really the basis for their school i believe.

=] I was just re-reading the Bliss of Inner Fire by Lama Thubten Yeshe. If you are really interested in this practice you should really read the whole text. The instructions for practice are all there.

What you say about yang and yin spirits and what happens after death is just a belief also.

Well that's a belief just as is mine that a fully Enlightened being in a Buddhist sense has complete control over birth and death. So no point debating until one KNOWS through their own realization.

Can you explain your reason for thinking this?

I'm surprised.

Yes Glenn Mullin's book is very good

On my Kindle its Page 131. Or Chapter 17. I remember clearly from reading this book and "The Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa" that the instructions for practice are basically all there. But still they stress the importance of the transmission from a Guru and also doing the preliminaries. Whether you heed that is up to you.

Have you read "The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa"? The cornerstone Tummo is explained very clearly.

Now there's nothing wrong with fixing old bikes . Tao, God etc are a part of us so when one lets go of the limited ego then you can't be a control freak. What you do will be in line with Tao and choosing how to control ones life processes would be for the benefit of other beings. "The very way that you are born you can decide. The very womb that are born in can be chosen by you consciously." A being at that level will choose to be reborn so they can continue to spread the teachings in the physical on this plane. Just my opinion.

Nice! I've strangely found if i look PAST the object i can sometimes see the aura on it. Example - i hold up my palm in front of me then look at a wall in the distance i can begin to see the energy around the hand and arm. Seems easier in dim lighting.

Does the articles you linked explain this? This basically describes me, i can eat a lot or a little my weight just doesn't change. Also, fasting if you are skinny? Is it potentially hazardous? I would like to try fasting but only if i wouldn't lose weight in the long run.

There's no point in talking in levels merceless its just deceiving people to think you're practicing Mo Pai. Doesn't make your training any less valuable, its just not Mo Pai.

Sounds like blast guys, congrats =]

I second that. Can you point me in the direction where you read more about this experience? It was incredibly powerful.

Hey merceless, I was wondering in some other thread you mentioned "going from level 4-8" 1. Are you serious? 2. I feel sorry for your opponents in mixed martial arts if you are even above "level 2".

For me, tension in shoulders, arms, back, neck etc. can make my hand/hands feel cold. When i do stillness movement, my hands heat up quite a lot. Also eating a good meal, some chicken etc seems to help a lot.

Teacher, method, student. If someone practiced Zhan Zhuang correctly for 2 hours straight every day for 3-5 years, In my opinion they would be a transformed person, very powerful. The problem is many people these days are learning from a book, so for many people this is not adequate to practice correctly. In this case the more devoted the student the bigger mess they MIGHT get themselves in, due to extensive practice in a harmful manner. So when you get an excellent teacher with an excellent practice and an excellent student, that is a recipe for success.

Ooh ill probably go to the meetup next month thanks for posting this

I recall a Mahamudra lama saying that simply being able to have no thoughts just signifies an attainment in concentration. The actual natural state is much much deeper than this. I know for sure this is true

Yeah true, also if you KNOW you have been running on the proverbial hamster wheel for 10000000000000s of years then you will make a much better use of this life.

Yeah pretty interesting, in the documentary "Yogis of Tibet" a couple of the masters mention how they know all their past lives. Just imagine knowing this, and how it would effect your sense of self importance. Well the Buddha said something along the lines of "every sentient being has been your parent in some life time"

Where did you have this done ? Do you believe the reading?