Harmonious Emptiness
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8 Pieces of Brocade - Shaolin Style
Harmonious Emptiness replied to HoldorFold's topic in General Discussion
There are variations on Baduanjin in different temples it seems. Here it is with full chi gung attentiveness !! : -
spontaneous movement and stillness movement
Harmonious Emptiness replied to bubullo's topic in Daoist Discussion
Okay, I think I misunderstood the question. I understood: "if i have a brief moment of this movement during the day (not in a session) it is very long to close and in fact totally impractible ( in a car or in the street)" to mean that the movements were impairing what he was doing, but I guess the question was just "how to close afterwards" when closing is difficult. I won't make an uneducated guess on that, though Michael did say that he does the closing routine at the beginning and end of the day - so I guess, from that, that you can let the movements spontaneously arise throughout the day and just do a "daily closing." I don't know though. I don't have direct experience with the lineage, outside of the DVDs. -
spontaneous movement and stillness movement
Harmonious Emptiness replied to bubullo's topic in Daoist Discussion
just to direct the energy differently than in (external) bodily movement. There is an element of allowing the MCO to happen when the energy is strong. Sort of like the rudder-person on a sail boat in calm winds, just nudging the current with effortless intent. The OP said there were times the movements were problematic during other tasks. Part of this would be grounding the energy in the dantien, too. Circulating, and grounding, and circulating and grounding. [note: I'm just speaking from general chi gung theory and practice] -
spontaneous movement and stillness movement
Harmonious Emptiness replied to bubullo's topic in Daoist Discussion
How about trying to focus the energy that causes the movements into the micro-cosmic orbit - slowing the breath and using it as sort of a regulator for the path of the energy. Would this not allow the energy to continue moving while calming the external expressions of it? -
BKA's guide on how to pickup women.... and lizard people
Harmonious Emptiness replied to BaguaKicksAss's topic in General Discussion
One thing I heard which I believe to be true: Women are attracted to a man in pursuit of his dreams and on the path to accomplishing them, even when it's a long, long, path. If he is dedicated and resilient in this pursuit - SeXy! So fellas: "get up offa that thang!" -
http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/akira-kurosawas-80-minute-master-class-on-making-beautiful-movies-2000.html
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Buddhist cynicism
Harmonious Emptiness replied to Harmonious Emptiness's topic in Buddhist Discussion
That's essentially why I ask - because it seems contrary to the intent and purpose to say "be in the moment, don't go through life without actually being there" and then saying "this life is all a waste, full of things which do no good - the best thing to do is be rid of all of it for good," which really is what it says a number of times in various sutras. It's not just my interpretation of it or a bad translation. It's part of the rhetoric, basically. Though we can go around it and say "that's just not important," it does have a fairly strong presence in some important sutras. I guess what I would like to see, is more of the positive rather than negative motivation, not unlike your suggestion - that freedom is the bounty. Thanks for your post! True, it is meant to be contemplated actively in this way, and this is why the sutras are mostly inspiring to read even though they do shun life in so many ways. They show that we can be free of the common sufferings which maybe we have put back out of our mind by attaining pleasantness in life. Like when I'm drinking my morning coffee - I'm really enjoying the coffee, not suffering this and that emotional affliction. As a few have mentioned now - Samsara and Nirvana are intertwined in the same way that emptiness and form are intertwined. There is a scripture in the Taoist cannon which extrapolates on The Heart Sutra, called Miraculous Scripture of The Highest Mystery Ascending, Disaster Dissolving, and Life Protecting, which explains: "Emptiness is just emptiness, but emptiness is not absolute emptiness; form is just form, but form is not absolute form; so emptiness is form, and so form is emptiness." So what I'm trying to say is that, when free of suffering, Nirvana is known and experienced through Samasara - so there should be more about how Nirvana is visible when the lense of affliction is no longer. Yes, freedom from suffering requires a path away from the current, the powerful waters of influence that drive our animalistic competition, BUT, Nirvana is also in the world, shining like the sun through the great window of illusion and delusion which separates us from the Ultimate Reality - the beautiful Buddha Nature which is everywhere yet nowhere, no matter where you are, at all times. It's within you, it's outside of you. The dharma teaches how to still the waters so that the sun can shine through them and illuminate all, making the waters pleasant and bountiful. It's as though we need to stop loving the water so we we'll stop mucking it up, but ultimately the water is where it's really at. -
well the only scientific documentation that reincarnation exists is to say that its a rediculous notion. So why worry about it if science is how you determine the reality of any of this?
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Enlightenment ends rebirth. Even the slightest actual knowledge about Buddhism would make that clear. All Buddhist practices are working towards Enlightenment. It's not a hidden secret that they keep from people. And again, Buddhism was the first source of the idea of ending rebirth in contrast to the Hindu culture of re-incarnation. Mo Pai is seeking an alternative means to the goal set out by The Buddha. The path in Buddhism is essentially to "extinguish the flame" of desires, knowing selflessness, and the meritorious actions which arise from these things. This is the path to Enlightenment and the end of rebirth. Through these things, phenomena such as siddhis may appear, but there has never been a "put the cart before the horse" idea that you need to cultivate the siddhis and they will take you there by their power. Perhaps one will "extinguish the flame" and know selflessness, etc., by the very discipline and practice involved in developing these siddhis, but that would be a by-product of the discipline and practice, not of the siddhis themselves. And if you want to hear about siddhis in Buddhism, they are there, often in healing powers, which John Chang also employs. Another example is Japanese planes crashing into each other over Empty Cloud's temple. And if you're so bent on having measurable scientific proof - why do you believe in re-incarnation and rainbow bodies??? Where's your scientific verification of that?? Does that not seem the least bit absurd that you're demanding scientific proof of something because you want to make sure that it will give you a rainbow body?
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Was looking for a Mo Pai thread to ask this question -- seems as good as any to divert. Question: If the aim and goal of Mo Pai is to end rebirth, why not just follow Buddhism, since this practice, idea, and ideal is a Buddhist one which has been adopted by others. Sure, it is legitimately a part of the Mo Pai, but why claim that one needs to do this and that energy practice in such specific ways, when the path to ending rebirth never had these practices in its origins. Sure, we can see some energy practices in Tibetan Buddhism, but these are auxiliary additions, helpful, but later syncretistic additions. And why have so much faith that these practices will work, when few get anywhere near 1/10th of the way there, while far more seem to "get there" following the original Buddhist practices which aimed to free one of re-birth. I won't get into the idea of a spiritual path that seeks a miserable view of life rather than seeking how to augment, benefit, and use the means of life given to make it better, but, hey, go where you want to go. It's your time and your life and your needs to be satisfied.
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Yeah, how dare they allow adequate protection to women at risk - it's like they want people to be safe no matter how messed up they are. Don't they know society is about letting the poor get trampled on, and the only way to help someone is to let them die from lack of means and resources? All they have to do is look at the rest of the world to see how well this improves things. Legal weed? And take money away from the huge industry that pretends to fight weed? That would destroy that sector of the economy - although there's no actual turn around on their dollars spent since its all paid by the tax payers and has no profit to it whatsoever, while never stopping the situation or allowing balanced education regarding the issue, and making people think that cocain isn't any worse than marijuana (which they've already done, so hey, why not?). (yeah, I know you're not really against it -- just felt like sayin')
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Poutine is Quebec's contribution to alternative mental-health remedies. Psychiatrists are starting to question their validity when their former patients simply drown themselves in a large plate of poutine instead of paying $1000s of dollars for their questionable advice. So you can come down for the hookers, and then drown your sorrows in poutine when you realize how pathetic you are for coming all the way to Canada to pay for someone allow you to come anywhere near them. The gravy and cheese curds have a combined energetic effect on sorrowful frequencies which causes them to be absorbed and then neutralized in the cheese curd-and-gravy compound which is later excreted. This has replaced the once popular practice of confessing to a Catholic priest, and is gaining popularity by American's travelling to Canada for it's affordable medicine.
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Request for greater disciplinary action on More Pie Guy
Harmonious Emptiness replied to skydog's topic in Forum and Tech Support
Now everybody can have their cake and eat it too: The bagua electric cigarette - no lighter required -
An End to Killing Taoist Movie.
Harmonious Emptiness replied to Mudryah's topic in Daoist Discussion
Bad idea if you can't read modern Mandarin. The baidu player downloads an MS Office type program which changes all your MS office files to that program - WPS office, and then doesn't let you remove it - just gives you prompts in Mandarin with too many options to know if it`s going to do more damage or not. If anyone knows how to remove this program, please PM me. Thanks. edit -- It appears I managed to remove all the files by finding them in start menu - right click - open file location - delete -
Sacred Sonic Geometry and why 432hz should be standard pitch
Harmonious Emptiness posted a topic in General Discussion
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Taoism & Confucianism - surely no way?
Harmonious Emptiness replied to yabyum24's topic in Daoist Discussion
If the Taoism and Confucianism were teaching dance - Confucianism is the steps to the dance, so that it can be done with a partner, Taoism teaches you how to feel the dance. Some people will dance without rhythm, some people will dance wildly according to their rhythm and be oblivious to others. They can both lead to good dancing though, together or separately, imo.. -
How to bring a family member to self-reflect?
Harmonious Emptiness replied to 4bsolute's topic in General Discussion
A good strategy is analyzing yourself - talk about your own struggle with these things you would like to see him deal with without suggesting he deal with them. After all, we can learn a lot about our mistakes by seeing other people make them. When you see his errors, try to turn around and see how you can improve on these things, or at least how you would like to improve on them for your personal growth. It opens the dialogue about the fact that such things are important, and he might choose to improve -himself- rather than live up to your expectations of him - which is likely what he feels you want him to do. He needs to make the move and goal for himself. It's his journey. He can only part when he's ready, and his ego might be like the training wheels that are helping him along in meantime - be careful about suggesting you want to remove them as this might be a very intimidating suggestion, not to mention insulting whether true or not. -
Taoist Anima-Shakti - is there such a thing?
Harmonious Emptiness replied to yabyum24's topic in Daoist Discussion
If I understand what you're asking, there are tons of secret and not so secret Taoist energy spots in the body. There are also multiple body gods, not to mention many heavenly and earthly spirits in the body. -
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Okay, so why is Kosta the authority on yin chi? Sure his accomplishments were nothing to dismiss, but he studied this one system, which is sort of an offshoot of Taoism. Why take his word over people in ancient Taoist lineages? Stillness Movement, I'm sure, isn't the only system which doesn't require sitting down to absorb yin chi. I realize I'm pulling the conversation along further by asking this, but I'm amazed at the lack of logic I'm seeing here, and am interested to understand how one's mind works like this. In regards to all Stillness Movement patients who could not be helped by western medicine, you're really basing your argument on the odds that all of these 1000s of patients were receiving treatment for something other than what their problem was? That doesn't seem just a little far fetched to you? And, btw, I'm continuing this because you still say that you're going to slander someone and say they don't know what they're doing, nor what they're talking about, when that person has proven well beyond necessity that he does know both what he's doing and what he's talking about. You've also proven that YOU don't know what your talking about, and are just quoting what someone else said about something you yourself don't know about. You are trying to stand in the way of someone teaching an effective system and lineage. That's pretty serious, and I'm happy to respond to your baseless claims, because 1) it's very easy to show how baseless they are, and 2) that system has helped thousands of people and stands to continue doing this work. Just because you refuse to look at the facts of it, and do not understand it, you continue imaging that your helping something by trying to stand in the way of it being taught. I'm trying to help you see what everybody else here sees, and that is the reality of your continued behaviour in this matter, which is very much STALKING a teacher, trolling, harassing, slandering, and disrupting. So John Kosta said one thing. So what? He's got an opinion. It's not the be all and end all of Taoist spiritual sciences.
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well, as I said, check out the success rates of SM medicine. They are way way way beyond that of placebo. Not to mention that many if not most of the cases didn't even respond to actual Western medicine and doctors were already baffled after prescribing so many treatments. These treatments didn't work, which were already much stronger than placebos, and then SM medicine did work. So, how do you continue to say it must only be placebo, when real drugs and treatments, administered in the same way placebos are administered, already didn't work on the same patient? That's because it's effective. John Chang practices a similar medicine, though I don't know any more about it than you. Given the success rates of SM medicine using these modalities, I'm led to believe there are simply things in SM that allow one to gather yin chi which Mo Pai does not know about or does not use because it is more of a "hard" qi gong, whereas SM is more of a soft qi gong. You'd do well to just stop posting and leave both of these lineages alone. Neither one of them wants you talking about them, and you have nothing to offer anyone about the truth of either one. I think it's time you respect those wishes.
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Does Yin and Yang theory . . . actually make sense (?)
Harmonious Emptiness replied to Lataif's topic in Daoist Discussion
You're not supposed to be ill. Start interfering (like get more sleep or exercise for example) The time for the person varies. There's obviously micro ways of weighing the evidence, then there's gut knowing(s). There is also yearly considerations, according to I Ching theory. Some years are Fire years, when much effort is beneficial, others are Water years when humility is more successful. Some years might be good for reflecting (Lake), while others need to be active. Why shouldn't your energy be balanced all the time? Be relaxed in body but attentive in mind. This is yang within yin. Active in body and relaxed in mind. This is yin within yang. Depends on what you were doing. If you follow the above balances, you will be less tired. You need to know yourself -- there's no iPhone app for it. It's like developing inner time. When you dance do you look at a metronome to do it? -
Taoist Anima-Shakti - is there such a thing?
Harmonious Emptiness replied to yabyum24's topic in Daoist Discussion
btw, for Secret of the Golden Flower, pick up Thomas Cleary's translation if you're going to buy one. I compared a few chapters of Cleary's and Wilhelm&Jung's translations to the original text and found that they were actually very similar. But Cleary's notes on the terms and so forth are much more useful, since they are based in the origins of these terms, rather than Jungian philosophy. -
Taoist Anima-Shakti - is there such a thing?
Harmonious Emptiness replied to yabyum24's topic in Daoist Discussion
Maybe you mean an·i·ma (n-m) n. 1. The inner self of an individual; the soul. 2. In Jungian psychology:a. The unconscious or true inner self of an individual, as opposed to the persona, or outer aspect of the personality. b. The feminine inner personality, as present in the unconscious of the male. It is in contrast to the animus, which represents masculine characteristics. In that case, yes, without a doubt. Jung and Freud were both privileged to have read translations of the I Ching, and Jung even wrote commentary on Secret of the Golden Flower. When you read the latter, it will not be easy to deny it's influence on his writing. -
Do placebos work on horses? 'cause SM medicine does. I think the claims that the medicine is placebo is actually even more ill founded than the claims here about yin chi. The effectiveness of it is documented. I remember saying in one of the other yin chi threads that MPG should ask for those stats from Brion, rather than making more untrue statements. That would have been simple, however, apparently too difficult for someone who prefers to trash-talk rather than do a simple investigation of the subject he's talking about by asking someone who is only an email message away. Simply willful arrogance and ignorance. Anyways, talk all you want about whatever you want MPG, your posts and posting style simply discredit yourself further and reveal the true light of everything else you've said about anything - ill-informed and worthless opinions coming from someone who can't understand basic instructions on how to post in an internet forum, yet goes on a mission based on a few abstract bits of guidance he received from lower level students of a system he is not even affiliated with. Whatever dude.
