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Born of a Legend Like many Chinese festivals, the Mid-Autumn Festival originated from a legend. This particular festival celebrates the beautiful yet sad story of Chang E, the Moon Lady. Although there are many versions of this legend, the most common one is as follows: Long, long ago, 10 suns rose in the sky and they scorched all the crops, leaving people in extreme poverty. A hero named Hou Yi shot down nine of the suns, saving the Earth from the destructive heat. Heavenly Empress Wangmu rewarded him with a vial of elixir that would make a person immortal and allow life in the Heavens. Hou Yi’s wife, Chang E, was known for her beauty and kind heart. Out of his deep love for her, Hou Yi gave the elixir to Chang E for safe-keeping until they could share it when he returned from hunting. An evil man, Peng Meng, spied this through the window. Three days later, when Hou Yi left to hunt, Peng broke in with sword in hand, planning to force Chang E into giving him the elixir. Chang E quickly put the vial to her mouth and swallowed all its contents. As soon as she had swallowed the elixir, she floated off the ground. She dashed out of the window and flew toward the moon. When Hou Yi returned home that night, he learned from the maidservants what had happened. Tearfully, he looked up into the night sky and called out the name of his beloved wife. At that moment, the moon became especially clear and bright. Hou Yi saw a shadow of his wife who was looking down at him, also in grief. Hou Yi set up an altar with incense in the garden. On the altar, he put the sweet cakes and fresh fruits that Chang E enjoyed most. Then, he held a memorial ceremony for his wife in the moon. It was the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar year. The news that Chang E had turned into a celestial being and was living in the moon spread fast. Many people arranged altars with incense in the moonlight and prayed for the kind-hearted Chang E, the Moon Lady, to look after them. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Years passed with years, Hou Yi aged but his warm heart still young like the day when beauty Chang E become his smilling moon. Every year on 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar year many people come to visit Hou Yi for the ceremony. Each year the head shaking sadness filled the hearts of the people. Making them one year calling a Buddhist Monk to help end the suffering of their Hero and Lifesaver. A shining elder Monk with Elder Kun from the Foreign Way Buddhism told :"Hou Yi, master of your body (the monks use this to adress other people) you have to let go of attachment. We may be called followers of Buddhism but believe that the Buddhas and the Buddha before believe in the Tao to reach Buddhism. To end your suffering you need to let go of love" "Oh great monk, I am honored to be hearing the words but I can let go of love but not the memory. Everytime I look to the moon I see her smile how can I be unhappy? She is everyday with me only gone on first. Look at her in the sky those curved lips extend to whole sky with soothing light greater than the stars." Hou Yi replied with a bow. "I see, I see. Peace be, Peace be. So why you make the people suffer by your suffering master of your body?" while bowing with palms in prayer positon "Great Monk... I havent thought about it......" "Hou Yi master of your body. In the world everthing is connected by the Dao, all Buddhas are connected to the Dao, the Buddhas recocnize it so far that Guan Yin decide to become a Bodhisattva to save the world. When you suffer or appear to be suffering then other people will will for you as you remind them of themselves of their beloved ones who has gone. Everthing is changing but everthing stay the same : Void." Saying calmly and showing the surrounding with the palms. "Great Monk Kun, then I do harm to my surrounding!" Hou Yi expressing with selfdoubting excitement. "Not necessary. Those who have let go those they love will unaffected. Gate Gate Parasamgate Boddhisvaha! Become calm as everthing happens as it should" to calm Hou Yi, he touched the shoulders of Hou Yi. An incredible flow was going through Hou Yi and he see the memory of shooting the suns and Chang E becoming the moon. "Chang E...." Hou Yi gasped. "Amitofu..... I touched you and I know the reasons of your fate" the monk said. "Please great monk, lecture me about this matter." "Listen Hou Yi. The Dao send out the Yang and the Yin. You commit a shifting of balance by shooting the Suns which are the symbol and embodiment of Yang. Because you lessen the Yang in the world. Yin has to be taken from you in form of an Immortal Chang E to balance the whole universe. As outside is an expression of inside" while saying this the monk move the hand as if holding a sphere and then putting it into a prayer posture "Oh wise elder monk, do you allow me to give this unknowing person an adivice?" while touching his own chest. "As you see you ... Change E was with you when the Sun was there..." "So I need to get back the suns?" hastily Hou Yi interfere. "All that is done can not be reverted.....outside, but created....inside. for this you need to build the force of the 9 Suns you had shooted." the monk stroking his beard ammused. "How I do this, I dont know any immortal who would teach me?" Hou Yi tilt his head to the side. "Immortals are many under heaven and above. Each of them has come to immortality by guidance from inside despite of the methods, teachers, time and effort. The vial of elixier is only the result of the fate of Chang E. Seek guidance from inside and inside the void which is inside of you. Listen to the voice. But there is a thing to do before... If you want something too much you hold it tightly. If something is hold tightly it can not leave to make space - void- for other things. To gain the 9 Solar Power you need to let go the equal power of the Moon." the monk saying with a strict face. "Letting go of the M o o n?" Hou Yi looked with big eyes. "You heard it right, the Moon is.... Chang E. If you let go of her you let go of the Yin and so the Yang can amass. I have given you the transmission nothing else needed, just let go as the power was already in you" The monk said with a friendly smile. "I,,,,, can..... not...express your kind action" Bowing strongly and repeatly to express is overwhelming gratitude. "Amitofu. May Buddha be Merciful and grant him understanding of the void." So the yearly ceremony by Hou Yi stops and people forgot Hou Yi only remembering Chang E, at time even forgetting her but awaiting the rice cakes. Hou Yi each day sat in peace for moments. Hou Yi now old and dying on his equal old bed looks peaceful as he know his ends had come. "You have let go what you hold the most, I grant you the immortality" The voice comes from inside. All his body turned and he became young again as in his best years, all scars are gone and his body shines white of the light coming from inside. Hou Yi accended to sky where ........a light female hand and a smile welcome hims........ Confucius said: "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if the don't they never were." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes Moonlite, actually everyone has Dantien, even all three. I have asked one of my teachers, he took his glasses of and look inside and he was shrugging his shoulders telling me "You have three". Then there is the cultivated Dantien which is the created Dantien. Michael Lomax who at this moment giving Seminar in Missouri do this for the people there. Another way is by carving a Dantien which is done in the Longmenpai with much - actually all selfeffort. Or as I understand is to do Taoist Yoga by Charles Luck (Ask Phytagorasfulllotus he will lecture you about it) A real dantien is like a supercomputer compared to a calculator. You can say a barren land you can put everything to grow there and maybe not, but on farming land the field is cared and done to put one thing there to grow and prepare the earth that it grows becomes big and gives rich harvest.

It is a movement like a infinite symbol looked from behind. Look from the side it is like it is tilt not straight vertical like " / " and not " I ". Look from above it looks like \ /. but more to 180° around 170° depending on the hip. Knees are not locked but slightly bend. If the toes are much pigeontoed then it hurt the knees. When the feet are almost paralell it reduce the pressure on the knees. As well the motion is not introduced by the knees. Weight that use to stand is shift below the feet. This is only general as long the energetics not kick in. If it does one may move extremly asymmetric to regain symmetric function. Practically one can put ones hand on the hips of the advance practioner and try to understand. The other way I did was to move the hip with my hands of the student/client.

You are too generous "a friend of Friend" actually to a point I ask me if it is wise to act so. One get something that is heavily guarded in the past, save up for some and people fight over it. Now you give them almost for free where I assume Brion facepalm himself while other schools let the people exercise for 3 decades to sort out the people. While you give whoever comes the chance because of the realisation about "who we are" instead of asking for huge amount because you listen to grandteacher Wang Juemin saying "It is time for the ancient secrets of Qigong to be made available to those in the West" else you would sitting fishing since then.

Flowing Hands offers "Fa Fu" for Healing and for Exorcism. A new DVD about "Hua Tuo Xian Shi's Sweeping Moon Yin and Yang Form" is coming soon. Also there is fun to see blessing with Sky Laterns.

Yes Manitou, those who could see were Harphy : Immortal can see each other -Mommy Fortuna : Dark Path of Magic -Schmendrik: By following Mommy Fortuna but not having her greed. -The Red Bull (oh I like Energydrinks) -Molly Grue :Those who believe and wait (Very interesting as she is the only one with full name, else only a title, a name) But because of the Virgin on Unicorn magic it is camouflagged for those who could see but find it out by keeness. -Haggard -Red Bull -Skull -Cat -Mabruk There is much to see in this movie Especially at the beginning with the butterfly(Those who occupied with themselves which was short or Mabruk (fooling a great magician to not see a Unicorn). There is much in this roman. Like one of my favourites is with the Skull and Schmendrick and the "Wine" "SCHMENDRICK: But you're dead! You can't smell wine,can't taste it!SKULL: But I remember..." So much to ancestor rites.

As Michael said Tendou, the Spiral exercise, the Chen Pan Ling Baduajin, the Isometric Qigong are only workshop and are not on DVD. It is very valuable to go to one Seminar to learn this Forms. The are so simple that you might think they are not useful at all if one has learned many forms. But for me they have some subtle difference to similar forms or variants as the Baduajin. This changes when one has the transmission of the Stillnessmovment and the the Qigong Forms one learn are an extension of the Stillnessmovement Qigong with awareness on the LDT. The Gift of Tao is less technical than energy influenced and repeated the main purpose is not allignment of the physical body (one can use it for that but thats a different animal). Sometimes the moves are big, sometimes they are small, sometimes one arms move non syncron to the other arm or it send you to spontaneus movement. Sometime not going low, sometimes lower than DVD. Sometimes Jumping in the Stepping ,sometimes sneaking the steps. If one can let go of control you move the body "similar but not same" by letting the energy do and one follow and try not to interfere as the state of the concious is important which is at performing out of the linear and the body will act arcording the situation as it has itself harm prevention. Going to a seminar can give you the advantage of direct correction if it is sort of "habit mistake" a sort of control which similar as spontaneus movement but learned harmful. (Such things are corrected by people in the body work scene and awareness schools, Feldenkrais, Alexandertechnique, Rolfing etc.) (Such things are gained from Martial Arts, or other form of sports where movements or learned from parents or other children have to be precise forming the body excel the art as it is and from long years of work)

Indeed Manitou, it is said the same attract the same. Luck is said when one not know the cause Mommy Fortuna do has real magic to keep the two immortal beings locked as well she and Schmendrick could see the true Unicorn. Mommy Fortuna has to case Illusion of a fake horn on a real unicorn so that a common person can acknowledge the Unicorn as real - still not see the real thing. This said, it means in reality one sometimes has to fake and make a show to convince the common person. I had laugh when I watched "Two Broke Girls" where the card reader has cursed them with non spectacular ordinary movments dont know if you know that sit com. In manifestation one has to let go. Since a message dow you hold tightly can not move to its destination.

A book I try to understand and always lost track is "The Last Unicorn" by Peter S.Beagle. It is for me a rich roman for those who follow the path of mysteries as it has concepts with various level to be understood of. I think it is something to read to find the traces of Sagehood in the Unicorn. Quote "I can never regret I can feel sorrow but it's not the same thing" Each of the character seem to present a sort of person when they come to contact with the Sage/Immortal/Unicorn. Not everyone can see a Unicorn. But those types who can "see" are having a name. Schmendrik the magician (Schmendrik is Yiddish for a "stupid person") If one watch the movie or read the roman he followed Mommy Fortuna (which you one interpret as an Guru who is using Illusion, enchanted normal animals)- who with luck had been able with her little abillity to catch the Harpy and the Unicorn. Schmendrik wished to be a true magician and with his tricks (his own will, manipulation) could not really do much and we see many slap stick scenes with him having in end up in Hagards Fortress to "entertain him". By the contact with the Unicorn he could draw from the real magic, when he surrender to the force and "allow" Quote : "Magic, magic, do as you will" Isnt this Manifesting oh Manitou?

Cooked steaming rice. You see other cultures do something similar. The rice has its good of stickiness and leave enough space to breath in. Its ok we have all our oats and give our promises, when certain condition meet the things are revealed and then taken away at another time. Ah good Glühwein, which is making warm and then drinked in Germany at Christmas Time. Old tradition was founded by wise men.

May I add some uncommon things? Drink something warm before and after practise to relax the diaphragm, especially after one came from the cold and want to practise. If you want warm up your Lungs which is attacked by the Cold by breathing the air one hold the warm water long in mouth while one breath slowly (works better with rice.) Ever try to breath through rice (just dont breath the rice in)? (The rice pictogramm in one of the "Qi" in Chinese Character - actually eight direction....) This is awesome.(Dont breath into the rice, you dont want cool it) Also if you want sweat out cold that is accumulated then it is good to use "spring onion" in water to move it out adding "ginger" it opens the pores. If the coldness cause stucking of toxins because of closed pores then use apple vinegar -some drops- in warm water to cause it to be moving. Else Water Path like exercises are enhanced in this time when a downward flow is needed. Also its good time to meditate.

It is a good question Dagon and the doubts are true to consider, as I posted below the post from Ish. When it comes to signs everthying seem to be able to be faked to the point so that a co worker told me :"Dont trust a statistic you have not faked yourself". Dr.Yan Xin as I read in the past Secrets & Benefits of Internal Qigong Cultivation. You may like to read Chapter three "Scientific Nature of Qigong". Another Book I recommend on reading also for increase of practise level by reflection is by Toshihiko Yayama- Qi Healing- VI-Qi Training for Mind and Body. I remember there was somewhere mentioned to used the SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device) in the Book part of "a Living Energy Field" p.13 Also something can be used is a Infrared Camera. Heat is a side effect. But there is sometimes heat and coldness and when you touch the hands there is nothing and such things can not be used Infrared Camera, I just take that she is awesome and take her service for energybody refinement, still always suprised at her development when I see her from time to time - for a new age type . If one really want something then one has to go to the military from China, USA and Russia. All of them has a special research and tried and try to make use of "special abillties". Try to get hands on Chinas Super Psychics - Paul Dong. Which also mention people who are Qigong Masters like Dr. Yan Xin and odd naturals like General Zhang Baosheng who said can teleport food into other people as the dislike if food is left and the person has order more than he can eat. Other thing is he would take coins out and people are warned..... The things of problematic also said by Freiherr Karl von Reichenbach - Odisch magnetische Briefe. There are more and less sensitive people who can measure natural things like the difference of Lightemission of the ends of Crystals which behave like magnets. It is also mentioned that some people just can see a thing. (there is a book, I can not remember I just read too much on such topic using magnets poles cause water change in taste depending on the pole either cool and fresh or just odd and old). What is that it is not ferromagnetism You can be sure Dagon that you are not only one who is interested. When I studied Chemistry, and I ask the Dekan some stuff he looked a bit with "so you know that too...." he becomes a bit more respectful talking with me after that... The Organic Chemistry Proffessor asked about the August Kekule solved the form for Benzene when he dreamed of Monkeys holding their hands. He knows that people who hold abillity like this would be good as talents to bring into his faculty of research to solve problems beyond of linear thinking. People of rank in silence know pretty much about this matter, and at times one should be very careful who you talk what and they do have the scientifc background to ask more deep question with classical science correct knowledge. If you know sensitive stuff they might hunt a person. The whole non privacy like Face Book etc give the authorities excellent material to filter out good crops from bad crops as well of danger for authorities and possible clear thinking people who could become rebellion leader material. Assume me here just taking this negative possibility in account. Profane people should stick to their practise. Confucius said "Every Journey starts with a single step" Sun Tzu "Art of War" said something: "If you plan too long, the enemies are in front of the gates already." Well everyone can decide how they like I just point on some option. To be happy is at times better than to know and being right. "Happiness brings also in Poverty luck Unhappiness is Poverty also when lucky" (Zufriedenheit bringt auch in der Armut Glück, Unzufriedenheit ist Armut, auch im Glück.)

You have to see Michael Lomax aka Yamu apply Taoist Medince then you see the vibration comes from the travel of Qi.

Yes, it flow then also into other things and gives in my observation a higher grade of organisation, you have to see what happens when I have broom in my hand. Actually I find it vanish in the body, because when LDT grows BIG then there is only a scarce memory where orignal the Seed of Light was. Oh for fun do the Spiral after a SECABDE . P.S : Do the Spiral before the Salute to Master Wang.

He want to say he wants to hear the elaboration about "any living beings can become a immortal" from the standpoint how it was teached to you.

Hey Manitou we have lots talk lately Actually "we" is the right word in my opinion. The "Buddha Nature" is something very true which is enligthend all the time. To realize that one has a Buddha Nature is when its voice reach ones perception. A transmission is like a jump start to remember and to be aware of. It is from my view a great help to have someone who is going the the same path to meet the Buddha Nature. The journey as you said Manitou has to come within because it appears to me the inner conviction to meet the Buddha Nature has to be there to make journey into oneself. The seeking in outside for teachers inspires and can give some nice results for the moment of life. When the teacher point at himself and grasp the hand of his student and point it on the student then he has the right direction. The Sage in my opinion protected from harm that Fate in front him not only because of his soberity but because of this Buddha Nature, the "True Self". Depending on oneself decision to "listen" to the True Self - harm is not even met, only if it serve a purpose the Buddha Nature has set - which seem to do with the task we are living in the reincarnation. Because one gain the abillity to "create" ones Fate instead of Fate is happening to a person. It is so that when one do not want to be found then one can not be found. So a Machete Man would not been met. The importance of a Reality is shifted by choosing the Frame of observation From higher levels the physical body and the physical body is only a Maya, an illusion. Still it is very real for what is happening to the physical body, without one it is like an observer who can watch TV instead of having an Avatar in a Game and change the flow. (I was wondering if they do betting and have Fan Community in spiritual realms for those living humans: "Awesome he brush his teeth" Somebody understand those beings...... )

Quote: "The Stoics conceived of the sage as an individual beyond any possibility of harm from fate. The life difficulties faced by other humans (illness, poverty, criticism and bad reputation, death, etc.) could not cause a sage any sorrow, and the life circumstances sought by other people (good health, wealth, praise and fame, long life, etc.) were regarded by the Stoic sage as unnecessary externals. The Stoics thought of the sage as an agent unaffected by life circumstances, whose happiness (eudaimonia) is based entirely on virtue.[3] This invulnerability to harm from externals is achieved by the sage through knowledge, based on the right use of impressions. The right use of impressions is a core concept in Stoic epistemology.[4] The Stoics regarded the sage, the truly wise man, as rare, and few (if any) examples of actual sages who had lived were ever named. Despite that, the Stoics regarded sages as the only virtuous and happy humans. All others are regarded as fools, morally vicious, slaves and unfortunate.[5][6] The Stoics did not admit any middle ground between sages and non-sages: one is either a sage or a fool. Cicero wrote that, according to the Stoics, "every non-sage is mad." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_%28sophos%29

It is something to consider.

If we know what a Sage would do next, would he be a Sage? The same is with definition of a Stoic Sage. Either one is a one or one is none. Think about the expectation how a Sage has to be from the observer who categorize someone as Sage. When you remember that it was shocking to see some chinese "Masters" smoke and eat meat drank and swear, one has absolut the picture of the vegetarian, clean, sober and kind and gentle one conflicting for a moment for those who expect this when they had the stereotype gurus from India with flowers and mantrasinging. All we can do is to imagine what a Sage in our own mind would do and appear to us - which may reflect our own wisdom and knowledge. We are like Faust talking to a Ghost in Goethes Faust 510-513 : "Thou art like the spirit thou canst comprehend, Not me!"

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A wise man would choose the hookers place, why the hotel. The hookers would pay him to be there.

Also why did a wise need to go to a hotel?

By virtue in front of inner self. The virtue is the sincerity. The inner self the one who is the wisdom. The try to become wise is the goal of the philosoph who is loving the wisdom by knowing that she has no wisdom. The only fault is the try to find the wisdom by knowledge. Knowledge is kind of parroting. While a sage should as I think has the abillity to "know what is known and to know what is unknown" as Confucius said. The inner self is the key to reach any possibility of harm from fate because of the wisdom which is in use and only ones own ego can render wisdom useless by ignorance. It is possible to reach immortality without techniques or energy just as an rare act of grace by the inner self. So the question is back to if it "is wise to be arachnophobic?" A Sage creates his own reality already, his words and thoughts are depth that it manifest, the stronger the more near he is the inner self. The next question is "Who is telling us and put this person in the category of Sage?" Next "Has a Sage to be perfect or does he just regain balance fast?" As O-Sensei Ueshiba Morihei replied on the question how he he not loose balance :"Oh I lose it all the time, but I regain it fast" Michael J Fox told : "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business." Then has the Sage create this encounter? Then different than a commoner with his wisdom.... how does he act (not react) on the spider? If we know then we know about a Sage who had this spider phobia and do an act we can recall of. But as a commoner how can we know if we are not live as Sages? The only thing a commoner can know from his point is that the answer might be solved like in the Zen Stories or like Rumi or Till Eulenspiegel. Since I can not give an answer I can only ask if it "is wise to be arachnophobic?"

If a Sage is Wise, is it wise to be arachnophobic?

XingYiQuan if you are the type who goes forward as well they use the vertical punch and much similar side Stance but the produce of the force is unlike Wing Chun in stepping is like chaining, causing a press in reducing resistance and then unleashing the force. It appears to me like a double falling step causing depending on the stepping either produce only one Zheng Jiao(stomping sound) or two Zheng Jiao. Able to perform Zheng Jiao in the half step makes one able to produce force in short distance which either is an attack or can use the force of the contrahents impact to charge the actual fist if one distruped halfway when the contrahent attack was faster. The standing of Santi is used to remove all direction so it appears all side seem the same. As well the sort how it punch the 5 Elemental Fist is internal strengthening the the Zhang Fu Organs but, bad doing may result in health problem in them. This is only crude what I say since a full system depending also who teaches it has speciality and understanding. When you are interested in BaguaZhang then you like to read Tom Bisio Books. Yiquan is as I see use spheres in the Zhang Zhuang which is good for body allignment - again it appears to me standing Santi is better with Wing Chuns Cone where all hands are formed by rotation by a Tan Sau, putting together forming the cone. Else why not learn from the Masters to stand in their Arts Forms like Wang Xiangzhai in Yiquan and Xinyiquan or in Tai Chi great Yang Lu Chan? Else Bearded Dragon say it correctly that Wing Chun itself is seen as Internal Art. It is to find someone who put more weight in the internal aspect. In Wing Chun itself you also have different Styles, there are not only Yip Man and Leung Ting. It is more to ask :"Do you know some good teacher who emphasize the Internal Aspect in Wing Chun?"