Taiji Bum

Here's the entire series... you know..... gatuitous self-promotion. I just uploaded the last two. Taoist Alchemy: From the Beginning to Ascension http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjElp1wdyPI Taoist Alchemy Pt1: How I accomplished the 100 Days of Building the Foundation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2vwRtGBRoc Taoist Alchemy Pt 2: How I accomplished the 10 Months Gestation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgJKUC-9i6k Taoist Alchemy Pt 3: How I accomplished the 3 Years Nurturing Baby Shen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlD7AGsIY3E Taoist Alchemy Pt 4: How I accomplished the 9 Years Crushing the Void http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yM5k8C5SIo

When I saw that Falun symbol I bought every book I could find on Falun Gong but unfortunately the guy designed it without any esoteric/alchemy imput as far as I can tell. This is more like mine.

1. Do Taoists believe in God (or a Goddess? or several?) Religious Taoists believe in gods but philosophical ones usually dont. 2. Do Taoists believe in the concept of Heaven and Hell, or any kind of afterlife for that matter? Religious Taoists do but philosphical ones usually dont. 3. What is the difference between "circular" and "linear" time? I dont know. 4. What is the purpose of an individual in Taoism? To know, love and serve Tao. 5. How do Taoists worship? Religious Taoists worship in temples with altars and priests and philosophical ones dont usually worship. 6. Is Taoism a religion or a philosophy? Both. 7. Are there any sacred texts in Taoism? The Taoist canon has over 2000 books but there is no central authority to say which ones are gospel or not.

Thanks. It's the mystery that gets me. I can get obsessed with solving mysteries.

Can you cite sources and examples please? How many people have you seen go through the immortal fetus process? Can you describe what your calling the formation and rising of the immortal fetus? (This stuff is my life! )

I rest my case......

Are you a troll? What you said has absolutely no basis in the real world and I cant imagine anyone as narcissitc as you being real. Can you post a photo of you and your wife with a newspaper or something? Can you post a link to a photobucket account, facebook or myspace for yourself? EDIT: Post a video of you doing the form. Mal, Santi and I have so how about you? I seriously think your just a troll.

You can build up the underlying musculature with weights.

Thats great! Do you have the computer-fu to upload a copy to google video or Youtube?

Thanks for that! It nice to be reminded there are some dedicated folks like you left out there. Keep up the good work.

http://www.everyday-taichi.com/index.html Awesome website!

You know what LoneHaven? I am Catholic and I have gone to several priests to help me in my spiritual life and none charged me money. The last one was a famous author who didn't charge me any money but he wouldn't take me on until he found out I was spending more than 6 hours a day praying, meditating, was also active in my local church as a Lector and doing some volunteer work at a soup kitchen. While I was under his spiritual care one of his spiritual children moved to Iraq but before he did he sold his house and gave all the money to this priest. It was about $400,000 and I was there when the check changed hands! The love in the eyes of the dude giving the money was amazing. The priest was of course living in poverty and driving a crap car, living in a small bare room and spending all his free time in civil rights causes. He was a REAL spiritual master. Thanks for reminding me of him.....

Nice intro.... welcome to da Bums.

I just stood in front of the camera and couldn't think of what to say. My problem is that I dont think I failed anymore. For a year or two I thought I did but now I dont think so. Things just get more subtle as the process goes on. In the beginning there are a ton of bells and whistles but as the years ground on the effects of the alchemy just got quieter. I guess my mid-life crisis is over now. Anybody think I mis-represented myself on the videos? On the nine year one I even said I hadn't finished it and in the first one I admitted I am not glowing and levitating. I think I was pretty honest.

Try to get away with not buying your girlfriend anything on Valentines day and THEN tell me love doesn't have a monetary price. Even if you find a rare gurl who would rather you make her a craft go ahead a make a homemade engagement ring. See how that flies! "But honey I love you and you cant put a price on love..." LOL Ok, now I am just making fun.

Scotty is right. I'm being a dick. Bad me! I am not enlightened and either failed at the nine years or I havent finished it yet. Thats true. I just dont know. Maybe thats why I want to give it all away, so I can get on with my life and be normal for once. If you dont want to spend money for enlightenment then dont. The worst thing you can do is violate your deepest values. My apologies. Edit: I'll record a part 6 tomorrow explaining that I might have failed for my video series and where I might have gone wrong.

My master told me to never teach because it will only break my heart when my students betray me. Here are a couple of my teaching experiences. When I first started teaching in 1998 I was really excited. I had dreams of hard working students practicing the form... small groups throwing each other on the mats.... a few meditating in the corners oblivious to all the sweating, grunting warriors around them. But thats not how it was. In my first class it was five women who only took my class because they were friends and their usual pottery class got cancelled. I was devestated to say the least until I realized teaching was fun. Eventually I attracted some hardcore students but good students end up resembing their masters. I am very independent so as soon as my guys got the inner stuff they would leave which was my goal. I dont want perpetual students paying me month after month for years. I want to make masters and I still do. (But this time I want to do it smarter.) I had one guy who had to quit because he and his wife had their second baby. He had just "gotten" his first time-slowing experience with taiji and was really geeked about it. But.... he had to quit. He was inches away from mastery. Another guy was just as good and a real scrapper. He was the first guy that I ever trained that got the closest to becoming a master but had to leave because he was groping the female students. I've tried different teaching formats and this time I am thinking seminars. Money ROCKS! Get some and you will see why.

Well if your really serious about no money and getting great spiritual training then try the Roman Catholic Church. It has Orders that you can join for free as do Buddhist, Taoists and Sufis where you get everything for free. Why aren't you banging down their doors? It's free! Dude, I have no idea why I am picking on you. Your probably thinking I am a huge dick but really I am just trying to help you. Like my dad used to say, "You'll understand when your older." (Your not like 70 are you?)

How can I be so attached to money? Seriously? I live in the real world. I have a great job, a beautiful place to live, a hot car and a great life all around with marriage to the most wonderful woman on earth beginning to loom on the horizon. I NEED money so I work my tail off in the real world to make it. I might even start teaching taiji again to make some extra dough and I am not just good at taijiquan. I have achieved the higher levels of alchemy and can hold my own against judo/jujitsu black belts with it. I AM WORTH more than the average teacher so I will definately charge it. Its not mercenary, its just the real world. Do you know who I will be teaching to in these classes? Housewives who are taking tai chi because their pilates class got cancelled, young "men" who think they will learn Tie Chee and impress their friends and win the UFC and older guys who took Tae Kwon Do 30 years ago and now want to "get into it again". With that in mind I will overcharge and make the classes funny, entertaining, sexy and look out in hope for that one student who absolutely loves taiji, Taoism and wants to learn real taijiquan. I am not angry btw, I am just incredulous at your very naive attitude (its not just yours and I am sure your a real nice kid) and in the midst of starting a website where I ACTUALLY DO give everything I have learned away for free. It is costing ME money to start this site so that I can give everything away for FREE! Crazy..... aint it? Still got your hand out? Do you really want to learn for free? Fine.... learn how to embrace the tree and I am sure you can find out how online. Do it for a year and do no other practice. Do it every day for at least 4 hours! If you can do that for a year you will have real masters climbing over each other to teach you. The one thing more rare than a great master is a great student. OK... maybe I am a little ticked. It aint about the money though......

Rant Alert directed at all the people how have asked this question on Tao Bums over the years. Do you want a substitute mommy or daddy to give you your spiritual food for free or do you want to be an adult and seek out answers on your own from a place of power? People who whine (and it is whining) about paying for a spiritual teachers insights seem to live in a very weak place. Gimme, gimme, gimme is all I seem to hear but the students dont want to give anything back in return so the student stands back from a place of narrowminded judgement and says.... "You should be giving this to me for free!" That is some truely arrogant and immature bullcrap. Grow up! Get out of your welfare mentality. Teachers are just people and on that note when I start my site and shill a book or two I am going to charge out-the-ass.

Well, if the New York Times prints it then it must be true and totally unbiased.....

Philip and Steve, Do you guys have an recent info on his search for ascension? Darin

Good video, thanks.