Taiji Bum

This has music from my old tai chi classes as an experiment. I dont think it worked but you can let me know. I talk more about Ward Off and Roll Back in this video with a Shout Out to the Tao Bums website..... THATS US GUYS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjSCFTA--Bg

While searching other videos on youtube on Taoist alchemy I found this awesome one! Dao Yin - Daoist Alchemy

8 energies and 5 elements of tai chi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLlmjsIFPzc Edit: GAWD! I look so FAT!

I've looked all over my house and I dont see it. Sorry....

Me doing the 24 form testing my new video camera! http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?showtopic=9223

You cant get high blood pressure from reverse-breathing. High blood pressure is a heart condition. http://www.medicinenet.com/high_blood_pressure/article.htm You cannot get hemorrhoids reverse from breathing. Everyone already has hemorrhoids too. http://www.medicinenet.com/hemorrhoids/article.htm If anything, reverse-breathing would help a hernia. http://www.medicinenet.com/hernia/article.htm Nobody knows what create acid reflux disease. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art...rticlekey=57772 There is no real medical data to show that reverse-breathing is harmful. If there is I cant find it. But... it will make you fart.

Can we go on YOUR forum and post about our own personal Taoist beliefs and call YOU wrong and then promote the Tao Bums site?

Welcome to da Bums.

Edit: I erased my post 'cause I didnt want to jinx anything. Here's my best advice... watch THE SECRET and do exactly what it says. It works.

I've had consistent, repeatable results. The key is watching your thoughts just like in meditation but all day long while your active. You dont attract what you want.... but what you ARE! I'm using the law of attraction in every area of my life. First it was money, then finding the love of my life and now its my health. My 401K just lost a few thousand but I dont care. I might be losing dollar value but I am buying more in quantity right now. Now is the time to buy stocks! Just like now is time to buy a house! The Tao of the Dow is to "buy low and sell high". If the market is at a low point like everyone says then buy, buy and buy some more and look to the long-term. I am looking 20 years down the road personally. I think the market is going to drop to about 5000 by 2011-2012 and I will really be buying then!

I believe that wealth reveals whats in the heart and that wealth and even power dont corrupt in and of themselves. I know some poor people who seem to make a virtue of being poor as an excuse to be poor and to feel good about themselves for doing nothing. These are the same people who would not handle wealth very good I bet. Edit: Spelling

Cow farts? Global warming was over in 1990. It stayed steady for 10 years and since then the earth has been cooling. Go to a real science site like NASA to do some research before you believe an article designed with a political agenda.

Doing what you love but struggling financially to survive sucks all the fun out of it. If you can live without worry then doing what you love is great. But making $30,000 when your kids need braces and you dont have insurance......

I did the ascetic thing for while and I think it is a stage you need to pass through. I ended that period of my life back in 2000 after I gave away everything I owned and took off into the woods of Northern Michigan. I think its one of the trials that most religious and cultures promote as a way to deepen your connection to the universe. At least I hope it is just a stage since I gave it up awhile back.

1- How is this an article? 2- We have a chat room?

Two things happen like clockwork at the Tao Bums. A Chinese dude will appear every few months trying to get converts to his version of nutty Taoism and every few months a thread will be started under the false pretense of asking a serious question about Christianity but in reality its just a front to insult and disparage it. Dont believe me? Just wait.....

I did a work exchange at a Yoga place for a year and it was pretty relaxed. I didnt do yoga but practiced tai chi on my breaks instead of the yoga and after Sunday Yoga services I'd head into town to go to the local Catholic church. Not all retreats are created equal. Visit for a day or two before a long stay.

He didn't need to travel to Tibet to learn anything. The Jewish Kabbalah would have been enough after all it produced mystics like Enoch, Elijah and Moses. If you read the Talmud you will see the ancient schools of the Prophets produced a ton of enlightened masters.

Spirit Ape, I think I am the only one your directing your question to. My religion is Roman Catholic and like Shon says, there is no conflict. If you read a saint/mystic like St Francis or a scholar like Fr Garrigou-Lagrange you will find the same philosophy as you find in Taoism. All the advanced mystics agree on the road to return to the "Source" even if they call it by a different name. Darin

I think its primarily done with tons of emptiness meditation and the conservation of sexual essence.

My artform was/is Tai Chi. My 12 step was Judo. Tai Chi is still my love and primary art but now I am a lot more grounded about it.

I used to be one too!

Are you refering to the B. K. Frantziz thread?

The Judo place I work out at is the least ego centric place I have seen. You want to see egos go to a place where the "master" claims his stuff is soooooo deadly that your not allowed to spar. THATS an ego place. I thought karate had some egos without reason but internal guys who have never "taken it to the mats" are the worst. They usually have an idea that they are superhuman when the only thing superhuman about them is their delusional thinking that what they are practicing has any value.

The Democrats are every corrupt thing they accused the Republicans of being. They kept accusing W. of wanting a dictatorship but it will be Nobama that declares martial law.