Taiji Bum

Its great to hear from you and especially from China! Sounds like your drinking straight from the well! Good luck and keep us up to date on your adventures!

Right now I am printing out Bodri's Measuring Meditation to hand bind the thing. I have a larger printer that can go as large as 13x19 paper and I was thinking of making a leather bound edition of all the Taoist Bodri material in one large tome. My problem is that his PDF's are secured. How can I hack out a copy in WORD so I can edit out the fancy colors and stuff?

Measuring Meditation is a big book. I have 500 pages printed and 205 to go! Thats a lot of $ink$!!!!

Thanks! Calibre works better than I even thought possible!!!

So true, Mal. I've had jobs where I would go outside on my breaks to practice taijiquan or stand post and crazy rumors were spread. The hospital that I work at now has a special place for meditation so doing taiji or post standing there is "normal" but when I worked at factories I was a freak of nature! I was eventually confronted by an angry mob (literally about 10 people) at one factory asking if I hated them for some reason or if I was too good to share a breakroom with them. Of course I invited them all to do taijiquan with me but I had no takers. Hahaha.... EDIT: And dont get me started about my family and why I am still single! Well mom... you see... I need to conserve Jing.....

Its great to have a yoga teacher here! Welcome to the Tao Bums!

Welcome to the Taobums, Mike!

I'm getting ready for a massive detox myself and then a diet makeover. I'll probably start with a long water fast which I have done many times before so I know how to go into and out of them. I am training for a half marathon right now set for Oct 16th. After that I will pick up my inner Taoist practices. Taomeows old posts are a great resource. I'm glad your still around!

Are there Taoist dating sites? EDIT: I'm on e-Harmony and I avoid the women who put Jesus into every place they can. No Taoist there.

Welcome to The Tao Bums GoldenFlower! Thats one of my favorite books! How long and what have you practiced?

I think David DeAngelo has evolved over time and now his works are more balanced. His new "Become Mr Right" program is more about becoming a better man to attract a better class of woman.

He talks about Tao by name in a bunch of episodes. In my opinion it is very, very Taoist... or perhaps I am just such a huge fan that my personal view of Taoism is biased from the show. EDIT: Spelling

I am a total believer in both spiritual and physical immortality.

There is Bill Bodhri's stuff that is in need of large amounts of editing and is very commercial but is pretty advanced. http://www.meditationexpert.com/products.html EDIT: Grammar

Who was the translator? I personally love the Isherwood translation.

S'up? Welcome to da bums.

As an IMA teacher I hate seeing this. I have seen this challange so many time on so many different martial arts forums that it means to me that IMA has lost all credibilty as a fighting art. Is anyone up to this challange? Orb, can you travel since you made the challenge? Why dont IMA'ers step up? Didn't Yang Chen Fu travel around challenging people to fight? He didn't seem too concerned about karma and he founded an entire family style of Taijiquan, right?

@TricksterCrow- Taoist alchemy is inherently made for the beginner but if you want a starter practice begin with emptiness meditation. Its hard to go wrong with that. Dont worry about jacking my threads either. I get too many PM's. How many Taiji instructers are there here? Stig and I? Anybody seen a good video of Taiji used in an actual fight or competitively where its recognizable as taiji?

The purpose of life is to live. It is to grow, increase, flourish, die and then be reborn. (I hope that didnt come off as too cliche.)

This is a really old thread. I am 44 now. Edit: I first got online in 1991 and I think it was DARPA-net back then and I was in the army during the first gulf war.

Well, can you see how we voted? My only concern for this system is if I hit a negative sign on some moderators favorite qigong system advocate, will they gang up on me. When I first joined Tao Bums there was absolutely no moderation at all. It was a free for all. Now it seems to have cycled to the exact opposite. I guess thats Tao, huh?

My anti-drug message. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDbapAig9gw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ylMsDBpVU I was sent this email so I made a video answer: Thank you for posting your experiences on-line. Surely you have great fortune and merit to have encountered and experienced these things. I have a question regarding the 100 days, if you would be so kind to answer. You talked of "firing" the qi to transform it into shen... Is this firing the same thing as the Kan and Li talked about in Mantak Chia's system (I don't follow his teachings or exercises, but do use them as a sort of reference for research)? Does it happen in the central channel (thrusting channel in the Chinese system, I believe), or does the qi move up the spine? The Tibetan Buddhist and Taoist inner alchemy seem very similar, but I'm just getting to the point now where I feel ready to fire and transform the energy. Thank you for your time and inspiration. Also, when you talk about the 100 days, you said you moved the qi up the spine to the forehead and stopped there without bringing the energy back down to the tan tien. Is that right? Did the energy pool in the 3rd eye area? Any instructions or insights you could share will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys (aka: Shameless Bump) The shirt is one I got for a powerlifting group I am in. They also have ones that say, "Shut The F... Up And Train".