ChiDragon

Well, Qigong cannot be practiced without a body. It is the physical practice which gives the benefits to the body. Qigong helps the body to generate the energy. Indeed, a dead body is no longer need to generate the energy to sustain its life, therefore, the practice of Qigong is no longer feasible. Another words, everything ceases when the body dies.

Each Taoist has a set of basic principles. It depends which and how far the practices are to be carried out. It seems to me that you do have a set of principles(artificial creation). You did make a comparison to the principles of the Chinese Taoist Association and discovered that your original principles are not what you want. Therefore, you had decided not to follow your own principles but followed the new ones instead.

Well, NotVoid. If one is thinking about feng shui, I can assure you those locations are the worse feng shui conditions for living quarters. It is out reach of the outside world. Indeed, the most concern of feng shui is to have the best convenient living conditions. It is obvious that those temples do not provide the best living conditions.

Well, you might not have any basis to compare the available translations and sort out the principles. However, your best available translations might not be the best translations to transpose the true principles. How do you know that a true Taoist is a true one without being one yourself?

Well, you are too much concerned about the bandits and wild animals. Let's put it this way. The Taoists and Buddhists live a simple life. The earnings are the offerings from the people who visit there. There is not much for the bandits to take. Besides, people do not want to rob any holy man. If the people can go to the temple to worship the deities, then, so can anyone including the bandits. Thus that was not the reason why the temples were built there because of the bandits. In regarding to the animals, there were not that many animals in those areas. Unless, it was close to the boarder of China. There are tigers from India. However, there are not that many wild animals at the inland of China. In regarding to feng shui, again, the Taoist and Buddhists do not not need any luck to bring them fortune because of their austere way of living.

Yes, please. Thanks!

hehehehehe..... May I learn the grammar from you or incomplete sentences...???

It was known that Taoists and Buddhists like to be close to Heaven and integrated with Nature. Thus they build temple high above the cliffs and using the rocks as part of the foundation for the temples. The reason they called the Hanging Temple is because the pillars are hanging down from the floor of the temples. It was every deceiving to make people to believe they were the support of the temples. Actually, they are not the supports for the temples. It was only psychological which leads people to believe that they are safe to step into the temple. Those pillars are exposed to different weathers and required to be replaced occasionally. What is really supporting the temples are the horizontal square beams underneath the floors of the temples. Those square beams are special treated with multi-process for weatherproof and insect resistance. The are place into the square holes on the rocks with extension to hold the temples in place. The information was revealed from a documentary on a local Chinese TV channel.

Yes, just google "Peru".

Peru....!!!

Here is the actual mythical creature, 驥驎(qilin), with a dragon head and a horse body(sitting like a dog).

It is because this is the year of the Horse.......

Okay! The kirin is the Japanese version. The 麒麟(Qilin), half dragon and half horse, is the original Chinese version.

Correction.... That is a half dragon and half horse which is called 麒麟 or 騏驎(Qilin) and was known as a Chinese unicorn. Where did the dog part came in from.....??? Please don't confuse it with the deer part now....!!! It was an mythical animal.

I have never heard of such method as the "water method of Taoist meditation". That which make you wonder, isn't it.....???

The Year of the Horse 新 年 快 樂 Happy New Year

If one gets hit by a pie, then one is not making progress.....

A true Taoist is to find the true self by oneself rather than by others. The principles are written everywhere but you just need to find and sort them out and follow them.

Stosh.... Thank you very much for your kind words.....!!! Enlightenment is not a real thing, a real situation nor anything described by ancient scholars but outside the realm of everyday experience. It is an experience which not an ordinary person can be experienced or comprehended. Enlightenment is to comprehend something that is one of a kind which others are difficult to grasp. It is not something that can be described with words. However, if it was described by words, then it requires a certain mentality by grokking its quale to extract the philosophical concepts not by guessing nor assumption. It must be followed certain guide lines, collectively, from the knowledgeable scholars of the past and present to reach an intuitive conclusion with logical reasoning. The enlightened conclusion has to be stand alone which cannot be superseded by other philosophical thoughts.

It had taught me about the concept of Wu Wei for being letting Nature take its course without interruption or interference.

Isn't this belong to the General Discussion Section....???

Isn't this belong to the Taoist Discussion section....???

Do you think, even, a Taoist would make such mistakes most lightly....???

I wish you are all, Wu Shu(武術), practitioners are as strong and healthy as a Horse; and do the Horse Stance too. 站椿(Zhan Zhuang) Standing on the poles.

hmmmm..... I do wonder who is ready for this.....!?