ChiDragon

Did you know Confucius was, at the age of fifty, introduced to the Yijing by Lao Tze? The 十翼,Ten Wing(explanation of Yijing), was written by Confucius. The concept of Yin-yang in Chapter 41 of the TTC was from the Yijing.

You welcome! Well, you have reached a certain level of accomplishment alright. At least, that was in a process of "work in progress" or "self-refinement" if that is what you want to call it. Yes, that is what dual cultivation amounts to the xing(mind) and ming(body). The Quan Zhen Pai(全真派) had considered that the DCXM as Neidan(內丹) is because it was cultivated internally.

Congratulations! Adept. I think your nick is telling you something. You have accomplished the Dual Cultivation of Xing and Ming(DCXM). Another words, you have cultivated your mind mentally and your body physically. Thus your mind and body are working spontaneously and holistically which give you faster reflexes and body coordination. You should be able to react or respond to any action against you a lot quicker than before. Congratulation again for accomplishing to have the present efficacy on your body from all the efforts that you had putted in your practice. This is a good indication that you have increased the sensitivity in your nerves as I had mentioned above about your reflexes and body coordination.

Exactly! Yes, I think the definitions are included in the thread of "Taoist Important Thoughts and Canon" in the Taoist Textual Studies.

Why not? Who told you that? By saying a complete LDT focus, it implies that there is a partial LDT focus. Am I right? If so, what is the difference?

In his solid marble head........ PS..... The subject being discussed is really to broad to be done here. Unless, it was narrowed down to one particular thought.

If one believes everything what one had read, then, one had deceived by oneself other than the contents in the book.

Stillness is another one of those western misinterpretations. I believe it was translated from the character 靜. Actually, its linguistic meaning is complete quietness. Quietness is to a point that there was not even a sound but it does not imply it was motionless. Doing meditation, one is sitting still but not deadlock because one is alive. Learning martial arts, one must learn to isolate the facts from fallacies or misunderstandings in order to learn thing correctly.

hmmmmmmmmmmm....... That is something new......

Songtsan..... Chinese classics are most difficult to comprehend. Even though, you can read Chinese fluently, you are still not able to interpret the Classics. However, If you've learned the modern native language, it would be suffice to read the interpretation of the classics by the knowledgeable native scholars. Understand the hexagrams is not necessary or more efficacious. It is because the hexagrams are somewhat fictional and were designed for divination and Feng Shui3.

It should read as "a kind person teaches an unkind person to be a kind one."

Natural peristalsis is not as vigorous as the abdominal movement while performing Chi Kung breathing. Abdominal breathing is more dynamical and mechanical which may prevent constipation due the constant massage of the intestines.

Why Do We Focus On Dan Tian? When one breathes deeply which sunken chi to the Dan Tian, at that instance, your body strength can be released at maximum or allow the body to function at its peak. Thus all martial arts focus on the Dan Tian all the time for awareness and ready for the unexpected.

Thank you.....!!!

Your abdomen can only move in and out to massage your internal organs when your Chi was sunken to the LDT while doing the Chi Kung breathing. It makes no difference when you massage your abdomen, externally, in the clockwise or counterclockwise direction with your hands. Nothing happens unless you perform the Chi Kung breathing constantly. Edited to add: The rotational motion with the hands on the abdomen has no biological nor physiological effect on the body internally. It's only a fallacy if one was told it does....!!!

Where did you get the idea that Qi massage onto youeself....??? Why do you think that energy can be stored in your LDT....???

The Dao femaleness was only one of Lao Zi's descriptions which portray Tao has a great potential power to create. Literally speaking, the creative power of Tao was analogous to the reproductive capability of a mother. It was an example given by Lao Zi to show that Tao is a divine female but not as a permanent gender per se.

bad energy , negative attacks, what to do ? Cultivate the Yang(good) energy to counteract or balance out the Yin(bad) energy.

Would that be suffice which leaves the option to include the other two....??? @ Stosh.... A Taoist doesn't cultivate for perfection nor reality. For example, one to become an immortal is not a reality.

"naturalistic pantheist" I don't see how can these two words be logically linked together. If Loa Zi was a naturist, then he would not and cannot be a pantheist. Thus Lao Zi is an atheist indeed. He sees Tao as a "thing" but not deity nor god. There are many chapters in the TTC can support this.

Yes, I would if vatilii would give me the quote from its origin. Just based on the word "reality", it seems to be improper translation for "QhanZhen(全真)" as I had indicated before and still holds true for my position.

Yes, they are trick questions. It was meant for those who would understood. Indeed, it is not easy to make it understood with words by anyone.

You've started early. She is going to start that at 74.

Okay! My question is why does a QuanZhen(全真) Taoist wants to deal with reality? IMHO It seems to me it is contradicting. If a Taoist wants to face reality, then why would one seclude oneself by isolating from the rest of the world and become abstinent?

Any ambiguous definitions are always seem to be doubtful. If they were challenged, then it was not understood by many and become poor definitions.