ChiDragon

Let's put it this way, posture is very significant under normal circumstance. It would be immaterial if a good posture causing you pain. However, in your situation, it doesn't matter what position that you are in, just do the normal Chi Kung breathing to heal yourself.

sree... Nature has no way to tell what is right or wrong. It just happens that way, the way of Nature. Chapter Five: Earth and Heaven has no mercy. It treats all things like straw dogs. A sage has no mercy. It treats all people as straw dogs. From these first four lines, they tell us to be impartial. Leave it alone; let it be the way it should be. BTW That was what the photographer did. Instead of saving the calf, the video was taken as is.

Nature is Nature, anything set up by Nature is being natural. The Tao Te Ching had distinctively described four entities. Man, Earth, Heaven, and Tao. Human follows Earth; Earth follows Heaven; Heaven follows Tao and Tao follows Ziren(the natrual self) . What this was saying is in order for human to follow the universe(Earth and Heaven), then human follows the principles of Tao. Human is intelligent enough to go against Nature. Human may stop the calf from eaten by the lion. Then we must ask ourselves, can the lion survive from hunger without eating the calf.....??? Nature allows the calf to be eaten by the lion. Human may interrupt Nature by saving the calf and let the lion die of hunger. However, the lion may be survived by eating something else, like a goat. Now, the goat was meant to be killed by Nature. All this hunting game was part of the course of Nature. Can human interfere with Nature by changing its course....??? I don't think so....!!! This is why Lao Tze advocate people not to interfere with Nature by following the concept of Wu Wei. One might ask, is the killing done by the lion interfering with Nature...??? The answer is no because the lion is wild which is part of its nature. BTW Anything was beyond control by human was considered to be natural. Anything done by human harmful or good to Nature was considered to be interrupting the course of Nature by the definition of Wu Wei. Indeed, Lao Tze was more concern about the harm than the good to Nature by human.

"Why is life set up this way?" Shouldn't we ask why is nature set up this way.....????

The Cori cycle was initiated under aerobic conditions the end product of glycolysis is pyruvic acid. Hence, Under aerobic conditions is not the actual process of ATP conversion. As a matter of fact, the ATP process stops here. Until the oxygen debt was paid back to the muscles, then the manufacture of ATP starts again. Under the Cori cycle, the pyruvic acid turns into lactic acid due to hypoxia. The lactic acid was converted back into glucose and stored in the liver for the next ATP conversion when the oxygen was readily available again. Edited to add the lactic acid into the process for clarity.

Try the invisible China shop.......

Have you ever considered that the terms primordial Jing(先天之精), in modern terms, as the body cells; and the postnatal Jing(後天之精) as the glucose in the foods....??? Since Qi is partial to energy, by your definition, may we consider that Qi is oxygen in the air that we breathe.....???

There are two states in Tai Ji, yin and yang. In general, they were referred to things related with Nature as attributes. This notation is very important to be used in Tai Ji Chuan. When things that are related with human, yin is softness and yang is hardness. BTW Tai Ji Chuan was totally depended on the concept of yin-yang. The terms are often used for the description in Tai Ji. Softness and hardness are interchangeable with yin and yang respectively. When the body muscles were relaxed, it was considered to be in a state of soft(yin) attribute; and at advance level, Fa Jin was considered to be in a state of hard(yang) attribute. A novice of Tai Ji practitioners was mandated to start with the soft state. It is because that the body did not have the required amount of exercise in the past. All the muscles are tight and the joints are not very flexible. For example, one standing on one leg which will not sustain for a durable period of time. That is why all the Tai Ji movements start with slow motions to let the muscle to work in to take a little stress at a time. Doing practice, the movements are causing the muscles to twist slowly, and the joints are swiveling also at a slow pace. At the beginning, those muscles and joints are having lot of pains. However, after few months of practice they will be gone. After years of practice, those muscles are transformed into fast twitch muscle. One will realize how fast can he/she move the whole body without any pain. The fingers tips are reaching the destination in no time with an incredible accuracy. In addition, the body strength from Fa Jin was never felt so power than before.

Now, I have some time to respond to this. FYI Yi(意) is the intend of the mind. Actually, Yi is your thinking which tells the body what to do.

You're welcome anytime....

Here is how I understand about orgasm. Orgasm is to reach a climax for having the ultimate sexual pleasure with or without ejaculation. Under this condition: "Now I can learn how to have non-ejaculatory orgasms, fuck indefinitely (at least for long times compared to 'normal'), have rock-solid erections." One must has the physical condition which is capable to generate the energy for a prolong rock-solid erection. It is not a thing that is suitable for every normal person. After an orgasm, there is a time gap which was needed to recuperate for the next round. Even though one may have the mental desire; but there may be a lack of energy for the performance. The key word here is energy. If the word "energy" need to be emphasized, then it would be the "internal" energy. Internal energy was obtained from Neigong practice. Neigong will give one the ability to generate the power within the body. Another words, one cannot have multi-orgasm efficiently without some kind of Neigong practice. It is not a thing for an ordinary person by just jumping into the act. Thus one must do some homework to enhance one's physical strength to have the prolong erection when the desire arose each time.

If you are young and the cup was full, then it spills. You cant stop it because you are nice and healthy. So, let Nature take its course.

一．四大不着而身斋。 四大: The "Four Greats" in the phrase is an esoteric term which was not to be understood by most people other than the Taoists themselves. It was written and interpreted as such: 一．四大不着而身斋。 The body fasting has the meet the four principal rules. The four principal rules are: 1. Do not expect something in return as reward. 2. Self- respect. 3. Be tolerable. 4. Be responsible. The 四大(Four Greats) are the four principal rules for the Taoists to follow as their daily cultivation practice when they are associating with people. These rules are mainly for their basic mental health to have a peace the mind(emptiness or desireless).

sree.... Most people outside of China were using the Wang Bi version of the Tao Ta Ching for translation. Wang Bi version The version was putted into his favor as dogma for the purposes of his Taoist religion. It is a legend that Wang Bi was a high cultivated Taoist but there was not much information about him. The contemporary Chinese scholars are using the Received Version. The Received Version The Received Version had been edited by the most knowledgeable scholar of the Tao Te Ching in the world. His name is 陳鼓應. He had been researching and collecting all the commentaries of the scholars from the past to present. He finalized the text by using the correct characters to reflect the logic within reason to put things into perspective.

Thank you for taken your time to define these terms. Since this is the first attempt to work out a more refine definition of these terms, let's discuss it one at a time and get to the bottom of it. "Jing means subtle material which contains energy that a life body need, it is partial to materiality." By your definition, I have the following puzzling questions: 1. Jing is a subtle material, then where is this subtle material came from....??? 2. Jing ............ which contains energy, what is this energy and where did it come from....??? 3. If it is partial to materiality, then what is the other part which is not partial to materiality....??? What is the Chinese character for Shi....??? Is OK I rephrase it this way.... Jing is a subtle material which is a source of energy for a living body. PS..... May I ask you for a favor? Hereinafter, would you please include the characters for any special term for easy understand and to avoid any confusion. Thank you very much.

一．四大不着而身斋。 二．诸虑具息而意斋。 三．回光反照而眼斋。 四．声音不入而耳斋。 五．香臭不到而鼻斋。 六．是非不动而舌斋。 Actually there are six fasting conditions. 一．身斋: body fasting。 二．意斋: mind fasting。 三．眼斋: eye fasting。 四．耳斋: ear fasting。 五．鼻斋: nose fasting。 六．舌斋: tongue fasting。 一．四大不着而身斋。 The body fasting has the meet the four principal rules. The four principal rules are: 1. Do not expect something in return as reward. 2. Self- respect. 3. Be tolerable. 4. Be responsible. 二．诸虑具息而意斋。 Put all the worries to rest is considered to be the mind fasting. 三．回光反照而眼斋。 Self-awareness(谓自我省察) with a clear vision is considered to be the eye fasting. 四．声音不入而耳斋。 Not hearing the licentious sounds is considered to be the ear fasting. 五．香臭不到而鼻斋。 Not smelling the luring fumes is considered to be the nose fasting. 六．是非不动而舌斋。 Not gossiping is considered to be the tongue fasting. 六斋已毕，复进而请曰：弟子斋矣。敢问其道？ After the six fasting, the student returned and asked: "I(student) had fasted, is there any more fasting other than the six, may I ask my teacher to explain it to me?"

My source for Chapter One

It would be a very difficult task. Needless to explain why so. It just cant be done....

There are many ways to place the punctuations. The meaning will change in context. However, the character "有" is very difficult to translate in English. In order to get to its real meaning, one can only use words to imply what it means. "有" means "to have". In the Chinese language, if something that exists, it must be a visible and tangible thing to have it in your hand. In the same token, the character "無" means "none". Both characters were used here as a NOUN to reveal the existing(visible) and non-existing(invisible) to describe "Tao" in its preexisting and the post-existing states. By the way, my translation was from the interpret by the most knowledgeable native scholar. With the phrase as shown, the logic flows within context from line to line in Chapter One of the Tao Te Ching.

Daojones.... "I was wondering if anyone here has successfully been able to heal and unify their psyche from dissociation. This is a huge issue I am facing and have made strides, but am currently attempting to stare it down " When you say "able to heal", what is exactly you are trying to heal. Anyway, regardless what you are trying to heal, there was an intend for you to heal something. "I am now trying mindfulness breathing meditation which has been very effective, but I just cant seem to get the core issue - the dissociation which has created the split and the barrier in my psyche." When you do breathing, it doesn't matter what it was called. Your body will be going through an internal change. It all depends what kind of unknown problems that your body has but it will heal itself. Anyhow, the body will heal itself by going through a healing process whether you like it or not, so to speak. During the healing process, one will have to face something like "cold turkey". In your case, you have to go through a mental state which is the most difficult thing to fight. Eventually, you will get over it just like those who are getting over the "cold turkey" in the process of cutting their drug habit.

I don't know what kind of translation it is. The original classic Chinese texts say: 3. 無，名天地之始。 4. 有，名萬物之母。 3. "Invisible" was the name given to Tao at the origin of heaven and earth. 4. "Visible" was the name given to Tao as the mother of all things.

The best policy to follow is "a fallacy cannot win the truth" which means what is correct is always correct; and what is false is always false. A fallacy cannot hold water and always collapse on it own. So, why even bother to do a foolish thing by arguing with a fool; only a fool argues with a fool(dialogue from a movie "Gone with the Wind). PS..... Everyone has the right to defend the truth but shall not defend a fallacy.

Greetings.... Yes, practice Kung Fu, by the term itself was understood it was an external practice. Normally, people with a good physical body may bypass the internal practice. External practice normally use one own body strength in a violent manner to hurt oneself. As oppose to internal practice, there was no brutal force applied to dissipate one's own energy. Instead, it helps the body to generate more energy. For a good start, it is a better idea to begin with the internal practice to have a good physical fitness for the later external practice. The weakest of the external practice is consuming lots of one's own internal energy; and the advantage of internal practice is reserving energy, so to speak.

Li Jiong....I am glad that we have a real Taoist on board. 以精化氣，以氣化神，以神化虛。 These phrases has been passed down from generation to generation in the Chinese Taoist society. It was easy to say them than to explain them. I really having a hard time to define these four terms: 精 氣 神 虛。It seems to me nobody could give a good solid definition for them. If they do, then it seems to me those definitions are very specious.

Mr, sree. I had given you the scholastic interpretation. Most people would like to have their own personal interpretation which is fine. However, personal interpretation is not my expertise. Anyway, I will be glad to contribute my assistance in case you have encountered any difficulty with the meaning of the characters or phrase. You may use as reference in your own interpretation. If not, it's fine too. I have seen "Western science" was used often in your posts. May I ask what is the reason behind that...??? PS.... So, let nature take its course.......