WhiteTiger

Great post thanks for sharing Smile! Extremely interesting as well as Dolphins and their intelligence.

Thats just MY POINT EXACTLY! Its important to understand how competent someones Psyche is. Especially if you are talking about sexual practices. If he seems to give the view that its shameful to be male then you know his psyche is really screwed up. I would immediately suspect he has delusion about being self sufficient apart from a women. There would be no reason why you could reach such high level cultivation specially in Taoism let alone Buddhist practices in a monastic life if they were dependent on the opposite sex. Just because it seems from what the book is saying the Jade Dragon is being emasculated he uses the White Tigress to use her sexuality with the green dragons weather its healing or not in my personal opinion is just disgusting. Sure their may be reasons to go to such extent to do something like that but in my personal opinion no matter what two wrongs don't make a right. They may however set things in back to balance or sometimes one wrong is just bigger then the other one so no balance in that situation. That's just not proper... and in my experience that's just not real spiritual practices although it does sadly happen all the time in so called spiritual practices. Especially in Internal Martial Arts shown to the public that requires money and doesn't give in the session at the very least 30 minutes of meditation to the students. Arm them with martial practices but don't work with their integrity or the teacher may teach them meditation but they don't balance it out enough and what ends up happening is your arming students with fire and the ability to wield it like flamethrowers, with little control with how much they actually wield.

Bumb! Just trying to spread the awareness.

Mat Black, I've personally find what you offer to the boards lately very nice additions... You have earned my respect (Different then being virtuous and just giving respect because it is intern respectful to yourself) I'm wondering why would you put intention behind your post? Edited some out for after some time past I thought my words were well... not very compassionate.

Fiveelementtao, thank you very much for making this extremely clear to me... I personally appreciate it. God! gunna have to post preview my posts before I'm done with them... getting use to re-editing them right soon after they are posted. I didn't mean to come across in a way that insinuates sahaj doesn't appreciate what fiveelementtao is saying.

HAHA your using the closing sign Metta a sure way to stop me from bothering you... Although do you sincerely mean it? I'm seriously interested to know? Have you practiced Metta Sutta? (just communicating. Because you said Metta my personal actions, other then attempting to communicate, will be of no harm if one sincerely means it) Yeah... my actions with communicating may be annoying... for that I'm sorry for and i may also be suffering because I'm indirectly attacking you through words. (Indirectly as in, I'm not trying to with the words i use but I fail to sincerely do it well enough which is how I'm also suffering at the same time.)

By all means I'm interested in learning about Ya Mu practice and he has great knowledge to share so far it seems. Although I believe other peoples motives in using certain information is for ill will and with a bad intention. I'm more than happy to learn... I rather learn and cultivate... I don't want to be stale water. Although its the way its given is the issue. In the end people can give information all they want... without it applying to actual practice its not helpful at all of course unless it helps give insight into your own practices. (Which is totally a different thing... that's more of reflecting on the past memories and recalling things that are beneficial to you.) This would be one of the a reason why one would contemplate. Truth be told you can learn all sorts of information... but if not applied to practice It could be construed as wasting the persons time. Just think of Kids in college... first 2 to 4 years are well very generalized. Think of how many kids have healthy and unhealthy sexual relationships with one or more people, drinking, smoking and all sorts of other stuff. When they could have spent all that time practicing. How much of a lot of programs in school don't put what you learn to practice.

TheWhiteRabbit, you are a horrible person for instigating for you own selfish wants and needs.

Mal, what you've said is so far extremely interesting. Although YOU play the game where you seem on the surface as well... a vulgar player and not much of a high level cultivator. I should not just try to look deeper but actually DO take time to look deeper.

HAHAHA So funny... I agree

I am interested in learning what a demon is. What exactly constitutes a Demon?

Well because I posted on what Mal edited and added my observations but he edited out his post... I will do the same in respect for him.

This is very true... and i totally got that that's what your looking for from your letter. I've seen extremely good examples of this from Lin in his posts... which is very nice and heart warming also. Maybe, although the intention of lost of those questions and the way they are phrased are well... more seeming ill will... I personally don't like it its even puts me off... I'd prefer if you could try to attempt to get the same or similar questions worded in maybe in a better light.

Many Good Business Men don't follow the middle way.

Normally I like to think of myself as knowing lots about Nutrition (Ego talking) But yet again Karen says what I'm going to say and I always find out thing(s) that I didn't know before. I hold much respect for you Karen! I just don't really have to reply to the question of the poster Wu-Liu, I can just sit back and watch because Karen already did a fantastic job at it.

Bumb!

I believe (although I'm not a teacher) the Ming-Men is located on the back while the Dan Tien is located closer front of the body... similar plane if the plane was parallel to the ground if the person was standing upright as opposed to laying down. Interesting... Doesn't Te or Virtue reside in the area of the heart? If this is correct then Fire = mind Anyone know of resources talking about Virtue (Te) and how it applies itself or shown through the heart? Note: Virtue is meant to represent Te although the word virtue may not live up to the full potential of implications implied when we speak of the word Te

Cat, I was wondering what your definition of the heart is?

Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed the read.

Thanks seadog for taking the time to post this... I appreciate it.

I would say practice breathing. How do you do this. Well stay and be relaxed. attempt to put your attention... you can call it awareness to the breath... as if your sensing the feeling of breathing (This will help you stay awake) try not to have any stray thoughts... Do this for over an hour in full lotus, half lotus, or even standing. Do this for an hour with the ability to have an uninterrupted mind (without having straying thoughts)... and you will realize that you will gain respect, so much respect among people around you that have seen you greatly develop, you will most likely move onto much deeper deeper practices from your teacher... I'm sure your teacher will know exactly whats happening.

Yep, Although I don't have to come across them to think that... i remember a lot of my older posts sadly enough.

Your not talking about one explaining it intellectually... Your talking about transmitting the actual practices. To know is to experience. The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. - Lao Tzu

Yes that is what seadog is saying... (although Idk about the proper terms of Blockage being correct way to explain it) The answer it would help to clear these life hurdles away, ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT SIMPLE... their is more to it. Whom ever talks about things in Taoism or in their arts (i.e. TCM, Feng Shui, Tai Chi and others) claim this stuff to be complicated... it just isn't true... although their is a lot more easy stuff to understand to it... as in development... cultivation... or growth... One stage... is easy. But their isn't just one stage. Much more to always learn... get down first stage... go onto the next! because of could their is more then first stage and second stage you just continue on going... but YES it is THAT EASY! As he preludes... Its the answer to the possible next question we may be asking about the next stage.

Agree with Smile and Karen. I've heard of breathing exercises that could fix asthma also.