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Actually was not a joke Pick one and do it for 100 days ( 3 months) and document the progress, either in a personal practice forum or a personal journal. If you are really interested in taoist neidan, start with Inner Smile by Mantak Chia, this is the most inoffensive practice ever. At least you will discover your own body, emotions and organs. In my experience (my girlfriend was having anxiety attacks) this is given by overactive energy in the upper body - torso, too much yang energy in heart and lungs. She also had frequent insomnia and the anxiety attacks were triggered only in summer time, so if you have similar symptoms, then it is an energetic issue. In this case taoist alchemical meditation practices are the best solution for you. If is not an energetic cause, but rather a mental cause then maybe you can try something else. And i forgot to mention, do not mix this practice with other practices, stay with it until you figure it out if you really want to continue or discontinue the practice. You can discontinue anytime but best is o let the practice crystallize, so that the effect of the practice becomes visible.

You should spill it wisely, according to Mantak Chia there is a rule depending on your age: at 20 once a day At 30 once a week, at 40 once a month, at 50 try to keep it, at 60 i don't think there is the case anymore but if you obeyed this rule all your life, you may have some leftover.

The thing with semen retention was invented by taoists for emperors who had harems with 1000 women. For emperor it was required to have retention to survive so many wives and concubines. But otherwise they were doing natural practices. The Complete Reality school had two sects, the North sect was requiring complete celibacy and vegetarianism, they were completely monks exactly as buddhists monks. The southern sect were using sexual practices, they were allowed to be married and some of them were practicing sexual techniques with postitutes. The idea was to absorb the Jing from the female which is the Yin essence so that they combine with their Yang essence from the male JIng. Probably they were doing this because in North the weather is yin and they could balance their internal heat from yang energy with the yin energy from the environment, while in the South it was much warmer and they needed extra yin energy. Also the young females were breastfeeding the elders, so that they be nourished with yin female energy. In both sects they were doing meditation, because that was the point of having balanced yin and yang energies.

This is water position: This is fire position This is Wind position And the Earth position is with the tip touching on the jaw teeth gum, similar to this: This is Ketchari mudra:

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Exactly the same technique is the immortal embrio birth described in the taoist texts and also in Wang Li Ping's book. WLP works a lot with "opening the third eye" technique.

What do you mean? Apparently we'll soon breathe aluminium particles according to this article: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/04/18/nasa-admits-to-chemtrails-as-they-propose-spraying-stratospheric-aerosols-into-earths-atmosphere/

I did both in my life but not at the same time. When you do bodybuilding, the main issue is to get rid of the lactic acid produced during work. the best way to do that is massage or just rest/sleep and drink water or anything diuretic like tea or cofee or watermelon to allow the toxins to be eliminated through urine. Also I found out that the goji berries soaked and drinked in green tea are the best antioxidants you can ever have which facilitates lactic acid elimination. Anyway when I was weight training and taichi in the same time, the taichi performance was much better, or at least this is how I was feeling at the time. I suppose the taichi was alleviating all the muscle sores I was having after weight training. But at that time I never did any standing practices. On the other hand, after I quit weight training I felt the need to practice standing practices, which I found that is the standard "bodybuilding" practice for taichi. In a sense the standing practice is doing the same acid lactic build up just it is doing only in particular muscles, which are essential in push hands and taichi fighting. So it happens that the cuff rotator is exactly one of those muscles used in standing qigong, and also it happens that you may overtrain this muscle, it builds up the acid lactic beyond the pain bearable level. So either you quit one or the other, or you just do weight training only for those muscles you don't train in standing qigong like pulling movements upwards and pushing downwards. During standing my painful muscles are trapezius muscles more than cuff rotator. It may happen also that you need to adjust a bit the back position so that you transfer the tension from one group of muscles to another. In standing they say you have to have the front yin (relaxed) and the back yang (tensioned) but I have seen standing practises like 5 elements of Maoshan that disobey this rule, so in standing anything goes as long as you feel good about your practice.

She is more like a Tawowmeow. I am definitely her fan. I have a question for her though: How does she sees from a taoist woman perspective the whole taoist male sexuality and the issues we encounter periodically here on Taobums with semen retention and in general ?

I didn't listened to the guy in the video (maybe later) but th OP has a point. The point being when you are young you have hormones. You have hormones during all life, they are just changing. Now, what does it mean healthy? It means nothing, everybody is different and has a different hormonal spectrum. Each hormone correspond to a human emotion or character trait and if you look deeper it is an energetic pattern. The taoists would say that a person is characterised by a nature's element or an energy typology. In taoism there is the BaZi the chinese astrology which is characterizing a person according to her birthdate. The Ba Zi reading is just telling you who you are, whate energies you have in your body and you resonate with. Through alchemy you can change these patterns, but also you have to be aware of certain limits. Now I suppose the original meaning of the OP's "desire" is sexual desire. This can be considered like a burning fire, but now it depends where is this fire located? in the sex, in the liver, in the heart, in the spleen? depending where the fire is burning it activates the organs, it is the underlying cause of producing hormones or burning them transforming them into something else, different than the original substance. This is why you can have a 250 year old taoist with 23 wives and 200 descendants.

everything (human emotion I mean) is dictated by the hormones. if you understand that you understand the whole point of alchemy.

Bill Bodri says that: If your jing is replenished there is no craving for sex, If your qi is replenished there is no hunger sensation, If your shen is replenished there is no need for sleep. This is an old taoist saying, and according to my experience it is true. But I noticed on youtube that Mantak Chia is burping a lot when he is doing qigong. Also I pass gas when I do sitting or standing meditation. Which is a good sign because that means the dantian is working, is burning inside and is drying the feces, but as anything else, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Sometimes is too much water, and the intestines have a hard time to absorb all that humidity, which means on the contrary that the digestive fire is too low.

The whole blog contains translations of famous Taichi books including weapons and applications, so it is highly recommended for Taichi practitioners. Very good quality and rare internet resource. http://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/

Nope. Dantien Implies Belly Implies Pregnancy Implies Birth Implies Life Implies No death Implies Immortality Implies Ethernal life Implies I am the truth and the way and the life But yes dinner implies life too

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When I was a kid, I was walking through walls and doors. It was very fun, I could see and hear other people speaking. Once I remember I leaned over the wall of my room and pushed my head through the wall and saw my mother having a fight with my grandmother. Another time I tried to exit through the closed door but I couldn't, I bumped my head by the door, then I tried to open the door with my hand but neither this I couldn't because my hand was passing through the handle, and I could't grasp the handle. I tried several times, then I realized I was laying in bed and in the same time standing in front of the door. Then I realized I was having OBE's all those time, I was lucid dreaming.

I was amazed too by this question, because the alchemical texts are a quite contradictory. I could not understand this because we try to make sense with our ordinary mind. The ordinary mind sees only one reality when in the " reality " there are other realities overlapped on this reality. Unfortunately we don't see this overlap between worlds, but if you believe many mystics from various traditions, these other realities are as real as this one. Now, this sounds like a disclaimer, and I read a lot of books and I tried to make a sense out of them, and always I had some skepticism about what people describe as "real". But when i asked one of my best friends who is clairvoyant what he sees this is what I get as an answer: "I see a fluid that is coming out of the heart that flows through meridians and tissues. It looks like a silvery fluid and has a violet hue. - Is this the Qi from the heart? I think so... It exits from the heart and is flowing all the time. What does this Qi at noon? - it is more intense. - what does it at night? It is still flowing but not so intense and has a different path. - what kind of path? - at noon goes up, to the head mostly but at night goes down towards the earth. - Ok, this must be what they call "mercury", it is flowing, it is metallic and shiny it can't be anything else. But what about the heart color? - it has the same color as you know. - what color? - it is red. - but the heart chakra is green. - it is also green but in another layer. And it is bluish-white shiny in a more profound layer. - so it has all those colors? - yes but on different layers. What about the kidneys? Kidneys have the colors as you know, they are blue in one layer and red-brownish in another layer. What about the fluid? Is there a fluid that exits the kidneys? - Yes it is, but is not like a fluid is more like a smoke, a grey-dark smoke. - Ok so how this smoke circulates? It circulates also through tissues and channels but on different paths than the fluid from the heart. During the day the smoke goes down and exits through bottom and feet and sinks into earth. - what about during the night? - during the night goes up towards the head. - ok so when is more intense this smoke? - it is during the night more intense, especially at midnight. - ok, i think this is what they call "lead". In the texts they say that mercury is not Li fire from the heart, is the essence of the heart, and lead is not Kan water of the kidneys, is the essence of the kidneys. Also they say that mercury and lead are called tiger and dragon which copulates only at midnight. They say that the tiger is not the Qi of the lung, is the essence of Kan, and the dragon is not the Qi of liver, is the essence of heart. So I think that these two energies merge together at midnight because the one from the heart descends and the one from the kidneys ascends naturally, but what does make them to move? Why they go up during the day and down during night? Then it struck me! Because these energies are moved by the Sun! Because they say in texts Yang ascends to Heaven and Yin descends to the Earth. Actually is the Sun who attracts the yang fluid and is repulsing the yin smoke. And only during the night when the Sun is on the other side of the Earth attracts the yang fluid down, and repels the yin smoke up. And this is why you have to sit at midnight so that these two energies mix together. This is what they call Kan and Li, and copulation of Dragon and Tiger.

Hi traveler, The alchemical language is highly symbolic, so you really need to stretch the reasoning to connect ideas. But if you really want to dive in the alchemical literature here are some free resources: http://wangfengyi.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/neichingtu1.pdf http://www.charleschace.com/pdfs/Xing_Ming_Gui_Zhi-BurtonRose.pdf Understanding reality (wu zhen pian) by Chang Po-tuan translated by Thomas Cleary Also books by Eva Wong: Nourishing the essence of life - the outer, inner and secret teachings of Taoism Cultivating stillness - a Taoist manual for transforming body and mind Cultivating the energy of life (Hui Ming Ching) The Tao of Health, Longevity and Immortality - the teachings of immortals Chung and Lu And Ling Bao Tong Zhi Neng Nei Gong Shu which contains three important texts: Zhong Lu Delivery Tao series The secret of the Golden Flower Wu Pian Ling Wen - five Soul articles

And the other 67 % of google searches are "The taoist method of multiorgasmic man" (or woman)?

Yeah, that is what Qi means, the steam rising from the rice field in the morning, or the steam rising from the rice bowl after you cooked it. At least this is the pictogram meaning.

Thank you Spotless for your answer. I have a friend that sees everything like you do, I wanted just to make sure you don't overestimate your ability and to confirm this is real. I apologize for "testing" you but this is how I discern between fake and true. Thank you.

I think Yesod is lower dantien, Tiphareth is middle dantien and Daath is upper dantien. Malkuth is either the feet or the hui yin depending on if you stand or sit. Kether is above the head. But still i think the Sephiroth is corresponding to a different level of reality, or different dimension. If you are familiar with teosophical literature, they say that between physical world and spiritual world (and by spiritual I mean higher spiritual not the world of ghosts, spirits and daemons whatever that may mean) there are at least 3 other levels or dimensions or densities. First is Etheric plane, which corresponds to the hidden energies of nature, elementals and other beings. At this level alchemy operates with the elements, you build dantients and cook elixirs and do a lot of magic. Then over this level is the Astral when you build a second body and exit from the physical body and you fly on a broom or a carpet or a fire wheel or whatever and visit the astral worlds, and speak with ancestors and ascended masters, aliens and what not. Then above or beyond this level si the Mental plane and I believe this plane corresponds to the sephiroth (or qilipoth if you prefer that route) which ultimately leads you to Kether which is you Higher Self. This is how I see it. Later edit to add the image