Andrei

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  1. There be Dragons

    Yes you're right, in the video there are some Baji Quan and XingYi Quan moves. The guy is the main disciple of Feng Zhiqiang, he will continue the lineage of Hunyuan style which is considered different than standard Chen style.
  2. There be Dragons

    I am sure you will like this :
  3. There be Dragons

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuhRLXEBFA
  4. There be Dragons

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb0ckklxtcA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL I thought would be interesting to post this here...
  5. Hi Taomeow, I found the same incongruence when learned tango and salsa and I reached the following conclusions: Taiji is a martial art and is designed to teach you to defend yourself and to develop a sensitivity in the "personal space". The rules in Taiji are "open the back and close the chest" , "lower the energy in the dantian", and "be firm and grounded". These are obvious martial rules, that protects you, your "immortal embryo", your body from being unbalanced and your heart from being hurt. In Tango the rules are exactly the reverse, open the heart, raise the energy in the chest suck the belly and be light footed and easy flowing. Open the heart to make a connection with the partner - which in this case is not an opponent as in a martial situation - , raise the energy in the chest to create emotion and listen to the control of the male partner which is supposed to lead. The connection between the two partners have to be at the eyes level (emotional) or at the head level (physical) and at the chest level (both emotional and physical). http://www.youtube.c...h?v=opumFlUyEDg This is a very good series: TANGOCITY: LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 1/20 http://www.youtube.c...ex=0&playnext=1 Tango Helena videos are very good and very easy to follow: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=tidNs0I7Mgw In my opinion as a man tango dancer and former Taiji practitioner is much more difficult to dance with a woman and make her move as you lead than to fight or push hands with other guy. When dancing you create life energy, you create Yuan from emerging the two opposites Yin and Yang. I personally had to unlearn the Taiji to be able to drive a manual car, I had to learn to disconnect the various parts of my body to be able to switch gears. I found very interesting the process and of learning/unlearning different movements and how even more complex are added to the previous database. You know, the brain (the mind) functions holographic and nothing is lost, any information is only added in complex layers of interference patterns.
  6. WP

    It's an immortal trapped in a 2D world. If you watch this movie you'll understand the idea: The Taoist Wizard (Korea 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuhRLXEBFA
  7. Help me make a tasty stew!

    Any Asian store have Szechuan pepper corn... I see it everywhere in Montreal My teacher bought it for Iron Hand technique, Szechuan pepper mixed with mung beans is the perfect combination to fill a denim tissue bag and to hit with the palm...
  8. What would you do? I-Ching

    I Ching will give you a holographic pattern of the energy of the moment. Same pattern you'll find in little things as well as in big scheme on longterm, so here's one method of finding the actual moment pattern: You take three coins and make an arbitrary convention in your mind like this: head is 3 points, tails is 2 points. You put a single question in your mind and you throw the coins in the air an let them fall and roll 6 times. Each time you make the arithmetic sum of the points, you can obtain 2+2+2 =6 this will count as a changing yin to yang 2+2+3 =7 this will count as a stable yang 2+3+3 =8 this will count as a stable yin 3+3+3 =9 this will count as a changing yang to yin After you obtain the 6 lines, you can have an interpretation of the hexagram from someone else but you have to obtain the hexagram by yourself because it is about your energy and your environment. And you cannot do it twice, the answer given by I Ching is unique and final and it refers only to you and your question in your mind. http://www.eclecticenergies.com/iching/introduction.php
  9. Alchemy is not about making Gold the Heavymetal out of lead, or oil or whatever... Is about making Golden Light out of Water. From Water to Vapor to Fire, to Light. From Jing to Chi to Shen to Tao. Or the real modern alchemy may be from Plutonium making Americius, then Ununpentium, then making Antigravity and Wormholes and whatnot. BP oil leak is just that... a leak of the Planet's blood.
  10. How does Taoist immortality work?

    It is not enough... just to read
  11. Hubble Telescope Photos

    Cool Tool!
  12. Is Gardening Evil?

    Yes but I kept the plumeria inside in front of the window, already she has leaves bigger than last year in august I have big expectations
  13. Reptilians?!

    http://www.youtube.com/user/tercermilenio#g/u
  14. Is Gardening Evil?

    I bought a stick, I put it in water until made roots and then I planted into a vase, first year just made some leafs, this year I hope will grow bigger, and maybe in a couple of years will have flowers It should grow like this if have plenty of sun and maybe with luck (the right combination of sun, water and nutrients) will have flowers like this but maybe Montreal is too rainy and will not have flowers as I wish to
  15. How does your Garden Grow?

    This is my last year Taoist garden . This year I have big plans... good idea with using the soil bags!
  16. Reptilians?!

    Maybe you will not have enough patience to listen this man but definitely worth the time spent imho. The short short version: They never left earth, they are several species or races, they are all over the solar system's planets including moon, and they 'cultivate' us like we cultivate cattle and pets and a big change is approaching which they are aware of, as well as our governments.
  17. I did the liver cleanse once without using the apples fast before and I had the worst headache of my life. Even if I agree with Ya Mu and Taomeow about the milder herbal cleanse I intend to repeat the cleanse using the instructions from here: http://www.health-science-spirit.com/HF1-3.html http://www.health-science-spirit.com/basiccleanse.html I don't believe the liver cleanse removes gallstones maybe only in the incipient phase when they are small.... they are not 'stones' but chunks of cholesterol or whatever saponificated substance, but I definitely believes the cleanse removes the excessive cholesterol from the liver especially after winter season when in the cold regions is consumed cholesterol rich animal food. In the orthodox Christianity there is the Easter fasting which was designed for this purpose, to cleanse the liver before the spring arrives, although traditionally they never used that method.
  18. Yang transfer overkill

    Maybe she reacted because your hot energy fired up her liver and so she became angry. There is a saying "Liver likes warm and moist, Spleen likes hot and dry Stomach likes cool and moist" Next time send her the excess yang energy targeted to a specific organ, or at least help her and teach her to digest the energy. I had the same problem with my girlfriend, she has hot energy in the heart-lung area and because of that the energy goes up to the head and she has insomnia. I taught her to keep the yang energy down behind the navel, in the spleen lodge.
  19. Is Gardening Evil?

    Agree with you and, yes I do have my own space of plants love in my tiny apartment. I have a dracaena (dragon plant or lucky bamboo as is named), a plumeria and two ti plants, two cactuses, and this year I want to do some balcony gardening (carrots, cucumber, potatoes, beans) . Last year I had begonias on my balcony but I want to experiment with legumes. But I still dream having a garden to cultivate it like a Chinese flowers garden...
  20. Is Gardening Evil?

    I dream to have a space of love like this
  21. Reptilians?!

    It happened to me once when I visited my friend, during the night I was very energetic charged because that day we were hiking in the forest and I had insomnia and I was contemplating the darkness behind my eyes when I saw one dinosaur or lizard like eye opened and looked at me with curiosity (it was yellow iris with vertical slit pupil and wrinkled eyelids like a turkey), and I was curious too looking at him then several more eyes were opened looking at me while looking at them. The feeling was like some childs were looking to the other side of the fence through a hole, they were curious until at some point they bored and pop out, disapeared, then after some time I falled asleep. The next morning I asked my friend about the eyes and he said "Have you seen them too? I see them since my childhood, they are 'the ancient ones'."
  22. Crystalline Meditation

    There is a nice presentation about pyramids at 1:22:00 here