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Thank you all, good infos. Nice recipe JK, I will try it, I already made soups of all the beans I could find (all colors lentils, azuki beans, mung beans, peas etc.), I will try to make sprouts of them and the juices, thanks. Also five tibetan rites are best on the winter time, I wish I would heard about them a long time ago...

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Nosce te ipsum - Know thyself Explore yourself and you will find your own path

I have Thomas Cleary's translation.

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Thank you gals and guys, I will study the links and I will stay for now the way I am already doing taoist balanced diet + regular exercise, maybe if I will ever relocate into a warmer sunnier climate I will try to reduce animal products intake... Yes Immortal_sister, I am living in Montreal and I do the same as you, change the diet according to seasons and climate.

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@\ Taomeow, I bow to you with respect, all I wanted to do is just to point some things I observed. I am not a master, teacher, nor lineage holder, not even participant to seminars of famous masters. Just some common sense and some little experience in fighting arts. I did the same as you, sticked to the old school mentality which had the practical reasons behind the veil. The time passes and the body ages, the qi will drop, the jing will dry. "Taichi is about keeping the energy for yourself" as BK Frantzis said into an interview on youtube.

oXZayjdbVVw KzsZN8KIuzw M7A77JLzt4g It feels very differently than when you perform Cannon Fists in air. It is shaking involved but you are supose to create the vibration in the pole then the vibration comes back into your body and you squeeze all the muscles instantly to damp the vibration and to stop it. In this way the vibration is absorbed into the bones and tendons and they densify. The bones densify (they normally are porous) becouse of the twisting forces and compressing forces on the joints. If you do the shaking in the air there is no twisting and compressing of the bones because there is no reaction to the action. The best way to create twisting is having in hands an excentric weight. The pole itself is excentric, the center of gravity of the pole is 3 to 5 ft away of your own center of gravity so your body and the 10 ft pole create together an harmonyc mechanical system, but your body muscles and tendons are supposed to be the spring and the damping while the pole is the inertial mass. An anologous practice is the tree shaking but the tree is too stiff compared to a human body so I do not think is useful (I tried it on smaller trees). The best is the knocking the two partners between them because they can control the forces and impulses, and in the same time they have to react to the surprises of their partner. mDxZcfQ_bDA olRuWYQUW48

Maybe you will think I am crazy.... I was a great fan of Chen village style, very excited about all those fajin demonstrations and noises and qi blasts and stomps. I tested them on me and with my friends and I found them unhealthy and unnecessary. And is not only me who is saying that, there are so many teachers and masters out-there that think the same... If you want to strengthen the bones and tendons, shaking a pole is best (tried it) but make sure the pole is shaking and not your body. The smaller your body shaking the better. If you want to scatter your bad/stagnant qi shaking qigong or self hitting qigong is best. If you want to harmonize your qi the slower the motion the better. If you want qi to flow, moving continuously without interruption is best. If you want to grapple a medium posture is best, not too high not too low. Pushing hands with a partner is essential for grappling. If you want to knock out people is not necessary a great power, all you need is to be relaxed and to know how to hit a living human not a sandbag or a brick or air. You don't even need qi to shoot, all the qi you need is to keep you in a straight relaxed posture. o1J66uZEiMo jhefvNZlthM xVtxnMrBJzs hTmanCg_r6k oG9gq6b5Pcw

I don't know what he says but what I see in this video is amazing: KZdtM5p6ZkA

why do we hear at 1:37 a "hic" instead of "pow"? he had no bullet in the gun anymore?

Just be aware that the guy returned to monophasic sleep due to "loneliness": http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/p...-to-monophasic/

Agreed again, yes I tried so that's why I came to the conclusion all those demonstrations are useless. This is Chen Xian the top disciple of Feng Zhiqiang: HN88QIsMHqA

Agree again but martial arts is about feeling not seeing. Taijiquan was a martial art designed to hide the real power. Yang Luchan said "Taichi must be divided into tenths, hundredths, thousandths of an inch" or somethin similar. Chen Fake said "the smaller the shaking the better". And he was shaking the ten feet pole each day hundreds of times. And they were fighters not qigong masters. And I can prove it to you mathematically for mechanical systems as well as for electrical systems. It is all about "increasing the vibrational frequency" as Ya Mu would say.

Agree with mouse. This is Chen Taiji Beijing style at its best (imo): eGWJxJndw6o This is Chen Taiji Fa Jing performance Beijing style at its best: CPYtoFllHy8 This is Zhao Bao performance at its best: 79lfEBj2Ohs The smaller the whipping and shaking the better because otherwise: 1) you loose and scatter the qi 2) it is not efficient from martial pov 3) it gives a false sense of power XaZQx6CKimM O6xOYh6HIMA

I don't think you can radiocarbon date a stone Radiocarbon dating is for biological tissues because it is supposed that when they lived they breathed CO2 and with the normal atoms pf carbons you can have in your tissues some izotopes of carbon that desintegrates in time, and then you can date how much time passed from when you suppose that this living tissue acumulated the carbon izotopes. So it is possible to radiocarbon date the Turin shroud but the stones of the Gizeh plateau maybe only if they find fossils inside the stones, and even then you date the fossils not the time when the stones were chopped.

No, Yannick teaches only Hunyuan Taiji and only the spine qigong from Ruyi. But he has excellent flexibility and can do the spine qigong with straight knees. He said he was skeptical too about the abilities of Shi Ming and offered himself to be demonstrate on him the fa jing abilities. They were saying that those demonstrations work only with students of the masters who have open channels and are tuned with the energy of the master. So they were supposing that for a closed energetical person like a western guy trained in external martial arts wont work. So when Shi Ming sent his Qi to Yannick, he said he opposed with all his power not to move but the Qi somehow found the open pathways to his heart and felt like a claw grip on his heart, like when you electrocute yourself. When I was a kid I electrocuted myself at 220 VAC and felt something similar to what he described, althow I never had the oportunity how it feels from a Qi blast emmited by a Qigong master.

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Ha ha, actually all teachers teachers of taijiquan trace their lineage to Zhang Sanfeng. And Chen village has nothing to do with Zhang Sanfeng. Chen Wang Ting (1597-1664) was the inventor of Chen village boxing. They say that Jian Fa a taoist monk bring the taoist internal arts to Chen village. Some of them say Jian Fa was the student of Chen Wangting, other say Chen Wangting combined Shaolin boxing with the soft style of the taoist internal arts and created Chen village boxing. And there are some that say Chen Wang Ting lived in Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and Jian Fa lived in Ching dynasty (1644-1911) so there is no connection between them. Exception being the fact that Jian Fa was a 20 years old monk who teached taoist arts to a 67 years old general with many experiences in the battlefield Yang style tradition say that Jiang Fa teached wudang taoist arts to Chen Chang Xin and from there on Chen village boxing became soft and internal. And the teacher of Jiang Fa is supposed to be Wang Tsun Yueh, which is supposed to learn from Chang Sung Chi which was a wudang taoist monk which is supposed to have a link with Zhang Sanfeng.... just too many suppositions. And Santa Claus existed. It was bishop in Myra (Anatolia/Turkey) in 346 AD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

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He he in the photo from the link is my teacher and friend Yannick, I suppose you know him. Thank you again.