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Asceticism is a sort of energy practice where you deny yourself things your body and mind desires in order to create resistance for accumulation of chi in each individual chakra. Example, fasting charges up the stomach and abstinence is practiced almost by everyone. A lot of progress can be done with that stuff and is very popular even in Christianity. All that money stuff is not important, the master is important. He can give any number he wants but it depends on him if anyone will pay it. Also the student must practice the practice after paying it. Imagine you got a 'thing' for 20$ from some funky looking dude online, the guy doesn't even have a good image and it doesn't look like what he teaches is important since he practices the thing and he is still like this. If you want to practice something very powerful, then you need a master to show you that he is also powerful from practicing the thing. Speaking of that, I hate half-assed websites. Also think about for who the system is made. There are a whole bunch of new age college punks who think they are going to go to Tibet or something and reach enlightenment just because they can. There are also middle aged people who worked their whole lives on living comfortably and now that they are happy and have free time, they start to notice the rest of the world around them and they get curious about it. They are getting old and the pursuit of knowledge and spiritual is the only thing that's left. It's easy for them to afford this sort of thing at this stage. They already know a lot at this point. Money even changes meaning, before, a thousand was an impossible number since as a teenager they would need to flip burgers forever to afford a class about sitting down and doing nothing, forget that. Now a thousand is just a matter of time and work. These old men by then are halfway there and just need a little reminder about what they know since they already lived for a while and learned quite enough to reach the place where they are. This can also be a kind of asceticism, like when you don't let stomach chi get away by stopping being hungry, you just don't let money get away. With enough money you build a comfortable place for your heart and when that's done, money looses value. When money is worthless survival is taken care of, you can study whatever you want. After studying, the collected knowledge becomes wisdom. Some of these old rich people don't even need to meditate, they spend that money to come back to college and if there's something left behind, they buy something that remind them of their childhood. So long story short, if you still think you can't afford it, it's not for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRB0SYe2YI&list=LLh0j2L-0NpgodVxMvhFe5ow&index=9&feature=plpp_video so much pony

Because they always have been told that they "couldn't do it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrbXg8xM3HE

I blame this song Maybe I should keep going west untill I'm east or try the space route Be a Spacener! but that would be over thinking what is west and east and then figure out what would be neither, sheesh

Whew! Good thing I'm not a westener... or am I? dun dun DUUUUUUUUUN

Why if this isn't the silliest thing I ever heard in my life

Don't do anything, you don't know what you're doing and you can hurt yourself so keep studying first before you start experimenting. Just pulling chi where ever you want and leaving it there creates blockages, I bet you are getting more of a numb feeling then just chi. Study study study study

Watch Fighter in the Wind, there's a scene where the main character was training in the mountains and he wanted to leave very much so he shaved his eyebrows because without eyebrows people back then looked like ghosts and were not acceptable back in society

For a "while" I was washing in very cold shower with a sponge made out of STRAAAAAAW Straw sponge helped me feel warmer but it was a lot of work so I'm not doing that anymore It also helps to yell STRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW as you wash to add some battle spirit 'n stuff

Wooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

How about each one of you writes down your points then look over them and see what works Instead of discussing points you seem to be responding to the previous reply and forgetting what is important Not that I know what is important here since I wasn't following the discussion In point form, this is this and that is that, GO!

TEAM ONE! TEAM ONE! WHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

soooooo can somebody explain the technique now?

Hi

Since he passed away earlier last year, what rock were you under?

1985 WHY NO ONE EVER LISTENS AAAAAAAAAAARGH

I heard long ago Taoists would just walk around most of the time, on the hills mountains and all that stuff. All the walking around would add some years to a person's age and I heard that when some general asked this one super old dude what was his secret, he gave some pointers and one of the most important, I think, was sitting formally. So, throw away all the chairs and if you need to sit down, sit in seiza or do the HORSE STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANCE

Throw away all the chairs in your house

hmmmmmm is that the point you hit with a sword to make a person stop breathing? there are a lot of point to hit a person with a sword to stop them from breathing but, you know