Master Logray

With the aging population, people tend not to be afraid of death these days. But they are generally having fear towards the last 10 years, seeing plenty of examples on the horrors of sickness and aging. My impression towards your place is full of giant crocodiles, big snakes, spider, great white, mosquitos... Which is the best place in your country to avoid all these?

He is not. In the old days, earnest learner has to endure such meaningless tasks for years to earn the approval of the master to be accepted as a student. These tasks are also to polish the prospective student's ego and train the mind for actual cultivation.

It is the same. You don't want to be sick everyday until 120.

It is not easy to understand what he says.

This is not big money, there are returns too? But why pressure the government in such an indirect way? Anyway I believe many rich and powerful people all over the world are spending 100 times and probably more per annum to prolong their lives. It would be useful to share their findings and experiences. As to movie and immortality, I think we have watched too many immortals, vampires stories that have very long lives, and the difficulties they encounter in the modern world.

If you have 20 years experience which is far from WLP/NB lineage, then they may ask you to start from scratch again. It is normal.

You know that opens you to all kinds of frauds? I searched WLP in Chinese web but found very little info, even less than Google English. One of the major problem for following the more obscure type of teacher or system is the support/continuity issue for long term students (like 20 years). Once that teacher out of business/emigrated/incapacitated/imprisoned/died or become an immortal, you are pretty forever suspended from further improvements. Even his most senior students may not acquired all his skills and levels or willing to take up teaching. There was a group here whose master has passed away. They cannot go nowhere. It is safer to follow general and popular systems, where the masters usually have peers or similar teachings available on the market you can resort to. The second pitfall is that the teacher invented/created a new system, give it a new name etc. Then even peers in his own lineage would not be able to help and may require you start from scratch again. Given the difficulties getting a response even from emails, may be you should look into alternatives, just in case.

This is of course correct. But cannot explain why the Arabs are not the darkest in the world. Or Central American and South East Asian are even darker and why Africans are much blacker than they.

200 days is a lot. Singapore, Indonesia are about 150 days, Malaysia, Taiwan 200 days. But all of them have a lot of sun, sometimes perhaps too much. I think Taiwan is as mountainous as Norway. Their highest is 4000 metres, and is a range which is similar to Norway and thus the prolonged rainy days with moisture from the sea.

Only when the sun hits your back, not the front, otherwise you age fast and little increase in Chi. There is also skin cancer to worry about. BTW I thought England is the worst already, Norway is even more rainy?

If disempowering is what you mainly worry about, then don't do any spiritual practices because they do disempower the person in different areas, albeit for their benefits. Nothing is without side effects in this world. Anyhow Qigong is not really spiritual/soul practices, unless you go very very deep. I think it is better than gym or jogging, but don't expect very "healing, physically, emotionally, generally make one feel better and happier, maybe even bring about seemingly spiritual experiences". You need more than Qigong exercises for that.

It is common. e.g. the Yellow Emperor Internal Classics, said to be written BC2600, but believed to be written or compiled around BC300.

It was the lore. Actually the Ji Ying Taoist of Ming Dynasty made YJJ and purported to be from Buddhist origin. It was written around 1600 only.

Damo's description is not correct according to China research. There are so many different sets that differs from each other so markedly as if they are different Qigongs. Some of them are dangerous. My first time to receive acupuncture in life was due to a set of YJJ allegedly from Putin Shaolin Temple which injures me.

If you observe and think carefully, the mandatory system of Karma and reincarnation do not work theoretically. It may be only feasible in a very simplistic world. Once more and more people are involved and complexity of societies increase, these 2 systems would be so complicated that each one has millions of Karma accumulating everyday and from numerous previous lives. Everyone is tangled helpless in this big web. It would be fine if good deeds and wrong deeds can be offset, but it implies someone can be evil if he is doing enough good deeds. If it is not offset then is it possible? I happen to read a very famous Confucian scholar in Ming Dynasty. His opinion was that Lord Buddha observed the phenomenon, but it is far from applicable to everyone as most of the people have weak souls/ingrains that cannot be passed from lives to lives. They are wiped clean. Only the saints and super villains could possibly keep a certain traits from previous lives. @Shadow_self is very right that it would be a very lengthy discussion.