Master Logray

Far from it. The Taoist movement is merely up and down of the whole body for a few inches in quick succession. It is better classify into pure physical movements, a mini bouncing, but not tremor or vibration. If cat is to be used as an example, it is more like the cat shaking the water onto you, or dogs too.

Of course not. Wonder why you look into such old post? After so many years, I do have new opinion on continuous shaking. Firstly some Taoist sect says it would deplete your Chi if you do it too much. That is reasonable, everything got a cost. The second observation is that it could be dangerous for some - e.g. retinal detachment, hernia etc. So be careful. The third observation is it could have some benefits on cancer treatment. After chemotherapy, the disease sometime relapse. It is partly due to some cancer cells are not killed completely. One of the reasons is the compressed blood vessels around the tumor which limited the entry of drugs. So continuous shaking in the same direction vs normal exercises or Chi Kungs which move in all directions could be more useful in opening additional compressed capillaries for drugs to reach the destination.

If you are depleted, then sleep more, don't get up early until you are reasonably replenished. By the way, from childbirth means from your own birth or from your child's birth.

I like this one. https://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/Chineseastrology.htm

The lack of progress is on science discovery. The technology side has so much progress.

Centralization ensures a certain quality, like Vatican. Teachers and what they teach are rather standardized. Buddhist monasteries serve similar function. But the drawbacks are many too.

It sounds like centralization vs decentralization, monotheism vs diversity to me.

The future buildings would mostly look like today's. We have plenty of buildings 50 years, 100 years or even few hundred years still being in use.

When we say scientists, what do we mean? I suppose only research scientists are scientists. Engineer, doctors and other professionals are not scientists?

I think it is not so ethical to ask newbie to donate their energy or whatever, until they have lots of them.

White ant can fly.

Flying termites, also known as swarmers, are the reproductive members of a termite colony. They swarm to establish new colonies, ....

It may be worthwhile if doing once. You can compare with what the healers do. They spent a lot of Chi in healing. Then they take quite some time to recover. Even magicians have the same problem. Without the limitation, we could have seen hundreds of healers working side by side, 9 to 9 like factory workers.

Is chicken bird?

It is not uncommon to exhibit some "special abilities" to attract students, even though they are not really useful. If you are going to teach, are you going to tell your prospective students that they would be imprisoned in a dark cell 12 hours a day, eating tasteless little bit of food, being pulled, twisted, bent; sitting on invisible chair, discomfort and pain magnified; prostrate to higher authority, chanting submission during the remainder of the waking time. There are many prisons in different countries offer these for free. There have to be some "incentives".

Really? I think all their minds are about mating and pregnancy.

I used an Android app for EMF detection. Somehow a spot in the wall has an unusual high EMF reading, comparing with wall around it. If there is pipe or steel inside the wall, the higher reading would be recorded in a linear form. But it is only a spot. Internet says phone cannot really detect electrical current, but magnetic is possible. Any idea?

Not latest fad. I read a blog whose owner took a lot of curcumin for over 20 years to deal with blood cancer. And there are quite a few Chinese books only for curcumin pre-Covid.

Curcumin exerts anti-inflammatory effects by regulating inflammatory signaling pathways and inhibiting the production of inflammatory mediators. Read research paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8572027/ But what is the conditions that make you want to take curcumin?

How to prove a coffee table exist? We use it. If it works, then it is the proof. The result is the proof. We are not talking about things like awakening, transcend, enlightenment which are immeasurable. The exercises that lead to MCO are all concrete physical bodywork.

The idea of pattern is quite suitable for acupuncture, acupressure or Dao Yin. A certain trigger is applied, a pattern of events come about. But for cultivation, I am not sure. If the LDT is heated up, different patterns could occur, Chi can go up, horizontal or down. I mean the acupuncture is more for the desired end result. While cultivationwise, Chi going somewhere is normally only a mid point.

Some say Chi is information. When the information hits at a certain point, the point and the surrounding area light up. It is why people feel the warmth, tingling, itchiness, pressurize, see light..... once the appropriate area is activated with information.