Pai_Mei

Yes, Suninmyeyes raised a very important point here. It depends on your level of awareness...I know this state also under the name "false emptyness". It is pretty much like a hibernation state. As Suninmyeyes said, some Yogis deliberately cultivate such stages but these are all lower-level samadhi-states. I personally had similar experiences for some time when I would close my eyes and then open them and an hour was gone and it had felt like a second.

Well, I see that you have good taste dear Sinfest, not only when it comes to choosing profile pics...Falco is really one of the greatest artists of all time As far as I know he his still to this date the first and only german-speaking artist (he is actually from Austria) who had a number-one-hit on the US-billboard-charts.

That is a very philosophical question :-)....do you mean Gordon Liu, the star of "36 chambers of Shaolin" who portrais Pai-Mei or do you mean the historical person that inspired Tarantino to create Pai-Mei or do you aim at the person behind this post? ;-) Aren't we all actors and carry masks in some way? Isn't being an internal energy cultivator a good mask, too?:-D Maybe the world is like Shakespeare said "just a stage" and we are all actors in this world? So who am I really and who are you? The head of a dead cat! :-D

Dear Qi-brother Michael, so your the only surviving representative of your school? :-D There is nothing to be envious about as my private sessions were also through skype. However I had the benefit to share some real quality time with Santiago alone and I treasure our experiences very much. He is really one of the most loving people I know.