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Ohh, my god... Again.... Moderators, wake up and do something Who is mr. Clayman, why are you talking of him?

And forgot to mention there is Terry Dunn's well produced DVD on long Yang style taichi form. Ad to this Olson's tajchi qigong could be good option. And just wonder if there anything special in Liao's materials what really can give profound results?

As I far as I know he teaches Yang style taichi. Yang style was derived from Chen style as taichi for laymen. How can anybody call it Lao Tzu' taichi? Why we did not know anything of temple style taichi? If I am not mistaken they consider Wuji Primordial qigong as most relevant to what Lao Tzu was practicing. But this stuff could be good anyway. I know this Yang style form but I was not taught anything about qi there 9 (just form). Another option is to get Stuart Olsons' book and DVD on Taichi Yang style qigong which as believed is for qi cultivation. But Liao may be very good in form explanation. I am thinking to get couple of his books and DVD on the form. May be it good for details but it is quite pricey. Does he explain form from the perspective of qi cultivation?

Okey, if A.M. is at 1 a.m. does it mean okey to practice at 1 a.m.? And going for the rest at Yang time?

Friend, is it important to sleep hour or two prior to astr. midnight or it is okey to rest at midnight time (1 am)? Yin time is before 1 am, and after Yang is born.How much time to sleep at Yin time?

I think that practicing till midnight is still good and beneficial but it is desirable to fall asleep at least at 12.30 and wake up at 7-8 am. I don't like to wake up early. I feel lazy for anything at 4-5-6 am. Astronomical midnight is at 1 a.m. in my region now. I think it is vitally important to sleep at least 1 hour prior astr. midnight. It is good for the nervous system to rest. As to be awake at this time imbalances vata - dosha. If you are awake at vata dosha time - from 10 til 2 of astronomical time (from 11 pm in my case) then it is more difficult to fall asleep as vata is wind. So it is desirable to fall asleep before 11 pm for the doshas balance. But this is Ayrveda' point of view. Taoists might have another perspective on it. I am somewhere in the middle. Will be trying to go to bed at 12 in order to give mind to rest for at least 1 hour before midnight

May be the spirit of shroom is more important. Then it is the point to get homeopathic / spagyrics doses and not to spend money for bunches of substantial forms.

Steve, read the whole book! This is good for the idea of not expecting anything from practice/meditation/method/guru/path. Tao is pathless path.

Lloyd, were you witness how Rajnish poisoned people and manipulate people? My example with CC was that mass media mixes up often white and black. Watch documentary about CC and you will not have desire even to open his books. Such people are danger for society. Often authorities use dirty tricks against them. Good example is drama of 11/09. There are few diff perspectives on it. How do you know others are spiritual? Only because they saying sweet things? For some yogis people Dalai Lama is saint but for another is just talk man

Here is the nice review on Osho' book Tao The Pathless Path: http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Pathless-Path-Osho/dp/1580632254 People like it. Yes, we can tell a lot about his personality, how he was good and bad. But this is his vision of Tao. One does need to read thoroughly his books. He discerned personality as Ego, only Ego can be good or bad. But the essence is always the same. This is diff from western mind philosophy. As I mentioned before if you tell this someone else on the street they will think you are going nuts and call a doctor. I personally do not care his personality and can agree with the reviewer above stating that "A spiritual rebel Osho pulled no punches where orthodox thinking is concerned. I am reminded of Morpheus in the movie "The Matrix". He wanted us to take the "Red Pill". To wake up and disconnect ourselves from the Matrix of self-deception. To free us from the nightmare world of separation from the whole of existence". You can watch BBC documentary about C. Castaneda where it is said almost the same about him that he is liar and cult guru. And then regard all his books from this point of view. And where it will lead us? Only I can say I listened to his audio book Tao The Three Treasures and really enjoyed it. Here is one excerpt from the book: This "to be nobody" is the same as CC's not to be self - important but from diff perspective. And in more clear way to understand it personally for me

Today I really enjoyed Osho' book about Tao. I have mp3 audio book and listen it while walking. So enjoyable, so accurate psychology of the Path. I just was confused recently in my life and it what made me tensed. And this BOOK is just like answers to my questions. I have no teacher. It was like WOW effect. No any normal psychotherapist would tell you THIS. It sounds like antisocial psychology and if you tell it somebody they call doctor for you. He he. BTW I found it different from CC. CC is much power seeker. That's I do not like in it. Much fighting. Osho says of no-action. Tao. That's the point. I liked reading CC years ago but now I am different in my mind. Osho is more Chan' master. CC was power seeker and finished not very good. IMO

Ron offers few special 100 days programs. One is supposed to take 3-4 different compounds at the same time for balancing jing, qi and shen. And one additional for adaptation. It is too many drugs at the same time. Quite confusing. I will be taking 3 as recommended. They work for different purposes. I will talk to my TCM doctor and will read Ron's book. What do you mean by good diet btw? I eat only once a day and as I mentioned it is almost without animal products, only some milk in tea. But I add raw food supergrass for good protein intake. In the evening it can be only juice with this grass. Just wonder because never know what people mean by the good diet. All people diff and everything individual. I noticed less hanger just practicing qigong more. I dont want to stuff up my body with loads of food. But some say for metabolism better eat more often. I am thin with fast metabolism by nature (vata) by the nature.

Does it balance all system jing-qi-shen? I think that this is potent tonic in Aurveda. They tonify only after cleansing program during panchakarma which is as believed balancing doshas. So balancing doshas is primary to tonifying. In TCM one must restore yin yang balance. I use TCM because it is more clear for me. I know precisely my symptoms. Does your mixture nourish yang of the kidneys? http://www.dragonherbs.com/prodinfo.asp?number=542 I see now how it works. All this medicine working both on cleansing and balancing. But I have no much info on it yet. I am waiting Ron's book. Will read more thoroughly. There is nice story about 250 years old man who was supposedly taking it.

Well, bhutanese one is quite expensive but you know what... can be most important than good health? I am not going to buy it right now. First I want to investigate if I really need it. There is many other good stuff on dragon herb and in the most cases cordyceps is only part of the compounds which are working so.... I ordered one bottle of cordyceps and will be taking it along with other stuff and it will be difficult to say how it is working. I did not know about DH before and considered cordyceps as the main medicine but now I found there loads of other stuff. Reishi is probably more essential for spiritual purpose as good shen balancing medicine. There are few good compounds with wild reishi. Cordyceps is working for jing restoration but he shou woo does it too. I think to buy he shou woo on the site you linked. It's cheaper Have you read the book from site you gave link above? I consider it might be good for the cleansing purpose. They seem to sell some wild stuff there too. I think that may be before tonifying it is better to take good detox program and go with healthy diet. This where I am confused. I almost refused from animal products recently and wanted to go through cleansing program for improving microflora. There is a theory that healthy body micro flora can produce all necessary aminoacids. That book might be good for detox program. May be I'll get some stuff from there.

May be I used not accurate words as I am not expert. But I did some investigations on this before otherwise I would not post any doubts here. It was discussed on the taoist Wu Liu Pai's forum. But it is not in English and if I provide link you wont understand anyway. I asked it there couple years ago and recevied accurate respond for my query. From the very beginning they practice method to avoid lucid dreaming. As for links on another authentic taoist texts it would take time to find it but I can reverse it and ask you if you can cite where they practice lucid dreaming in taoist sects. May be it is not dispersed rather than transfers from yang to yin and leads to the cultivation of yin-shen, ghost what leads to the depletion of yuan qi (pure yang). I just have found discussion on this subj in another thread: http://thetaobums.com/topic/6793-yin-spirit-yang-spirit-and-spirit-travel/ Please read very first post for the cite. More over that I had a chance to discuss it with a instructor of gnostic christianity school who agreed completely with this theory. And regarding Cnan' Buddhism I think there is no such thing as lucid dreaming. As for Cataneda and Yaqi tradition I have doubts that such tradition exists in the way it was described by CC. I like his books but only as excellent warrior path psyhology. Do you practice recaputalation or contemplation as it advised by CC? I do not think it practical. The same I like Osho' books (even more than CC). Just read his book yesterday and found something very useful for myself. I think they both are very good psyhologists but very useful for spiritual seekers as a map on spiritaul path. Because people come accross with psyhology problems and no any "normal" psyho-therapist can help with different kind of problems on the path. Do BFP methods cultivate yuan jing and qi (prenatal qi)?

No no. Only WILD is real deal. I tried many artificially grown. It works more like antibiotics and nearly zero effect for Shen qualities. I would pay double for wild shrooms.

Sweet price. You can get on the ebay for some 20 bucks

Actually I wanted it for detox program and jing restoration. I am reading Ron's website and can not find detox program. I believe that detox is happen naturally during any of his programs. It seems to be that TCM approach is such that it is for balancing whole body/mind system first of all. And then body detoxes itself naturally. Want his "spiritual" program give a try. His stuff is pricey but might be he uses TCM compounds that is important and essential for the health/spirit benefits.

How are these ones grown? Or picked naturally?

Dangerous stuff One day Angelina Jollie will knock your door.

I gave dating a try and wan not happy with it. Females have huge "dark" qualities in them even they are more appealing than aliens. I mean girls (espec. nice ones) like to socialize a lot and they are very much mundane. This is just reality. I dont know how it is in USA. I myself more like zen-mind person and do not like conversations about something like blah blah drinking beer. Not so easy to meet vibrant person even among men. I will "go out" when I myself have got more vibrancy. Then more chances to meet somebody vibrant but I do not care to be honest. I have few friends who have families and I see them suffering. Few of them divorced. Life is short and death is always behind left shoulder. But relationships can be spiritual but I do not believe much in it at the moment as people are people - much ego...

Friend, all Dragon Herbs shrooms are wild and they know what they do. I used to take many other shrooms before and had no salient results. I think because the shrooms they used where artificially grown and they did not use authentic TCM formula in their compound. I ordered couple compounds and will let you know how far i fly away. Tried to order "alchemical" stuff - it is not shipped to EU. That's Okay... I have my homeopathic stuff yet to work. I think it similar to Bach' remedies but different.

Sorry Ralis, my fault. It looks like homeopathy, I did not read thoroughly. Is this good book? http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Teachings-Plants-Intelligence/dp/1591430356/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368581575&sr=8-1&keywords=secret+teaching+of+plants I like to reveal something new. I would say homeopathy worked well for me.

And Yes, I heard that homeopathy is more effective than plants. It works on the soul (energy) level. But I think both of them have power. I will try both.

WOW, looks pretty GOOD. Loads of interesting stuff. I want to give a try with it. But it seems to be not "classic" homeopathy IMO. By classic I mean works of S. Haneman. I read his work couple years ago and cant recall exactly all his stuff. There are few others famous authors on homeopathy. I read couple books. They advise to work with 10-15 most essential types of remedies which correlate with certain types of people. This stuff you gave link is something more "new age" but I do not know. Any good book on this stuff or just read description? I seem to need many of those ones How did you take it? Dissolving In water?