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not really

Why are you asking? Do you really want to know it?

The main goal is to nourish De. The more De you have the better you will become

If this is done correctly, but M.Winn distorted the original method, and it is difficult to understand the correct execution of the form from the video

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You say that modern humanity understands world better than our ancestors. Secondly you say they were "hunter-gathers" Yes, probably they were... but 50 000+ years ago I know you can bring many sources on that... but you should be aware who writes these "scientific" works

Yes, but for some "people" all humanity is their enemy or.... (do research what is the origin of the word "homo" and what the "homo sapiens" means (for them) and then probably you will realize why knowledge is hidden )

Firstly you need to bring ANY solid proof of the theory you declared here. Before you blame anybody else here. At least it would be polite from your side. I don't bring any because it would be off-topic.

The question is how exactly human "became" egoistic? So you do believe that hunter-gathers were not egoistic and they were very primitive by nature but modern human being is egoistic and they are more "advanced" so that they understand reality better than hunter-gathers? We don't know much about our ancestors and I would even say we know nothing about them. The history is hidden and very much corrupted. The same concerns science and education in general. And I personally am believer that human DNA and minds are under control from ancient times. There was what they call "great reset". From 15-16th century it began and finished by 20th century Why many libraries were burnt then? What was the "crusading period"? Why Shaolin was burnt? Now they say those people were primitive hunter-gathers.... Why they cant develop new I-CHING system? All ancient arts were diminished along with achievements of those civilizations which created it.

There are a few. Not going into it in this thread.

When and how modern "science" appeared? Do you know that even before 19th century people were able to get electricity and heat from Ether?

The history is cyclic. I dont believe the historical "homeland" of modern "homo-sapience" was Africa and that they were hunter-gathers. All that is not more than preconceived notions. By the way do research what the origin of words ""nasa" and "homo". There are strict answers in their meanings. Also how do you think the why knowledge of "ancient arts" disappeared?

It has not been proven yet. This is only the notion. I don't believe fake NASA "photos" of the Earth from "deep cosmos".

So you believe it is the other way around?

So then the modern person has no alternative, but to seek a direct transmission of knowledge , which stems from the time, when the mankind have a clear understanding of cosmic laws. Of course, we can assume that a genius who can understand these law without could be born. But such an extraordinary person will not need anything at all from this world let alone a transmission. On the other hand there exist fake methods invented by ordinary people, these methods are usually only a projection of their mind and have nothing to do with the laws of Cosmos. Here is an example: Did Someone deciphered the Yi Jing? I think the answer is obvious. Hence stem here need for the personal transmission. In this case firstly there will be no distortions, and secondly there will be personalized training for each person. Thirdly, in order to avoid deviations the practice will be done under the oversight of Teacher (and not like today, in stadiums, where participants do anything they want). Also, a ritual of accepting a student is a promise by the Teacher to be personally responsible for his student, to vouch for him, including with teachers own destiny... 古圣有言曰命由性修 性由命立 命者炁也性者神也炁 则本不离神神则有时 离炁 Ancient sages said: Ming is perfected starting from Xing. Because you need the true spiritual condition to find your Teacher and then to practise, i.e. you need the correct state of mind while practicing. Xing is established starting from Ming. Without replenishing and perfecting of Ming the true spiritual work is impossible. Qi is inherently inseparable from the Shen (the spirit). If qi ever comes apart from shen, there will be an instant death. So while the person is alive they are inseparable. (This refers to the out of body experiences of the spirit when qi remains in the body) ======================================================================================================= Xing and Ming are interrelated. If you work on Xing it boosts your ability to work on Ming and other way around. In other words first one need to realize what is Yin, Yang, how to strengthen them and combine them. I am not sure that Zen people still have this knowledge. All this requires "transmission" - I am not sure how it was in ancient times. May be it was possible to "transmit data" straight into smbs mind or to bring person into certain state of mind but these times this should be steady process of "transmission" - that means student should work with his energies steadily beginning from purification of "heart - mind", working with channels, working with Yin and Yang, balancing it out. Teacher helps to recognize certain states of mind correcting this process. The most important thing is to reach the state of balance

They just don't know the daoist approach to it. Zen is actually corrupted Chinese Chan. Ancient Chan was equivalent of the daoist neidan. You can read a few articles here https://www.all-dao.com/essence-taoist-alchemy.html https://www.all-dao.com/dazuo-meditation.html

But eventually they die. The loss of life essence can be compensated by their virtue -- healthy lifestyle and so on. The downside comes from long seated meds so it depends how long they do it and also they could have some methods to compensate the loss of life essence, I don't know their approach well to comment it. The most important thing is what they reached on the path of enlightenment

This seems to be very similar to northern daoist schools methods. At first they try to recognize the nature of Xing (or in other words to recover it or to obtain yuan shen) but they do it by loosing their life essence. So you should be aware of this danger. Qigong methods won't help to restore it. There are many traps on this path

It depends what you mean by "direct transmission". Some teachers can share their energy to get student to certain state, another teacher transmit methods only, it really depends on a lineage and student' state and ability to grasp methods, also methods differ.

Yes indeed

I would not take seriously what he writes here. He has no clue what these texts about

they are interrelated. texts research won't help much

It depends what "direct pointing" means. It is not possible to understand the path of Dao without "transmission". There can be "pointing" at different aspects of practices.