BaguaKicksAss

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  1. More Satanic Mischief

    Awesome . Perhaps in about 100 years from now there will be enough awareness and open mindedness they will be accepted...
  2. Court update

    Hmmm, how's the internet connection there? Well I hope you are doing some, uhm, you know, stuff on the side, to help make sure you guys win the court battle .
  3. Noah Levine - Amazing Buddhist Punk!

    Your teacher and Noah really need to come to this city and liven things up a bit .
  4. The Killer Instinct

    The pushing another kid over starts way before the actual pushing comes into play.
  5. Do you have a teacher? Usually they are pretty good at seeing what is up and giving you some awesome fix suggestions. There are certain exercises which as a "side affect" tend to fix stuff like that up. Root walking is one I like . *Looks over at NAJA* who had some amazing success with this one! I had this one qigong/bagua student who would get dizzy and nearly fall over during practice... we had to sort that out rather quickly! Sure glad we did. He had done years of kundalini work before. I find the same things happen with folks who practice western magic. While I had some troubles, I hear I had less of them from all my hiking, running and other grounding activities I used to spend every free moment doing. Bagua works too though .
  6. Thank you ZYD , I was having trouble finding the right words for my description of things.
  7. From all I've been taught, the problems with the MCO come when a person either visualizes and/or forces the qi around the path. Edit to add: .... or has huge blockages! Or starts up the front down the back instead of the other way around.
  8. I think part of the problem arising here is that we are speaking of two different traditions. Robert Bruce speaks more from a western magick perspective (though he goes much beyond that thankfully), he doesn't go into eastern ways of viewing things and working with energy, compared with the more eastern, qi, martial and TCM ways of viewing things. The east and the west have some vastly different ways of viewing heart centered practices from what I have found. The west is more about bring energy to point b from point a via visualization and mind, and in a more energetic and astral sense. The east tends more towards have qi move to said areas via physical movements, a focus on the area, or postures. The qi is much more dense than energy, the energy worked with in the western traditions. From what I have found. So each system brings about quite different affects in the long run. So when the east and the west talk about heart centered practices, it really is apples and oranges in many cases. Also there is working with the heart center in a middle dantien sense, in an opening up the heart sense (which is what I got from the OP), and in a chackra sense. Each bring about slightly different affects from the focus.
  9. If 'astral travel' works; how come it's not on TripAdvisor?

    Drugs sound safer LOL. Yikes; glad you stopped doing that particular practice .
  10. Noah Levine - Amazing Buddhist Punk!

    Here it is also every single attendee, and I do mean each and every last one, who talks in soft tones! My TCM friend equates it to spleen deficiency ROFL. Anyways, interesting video. What I liked best about it is that the audience full of people are looking up to him, not judging h im and accepting him as a person and practitioner. You have noooo idea how much people discriminate against those with tattoos!
  11. Noah Levine - Amazing Buddhist Punk!

    Even he is doing that soft spoken not use your full voice thing all the dharma (here locally) folks do, what is up with that? I really am curious.
  12. If 'astral travel' works; how come it's not on TripAdvisor?

    Hmmm? I'm guessing you mean taking some substance or another to help bring about the state? Here's a trick I have taught myself; make your consciousness and mental state go into that of when you are on said substance. You have been there before, so you know what it is like, just bring yourself there when needed . It's not quite as strong, but strong enough to work...
  13. Is celibacy for 10 years realistic?

    I'm curious, by celibate do you all mean no masturbation in there too? I'm assuming so if it's for energetic reasons. 10 years wow, and here I'm thinking 100 days is a major accomplishment . But do what feels right for you, no matter what others say. Also though, if you slip up, don't get mad at yourself over it. 10 years is a long time for anything. Saying who you will be in 10 years from now is nearly impossible. Don't let that deter you though, or anything deter you from what you want in life, no matter what is it. For dating, there are asexual folks around, so it is possible... but whether the person you are currently dating is up for that or not who knows. Definitely an important discussion to have.
  14. Daoist Diet - Meal Suggestions?

    Different diets are recommended for different people depending on ones constitution and their energetic makeup when you go to see a traditional chinese medicine doctor. No one diet for everyone sort of thing. I've also noticed that it can change during different periods of your life. Interesting stuff.
  15. Daoist Diet - Meal Suggestions?

    You are missing the large chunks of sashimi in these photos!
  16. Pa Kua - also natural EMF 'protection' ?

    No it does not. However if one practices Pa Kua, then your wei qi fields strengthen and it tends to affect/influence you less .
  17. Pretty awesome post 9th, thank you . Makes me wonder if inadvertently killing a Brahman was common or something, if there were say more than only a couple per area . Any relation at all to Chod practices? I mean aside from them both having the thigh bone trumpet, and other accouterments. I see the article mentions influences back and forth, but I'm curious how far this goes.
  18. From the teachings of various other paths, what I have learned from some Buddhist week-long teachings I have attended, and personal experience... regarding the whole boddicitta thing, I figure it is quite important for many reasons, but perhaps not the only way to get there. To get anywhere decent on the path (any path), one needs to get past the "self" and most especially our concept of "self". Difficult to do this really if the primary motive doesn't include something quite beyond our self. So these brilliant Buddhists came up with the primary motive in all practices, most especially the "advanced" practices (aka the ones more likely to cause troubles if the practitioner is not ready, unbalanced, to attached to self), being for the benefit of all sentient beings. Further, if all beings are essentially considered to be us, or at least connected with us, or inseparable, it brings about far more functionality to work with practices which lead to compassion for all others, instead of the standard viewing everything as us and them or us vs them (a LOT of thinking in this way in society). One teacher (he has HH before his name, so likely knew a thing or two, and the teachings were quite amazing), was talking about how the more we do things for the sake of all beings, the more selfish we are in a way, as we benefit more from it . I feel he meant this on a deeper level than the obvious mundane sense, but he had a point there too. The more we dedicate our merit and make it about us, and send out all the benefit, it sort of comes back to us manyfold. An odd practice at first to a newbie raised in a ME and mine, and giving things away = loss culture, but it does work quite well; nifty. I feel this is because we have taken that whole false concept of self; which just gets in the way for any decent energetic, spiritual, mystical, magical, etc. practice, anyways. As a side benefit, perhaps there is a benefit for all beings, and who doesn't want to see society pull their self centered and limited view heads out of their behinds anyways? I think even the most disgruntled of all practitioners (and boy have I met a few lol) could get behind this one. Well also love and compassion most definitely has its place as well. Again, living in a western society, we are trained quite well to close our heart center, as well as our love and compassion towards others, as well as towards ourselves. Amazingly enough starting with others is often easier for folks. The boddicitta stuff, does definitely help one in these areas. Though one of these amazingly insightful teachers talked of boddicitta being either one of two things, the whole love and compassion stuff, or the whole just being in the place of ones own true nature beyond any of that "self" stuff. Also, people tend to be happier and more fulfilled when they feel as though they are helping others, or society as a whole. Just look at how many folks volunteer, and even volunteer for things which obviously should be paid (for example when large corporations get folks to volunteer to help at events they are making millions from). A few of the teachers talk about how if you can't do such and such level of practice/state of mind/lack of mind, then start/go with love and compassion, at least to start. Disclaimer, these are my newbie interpretations of what these teachers said and were trying to get across. Hopefully I haven't misunderstood, explained wrongly, or gotten their words wrong, but it is entirely possible, and just my lack of understanding of things.
  19. 'Fairy Circles' - patterns in nature

    Nope a standard magic one. Many magical paths/practices work in 9 foot circles .
  20. What are you watching on Youtube?

    Did someone say Bagua?
  21. Daoist Diet - Meal Suggestions?

    C T may have covered this already in his links, but in case not; most Taoist folks I know eat with the seasons. Specific foods to balance out the organs, as well as yin and yang, damp, cool, heat, etc. etc. So a little different each season, but also taking into account where one's own personal excesses and deficiencies are.
  22. 'Fairy Circles' - patterns in nature

    They grow in 9 foot circles... I see .
  23. Daoist Diet - Meal Suggestions?

    I hope they are still edible, if not it takes all the fun out of it, and is a waste of food! This person went all out! I think it would be great fun to carve some Taoist health talismans into one's lunch .
  24. Daoist Diet - Meal Suggestions?

    Those photos are awesome, most especially this one: Makes me want to liven up some meals .