Wu Ming Jen

Yinny the mysterious female has so much to teach us. When yinny and yang reconcile their differences new life burst through, all becomes alive like a beautiful garden full of life and light and dark movements that dance with perpetual motion, this birth is eternal. Yiiny and Lhong live happily ever after in the garden> the changes of the seasons, storms, snow and adverse conditions have no power to make things any different there is life beyond life. A sky above the sky

You know me toooooo well mister. There are no light moves without night moves..... it just happens all on its own. One good thing just follows another with no effort. Well at least the effort is well worth it. Being deathless could also be a pretty dark skill to someone.

Welcome Raindancer, I look forward to your post.You are not alone and did you mention ADVISE! you will find TDB amazing it is like a new mom having a baby everyone will give you advice on how to raise that child. A major advantage here is that you can talk about anything as you will see when your post gets derailed and ends up who knows where. Any way great to have you here with us.

I actually practice lightness skill and I am also able to do this in the dark. The banter in this thread makes me feel light all night long, all night Then there is Gwen say no more nudge nudge I do not know where this all is going but I like it, like it, yes I do, I really like it.

I understand your politically correct statement. My post is not interference per say but a warning like do not stand in the road or look before you cross the street.If someone wants to step into traffic I will pull them to the curb without thought or hesitation. I wish all to be safe and healthy many choices in life can bring harm if we are not careful. We should encourage good choices, on topic is that there are so many legitimate choices of chi gung systems for me to be silent is like letting some one walk into traffic. Sorry not happening all in my opinion which means nothing more then what someone wishes to attach to it.

I love summer Nei gong or nei kung = Chi gung Mo Pai is not an authentic linage. See for yourself the the skill level of more pie practitioners it is extremely low as in obvious beginner skill set. Please be aware that Nei Dan Internal Alchemy is taught only to those who meet the requirements of that practice and are destined to receive this teachings. In times when everyone is trying to sell this knowledge as a product for their own benefit, many advertisements about internal alchemy courses appear on the internet. In fact, the content of those courses usually covers only the longevity and basic Chi gong training erroneously called internal alchemy, and have nothing to do with Taoist internal life and death solving methods. Please be aware that Internal Alchemy preparation and practice cannot be taught within one or two weeks, it requires years of ascetic training under the guidance of an accomplished master.

How cool is that.

Yes limahong you nailed it. Great images BTW, being image-less myself I appreciate it. Well back to the void for now.

Animals are very receptive to energy. I grew up on a farm with a lot of different animals. If one can control their own energy the can control other living things as well. I have seen a demonstration of acupressure points done on a goat that was fascinating I am more familiar with the human anatomy which to my surprise is very much the same.

Yes, the skill is absolutely real an easily attainable but application that is a double edged sword.The application implied by Osho would be disastrous IMO.

Totally agree with that.

light becomes dark and dark becomes light. There is darkness in the light and light in darkness. We can not have light without dark. Scientist have gone out of their way to prove absolute darkness by creating an environment that is unnatural and not able to support life. Protons were still able to penetrate massive thick walls and give off light. The Taoist have already observed how things work in the natural world for over 8000 years. I find it interesting that people think they can change it.

I never dated faith but if she wants to play with my Taoist perspective. ( I am giving faith a role as a woman) A seed of Faith has however been planted. Faith on the method. Faith on the direction. Faith on the possibility to become a better person and refine my character on each step of the way. To cultivate the mood before cultivating the medicine; to cultivate the character before cultivating the good medicine; when the mind is steady, the medicine will come naturally by itself; when the mood and character have been cultivated, good medicine will be in reach."

A chi master as you put it would not be interested to influence, control, impress or dominate someone. Using energy in this way is against the way and has ill effects. There are a lot of actual fighting systems that are very effective with....... eye plucking. It would be funny if Osho originaly wrote this in Braille

Really you could be a little more direct in your approach of simplicity. Maybe add some technical terms and confusion to soften the blow? maybe like nei kung is strictly physical forms were as neidan is formless and includes all movements. you know mystify it a little bit, keep people interested. I meditated and I was Buddhist so I talked like this or I meditated and I was Taoist and I talked like this and then go off on a Arosimth song and sing walk this way, walk this way. Just a suggestion and i am not judging you, just saying

Same here after learning a martial art form my teacher traced a small box on the floor and said now do the form in the box. An amazing thing happens, all movements fire within the body just going through the moves in our mind without moving. Many are familiar with the immortal fetus in Taoist practice. laying the foundation, nurturing, and maturing the formless body.. Keeping the spirit and higher shens inside the physical body is the key. The feeling of completeness arises. all things are done. The spirit normally leaves the body in everyday life this is a problem. the same with attracting lower spirits by not taking care of our physical body causing trouble with our earthly life.

The Illusory BodyThe true Tao is formless, true nature is without body (substance), true law is without comparisons, to not hold onto your physical body is to speak of the Tao, outside of this physical body there is a true body, though normal people take this false body for truth. Greedily covering riches and glory for the sake of this physical body, scheming money and property to support it. Grasping Images The primordial Way gives form to the formless. It is not all this physical body which does work in the world, so where and when does the formless body begin its work? Leaving the body we can no longer discuss the Way. Grasping onto images we neglect truth. The human body is the combination of five illusions. They are externally expressed as eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and mouth and internally as the heart, liver, stomach, lungs, and kidneys. When death comes, they will be reduced to a pile of bones and rotting flesh. If one is too attached to their body during cultivation how can they achieve unity of nature and life? One must know that the body creates much toil in this life. Therefore, to preserve the Golden Elixir of the Way the Taoists cultivate their nature and life, cultivating the inner spirit as well as taking well care of the physical body. Our true spirit, also called dharma body or the yang spirit has no imperfection. Once the Yang spirit is cultivated, one can enter water without drowning, enter fire without burning, endure as long as heaven and earth, and is as illuminated as the sun and moon.

In the USA Vermont on a mountain Lots of snow in the winter. The lr3 is great, it is mostly winter here, mud season lots of dirt roads and off road. We live in a log cabin with 50 acres of land so for that I have a Polaris ranger side by side for my trails and there are hours and hours of trails right from the house. The lr3 has traction control and 4 wheel lockers, air suspension that can raise and lower as well as water tight for river crossings.Our driveway is steep, in winter mode it will not spin the tires. the traction control goes back and fourth to each tire when one slips. The first time up with this vehicle with 12" of snow it basically slow crawled up the driveway, pushing the gas pedal made no difference. if any other car lost momentum it would be stuck. two wheel drive cars forget it no one has made it past the mail box. Then there is plowing for that my dodge power wagon 2006 does the job the lockers have gotten me out of trouble more than once and I always chain up with very aggressive ice chains, oh yea lots of ice last year..

Many French women say "I hold my liqueur.......By the ears"

This might work for Starjumper. I have a land rover lr3 for my extreme driveway, not as extreme as his so the defender might be a better fit.

It happened at a time of transition in my life. I made a decision that did not make sense to others which created a lot of stress and uncertainty. The dragons literally flew away with this negative energy then I could see that I was on the right path and that I had made the right decision. The dragons also signify to me the influence my energetic body has with people around me. My energy positive or negative can leave my body and travel great distances, apparently I was not aware of this at the time.

Did someone mention Dragons? I have a connection as well and Steve most awesome star jumper they were two black dragons leaving my body left and right, how weird is that. In 1999, the Immortal Master Liu Li Han returned to Wudang and transmitted his knowledge inside the Daoist gate at the Wudang Mountain’s Heavenly Horse Peak (nowadays the Five Immortals Temple, White Horse Mountain). Daoist Arts such as longevity, healing, way of the elixir (inner alchemy), and other were transmitted from the Five Dragons Temple in the Wudang Mountains, therefore the two words « Five Dragons » were added to their names. The representative characteristics of the kung fu forms transmitted by the Immortal Master are: – fist : « Five Dragons Patriarch Lü’s Bagua Zhang (Eight Trigrams Palm)» – sword : « Five Dragons Patriarch Lü’s Seven Stars Sword » – gong : « Five Dragons Pure Yang Body Protection Skill » – longevity : « Five Dragons Skill to Expel Diseases and Prolong Life» and various other methods transmitted one-to-one secretly.

Hi LimA, I would like to respond . Like maybe this way...... Internal Kung Fu uses internal practices to strengthen one’s energetic field and one’s internal “True Qi”. Its principle objective is emptiness, agility, roundness and softness. Wudang is its orthodox and traditional school. It contains profound traditions and philosophies of the Chinese culture. Its doctrine is centered on the blending of ancient Chinese concepts such as Yin-Yang, the Five Elemental Phases, the Book of Changes, the eight trigrams and naturalness with the fist principles and skills, the theories of gong-skill, actual combat and military tactics. The history furthermore places importance on the concept of the universe as a whole, as a holistic body. It moreover regards the concept of the unification of Heaven and Human through great kindness of the Dao and the sublimation of the ten thousand things as its principal purpose. The notion of “the Dao following the natural way” is considered its source. It applies methods to combine movement and stillness, to cultivate both the internal and the external, to unite opposites. Wudang Kung Fu regards the ’Dao’ as its root leading to the specific practicing methods for fist skills. All theories of course must accord with the Dao‘s orbit, its circular movements, its transformations and circulations.

'sublunary desires' just meaning earthly desires in English. Chan is very infused with Taoism Travailing to japan it became known as Zen. Void is an important teaching. The void also contains.....Cranial Nerves, elephants, some dancing and also dream state stuff that are empty of meaning. What we attach ourselves to becomes full of even more meaning and stuff, it is amazing.

The Practitioner: Buddhist meditation seeks to intentionally ‘empty' (空) the body of sublunary desires to end their suffering. Daoist meditation should be 'void’ (无) where you are not purposefully ridding your mind of thoughts and where you are not purposefully filling your mind of thoughts. Only that when during meditation, let the thoughts come and go as they please. You do not interfere with the natural order of how things are. For example, a tree grows naturally on the side of the road. An action of Void (无), or WuWei, would be to allow the tree to grow. The Master: Emptiness (空) is Nothing. Void (无) is Everything and Nothing. One can only speak of the Void, when one knows that there is something- a sort of reference. Thus, Void (无) is Everything. “Not Nothing has Everything (无无生有)” literally means that. From Nothing, there is something. Emptiness that is empty is not true emptiness