alexandrov Posted March 30, 2010 Also if you rewire your energy body and physical body not to follow natural human/planetary clock of time, and actually go in reverse... This requires so much effort, and probably your mind will get stuck clinging to the physical form. A lot of so called "taoist immortals" who are still living are "stuck" this way. Some say it's worse then being a lay person and do nothing. what exactly do you mean by this? does this involve sleeping in the day and being awake at night? i often stay up all night and sleep in the day and sometimes (mind you very rarely) it can actually make my skin "glow" the next day if i pull it off right (i have not figured out what factors cause this), but most of the time it actually (and predictibly) just makes me look older. And 99% of the time i feel tired and out of it the rest of the day when i wake up regardless of weather i look younger or not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tyler zambori Posted March 30, 2010 what exactly do you mean by this? does this involve sleeping in the day and being awake at night? i often stay up all night and sleep in the day and sometimes (mind you very rarely) it can actually make my skin "glow" the next day if i pull it off right (i have not figured out what factors cause this), but most of the time it actually (and predictibly) just makes me look older. And 99% of the time i feel tired and out of it the rest of the day when i wake up regardless of weather i look younger or not. There's a way around that. What I do when I switch to working the night shift for a show. I sleep a normal night the night before, then get up for a while , then go back to bed from about noon to 10 pm. Then get up. Then I take GABA and melatonin every morning before sleeping. It mitigates a lot of the negative health effects of being up all night. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
exorcist_1699 Posted March 30, 2010 Some ideas : 1) Only Tao can solve the issue of longevity or everlasting life. And, it should not , in fact cannot , be sold . 2) In Western scientific context, it is unlikely to solve this issue, ie, breaking the limitation of human life span beyond 120 years . 3) Only high- quality qi , an expression of Tao in human body , can give us everlasting health and beauty.In most cases, we can only polish and upgrade it among the crowd, not on high mountain or deep forest ; just like we have to practice and polish our swimming skill in water , in danger and hardships, not on the land. 4) There is a clock, whatever you call it , in our body . The speed of it is not fixed , but inversely proportional to the quality of qi we can manipulate . The higher the quality of qi we can initialize , the slower this clock runs. After reaching certain point,we can even stop or reverse the proceeding of this clock . It is in this sense that Taoism always says "life is in our hands, not in the hands of Nature"( 我命在我, 不在天) . (Because a qualitative leap in manipulating qi did happen among ancient Taoist practitioners , we can see that after the times of the Han Dynasty , the passive , submissive attitude towards life in some old Taoist inclinations , which we find in the book ChuangTze , are later replaced by a more positive , nearly omnipotent , attitude towards life ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites