Yes, there are other elemental systems like placing space/ether in the center and earth as part of the other 3. The ether/space element always keeps one in balance as it is Wu Ji in Daoist terms, so they don’t need earth as the center since they use emptiness meditation as their backbone. I like 5 elements, with ether element within…[Read more]

Yes, there are other elemental systems like placing space/ether in the center and earth as part of the other 3. The ether/space element always keeps one in balance as it is Wu Ji in Daoist terms, so they don’t need earth as the center since they use emptiness meditation as their backbone. I like 5 elements, with ether element within…[Read more]

I never said or meant that neutrality negates dual, if that’s what was understood.

I was talking about the 9th consciousness, or Krishna Consciousness, or Christ Consciousness, the achievement of nirvikalpa samadhi, beyond the beyond of the 8th jhana, enlightenment, or realization of immortality, whatever you call it as this…[Read more]

>>Neutrality is not the end result<<

*Is there a level of consciousness higher than the non-dual state of awareness? If no, then neutrality is the end goal.

Fajin

Ya, still here finishing up some last posts.

What’s wrong with extending elbows, keeping them unbent. It is a more flexible movement that way and provides easier circulation of qi across the tendons where hard jins are built.

It is kept consolidated across the whole arm. The elbows should be bent for fajin so as not to tear…[Read more]

>>do you feel you have you reached “THE state of mind that alchemy should bring?” (i.e. “superconsciousness”)?<>how do you know what alchemy can bring if it is an everchanging process, and more concretely, if you have never practiced alchemical formulas?<>On a more practical level, do you feel that your practice produces a…[Read more]

Scientists measured brain waves of Zen monks and some, who have been meditating for 20 or more years, can reach very low delta wave states. These states only occur through deep dreamless sleep or coma, yet the meditator is complelely…[Read more]

You have made a good point. You are basically saying that the vital organ spirits function is manifested through their partner (yang) organ. I agree with this.

So, spleen houses the yi, and stomach carries it out. But why carry it out? Why make the yi move from one place to another?

Daoists have learned alot from the…[Read more]

Remember, the stillness lies within the movement and the…[Read more]

I was supposed to take a break but I’ll reply to any last second replies still.

>>so, in your view, is the yi separate from the xin? it seems that you are separating all the functions of the organs’ consciousness, and that some function here in later heaven, while others are part of the wuji or something?<>If this is the case, then…[Read more]

*That makes the two of us.

At first, the eyes stop…[Read more]

*When people start to get a negative impression of me when I discuss with them, I have a major flaw…[Read more]

I just came here to check the board one last time because I am taking a LONG break from it. So I’ll just reply this one time then I’m a gonner, OK!

A Bodhisattva is a someone who helps sentient beings towards their enlightenment. But I don’t know what a Bodhisattva ordeal is. I never studied at a Japanese Zen school,…[Read more]

*I interpret your question to mean either A. Why he transformed from muscular to slimmer, or B. What were the consequences of doing so. So I will answer both in case.

A. He stopped weight lifting and his muscles became smaller. He used to…[Read more]

Glad you didn’t turn away from the xin vs. yi issue this time.

I think it is safe to assume that Po spirit governs the involuntary functions of the body like blinking and Hun Spirit governs the mind. Yi is yi, something separate. It is yuan shen.

When xin is there, whether divine or not, our yi is not clear, and absorption…[Read more]

Thank you for your apology. I have made a firm decision to depart from the forum, and will do so, not based on emotion. The time I spend here, could rather be used to cultivate which is time better spent.

Fajin

You haven’t chased me from the board, but the general outlook that people have on me is what is chasing me away. I have no need to stay here any longer.

Here’s my response to some things you said:

>>But nobody said this! What was said was that the Buddhist *wording* tends to *imply* such things. In practice I certainly do not…[Read more]

Thank you for the kind reply, but I am considering of going to Taobums, they seem to have a nice forum there for Daoists and others to share their practices and experiences. It’s not so hectic like here. People here just see me as someone who is arrogant, a “know it all”, who velhemently pursues his way as the best way, etc. I’ve had…[Read more]

The main difference is the non-thinking is not grasping to those thoughts. Yes idle thoughts die, not the thinking process. I put that article in there to show some that Zen doesn’t make people’s mind like a rock.

As Dogen says, put your thinking in the palm of you hand. To think about not thinking. This is non-thinking.

Fajin

I agree. Wu Ji holds yin and yang as one. Space element holds other five elements as one. 9th empty force holds other 8. In Buddhism, there is a 9th consciousness. This can be compared to Christ Consciousness or Krishna Consciousness in Hinduism as they call it.

Each chakra stores a part of one’s consciousness and in kundalini…[Read more]

It is nice to hear from you on this topic. What do you think that Nine meant?

Fajin

Thanks for the link, I’ll get this one and Nan’s enlightenment books, great stuff!

Fajin

*I'm with ego but I don't use an alchemist's point of view when I read things anymore. I said Heaing Dao egos. As Bagua said, they isolate and polarize in their discussions, in a sense polarizing further. It is like dissecting a corpse.

They even go so far as to say that the Tao Te Ching is an alchemical…[Read more]

Excellent peice. I still doubt any Healing Dao “egos” will be able to “digest” it though. Just wanted to emphasize one brilliant point you made.

>>So my point is…
…if you want to practice stillness or alchemy, do it. Because you are drawn to it a the moment and that’s all that matters now. The moment.<<

*The moment is all…[Read more]

Thanks,
Fajin

You keep babbling about more free will in the alchemical path because you can create. What is creating? Yi is. But what scatters yi? Xin does. THIS IS WELL KNOWN IN QIGONG AND ALCHEMY CIRCLES. Read any of Jwing Ming Yang’s books and he shows you that xin scatters yi.

When yi is clear and unobstructed by xin, that is TRUE free will,…[Read more]

I am a Wudang Daoist. I use many Buddhist ideas and advocate a variation of sitting in forgetfulness as characterized by the Japanese Soto Zen school in a meditation called shikantaza.

I take what’s effective from Mahayana Buddhism, Raja Yoga, Tibetan Tantra, Japanese Zen, Chinese Ch’an, etc. and put it all together. I think all…[Read more]

>>This is what I find to be dualistic thinking, i.e. a “separate self” vs. false perceptions. Separate self leads to judgements….and judgements become Self-Judgements at the moment of death, when there is no one else to project them onto.<>I am always amused by Buddhist attacks on intellect, and in the same breath their ability to…[Read more]

*This board seems to smash what ancients knew what was being one with the Divine. I just use examples to back that up. They are saying that Daoism is this and this and that. Just read what Daoists of the…[Read more]

*Example: You and a friednd go out hunting. You just watch, your friends shoots an animal. You eat the animal. You can say, oh, I didn't kill the animal, I'm just eating it. It's already dead. Mayeb…[Read more]

*Hiduism is against it too. It's really a simple subject. You…[Read more]

The point is that they recognize the thought frequencies/yi and they react spontaneously to that. Plants react spontaneously too, just like with music making it grow.

Animals have a brain, they are different. I don’t know too much about this subject but killiang an animal and…[Read more]

Let’s go deeper.

>>If the xin is a “false self”, then the “free will” exercised by thid “false” ego must be very powerful indeed to create a reality separate from a True Self that exists apart from it. Where does this False Self draw its Free Will to be “false” from?<>Second question. I would be very interested in seeing any…[Read more]

“Master Ziyang said, ‘Mind is the natural leader: when it is used without artificiality, then what activates it is the basic spirit. This is the alchemical use of mind.’

“So you…[Read more]

Go read “Taoist Meditation” by Cleary and we will see what REAL Daoism is and and it will clearly separate Daoism from Spiritual Bullshit.

In the meantime, here’s a quote from that book in the chapter, “Secret…[Read more]

Emptiness doesn’t mean nothing as in being absent. It implies a functional infinte vacuum. It is omnipresent, and has the potential of all creation in it. Dao is the constant process of change, implying changlessness. In Tao cosmology, Wu Ji is shunyata, the emptiness.

My advice to you is to not have any fixed assumptions like…[Read more]

No need to apologize, it is my pleasure.

>>why does the root produce the blossom?<>is it only so as to dissolve the blossom back into the root?<>even if this is so, then doesn’t it still valorize the process of the blossom bursting forth and returning, as being the true expression of the root?<>is not, then, to put the root…[Read more]