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“For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”
Jesus

“A sage lives long who does not care to live long.”
Laozi

Longevity to Immortality
If one could do this it would be a very high-level approach. But as the above teachers are indicating, perhaps a complete commitment to your own…[Read more]

In Indian spirituality there is no tan tien. Why ?
Why is because the goal there is to illuminate the centres of the head, the “awareness” aspect of the soul. That is why in India the spiritual paintings have halos around the head and 3rd eye. Same with Christianity.

In taoism it is all about tan tien. Why ?
Why is because the goal is…[Read more]

In Advaita and Zen the goal is to wake the aspirant up from the beginning so he can see reality for himself. There is minimal tuition. Mind-to-mind, meaning the feeling of the correct awakened state (the state of the soul) is shared with the aspirant so that he can continue it.

With HT it is different : a number of courses are offered each…[Read more]

Ribosome777 your questions and observations are correct and critically important.

If you want to die in possession of the answers you must not waste time.

It’s amazing you talk about being grounded and Saturn in the same post. It’s like many of the things that you and others here talk about, you know all that Annunaki, Nimbu, 2012, Mayan prophecy, bla bla bla bla

Truly does this not come from the same fountain of groundedness that is the airheads of California ?

What on Earth has this got to…[Read more]

And Steven, do you think Qigong is Lao-tzu’s teaching, given his quotes about being useless?

Isn’t the sense of being useless quite different from having powerful energy ?

And what do you think of Ramana Maharshi’s sense of just being ?

And when you go hiking, do you not sometimes see the destination from a lower level and find it helps…[Read more]

Yes, well I think it is a good approach, don’t over-reach I didn’t say Qigong shouldn’t be practiced. It seems anything said is met with that kind of defensiveness. That’s just the ego.

I am offering a view. Nothng more nothing less.

You can indeed follow “teachings”. And then you go to a workshop, see a teacher, and you do what they do.…[Read more]

Some would say that your view is also cynical, many think that it will just continue fine.

On the news yesterday was that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish in 30 years. And how many people are dying of cancer this week ? David Bowie, his drummer, Alan Rickman. It is accelerating.

My only interest is to do what is necessary…[Read more]

I have a lot of experience of Western alchemy, I ran a group for a year, but you are right, not much of Eastern.

The issue I address to you is that in your statements you do not question who or what you are.

And if you are mistaken about your assumptions about your identity then everything you do will be mistaken.

That is the advantage of…[Read more]

Before I answer, I would like to ask you how many years you have been practising, specifically what you have been doing, what have you changed, what have you experienced, who you have followed. Then I can give a specific answer.

If you send energy to the heart, for instance, you can feel energy in the centre of your chest, in that dantien.

But … that is not the same thing as being the Divine Love.

For Divine Love to flower in the centre dantien it is not simply a question of energy being there … YOU have to become that energy and this requires a total change…[Read more]

If you energy is used up by mechanical thoughts in your head, that is not “focussing on the upper dantien”. It is simply happening mechanically by itself, and most people are subject to it throughout their lives. Their mechanical thinking process does not occur through focussing on the upper dantien it happens by itself. Most humans are unaware…[Read more]

More important than any of that is to feel.

If you can feel then you can follow the feeling, if you can feel the Earth and it’s energy you can follow it, feel it enter you and so on. And if not why are you doing it ?

Even if you have live instruction, the benefit of that is to watch someone who is feeling the energy, and inspires you to…[Read more]

Speaking as an outsider who knows nothing …

When you say “meditate”, what exactly are you doing ? And when you say the upper gets nourished what exactly are you experiencing ?

What are the functions of the 3 dantien in the human existence ? Are they all the same ?

No, they are not.

The heart is quite different from the head and…[Read more]

I read your comments slowly because I appreciated them. I see how you are exploring life and reflecting on it, and learning.

On one level there is the teaching and learning of Qigong, of human relationships, and other references points in our outer reality. We engage with them, moving from one to another, making choices, adjustments, the…[Read more]

Something has to be renounced.

This whole f-ing so-called-world that the Western people are making is basically ego on steroids. It is utterly meaningless. The bombing, the f-ing plastic celebrities, the shit medicine and the shit food, the shit ideas, the shit relationships and shit sex.

Really, it’s time to sever our connection to this…[Read more]

I recognize that it would take several hours sitting together to really communicate these ideas. This forum is extremely limited. It takes a long time for ideas to really be transferred.

“Enlightenment in the Taoist tradition starts from the head, and then TRIES to move down. It shines its light down, but is the frequency of the light able…[Read more]

It is interesting that you talk of shortcuts, use the word, because I did not use it. It seems new information or understanding is met with incredulity.

I made a number of specific points, with the reasoning leading to them. I think they are water-tight. And they are all based on years of practical experience, study, and searching. I am not…[Read more]

“Talk is cheap” : yes, but mankind often uses this to launch himself into an endless fury of activity.

What I am suggesting is that we carefully consider the situation. Laozi’s words should give us pause as they seem to suggest allowing the river to flow in its natural way.

What you say about “what’s the point of just feeling this shit”,…[Read more]