Nnonnth

Dude stop using the word ‘taoists’ anyone can do it.

I answered your question already. It’s a question of free will. You could start by defining ‘evil’ but please don’t involve me in this discussion!

NN

… even I can do it a little – certainly Buddhists can, it’s not hard or a sectarian thing.

Why not eliminate evil leaders? Because humans have free will. See ‘Time Bandits’ for a deeper explanation.

NN

And don’t forget what happened to Michael when all the wood in his house suddenly cracked.

Come to think of it there’s a story about Freud and Jung arguing, and Jung said – ok, to prove everything is connected, I will say that your staircase is about to creak. And it did. But Freud found a way to dismiss it. Something like that.

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Try ’em all! NN

… because they respond to sound via the ears, because the caps control adrenaline, and because their energy is sexual. Don’t know if this is right! But do you feel them pulse at all when it happens? NN

I have a great book called ‘Opening The Dragon Gate’ – a super read on Taoism, about a modern-day Taoist’s training.

In that book some Taoists were travelling across China during the famine that accompanied Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward’. They came across a village suffering an outbreak of cholera.

They took the sufferers into a space and the…[Read more]

Now at least in my own mind I understand what the hell everyone is talking about. I still say there is fundamentally no real disagreement here, and I say that because I appear to agree with everybody!

As for the questions that remain – wuji vs. primordial, yuan as prenatal, etc. etc., – well we will all find out the truth sooner or later, so I…[Read more]

I am content again. A true zen master would have been content all along, hahahaha! NN

I want to say exactly what *I* mean – even, just for myself! Then you can call me anything you like and tell me I am following a false prophet and rejecting the true immortals if you want! – but don’t worry, because things are not so bad as that.

So firstly, I asked the question about the myriad things, or the 10,000 things. I ask this because…[Read more]

… if anyone is prepared to discuss.

I still think this is an argument about language primarily, for example, when you say this:

>>*Sitting in Chan fashion helps one to understand that their true self is a “non-doer”. That spirit is neutrality that governs vitality (jing) and energy (qi) as Lu Dong Bin says. Master Zhiyang, Zhang, Sanfeng,…[Read more]

>>The three are inseparable.<>Your process denies my natural.<>The model I just explained is the mechanics of Lessor Kan And Li, which is just tapping into what alredy exists.<<

I'm sure you're correct.

NN

My answers would be:

>>Where is Yang generated?<>If you have no Yin, can you have Yang or Yuan?<>If the log is low, can there be much fire?<<

The flame of yang does NOT burn on a log of yin! Yin and Yang are always *equal* partners which is why there is yuan!

I know why you are saying this – you think physical manifestation 'depends on'…[Read more]

>>One wonders why there are not the same horde of Daoist alchemists claiming that Chan is the same as alchemy… Of course there is anunderlying fundamental Oneness – bu the Devil is in the Details<<

As far as that quote that delighted Fajin so much – Shang-yang-tzu saying that "The Way of Bodhidharma is identical to the Way of alchemy" -…[Read more]

Michael, I have to say that everything you are saying there agrees with the best information I have from the well-realized people I have known. Like you the best of them simply stated things as a fact with no mystification. NN

>>Definately not ignoramus-like!<<

That is because Shang-yant-tzu said it not me! NN

A disciple asked Shang-yang-tzu, “It is certainly true that ‘there are not two Ways in the world.’ The Way of Lao-tzu is the Way of alchemy, the Way of alchemy is the Way of essence and life. But what Bodhidharma brought from India is ‘directly pointing to the human mind for perception of its essence and attainment of buddhahood.’ Is this…[Read more]