Michael Winn

And I agree that Bagua is too honest and too brilliant not to agree to those realities!

smiling in agreement,
Michael

I have someone collating my transcriptions of it now, and will then do final edit on it. It is such a profound topic, don’t want to publish anything superficial.
michael

Interesting piece, would like to know source of your “word doc”.

>the idea of “Time Contraction”, “Space Contraction”, and “Medicine Contraction” in alchemy is the one of the most important causes that supported the Daoists to poured the metal stone and mineral into the stove to make the pills that make one live long.

I think that event…[Read more]

Thanks (AGAIN!) snowlion for an excellent article, I may post it on my articles page.

I agree with the writer completely as far as he goes – tolerance and multi-religion participation is a workable reality in ordinary cultural life in China, and so can be elsewhere. I support eclecticism as the “let 100 Schools BLossom” approach.

But he does…[Read more]

Fajin,

Please don’t take any of these comments as reflecting on whatever practices you are currently experimenting with. I am merely trying to raise consciousness about the pernicous subtle effects that religious belief can have on development of the Self.

>*Bagua put it nicely. That Buddhists DO deny the false self, not the true self. The…[Read more]

In the West, Buddhism – which is a misisonary religion (Taoism is not) – has spread many techniques through its various branches. But just because modern westerners “shop” amongst Buddhist techniques doesn’t mean that they buy into or even know of its ultimate premise denying the development of the Self or its innate right to exist, even in its…[Read more]

Thanks Fajin,

The passage you’ve posted pretty much sums up my understanding of the foundation of Buddhism, regardless of its many cultural forms, but I wanted it to come from a practicing Buddhist. It confirms that there is a Fifth Denial, the Denial of Selfhood.

Whenever I try to point this out to Bagua, that Buddhism is fundamentally an…[Read more]

Lao Tzu often uses the term “ling” or “soul” to describe the unfolding of the Tao, and also refers specifically to the po soul. So I am not clear as to what you are trying to generalize here.

Immortality does not imply “separation” or “duality” – it is part of the fabric of the Tao. Just as “individualized” phyusical human body-minds are…[Read more]

I met a woman once who claimed to have visited the cities beneath Shasta, also claiming lemurian heritage.
She was most UNimpressive in her presence and spiritual insight.

I am open to accepting that certain human life forms migrated into the earth’s astral during past periods of dramatic change, such as we may be heading into now. Other…[Read more]

It seems you share the same mindset about modern science that Intelligence does: that psychic data has to be identical to sensory data in its method of validation.

If you believe western empirical science, based on sensory measurement is the only ultimate validation of anything, you should stick to it. And use it as your guide in life. I wish…[Read more]

I drive a Toyta Camry with license plates “LAO TZU”.

But my energy body drives whatever vehicle is convenient or suits its imagination. 🙂

I think Wendy’s take is probably close to truth. You might enjoy the Dream Practice tapes.

Meet you inthe dream plane,
Michael

This is just Thomas Cleary using Buddhist mind-terms to translate Taoist alchemy, qhich are usually chi-based in their descriptions using the continuum of jing-chi-shen. Real Knowledge would be jing, “Conscious is shen.
m

Fajin,
Here’s your original post that prompted my reply:

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>Yuan is yin or prenatal. Postnatal is yang. Primordial is Wu Ji, or stillness, the void (macrocosmically), yuan shen (microcosmically). In the microcosmic sense, ie. ourselves, we attempt to return to our primordial nature. That is the final goal of Daoist and Buddhists.…[Read more]

Nice post.

But to clarify my position, I am not taking strict Southern School approach, there are mixtures of the two.

I am just trying to make a point about approaching Tao from PROCESS (of interacting yin-yang-yuan chi fields) point of view vs. STATE OF MIND point of view that focuses on stillness as final and absolute GOAL.

The…[Read more]

Book of Balance and Harmony is one of basic references for those who have completed at least lesser Kan & Li.
But I am not sure any book is worth much time on alchemy until you’ve got some experience of it under your belt.
It may all seem very abstract.

You are quite sophisicated and may be able to mine something from it, but diybtfyk you…[Read more]

WudangAlienAlchemist – love your monniker –

I have been thinking about my recco to you,

and I think that if Fagin is available to teach you, he would probably be the best person to train under.

He is over there now, and you might ask him if he is accepting students and his fee.
I think you will get a better training from him than most…[Read more]

ALL classical Chinese music is essentially Taoist – they invented the genre within China, they highly valued music both practically and cosmologically.
michael

Actually,
Louis K. is among the young generation that has practiced qigong and some meditation, enough to drive him to do a thesis on neidan in complete perfection tradition. But of course they are academics first and foremost, otherwise they would choose to become teachers of the practice rather than school teachers. I am glad someone is…[Read more]

To be honest, I hesitate to comment on a your personal process as I don’t know enough about it.
I suggest you experiment and find out. Just ask your jing shen, or perhaps your original spirit if its communicating with you. They will warn you if its to be disastrous.

Have fun,
Michael