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Hmmm, not steal manning or explaining … perhaps this is even a straw man. Qi is real though. You can feel it. It’s your aliveness. You invent practices to work with and balance the aliveness. From my experience Qigong sequences, greatly change how people feel. From, stress, tightness, negative emotions. After a practice they feel tranquil, calm, relax, clear minded. This shift in the emotions, feelings, awareness, state, etc are real. This shift to a more balanced, calm cool and relaxed state is akin to the overall goal of homeostasis. This is the result that balanced Qi points to. Qi, is felt clearly throughout the body during the practice. It can be tingling, buzzing in the body, especially the hands and feet. It can be what feels like an electrical field, feeling of megnatism around the body. This feeling can appear very real and obvious during practices when you are “feeling your lower tan tian”. Qi can also feel like, a changing of energy. If you are in a high stress, emotional, have lots of physical energy… a more Yin and relaxed practice can help calm and ground you. So, Ralston shows poor character in this video. He straw mans Qigong, makes it out that people are alcoholics, and addicted to Mac Donald’s without Qigong. Which to me is meant to make the person who would like to practice Qigong feel like an idiot. Qigong should first and foremost be experiencially driven. Qigong is indeed a creation. There are aspects of Qigong such as healing sounds, which feel incredible but I do not know their validity in truth. You can do experiments with different Qigong sequences for example Blue Dragon Vs Swimming Dragon, or Three Treasures Vs 5 Elements Vs Qigong for Fatigue vs Qigong for Spinal Health or Qigong for Healthy Joints or Qigong for morning or Qigong for Night time. Each sequence works the body in a different way which is good for mind body healthy and connection. The experience of Qi is felt throughout the practice. Qi is a nuanced term, and I recommend people try the practice to understand the language used. I suspect that Qigong as a science is about to go through a deep modern renaissance. We have things like Yoga including Pranayama, Krya, Kundalini. We have Shamanic breathwork, meditation, Qigong, Wim Hoff…. These techniques have benefits. Are these things Truth? Do these things make you enlightened? By who, or how have you defined enlightenment because that word is used in many different contexts. Peter Ralston and I disagree on Qigong. This is alright. I am not a staunch defender of Qigong. I love the practice and all the things I’m discovering and I love sharing it with people. The stretches, warm ups, meditations, visualizations, breath work, flows, self massage, etc… it’s a great practice which is worth exploring openly.

I am wondering about this conversation. Hmmm, is this wisdom?

@UnbornTao here

Not normally a country fan but I love this song today haha

@Leo Gura Hello, how are you doing? What makes you drop in?

@UnbornTao Life is suffering kidding

I may start doing this 2 days a week starting April. But just me no crew. I think I could make 250-500 a day

hurruhhhh is right

I am seriously considering starting a window cleaning business . If I get a solid sales skill, knocking door to door selling window cleaning for 250 a house, which isn't bad, today it's on sale for 197 because we cut the transportation costs... hehe. You develop the sales skill by doing it. I've watched guys doing it online and have a general idea. I could sell 2-5 houses a day. The start up costs and procurement of tools costs next to nothing to get started. I could get a couple friends and pay them 20 dollars an hour for the day. Or, even make a post somewhere looking for a guy on the weekends. Train him and make sure he knows how to clean the houses properly. I sell each house for 200 a clean Take home the rest. The two guys costs a total of 320.....: 200* 6 = $1200 - 320 = 880. I can take home, not minus maintenance, gas, the price of soap, roughly 880 dollars that day. I think this is an interesting idea. I can start whenever after I finish tree planting. There is even a government program I am looking at to support me build it... hmmm I am considering starting with just me and a friend to clean the windows. He would act as support and motivation. The windows are cleaned that day. I did research and you can do this year round. This could be how I escape wage slavery. I then begin hiring and teaching direct sales people to work as a crew boss for small crews. Pay the bosses a decent fat commission pushes them but still pays me well and I have to do nothing but what I want.

That’s like, your opinion man.

All this post modernism has given two of my favourite songs deeper meaning…

Does a racing madman know a racing madman? Does a rationalist know a raving madman Does a rationalist know a rationalist? Does a raving madman know a rationalist? These are the questions people these are the questions

@Leo Gura this madman has a PHD in post modernism

@Leo Gura only useful for raving madman on the corner

Man, imagine being that self entitled

Ego death is a common occurance in the use of psychedelics and mature users do experience, and handle this situation well.

Terrible Graphic. This is more how Postmodernism looks to premodern and modern thinkers.

It’s appreciated

Just enjoying life my guy Your mind is full of assumptions, concepts, contradictions.