How to Have Morning Sex - Best Time to Have Sex: "If you're not engaging in morning sex on the regular then you are seriously missing out. Why? Turns out women might be hardwired to want it then."
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Monday, November 30, 2015
For A Good Marriage, Have Sex Even If You Aren't In The Mood | YourTango
For A Good Marriage, Have Sex Even If You Aren't In The Mood | YourTango: "Ladies, I hear you. Please take a moment to calmly breathe, take another sip of your coffee/wine and read on before you congregate on my front lawn with picketing signs.
I recently wrote an article, 5 Mistakes I Make as a Wife (And You Probably Do, Too), and one of my faults is not making time for my husband in the sexual department. I received many positive comments and emails regarding the article, but it made some women incredibly angry that I had the audacity to insinuate that a woman should put her husband's desires before her own.
Because, apparently, selfishness is a horrible thing unless we are talking about sex.
Sex isn't solely about you, woman. Let that sink in. If you have a good man (as I do) who values, loves, respects and honors you in every way, then there is absolutely nothing wrong in giving him what only you can offer—even if you'd rather sleep, watch television, pin recipes or play Candy Crush.
Simply, it's called putting other's needs before your own, and yes, I use the term "needs" because that's exactly what they are.
Sex is a real physical need for men that women just don't have.
It's not my opinion. It's science.
Women do not have a biological drive for sex. We want sex based on hormones that fluctuate due to our reproductive cycle, our emotions and the hypothalamus in our delicate female brains. We just don't need sex in the same way that our men require it.
This doesn't mean we are completely lacking a libido or that sex isn't a wonderful and mandatory part of our lives. It simply means that we don’t have as much testosterone as men (but just enough to trigger the growth of that chin hair).
I didn't fully understand this until I heard the following comparison:
When I was breastfeeding, I felt annoying pain and discomfort when the milk built up. I had to release it before I turned into the Hulk and went on a rampage. This need for release is quite similar to the need that a man feels when he is chocked full of semen. With sex, we don't have a buildup that demands release. Men certainly do.
Again, it's not just some crazy submissive opinion. It's science."
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I recently wrote an article, 5 Mistakes I Make as a Wife (And You Probably Do, Too), and one of my faults is not making time for my husband in the sexual department. I received many positive comments and emails regarding the article, but it made some women incredibly angry that I had the audacity to insinuate that a woman should put her husband's desires before her own.
Because, apparently, selfishness is a horrible thing unless we are talking about sex.
Sex isn't solely about you, woman. Let that sink in. If you have a good man (as I do) who values, loves, respects and honors you in every way, then there is absolutely nothing wrong in giving him what only you can offer—even if you'd rather sleep, watch television, pin recipes or play Candy Crush.
Simply, it's called putting other's needs before your own, and yes, I use the term "needs" because that's exactly what they are.
Sex is a real physical need for men that women just don't have.
It's not my opinion. It's science.
Women do not have a biological drive for sex. We want sex based on hormones that fluctuate due to our reproductive cycle, our emotions and the hypothalamus in our delicate female brains. We just don't need sex in the same way that our men require it.
This doesn't mean we are completely lacking a libido or that sex isn't a wonderful and mandatory part of our lives. It simply means that we don’t have as much testosterone as men (but just enough to trigger the growth of that chin hair).
I didn't fully understand this until I heard the following comparison:
When I was breastfeeding, I felt annoying pain and discomfort when the milk built up. I had to release it before I turned into the Hulk and went on a rampage. This need for release is quite similar to the need that a man feels when he is chocked full of semen. With sex, we don't have a buildup that demands release. Men certainly do.
Again, it's not just some crazy submissive opinion. It's science."
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
After Planned Parenthood Attack, No Calls to Close Churches or Register Evangelicals - World News - Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News Source
After Planned Parenthood Attack, No Calls to Close Churches or Register Evangelicals - World News - Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News Source: "And even though 26 Americans have been killed since 9/11 in terror incidents linked to Muslims in America, 48 have died at the hands of right-wing terrorists: The FBI consistently warns that home-grown right-wing terror is a danger no less clear and present than jihad-inspired assaults. And never mind the horrendous statistics of gun-related violence that consistently shock the world, including the fact that since 1968, more people have been killed by guns in the U.S. than those who have died in all of its wars combined."
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Watch | How Russia’s crackdown on Muslims gives IS new recruits | world | videos | Hindustan Times
Watch | How Russia’s crackdown on Muslims gives IS new recruits | world | videos | Hindustan Times: "Two decades of Russia’s war on Islamic insurgency in Dagestan has given rise to a culture of violence and police profiling that has pushed conservative religious groups to the margins of society and into the jaws of the IS. (AP)"
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Salman on religious intolerance: My mom is Sushila, my dad is Salim | bollywood | Hindustan Times
Salman on religious intolerance: My mom is Sushila, my dad is Salim | bollywood | Hindustan Times: "The 49-year-old actor, steering clear of making a direct comment on the issue, said, “This is a wrong forum for that... We are here to promote Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. But I will answer your question. My mother is Sushila Charak, my father is Salim Khan.”"
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Anupam Kher supports Shah Rukh, asks BJP leaders to stop talking rubbish | bollywood | Hindustan Times
Anupam Kher supports Shah Rukh, asks BJP leaders to stop talking rubbish | bollywood | Hindustan Times: "Actor Anupam Kher was among a host of Bollywood celebrities who came out in support of Shah Rukh Khan after he was compared to Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yogi Adityanath. Kher, who has earlier criticised the decision of filmmakers returning their awards to protest rising intolerance in the country, is due to lead a ‘tolerance march’ in Delhi on November 7.
However, he supported Khan who had also commented on “the climate of intolerance” on the occasion of his 50th birthday on Monday. The actor said there was “nothing worse than religious intolerance and that it would take India to the Dark Ages”.
Kher blasted the controversial statements made by some of the BJP leaders against Shah Rukh. “Some members of the BJP really need to control their tongue & stop talking rubbish about @iamsrk. He is a national icon & We r PROUD of him,” he tweeted."
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However, he supported Khan who had also commented on “the climate of intolerance” on the occasion of his 50th birthday on Monday. The actor said there was “nothing worse than religious intolerance and that it would take India to the Dark Ages”.
Kher blasted the controversial statements made by some of the BJP leaders against Shah Rukh. “Some members of the BJP really need to control their tongue & stop talking rubbish about @iamsrk. He is a national icon & We r PROUD of him,” he tweeted."
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Anupam Kher questions Aamir Khan's statement on 'intolerance' - The Times of India
Anupam Kher questions Aamir Khan's statement on 'intolerance' - The Times of India: "Aamir Khan had joined the debate over rising intolerance in India, saying that his wife Kiran Rao had asked if they should move out of the country as she feared for the safety of their children in a climate of insecurity. In a series of tweets addressed to Aamir, Anupam Kher expressed what he thought about Aamir's statement. He also questioned Aamir as to when had Incredible India turned Intolerant India for him."
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Aamir intolerance row: Om Puri demands apology - The Times of India
Aamir intolerance row: Om Puri demands apology - The Times of India: "65-year-old Puri also said that such remarks could incite people against each other. "He(Aamir) should apologise to the nation for what he said. In fact, if somebody was an ordinary man he would have been arrested for saying these words. You are trying to incite people against each other," Puri told a TV channel."
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What the backlash against Bollywood's Aamir Khan tells us about India - BBC News
What the backlash against Bollywood's Aamir Khan tells us about India - BBC News: "The bitter backlash against Bollywood star Amir Khan's remarks about "growing intolerance" in India tells us a few things about the world's largest democracy.
At a journalism awards ceremony, Khan said there was a growing sense of fear, insecurity and despondency in the country, and that when he discussed things with his filmmaker wife, Kiran Rao, she wondered whether the family should move out of India.
"It is disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make to me. She fears for her child, what the atmosphere around us will be, she feels scared to open the newspaper every day. There is a growing sense of disquiet, and despondency. You feel depressed, you feel low. Why is this happening?" Khan said.
Many believe Khan was spot on. In drawing-rooms in recent months, friends and acquaintances have told me that they worry about India - the dull economy, shambolic criminal-justice system, unchecked corruption, the fussing about non-issues, and now the acts of intolerance and the coarse and polarised levels of debate - and they would prefer their children to leave. There is a sense that the immense hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had offered before sweeping to power last year is fast slipping away.
Many high-profile writers and artists have raised concerns about what they feel is rising religious and cultural intolerance - rationalists have been killed and a Muslim man lynched over suspicions he consumed beef.
Not imploding
To be true, India is certainly not imploding with religious violence. But the protests against intolerance by artists and writers appear not to be so much a reaction to the scale of incidents, but a creeping anxiety over whether the highest levels of the government, including Mr Modi, seriously want to condemn or put their imprimatur behind them.
To make matters worse, Mr Modi and his senior ministers have not been quick enough to speak out against the incidents and hate speech, and when they have eventually done so, they have sounded scripted and remote. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, for example, famously said that the lynching of the Muslim man would actually hurt India's image and "amount to policy diversions".
But the fierce public and social media backlash against Aamir Khan by the ruling BJP and supporters of Mr Modi possibly holds up a mirror to hardened positions in today's India."
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At a journalism awards ceremony, Khan said there was a growing sense of fear, insecurity and despondency in the country, and that when he discussed things with his filmmaker wife, Kiran Rao, she wondered whether the family should move out of India.
"It is disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make to me. She fears for her child, what the atmosphere around us will be, she feels scared to open the newspaper every day. There is a growing sense of disquiet, and despondency. You feel depressed, you feel low. Why is this happening?" Khan said.
Many believe Khan was spot on. In drawing-rooms in recent months, friends and acquaintances have told me that they worry about India - the dull economy, shambolic criminal-justice system, unchecked corruption, the fussing about non-issues, and now the acts of intolerance and the coarse and polarised levels of debate - and they would prefer their children to leave. There is a sense that the immense hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had offered before sweeping to power last year is fast slipping away.
Many high-profile writers and artists have raised concerns about what they feel is rising religious and cultural intolerance - rationalists have been killed and a Muslim man lynched over suspicions he consumed beef.
Not imploding
To be true, India is certainly not imploding with religious violence. But the protests against intolerance by artists and writers appear not to be so much a reaction to the scale of incidents, but a creeping anxiety over whether the highest levels of the government, including Mr Modi, seriously want to condemn or put their imprimatur behind them.
To make matters worse, Mr Modi and his senior ministers have not been quick enough to speak out against the incidents and hate speech, and when they have eventually done so, they have sounded scripted and remote. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, for example, famously said that the lynching of the Muslim man would actually hurt India's image and "amount to policy diversions".
But the fierce public and social media backlash against Aamir Khan by the ruling BJP and supporters of Mr Modi possibly holds up a mirror to hardened positions in today's India."
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Saturday, November 21, 2015
Pork or nothing: how school dinners are dividing France | World news | The Guardian
Pork or nothing: how school dinners are dividing France | World news | The Guardian: "Aïcha Tabbakhe, a French nurse, went to fill out the forms for her children’s school dinners in her small town outside Paris, she was puzzled. The box she would usually tick to say that her Muslim children didn’t eat pork wasn’t there. “Confused, I called the town hall and I was bluntly told: ‘From now on, that’s the way it is,’” she said. “Pork or nothing.”
After years of French controversies over headscarves, pork has become the new battleground in the nation’s uneasy debate over national identity and the place of Islam. Bacon and sausage school dinners are being used by rightwing politicians to hammer home what it means to be French. Court battles and vicious political spats have erupted as protesters warn that controversial menu changes are sending a message to Muslim or Jewish children that to be truly French, they must eat roast pork. Politicians, as they go to war over the ham on school dinner plates, are fighting about the true meaning of French secularism and whether it has been hijacked and twisted by the right in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks.
Tabbakhe’s home town of Chilly-Mazarin – a town of about 20,000 people in L’Essonne, which nudges up against Orly airport to the south of Paris – is the latest of several run by rightwing mayors to announce they will scrap pork-free options in school canteens in the name of secularism. For 30 years, Chilly-Mazarin has provided non-pork alternatives to Muslim and Jewish children. But from November, that will stop. On days when the menu features dishes such as roast pork with mustard and courgette gratin, or Strasbourg sausage and organic lentils, or ham pasta bake, children whose families don’t eat pork for religious reasons will be offered nothing but the side dishes. The new mayor, Jean-Paul Beneytou, from Nicolas Sarkozy’s rightwing Les Républicains party, says this is a commonsense way to preserve public sector “neutrality”. But many parents, teachers and leftwing opposition politicians call it a deliberate stigmatisation of Islam that is cruel to children by playing politics with school lunches."
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After years of French controversies over headscarves, pork has become the new battleground in the nation’s uneasy debate over national identity and the place of Islam. Bacon and sausage school dinners are being used by rightwing politicians to hammer home what it means to be French. Court battles and vicious political spats have erupted as protesters warn that controversial menu changes are sending a message to Muslim or Jewish children that to be truly French, they must eat roast pork. Politicians, as they go to war over the ham on school dinner plates, are fighting about the true meaning of French secularism and whether it has been hijacked and twisted by the right in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks.
Tabbakhe’s home town of Chilly-Mazarin – a town of about 20,000 people in L’Essonne, which nudges up against Orly airport to the south of Paris – is the latest of several run by rightwing mayors to announce they will scrap pork-free options in school canteens in the name of secularism. For 30 years, Chilly-Mazarin has provided non-pork alternatives to Muslim and Jewish children. But from November, that will stop. On days when the menu features dishes such as roast pork with mustard and courgette gratin, or Strasbourg sausage and organic lentils, or ham pasta bake, children whose families don’t eat pork for religious reasons will be offered nothing but the side dishes. The new mayor, Jean-Paul Beneytou, from Nicolas Sarkozy’s rightwing Les Républicains party, says this is a commonsense way to preserve public sector “neutrality”. But many parents, teachers and leftwing opposition politicians call it a deliberate stigmatisation of Islam that is cruel to children by playing politics with school lunches."
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Friday, November 20, 2015
95% of beef traders are Hindus, says former chief justice of Delhi high court - The Times of India
95% of beef traders are Hindus, says former chief justice of Delhi high court - The Times of India: "Scholars and delegates from India, Canada, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and other countries were present at the conference to discuss world security and radical Islam.
Justice Sachar, who was sharing the stage with many prominent Muslim scholars on the last day of the conference held at RC Degree College in Mathura, said that among all the beef traders in India, 95% are from the Hindu community.
"Almost 95% beef traders are Hindus. Still, a man was lynched in Dadri because he ate beef. This is the death of mankind and humanity. Eating habits have nothing to do with religion. Even I can eat beef," he said. "
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Justice Sachar, who was sharing the stage with many prominent Muslim scholars on the last day of the conference held at RC Degree College in Mathura, said that among all the beef traders in India, 95% are from the Hindu community.
"Almost 95% beef traders are Hindus. Still, a man was lynched in Dadri because he ate beef. This is the death of mankind and humanity. Eating habits have nothing to do with religion. Even I can eat beef," he said. "
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A Woman’s Body May Incorporate DNA From The Semen Of Casual Sex Partners
A Woman’s Body May Incorporate DNA From The Semen Of Casual Sex Partners: "Compelling new scientific research has shown that female insects and mammals are able to absorb foreign DNA throughout the cells of their bodies. In human beings, this phenomenon has been conclusively shown to occur in women during pregnancy where genetic material from her growing fetus becomes fused within areas of her brain, affecting her chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
The evidence now shows that female animals can incorporate sperm DNA from her prior sex partners. This foreign DNA winds up in future children after the woman successfully reproduces with a completely different male. In the human world, this means that the children a man has with a promiscuous woman could possess genes from previous sexual partners he has never seen or met.
There are existing sociological studies that show a marriage is far more likely to fail when a woman had more than two prior sexual partners (1, 2, 3, 4), but now renewed support for the once-questionable field of telegony is showing that there are also genetic reasons not to start a family with a promiscuous woman: children you have with her may have their gene pool polluted by her random affairs and one-night stands."
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The evidence now shows that female animals can incorporate sperm DNA from her prior sex partners. This foreign DNA winds up in future children after the woman successfully reproduces with a completely different male. In the human world, this means that the children a man has with a promiscuous woman could possess genes from previous sexual partners he has never seen or met.
There are existing sociological studies that show a marriage is far more likely to fail when a woman had more than two prior sexual partners (1, 2, 3, 4), but now renewed support for the once-questionable field of telegony is showing that there are also genetic reasons not to start a family with a promiscuous woman: children you have with her may have their gene pool polluted by her random affairs and one-night stands."
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
Study finds more Mexicans leaving the US than coming - Yahoo Finance
Study finds more Mexicans leaving the US than coming - Yahoo Finance: "SAN DIEGO (AP) — More Mexicans are leaving than moving into the United States, reversing the flow of a half-century of mass migration, according to a study published Thursday.
The Pew Research Center found that slightly more than 1 million Mexicans and their families, including American-born children, left the U.S. for Mexico from 2009 to 2014. During the same five years, 870,000 Mexicans came to the U.S., resulting in a net flow to Mexico of 140,000.
The desire to reunite families is the main reason more Mexicans are moving south than north, Pew found. The sluggish U.S. economic recovery and tougher border enforcement are other key factors.
The era of mass migration from Mexico is "at an end," declared Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew's director of Hispanic research.
The finding follows a Pew study in 2012 that found net migration between the two countries was near zero, so this represents a turning point in one of the largest mass migrations in U.S. history. More than 16 million Mexicans moved to the United States from 1965 to 2015, more than from any other country.
"This is something that we've seen coming," Lopez said. "It's been almost 10 years that migration from Mexico has really slowed down.""
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The Pew Research Center found that slightly more than 1 million Mexicans and their families, including American-born children, left the U.S. for Mexico from 2009 to 2014. During the same five years, 870,000 Mexicans came to the U.S., resulting in a net flow to Mexico of 140,000.
The desire to reunite families is the main reason more Mexicans are moving south than north, Pew found. The sluggish U.S. economic recovery and tougher border enforcement are other key factors.
The era of mass migration from Mexico is "at an end," declared Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew's director of Hispanic research.
The finding follows a Pew study in 2012 that found net migration between the two countries was near zero, so this represents a turning point in one of the largest mass migrations in U.S. history. More than 16 million Mexicans moved to the United States from 1965 to 2015, more than from any other country.
"This is something that we've seen coming," Lopez said. "It's been almost 10 years that migration from Mexico has really slowed down.""
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Friday, November 13, 2015
Jamaat defends ties with RSS - The Times of India
Jamaat defends ties with RSS - The Times of India: "Guwahati: Amid criticism by Congress and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the Jamaat-e-Ulema Hind on Friday said there was nothing wrong in having ties with RSS.
Recently, both the ruling Congress and AIUDF had alleged that Jamaat was propagating RSS ideology in Assam. While Congress minister Siddique Ahmed had said RSS was using Jamaat to make inroads in the Muslim community, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal had charged the Muslim organization of working to ensure political benefits for BJP ahead of the 2016 assembly election.
State working president of Jamaat, Abdul Jalil Khan, said, "We are working in close partnership with RSS. We are for Hindu-Muslim unity. There is nothing wrong it."
The Jamaat, in association with RSS-affiliate Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), is working to bring Assam's Muslims closer to the saffron organization. National president of the organization Suhaib Qasmi had last month said the objective of his organization was to dispel mistrust about RSS among Muslims.
Qasmi will hold a series of meetings in the Muslim-dominated districts of lower Assam from November 26 during a five-day tour of the state. The Jamaat has also called a public meeting here in January next year. It said Muslim leaders from different parts of the state will take part in the meeting to convey that RSS and BJP are not antagonistic to the community's interests.
The Jamaat had worked closely with MRM in wooing Muslim voters of Jammu & Kashmir ahead of the assembly election there earlier this year."
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Recently, both the ruling Congress and AIUDF had alleged that Jamaat was propagating RSS ideology in Assam. While Congress minister Siddique Ahmed had said RSS was using Jamaat to make inroads in the Muslim community, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal had charged the Muslim organization of working to ensure political benefits for BJP ahead of the 2016 assembly election.
State working president of Jamaat, Abdul Jalil Khan, said, "We are working in close partnership with RSS. We are for Hindu-Muslim unity. There is nothing wrong it."
The Jamaat, in association with RSS-affiliate Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), is working to bring Assam's Muslims closer to the saffron organization. National president of the organization Suhaib Qasmi had last month said the objective of his organization was to dispel mistrust about RSS among Muslims.
Qasmi will hold a series of meetings in the Muslim-dominated districts of lower Assam from November 26 during a five-day tour of the state. The Jamaat has also called a public meeting here in January next year. It said Muslim leaders from different parts of the state will take part in the meeting to convey that RSS and BJP are not antagonistic to the community's interests.
The Jamaat had worked closely with MRM in wooing Muslim voters of Jammu & Kashmir ahead of the assembly election there earlier this year."
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China wants to steal gold-market ‘reins’ from New York, London - MarketWatch
China wants to steal gold-market ‘reins’ from New York, London - MarketWatch: "China has been making it very clear that it wants more control over the global gold market, but it’ll have to go through New York and London first.
“Given that China is the epicenter of the physical gold market, it does make sense that the Chinese government would want its physical Shanghai gold market to supplant the Comex derivative market (and others) as the primary global price-setting mechanism,” said Anthem Blanchard, chief executive officer of online precious-metal retailer Anthem Vault.
China is, after all, the world’s largest producer and one of the biggest buyers of the metal, often running neck and neck with India as the globe’s top consumer."
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“Given that China is the epicenter of the physical gold market, it does make sense that the Chinese government would want its physical Shanghai gold market to supplant the Comex derivative market (and others) as the primary global price-setting mechanism,” said Anthem Blanchard, chief executive officer of online precious-metal retailer Anthem Vault.
China is, after all, the world’s largest producer and one of the biggest buyers of the metal, often running neck and neck with India as the globe’s top consumer."
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Young women are living with Mom and Dad as if it's 1940 - LA Times
Young women are living with Mom and Dad as if it's 1940 - LA Times: "Another factor in the change, Fry says, is increased ethnic diversity across this age demographic, which in turn has introduced cultural traditions of living with parents and relatives longer into life."
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Gold coin sales haven't been this high since the financial crisis - Yahoo Finance
Gold coin sales haven't been this high since the financial crisis - Yahoo Finance: "Sales of US gold Eagle coins are going gangbusters.
According to a new report from the World Gold Council, gold buyers saw an opportunity in the falling price.
"US retail investment demand jumped to 32.7 tonnes, generating growth of more than 200% year-on-year," the WGC observed. "This signaled both a level of interest in gold investment not seen since the global financial crisis, and a level of price awareness on a par with that of Indian and Chinese retail investors. Nowhere was this more clearly demonstrated than in the US, where the US Mint reported rocketing sales of gold Eagle coins."
Gold is a peculiar asset. There isn't much of it, and it has limited practical uses. It isn't productive and it doesn't pay a dividend. However, it is tied to old-world traditions in both the East and the West. And for some folks, gold is a currency. Some folks turn to gold as a safe haven during times of financial-market distress and volatility.
"Demand for was the highest for more than five years: in volume terms, sales hit 397,000 oz.," they added. "Demand for newly minted coins surged across all key product lines: sales across all denominations were many multiples of their long-term average levels. Secondary market activity was correspondingly weak as profit-taking slumped in favor of bargain hunting.""
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According to a new report from the World Gold Council, gold buyers saw an opportunity in the falling price.
"US retail investment demand jumped to 32.7 tonnes, generating growth of more than 200% year-on-year," the WGC observed. "This signaled both a level of interest in gold investment not seen since the global financial crisis, and a level of price awareness on a par with that of Indian and Chinese retail investors. Nowhere was this more clearly demonstrated than in the US, where the US Mint reported rocketing sales of gold Eagle coins."
Gold is a peculiar asset. There isn't much of it, and it has limited practical uses. It isn't productive and it doesn't pay a dividend. However, it is tied to old-world traditions in both the East and the West. And for some folks, gold is a currency. Some folks turn to gold as a safe haven during times of financial-market distress and volatility.
"Demand for was the highest for more than five years: in volume terms, sales hit 397,000 oz.," they added. "Demand for newly minted coins surged across all key product lines: sales across all denominations were many multiples of their long-term average levels. Secondary market activity was correspondingly weak as profit-taking slumped in favor of bargain hunting.""
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Muslim prisoner uses soaps to craft beautiful idols of Hindu gods - The Times of India
Muslim prisoner uses soaps to craft beautiful idols of Hindu gods - The Times of India: "Lodged in Agra central jail since December 2014, he has made a dozen of beautiful idols, including Hanuman's mace, an idol of Bharat Mata, goddess Durga and Ashokan pillar too. This year, he prepared one foot tall idols of Lakshmi and Ganesh, which will be used for Diwali Puja in the jail this year.
"I kidnapped a businessman from Etah in 2001. My five other friends were also involved. But they managed to trick the court and I failed. All the others were freed while the judge awarded me life imprisonment in September 2010," said Firoz.
According to him, he was depressed when he began his jail term in 2010. "In the time of loneliness, I met a fellow prisoner who was a follower of goddess Durga. He enlightened me and showed me the right path which is to seek forgiveness from the lord. I used my bathing bar provided to me by the jail administration and made a small statue of the goddess. Within a few days, I started stealing all the soaps to satisfy my creative urge," he said. "
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"I kidnapped a businessman from Etah in 2001. My five other friends were also involved. But they managed to trick the court and I failed. All the others were freed while the judge awarded me life imprisonment in September 2010," said Firoz.
According to him, he was depressed when he began his jail term in 2010. "In the time of loneliness, I met a fellow prisoner who was a follower of goddess Durga. He enlightened me and showed me the right path which is to seek forgiveness from the lord. I used my bathing bar provided to me by the jail administration and made a small statue of the goddess. Within a few days, I started stealing all the soaps to satisfy my creative urge," he said. "
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No ‘band, baja’ at Muslim weddings from now on: Ulemas - The Times of India
No ‘band, baja’ at Muslim weddings from now on: Ulemas - The Times of India: "Anwar-ul-Haq, Imam of Chahshiri mosque and general secretary of UP West branch, said, "These days, the trend of playing loud music and having liquor on Muslim weddings is catching up. It is not allowed in Islam. Consummation of marriage is a sacred affair and must be performed in all humility. It is not something for which people need to get inebriated and engage in vulgar dancing. Unfortunately, this is becoming a rage among the youth of today. This is not acceptable."
The council further observed that in most cases, liquor and music lead to ego clashes that often result in physical assaults. "We understand that dancing and liquor is quite widely observed during marriages in UP, but in a way it is part of Western culture which has trickled down into our society. We have to put a check on that", said Anwar-ul-Haq. "
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The council further observed that in most cases, liquor and music lead to ego clashes that often result in physical assaults. "We understand that dancing and liquor is quite widely observed during marriages in UP, but in a way it is part of Western culture which has trickled down into our society. We have to put a check on that", said Anwar-ul-Haq. "
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
NO VOTE FOR MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS IN MYANMAR’S ‘HISTORIC’ ELECTIONS | Caravan Daily
NO VOTE FOR MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS IN MYANMAR’S ‘HISTORIC’ ELECTIONS | Caravan Daily: "Among the most serious is the disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, a much-maligned minority.
Amid a rising wave of Buddhist nationalism, the group was excluded this time around, though it had been allowed to vote in both a 2010 poll and in 1990.
Muslim candidates have also been excluded from the poll. One is Kyaw Min, a Rohingya who contested the 1990 poll and is head of the Democracy and Human Rights Party.
Of its 18 candidates, 15 were denied the right to contest a seat in November on citizenship grounds.
“It’s killing the voice of the minority, particularly the Rohingya and other Muslims, and is totally excluding them from the political process,” Wai Wai Nu, a Rohingya rights activist and Min’s daughter, told Anadolu Agency.
“It’s just discrimination against those candidates based on their religion,” she added.
In response to pressure from the U.S. and other governments, the Union Election Commission reinstated 11 Muslim candidates following an appeal, the Myanmar Times reported."
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Amid a rising wave of Buddhist nationalism, the group was excluded this time around, though it had been allowed to vote in both a 2010 poll and in 1990.
Muslim candidates have also been excluded from the poll. One is Kyaw Min, a Rohingya who contested the 1990 poll and is head of the Democracy and Human Rights Party.
Of its 18 candidates, 15 were denied the right to contest a seat in November on citizenship grounds.
“It’s killing the voice of the minority, particularly the Rohingya and other Muslims, and is totally excluding them from the political process,” Wai Wai Nu, a Rohingya rights activist and Min’s daughter, told Anadolu Agency.
“It’s just discrimination against those candidates based on their religion,” she added.
In response to pressure from the U.S. and other governments, the Union Election Commission reinstated 11 Muslim candidates following an appeal, the Myanmar Times reported."
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RSS Role in 1984 Sikh Massacre: 31 Years After the Carnage, Perpetrators Still Free | Caravan Daily
RSS Role in 1984 Sikh Massacre: 31 Years After the Carnage, Perpetrators Still Free | Caravan Daily: "In the case of 1984 massacre it is generally believed that the Congress cadres were behind this genocide. This may be true but there were other forces too which actively participated in this massacre and whose role has never been investigated. Those who were witness to the genocide of 1984 were stunned by the swiftness and military precision of the killer marauding gangs (later on witnessed during the Babri mosque demolition, burning alive of Dr. Graham Steins with his two sons, 2002 pogrom of the Muslims in Gujarat and cleansing of Christians in parts of Orissa) who went on a burning spree of the innocent Sikhs. This, surely, was beyond the capacity of the thugs led by many Congress leaders.
This document circulated by a prominent ideologue and luminary of RSS, Nana Deshmukh on November 8, 1984 may help in unmasking the whole lot of criminals involved in the massacre of innocent Sikhs who had nothing to do with the killing of Indira Gandhi. This document may also throw light on where the cadres came from, who meticulously organized the killing of Sikhs. Mr. Nana Deshmukh in this document is seen outlining the justification of the massacre of the Sikh community in 1984. According to him the massacre of Sikhs was not the handiwork of any group or anti-social elements but the result of a genuine feeling of anger among Hindus of India.
This document also shows the true degenerated and fascist attitude of the RSS towards all the minorities of India. The RSS has been arguing that they are against Muslims and Christians because they are the followers of foreign religions. Here we find them justifying the butchering of Sikhs who according to their own categorization happened to be the followers of an indigenous religion.
The RSS often poses as a firm believer in Hindu-Sikh unity. But in this document we will hear from the horse’s mouth that the RSS like the then Congress leadership believed that the massacre of the innocent Sikhs was justified. Deshmukh in this document is seen outlining the justification of the massacre of the Sikh community in 1984."
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This document circulated by a prominent ideologue and luminary of RSS, Nana Deshmukh on November 8, 1984 may help in unmasking the whole lot of criminals involved in the massacre of innocent Sikhs who had nothing to do with the killing of Indira Gandhi. This document may also throw light on where the cadres came from, who meticulously organized the killing of Sikhs. Mr. Nana Deshmukh in this document is seen outlining the justification of the massacre of the Sikh community in 1984. According to him the massacre of Sikhs was not the handiwork of any group or anti-social elements but the result of a genuine feeling of anger among Hindus of India.
This document also shows the true degenerated and fascist attitude of the RSS towards all the minorities of India. The RSS has been arguing that they are against Muslims and Christians because they are the followers of foreign religions. Here we find them justifying the butchering of Sikhs who according to their own categorization happened to be the followers of an indigenous religion.
The RSS often poses as a firm believer in Hindu-Sikh unity. But in this document we will hear from the horse’s mouth that the RSS like the then Congress leadership believed that the massacre of the innocent Sikhs was justified. Deshmukh in this document is seen outlining the justification of the massacre of the Sikh community in 1984."
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‘Modi Not Welcome’ Projection On British Parliament | Caravan Daily
‘Modi Not Welcome’ Projection On British Parliament | Caravan Daily: "LONDON — At 9.00pm last night (Sunday, Nov 8) a masive projection of Narendra Modi holding a sword in one hand and a shield with the Oum symbol with a swastika superimposed appeared on the Houses of Parliament next to the iconic Big Ben. Above it were the letters Modi Not Welcome. It was the most high profile message from the campaigners of the Modi Not Welcome organisations which have come together as the Awaaz Network.
As a spokesperson from one of the constituent groups South Asia Solidarity Group commented ‘The projection represents the fascistic ideology which Modi and the RSS – admirers of Hitler – stands for.On the day when voters in Bihar decisively rejected Modi’s anti-people politics of hate, this demonstrates that Modi will get the same message of rejection from a large section of Indians abroad and all those who care about human rights violations. He can no longer peddle the myth of NRI adulation to try and bolster his image at home’
The demonstration on the 12th of November at Downing Street beginning at midday is likely to be a massive affair with a range of groups involved."
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As a spokesperson from one of the constituent groups South Asia Solidarity Group commented ‘The projection represents the fascistic ideology which Modi and the RSS – admirers of Hitler – stands for.On the day when voters in Bihar decisively rejected Modi’s anti-people politics of hate, this demonstrates that Modi will get the same message of rejection from a large section of Indians abroad and all those who care about human rights violations. He can no longer peddle the myth of NRI adulation to try and bolster his image at home’
The demonstration on the 12th of November at Downing Street beginning at midday is likely to be a massive affair with a range of groups involved."
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Monday, November 9, 2015
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The fundamental spirit of India has won, for BJP it’s time for a chintan baithak | The Indian Express
The fundamental spirit of India has won, for BJP it’s time for a chintan baithak | The Indian Express: "I further said “if Modi loses Bihar polls then his grip on BJP and government will slip to a great extent and the knives within the BJP and the allies will be out in the open and also the politics of the country will change”. Nitish could emerge as the prime ministerial candidate for 2019.
Yes, this will all happen. This is the second massive blow to Narendra Modi/ Amit Shah duo and the BJP after the Delhi Assembly elections. The loss of face will result in loss of confidence internally within the BJP cadres and the duo themselves."
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Yes, this will all happen. This is the second massive blow to Narendra Modi/ Amit Shah duo and the BJP after the Delhi Assembly elections. The loss of face will result in loss of confidence internally within the BJP cadres and the duo themselves."
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Muslim Mirror » List of 24 Muslim candidates who won Bihar Assembly Elections 2015
Muslim Mirror » List of 24 Muslim candidates who won Bihar Assembly Elections 2015: "atna: The Mahagathbandhan of JDU, RJD and Congress, led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar scored a stunning win in the Assembly Elections.
The Muslim candidates of the Grand Alliance managed to win 24 seats with twelve from RJD, six from Congress, five from JDU and one from CPI (ML).
List of 24 Muslim Candidates who won in Bihar Assembly Elections 2015 :
Constituency
Winner
Party
Alinagar ABDUL BARI SIDDIQUI Rashtriya Janata Dal
Amour ABDUL JALIL MASTAN Indian National Congress
Araria AVIDUR RAHMAN Indian National Congress
Arrah MOHAMMAD NAWAZ ALAM Rashtriya Janata Dal
Bahadurganj M.D. TAUSEEF ALAM Indian National Congress
Baisi ABDUS SUBHAN Rashtriya Janata Dal
Balrampur MAHBOOB ALAM Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)
Barauli MD NEMATULLAH Rashtriya Janata Dal
Bisfi FAIYAZ AHMAD Rashtriya Janata Dal
Dehri MOHAMMAD ILIYAS HUSSAIN Rashtriya Janata Dal
Dhaka FAISAL RAHMAN Rashtriya Janata Dal
Jokihat SARFRAZ ALAM Janata Dal (United)
Kadwa SHAKEEL AHMAD KHAN Indian National Congress
Kasba MD. AFAQUE ALAM Indian National Congress
Keoti FARAZ FATMI Rashtriya Janata Dal
Kishanganj DR MOHAMMAD JAWAID Indian National Congress
Kochadhaman MUJAHID ALAM Janata Dal (United)
Mahishi DR. ABDUL GHAFOOR Rashtriya Janata Dal
Narkatia SHAMIM AHMAD Rashtriya Janata Dal
Samastipur AKHTARUL ISLAM SHAHEEN Rashtriya Janata Dal
Sheohar SHARFUDDIN Janata Dal (United)
Sikta KHURSHID URF FIROJ AHMAD Janata Dal (United)
Sursand SYED ABU DOJANA Rashtriya Janata Dal
Thakurganj NAUSHAD ALAM (TATPAUWA) Janata Dal (United)"
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The Muslim candidates of the Grand Alliance managed to win 24 seats with twelve from RJD, six from Congress, five from JDU and one from CPI (ML).
List of 24 Muslim Candidates who won in Bihar Assembly Elections 2015 :
Constituency
Winner
Party
Alinagar ABDUL BARI SIDDIQUI Rashtriya Janata Dal
Amour ABDUL JALIL MASTAN Indian National Congress
Araria AVIDUR RAHMAN Indian National Congress
Arrah MOHAMMAD NAWAZ ALAM Rashtriya Janata Dal
Bahadurganj M.D. TAUSEEF ALAM Indian National Congress
Baisi ABDUS SUBHAN Rashtriya Janata Dal
Balrampur MAHBOOB ALAM Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)
Barauli MD NEMATULLAH Rashtriya Janata Dal
Bisfi FAIYAZ AHMAD Rashtriya Janata Dal
Dehri MOHAMMAD ILIYAS HUSSAIN Rashtriya Janata Dal
Dhaka FAISAL RAHMAN Rashtriya Janata Dal
Jokihat SARFRAZ ALAM Janata Dal (United)
Kadwa SHAKEEL AHMAD KHAN Indian National Congress
Kasba MD. AFAQUE ALAM Indian National Congress
Keoti FARAZ FATMI Rashtriya Janata Dal
Kishanganj DR MOHAMMAD JAWAID Indian National Congress
Kochadhaman MUJAHID ALAM Janata Dal (United)
Mahishi DR. ABDUL GHAFOOR Rashtriya Janata Dal
Narkatia SHAMIM AHMAD Rashtriya Janata Dal
Samastipur AKHTARUL ISLAM SHAHEEN Rashtriya Janata Dal
Sheohar SHARFUDDIN Janata Dal (United)
Sikta KHURSHID URF FIROJ AHMAD Janata Dal (United)
Sursand SYED ABU DOJANA Rashtriya Janata Dal
Thakurganj NAUSHAD ALAM (TATPAUWA) Janata Dal (United)"
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Bihar polls: Muslim push in record close | The Indian Express
Bihar polls: Muslim push in record close | The Indian Express: "Ladli Khatoon, 18, woke up early to ensure she was first in the queue of women voters at Gulabbagh in Purnea. “Apne man se vote dalungi,” said the delighted class 12 student, her face veiled. Behind her stood a number of Muslim women of various ages, their eagerness obvious, and matched by that of the men in the other queue at the booth where over 2,400 voters are registered.
It was an enthusiasm seen across Purnea district, where the turnout rose to 63 per cent from the 60 per cent of 2010. Across phases, voting in Bihar closed at 56.80 per cent Thursday, the highest in the state’s assembly election history, the Election Commission said. It was 53 per cent in 2010.
The fifth and final phase saw a turnout of just under 60 per cent, five points above the 55 per cent of 2010. And women once against outnumbered men, 64 per cent to 56."
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It was an enthusiasm seen across Purnea district, where the turnout rose to 63 per cent from the 60 per cent of 2010. Across phases, voting in Bihar closed at 56.80 per cent Thursday, the highest in the state’s assembly election history, the Election Commission said. It was 53 per cent in 2010.
The fifth and final phase saw a turnout of just under 60 per cent, five points above the 55 per cent of 2010. And women once against outnumbered men, 64 per cent to 56."
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
BJP leader threatens to behead Karnataka CM over beef remark
BJP leader threatens to behead Karnataka CM over beef remark: "A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Karnataka’s Shimoga has threatened to “behead” chief minister Siddaramaiah and “play football” with his severed head over the latter’s statement that he will eat beef.
SN Chanabasappa, BJP district secretary and close aide of former CM BS Yeddyurappa, made the statement at a protest meeting organised by the saffron party on Monday. The agitation was called to condemn Siddaramaiah’s remarks last Thursday on the Dadri lynching incident.
In a statement aimed at Hindu right-wing parties, which are campaigning for a complete ban on cow slaughter, the chief minister had said it was his right to eat beef and nobody can stop him.
Repeating his threat on Tuesday, Channabasappa told Hindustan Times, “If Siddaramaiah has guts, let him come to Shimoga and eat beef. If he thinks we will spare him, he’s wrong. Let him kill a cow and show, we will separate his head from his body and play football with it.”"
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SN Chanabasappa, BJP district secretary and close aide of former CM BS Yeddyurappa, made the statement at a protest meeting organised by the saffron party on Monday. The agitation was called to condemn Siddaramaiah’s remarks last Thursday on the Dadri lynching incident.
In a statement aimed at Hindu right-wing parties, which are campaigning for a complete ban on cow slaughter, the chief minister had said it was his right to eat beef and nobody can stop him.
Repeating his threat on Tuesday, Channabasappa told Hindustan Times, “If Siddaramaiah has guts, let him come to Shimoga and eat beef. If he thinks we will spare him, he’s wrong. Let him kill a cow and show, we will separate his head from his body and play football with it.”"
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
SRK says there's ‘extreme intolerance’ in country
SRK says there's ‘extreme intolerance’ in country: "In a Twitter town hall organised by a media house on the occasion of his birthday, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan spoke about issues that have been making headlines for the past few weeks -- like writers, artists and scientists returning awards to protest what they see as rising intolerance in the country -- and said there is an atmosphere of 'extreme intolerance' in the country."
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Shah Rukh Khan’s soul is in Pakistan says BJP minister - Video | The Times of India
Shah Rukh Khan’s soul is in Pakistan says BJP minister - Video | The Times of India: "BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya has given some rude comments against Bollywood's king Shah Rukh Khan. Check out the video to know what the BJP leader said"
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Shah Rukh Khan is a Pakistani agent, says Sadhvi Prachi - Video | The Times of India
Shah Rukh Khan is a Pakistani agent, says Sadhvi Prachi - Video | The Times of India: "Controversial Hindutva leader Sadhvi Prachi termed Shah Rukh Khan as a “Pakistani agent”, who should be sent to that country, a day after the Bollywood superstar added his voice to the protest against “extreme intolerance” in the country."
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Shah Rukh Khan is a Pakistani agent, says Sadhvi Prachi - Video | The Times of India
Shah Rukh Khan is a Pakistani agent, says Sadhvi Prachi - Video | The Times of India: "Controversial Hindutva leader Sadhvi Prachi termed Shah Rukh Khan as a “Pakistani agent”, who should be sent to that country, a day after the Bollywood superstar added his voice to the protest against “extreme intolerance” in the country."
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BJP MP spews venom at Shah Rukh, party brass frowns at ‘such nonsense’ - The Times of India
BJP MP spews venom at Shah Rukh, party brass frowns at ‘such nonsense’ - The Times of India: "NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW/MUMBAI: A day after Union minister Prakash Javadekar sought to distance BJP from general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya's toxic comments against Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, party MP Yogi Adityanath spewed venom against the actor, saying he should heed 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed of Pakistan since "they speak the same language".
While Vijayvargiya beat a quick retreat on Wednesday by retracting his tweet that SRK's heart lies in Pakistan, Adityanath said, "I will welcome the decision of people like Shah Rukh to go to Pakistan on the invitation of Hafiz Saeed." Saeed had tweeted on Wednesday that India's disenchanted Muslims and intellectuals feeling persecuted by "Hindu extremists" were welcome in Pakistan.
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'Intolerance has always existed, let's not pretend'
Adityanath said, "Shah Rukh should understand that if Hindus stop watching his films, he will become like any other common Muslim... There's no difference in what Shah Rukh and Hafiz Saeed say about intolerance in India.""
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While Vijayvargiya beat a quick retreat on Wednesday by retracting his tweet that SRK's heart lies in Pakistan, Adityanath said, "I will welcome the decision of people like Shah Rukh to go to Pakistan on the invitation of Hafiz Saeed." Saeed had tweeted on Wednesday that India's disenchanted Muslims and intellectuals feeling persecuted by "Hindu extremists" were welcome in Pakistan.
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'Intolerance has always existed, let's not pretend'
Adityanath said, "Shah Rukh should understand that if Hindus stop watching his films, he will become like any other common Muslim... There's no difference in what Shah Rukh and Hafiz Saeed say about intolerance in India.""
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 3
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 3: "I asked him, "Do you believe supernormal ability exists?" I looked at him, waiting for a reply.
He nodded. "I know supernormal ability does exist. It is a supernatural power." In order to illustrate further, he pointed to some small buildings along the street and said, "Let me give you an example. Some people can use their supernormal ability to make them fly up to sky and back to ground. Very powerful. Of course, this is only an analogy."
I looked at him and said seriously, "I believe there are people who are able to do that."
He was very interested in talking with me and patiently explained, "But you have to understand that the supernormal capabilities do not belong to the person who claims to have them.""
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He nodded. "I know supernormal ability does exist. It is a supernatural power." In order to illustrate further, he pointed to some small buildings along the street and said, "Let me give you an example. Some people can use their supernormal ability to make them fly up to sky and back to ground. Very powerful. Of course, this is only an analogy."
I looked at him and said seriously, "I believe there are people who are able to do that."
He was very interested in talking with me and patiently explained, "But you have to understand that the supernormal capabilities do not belong to the person who claims to have them.""
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "On a summer night, a band of gangsters attacked my home with knives and axes. Three in my family were wounded. I was badly stabbed in the head. Blood spilled all over the floor, and a stinking smell filled the room. Our report to the security authorities was ignored. Our complaint was not given attention. We stayed in the hospital for half a year, exhausting almost all our savings. I thereby lost all my financial resources, having already lost my job.
Years earlier, when my entire family started to practice qigong, my brother was stabbed in the chest and almost lost his life. He was out of danger two weeks later and was hospitalized for half a year. He rested at home for a year and then left to work in another city. He also suffered a lot in his love affairs.
After this disaster I began to connect qigong with all these unfortunate incidents, realizing more or less the dangerous elements of qigong. But I did not yet stop practicing it.
I carried on some business, but very often when it was almost successful, unexpected occurrences would arise and bring about failure. My supernormal capabilities from qigong did not offer me any help. My life got into a predicament, and I met with failure everywhere. There was only a precipice in front of me. It seemed that besides my jumping down into it, there was nothing else that could be done.
I went to visit my brother during a business trip. His girlfriend's mother said to me that in the entirety of China there could not be found another family as unlucky as ours. I was watching a movie about a gambler on TV one night. A famous Hong Kong actor was playing the antagonist, who had supernormal capabilities. They were repeatedly performed in the movie and suddenly stimulated me so violently that I felt my own supernormal ability stirred and very soon lost control of myself under a power unlike any that I had experienced before. I was forcefully controlled by that power. I wanted to cry and to have a big move. My consciousness was gradually completely dominated by another "me" who went so far as wanting to control my body. "It" wanted me to walk towards the window and commanded me to jump out of the window. I held myself and shouted crazily. My brother and his girlfriend were greatly astonished. My brother held me tightly for a few minutes until I finally calmed down and told him it was all right now. After a while my brother started to weep, his girlfriend standing by and comforting him."
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Years earlier, when my entire family started to practice qigong, my brother was stabbed in the chest and almost lost his life. He was out of danger two weeks later and was hospitalized for half a year. He rested at home for a year and then left to work in another city. He also suffered a lot in his love affairs.
After this disaster I began to connect qigong with all these unfortunate incidents, realizing more or less the dangerous elements of qigong. But I did not yet stop practicing it.
I carried on some business, but very often when it was almost successful, unexpected occurrences would arise and bring about failure. My supernormal capabilities from qigong did not offer me any help. My life got into a predicament, and I met with failure everywhere. There was only a precipice in front of me. It seemed that besides my jumping down into it, there was nothing else that could be done.
I went to visit my brother during a business trip. His girlfriend's mother said to me that in the entirety of China there could not be found another family as unlucky as ours. I was watching a movie about a gambler on TV one night. A famous Hong Kong actor was playing the antagonist, who had supernormal capabilities. They were repeatedly performed in the movie and suddenly stimulated me so violently that I felt my own supernormal ability stirred and very soon lost control of myself under a power unlike any that I had experienced before. I was forcefully controlled by that power. I wanted to cry and to have a big move. My consciousness was gradually completely dominated by another "me" who went so far as wanting to control my body. "It" wanted me to walk towards the window and commanded me to jump out of the window. I held myself and shouted crazily. My brother and his girlfriend were greatly astonished. My brother held me tightly for a few minutes until I finally calmed down and told him it was all right now. After a while my brother started to weep, his girlfriend standing by and comforting him."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "I also realized what in essence Yan Xin's "qi-remitting" lectures were. I experimented with some people who also cried, or laughed or danced without stopping. I sometimes secretly healed others. I imagined that I went to the person that I wanted to heal and healed him. I later asked him about his illness. He said he was healed, but did not know that I had done it for him. If some came to me with a request to heal a third party, I would give him something, plus some so-called "messages," for him to take to the sick person or give him a prescription of Chinese Medicine to be carried by the sick person in his pocket. Many got healed in this way. Later I found it was still too troublesome, and just I simply told them, "There is nothing serious. He'll be ok tomorrow." It was exactly so the next day. Or I would say, "You're already healed." The painful sickness of the patient would disappear immediately.
But if someone had displeased me and I felt this person to be a bad person, I would curse him and attack him by imaginative meditation. The result would usually be his getting sick or having some unlucky things happened to him the next day. And the sickness might be with him for a long time. "
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But if someone had displeased me and I felt this person to be a bad person, I would curse him and attack him by imaginative meditation. The result would usually be his getting sick or having some unlucky things happened to him the next day. And the sickness might be with him for a long time. "
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "By that time I had practiced qigong for four years. I had practiced every day and reached a considerably high level. Then I began to take several disciples. The ones with good qigong quality soon acquired supernormal capabilities."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "Just before I practiced "Nine-step Qigong," I acquired a very interesting gong power. One day I found that my audiotape of qigong practice had lost all the recordings on it. I did not know it was the tape and thought it was the player that had gone wrong. But I was mistaken and suddenly realized that it was a supernormal phenomenon. I then held the tape in my hand, produced gong for a little while, and put it back in the player. The tape was played, and still it ran quietly. I waited and listened for a little while more. Gradually, I heard a very small sound which grew louder and louder as if the sound were coming from far to near. Finally it was all normal. I knew I had acquired new power.
Once I was with some friends who had a similar problem. They couldn't understand why their cassette tape went wrong. I took the tape with me to the outside, meditated a little while, and put it back into the player. They played it, and there came beautiful music. Another time I was with some young students, enjoying disco music. Again, the tape was soundless, and a boy student checked and judged that the player was broken. I told him it was not and took the tape and shook it. I played it, and the rhythmic music played from the tape filled the room. That student looked at me blankly, completely puzzled.
After I practiced "Nine-step Qigong," this ability of mine was even enhanced. I once visited with the family of a friend who also practiced qigong. She tried to play some music to please us all, but the tape would not produce any sound. She found it strange and tried another tape, which showed the player to have no problem. I told her that I could make the tape normal. She was excited to hear this and would like to see how it could be possible. I put that tape back in the player, pushed down the play button, and sat down quietly to maneuver the sound of the tape by meditation. Gradually, the sound came up, from small to loud, as if it had come from far to near. My friend exclaimed in admiration, "Ah! You are really now omnipotent!" I was all the more so much pleased with myself that I continued to exert my imaginative thought upon the tape and the sound grew louder and louder until it reached a volume even louder than what the player was set to produce.
I felt great when I moved to about the fourth step in the "Nine-step Qigong." I was thinking about some issue one day when I happened to see an enamel bowl somewhere near me in the room. It had its cover on it, but I suddenly began to see a dark green shadow in the bowl. I looked closely and saw it was water. I held the bowl up. The water shook in the bowl. I was very surprised, for I could now perceive objects, even through iron. I could not even believe then that this was true, so I observed more. I removed the cover of the bowl, looked on the inside and the outside of the bowl, and finally was certain that I could perceive the bowl and see the water from the outside of the bowl. The major function of "Nine-step Qigong" is to develop supernormal capabilities, especially that of perception. I thus realized the power of this gong method. But what was strange was that I later lost the ability to perceive the enamel bowl. I had great regrets and confusion.
I usually practiced at night with the lights out. I closed my eyes and could still see the outlines of my hands with a layer of white light. Sometimes I woke up at night and saw clearly the outlines of my shiny hands with my eyes closed. I felt I saw them with my tianmu.
During this period of time, healing the sick became easier and easier for me. The methods that I used looked to others more and more mysterious. I invented, as my heart desired, some gestures, which I very simply performed, for it took me only a thought to solve the problem. Really, it looked as if I had done nothing, for imaginative meditation was all that was needed
Another inexplicable phenomenon bothered me. While I practiced one day, the power failed in my room, and I thought it was general power failure. I looked outside and saw there was light in all the other rooms. Yet the lights in my room were on the same circuit as others and were not burning. A few hours later, the lights in my room suddenly lit up. This happened several times. This was another qigong phenomenon and one I found hard to control. Every time it happened, I had to sit in meditation for a while before I could have the light back in my room. My life was made inconvenient in this way. Sometimes I would just light some candles and leave my cassette player alone. I was very unhappy for I knew gong power had interfered with the electric power. I wondered why I could not maneuver the electric power as easily as I could maneuver the sound of tapes. I would sometimes forget whether the switch was on or off when I went to bed. I would have to wake up and turn the light off when the light came back on again.
Once the light was out again when two qigong friends came to listen to some music in my room. I was very embarrassed and asked them to wait while I got on my bed and sat in meditation. In about ten minutes the light came back on. They listened to the music and praised me in admiration, yet I fretted for being unable to control the light. This situation lasted for over half a year. Sometimes when the light was out, I would go outside, and a surge of unspeakable sadness and incompetence arose in my heart."
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Once I was with some friends who had a similar problem. They couldn't understand why their cassette tape went wrong. I took the tape with me to the outside, meditated a little while, and put it back into the player. They played it, and there came beautiful music. Another time I was with some young students, enjoying disco music. Again, the tape was soundless, and a boy student checked and judged that the player was broken. I told him it was not and took the tape and shook it. I played it, and the rhythmic music played from the tape filled the room. That student looked at me blankly, completely puzzled.
After I practiced "Nine-step Qigong," this ability of mine was even enhanced. I once visited with the family of a friend who also practiced qigong. She tried to play some music to please us all, but the tape would not produce any sound. She found it strange and tried another tape, which showed the player to have no problem. I told her that I could make the tape normal. She was excited to hear this and would like to see how it could be possible. I put that tape back in the player, pushed down the play button, and sat down quietly to maneuver the sound of the tape by meditation. Gradually, the sound came up, from small to loud, as if it had come from far to near. My friend exclaimed in admiration, "Ah! You are really now omnipotent!" I was all the more so much pleased with myself that I continued to exert my imaginative thought upon the tape and the sound grew louder and louder until it reached a volume even louder than what the player was set to produce.
I felt great when I moved to about the fourth step in the "Nine-step Qigong." I was thinking about some issue one day when I happened to see an enamel bowl somewhere near me in the room. It had its cover on it, but I suddenly began to see a dark green shadow in the bowl. I looked closely and saw it was water. I held the bowl up. The water shook in the bowl. I was very surprised, for I could now perceive objects, even through iron. I could not even believe then that this was true, so I observed more. I removed the cover of the bowl, looked on the inside and the outside of the bowl, and finally was certain that I could perceive the bowl and see the water from the outside of the bowl. The major function of "Nine-step Qigong" is to develop supernormal capabilities, especially that of perception. I thus realized the power of this gong method. But what was strange was that I later lost the ability to perceive the enamel bowl. I had great regrets and confusion.
I usually practiced at night with the lights out. I closed my eyes and could still see the outlines of my hands with a layer of white light. Sometimes I woke up at night and saw clearly the outlines of my shiny hands with my eyes closed. I felt I saw them with my tianmu.
During this period of time, healing the sick became easier and easier for me. The methods that I used looked to others more and more mysterious. I invented, as my heart desired, some gestures, which I very simply performed, for it took me only a thought to solve the problem. Really, it looked as if I had done nothing, for imaginative meditation was all that was needed
Another inexplicable phenomenon bothered me. While I practiced one day, the power failed in my room, and I thought it was general power failure. I looked outside and saw there was light in all the other rooms. Yet the lights in my room were on the same circuit as others and were not burning. A few hours later, the lights in my room suddenly lit up. This happened several times. This was another qigong phenomenon and one I found hard to control. Every time it happened, I had to sit in meditation for a while before I could have the light back in my room. My life was made inconvenient in this way. Sometimes I would just light some candles and leave my cassette player alone. I was very unhappy for I knew gong power had interfered with the electric power. I wondered why I could not maneuver the electric power as easily as I could maneuver the sound of tapes. I would sometimes forget whether the switch was on or off when I went to bed. I would have to wake up and turn the light off when the light came back on again.
Once the light was out again when two qigong friends came to listen to some music in my room. I was very embarrassed and asked them to wait while I got on my bed and sat in meditation. In about ten minutes the light came back on. They listened to the music and praised me in admiration, yet I fretted for being unable to control the light. This situation lasted for over half a year. Sometimes when the light was out, I would go outside, and a surge of unspeakable sadness and incompetence arose in my heart."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "The next day I was returning to my work unit, and Mum put some Chinese dates in two bags and had me take them with me. She wanted to weigh them and see how many dates she had put in each bag. But I immediately said, "This weighs one jin and one liang." She weighed it, and it was exactly what I had said. I told Mum the other was just the same. She did not believe me and weighed it and found out it was just as I said. Mum looked at me in surprisedly. We both realized my gong power had increased again.
From that day on my qigong power had reached a new level. I did my best to sit in meditation and practice qigong at Zishi (between eleven o'clock at night and one o'clock in the morning), for of all the times during a day the qi field is at its strongest at Zishi, and practicing qigong during this period of time produces the best effect. But I learned what it was to "practice qigong twenty-four hours a day." I could stay in a qigong state all the time and often had my tongue tilted upward to touch my upper cavity. My forehead began to sink, and I had a special feeling at my tianmu, which is the so-called third eye on the human body. Once anyone has his/her tianmu opened, he/she will be able to see many things invisible to human eyes, and his/her supernormal capabilities will be enhanced. I had always wanted to have my tianmu opened. My healing power grew stronger and stronger. Many people came to me or had me come to their homes for me to heal the sick. All those healed by me received surprising healing effects. Later, I started to heal remotely. One day a friend came to see me and told me his colleague had an unbearably terrible toothache and asked me to go with him to help him. I said to my friend, "You go back and tell him he is all right now." After a little while, this friend came back to me in great excitement and reported, "The moment I saw my colleague, he told me that his toothache had just stopped. You are really getting more and more powerful." There was once a university student who asked me to try on him the remote massage. I agreed and we set a time. We were several hundred miles apart. But when the appointed time came, I didn't do the remote massage for him, for I forgot about it. I felt very sorry and embarrassed, but received a letter a few days later in which he described excitedly how he had an miraculous experience that day when our set time came. He was lying on his bed, and at the exact time he felt severe bloating pain in his shoulders, and his muscles bounced for about a minute. He said this was the first time he had ever experienced in person the miraculous power of qigong.
After reading his letter, I was greatly surprised. How could this be possible since I had missed the appointed time that day? He was a science student who took facts and logic seriously. I could imagine what he had experienced from the astonishment he expressed in his letter. But how could I explain this event? I had no answer. I later read about similar events in qigong magazines, but had no reasonable explanations for them.
I practiced harder, and my gong power was increasing all the time. I became more and more famous, and more people came to acknowledge me as their master and learn qigong from me. But I was not interested in having disciples, for I had not found any suitable candidates with very good intelligence root ("hui gen"). I taught them some simple gong methods when it was too hard for me to refuse. Some of what I taught was already in books, while others were my own inventions. But the result was satisfying. Under my influence there arose in my town an active trend of practicing qigong. These followers voluntarily organized themselves and practiced qigong together. They bought videotapes of Yan Xin's qi-emitting lectures and played them for free. I went to take a look and was very much inspired. Many of the local people had just realized the miraculous power of qigong. They practiced together, but I still practiced by myself, though they wanted very much to have me lead them. I had no interest in doing so, for their qigong levels were very low, and thus they were not helpful to me.
Later on, I invented a way to cure nearsightedness. I put an eye chart on the wall. I had the nearsighted persons stand five meters away from it and asked them to take off their eyeglasses and to state clearly what was on the chart, starting from the first line, then moving to the second, then the third, until they could see very clearly the last line. They could not believe how their vision could improve miraculously to the best state in just a few minutes. I was startled but did not show it. One after another nearsighted person came to me for healing his or her eyes. I used my supernormal capabilities on all of them. But the problem was that a few days after they got healed and took off their glasses, they had to put them on again, for their vision worsened again. And I could not explain why."
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From that day on my qigong power had reached a new level. I did my best to sit in meditation and practice qigong at Zishi (between eleven o'clock at night and one o'clock in the morning), for of all the times during a day the qi field is at its strongest at Zishi, and practicing qigong during this period of time produces the best effect. But I learned what it was to "practice qigong twenty-four hours a day." I could stay in a qigong state all the time and often had my tongue tilted upward to touch my upper cavity. My forehead began to sink, and I had a special feeling at my tianmu, which is the so-called third eye on the human body. Once anyone has his/her tianmu opened, he/she will be able to see many things invisible to human eyes, and his/her supernormal capabilities will be enhanced. I had always wanted to have my tianmu opened. My healing power grew stronger and stronger. Many people came to me or had me come to their homes for me to heal the sick. All those healed by me received surprising healing effects. Later, I started to heal remotely. One day a friend came to see me and told me his colleague had an unbearably terrible toothache and asked me to go with him to help him. I said to my friend, "You go back and tell him he is all right now." After a little while, this friend came back to me in great excitement and reported, "The moment I saw my colleague, he told me that his toothache had just stopped. You are really getting more and more powerful." There was once a university student who asked me to try on him the remote massage. I agreed and we set a time. We were several hundred miles apart. But when the appointed time came, I didn't do the remote massage for him, for I forgot about it. I felt very sorry and embarrassed, but received a letter a few days later in which he described excitedly how he had an miraculous experience that day when our set time came. He was lying on his bed, and at the exact time he felt severe bloating pain in his shoulders, and his muscles bounced for about a minute. He said this was the first time he had ever experienced in person the miraculous power of qigong.
After reading his letter, I was greatly surprised. How could this be possible since I had missed the appointed time that day? He was a science student who took facts and logic seriously. I could imagine what he had experienced from the astonishment he expressed in his letter. But how could I explain this event? I had no answer. I later read about similar events in qigong magazines, but had no reasonable explanations for them.
I practiced harder, and my gong power was increasing all the time. I became more and more famous, and more people came to acknowledge me as their master and learn qigong from me. But I was not interested in having disciples, for I had not found any suitable candidates with very good intelligence root ("hui gen"). I taught them some simple gong methods when it was too hard for me to refuse. Some of what I taught was already in books, while others were my own inventions. But the result was satisfying. Under my influence there arose in my town an active trend of practicing qigong. These followers voluntarily organized themselves and practiced qigong together. They bought videotapes of Yan Xin's qi-emitting lectures and played them for free. I went to take a look and was very much inspired. Many of the local people had just realized the miraculous power of qigong. They practiced together, but I still practiced by myself, though they wanted very much to have me lead them. I had no interest in doing so, for their qigong levels were very low, and thus they were not helpful to me.
Later on, I invented a way to cure nearsightedness. I put an eye chart on the wall. I had the nearsighted persons stand five meters away from it and asked them to take off their eyeglasses and to state clearly what was on the chart, starting from the first line, then moving to the second, then the third, until they could see very clearly the last line. They could not believe how their vision could improve miraculously to the best state in just a few minutes. I was startled but did not show it. One after another nearsighted person came to me for healing his or her eyes. I used my supernormal capabilities on all of them. But the problem was that a few days after they got healed and took off their glasses, they had to put them on again, for their vision worsened again. And I could not explain why."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "My parents had plans in those days to move to a new home that was not very far away. Dad and I decided to move without asking others for help since it was not a very difficult job. When evening came, we started our task. In order for the new home to be a strong qi field, we repeatedly played tapes of Yan Xin's recordings. We had peace of mind for so doing. At about Zishi (between eleven o'clock at night and one o'clock in the morning), we had almost finished moving with the two tapes being played repeatedly. Very strangely, I didn't feel tired at all, but rather felt very much relaxed as if I had not been toiling very hard at all. My heart was filled with peace and joy. As we were finishing moving, I felt more and more comfortable listening to the recordings on the tapes, and a kind of power was infusing within my body; gradually it spread all over my body and soul. This power began to stir, and my soul felt uneasy and also began to stir. I realized something unusual was happening, but I could not tell what it was. I tried to calm myself down and resisted this power by reasoning. But immediately I knew I had failed. Deciding to yield, I told my parents hastily, "I can't bear it anymore. I want to do something very unusual. I can't stand it!" My voice must have sounded very desperate, for I got them very much concerned for me. They encouraged me and said, "Don't be afraid! Relax! Let it be!" Dad hurried to accompany me when I walked out of the house towards a large piece of land in the boundless darkness of night. I suddenly found it was a vast expense of whiteness all around me. It looked like clouds, but it was not. At this moment I heard Yan Xin's recording on the tape saying "It's a vast expanse of whiteness all around." I looked up, and there was not any white thing, but only the starry sky, which looked beautiful and mysterious to me. Many years later, I still remembered the strange and peaceful sky on that night.
I groped my way to the clearing and let go all my worries and fears, completely succumbing to the control of that power, while my heart was filled with curiosity. I moved in a circle, again and again, letting myself obey the impulses. My body was pulled like that of a drunkard. This power was growing all the while and seemed to pull me out of my body. I felt as if there were two "I"s inside of my body; one was stirring, the other one looked on, having no choice. Finally the stirring "I" rushed out of me at last like a volcano. It rushed out of my throat, and out of my mouth ran a long scream full of strangeness and sorrow, very far, far away into the quiet night. It seemed that my soul was crying. But why? I didn't know. There was no answer to this question. My eardrum shook, my mouth thirsted, but I felt very comfortable and full of a sense of mystery. I realized that I had entered into a very rare qigong state in which I was connected with a superhuman power.
Gradually, my body began to quiet down, and I entered a selfless level. Everything seemed to exist and yet was nonexistent. Very slowly, my sensations became illusory too. After I do not know how long, I suddenly knelt down, and that power forcefully pushed my head downward to the ground. I rejected again, but it seemed there was a huge hand pressing on the back of my neck. It wanted me to kowtow. I felt humiliated and was unwilling to kowtow, but a message entered into my mind. It told me that a high-level qigong master had chosen me to be his disciple and wanted to impart his "gong" to me and that he was dying. After I heard this, I lowered my head immediately until it touched the ground. I accepted in awe my invisible master, letting him impart high-level gong to me as he willed.
After a little while, my hand pulled up some grass beside me and put it into my mouth. I chewed, and at once it felt as if a spring had rushed out; I swallowed down a lot, and my throat thirsted no more. My body had regained tranquility by then, and I lifted up my head on my own and looked up at the dark sky. I knew my "master" had died, and that his soul was still existent and protected me and added continuously more "gong" on me.
I rose and realized the white smoke was no longer there. By the moonlight I could see very far. My Dad was still standing there, far away. We returned home, and it was already after one in the morning. Mum and Dad looked at me concernedly and asked me how I was feeling. I said “very well.” They were very happy for me, but I could see perplexity showing up on their faces. We all went to bed."
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I groped my way to the clearing and let go all my worries and fears, completely succumbing to the control of that power, while my heart was filled with curiosity. I moved in a circle, again and again, letting myself obey the impulses. My body was pulled like that of a drunkard. This power was growing all the while and seemed to pull me out of my body. I felt as if there were two "I"s inside of my body; one was stirring, the other one looked on, having no choice. Finally the stirring "I" rushed out of me at last like a volcano. It rushed out of my throat, and out of my mouth ran a long scream full of strangeness and sorrow, very far, far away into the quiet night. It seemed that my soul was crying. But why? I didn't know. There was no answer to this question. My eardrum shook, my mouth thirsted, but I felt very comfortable and full of a sense of mystery. I realized that I had entered into a very rare qigong state in which I was connected with a superhuman power.
Gradually, my body began to quiet down, and I entered a selfless level. Everything seemed to exist and yet was nonexistent. Very slowly, my sensations became illusory too. After I do not know how long, I suddenly knelt down, and that power forcefully pushed my head downward to the ground. I rejected again, but it seemed there was a huge hand pressing on the back of my neck. It wanted me to kowtow. I felt humiliated and was unwilling to kowtow, but a message entered into my mind. It told me that a high-level qigong master had chosen me to be his disciple and wanted to impart his "gong" to me and that he was dying. After I heard this, I lowered my head immediately until it touched the ground. I accepted in awe my invisible master, letting him impart high-level gong to me as he willed.
After a little while, my hand pulled up some grass beside me and put it into my mouth. I chewed, and at once it felt as if a spring had rushed out; I swallowed down a lot, and my throat thirsted no more. My body had regained tranquility by then, and I lifted up my head on my own and looked up at the dark sky. I knew my "master" had died, and that his soul was still existent and protected me and added continuously more "gong" on me.
I rose and realized the white smoke was no longer there. By the moonlight I could see very far. My Dad was still standing there, far away. We returned home, and it was already after one in the morning. Mum and Dad looked at me concernedly and asked me how I was feeling. I said “very well.” They were very happy for me, but I could see perplexity showing up on their faces. We all went to bed."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "The appearance of supernormal capabilities served as a great driving force for me to go on practicing shuang pan. I tested myself according to the practices and switching-on procedures described in books on gong methods and discovered almost all those supernormal capabilities in me. This was my achievement after practicing qigong, especially Yan Xin Qigong, for nine months.
The first to come was the supernormal ability of body sensation. When someone with a disease was near me, I, consciously or unconsciously, felt discomfort in the same part of my body that this person experienced discomfort, so I could tell exactly where the problem was and approximately what kind of disease it was. Because I was afraid to take on others' feelings of being sick and the attack by the "sick qi," I did not like to be near seriously ill people.
The next supernormal ability was that of transmitting messages by mind-will. I tried to transmit to others by will simple messages, words like “left” or “right” or short numbers. I found out that there were people who were sensitive and those who were not. Little children were generally very sensitive. There was a little girl who was especially sensitive to my messages, and she was never wrong. When her parents asked her why she could receive my messages so quickly, she said she could hear my voice telling her the message. In fact, I spoke to her only in my heart.
One major supernormal capability I had was healing the sick. I put my hand over the diseased part and could feel energy coming out of my hand. I would feel a kind of exhaustion later on and was very tired sometimes, but the disease that I healed very easily disappeared. There are many different ways to heal the sick; I could heal in whichever way I liked.
In this way I began to go into action according to the Tao I had obtained, and became very well known in our local area. Many people came to me for healing of their diseases, and I was overjoyed to respond to every plea. I found out that my gong power increased by leaps and bounds when I used my supernormal capabilities to perform acts of charity. It became more and more miraculous and unbelievable. "
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The first to come was the supernormal ability of body sensation. When someone with a disease was near me, I, consciously or unconsciously, felt discomfort in the same part of my body that this person experienced discomfort, so I could tell exactly where the problem was and approximately what kind of disease it was. Because I was afraid to take on others' feelings of being sick and the attack by the "sick qi," I did not like to be near seriously ill people.
The next supernormal ability was that of transmitting messages by mind-will. I tried to transmit to others by will simple messages, words like “left” or “right” or short numbers. I found out that there were people who were sensitive and those who were not. Little children were generally very sensitive. There was a little girl who was especially sensitive to my messages, and she was never wrong. When her parents asked her why she could receive my messages so quickly, she said she could hear my voice telling her the message. In fact, I spoke to her only in my heart.
One major supernormal capability I had was healing the sick. I put my hand over the diseased part and could feel energy coming out of my hand. I would feel a kind of exhaustion later on and was very tired sometimes, but the disease that I healed very easily disappeared. There are many different ways to heal the sick; I could heal in whichever way I liked.
In this way I began to go into action according to the Tao I had obtained, and became very well known in our local area. Many people came to me for healing of their diseases, and I was overjoyed to respond to every plea. I found out that my gong power increased by leaps and bounds when I used my supernormal capabilities to perform acts of charity. It became more and more miraculous and unbelievable. "
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "About a month later, I went out of town on business, and when evening came, I sat in meditation as usual and was tranquilized in meditation. I did not know how long a time had passed when a white light suddenly flashed in the room and seemed to have brightened up the whole room. I opened my eyes in surprise but did not see anything unusual. I closed my eyes again and realized that it was not a common light, but a good phenomenon of qigong practice, for I then remembered what Yan Xin had said in his book about the white light which one was not to be afraid of and the appearance of which was normal and a good thing. I did not know that I had on that day made a critical step into the spiritual sphere through qigong. Supernormal capabilities entered into me, starting from that point on."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 2: "It was "Yan Xin Qigong Report" (something like this). I took this book to a quiet room and read it with curiosity and admiration. I finished reading it in a few hours. When I turned over the last page of this book, I knew that the thing I had fancied and wished for had come at last and that my qigong gongfu was going to enter into a new epoch. This book recorded the content of Yan Xin's qi-emitting lectures and a testimonial literature about the strong reactions of thousands of attendants at his lectures. How incredible! Some of the attendants cried, some laughed; some couldn't keep from moving violently, and some ran up and down, screamed and shouted loudly. They all did different things at the same time but did not interfere with each other. Some paralyzed stood up from their wheel chairs and walked; many sick got healed immediately. The spectacular scenes were shocking and unbelievable. People were dumbstruck."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1: "Another very important reason that some practitioners discarded qigong was that, after they reached a certain level of qigong, they met with some horrible problems. The following are examples of such problems:
1. Some practitioners saw horrible things like ghosts, and heard strange voices and words, and experienced troubled days and nights.
2. Some practitioners of qigong could heal other people's diseases, but they were powerless with their own. Sometimes the effect was not good with kind people, but was especially good with evil people. This was inscrutable to them.
3. Some lost control of their supernormal capabilities and were unable to use them when they needed to. Yet those powers would sometimes come when they were not needed and cause embarrassment for the practitioners who could no longer control them as they would.
4. The character and temperament of some practitioners changed lamb-like gentleness to terrifying ferocity. They were full of fear, impetuosity, sorrow, despair, viciousness and pride. They were hateful and filled with lusts."
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1. Some practitioners saw horrible things like ghosts, and heard strange voices and words, and experienced troubled days and nights.
2. Some practitioners of qigong could heal other people's diseases, but they were powerless with their own. Sometimes the effect was not good with kind people, but was especially good with evil people. This was inscrutable to them.
3. Some lost control of their supernormal capabilities and were unable to use them when they needed to. Yet those powers would sometimes come when they were not needed and cause embarrassment for the practitioners who could no longer control them as they would.
4. The character and temperament of some practitioners changed lamb-like gentleness to terrifying ferocity. They were full of fear, impetuosity, sorrow, despair, viciousness and pride. They were hateful and filled with lusts."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1: "After 1995 there was another sparkling star in the practice of qigong, Mr. Li Hongzhi. His falun gong was influential not only in China, but also overseas. His method is simple and easy to learn. Because it does not encourage acquiring supernormal capabilities, practitioners do not feel it is too hard. It is called "gong trains people," not "people practice gong"; also it has surprising therapeutic effects. Since the evil spirit gives up conditional requirements on the practitioner, it displays in the practitioners and gong receivers more of its power and more directly than through other methods and performs a lot of miracles. This gong method has spread very rapidly, and its influence is widespread. In recent years it has become a new dominant trend in qigong. In 1999 there even took place in Beijing the world-wide-known "Falun Gong Event," which shocked the Chinese government and therefore resulted in a serious crackdown.
Many qigong masters and people with supernormal capabilities have appeared in the past who have had great influence in their local areas."
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Many qigong masters and people with supernormal capabilities have appeared in the past who have had great influence in their local areas."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 1: "At the same time, my mother's illness was becoming worse and worse and even very strange. When she was sick, she would be in a coma, but when she was rescued and had gained her consciousness, she was very quickly back to normal. She was diagnosed loosely as having a neurosis or such like. Her work unit finally agreed to let her receive treatment in a hospital in another city. My father went to accompany her; the joy and laughter in our house were now swept away, and in their place the family was covered by a heavy, melancholic atmosphere. Our parents returned home once in a while and brought home some books including qigong magazines. I had only recently learned about the word qigong and was curious about it, but did not know what on earth it was. My parents explained it to me yet were unable to really enlighten me regarding it.
My mother checked out of the hospital later without her sickness being cured. The medical doctors did not even find out what was wrong with her. One day my father found a book on health care from our collection of books. It taught wu qin xi (Five Animal Sports) by Hua Tuo, a famous physician of ancient China.
Mum started to practice the Five Animal Sports with Dad's help. It seemed to be like our setting-up exercises to radio music. Actually wu qin xi includes five kinds of movement. They are movements of the tiger, the deer, the ape, the bear and the bird. It is said that Hua Tuo was very much inspired while observing the movements of these animals and birds in mountains and forests and invented a form of health care gymnastics. Very soon, Mum was able to imitate the movements perfectly, and we all seemed to see some hope in our family.
For about one or two months my mum's health remained just as the same. Then one day Dad returned from a bookstore, bringing a book entitled "Spontaneous wu qin xi Movements". Through a careful study of this book, he and Mum made a surprising discovery! The book teaches in detail what wu qin xi really is. It is not simple gymnastic movements, but has deeper meaning. It is maneuvering the qi in your body according to some simple instructive steps and then allowing your body to spontaneously make the movements of the animals and birds by following the drive of the qi as if someone were leading you to do it. It sounded incredible, but Mum began to practice.
Shocking things happened! Mum began to move spontaneously while practicing! She could make animal movements and imitate their sounds so closely that they were just like the animal sounds! What was stranger was that my mum's health was recovering miraculously and her incurable disease was controlled. It was a marvel!"
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My mother checked out of the hospital later without her sickness being cured. The medical doctors did not even find out what was wrong with her. One day my father found a book on health care from our collection of books. It taught wu qin xi (Five Animal Sports) by Hua Tuo, a famous physician of ancient China.
Mum started to practice the Five Animal Sports with Dad's help. It seemed to be like our setting-up exercises to radio music. Actually wu qin xi includes five kinds of movement. They are movements of the tiger, the deer, the ape, the bear and the bird. It is said that Hua Tuo was very much inspired while observing the movements of these animals and birds in mountains and forests and invented a form of health care gymnastics. Very soon, Mum was able to imitate the movements perfectly, and we all seemed to see some hope in our family.
For about one or two months my mum's health remained just as the same. Then one day Dad returned from a bookstore, bringing a book entitled "Spontaneous wu qin xi Movements". Through a careful study of this book, he and Mum made a surprising discovery! The book teaches in detail what wu qin xi really is. It is not simple gymnastic movements, but has deeper meaning. It is maneuvering the qi in your body according to some simple instructive steps and then allowing your body to spontaneously make the movements of the animals and birds by following the drive of the qi as if someone were leading you to do it. It sounded incredible, but Mum began to practice.
Shocking things happened! Mum began to move spontaneously while practicing! She could make animal movements and imitate their sounds so closely that they were just like the animal sounds! What was stranger was that my mum's health was recovering miraculously and her incurable disease was controlled. It was a marvel!"
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 6
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 6: "Some other qigong practitioners still hold that qigong is a "science" and "materialistic." They take the so-called ghosts and gods as the information and energy of humankind and of the natural world. They too begin to hold reverence for the ghosts and gods and idols in the traditional religions. They consider ghosts and gods and idols as reflections and communications of information, hence worshipping of these idols brings good information and upgrades gong power. They do not regard these different happenings as results of the ghosts and gods' doings, but as caused by information that has come from man and the universe. Though they do not believe in ghosts and gods, they have already started to worship the evil spirits and idols. The materialistic and atheistic mode of thinking, adulterated with theory about ghosts and gods, produces a very characteristic worldview of qigong, with its main features being worshipping the mystery of the universe and humans themselves and the concept of not believing in, yet worshipping, ghosts and gods. Hence the materialistic and atheistic mode of thought holds that all the ghosts and gods in all religions are mere superstitious terms and that they can all be explained in terms of qigong."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 6
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 6: "The Danger of Qigong to Its Practitioners
After we have understood the principles and essence of qigong, we know that it is extremely dangerous and harmful to the practitioners themselves, their families, the society and the culture. When a new religion has been newly started by evil spirits, it breaks out with tremendous force and victimizes a lot of people severely.
Among all the harms it does, that done to the practitioners themselves is the greatest and the most direct."
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After we have understood the principles and essence of qigong, we know that it is extremely dangerous and harmful to the practitioners themselves, their families, the society and the culture. When a new religion has been newly started by evil spirits, it breaks out with tremendous force and victimizes a lot of people severely.
Among all the harms it does, that done to the practitioners themselves is the greatest and the most direct."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "A Brief Summary: the Scheme of the Devil
Why do the Ru Shi Tao have different gong methods and phenomena, even though they achieve the same results and have the same purpose intended for them by evil spirits?
What evil spirits want to do is to delude, destroy and enslave human beings. And they hope to destroy more and more people. So they raise many different religions in the world at different times. Each of these religions seems on the surface to have its own traditions, individual theories and training methods. The Ru Shi Tao are exactly religions as such. A plurality of religions can involve more people. Different people may have different religious tastes. One may not like Confucianism, but he/she may have an interest in Buddhism, or he/she may willingly accept Taoism. Whichever among these religions is chosen, the evil spirits achieve their purpose. The reason that evil spirits provide each of the Ru Shi Tao with different practicing methods, theories, and phenomena is to maintain the special characteristics of these religions. But once the practitioner's level of knowledge of theory and practice of it reaches the highest realm, he/she will discover that all methods have the same origin and all ways lead to the same destination. Then their worldviews and views of life are formed, stabilized and hard to change. The evil spirits, at this time, will let these people see the same results of Ru Shi Tao and all other heathen religions in order for them to respect each other for the religion each has and to be all jointly used by the evil spirits.
Why do the theories of the Ru Shi Tao and of contemporary qigong all relate to a philosophical elaboration of politics, view of life, worldview, ethical morals, and qigong training methods? (Even though there have not been discovered, up to the present time, any explicit qigong theories of practice in Confucianism.)
Scholars who do not know about the principles of qigong take the theories of the Ru Shi Tao as philosophical systems of theory regarding politics, military affairs, culture, ethical morals, view of life and worldviews. This understanding of Ru Shi Tao is very incomplete and unilateral, for the purpose and training methods of qigong are very important parts of Buddhism and Taoism.
Some people who are modern qigong practitioners regard Buddhist and Taoist theories mainly as the elaboration of qigong theory. I cannot agree with them. The philosophical systems of the Ru Shi Tao are also very important theoretical parts that these religions want to explicate.
The reason why the evil spirits raised up the Ru Shi Tao is that they wanted more people to believe in and worship themselves. Because the training methods of Buddhism and Taoism are not easily promulgated to society, only few believe in either Buddhism or Taoism. But through the supernormal capabilities and strange signs performed by a few, the evil spirits prove to people that the theories of these religions are truthful. And since Buddhism and Taoism have their own complete philosophical systems, many more who do not like to make any efforts in training can accept these philosophical theories as a kind of cultural belief. The evil spirits try to support the beliefs in ghosts and gods in these religions. For example, they try to make people believe in and worship idols, the devil, and evil spirits by performing magical signs in various ways through people who believe in these religions. Hence the evil spirits are more than happy to set up erroneous philosophical systems for more people to accept as their cultural beliefs so that these evil spirits can achieve the purpose of having people worship the idols and the evil spirits themselves.
The greatest characteristic of Confucian theories is that they avoid talking about qigong-like training methods directly so that these theories can form a complete philosophical system, with ethical moral theories as its major component. This religion does not have qigong-like training methods for direct contact with its spiritual background. It is not through physical or spiritual experiences that this religion's theories are proved. Hence it must be through logical thought and practice that this religion's folly and spiritual background is discovered as a general rule.
We have discussed in the second section of this chapter the similarities between Confucian worldviews and values and those of Taoism and qigong. They all use the same theory as their theoretical classic, which is I-Ching. In "Tian Fang Zi," Zhuang Zi, the following is recorded: Confucius met with Scholar Wen Bo and Lao Zi, both of whom were Taoists who had "obtained Tao." He asked questions about Lao Zi's "soul travel" (i.e. the "soul leaving the body" in qigong) and witnessed it. He thus then had a deep understanding and experiential knowledge of Tao. He highly praised "Tao" and had great reverence for it. Zhuang Zi, on the other hand, highly praised Confucius and regarded him as the only person who knew about "Tao" in the State Lu. We can see that it was the Taoists who proved Confucius' philosophical theories through their training methods and that his theory is exactly about "Tao." What Confucius lacked was the practical experience of "Tao." The apex of his philosophical view is exactly "Tao." Hence we know that the highest realm of Taoism and the highest realm of Confucianism are one."
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Why do the Ru Shi Tao have different gong methods and phenomena, even though they achieve the same results and have the same purpose intended for them by evil spirits?
What evil spirits want to do is to delude, destroy and enslave human beings. And they hope to destroy more and more people. So they raise many different religions in the world at different times. Each of these religions seems on the surface to have its own traditions, individual theories and training methods. The Ru Shi Tao are exactly religions as such. A plurality of religions can involve more people. Different people may have different religious tastes. One may not like Confucianism, but he/she may have an interest in Buddhism, or he/she may willingly accept Taoism. Whichever among these religions is chosen, the evil spirits achieve their purpose. The reason that evil spirits provide each of the Ru Shi Tao with different practicing methods, theories, and phenomena is to maintain the special characteristics of these religions. But once the practitioner's level of knowledge of theory and practice of it reaches the highest realm, he/she will discover that all methods have the same origin and all ways lead to the same destination. Then their worldviews and views of life are formed, stabilized and hard to change. The evil spirits, at this time, will let these people see the same results of Ru Shi Tao and all other heathen religions in order for them to respect each other for the religion each has and to be all jointly used by the evil spirits.
Why do the theories of the Ru Shi Tao and of contemporary qigong all relate to a philosophical elaboration of politics, view of life, worldview, ethical morals, and qigong training methods? (Even though there have not been discovered, up to the present time, any explicit qigong theories of practice in Confucianism.)
Scholars who do not know about the principles of qigong take the theories of the Ru Shi Tao as philosophical systems of theory regarding politics, military affairs, culture, ethical morals, view of life and worldviews. This understanding of Ru Shi Tao is very incomplete and unilateral, for the purpose and training methods of qigong are very important parts of Buddhism and Taoism.
Some people who are modern qigong practitioners regard Buddhist and Taoist theories mainly as the elaboration of qigong theory. I cannot agree with them. The philosophical systems of the Ru Shi Tao are also very important theoretical parts that these religions want to explicate.
The reason why the evil spirits raised up the Ru Shi Tao is that they wanted more people to believe in and worship themselves. Because the training methods of Buddhism and Taoism are not easily promulgated to society, only few believe in either Buddhism or Taoism. But through the supernormal capabilities and strange signs performed by a few, the evil spirits prove to people that the theories of these religions are truthful. And since Buddhism and Taoism have their own complete philosophical systems, many more who do not like to make any efforts in training can accept these philosophical theories as a kind of cultural belief. The evil spirits try to support the beliefs in ghosts and gods in these religions. For example, they try to make people believe in and worship idols, the devil, and evil spirits by performing magical signs in various ways through people who believe in these religions. Hence the evil spirits are more than happy to set up erroneous philosophical systems for more people to accept as their cultural beliefs so that these evil spirits can achieve the purpose of having people worship the idols and the evil spirits themselves.
The greatest characteristic of Confucian theories is that they avoid talking about qigong-like training methods directly so that these theories can form a complete philosophical system, with ethical moral theories as its major component. This religion does not have qigong-like training methods for direct contact with its spiritual background. It is not through physical or spiritual experiences that this religion's theories are proved. Hence it must be through logical thought and practice that this religion's folly and spiritual background is discovered as a general rule.
We have discussed in the second section of this chapter the similarities between Confucian worldviews and values and those of Taoism and qigong. They all use the same theory as their theoretical classic, which is I-Ching. In "Tian Fang Zi," Zhuang Zi, the following is recorded: Confucius met with Scholar Wen Bo and Lao Zi, both of whom were Taoists who had "obtained Tao." He asked questions about Lao Zi's "soul travel" (i.e. the "soul leaving the body" in qigong) and witnessed it. He thus then had a deep understanding and experiential knowledge of Tao. He highly praised "Tao" and had great reverence for it. Zhuang Zi, on the other hand, highly praised Confucius and regarded him as the only person who knew about "Tao" in the State Lu. We can see that it was the Taoists who proved Confucius' philosophical theories through their training methods and that his theory is exactly about "Tao." What Confucius lacked was the practical experience of "Tao." The apex of his philosophical view is exactly "Tao." Hence we know that the highest realm of Taoism and the highest realm of Confucianism are one."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "There are also in Taoism external practicing methods. People no longer have to take the internal practice method, which is qigong practice, but directly start dealings and communications with evil spirits through some means. It is similar to the performance of supernormal capabilities and special signs. The following is the fu lu shu method: the drawing of some word-like signs, which are the so-called "words of immortals" to suppress the demons and heal diseases. The following is the nian zhou shu method: incantations for healing diseases, expelling disasters and ferocious animals, etc. There are also divinations. And qi rang shu is pleading to the evil spirits for blessings and for the avoidance of disasters. Bu dao chang is more complex. Altars have to be built, incense burnt, offerings made, gods invited and seen off, scripture read, and ceremonies chanted, with decoration with candles lit on candlesticks and also accompaniment by music. The priests have to bathe and change and abstain from meat, fish and liquor. The purpose of these external methods of practice are for the practitioners to help the common folk to cross the sea of bitterness in this life, to do good deeds and cultivate all kinds of virtues, and to become immortals. They are in essence types of qigong training, having the same goal as qigong, which is to become immortal and never see death.
Furthermore, the Chinese traditional belief in ghosts and gods is also incorporated into Taoism, just as it has been incorporated into Confucianism. This is natural, for all these phenomena are all the same in essence, being cultural phenomena with the activity of evil spirits as their backgrounds.
In a word, all the Taoist practicing methods are actually the present-day qigong practicing methods. Their spiritual background is the activity of evil spirits, which intend to lead people astray from the true meaning of life toward destruction and death."
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Furthermore, the Chinese traditional belief in ghosts and gods is also incorporated into Taoism, just as it has been incorporated into Confucianism. This is natural, for all these phenomena are all the same in essence, being cultural phenomena with the activity of evil spirits as their backgrounds.
In a word, all the Taoist practicing methods are actually the present-day qigong practicing methods. Their spiritual background is the activity of evil spirits, which intend to lead people astray from the true meaning of life toward destruction and death."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "Also, according to the Zhi Bei You, "The Emperor said, 'Wu si wu lu shi zhi dao, wu chu wu fu shi an dao, wu cong wu dao shi de dao.'" ("When you have no selfish desires or concerns, you will know Tao. When you are bound to no place or duty, you will feel at home with Tao. When you follow no rules or methods, you will obtain Tao.") This describes the process of practicing. When you have given up all selfish desires, you then begin to know "Tao." When you are not bound by anything and yet do not do anything, you can keep "Tao." When you do not seek "Tao" through any means or ways, you have obtained "Tao." This process is the same as that of Buddhist and qigong training. From the Buddhist cutting off of "the six roots" (six human desires) to the relaxing, diving into quiet, and getting rid of distracting thoughts taught by qigong, from Buddhist attentive and willing training to the renouncing of worldly affairs and long-time practice encouraged by qigong, finally from the Buddhist "realm of void" after "sudden awakening" to "man's twenty-four-hour connection with the energy of the universe," which is actually staying in a qigong state twenty-four hours a day—these are all completely identical processes of principles, even though from different approaches. They all have the same result, which is reaching the realm of union with evil spirits.
During the process of Taoist training, a lot of things will happen to destroy the happiness of life. Such things happen often. And because the practitioners do not have time and the mood to do things that should be done, they lose more and more in life, so that they can desire less and less and have a quiet heart, having really nothing much to do. This is so-called the "realm of doing nothing." If practitioners continue their training, they may obtain "Tao" and reach the highest realm of "heaven and man united as one, Tao and me united as one." At this time the practitioners will begin to acquire powerful supernormal capabilities for performing magical signs of all sorts, as if there is nothing that cannot be done. This shows that the evil spirits have become one with the practitioner. Qigong practitioners, especially of very high levels, have deep experiences of this phenomenon."
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During the process of Taoist training, a lot of things will happen to destroy the happiness of life. Such things happen often. And because the practitioners do not have time and the mood to do things that should be done, they lose more and more in life, so that they can desire less and less and have a quiet heart, having really nothing much to do. This is so-called the "realm of doing nothing." If practitioners continue their training, they may obtain "Tao" and reach the highest realm of "heaven and man united as one, Tao and me united as one." At this time the practitioners will begin to acquire powerful supernormal capabilities for performing magical signs of all sorts, as if there is nothing that cannot be done. This shows that the evil spirits have become one with the practitioner. Qigong practitioners, especially of very high levels, have deep experiences of this phenomenon."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "Lao Zi holds that human beings should seek for the realm of "Tao." He explains that it is a realm of "doing nothing." And the realm of "doing nothing" is "heaven and man united as one," and "Tao and I united as one." "Tao" then is "I" and "I" am "Tao." Though different in approach, this achieves the same result as the Buddhist "Buddha is I and I am Buddha." The realm of Tao's "doing nothing" is the same as the realm of the "void" in Buddhism. Their essence is becoming one with the evil spirits."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "Both qigong practitioners and Buddhists who have reached this level know exactly what this "true self" feels like. The essence of this "true self" is the evil spirits that have become one with the soul within. Qigong practitioners at this level have acquired many supernormal capabilities. Buddhist monks at this level can also experience a special "wisdom," capabilities, and "the blissful feeling" of the body and soul. This feeling indicates that the practitioner has entered into an "empty" state, in which the practitioner feels self satisfied and then empty, no longer feeling one's own existence. Temporal and spatial senses begin to become different at this time. Practitioners at this level feel that they have already attained the highest state of enlightenment, and for them sitting in meditation has become an enjoyment. The so-called "chan ji" (chan strategies), an abstruse, mysterious, and comprehensible but unspeakable mode of thought, has taken shape in them. It is a kind of combination of learning, feeling and experience. It is a kind of inexplicable thinking carried out spiritually by the evil spirits now residing in them.
In Buddhism there is a "six-word true verse", which is actually an incantation. There is an incantation that Buddhist monks never quit saying, "a mi tuo fu", which has the effect of worshipping evil spirits. There are many qigong practitioners who like very much to hear these words. People who are sensitive to spiritual affairs have a direct feeling of the energy in these words. Some uneducated old ladies who believe in Buddha devotedly, even though they do not know any "chan ji," simply repeat these words every day, over ten thousand times sometimes, and strange things happen. For example, they can see and hear strange things. They can also have very comfortable feelings, enjoy good health, and feel the great and dreadful power of "Buddha." They will thus respect the "Buddha" even more. Yet the "Buddha" is an evil spirit. Now there are even audiotapes of "a mi tuo fu." Pious devotees of Buddhism listen to them repeatedly and very effectively enter into qigong state in this way. Hence we see that such a level can be arrived at without strict practice, or theory, or logical processes. Just as is said in Buddhism, "Law is without set rules, all laws point to the same one goal." "Giving up the one self brings forth the chan strategies." These theories expose the motivations and means of the evil spirits thoroughly. As long as humans worship these evil spirits, they will let them reach the highest realm because the purpose of the evil spirits is to have people give up their souls and bow down willingly before them.
It is recorded that before Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, yuanji (which means "died"), he said to his disciples, "Wu you zheng fa yan zang, nie pan miao xin, shi xiang wu xiang, wei miao fa men, bu li wen zi, jiao wai bie chuan, fu zhu yu ru, ru dang hu chi, chuan fu jiang lai." The meaning is approximately: "The 'fa' (the truth, the law) that I preach indeed exists but is hard to comprehend. It is an experience very subtle and inexplicable through any words and languages. I impart it to you now, and you should continue to spread it to future generations." These words by Sakyamuni reflected his experience, which is the experience of a human dealing with evil spirits. It does not have fixed patterns, for the goal of evil spirits is to use the most suitable means to captivate and enslave deluded human beings.
The training principle of Buddhism is for humans to suppress and give up their souls and consciousness and to accept Buddhist practice and learning with a sincere heart. After Buddhists have realized this principle, they discover that all scripture teaches the same principle and aims at the same goal. They hence find it no longer necessary to study any scripture, but proceed immediately to sit in meditation and just experience it to reach a very high level, or state, in which evil spirits and human souls unite as one. This is also described by Buddhism as follows: after one's "dunwu" (attaining sudden enlightenment), one will discover that "I am Buddha and Buddha is I." This Buddha is evil spirits; the abstruse and mysterious "chan" is the experience, views and modes of thinking that the evil spirits living in humans engender in them. This is all of the "truth" of Buddhism."
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In Buddhism there is a "six-word true verse", which is actually an incantation. There is an incantation that Buddhist monks never quit saying, "a mi tuo fu", which has the effect of worshipping evil spirits. There are many qigong practitioners who like very much to hear these words. People who are sensitive to spiritual affairs have a direct feeling of the energy in these words. Some uneducated old ladies who believe in Buddha devotedly, even though they do not know any "chan ji," simply repeat these words every day, over ten thousand times sometimes, and strange things happen. For example, they can see and hear strange things. They can also have very comfortable feelings, enjoy good health, and feel the great and dreadful power of "Buddha." They will thus respect the "Buddha" even more. Yet the "Buddha" is an evil spirit. Now there are even audiotapes of "a mi tuo fu." Pious devotees of Buddhism listen to them repeatedly and very effectively enter into qigong state in this way. Hence we see that such a level can be arrived at without strict practice, or theory, or logical processes. Just as is said in Buddhism, "Law is without set rules, all laws point to the same one goal." "Giving up the one self brings forth the chan strategies." These theories expose the motivations and means of the evil spirits thoroughly. As long as humans worship these evil spirits, they will let them reach the highest realm because the purpose of the evil spirits is to have people give up their souls and bow down willingly before them.
It is recorded that before Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, yuanji (which means "died"), he said to his disciples, "Wu you zheng fa yan zang, nie pan miao xin, shi xiang wu xiang, wei miao fa men, bu li wen zi, jiao wai bie chuan, fu zhu yu ru, ru dang hu chi, chuan fu jiang lai." The meaning is approximately: "The 'fa' (the truth, the law) that I preach indeed exists but is hard to comprehend. It is an experience very subtle and inexplicable through any words and languages. I impart it to you now, and you should continue to spread it to future generations." These words by Sakyamuni reflected his experience, which is the experience of a human dealing with evil spirits. It does not have fixed patterns, for the goal of evil spirits is to use the most suitable means to captivate and enslave deluded human beings.
The training principle of Buddhism is for humans to suppress and give up their souls and consciousness and to accept Buddhist practice and learning with a sincere heart. After Buddhists have realized this principle, they discover that all scripture teaches the same principle and aims at the same goal. They hence find it no longer necessary to study any scripture, but proceed immediately to sit in meditation and just experience it to reach a very high level, or state, in which evil spirits and human souls unite as one. This is also described by Buddhism as follows: after one's "dunwu" (attaining sudden enlightenment), one will discover that "I am Buddha and Buddha is I." This Buddha is evil spirits; the abstruse and mysterious "chan" is the experience, views and modes of thinking that the evil spirits living in humans engender in them. This is all of the "truth" of Buddhism."
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Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5
Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is: Chapter 5: "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are shortened in Chinese as Ru Shi Tao.
The close relationship between qigong and Ru Shi Tao is only known to some qigong personnel and researchers on Ru Shi Tao who happen to know about qigong. This relation explains why among gong methods are some methods of Confucianism, of Buddhism and of Taoism. But this relation is denied and derided by many scholars. Atheists believe religion to be a kind of outlook on life, worldview and philosophical system of ethical morals. Even some theists would not regard qigong as having any actual connection with Ru Shi Tao, for they do not know the essence and principles of qigong.
Yet qigong practitioners and people who have studied qigong theory would know that qigong has a deep relationship with Ru Shi Tao. The reasons are simple: First, Ru Shi Tao theories and qigong theories are similar or completely identical in many aspects. Second, many of the gong methods practiced have originated from these three religions. Practitioners of them get great help from the philosophical thoughts and detailed qigong theories of these three religions. Hence, they have concluded that qigong and these three religions have the same origin. Confucianism has the lightest qigong coloring of these three, and this is why Confucian gong methods are almost lost and are seldom known by people today.
Why do the Ru Shi Tao all have their own qigong methods? Is this a coincidence? What are the purposes of these gong methods? What connections do they have with the philosophical theories of these religions?
This is a very natural question. The answer to this question is the key to understanding the spiritual background of these religions. We will here clarify our views about this topic and then elaborate and prove our views in the next three sections.
Generally speaking, the spiritual background of Ru Shi Tao is the activity of evil spirits, just like that of qigong. The goal of Ru Shi Tao is exactly the same as that of qigong, which is also the purpose of the evil spirits.
We all know that the purpose of religion is to enable human beings to know about spiritual reality and get close to spiritual beings. Human beings have a natural tendency to worship God. God has placed this desire within the human soul. The purpose of the devil, however, is to prevent people from knowing God, to keep them far away from God so that they will turn to the worship of evil spirits. Henceforth, it is the purpose of the devil to set up various religions in this world so that people will believe and worship the devil and his evil spirits.
However, there is only one religion that God has set up through man.
Evil spirits try to tempt man through various religions with the purpose of destroying man's soul and life. Let us stick to Ru Shi Tao for an illustration. These religions are means to make people voluntarily get close to the devil, who can then control and enslave them. First, Ru Shi Tao all offer views on life and death and philosophical theories of ethical morals. Yet these theories are very obscure regarding their views of life and death and the meaning of life and unable to survive any examinations by logic and analysis. But like almost all the rest of the religions in the world, their theories of ethical morals advocate the beauty of the humanities. No one will say to this: This is wrong. We will not because God has put the standard for right and wrong, goodness and evil, in the human heart. After people have endorsed these views, they start to accept the rest of the theories in Ru Shi Tao. If ever any theory contradicts the common morals of human kind, it will be rejected instantly. The evil spirits are not stupid. Though the motivation of the devils is vicious, they will resort to means not easily noticeable to people to dupe them step by step.
The evil spirits adulterate dangerous lies with easily accepted theories in order to catch people off guard and make them accept those views partially or wholly. This is the half-true, half-false lie that we have talked about in Chapter 4.2. Having people agree directly with the theories and then attracting them into practice are these religions' characteristic means of deceiving people.
Among Ru Shi Tao, Confucianism is the religion that has ethical morals as its main preoccupation. So it is not easy for people to discern its spiritual background. Up to the present, except for the few qigong personnel who know its spiritual background to be evil spirits, most people, especially Chinese, take Confucian culture as one of man’s highest treasures. Yet modern Chinese history has not seen success but rather suffering and shame brought about by this mainstream element of Chinese culture.
The major aspects of Taoism and Buddhism are concerned with ghosts, gods, and determinism. They have distinctive qigong theories and gong methods. Their contact with the spiritual world is relatively more direct. It is easy for people to see that their theories are about ghosts and gods; hence atheists, in particular, reject them very readily. This is also why Buddhism and Taoism have declined much more quickly than Confucianism in modern times.
Like that of qigong, the purpose of all religions with the activity of evil spirits as their background is to have people believe, worship and be manipulated by evil spirits."
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The close relationship between qigong and Ru Shi Tao is only known to some qigong personnel and researchers on Ru Shi Tao who happen to know about qigong. This relation explains why among gong methods are some methods of Confucianism, of Buddhism and of Taoism. But this relation is denied and derided by many scholars. Atheists believe religion to be a kind of outlook on life, worldview and philosophical system of ethical morals. Even some theists would not regard qigong as having any actual connection with Ru Shi Tao, for they do not know the essence and principles of qigong.
Yet qigong practitioners and people who have studied qigong theory would know that qigong has a deep relationship with Ru Shi Tao. The reasons are simple: First, Ru Shi Tao theories and qigong theories are similar or completely identical in many aspects. Second, many of the gong methods practiced have originated from these three religions. Practitioners of them get great help from the philosophical thoughts and detailed qigong theories of these three religions. Hence, they have concluded that qigong and these three religions have the same origin. Confucianism has the lightest qigong coloring of these three, and this is why Confucian gong methods are almost lost and are seldom known by people today.
Why do the Ru Shi Tao all have their own qigong methods? Is this a coincidence? What are the purposes of these gong methods? What connections do they have with the philosophical theories of these religions?
This is a very natural question. The answer to this question is the key to understanding the spiritual background of these religions. We will here clarify our views about this topic and then elaborate and prove our views in the next three sections.
Generally speaking, the spiritual background of Ru Shi Tao is the activity of evil spirits, just like that of qigong. The goal of Ru Shi Tao is exactly the same as that of qigong, which is also the purpose of the evil spirits.
We all know that the purpose of religion is to enable human beings to know about spiritual reality and get close to spiritual beings. Human beings have a natural tendency to worship God. God has placed this desire within the human soul. The purpose of the devil, however, is to prevent people from knowing God, to keep them far away from God so that they will turn to the worship of evil spirits. Henceforth, it is the purpose of the devil to set up various religions in this world so that people will believe and worship the devil and his evil spirits.
However, there is only one religion that God has set up through man.
Evil spirits try to tempt man through various religions with the purpose of destroying man's soul and life. Let us stick to Ru Shi Tao for an illustration. These religions are means to make people voluntarily get close to the devil, who can then control and enslave them. First, Ru Shi Tao all offer views on life and death and philosophical theories of ethical morals. Yet these theories are very obscure regarding their views of life and death and the meaning of life and unable to survive any examinations by logic and analysis. But like almost all the rest of the religions in the world, their theories of ethical morals advocate the beauty of the humanities. No one will say to this: This is wrong. We will not because God has put the standard for right and wrong, goodness and evil, in the human heart. After people have endorsed these views, they start to accept the rest of the theories in Ru Shi Tao. If ever any theory contradicts the common morals of human kind, it will be rejected instantly. The evil spirits are not stupid. Though the motivation of the devils is vicious, they will resort to means not easily noticeable to people to dupe them step by step.
The evil spirits adulterate dangerous lies with easily accepted theories in order to catch people off guard and make them accept those views partially or wholly. This is the half-true, half-false lie that we have talked about in Chapter 4.2. Having people agree directly with the theories and then attracting them into practice are these religions' characteristic means of deceiving people.
Among Ru Shi Tao, Confucianism is the religion that has ethical morals as its main preoccupation. So it is not easy for people to discern its spiritual background. Up to the present, except for the few qigong personnel who know its spiritual background to be evil spirits, most people, especially Chinese, take Confucian culture as one of man’s highest treasures. Yet modern Chinese history has not seen success but rather suffering and shame brought about by this mainstream element of Chinese culture.
The major aspects of Taoism and Buddhism are concerned with ghosts, gods, and determinism. They have distinctive qigong theories and gong methods. Their contact with the spiritual world is relatively more direct. It is easy for people to see that their theories are about ghosts and gods; hence atheists, in particular, reject them very readily. This is also why Buddhism and Taoism have declined much more quickly than Confucianism in modern times.
Like that of qigong, the purpose of all religions with the activity of evil spirits as their background is to have people believe, worship and be manipulated by evil spirits."
In qigong evil spirits have taken off all their coverings in the forms of various religions and have presented directly their essential contents. They used to guide people timidly through the means of the various religions, but now teach people the most direct meanings of dealings with the evil spirits through qigong.
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