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It is still fun to try to "crack" the language the same way a thief tries to "crack" a safe

That screws up my plan B. Giving a bliss attack to an attacker so that I can run away Screwing somebody like that is out of bounds.

That depends on how what is your view of going with nature. At some point, in our ancient history, humans and some of our predecessors hibernated during winter time. How do you figure some people come down with seasonal affective disorder? Sleeping, hibernating, or meditating for three to five months out of a year would easily extend life past 130 years with significantly better quality of life. For a person's body to be so clean that they can maintain tortoise breathing (Samadhi?) when they are walking (Macrocosmic Orbit?) about that should extend life too. Maintaining a mind that's like a mountain? = Samadhi? unstirred? For us people that are too "Western-minded", I think it is a matter of cracking the language and intentionally looking for a clue or something that we understand.

Check tortoise breathing. Take note that the words "small universe" are in there. It is fully possible to be in a state where breathing completely stops (lung and skin). There is documentation all over the net about yogis being buried without air or put into chambers that were airtight for more than 8 hours. I think that all of us here are YEARS AND YEARS away from a TRUE Microcosmic Orbit. It's interesting that you say "zero-point" vacuum. That brings thoughts of Boris Sidis, William James Sidis, William James, and their theories on "reserve energy" that is gathered from a void.

I rather have the foresight to avoid a fight to the point where I can see it coming years and years before. This body of mine wasn't meant for giving or receiving blows

The only people that get a permanent pass out of the matrix are full fledged Buddhas. This world is getting further and further flushed down the toilet. If I take a LONG vacation and come back, I know that I'm going to be pissed. As soon as I die I want to come back ASAP but with a better poker hand

From the same chan (Zen) link that I posted earlier: "According to your level of concentration, there can be four levels of breathing: The first level, nostril breathing, is the shallowest one. Its meaning is just what the name suggests. At this stage, you are breathing through the nostrils about 16 to 18 breaths per minute. The second level is called abdominal breathing. As your breathing becomes deeper, although your breath still passes through the nostrils, there are movements of the rising and falling of the abdomen. The third level is called embryonic breathing. At this stage, the breath no longer passes through the nostrils. Instead, every pore throughout the body is breathing. The whole universe is like the womb of the mother, and your body -- the embryo -- receives oxygen directly from the environment. The fourth level is called tortoise breathing. At this stage, oxygen from the external environment is no longer needed. Your metabolism slows down so much that even the heart stops beating. You are in a very deep state of samadhi. The body of the meditator becomes its own small universe. The energy inside the body circulates, supports, and nourishes itself" I'm not really aware of how to build the Dan Tien or what is the correct location of the Lower Dan Tien because many traditions differ on where it is located. One tradition states that it is located a little over an inch (3 cm) below the navel, while another tradition actually identifies it as the lower of the three brains (the intestines). I use the Chinese definition of the lower Dan Tien, a little over an inch below the navel. From what little body awareness that I have, it seems to build during the pauses rather than the inhales or exhales.

In a free ebook that Bill Bodri put out, it has Confucius stating that proper virtue and moral is actually one of the benefits of effective meditation. Knowing what to do that is in line with the will of Heaven clears a lot of problems.

Does attaining prajna wisdom, right thinking, and right doing fall in any place in the cultivation? Keeping the prajna wisdom, right thinking, and right doing into the next reincarnation and the following reincarnation?

*and I respectfully bow towards Lin* Thank you

This is what I've pieced together. Emptiness, still, or sitting is supposed to bring a restorative effect. The mind is supposed to organize itself the way a computer defragments it's files and organizes for quicker access. At a certain point, after the mind restores itself, it will be able to restore the body. When doing emptiness, the body is able to restore itself faster and more efficiently than from just sleeping alone. It helps detoxify the body and escorts lactate out of the body faster after a hard workout. In a way, it shouldn't be called "Emptiness", it should be called non-clinging. Mantra and visualizations are supposed to help in one-pointed concentration. The one-pointed concentration is supposed to help in maintaining a state so that a person can reach eventually maintain embryonic breathing and tortoise breathing <---this is where most physical transformation are supposed to occur. The physical transformation is supposed to better enable a cultivator to attain a spiritual transformation. http://www.chan1.org/ddp/channews/09-1996.html "The third level is called embryonic breathing. At this stage, the breath no longer passes through the nostrils. Instead, every pore throughout the body is breathing. The whole universe is like the womb of the mother, and your body -- the embryo -- receives oxygen directly from the environment. The fourth level is called tortoise breathing. At this stage, oxygen from the external environment is no longer needed. Your metabolism slows down so much that even the heart stops beating. You are in a very deep state of samadhi. The body of the meditator becomes its own small universe. The energy inside the body circulates, supports, and nourishes itself" As per one of the Shakyamuni's discourses, everything is supposed to happen in between the in breath and the out breath. When intent and breathing are unified and breathing stops then intent stops. What I get from it is that most gains are done during the pauses(do not strain to hold your breath). It may differ from individual to individual, I get a better feel of my lower Dan Tien pausing after the exhale.

I inadvertently succeeded in the decalcification before but I really doubt that it was the same route as their special diet. What I did: 1. abstained from starches and simple carbohydrates 2. alternated two sessions of 45 minutes on a recumbent bike on one day and 60 minutes the next day. It'll hurt the knees, but if the individual is healthy enough, after a couple of days there will be more hamstring muscle recruitment. To speed up recruitment, it might help to do free hand squats or barbell squats below parallel, make sure that the heels touch the ground and do not relax your leg muscles at any point. 3. Drank water throughout the day, the ratio was almost 3/4ths of an ounce per pound of bodyweight. Make sure to reduce your water as your bodyweight goes down. 4. If you use dietary supplements, try to cycle and use something different each time. I used brainquicken, omega-3, 5-HTP, melatonin. Piracetam was way too harsh and left me with a brain that felt burnt out. Piracetam probably needs to be mixed with something else in order so that the effect balances out. 5. It might help to reduce sleep for four hours a night with no naps throughout the day for a month. It was a busy time at the time, the opening of the pineal gland happened when I went back to a regular sleep schedule. 1-4 lasted a month and a half 1-4 and 5 overlapped in the last two weeks The only time there was any retention was in the last two weeks because life was so goddamn hectic. After I returned to a normal sleep schedule, something popped in the back of the head and I felt a rush of cool refreshing energy. It was scary, because I didn't know what was going on at the time, and somewhat comforting at the same time because it felt like a renewal. It might be good to reduce all of these time periods if you are already in good physical condition. At the beginning of the two months, I was at 205 pounds at 5'6". At the end of the time period, I was at 179 at 5'6". I'm in between 155 and 160 right now. Keep in mind, that body fat stores are not only reserve energy but also a means for the body to get toxins away from critical areas. At the time that it happened, I didn't know anything about cultivation.

The guy did it to the ultimate sacred cow, Shakyamuni...and I'm not a Buddhist at that. That really turned me off.

If that's the case, I'll probably need to cultivate for the next few thousand years with something like Kunlun

Interesting is right. I had to give up the MCO because it was causing too much pressure. I'll pick it back up after I do a gallbladder/liver flush this weekend, I started on the granny smith apples already. Think it might be preventing jing from converting to chi. Don't know what I'll do on the heart pressure though. After a while (a month or so) from doing the MCO, I have a resting heart rate of over 100 bpm...a large difference from the 55-60 bpm resting heart rate. Quiet sitting has been a lot more advantageous than I could ever hope for. The five gates (actually three gates, since I breathe out through the feet rather than the hands) breathing I haven't given up. I don't think that my body is clean enough to do some of the other stuff I want to do, like the muscle-tendon changing or the bone marrow energy packing. I saw it when it first started, I lost interest in the first few postings...it got significantly better What they said was true, Trunk-style porn (integrating and balancing the three centers) does make for some blockbuster stuff

Another Taoist NYC dude. Have taken some advice from Plato...kind of reminds me, I haven't checked his blog in a while. Kind of indirectly connected to Sifu Max, via Sifu Philip Toledo I'll have to pass up on LA. It's not smooshed enough together like NYC. Don't like airplanes or having to deal with the hassle of getting on one either.

I liked that one too, I like most of the fighting games. I heard a friend talking before, he said that if he ever marries into an already made family, the kid better be a teenager like that he can play with kid's electronic toys (nintendo, PSX,...) I had another friend that was invincible at Super Mario Kart, while drunk. The guy couldn't even keep his balance swaying back and forth (and falling down) , he still managed to keep the kart on the road at top speed ...I'm wondering how he still had beer googles when he went out to the club and got drunk

Don't watch TV...not enough skin > , except for turning on the cartoon channel every six to eight months, and watching pay per view boxing or MMA. In the last few months, I tried playing the Streetfighter Collection Edition on a PS2, it kind of left me in a state of euphoria but was way too taxing on the nerves. Much better than playing Mortal Kombat, umpteen years ago, I used to scream and curse at the game so bad that I would develop red spots all over my neck

Try Guru Santiago Dobles, from first hand knowledge, he is VERY good at doing remotes and feels like he takes off 5-10 years of wear and tear. His chi seems to include hidden messages, so watch the phosphenes very carefully. Sifu Robert Peng teaches remote healing is a lot more than capable of doing it but I don't know if he offers it. First hand knowledge, this man is incredible. Sifu Philip Toledo is awesome too, remotely. The skin was almost busting from the chi. Even with the fallout in between him and Sifu Max, I have to give the guy credit. I know of Zeev Kolman by reputation.

There is a Ramada Plaza Hotel that is 2.6 miles north of LAX. (Culver City) If you catch a taxi, watch out for hustlers. The Bodhi Tree is about 16.5 miles North of LAX.

I thought that the way it was done had a certain wisdom and frame of thought to it.

I think that it might be a joke, in a way, since the teacher is probably surprised that the student made it that far

Gets kind of "iffy" on account of the tummo heat thing. It seems that a lot of the advanced people do the "sleigh of hand" or just post something in public that seems absurd as a way out of something or kind of like a self-preservation measure.

Amen

Bigu is a very advanced practice. From what I've seen in the Bill Bodri book, it is 100 day long body purification and requires that a person be stable in a walking and talking samadhi state. If the person is advanced enough but can't stabilize they may make it through it but it is going to be a colossal pain. From the pieces of the puzzle that I can fish out in the internet, I think that it was an adaptation for winter time.