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This is a good opportunity to investigate yourself more fully then.

He was only talking about WTC7...enough said.

I'm not the type to argue about beliefs.

Yea...I can do that.

Great posts Cloudwalking Owl, as well as exorcist! I'll give my point of view: Think about this: when a person is celibate, they still release semen in wet dreams. Everyone is different and it can happen at different times...one person might have a wet dream every few nights, another every couple of weeks. Maybe some people don't even have wet dreams at all, or at least it isn't noticeable. That is just the body having too much semen production so the cup kind of overflows. It's not good to have stagnation in anything. That's why it's good for the body to drink water and pee, to move and sweat, to eat and shit, to shower and clean the skin, to take in energy and release it, etc. Why stagnate in ejaculation? It's good to let it out at the amount your body needs. It becomes bad for you when you're letting it out more than your body needs. As a general rule of thumb, waiting a week seems to work well for someone younger like me. With meditation, qigong, tantra, etc...the jing, which helps create the semen, is turned into chi which nourishes shen. Without spiritual practices, the jing is kept for just making more semen. So really the key isn't to stop ejaculating at all, it's to hold back a bit and do spiritual practices. And celibacy is still great, but it's not that big of a deal. The loss in a wet dream is especially not that big of a deal, so long as you're doing worthwhile practices. Just my opinion...

I tried amaroli back when I was into kundalini. It has effects...about whether it can cure things, I don't know. It seems that wasn't the case for me.

I guess it's a good question since I hardly feel qualified to explain what it means....I wasn't the one who originally said it. The way I personally interpret it is that a root practice is something which puts you in harmony with the Tao...whatever that means. All of the stuff happening to you as a result of spiritual practices, all of the differences in techniques and different practices, different energies, etc...all of that is an attempt to achieve one thing. The releasing of blockages, and an opening up to the divine/true self/God/Tao/uhhh whatever else. So I think whatever practice you have that does that, it can be called a root practice. Yours is probably included in that. So the spontaneous movement...to me that's an external thing. It's just a side effect of the actual process which is going on. Eh, I should stop talking...I hardly know enough.

Silicon, Me too! What is your practice? Well the kunlun system is a root practice. The differences are only in the details. It's like if you use Crest to brush your teeth, or if you use Colgate.

Fair enough, how about you do that?

So what is the difference? - Results promised/attained? - The practical nitty gritties like posture, mudra etc? - The process that takes place within when the practice is undertaken? Well I used to be into WKK's chi kung stuff. He has spontaneous movement practice in his system. I just did it from the books...I think there's a bit of a transmission there as well, when you go to his seminar. I don't have experience with that particular energy. But in his system, you start out standing, or you press certain points and do slight kicks and bends before letting go. In the kunlun system, you sit in the posture and let go. So it's a bit different. The practices in the kunlun system also make it very very different. At least from anything I've had experience with! The transmission may or may not be the same energy as certain other systems, which I don't know of. I've never done a transmission before kunlun, so I can't say about any of that.

From what I understand, there are always problems no matter how advanced you are. Why do you hope something is real and attainable if you don't know what it is?

Spontaneous movement practices are all cool. Kunlun level one is a bit different than most, but the theory is the same: start out in a certain way and then let flow. Kunlun isn't just that, though...there are quite a few very different practices which constitute the system. And there is also the transmission. So all of that makes it very very different from other spontaneous practices, I think.

I really liked Hiah Park.

Coke really IS "it".

Hahaha...wow.

This is a good story! So far I'm up to episode 3.

I was interested in the weather magic/feng shui book...still considering spending the cash.

Some cool images, but I don't get it. What does this have to do with enlightenment?

Pretty cool opening ceremony! My favorite part was the Confucious people with the tall hats.

Thanks for that post, Mike. I didn't previously know it was that dangerous.

Ouch..I just found out that it's not on CBS which is apparently the only channel I have with my antennae. Trying to find a way to watch the opening ceremonies online....

I can't wait...finally got a tv so I can watch it!

Good post SiliconValley! I started out by studying whatever I could find from any tradition. From gathering together an idea of the root path, I formulated my own practice which I called "death yoga". I laid on my bed and vowed to not move a muscle besides to breathe and swallow my spit until I became enlightened. A few hours later, tons of energy rushed through me and my mind flipped inside out, "I" disappeared in a sense. The point at which that happened, I gave up everything of my life and accepted whatever was to come because I cared only for enlightenment...whatever that was. After that, I got into witnessing meditation via Ramana Maharshi, and would spend my entire day in high school and at home practicing. That lasted I don't know how long...too long. I did some basic Kriya yoga with that...doing a technique where you visualize light concentrating at the chakras and moving up the spine over and over. Tried other techniques, etc. Came in contact with a Swami G lady over the internet, and was going to take diksha and be initiated into that Siddha path. It didn't work out, but I had pretty intense kundalini stuff going on at that time. Like not being able to sleep at night...feeling nauseous and like I was about to start levitating all the time...being loopy as hell...not being able to sit cross legged....tons of other negative symptoms. One funny thing: I was listening to talk radio while driving my car on a long trip, and the pope came on and I had a huge awakening. I had to pull over. Practiced AYP kundalini yoga methods for a good 2/3 years. I found it to be not good for me...the main problem may have been grounding and rooting, which the AYP system really lacks. What helped me with that was AWA meditation, which is the same as witnessing, but it's a good way to go about it. That balanced out the negative kundalini stuff I had. I still love AWA a lot...very direct. I practice it with kunlun sometimes, and tend to do it before bed. So out of that, I think the kunlun system is my favorite in terms of safety and speed. Out of the kunlun system, I think Red Sun is the most powerful practice I've tried. It's a lot like the "death yoga" I began with, except it doesn't take hours or however long until the fear of death comes up, to work.

I think it'd be good to consult TCM folks...kunlun won't be a miracle cure all the time.