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Of course... all of them caught in the delusion that there is increase or decrease. It is entirely possible to understand if there is a desire to gnow.

What I say is unimportant. If you are curious you can find it out for yourself. That is the beauty of practice.

Have you ever truly been in control of physical impulses? Emotional impulses? Emotions and thoughts arise in the same way anything else does. Trees, the wind, calculators and persian carpets appear and disappear, arising and passing moment to moment in consciousness. No "self" controls these things. They are impermanent. Almost everything is. One thing isn't. "Heart energies"? They are construction of the mind, like all cosmologies, systems, levels, phases, paths, etc. Enlightenment is a moment when the unity/emptiness/dao is realized. It changes the understanding of everything you could imagine. It undoes the idea that you are a separate person that acts in space and in time. It is the realization that there is nothing else to do or realize. It is an understanding that dissolves all old assumptions and ideas about reality. Interestingly this space of unity/emptiness is available, though attenuated, to ANY meditator who has become skilled in allowing the mind to become still. It is worth finding a teacher who understands it if you are curious to understand it.

This is the essence Tommy, yes. "We" cannot manhandle the mind, we must just drop our control of it. It is like a bar of wet soap - you can hold it and let it rest in your open hand and it will stay there... still, BUT if you grasp at it it will shoot out of your hand. The more you allow for stillness to well up of its own accord the more frequently it will.

BTW Neirong (from the site) posts here. Why not read their posts and get a feel for what kind of teacher, and what kind of wisdom and knowledge they might have?

What is your goal for your practice? What do you want out of it? I have looked through most of website out of curiosity. In general I would say that teachings intended to get at the heart of what reality is, and TRUE transformation are relatively simple (but requiring some regular and dedicated work) and available everywhere, free. Teachers are also generally free, though some will take dana when offered to them. Most are looking for your dedication and intention to truly understand, not your money.

What system is this in reference to?

Whatever practice you are doing, cherishing, holding out as THE way in... isn't. What you are looking isn't the words, or the movements, the visualizations, the breath... any "thing". What you are looking for is what is in between all of those "things". What you are seeking requires no "work" or "doing". I requires learning to stop doing.