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I've never lasted more than 25 minutes on my half lotus sitting meditation because around 20 minutes mark, my legs will start to feel numb and sometimes lead to cramps. It's also because of this problem that i can't go into deep state, it's also usually around that time my mind starts to reach alpha state. Any of you guys have tips on how to last longer in sitting meditation? stretching tips perhaps?

An interesting video of Sadhguru describing the risk of moving the Manipura (i believe this refers to the dan tian), that will shorten one's life, when the body is moved along. What's your thought, sifus.

I've been trying to retain since 5 years ago. I kinda feel that the real question really lies in whether one can control their sexual urges long enough for the rest of the life, whenever it arises. Which links with one's ability to control nocturnal emission, assuming that the circumstance is already conducive to retention e.g being single. When one retains long enough, it will feel like retaining is effortless and over even longer period of time, will make a person feel asexual. But when nocturnal emission happens, one experiences chaser effect. The chaser effect usually gets more serious the longer one retains. At least from my experience. When that happens, there are changes that takes place in our body and also circumstances. One of the main changes is the revitalization of sexual urges. So if one can stop nocturnal emission completely, the way to celibacy should be effortless.

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I've read about Yi Jing Jin and Xi Sui Jing, but i've come across a hybrid of yi jin xi sui kung... So far, i know that only Sifu Yan Lei and this shaolin sifu in the video are practicing it. Can anyone share their experiences of this practice and how does it compare to practicing Yi Jin Jing and Xi Sui Jing separately.

Not interested in martial, but is there a specific taichi style that is meant to be more complementary to neikung practices than other?

Only his students should know i guess. In his book, comprehensive guide to daoist neikung, he did mention he has SEEN other sifus being able to do remarkable feats, but never make any claim himself though. I'm curious to know as well.

I understand the need to seek a teacher. That's my intention. For now, i'm just trying to soak as much theory as i can. so when it comes to application. i will know what i am doing instead of blindly following movements. Thanks.

I used to meditate with binaural music to get myself into faster and deeper states. I have tracks for alpha, theta, delta, gamma and epsilon brainwave induction. I also have a device that modulate electric to pulse at certain frequency for the same effect. All of it works well. Recently i need to use these tech assistance again because my environment is not conducive for meditation. I'm wondering what's the opinion of tech-assisted meditation or if anyone else is using it. Would it be considered cheating?

So when it comes to temple style, does it also belong to a specific chen, wu, yang etc...?

Thanks. Who are the sifus teaching temple style specifically?

So it is said that full lotus is 2x more powerful than half lotus and half lotus is 2x than crossed leg when it comes to meditation. What's the reason for this? Lots of anecdote i've seen, but never any literature that elaborates its reason for this. Any sifu wanna chime in?

It's the exact same lesson you can get if you read Damo Mitchell's comprehensive Guide to Daoist NeiKung. I think you'll get greater detail if you read the book. Maybe he is his student or come from the same lineage. But basically, the method that he described are as follows:- 1. Locate the lower Dan Tian 2. Combine the 3 ‘initiatory elements’ in the lower Dan Tian - Awareness/breath/gravity 3. Consolidate the Jing 4. Rotate the lower Dan Tian 5. Generate the sphere 6. Connect the Dan Tian to the exterior 7. Build the container - yang hand to mold clay 8. Develop the centre of the ‘gourd shape’ 9. Build the Yang Qi 10. Fill the Dan Tian Abovementioned is based on his book. One thing though, in order to shape/mold the container, one needs to have enough of yang qi coming out of the hand in order for it to have influence over the yin qi in the 'huang' as he called. It was an interesting read, but it think it's pretty much debatable on this prerequisite. A lot of nei kung/qi gong system don't deal with this part, most just go into the filling of dantian. I'm a newbie, so correct me if i'm wrong, sifus who are reading.

Thanks all for your advice.

I guess it all depends on the affinity i have with whichever art and its resources that will come my way. Thanks.

Hello to all sifus Just started to learn the bone marrow cleansing form of qigong and trying to understand how many total forms are there to practice and which are considered to be important to practice? My intention is to first build up my qi in dantian, then learn to distribute it equally around my body. Would appreciate if anyone can provide a list with the name and purpose of each form as well.

I still have a lot of questions. But i'll start with whatever i can and decide along the way. Thank you.

i believe they have to constantly replenish through meditation. It was stated in the book that John have to replenish his energy each time he did a demonstration for his students. Instead, i'm curious to know what's the risk of holding too much yang energy in dantian. Or if anyone can share their experiences of other teaching that also perform filling and condensing qi to such high level.

By death, you are referring specifically to the risk of yin yang fusion or are you referring to other problems that can come out of the practice? If it's the former, would you not consider it to be worthwhile even just by doing their basic meditation? Unless of course one aims to go beyond the yin yang fusion.

Does Wudang's SanFeng Pai have anything to do with the legendary Zhang SanFeng?

I think a challenge for a newbie like myself is i've not developed an objective way of filtering opinions, simply because i have not soaked enough of info to know what's right and wrong for myself and as such i have no baseline to start with. I guess the more i read and learn the clearer the baseline will be for me.

Mind to share what kind of issues you've heard of? And what do you think of Master Jiang?

Yup. I've started with Ba Duan Jing, but i've come to notice there are many different forms taught by different sifus. I suppose those nuances in form would not make too great difference. Thanks

I agree for the need to seek a real sifu. I am seeking a sifu at my local area if i can find one. At the moment i'm just soaking up as much info as i can from books and videos to learn the theoretical part of it first. Thanks.

Thanks for the list. Did you forget to include Mo pai or was it intentionally left out.