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You can't damage or "rip" your Lower Dan tien. It is not a physical thing to be damaged that way. If you are in pain, go see a doctor. If you're only scared that you ripped your LDT, don't be -- it cannot happen. That said, we CAN deplete our energy when we are careless with how/where we're spending it (too much thinking, too much sex, too much of any activity for that matter -- moderation is paramount). Heck, most don't even know how to fill the LDT. Even when they sink their Qi it just sticks around in the lower belly and then dissipates. The LDT is an energetic structure the size of a golf ball with a tiny hole in it (smaller than a needle's width). When you fill your LDT, you have to slowly guide the Qi down into that hole. Like pouring oil into a very narrow bottle. The energy goes back into the emptiness within the LDT -- The LDT is a wormhole between emptiness and the world.

I know some folks don’t like to mix systems, but to put the light/Shen/Qi/jing continuum in a body-based approach, Light is nondual and is the power of pure awareness which is the ground of being, and Shen corresponds with the causal body, Qi with the astral or energy body abs jing with the physical body. Most people believe the relationship is inverted - physical contains energy contains causal , if they believe it at all. The fact is quite the opposite. The physical body and physical universe is a fraction of ‘reality’. In the mahanirvana tantra, Lord Shiva tells “I can pack your entire material universe into a single mustard seed”. I know obsessing about the body and it’s vagaries are natural because most of us identify with the physical body more than anything else. But when we realize our true nature is awareness, then these things simply fade away from focus.

Seems like you're building up qi in the head. Too much thinking, mental stimulation will do that (even thinking about meditation or worrying about symptoms). Since it happens in the morning as you wake up, it seems there is an energetic transmission happening that you are unable to process/are resisting. Do you have any interesting/strange dreams on days when you have this head pressure? Stand, relax and let the qi sink to the belly. If you are unable to do this, lie down on your back on a carpet or mat, and release your body slowly to the ground. You can start with your toes and work your way up to your head. Wherever you put your mind, feel it melting like butter on a hot pan. Melt and evaporate.... Scan from toes to head multiple times, taking your time. Little by little, relax your entire body. You'll feel that your entire body has melted and disappeared. Just stay that way for as long as you can. Do this right before you go to sleep and right after you wake up. After you've managed to do this in supine position, you can start doing standing and releasing. Mechanics are a bit different. But whatever you do, don't believe and buy into the BS that zhan zhuang needs to happen with a deep horse stance etc. Just feet shoulder width apart, toes parallel to each other, pointing straight ahead. More weight on your heels than the ball of your feet. Bend your knees slightly. Tuck your chin in slightly, let your gaze go off into a point in the distance...about 30 degrees below the horizontal. Relax your lower back so you feel your tailbone dropping down towards the ground slightly. Release the muscles in your chest...imagine the muscles below your collarbone are slowly sliding down towards your belly-button (like hanging down) Lean your upper torso forward slightly from the hips. If you feel you're straight, you are not. You should feel like your falling foward very slightly. Breath from your stomach...slowly inhale and exhale. If you stand like this for 3-5 minutes, you'll feel a sinking fluid like sensation towards your belly. Let it slowly pour downward. Rest your mind lightly on the belly region just like you would rest your palm on a table top.

Jing is a condensed form of energy. What is energy? It is the creative power of consciousness or awareness. As movement seems to appear in awareness, it forms what is called spiritual power or light. This light slows down to form what is called Qi. This Qi then further slows down to form jing, which in turn slows down to form matter. They are all the same thing, but at different rates of vibration. And the corollary thereof is, that spiritual Light, as the first activity of awareness is limitless in its range and scope. So it encompasses entire universes. Qi by virtue of being slowed down light, has limits in range and scope. Jing being further slowed down light, is further limited in range and scope, as it slows down further, it forms matter, which is orders of magnitude more limited in range and scope. That is why matter seems to be definitive in form, which energies are less so.

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I'm honored. If you have kindle unlimited its "free". I think you're in the Philippines. PM me your address anyway and I'll see if I can get you a copy

I'm honored. I hope you enjoy the book

Advaita Vedānta does that too. I've had a similar experience...taijiquan and daoist meditation took me there directly, but there was no theory associated with it, in the way I was taught. Only after I started working with Advaita Vedānta did I have the vocabulary for expression. Then when I delved into Kashmir Shaivism, I found the same truth shining there. As with Tibetan buddhism, Zen and so on.

Took me only 9 odd years I have been initiated by an enlightened master from the Daoist tradition, though he also has a yogic lineage. My Master has been re-incarnating across several lifetimes along with a group of 12 disciples. That being said, the book is a work of fiction, except for the parts that aren't

I'll be happy to do so within the US (mainly due to shipping costs). I'll even give up to 15 paperback copies for free (first come first serve) if I get a commitment for a review from each recipient within a month of receiving the book. PM me with your real name and address if you want a copy. Also if you go to my author website https://dwailahiri.com and sign up to my mailing list, I am going to offer early reader previews to my work and giveaways going forward -- there are going to be more books in the series - https://dwailahiri.com/join-my-mailing-list/

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I’m honored and I hope you’ll enjoy it.

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But we also don't have to do anything to get to the Self. We are already that

It’s easy enough to prove/disprove him if one chooses to do so. Computer science has become pervasive enough to allow that. I think the best part of his presentations is his exhortation to use evidence based science to study the subject. Here’s another guy I like a lot on AIT/AMT —

In the longer video he actually states why the linguistic mode with ‘PIE’ at the root is not mathematically sound. He says one can take any one language as the root and demonstrate a tree structure, and mathematically it would be correct. He also states why the Out if Africa populations are not relevant to this issue (AIT/AMT) - chronologically they are far more in antiquity. He also gives evidence of human settlements in central and southern India dating back 300K years. Eventually (imho) the academics will have to revise and revisit their chronology of human history/evolution to a much older date than what is considered acceptable today.

Only to plunder the natural beauty and sunshine

My friend spent 20 days in Australia this summer. Couldn’t stop gushing on about it — so I’m thinking if opportunity arises, I’ll be visiting too.

Also I think you raised a question about why Indic scholars are still bringing up 18th and 19th century European works. That’s because modern western indology is built on that very foundation, which imho is seriously flawed.

Romila had the support of the Marxist powers that existed until a few decades back. The question is not whether ancient Rishis were right or wrong. if you see they were right about a lot of things. They (Indic scholars) are looking at their body of work after discarding the Eurocentric lens of max mueller, wheeler, et al. It is a classic etic vs emic problem. The traditional way in which the texts were transmitted has been proven to be highly reliable, as the ancients added error correction and error checking in the method of learning itself. So the original compositions have traveled through time almost unaltered. The second part is that of considering the Texts as “religious”. There is no separation of religion and other aspects of life in Indian tradition like there is in the west. So the same body of work contains rituals, philosophy, science etc. if you watch the second video I posted he explains the breadth of the work.

Yeah that is possible. In fact, it is very likely to happen when we practice meditation and enter deep cessation/absorption. The three steps are not strict and depends on how strongly one is enamored by the phenomenal world. Since we all are already nondual awareness, the way back from duality is also really just a shift in mental framework and cognition. How far do and how long we have to travel to get to the Self?

With all due respect to your friend - I too come from a family of Brahmins, with a pretty solid traditional background up to my Grandfather's generation. After that, there has been such brainwashing perpetrated on the indian people that many individuals of the generations that grew up between 1940s - 1970s were indoctrinated in a very insidious and systematic way on the following two aspects -- The AIT and later AMT when AIT was blown to smithereens by evidence from various sources The Aryan-Dravidian divide which was a ploy of the British to divide-and-rule -- and the Nehru-(fake)Gandhi family that ended up ruling India, in cahoots with the Marxists who were implanted to control the education system in India continued to perpetrate this. The social impact of such utter falsehoods can only be understood if one only see the effects it had on the ground. Did you watch the video I shared in the OP? That covers a lot of what you've posted about and effectively disproves them. Here's another one. My advice (take it or leave it, its your choice), you are pretty smart. Don't try to win...try to understand instead.

The confusion is due to different levels of understanding. Swami Sarvapriyananda says there are 3 steps to Advaita. Separate oneself from the phenomenal world, the mind and the body so that it (phenomenal world) stops affecting us by generating rāga-dvésha (like-dislike/love-hate) in the mind. This is called developing sākshi-bhāva or witnessing consciousness. This is dualistic. There is you, the witness and there is a separate world (samsāra). Through meditation, contemplation and detached observation realize that the world is nothing but name and form (nāma-rūpa) and essentially empty in nature. This is also duality but very subtle. Realize that the appearances of name and form happens within you, the awareness alone. They can never be separate from you. Realize that in every phenomenon, once we let go of the focus on name and form, the qualities of Being (Asti), Consciousness (Bhāti or illumination) and Bliss (Priyam) shine forth. Samsāra is nothing apart from Nirvāńa, or Jagat and Jiva are nothing apart from Brahman -- the true Self (Atman).

what is called “unreal” is the notion that there is a world apart from the nondual awareness. It’s a conceptual thing.