dwai

Obviously you are here to troll...good luck

If you knew why the chakras look like lotuses you'd not be so dismissive Each of us approach things based on the level of experience and awareness we possess. You are right in your position based on the categorical framework you possess at present. In future? Who knows...

It depends on how empty the intended opponent is. My teacher explains it this way - when you are empty, someone who wants to fight you or attack you simply doesn't find anything to use as an opposing force. And it is not just physical force but even mental resistance. Therefore they don't have any way to impact you...

He has said many different things to many people. I have to just see where I takes me

funny when i rest in the "I" (as Ramana Maharishi says), the senses are still working, but there's no identification with the objects. They just flow by around the still center "I". This is of course when I am practicing this as I'm walking or doing Taiji or listening to music etc.

I found Dr. Paul Lam's longer Yang Style videos were effective for me initially - got me feeling the Qi, got a lot of blockages cleared and made me feel the lower dan tien, about 15-16 years back. You should find a teacher of course....but you could spend a year or so practicing from the video.

Me too...Of bacteria, viruses and other parasitic creatures

One kind of seeing is in the inner eye. It's in the mind's eye but there's no imagination underway. The imagery pops up...like when i'm doing Daoist meditation, especially in meditation circles, I'll clearly "see" white luminescence flowing from the center of the circle where everyone is meditating on through my lower dan tien via what seems like an umbilical cord of similar white light and filling the dan tien, spinal column and rising to my crown point. Then there is "emptiness", which is an absolute stillness...it is is bereft of any movement or sensory. When the "mind" is focussed on this, there are no thoughts, no movements. As soon as mind wavers, the thoughts resume. It is painful initially (not in a physiological sense). Its like trying to balance a pencil tip on a pencil tip. If you can't be perfectly still, the pencil on the top falls. Weird! If you press too hard on focussing on this, it pushes back. If you let awareness rest, you can stay with it for long periods of time. I know it doesn't make sense for those who haven't experienced it. I know some of you guys have. I have been like Cheshire Cat in the past...it is only natural to be skeptical of something we can't yet corroborate experientially.

To get to the deep sleep state while wide awake is called "Turiya" in Yoga and indian spiritual systems.

The stillness is empty...as it is without any content (objects)

Attempts by the "mind" to observe the observer causes a massive infinite regression type experience and ends up shutting down the mind Then we can just "be". It's hard to explain. All I get is stillness. Even as I've been incorporating this while moving -- during Taiji practice, I turn back towards the "witness" and stillness ensues. The body moves, the energy flows but the mind is mostly still. Only observing the body sensations from time to time. It is a strange feeling...very different from how it feels when I'm not doing this. Like the world is flowing about around me, including the body...but I'm totally still at the center.

None of the five senses. It's hard to explain...only can be experienced.

Aw c'mon MH. You are not nasty at all. I've always found you expressing your thoughts and ideas without any vitriol or negative intent. We don't agree with each other in some instances, but your materialism is a pragmatic one, not an inflexible one

Don't think I've heard about Peter Ralston. Rasmus does talk about qi, he just calls it "life energy". Yes fascia is fascinating. But traditional way just covers qi, Jin, shen etc. I find that is more than enough to learn. In any case, you seem to have your answers already, so good luck

Why? He doesn't claim to or want to be chuck Norris

I guess there is bound to be disagreements. However, those who don't give a rat's ass about Qi...I'd love to cross hands with them and see how I fare Without Qi and Jin, it is not real. Biomechanics can only take us to a point. Beyond that we need energy. Even beyond that we need Spiritual energy (shen). I noticed you mentioned Richard Clear. I happen to think he is one of the few teachers who post their stuff on Youtube that actually have the "Juice". Mark Rasmus is another. As for my teacher or his teacher - my teacher doesn't care for popularity. Those of us who are his students are lucky. His teacher, Master Liao is a super big league guy whom many "ordinary" folks don't even know about. He trains the likes of the head of Chinese Taiji Association in mainland China, etc. He too doesn't care about what others think or don't think of his position. If you come to either of these two (my Sifu or his Sifu), they will show you exactly what Qi/Jin feels like. It can feel like nothing (no one has touched you, yet you fly meters at a time). Other times, your innards will explode with pain and shock...

The key to feeling Qi is relaxation. If you want to feel qi, try this. Lie down on your back on the floor (use a yoga mat if you like). Let your legs and arms settle down as they naturally will. Feel the body as wherever it touches the floor. Starting with your toes, start relaxing the body by scanning your body gently, from toes up to the top of your head. Wherever you feel some tightness, imagine the floor is a hot skillet and your body part that feels tight is butter. Visualize the butter melting and flowing on the skillet. Move to the next part. Repeat this process over and over, but don't force anything. Just observe and breath naturally. Keep your eyes closed. Slowly you will feel your body starting to "melt" away and a different sensation will become apparent. You will likely feel your blood flowing under the skin. Once you feel the blood flowing, feel where the blood flow is feeling restricted. Again, using the skillet and butter method, let any congealed sensation melt away. After you do this for a few days, you will start feeling your energy...it will be a flow that happens without any volition. At that point, you might get excited and exclaim to yourself "Holy crap! I am feeling Qi". And then the sensation will disappear. So, then again, do the process exactly like I outlined, without anticipating the Qi sensation you felt before. With patience and practice, you can feel this sensation at will. Next, take this to a different level and sit on a chair with a straight back and no arm rests. Rest your palms on your knees without locking your elbows. And follow the same process.. When you have done this sufficiently enough, stand in the Tai chi Wu chi form and do this over and over again. At this point you will have accomplished relaxing and feeling your Qi. HTH, Dwai

If it is real Fajin it is transfer of transformed Qi. My teacher explains it this way. Qi is energy. To be able to use this Qi externally, you have to convert it into power. This power is stored in the bone marrow and is called Jin (transliterated as jing in english by some). Just like gasoline gets converted to mechanical power by the engine, similarly, Qi gets converted to Jin power by the mind and stored in the bone marrow as energy. It is like storing charge in a battery. When you do "fa jin" you are emitting this stored power onto another "body". The effect varies depending on what your "intent" is. If you send long wave of the power, the person being affected will be transported bodily from point A to point B. If you send a short burst/wave of the power and direct it inside the person, it will shatter their bones or stop an internal organ. This cannot be done without Qi cultivation. Similarly, this can be used for healing. At higher levels, one can directly tap into the power of the Dao and have that do what is needed to be done - like healing or protecting one from harm, see patterns in nature before they appear, and so on.

Carlos made it up iinm. Do taiji or Bagua or zinyi instead. Much more tried and tested...find a good teacher although.

Do what feels right. Don't get addicted to the blissful feeling Om is the source of life energy - Pranav. Hearing it's reverberation in the inner ear means you are relaxed enough to let the noise of the mind and body not drown this ever present reverberation. Being life itself, Om is aural representation of the true self - atman. Being the sound of atman it is nothing but the Brahman itself.