Adam West

Hey guys, Some of you may have this program, if so, let us know what you think or what you have heard about it. I have looked through it and it looks great - a comprehensive and complete documentation of an authentic tradition, apparently(?). Interestingly, they work the Micro-Cosmic Orbit both ways - up the spine and down the spine. Please see the below link to the compete PDF lessons. http://www.scribd.com/doc/425579/The-Compl...en-Tao-Chi-Gung Here is a link to downloading the PDF and video instructional files - please make a donation to the publisher if you find benifet in it, as you are so inclined. http://www.mininova.org/tor/1196992 Description: Qi Gong Complete Course There are a lot of Qi Gong courses on the market. And all of them show a variety of movements and standing postures and all of them claim that that is Qi Gong. But most of them are offered by the Chinese who actually try to hide the real qi gong from non-Chinese. And the rest of them are offered by deluded Westerners who have not really found their own Qi but merely mimic their Chinese teachers. They offer the branches and leaves but hide the root. The root is the calm breath-energy circulating at will throughout the body. The Tien Tao Qi Gong Correspondence Course originally cost over US$300 and you can still probably find it being offered for that price. And the videos were another US$300 in total. But they all are worth every penny because they actually teach you how to find and to circulate your Qi, your Life Force. And since Qi is the basis of all Chinese Kungfu and Chinese Culture, if you can find it within yourself, you will be able to unravel all of the mysteries, all of the religions, all of the cultural treasures of Asia because you will KNOW what they are talking about and what they are actually teaching. And your power of kungfu will be increased a hundred fold. Make no mistake: Learning qi gong is both easy and difficult. It is easy because sitting quietly and breathing in a special way is easy. But it is difficult because sitting quietly and breathing gently without your mind filling with 10,000 thoughts is not easy. Calming the Mind and relaxing the muscles is difficult, but once you can do it, it's easy. And once you can perceive your True Mind, then Enlightenment is not as distant as you may have supposed. Although this torrent contains ten videos, the real treasure is found in the written lessons, themselves: The Tien Tao Qi Gong Correspondence Course. Read and study the course carefully; practice just one of the exercises daily for a month each, and at at the end of ten months you will be an adept at qi gong. Contained in this torrent: ten videos and one Adobe Acrobat file: Mystery_of_Qi.wmv Tien_Tao_Qi_Gong.wmv Kong_Jing_1.wmv Kong_Jing_2.wmv Kong_Jing_3.wmv Kong_Jing_4.wmv 6_Healing_Breaths.wmv 8_Active_Methods.wmv Keep_Fit_Qi_Gong.wmv Muscle_Tendon_Change.wmv Tien Tao Qi_Gong_Lessons.pdf <== the real treasure Total cost of all videos and written lessons retail: between US$600 and US$700. So, if you find benefit from these lessons, please contact the publishers and offer a donation for this amount. Videos are color, Windows Media format, English language, vary in length. In kind regards, Adam.

Hey Adept! Thanks for sharing your experiences! I too find that breath meditation is the simplest and most effective meditatoin practice for the conditioned aspects of mind to fall away revealing naked luminous emptiness. It is very impressive to me that you experience this everytime you meditate and within only a few minutes. In this context, you are an adept indeed. How long have you been practicing and for how long and often each day? Can you offer commentary on how you came to this level of mastery? Any advice for the rest of us to get to the same level of competency? Can you point to any resources for practice of this nature and its results of no-mind? Any that you recommend? What affect has this daily realisation of emptiness had on your consciousness, personality and daily, social and work life? Thanks for sharing! Adam.

Dr Stone passed away, I guess, about 6 or 8 years ago, or so. Not sure what from. At the time he was talking a lot about breatharianism - and working up to living off prana or light, and nothing else. I kinda wonder if he finally tried it, and died as a result of complications. Don't know. He is probably responsible for making the ascended master doctrine most popular back in the late nineties - early two thousands. Naturally, he built on the pre-existing channelled work of many others from the 60's, 70's and 80's, and earlier still. He did a lot of research - prolific reader and writer. He produced some good material - if you're into that kind of thing - many books - which I was during the 90's. I think his material remains a valid source of esoteric teachings, from that particular perspective. It is, of course, just one point of view amongst many. I don't see any value in his university, although I have not looked at it for many years. Better material out there, in terms of more traditional oral traditions - which ultimately are the source of his more generic new age stuff. In kind regards, Adam.

My suggestion: use breath meditation at the lower belly. Instructions: completely let go into the breath. Just notice it go in and out. Let go of all thinking and doing. Let go of all other sensory stimuli. However, be completely open, and do not attempt to block out anything. Just notice the breath coming in and out. Only know the breath and the chi field at that point. However, do not 'try' to feel the chi or 'do' anything there. Just be completely present and mindful of the breath at the belly coming in andout without any break in that mindfulness. It should be continuous. This one practice will take you all the the way to the Tao. it is really cultivating chi, and directly noticinga the tao as it is, in this present moment. Follow this practice for a minimum of 20 minutes, and up to an hour or more once or preferably twice daily. You will be enlightened in a little while. Because the Tao is here and now - always was, is and will be. We need only let go, get out of our mind - thinking and doing - and we will directly realise Tao as the natural state of things. As who an what we are. Enjoy. Practice, practice, practice. Adam.

Hey guys! Here is Shou-Yu Liang's book Qigong Empowerment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mod Team This link has been removed as it violates forum policy regarding copyright protection Mod Team Out ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Enjoy all! :-) Adam.

Hey there! Check out this link. http://kennethfolkdharma.wetpaint.com/thread/4377529/%E2%80%8BTummo?maxResults=20 Here you will find a distillation of the complete practice without the (unnecessary cultural baggage of the) Tibetan visualizations. There is a discussion of the dangers and pitfalls, how to avoid them etc. It is written up by a person, a Doctor I believe, who received the traditional transmissions and training from (if I recall), three different Lamas. Tummo is really just Indian yogic pranayama breath retention with various locks etc. It is not easy at all, and not meant for generating heat in cold climates. It is a spiritual practice for enlightenment. If you wanna get warm there is way easier ways to doing that than holding your breath for 1.5 to 2 minutes! Enjoy! Adam. edited fr typo

After nineteen years of study, exploration and practice of many of the worlds systems, I would say Dzogchen and Mahamudra has the highest and most vast view. It points to your already awake, enlightened nature as your very own awareness that has always been present here and now. The same awareness, sentience or aliveness that reads these words. And exactly how to realize it. The only possible problem is it is contained and transmitted via Tibetan Buddhism which is a very comprehensive and elaborate metaphysics and system of mysticism. So there there can be a long time getting to the plain truth. Zen is similar, but it lacks the clarity and sophistication. Its direct pointing will do the same thing, but even still, there are hundreds of years of tradition and ritual which confuses and distracts. But yes, sit and face a wall; or sit and gently gaze at the sky or environment in front of you. If your true nature is Dharmakaya or Tao already, and we need only spontaneously realise this, then this will become apparent to you in time. Most other practices merely support this process. Unfortunately they more often than not distract from it. Adam.

Hi Kate! It is nice to drop in now and then - see what you lovely people are up to. I've been off, as you say, doing my own thing, going my own way. As things slowly ripen - they spontaneously come alive in expression, and it is always nice to touch base with other practitioners on the path - of the way - to share and commune in the journey of awakening. It is like we go full circle - away from the bustling crowds and their chaotic disturbance and collective individual suffering, into ourselves, touch something deep and awakened, feel driven to reconnect and share with life and others in our collective sentience of life as the human experience, and together and on our own, dissolve into nothing and everything - finally realizing we have never traveled anywhere at all - just always this. In celebration,

Hey guys and gals, I think the thing about emptiness is it is not a vacuous nothingness or nihilism. Rather it is a living dynamic awake-ness - the one living reality. The source of all energy, life, being, existence, activity and creation - not only the source thereof, but the fundamental nature of all these things - not two, but one. So to go deep into emptiness is to discovery a vibrancy and awake-ness - a living intensity of being - the creative force and essence of life itself. So in this sense emptiness / life is far from passive or inactive - it is both active and passive and neither simultaneously. To realise emptiness for a time is to be immersed in energy, power and creativity, while also a deep stillness and profound completeness and fulfillment. This is why some schools of thought suggest that no active energy practices are required - all the energy, power and activity of the entire universe is awakend in oneself when one touches and realises the essence of one's being - emptiness. Emptiness is inseparable from life, energy and activity - inseparable from awareness, cognizance, lucidity, phenomena and being - different dimensions of the one singular reality that is 'just this', here and now - to realise emptiness in meditation and later in everyday life is to see this for yourself. To see it yourself, simply go deeper in your practice. This is how you can judge if you have gone deep enough - that is the realisation - the direct experience. All activity in this world - the drive to be creative, connect with others, share in the human experience, to give to know and be as we are, springs forth from this creative void that is both empty and profoundly full - both still and profoundly active - there is no dualistic dichotomies - only this, just this. On a practical level of lucid dreaming and other meditative and spiritual / life practices - they all seem to awaken of their own accord assuming one goes deep enough into the very essence of life / being - they are all stages in the natural awakening to truth / being / presence / what is / Tao. Once one becomes increasingly lucid in meditation, one becomes lucid in life, and also in dreams. In a sense the 'doing' of the ego is a doing done by a misapprehension of self - when this confusion dissolves in the greater dimension of being that is our true nature all the outcomes that the little self was working towards with its 'doing' come about on their own - as they are of our natural state; however, before we could not see that, as our true nature was obscured by the confusions and 'doings' of this little self. Let go into being, into emptiness, into awareness and all will become apparent - a vast dimension of infinitude of Being will [be] discovered - its already there, we just need to make contact with it. In kind regards, Adam. edited for grammar

Hi all, I just came across this fellow - he might be a viable alternative source to an authentic living Taoist linage - several if his biography is to be believed. Any one heard of him before and know anything about him and the quality of what he teaches? His site seems interesting, yet a little too commercial for me. http://www.daoistmagic.com/info.php?i=2128 I'm not interested in Taoist ritual practices, but I would take a closer look at his books on Taoist internal alchemy. In kind regards, Adam.

I think Hagar is wrong in this; certainly, however, if his practice is having good effect without it, that is what matters. It's not a matter of ideology, rather one of what works for the persons on the path and their social supports. My decade plus experimentation has led me to be certain of the value of retention in conjunction with deep and effective meditation. One's growth and empowerment on 'all' levels of being is exponential with retention; and excessive ejaculation will just as certainly result in one's deterioration. This is true for me at least, given the condition of my present mind-body structures; as these change following energetic structural change, so will the system and the need for celibacy. I find Bodri to be correct in his analysis concerning this dialogue. -Adam.

It is true that psychiatric drugs can be *very* problematic, with many unpleasant side-effects; some times, many times, these side-effects out-way the benifets. It all depends on the presentation and individual case. With *acute* psychiatric presentations, sometimes medication, at least in the short term, is the only option, since the disturbance and distress is so great, and there is a real danger of harm to self or others, mostly just to self. Drug therapy should be considered just one *support* or protective factor and therapeutic intervention with psycho-social, situational and spiritual support all just as important in a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of health, wellbeing and recovery. Now days, mental health practice is increasingly a 'whole of life' concern, addressing many complex factors, including, but not limited to, biochemical, medical interventions. Remember the balance of the way - anti-psychiatry is not a balanced view, nor is biological reductionism; a holistic complex systems approach of multi-dimensional personal, social and situational factors in a spiritual context is much more useful, and I would suggest, more consistent with Taoism. In kind regards, Adam.

Hi! I agree that it is not clear that retention and partial, intermittent practice of the orbit has been a causal factor in his bi-polar. Bi-polar seems to be organically based, which of course would be consistent with the retention thesis, but it is more likely biochemically based following genetic factors. In any case, bi-polar disorder responds well to medication, which serves as a good support for finding one's equilibrium and treating disabling symptoms. Once somewhat stable, other additional interventions may be useful like cognitive-behavioural / psycho-therapeutic and complementary medicines, including meditation, under close supervision. He should make use of professional help, as bi-polar is very serious and can and does kill through self-harming behaviours. From that base of stability, one can then build recovery through other and all means. It is not clear what harm retention does. From my perspective, retention combined with effective meditation practice will result in health and growth on all levels of being - this is my experience. It does redirect a lot of energy, so that energy should be channeled in a healthy manner. It may be that if it is not made use of in an organized manner through formal practices, it will just disperse naturally through nocturnal emissions and hyperactivity of both functional and dysfunctional behaviours which burns up a lot of pranic force. In any case, it is not clear to me retention is the cause in this example, nor generally. In kind regards, Adam.

Nice one! Hey is it just me, or is SereneBlue a dreamy Elf or perhaps a mesmerizing Vulcan with pointy ears??? Ether way, I feel a little light headed And yes, I too found myself sliding the bar, to no good effect...

Hi all, I'm specifically looking for Dr Jonn Mumford's Kundalini Tantra Lectures. He teaches a course on Indian Kundalini Yoga which I took for a while, but his style of teaching was such that I did not complete the course. The material was great however. Does anyone out there have a complete collection of these lectures in PDF that you would be willing to trade with me. I have a reasonable collection of PDF's to trade in return for his stuff including much of Chia's books, also Tolle, Dzogchen, Kriya Yoga and other occult books and knowledge papers. I have some audio books of same also. I will upload them to this file server and send the link for download. http://www.mediafire.com/ I am willing to trade my stuff for other peoples stuff of interest also. The above third-party server has been historically very effective in file sharing, I recommend it. Many thanks! In kind regards, Adam.

Hey Scotty! Two things primarily. He really drags out, or slowly releases the material - a real drip feed method. During which you are required to buy many of his other books and products. I get the sense he is really trying to milk the student for all they are worth before he actually passes on his material to them, which is great quality - highly detailed and comprehensive covering several traditions within kundalini yoga and western mystercism and magic; but can be found in other sources too, however. He has compiled it in one place and given his particular spin on it. The other thing is he requires a really tedious daily reporting of meditation practice that focuses on the phenomenology of one's experiences, particularly the details of mood, what one is thinking about and one's distractions into fantasy and daydreaming and such while meditating. It seemed to me to be a Freudian influence where the symbolic content of consciousness is somehow relevant and meaningful. However, I find that completely off the mark. Relevant to psychotherapy, but not meditation. In meditation such conditioning of mind is merely passing phenomena and not related to the Tao or the true nature of mind. I was interested in the meditation technology - the kundalini yoga and associated energetic practices; not the periphery. And he was attempting to make me jump through too many hoops and spend more money to get it. I have had contact with past senior students - and have heard some pretty big claims that he may be of a more nefarious nature. The meditation technology still works regardless. One can go down the dark path of personal power and self-aggrandizement or one can go down the path of service to others; either way, the tech will develop psychic power and transformation of consciousness. :-P Why do you ask Scotty? Are you thinking of going there? Can you help me locate that material? In kind regards, Adam.

Hahaha... I think all us blokes just want to see the dreamy SereneBlue wallpaper!

Hi Santi! Regretfully, I missed it. I look forward to the next one. Please post a reminder before, and hopefully I will catch it this time. Thanks In kind regards, Adam.

Your welcome Matt!

Hi Shanti! What time zone are you in? I'm in Australia, so I need to work out what time 11 pm (your time) is in Brisbane time. Any Aussies know? Thanks guys! In kind regards, Adam.

Hey Harry and Mal! Yeah, I remember that one too! Had quite the impact at the time. Thanks for the copy! In kind regards, Adam.

"-Learn to recognize the mysterious pass! carry it with you through the day ! THIS is true evolution !" Hello there! How does one recognize the "mysterious pass"? What is the mysterious pass? What practice brings its realization?

Hehe... clearly the chicken came first, since it is a self-existent or self-created being/force (metaphor for the Divine - Tao) which then gave birth to beings in time (egg). All rather simple!

Shikantaza: My thoughts on the practice of just sitting as an effective means to noticing that which is In Shikantaza, we sit in a comfortable erect posture. Then we allow our awareness to be in its natural state - Zen Mind, Original Face, and realize this to be our ordinary everyday mind as it is. What exactly this means is we 'allow' our mind to just be aware in an entirely uncontrived manner. This can be surprisingly difficult for the beginner because most people are unconscious of subtle tensions and "efforts to do, to suppress or not do" something with their mind which are deeply habitual - thinking, analyzing, fantasizing etc. If we can 'just sit' and just be aware of what is, focusing on nothing in particular and allowing our minds to rest, let go and just be aware and rest as THAT - as-we-are - we will notice a sense of awareness opening up, of brightness, of peace and ease. If allowed further, we will notice energy and bliss at some deeper dimension of awareness as Being itself. Taken further we get an increasing, yet subtle sense of infinity and loss of identification with the separate self arising from sensory stimuli. Implicit to this discussion is a distinction between awareness and mind. I am defining awareness as our basic fundamental nature - the Tao itself. Mind in this context, is defined as cognitive activities or functions arising out of the brain and possibly astral levels of being. Mind may be considered a tool like the body. The body rests and just sits there; the mind rests and just sits there unengaged. Awareness as the fundamental nature of 'you' sees both the mind and the body, but is neither mind nor body, nor is it dependent on mind and body for its existence and function. Awareness is prior to mind and body. Awareness is essential and unchanging; mind and body are epiphenomena existing in awareness. The simple meditation practice of Shikantaza is this: Just sit and be aware. The key then is to just be aware with no effort to be aware - no doing, just be natural awareness as it is. If you find yourself trying to be natural awareness as it is, then that is contrived and you have engaged the mind. Simply LET GO, relax, and be aware of what is, but of nothing in particular. In letting go and naturally being aware of what is you will find that natural still point. Allow the mind to ease off and open up. This can be practiced at all time during the day. Just be naturally aware, openly at ease, and spontaneously engaging - whether sitting or otherwise. This is true vipassana. Uncontrived. To see the natural state of reality as it is. We should allow ourselves to notice mind throughout this period of sitting, as with other particulars that arise; as mind is part of reality, and not to be rejected, as rejection is an act of mind, not awareness. Rejection is based on the false premises of mind. In so doing we will notice when we find ourselves having fallen into doing in which we 'try' to be open and relaxed, when this happens we are no longer in an uncontrived state of natural abiding. The whole process requires concentration; that is, being brightly aware of what is. Concentration in this sense simply means being naturally aware and not being distracted by having our attention divided by activities of mind. As concentration wanes, awareness may become dull and one my space out, or more often, one's thoughts will re-assert themselves and we will go off on a tangent of thought. When we notice this we allow the stream of thought to drop by letting go again of the activities of mind, and just rest brightly aware of what is. So, it really is simple, just sit and be aware. A further point. Do not concentrate on sensory stimuli in particular, as that is contrived, it is effort of mind to do something. See this subtle distinction. Awareness is brightly aware as its natural state, there is not effort - no doing. Just be aware of what is - environment and awareness itself - no artificial distinction between external and internal - just the continuum of awareness. This, however, does not mean we are practicing awareness of awareness, that again is a contrived condition, a use of mind to focus on awareness. In such a case we would be privileging one object of awareness over another, and that is a use of mind. Rather, we are just being aware, just sitting. Discrimination in terms of intention, demarcation, effort, judgment are all discursive faculties of mind. Awareness operates entirely through direct knowing or clearly apprehending the nature of what is - it simply sees it for itself. No recourse to the inferential faculties of mind. So, Shikantaza or Dzogchen practice is simple on the surface, but there is much subtly and depth to it. Just sitting does not give it explanatory justice. A final point on the body. Since the body is peripheral to awareness, it does not matter if the eyes are open or closed. Traditionally, they are open. There are merits and problems with both options. My recommendation is conclude this question by what feels natural to you. We do not wish to maintain unnatural, contrived states of body and mind in our practice. Awareness is the practice... drop all else. In kind regards, Adam.

Hi Pietro! Thanks for taking the time to write a comprehensive answer to my question! You wrote: "You keep on speaking about control of the orgasm. It's not about control. It's about opening. Orgasm and ejaculation are two different things. But one tend to bring on the other. When does this happen?" Yep, I'm with you on the difference, and have some limited mastery of working with orgasm without triggering ejaculation. But that becomes increasingly difficult as greater lengths of time pass without ejaculation. So it seems I need a better way to work with the energy and transmute it without a build up of sensitivity. Ok, so opening one's channels appears important for the flow of energy, thus, riding the wave, which allows orgasm without ejaculation. Gotcha. You wrote: "How does this relates to the orgasm? The orgasm also is a wave. There are two main way in which people have an orgasm. SOme people contract their whole body, until the energy only flows in a small part. Then they speed it up over there and they come. This is the small orgasm. Then there is another one. This is not so much done, but happens. And it happens through a person. This is like a wave, that starts in one place (often in two places, but let's not get too technical) and then spread. The Taoist phrase here is "you haven't come unless you have come with your left foot big toe." This is what I would call the whole body orgasm. I am surprised that a person that has done all the training you have done haven't had experience of this yet. Honestly, it is not that difficult. So this energy spreads along the channels. It helps open them." Yeah, I've experienced the full body orgasm a number or times, but have flowed through into ejaculation also. For a time, I wondered if this would be just as good in terms of building the nervous system and opening consciousness as celibacy. But my experiments lead me to believe that it was not. Ejaculation was death, as RJ used to say. "But when the channels are blocked, that's when you ejaculate." So the key really is fully open channels? "This ability to relax and the ability to do inner dissolving are the ones you will need at this stage." Ok. I'm with you. You think training in Bruce's dissolving methods are the key and their application during sex. "And here comes the next level of complexity, if you are still with me. Because in the body there are many channels. And no one has all of them open. So there is a bit of an ability to let the energy flow through the open channels, to avoid ejaculating." Does that mean conscious direction of the energy? In the past I have experimented with consciously directing the sexual energy up the spine to the crown which resulted in profound energetic orgasm as great as any meditation samadhi or drug high. Good stuff! "But there is also another step after this. Because when you are in lululand, with energy of the orgasm raging through your body, being produced, by the contraction in her body, flowing through your channels into emptiness, that is when your mind becomes really able to guide this energy. If with one though you contact a blockage, say something bothers you, or excites you, then energy of the orgasm goes there. You then have the space of few milliseconds to dissolve the blockage, and relax. Either of them will be enough. But if you fail to do it, you will fall, and laugh, and laugh and laugh. Because you just fell down from heaven. And this explains why my girlfriend always asks me why do I always laugh when I come." Hmm... most interesting! "When you have mastered this you also have mastered how to use sex to dissolve blockages, and how, if you do it correctly, you will not come. Unfortunately there is no single open system, that I know off, that explains it all." Great stuff! Thanks for sharing! In kind regards, Adam.