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SFQ will fix it IME, worked with girl X who also had problems with cysts and tumors on her ovaries. Did SFQ, Zhan Zhuang and Sitting Meditation, Spinal Twists and light stretches almost daily and scans were clear after 3 weeks, although i will say she is someone who is extremely receptive/responsive to Qi. Also did personal healing and massage with her after the sitting meditation + beating coccyx : D She gave back a lot of energy during the healing sessions to me.

I like simple girls...

So i am talking with a friend right now and we are both spiritual and have our own different personal approaches to the study, understanding, practice and application of the principles of cultivation. Suffice to say they are Christian and i am Taoist haha As we all know when you peel of the outer lining of religion the manifestations of practice tend to be the same and often we share very similar experiences. My friend in question is regularly visited by an entity at night between the point of sleep and wake. She explains she feels it drains her and refers to it as an "energetic vampire" something some of us are aware of and others may have even encountered and had to deal with in our Tao Bum brother and sisterhood. Similarly to me her first encounter with this visitor was naturally frightening. Personally it has happened only once to me, this was before i had taken the time to educate myself in depth-ly about these manifestations and the event scared the shizzle out of me. Yesterday as we conversed i described the physical appearance of my manifestation: Dark, static figure, knees bent, arched back, pointy horns or ears, bright eyes... sitting on my lower back, very heavy feeling gravitationally, but sucking at the same time, and today after she mentioned something about sleep paralysis which we hadn't until now considered investigating i came across this picture: So naturally i'm thinking to myself shit, i could as well have drawn that picture, only the common difference in our mutual experiences is that we are found lying on our bellies with the entity on our backs. Reading the wiki further: In Nigeria, "ISP appears to be far more common and recurrent among people of African descent than among whites or Nigerian Africans",[6] and is often referred to within African communities as "the Devil on your back." Relevant to me perhaps seeing as i am half Nigerian, so this kept on getting more interesting with every revelation. Terminology: "the witch riding your back", "the Devil on your back." These occurrences seem to have been registered globally and are obviously not constrained to people of African decent such as myself. Europe, America, Asia... everywhere. My outlook and understanding of spiritual manifestations of this sort, whether of genuine nature or as a form of personal psychological manifestation has changed greatly since i began practicing Taoism and today i have little if no fear of such events. So i am ok, not looking for any form of solace, i think. However i would be very interested in knowing what those of you with similar experiences have to say about this sort of phenomena and how such experiences can be deciphered through a pair of Taoist/Buddhist/Zen goggles. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia....Sleep_paralysis Langster Out!

IME it is just your channels clearing dude. When i first started. The crazy movements were in my arms. Several months later moved to my torso and lower abdominal region. Then later to my legs. At each point during all of these phases i was shaking about like a spastic monkey. Sometime it would hurl me out of bed. I slept in the center of the room so i would stop kicking and slapping/punching the walls around me accidentally while i was asleep. For me the shakes were incredibly violent. There was so much energy i feel i could scream and blow a mountain to rubble. The movements were similar to those in that video link posted just above. Lots of hand movement, jerking, shaking, powerful swings and kicks, very low vibration continuous shakes, sometimes for 10 seconds at a time. Today it is mostly in my legs and right at my lower tan tien, but they shakes are a lot more refined and i feel energy flowing through my limbs and torso and back now; all those regions from before. I don't think it is anything to be worried about. I have always been aware of foot weight distribution during standing exercises, so i am ruling out K1 blockage + i do a lot of sitting and my Huy Yin is by the floor. Don't try to resist the movements! That is too much energy to try to resist. If you feel it like i felt it, you'll probably explode something if u hold it back lol - My sincerest advice is that you relax into it entirely and let it take over. It is a purification process IME.

Normally when i'm doing stuff in the parks here in Rotterdam, NL - people are too embarrassed of their curiosity to even make eye contact. Most that do go bright red and scurry along like i just caught them on the toilet. I on the other hand am like a little 5 year old and when i see something i go to it and look at it with my big eyes and normally say "Fascinating, Tell me more" or "What is this you are doing". I think there is a barrier of weird cultural awkwardness that needs to be shed during these encounters to reveal a natural kid like curiosity that lies beneath. Most people i've noticed here want to learn and understand and are rather receptive. The parks i go to aren't secluded, they are some of the most populated parks in town and you'll find people doing Yoga, others Capoeira, some practicing Kung Fu long staff forms, there is even one Asian dude who walks backwards through all the paths in the park while looking forward, it must be some sort of practice in awareness. Which reminds me, yesterday i was on my bike crossing a bridge and i noticed this one Asian grampa sitting on a chair talking to himself and making strange gestures in the air as if he was drawing. Most people i assume would have thought "crazy old man", i stood at the end of the bridge and wondered to myself "what wonders could you teach me old man". I decided to leave him to it, since i don't speak Dutch or any Asian languages, but felt robbed of a potential experience, even if he ended up being just crazy - heh

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When i smoke weed, i go into this laboratory, sort of like a class and i am the student. Every time i am high, i simply sit in the chair and look at the blackboard to see what Mr. Universe is chalking up for me. I learn and absorb a lot of information while in this state and when i am back down to earth i can meditate and everything i have learned and seen facilitates a deeper more profound meditation with a much broader understanding. I cannot however meditate WHILE i am high, but i can certainly do a lot of exploring and learning. And although i am a very changed person after each trip by the things i have learned, i can only apply the knowledge in a clear sober meditation. I hear a lot of people get high on stuff and then go to meditate, me, i simply can't concentrate, my mind gets gang-banged by the universe and i have way too much information to process to even consider meditation. My mind expands so much when i am high that i feel it will physically explode because it can't contain the information, but every time i come back i realize the previous expansion literally prepared me for absorbing even more information on the next trip. To the main question O_o .... why dismiss? If the argument is that information or states attained through stimulation from entheogenic substances is artificial, then that is the same as saying that all the teachings in the world are just as false. But aren't they? - What is real, until felt by our own senses? Just because we see it or hear it, does not mean we have personally attained it or understand it. All the theory and texts mean nothing if you can't reach the experience on YOUR own. As far as i am concerned the use of entheogens is something external and should not be put in the same category as attainments derived from clear minded and sober meditation, under which your body and mind remain in your full control. Having said that. I can see and feel the sun, but i am yet beyond it's glory, and although i may dream of being the sun, when i come back down to earth i will still have much work to do to. But if i do become the sun one day... i will not be surprised : ) Sort of like foreseeing a future event, when it happens, you're not as astounded as everyone else who didn't.

You have to draw the energy up from the lower tan tien into the third eye then shoot it down through the penis and manifest an extension of your desired length. But in order to do this you have to eat a lot of kangaroo kidneys to activate some of the energies required, then you must soil them with the energy of the heavens by taking a dump on the surface of the moon when it is exactly half full, this will create the heaven earth link needed to transmute the jing from the roo kidney energies, because it is very powerful, so by a blessing from the heavens only can you sublimate it, hence the dump. It works i tell you. Not that i've ever done it, cuz you know, i don't need to PS: The roo kidneys must be digested raw and no longer than 10 mins after the last heart beat of the animal has passed or all will fail and your penis will remain as is.

Do it, it's only about 7 minutes. I thought it was pretty awesome, felt like i was in a dream : ) Enjoy!

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Shit man, this is horrible. It pains me to see

Yes indeed, reminding yourself how temporary the sensation of orgasmic release is compared to everything the path of meditation has to offer, should be a good motivational point. Also remember that the satisfaction of lust and desire will magnetize you closer to the lower realms. There are many "entities" out there that would prefer men remained bound strictly within this realm. This may be an inefficient approach, but when i began meditating i considered my "desires" as negative manifestations of my self, my personal demons if you will. I programmed myself like that, because i know my personality and there is nothing i won't do to beat something that is stopping me from pursuing a goal i "desire". Ironic, that i am negating desire to pursue desire, but somethings like enlightenment and union with the Tao are worth pursuit. This notion made it very easy for me to stop all habits, drinking, smoking, chocolate eating, excessive eating, excessive anything. It helped me find the middle way and i have never been happier. The less i do and have the happier i am. The most important point here is to meditate, because that is the catalyst, by concentrating the mind in the lower tan tien, you help cook the jing in the pot by increasing the fire so the vapor can rise. Read this thread: How to Gather Yin Qi Other than the above link, for a tutorial on meditation i think this is a good start: The Goal of Meditation is to transform the body and mind. To purify both and to turn the mind inwards in order to perceive the true nature and through lots of deep meditation over the years reach union with the Tao. This is the ultimate goal. Meditation is an exercise which helps you calm the mind and detach from identification with thoughts in your mind. It helps you perceive the stillness within and between the thought and it's origin. By calming the mind, the Qi can flow naturally and this will help to begin the physical transformation. The most commonly pursued route is via the transformation of "the three treasures". Jing (Sexual Essence) must be transformed to Qi and then to Shen, Shen to emptiness and the emptiness will lead to union with the Tao. Almost all meditative disciplines start from here. To start cultivating Jing, you may use "sitting meditation". Allow the mind to calm, relax the breath. Gently concentrate the intent and mind on the Lower Tan Tien, a point about 2 to 3 finger widths below your belly button and to the center of the inside of the body. By concentrating on this point and not ejaculating, the Jing will accumulate below the navel soon enough. It will heat up, then vibrate, then find it's way up the spine to the top of the head and down the front of the body creating an orbit; "The Microcosmic Orbit". - When you get to this point u can write here again i suppose. This initial phase has been roughly tagged at taking about 100 days to complete, with minimum two daily meditation sessions of about 30 mins to 60 mins each + no ejaculation. The more you meditate the higher your frequency of Qi becomes, if you ejaculate you go back to square one. It's like fucking for virginity, you will never reach your goal. If you instigate sex the higher frequency "Qi" you've produced will degenerate to Jing (Sexual Frequency) and stimulate the lower organs to prepare for sex and ejaculation, thus you will hinder progress. You must keep your thoughts pure and your mind free of desire from the senses. So: 1. Find a place to sit comfortably in half lotus etc. 2. Keep your back naturally straight. 3. Breath using "natural breathing" or "reverse breathing" to "kindle the fire". 4. Concentrate at all times on the Lower Tan Tien, bellow the belly button, when your concentration is effective you will more precisely ascertain it's location. 5. Keep doing this until this region heats up and vibrates. 6. Do not have sex, do not think about sex, do not watch sex, do not read sex. (exclusions exist but require a more advanced understanding to be utilized effectively) That is meditation. Hai! Tips: - Do "Pranayama" to help regulate the breath, this will help "sitting meditation". - Do not aim to have no thoughts, this is impossible, thoughts are always there. Instead aim to detach from thoughts so they do not drag you away. Let them rise and fall, but do not follow. Acknowledge, but do not indulge them. - Do not concentrate too strongly or too lightly on the Lower Tan Tien. Seek "The Middle Way". - Make your breathing transitions, like the "Taiji Symbol". Yang should rise and when it reaches its high, should naturally recess into the fall of Yin. Such should be your breath. - Do not only pay attention to the breath-in and the breath-out, but also to the no-breath that lies between both actions; all the time maintaining a loving, nurturing intent in the "Lower Tan Tien". - Do not meditate after eating, do not meditate when hungry. - Do not meditate when emotionally aroused. - Do not meditate when it's too hot or too cold. - Seek the middle way in everything. - Sin not in the shadows of secrecy, for no faster can blindness be-gotten than through lies conceived for thyself. Thus, virtuous is he who performs good deeds, even in the absence of his audience. - Try to understand the Tao Te Ching. - Read the following Books: 1. Qigong For Health and Martial Arts by Dr Yang Jwing Ming 2. How To Measure And Deepen Your Spiritual Realization by William Bodri and Huai-Chin Nan 3. The Essence of Tai Chi Chi Kung by Dr. Yang Jing Ming 4. Chinese National Chi Kung Institute's "Chi Kung Correspondence Program" 5. Taoist Yoga, Alchemy and Immortality by Lu K'uan Yu 6. Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy by Jerry Alan Johnson Make love to this website: http://www.precision....com/~altaoism/ Read this: http://damo-qigong.net/step1.htm And This: http://www.fightinga...icle.php?id=571 This Too: http://baharna.com/c...six_healing.htm Buy someone a regular donut with sugar coating. Tell them i said "hi." Watch this video: http://www.thetaobum...post__p__202648 Try this information: Download |Taoist Alchemy Initiation| My personal program: 1. I do Jerry Alan Johnsons 5 Yin Organ exercise to keep the zang organs balanced, which is most important in centering the body. A healthy body is needed for meditation progress. - 15 minutes 2. SFQ Moving Of Ying and Yang http://www.youtube.c...feature=related - 15 minutes 3. Zhan Zhuang - 3 x 5 minutes: Pranayama: - Bhastrika - Kapalbhati - Bahya - Anulom Vilom Sitting Meditation / Internal Alchemy - 40 to 60 mins

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Hey Astral, I am a guy myself so i do not know what it feels like, hopefully a girl will post. From the texts i understand that ladies can lose jing through their menstrual flow, which can be anything from 3 to 7 days. Also through lubrication, which i assume would be a degeneration of Qi to Jing, and for the more capable ones also through physical ejaculation. I am not sure if milk production comes into play. However the texts also say that it is easier for the women to transform the inside of the body since they are Yin (Earth) on the outside and Yang (Heaven) on the inside, thus the transformation of the energetic body is a lesser task for the females, but on the contrary have a harder time transforming the mind than men do as they are challenged by emotions. So both bodies have their sexual barriers when it comes to development. Us men have a much harder time transforming the internal body because we are Yin on the inside; we are challenged by strong earthly sexual desires and urges because of wild jing. Thus it is harder for us to subdue the beast and transform our Yin internal body. But don't get confused we are not all Yin inside, there is Yin within Yang and Yang within Yin. Other than that, yes the course of transformation is the same for us both. In most cases it is the school of study that may alter the course of transformation, not the body. Left naturally we tread the same path. I am not too skilled on this topic though, perhaps someone else will chip in. D'oh >_<

I didn't catch anywhere in there if you meditate? - When you become edgy and the jing becomes aroused and stimulated you have to meditate and bring it to the lower tan tien. I have noticed that when you start with retention ie: Day 1 to 14, you will feel the effects of the accumulated jing, however as it increases in quantity, theoretically speaking, you will realize you will not be interested in sex any longer. If women aroused you before, now you can look at them just appreciate their beauty rather than feel the primal need to devour them like the steaming hot muffins they are. There is a saying; "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes." - In my experience, to keep the stealthy bastard from escaping with your goods, you must meditate. Anytime you feel aroused, anytime you see a picture or a hot momma down the street with her butt hangin out her skirt, if it turns you on, make sure you meditate later. When i get aroused for sexual reasons during my practice, i feel as if i have sprung an energetic leak and i feel quite uncomfortable and energetically uncomposed until i meditate to seal the leak. If you don't seal the leak and meditate after arousal IME you increase the chances of nocturnal emission, and that to me is the real nightmare : ) Don't forget that the old teachings say: When the Jing is full; one does not desire sex. When the Qi is full; one does not feel hunger. When the Shen is full; one does not need sleep. You must understand that this temporary pleasure you feel is just the same as any orgasm and ejaculation. Whether you are practicing the internal arts or not; an orgasm will always release pressure and leave you feeling like you had double rainbows for breakfast with a side order of punani; So do not confuse yourself by thinking that if you have an orgasm every 2 weeks WHILE YOU'RE MEDITATING that it will have any profound effects as opposed to anyone else in the normal world. The sustained effort and control and maintenance of the jing will indeed help you open up channels through meditation and yoga, so agreeably there ARE positive effects due to this, but to assume this methodology as your sole means of practice will take you gazillion lifetimes to get anywhere O_O To propagate results and nurture the constant transformation and transmutation of the first treasure you must maintain a consistency in your retention and meditative practices; the latter of which are vital to the transformation process. Otherwise you are just filling the pot with water to the brim and soon it will overflow through the *ehem.. "jade stalk", the one eyed anaconda, your third leg. Instead you need to turn the heat on that stove on under the pot and bring the water to a boil so it evaporates, this vapor is the transformed essence. So when you ejaculate you are always pouring the water out of the pot before the water has even warmed up, talk less about boiling or evaporating. No water (JING), no progress. No heat (MEDITATION), no progress. They are both needed. So you must push through your 2 weeks barrier to advance. The more jing u get the less horny you will feel. Understand that in these practices we are developing ourselves in order to open up to the impermanent and that which always is and has always been. It would behove you to understand that these "temporary pleasures" contradict the path you are pursuing and although they are pleasureful to the senses in the long run your attachment to them contradict the goals of meditation, if that is what you're doing. To balance the increased Yang, sit on the grass in parks, with your ass and the soles of your feet on the ground, sit by lakes, listen to water, sit by trees etc, BUT most IMPORTANTLY, meditate - this will center the energy and redistribute it accordingly to help maintain regulation and a healthy course of transformation. Just remember JING > CHI > SHEN. No Jing > No Chi > No Shen... NO ADVANCE. The reason we can feel the sexual energy in the lower region of our body is because it's vibration is very low thus our body's senses perceive it. When the frequency of the Jing is raised to Chi gradually, the Qi is less if at all perceptible, because it is on a higher, more refined frequency. As it fills and transforms further, the frequency ascends even higher on the scale and turns to light. When you pop your cork. You not only lose the Jing, but you lose the higher frequency trans-mutated essence. You may feel better on your next start and assume that it's all good, but that is only because your channels would have opened up a little more during the retention and meditation process and not because you just committed energy suicide by slapping the salami around. SO: Meditate based on your program and meditate after the jing has been stirred to seal the leak, or it will find its way into the night and redecorate the inside of your underwear. This is not the law, but my experience - so hopefully more people post so you can get a broader feedback.

Not sure xabir-san, could have been seeing as i am familiar with the article. My memory fails me I save my posts in a separate diary and review them later on to see how my understanding has changed; sometimes i face-palm other times i marvel at my views. There are many great posts on this forum and many great minds, i like it here : )

Good points Xabir! I feel much at ease with your discussion. I find myself beset from both sides by a realm of emotion and intellect. In my meditation i naturally dwell in the residence between self-inquiry and emptiness. Perhaps this is why i do not distinguish between the two because i develop within the third, which observes both the left and the right, but is neither and both at the same time. For me to say that it is the most appropriate path would be wrong, because both are appropriate in their own distinct measure. But out of my stillness i have come to this center and when inquiry or stillness arise i cannot differentiate either because i am there where they originate. As for obstacles in meditation, i believe that as long as you maintain detached from manifestations the following is sufficient to help you overcome all barriers: "It is neither good nor bad, keep meditating" - I find the answers and the questions by the middle way, but instigate neither manually. Beyond this i have found nothing else worth too much attention, because at the end of my day, no matter what my intellect has fused from the separate components of acquired theory, in my stillness it is all de-constructed into nothingness, thus i find it hard to solely assume the path of inquiry and for other reasons only the path of emptiness. I am in the middle where i have been placed by being without direction.

lol - wha? Too many labels, too many titles. It was not sarcasm, i was appreciating your comment. It seems you are the one that is rattled. You can safely relieve your guard. I'm out of here, this thread must be in the paranoid section. Laters all

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I did not say information or inquiry are not useful. Self-inquiry yes, much useful. However, i personally strive to maintain this inquiry within the realm of my mind, rather than anyone else's. When you do not understand something, and ask for it's theory the resulting outcome is not truly understanding but conceptualization of ideas, thus simply ego in my opinion. The only understanding, the only questions and inquiries worth making as far as i am concerned are those that arise naturally within the internal evolution of the still mind. I can't separate the state of nothingness from self-inquiry. To reach nothingness, to reach the calm of the mind is the ultimate self-inquiry. It is the formless inquiry of the self, that which is not confined to the rigid body of a constructed question. It is non linear. To me to cultivate nothingness within is to inquire into the depth of the mind, but not with "a" question, but with the root of all questions, emptiness itself; meeting emptiness with emptiness. My answers come from the question i never ask. I respect your view, there is much to be learned and many ways to learn it, but if there is but one Tao, then surely walking the path and feeling the earth beneath the soles of your own two feet would be deemed a better capable product to satisfy questions than asking someone else to describe their understanding of the former sensation as perceived by their personal senses; This would create a rigid concept and propel expectation, this is the false path. I think if one strives too hard to understand, their practice will be plagued by much uncertainty, and what certainty can one seek in the UNcertain in the first place, to my mind it is absurd to contemplate this, akin to asking why fire is fire and why the wind is the wind. You will never know, until you become fire and wind itself.

Most of the time when i read a thread on this forum which was started by a question such as the OPs, i tend to skip all the replies that go into detail. I simply try to avoid any and all sorts of conceptions and personal ideas or models about anything and everything. I practice keeping my mind pure and free of obstructions and expectations based on ideas and understandings. Information can be a very dangerous thing, especially when it comes differently from many sources.

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Whatever the answer may be, it will be neither good nor bad, thus keep meditating and keep the mind unstirred and in the area between attachment and detachment. Do not drift, do not marvel, do not question. Be the medium for transformation. Do not try to unravel the mind, let it unravel itself; it understands it's construct better than you do, it knows what to let you know and when. To contemplate it's highs while standing at it's lows will lead to but more questions ad infinitum, this is most consuming of time best dedicated to achieving no thought rather than active thought. The understanding will come on it's own, do not pursue it. Answers will come to questions which you do not know exist yet. Relieve yourself of expectations and hopes. Do not meditate for samadhi, do not meditate for any special achievement, simply meditate. I think when you understand emptiness, you will have no concept of understanding, "understanding" will be replaced with a nameless, formless experience. Let the onion peel itself. Just meditate... meditate... meditate... meditate.. meditate. If someone's reply satisfies you, will their experience become your truth? - Satisfy yourself only with the evidence of your personal cultivation. Question everything, but not by asking, by meditating. O_O