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Since kunlun is magnetic, is there harm in practicing near an electircal outlet?

Ah. And how do you transform it?

By "untransformed", do you mean unaroused?

Stand with your feet slightly more than shoulder width apart, and bend your knees so the backs of your thighs and calves form a right angle.

I am having trouble with the opening visualization. I just can't seem to make the image real enough. Max says in the book that it's a requirement, so I'm a little hesitant to do kunlun until I can really get the image to feel real. Do any of you have any tips?

I'm sorry, but I get confused rather easily when it comes to the subject of stagnation. I have a friend who's been doing SKF for over ten years, and his best advice to me when I asked him how to achieve an NEO was, "lock the PC muscle by squeezing it as tight as you can the second you feel an orgasm starting, and then, still clenching the PC muscle, guide the energy up the spine to the head and keep it their until you no longer feel like you're about to ejaculate." How can stagnation occur from this?

I am planning to practice the microcosmic orbit for the rest of my life, with my final goal being the ability to lead qi to the brain safely (water path). A friend recently recommended that I check out this forum, and after doing so I stumbled onto the practice of Kunlun. My friend had already told me alittle bit about it, but I read several of the threads and found it to be something I would very much like to train. However, I'm worried that it might interfere with my small circulation and embryonic breathing practices. Would Kunlun harm my other practices?

If I do decide that I want to do the visualization, I have one question. Do you guys have a first or third person view when you do it. Are you looking down at yourself, or imagining that you ARE sitting in the sky instead of on a chair?

I wonder if you could do the closedown with the TV still on? And Mantra68, if it is not necessary then why does Max say you must do it to "prohibit energetic blockages or chi dispersion"?

In Pillars of Bliss, Max warns against doing practices that lead qi in addition to kunlun to prevent being afflicted by "sang kung" or "energy sickness", which can't be healed. But he doesn't elaborate. What exactly is sang kung? What are the symptoms? WHY is it so undesirable to your health?

That's why practitioners of styles that use explosive jin (martial power) wear tight sashes. They keep the organs snug and in place and prevent herneas. As for the spine and joints, you just have to warm up properly. Pretty much the only external training I do is grip and finger training for qin na, shoulder excersises like finger push-ups and panther walking, and ma bu (horse stance) for stability, as well as practicing my forms and practicing strikes and kicks on the heavy bag.

I wouldn't be surprised. Yang Jwing Ming says that electrical stimulation can definitely cause a dangerous over-abundance of qi.

A lot of teachers I've known have never even heard of qigong and they're still teaching well into their fifties with no problems. However, I make sure to practice embryonic breathing and soft qigong to balance the yang with the yin. Eight pieces of brocade, small circulation, etc. will, I HOPE, prevent san gong.

True, but didn't Max mention something about it being a method to prevent blockages if you do your practice improperly or something like that? That's why I don't want to screw it up.

I'm going to have to argue with that one. It was my understanding that hard style MARTIAL ARTS are fine as long as you don't overdevelop your muscles. It's hard style QIGONG that can be dangerous if done too much for too long. Dangerous hard qigong like that is taught in styles like White Crane. It overenergizes the physical body or yang body and, if you neglect your energy body or yin body, you will become like an electronic device that doesn't have enough power to keep it running and your health will deteriorate. That is why White Crane and styles similar to it also teach soft qigong and small circulation, both of which energize your yin body to keep it on the same level as your yang body.

That brings up another good question: How does the visualization prevent qi blockages? I'm pretty sure that's what Max says in the book, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Maybe I just imagined it

I tend to be very careful and cautious in my training. I have heard the saying "walking into the fire" before, but that is usually caused by leading qi into the wrong path, ex. leading too much qi to the legs and paralyzing them. As for "entering the demon", I thought that was caused by leading too much qi to the brain. But I'm kind of a noob, so...yeah. What I don't understand is what defines which practices are safe to do with kunlun and which will cause you to suffer from sang kung. Also, as a side note: Yang Jwing Ming talks about a similar phenomenon called "san gong", or "energy dispersion". He says that when you practice too much yang and not enough yin you will become too yang and your body will rapidly degenerate. I don't know if that's what sang kung does, but I'm definitely entertaining the idea that it's similar.

I am at a wierd place in my spiritual life, not exactly knowing what to do. I have strong ties to Christianity, but Taoism seems to be such a more appealing religion. I have been thinking a lot lately about life after death, and hell. What exactly are the Taoist beliefs in life after death?

I was unnerved by the warning not to mix qi-leading practices So I want to verify as much as possible. Advanced levels of Taijiquan include grand circulation excersies, which I tend to feel shouldn't be mixed with kunlun. Any input?

1. Kunlun Level 1 2. Long Fist Gongfu 3. Embryonic Breathing 4. Microcosmic Orbit 5. Muscle Changing Fist Set

I am a total kunlun noob and I was wondering, how many times per week and for how long should I practice kunlun since I am just starting? Don't want to overdo it.

Hello, everyone. I am starting my 100 days today, and I'm eager to see how it goes.

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First let me say that I mean no offense from this post. Hold on a minute. This guy's energy level was the equivalent of someone having an epileptic siezure??? That sounds a little dangerous to me, if you even buy into it. Also, don't you think it might be a bit on the crazy side to voluntarily trigger things that happen during DEATH? I have never spoken with anyone like Max on this matter because I am pretty much the only person interested in qigong in my area, but doesn't it seem slightly possible that you could just suddenly DROP??????

What about mixing Kunlun with the tendon-changing fist set? It generates local qi in the arms but also leads qi out from the dan tian to the arms. It's a set I train to benefit my gungfu. Would that be a harmful or helpful practice mixed with kunlun? Doesn't it say not to mix ANY practices? Finally, before I forget, and this is all hypothetical since I haven't even started yet, say that I start kunlun and end up disliking it and wanting to go back to other practices. Do I just stop and resume the previous practice, or is there some kind of transitioning period?