LittlePie

Alright, I'll do some searching. I just wish I could find a mentor before I end up injuring myself. I already injured myself once, bringing a ring of electricity up from my naval area to my chest, where it got stuck. I repeated this 7-8 times, not knowing this was bad for me. 10-15 minutes after I finished the session, my chest hurt a lot. All my bronchial arteries felt like they had been burned. I thought I had permanently damaged myself. After 1-2 weeks without the problem dissipating at all, I found an acupuncturist who fixed me after 2 sessions. I simply don't want to hurt myself again, but at the same time, I refuse to completely drop my work with energy, because I feel it is necessary in realizing my potential--to the point where I perceive it as fate.

Excuse me, but energy, at its most fundamental level, is a dichotomy. Positive and negative. Yin and yang. Good and evil are just arbitrary human reifications of these base elements. There is evil in this world. Active evil. Not simply a passive evil, as you suggest, where an absence of light exists. Moreover, your statement regarding embracing everything precludes the integration of good and evil as separate entities within any context, which is self-contradictory. I hope I'm not being rude, but I take philosophy very seriously. It is very easy to pontificate. What I do, however, is try to articulate all the subtleties I have garnered through experience. Finding the correct words to thread the needle of my understanding of the human condition is incredibly difficult. My views are fully honest, and a collaboration between my heart and mind. However, I do not wish to get into a debate of metaphysics. Any sort of intelligent and creative individual can argue any perspective with success; this has to do with the subjective nature of reality, as well as the unfortunately subjective nature of language. Finally, out of everything I've experienced in my life, I can state this: Of all the evils, willful ignorance is the worst, most active evil. (And guess what, it's everywhere.)

What are active and passive channels? How do I open them up, and how do I know when they are open? What is the difference between meditation and energetics? What are induction practices?

Effecting change requires power, no? Positive change requires a virtuous, substantive power. Since evil corrupts easily, one must have great internal strength to be able for one's words and actions (his existence by extension) to not only resist the corrupting nature of evil, but to dominate it thoroughly.

So are you saying it is dangerous to even practice basic baduanjin qigong while attempting to complete Level 1 of the Mo Pai system?

Thank you for pointing out how I know nothing. I really am as ignorant as they come with this Mo Pai system. I wish I were training through official channels, but I truly doubt I've endured enough yet to earn the privilege. Even if I never find a mentor, I still believe in my ability to transcend and sublimate, connect with myself and guide whatever universal, underlying substance of which I'm comprised. I believe in fate, and so if I'm meant to progress with my internal skill like I think I am, then it will happen one way or another.

Ya, that's what they're saying. Thank you though, I'll send morepieguy a message.

Hello. My name is Adam. I'm 26 years old, and I've been meditating for almost 3 years. I initially sought meditation as a means of coping with stress--I refused to depend on allopathic poison anymore, e.g., anti-depressants, anti-anxiety, etc., etc. I also sought meditation as a way of perhaps ameliorating or even curing my ADHD and Asperger's, which affect my life on a day to day, second to second basis. I have never been naturally adept at anything--disregarding general creativity--like I am with meditation. Shortly into beginning meditation, I didn't feel heat, but this electricity emanating from my brain. I found that if I pulsed the area around my temples, I could produce this electricity at will. I felt the desire to extend the feeling, trying to make it last for 2 seconds, then 3 seconds, and so on. Now I can extend it as much as I desire, just by thinking it, no temple oscillations needed. About 18 months into meditation I began to understand the heat element. I've grown this steadily since then; I've meditated a few times in the past few months where I've felt more heat than I would from an actual fire burning in front of me. Somewhere along the line, I tried meditating lying flat on a bed, in cruciform, and began breathing heavily, slowly, trying to extract and consolidate chi on every inhale and exhale. This continued for 30-45 minutes, the breaths slowly getting stronger and faster. My entire body went electric with a very intense form of what I felt from my temples. I could feel a disc of energy spinning at my navel area. Each time I took a breath in, I could feel this breath pushing down on the spinning energy like a top, pumping it to speed up. I continued breathing in, pumping and speeding this ring of energy until my hands seemed to magnetize and my fingers collapsed on my palms, the collapse was the strength of a muscle spasm, though without the pain, all the fingers just locked into place, thumb and forefinger up and against one another, both pressing against the middle finger, with all the other fingers pointed down, same thing on each hand, and literally forced into this position. I got up and walked around, finding my legs had been locked up somewhat by energy as well--I was unable to fully extend them. The effect lasted about 10-15 minutes, though I remained in an enlightened state (this floaty, passive, simply observant mentality) for maybe a couple hours after the meditation had ended. ANYWAY, I'm here because of the MP nei kung system. I want to be a master. I am hoping to find guidance on these forums. Right now I am at Level 1, and I am wondering how I will know when my dantien is full of yang chi. So that's my deal. Any assistance would be infinitely appreciated.

To effectively change the world in a positive manner, one must cultivate seemingly impossible levels of internal strength. I want to learn Mo Pai for this reason.