Marks of Glory

Hmm... Porbably metter to learn how to swim in the East Coast... I personally am seeking taijo more as a complement for spiritual practices... I think that if you stand in Zhan Zhuan for 30 minutos or more, and when energized practice a good taiji sequence, you probably clean alot of dirt from your Aura / Energy field. notice the word : think Quite a few spiritual schools work with energies withou touching the body... I will search for some Videos and post it here. I agree with that! I think it is important to strengthen the body so that you feel confortable in any ocasion, so that you can perceive the Dao anytime... Ohh... about taiji.. I practice alot of still meditation, chakra visualisation, mantras in speceific parts of body, etc... taiji is quite new to me but htis morning something amazing happened.... as I was sitting in meditation i discovered that I could concentrate on the chakras and mentaly mantralize them alot more efectively by focusing "energetic arms - hands" onto them... i never had that experience before and I guess that the taiji moving meditation helped out alot to achieve this. my actual physical arms stayed normally resting in my knees... reminded me of that dude from dragonball - ten chi ran - who had the ability to develop 4 arms during the fight...

Any one? if someone cares about privacy, please PM me, I am planning on going there... thnks Marks O'Glory

Thank you for the info brothers! actually, I am planning in making a trip in one year's time.. I am savingo some money... and I was planning trying to get a working visa. I am planning in living bout 2 years there so that I can study some martial arts in Shou Yu Liang gong fu school... I am studying mandarin so it would be perfect if a rented a house in chinatown to practice it. I was searching for someone from Taobums that lives there so that I can get a work permit easyer... to get the working visa it helps infinitely if you have a job offer from someone from Canada - Vancouver... well.. Thank you for the info.. I will defenetely note those things down... cheers... Marks

- I normally associate the term"biology" with physical structures.... oh, except with the shark's sensitivity to electricity, hehe - I do not think you wil waste your breath... I think alot of people in this forum are alittle interested in the matter.... heheh cheers

Greetings... I am a Kundalini Yoga practitioner and am starting to use daoist qigong methods in my practice. I have a strong foundation on flexibility an hui-yin / mulabandha, anal and vajroli muscles control and breathing... so I feel the energy kind of fast... so... I am buildinh leg power and rooting with zhan zhuang (from book "chi kung: way of power" My link very interesstin, straight foward and effectiv book, by the way) I started practicing taiji now, and when my legs get much stronge, making my body "lighter" I wil start practicing bagua.... I' like to know if you think it is necessary to learn and practice external kung fu also.. because I kinda of don't really want to earn those martial arts for self defence... only if it is necessary for further energy work... or maybe the horse stance - taiji - bagua - training is enough thank you!

cheers

Some times I feel like some people kind of dislike the people that are looking for attainment / enlightment. it's a kind of a unconcious possession thing, as if "maya, or the negative aspect of mother earth doesn't like the ones that don't want to play the game of samsara, the theater of life" As if something deep in their unconscious says "hey, this guy is trying to leave this planet, get him.. or hate him.. or try to distract him".. i'm sure I'm not being escapist and trying to guilt everyone.. heheh... it is just a "feeling" that comes to me some times... anyone had this intuition? reminds me of the agents from matrix

so what's the problem in bringing your Yi or intent to the Dantien after practice?

Oh that's problably why John Woodrofe way that a yoguin can have sexual relationships with women only after he "mastered" kundalini... during the awakening process it is very easy to fall slave to the woman, kind of by projecting the godess unto her, which would make the yoguin powerless and surrender completely...

Oh... I feel I must add some things so that certain misconceptions never come to expistence because of this thread... 1st - It so no way something related to the human female sex. I think it has yes, to do, with the female energy force (aka involutionary force) and every human being has both the forces in him. 2nd - I myself was victim to the involutionary force... i already found my self hating people that were seeking for buddhahood... without anyreason... only deeper practice gave me consciousness and control over some forces. 3rd - I do not blame anyone that becomes "possessed" or influencesd by any force that tries to chalenge me... it is not the person's fault. I believe there is a natural evolution speed of human race... we are the ones in a hurry and speeding it up,.. so it is up to us to accept te consequences and step away from the "normal speed highway" not to disturb their own karmas... 4th - the inccidents that I had with my girlfriends were funny in the manner that at the same time that both them and I were victims of the "Involutionary force", the spiritual experiences were also quite stronger... which means that it was a a razor's edge or a "Knife with both sides of the blades sharpened" meaning that it could accelerate or destroy my spiritual cultivation. (completely destroy it if I fall in love with a girl that ddoesn't know how to notice and control the unconscious impulses, which already happened with me and thnks God she left my way... i was willing to abandon my practice to live a "happy life" with her, but it seems that some extra dimensional beings simply didn't let us continue together... thankful for that, for now I see clearly.) well that's bout it... cheers brothers!

please.. tell me more about it... I see supernatural powers as supernaturals from the point of view of who doesn't have them... e.g. the capacity to walk is supernatural for a tree.... the capacity of reasoning is supernatural for a dog, but nor for human... etc... try explain your concepts deeper still please...

mechanical?!? energy?!?!? extraction?!?!?!??! storage?!?!?!?! development of spirit! in biological manner?!?!?!?!?! hmmm...

Hmm well.... Here in Brasil a few years ago a man entered a bank, in front of everyone, kneeled down in front of a cash machine and robbed a couple of thousand bucks.... no one noticed... but the cameras did.... That means that his "invisibility" was a energetic invisibility and not actual invisibility... perhaps he practiced sqigong or was just one more of the "naturals" that are out there. as for the "powers" that I felt, they didn't last long and I don't have much control over them. Sometimes I know deep issued from people I have close contact, like job, etc... SOme times I can quite easily hold my energy beneat the ground While I walk in downtown and it's funny, i feel reaally tiny, as if I hit the waist level of an average person (I'm 1,80), it's funny, and I don't know how this effects what the others percieve of me. Sometimes I feel my body levitate when I am about to sleep. There are some other experiences also that I don't think is important to express as these ones speak alot already... I am not saying that those are psychic powers, but they really match the "siddhis" mentioned in yoga. I imagine aa lonely hermit in the jungle, his experience in wilderness is so intense that he kiind of looses his "rational" thinking that it is just a perceptive / energetic phenomena. And well.. I bet most of us read alot of new age, scientific, daoist, etc... stuff. which gives our rational mind some tools to enable us to discuss abbout it without actually archaicly thinking "I really got very small". Oh, probably some thousand years ago there weren't cameras also.... so when someone made there energy "invisible" there was no maaterial to evidence that they did not get invisible.... those are just a few hypothesis my brothers... cheers

Thank you for you opinion Anamatva, Boy and Clarity... oh yes, my practice has already developed great roots... I will check out The Sirian Experiments. thnks

After this happens.. even the bad and ugly wil feel love and beauty

about crosisng the legs... I think the case is similar in low zhan zhuan and high zhan zhuan (da peng). in the first case you end up doing an extreme perineum lock, and throw enourmou amout of energy huiyin upwards... but not necessarily a good feeling... same times it may increase your inbalance, by energysing it... same efects by crossing the legs... resticts the flow to the legs, and keeps it huiyin upwards.... the higher stance zhan zhuan.. permits your energy to sink down to the ground.... the ground neutralizes any imnbalance... and if you go deep enough, the earth's energy will rebound back with force (peng) a kind of vulcanic force in nature.. and the energy will come balanced and beatiful!

"I personally feel like focusing on virtue like compassion, dropping the thinking mind by noticing the beauty of the world around you, and paying attention to the breath, are perfectly fine ways of avoiding negative energy." Scotty. I'm with you bro..

Clarity... do you think you can sythesise Gurdijeff's theory in one reply???? is that asking too much? I had a girl friend that sometimes, whilst I was meditating, would run to me and shake me profusely... i got reallly upset and asked why she did it.. and she would reply she didn't know... and then would say sommething like "aren't you afraid of not coming back???" sometimes she would wake me up on nights in which I was having fanstastic dreams.... she was quite a strong medium by the way.... I think she had a very "Mother earth" impulse crying out for her: "stay here in earth, play the game of samsara and help you brothers" kind of thing.... had some few other experiences of this kind also, maybe next post I write them down.... Sinfest I think you didn't get the point.. this topic is not inteded to discuss enlightment... i think this discussion quite borring and grey... but thank anyways brother! cheers!

I have heard that the neck chakra is alot of times "attacked" by negative energies, or astral entities or some thing like that, the belly button area alot also. any ways, the beard would help you to create an energy field, not only because of the hair material, but because you know that your beard is there, and just by knowing it, you project a qi field over there. I think this concept it revered to as the Yi - intent in daoist qigong. anyways, if you don't have a bear you can just use a scarf on the neck... it really helps, alot of people use it intuitively. I always wanted to grow my hair enough to tie it up.. but my hair is kind of afro, so affter it reached a peak, I would feel like a baloon, with no roots.... a little crazy and completely spaced out.... and all of a sudden I would cut it short again... about swamijis satsag... very nice in deed!!!! I belie that the brahma charyas would "scrape" their heads with some udimentary equipment, which would stress the scalp more than our modern equipment, and end up shooting more qi to the area... cheers

oh.. forgot to add.. this happens only when you're striving for enlightment... to brake on through to the other side... "abandon" every one here... after you are enlightened you emanate love... and every one loves you and you love everyone and every thing is love, love, love... cheers

ChiDragon... I thought that it is recomended to condensce the qi in the lower inner dantian after exercise as for not to loose the energy created. isn't it the "outer lower dantien" (the one actually in the conception vessel, some inches below the navel), also known as elixir furnace, that produces alot of energy... and the inner dantien stores alot of energy??

If I separate 2 hours on the end of the day to practice internal chi kung and external exercises such as push ups, stance training, etc... which one shoul I perform first? I thought that this would be the best: 1st - qigong 2nd - bring intent to lowe dantien to condensce energy 3rd - external exercise 4th - bring intent to lower dantien to consence energy. anyone has opinions on the case?

Swami Satyananda Saraswati says in oe of his books.. I believe a systematic course in the ancient tantric techniques of yoga and kriya, or kundalini tantra, that the astral plane (at least a certain astral plane) smells like sandalwood incense. ... Pai Mei went spot on... base chakra activation. I've hear of people that simply can't stand the smell of other people (smells that ordinary people can't sense), due to their own chakra activation.

ChiDragon and Jeramiah Zeitigeist, thank you for the info. Thelerner. I will check out the book mentioned, thank you. I tried out some external kung fu here last year but I was getting far too exausted... during the training my legs were simply heavy heavy heavy.. almost lethargic... probably my energy was kind of "lefty", running trhough the Ida nadi, or Yin... I discovered that my energy was kind of "lefty" only last week, when I managed to finally "hold on to both sides" I really had to make an effort to hold on to the right side of my body, because there was, ans still is a very trong tendency to turning my energy "to the left", and when that happens, I kind of loose contact with my physical body and feel my energy spiraling around my body, in a smoky manner.. it feels as if my head is spinning round.. kinda like the exorcist way... when I held my energy on the middle, or, better still "on both sides" it was funny because I could feel my physical body on the right side of my body, and my left side stayed kind of "smoky" and vapourish. remembered me some stories about xamans, that can transform themselves into anything, i think it by hold on into both sides, and directin the left, vapourish side to the object into which he want's to transform himself, or a person if he wanted to read there mind or control her i some manner. I also had some "pure right side" experiences, where I could feel perfectly my whole body, and felt very strong and energy and able to cope with physical exercise... I felt very powerful and grounded. Any ways... I will continue with my internal practice, and if I manage to control my left / right energy mechanisms in the future I will probably get involved into some external styles also.

Greetings... In some texts, especially the "MAHANIRVANA TANTRA; SHATCHAKRA-BHEDA" or the piercing of the six chakras, the pircing of some chakras and granthis "knots" are associated with some disorders,but they do not mention what disorders they might be... the following is an excerpt of the text, following a link to the complete text. "When the Devi reaches the manipura chakra all that is in the chakra merges in Her body. The Varuna vija "vang" is dissolved in fire, which remains in the body of the Devi as the Vija "rang." This chakra is called the Brahma-granthi (or knot of Brahma). The piercing of this chakra may involve considerable pain, physical disorder, and even disease. " http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Mahanirvana/shatchakra.html Any one has any ideia of what ilnessess and pain is associated here::