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If you want union with god/god realization you should read Ramakrishna. He worships god in the form of the goddess Kali and he was blessed with many visions of her. He says the aim of human life is god realization and he tells you how to attain that. Here's a link to an audio version of the Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna. http://www.vedantauk.com/Readings.aspx The link also has Vivekananda's (his chief disciple) commentary on the different yogas: bakti, karma, jnana, and raja yoga. Good luck on your journey!

So I've been meditating for a while now but for the last half a year I stepped it up and started meditating at least 3 hrs a day. I just do a simple meditation where I would just focus on my dantian. Around 4 months ago I developed heat there whenever I focus on it. In the beginning it was just warmth and then later on it got really hot. It only gets really hot when my mind is completely focused for like at least 10 minutes on my dantian. That only happened a handful of times because for me its really hard to stay focus on one thought for a long time. Anyways last month it stopped getting really hot whenever i focus on it for a long time and I started feeling pain near my testicles.It hurts a little bit but its not super painful or anything but I feel like energy is flowing to my testicles instead of staying in my dantian. Just wondering if anyone know or experience anything like this and any advice on how to get the heat back to my dantian would be great thanks.

How long did it take for it to go away in your case and does the heat come back to the dantian? What am I suppose to do with the fire? Yeah I've read Jim McMillians level 1 and level 2 mopai. I'm just not a big fan of reverse breathing. It feels unnatural and whenever I use it it's harder for me to get into a deep trance. Also I'm pretty sure Mopai doesn't involve the MCO

I think John Chang puts it best when he said that "religion is like a walking stick. When you are young, you need help from your parents to walk. When you are old, you need a cane. When you are a healthy adult, you have no need for a cane; if you try to run, it will only hinder you."

You guys wanna take it outside? I feel like you guys should duke it out. Whoever wins will prove that they are at a higher level and that's the person I'm gonna believe

I'm doing a sitting meditation to accumulate yang chi into my dantien. I was wondering if it's necessary to meditate on the ground.I live in the top floor of a 2 story apartment so I can't really meditate sitting on the ground. I read in a book that says yin chi comes from the ground and yang from the air and so does that mean I'm not getting enough yin chi because I'm not sitting on the ground when I meditate?

Well I guess Shifu Lin is out of business...

In other news the sky is blue, water is wet, and peaches are fuzzy!

Yeah you're right. I have a garage downstairs that I share with my neighbor. I'm going to clean that up and meditate there for now. Hopefully they don't walk in on me during my meditation session. That would be weird as f*** hahah. I was going to buy the metal wire but then I realized I would have to ask my neighbor to plant it in this backyard which is kinda inconvenient since I don't really know them. Sucks living upstairs. Anyways good luck on your cultivation.

Thanks for the clarification. I always thought what differentiates qigong from neigong is that in neigong when your dantien is filled it's compressed to a smaller size and then sent down into the perineum where it collects yin chi and they both later rise and fuse together in the dantien. This is what I meant when I said combining yin and yang chi. I don't think qigong systems do this.

The sitting meditation for SM accumulates and stores chi in the dantien. It's a very good meditation. But I don't think SM deal with yin chi though (well not in the book at least) because its qigong not neigong. They don't combine yin and yang chi at the higher levels.

I guess it's time to move to the Himalayas

how thick should the wire be?

I'm sorry I don't mean to be so sarcastic but I really don't know how else to respond to those posts. Of course having a good teacher would be ideal but to say that books are useless and that we should only listen and believe what our teachers say is not only absurd but I think also dangerous.

Comparing books to toilet paper makes a lot sense. You are definitely a very wise man

Seriously 11 hrs? Wow that's really impressive. I practice 3-4 hrs a day and I thought that's alot. You ever consider going up to the mountains and be a hermit?

Thanks for the advice buddy! You know what I'm just go throw away all my books right now because you told me so and obviously no ones ever learned anything from books anyways. P.S Thanks again!

Accumulating chi in the dantien is a basic meditation that many schools have as their foundation. I follow one of those schools

The thing is I don't feel any difference meditating on the ground as oppose to on the 2nd floor. I do however feel a big difference when meditating on carpet. I can tell that I'm not getting any Yin chi because my body gets warm and my dantien gets really hot. But that's not the case at all when I'm meditating on the 2nd floor. Feels just like like meditating on the ground.

I'm reading Jim McMillan's book on John Chang. John told Jim that his yin chi was weak and that was the result of him meditating on a trailer 3 feet above the ground. So if I'm not accumulating sufficient yin chi then does that mean I'm also not accumulating the most yang chi possible? Because I know that you're supposed to have the same amount of Yang as Yin chi in your body. Even though they're stored in different places, one in the dantien and the other in the perineum, there's supposed to be equal amount of yin as yang and if i'm not getting sufficient yin then I must also not getting sufficient yang?

This book will help you http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Yoga-Practices-Lessons-Ecstatic/dp/1478314834/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1347000272&sr=8-4&keywords=yogani

Chi exists even if most people believe its imaginary and even if it can't be detected by science. Today's science doesn't have the technology to detect chi yet but eventually it will be detected. That's like saying in the middle age the earth was flat because people believed it was flat or that gravity didn't exist because Isaac Newton hadn't discovered it yet.

I don't think you're supposed to draw the energy up the crown chakra and leave it there. You should loop it down and into your dantien. I skip the crown chakra all together and draw it up to my third eye and then down to my dantien.

Hahaha I know what you mean...I used to read a lot of new age books that talk about how everything is the result of your believes and to be honest I was brainwashed into that way of thinking for a bit I used to go around thinking that if I only think positive thoughts then no bad things will happen to me. Then one day out of nowhere I had a serious illness even though I believed i was healthy and I never had any thoughts about being ill. So now now I really don't even know what to believe hahah. But there are some serious flaws to that way of thinking though...like did the thousands of Japanese that died because of the Tsunami believed that they were going to drown prior to the Tsunami? Did Christopher Reeves believed that he was going to get into that accident and never walk again? It just doesn't make sense...

Sorry to hear that about your friend. I personally don't know anyone having problems while doing PC muscle control exercises. In fact Mintak Chia have been practicing that for over 10 years and he never had any problems with it. We all know that abstaining and being celibate can be very difficult, so just wanted to let people know that there are other methods out there that will prevent the loss of chi if you do have sex or masturbate. But do your own research. Don't just listen to some guy on a forum tell you what's right or wrong for you.