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rw smith, there is an insult policy on this forum if you hadnt noticed, so you can use your imagination to express you ego/emotionally driven points of views in other ways. your objections about price have occured to most of us anyway, you dont need to save us from spending too much money. as far as the seminar price goes, maybe there will be a time in the future where authentic cultivation teachings will be in high demand, and people care less about their fancy cars and stuff. jeez, I cant believe there is still people critcizing Max's "commercialism" For those of you that have done this, please bite your tongue hard now.

What are freemason's cultivation techniques? Symbols wont get you too far, which is where the West is stuck, (in my opinion) admiring symbols like children looking at picture books, thinking fancifully of far off enemies and goodguys.

Master Nan goes to far in saying no qiigong master has even reached the first dhyana.Huh?!! Also confining the entire Vajrayana path to the garbage heap is selective thinking at best (although I personally am not attracted to it). Also he says Zen produced more enlightened masters than any other path but says now there is no qualified students; So he puts the blame on the students, not the Zen path? Something fishy about that, not just the non-sequitor sentence. Nevertheless, using the jing-chi-shen framework, one assumes at at a chi-shen level, a formless level, which is entirely mind, paying attention to the body and qi, the realm of form, is counter productive. So I wouldnt mind if Vajrasattva or someone could elucidate a bit on that, if at a certain level the movent excercises become pointless. I think that that is Nan's main point.

I dont expect immediate benefits from the spiritual path, because things are not about pleasing your ego, but the path fucking with what you think is important. So thats my caveat. Many forms of meditation promise siddhis and health benefits. Kunlun is an easy practise, so thats a benefit. I have awakened Kundalini and its difficult to cope with. Kunlun hopefully speeds up the process. Apparently its much safer and faster than the Kundalini route. In my limited experience it has increased the amount of energy my body can handle. By now the energy is dense, palpable. Basically you just sit there and meditate.

I think that there are enlightened masters all over the place if you have the karma to find them and the eyes to see them.

Patrick: My friend read your posts and she said you sound like a broken record and your criticisms are invalid and just meant to deliberately discredit. She says you are just trying to draw attention to yourself. I think she is being hard on you, I mean we are all just people interacting, so I think you should feel free to not say whatever you want and nobody should censor you but your own good sense or lack thereof.

cool. welcome. meditating is easy, and as Buddha said, time is short.

I appreciate the thoughtfulness and effort you put in your posts, high standards. Meditate well!

Thanks for the yang chi description; I've been going through some really electric nights lately, like those cartoon characters that get high voltage electricuted. Seems to be going strong as I sleep.

Sorry about your dog. About your girlfriend, my advice is to see her more as a fuck buddy and find some other girls, and sideline this girlfriend. This kind of girl always comes running back "in love"when she feels you emotionally detaching from her. Otherwise she will continue her same pattern, dominating you, treating you like her beta-turd, and will hop onto the next boy she finds who she perceives as having higher value than you.

I had a few unusual feelings in some churches too. Not part of my mediation, just a feeling of higher, unusual vibrations which I felt in my dantien. I like to meditate during mass with lots of people, I dont sing or listen to the stuff, but focus on opening heart chakra, visualizing I am conducting spiritual energy into people which is flowing into me.

I think the word "ego" is a temporarily useful term, as Eckhart Tolle uses it often to describe the "mind made self". Its useful when you want to distance the habits, values, beliefs that we have that stand in the way of our enlightened state. So describing something as "only ego" is like devaluing the habit, value, belief etc. and showing that its not real, only mind play. In the long term the agglomerative term "ego" is confusing and useless, because if you have already gotten past a certain level where you can be monitering your thoughts and actions , you need to get more detailed in what is what. Abidharma theory and the Skandhas provide this detailed model, and point the direction of what is purposeful to let go of. Its a model of the mind made for cultivators, tried and true. I find NLP and hypnosis could work hand in hand with the skanda model, and have practical techniques for actually acheiving of freeing the mind of the skandhas.

Thats very interesting. I have always suspected that it was the kundalini that wanted me to break up with my long term girlfriend. It was so tough to do, and it happened after I went on this yoga retreat. This is the first time I've heard this cause and effect articulated. --------------- As for the original poster, in my view you are using a Taoist framework as a frame to dope yourself up on sexual bliss; I dont see this as spiritual, because otherwise you would not be overdoing this practise, and be doing a more balanced regime of meditations. My suggestion is to go to fastseduction.com and learn how to meet and attract women for real (start with the player guide), get beyond your masturbatory ways and one-itis.

Barry is weapons grade baloneum. Dont know where to start. He sounds delusional.

If you can reproduce the effect by glancing again, then why dont you think its not some effect created by your visual system?

The small cabin idea sounds ideal. Living too austerely takes away from meditation time. I muse about this quite often. How about a cabin near a mineshaft, so to be close to do darkness meditations.

Funny, I seemed to turn off street lamps as a teen too. I didnt realize it was a named phenomenon. It happened way more than statistcally probable. I would be walking with someone, and the streetlight would go out, I would just say, yeah, that always happens. Had nothing to do with my emotions.

I went from meditation zero to meditation HERO with the stuff at www.meditationexpert.com. Plus theres always trends on this site, bums resonating their new findings from one to another. The trend lately is 3rd eye opening. See energy fields, auras, little blobs that might be your grandma! See it all and ACT NOW, because as the Buddha said, "Time is short."

Very cool! Thanks. I just bought a Buddha wooden mask carving with a nice brow 3rd eye marker and some flower thing from the forehead---to inspire my 3rd eye.

How does Samadhi transform jing into qi. How does cultivation of the mind bring about these endocrine system refinements? I understand the idea, but how to explain the process so it doesnt sound like an assertion? Thanks

Personally, I eat just the 老白豆腐, the traditional white stuff, coagulated pressed soy beans milk, not the textured soy protein products. This traditional staple food of China and Japan I trust. The soy milk from the supermarket and health food shops are generally all protein isolate with water.

Great post Chris. I find myself agreeing to and learning from what you said. I think people here should be quite strict on what they classify as an entity, especially negative ones-- which feed cycles of paranoia. I just did some kunlun dry heaving this morning. I experience it as using ones muscles to create pressure to hopefully unblock something.

林蛋。离开中国，但，中国永不会离开你。 I just coined the term "egg" for white on the outside, yellow on the inside. 哈哈。