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Is a darkroom or cave required for any Kan and Li practice, even the Lesser one?

The mind consists of thoughts so for the sake of using words to describe what we can witness as a "state" of no thoughts, falsly put as "empty mind" is correctly put as state of "no mind". There is no such thing as an "empty mind". If there are no thoughts, there is no mind. All the best.

Switched PCs, dont have my old history. Came across a website that had all "Universal Tao" levels 1-6 shown with all sub-levels and their practices. SIte was mint-colored, yoga-like symbol in white (?) somewhere on the top. By clicking on each practice link a pdf extended. So basicly what M.Chia has created in one spot, easily accessible. Do you know this site? Please feel free to share it, thank you.

To breathe or not to breathe Oxygen is a vital factor for our minds to respond quickly. More oxygen, a more active mind. All bodily functions require oxygen. Interestingly the exact opposite is beneficial for meditation: Higher carbon dioxide levels. Which is natural during nighttime, where the oxygen levels are lower in nature. Also when being in a meditative state, the body shows lower oxygen levels and higher carb.dioxide levels. And where our ultimate goal is to go beyond thinking and attain our true "state". Thought is inserepably connected to our physical breath. Therefor individuals came up with prolonging the outbreath, bringing their minds into a very quiet state. There is the illusion of the individual mind, but everyone who puts concious effort in his re-development of being in ones natural state, will sooner or later notice, that thoughts are not personal. So in essence, in Reality, there is only one mind. It is the One Mind of God/Tao. Which is the primal reason for the "I" state. This mind consists entirely of thoughts. And it is everywhere. What you see with your physical eyes, is thought. Physical matter, is thought. Mental energy. I give you one blank to digest that information. Blank. In order to quiet thoughts one can do several techniques.. such as: Diet that calms the mind, cultivating virtues, breathing exercises, observing thoughts, not identifying with thought anymore for the initial identification lead us into the 'now' perceived dilemma, and going beyond thought in the here and now moment. The only moment there is. In meditation by asking the question "Who am I (that thinks)?" - no longer bothering with thoughts, but ultimatelly wanting to know who the Thinker is. And then one will notice that there is no Thinker and everything comes crashing down and there is only one state. One finds out that surely one has to combine all of the available techniques to then tackle the final goal which I have just mentioned. So far for theory. There is one point, that was not mentioned, anywhere and that is breathing in a non-physical way. I was sun-gazing one year ago and found myself standing there over a longer period of time without breathing at all. I was so soaked up by the very moment I was in. It was one of the most peaceful moments I have witnessed in this one lifetime, yet. When my mind became active by noticing my state instead of leaving it be as it is, for good, thoughts came by the action of noticing (discrimination #1 action of the mind itself) and of course I started breathing again. This was my experiencal proof that there are no thoughts arising, when not breathing physically. And we can breathe non-physically. Human beings in an embryonal state and even infants can still perform it. During my latest meditations I was breathing multiple times in a different way. It felt more centeral and the breath was more cold, during breathing my throat felt as if it was coated with peppermint fluid. A very pleasant feeling. My inner knowing was that my being is re-developing Sushumna- or Taiji Pole-breathing. A natural form of non-physical breathing for all of us. I write this thread for the fact that it happened just a few hours ago, in meditation, that I was .. warped .. into a state of not-breathing at all. Warped, because this state was not a state, it was a stateless state of just being. Just sitting and blackness. And somewhere else, which was purely felt, and here at the same time. Impossible for words. I am sure this state can be maintained in every moment. In this one moment. All the best!

I am sure someone came across this site aswell. Please leave a message, thank you.

Hi Jox, thank you and No not quite. The site was offering the complete books as free pdfs. All what I have described shows how I recall this page. Most remarkable was the mint-colored background. Any one else?

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Essentially, yes. You in your essence, can never be born and never die. So you are unborn and immortal at the same time. A paradox. The ideas/concepts of birth and death are all coming from the mind and it's thoughts. The mind dies and is born again every second. And in this state it continous infinitely. What remains, what is inbetween? LIfe, living, a state of simply being one's Self. You are. That is the only reality that there is, free from the mind, free from thought.

Why we sit in total Silence in Meditation: Know that there is only this moment. Linear time is created through our mind ontop of this very moment beneath it all. Tao / God is attained only in this present moment. Our mind and thoughts can not operate in this very moment. They operate into the past and the future. We sit in this only existing moment to differenciate between the us arriving thoughts and the much clearer and significant knowing that arises from within our being. This happens when we disidentify with thoughts, not any longer judging them as good or bad and through such means falsly, unconsciously interpreting them as personal. Rather letting them withdraw from where they came from. Until finally the source of our thoughts and cause of all of our misinterpretations, dissolves with it. This knowing that only then has once again a chance to come forth from our deepest core, is Absolute Truth. Through this action we realize our True Nature and our infinite potential, originating from this eternal present moment, here and now. If you still have a voice inside your headspace, react to thoughts, create from this behaviour your daily life, you will not attain God / Tao. You can ask your Self the most important question to realize your Self as God Consciousness "Who am I" from the point of your mind an infinite amount of time. For you know what looping thoughts are and that the mind is infinite. The heart is finite and we will explain why. The mental layer in which thoughts exist, dear Ones, is one of the outmost layers of your existance. Like the tip of the iceberg. Yet you use these thoughts consistantly and automatically prevent yourself from going deeper within. Yes you can use mantras or affirmations to focus your mind but all of them keep you still in the space of the mind. They have to be dropped at one point. Thoughts must be dropped if you want to go within. Note that holding back the breath also stills thoughts, but thoughts will arise again once the inbreath is done. So yet again, this is surely a helpful but incomplete technique. Train yourself, effortlessly, every waking day to be present in this one moment and through continuous actions you will attain God / Tao. Simply because without thinking, you no longer root your Primordial Energies into your mental body only, rather giving them once again a chance to penetrate all of your entire being, that is So much more. Through this action you automatically re-gain more consciousness. And the Heart is seat of consciousness. You will feel this. You trace back where thoughts originate from and ask your Self the simple question "Who am I" that thinks here? Concern yourself who the Thinker is and go beyond. The energy of thought can be felt in meditation and all lead into the heart. You will realize that all starts and ends in your heart. In your Spiritual Heart, for it is God / Tao. This state then re-gained, all of your being flooded with this presence, is all there is and every will be. Changeless. This is the so called immortality, in Taoism. Our Spiritual Hearts are the only 'organ' that operate outside of the limitations of time. You can see your lower chakras as the past, earthbound and your upper chakras as the future, space. In midst of all of these is your Heart. This heart is Creation. It is you. All of this will present itself to you as an experience, not as a concept, for it is creation of all concepts and therefor can not be put in a concept. So know this, that God / Tao is not reached in some distant plain, through astral travel, some mysterious practices or by following the mental concept of semen retention. No, God / Tao is reached through the most simple practice of meditation and ankering one Self in this very moment. To have not enough energy and to go and follow concepts that 'increase' energy is putting once again an illusion ontop of the most important realization that there is. You are Tao, you are God and you are the source of infinite energy. Re-discover it. God / Tao is only in this present moment. The one moment that there every will be free from change. All the best.

"I imagine" "I think" "maybe" "it could be.." Why do you even open your mental box if you have no direct experience? Replying in such a way creates more confusion and does not solve the OP's issue. Generally when such problems arise one has to ask oneself what was the cause for these dramatic changes in lifestyle and how was one previously living. Yes you can stop or force your thoughts to stop to operate on certain subjects but that does not work with our emotions. Feelings can not jump around corners, like thoughts can, emotions have a feedback. See it as waves. A wave does not abruptely end, the waves are getting smaller and smaller if you put your desire elsewhere. And now ask yourself for how long you consumed porn and had sex and how fast you think you want to stop and if that all is possible at all. Generally, everything is possible - because you can also operatein non-linear time - but that might require you to be already re-realized in your true nature as Tao/God consciousness to work from such a place. As with everything one can take babysteps or huge leaps. The question is: What can you take? You clearly struggle with managing your emotions. So yes you can take leaps but you have an emotional feedback. If you have not yet learned how to effectively deal with emotions and non-associate with thoughts, especially seeing them falsely as personal, you will sooner or later make a step back. That in itself is a natural process. But the more one realizes ones true nature as Tao, as God - coming from the core of one's Spiritual Heart (which rightfully re-enables "enlightenment" for it's light, illuminating the higher areas of the body/mind) - the sooner one realizes that truly Everything is possible, only the veil of thoughts must clear for us to have completely unlocked perception of what Life, which we are and in which we all are, is. It is our work to re-enable all of this in us. Semen-retention in itself is not necessary, since everything happens naturally in your body, when you have your FOCUS/DESIRE on wanting to attain Tao/God. That is all that needs to be done. Consistantly, every day. All else happens naturally. All the best.

What enables you to seek outside of yourself for a teacher to teach you about your self? No other individual can enable you to realize your self other than your own self.

There is no voice regarded as any higher state of consciousness. The voice in the human mind is what is refered to as ego, lower consciousness, reaction based. If you want to purify your ego and transcend it, you skip the step of creating a healthy ego. Psychology teaches you how to create a healthy ego, to cope with negativity in this world, act appropriately and help transform negative emotions. While this is a good training for the beginning, it keeps your consciousness in the ego state and does not enable you to see beyond the human matrix, for you are still identified with your "self" as being human. This voice you speak of, wants to be silenced in a conscious way. There is no spiritual awakening and still having chatter in your head. There is no audible voice in your head anymore, once you are awakened. This voice is replaced by a knowing. You then simply see and understand in an instant. But also forget this conceptionalizing. This transformation requires you to put your own energy into a daily practice. So straight forget all the information again and seek transformation instead. This transformation happens gradually with regular meditation practice We meditate deep enough to realize ourselves as pure awareness, this transcends the ego state. And from this place we then create in a formless, unattached and conscious way. In perfection.

No sexual thoughts - check Essentially no sexual desire - check Sexual energy levels high - check Therefor the slightest physical friction (pants) creating an arousal. The effect of this arousal is so disturbing to developing finer qualities. It is too "loud", emotionally. How to effectively disable it? Same as with thoughts? Let it come, let it go? Boy that's a tough one. When I get aroused I radiate heat like crazy, I am told. So the "area" of expressing that energy gotten quite.. large. I desire to keep my jewels, don't worry. And hormone levels are important as everything else. But there must be a way to deal with this. Is celibacy the only way to effectively transcend human sexuality? How to overcome it?

As I have said it before, close all forums with one topic alive: Go inside, all answers there. R.I.P internet.

We still our thoughts to get to our Source. Just to re-learn how to properly utilize it, as creative beings. With thought we create. From nothingness arises an intention, a very subtle vibration, which is then consciously translated into a thought.

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Please watch this series on the Maha Mudra, to discover your inherent and limitless potential, of your True God-Nature. Thank you and all the best.

Speaking of how it changed over the decades and got more and more mental, with the Koans. Which does not honor the Original Path of Zen in any way. Yes, funnily enough I ask for a teaching while Original Zen had no teaching at all. They did not want teachings, they did not want to use the mind in any way. They were very strict about that. That's why Bodhidharma was almost killed when he got to China and refused to take on any fixed system. Any information on Original literature, for example?

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Always activate your Heart Center first. Without it, you are not connected to the Universe. It is your ID. Feel blissful love. If you do not yet get this feeling, meditate on your heart and do daily efforts in bringing your attention, your consciousness (you) into your heartspace. This is called "radiance practice" and increases the energy in that center. Manifest your love in this plain of existance by doing honest and loving deeds to your surroundings, that further increases this parts energy and your wellbeing. I have already written a thread about this topic about one year ago where I have discovered how my Jing wanted to naturally escape my body when I had not connected to my heart. No heart connection, no spiritual transformation. Then focus your mind on your genitals, build up orgasmic / sexual / creative energy. Feel this energy get so full that your root vibrates. You only focus there, no physical contact. Continue to let the energy get fuller and fuller, let it build up and NATURALLY it flows up your spine until it reaches certain Karmic blocks in certain Chakras. And clears them. Or reaches straight the Crown. No muscle contration needed. It is a natural process for every individual. Your essence is not the physical fluid of the sperm. It is simply the energy that moves the vehicle (sperm). What a great misunderstanding in translation. This is the easy and natural path. Stop trying, poluting your energies with greed and lustful thoughts and shortening your energy reserves. With this method, you will not ejaculate since there is no physical stimulation. Your physical organ will get aroused but there is no sperm production and release. Keep in mind that your intention is most important. You do NOT do this method with lower Chakra interests, such as power. Power over other is an illusion of the physical dimension and does not exist in the rest of the Cosmos. It is a Union. You do this for spiritual growth, to reach your Universal Self your Higher Self. To understand this from your lower mind, from this point you have unlocked all "powers" and you have your true purpose why you are here and can finally start living a blissful and fulfilled life again without further needless seeking. All of this is opening and clearing the Thrusting- / Sushumna Channel. Be prepared to get 'thrusted' out of your body. This is so called Soul Travel, done correctly. Which is different from Astral Projection, since you exit through your Crown. Everything is safe. Trust in it. And most importantly: Enjoy it! Done, thank you. See you on the other side, inside.

Hello, you are God, you can have anything. Keep in mind that "you" are your lower mind, ego and therefor ego-based bodily desires, very limited soul, still personal, but more overview & desire of a greater expansive nature higher mind, higher self, universal self god consciousness - creator, created and creation (etc) so from which point do you want what? God, will give you anything. For it wants to experience itself. You want to be a warlord, God makes you a warlord. But that is not the point here, since the dominant direction in the Universe is happiness and a deep sense of love and shining God's / Tao's light (through you and me) in all directions of the Cosmos. God also can direct you, if you have no desire at all and are completely pure and self-realized in whatever form he wants. That is truly the absolute state of a being. Your Ego has next to no meaning, other than a test run of your soul experiencing "Sense of Self" in such a limited way. So it can be that your Ego wants to live 200 years here in this body, while your Soul (you) wants to go somewhere different already with you at the age of 30. And will then pull the plug, for you to step out again into the vast ocean of your immortality as energetic being. Yes, thats the funny thing about Taoism - we are already immortal. We just have to realize it. But that in itself is what Taoism teaches, everyone will find out on it's own path Your soul has a personality through the experience it has gathered over different lifetimes in different incarnations as different forms of life. Being human is just one of many. It can have / mostly has desire. But since this desire is of a spiritual nature, it is different to egoic desire that 'scatters' spiritual desire. Your Universal Self is a state of Highest Form of Intelligence. From my understanding it can be seen as the Pure Ones taught in Taoist Astrology. But it has a total overview of all outcome and you, in this present lifetime, can tap into it! and live from that perspective of Highest Realization to be one with all Creation. And still be in your personality. And the Ego, you know your Ego. It has started this thread Our Higher Self/Universal Self is you perhaps and most likely aswell me. Since we are both in human consciousness. It is connected to us all the time, even if we are not aware of it. And like mentioned we can connect to it, through our desire and with the willingness to drop our limited personal Self, the ego and take on this higher intelligence. So the question remains: Which perspective wants what? Ego wants it. Does Soul need it for it's expansion? Same goes for the Higher Self. In essence, you can have everything. Even just to realize it was "bad" for you. In the end, everything is perfect. Edit: Oh and forget the term selfish. Everything is interconnected. You are connected to everything in Existance. So being selfish is purely you being with your Self and wanting the best for your Self. That automatically means you want the best for everyone around you. Individuals who generally want "the best for everyone else" and who are not fully self-realized and can share an endless flow of God's Power (unconditional love) are the ones who create chaos. Because they focus outwardly on the wellbeing of others, while they mostly forget themselves. And how good are you to your interconnectedness all around you, when you forget yourself and start to rot, like many individuals with social work that puts themselves into misery? Start with your Self, perfect your Self and through that your reality changes into a blissful state for everyone else. And that happens passively. The outside world is a product of the inner nature. All the Best.

I AM. I AM here in this one moment. I AM God Consciousness. I desire to know my Self on the deepest level there is. Every action that I do, every breath that I breathe, is absolutely PERFECT. Through the Self-limiting beliefs of my past and my current outside surroudings, I hereby transcend ALL limitations of this physical dimension, far that what I see with both of my physical eyes, is the past. Every moment, right here and right now, is infinitelly fresh and new. My inward transformation then alters what I perceive with my physical senses. I do not actively want to change the physical dimension, for this is an illusion. The Physical Dimension is a Product. I open my First Eye and see my Ultimate Potential right inside of my Self. This potential is Infinite and Endless. And in this Infinity I find my Self. I find a Union. A union with all physical and non-physical forms of Consciousness. A union that is greater that this current, ever-expanding consciousness can perceive right at this moment. The very next moment it will see and instantly know more of what I AM. This One Moment is no noun, it is an Adjective. Never still, ever changing. I navigate my Self through all of this, to find my Self. I drop every identification with what I perceive and realize my Self as everything. I AM You. I AM my Self. I AM God Consciousness. I AM. .

I often thought about moving to a warmer climate on this earth. But that seems to fix itself soon enough due to the global warming and almost no winter here anymore (fixed). But still often below 10°C can get uncomfortable. We learn to let go in all situations to have the least amount of resistance for higher energies to come through, into us, ankering itself with our most powerful tool: Our breath. But how do you do this in a colder climate? Can blood also flow easily through the body without restrictions and therefor heat the body, in colder areas? Wouldn't it mean that opening ourselves up would let the cold come in and resistance keeps us warm? Not quite so. When you have worked with Inner Alchemy, even from the outside and not in meditation, you already know your Self that the Energies of our Heart actually warms our body. So in terms of self-mastery this means that it is in our best interest to hold a high vibration, the highest our current spiritual growth allows, in order to maintain a warm body temperature. All the best.

I have recently massaged a lot of tension (due to being in a hurry, exercises "take too long" etc what my ego comes up with) into my stomach after gathering (clockw.) and condensing the Chi (counterclockw.) Massaging clockw. is for Release counterclockw. for Intake. For a friend of mine, massaging the stomach counterclockwise felt intuitively wrong. Such as for me today doing eye exercises (circle on the edges of your field of vision without turning the head). If you have tension, you will rotate that tension into your gut. Your gut-brain is directly connected to your Optic Nerves. Now I can explain my intense cramps in my stomach all the day, doing all these exercises with tension in my mind (often not even noticing due to being at a rather subtle point, but tension is tension) while my emotions are quite stable now. Not fully but they are getting there. And then I discovered that you can stir up emotional patterns by looking in a certain direction. Since memory is stored in our gut aswell. What a horrific combination but it is like it is. And if you want to move every uncomfortable point out of your body, you are about to find lots of miniscule but very important details about your system. The right eye, looking far right over the shoulder is associated with the past. The left eye and looking far over to the left, is associated with the future. Both are somewhat useful for understanding this physical reality, but that is about it. Speaking of transcending limitations and heading into non-physicality. All the best.

Are the Merkabah and the Bagua in any form related to eachother?