ChiForce

Something must have lost its translation. What does this Indian Kung Fu say about Chi and using Chi to harness one's internal force to strike its opponents??? BTW, I only know chi as a source of consciousness illumination and in a state of Samadhi and health rejuvenation. I have never studied or being trained by any masters to use Chi to cause harms to others. Practicing Kung Fu without harnessing the chi is mere exercises.

I think it was Zen or Chan Buddhism that took its form. We are talking about events dated back thousands and thousands of years ago. If anything should come out of this "revelation," it would have happened already.

Ah...no. To fight with your chi and to direct your chi to your opponents.

Hahahah..at least Shaolin Kung Fu is REAL. Hahahaha.... Who does not know about Shaolin Kung Fu? India what???

How does one burn up Karmas, especially, the karmas you have absorbed from others? My life is not short of personal sadness but that's pretty much dealt with. However, it seems that my mind is occupied by events took placed some 10 years ago. Mostly about a dead end job I had for 8 years. When I left and I thought I had friends but....even my so-called mentor just disappeared. Before that, I was in college earning a stupid degree in a college environment which was not conductive to my spiritual path. It was a waste. I kept telling myself these events do not matter. Yet, I dream about them often enough. My old workplace which no longer existed. My old college in which I felt lost, in the dream. I know they are impermanent but my mind didn't think so. Oh, before that, my past life karma and past life memories emerged. Ironically, I have that resolved very well. So, now, in the morning when my chi energy is flooding my brain, I could either start to mediate and completing the MCO within 15 minutes. Or I could fall back to sleep and to experience some of the most anxious dreams. They are often time about me fighting something. Trying to make my point across in a situation. Or I had to make some important decision. At times I feel like going back to these places and to tell them how worthless they are. How inconsequential they are in the whole world scheme of thing. I felt like they were holding me back because they were not exceptional in what they do. Ah....

Actually, my past life and its karma were mine. How sticky these karmas were? It took me 10 years to realize its impersonal nature and to allow me to deal with them without getting personal. You could say that I used to experience PTSD because in my past life I was a WWII soldier and was killed by a sniper bullet through the armor helmet, left side. They were properly dealt with with some interesting insight about the world and the other countries. Stuff happened in my old job and in my old college? These aren't my karmas. I felt detached from old college. I enjoyed working in my old job but don't think it is a good idea now to work in the same industry. A little disappointed how I was treated there before I left. People I thought I knew...well, they just disappeared. I think I need to realize the samsara nature of the world I am living in and to realize its impermanent nature. Easier said then done since my mind is still subjected to the physical world I am living in.

Maybe I was looking for a proactive, yang approach to make these karmas disappear. FYI, my dream about my old job is quite pleasant. I was usually finding myself helping my staff and working for free. Even though I knew I don't work for my old company any more. It was an interesting sensation. Is like you walk into a company and starting to work and helping the staff there and you knew what to do. But you knew you won't get paid doing this and the management won't approve it. These dreams are bad since I want to get away from them. And I don't want to work in the same industry anymore. My college dreams are a bit tricky. I always find myself looking for my next class or finding myself looking for a room. No, I didn't enjoy my time in these college. It wasn't bad but it was a waste of my time there.

This past months I have been waking up around 4am in the morning and usually finding myself to have completed the micro-cosmic orbit or in some state of samadhi. The chi is illuminating in my third eye and my whole body is having some sorts of micro-vibrations. It is interesting but don't know what it really means. Anyway, just something I observed with my cultivation process...

Ha....the unnaming Tao!!!! There are those who know the Tao without understanding (conceptually and cognitively) of what it is. Only in the last 3 years I have been actively meditating and cultivating and pursuing and refining my enlightenment path. In the past, everything was accidental but it didn't mean it didn't happen.

I believe this is called the sleep meditation. I am no stranger to it since my chi channels were open from the result of my sleep meditation some 18 years ago.

Thumbs up for Rhodiola Rosea. Makes sure you get the good quality one. I am taking it. Experienced no side effects. The first few weeks the body needs to get used to the herb. Many people would experience, initially, insomnia, overly active sex drives, and increase in blood pressure (the feeling like your blood is pumping through all over your body). For me, it tends to allow me to harness my chi better.

Interesting topic. I shoot some photography as a side gig and recently I have been practicing my craft with cemetery photography. I have done it 4 times so far. I usually spend about 4 hours hiking there. Where I live, there is this historical cemetery and the place is huge and very hilly. After my second visit, I felt a chill inside me throughout few days. I felt like sick or having a cold. I suspected that I have absorbed too much yin energy there. I was back to normal after a week or so. I actually like to going there but never have tried to meditate there.

The problem is that the past life history must emerge. This, frankly, is very hard to do. From my experience, you must first distinguish or absolve your current life karma. Then, your past life Karma will emerge. Unfortunately, your normal, uncultivated, and lack of spiritual inclination population can not even escape their current life karma until much later in their lives....if ever. Of course, you may not just have memories of one past life but multiple.

Except no one can predict or know the cause or the effect. They are often played out over several life times. Many seem to have neglected the social aspect of it. ALL of us are born under a particular social class (rich or poor) or cultural groups or political circumstances. That would often dictate the path of our karma.

In my whole life, I probably have a handful of these dream encounters. Basically, the being I encountered in my dreams....the experience caused my third eye to open and to experience the nimitta. The dream started off of me being in a wedding party. I couldn't figure out whose wedding was it. I felt it was my wedding party but couldn't figure out who was my fiance. Then, I found myself on the second floor and noticed that the head of state of this particular country was walking up. Here, I assumed the identity of my past life self. I couldn't believe what I was seeing because the leader of my country was attending this party. I made my way to the side and noticed staff members I knew about. Then, someone in the group pulled out a gun and began shooting. I quickly rushed to the lower level and felt the need to warn the first lady. Or I felt the situation wasn't safe and I was compelled to warn the wife of a very important political figure. I found her and addressed her in another language, or her language. Then, she left quickly. Somehow, I wanted to go back up to see if everyone was OK. Then, I was greeted by this being. He is light skin black, more of a Jamaican. I believed his name was Gordon or something sounded similar. We both introduced ourselves and we shake hands. This was when I began to see the nimitta glowing in my third eye. I closed my eyes for a second in the dream and all I saw, in the dream, was the nimitta (whitish, bluish light). During my meditation I often see the nimitta but to see it in a dream induced situation is "something." Here, I realized he wasn't just a figure. He was a spirit being. I remembered looking at him very intensely and he had a smile on his face all the times. There was a woman next to him too but I didn't know who. Then, he began telling me things. Something about he has spent 20 minutes trying to raise my consciousness. He even went so far to grab my hand and to show me the time on my watch TWICE. I told him I saw him before in my previous dream. I had a dream about him before this one, maybe few hours before. From that dream, he told me that he was a detective for a brief period of his life. Then, he told me that everything would be happening normally. After hearing that, I was disappointed because, I told him, I thought that something would happen to me. He then said that the wedding party would continue next week. I am still single and so I don't really understand this dream. The number 20 has been a key component because it represents a time frame of my future. More than 6 months ago, I dream that the Hindu goddness Tara telling me she had predicted my future 20 years ago. So, now, number 20 has been repeated again by this being. The beginning of the dream seems to be referencing to my past life identity. I don't know. I don't have a clue what he meant when he said things would be happening normally and the wedding would be continued next week. I had this dream last week, fyi.

Karma is the result of motives and intentions and deeds. Not because of your race. However, if you are so happened to be a white American and a member of the KKK and who regularly beats up black people, yeah, your karma is strong. Another aspect that may influence karma is merit. Not the race merit considering the definition of race varies depending on the political climate of the time. Merit is still referring to the individual merit generated from their previous lives. Yes, you can be reincarnated into another race and culture.

Here is one problem with "mind." People believe that, including the OP, he or she has a mind, the power of the mind. Yet, his or her mind is neither powerful enough to control his or her body and other aspects of the 5 human aggregates. And people are often under the illusions that they have a mind. In reality, they don't. Judging from the simplistic nature of the title, I would assume the OP would need more studying and reading and self examination to understand this thing called the "mind."

I don't know where to begin....it sounds like something a teenager would say in his or her attempt to understand the finer details of the Tao cultivation. Does it mean that the mind is desperately clinging onto a thought because this would give the person the power needed? The act of "clinging" and to have a thought to begin with...is already not Tao and the dharma. Therefore, the person's power is just an illusion. Well, that was easy..... Spiritual power is the result of having the mind to reach to various stages of samadhi....

Regardless of size, if you want to cultivate your mind and to reach to a higher level of samadhi, you must conserve your jing energy, your "fluid." Of course, there is no point in conserving if you haven't developed the ability and the mind to transform your jing into chi. You would just end up "bottled up." Of course, you have to be really gifted in the matter of cultivation and having enough merits from your past life to enable you to cultivate while leaking your fluid.....

Sigh, I am feeling a bit off balanced here. It turns out my last night dream was telling me that I would experience certain emotional affliction because I would be meeting people of who "unloaded their bad karma" onto me. In this dream, I was in a school with a broken main pipe causing the bathroom sewer pipe to get backed up. All the craps were spilled onto my camera equipment. And this morning I met someone of who was precisely doing this to me. It was my fault too since I was expecting something which it wasn't about to happen. And the next part of the dream I was being interrogated by my old boss concerning questions about my past life. I was like...I couldn't answer him because I really don't know too much about my past life other than some bits and pieces. Well, this morning, I had a nice conversation with someone I knew and he was asking questions that I couldn't answer him. These questions that I couldn't even answer myself. How could I even answer him? I felt kind of embarrassed. This morning I wasn't feeling well. I could have avoided all these by not being in this place this morning or reducing my expectations. Oh well, it is best to forget what happened this morning.

Are you feeling the heat, or fire? If not, you are experiencing samadhi, not the initial onslaught of the kundalini energy rising.

Here is what I think. Once the kundalini energy has risen, your chakras are supposedly opened. Do they get closed? I don't think so. They may become inactive. Is possible that your previous Kundalini energy rising wasn't completed. Did the energy ever complete its cycle from the lower end of your spine, reaching to your third eye, and seeing a strong light as the nimitta? Now, you may be experiencing samadhi, not exactly the initial onslaught of the kundalini energy rising. A cultivator can experience multiple stages of samadhi. I believe there are 8 stages to go through, and not possibly one can go through them all in a single life time.

I find the path to the Pratyekabuddha very interesting. A self enlightened buddha without guides or teachers, in the time when there is no Buddha and the Dharma path to speak of. This speaks to my personal enlightenment experience. Many online sources indicate that the pratyeka path is of less noble. Maybe so BUT if someone is following the pratyekabuddha path, it is often not by choice. Especially in our modern age when religions (Buddhism) lost its meaning and we are surrounded by many unwholesome sentient beings. And a person brought up by many personal tragedies and hurtful childhood. Quite often, the pratyeka path is the only path available.

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Well, then, I have to give you some coaching...you don't ask open-end questions. You should have said that "I can save you some money by signing up to our discount card...." Or "you need this extra batteries because it would prolong your whatever...." "Or this item only has a 90 days warranty but I can sign you up for our extended warranty, It covers for 3 extra years, no questions asked."