White Skeleton Meditation instructions

[Mandrake]

Anyone read "The Little Book of Meditation"? I just ordered it and some point in the internet are questioning his credibility. I just want to learn meditation after reading about all the positive effects on the mind.

 

Yup. Definitely recommend it. It's one of only 3 books about meditation that I recommend to people (unless they are advanced cultivators with lot of additional scholarly knowledge).

 

You will always find people bearing grudges toward others and disagreeing with people who have teachings. But anybody who knows Bill knows that he walks the talk.

 

 

Mandrake

[Chi Boy]

Sweet! Thanks Mandrake! I'm looking forward to it!!

 

Just gonna try to stsrt slow and read and practice meditation as I go I guess

Edited June 28, 2016 by Chi Boy

[ragune]

On 26.11.2012 at 5:06 PM, Jetsun said:

 

I think it is considered good because it is relatively easy but yet contains so many aspects from other forms of meditation in one package

 

For example you start with joyfully giving away your flesh to hungry ghosts, this is training in generosity and non attachment to the body while feeding hungry ghosts which repays heavy karma, this meditation alone in the Buddhist Chod tradition is considered very powerful and healing.

 

Then the next section you visualise your bones one by one as bright white light, I think this is a Taoist addition which thelearner has explained is powerful for healing and opening up the Qi channels, also because you are dealing with the bones you are dealing with the densest aspect of the body so it is not a superficial qi exercise. Because you have to maintain a constant visualisation it is also a meditation in one pointed focus and concentration which is the aim of so many other meditation methods.

 

Then the last stage of visualising the bones turning to dust is an exercise in letting go and just allowing without clinging, so it is a fast way to enter into a clear empty mind state, as all your attachments, issues and problems are contained within the body so without it there is nothing to hold onto or deal with all that is left is awareness. I sometimes burst out laughing in this stage as I realise so many of the things I carry around with me and worry about can just be let go in an instant.

 

So I think people like Master Nan regard it with a lot of worth because it contains a great deal of Buddhist and Taoist technique and wisdom in one method.

 

[ragune]

If you can read 繁體字 or understand Master Nans eastern Chinese accent, here is a speech, where he describes the meditation (part 2 of 3) at YT, beginning at minute 28:27 and (after disgression again after 33:55).

 

Edited September 19 by ragune
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[Lukks]

wow I remember a whole topic about this meditation something like 5 years ago on a Facebook group, people were claiming that this was the best meditation to remove Qi blockages, as already mentioned earlier in this thread, but I remember them also saying that this was one of the best meditations to build jing or qi, something like that, can someone confirm this?