Xiao Yao Pai (sitting meditation)

[Thunder_Gooch]

I was wondering if any Xiao Yao Pai adepts could give some details on the seated meditation with the early levels of practice.

 

Does it involve any form of circulation?

 

Can you give any type of information about what state of mind is like during the meditation etc.

 

Anything without revealing training info?

[Friend]

The practise is guided by the Fu Fa Shen.

It starts with sitting on a chair and prayer to call FFS to guide

and can end up doing Jing Zuo (sitting mediation), Qigong (repeated movement)

or Shen Gong (more chaotic).

 

Practise varies depending to ones balance and the right practise is provide arcording

ones state and time, so that one not overdo repeated movements in amount.

As well doing movements to neutralize improper practise.

 

The practise ends with respect to FFS or the hands drop itself and practise stops.

 

This system does not work without FFS.

[effilang]

I was wondering if any Xiao Yao Pai adepts could give some details on the seated meditation with the early levels of practice.

 

Does it involve any form of circulation?

 

Can you give any type of information about what state of mind is like during the meditation etc.

 

Anything without revealing training info?

 

The Jing Zuo in Tao Yin Shu is considered a Tai Yin practice and corresponds to the Kun (earth) trigram, which is composed of 3 Yin lines.

 

 

In this state the body is Yin, the energy is Yin and the mind is Yin.

In other words, the body is stilled, the energy is not directed consciously and the mind does not visualize.

 

When the body is still, the Jing is cultivated.

When the breath is still, the Qi is cultivated.

When the mind is still, the Shen is cultivted.

 

The aim of this type of meditation is to allow the lower mind to reduce it's activity in order to allow the higher mind to operate.

 

By continuously maintaining a state of Yin, based on the Taiji Tu, the body will gradually give birth to true Yang.

You can observe this below: When Yin peaks it gives birth to Yang.

 

 

I recall Wang Li Ping, during this foundational phase in cultivation, was left to meditate in a wet hole in the ground.

I imagine this was implemented by his teachers with the purpose of saturating the body with more Yin from the environment in order to speed up the process and bring about the birth of Zhen Yang Qi in the Xia Dantien.

 

I have also heard of schools who build the foundation by meditating in water, which just covers the navel.

 

Our awareness, as a product of the physical brain, is present in Taiji, on earth. In the physical dimension, while our dormant immortal soul exists simultanaeously in both the physical and non-physical dimensions.

 

Our aim is to expand and fuse the awareness of the physical mind to that of the dormant immortal soul, in order to give it volition and awareness, so that we can then manfiest ourselves as infinite potential, as God.

 

The aim of spiritual cultivation is to re-MEMBER and to re-MIND ourselves. So there exists a basic notion that we are disconnected or not-whole and spiritual cultivation is a process where by our separation is extinguished and we are united into one functioning self-aware divine whole.

 

If you imagine the dormant immortal soul (the part of us that reincarnates, the only us) to be like a brainless zombie that just follows the current of the horde and flows in and out of reincarnation, without any volition of it's own, then the idea of it all is to take the brand new mind that forms in the physical brain of the physical body after birth and transplant it into the zombie. This way we create a fusion of physical mind/awarness and body, which produces the now awakened immortal soul, which with it's new found awarenses and volition, can now express it'self as creator, as God, as unlimited divine potential, such as we are.

 

If we fail to bring about this fusion in this lifetime, then in the next, if we are lucky enough to have developed a mind that is inclined to spiritual cultivation, we may have another chance to fuse the new physical mind of that new body to the soul in order to awaken, re-mind and achieve conscious immortality.

 

To do so we must drift away from Taiji and enter Wuji. Thus emptiness is the goal.

 

The rule is very simple. In order to become something, while you are not yet it, you must practice being it, untill finally, you become it. Practice makes perfect : )

 

Thus emptiness of body, energy and mind is the quickest and most direct path to entering the Wuji.

 

Visualizations are effective and have their purposes, but if you want to awaken to yourself most efficiently, you must turn inward, silence the physical mind and allow the information complex of the dormant immortal soul to come to the foreground and begin to create a fusion with the awareness.

 

"Silence the mind and the soul will speak."

 

The dormant immmortal soul is a spark of the Tao, it is the Tao. It is God and infinite potential, but unrealized.

We have the power to create worlds through our thoughts and manifest reality, but not in the dormant state.

 

So the formula is simple Physical Mind + Dormant Immortal Soul = Awakened Immortal.

If you die and don't fuse them, the Physical Mind dies with the body and in your next life you will have to create a new physical mind and have a new opportunity at fusion.

 

Mind you, you do not need to achieve complete fusion of the Physical Mind and the Dormant Immortal Soul to leave the body.

It is enough to fuse a sufficient amount of the Physical Mind to the Dormant Immortal Soul in order to endow the soul with volition. Once it inherits the quality of volition, then the soul-physical mind complex can simply WILL to abandon the physical body and continue developing in the non-physical dimension.

 

All the dormant soul needs to awaken is a strong enough connection to the physical mind's awareness to allow it to exercise volition and then you can leave the shell and experience yourself in your natural state in Wuji.

 

Practising Jing Zuo helps us make this fusion possible.