The Secret to Storing Qi internally: One pointed concentration as central channel Yuan qi energy

Once the skin has been punctured, the internal body resistance is low.

 Dr. Shin Lin pdf on science and tai chi-qigong:

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“The higher the conductance, the better the indication that the person is healthy. We measured all 12 meridians, corresponding to the major organs of Chinese traditional medicine. "On the average, the increase in the conductance of these meridians measured at the jing well points would increase by as much as 35 percent after practice [15 minutes of either Tai Chi or qigong]. This is a huge change. And these are very precise measurements.” In contrast, he said, the same people when asked to ride a stationary bicycle for the same amount of time before the test of conductance experienced a very small change in conductance. It was very small, less than five percent, he said. When the participants lifted weights as part of the test, he said, there was almost no change in conductance.

So someone debating me claimed this was just "potential voltage" as a static shock (with no current, only charge).... To which I pointed out:

https://institutoflash786.org/2017/04/19/dr-shin-lin-illustrated-how-tai-chi-and-qigong-enhance-the-qi/
 

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Motoyama’s Single Square Voltage Pulse Method to test pre-polarization conductance at Chen’s acupoints.

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applying square voltage pulses of 0.5‐3.5 V to the skin revealed that peak currents are considerably higher, and corresponding pre‐polarization resistance values considerably lower, than previously supposed. However, in keeping with previous observations, we confirmed that the skin is an Ohm's Law conductor in its pre‐polarization state and that the pre‐polarization resistance of the skin is resolvable into two components, a localized resistance beneath each electrode and a non‐localized (body core) resistance.

 So resistance is used to measure the current with voltage divided by resistance giving the current.

So the "non-localized (body core) resistance" is LOW and therefore the current is strong.
 So now we can turn to Bill Bodri's Neigong book


Another way to say this is that the left brain is "emptied out" but attention as awareness is right-brain dominant so that the right side vagus nerve connects the reproductive energy to the right side of the heart - and the "attention" is also logical inference as internal listening. The awareness is not visualization - and yet closely tied to it.

 
So now we switch over to Pregadio again - and discover this double reversal secret from the rotating of the eyes - the True Yin is the yang shen plus the yang qi (that goes down the front as the White Tiger True Yin). The True Yang is the yin shen plus the yin qi - that is from the yin qi going up the back. So the yin qi originates on the front as part of the yang shen and the yang qi originates on the back as part of the yin shen. But to create True Yin (Earth) and True Yang (Heaven) then this double reversal has to occur.

Normally the yin qi is is lost out of the eyes. So with meditation the yang shen is closed off with the eyes closed - and then the yin qi goes down. But then it joins into the yang qi and has to then go back up again on the back (as the double reversal as the True Yang or Heaven). Then the opposite is true for the yang qi - normally is originates on the back and has to go up but then it has to join with the yin qi to go back down again on the front as the True Yin (or Earth)

1 hour ago, Bindi said:

When I think of water in Neidan I think of this sort of reference:

Water is True Water, 
Fire is True Fire. 
Water and Fire conjoin: 
you will never grow old.

Water and Fire are divided between above and below. How can they be conjoined? You must avail yourself of the True Soil of wu and ji in order to seize and control the True Fire and the True Water, and to apply pressure on them. Thus you can cause them to ascend and descend, and to return together to the Earthenware Crucible.

After Water and Fire have been balanced, they coalesce and form the Golden Elixir, which is the Pure Yang of the One Breath and is as longevous as Heaven.

Source: Verses quoted from the Ruyao jing (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine) — Commentary by Wang Jie (14th century)

What is this water, and how to make it rise? Is it related to De? 

Yes I just did a blog post on the precise same secret that you have quoted.

https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-secret-to-storing-qi-internally.html

So this is what I have been calling the "double reversal"

So now we switch over to Pregadio again - and discover this double reversal secret from the rotating of the eyes - the True Yin is the yang shen plus the yang qi (that goes down the front as the White Tiger True Yin). The True Yang is the yin shen plus the yin qi - that is from the yin qi going up the back. So the yin qi originates on the front as part of the yang shen and the yang qi originates on the back as part of the yin shen. But to create True Yin (Earth) and True Yang (Heaven) then this double reversal has to occur.

Normally the yin qi is is lost out of the eyes. So with meditation the yang shen is closed off with the eyes closed - and then the yin qi goes down. But then it joins into the yang qi and has to then go back up again on the back (as the double reversal as the True Yang or Heaven). Then the opposite is true for the yang qi - normally is originates on the back and has to go up but then it has to join with the yin qi to go back down again on the front as the True Yin (or Earth)

So the Virtue or "de" is the Yang Shen.

This is based on Pregadio's commentary and translation of "Awakening to Reality" -
I'll transcribe the quote:

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In the postcelestial world, the Yang principle tends to rise to Heaven and vanish above causing the loss of True Yin; the Yin principle tends to descend into the Earth and be wasted below, causing the loss of True Yang.

So what this refers to is the Yuan Qi that emanates out of the pineal gland and so when the yang shen goes out of the eyes it then TRIGGERS the pineal gland to send the Yuan Qi down as  True Yin which is then lost as True Yang. So on the level of Yuan Qi, the True Yin and True Yang are interwoven via the Yuan Qi.

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To avoid this the precelestial po-soul  (True Yang) should control the Yin principle (the "Mercury in the Vermillion")

So what this means is the yin qi of the yang shen  - this yin qi needs to be held down by the lower magpie bridge - overpowered and governed and controlled by the Yang qi.

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and the precelestial hun-soul (True Yin) should restrain the Yang principle (the Metal in the Water).

So then reread what I wrote above - what this is describing is the secret of the book Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality - from chapter 6 onwards as the 2nd half of enlightenment.