Saturday, August 28, 2021

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  1. Hey again Drew,

    Thanks for pointing out the pdf to me. It was there in your Idiot's Guide, but I couldn't find the quote in the pdf because I was looking for the keyword "Spirit of the Valley", which you had used in your quote. As it turns out, the pdf "Ritual, Sacrifice and Alchemy in Taijiquan" contains the following quote:
    "(Throughout your) entire body, your mind (I) is on the Spirit of Vitality"

    So I am working my way through Taoist Yoga. If you wouldn't mind, I have a few questions about the methods. I am currently trying to explain the concepts and the practices to myself before I implement them in the practice, and one thing that has stuck out for me so far is that the later chapters are easier to understand than the first few when it comes to the methods.
    Now, the initial training is outlined in Chapters 1-6. Chapter 4 and 6 contain the "meat", so to speak as they show you the gathering of the outer and inner alchemical agent. From Chapter 4 onwards, I feel that I understand the order of the practices and what they entail.
    My questions are about the first three chapters.

    1) The circulation and the accompanying eye rotations are done once you have an outer alchemical agent to play with. However, Taoist Yoga makes it clear that it is foolish to start doing the MCO when you don't have any water for the water wheel, so to speak.
    So the first three chapters outline various practices for different age groups, and here lies my confusion. For old people, the text recommends sexual stimulation to restart the system so to speak, and the gradual redirection up the Channel of Control to sublimate the erection. For a 16 year old kid, the text simply recommends focusing on the lower dantian for 10 months until the light manifests.
    I am in neither of those groups, being 32, and was wondering what was most suitable for my age group. It doesn't seem to be straight MCO because you first need the generative force to circulate.
    The text also straight up says that "When
    beginning to cultivate (essential) nature and (eternal) life,
    it is necessary first to develop nature." and then describes the seated meditation method:
    "The first step is to fix spirit in its original cavity
    (tsu ch'iao in the centre of the brain between and behind
    the eyes) by concentration so that the light of vitality
    manifests in the ensuing condition of utter stillness. "(20)

    So if I understood it correctly, the actual first step of Taoist Yoga for middle aged people is to enter utter stillness and to focus on the point between and behind the eyes until you see a nimitta/light?

    I would really appreciate it if you could clear up my confusion here because I just want a plain outline of the first step of Taoist Yoga, the actual preparation for what one starts doing in Chapter 4.

    2) How does the Moving of Yin and Yang exercise from SFQ enter the picture? Obviously, it is not part of Taoist Yoga but you have used it a lot. Is it possible that it can be used as the first step? Or was it a side practice?

    3) Zhao Bichen quotes many times from a scripture Charles Luk transliterates as "Tan Ching". In your long study of Taoist Yoga, have you come across the original Chinese name of the scripture? A google search for "Tan Ching" returns pretty much nothing. The problem is that Charles Luk used Wade Giles as the transliteraton method, and it's much worse than pinyin. Ching must stand for Jing in pinyin(經 in Traditional Mandarin), which means classic. The Tan unfortunately doesn't seem to be the Dan in Dantian in pinyin. You found any clues? The quotes from that scripture are profound(I would like to read it since I can read Classical Chinese)

    Thanks in advance!

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    1. OK on the last "Tan Ching" - and similar questions - have you looked at the actual lineage website? The son or grandson - he does a blog - so more details there.
      So as for the first step of seeing light internally - that is still the "relative void" - so it does not exclude the "small universe" meditation.
      So it all depends on purity of heart whereby the Yuan Qi is still activated - and so if a person has that then they see the light and build up the life force energy as stored up yuan qi in the lower tan t'ien.
      So most people don't have that and so the first level of "small universe" is to just empty out the "monkey mind."
      The "moving of yin and yang" is actually from the lineage website - there we learn that the book author assumed his students practiced standing internal martial arts as the foundation of the training. So I never knew that from just reading the book.
      So it is only once the Yuan Qi is built up enough to see light externally via the rotation of the eyes - chapter six - that then the "cold storage" or deep meditation can occur. So that entails a monk life style and then fasting, etc.
      Essentially to advance in power means to go deeper into the Emptiness.
      So as far as the Jing energy - for a middle age person - the 100 days is the traditional norm but Wang Liping goes into this. He says for a middle man male it takes one year of six hours a day of full lotus meditation.

      So that is actually not bad at all only the problem is that our culture is based on evil materialism. So if we attempt such a practice then it causes exorcisms in the people around us. So this is why the practice has to be kept secret with the yuan qi and yuan shen kept stored in the lower tan tien - in the deep cold storage.

      As Jim told me - I need to get to a level where people can not perceive my energy and thus are not attracted to it - so that requires getting past the 2nd Chakra opening up. Only after the lower tan tien is filled up is then the yuan qi able to hide in the proper "middle tan tien" as the true taiji - behind the navel.

      So Chunyi emphasizes that is the true lower tan tien - behind the navel - as does Yan Xin and other neidan alchemists (Wang Mu).

      I think that was another error by Charles Luk as he keeps putting into parentheses his emphasis on below the navel.

      So the irony being that the jing stored up can more easily be deconverted - so it is more difficult to keep building up energy without losing it.

      So the Taoist Yoga book then states if you can not understand or practice this then just do Chapter 7 as the cold storage method of focusing on the lower tan tien - and that is essentially the "Spirit of the Valley."

      So that is the Ch'an Buddhist method - such that the small universe will circulate on its own - from full lotus with the Yang Shen focused internally via the reversal of the yin qi and yang qi - so there is then the yuan qi, yuan jing and yuan shen unified.

      Of course this requires the left leg on top to store up thee energy - another secret of the Taoist Yoga book that I did not realize until after further scrutiny.

      The Taoist Yoga book emphasizes that the energy is the same just different gradations. So on the yin qi and yang qi level you can do healing of yourself and psychic healing of others - that is what I do. But for true spiritual training there has to be a strict emptiness of the mind as purification so that the Yuan Qi is created.
      This has to be done in silence - so that the truth is focused on and the problems are ignored and bypassed.
      So this is also part of the direct mind path of Zen and other types of buddhism - all is consciousness as formless awareness.

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    2. So if I understood you correctly, you can basically do
      1) Moving Yin and Yang 2:1 Seated Meditation(going as deep as possible)
      2) Wait until you feel your LDT getting warm and electrical
      3) Start with Chapter 4?

      I am surprised that the lineage website would mention that the moving exercises were standard. Given that Zhao Bichen/Charles Luk covered pretty much everything, even mudras, you'd think that this was worth mentioning!

      This is also my issue with Ch'an/Zen Buddhism. If William Bodri's/Nan Huaijin's claims were right and if Anapanasati or sitting in silence(zazen) automatically accomplished the MCO or the opening of the channels, all these Chinese/Taiwanese monks I've met would be the healthiest beings alive! But they look just like ordinary people, no glow in the face and bad teeth. Similarly, even though Ramana Maharshi or Papaji were highly accomplished in terms of their self-realization, their bodies did not display any of the positive side effects outlined by Taoist Yoga. They aged and died like ordinary people. There is also the problem of Vajrayana Buddhism. Why did Tibetans feel the need to integrate their form of Buddhism with a heavy dose of Hindu tantric energy manipulation teachings? Sure sounds like they felt the need for dual cultivation right?

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    3. yes it's the combination of sitting in full lotus as meditation with fasting. So I think a lot of the sitting monks are not fasting. The standing active exercise clears out the colon fast - so it's necessary to have the system cleaned out in order to see light.

      Master Nan said that at certain level of Zen then the Emptiness overrides the need for a healthy body. It's a kind of "crazy zen" state. So if the Yuan Qi is impersonal then there is a constant exchange between other people's internal energies and our own internal energy. The external physical reality is holographic and first expressed internally.

      So some say Ramana Maharashi was taking on the karma of his students or whatever. Master Nan said he was teaching too much. He told his students they think too much.

      So there is really no excuse for not practicing but as qigong master Jim Nance told me - you could be a qigong master with your third eye fully open but that does not mean that the heart has been opened permanently into the formless awareness.

      So that stage of "eternal liberation" that is achieved in Zen or Ch'an meditation - and Advaita Vedanta - afterwards - then it is easier to heal other people than the person's OWN body.

      Why is that? Because as soon as the eyes are open then the energy is going out of the eyes with the spirit going out of the eyes and communication with others happens at the speed of light via the spirit exchange between the eyes. Or it could be via the pineal gland that is omnidirectional and even precognitive.

      And for example when Master Nan's meditation partner achieved the rainbow body then Master Nan stuck his hand in his partner's body and said why are you playing games? Something like that. So in other words even to empty out the body is a type of attachment.

      So the Yuan Qi as formless awareness will "never be unveiled" as the Cosmic Mother. Or as Master Yan Xin states - it is "wonderful" - there is an inherent "wonder."

      Of course a qigong master has to learn to "control" the energy and this is why Master Nan states it takes the biggest selfish ego to achieve egolessness.

      The energy is very dangerous the more powerful it gets - and so requires even greater virtue. That is how the karma works - is that there is a resonance that amplifies the intentions of a person the more energy there is.

      So for example one time my sister held her toddler in front of my eyes as I sat in full lotus. As my energy went into his eyes - I literally saw his skull expand!! haha. It kind of freaked me out and I didn't say anything obviously. I was surprised when she stuck him in front of me and then he stuck out his tongue and began going into "milking" mode as if he was breastfeeding. Why? that is the oxytocin vagus nerve love energy.

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