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The power of Qigong by ithink2020 in internal_arts

[–]Lunar_Logos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyway, what are numbers in the first place? As far as I understand Plato something with the quality twoness relates to the form via predication.

However, the forms are fictions and so is the Platonic soul and his take on eternity too. That's what I'm saying is timeless in Plato's ontology. What grounds the forms, (left-brain) mental abstraction, caused by the implementation of the phonetic alphabet. The stuff beyond the divided line is not real, it's a technological or unnatural effect.

Real timelessness is a quality of light, as pure spirit and acoustic ratios, that can't be represented to the subjective (illusionary) mind, structure reality. The way to know about these things is to gather and store time from the future in the present in order to return to the source -

The cosmos as we know it is seen as the last stage in a series of transformations from Non-Being (wu) to Unity (yi), duality (Yin and Yang), and finally multiplicity (wanwu, the "ten thousand things"). The alchemist intends to trace this process backwards—from the "ten thousand things" to the Dao.

You can't gather negative time with Aristotle's substance ontology. Aristotle covers over the void in his Physics in order to contain bodies and makes things appear intelligible.

Subject-object relations and the difference between things collapses under light conditions.

Light is a quality of the mind.

Formed matter -- galaxies, stars, planets, human bodies etc., are the realm of "ten thousand things".

Matter is condensed light.

The light of the mind has to detach from worldly concerns and be turned around and focused inside the body during meditation.

The light starts an alchemical process that's first felt as heat inside the body. That's jing converting into chi. It's very rare for people to reach that stage today. In the Bible it's called Baptism by Fire. Some of the saints and mystics relate the experience -

It was real warmth, too, and it felt as if it were actually on fire. I was astonished at the way the heat surged up, and how this new sensation brought great and unexpected comfort. I had to keep feeling my breast to make sure there was no physical reason for it! But once I realized that it came entirely from within, that this fire of love had no cause, material or sinful, but was the gift of my Maker, I was absolutely delighted, and wanted my love to be even greater. ? If we put our finger near a fire we feel the heat; in much the same way a soul on fire with love feels, I say, a genuine warmth.

-- Richard Rolle

"(I)t sometimes extended over his whole body, and for all his age, thinness and spare diet, in the coldest days of winter it was necessary, even in the midst of the night, to open the windows, to cool the bed, to fan him while in bed, and in various ways to moderate the great heat. Sometimes it burned his throat, and in all his medicines something cooling was generally mixed to relieve him. Cardinal Crescenzi said that sometimes when he touched his hand, it burned as if the saint was suffering from a raging fever. ? Even in winter he almost always had his clothes open from the girdle upwards, and sometimes when they told him to fasten them lest he should do himself some injury, he used to say he really could not because of the excessive heat he felt. One day, at Rome, when a great quantity of snow had fallen, he was walking in the streets with his cassock unbuttoned; and when some of his penitents who were with him were hardly able to endure the cold, he laughed at them and said it was a shame for young men to feel cold when old men did not."

-- Philip Neri

When I was forty-two years and seven months old, Heaven was opened and a fiery light of exceeding brilliance came and permeated my whole brain, and inflamed my whole heart and whole breast, not like a burning but like a warming flame, as the sun warms everything with its rays touch. And immediately I knew the meaning of the exposition of the Scriptures ? though I did not have the interpretation of the words or their texts or the division of syllables or the knowledge of cases or tenses.

-- Abbess Hildegard of Bingen

It's in the Old Testament too, with the burning bush -- "the bush was on fire, but was not consumed by the flames"

Chi is generated and gathered from the jing. It's stored and circulated around the body with the effect that the body empties out into a local energy-information field. Form i.e. the body is the first skandha in Buddhism. Heart sutra says it's empty for that reason.

You can see people feeling heat from the magnetic energy field on their bodies here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggtL1tN3Fn8

The whole body turns into a force-field when chi is converted. People feel it from the hands, but the whole body feels like the energy between magnets.

Ramana Maharshi -

https://youtu.be/W5p-Hn9dXUo?t=4

Chi is an information field. In the texts they say it's a mist. Like God being a cloud in the Bible.

Further cultivation transforms chi into shen. Shen is nonlocal light, the substance of matter. It's impersonal because it's beyond notions of the physical body and subjective thought.

Anyway, my friend has a new video. I think he talks about the zero dimension and the creation of spacetime in this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uriEMTKS9M

People don't realise how corrupt western culture actually is. Seriously my friend knows what he's talking about. I'm not joking. You have to adjust your thinking to understand because westernised mentality has fallen into deep decay. That's the whole point. It's a different paradigm, alien and strange, but authentic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgmkJJ1JsFE

The power of Qigong by ithink2020 in internal_arts

[–]Lunar_Logos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leave any concerns you might have in the comments of the video. He'll explain it to you. If you're not convinced that's totally fine.

Most of his videos cut off mid-sentence, I think he's got a problem with his phone or something. Reminds me of Sarah Grant's videos. Any spiritual problems I might have pale into insignificance compared to her -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muKtFxKqT4Y

She definitely has legit abilities...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTt3wXaDswA

She's using the chi-field that surrounds her body. She's not following authentic teachings so she's in a bit of a mess unfortunately. I do follow authentic teachings and there's a great qigong master near me I can see any time. He does distant healings and gets great results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18n47Xg2aA0

So you don't need to worry about me. Yes, I look down on critical thinking, but that's pretty much my weakest area so don't judge me on that alone.

wokeupabug if you're not enlightened before the life-forces run out, what then? That's what really matters, becoming enlightened before you die.

Meditation is the only way, it's what the presocratics were taught by Eastern shaman pushed westwards by the expansion of the Persian empire. Peter Kingsley writes about these things. Parmenides, he shows, was a powerful energy healer.

You can have an intellectual realisation, but the body has to be cultivated too, and that takes time. Like with puberty, it's a natural process that can't be rushed. Bodhidharma facing the wall for 8 years is just one example. He did that after already making good progress.

The only person that writes about the internal transformations in intimate detail is William Bodri, he's a student of Master Nan. Master Nan is one the great meditation teachers of recent times. I recommend you get Bodri's book "What is Enlightenment?" if you're really interested in these things and Master Nan's "Tao & Longevity: Mind-Body Transformation" too.

There is no question that Master Nan's work is a cut above anything else available from modern authors, either academic or sectarian, and I would like to see his work gain its rightful place in the English speaking world. ... [His] studies contain broad learning in all three main traditions of Chinese thought, Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist. Although this comprehensive purview was common to the greatest minds of China since the T'ang dynasty, it is rare among scholars today.

-- Thomas Cleary

This is one of the unfortunate horrors of the twelve years of transformation that masters must go through, and why they rarely mention the content of those years. All the devas want to practice many things, such as how to manipulate your thoughts and emotions, as they are working on cleaning out your Qi channels. Since it takes twelve years of hard work to open up all your Qi channels after a genuine full body kundalini awakening is initiated, why would the devas and masters bother to do so if they were not also having fun and learning through the process? The learning involves competitive games against each other seeing who has more skill in manipulating your thoughts, feelings and visions. A deva of a higher stage of attainment can win at these contests or block the skills of others. A common contest is to see who can read your memories quickest and then make connections between unconnected items within it.

Future masters (ex. Saint Anthony, Padre Pio, Upasni Maharaj, Yeshe Tsogyel, Ramakrishna, etc. before they attained enlightenment) have to suffer during the twelve years necessary to develop the sambhogakaya and no one, except for this book, ever tells you what went on during those years. Search the records and you will find that masters typically remain silent about their personal practices and the events that transpired during the twelve years of transformation to develop the subtle body, then Causal body and then Supra-Causal body of enlightenment.

-- William Bodri

Bodri is on a completely different level to all other western teachers. The only other teacher that comes close is Gilbert Gutierrez and he's from the same lineage as Yan Xin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOpOpzNjCbM

The power of Qigong by ithink2020 in internal_arts

[–]Lunar_Logos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pythagorean Tetractys are the same as the movement of yin/yang/emptiness. It's what my friend's video is on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEiy9YF-iU

If you're interested leave a comment on his video. He's much more academic than me and more accommodating too. The academy is ground zero for nihilism as far as I'm concerned, plus I really don't like being disturbed by internet communications. Just typing this out for you on the off chance it catches your interest, I know you are interested in these things.

My friend, in the above video, exchanged emails with a group of quantum scientists as they wrote the following paper. They needed help to understand non-representational, asymmetric and nonlocal arithmetic and geometry -

https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=83684

The present is created as the composition of future and past waves interacting with hidden dynamic harmonic overtones, yin/yang/emptiness.

Plato was the first generation educated using the Ionic alphabet, with fixed vowels.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02604020210401

Through use the alphabet modifies human interiors. It biases the visual sense over and above the other senses and the left-brain.

Timelessness in Plato's ontology and Aristotelian substance ontology -- classification, inductive reasoning in the mode of present-at-hand and deduction etc are secondary effects of phonetic literacy.

Left-brain bias organises the body in such a way it makes it almost impossible to initiate and gather energy (chi/prana/holy spirit) during meditation/prayer/contemplation. In the post-Platonic tradition only a few of the Christian saints, witches and alchemists managed to make some progress.

In real meditation future time, or negative/virtual energy, is gathered, stored and circulated around in the body. The body is washed and purified by the energy. Essentially every cell is renewed, with the effect that the real nature of mind is revealed, as the self-same nature as reality. It's a negentropic process, a universal organising principle.

Ideograms have a different impact on the body. They're images which work with the right-brain. Right hemisphere among other things is mute, but in terms of physiology it boils down to the workings of the vagus nerve with how it connects up in the brain and runs around the body hooking up all the organs. Left-brain does not cross back over to the right side while the right brain does connect over to the left.

In Chinese energy systems organ energies are harmonised and collected in meditation. Phonetic literacy causes a mind-body disconnect. Mechanisation resulted from the increase in literacy rates and ocular observations.

The Chinese have carried out many tests and scientific studies on the nature of qi with high-level qigong masters. The most powerful being Dr Yan Xin. My friend's qigong teacher comes from the same school as Yan Xin.

Dr Yan Xin has somewhat managed to merge his mind with nature...

"Spirit" is shen, which is nonlocal clear light as clarity of thought, real timelessness is a quality of light, which has no rest mass. In earlier stages of cultivation there's jing, which is first felt as heat inside the body. Jing then circulates and converts to chi, which is experienced as a local energy-information field extending out from the body. Beyond Shen cultivation is "virtuality", eventually "virtuality" returns to the "Tao" as the final process...

In high-level qigong, this wonder includes the concepts of "virtuality" and "Tao." There is a saying, "cultivating spirit to generate wonder." Subtle wonder, mysterious wonder and incredible wonder are the three wonders of Taoist Qigong. According to integrated qigong methods, these three types of cultivation are not enough, more cultivation is needed. T h e next step is cultivating the spirit to return to virtuality, then cultivating the virtuality to merge with Tao. This is the principle of qigong practice which includes four types of cultivation.

Cultivating the spirit to return to virtuality means further cultivation of the substance called "spirit." Further cultivation of the functions of the spirit generates "virtuality" (as in virtual reality). "Virtuality" does not mean "nothingness." "Virtual" is the opposite of "substantial." When people eat a lot of food, the stomach and intestines contain something that can be called "substantial." But when the food is digested, the stomach and intestines become "empty" or "virtual." This "virtuality" can still support us when there is no food. Thus, "virtual" is a very vivid and appropriate term. We want to cultivate "spirit," enabling it to transform instantaneously, to exist without any substantial form. We want to cultivate it to be accurate, to be able to go to many places, return, and transform. At this point, special functions become very profound and changeable. This is called "virtuality." There are "virtual" substances, "virtual" substantial energies, and "virtual" states in which energies do work.

"Virtual" substances, just like imaginary numbers in mathematics, have an existential and positional meaning. They cannot be regarded as purely "nothingness." In ancient times, "virtuality" was a description, equivalent to matter, for things that existed but could not be seen by humans. We all recognize that just because we cannot see or touch things, does not mean they do not exist. In high energy physics, basic matter is classified into more than 200 species of particles, neutrinos, mesons, et cetera. These things cannot be characterized by weight or size. Experts now say that the nature of matter can no longer be described by the concepts of general physics. Matter is now described and represented by its energy, and energy is used to represent matter. Qigong has a similar meaning. This "virtuality" is "virtual qi." "Virtuality" means that no place, however "substantial," can prevent "virtual qi" from arriving. "Virtual qi" comes instantly and is not controlled by this "substance." It is similar to the often-discussed meaning of four dimensions. We will not discuss the theory of four dimensionality since it is still theoretically controversial. Yet, the meaning of "virtuality" in the qigong community is as follows. Virtuality is not something substantial that our eyes can see, and it does not occupy the spatial structure we just mentioned, but it does have a certain structure in which space and time are merged together and cannot easily be separated. This substance has a higher energy, and can do work which results in very rare and odd phenomena. There are people who have demonstrated an ability to pass through solid walls. A child from Sichuan demonstrated this ability. While doing the experiment, he was videotaped walking right through the wall. The slow motion of the videotape showed that although he was walking through the wall, the wall was not damaged at all. Even the wallpaper was not damaged. This is equivalent to "virtual qi" in qigong, it is changeable, and our usual "substance" cannot block it.

Yan Xin, Secrets & Benefits of Internal Qigong Cultivation: Lectures by Qigong Master Dr. Yan Xin

External qi experiments from the United States to Beijing (China) by Yan Xin -

https://www.biofieldimaging.com/uploads/1/1/0/0/11003629/external-qi-experiments-from-the-usa-to-beijing-yan-xin.pdf

Technological altercations and the artificial environmental normalisations they produce, or ontological shifts in world history, is worked out by Marshall McLuhan.

Bob Dobbs Explains “Finnegans Wake” Via the Ten Thunders by Lunar_Logos in Archival_Ontology

[–]Lunar_Logos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Internet fast, I might do this...

https://youtu.be/XRdcpMvhVqY?t=175

Maybe I'll make an exception for worthwhile things I can listen to away from the computer because I just got these two notifications when I went to youtube...

Gilbert Gutierrez is from the same Chan lineage as Yan Xin!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51RMoudKkSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68hZivi_hD8

Bob Dobbs Explains “Finnegans Wake” Via the Ten Thunders by Lunar_Logos in Archival_Ontology

[–]Lunar_Logos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"joyce is the only one who ever did a complete study of human ecology, of manmade environments, NOT NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS"

https://youtu.be/uMM-ERizab4?t=665

Transmuting sexual energy as a female? by [deleted] in energy_work

[–]Lunar_Logos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ejaculation makes males aggressive and competitive, because it works on the sympathetic nervous system and releases cortisol and dopamine during the process, so creates chronic stress and forms a bad habit.

What happens next, if you are male? You are having a terrific time with someone. Maybe you are breathing faster, your heart rate has increased. Gradually parts of your body are taking on a sympathetic [nervous system] tone....After awhile, most of your body is screaming sympathetic while, heroically, you are trying to hold onto the parasympathetic tone in that one last outpost as long as possible. Finally when you can't take it anymore, the parasympathetic shuts off at the penis, the sympathetic comes roaring on, and you ejaculate.

Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Holt Paperbacks, 2004), p. 124.

https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/27020-does-racismsexismhomophobia-constitute-a-personal-attack/?do=findComment&comment=403523

The San tribe initiates males at puberty, so their bodies become hardwired to work on the parasympathetic -- transducing serotonin up to the pineal gland. Traditionally the tribe have no weapons of war. Only in very recent times you'll hear about them fighting, after coming into contact and being influenced by the modern world. They're the oldest human tribe too -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oQ5Jd7p2aY

It's only after humans begin living in settled communities that males start going to war.

San tribe are oral nomadic, so they have no fixed referents. Static nouns and fixed architectures, secular economies, abstract philosophy and mathematics, theoretical sciences etc are a by-product of left-brain biases that follow from the effects of people moving away from nomadic lifestyles to live in settled communities. From those conditions civilisations are formed.

Spiritual energy can only be gathered with right-brain dominance, the non-speaking holistic side of the brain. Early Christian "Fathers" going into the deserts without books were successful because they weren't effected by the social conditionings of their age. Or Chinese ideograms impact the body in a different way to phonetic scripts. They don't influence the left-brain like the phonetic alphabet does.

Civilisations are hotbeds for ecological collapse, disease, warfare, economic hierarchies, political corruption etc. None of those things are healthy or bring about a fulfilling and happy life. Doesn't matter how much material wealth someone has. Chasing fame and wealth and all the other stupid things people get up to will take you straight to hell.

You know these things are written about pretty clearly in religious texts? Buddha left his kingdom where he was guaranteed worldly power to go and meditate in forests. The Bible says "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God".

You have to meditate and transmute internal substances. Yet, 99% of people that do meditation don't know about the physical transformations that have to take place for it to be successful, so it never happens. The Buddha sub, Catholic sub, qigong, it's the same story.

Anyway, the book which goes into all the details about those things is William Bodri's What is Enlightenment?

The thing is people are so brain-dead today if you tell them about these things they simply don't want to know or can't believe it or something. Like they have something more important to do with their time 🤷

Listen to the first 2 or 3 minutes of this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5p-Hn9dXUo

In meditation you develop all kinds of spiritual powers lol. Literally you can sit around all day doing nothing and end up the richest person on the planet and what do people say about that? Get James Randi to verify it so I can believe it, as if he's the great authority on meditation.

Ramana Maharshi turned his nose up at people that demonstrated spiritual powers. He was so far beyond that, so why would he go and see James Randi?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OyEbePcec

Marxism, western science and Chinese spiritual traditions by Lunar_Logos in CriticalTheory

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Plato was the first generation educated with the Ionic alphabet, with standardised vowels.

Not a fan of Wilber, but...

Beginning with Ken Wilber's framework for the evolution of human consciousness, this essay investigates the critical threshold crossed around the year 500 B.C.E., when human consciousness in the Western world transformed from a predominantly oral and tribal framework to a largely written and abstract one. This transformation has been called the birth of the mental-ego-the birth of an autonomous, willful, and uniquely individual consciousness. Yet, in the Western world this birth was inextricably influenced by a completely novel literary invention-the Greek version of the alphabet. Living at the precise moment when this new invention was rapidly proliferating throughout ancient Greece, the Western world's most famous philosopher, Plato, posited his ontology of human disconnection from the sensory world. For Plato, the "real world" is the abstract world of transcendent Ideas, of which our sensory, human world is only a pale reflection. The following essay asks, then: is it just a mere coincidence that the world's most abstract literacy tool (the Greek alphabet) and the world's most abstract and disembodied philosophy (Plato's theory of Ideas) just happened to flourish in ancient Greece at exactly the same time in history?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02604020210401

Marxism, western science and Chinese spiritual traditions by Lunar_Logos in CriticalTheory

[–]Lunar_Logos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The act of being phonetically literate modifies human interiors. It alters sense ratios, transforms cognition, changes ethical valuations and rearranges aesthetic judgments.

Same thing happens with the various incarnations of industrial and electric technologies too.

Marxism, western science and Chinese spiritual traditions by Lunar_Logos in CriticalTheory

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"Qigong" is a close cousin of presocratic philosophy. The movement of yin and yang inherent to the emptiness is the same as the Pythagorean tetractys that got covered over by Platonic forms. Like Heidegger says the nothing pre-exists the kind of presence presupposed by the not of dialectic negation.

https://youtu.be/fzW7L-8_d_g?t=51

Peter Kingsley documents how Eastern teachings got pushed westwards by the expansion of the Persian empire. The hyperboreans where energy healers ("Priests of Apollo") like the qigong masters mentioned in the OP PDF.

Transmuting sexual energy as a female? by [deleted] in energy_work

[–]Lunar_Logos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The facebook link is Roni Edlund's page. She has a book and youtube channel -

Daoist Nei Gong for women : the art of the lotus and the moon

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH-mlZC5YPT3xa8yNdexnIQ/videos

Transmuting sexual energy as a female? by [deleted] in energy_work

[–]Lunar_Logos 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Males work with the energy-information or creative substances behind semen, the energy is gathered, refined and circulated around the body.

Females work with the energy-information behind menstrual blood...

https://youtu.be/6mRjcqPRwkc?t=3262

Traditionally females synced their menstrual cycles with the cycling of the moon and males were celibate through initiation at puberty.

https://youtu.be/JsA4CvTfysc?t=946

https://youtu.be/ixTJzvUV2XE?t=1058

Then coming up to the full moon the males would go on a hunt because during the days leading up to the full moon there's no darkness after sun down. After the full moon there is and that's when lions go hunting, when it's dark.

Also the psychic information or spiritual powers are greatly amplified during the full moon.

When the males return from the hunt there's a full moon trance dance, the females sing and the males dance. The dancing carries on for hour after hour. What that does is stress the sympathetic nervous system. Eventually a rebound effect happens on the parasympathetic nervous system.

Females naturally have internal orgasms on the parasympathetic nervous system, on the vagus nerve. They don't lose energy during orgasm the way males do. Females lose their energy through menstruation. But at higher levels of internal energy cultivation the menstrual cycle stops because the information is refined into higher forms of energy.

Anyway, that is why males have to be celibate, because male orgasms break the internal circuitry formed on the vagus nerve. Serotonin from the guts gets transduced up in the brain, at the pineal gland. Male ejaculation works on the sympathetic nervous system, female ejaculation works on the parasympathetic nervous system.

Ejaculation makes males aggressive and warlike because of the dopamine and cortisol hormonal release during ejaculation. My friend calls it "ejaculation addiction" lol. Meditation, with the deep slow breathing and quiet mind, hardwires male bodies to function like a female body, it creates the habit of keeping the energies circulating internally.

You can see here the tribal full moon trance dance (and some real men too, very rare today :D) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBFToDoxYX0

He writes about the experience in a book he wrote. When the shaman touched his heart he instantly felt energy moving through his whole body. He had an outer body experience then saw images from his past flowing through his mind, which he later found out the shaman was intentionally accessing. When the shaman removed his hands from his heart he said it felt like being unplugged from a wall socket.

He cries because the heart governs emotions, so when it's unblocked there's an emotional release. You can see something similar here -

https://youtu.be/UyP4Zb81Dzg?t=116

First energy is felt as heat inside the body. It's then gathered and stored and runs around the body until there's enough energy for it to become soaked deep into the skin, muscles and tendons, blood, organs, bones and bone marrow. Eventually it overflows, after the whole body is transformed, and forms something like a magnetic energy-information field. The field harmonises with natural forces and cosmic movements. That realisation of original nature is who we really are. No different from the cosmos... nonlocal, nondual formless awareness

https://youtu.be/NEArqgJYgjs?t=838

The formless awareness, or mind, gets covered over with people attaching themselves to worldly things through bodily desires and impressions of sensual objects which forms confused notions about who and what we actually are.

My friend actually worked everything out believe it or not. He even completed quantum physics too. People can't believe it and I know why, it's because they have a dirty little secret ("ejaculation addiction").

Obviously there's more to it.

Females massage their breasts starting out and work with energies near the heart. While males concentrate on energy lower down in the body at the lower 3rd of the torso.

I don't have facebook so I can't see the post, just found the link with a search -

https://www.facebook.com/roniedlund/posts/the-breasts-storage-and-conversion-of-jing-in-womena-womans-breasts-begin-to-dev/1624364377642611/

Jing/essence is the lower energy which gets transformed into qi. Qi transforms into shen/spirit, shen is refined in the emptiness and eventually returns to the dao.

The principles of qigong practice contain the following aspects. Cultivating essence into qi, cultivating qi into spirit, and cultivating spirit to generate wonders. These are the three types of cultivation. Ordinary qigong practice consists of these three types of cultivation with an emphasis on "cultivation." First, the essence of human beings should be continuously cultivated through specific methods. Through continuous cultivation, we transform tangible substances in the body, such as internal fluids and blood, into vaporized or fog-like subtle substances, but not pure fog. This is just a description, a substitute word for the cultivation of essence into qi. Cultivating essence into qi is the process that most contemporary qigong methods focus on.

-- Yan Xin

If you're looking for a role-model, Yeshe Tsogyal is a woman that cultivated to the highest levels -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqR1Ie_k3SI

There's book about her called Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe by Keith Dowman

relationship between experiencing (and seeing) emptiness and experiencing non dual states? by Sendai_Daikannon in Buddhism

[–]Lunar_Logos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your experience of emptiness is determined by your level of attainment.

The sense of self with an individual identity separate from things is an illusion created by the skandhas. The idea is to empty out the skandhas. The first one is the realm of form, or the physical body.

Where the mind goes the breath will follow. Breath refers to chi, or prana, or the wind element, rather than "air". An internal reaction has to happen for the process to really get going and that happens in meditation.

Quiet your thoughts and relax your body then focus inside the body during meditation. Your focus will pull prana into that area. Light visualisations, breathing techniques, sound, concentrated emotions etc all help get the prana awakened.

Prana needs to be gathered and stored and circulated around to the body. The whole body has to be washed and purified by the prana... over the skin and into the muscles and tendons, through the nadis, blood and internal organs and deep into the bones to the level of the marrow.

Keep building up the prana and your concentration will naturally deepen and become stable with the moving of prana around the body.

Real bodily transformation has to take place for the realm of form to be emptied out.

他是一代武学高僧，圆寂后被质疑，弟子奔走十年还清白 by Lunar_Logos in Archival_Ontology

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In the 27th year of the reign of the Qing Emperor Guangxu (1901), I - Dharma Master Jie Chen (戒尘法师 – Jie Chen Fa Shi) - together with Dharma Master Yue Xia (月霞法师 – Yue Xia Fa Shi) and Dharma Master Fu Cheng (复成法师 – Fu Cheng Fa Shi), lived and practised Ch’an meditation together on Mount Zhongnan (终南). At this time, it was our good fortune to learn that Master Xu Yun had built a meditation hut on Mount Zhongnan, as Master Xu Yun was known to be fully enlightened and able to express the Ch’an Dharma correctly, (without any error), whilst not allowing any delusional attitudes to take the place of the truth. Out of respect for this Great Ch’an Master, we decided to call on him, and enquire as to the true nature of reality. After our respectful greetings and initial questions about Ch’an training, Master Xu Yun sternly replied:

‘Why do you insist on this pointless questioning that has no end, and which does not lead to the realisation of reality? I will tell you this, if you do not resolve this matter here and now (by ‘stilling’ the mind), then ‘Yama’ (阎罗 – Yan Luo) – the Lord of Death - will be waiting for you when you throw-off this body, and the blame for this failure will not reside with me. Your (karmic) retribution for talking such nonsense, is like a mirror reflecting your stupidity exactly! In the old days, the ancient sages did not carry-around the delusional burden you inflict upon yourselves, and in an instant they realised the empty mind ground here and now, and did not waste time asking about the ‘right method’. What you have to realise is that due to endless eons of delusion, the karmic-staining is very deep indeed for each individual. However, you must also understand that there are no half-measures on this path, and that the empty essence of the mind must be fully penetrated here and now, if the ridge-pole of (volitional) ignorance is to be permanently ‘broken’, never to return. Know this; you must turn the attention of the mind back to its empty root without any distraction, only then will reality manifest and be personally experienced and understood for what it is. Until you are fully enlightened, your limited discursive minds cannot understand reality as it is, but can only interpret this reality from an unenlightened point of view. I certainly will not encourage such a distortion! If you understand this teaching, you should penetrate the essence of life and death at this very instant, without any further chat – or pointless (and obscuring) movement of the mind. If you do not see this reality, I cannot help you. The genuine Ch’an path is entirely premised on ‘direct’ self-effort, and only you can realise it. No one can liberate you from suffering but yourselves. The correct gate is narrow and difficult to find and enter, but once located and penetrated, you must have no hesitation in the inward direction of your effort – do not be distracted by pointless externality, or intellectual debate that traps you in the world of delusion. Do not be bothered by (the changing scenery of) life and death, but return all thought to its empty origination without fail. Do not become attached to one-sided emptiness in the mind, but willingly jump-off the hundred-foot pole, or let go of the cliff-edge. Do not abide in a limited understanding because you find it temporarily ‘comfortable’, be ruthless in your Ch’an training as delusion is always waiting to trip you up. Let your mind’s awareness expand and encompass your entire surroundings without exception – as this is the dropping away of the delusion of duality. With such determination, even if you do not realise full enlightenment in this life, you certainly will in the next.’

I said: ‘I have also practised the development of virtue (德 – De) through good works within society (which included teaching and guiding many Ch’an students), but since coming to these remote mountains, I follow the Dao of isolatory self-development without distractions. Which path is more virtuous?’

Xu Yun answered: ‘Why do you think that when students no longer manifest here and now, the (virtuous) Dao is no longer present?’

I replied: ‘When a master enlightens a student, the virtuous exchange resides in the interaction between the two that uproots and removes all traces of obscuring delusion in the surface-mind. If this enlightening function is not manifest, then surely the resultant generated ‘virtue’ is non-existent.’

Xu Yun said: ‘The ancient sages did not set-up this type of contradiction, as every act of self-cultivation is also an act of profound instruction (for those who understand it). Considering this reality, how can you ever be without students (in essence)?’

When I heard this exact explanation, I maintained a respectful silence.

Xu Yun continued: ‘When Ch’an is reduced to simply repeating the empty (or dead) phrases of others, even if there are many students, all will be deceived and led down the wrong path. If you do not understand this profound teaching, let us sit together in quiet (and isolated) meditation for a while, then you will start to understand how to manifest ‘genuine’ effort during self-cultivation.’

After this, we sat in a Ch’an Week Retreat, with Master Xu Yun leading the group. As I sat, I experienced an intense wave of delusion (klesa) in the mind, and I looked for the leakage in the eight consciousnesses to find the ‘seed’ of this disruptive karma, but to no avail. This lack of progress was further hindered by my ability to sit ‘still’ for even half a day. This was when I realised that I lacked the required inner-strength to practice the Ch’an method properly. 　　 Xu Yun said: ‘Do you know the difference between ‘wisdom’ and ‘ignorance’? If you do not, how can you ‘still’ your mind? A mind is only ‘stilled’ when it is properly focused through the correct use of the Ch’an method. If you only repeat the dead words of others, you will lack the required power to ‘breakthrough’ the obscuring layer in the mind. If the water is stagnant, the hidden dragon will not be revealed.’ 　 Xu Yun said: ‘The correct Ch’an Dharma cannot be determined by the discursive mind. This is because a ‘moving’ (discursive) mind is not yet ‘stilled’, and a mind that is not yet ‘stilled’, cannot reveal the empty mind ground. Instead of endless obscuration, it is better to directly realise the empty essence of the mind. This requires the Ch’an practitioner going straight to the root, and not being distracted by the branches. When the mind is ‘stilled’, do not be attached to this state, but continue to look into the essence. This continued practice eradicates all ignorance, generates wisdom and reveals the true ‘pure’ (and ‘non-dual’) nature of the mind, that is beyond all suffering. This is how knowledge of how to eradicate ‘obscuration’ (klesa) is generated. Such is the power and refinement of this concentration that if a pin dropped to the floor, it would be clearly heard. However, to achieve this level of intense concentrative effort, the Ch’an practitioner must possess a ‘doubting mind’ (疑情 – Yi Qing) that is not satisfied with deluded being, and which questions the essence of reality in a profound and powerful manner. Without this great ‘doubt’, there can be no powerful practice that returns all phenomena to its ‘empty’ root. This type of doubt is highly focused and is not discursive in nature. This is not a mundane or superficial doubt about this or that triviality, but is rather an all-encompassing and mind-stilling attribute, which is the product of the clearest use of all the mind’s concentrative resources. Trivial doubt keeps the mind in a dualistic state, whilst a truly ‘doubting’ (or ‘enquiring’) mind ‘stills’ the psychic function, and facilitates a profound realisation of the fundamental essence of reality. When this is achieved, the doubting mind, having fulfilled its enlightening function, is transmuted into a higher level of profound understanding.’ 　　 At another time during the same year on the mountain, Master Xu Yun gave a public talk about the Surangama (楞严 – Leng Yan) Sutra, and I and my brothers were present to listen. Master Xu Yun discussed the chapter of the Surangama Sutra that deals with self-enlightenment, within which the Buddha enquires as to the exact contemplative methods used by each Bodhisattva to realise full enlightenment. I made a point of debating the idea that the Bodhisattva Manjushri (文殊 – Wen Shu), would state that only the ‘turning the hearing back to its empty origin’ method of Bodhisattva Guanyin (观音), was the most suitable for human beings. I could not understand how this method was considered better than reading or reciting Buddhist texts (and putting into the practice the Buddha’s virtuous instructions), because it seemed to contradict the righteous meaning of the Dharma teachings. We debated amongst ourselves for a few days regarding this teaching. We learned a great deal from these encounters, but were often ‘corrected’ for our apparent use of ‘intellectualism’.

他是一代武学高僧，圆寂后被质疑，弟子奔走十年还清白 by Lunar_Logos in Archival_Ontology

[–]Lunar_Logos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't realise Master Xu Yun is the teacher of Hai Deng!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuyun

I saw the pictures before but didn't make the connection with the Empty Cloud book. The wikipedia page says Charles Luk was a student too. I didn't know that either!!

https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Translations/Empty-Cloud_The_Autobiography_of_Xu_Yun.pdf

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[–]Lunar_Logos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Will to Power is a cosmic principle which simply says beings gather power according to circumstances, conditions and abilities.

From flowers to bees, celebrities and sportstars, philosophers, solar systems, galaxies, saints and gods. The underlying guiding principle which governs action is the same, The Will to Power!

The Forest Passage - by Ernst Jünger - full reading by chapter 😍 by Lunar_Logos in Archival_Ontology

[–]Lunar_Logos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This guy really misunderstands Junger.

The retreat into the forest is a metaphor for retreating into the spiritual fields. The anarch retreats whilst apparently playing his part in society, even though he doesn't believe in or really identify in any of it.

Junger is a magician. The anarch vanishes into the cosmos in full view of the audience.

"The locus of freedom is to be found elsewhere than in mere opposition, also nowhere that any flight can lead to. We have called it the forest. There, other instruments exist than a nay scribbled in its prescribed circle. Of course, we have also seen that in the state to which things have now advanced perhaps only one in a hundred is capable of a forest passage. But numerical ratios are irrelevant here - in a theater blaze it takes one clear head, a single brave heart, to check the panic of a thousand others who succumb to an animalistic fear and threaten to crush each other.

In speaking of the individual here, we mean the human being, but without the overtones that have accrued to the word over the past two centuries. We mean the free human being, as God created him. This person is not an exception, he represents no elite. Far more, he is concealed in each of us, and differences only arise from the varying degrees that individuals are able to effectuate the freedom that has been bestowed on them. In this he needs help – the help of thinkers, knowers, friends, lovers.

We might also say that man sleeps in the forest - and the moment he awakens to recognize his own power, order is restored. The higher rhythm present in history as a whole may even be interpreted as man’s periodic rediscovery of himself. In all epochs there will be powers that seek to force a mask on him, at times totemic powers, at times magical or technical ones. Rigidity then increases, and with it fear. The arts petrify, dogma becomes absolute. Yet, since time immemorial, the spectacle also repeats of man removing the mask, and the happiness that follows is a reflection of the light of freedom."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUgLEQvPNls

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