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Greetings, what has sparked the interest to learn more?

Hey Rocco Have actually just said this on another post of yours but turns out it is probably more relevant here, if you take yourself to the 10 day course it will give you the best chance to get through this and move into a clearer practice! There are three types of knowing.. intellectual like reading, emotional like understanding and experiential through experience. This is an insight that can only be gained by working diligently and patiently. Then you are bound to be successful..

Might be a late to reply but have just joined the forum.. I searched vipassana as recently did a 10 day retreat learning the technique with S.N. Goenka, they are free 10 day silent meditations in many countries.., the website is dhamma.org if you are interested however... What you are describing sounds like things deep rooted in your mind are coming to the surface, this also happened with me during the retreat and what we are told there is to just keep doing the practice (uprooting the mind) without reacting to what the mind is bringing up and showing us, by doing this we let it go and our mind is clearer.. It really works and after the 10 days my mind was much clearer and focus within meditation came easier. Also did the retreat to clear my mind to be able to start work with chi energy as had read about it a lot but had heard it is best to start with a clear mind as possible otherwise it can be dangerous so maybe the 10 day course would be good for you. I had meditated for a number of years before hand but during the first 10 hour day I realised the surface had been scratched slightly and by the end I had discovered a good practice. Seeing as it's been a year since the dreams have there been any changes for you since then?

Thank you

One of the reasons I joined this forum was because of the multi orgasmic man by Mantak Chia, would you say there was a safer or better method available? At the moment I am mainly interested in the inner smile and micro cosmic orbit and was then thinking to progress into the other exercises, any thoughts would be most appreciated..

Thank you bums, looking forward to doing so

Hi there My name is Alex, 27 years old. I really enjoy reading taoist literature and after discovering Mantak Chias books I aim to take the written knowledge and create some experiential understanding. Hoping along the way that can find some junior bums on this forum to start up on the path with and make use of the experience already gained by those who have kept up the practice for a long time. I have experience with meditation and completed a 10 day vipassana course with S.N. Goenka,.. I had known about Mantak for some time after a friend of mine had explained how he had been to Tao Garden 20 years ago and loved it, a few months after I went to vipassana and then on my first day back into normal life Mantak Chia had done an interview with on my favourite youtube channels called 'London real', it was literally one of the first things I saw when booting back up my phone. Tao Garden have given me contact details for one of Mantaks instructors who is sometimes in Bangkok (my current place) and willl start some work with her when possible. I am focusing for now on the inner smile which I find to be a relaxing and rejuvenating exercise and with the teachers guidance I hope to open the micro cosmic orbit. During that time I have started to do some of the exercises in multi orgasmic man. Mainly just the PC pull ups as am using the time to calm my mind away from quite strong sexual urges. It's been 23 days since that started and have been quite strong is resisting the urge and thoughts. This is welcoming and surprising as have had previous attempts in life which never seemed to go past 10 days, this process seems to be much more about the ease and think that this will help the Qi Gong journey. Not directly linked Taoism/Daoism? but am also doing breathing exercises from a book called 'The oxygen advantage' which is about retraining the body and mind to breathe calmer, slower and deeper through the nose at all times even when sleeping and even though he goes about things in a much more western scientific approach he quotes Lao Tzu and Taoist literature once or twice. He has also attended vipassana retreats so I believe he is well into this kind of stuff but for marketing purposes has chosen to position his books in a certain way. However anybody who is interested and would like to try the exercises please send me a message and I look forward to assisting where I can. Thank you for taking the time to read and look forward to this journey.