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  1. It was probably a year ago, during the middle of the night I was awakened by owls hooting loudly from a rooftop across the street. I got up from bed and noticed strange muscle spasms in my legs. The faucet was running for seemingly no reason. The owls kept hooting loudly for a short time before flying off. Given the owls presence and the new sensations in my legs and the faucet that was running, I had a difficult time getting back to sleep.

     

    During that happening Iot  felt what I perceived to be a negative energy during this- the kind that makes the hairs on your body stand up, I think a lot of people just call it fear- however I used to feel it at times during the day when the house was empty and occassionally in a public space at night. It almost felt electric or that i was being attacked in some way, I had tried praying at the time and it still persisted.

     

    I say that because I'm unsure whether the muscle spasms and shocks that i feel on my legs is supernatural in nature, a result of something man made or just a biological tick that can be easily remedied. The reason I think it may be one of those things is because the spasms and shocks appear to respond to my thought processes. I'm not sure which side is good or bad, though whatever is doing it appears to use a system- I dont know. 

     

    While I had the delusion that I was being watched or observed, this physical phenomena is a little more difficult to dismiss and to deal with in general

     

    It is difficult to meditate, pray or do much of anything that requires prolonged concentration when this thing keeps shocking me and causing spasms in my legs. Even just trying to maintain a decent train of thought is difficult because it shocks my legs or causes them to spasm when I think certain thoughts. While it has been more difficult than it previously was to do certain things, I have been trying and powering through some of the shocks and spasms in an attempt to bring my thinking and behavior back to my personal normal. There is also a strange gurgling in my stomach at times, and sometimes it almost feels as if the energy is trying to rise tho is trapped into my stomach region- I know this all may arrive vague and unsubstantiated, however in the context of some undisclosed things I've experienced I feel as though something is not normal 

     

    Thank you for taking the time to read this

     

    I would be very grateful if anyone knows how to cease this phenomena entirely 


  2. 19 hours ago, Yang said:

       it may seem to be getting better but I have time and age to reflect on. It's getting worse in ways that are unfathomable to begin to describe.  I have a whole lifetime of experience to compare then and now to . If it were getting better I would say it was. There's nothing in it for me to say otherwise .

     

       Sure, there are benefits we have today , we didn't have before but the entropy of all things must have its way  no matter what  . People begin at birth fresh and healthy but eventually die off old and sick in some way. This birth towards death sequence applies to all living things and the societies they live within.  I guess you haven't noticed.

     

       There are benefits of old age too and many of them . What ever goes up must come down and whoever is born must die.  This rule of duality applies to everything and every one . Not just people .

     

    ALL positive attributes move towards their negative attribute. No exceptions. 

     

       Take a little time or set aside some time and take a look at natural law. Laws don't just apply to certain things but not others, depending on one's desires on any given day . They apply to everything and every one every day no matter what we do or say . Hey that rhymes !

     

        I've lived in the past and the present long enough to see a dying nation and world when I see it. It's very obvious and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to change it . Fukushima , fascism , gov corruption,  the list is long. 

     

        I wish there was a way.  Pretending it's not happening won't make me young again, make things that go up stay up , or take us all back to the 50's.

     

    What's your take on the subject  ? getting better as we go ?

     

    I'm very optimistic but i'm more into being honest with myself than having blind optimism.

     

     

    I think you're viewing the past and present with a kinda myopic scope- maybe the lenses of youth and the popular culture of that time distorted your view of just how good And bad things were in the past compared to the present

     

    I think humanity has dealt with relatively the same set of problems in cycles, yknow that quote from the bible that says something to the effect of "there's nothing new under the sun", and life and death itself

     

    It wasnt my view that things are getting better, just that it's not as polarized as you're making it out to be, in my opinion. I was saying that humanity itself is still relatively unchanged, just the control or indoctrination or influence of modern society is different and more all-encompassing

     

    I had a thought today. I noticed that a number of friendships I've had in the past have ended on an "apocalyptic" note. Friends who were so convinced that we were in the end times and/or that there was some great event of upheaval afoot. I simply disagreed with them in light terms and it made them froth at the mouth kinda. I wasnt even negating the existence of the "negative/unfavorable" parts of modern life that they were talking about, I just said how things weren't so polarized and that it wasnt the end of the world. In every instance there was no grand finale, they simply held to their belief and stopped contacting me- only for me to see them years/months later and none of their "truth" or "prophecy" had come to pass

     

    My take is kinda airy and lacking polarity. I think things are mostly Okay

     

    People tend to view the world surrounding them as they view themselves, not literally all of the time- though I've noticed when someone is "going through it" they tend to lash out at others/the world at large more than usual

     

    Idk about optimism or blind optimism. I struggle with accepting and/or understanding certain people, places, things and phenomena, same as most people- I just make sure to do the things that bring me joy and I avoid tv/news stories/negativity

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Yang said:

     

    everything MUST experience the birth /death duality . Nothing escapes it and we can clearly see it in every day life. Im an old guy and see it very clearly . Single parents , working moms dead beat dads, etc etc. It wasn't like this in the 50's Women tend to family and husbands made the money . It was perfect tht way . 

     

        Our society as a whole is dying fast. Its almost dead compared to how it was before. Billionaires everywhere, and poor people on the streets in the tens of thousands . 

     

       Its started out great and very workable . There were only a few millionaires like JP Getty and Howard hughes the Kennedys etc etc . . Now there are multi billionaires in the thousands in every city and country .

     

       The young generation today is see the death of society and the rise of destructive AI computers taking control of humanity  . Control that will require the total collapse of civilization to defeat. 

     

      Nasa and the pentagon are ripping off americans every moment of every day with "secret  multi billion dollar projects that they cant talk about and no you cant see the accounting costs because its national security . We have to just "trust" them and the private contractors they spend our money on. 

     

    We are paid slaves who pay the slave masters to protect us from threats they say are real but we have no way to know if they are real or are scams they they profit from . They are on the top of the justice system and there is no one we can go to above them to make a complaint. 

     

    It all started in 1776 and is way out of control now . Nasa gets 50 mill a day every day for making fake movies about space travel . WE cant go to space and we never have been able to go to space. Its a perfect crime in progress today . 

     

     

     

     

     

    I think that's a fairly presential view of america, things have never really been Good wholesale. I'm pretty sure the entire trajectory of america and other societies in the west have been engineered and balanced, in an almost scientific way. Your response is almost dissonant in a way, because you close with an observation about how relatively integral facets of this society are manufactured/illusory 

     

    In regards to the post you were replying to, I dont think humanity has grown too large or that overpopulation is anything more than illusion. I think it's just artificial systems of orchestrated conflict and scarcity 

     

    Idk, I feel like both responses fail to acknowledge the general goodness of human nature and how what's often being presented in polarized portrayals in the media is a result of heavy conditioning 

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  4. 1 hour ago, ऋषि said:

     

    The way you relate to punctuation in such a personal way explains a great many things.

     

    I think a written text possesses an energy and its words coursing an intention 

     

    You were being condescending addressing a sensitive topic, in my opinion, that is dated by three months. Your use of punctuation was just an accent, not a standalone signifier 

     

    I think the hue of your initial and latest responses have a humor about them when contrasted with the personality of conflict that I addressed within my reply


  5. 11 hours ago, ऋषि said:

     

    So... Id imagine it may be difficult for you find empathy from people... considering who and where you may find those people who have experienced all the life circumstances which you find yourself in currently... along with their various results.

     

    With that being said, your inquiry seems to have all the logical sense there is, in the sense of a mathematical equation.  The question is whether or not you perceive in this way?  

     

    What I can tell you is that momentum, trajectory, so forth and so on is basically the "actual repercussions" of any action... any movement... however minor or drastic it may be. 

     

    If you truly want to know what the "actual repercussions" are, just ask yourself.  Only you know what that answer is, directly.

     

    I made this post 3 months ago, I'm in a different place now mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

     

    The feelings and phenomena I was experiencing was largely the result of allowing someone who was very material oriented to get close to me internally/physically. They made it known constantly how "I contributed nothing to the world, my family and friends, and the collective at large", amongst numerous other shallow personal metrics/stigmas. They saw no value in me beyond sensory and financial(social/material) utility, though they would occasionally verbally state the opposite in an attempt to "reassure" me of how much they valued me.

     

    People only use ellipses for two reasons- to condescend or to evade.

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  6. 29 minutes ago, voidisyinyang said:

     

    So you're claiming that him coughing was clearing out low level spirits? Have you read the latest Spring Forest Qigong newsletter?

    https://sfq.infusionsoft.com/app/attachment/1140371/432701fbb6bd0281686a90456d72826b?inf_contact_key=1d43140c227c7ad50f90b480cd793c66680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1

    or just go to http://springforestqigong.com to sign up for the free guild membership to get the newsletter as an email.

     

     

    No, that is not what I said or implied

     

    Sorry if I offended you

     

    Hope you enjoy the rest of your day 


  7. Just now, Earl Grey said:

     

    I have encountered three living in major American cities. There’s a fourth one too who is popular here in this forum. Might want to expand your scope then.

     

    That's believable. It's not that I dont believe they exist altogether, I just think it's fairly uncommon. Spotless is cool, I know he isn't a teacher though- so whoever that guy is, merit


  8. 17 hours ago, voidisyinyang said:

     

    when you say "beset by unfavorable energies/entities" - Chunyi Lin shared how ghosts regularly come to him to get healed and so he heals them. He shared this because I SAW the ghosts - they floated in from outside (while Chunyi was in full lotus meditating) - this was in 2000 at the Level 3 retreat. I had fasted for a week and meditated the whole time at age 29 - so I could see the ghosts. I had also read of the highest Buddhist master of Thailand, Phra Acharn Mun, doing the same healing of ghosts - in his biography (that is now free online - when I had read it I ordered it through interlibrary loan).

     

    So the ghost healing occurs in the East as much in the West - Phra Acharn Mun was a Forest Monk - in the early 1900s of Thailand. So Thailand was not very Westernized yet when the Buddhist master also was doing ghost healing regularly.

     

    As for "social quirks or drosses" - this seems quite silly - depending on what you think is sociable. We could get into a detailed discussion about what is sociable or not - there's a lot about Western society that people have no idea how it affects others (call them quirks if you want or not). For example in South Korea the farmers begged the US soldiers to use their outhouses to get the humanure to grow food. Now would that be considered "quirky" to do in the US? Or "dross"? I suppose.

     

    So if you mean trying to appear "successful" in the US - well as in wearing nice Sweatshop Clothes, driving a fancy SUV, going to the Mall and nice classical concerts, taking Cruise ships annually, giving talks at prestigious local centers and teaching via nice hotels, etc. - doing real science research via a Mayo  Clinic doctor - yes the http://springforestqigong.com is very socially successful. Personally I'm not but then maybe I know more about what "success" in the West entails - socially.

     

    When spring forest qigong started out the retreats were at a 1950s Christian center in the forest and an austere Nunnery! Was that quirky or dross? Maybe. That is what I preferred but that was before the qigong master was "Americanized" as he said. haha.

     

     

     

     

    I wasnt talking about him healing ghosts, I knew about that. I was referring to an excerpt I read where he speaks of having to constantly cleanse the areas he was occupying/residing in and himself of low level spirits, that he deemed to be nuisances. It's probably still available somewhere on popular search engines

     

    Drosses as in, for example- the harmony that an accountant reaches on an extended vacation from work where their negative behaviors/thought-loops begin to loosen, only to begin returning once they are back in the office and reimmersed. Or the place inner/outer that a meditator reaches on a two week retreat on an island, versus the quality of that inner space once they've returned to their lifestyles. Sorry if I was too vague 

     

    I dont know why you feel as though I'm attacking your credentials/experience or that of the spring forest qigong organization as a whole. As I stated previously, I dont think what I saw had to do with a fault in his practice 


  9. 17 hours ago, Earl Grey said:

     

    You must not spend a lot of time living outside of your own country or the city if this is your conclusion about the whole world. Or met some of the great teachers in the west.

     

    Some of the greatest teachers out there do live in cities from Beijing to Pittsburgh to NYC and Manila. Some aren’t even known outside of the rural area. But it all comes down to what effort you will put into it and that’s not just money, but the desire to be “comfortable” with who you are rather than going above and beyond.

     

    I dont believe that the greatest teachers live in major american cities, maybe some of the greatest modern teachers as far as teaching is concerned and disregarding their overall purity

     

    "Some aren't even known outside of the rural area." That was part of my point


  10. 5 hours ago, Ocean Form said:

    lol

     

    I can see why that would be funny to someone

     

    I just dont think it's worth the effort of decades of practice of one can be so perturbed by a casual happening. It wasnt the cough of a common cold or similar.

     

    I have an idea as to why that might've been. He has talked of spending a lot of time in seclusion and even a period in a cave, a period he alludes to being his peak. I think that his reintegration into society at large lead him to regathering the drosses of particular social quirks and neuroses. He also spoke of him needing to constantly exorcise spirits from his aura/being when he began living in society again, as he was constantly beset by unfavorable energies/entities. Similar happens to even those who do not cultivate or practice anything involving the purification of their energies/minds.

     

    I dont think it's something that can be avoided by a cultivator residing in the western sphere, or anywhere really seeing as how the entire world is being slowly westernized, for lack of a better term. The only true option seems to be relatively remote isolation for that sort of thing, and I dont care that much to pursue that path in this moment 

     

    Thank you, Ocean Form 


  11. 4 hours ago, steve said:

    May I ask, do you think the input you received here helped you get through the darkness?

     

    Yes, though probably not to the greater or lesser extents intended by those who shared their thoughts/advices

     

    The main takeaway was guilt. Reading personal stories from people on this site as well as those from day to day life and my own personal 1st/2nd hand experiences. I felt a guilt that I was depriving those connected with my experience of something I couldnt quite quantify, and I also felt a guilt from not achieving my primary goal which was to contribute something positive and/or constructive to the greater collective- which is kind of a funny goal when you dig deep enough into the sentiment

     

    Ultimately it took action from me on the mental/physical plane to begin to create a decisive shift. I have no doubts that rereading posts from this thread and other more constructive material, making steady changes to my overall mental diet, contributed to helping turn the tide. I had to take Action 

     

    I dont think I'm out of the woods quite yet as far as revamping my life, because im still encountering echoes of that dark period in day to day interactions due to my increasing energy level/'expanding' awareness now that I've began to practice once more

     

    It is somewhat difficult to relive that period now that the post has been bumped and I've read through it again, being in a better place though carrying subtle hues of the former- life is like that I think. I hope that this thread can serve someone else in a therapeutic way

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  12. 18 minutes ago, Desmonddf said:

     

    Close your eyes and let your imagination build a place in front of you. Not an idilic or hellish place, just let your feelings create an image of what they represent. Without a body, your mind will be the main creator of your existence and experiences. This place you've seen is probably where you'll go if you die today - except you probably will have a mangled astral body due to the shock and trauma of physical suicide.

     

    I've already begun creating my new life. I appreciate your input, though it is belated

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  13. 3 hours ago, manitou said:

    I think those dark nights of the soul quicken us somehow.

     

    Glad you're back to yourself.

     

     

     

    I'm sure that's true to an extent, though this latest episode was simply me ignoring my intuition and what the world was telling me to the point of paralysis/self-destruction. There was little to no working through accumulated neuroses or ingrained behaviors, rather I was wilfully reconstructing and creating new ones of the same hue that I had for the most part transcended/made peace with.

     

    I am creating a new life

     

    Thank you

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  14. On 7/28/2019 at 7:33 AM, SirPhillipJFry said:

    I hope that by now you have changed your mind and find yourself well. 

     

    I will tell you in my experience thanks to medidation I was forced to accept life for what it was. By learning some  buddhism I came across some reincarnation passages in some random book. 

     

    The gist of it is: When you die the only thing you keep with you is your mind however not in the form we can use the mind as humans but more like ghosts who have a recollection of who they were yet are not able to create new memories or new friendships. They are but a hollow shell of who they used to be until rebirth. 

     

    When you are reborn your mind is what the soul carries into the body and you are reborn with the same mind. You heard that correctly  the same mind that is causing hour suffering, the same pain, the same regrets and burdens, they will all be there.  

     

    That's why suicide isn't good enough to remove the pain  and why I let go of that idea when I was younger. 

     

    I hope this helps you direct your way. 

     

    Thank you

     

    I have since returned to my former practice/lifestyle and separated myself from negative(damaging) influences

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  15. 1 hour ago, dwai said:

     

    If you talk only about brahmacharya, that’s not enough. Brahmacharya is the first stage of development in the Hindu/Vedic tradition. After brahmacharya follows grihastāshrama (householder). Following that is vānahprasthāshrama (retiring to the forest for quiet contemplation) and finally sanyāsa (renunciation) where you perform your own last rites, give up your personal identity and relations, and dedicate your remaining life towards attaining moksha. 

     

    If you mention the varnāshrama dharma you also have to consider the four purushārthas - dharma, Aretha, kāma and moksha. Live according to dharma, in the world, earn your living, contribute to society . Pursue sensory gratification too, so you don’t have any cravings to bind you to the world as you undertake the highest goal of moksha or spiritual liberation. :) 

     

     

    I do not plan on going the traditional route. I plan to make my living in relative isolation/obscurity and to move to a more rural setting when that is feasible. I am for the most part satisfied with the progress I am able to make in my current environment.

     

    Compassion and love are good things, though neither requires romantic involvement as a prerequisite. I have found that my heart tends to close, and my creativity atrophy to an extent, when in an intimate relationship- probably something to do with making compromises and being dishonest with myself in order to maintain a close/romantic relationship with someone who does not believe in and/or does not follow the same principles I do.

     

    Years ago I found the saying of a particular saint, his name escapes me in this moment, to be true. He said that there was no love greater than chaste love, and my experience thus far has proved that to be true beyond any doubt


  16. 4 hours ago, freeform said:

     

    You've missed my point.

     

    The 'power' is not in celibacy... it's in doing the actual practices that these saints talk about.

     

    Sometimes the practices include being celibate for a period of time - and if you have a genuine teacher that is teaching a classical method, you follow what s/he says and go through celibacy if that is what's required. If you're a 20yr old that decides celibacy is the answer to your problems, or you're practicing things from books and youtube videos, you are likely to do yourself some damage.

     

    90% of what I've seen is not genuine, classical practice (a good indicator: if the practice involves visualizing energy movement, then it's probably not a genuine (Daoist at least) practice).

     

    There is power in celibacy itself.

    There are readily observable changes when one refuses to spill their seed and adheres to uprightness.

    When I say celibacy, i dont mean simply abstaining from sexual relations/actions. I mean abstaining in speech/deed and thought.

     

    I do not see it as a standalone, rather something that serves as a pillar of my practice, or the amalgam I refer to as my practice. I also adhere, as best I can, to the eight precepts/10 commandments- when I start delving into many of the laws of maat unconsciously I know I'm doing well.

     

    Also, additional things like being mindful of my mental diet, trying to keep good company and abstaining from certain energetic locales as best I can.

     

    The above is what comprises my concept of celibacy, what is normal for me.

     

    I read of saints and their miracles/practices for years while beginning the path I'm on. I see people promoting false ideas and personal narratives, though I just try to ignore those.


  17. 2 hours ago, EmeraldHead said:

    Theres a nice Brahmacharya group on facebook...you will find it easily yourself. I won't lie I'm not expert and my guru is a tantric But this community is 100% @£$"£$^£ biased.

     

    There is no doubt there isnt really any DAOist system out there, PERIOD. Its all tcm or national Chinese propaganda.. Chi that, Yi there, yet no one references the Nei-Ye or Tao Te Ching apporpiatly in their systme because no one knows a thing about the Dao. Just like at MoPie, everyones fighting and insulting eachother. All they seem to focus on anyway is building chi and obtaining siddhis that can kill or show off. No talk about developing the psyche.

    I recommend you check out the sutras and ancient texts yourself and not ask for advice on a forum. HInduism and Kabbalah are very developed I've met masters, one with Dao from these traditions. 

     

    Theres plenty celibate violent people in the military in history, who were celibate with success. Of course if you get blue balls, wet dreams and are visibly stagnating, you know yourself you behave like an animal and keep yourself caged that is not Brahmacharya. It's not rocket science. Be an adult, feel yourself, know your mind and subconsciouss, feel your body, train your perception, inteligence and true will and obey your intuition.

     

    Thank you for the recommendation. I found some insightful posts there years ago, though now there are too many posts from beginners looking for encouragement/enablement and skeptics.


  18. On 9/4/2019 at 11:45 AM, Taomeow said:

     

    And nuns pay the price for the practice in the form of the highest incidence of breast cancer of all professional groups.  (The lowest is in prostitutes.  However the latter get the highest incidence of cervical cancer of all professional groups.  Nature does not look kindly on either excess or deficiency.)   

     

    I dont think most nuns have any concept of circulating stagnant energy or knowledge of meridians/blockages etc- I dont think most nuns are at all learned in intermediate/advanced energy cultivation, so I think that's an unfair statement

     

    I don't know how celibacy works for women. I've heard some say it's just different from that of men, and some that said it wasn't real altogether(wouldn't yield the same "results" as it would for a man), idk. I think it's similar, maybe something to do with stopping the period


  19. On 9/2/2019 at 11:39 AM, freeform said:

    So actually, celibacy and mantak chia don’t seem so bad in comparison :)

     

    My biggest issue with it is that it can affect other people, not just the practitioner.

     

    Actually, what I find interesting is that just having an imbalance of power creates a similar sort of issue as does ‘retention’. Think of all the people in power that start off meaning well, but turn out pretty depraved.

     

    I think when our base desires get too much attention and energy, they become disturbed and turn into the darker aspects of our human nature.

     

    I dont really see how a lot of what you've stated in this post is true. I've heard of how erroneous some of mantak chias methods are regarding celibacy, though to cast the entire practice under such a dark lens is unfair.

     

    There are plenty accounts of yogis/saints/monks etc who promote celibacy and tell of its actual power, not just placebo effects and destroying ones kidneys.

     

    Brahmacharya for instance. It is an established system, of which I've heard little to nothing about in the ways of harm coming to a practitioners body/mind from following the methods.

     

    I see where you're coming from, atleast partly I think

     

    I find it odd and disheartening how so many spiritual figures of old have been fairly explicit about the/certain protocols one needs to follow to advance, and now so many teachers are adding their own twist and/or becoming more lenient-"open" in an attempt to make things "fun" 


  20. 13 hours ago, dwai said:

    If any of you have watched Battlestar Galactica, the primary antagonists in that show are the human-cybernetic hybrids called Cylons. There were 12 models and of these 8 were cloned to build up the humanoid cylon population.

     

    Over the years I’ve noticed that there exist certain archetypical human characteristics too. Certain basic “patterns” keep repeating themselves again and again, across the so-called ethnic and racial boundaries. A certain “base” pattern is recognizable at a subconscious level (usually), and that’s why when, sometimes, you meet a definitive stranger, you get the feeling you’ve known them somehow. There is just enough similarity in the way this stranger looks and behaves that your mind does a sort of “mapping” with a person you know from before.

     

    I wonder why? Any theories about this?

     

     

    I think that a hue of this is due in part to the pervasive, and largely manufactured?, systems of culture/politics/religion/etc in the western(ized) world which contribute much to the stagnancy of many and sort of keep a lot of people deeply entrenched in readily observable archetypes/stereotypes. I think the internet has birthed a new kind of homogeneity in that respect, kind of a global culture

     

    I like what silent thunder said about genetics. I think the bible said something about offspring inheriting the sins of the father, and I think many forget how often character traits and traumas are passed down generationally. I think it takes an uncommon effort to break the mold in a genuine sense- nullifying the effects of environment/ones past-genetics to an extent, idk

     

    I think a lot of it has to do with there only being so much here, and how many make snap judgements based almost entirely upon aesthetics/first impressions and not the unique color of the person's core. What everything said about everything being within you, I like that too- eye of the beholder yknow. When I feel like I've known someone before, or know them, it's mostly an energetic thing- to follow your sci-fi theme, like encountering avatars of flowing script/data-information a la the matrix 

     

     

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  21. 9 hours ago, Everything said:

    Not avoiding, there is no such thing as avoiding, when you think you are avoiding something, you are actually moving towards the thing you are avoiding. So if you don't like the thing you are "avoiding" move towards something else that you do prefer.

     

    And your emotional guidance system is all about that, to help you clarify what it is you do prefer.

    I dont think I'm avoiding or moving closer to the occasional lustful thought that detracts from my concentration and ojas. I've practiced celibacy for extended periods over the years accompanied by meditation and deep breathing/mindfulness, I say that because I'm now at a point where I dont struggle with sexual release/thoughts- just occasional blips. I'm reminded of my progress, as I perceive it, by how far my mode of thinking/behaving deviates from the majority of people I interact with in daily/public life in that respect. I would like to be able to sublimate that process/thought altogether so that I may have more energy/awareness at my disposal to apply to my calling(s)

     

     


  22. 12 hours ago, voidisyinyang said:

     

    read the book "Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality" - only the Yang Qi from Quick Fire breathing has the power - but it has to be combined with the Yang Shen via rotation of the eyes in meditation - (see chapter six).

     

    So also that book does not detail (but the lineage online does detail) that ONLY the standing active exercises will enable strong enough quick fire breathing. So every night before sleep you HAVE to do standing active exercises so that the thigh muscles are sore - and this induces a doubling of adrenaline as an extreme sympathetic nerve reaction - causing a "parasympathetic rebound." The parasympathetic rebound is the Slow Fire breathing meditation (of turning the light around). So with the parasympathetic rebound then you convert the dopamine lust back into serotonin bliss as blue light (yang qi).

     

    So you can see my free research pdf linked below for more details - and I did a recent blog post on celibacy training with more blog post links about the biophoton psychophysiological secrets.

     

    So essentially with our eyes open we take in the red light yin qi energy blockages and this Pre-Triggers the duct - and so only the above training will reverse that Shen pre-trigger reaction (that happens at close to the speed of light via the normally subconscious reality ).

    https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2019/09/is-celibacy-necessary-for-advanced.html

    just scroll way down for the details and further blog post links for further details.

     

     

    Thank you, for your post and the new information on your blog. Most of it I knew though, from reading your posts from years prior


  23. When one is practicing celibacy, what is the best exercise to perform daily to ensure the complete sublimation of fluids?

     

    I practice a version of celibacy known as brahmacharya. It is celibacy of the body, as well as the mind.

     

    I have concerns about improper sublimation causing energetic imbalances/problems. I intend to commit to this practice for a more extensive period than years prior. I have heard pranayama and the microcosmic orbit being recommended to practitioners of this path. I personally have used deep breathing primarily in the past, though I would like my efforts to be entirely sound this outing. Thank you


  24. 6 hours ago, Zork said:

    Asking for kriya yoga and "gigong in general" isn't specific. There are thousands of qigong styles in China. Which one are you refering to?

    As a general rule you can mix a physical style like baduajin or yijijing with other forms but it isn't a hard and fast rule. Yijijing in particular is supposed to prepare the body for Xisuijing so yes combinations are possible and sometimes very effective but you need to ask a teacher first or just trailblaze and accept consequences.

     

    A kriya form that focuses more on the crown than the (eye), preferably

     

    In terms of qigong I was thinking something along the line of spring forest qigong- a moving form, I thought I implied that, I apologize for not making that clear. I'm not well versed in qigong, as I've only had experience with sfq so I thought this would be the place to ask

     

    I want a system of ego/mental purification to accompany my energy cultivation/control. I would like to be in a position to heal many and be of service in general