Sahaja

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  1. Learning yigong

    Max Christiansen’s Kunlun book describes essentially the same procedure (sitting in a chair on a rubber mat with a mudra with some breath awareness exercises to calm you). It’s available as a free pdf online if you search a bit. I learned it initially from the free Kunlun pdf and later bought Jenny’s video to see if I was missing anything - her video also has some other more conventional qi gong on it. Yi gong/kunlun triggers zi fa gong (spontaneous movement) from freed up yang qi which is interesting but not particularly profound (more of a natural body process than a spiritual one). It does make one more aware of ones own qi movement which can be quite helpful in further cultivation. However it’s not just this Yi Gong mudra that generates zifagong. Many qi gong practices can and do including the standing static postures like wuji, Taiyi, zhang Zhuang and others.
  2. Virtue and heart-mind purification

    Elation works for me - part of the definition of elation is that it is extreme happiness/excitement that can lead to being light headed. Like little children running and playing…full of heart energy. Eventually these sounds of children laughing and yelling turn to a child crying for their mother when they fall and hurt themselves - fear.(fire then water) The important thing about this heart energy excitement/elation is that it can overwhelm judgement and discernment (child excited to play running around without care then hurts himself because lack of discernment of risk). I think this fits better with the other emotions listed and can apply to adults as well who can be a little lacking in discernment and can make mistakes when they get too excited/elated.
  3. Virtue and heart-mind purification

    My understanding is that a more accurate name for the emotion joy is something like the word excitation. To me joy is different, it’s part of the ziran virtues, particularly sympathetic and empathetic joy, joy without cause, naturally arising from following the path.
  4. Ba Duan Jin

    It’s fun to try to do these movements with just qi and yi. Just listen then release and the body to a large extant does the movements on its own from the mobilization of the qi. I think many of the movements of the various baduan Jin sets are intended to be done this way, not as conventional external body mechanics movements. I think the challenge is to take something that looks like an external stretch or twist and do it as much of it as possible internally with just song and ting (generating Jin in the process - the internal stretch).