Neirong

We had one student come from Frantzis, it was a truly horrific experience. Frantzis is not only a scammer, who made himself on fake fajin demonstrations, and teaching bullshido. He looks to be a victim of modern american diet.

Another one, self-taught. Daydreaming is not a practice. From your description you lack mental control and uncontrolled thoughts can come from mental parasites. Visualization training can be approached after pre-requisites are met, you did not clear those first.

I have developed third eye and see a lot of stuff on "victims" of new age teachings. I also wrote and authored several research papers on it. Cults are basically breeding ground for larvaes. Have fun with it.

It is more of a problem of dishonest claims they make during teaching to sell/push their info-business product to the masses. Even worse, they get knowledge from public books/sources and resell it as if their name has copyright on the tradition itself. If people would sell Qigong classes casually for what it is. But, no they have to add that energy cures cancer/all kinds of diseases and grants enlightenment and immortality. It is the same as saying that burnt paper is extremely valuable resource because it is literally same as diamond. Indeed, same carbon material, but not nearly the same quality. I mean seriously, there are people around who think that simple body moves and simple qigong can turn you into an immortal, enlightened being and cure all ailments. Fragrant qigong? How much more delusional can it get? Self-development is not in the same dimension as annunaki, homeopathy, astrology, flat earth, and ctulhu. People who believe any of that stuff are pretty much hopeless cases to teach. How exactly would elixir make you immortal? @Taoist Texts what kind of immortality do you expect from "internal alchemy" practices?

You have linked the video in the message where you made this statement. It is even crazier to assume that people will be willing to waste hours watching those videos. You also find the audacity to post his videos in every thread non-related to him or his school, as if there are too few of those already, despite Damien history of publicly denigrating, belittling and insulting Buddhism along with many other traditions and practices. He is also trying to be Andrew Tate and "sell masculinity" and "fake martial arts" to younger gullible audience. He is unhealthy physically and mentally. Whatever he is practicing clearly did not work for him. Transmissions are indeed a method of teaching in any internal arts school past a certain level. What you don't understand, however, is that transmission is an imprint, and an imprint will contain many things that exist in reality. Reality is not the same as the pink and fluffy unicorn imagination you create in your mind while listening to hundreds of hours of talks, where you see an enlightened Guru emitting light. Getting transmission from an unqualified "Teacher" is worse than having unprotected sex with a cheap whore; you will not only pay money, you will end up with a bunch of nasty and deadly diseases, mental and astral parasites, larvaes. That can put an end to your spiritual development prospects for your entire life and sometimes even carry over to the next one.

You can reach a level where stillness becomes permanent. Then, it won't matter if you sit, stand, or walk, and it won't require any specific physical action to work. The reason people require extended sitting in stillness is that they have too much crap floating around in their mental bodies, and they have to wait till all the residue falls down so they regain some clarity. (Think of a cup of tea with leaves). Then, when they leave their "closed 168-hr sitting retreat," they quickly return to their usual state of mind. That is incorrect. If you lift weights till your muscles give up, they will start growing and developing from the stimulus, if you lift balloons, nothing will ever happen. Thats good. Thats crazy. He has a lamp above his head. What lengths and depths do people go to prop their favorite drug addict?

His "Celestial Eye" or Third Eye lecture showed a complete lack of knowledge... It was like a person trying to talk about the cosmos and galaxies, but instead of talking about black holes, nuclear fusion and gravity, he ended up talking about zodiac signs and Virgo's relationships with Taurus.

In this age, people tend to develop consumer bias and mentality, and they seek things for their own benefit. The problem with genuine esoteric circles is that they are not shops/outlets to sell stuff or attract customers. The first question would be, how can you contribute to the circle? We could go around and ask people what useful things they can do with their attainments and cultivation abilities, but it is unlikely we will get any meaningful answers. Most people never develop useful abilities, and they are incapable of making any contribution. Internal circles are not kindergartens/schools to care for you or teach you.

If you have already attained it all, why would you bother sitting? If you have not attained it and have kept sitting still for decades, maybe the practice is not working. The idea of oversimplifying the cultivation path to a single attainment and a single easily understood practice that anyone can do is extremely appealing, but how is it really different from procrastination? You found yourself or your "True Self," what next? If that is all you seek from meditation practice, are not your goal posts too low?

People get obsessed with actions and practices, but it is who is doing the practice that matters the most. If you just sit and have a strong energy flow/accumulation and deep mental attainments, it won't be the same as a newcomer who has nothing doing the very same practice. That is also why some of the practices have to be adjusted to the level of a practitioner and not be blindly taken. There are proper paths of development which unlock internal potential and train your abilities, and you won't get it all with "just sitting." I tend to think some people procrastinate for hours sitting still and believe they are cultivating. I have seen people who measure meditation attainments by hours spent in meditation, and it is far from an adequate measurement.

Picture climbing a ladder, where you can sense and feel the next step once you've achieved the previous one. Would a person who has real ESP abilities go online to seek proof that ESP abilities exist? Similarly, would someone who can spit saliva onto grass call a team of medical doctors and skeptics to record such a paranormal event? What's considered normal and casual varies for each individual. Cultivation is simply routine daily work, there are countless beings with powers, abilities, and attainments beyond human imagination and comprehension, those who have climbed higher on the ladder. The question people should be asking themselves is whether they are following the path and advancing. I.e. mind your own business and take priority for yourself. The only conclusion to be made from this thread, that OP has somehow managed to squander 14+ years without developing anything of value. The writings are both childish and deragotary towards spiritual development and cultivation as a whole. P.S. Imagine a skeptic traveling the whole world trying to find legitimate teachings, or more so, some master who would pity him enough to show something that the skeptic would believe to be "paranormal" or "extraordinary." The skeptic is finally happy and begins to cultivate after decades spent in search and realizes he is not fit or capable of doing the training required. There is another similar anecdote in society: a man spends his entire life searching for a perfect woman. After several decades, he finds her. He is excited and happy—he has finally achieved his lifetime goal. He moves his frail body and burnt-out eyes to greet her. But she responds, "Sorry, but I am looking for a perfect man."

Psychedelics and some legalized drugs change your internal state via biochemistry. Conversely, meditation involves directly changing one's internal state, thus causing biochemical changes in the body. Drugs are worthless in cultivation. It is similar to taking a hammer, hitting yourself in the head, and then claiming to achieve a "trance," "samadhi," or "advanced" state of meditation. While some people claim there are many benefits, like reducing stress, tension, and sporadic thoughts, many people take it as a medical prescription for certain ailments. This is only partly true. You have to realize that a multi-billion dollar business is behind this, with strong lobby funding and "positive" research. I am pretty sure cannabis is doing some permanent damage to the human brain if you take it consistently over a period of time. Now back to the change of the state of mind, "helping in meditation", or any other spiritual claim of cannabis (THC), Ayahuasca and just about any other psychedelic. They are not even 1/1000 as potent as you can get through proper training and cultivation. If only people would train properly instead of searching for cheat codes and faster/easier ways to progress. Human potential is far beyond that. But how would you know it if your Guru smokes cigars, drinks whiskey, sits with murky eyes and a massive pot belly, endlessly talking nonsense about spiritual cultivaiton?

All of these people are training their ethereal body. The practices are not exclusive to any particular tradition and take years to develop, similar to bodybuilding in a gym. Bodies go like this. Physical > Ethereal > Astral > Emotional Mental (Animal Mental) > Thoughts Body (Human Mental) > Spiritual Body (Mage Mental) > Causal Body (God Mental) This can also be linked to seven chakras. Siddhis are not "mystical" or "paranormal." Some people have trained physical bodies, and those who have exceptional genetics can do things most other living humans cannot. These skills or abilities are called "siddhis." The only problem, however, is that the further you go from the physical plane to a spiritual plane, the less it is possible to record or demonstrate. To begin with, most people are only able to see a physical layer of reality and do not perceive directly in astral and mental fields. It often becomes an internet circle-jerking activity where "practitioners" of a certain group believe that only "bodybuilding" is real, while meditation or astral projection is not. That said, any person who works on himself in life and develops abilities and skills on any level instead of wasting time arguing online is doing a good thing for himself. There are clear benefits in each level development.

So many emojjis. Seek help.

The phrase "you are what you eat" makes even more sense in the context of spiritual teachings and internal cultivation. The kind of information and practices you ingest/work with over the years change who you are. OP had over 9+ years of "training." I doubt he is happy; his life quality has improved, and it is hard to imagine someone wanting to have similar results from training. Being irritable, angry, desperate... trying to find keys to his future "training" in public books.