Gerard

Only a Buddha has no ego. How many living Buddhas today in this earthly plane? None. Aspiring ones: some

Because if I post my personal opinion on such complex metaphysical topic I'd be given an answer according to existing traditions and schools of thought I am going to give you two links that might shed some light on your query: http://www.urbandharma.org/ibmc/ibmc2/sudden.html http://www.kusala.org/udharma6/enlightnirvana.html On the other hand, once I came across an online Buddhist site that contained a more traditional view of what enlightenment would entail from a supramundane perspective. However I didn't bookmark it but I still remember some details of what was said in it: 1. Sudden realization of all lifetimes 2. Ability of see all worlds, astral and celestial 3. Etc. However, you shall not seek these as they are basically siddhis, which in turn will enforce our egos and deviate us from the path toward spiritual enlightenment.

Personally, I'd stay away of anyone who calls themselves as a master and wears fancy silk clothes. That website you linked to looks like an emerging commercial venture. Real Taoists don't go public. Remember that. Currently living in Brisbane. The meditations he teaches are practiced along side moving/standing forms to focus on the regulation of your body and mind to achieve a state he calls pure land. A state where your body and mind are in total harmony,Your organ energies are balanced and your psychology is lifted and not troubled by anything .You can not achieve this state with meditation alone. Have you tried meditation alone for let's say 15 years twice a day or 5-10 years full-time (+/- 8 h per day) before saying soemthing this? Through out the training he will often check your body to see if your at that level and some times supplement your training with herbal formulas and until you are he will not teach any higher level methods that involve cultivating chi. To speed up your progress he gives empowerments Herbal formulas are useless if your diet, sleep and lifestyle are deficient. Some of the moving forms he teaches at the foundation level are level 1 and 2 Xiang Gong,Lok Tong King,spontaneous Qi Gong,Tai Chi and when you get a bit more advanced he teaches Yi Jin Jing and breathing methods Fancy names for the following basics: stillness, tamed mind and internal organs health that allow unblocked flow of qi. Breathing methods??? That sounds the fire path to me. Hmm..Not recommended. The water path is safer and produces the same results with no side effects.

Let me offer you my personal approach to this topic: I guess most users here are White Caucasian or Black. Hence their strongest component of Yin & Yang duality is Yang. Well, if we take this as main premise, we must think that our sexuality is totally opposed to those ethnicities in which Yin is dominant, i.e. Native American (North, Central and South) and Asian. We cannot possible have ability to regulate our sexuality to the extent Yin-based ethnicities can. It would deny one of the laws in which Tao manifests itself. Just be content it what you have and keep working in your Karma which IMO is more important than taoist longevity. Morality is the foremost principle to any spiritual practice. For the rest of us, regulated ejaculation is easier and less traumatic. Just listen to your body and let it dictate its needs after you have controlled several influencing factors: Yoga, various Neijia and Qigong practices, diet, age, gender, rest before Yang starts rising (11 pm), external living conditions (city, village, mountain), work and physical requirements. Namaste.

I am just new to this forum. I practice Taoism and Buddhism, Tao for health and Buddhism for enlightenment. Hope to have a good time in this forum. Regards.

Thx for the welcome. Namaste.