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Why Meditate?
Reasons
Health and Longevity
Spiritual Progress
Calm Your Mind - Defuse Stress - Learn to Relax
Cultivate Virtue and Purity
Facilitates Changing Your Behavior
How
Cross your legs in a quiet place (tune the body)
Cover your knees with towel and avoid drafts
Relaxed but straight, head up
When
The best time is whenever you can (like exercise, there is no one best exercise
the one you bother to do is how you start, so go from there)
20, 40, 60 minutes once or twice a day
Quiet time (morning/night), before eating or more than 1 hours later
Topics
The 5 Stages of the Spiritual Path
Meditation 1 Seeing the light
Tao School Basics: jing-chi-shen transformations
Meditation 2 Skeleton meditation
The Time Sequences of the Spiritual Path and Physical Transformations
Cultivation Method 3 9-bottled wind
Esoteric school and Wu Liu methods: all based on breathing
Meditation 4 -- Mantra
Meditation 5 Meditations for Cancer and High Blood Pressure
Mozart effect, Healing, Chi and Consciousness are linked ...
Meditation 6 Cessation-contemplation practice in Confucianism, Vipassana, Now!,
Sandhinirmocana jing
Various stages of samadhi
Meditation 7 -- Dream Yoga
Meditation 8 Sexual cultivation
Big cheats: positive thinking, visualization, naturalistic being in the moment
(3) The Stage of Seeing the Tao, Direct Vision, Clear Light, 10,000 miles of Empty Sky,
Selflessness, Realizing Your Original Nature, Illuminate Your Bright Virtue, See Gods face,
See the Tao ...
(4) The Stage of True Cultivation Practice (realize the emptiness of the self, now realize the
emptiness of phenomena, dissolve away or purify habitual energy streams)
(5) The Stage of Complete Enlightenment, No More Learning, Buddhahood
Vairocana Tathagata
Building or Laying
the Foundation
10 Months
Pregnancy (embryo)
3 Years
3 Months
Thailand
Yoga practice
Tibetan Retreats
Yin/Yang shen
9 Years
Shen Emptiness
Init. Emptiness Tao
Breaking Emptiness
and Returning to the
Tao
Achieve a State of
Neither Existence or
Non-Existence
Indeterminate
Kundalini
Skeleton
Entire Body
The 5 Elements
FIRE: Kundalini (bodily warmth)
WATER: Blood,
water, hormones,
jing, lymph, ...
EARTH: Bones,
teeth, nails,
sinews, muscles
SPACE: Interstitial
spaces, joint gaps,
hollow spaces
Kundalini
Skeleton
Entire Body
Various
Various Mantra
Mantra You
You Can
Can Use
Use
for
for Cultivation
Cultivation
Amitofo: Avalokitesvara:
Namo Amitofo
Zhunti:
Vairocana:
Meditations
Meditations for
for Healing
Healing
CANCER
Arthritis - water and wind elements; fasting, medicines and breathing (takes time)
Chant a mantra or be mindful of Buddha to such a degree of one-pointedness that you forget about the existence of
your body (higher method), but you also need to do fasting
HEADACHE
You need to know the source of the problem because there are many causes
General method - visualize your head is not there... non-existent (ex. Generals in war forget the pain); for this to work
you need great mind power (highest method the thought is not there)
Empty your thoughts to get mental relief by entering a state of no-thought, or you try to breathe out or do exercise or
sing to put your attention elsewhere
Methods to shift attention are not the ultimate solution (doctors will always have business)
STRESS
Consciousnesses are said to ride on winds [various types of chi, or prana] in the same
manner that a horseman rides his mount; by travelling on the winds, consciousnesses are able
to leave their bases in the sense-powers (located in the eye, ear, and so forth) to contact their
objects. Because minds are inoperative without winds to provide a medium for their
movement, and because winds lack specific direction without minds, minds are likened to
cripples with sights and winds to blind men with legs; the lame climb on the backs of the blind
and together they can move about. Because the winds are the medium for the operation of
minds, fluctuation in the winds necessarily affects consciousness, and thus it is crucial for
tantric yogis who wish to yoke consciousness to gain control over the movement of winds.
Tantric yogics engage in a variety of practices to bring about a concentration of the winds, for
concentration of the winds leads to concentration of consciousness.
Highest Yoga Tantra, Daniel Cozort
Mind and prana are mixed like milk and water. Both of them are equal in their activities. Where
there is pranic movement or activity there is mind (consciousness). Where there is consciousness
there is prana.
When prana moves, chitta (the mental force) moves. When prana is without movement, chitta is
without movement. By this (steadiness of prana) the yogis attains steadiness and should thus
restrain the vayu (air).
Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Light on Hatha Yoga, Swami Muktibodhananda Saraswati
He who has power over his mind can also control prana. [For] the two causes that activate the mind
are prana [respiration] and the sources of karma [vasanas, latent tendencies.]
The Yoga of Light, Hans-Ulich Rieker
Cessation-Contemplation Practice
Step 1: Sit, relax your body and respiration, tune your physical nature,
physiological adjustments. Start to watch your thoughts as if you were a 3rd
person observer.
Step 2: You reach a stage where you can start to clearly see each thought that
appears in the mind, and can distinguish the beginning and ending of thoughts.
You start to notice a gap of clear immediate presence of mind.
Confucius
Socrates
Chih-i
Benjamin
Franklin
Step 3: You realize that thoughts dont stay -- observing birth and death -- and
that the never ending stream of arising is the realm of birth and death. If you
remain attached to this realm you can never achieve liberation. Observe this
stream and you will gradually learn how to detach from it. In contemplating the
mean between stillness and activity, you will arrive at the source. Through inner
watching your stream of consciousness becomes interrupted. Your clarity
increases and peace and calm increase. This is CONTEMPLATION.
Step 4: Youll start to notice a momentary gap of silence between thoughts - the
practice of silent watching will interrupt the stream of mentation like a fragrant
elephant. This mental silence will open up into a clear, lucid, open awareness.
This is CESSATION.
Step 5: Carry over this state of watching into all your activities. Thoughts will
die down, radiant awareness will expand, and youll naturally enter into samadhi.
KEEP SHINING AWARENESS ON CESSATION TO ARRIVE AT DHYANASAMADHI.
NOW! If your vital energy doesnt move, Zen practice is dead tree Zen - you
must know the joyful side of existence
Form Realm
Form Realm
Heavenly Beings
Desire Realm
Devas (Heavens)
Asuras
Humans
Animals
Hungry Ghosts Pretas
Hell beings
Mundane Realms of
Consciousness
Dream Yoga
Sexual Cultivation
Not a public teaching -- Shakayamuni never taught it -- Nagarjuna
and Tsong Khapa never taught it -- Esoteric school outlawed in China
Tao school left door practices and Tibetan Tantra are the only 2
schools; Tibet had 3 roads, Tao school making the sword
The objective is to reach the 1st dhyana (samadhi) -- a stage of
Co-emergent emptiness and bliss
Qualifications: You need merit (king/samadhi or queen/high born)
and cultivation attainment (breathing methods and skeleton method
and cessation-contemplation and some dhyana) ... Story of the 6th
Dalai Lama
You dont try to swap or steal energy from your partner or circulate it -all those books and teachers are wrong -- if you want sex then have sex
but dont cheat yourself/others and try to spiritualize lust - avoid drafts
and cold drinks
Principles: Brahmacharya, celibacy, chastity no ejaculation
joyful play without desire (emptiness) not sexual yoga (good for
healing) or trying to spiritualize lust reach a state where the mind is
empty, the body is relaxed so you can forget the body, you need chi
communication
Mens barrier is sexual desire, womens barrier is emotions
Sky Dancer - Yeshe Tsogyel, women kill the dragon; see How to
Measure and Deepen Your Spiritual Realization at
www.meditationexpert.com
Authors: Jolan Chang, Doug Wile
Taoism says
Slow foreplay is important every time a man lies with a
woman so that the two spirits will be in harmony. Only
after the spirits are perfectly moved for a long time
should the couple unite. The man should enter the
woman when the penis is soft and pull it back when it
becomes firm and strong. He should penetrate only
without ejaculating. He who can have intercourse many
times in a single day without letting his essence leak will
increase his lifespan and heal himself of all disease.
TAOISM
SKANDHAS
Stage of Study
and Merit
Accumulation
Form Skandha
Sensation Skandha
Stage of
Intensified
Preparatory
Practices
Form Skandha
Sensation Skandha
Consciousness
DHYANA
Psychic
Flow
Du-yin
Shadow side
of the 6th
Consciousness
First Six
Ching An
consciousness 1st Dhyana
es
2nd Dhyana
3rd Dhyana
4th Dhyana
TANTRA
Body Isolation
Verbal isolation
Mental Isolation
Illusory Body
Conception
Skandha
Stage of True
Cultivation
Practice
Volition Skandha
Consciousness
Skandha
Cultivate the
Cultivating the
th
7
Tao
Consciousness
Learners Union
Consciousness
Skandha
Transform the
8th Alaya
Consciousness
into the
Tathagata
Storehouse
No More
Learning
Stage of
Perfect
Enlightenment
Return
Emptiness
to the Tao
YOGA
Yama
Niyama
Asana
Pranayama
Pratyahar
Dharani
Dhyana
Samadhi
Vitarka,
vicara, ananda
and asmita
samadhi
Big Cheats
Visualizations, Affirmations, Positive thinking, Writing messages given to
heaven, Mantra for things
My teacher: If I cannot get them, why cheat people?
This is all focusing on Wandering Thoughts
Success stories are the 1% coincidentals (consistent with karma/astrological
periods)
To be famous today, write a book difficult to understand (wow youre
intelligent) or really strange, irregular, imaginary, mystical
Time + Patience + Method + Disciplined Practice = Result (Gongfu) can change your fortune
Formula:
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BOOKS
Tao and Longevity - Nan Huai-Chin
Twenty-Five Doors to Meditation - William Bodri
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An Insiders Guide to the Worlds Best and Worst Spiritual Paths and Practices
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