Brite Eyes (Lef.org) and CAN-C are well known cataract eyedrops for those whose vision is just beginning to get blurry. Mnay people have seen improvement and reversal of their cataracts if they act early enough.

If the cataracts are advanced, it’s probably too late. In Chinese medicine you prevent or reverse early cataract formation by cleansing the liver and eliminating “liver fire” or liver toxins that travel to the eyes and contribute to the formation. By the time you have cataracts, this approach is almost too late.

As to floaters, other than diabetes, for most men a large contributing factor is sexual dissipation –excessive loss of semen through ejaculation. If you are a young man and have floaters, now you know why. This is another finding of Chinese medicine. The cure? Replenish the body though meditation, and accumulate your jing rather than lose it. Sometimes this works, sometimes not, but that’s the clearest advice you will probably ever find. It takes sevral motnhs of restraint for the body to replenish itself.

Will eye vitamins help eliminate these problems? They’ll help with retinopathy, night vision, macular degeneration and eye health in general (especially if the ingredients contain billberry, eyebright, lutein, etc.) but for these problems SPECIFICALLY, who can say? For some yes (because of that person’s particular tie-ins with the conditions) and for others no. It’s like arthritis or cholesterol drugs — sometimes they work for you and sometimes not … in which case you try a different drug or different approach. Common sense.

Meditation that restores normal chi flow to diseased organs always helps. Getting off drugs causing vision problems often helps. It’s a complicated subject.

http://www.theskepticalnutritionist.com/Xiexie/xiecataracts.htm

http://www.theskepticalnutritionist.com/Xiexie/xiefloaters.htm

Most people know that writing books is not a way to make money today. Their best use today is as a virtual business card to generate leads for higher priced products, which incidentally we don’t sell.

Publishers in the spiritual field have even told me directly that the topic of meditation is at the bottom of the profitability barrel for their book businesses because as one publisher told me, “Meditators tend to be cheap so they don’t buy books.” I laughed, but it’s a true story from someone who published thousands of New Age titles for over two decades. Another publisher friend warned me away from entering the business saying you’ll never make money shipping out paperbacks one by one (he was sick of it), so the ebook solution was born (otherwise you’d never get our materials since regular publishers don’t want to touch them). We still have most all the other costs of book production except the $1.50 or so it costs to put words on paper. So don’t think that just because something is an ebook it cost less to produce it or that it should be free… if that’s the case the other books you buy should all cost about $1.5 as well.  Anyway, we do what we can here to help provide you with superior materials and try to cover our costs to make it all possible.

An individual who recently came into some money, knowing all this and the great value of genuine meditation materials (since you can’t find them out there today), asked to purchase from us 100 copies of Measuring Meditation to be given away to the first 100 people who requested them. Delighted at his request (we disuaded him and made him think about it several times before agreeing), we threw in The White Skeleton Visualization Method to boot.

Because of his generosity, if you are one of the first 100 people responding you can download these books for FREE right now. Yep, a $100 value for free. These are the very same books you buy on the site for green cash. So act quickly because the links won’t work after 100 people download these materials.

For this gift made possible by a donor, go here:

http://www.meditationexpert.com/Donation1.htm

This article proves the point I have stressed many times, that you cannot put the national security issue of seed health in the hands of purely profit seeking companies

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/270101

Just as the banking industry, in pursuit of profits, has landed us in a mess, the various seed companies will land us all in a state of hunger one day in their “safe” attempts — with no risks because their stance is “scientifically proven” — to control the world food seed supply. Some unforeseen disaster will happen that the old system would have prevented or dampened, but., well, just read and think …

Just ask yourself one question: is it SAFE to put so much power in the hands of a few purely profit seeking companies, who will do everything possible to lock in monopoly profits at the expense of public and national security (while deluding themselves all the while, as did the banks), versus distributed agriculture wherein we have some protection because farmers here and there plant their own varieties of seeds not owned by the Monsantos of the world, etc.

One of the problems with helping people naturopathically is that they take the wrong brand of supplement, or wrong dosage, or wrong quality/quantity of main ingredient, or not long enough for it to take effect, or on haphazard schedule … or one of several different reasons that prompt people to prematurely/unfairly say “it didn’t work.”

Sometimes people make the opposite mistake and think something worked from the alternative field when it didn’t. What are some of these possible errors?

1. the disease ran its natural course
2. the disease is cyclical, with ups and downs, and the “cure” coincided with a cyclical downturn
3. the placebo effect may have been responsible
4. the original prognosis/diagnosis may have been wrong (for which they took the supplement)
5. a temporary mood improvement may be confused with cure
6. people who hedge their bets by doing multiple things may credit the wrong thing
7. psychological needs can distort what people perceive

next time someone said a supplement didn’t work, or worked, better step through these possibilities in your mind.

Not more than a few dozen people in the world - at most  - have attained any of the four dhyana, even though they are common stages shaed by all genuine religions. But what about all the others with “spiritual attainments”?

Some are cultivating the du-yin, or shadow side of clear consciousness (shamans, witchdoctors, etc.)

Some are merely psychics…

Some have no attainments whatsoever but cheat people as charlatans would…

Some cultivate one of the pre-first dhyana samadhi. What are they?

* The Desire Realm Samadhi
* The Not Reached Samadhi Samadhi
* The Intermediate (Middle) Samadhi
* The Samadhi That is Similar to Samadhi

When you attaint he state of ching-an, or lightness and peace, you are close to these pre-samadhi samadhi.

Ever since Aaron Russo passed away, I have always urged people to understand the difference between a Republic and a Democracry. This short video, which brings Roman history into account, explains nicely. I like it a lot:

http://www.flixxy.com/political-systems.htm

Most people don’t realize that the majority of “democracies” in the world are actually oligarchies, which means rule by a leader and a group of a powerful few behind him/her. It has always been this way. In ancient China, the Emperor had several strong families to contend with that controlled many matters. In Persia (go read about the foundations of the Persian dynasties) it was the same. Same for Rome and so forth.

Go to the Philippines, Indonesia, and South America in our modern times and in country after country (as Confessions of an Economic Hit Man pointed out) you’ll find a few rich, strong, powerful families who have their hand in most of the wealth creation and money flows of that state. Nothing significant happens without their involvement, ie.  ”take.”

It’s always been that way. Hence the talk of the CFR, Bilderbergers, Council of 300 and so on. Ex-President Clinton knew of this (CFR) and used it as part of his ascension. Obama needs their support so his advisors and officials are all part of this group of “keep the status quo for the most part”, a group which does not want any of its members to lose money/fail even at the expense of the public (and so they may topple the whole house of cards as they blindly try to stick to that, paradoxically having urged Japan during its lost decade to do exactly what they now refuse  to do).

Only the ignorant refuse to believe that powerful people do not get together and try to promote their interests. The problem is, do they have wisdom and compassion for the well being of the common folk? Russo, in his talks with Rockefeller, argues no. In my book on Kuan Tzu, I show how one can become leader of this group and how one should act to become such a leader or single most important person in the country, but emphasize the principle of virtue and compassion as opposed to Machiavellian and Sun Tzu type principles. Then one can become a political savior of a nation.  Other principles inevitably lead to destruction - note the present as a perfect illustration of the the typical way things play out, and the video points out this is typical as well.

A few parties jostling for power - note the oligarchs of Russia - it has always been this way. The Morgans, Rockefellers, Rothschilds and so forth at the turn of the century are just another example. In fact, it probably SHOULD be this way IF that set of individuals has culture, learning and wants what’s best for the people. They also need good advisors, otherwise without moral remonstration they tend to grab too much.

The written history of China  shows this and the fact that we all need good advisors that offer a moral conscience, otherwise in pursuit of power and money we tend to trespass. The Nestle debacle on mother’s milk is one such example. The extremes of several Roman Emperors in raping the wives of nobles or of Michael Jackson (if you are super rich and thus free of most backlash, who will you respect and listen to to make sure you don’t go too far in self-destruction?) When the mentality of asuras abounds, destruction results in the economic, political and most of all cultural field. Today the leaders, for the most part, are all interested in more power, money and control. TV shows the decline in the cultural arena due to asura-type reasoning. The economy - you see what happens when one does not store money among the people but tries to suck it out.

In Chinese history, as an example again, perhaps only five or six Prime Ministers (Chuko Liang, Kuan Tzu and a few others) really cared about the people. That’s all - in the long history of thousands of years, only a handful fit the bill. So Cheney and Rumsfeld –  sorry, don’t kid yourself … they are perfect examples of individuals who do NOT truly understand how to help the masses and make a nation strong, though they think they do. The ear of ministers today is lent to corporate and banking interests, thinking those are the interests of the people because it makes more money for the country.

Too much to say. No ears to listen. Or ears that have no power, or ears with power that will not or cannot act.

One weeps for the  country because in restoring Republican principles it can aright itself, but the restoration will not be done because vested interests - people with money and  power - will not voluntarily give up the little bit extra they have to set the whole system aright. When they sacrifice it, it’s a even playing field (hence no loss) and the money machine is also then preserved for their own best interests, but asuras don’t think that way. They want to cut down the forest of ALL trees to get the cash immediately, and then walk away and try to find some other place to take control of. That is why there are three targets that are preoccupying their attention as untapped: China, India and Russia.

My prediction? Within a few decades the US will split into several nations — two or three with the West coast splitting off as one of them. Not because of anything I do or say, but because of the federal government and its over-extensions and wrong policies. This is a horrific,  terrible fate for a country with no natural enemeies due to its wonderful geographical location, but who creates them all the time because of its actions that profits these interests.

Terrorists? nonsense. Replace the word with “criminals” and then you see we spend too much time and money blowing things out of proportion. Think of them as “criminals” and then sanity will return to the country, but keep using the word “terrorists” to scae people and you can justify all sorts of excesses, infringements and extremes as Bush did. Idiotic policy, and the destruction of the national fabric, fiber and culture.

Already the excessive intrusion of the Federal government is provoking responses by states , and in Britian ex-Ministers are warning that things have gone too far. History shows that they will continue to go too far and then break, and then the powers that be will wonder what happened even though, like the reckonging of the banking crisis we all warned about, it is perfectly obvious.  

A man weeps for his country. I have no voice, there is nothing I can do.

Several points I warned about:

1. Control of water by non-government entities. They do NOT care about the public good, but profits. Profit seeking in this case is at odds with the public good. The current economic crisis is exactly because Washington stopped considering “national interests” and started listening to corporate and banking interests instead. The two are EXTREMELY different.

Profit seeking ventures will do almost anything to make more money, and it’s government’s job to regulate them to keep this in check and in line with the national good. Otherwise, see what happened … if instead of keeping the loans I make I sell them instead, then I will eventually have an incentive to make lots of bad loans I can sell because collection and default will be someone else’s problem. Exactly what happened - Common Sense 101.

The problem proliferates from this point onwards. Rating agenices will eventually continue to say “all is well,” and if you are in charge of investments and warn your firm not to buy these loans while everyone else is, you will likely lose your job. So the problem proliferates due to lack of ethics and common sense.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/25

2. You cannot “stimulate” jobs where there are none - you need to recreate the manufacturing sector and it will take 30 years of policies to do so, especially since we are a high cost environment that cannot compete due to labor costs and health care costs. Rejuvenating the industrial sector is the only thing that will restore national prosperity to our peak of supremacy because the jobs that have left US shores are not going to come back - we’re too expensive. Two things can help. Tax incentives for manufacturing at home, and also a revamping of liability laws to encourage production of products that otherwise would not be made here. Too manyproducts are not made because of liability laws. Sorry, but liability has to be rethought.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article9109.html

3. The long term cycles do show the stock market rebounding late this year into late 2010, and the dropping from then on into late 2014/early 2015. Here’s a video I made of the current short term seasonality of the stock market calling for a low right about now or in mid-April. Options traders use to your advantage. I’ll release this software sometime soon so you can analyze any market by western and lunar seasonals, by political conditions, by economic conditions, by trend following, by cycles and that’s about it.

http://www.screencast.com/users/wbodri/folders/Jing/media/14d55f26-9769-4a99-99de-349f42a649f3

( http://www.screencast.com/t/Fueshusm )

I’ve tried hundreds of supplements, herbs, and all sorts of concoctions over the years. So has my teacher - his were primarily Chinese formulas and many at that. Our joint conclusion is that NONE can help you increase your level of cultivation in the sense that eating the right supplements will help you build your muscles. You just have to meditate.

However, I have discovered that the Taoists were right — there is a big benefit to reducing the level of germs and viruses in the body, and candida too. I wrote about the modern Taoist approach in http://www.meditationexpert.com/stubborninfections.html

What I’d like to do is add a simple Candida protocol. Ready?

Candisol right before bedtime and immediately upon waking up.

If that’s not enough, add Oregacillin, Physicians strength. And if not enough, www.PurestColloids.com colloidal silver.

If you’ve had Candida for a while and tried everything, then do this for one month priori: SeaCure to help heal the intestinal lining (leaky gut) and Beach Wood Canyon brand PC 1-2-3 to help change the gut chemistry. Dr. Ohira’s probiotic is helpful at this time but optional.

That’s it. For simplicity sake, Candisol + Oregacillin is just fine.

The result after a minor die off reaction is reduced Candida load, and a clearer mind. That clarity (because you’re not fighting the toxins given off by those organisms or their chi) will help you in your meditation efforts. It won’t help improve your meditation so-to-speak, but will provide clarity of mind that will help you with vipassana.

As for detoxing the body, yes the same old story (I do this every year):
Nature’s Pure Body
+ nattokinase
+ Vitalzym

Alright, one last review.

Only if you practice the skeleton meditation, mantra and practice merit-making can you, by using tantra, open up the heart chakra using the Vairocana-Zhunti tantra I taught you.

If you open up the heart chakra, you can pass through the conception skandha. Prior to that, you develp the thought born body when you pass through the sensation skandha. If you pass through the volition skandha, you’ll be able to see the root chakra source of life chi which is connected to the tree of life. If you break through the consciousness skandha, you’ll reach a stage of non-production.

If you keep cultivating the body after you pass through the skandhas, you’ll open up and start the River Chariot Rotation. If you keep cultivating, at that point various enlightened beings will come to help you if your vows and merit and behavior are good enough. They’ll test you severely.

With their help, you’ll reach a stage where you no longer cultivate the chakras or chi channels — the body is transformed in such a way as they no longer seem to exist. What do you then cultivate now?

Prajna wisdom and samadhi.

The method to use is prajna or anapana to cultivate prajna. So from now on I don’t want to talk about anything except prajna and real cutlviation. For gong-fu we’re finished. For prajna you have to read the Buddhist sutras or Nagarjuna.

Remember, ALL religions have the dhyana, the four dhayna. The Bible has prophets who cultivated dhyana. Christianity has saints who cultivated dhyana. Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, the Greeks, etc. etc. all have saints and sages who cultivated dhyana. Only Buddhism has prajna wisdom — you don’t cling to dhyana and you don’t cling to emptiness, you don’t cling to conventional existence nor to empty mind. Nagarjuna, who is considered the “second Buddha” (most people don’t know this) explained this best. But dhyana is what most people should cultivate to help attain prajna.

So from now on I’m switching modes as I’ve given enough gong-fu revelations to last a lifetime, and most of it has never been published nor revealed. Soon I’ll be offering monthly lessons on How to Meditate, Tantra, etc. on the website, so that’s where I’m putting my efforts now.

Frank Key told me that two doctors (Dr. John Coombs of Ottawa Canada and Dr. Luke Lentz of Florida) independently came up with the exact same protocol for Lyme disease :

2 ounces of Purest Colloids Colloidal Silver, 4 times a day, for 3 months

Thought you should know.

I was watching the following video of the Thousand Hand Kuan Yin (Guan Yin) dance performed by 21 Chinese deaf-mutes. I met the man who trained these dances to make the performance.

Beautiful Kuan Yin Dance Video

Did you know that after you see the Tao, some people leave the world? They don’t want to stay and cultivate the body. Many Zen masters in their thirties did this.

However, if you stay and you cultivate it completely you can gain the sambhogakaya, or purified Reward Body. All your karmic chi, inherited from your parents and your own karmic past, is purified because the chi channels are cleaned out and five elements transformed. You reach their ultimate basis in purity.

The process for attaining the nirmanakya is taught in the Esoteric School. Does that mean that a Jewish practitioner who achieves the Tao will not achieve this? Incorrect. The stage is non-denominational.

However, most people never ever reach this far so it’s not reported in many traditions. Ordinary people cannot believe in thes feats, handle this, or attain this because they don’t cultivate. To really succeed at the level of the sambhogakaya requires lots of merits, wisdom teachings and great teachers. It is said in Taoism that after you open up the River Chariot that heavenly beings will teach you what to do next. Actually, with the thought-born body (born in the sensation skandha) you can receive teachings, but it is the same as before … hints and gesturings without words, and you have to figure out the rest yourself. Part of it is a test to see if you have merits. So only someone who studies A LOT and knows lots of things succeeds. 

Well, what to do next in cultivation after the River Chariot stage involves several tasks:

1. Cultivating samadhi — the dhyana — because now you can easily do so
2. Making vows and improving your behavior, because it’s all about behavior in the end
3. Transforming the physical body and attaining the sambhogakaya
4. Cultivating the Tao, which is not the dhyana

So why does the wonderful video of Guan Yin provoke this little blurb? Because the pictures of 1000 arms and multiple heads you see of Buddhas is a picture of Kuan Yin’s sambhogakaya, or a nirmanakaya based on his sambhogakaya he wants you to be able to see. Maitreya’s looks different. Depending on how you cultivate, everyone’s Reward Body is different. In fact, you can make your chi body at this stage appear in any form you like, but its resting form or appearance is what????

So what is it I want to teach? The fact that in cultivating via Esoteric principles, everyone first pumps out dirty chi from the chi channels. When you succeed in opening the heart chakra and passing through the the conception skandha, it begins in earnest. But if you never get that far it is just like the Fifth Zen Patriarch said to the Sixth: “If you don’t see the Tao, all your cultivation work is in vain.” The real stage of True Cultivation practice starts here.

Some masters just cultivate prajna and see the Tao and then continue prajna cultivation. Sri Nisargadatta, Socrates, and Confucius were of this type. Remember, there are two types of Arhats — those with superpowers (Milarepa) and those without. The second type rarely cultivate the body, just prajna. But this is the easiest and best and most efficient and reliable way to get the Tao. Others cultivate the body, too, and attain the sambhogakaya. If you just focus on cultivating the body (energy / chi /c hakras / chi channels), however, most never succeed. You become trapped out of habit and fixation, clinging to form. You cannot see the Tao that way, or achieve it that way. You need the right view, which you cannot obtain from books but must EXPERIENCE. The right view comes first, so you cultivate empty mind and study dharma teachings to understand.

To succeed you need to cultivate prajna wisdom and directly experience emptiness, and to understand that you need to learn Vedanta and read Buddhist Wisdom Sutras (Heart Sutra, Vimalakirti Sutra, Lotus Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Great Jewel Heap Sutra, Avatamsaka Sutra  etc.). Without this understanding, no one succeeds. That’s why people studying Taoism today never get anywhere, and why Vajrayana practitioners usually study for 20 or more years before being introduced to the high stuff, and even Zen masters spend several years learning Abhidharma, the Sutras and Yogacara. Yogacara is of prime importance if you want to achieve all this, which is why I’m teaching you. Otherwise people who cultivate energy (the body) always cling to form, and they hold this habit for countless lives thinking it’s the way.

After seeing the Tao, many people work on the chakras - root, heart, throat, crown, etc. Of course you have to work on the feet, third eye and countless other chakras and bright points in the body. You reach finer and finer layers of chi, coming upon the thinnest channels you can possibly imagine…so tiny you cannot see them anymore. You push all sorts of dirty chi out of the channel openings and exude it from the body until you get purer and purer and pure and reach finer and finer layers. The methods you can use at the beginning are not the methods you can use as you progress further.

At the earliest stages of practice you push the chi out of the channel opening, or coax it out. You can imagine a metal staff tapping on a metal ground and the chi channels will tend to coaxed out of their holes. Or you can lead out the inside dirty channels using imaginary bright points (globes) at the opening. Or you can try to grab it with a mental net made of chi and pull it out. There are all sorts of methods– at the earliest stage many crude methods will work. The practice takes MONTHS before you get to any finer level.

All the dirty gunk inside chi channels at the earliest stages is gunk; at higher stages the “gunk” is chi channels themselves. Chi channels are always bundles. A channel contains bundles of channels within it and those individuals channels in the bundles are also bundles of channels. The skin of the channels is actually made of a circle of tubes or bundles, too. Hard it is to open all these bundles. On and on you work, trying to do so. This is transforming jing to chi, or cultivating chi, but at the stage of Esoteric Buddhism. If you cultivate emptiness, they’ll unwind also; working on them directly is tantric yoga or Vajrayana.

So what’s so special about the 1000 armed Guan Yin (Kuan Yin, or Avaloketisvara)? The arms. At the stage of breaking through the conception skandha and first opening he heart chakra, it opens in the front to pour out dirty chi. The same for the third eye and throat chakra. You push junk out the front until the sushumna stands and you can push the junk out the roof (crown chakra). Eventually you can clean everything enough to attain the River Chariot Rotation. This takes months after passing through all five skandhas.

When people first start working on the heart chakra after these initial stages, they usually concentrate on opening it upwards (because like the throat, root and crown chakra, it is flat horizontal). But it also opens out backwards through the spine to a very large diameter (and of course to the sides). When you can reach that stage of opening where the back opens, and this is a VERY HIGH LEVEL OF CULTIVATION, the chi channels that come out can be represented as arms, flames, clouds, precious gems, … all sorts of things.

Go look at enlightened being pictures (Buddhas) and you’ll see that. If you want them you can have them, if not you can instantly transformed them into something else.

As to the multiple heads in these Buddha pictures (remember that Budddha does not mean “Buddhism” but enlightened beings),  the crown chakra opens upwards. But it’s not just chi channels pouring out of the head. Above them the channels can bifurcate, and so on and so. It’s up to you. That’s why some Buddhas have multiple heads stacked on each other going upwards. Sometimes there are tiny heads on the top of the skull too, which are the ends of part of the Kamadhenu chakra sticking upwards and other head chakras. I can only tell you; even then to paint the picture (instructions) in words is hard to do. You have to have some gong-fu to understand, otherwise why explain anything at all. Hence most teachers remain silent, but then again, you won’t find this information in the Bible, Talmud, Koran or Book of Mormon. You must feel mercy and compassion for people who do not have the road of high cultivation other than methods for temporary heavenly rebirth.

How do you cultivate to this stage? It’s hard, very difficult. As the Taoists say, heavenly beings usually teach you. But let me give some ideas.

I told you that if you keep using the skeleton method, you can reach the stage of finding nexus points. It’s had to open them … some can be opened by your mind and the chi ejected, but some knot points are so tiny and tight that you can try pulling them out. But this crude method is fatiguing. The skeleton method cultivates your jing because bones are physical (the earth element, the most dense) and made of jing. If you use anapana, you’re cultivating chi trhoughout the limits of your body. If you use the 6th Dalai’s, Mahakasyapa’s and Master Nan’s seeing the light method, you are cultivating shen. But you first see a physical light in the body, make the body light, then switch to the light of  awareness, and then emptiness.

All these practices end up with you reaching emptiness or cultivating emptiness by throwing away from and appearance in the end. You use these practices to the full extent of your body, from the top of the head to the toes and soles of your feet. What a secret I have given you. The basis of the Mahayana and Vajrayana is Hinayana practice to first cultivate the body enough to get some stable gong-fu and cleansing of the chi channels, but the path is Mind-Only. This is just a basis of internal cleansing for preparation, hence the Stage of Intensified Preparatory practices. Don’t think that cultivating the Tao is cultivating the body.

After you open enough of the channels by FULL BODY chi cultivation (via skeleton method, or anapana, or becoming light method that’s a derivative of the seeing the light method), you will reach a stage where previous methods no longer work or the going gets rough. Many methods can be used to progress from this point on. So pay attention  because this is real tantra, real Vajrayana, real Esoteric School, real Yogacara, real Madhyamika, real Shiva yoga. You cannot get this elsewhere.

One of Zhunti’s methods is to imagine a gyroscope turning of chi extending from each nexus knot point. You imagine that it keeps rotating and spinning in all angles until that nexus point opens and the “network” break open.

You can also take a channel, which is a bundle of channels (even the skin of the channel is made of channels), and imagine a string loop pulling them together to a point, or imagine twisting them to a point. [You can never break chi channels so this is safe ...at this stage they are so flexible you cannot destroy them in any way.] When you get that point, imagine taking a loop or piece of the thinnest chi possible chi and slice through that point and they will open, freeing the ends. That will help them unwind.  Imagine slicing through a section over and over again until they unwind. Hours of slicing a point is what sometimes must be done. The Butterfly or Lineman’s loop knot around a chakra or chi channel can be used to slice it until you form your own technique:

http://www.realknots.com/knots/sloops.htm

Where do you do this? Initially at the nexus points. All sorts of chakras and channels you could not previously see will appear because they are so thin and now you’ve reached that stage because of your unwinding. This is also why it’s easier to cultivate the higher samadhi. Prajna cultivation bypasses all this by jumping out of form and experincing the Tao directly. So high, that is the Zen technique and method of Vedanta. Yet the peak of Taoism and Vajrayana is claimed to be Zen, too, so now you know.

Guess what? Here’s the BIG secret… after a time you cultivate the loop cutting method outside the body, too. After you’ve cut all your internal channels and chakras over and over again, they unwind to a stage where this is the next thing to do. The Hell Buddha, Ksitigarbha, tells you to work on the feet, including the toes and feet chakras. Shakyamuni stresses the toes in the skeleton method, starting with the left big toe. So guess where you can start…take Shakyamuni’s hint.

Well, cut the chi you cannot see extending out of the FRONT of the left toe, in front of its tip . Cut it, cut it, cut it and then the net outside of the body will appear. Then do all the toes, other chakras, etc.

nitially you cannot even see that there are strings of chi there, but just keep doing this at this stage and they’ll appear. Do for all the toes…do for the chi exuding out the hole in the skull for the crown chakra … do in front of the third eye … do in FRONT of the heart chakra, do out the back of the spine … do for the throat chakra…do inthe center of the head. Cut every channel you can see internally. Make circles, make spheres everywhere and rotate through the points. All sorts of circular and gyroscopic techniques and loop-cutting techniques and wild unwindings can be used.  The Buddhas will give you hints as to techniques and you just have to keep doing these unwindings. The number of methods is enormous — look at Zhunti’s hands for some clues as to some techniques. A word of advice– this takes ltos of time..might spend days trying to figure out a technique, or days cultivating one section of the body so it loosens. But you laid a Hinayana foundation at the start to make this all easier — the skeleton method, anapana, and seeing the light.

Frankly, this information is too high for most practitioners. Only AFTER The River Chariot stage will it make any sense. Prior to this you can practice splitting open the chi channels and having their bundles of other chi channels fall out, and exuding them from the body.

Cracking the bone chi by flexing it and breaking it is another technique. Letting the earth element dirt fall away from the body’s underlying network structure, waiting for the whole body to dissolve and the root chakra to push the entire body, or just channels, out the top of the head is another occupation. Pushing out the sticky jelly chi, and so on and so on are things you end up doing. There are so many refinement stages to this and so many phenomena that it’s a waste of time to mention other than for you to reach this stage, and then someone teaches you.

Don’t worry about a teacher. If you’re going through the skandhas that kicks this all off, the enlightened beings who take care of this world will know. As soon as you start to free yourself from THAT chi, the whole world trembles and shakes so you will not be missed. But who gets that far? Perhaps a few people each generation. One reason is they did not have the technique.s I’ve been kind and given you nearly EVERYTHING from the beginning.

The 1000-arm stage is so high compared to the stages I just explained   that few reach it because they don’t even know you cultivate the chi backwards, and then cultivate loop cutting of chi channels that don’t even seem to be there because they’re so fine they are invisible. What a network extending EVERYWHERE you will find if you do this. When you experience, you will actually understand that it makes sense. You’ll understand the cosmic tree and all sorts of mysteries.

The body isn’t a body at all…just rolled up chi channels. In fact, it isn’t even that. You are not a body. Imagine that. But thast’s what Shakyamuni Buddha said from the start. You can eventually discover the underlying energy structure of the body and it isn’t even int he shape of a body. Indra’s net, the jeweled net of Indra is a hint.

Just watch:

http://vimeo.com/2769845

From White Fat Cow

http://www.meditationexpert.com/WhiteFatCow.htm

I always urge people to make a yearly “To Do” journal around New Years. Ever since I started doing this I’ve achieved more, experienced more and had more satisfaction than my friends who don’t use the following system.

Remember the study from Harvard that showed only 3% of its graduating class ever bothered to write down its goals, but those people were definitely the most materially successful? They took the 1954 class from Harvard and asked whether any of these individuals ever wrote down their goals. They put those people into two piles and found the every-now-and-then goal setters made more money, had more free time and more fun than the non-goal setters.

Next they took this group of goal setters and started segmenting them into finer and finer groups. Those who wrote down their goals religiously once a year were compared to the “every now and then” group. Once again the more frequent goal setters had much higher incomes, more free time and more fun than the random goal setters.

How about those who set monthly goals versus yearly goals? Again, the monthly goal setters had a higher average income and net worth, more free time and more fun than the once-a-year goal setters. On and on they kept performing this analysis until they found at the very end that those people who made yearly, monthly and daily goals had many more times the income, free time and fun than those who never set any goals at all. I remember that with each smaller group the average statistics kept doubling … all because of setting tighter and tighter goals and trying to achieve them.

Why am I telling you this? Because you should adopt this method starting NOW. Every year, around the 31st of December or January 1st, I take a few days and write down in a small book all the things I want to accomplish or experience during the new year. The list might include a trip to Egypt, buying a new pair of shoes, writing a computer program, reading so many books (with their titles), learning how to do acupuncture, writing a book, ballroom dancing … use your imagination. You, too, should write down everything you want to experience or do this year and make this list in light of your larger life goals.

Once you have the yearly list of things you want to do (and know you can realistically achieve if you set your mind to it), break up those objectives into monthly activities. Some events I personally schedule at the beginning of the year, and others I schedule adaptively as the months go by, saying “this month is a good one to undertake this activity, so let me schedule it now.” When each month comes around, I break up that list of objectives into weekly and daily tasks. I was only able to learns cuba diving, something I always wanted to accomplish, because I used this scheduling and goal setting system. Several years ago come January 1st I said, “This year I’m going to do it,” I scheduled it in, forced myself to take the lessons at that time because it was in the schedule, and I did.

You must make this process very flexible. The point is to do it so that at the end of each year you can look back with satisfaction and see everything you’ve done was what you wanted to do. Your friends, colleagues and peers on the other hand will be looking back and saying, “I should have done such-and-such this year but let another year pass by.” The journal forces me to do things where I would normally get lazy, and will work for you this way as well.

Goals aren’t handcuffs you lock yourself into. Goal setting is a voluntary assignment; goals are purposes or objectives you voluntarily commit to. You set out to achieve them because they are important to you and you alone. If they weren’t important, you wouldn’t even bother to list them. All you ared doing is identifying what is personally IMPORTANT to you.

I know that without this system I wouldn’t do one-third or one-quarter of what I really want to do in life, so writing my yearly goals down and forcing myself to work on what’s important to me (you see, these are my goals and objectives so they are my priorities) has helped me immensely. If I cannot shape it all the way I desire because of karma, then if I really want that target then like Liao Fan I keep working on it.

If you do what I just said, and use the 6M method along with this routine, you’ll definitely have a much better chance of achieving any of your goals in life than anyone you know including all your other family members. Like Benjamin Franklin, you’ll also have a much richer and better life in the process.

So what are those things you want? What are the top ten places you want to visit before you die? What are the top ten events would you like to experience or what top ten skills would you most like to acquire? What things about your life, fate, future, fortune or destiny do you really want to change? What do you really want to accomplish to have made this a worthwhile life at your end of days, a life worth living?

Maybe your big goal is to become famous or create a business and become self-employed. I hope they are high goals, but I’m not here to tell you what your objectives are. I can only tell you a big secret: after a long struggle and much experience and wisdom gained, people commonly find “purpose in life” after they discover the joy and riches of helping others with service. But these personal objectives, the life you want to create, what you want to achieve, accomplish and experience is “your thing,” your goals, your dreams and desires. Other people may think they are silly but who has the right to criticize them? You must reap what you personally sow and learn from your own mistakes if what you go after is rather stupid or non-virtuous. So who cares what others think? They’re your goals, they are not set in stone and you’re free to change them whenever you want.

If your goals are wise and virtuous then you’ll benefit by them, whereas if they’re the opposite then you will suffer in some way. While you can ask people for their opinions when seeking wisdom, ultimately you have to connect with your deepest source to know what’s right for you, or find a very wise guru to keep you out of trouble and help you make this a life that matters. If deep inside you already know your dream targets are frivolous and lack virtue, your inner self will actually work to stop you from achieving them. But don’t count on this happening nor use it as an excuse to pursue anything and everything while counting on self-sabotage to protect you.

In short, now you know how to change your fortune, build the life you want, achieve the fate you desire, and accomplish the goals that are meaningful to you. It’s all based on you and it’s all based on implementing the 6M technique. All the evidence, including a very deep metaphysical background, has been provided that goes way beyond anything the New Age, motivational, success coaching crowd knows about. They know nothing about the deep foundations of karma behind fate and the fate changing freedom of meditation, mantra and merit.

Remember that you need the motivation to want to change things and make the effort. Without inspiration or ambition you will get nowhere, so you already know you must rally the horses. Maybe it’s money, time, autonomy, status, challenge, power, independence, freedom, ethics, recognition, a legacy, service to others or fame that you’re after, but to get it you first of all need the motivation to do something along a path of action that will achieve it.

Many people know what they want to accomplish but leave it at that. This is because you must be truly passionate and excited about your goals if you’re ever going to do something about them. You need a desire so burning that you’ll do anything to achieve it. You need inspiration or ambition that raises your vitality and engages you because if the goal isn’t exciting and motivating you won’t put a lot of work into overcoming the challenges to achieve it.

Effective goals must be big enough to stretch us without being too audacious. They must be challenging enough to invite us into our potential, but realistic enough that we don’t end up chasing clouds in the sky.

To take the first steps towards this type of goal and overcome lethargy and hesitation, even when you’re unsure a bit, and to really put that motivation it into action now that you have this technique and the rationale — that’s real motivation and for that you need to structure a plan of action. You have to move from just thinking about something to doing something and actually take those steps with single-mindedness.

That’s a big secret that the self help crowd doesn’t know about, which is that the single-mindedness of focus or the one-pointedness of execution are the characteristic traits of samadhi. In other words, it’s actually by cultivating samadhi that you can materialize a new fortune. Accomplishment all comes down to samadhi practice, which is the outcome of meditation. The higher your meditation, the higher your samadhi and the higher your possible level of accomplishment because the focused mind power of samadhi is one of the strongest forces in the universe.

It’s actually because individuals cultivate a type of mundane (rather than spiritual) samadhi that they can accomplish things in the world, so accomplishment in general (and especially against the fortune) is all a function of cultivating samadhi. That’s why the most effective people all turn to meditation. Once again, it’s basically the task of self-cultivation that leads to success … and if you cultivate samadhi, you can succeed at accomplishing almost anything you desire in the world. The big secret is that it is all a function of cultivating samadhi in a higher or lesser degree.

You also need a monitoring system — or “accountability partner” — for this materialization that’s going to keep you moving forward. You need someway or someone to make yourself accountable and not let yourself off the hook. Great individuals who have succeeded in the past suggest recognize the truth of accountability, and suggest you should be monitoring your progress on a daily, weekly and monthly basis so that you are constantly moving towards your goals and adjusting your behavior along the way. One of my Stages students wrote me that after adopting the Ben Franklin / Liao Fan daily recording method using Microsoft Excel, he had his best year ever. That’s what I’m talking about. You rpove this by doing this.

On top of that, do not forget — merit, mantra and meditation practice.

Sent in by Bruce Marsh:

“For all those crazy guys who go ‘noodling’ for catfish and & stick their arms down the fish’s throat!! This would be ‘all the catfish you can eat.’

“Each year, a few people were drowning or disappearing mysteriously in Huadu’s Furong Reservoir ( China ). It was not until recently, when the son of a government official went swimming in the reservoir and was drowned that the secret was revealed.

“It is a 3-metre long man-eating catfish whose head alone is 1 metre wide! After cutting up the catfish, people were surprised to find the remains of another man inside!

“Swimming in the reservoir is now forbidden because it is feared another similar man-eating catfish is still lurking in the waters.”

True picture.

Brian writes in, however:

“I think you might have been hoaxed with the giant “catfish” on your blog.  Google images for “whale shark” and “mekong catfish”.  There ARE giant catfish in Asia, but this photo looks like a smallish whale shark.  The clue is the dorsal fin - catfish are bony so their dorsal fin looks like a bat wing, sharks are cartiliginous so their dorsal fins are smooth.  You also notice that the pectoral fins have been removed?  The Chinese like that shark fin soup don’t they? The story could be true, but to me that picture is not a catfish. :)”
I’m thinking the picture is true (perhaps falsely identified), but the story is made up. Who can tell with what comes from China nowadays? Ha  Ha Ha. At least it’s a big interesting “swimming thing”!

Nigel Thompson writes in:

“Just want to let you know that the animal pictured in your recent ‘HolyCatfish’ blog entry is actually not a catfish but a whale shark.  The story of the man-eating catfish appears to be another Internet-based urban legend.  Not only is it a whale shark, but whale sharks are filter-feeders and mainly eat plankton and algae.  It’s one of the large, relatively peaceful animals that exist in the world.  These  animals cavort gently with scuba divers.  On top of that, it’s an endangered species.  (I’m no marine biologist, I just did some checking.) I’m positive you’ll want to know this.”

To transform the teeth in cultivation is hard. Very hard. Teeth stand for money in many fortune telling methods — lose money or make money you can tell by the teeth such as tooth aches, lost teeth, broken teeth, infections, and so forth. Even the appearance of teeth means something. When the teeth all point inwards you can know that person is selfish and always thinks of themselves first no matter how generous they may outwardly seem. You can know all sorts of things about someone’s personality by their teeth and many face fortune telling books can teach you some basics. Every part of your body reflects your fortune, but ordinary people don’t know how to read it. Of particular importance are the bones, which is why I encourage you to cultivate your skeleton and make skeleton offerings.

As people get older, they tend to lose their teeth. Cavities filled with mercury, rather than non-toxic substances contribute to health problems later in life, too. Root canals are another problem you can trace to breast cancer, heart health or other health issues; the impacted infection beneath a particular tooth follows its acupuncture meridian down to an organ to hurt it.

What do you do to maintain healthy teeth? Brush, floss, gargle, etc. Anything more?

Get ready for this — BLOT the gums. Many people have bleeding gums and then root canals and major gum problems later because they’ve been brushing incorrectly all their life. What they should be doing is blotting their teeth, which can often save them once you learn how to do it. In fact, blotting, we are told, is superior to brushing because people brush crap into their gums just beneath the gum lines. That’s what causes gum disease and infections later on despite all the flossing and brushing you may do. Some people develop gum problems and then follow their dentist’s orders to brush and floss religiously but the problem gets worse and worse despite their efforts. What can help? What do you do in this situation if this is you?

Go purchase this inexpensive DVD from the Price Pottenger Foundation and show your family, especially if you are over thirty years old. Learn to do this. It may save your teeth. It may save your friends’ teeth. Everything you’ve been taught about brushing is mostly wrong. And buy two several of their special tooth brushes (just $2.50) while you’re at it because you’ll need them:

http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=38&products_id=47&osCsid=b5abb7e433756af38fa4970f77ffe23d

Root canals? Read this:

http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=194&osCsid=b5abb7e433756af38fa4970f77ffe23d

What else to know? In Taoism you’re taught to chomp on your teeth about two dozen times every day to keep them healthy. Perhaps this works because it shakes their roots to help prevent infections. Also you’re taught to clench your teeth just a bit when you defecate because you’re losing chi below and the closed teeth pulls the chi upwards. But don’t grind them! That’s not the teaching.

In India they teach you to use a tongue scraper to scrape off the gunk on the tongue every morning, or at least brush it off. Smart! Don’t swallow it! Using a tongue scraper is the best way and it costs about $6. Also, wipe the sides of the mouth with a tooth brush too as the Price Pottenger DVD shows. That’s where bacteria are, so do it! get that DVD because I guarantee you haven’t been taught this, and I want you to keep your teeth, save your teeth, and make money. I don’t want anyone to lose their teeth and I want everyone to make money.

Okay, for bleeding gums and gum disease I’ve been told this natural formula works: OraMD which you can buy on the web. Dr. Richard Schulze of the American Botanical Pharmacy has a cayenne pepper gum formula that works for some people, too, but I’d try the OraMD first. You just put 1-2 drops on your finger and rub it in, or put it on your toothbrush and brush it on your gums. You never know which will work for you.

Edgar Cayce recommended Ipsab and the mouthwash Ipsadent, both of which can be found on the web along with stories of their workability or not.

And water picks? Fantastic idea.

Does tartar build up all the time despite brushing and all sorts of methods? I believe Dr. David Williams was the one who reported it might be due to a clogged gall bladder not secreting enough bile.

Now for a cultivation topic — transforming the teeth as promised. You have to reach the stage where you push out the dirty chi within the chi channel beneath each tooth. Even for the teeth that are not there you do this. In fact, for the extra Buddha teeth that are not even there (a rupakaya has 40 perfectly aligned teeth, gapless, pure white without decay, etc.), you do this to prepare for that one day in the future. You just push the dirty chi out the center of the tooth, and then later push off the tooth bone chi as well (which is something you’ve done for countless times for other bones to even get close to this stage). This can be accomplished at the stage wherein your etheric body appears with the curly cue hairs on your head as a Buddha does. That’s the marker for this stage. It’s a stage of achievement that has nothing to do with “Buddhism” - please remember that. “Buddha” is just a short hand name for a fully enlightened being, that’s all.

What you can do to get rid of the tooth bone chi is use the tip of the clear jelly chi (when you reach the stage where it’s clear) to from a loop like the top of a cane, and use that to push off the tooth. Or you can use you mind to squeeze it out by squeezing the roots so it pops out and just the clear chi channel is left dangling there until you push that out. That’s very effective because the teeth are stubborn. Offer them to Mahagala Buddha and the other Buddhas.

Another method is to expand the width of each tooth’s chi channel to crack the tooth surrounding it and pop off these remnants. And remember to do this not just for the teeth that are there but for teeth that you lost, and for the Buddha extra teeth that don’t appear but whose roots would be way back near to where the gums turn inwards into the body. Regular people have thirty-two teeth but Buddhas in perfected bodies have forty. Working on these extra “non-existent” teeth (you’ll find their spot if you reach this stage) is preparing for the one day you’re fully enlightened and wish to have a perfected physical form so as to provide an example for the people. People need examples which is why fully enlightened beings sometimes appear in fully perfected forms.

If you do this for all the teeth, pushing out the impure chi beneath them by pushing it through the teeth, and then later pushing off the teeth or pulling them off if you must, then the entire etheric gum bones will eventually lift off, and then a layer of bone beneath that, and so forth. The chi channels that form the areteries and veins beneath this structure will pop off and then you canpirfy them.

After the teeth and jaws, you can proceed to transform the rest of the skull, including the bones at the top of the skull and the rest of the skull bones everywhere. Congratulations. Now you have some secrets for transforming stubborn bone chi which, being earth element chi, is some of the most difficult chi to transform. Start with the skeleton method. You cannot realize how important it is to try to get a handle on trasnforming the body’s earth element, which is why I encourage this simple technique as one of your preparatory intensified practices:

http://www.meditationexpert.com/Skeleton.htm?meditation/10/Skeleton