I have to constantly remind people what real kundalini cultivation is. For whatever reason, most people have the wrong idea of and wrong definition of kundalini in their mind.

When you cultivate correctly - in ANY cultivation school using ANY method you like – eventually your real chi will arise. If it doesn’t you’re not making progress, period. That arising is the beginning of kundalini. As jing transforms into chi, that’s the beginning of kundalini.  When your breathing stops during meditation, that’s your real chi arising, your kundalini. When you achieve samadhi, the chi responsible for this and that blissful feeling are the reuslt of your real body chi, your kundalini. The real kundalini experience is warm and blissful.

So what’s all this stuff about kundalini burning, being hot and painful?

If you activate your chi from forceful techniques — as is done in the yoga schools from forceful breathing techniques – you often force a premature rising of your chi that ascends, but has to go through all these obstructed chi channels. You turned on this faucet of energy, and it has to go somewhere but the water hoses are crimped. What happens? Friction. Friction causes pain, the burning, the uncomfortable sensations. Obstructed chi channels are being opened because you forced the process, so now you feel it. In Buddhism, the Buddha Maitreya  called this the "Big Knife Wind." Why? It feels like a knife cutting you open as all these chi channels are forced open by the chi, or wind element.

See…every school describes the same spiritual phenomena, but just uses different words.

This friction is the cause of the discomfort and pain you read about with premature kundalini arisings. The big secret? There are both YIN and YANG kundalini arisings. In the literature, you only read about the YIN arisings and not the yang arisings. In the wisdom schools, people don’t even talk about this anymore because it’s just a stage of body purification, and in the high stages of the path past the third dhyana, people don’t even talk about the body anymore.

In Chapter 4 of Measuring Meditation, we go over nearly two dozen cases of individuals who all thought they had a kundalini arising. How many were? None.

Rather than me talk  about it, download the free kundalini meditation chapter from Measuring Meditation and learn this stuff. It corrects a lot of false notions out there and you’ll learn lots from the case studies. When I was young everything I absorbed in the literature about kundalini pretty much turned out to be wrong until Master Nan gave these lectures.

FREE! (…and invaluable.)

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4. The Vocabulary of Meditation and Spiritual Cultivation
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