At the next stage, the heart chakra sprouts wings, they’re so wide. As they flap they pump, it’s an unexpected delight. Later they pin down in the chest cavity just as was done in the lower cavity for the root chakra furnace. This is the next stage of development as the River Chariot evolution proceeds further. It mirrors what happened previously to the root chakra in the lower belly. Now the dirty chi collects as a white ball of half vapor, half solid like cotton or cotton candy. It is transforming into real chi, the stage of jing transforming to chi. The perineum opens up and it’s pushed out like a bombardier. This is an exit point which rarely spontaneously occurs.

 

The wings of the heart chakra, the opening of the perineum to discard the impure chi below, this is all indicating that you are starting to cultivate the Realm of Form and the four dhyana. Remember that from the root chakra to the heart chakra represents the Realm of Desire, but from the heart chakra to the brow represents the Realm of Form. As the “heart has sprouted wings,” you are now ready to enter into dhyana.

 

If you can establish the linkage to the crown flower bud in the center of the head, the heart chakra will turn yellow and orange, or sometimes a bit of red, and this is it’s own stage of the furnace. So the heart chakra develops its own stage of the furnace too. The base, a square, will form and then rise up to the crown to establish the left and right channels…At this stage the chi at the crown is called “brilliant.”

 

Yellow and gold colors will sometimes flood the upper cavity from the heart chakra upwards. The brow chakra (third eye) becomes enflamed as a circle of silver chi and you can use it as an exit point to push the chi that’s being cooked out the chi channels. All you want is the microcosmic circulation again and to empty the channels of this impure, untransformed chi.

 

The chi at this stage is hard to move using force or intentt. Only by cultivating emptiness can it start to move.

 

The chi is white and the body is hot at this stage. The root chakra is cooking the chi, and the temperature of your body will rise significantly. This is like the prayoga stage of “Heat” or “Warming” within the Stage of Intensified Practices, for Buddhism has noted you are ready to cultivate dhyana. So you progressed through the Intensified Practices, then Stage of Seeing the Tao, then True Cultivation Practice, and now you’re back again. So you’re at a point where you can cultivate true samadhi. You can call this true cultivation practice, or the intensified practices. Actually, it’s the intensified practices. You’ve made one big loop.

 

The channels running down the insides of the two legs open up to a yet greater extent, and now your sinuses will start acting up and you will be secreting snot (nasal discharge) almost constantly. Don’t worry if you get sick at this stage. Sometimes you have to get sick to make progress in cultivation. Just arrange yourself and your body accoding to conditions and keep cultivating. Don’t lose your semen.

 

If you keep going, and try to cultivate the formless absorptions, the crown chakra loop or bud at the top of the head (inside it, near the top of the roof, just underneath it) will form a small flap of wings on the left and right sides, too, just as was done before for the root and then heart chakra. And then it will eventually stand upright and then poke through or protrude through the top of the skull. At this stage you can be called an “Iron Bell Head” because you can still feel the bone chi in the head, which feels like an ion bell, but the bell handle is a little set of chi channel loops from the forming crown chakra. This is why pictures show Buddhas with topknots at the centers of their head. You can achieve this stage, too, you just have to cultivate.

 

This protrusion means that you’ve opened the Brahmarandra chakra hole in Indian yoga and Hinduism. You can actually see the etheric hole in your skull. If you want to be reborn in a higher heaven after death than where people usually go, then you can now do so after achieving this stage.

 

Properly this stage belongs to the Hindu schools of Indian yoga but once again, as you can see all the cultivation schools have it. Tibetan Buddhism has it because they borrowed many tantric teachings from India. Chinese Taoism has it because it is the Baihui location that opens up – a small hole less than a quarter of an inch wide opens and the loop protrudes out here, like the looped handles of a bell. Buddhism has it because all Buddhas are shown with top knots. But Buddhism doesn’t use this chakra for exiting the body – Buddhas and Bodhisattvas always use the buddhra-randhra behind it. Always. Please remember this most excellent, jewel encrusted, supreme of all teachings. The buddha-randhra chakra at the back part of the top of the head, behind the brahmarandhra, and is the key to complete Buddhahood.

 

If you cultivate you get this stage but if you don’t cultivate you don’t. How do you cultivate? You let go of thoughts, you rest the mind, you cultivate emptiness. How is that denominational? You’re kidding yourself if you thought your religion had some special promise that won you some reward because of belief, membership, ritual or worship. Everything depends upon your own personal cultivation, and nothing else, except the additional fact you need virtue and merit to succeed or for others to help you. No one can succeed without merit, no one can receive help with merit. No one can even receive or hear about teachings without merit. That’s how critical merit is.

 

Next a loop of chi channels will then protrude out of the third eye orifice. Then, the throat chakra will transform, and then the left and right channels in the head will assume a new shape and hug its sides instead of going straight up. This shape change is a big secret that people may use to cheat you. A loop will then protrude out the buddhra-randhra chakra on the back of the head, which is more difficult to open than the crown brahmarandra. Remember the teaching – it is a supreme teaching to forget the yogi brahmarandhra and always use the Buddha-randhra when exiting the body. Why would you come all this way and ignore the teachings of a supreme yogi sage Shakyamuni?

 

Next the heart chakra central hole develops its own loop protrusion. Eventually, you can push the little loops out of all the chakra openings as well as toes, feet and other orifices.

 

Remember that this is the initial goal of ALL the yoga schools in India since Shiva the Great Yogi – I Salute You Oh Great One. Now don’t get me wrong and think I’m saying Shiva is just about yoga and gong-fu. I cannot stand the number of people who try to twist what I say intot what they personally think. The schools of yoga are about abandoning the ego and reaching enlightenment, but they emphasize form practices as their road to get physical gong-fu which you pass through for attainment. Hatha yoga, Raja yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Laya Yoga, Mantra Yoga, etc. all want you to reach these stages. Yes, we’ve just been talking about yoga, but I did  it in a different way than you’re used to and filled in all the details that people look for in secret texts. In the literature you’d be hard pressed to find anything along the lines of what I’ve just taught you out of kindness. But there’s no secret – it just takes practice. Regardless, the entire culture of India is built up around just this.

 

If you cultivate Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras or the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, this is the initiatory stage you want to accomplish, so pay attention to how you get here. Yogananada, Muktananda and all the others try to reach this stage. Now you see how to link it with Taoism and the cultivation of jing to chi, and the cultivation of the dhyana in Buddhism, as well as the Esoteric school. But if you think that Sufis who cultivate don’t reach this, or Christians, or Jews or Sikhs, Jains or others then you’re wrong. But where you go from here is where a lot of all these people make mistakes. Even the Arhat yogis, who reach the nirvana with remainder, walked out of Buddha’s Lotus Sutra lecture because they didn’t believe there was a stage higher than what they had achieved. Five hundred of them!

 

Unfortunately, if someone explained the road to Tao by speaking in the way of Confucius or Socrates, people would just ignore him or worse, even spit on the speaker! This world of modern science only understands materialism and respects only money. Hence the explanations of spiritual cultivation need to be re-given in terms of the Esoteric school descriptions to wake these people up. It’s actually a terrible pollution, but it does help you to understand how the schools link. How I wish for someone who could understand Zen, but for that there is no audience. You must remember that Shakyamuni cultivated all this gong-fu and the nine Samadhi, but gave them up because they were not the Tao. How supreme, how supreme. This is all just the low level crap.

 

You didn’t ask why the left and right channels bow out inside the head to hug the left and right sides. Because a large disk forms in the center of the head which will soon push out the top – the thousand petal chakra disk and its leaves. The chakra leaves can now push out and unfold. All this work for just this small attainment. But then again, is it that small an attainment?

 

The next stages of the chi transformations are called “lightness,” then “invisible,” then “formless.” If you cultivate correctly without clinging, and practice your anapana properly, you’ll pass through these stages quickly. The next stage is called ”clear perception.”

 

At this point, this is the true chi you’re finally cultivating. This is the stage of finally cultivating the chi of the human body. Previously we called the stuff inside the channels “chi,” but it was really akin to jing whereas this is the real wind element, or chi, or prana. Now  you’ve reached real chi and are within the reach of the second to third dhyana if you can cultivate correctly.

 

By now you should realize that the chi channels are like flexible plastic tubes, just like you’d find on a fish aquarium pump. They are ALWAYS clogged 100% solid all the way through with gunk. Call it jing, chi, jing-chi, the five elements, impure paste, the untransformed body, whatever … the diameters are always clogged with this. They are long tubes clogged with paste.

 

By opening the channels it means you’re pushing all of this out, and the heat of the cultivation warms it so that it can slide out easily like paste from a tube. How do you do that? By blazing the chakra pumps, by shining awareness on them. That’s a tantric yoga method, or Taoist method, or Esoteric school method.  That’s how you can get it to unstuck and move. Or, you can just let go by practicing anapana and it’ll just happen. Or, you can just cultivate mind-only, by letting go and cultivating emptiness, and it’ll happen naturally. The tantric way is the hard way. It only lets you know  these useless details, and if you go doen this path, the chances are you’ll never get anywhere.. That is the history of all the form schools.

 

At these early stages of spiritual cultivation this material still has a liquid-element to it, even if it’s hardened like stone. Thus it is akin to jing and the water element as well as hormones. Much later you’ll see tiny white drops or diamondlike crystals exiting out the chakra centers and running through the orbits of the channels, too, right through their centers, but not at this stage yet.

 

If you can clean out all the channels to a very high stage, and get through all these many many layers I’ve described, then you can become a Once-More-to-Return (Sakadagami), Sotapanna (no more than seven more successive human rebirths) or Anagami as Buddha said. Those are individuals who reached a certain stage of clearing, or excellence, and then stopped, but have yet to finish the whole. Gosh, where are you going to find out these things as to how many times it takes? In the Bible? Don’t make me laugh.

 

If you can clear everything out to a very high stage, and do some other things as well such as virtues, merits, vows, excellences, mental purity and commitments which we can’t go into, then you can reach the 8^th Stage Bodhisattva bhumi which means in every life you’ll be able to get the Tao. You’ll reach a point that, because of your cultivation it will just be easier to cultivate each time you return, and thus your chances of success will be more assured. You can choose any religion to be born into to help them lift themselves  up, but you’ll go through same process all the same. That’s why the same fellows keep coming back over and over again, wearing different hats, to help people, yet humanity doesn’t know it.  Cultivate awakening to your original nature directly, by cultivating prajna wisdom, and this all happens naturally.  I’m just being stupid bothering to let you know the esoteric details of some of the physical transformations. Don’t equate the high high Bodhisattva bhumis with this low level crap. But also, don’t say they aren’t related or that there is no connection.

 

And so now you know a bit behind the Bodhisattva bhumi explanations within Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings, but unfortunately I had to speak of it in terms of tantra instead of his fine fine way which is much better. This was just to help make you understand and make his road that much clearer. People don’t study, so they really cannot appreciate how well he put everything together. They think they can pick up a few books, look for a secret method here or there, and that’s it. Hardly. All this information I’m telling you is precious, and yet useless to you if you don’t cultivate.

 

Now the real sushumna channel, thinner than the thinnest hairs or wires you can possibly imagine, so thin it seems intermittent, so thin it’s almost non-existent, will appear. At first from only the heart region upwards, later from the root base all the way to the roof. Only with a great enlightenment vow can you open it up to help save ALL sentient beings. “Oh, I just want to be a Taoist Immortal.” “I just found a new kabbalah secret.” “Oh, I want to be a yogi and be free from society.” “I want an immortal sword and to be able to fly through the air.” Yeah, right. Idiots.

 

Previously you were working on the larger outer layers wrapping the sushumna and would generate a bright spot at the center of the heart chakra, and then lead the chi upwards to the silverish shining crown chakra in the center of the head, and then let the River Chariot rotation carry it down the jen-mai and to the feet and up again to the tu-mai. Eventually you would push this chi out of the body after it revolved a bit.  Always you repeated the process over and over again, always trying to keep the heart chakra cooking,” shining with a brilliant silver brighter than the sun. But now you’re reaching the innermost layers of the sushumna, rather than the larger diameter outer layers, and there is a subtle relationship here with opening it and attainments up to the Bodhisattva bhumis. Stages such as “Immovable” or “Invincible” become a tiny bit

 

I forgot to tell you that  the  stage of chi cultivation prior to the appearance of the real sushumna is called “mirror shine” because of the crown chakra’s shining.

 

Oh and by the way, the real tu-mai and jen-mai within the larger diameter tu-mai and jen-mai channels are also so thin. So many secrets come out that I’m telling you. Secrets within secrets. Ha ha ha.

 

These are instructions only given to Bodhisattvas. How lucky you are, how lucky you are!

 

The sacrum tail bone channels transform at this stage to something even greater than before. Finally those stubborn bastards! – it takes forever to open them up to their true stage. Shakyamuni and Manjushri had problems with their lower backs, but Dipankara’s problem was with the right thigh bone. The next Buddha’s problems will probably be in the shoulders, but the first in line for this world had no problems at all. It’s just because of the bad karma of sentient beings that it gets worse and worse and worse for these guys, who basically do it for you (even though you don’t know it).

 

The chakras start to unfold their flowers everywhere. It’s very hard to unfold these chakras, it’s very tiring if you use this quick tantric way. Another way, perhaps better since you don’t need a master nor instructions,  is anapana wherein you ignore them and just let whatever happens happen naturally, for the body knows what it has to do. But remember the rule – “first the loop, then the flowers.” That’s my teaching. First the loops of the chi channels thrust out, and then only later can the higher flower petals appear and unfold. I’m not going to say more other than “the loops (stems) come first, and then the flowers.” Just like within the body, “the arteries come first, and then the organs form.”

 

Perhaps not necessarily in this order, but the second furnace on the floor of the dan tien will now open, the furnace of the secret place in the front. We don’t talk about this secret thing for fear people would become perverted. This is “sila,” or the discipline of this school. There are no rules in reality, but one sets up rules for gods and men because of karmic consequences. As to where its sushumna and left and right channels go, I won’t tell. I’ll give you a hint: “The horns of a rhinoceros know plenty.”   

 

Later, as time goes on, if you can cultivate the sushumna within the sushumna within the sushumna and so on …, the stage of chi you can reach is called “immaculate.” At this stage, breathing is free and clear. The breath in the body feels unobstructed. There is no mental joy or excitement. The “bell handles” on top of the head are now extremely large, and without any effort they keep pouring out and transform. There is no feeling of physical bliss enervation in the body – no bliss. If you needed to use a word you would call it “peace” rather than physical bliss. The mind is even or steady. The gong-fu is called “stable,” which is akin to forbearance or patience. Ohm, I salute the Buddhas!

 

Remember that Arhats only believe in the  crown chakra that comes out the brahmarhandra. They don’t believe in the Buddha-randhra teachings. Trust in the enlightened ones, trust in them, for sure. If it wasn’t for them, none of us would have any teachings, so why would they lie if they said there is something higher? You must not depend on the crown chakra. In fact, you should not depend on anything at all.

 

I’m not going to tell you what stage this is. Go do some research and then you’ll know yourself. With all these teachings of layers within layers, you’ll also be able to gain an inkling of understanding as to why Buddha partitioned the Form Realm into so many heavens. It’s all science. There’s a reason he partitioned each dhyana into a specific particular number and the Form Realm into a certain number as well. Did you think it was arbitrary religious dogma? It’s all science with a meaning, there’s a meaning behind it and purpose. Gosh, another big secret revealed. This has nothing to do with “Buddhism” as a religion. This is just a cultivation science. Remember that. All you guys who keep thinking this is religion don’t have the slightest clue and certainly not the right understanding. In fact, we can say you’ve lost your head if you keep insisting on that. It means you’re just fighting yourself because you know what’s true deep inside you, but don’t want to accept the truth, so you’re searching for some way to negate it. “Can you attain this stage?” should be your only question. Yes, if you practice.

 

The next stage of chi is called “moist” – all the chi channels are flexible and have a shine. Encrustments fall away. The next stage is called “smoky.” The secret palace (the fourth furnace) emits vapor. The next stage is called “diamond” – hard and clear as diamonds, the earth element leaves this secret sushumna. Or is the beginning of the bindus being secreted? It’s very hard to tell…

 

The fifth furnace opens below the Buddha-randhra now, its base on the floor of the skull directly beneath it. I told you to trust the Buddhas – their dhyana is higher than the Arhat’s nirvana. Who could imagine a sushumna this thin? It’s fineness puts all the other channels to shame. So the root chakra, heart chakra  and crown all developed a small furnace, and then the secret place and now beneath the buddha-randhra. The funace has a sushumna, a left and right channel, and it powers the chakra above it. Later you’ll suprirsingly see the bindus, or bright points like tiny diamonds, exit the smallest of these sushumna and enter into the great circulation like a broken but contiuous stream.

 

“Space falls from space” [space element encrustings fall away like orange slices that fall apart]. “Preparedness.” These are some of the other stages you go through. I  haven’t mentioned all the stages all the time, just some important milestones.

 

The skull breaks open yet again and  the inner space body climbs out. It’s time for even those bodies to leave.

 

Next stage is “no talk.”

 

The next stage is “flowers” or “flowering.” Even the sushumna (and other chi channels) can have buds on their stalks.

 

The next stage is “afflictions are leaving” – wasps at this stage depart.

 

The next four stages are “solid space,” then “shining [??? - I forgot] space,” then “shimmering space” because the chi shimmers inside it, and then “Non space.”

 

After this the next stage is “united” .

 

After this  the next stage is “ground of jewels” – the floor of the dan tien is transformed. Amitofo.

 

After a few more stages, the next important stage is “sunrise.” If you think the stage is “dark sunrise,” “night sun,” or “black sun,” it’s because you haven’t cultivated hard enough. Blaze chakra, blaze!

 

Finally   shen comes out. Now you can start cultivating shen.

 

 

At this point I’m not going to explain anymore. I’ve already given you enough gong-fu explanations. If I didn’t speak of gong-fu you’d just ignore everything I have to say about cultivation. How much interest would you have? Nada, nothing, scant interest at all. But because I explain a little bit about Yogacara, Tantra, Vajrayana, Shingon, Taoism, Shiva Yoga, Internal Alchemy, and the Esoteric school, you think you’ve found some wonderful and marvelous secrets. It’s all useless information if you don’t practice. How I wish there was someone capable of understanding Zen, the true Esoteric school. This is all just the garbage of the path. So I don’t want to speak about gong-fu anymore. It’s time to go back to the basics.

 

 

If you think this is what Shakyamuni Buddha taught, you are mistaken. This is NOT enlightenment dharma. However, I wanted you to know what stages you reach from Indian tantric yoga, the yoga that sprouted from the lineage of Shiva and empowered thousands of sadhus and yogis and gurus who cultivated the body. But most didn’t get the Tao, mind you. Also you see how this connects with Chinese Taoism and nei-gong,   the interior part of the Chinese martial arts. As to Tibetan Buddhism and Vajrayana, or the Shingon school of Japan, you can see how the stages connect as well. I’ve tried to fill in the blanks for you and help you connect the traditions so you can see, once again, they all accomplish the same thing but just talk about certain parts of the path because of what they emphasize.  BUT … and this is a big “but”- no results come out this way. No superpowers, no real Samadhi, no dhyana, no enlightenment no Tao. You are just cultivating the physical body to health and these are the structures that arise. Big deal. You still don’t have dhyana, you still don’t have enlightenment, you’re still going to die and you almost wasted your life once again. You’ve got a good foundation for health and a long life, but so what?

 

So what do you do?

 

Now you try to really cultivate the Tao. Your gong-fu base is solid. It’s there. You’ve established some fundamental groundwork. Now you have two roads you can rely on: anapana and cultivating consciousness. Yet another road is just cultivating prajna. All the roads still rely on using the principles of cessation-observation.

 

If you studied Abhidharma and know the difference between the 6^th and 7^th and 8^th consciousnesses (see Three Texts on Consciousness Only, the Numata Institute), you try to first realize that the whole mental continuum is Mind-only, consciousness only and search for the root of that. Advaita Vedanta uses this method but by promoting the very end that’s so high rather than offer any intercessionary cultivation methods, I rarely see anyone get anywhere on that route other than memorize a lot of things and learn how to speak in an intelligent Vedantic way. So how do you do it? In the Surangama Sutra all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas instruct us on the methods they used to penetrate through to the source.

 

Your mind is always bombarded with appearances – sounds, forms, feelings, etc. – and you’re always clinging to them. The 6^th consciousness gets tied up with the body consciousness  like a heavy curtain, and it’s a mistake to try to push it, to try to move that molasses, to transform that chi or feeling. But that’s what tantrics do. Look further within and see, find that there is a free mind of thoughts that doesn’t have it’s constraints and then you’ve found the seventh consciousness. It’s free, instant, the mind behind thoughts that can flicker and is free of the senses. It’s the “mind within the mind” or mind behind the coarse thoughts you cling to as the sixth. But where does the seventh come from? It’s all still arising in reference to an ego or center point. There is no such thing. You must return to before that. THAT is the real cultivation, not cultivating physical gong-fu.

 

Now how do you achieve that? Maitreya, the founder of Yogacara, traced consciousness back to the source because he knew its components, and used that knowledge to help in his cultivation. Advaita Vedanta is similar to this at times, too.  But the greatest enlightened ones – Kuan Yin, Manjushri, Samantabadhra – simply traced hearing consciousness back to its source. Because you don’t need to know any theory about the structure of consciousness  (Abhidharma, Yogacara), but just follow hearing back to its source via the principles of letting go and cessation-watching, you can succeed if you do this. By concentrating on the hearing, you let go of the body consciousness and eye (image) consciousness, the two biggest objects of clinging that stand in your way. You can turn away from them, turn around from them and see the freedom that’s there, and in that instant everything changes immediately. So this is a brilliant strategy if you can learn how to do it.

 

Though you can read the Zen monk Han Shan’s story to learn how he did it, the only person who can teach you how to do it is you. You have to struggle a bit to separate the 7^th from the 6^th – that is, to identify the 7^th – and then to realize where it comes from. Struggle, with it. Bump around a bit. It took me a while to learn how to do it too. Don’t waste time on other stuff, but concentrate on this task. You can do it. This is the real cultivation, not gongfu. You’re looking for the source of mind and mentation. This is the road of practice you should be on, not the gong-fu road which took you nowhere. So don’t conentrate on the 7th or 6th, but introspect and ask WHERE IS IT ALL COMING FROM? All the sense data, the interior mind, everything rises together — where is that entire tableau coming from? That origin is what you have to find and rest in.

 

In fact, you can trace any single sense consciousness back to the source and then they all break apart. They are like separate knots that all unwind if you unwind a single one. So there are multiple avenues you can try and this is what you must cultivate. Buddha explained all this, and many roads of possible practice, as well as their results and many many stages I’ve been discussing, all in the Surangama Sutra. Gosh, it’s even free ont he internet, go search for it.

 

You could have saved   yourself tons of time and trouble if you just did this from the start, as Buddha instructed, but people always want something spectacular and peculiar. So I illuminated that road for you and told you we found nothing. Still no samadhi, or Tao but just a bunch of gong-fu. When did Shakyamuni Buddha ever tell you to “blaze a chakra”? He didn’t. In sixty plus years of teaching, my teacher never did either.  It’s the wrong way, but at least by so expounding I cleared up your misconceptions AND got you some foundational gong-fu so that you can devote yourself to REAL practice.

 

 

You have to cultivate MIND and then what’s supposed to happen will happen naturally and you don’t need effort, you don’t need a step-by-step roadmap, you don’t have to perform any particular yogas, you don’t have worry about chakras, chi channels or illusory bodies or river chariot rotations or microcosmic circulations or furnaces or anything. Put your mind at ease. The highest road is just letting go, turning inwards behind the sixth consciousness and investigating the source of the mind (thoughts), and dropping everything including the ego. All that other stuff is then taken care of.  So this is all you have to do and then you’ll not only succeed, but get all this stuff as well even if you don’t know it’s going on. When you cultivate the mind rather than tantra, the real chi comes up, it fills your channels completely to an extent you’ve never known before and you don’t have to lead or it push it, your mind becomes strongly alive and “brilliant” and you reach a stage higher than anything you could possibly reach through tantra. I promise.

 

We can say that “tracing back consciousness” is hard to do, but it just takes some effort. Now you can understand that what appears on the tableau of the mind is like layers, and if you try to peel them away one by one it will take forever. You’ll never be done. If you just let it go and ignore it, and strive with either anapana or consciousness only to turn within and FIND THE ORIGIN of the mental scenario, then you’re on the right road of practice. It’s right  there all the time. You’re always experiencing it, but you’ve become fascinated by gong-fu and lost your mind chasing after something else other than Mind, the origin. It’s just like someone who has a head on his shoulder and thinks he’s lost his head, and then goes running around looking for it. So the Tao is there, the empty mind ground is there. It is a place where no karma exists because no function yet comes out. If you do that, which is the next step in spiritual cultivation, you can begin to free yourself and then you’ll realize this:

 

Knowing is of the same nature as emptiness.

[“Appearance” is knowing. What appears in the mind is the knowing of appearances, or  what we call "arising."  That’s what we call “knowing.” There's an appearance there and because you know that, it's "knowing" even if you don't know what it means. The "knowing" just means experience.]

Knowing is the same essence as emptiness.

 

 

 

What really worries me over the next two decades is agriculture.

We have far too few seed banks.

We let our seeds and ag policy be controlled by just a few large interests that only have profit motives in mind. Witness what happened to the banking community when that happened — solely acting as profit maximizers, they did not concern themselves with the risk to the whole system.

We pushed for an agricultural system of a few large farmers based on “economy of scale” concerns. Well, if there is global warming, large producers cannot react fast. They are also at the mercy of large buyers, such as McDonalds. They do not offer a diversified product, so if blight comes, all the same dominos tend to topple together. Small farmers are more responsive to the local community and if a blight or worse came, ONE off them, motivated beyond measure to protect his livelihood (like no corporate executive would), would figure out what to do, other small independent operators would also innovate and quickly follow (not the big boys, who always lag!) and communities would be saved. There are strategic, community and survival benefits to samll rather than large economies of scale.

“Terminator” seeds should be outlawed because of the risks they represent and entail; it’s just so plain stupid to allow this that I won’t go into it. “Patenting life” should be declared void.

GMO, from the research, has not produced the yield gains promised … but HAS produced a greater need for fertilizers and pesticides than before and help fund PR firms who are told to push it. Yes, continue the research, but remember that for now this is just a way to try to create a monopoly product, that’s all. THAT is the concern hidden beneath everything. Not the only one, but a major one.

Pesticide usage from foreign ag products is not policed; we allow a banned pesticide here to be used over there and then import it. Why?

Water will become scare EVERYWHERE. Only the small farmer will then survive because they can adapt. That will save communities paritally. So why are we placing our bets in just a few big boys? Yes there are economies of scale there and you need them, but there must also be a balance of many smaller players in the mix due to strategic security risks. It helps with local employment and community cohesion as well, and many other unmeasurable intangibles that make for just plain good old sound living. Local communities need to develop tax laws to promote, protect tthe local farmer (and not underlying real estate deals that the laws would be jury rigged to set up).

And more and more and more.

Statesmen should THINK about these things and then create policies that will protect us. God forbid should a drought or disease (ex. irish potato blight) run rampant after which time all the people will be arguing “How come you didn’t think of this, it was so obvious?” Do you really think other countires will sell their food, exporting it, if emergencies will happen.

Just witness what happened when wheat prices and rice priices rose…many countires enacted IMMEDIATE laws to prohibit export. Now think ahead … in this new world of global warming and droughts (Australia lost 90% of its wheat crop last year) and increasing third world population … and ponder what’s a SECURE, STABLE solution. It’s not what the profit maximizers designed, which is a solution designed to create powerful monopolies.

And as to many smaller nations who sign on to globalization and then immediately see huge amounts of low cost foods dumped into their markets, ruining the local famrers, who then go bankrupt overnight (and have to emigrate to the cities, putting an ever bigger strain and burden on them) and sell their land to larger players, who then come under the control of the big players in order to sell in bulk … and who tell them to only produce for export rather than the local market … this is not the best way to keep up employment, communities and guarantee a nation’s food supply sufficiency. You have to rethink “say yes” if you are truly concerned about your country. Frankly, from what I see were the ag laws passed in India recently, which has resulted in the bankruptcy and suicides of hundreds if not thousands of small farmers, I think some people in high positions were on the take and accepted bribes because the policies are so bad and favor non-national interests so much. It gives you cause to wonder the power of the multinationals when they want profits. The government is supposed to protect the people, not pander to those with the biggest wallets. As I always say, the profit motive has no concern for community or humanity or social outcome or even good policy. It’s just ruthless about doing what’s necessary for ever more, secure profits for itself. And then it shields those profits from taxes in ways the littel guys who were eliminated never could, and there is no trickle down effect to the nation or employees. Just the rich owenrs. Think about that.

How many more agricultural issues should I bring up that worry the heck out of me, besides the bees, of course? Weather instability is now here, seed risk is now here, water risk is now here, and population demand is climbing and we recently SAW what happened when wheat, milk, ice and corn prices doubled …. NOW is the time this is perfectly clear. The risks are no longer theoretical that we should do nothing until it’s too late, and then complain. The regulation, as with the banking crisis, must begin NOW and restore the food care to the people in a distributed system that ensures its safety. That IS a national security concern and imperative. Otherwise, one new agricultural anthrax type bug out of nowhere and the whole system can collapse. Only DIVERSITY protects you from that, just as a DIVERSITY of medical approaches (homeopathic, chinese medicine, nutritional, altenrative medicine, bodywork, etc.) protects the population even though the medical establishment may desipise it.

Don’t let agricultural giants put us at risk in the same way the financial community did. To lose money is one thing, but to be without food as the result of unwise policy means death. Why would we let our leaders be so calous at the behest of the corporate globalmeisters once again, who can promise agricultural security with beautiful words but when the sh*t actually does hit the fan, will be able to deliver nothing. The whole system needs to be reworked and rethought out NOW … a balance of the bigger, and resurgence of many smaller players for diveristy and safety’s sake and for too many reasons for me to write. Do you part — contact your Senators and Congressman and public officials. They never act unless there is pressure. If you see the results of what the financial sector did, and just consider a FEW of the things I noted and think them through, you have more than enough wisdom to understand the risks right now, especially with the weather changing, water becoming more scare, seed diversity disappearing, …

This is what concerns me!

When you start reaching the higher stages of cultivation, everything you do in the regular world is a GUA or hexagram that can symbolize your stage of cultivation or progress ahead.

For the last several days I’ve been cleaning the stove prior to Thanksgiving, scrubbing every dirty and encrusted surface with cleaner, soap and then a brillo pad many times. Today I turned it on after this complete scrubbing and overhaul and found some of the tiny holes for the gas jets blocked, so I even cleaned every tiny gas jet opening with a toothpick. Every tiny nozzle that had become clogged with a bit of soap from the cleaning is now clean and clear all the way through.

Now everything is clean and open. They all run perfectly clear and smooth.

Ordinary life is a gua (hexagram) that mimics your cultivation. That’s why you must be careful doing every tiny thing in the world carefully, just like my Teacher. If you saw him on a daily basis you’d have to say he was perfect; everything he does carefully. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t make mistakes, or that he cannot change his mind, or alter his opinion, or have wrong judgements. It doesn’t mean you’ll even like him or get along with him. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t make errors.
It’s just that everything he chooses to do he does with exactness and perfection. His mind is clear and he attends to all the details. It’s pretty amazing if you saw it. Regular people look at him and can tell something is different than with ordinary people but cannot tell what it is, so I’m rending the veil

Okay, so Obama wins. The cabinet picks always reveal what is to come.

Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State is not a wise choice because there is the large danger she will always have her own agenda and not follow the President’s wishes. Who knows what  secret things she will be up to? Especially due to the past connections of her husband and his administration…who knows what objectives she will working on without anyone’s knowing, including the President.

During the Watergate trial, she was on the prosecution team and the head of the team refused to give her a letter of recommendation — something he refused only 3 times in his life. Why? He said she didn’t follow orders at times and followed her own agenda, sometimes performing acts that were on the cusp of illegality and would certainly get her disbarred as he recalls it. This is on the record, go check. Remember, this is ALL before she became famous… and remember that personalities rarely change.

Next under the Clinton regime she created her OWN health care plan without consulting anyone, always thinking that she’s smarter and following her own plan. Her OWN plan. Then she becomes a Presidential candidate — she wants the top job, she wants to be the boss. Can such a person listen to someone else? It remains to be seen. With such past cases, how can you expect anyone to follow your orders? The risks are too high.  We shall see, we shall see.

It’s take about 2 years before the truth of what I say becomes apparent….someone with their own agenda because of the makeup of their personalityand because of past connections presenting opportunities that they have a hard time saying “no” to. I’m not saying it will definitely happen and I have nothing against Hillary, but am saying it is a risk. I would not put myself in such a position. A very unwise decision from these standpoints.

As to the White House Chief of Staff, once again we have a dual citizen. Now THINK. We have a rule that the President MUST be nation born, for very good reasons - no divided loyalties. We also have a rule that he must be 35 years old to help insure maturity. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

Anyone who understands potential conflicts of interests, which happen more often than not, understands what’s inherently possible when a Dual Citizen reaches a position of power in the government. Sorry, but it should just be outlawed for similar principles. Plain and simple, no matter who it is. That’s why we establish these rules in the first place, because they embody wisdom and prevent the veering into error.

Error that never happens and is never seen is wisdom accomplished. Perhaps Obama was afraid for his life, and through this appointment tried to prove to others that he was not going to be overly helpful to Islamic causes. In any case, it’s not a man of gumption who does this or a man with clear thinking again. And if you say the Chief of Staff “was the best man for the job,” I refer to the wisdom principle once again. I don’t care if the person is a dual citizen of Canada or Britain or anywhere else. The principles I’ve outlined should guide government policy.

As to some of the other picks, some good, some “nothing special.” The problem with Obama is that he has no political capital. He has no one who owes him favors, and that makes it difficult to get things done, so he needs old insiders otherwise the threat is he’d accomplish nothing. The question is what baggae they bring, and what are the real level of their skills as to the RIGHT POLICY. Now the time in the nation should focus on the right policy, not how to administrate well.

You will always know what will happen in an administration by the selection of the cabinet members, and also by the nickname of the president before office. McCain was known as “McNasty” all his life, and that would clearly have shown through in the end. Now we have a presentable great speaker whose polish reminds me of Will Smith. But whether that turns into the wise policies we need and hope for, that remains to be seen.

Oh and by the way….do you remember when oil prices dropped from $140 to $80 almost overnight BEFORE there was any drop in demand? Do you know why? Because most of the fluff was speculation — hedge funds, investment banks, etc. bought massive amounts of oil contracts and had to liquidate because of the declining stock market and bad CMOs (mortgage investmeents). So the demand dried up from these non-users, and the price went down. Just as some wise people said, the extra fluff was all due to speculation, not real industrial demand.  In fact, the MAJORITY of the price is now CLEARLY seen to have been due to speculation sine nearly every hedge fund and brokerage was in on this. The fact that oil is now $50 should give you pause to think –  some of that low price IS due to lower demand but nearly $100 worth? The big boys had to sell anything and everything liquid because they needed cash, and thus that speculative froth went away.

This should give you cause to ponder what to do next time. I discuss some things in my book on Kuan Tzu, which is the  sage MOST appropriate for our times - the first master of Keynesian and Monetary stimulas in history.  Not Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Sun Tzu and so forth. A strong economy is not built on financial services or export trade flows, for they put it at risk over time. It’s strong because it builds up its own internal market that cannot be exported away. This is something to think about.

After the River Chariot rotation is established, after many rotations the body’s chi does change.

Let it Circulate, circulate, circulate.

Crack the bones, invert the organs, extrude out the dirty chi and push it out of the body.

Do this over and over again,

Using all your skill and concentration to keep the central channel upwards circulation alive.

Previous was the furnace stage called “Heating.” This stage we can call “Cooking.”

The chi at the stage you reach is finally called “Glistening.” It softens and runs smooth, it’s not sticky like jing and its transparency has some shine.

If you practice very hard, maybe Golden Acalanatha will come pay you a visit!

 

 The chi at the next stage you reach after the circulation has run quite some time is called “Noble.” It softens because most of the yin is gone.

 

Let me correct you here as an aside because the whole world has it wrong. The chakras don’t spin. You only run chi around them in circles at the beginning of the path to try to loosen them up. They are pumps. The chi runs through their center and they pump it, pushing it like peristalsis. The most important chakras are the root, heart, throat and crown because they are on the sushumna, central channel which you need to open for Samadhi and enlightenment. After you establish the opening of the root chakra, you don’t have to worry about this chakra so much but must concentrate on either the heart or throat chakra, visualizing them as silver, to lead the chi from the root chakra outlet to the flower bud at the crown where the channels all intersect. That’s the important thing.

 

Establish the sushumna to the crown! Make it stand erect from the root chakra, through the heart and throat chakras to the crown nexus. You have to connect it that point where the tu-mai connects with the jen-mai at the crown chakra. Thus the chi pushed upwards from below (the root chakra) will intersect with the circulation of the back and front channels, and it will follow the pushing of the tu-mai into the jen-mai circulation to get you to a higher stage. Don’t worry about the left and right channels. The important thing is to concentrate on making the crown chakra silver to draw the chi upwards to connect with it, or to make either the heart chakra silver or throat chakra silver to draw it up from the base, through their center, so that it gets to the crown. The whole important thing is the central channel from the root chakra to the crown. We need this opened and erect if you want to attain dhyana.

 

Break the white bone chi that encases the new chi. You can use external force to crush the bones open, or mentally expand the chi from within (the higher method). Or you can just leave things alone and in the fullness of time what needs to happen will happen, but I am speeding your path. Free yourself of the confines of the old skeleton. Eject the bodies within the body, eject the living skeletons, and eject the free form elixir that responds to thoughts. It’s just the discarded chi that no longer runs in the channels. Get rid of this garbage. It’s not precious as the Tao school suggests. You want dhyana and not an immortal body. Let the immortal body come later. Push it out the soles of the feet, the toes, the fingers, the palms, the eyes, the ears, the penis, every orifice and external chakra point. If you get to this stage, you’ll know what to do.

 

Invert your internal organs, open them up so that their chakras can pump out the unrefined chi from circulations ago. Let the vines of channels with chakras be expelled from their central openings. The prostate, kidneys, liver, gall bladder, heart, stomach and others – you can do it with all the organs, their coverings tear open, the old chakra stalks and petals and dirty chi pushes out. Let it come out, this is old chi that hasn’t yet transformed and is stuck within these channels from several stages past. Push all this garbage chi that’s still unrefined out the orifices. Offer it away.

 

I cannot stress “Offering” enough. If you don’t offer you cannot succeed on the great road.

 

Chalk like chi, paste like chi, cement colored chi, white chi, milk chi, glossamer chi—so many types I cannot count. I cannot describe their consistency or their colors. It doesn’t matter anyway since it’s always the same process. You are just “purifying the elements.” That’s all Buddha would say to explain because he didn’t want you clinging, and he didn’t want you to need a master. If you just follow his wisdom way instructions, you can do it all yourself.

 

Exit all this impure chi through the orifices but establish the sushumna upwards otherwise the chi from the root chakra will come out and fall forward, never proceeding through the heart chakra or throat chakra to the crown complex. Make sure the crown bud stays silver to attract it upwards, because you can always lead the chi forwards by projecting a silver circle, globe, flame, star or anything like that in front of it. It’s always attracted to it like a magnet.

 

When the chi collects in the form of a person, you can toss out this garbage that responds to thoughts at will. It can leave the bones, it can leave the body. It is garbage and not the thing to cultivate. The bodies within the body, that hug its shape like a copy – let them wiggle out the top as well. Make sure you use the white skeleton method on the back shoulders and ribs to do so, for the shoulders are where it always gets stuck.

So many, so many transformations. Either I’m an idiot to tell you, or helping you a lot. One thing is for sure, this is what the religions are after. And yet when someone explains it, people yawn and want something else!

 

The chi at the next stage is called “Dazzling” or “Sparkling.” Because of the sparkle of the crown chakra (where all the channels meet) it is thus named. It softens, it nourishes. The Tathagata Vairocana advises – KEEP THE SPARKLE ALIVE. Adjust your eating, adjust your habits, adjust your cultivation, concentrate on silverizing the heart or throat chakra where necessary, but do everything you must to Keep The Crown Chakra Silver Sparkle Flame Alive and the circulation going from below straight upwards. This keeps the tu-mai and jen-mai circulations alive, as well as the central, left, and right channels.

 

You can look at free Hubble images of the bright points of galaxies and stars and project them on your chakra spots (establishing bright points) to help get them started through visualization. You can look at images of Hindu temples that project upwards, imitating the crown chakra, to help you rise the chi. You can steal a quick glance at the sun, and then project the memory of that bright silver circular image at the heart, crown or throat chakra to help you keep the fire going. These are all fine methods I’m giving you. Strive to do it, strive not to fail. I’m really so kind to tell you these things. You cannot repay me in a hundred million years.

 

Remember the faults of the schools, and vow for complete and perfect Buddhahood. The Taoists reach this stage because they want to cultivate the physical body to immortality, for that goal is within reach if you just keep cultivating the body this way. Just open up the River Chariot and keep cultivating the body and you’ll have it.

 

But in Buddhism this is only transforming the physical body’s karmic chi into the Reward Body, a sambhogakaya or Enjoyment body. It is one of the three bodies of a completely realized one – the dharmakaya, sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya. What you must do is use this as a basis for cultivating dhyana.

 

At this stage of Dazzling you are near the first dhyana. Bliss suffuses everywhere in the body because of the purity of the chi in its circulation, the body is enervated and joy and happiness is everywhere. But this is not high enough. Let go of the sixth consciousness and the seventh and cultivate prajna wisdom to go higher. Who is so stupid as to remain at the first dhyana and not want the complete objective?

 

The Taoists don’t wish to cultivate dhyana, and thus they don’t attain it. The many stories, such as of Ancestor Lu, tell this to be the truth. But some Buddhist masters don’t want to cultivate the sambhogakaya after they see the Tao either, and thus they don’t attain it as well but leave the world to cultivate elsewhere.

 

In the Esoteric School they strive to cultivate the impure and then pure illusory bodies after breaking through the skandhas, trying to use them to cultivate pure consciousness. They don’t realize their method is not the right way, but is simply Brahmanism yoga in disguise, a method Padmasambhava taught who was not teaching the great Buddha’s way.

 

The religions of the world, the secret mystery schools and societies, yoga, kabbala and all the rest. They all want to know this. They all want to reach this. It’s nothing secret, it’s just a process. All you need to do is cultivate just as I’ve explained.

 

I feel silly and awkward all the time because I have to tell you what’s important, what you should respect, what is rare, what is secret, or even the fact that you may not have the merit to receive these instructions. It sounds like a crankety old schoolmarm. I feel like a man wearing a sock puppet on his hand, who teaches a lesson, and then has the puppet speak the extra side comments and explanations because you don’t have the necessary background to know or appreciate anything. You may think it comes off as arrogance or haughtiness, but it’s not. Everything I tell you about the necessary respect for the dharma is the truth. The dharma has to be transmitted and this is the only way to do it because my country’s cultural understanding is so very gosh darn low. It’s almost non-existent so I even have to explain the significance of what I tell you, or the fact you have to respect it. You’re missing the background to appreciate and respect, so I even have to bow down and humiliate myself to tell you all that as well.

 

In this worldy world people die for the dharma, they give up life and kingdoms for the dharma. The celestials beg Buddhas to teach even though they have every enjoyment and luxury at their thoughts wish. People don’t understand how precious this information is, and how hard it is to attain these teachings or someone to guide you. They are so spoiled by free information in this information age that they think these teachings have the equivalent value of everything else. Ridiculous people without any culture, background, education or training. If you think you can get this elsewhere then go elsewhere. I don’t want to deal at all with people who don’t respect the fine dharma I’m giving. This is my own skillful means in the crazy circumstances of today’s “ten thousand voices” world. Go listen to the Dalai Lama talk, or a Mormon bishop, or the Pope or someone else. See what I care.

 

Ignorant people don’t know the value of what begins to jump you out of the Three Realms and an endless cycle of misery and suffering as you reincarnate over and over through ups and downs. Through aeons! This religion, that religion, this race, that sect, this country, that nation, that sex, no path at all, some merit, no merit, rich, poor, ugly, handsome, average, crippled, sick, blind, hungry, diseased, hell bound, upwards again and then repeat. This world, that world, another one next …. The orthodox religions paint a rosy picture of a final end but when merit is used up, karma pulls you down again. Without the teachings in that next life, what are you going to do? Another life wasted where you didn’t even make progress, and then again and again and again … How can you ever escape?

 

What is the solution? You cannot unite with the purity of consciousness within which this is all experienced. You have to cultivate PAST MIND to get to the original nature, and that path involves the prajna transcendental wisdom of letting go when experiencing mind. I’m only describing the stages of gong-fu transformation so you don’t get lost, and know what to do. But the real path is Mind-only. What people don’t realize is that the religious saints and sages of ALL traditions go this route and pass through these changes. However, there are ways in which you can veer off the straight track. Also, not everyone reaches the same levels of high attainment as well. Just read the Bible and you’ll see a wide difference in the Samadhi attainments of the prophets.

 

What the religions don’t realize is that Shakyamuni Buddha, the enlightened one, was a great yogi who went through all these things as well but did NOT stop at the purity of the alaya consciousness, but went through it. Consciousness no longer binds someone completely enlightened for they operate via prajna. That attainment is rarely achieved, but since that time a few have been able to do it because he showed the way. The religions are all lost as to what they think is the spiritual path, but Buddha explained the many facets you can follow clearly. You don’t have to be a “Buddhist,” but you should respect what he had to say if you want to get very far rather than cling to the notions you were born into because of karma.

 

Up and down you’ll bob without a road of true spiritual cultivation to follow. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Jain, Jew, Moslem, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist or whatever, this is the way of things. No being can escape it. You are not immune just because you don’t believe it or weren’t told or believe in something else. That’s just your lack of merit. Don’t think your own school is so important because frankly you’re just plain lost with your misconceptions. The public admires actors and singers (entertainers), presidents and kings, athletes, generals and rich men with money or power – Ozymandias all and names soon forgotten — but the Desire Realm celestials could care less as they are all lined up outside my door. Guess who knows the worth? If I don’t tell you the value to help you make progress, who will? But as to the secret merits you can now perform at this low stage, you are not worthy to hear.

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After you go through all the skandhas, and produce the impure and then pure illusory bodies, are you done yet? No, you’ve just started. Within the physical body you must still  keep pouring the dirty chi out of chi channels to complete the purification of the “four (five) elements,” as termed by Buddhism. Buddhism usually just talks about four elements when it leaves out the space element, which is empty. When the chi channels completely empty of impure chi, the body deflates, and a new one is rebuilt. In Taoism this is called “expelling all the toxins from the body.” That’s it, just one phrase to summarize the process.

 

Of particular difficulty at this stage is to open up the chakra at the back of the head where the jade pillow is. When you can do this, you’re almost there to a stage that really means some initial accomplishment that’s worth something. After you can do that, there are several more degrees of purification but a major accomplishment is within reach – you can stabilize the bright points at each of the chakras and you can finally open up the real tu-mai and jen-mai chi channels and start the rotation of the “river chariot” spoken of in Taoism. This is also the chariot sometimes spoken of in Jewish mysticism.

 

Why is this rotation of chi within the major chi channels compared to a chariot? The best way for me to explain it is to have you imagine that you are  rolling up a carpet. You know the feeling as you turn that circular object over and over, rolling it. So imagine a string of chi whose tip points downward and hangs inside your root chakra in your perineum. Now imagine that it is pulled back and rolls up, like a carpet. That’s the sensation of rolling that then proceeds up the tu mai (back) and down the jen-mai (front) channels and through all the extra meridians which are filled with this thick semenlike jing-chi. Actually it’s more like a single impulse or undulation that proceeds around the entire microcosmic circuit in the body, for the whole circuit is one unbroken, fully connected string (stream) of chi. There’s no “tip” of chi – I was just trying to make you understand the feeling of the rotation.

 

This is the stage of the River chariot rotation. It is a “river,” or water chariot because the chi is clear and initially has the consistency similar to jing. It’s like the water element. Hence it is sometimes called the “Waterwheel.” In Buddhism, one of the minor side meanings of the “wheel of the law” refers to this stage of accomplishment.

 

Over  and over again this thick plasticine like chi rolls through the circuit of the channels, like a chariot whose wheels are sloooowly making its course through an orbit. You don’t try to push it out of the orifices as you’ve done in the hundreds of previous stages of transformation, but just let it perform this circulation on its own without any guidance. This is the secret stage that Taoism refers to, and many other mystery schools. This is the real thing for laying an initial foundation for the Tao. As I always tell you, opening up the chakras is not the Tao, but only lays a good foundation for the Tao. This is the stage where you’ve finally reached close to the final shape of the chakras, so you’ve “opened” them but still not quite. Just very close because there are several more transformations to go.   After you’ve reached this far, by establishing the bright points at THIS LEVEL of practice, you’re close to some stage of accomplishment.

 

You can only reach this stage after you had previously established almost permanent bright points on the major chakras from all the prior gong-fu work described in unwinding them, generating impure and pure illusory bodies, pushing out the dirty chi and so on. Previously it might have taken hours to establish a chi flame at one of the chakras due to visualization practice, and then next day you had to start all over again with concentration. Now however you can reignite the bright points quite readily to keep them going. It’s as easy as placing your thought on the location for a few seconds instead of struggling like within the previous stages. They are not “permanent” but I’m searching for a better word.

 

Previous to this, for so many stages  of transformation you poured impure chi out of the chi channels until the real shape of the chakras beneath could be revealed, and then you got them to unwind and expand. They were all wrapped up with layers of dirty filthy chi, and then channels within were filled with layers of chi and embedded in pools of dirty chi. Now they are clear but plasticine, for the chi is thick and viscous but extremely flexible. As time goes on and the River Chariot turns and turns, the chi of the rotation becomes less thick and more refined. I am only describing the initiatory phases of the process.

 

As I said, opening up the chakra at the back of the head is extremely difficult. After this feat, you can establish a nearly constant (easily re-ignitable) bright point at the four major and other minor chakra locations for the first time. You concentrated on bright points, or making tiny visualized images of chi flames at chakra openings and chi channel openings earlier along the way to help push out the dirty chi (transformed the five elements) but now those bright points are running relatively automatically on their own. You still need to watch them, but it’s harder to lose the flames, meaning that the chakra stays open and the circulation within stays unobstructed. This is Success – but don’t lose your semen despite the sexual desire at this stage. Yes, woman achieve these stages as well, so this is not just talking to men.

 

Then two or three days later after opening the Jade pillow chakra and establishing the bright points, if you haven’t lost your semen, then the rotation of the River Chariot will spontaneously initiate – once again due to the unwinding of the root chakra and the other chakras which has finally been reached because you established the bright points. Just prior to this rolling, everywhere within your body you can roll up or retract thick semen-like chi from inside your appendages (fingers, toes, the penis, etc.) and roll it in a lump to be discarded, which is something you’ve learned to do through all these other levels of transformation.

 

When the chariot rotation starts, this is the real meaning of the opening of the tu-mai and jen-mai, or front and back chi channels and the opening of the eight extra meridians in Taoism which comes along with this process. Another big secret revealed so that you can link the stages. The Chinese schools focus on the front and back channels; the Tibetan and Indian schools focus on the middle, left and right channels, but these have not opened just yet – you still must wait a bit. The channels to the feet have even been opened all the way through to get this far, otherwise the River Chariot could not undergo its rotation. In fact, three major channels open in the feet – the heels, and two more in front of it. It is almost impossible to open these chakras unless you get to this stage, which is why one of the respectful names for a Buddha refers to his having opened the great chakras in the bottom of the feet. The heel chakras do most of the pumping for the river circulation.  

 

I’ve told you to concentrate on the feet with the skeleton meditation and it’s extremely difficult to open up all the channels and chakras within it. You’ve also been able to open up channels to the organs (heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, etc.) too in order to get this to happen, though you also could have ignored them through this process. In other words, you don’t have to concentrate on them at all because they open naturally after you open all these other chakras and channels.

 

At this stage, the real tu-mai and jen-mai  chi channels are quite large in diameter (circumference) compared to the thin thread-like chi channels you concentrated on when first trying to open up the chakras when you first started upon the road of the Vajrayana-Esoteric school tantric focus as described by Tsong Khapa and the Six Yogas of Naropa. Of course I’ve explained how to practice this on the website with free articles and blog posts, and must tell you once again that there’s no better full body cultivation method than the white skeleton meditation for the stage of preparation. Of course I’ve gone through other techniques and meditation methods as well. Prior to this you’ve had all sorts of teachings on consciousness, heaven, Taoist transformation, Christian cultivation, Jewish cultivation, etc. It’s up to you to do the work to study and practice. If you don’t lay a foundation of intensified practices, you cannot get this far at all.

 

The rolling of the chi through its channels (the River Chariot rotation) starts slow at first and then speeds up, and eventually becomes smooth. This chi is extremely thick and viscous at first. It’s more akin to jing, and then with rotation, like the churning of butter, becomes  more refined like chi. Thus we have the jing to chi transformations of Taoism. In fact, this IS the real jing to chi transformations mentioned by Taoism. 

 

The jing being pumped by the root chakra over and over again in a circuitous body circulation through the front and back channels, so its origins seem to come from down below. It’s like one long string or loop of chi that is being  recirculated   over and over again to refine it. It proceeds for the root chakra up the back to the top of the head, then down the front, to the root chakra again, through that to the feet, and front the feet upwards through the root chakra again. One big circuit. From within the feet a chakra pumps the chi upwards to the bottom of the root chakra, completing the circuit from below. This is the meaning of the Tao school injunction to breath through the bottom of the feet. It  only becomes true at this stage of attainment.

 

Naturally the body is initially warm to hot as the River Chariot first initiates, and over time the temperature evens out to warmness  rather than any hotness like fierce fiery kundalini. Several hours later, next comes coolness and the onset of subtle bliss. This, I’m describing, are just the first few hours of the process.  The previous practices of kundalini yoga, or kundalini cultivation to open chakras and channels that you started upon ages ago are long forgotten as this is the real thing, the real kundalini bliss.

 

Because of the heat, just prior to this stage sometimes the chi inside the body strips off and curls down off the inner walls of the inner chi layers of the physical body. Also, various full sized human chi bodies wiggle free from within and are ejected out the top, often being stuck at the shoulders from wriggling free. Those are some of the final purifications that happen (toxins ejected) before the River Chariot rotation commences. So many transformations, so many purifications. They’re all just summarized as “expelling toxins” within Taoism or “purifying the five elements” within Buddhism. In Tantra they are called “expelling winds” out of the channels. The vocabulary is different but it’s all the same thing.

  

The opening of the River Chariot — this is how the body should be. This is the  natural state of a truly healthy human being. On top of the head in the center is a little loop, or “flower” or “bud” or “bow” wherein all the chi arrives from down below. This is the “Nirvana Palace” of Taosim and Sacred or Crown chakra of Orthodox Buddhism and the Esoteric School. It is the Baihui location of Chinese medicine. You can feel it is opened, and the channels in the sides of the head open as well. From below, near the perineum, is the root chakra pumping. But it has been so transformed through this process to its original shape that the pumping of the circulation is now smooth  like a rolling wave. A single pulse, a smooth ripple or undulation rides its way  throughout the entire orbit of the front and back chi channels. All the other chakras are opened, so there is nothing that provide an obstruction any longer to the circulation. This is truly the “Yuan” of the Chinese Tao School, the initial fruit of the Tao. Sweet saliva flows profusely. If you want to see what a sage has written about this stage, you can see pp. 78-79 in Tao and Longevity, by Huai-chin Nan (available on amazon.com).

 

The mind starts to enter  dhyana and is quiet, but one must still use wisdom to detach from the sixth consciousness. It’s easier now to realize what the seventh consciousness or thinking mind actually is compared to the sixth consciousness, or grasping mind. Had you only been able to differentiate between the sixth and seventh consciousness earlier, you would have been able to accomplish this much sooner. Such is the way of both Buddhism and Vedanta.

 

The breathing slows and often stops and one can remain that way in a state of Xi. This is why Buddha taught people to enter this stage through practicing the methods of the Anapanasati Sutra. Just that method alone, combined with the white  skeleton meditation and a life of discipline (celibacy, no lust) can get you here).

 

The limbs soften inside and feel light and pliant as the rotation commences. I want to use the word “nonexistent” but you know they are existent, and yet that phrase comes to mind. They are so soft inside as they are being transformed. A subtle happiness spread across the mind as you are entering dhyana. The wonders of the mind are just opening up. 

 

Are there any special powers that come out? No, life is as ordinary as it was before. The bustle on the street, hawkers selling their wares, people shopping and doing errands. Only now one is free and easy in their mind and as their body slowly diffuses into bliss, comfort spreads everywhere.

 

The smoothness of the chi flow, even with the slight undulation or ripple, reminds you of the soft caress of a beautiful woman. The purity of the stage is like a beauty with a flawless, creamy smooth complexion. The yang chi glow of a perfect round white jade comes to mind. It is soft, it is round, it is natural, it is lovely. I can only say “beauty flows to the limbs” or “beauty flows throughout the limbs” or “beauty suffuses everywhere.” This is the stage Mencius called “Beauty,” for that’s the only word you can think of to describe it (and thus you have a linkage to the Confucian cultivation school and its way of describing the stages). It is jing that has not transformed into chi but is suffusing everywhere to soften, moisten and open all the channels, and thus being still yin it is referred to like the feminine. It is a beautious stage, beautiful, a thing of beauty. I can only say that.

 

Softness suffuses everything. The joy bubbles up inside. Even the moon, as pure and round as it seems, is not as perfect as this state. No pearl is as elegant for pearls are hard and gritty by comparison. Accepting of all human beings, kindness, gentleness, softness and humility flow freely as the yang flows. This is the true human nature.

 

Soft, round, full

The worries of the past fall away.

Beauty flows to the limbs,

The body seems as if not there.

 

A fine wine cannot in any way compete,

I offer it, I offer it to everyone,

But how can I share it with you?

Better just to leave it alone.

 

Sexual desire disappears. Who can think of sex at a time like this? Coarse thoughts disappear as if in a dream. The hormones in the body descend like rain from above feeding the flowers below. You wonder – “what types of grasses will grow up from down below (around the root chakra)?” This is NOT the circulation of the jen-mai nor the sweet saliva I’m speaking of at this stage, but a shower of hormones from within the head that falls downward within the body. It’s like a light sprinkling or fine shower of drops that you can see now and then, mostly from the front part of the head. It’s like a light rain or drizzle, and you can sometimes see the droplets sprinkle down. This is the kan hexagram of Taoism.

 

You can feel the wave as it rolls up the tu mai and then down the front. From the heels it ascends upwards, the chakras in the feet pulsing. Eventually the central, left and right channels separate themselves from the back and establish themselves and their circulation proceeding from below and straight upwards. Initially these channels were as stuck or glued to the tu-mai back channel, but now they peel away and free themselves so that they stand erect in the center of the body.

 

What I’ve just revealed is a big secret – people miss these channels because they are attached to the back governor channel and because the chi through them proceeds up to the bud, you don’t notice them. Not until they peel away and establish themselves to go directly upwards. Whenever you feel like there are three channels near the back of the body, with the large one being the tu mai, understand that the left and right channels are trying to peel away so that they can stand erect, and when that happens they will pull the sushumna forwards as well. This is a yoga