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.