Someone asked me a funny question the other day, “What do Buddhas eat?”

Now this is a funny question because Buddhas are people just like you and me who have simply awakened, and as a result the question is basically, “What do enlightened people eat?”

The answer is: “Anything they want.”

Let’s go into this a little more deeply because I’m sure you were expecting the answer to involve veganism or vegetarianism. If you are a person devoted to spiritual cultivation, what you consume depends upon your needs and the circumstances and purposes. That’s the first thing to consider. Compassion is also a major factor in choosing what to eat, but if you’re adrift on the high seas and only fish are available to keep you alive, you must choose whether you willing to die in place of the fish. It all comes down to your wisdom and your circumstances.

In the first years of Buddhism, it’s surprising to know that the Buddhist monks weren’t perfectly vegetarian but ate whatever food was offered to them unless it was meat from an animal that was specifically killed for them. If that was the case, or if they were asked to select the animal to be slaughtered, they were forbidden to eat it. In Tibet today, many Tibetan monks are also not strictly vegetarian either but eat whatever is offered. In China, however, with a history of plentiful vegetarian food because of the monastic system, the rule of vegetarianism was enforced for all monks.

But consider this: the famous meditation adept Milarepa only attained his enlightenment after ending a near starvation diet by drinking some beer and eating some meat supplied by his friends. As he found out, if you don’t eat the right food to keep up your strength, it is hard to succeed at spiritual cultivation. Even Buddha was not able to succeed in attaining enlightenment until his health, damaged by severe asceticism, was restored to normal after eating some rice gruel or porridge. I also know of a great Zen master who ate only one small vegetarian meal a day at noon and also found that it did not supply him with enough energy for his cultivation efforts, and so he started eating meat again, although in limited portions, to restore his health and cultivation efforts. It comes down to what you need in conjunction with what you think is right and proper.

And this is one of the main factors to consider – that less meat is certainly better than more, but none may not be enough, especially if you are subsisting on the wrong type of carbohydrates in a vegetarian diet. Many monks in China eat too much tofu and soybeans and as a result, pancreatic cancer and diabetes is quite prevalent due to their diets. In America many vegetarians eat far too much sugar and wheat and destroy their health in the process, too. Meat protein may be warranted, but with today’s hormone laden food, even this decision is questionable.

Then again, it’s a rule in Buddhism that if you are sick and need to eat meat to recover, it is considered a breach of discipline to refuse that medicine though you may want to keep the purity of vegetarianism in play. Once again, it comes down to what’s necessary to help one stay healthy and thus able to succeed in their cultivation. In Orthodox Judaism, a similar rule holds that if you refuse non-kosher food that’s part of the medical prescription for getting well, it is also a breach of discipline to refuse it.

So what do you eat to stay healthy and succeed in spiritual cultivation? What is the best diet for you and for people in general? No one can say with authority, although many would like to– it’s dependent upon you and your genes, your efforts, your circumstances and how you feel with the diet you choose. Many people say they feel cleaner on a vegetarian diet, and that meat weighs them down and clouds their mind, and that they are healthier as vegetarians or vegans than as meat eaters. For such sensitive people, they’ve already determined what’s best for themselves.

Then again, one thing I can mention is that many naturopaths and nutritionists have told me that when strict vegetarians get sick, in many cases it’s almost impossible to cure them if they don’t start eating some animal protein again. The famous Edgar Cayce recommended fish, then poultry, then lamb and beef in this ascending order if one were to eat meat as a source of protein. Pork is universally recognized as one of the worst meats across all traditions. And as to what vegetables are good for people, you have to first rule out if you are allergic or have a sub-clinical sensitivity to it. Just because it’s a vegetable doesn’t mean it’s good for you!

Many people are sensitive to foods but don’t know it because their vitality is strong, but as they get older and their immune system declines those foods start producing symptoms that were previously masked by robustness. So what may seem like a vegetarian “safe food” may actually be doing harm to your body. If someone gets cancer, one of the first things to do is find those food offenders through a blood test and then strictly rule them out of the diet, vegetarian or not. With today’s GMO foods, this rule is more important than ever as many people are allergic to GMO crops.

The question as to whether you should eat meat or not is really up to you from considering your circumstances and the effect that it brings. It’s a matter of balance, necessity and compassion. So what do enlightened beings eat? Whatever they choose to eat because of their vows and circumstances.

I always recommend the Tibetan 9-bottled wind practice for cultivators. It involves holding your breath for as long as possible and is an assist to cultivation in the early stages of the path.

Well the world record holder’s method for holding their breath — shown here doing so for nearly 17 minutes under water in front of Oprah — explains his method of khumbhaka to Oprah and the audience.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/10/30/how-to-hold-your-breath/

Pay attention to the fact that at the end when he cannot hold any longer, he says he practices a type of emptiness meditation.

That’s the key — letting go of both mind and body. He looks extremely healthy and well balanced, just like a martial artist, because he has somewhat opened up his channels. Practicing emptiness meditation would in all likelihood change his appearance to an even lighter complexion over time.

Here are his steps though you can read more on the blog post.

The Steps:

1:30 deep breathing
1:15 purging (if you feel like you’re going to pass out, do it less intensely)

Hold breath for target 1:30, no more
After 1:30:
Take 3 semi-purge breaths

1:30 deep breathing
1:30 purging

Hold breath for target 2:30, no more
After 2:30
Take 3 semi-purge breaths

2:00 deep breathing
1:45 purging

Hold breath for as long as possible
After exhalation:
Take 3-10 hard semi-purge breaths until your recover

I’ve read many pundits and the conclusion is there’s a 50:50 chance we’ll have a double dip recession. I think it’s more like 60:40 because real jobs cannot come back. Furthermore, the housing stimulus is over.

The BP oil well will probably keep spilling for another few months simply because it happened before, and it took 8 months to fix the problem … in shallower water with the same techniques they’re trying today.

Don’t believe me? Watch this video …

The Times has just presented an article on the declining age of puberty:

Puberty Article

In the 1800’s puberty for girls and boys was around 15 and 17 years of age, respectively.

In the 1960’s, the ages were determined to be around 12 for girls and 14 for boys. These are the ages that girls first start getting their period, and the age when the voices of boys start to break and they experience a growth spurt.

The new findings are that girls are starting puberty, including breast development, at age 9 (9 years and 10 months on average, which is a full one year ealier than the last time the study was done about 15 years ago). Many boys drop out of choir in England because their voices are now breaking at around ages 11-12!

Some people say this is because of hormone-like substances in the food chain (I agree), and others simply because of a better diet.

It’s interesting to note that over 2,000 years Shakyamuni Buddha foretold, through samadhi insight, that the age of puberty for women would eventually drop to around 5 years of age for this world. He also said that in the far future the world would become so toxic and polluted that almost any item could be used to kill/harm another person, and the Gulf Oil spill illustrates how we are slowly heading in that direction. Amazing predictions from 2,000+ years ago, especially when you consider the environmental circumstances of that era.

I’ve often sat in my room trying to brainstorm ways to get rid of that giant floating island of plastic the size of Texas that is now floating in the Pacific. Shakyamuni Buddha often said that the world would become toxic to an extreme degree and it’s no lie that our environmental ways are poisoning the planet. The BP spill is an example, but this one represents an even larger long term danger.

Forget all this emphasis on global warming — this is the problem we should be working on. Silly me, I kept envisoning ships sweeping the ocean with nets between them to corral the waste so that it could be compacted and towed somewhere, but also knew it wouldn’t work because people would have already suggested this methodology. Finally I found something that the billionaires of the world should finance as a try:

http://www.rense.com/general90/rid.htm

Start your ideas swirling after reading about the Thermal Conversion Process perfected by a New York company, Changing World Technologies.

And speaking about saving the oceans, Kevin Costner, the actor, has funded to the tune of over $20M the development of barges that suck up oil spills in water, spin the water in a centrifuge, and separate out the oil from the water for a 99% clean discharge … a way to help clean up ocean oil spills. This is exactly the type of free thinking, far thinking, important thinking that I always urge people to do, especially the superrich looking for ways to spend their monies on charity.

This is also where I get very disappointed because the people best positioned to invest in something like this are the oil companies themselves and the billionaires of the world and both did nothing. I’ve always been trying to figure out a way to clean oil spills from the ocean and here we have an actor spending his own funds to do so, which to me is an embarassment of the mega-rich:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011925837_oilkevin22.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bp-calls-in-costners-26m-vacuum-cleaners-to-mop-up-huge-oil-spill-1979976.html

The growing disasters over the next few decades will not just be oil spills, but seed/crop disasters caused by unwise policies of Monsanto and other companies. These catastrophes are happening before our very eyes, just like the banking crisis, and when they occur it will be too late for legislation. “We didn’t know. The science said __” will be all the rage of officials trying to cover their butts. I warned you of the recession. Don’t say I didn’t wan you about this.

Someone who had bedbugs wrote this and sent to me on how he finally got rid of them. Since it might be of use to someone out there, I’m posting it on the web for everyone to make one man’s experience publicly available.

1. diatomaceous earth – WORKED. it scratches the heck out of them and makes them
slow and stupid, it was much easier to kill them, they were not as good about
hiding, and when they would come to bite we could almost always feel them (as
opposed to before, when we could only feel the bite a while after they left) and
it’s pretty dang cheap. it works best combined with deep cleaning.

2. deep cleaning – absolute necessity. Use a vacuum, suck up every little corner
nook and cranny. We found deep cleaning not to be enough by itsself though, there
were just too many areas they could hide in. Get rid of every mattress and couch
they have been in, it’s no use trying to save the furniture. We would put the
diatomaceous earth down, wait a day then vacuum, then put the earth down again and
repeat until they disappeared.

3. pesticides/herbicides – BIG NO. the only one proven to kill them is ddt, which
will also kill you, and is illegal in america.

4. rubbing alcohol to keep them away from things- YEAH RIGHT. they always made it up
anyway. i caught a few and poured rubbing alcohol on them, the next day they were
still fine. doesn’t work

5. not killing them because you are a buddhist and think killing is wrong, even bugs
- and what about the health of your family, (no one with bed bugs gets a good nights
sleep) and the health of your neighbors family? they spread like the plague, they
invade your house and attack, suck your blood all ninja-like in the night when you
can’t see them. 1 female can have 3 hundred babies, who can live up to a year and a
half without eating, waiting for the chance to eat just once and make more babies.
these are not the bugs you gently lay outside, they will come back or they will go
find your neighbor.

People often write me saying they are old and weak and lost too much jing .. what shoudl they do?

taosim says to practice emptiness meditation and because one thereby cultivates shen (awareness without clinging), this will in time give rise to jing and chi. Why? Jing transforms into chi and chi into shen and vica versa.

For older people my teacher often recommended the Chinese medicine Liu Wei Di Huang Wang, which costs about $4 in any Chinese pharmacy, to help restore the debilitating effects from such loss in conjunction with old age.

Anything else? Some schools say to eat sesame seeds, which Chinese make into a tasty black soup. A Delicious desert we’d eat in Hong Kong all the time though I like Almond soup a little better.

The Indians say to eat pistachios and also the marrow from lamb bones.

Whatever you do, don’t eat the stimulating herbs with ginseng, oysters, etc. that stimulate but do not help renew the body.

A friend of mine, Dr. Jeffrey Moss, owns a nutritional supplement company and a few years ago went through hell due to tinnituis. Having access to almost any supplement and modality available, he tried many things until he came upon Dr. Natan Bauman of Hamden, CT (203-287-9915). What finally helped Jeff was Dr. Bauman’s teaching on what to do to reduce the problem and what causes it, and Jeff attributes an awfully large part of his “cure” to meditation.

In the elderly, tinnitus is often due to poor circulation, and can often be helped with anti-inflammatory, pro-circulatory supplements such as ginko biloba, vinpocetine, and nattokinase.

For individuals who have actually physically damaged their ears — such as musicians — the tinnitus is therefore caused by anatomical damage and supplements usually don’t help much in these cases. In these cases, various hearing aid devices that retrain the listening function can help.

Jeff explained that so much of tinnitus has to due  with a limbic system-inner ear connection, so any type of emotional/mental issue (that’s limbic) will magnify and prolong the problem. People will hear it less or not all because  of their minds, and the way to break the limbic connection is through meditation.

Neural biofeedback techniques can often help in this direction by redirecting brain function and chemistry, but Jeff says the best answer he’s found is meditation. Dr. Bauman, he explained, knows more about hearing than anyone he’s ever met and can help explain the nature of the problem and options available.

There’s also Kevin Hogan’s tinnitus program you might look into as well:

http://store.kevinhogan.com/tinnitusreductionprogramwithbook.aspx

Finally, one of the researchers on Gardasil speaks out:

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/10/25/top_stories/doc4ae4b76d07e16766677720.txt

In October 2007 — yes, two years ago, I told you to use common sense to figure this out,…and now my common sense view has proved correct despite all the PR and articles and “we’ve got to do something” claimed by Merck and the media. Remember when I wrote:

Gardasil, that Merck vaccine I warned you about several blog posts back, has already been linked to 5 deaths and over 2000  adverse reactions, bringing the “known total” of such problems to an astronomical amount.

This is happening to  little girls, mind you, with no risk of cancer at that age — and they’re still pushing it. Duh? Who’s getting compensated that they pushed this so strongly in spite of the logic against it and who’s not thinking straight? Which legislators should lose office?

Conventional wisdom – You want to risk vaccinating 11-12 year old girls (with practically zero risk of cervical cancer at that age)  with an untested vaccine with no long term studies of effects (such as causing cancer itself, or even the possibility of induced sterility) … and you want to do this when only 4000 people per year (out of 150 million women) die of cervical cancer and this is the initial response rate ?

I also told you about the recession WAY before the government and press did, once again from common  sense. IBM says THINK — don’t buy into the PR you see on TV. For instance, “the recession is over” — nonsense.

Another case — President Obama recently said we were in a state of national emergency for 1000 flu deaths. Now considering that over 25,000 people die per year from the flu, what’s that all about? Frankly, we have normal flu behavior — nothing to strike fear into the hearts of people, unless they don’t THINK.

Here’s what CBS uncovered about the coverup regarding the disaster hoopla  that never came …

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/27/Obama-Declares-Swine-Flu-Emergency.aspx

Other points you should think about — the Options Arm mortigage problem and commercial real estate problems are yet to hit next year, so how can you say a recession is over when THAT and the fact that unemployment is rising (and will probably hit 20% in some places by 2011 if those problems aren’t solved) exist … and how can you stimulate jobs if we’ve outsourced both service jobs (phone answerers, customer service, etc.) and MANUFACTURING, which is the basis of national wealth. Sorry, can’t be done. We’re in for a ride.

And do you really think that (1) health care costs will now go down and (2) insurance premiums will decline with the government’s new plan? You really believe that  because of the budget projection the Senators are so proud of? When was the last time a government program came in on budget (NASA, Medicaid, …)? A doctor who makes rounds in a hospital can stop and see you for one minute, mark his name down on the chart, and they’ll bill you $250. You’re never going to stop that behavior because that’s how he makes his money.

Another example: Surgeons have a minimum numbers of surgeries they must do each year in order to keep their license and hospital privileges … all designed to keep the money rolling in. So you might NOT need a knee operation, but there’s a tremendous pressure for a  knee surgeon to find 250 people to operate on to keep those rights even though far less actually need the surgery. That’s how it works.

Go read the Gardasil article again and what I predicted would happen … all 100% true. All from just common sense. Please understand profit motive causes corporations to push things people would not normally do, and yet employees within those organizations will do it because they don’t want to lose their jobs OR they just convince themselves that wrong is right or black is white (note in the article that the Gardasil researcher wanted to sleep at night) … like smoking doesn’t cause cancer, etc.

THINK. Expand that understanding to business, politics, and cultivation. Don’t get cheated. Money now controls so much of public policy so your chances of getting cheated are going to rise if there’s big money to be made by some group which can grab politicians and the airwaves and pro-whatever groups that say “We HAVE to do something.” Sometimes doing nothing is the best something because any other “something” would make things worst. Seems that’s the case with much of our interventionist foreign policy, which is now seeing continuining rises in blowback and backlash, and with the rise of the internet and modern communications in other countries where wrongs can be instantly telegraphed everywhere, we’re in trouble if we don’t change strategies.

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Candisol right before bedtime and immediately upon waking up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thought you should know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Root canals? Read this:

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

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

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

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

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

And water picks? Fantastic idea.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.thenhf.com/articles/articles_792/articles_792.htm