Attention % on tan tien during practice

“Right now we’re working six days a week. Some people are working seven days a week – I do – but for a lot of people, working seven days a week is not sustainable. The factory is operational seven days a week but most people we only ask to work six days a week right now and, obviously, we want to get that to a more reasonable number. I think people can sustain a 50-hour work week. I think that’s a good work week. If you’re joining Tesla, you’re joining a company to work hard. We’re not trying to sell you a bill of goods. If you can go work for another company and then maybe you can work a 40-hour work week. But if you work for Tesla, the minimum is really a 50-hour week and there are times when it’ll be 60- to 80-hour weeks. If somebody is hourly, they receive time-and-a-half, but if somebody is salary, then we do cash and stock bonuses for going above and beyond the call of duty. So we try to make it fair compensation, but the general understanding is that if you’re at Tesla, you’re choosing to be at the equivalent of Special Forces. There’s the regular Army, and that’s fine, but if you are working at Tesla, you’re choosing to step up your game. And that has pluses and minuses. It’s cool to be Special Forces, but it also means you’re working your ass off. It’s not for everyone.”
-ELON MUSK

Brain death is the irreversible end of brain activity (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life) due to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following loss of brain oxygenation. It should not be confused with a persistent vegetative state. Patients classified as brain-dead can have their organs surgically removed for organ donation. Even after brain death, the working of the heart might continue at a slow pace, but there will be no respiratory effort.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_death

…getting out of one’s head and deep into your body is key to making alchemy work…

This is actually totally controversial claim.

It’s true that Healing and Neidan are very different, but still…

For example Chao Pi Ch’en is teaching that practice starts from the original cavity of the spirit which is between and behind the eyes.

Should one be brain dead or what?

HOWDY

The Tantric College of Lower Hla-sa teaches eight great tantric systems of instruction for the stage of completion: Nagarjuna’s system of Guhyasamaja, Jnanapada’s system of Guhyasamaja, Luhipada’s system of Chakrasamvara, Ghantapada’s system of Chakrasamvara, the system of Kalachakra, the system of the three Yamaris, the system of Mahachakra, and the Six yogas of Naropa.
-DANIEL COZORT, Highest Yoga Tantra

Why do people die, if they have no diseases? Old age is the reason, you may say. But why does this old age come, what is the mechanism of it? A man grows old and dies because he is spending his vital energy. It’s like a battery in a toy, when the battery is new – the toy car runs, but when the battery has run out – the toy car stops…And what kind of “battery” is it? It is something that is located in the area of the abdomen in the human body (compare stomach and stamina).
-http://all-dao.com/essence-taoist-alchemy.html

This past summer, Daniel Cozort, associate professor of religion, suffered a bicycle accident on July 15 that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Now, six months later he has returned to Dickinson to continue what he has been doing for the past 25 years: teaching.
-http://www2.dickinson.edu/dickinsonian/detail.cfm?6204

While putting the generative force into orbit it is of paramount importance to locate the original cavity of spirit in the brain which is precisely where the light manifests in the head when the practiser succeeds in concentrating his seeing effectively on the central spot between and behind the eyes. If this is not done the radiant inner fire rising to the head during the microcosmic orbiting may be mistaken for that light and wrongly driven into a minor psychic center in the head from which it will be very difficult to dislodge it. Many untutored and inexperienced practicers make this mistake which hinders the process of alchemy.
-CHAO PI CH’EN/LU K’UAN YU, Taoist Yoga: The Sexual Teachings of the Ancient Chinese Masters

Well, well now they have published this CHAO PI CH’EN text (E-book version) with somehow too racy title, but maybe it sells more like that, but some might be quite disappointed if they expect really proper sex literature.

Yes and Buddhists also in monasteries seemingly still study not only their own traditional material, but also for example Hindu philosophical thought (ṣad-darśana).

My point here was mainly that if rational control and rationality is something which is not good as a spiritual practice, one should take a look how UT/HT curriculum is constructed, but maybe one shouldn’t do that, at least not here and now.

Anyway Chao Pi Ch’en was mentioned only because he seems to be very Taoist, first of all, and that system of formulas doesn’t ignore learning to distribute the consciousness throughout the body.

Here it’s just important to notice some basic dangers and my idea was especially that one should start from something which one understands why one is doing that.

HOWDY

Ps. Sorry for my invalid English.