segue: post-modern spirituality

>The safest strategy would be to merge with the flow of Life Force, not tring to lead it through visualizations/actualizations. It may sound like a good idea at first, but do you really think you can open the orbit by visualizing the energy flow through it? The answer is yes only if a student is already prepared for it and saved enough jing to transform it into chi through meditaton.

>Here are a few helpful things to be successful (not in order):
1. proper nutrition (lots of raw foods preferably)
2. saving your semen through correct sexual practices or abstinence
3. regular meditation practices- at least 2 hours sitting and all throughout the day.
4. doing meritorious acts of kindness to people in need and/or to hungry ghosts.
5. light physical exercise like yoga, chi kung etc.

Max,
You are sounding a lot more balanced than your teachers. I wholeheartedly agree that sitting in the cave/apt. and doing inward cultivation is not sufficient in life – everything is best when we are roadtested in the action of physical life. You need a yin-yang balance between meditation and action.

You act like the life force in adults is automatically flowing around the orbit.
It is not. If you stop and do nothing, it doesn’t start to flow automatically either except in rare cases. Having an intention is essential, due to the spoilage of our nature that occurs as we age and live in an imbalanced culture.

Did you ever learn the wudang method of the orbit, with a spinning pearl?
This integrates the chi and blood/jing better than other methods. If you don’t have this, I will send it to you. email me.
michael

yes. enjoy.
m