With regards to one of the earlier posts talking about seeing Demons from doing Gong-Fu:
Spiritual Visions and Hearing Voices
This is also discussed in the "Tao & longevity" book I referenced in my previous post. When your chi rises up the back, known as the Governing vessel, Dumai or Dumo channel, when it gets to different areas of the brain, it can cause different effects. These include auditory and visual phenomena, that usually relate to subconscious thoughts. That’s why you’re told to ignore these phenomena, so that the chi can work it’s way through the brain, and go down Jenmai or Jenmo, also known the conception vessel that much more quickly.
I know a lot of this is pretty out there for some folks. But if you do the practices described by Bodri, and don’t "leak", you can verify it for yourself. There are various physical changes you go through that verify it. If the changes don’t occur, you’re in all likelihood deluding yourself.
Most "heart chakra openings" are just movements of wind chi through the heart mai. Amazing, yes. But a real opening feels like you’re about to have a heart attack. Some people call 911, because they think that’s what’s happening.
What Xenolith is discussing, with regards to CCOs, can be accomplished by a number of cultivation processes. The Taoist tradition, of which Mantak Chia is a member of, is just one way. You also have to keep in mind that while Mantak Chia has a lot of very useful information, there’s a lot missing. Whether it’s unknowingly or intentionally, I have no idea. Taoism, like a lot of ancient spiritual practices, has been distorted over the years.
The practices that Chia emphasizes, are known as force techniques. Force techniques can be very dangerous if not handled correctly, with proper supervision, and only until you get past your initial beginning stages. Then you reduce or stop them.
Also the current Western emphasis on chakras is over emphasized. The goal of true cultivation is to stop clinging to the body. Anything that reinforces bodily attachment over meditation work is not the true path, and is to be avoided. It can lead to various neuroses, psychoses, obsessions, ego inflation, & a general deterioration of the personality.
If you’ve weakened your vehicle through constantly ejaculating, it takes longer for the various physical Gong-Fu phenomena to appear. That’s one of the reasons that cultivation timetables can vary among cultivators. Everyone has different levels of what’s called "pre-natal Qi". This is the baseline constitution you inherited from your parents. Your core life-force, genetic potential, etc.
There’s also what’s called "post-natal Qi". This is the air you breath, the food you eat, the water you drink. The variables that can affect your epigenetic switches.
You can’t change your pre-natal Qi. What you got is what you got. Some people can jerk off 10 times a day, smoke 3 packs of cigarettes, drink moonshine for breakfast, & still live to a spry 105. Other people do everything "right", and get sick just from breathing. Pre-natal Qi is the reason for this. People have different levels of life-force energy.
According to Taoist cultivation theory, there are 3 treasures. Jing, Qi, & Shen. Jing is your endocrine & enzymatic systems, your sperm, your semen, ovum and vaginal secretions in women. It corresponds to water. Qi is the agent of function, it’s energy, your ability to do in the phenomenal realm. It corresponds to vapor, to steam. Shen is your highest level spiritual energy. It corresponds to light.
The goal is to sublimate jing into Qi, qi into shen, and shen into nothingness. The analogy Taoists like to use is think of a pot with water in it. The pot is the body, specifically the lower dantien, 4 finger-widths below the navel.
You heat the pot with fire, which is the breath. The water in the pot is the jing. We all know when you heat water, molecules speed up & get further away from one another. The water (jing) sublimates into steam (qi). The steam further sublimates until you can’t see it, you can only see distortions of the air from the heat to know that it’s there. That’s Shen.
You can force qi up the spine to have a "CCO", using breathing, pressing huiyin (the perineum), combined with visualization. But more often than not, without sufficient qi from filling up with jing, you’ll basically be deluding yourself that something’s happening. A lot of cultivator’s "microcosmic orbit", "Kundalini awakenings", & "heart chakra openings" are just initial movements of wind chi. The real deal doesn’t happen until you open up the central channel, or chong mai / chung mo. This runs from the baihui point at the top of the head, through the center of the body, down to huiyin. It’s basically the same thing as Yoga’s sushumna channel. It’s where the positive polarity channel of dumai on the back, meets the negative polarity channel of jenmai, down the front of the body. Opening this channel causes the igniting of your bod’s true qi or "Yang Qi", what practicers of yoga call "Kundalini".
But keep in mind that "Yang Qi", "Kundalini", is still a low level stage! There’s a whole lot more to go through on your way to the Tao, if that’s what you’re looking to do. If that is what you’re interested in doing, get the books I reference, read all of Bodri’s site, and get all of his books. There’s nothing else like them in English for Westerners. I’ve been doing these practices for over 20 years. He’s the real deal.
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In a nutshell, you can use the method that Mantak Chia describes. Or, you could just detach from thoughts, images, & identifying with the body, and the same Gong-Fu will occur. Usually faster.
I experience CCOs as Xenolith describes at this point without even thinking about it, in waves, with no direct stimulation. It’s a byproduct of correct cultivation, and your jing and qi being full. This is what various traditions talk about
When they’re discussing "Bliss". Nan Huai-Chin calls them "happiness orgasms". At initial stages of deep cultivation (samadhi), they occur more and more, and get stronger and stronger. What Xenolith calls CCOs, is part of the phenomena known as "Ching-An". It’s an initial stage Gong-Fu phenomena. You can also force it into occurring, but these are called "semblance dharma". Not the real thing. The real Gong-Fu occurs naturally as part of cultivation practice.
If you’re just doing it for sexual pleasure and a different sensation and thrill, you may want to leave this stuff alone. You can cause yourself a bunch of unnecessary hassles in the long run. If you don’t let go of various emotions, specifically fear, anger, & lust, you WILL eventually have issues. These practices strengthen these forces to a very high degree. It’s also why meditation is essential
Finally, the trick to retaining your semen without damage to your prostate & urinary tract, is what’s known as "emptiness meditation". If you don’t learn this meditation method, you WILL injure yourself. I’ve gone for over a year without "leaking", without any issues. But I meditate at least an hour a day, and have done so for close to 20 years.
I hope this helps those of you that are searching. Cheers :)