In all fairness, Binga has smoothed the communication pathways, in more than
one occasion, between yours truely and other list members on what could have
been an uncomfortable misunderstanding. This takes effort and Binga should
be commended for this.
I am grateful, however, that this unmoderated forum has arrived. I feel it
important to investigate the possibility that the unsociable side effects of
WPG may be avoided by Master Chia's meditation techniques.
Given the above, I present the below.
Regards;
Dennis C. Lee
>.Dennis C. Lee wrote
>>
>>I am not an advanced practitioner of Master Mantak Chia's Healing Tao
>>System. However, reading about these negative experiences about the
>>Kundalini experience has compelled me to respond. Master Chia is completely
>>against the Kundalini awakening. He even has a term for those who have
>>negative experiences. He calls them Kundalini casualties.
>>
>>In Master Chia's system, the energy coming up the back meridian takes a
>>U-turn at the crown, goes down the front meridian, and takes another U-turn
>>at the perineum thus closing the loop. I don't believe that there are any
>>negative effects associated with this system. For more info, the Healing Tao
>>phone number is 717-348-4310.
>>
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>Dear Dennis,
>
>Please allow me to respond to your comments. I have high regard for
>Master Mantak Chia. I bought and read his book "Taoist Secrets of Love
>- Cultivating Male Sexual Energy" in about 1985, shortly after it was
>published by Aurora Press. I studied it very carefully, and have verified
>some of its teachings by personal experience, including perfect semen
>retention, seminal sublimation and transmutation, internal orgasms, and
>extended breath retention leading to golden nectar release and conservation
>by means of the khechari mudra (tongue extended back into throat below the
>palate). The khekari mudra also leads to a closed circuit similar to the
>microcosmic orbit taught by Master Chia. These things, and others, were
>all experienced after awakening kundalini, and in some cases occurred
>spontaneously, with no effort on my part.
>
>Master Chia's Healing Tao System is not focused on attaining an awakening.
>His methods are primarily intended for mastering and controlling sexual
>energy
>(which is also kundalini energy) for practical uses such as healing, and in
>other instances for greatly enhancing personal sexual satisfaction and
>experience; achieving an awakening leading to enlightenment as the final goal
>is not emphasized.
>
>On page 118 of the above cited book, Master Chia provides the only reference
>and instruction he gives therein as to the means of opening and making clear
>the meridian channels (nadis)
>through which chi (kundalini) must flow, in order to perform the practices
>outlined in the
>remainder of the book:
>
> "Progress to the higher levels of transforming sexual energy
>without first learning the microcosmic [orbit] is very difficult. Many
>people may
> already be "open" in these channels and simply need to be told where the
> energy flows in order to do it. Others get it by simply being very relaxed
> and living close to nature."
>
>It should be clear from this quote that only a modest degree of opening of
>the channels is required to succeed in the practices Master Chia is
>teaching. This can be concluded a priori because of the small amount of
>attention it receives (only two sentences to casually mention it in the
>entire book), as well as the simplicity of the only means that is suggested
>as a way to accomplish it, and that many people are said to already have
>sufficiently open channels.
>
>Dennis, it is not that I was unfortunate to not be one of those "many"
>Master Chia refers to, or that I also failed to achieve having open passages
>for chi
>to flow through by not living in a relaxed way and close to nature (though
>that would have been immensly preferable if I could have done it that way).
>Based
>on my experiences, what Master Chia has said in this quote is completely
>correct, because Master Chia is referring to the teachings of his own
>System, rather than to the conditions necessary to sustain a process capable
>of
>acheiving an *awakening* by using chi (kundalini).
>
>The amount of chi that is needed to flow through the channels for healing
>of onself, healing of others, sexual enjoyment, athletic prowess, and
>similar ends, is not as great as that needed for an awakening leading to
>enlightenment. This is true for the lower echelons of Tantra, as well as
>for the Tao. The moderate flow of chi in Master Chia's Healing Tao System is
>intentionally meant to be kept smaller, so as not to excessively purge the
>practitioner's channels; too much chi flowing *would* result in karma
>release, and consequent suffering
>- the negative experiences I have described, that concern you. By keeping
>the chi flow relatively small, these difficulties are avoided, though it
>also places upper limits on the progress that is possible within the system.
>The same
>gentler-flow conditions are used in their Tantric equivalents. These
>practices are truly excellent as a means of individual development in
>preparation for an awakening at a future time.
>
>Mantak Chia is very wise Master, and he did not develop the System he now
>teaches in order to limit the progress of his students. Master Chia has
>decided that the student must first be taught to win the small battle,
>before trying to win the big battle. When you have progressed sufficiently,
>Master Chia will guide you unfailingly towards enlightenment. But you should
>not conclude that because your present system does not cause you to
>experience any suffering, that it shall always remain so. The path becomes
>much steeper later in the journey.
>
>Gary
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