Meditations and Yoga: Cold legs during Spiritual Practice

Meditation Expert Welcome Newsletter

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1. Website Business Information for You
2. Referrals Needed to Help Others - Won't You Help
3. Cold Leg Chi
4. Jewish Cultivation and "ayin"
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Just a reminder that If you have a particular topic you'd like
to know more about, send me a question and maybe it'll become
an article for the website.

The website has a new Articles section on business consulting
topics (marketing and management methods) that reviews
the best things I've found over the years THAT WORK!

If you're an entrepreneur or have your own business or
are thinking of starting one, these business articles
will help you out, especially since they will slowly tell
you how to incorporate spiritual cultivation into
your business life. Then again, some of the articles are
just the best techniques I've found in marketing or
management to help you run things more smoothly or
just plain make more money.

Money is a basic human necessity, and hopefully when you
make more of it you'll use it for good deeds and charity.
Frankly, you can be smart, brilliant, etc. but you won't
make any money unless your fortune matches, and good fortune
only comes due to you making offerings in this life or
in past lives.

Bill Gates is not smarter than you; he just made more
offerings in a past life. Once his fortune is used up, though,
all the money will go, too. I've seen it time and again when
people show me astrological fates. It's how the universe works.

The only way to really change a fortune is through my
"6 M method": method, motivation and measurement, which you
know, plus merit, mantra and meditation.

The New Age crowd honestly doesn't have a clue
when it comes to the second half of this 6-part
equation as most of the "change your fortune" case studies they
cite are usually coincidental changes that match with the timing of an astrological fate already set. They have nothing to do with REAL
changes in a person's fortune and destiny.

Let me say that again - in the self-health, get rich quick books
you read, no one changes heir fortune. They're just living
out a karmic fate whose template was already produced from
past lives. If you REALLY want to change a fortune BEYOND
the karmic fate, you need to read White Fat Cow. Otherwise,
even when you believe you've changed your life, those changes
you've instituted were also karmically ordained.

Don't believe that? See White Fat Cow. Why is that so? because
everything is karma and because, as the Diamond Sutra says,
there is no such thing as a being, individual, ego or life.
If you can understand THAT point, then you'll realize the
deepness of that lesson.

Later this year I hope to finalize edits to my book on the
topic to explain this in detail. I guarantee you've never seen
anything like it.

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Every publisher has the problem of collecting testimonials
for the books they publish, and we're no exception to this rule.

So I'll make you a deal - an ethical bribe to get you to
help other make a decision that may help their life.

On the website I've started to add mini reports (10-50 pages)
on various meditation methods and how to practice them. Some
I will post for free, such as the Zhunti mantra practice method,
and others for a fee. Two of them already up are the
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Here's your chance to get either at no charge, which is
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Cold Leg Chi
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There's an article on the site about a type of gong-fu
(kung-fu) people often experience when they start to
open up their legs through sitting in cross-legged meditation.
It's a good reminder why you should learn to sit in a
lotus position, even if it's painful.

Why? Because sitting cross-legged will
finally cause an opening in the chi channels in the legs, and
the cold chi trapped in your legs can finally leave, which
usually happens accompanied by uncontrollable chills
for about an hour (nothing to worry about).

To read more, go to the Articles page of the wbesite.

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Jewish Cultivation
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For awhile I've been meaning to write an article on Jewish
cultivation, but many people don't like long articles. I'm just
going to clip a few quotes from Jewish texts to prove to you
that it's the same path of cultivation no matter what the
spiritual tradition.

In short, the point is that even Jewish cultivation adheres to the
same principles as Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and
Christianity, as I point out in all my books, in cultivating
freedom from discrimination to realize the Tao.

What's the common principle?

Emptiness meditation, which Judaism calls "ayin," and
which Jewish scholars translate as "nothingness" since they
don't know better.

Don't criticize the intellectuals and common people and
academics about this because they simply don't know better
or knowing, HAVE to make it appear that their religion or
path is truly unique, special and different. So they have to
translate things differently so the ordinary people don't wisen up
and realize the path is non-denominational.

Sorry, but no religion has a monopoly on God or realization.
Spiritual progress is non-denominational.
The spiritual practices are common, shared practices as are
the stages of spiritual ascension. The same holds for gong-fu
experiences of the path everyone experiences as they make
spiritual progress. Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Taoist,
Hindu, Jewish, whatever, everyone experiences the
same stages of gong-fu.

If someone says otherwise they just don't know
what they are talking about - their world isn't big enough. They lack
experience and the broad perspective. The only know their own little
world and want to think only they have the truth and are unique.

Look, I'm going to tell you over and over again that the
spiritual path is the same the world over, but the dogma
you wrap around it is different according to the nation, culture,
its history, political situation, religion, enemies, etc.
The stages of the path and basic methods and principles of the
spiritual path are fundamentally non-denominational.

The website has several articles on Christian cultivation showing this,
which surprisesmany people (I always get people opting out of the
newsletter when they read those articles because they just cannot
handle it), and now the following quotes should help you see that
Judaism also says the same thing.

Namely, to get the Tao, realize your true self, attain
enlightenment, become one with God and so forth -- it all
comes down to freeing the mind from attachment to thoughts
and cultivating the freedom from discriminative thoughts
that Buddhism calls "emptiness" or "voidness." That's when you can
access what's called "prajna" spiritual wisdom, or direct knowing
of the Supreme Nature.

Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Confucianism, Zen, etc.
all say the same thing. GENUINE spiritual traditions ALL say
the same thing. You can use that quote to read between the
lines and now know who's genuine and who's not!

Be careful, david, don't tell others what you just learned
because they won't be able to handle it!

The following quotes, taken from my STAGES course,
address the kaballah and other Jewish spiritual
practices on the topic of emptiness meditation: