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One of the various ways in which people can enter the path of spiritual cultivation is through the road of martial arts training and practice because in high level martial arts, you begin to cultivate your chi. From that point on, the path of spiritual cultivation is then a path of reality rather than theology and blind belief. You prove its nondenominational truths to yourself because you can start to feel your chi, and start understanding what the ancients taught about chi in martial arts texts. The Chinese martial arts movies you see on TV, and even modern western classics like Star Wars that emphasize "the force," are all referencing chi cultivation in various ways. The same goes for cartoon shows like Naruto and Dragon Ball Z.
On the martial arts road to the Tao, called "Tao-gong" in the MA traditions, you start with learning the external forms or exercises. Then you progress by practicing mild forms of qi-gong, which is integrating the wind chi of the body with your movements. With enough expertise, finally you enter in the deep route of nei-gong, as explained in Hercules, where you are truly cultivating your yang chi and kundalini energies. This happens after all your channels and chakras start opening, and is equivalent to the Completion Stage of Tibetan Buddhism, as The Little Book of Hercules explains.
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As just a small help for those who are practicing anapana for their spiritual cultivation, I'd like to offer this small excerpt on anapana from the book:
If you let go of your body, you're not holding on to it. Hence all your chi can start arising in your body and opening channels because you're not holding onto any muscles or sensations that would interrupt or block that natural flow which you just allowed to happen.
This is the actual secret behind the "dissolving blockages" methods of martial arts, but very few realize this secret or its usefulness for the highest levels of martial arts attainment. By witnessing without attachment you can know where energy blockages are within your body. By shining awareness on them without grabbing, they will simply open.
Anapana is the highest secret of Zen school dhyana-samadhi practice, that transforms the physical body, but few know this fact either. Whether for martial arts attainments or high spiritual practice, anapana helps open up the chi channels in the body, and thus helps transform the physical nature quicker than most other cultivation techniques. But not if you are pushing or holding on to your chi ...
Here's the main secret. You cannot open up all the tiniest of chi channels in your physical body unless you let go of your chi by cultivating any empty mind through meditation. That detachment, which means you are not interfering with your chi, allows it to flow freely without mental entanglements that would bias its circulations through habitually used, incorrect channel routes. If you cultivate a mind of detachment that is not enforced blankness or thought suppression, then your channels will open. If you try to force them into opening, you'll always miss them as you cannot force chi into the tiniest channels.
Force will simply shunt energies into the largest already opened pathways, which is why force, and visualization of chi orbits, is not the correct way to truly open the chi channels of the physical body. You train and practice, letting go all the while, and finally your real yang chi will arise and do what it naturally wants to do without interference. That's when it will open up all the proper channels as explained in "The Little Book of Hercules."
At some point of true nei-gong practice, after opening up all your major channels because you attained the true stage of macrocosmic circulation, your chi will start running through all your large channels simultaneously, and you will feel this full body circulation everywhere. It will continue to do this for years, and only slowly will you make further progress from just the time involved in the prolonged rotation. If you lose your chi through sexual dissipation, naturally the force of this rotation will be reduced.
To progress quickest at this level of attainment, you need to meditate to reach a higher stage of letting go, at which point a new degree of yang chi seems to arise, and it can purify even further. Even more channel routes will open from this achievement that cannot be opened in any other way. This is a time when practicing such Zen and Vedanta techniques that cause you to detach from all the skandhas really bear fruit. They seem like incredible hurdles of practice, but only if you reason through "What was I before I was born," "I am Awareness-only," "Everything I see is just my mind," and use such insight realizations to let go of everything, only then can you jump several stages of detachment so that even more channels and chi routes in the body can open. This necessitates a whole book in itself because of the complexities, so I can only give the barest of explanations as this is the stage of Tao-gong cultivation.
Progress in chi cultivation will proceed very slowly unless you strive to attain a new stage of emptiness realization, and for each breakthrough in learning how to let go of our thoughts and the body, the response will be like a new sudden kundalini arising within. That new arising will open up yet more channels at a higher stage of refinement, although the initially new rotation feels like a slow movement in molasses since more channels are opening at a new level, and the new rotation of chi will constitute a higher level of purification.
As you proceed on doing this at higher and higher levels of refinement, you can eventually transform your entire body into chi, at which point you will become able to make it appear and disappear at will, as many great Buddhist monks and Taoist practitioners were said to do. This is one of the highest levels of martial arts achievements. Since chi and consciousness are linked, one will then start to be able to cultivate the really miraculous martial arts capabilities mentioned in ancient stories.
Therefore if you want to attain a higher stage of practice, wherein a yet higher, more refined, more etheric, purer level of chi is reached, and many more channels open, the rule is that you can only do so by cultivating a higher stage of emptiness attainment by a new level of mentally letting go of chi and consciousness. The body is not you, so let go of it and its energies. You are simply pure awareness without a body, pure consciousness, and you have been holding on to the body and mind and identifying them as your self. Consciousness is not you, but just thoughts that arise and pass by, so you learn how to let go of consciousness through meditation practice, and since chi and consciousness are linked, with each stage of letting go a new level of chi rotation can commence in your inner etheric subtle body. A new level of bright mind or empty mind, or shen, can be reached as well because consciousness purifies as your chi purifies. The cultivation of the body and mind proce
ed together, step-by-step, through this route of practice.
Anapana is a practice of watching or witnessing while letting go and refusing to attach to the chi energies that are witnessed. People think anapana only refers to the physical breath, but after the internal embryo breathing commences, this refers to chi flows and chi circulations within your body as well, which can only be felt at the higher, non-introductory levels of practice. It is very similar to the Taoist practice of "inner viewing." If you can witness your entire body as one unity of chi, through anapana practice, you will connect the entire chi of the body in one unity or whole. You will feel, witness, see or realize the body as one single body of chi extending from the trunk to the arms and legs and including the head - all one single body unity whole. So just witnessing will enable an opening up of all the tiny chi channels that will link the body's unconnected or slightly obstructed channel orbits and produce one unified inner chi body. This will, of course, link
the energies of the upper and lower regions of the body, and so you will be able to feel them as one unity in terms of an inner chi body, which is one of the necessities in martial arts practice. It is an infallible technique for integrating the upper and lower torsos into one whole, stressed time and again in martial arts traditions.
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