Using the Greek story of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, which
outlines the progressive stages of spiritual development that
spiritual practitioners in all spiritual traditions go through,
this book presents full details on the step-by-step progression of
the physical transformations that occur to practitioners. Whenever
someone starts to consistently cultivate spiritual practice in a
devoted way, there are physical changes that will occur to the
human body. These physical transformations, called "gong-fu" in the
eastern spiritual schools, are non-denominational signposts of
spiritual progress. If you cultivate spiritual practice
sufficiently then these phenomena will arise. If you don't practice
correctly, they simply won't appear. Their appearance is a matter
of proper devoted effort. These phenomena include such things as
the awakening of kundalini (yang chi) within the body, the opening
of the chakras and purification of the body's energy channels,
hormonal transformations, the calming of consciousness, the
experience of refined mental states described as "emptiness," and
various other mental and physical phenomena. Normally people think
these phenomena only occur to individuals following eastern
cultivations traditions such as yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism,
and Vajrayana. However, these phenomena that arise are totally
non-sectarian and non-denominational. They equally occur to devoted
spiritual followers within Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. If you
cultivate spiritual practices sufficiently, these purification
transformations will occur and if you don't cultivate meditation or
other spiritual exercises, you will not experience them. Your
religion has nothing to do with it. All genuine religious
traditions employ cultivation practices designed to help you
achieve a quiet mind. Because thoughts die down due to these
practices, this resulting mental quiet is described as
peacefulness, silence, cessation, calming, purity, and emptiness.
Your mind empties of busy thoughts and so you begin to experience
mental peace. When your mind quiets, proper spiritual practice
requires that you remain aware during this experience rather than
try to suppress thoughts from further arising. The practice of
maintaining awareness while mentally quiet is called witnessing,
observing, knowing, or introspection. As the mind quiets, you
continue to watch your mental continuum but without attaching to
it. The gradual calming of your mind results from successfully
letting go of thoughts, and because your body's life force (chi)
and consciousness are linked, as you let go of thoughts you also
drop the habit of clinging to the energies you normally feel in
your body. With proper spiritual practice you learn how to detach
from these energies and let them function without interference.
Once you learn how to do this, your kundalini energies will arise
and their natural circulation will start to transform your body.
Those energies will open up your chi channels and chakras and
transform your physical body, purifying it. As your chi purifies,
so will your emotions and habit energies. As you progressively let
go of your chi, it will also revert to its natural circulation
which has been suppressed by errant thought patterns. Cultivating a
quiet mind leads to your kundalini arising, those energies purify
your channels and chakras, that purification leads to a greater
degree of mental purity or emptiness, and the two components of
body and mind reach ever increasing levels of refinement. This book
presents full details on this step-by-step progression of
transformations that occur to practitioners on the spiritual trail.
It covers the meditation practices that successful adepts have
traditionally used throughout history, and non-denominationally
links the gong-fu experiences of these practitioners with the
stages of the spiritual path and the ultimate quest for
self-realization, or enlightenment.
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