Before we take on a practice or accept some one as a teacher there is a bit of research we must do.

Lineage of a tradition is important.

Some of the lineages can be traced back. As an example in Zen, when one is initiated, they prepare a lineage chart. this chart traces ones lineage all the way back to Buddha. The problem with not having a lineage is that a teacher you are working with could have teachings that are not genuine. In most for a student to be given permission to teach, thier teacher verify that they are ready. Otherwise we can read book, take little from here, little from there and start teaching.

We should also do a bit of research about the teacher, see how they treat their students.

"It takes a teacher to show you that you dont need a teacher". In many traditions as Zen and Kunlun, teachers encourage you to not treat them as a Guru/Seifu. One does not have to/should not give ones power to another being. Its so easy to get aweeeed by someones presence and unconsiously gives one energy, give control to a teacher. We must always be in control, we must question every practice we are given and not follow anything blindly.

We should never make any one our Guru and give them all our powers. The real power is within you. A teacher can only show you, and you still have to do the work.

In Zen they have a concept of 3 pillars. Three pillars of zen: Belief, Doubt, Determination

Belief: First one must believe that the system works, even perhaps works looking/reading/seeing it.

Doubt: then once must doubt as to how/why it works. Doubt fuels your practice

Determination: One must have the determination to do the practice.


Choosing a teacher: I have read and heard that "ones teacher is allready there, its a matter of finding them or the student being ready and the teacher appears".

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Having said all above, I somehow ended up to Max's seminar, and upon experiencing rare energy for myself decided to take the weekend course.

For me Max, was able to show me things that I have only read in books.
He would say again and again that we dont call him a teacher or sefu or guru. He was just giving it out, showing the practices to those that wanted it.

To me it seems - as Max has said that he has learned from many traditions: Bonpo. tao, Shaman, Tibetan...
He is a unique teacher and has a unique style of teaching.

I am sure that practices he is teaching, exist but in esoteric fashion. I dont think they have been widely given out. You would have to learn for years in India, China, Tibet to get some of similar practices. And then to you would never be allowed to show or teach them in public.

Even Max encourages everyone to not blindly learn a practice or follow any one, He says to go out and research the lineage, check out the teacher, talk to past students.

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Buddha was once visiting a village and teaching, to the villagers said, we have a problem that some teacher comes and says to do this way another one comes and says to do it another way, our tradition says one thing, another tradition says another, What do we do ? Who do we follow ?

In reply to villagers in he said in (Kalama Sutta)

Dont follow anything because:
- a teacher says so
- a tradition says so
-your family culture says so
-your religion says so
.......


"Rely not on the teacher/person, but on the teaching.
Rely not on the words of the teaching, but on the spirit of the words.
Rely not on theory, but on experience.
Do not believe in anything simply because you
have heard it.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

- the Buddha



Teachers are always there, its a matter of student to be ready
Ultimately if your heart agrees, then practice is for you and teachers is yours.

Kunlun Nei Gung is an ancient, secret method of spiritual awakening. Kunlun is a reset process that is a part of your body already. When you do the method you activate that process. Whatever your body determines you need to do to realign your natural energy flow, will happen.

The position you take tunes/harmonizes your body with the one law or sympathetic vibration. You know you have attained it when you feel joyful, blissful and loving. The love aspect of the human being is the expression of the one law.

What this practice does, is to awaken a divine bliss feeling in the practitioner. It can be compared to a mild orgasm except that it is not sexual in nature.

This bliss expands as it rises and it is this process that raises your vibrational rate. At this higher vibration, emotional blocks and mental illusions dispel. Sometimes they are forcefully released and other times it is a smooth experience. Whatever you are holding can be let go of, but only if you are ready to be done with it.

When a block is released it creates a new channel for this bliss energy. When you practice regularly you can access and clear new levels of deep set tension like moving through layers of an onion.

As you become more clear, you become more magnetic.

You can then learn to project this energy outward to help heal others or you can chose to simply bask in your own empty radiance. In this state, knowledge comes as if recalling a memory. There is no effort but to follow your feeling.

It is different for everyone.

It can be a very smooth, blissful process as well. Any initial shaking, movements, emotional release, etc., is just you doing what you need to do to "right the ship."

You are in control the whole time and you can go as deep as you want or keep it very light.

Once you learn this practice, you do have to deal with what comes next for you. There is no question you will start to change. The practice will continue to work to clear you, but some changes might be difficult for people. You will have to face the parts of yourself you might not want to see. This is the great challenge on the path and the reason why so many give up.

Of course, grounding the energy afterward is very important.

This practice can open up the higher levels of understanding that would be very difficult to access alone. Not to mention the health benefits and the minor abilities that can be developed.

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Jazz" (Below was posted by Paulette in her Anouncement, I am posting it here so it can be searched and show up on main page)

Oscar showed us how to do this prostration sequence to help clear the central channel some more and build one's energy.  He said the purpose of this sequence is to "annihilate opposites" and "create unity."  The following practice brings heaven and earth together with the breath and movement: consciousness and life force merge as one. So I thought I would share this with others in the group who might be interested. 

Here it is:

1. Start in mountain pose (standing with feet hip-width apart, fingers pointing down towards the earth, knees slightly bent.)  Inhale arms over the head by circling the arms from the sides of the body upwards.  Stretch the arms up above the head, and bring hands together (palms facing one another) letting the middle fingers touch.

2. Exhaling, push the chi (energy) down the front of the body- palms down elbows out to the sides to the level of the abdomen.

3.  Inhaling, bend the knees and bring them onto the ground.  Put hands and then forearms onto the ground and then place the head on the ground as well (underneath the palms.) This is the prostration part of the sequence aka child's pose.   Exhale here.

4. Push up into table (aka cat pose) pressing hips and head up while you inhale.

5. Curl toes under and come into cow (also called phoenix) still in table but with arounded back. Bring the palms in front of the knees and push knees off the floor (with control).  Put hands on the thighs and stretch the spine with bent knees while simultaneously exhaling.  Keep the fingers widely spread while on the thighs. This is like chair pose with hands on the thighs for those of you who are familiar with yoga.

6. Inhaling extend the elbows out to the sides.

7. Come back to standing while exhaling.  Bring the hands down the sides back to their original position (fingers pointed towards the earth.)

I hope to put a video on this soon.

Kunlun 1 training usually starts with a free informational session on a friday evening to introduce people to the practice, show them some of techniques and give an opportunity for people to ask questions. I attended one of these sessions on May 2nd. A friend of mine had sent me an email about this session and asked me to come. Somehow I ended up going, without having any knowledge about the pracitice. Now looking back, it was probably meant to be as i tried to turn back and not go several times.

Well in the session when i got there they were talking about lineage and then demonstated how 2 people could go into experiencing Bliss by tuning themselves. 2 women sat next to each others touched a part of each others both arms, and within seconds went into crazy laughter. I found it amusing, but asked Oscar if he could some of these on a person who had not taken a prior seminar, He said that it would be hard and he could not do it. I was disappointed as I was skeptical, and for me I had to experience it inorder to belive.

Then they called another person and asked him to talk about his experiences. He came to front, and Oscar this time with his hand tried to project energy to him Or you could say move the person energy. People in the crowd, who had taken prior training OR were sensative were asked to open themselves to Kunlun. I myself at this tried to relax and go into a relaxed state. In few second the person on stage started laughing, and so did many in the crowd. After few minutes, radomly people would started laughing, and sometime then I caught the energy and started laughing too.

I can describe it as a kind of BLISS. I had only heard or read about it in books. Basically its said that after intense and long meditations there comes a times when person gets to stage of smadahi..... and feels Bliss. Well this kind of bliss i felt for the first time. It was like tremendous energy came to my forehead, it would come in spurts and kind of take over you AND like at those momments there was no mind, ONLY an awareness. And at those moments I would start laughing as it was such a pleasure. Later on I heard that when one gets to such a state, Energy can manifest as; Light, Bliss...

I was convinced at this point and wanted to take the course. Then the main teacher "MAX" walked in as he was late from the flight and spoke some more about practice, its lineage, and what and how we would be teaching. I was ready to take the course and hoped that it was affordable. I kind of wished that it was not a crazy amount like 1000 that I would just have to think a million times. Luckly it was $300 and I was ready to come next day.

I went home  and surprisingly kept going back to that feeling of Bliss and would start laughing.

  Introduction to Kunlun Spontaneous Nei Gung (Level I)

Participants can expect to learn:

• Kong Jing – a special form of mediation to allow one to be empty, receive and ground oneself.
• Maoshan 5 Elements Chi Gung – this breathing and standing Chi Gung will allow one to balance the five main organs of the body.
• Beginning level of Kunlun Spontaneous Nei Gung
• Initiation Transmission - I will transmit a portion of my magnetic energy to everyone so that one can be activated and use their own energy from within.

Saturday: Max started the session with first asking us to stand with our knees slightly bent and our hands on our sides with middle finger touching the legs. This calmed and relaxed us. This followed by teaching us following techniques: Red Phoenix meditation, Golden flower, and then Kunlun.

He talked a lot about his teachers, monastaries where he visited, his lineage, ..... It was so exciting to listen to all of it...  I will post some of what I remember at the end of this blog.

Sunday: Amongst new techniques we learnt Spirit body travel, we received transmission of the lineage, and practiced each of the techniques we had learnt on saturday.

My Notes (with help of Yoda's notes and post):

Kunlun: This is a water path. Jazz, you must be like water, easy and flowing, you are too much fire. Example of a bamboo, if there is a storm, bamboo will break. If you are like grass, then with a storm wind you will bend and flow.

Spiritual warriors die young, fire will burn you.

This practice activates the divine bliss that everyone has within. It is similar to the energy of an orgasm but is not sexual in nature and can be 100's of times more.

When this energy becomes active in the body it starts an internal alchemical process of rapid change. As it moves through you it releases whatever blocks are in its way. This is why we say one hour can be equivalent to one hundred years in another system. It is that effective.

As the yin and yang channels merge in the lower dan tien, the bliss rises up the central channel of the body like champaign bubbles and the magnetic potential of the individual can then be realized.

He uses the term re-enlightenment because you are already enlightened, you just need to go back and realize it.

If you would like to build your jing chi prior to the seminar then celibacy is fine. It won't hurt. We recommend performing the upward draw to prevent the loss of your essence though, should you decide to have sex.

When the divine bliss is activated, by contrast creations of the mind are eliminated. That is to say, emotional/energy blocks and mental illusions which we carry are eliminated because they cannot stand up to the brilliance of divine bliss. This process can cause the body to shake or tremble like a wet dog shaking off water. People laugh, cry, scream, begin spontaneous yogic postures, sing, etc. It is always different because we are all holding different things inside. It is very odd looking, but afterwards students find they have lightened their load and many of them (like those at the first LA seminar) look years younger the next day.

Maoshan 5 Elements Chi Gung – this breathing and standing Chi Gung will allow one to balance the five main organs of the body.There are 5 postures that one stands and holds. One for each element and an part of the body.

1. Wood: stand with hands straight to sides

2. Fire: stand with hands in front of you with thumbs at eye brow level.

3. Earth: stand with hands in front of stomach area.

4. Metal: stand with hands straight up, shoulder level.

5. Water: stand with hands on side of body shoulders and elbows tucked.

This practice was taught to me in 2 variations:

1. Martial arts style: you do each posture for 7 or more
   First time you try and do it within 1 minute or so you will have a hard time keeping the posture. It sound simple and easy, but since body is not used to it, mind and start complaning. In old days, a student would be asked to hold one of the postures for 2 days before being accepted into a monastery.
   
2. Tai chi, you do 5 postures in a flow.
   You do the same excercises but in a flow slowly moving from one posture to another. A much easier way fo doing it

Its supposed to be a Grounding practice, If your mind is all over, it bring you back to ground and you become aware of your body, chi. It strengthens your body internally.

When you start out, always bend you knees enough that you cant see your toes. It’s a relaxed position that you can hold for longer period. The more bent you can handle as more advanced you are. Its like the Chinese martial arts horse stance.

Then you put one hand on the other in front of shoulders - crossing your hands.

Bend slightly to front, push hips back slightly – correcting your posture

And from this you move hands out to sides – wood.

He said the following as doing the tai chi form:

Wood (Liver) is consumed by Fire
Fire (heart) creates ash (earth)
Earth (spleen) creates metal
Metal (lungs) is tonified by
Water (kidneys).

Wood - liver, gall bladder
Fire - heart, small intestine
Earth - stomach, spleen
Metal - lungs, large intestine
Water - kidneys, bladder

 Video on Youtube:   http://www.youtube.com/v/O0Mg5wiiBdY&hl=en