Pranayama/Tai-Chi Experiment (Day2)
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 6 years before Mar 02, 2017
Dean 6 years ago
Day 2: Pranayama practice was good. Able to raise kundalini/chi into the abdomen region once and into the neck/lower jaw region twice. Cool tingling sensation rose up the front part of the body and while I was infusing more breath could sense the tingling in the lower back region. Naad was present. Immediately, began performing Tai-Chi exercises. Subtle body felt like it had very little weight at all. Was able to see outline of subtle arms and hands in the vast darkness glowing ever so slightly. Like viewing a photo negative in a dark room. Throughout the exercises Naad was present loud and clear. Thought images were coming and going very slowly and only pertained to the Tai-Chi posture being performed at the moment. Breath infusement lasted 20 minutes and Tai-Chi in the partial energized subtle body lasted roughly the same amount of time. Naad seemed to increase in volume and pitch during the Tai-Chi exercises. I ended the practice and sat in half lotus posture to ride out the remaining blissful energy for 10 minutes.
MiBeloved 6 years ago
Perhaps you are not considering or was not trained in Tai chi to notice it, but there remains the question of what is being achieved by the Tai Chi practice. For instance the breath infusion raises kundalini if it is done sufficiently and with some expertise. It causes the subtle body to be energized and to enter higher planes of consciousness.
What is being done with the Tai Chi exercises? What is being achieved?
In many phases of Zen (Japanese introspection), there is no objective and still when we study the lives of Zen master we can sometimes discern what they were accomplishing for their individual selves.
There is much literature on Tai Chi just as there is on yoga, coming from India.
How does your experiences with Tai Chi correlated with what was written by the past masters of that practice?
After each session it would be invaluable to describe where you are in the achievements.
We also need to know if the kundalini practice accelerates Tai chi or if it does not do anything for that practice.
What difference is there if one does the kundalini breath infusement.
For instance in meditation, if one does the breath infusement, one has more control over the thought producing mechanism in the mind, one finds oneself on a higher plane while meditating. One's psychic perception increases considerably.
When one gains proficiency in breath infusement, one realizes that one's will power or desire to move to higher planes is very limited and that the breath infusion does more to get one to a higher level, than if one sat to meditate without doing it.
In other words breath infusion is more effective than desire or will power and thus one realizes that people like Patanjali knew exactly what they were writing about when they listed pranayama as the 4th stage of yoga.
