If you have any questions re: this post, contact S.Biel: s_biel@yahoo.com
This post is largely a commentary on Dr. Lin’s techniques, particularly the "anal breathing method for ejaculation control".
See Lin's Links for this assumed information.]
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I can’t quite back up the assertion that those books [the HT's Healing Love books for men] are fit to be tossed out. But I certainly can understand where the sentiment is coming from. But I think we will agree on this, that whatever is trying to be explained in "[Taoist] Secrets of Love" and "[The] Multiorgasmic [Man]" is really poorly explained, which I think is the real problem. When it counts those techniques just don’t cut it.
...And Lin’s do. The fact is they get results. But as I said Lin’s stuff is pretty complicated to sift through. Not so much on the CD but the website is organized really confusingly. Although the truth is all there.
That’s probably the way it should be. The truth is never obvious, easy to locate, even though it may be right in front of you. You should have to really research things to discover what does the trick for you. This whole thing is the kind of thing where you read through other books first to discover that something like this is possible. Then when you find out those actually don’t really tell you how, you go get the real information at Lin’s. But the bottom line is you can’t expect to master something like this with what’s out of one single book or teacher. It takes some extensive individual research on all our parts.
[WEBMASTER'S NOTE: Since this post, s.biel has assisted with a list of links that provide a brief introduction to Lin's methods: Lin's Links.]
So I have to say that the healing tao stuff at least introduces you to the concept even though it doesn’t nearly give you what you need to get any decent results. So in that respect it has some redemptive value. And it also is necessary to unify it with the power of the core microcosmic and other healing tao practices to unlock the higher alchemical possibilities. To tell you the truth, I see a lot more similarities between Lin’s and Chia’s techniques than I do differences. Not that there aren’t any.
The [Dr. Lin's] anal breathing is really the way the big draw is supposed to be done. I figured out that that style is a lot more effective myself before I ever even saw Lin’s stuff. So that’ll prove that its all the same thing when you really read between the lines and understand things by your own feeling and experimentation instead of mediocre descriptions.
I have to reiterate that I think no contracting should ever take place when you are right on the verge of ejaculating. The truth of this concept (whether Chia is able to convey it or not) is that in reality any sort of "contraction", as it has been in error termed, has nothing to do with squeezing off the prostate.
I feel that the principle of a hard contracting of the pc muscle or actual prostate wasn’t necessarily intended in that sense. Or perhaps certain faulty descriptions wound up in those books because of misunderstanding and miscommunication problems. One of the worst problems with those books is in the way its all explained and described. Remember these were written a number of years ago with the assistance of students who at that time had probably just learned these things themselves. So the language describing things could have made a big difference. Also he could hardly speak English then; he still can’t. Although I don’t deny that Chia definitely does preach some things that just don’t work, at least as taught.
However, when I saw Mantak Chia in May he was teaching things quite differently himself as a matter of fact. Although some of the basic flaws we’re considering were definitely still there. But the new way he taught to draw chi up was extremely similar to Lin’s anal breathing, a lot more yin and mind powered.
Really the mind-eye power and activating the power of the sphincter muscles of the irises, anus, palms and foot soles, lips is the most vital key to drawing the energy into and breathing it up your spine.
Now here are some of my interpretations of how it all works.
As described above, my thoughts on the necessity of a maximally powered up hard erection are in complete accordance with you, so I’ll say nothing more.
Instead of thinking about pc contractions, what should be done in
coordination with your breathing, is contracting the anus pulling the tailbone
in towards the anus. But also in conjunction with this anal breathing there must
be a slight lifting of the urogenital diaphragm and this ONLY. This is where the
whole confusion arises about "contracting" something. I have to point
out that this is completely different from squeezing the prostate or contracting
the perineal muscles to try and suppress an ejaculation, which as we know is
just completely useless. In fact it is merely the most gentle, effortless
lifting up of only the urogenital diaphragm, done in coordination with the
breathing. This lifting of this urogenital membrane (which acts as the floor of
the organs) works to help chi to ascend upwards to reach the head. It is never
ever done with the intent to squeeze off a threatening ejaculation. This is
peoples source of confusion and lack of success with this whole subject comes
from.
The idea is not to allow yourself to get to that point where there’s nothing
else you can do. Because you all know when you get to that decided point, there
truly is nothing you can do. The idea is to flirt with and get close enough to
that point in order to generate in you and your partner and harness the power of
the energies of ecstasy for spiritual advancement purposes. But when you’re
already well in the middle of ejaculating no technique no matter how effective
will bail you out. Now when you feel the first 1 or 2 orgasmic twinges (dry
contractions) there is still time, that’s when the anal~tailbone breathing
comes in as the only effective savior. But any later than that, when "the
ching has already left the palace" as they say (starting to be expelled out
of the seminal vesicles and entering the urethra) forget it. And people always
seem to be expecting to find something like that. That’s where everybody goes
wrong.
This whole process of drawing energy away from the sexual organs is instead done regularly the whole time you are having sex. But the trick is to balance keeping you penis aroused enough to maintain that powered up erection otherwise she’ll never get close to an orgasm. I feel the "enter soft withdraw hard" thing is totally wrong.
This should be done the whole time except the urogenital diaphragm lifting should be left out if you feel you are really about to ejaculate. It is a thing to be done at most other less aroused times except when you about to lose it. This is done with every single stroke and breath during sex as more of a way of regulating how much excited expansive orgasmic chi is allowed to build up in the prostate area. Constantly doing this as though it was a natural part of your breathing you will not get close to the brink nearly so easily in the first place.
Its not even a muscular contraction of any kind at all, it is achieved by the rhythmic movement of your abdominal diaphragm breathing that produces an abdominal suction on the area.
And the most important thing to remember is that the more your mind [awareness in the lower tan tien] is involved the more it is a process of just breathing in energy and you don’t need to lift the urogenital diaphragm or contract the anus or tailbone at all. You can just automatically redirect chi up to your crown just by breathing in and thinking about it.
I repeat that you should NOT resort to this when you feel you are about to ejaculate. Leave out the urogenital diaphragm lifting then. But instead do only Lin’s anal breathing and contracting the tailbone while circulating the microcosmic orbit, which is the only thing that will even give you a prayer of being effective at that point.
Now this is my second point.
What is vastly more important than thinking about any kind of contracting of anything is locating the inward spiraling energy vortex of that extremely precise hui-yin point. You have to be aware of where the chi flows and pulsates. This is just an acupuncture point the size of a pin head. In reality, it is an extremely subtle and difficult to locate point. But it is all important since when you can find this, this is how you direct the energy to enter the anus and be directed up the coccyx and sacrum. This point is the entire confluence (meeting point) of all the cold earthly energies from the channels of the whole lower part of your body. I maintain that you do your drawing up of chi not just from just the groin area but breathing from the soles of your feet. For all these reasons, this is why it is wrong to confuse or consider hui yin as synonymous with the erroneous inequivalent western term "perineum", which basically refers to the whole area between the sexual organs and the anus. When you very gently, ever so slightly lift upward this urogenital diaphragm, it activates the hui yin’s ability to channel all of your sexual center's cool earth energies in through this tiny little point. When actually achieved It is a distinct cool feeling of energy streaming into this tiny pin prick point. Activating this is this is the purpose of lifting the diaphragm, not at all to squeeze anything off.
So upon entering through this point, chi may then enter through the breathing anus and travel upward through the spine until it reaches the ni wan crown point. (another equally miniscule and subtle acupoint which is the like the bodies energetic north pole, just like the hui yin is like its south pole).
As well as the anal~tailbone contraction, the gentle lifting of the urogenital diaphragm, the awareness of the vortex of energy streaming in the hui yin, there is one additional important and final step. The sealing of the outer gate, the tip of the penis. This is not even a contraction at all because you can’t contract your penis it has no muscles. But you need to feel like both sides of the penal shaft gently grip the urethra. And this helps you to feel like you are breathing through the urethra, right through the opening of the urethra, just like you breathe in through the anus. Feel like there is a ring of chi around the head of your penis that seals off energy leakage. The urethra channels aroused energy from the sensitive tip of the penis back to the hui yin point where it enters and then is breathed into the anus. Again this is all coordinated with the breath.
Perhaps the most important point: What is even more important than contracting the anus tailbone urogenital diaphragm or anything is alternately relaxing everything you tighten up on the exhale. It’s like your whole groin is breathing. Relaxing everything dissolves all the pressure built up.
If you want translations of long lost rediscovered texts on the real traditional methods I suggest Douglas Wile's The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics.
Comments are more than welcomed, if someone thinks I don’t know what I’m talking about I'd love the opportunity to correct my thinking.
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WEBMASTER'S NOTES:
The
above post describes a number of techniques working fluently together, at a
fairly high level. A student needs to break it down: look at, train in,
explore and resolve, each technique separately until some sensitivity and
confidence is attained. Then gradually see how they work together.
Some people take the discovery of the sexual energy ~ sacrum connection
to mean that one should never practice pubococcygeal (pc, perineum) exercises, and I believe that
conclusion to be a big mistake. PC exercises keep the perineum vital, toned,
healthy, massage the prostate, allow blood and qi to flow through the area more
freely, and so provide a better basis for activating hui yin.
The sexual energy ~ sacrum connection doesn't exclude the PC exercise altogether, only
diminishes its emphasis during sex, in favor of more relaxed
hui yin activation and more vigorous engagement of the sacrum.
PC exercises are definitely still a very important part of an unaroused practice regime, and
still occasionally useful during sex.
REFERENCES:
Exploring the Exhale - effective training method to activate the major acupoints & anatomy of the lower torso that sbiel talks about in the above essay. Hui yin, the sacrum (tailbone).
Kidney-1 Breathing - an activated hui yin connects to the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands. This page provides a number of links that assist with cultivating those connections, energies, flows.
The sacrum - anatomy and alchemical importance of the tailbone (sacrum).
Lin's Links - an introduction to Dr. Lin's site, theory, methods. The two main parts are: 1) "Sexual ChiKong for Men" (aka scrotal compression), and 2) "Anal Breathing", which includes notes about contracting around the tailbone (sacrum).
Turtle Breathing - "breathing" through the tip of the penis.