Japanese Acupuncture, Arizona （日本鍼灸）

Many people are speculative how and why acupuncture works.
For example, sciatic pain is a compression of vertebras (mostly L-4/5 or L-5/S-1:  don't need an X-ray to know it).  Without a decompression of the vertebras involved, people wonder how acupuncture reduces pain.  For the answer, I will ask you: how does a placebo, usually a sugar pill, work for many people?  Sugar does not decompress vertebras.  If you can answer that, you have a right to ask how acupuncture works.  When you visit any acupuncturist, let go of your notion of western logic and methods.  They are not helping you, and that is why you call an acupuncturist. Any preconception you might have visiting an acupuncture clinic will work against you.  Let it go, and instead, experience something that has been working for more than 2000 years, far longer than western medicine.

Japanese Acupuncture, Arizona （日本鍼灸）

(For The Valentine’s Day)

Are You Really Making Love…?

No matter what people, churches, religions, governments, or science say, the sexual energy is the strongest energy force we have in our bodies.  Since it is the strongest, might as well utilize it to enhance your state of BE-ing.  Before you stop reading this article, I must tell you that what I write below is very good for those who are having sexual dysfunctions.

When was the last time you had a breathless, weightless, timeless, and selfless orgasm?  When was the last time you truly “made LOVE” rather than “having sex”?  You do not need to answer these:  you already know in your heart. 

True awakening is hard to achieve when the Heart is closed.  It is essential to open it up, going beyond vulnerability and fear, and to know your true Self that you ARE.  There are many ways to open the Heart, but today, I would like to emphasize on the sexual energy.

Timeless and Selfless Bliss Is Achievable:

Here are what you need to do and these exercises are great for any sexual dysfunctions, too.

#1:  It is essential that you practice, and hopefully, master the breathing technique.  Start with abdominal breathing.  This will immediately place you in the alpha brain wave stage of relaxation.  Lie down on comfortable floor, and take a slow and relaxing breathe to the abdomen.  Rather than breathing from the chest, concentrate on expanding your abdomen, especially below the navel.  If you marshal arts, you know that this area is the energy source (Tan- Tien in Chinese:  Tan-Den in Japanese).  If you have difficulties doing this, ask your lover to watch and instruct to see if the abdomen is rising before the chest.  Do this for 10 to 30 min.

#2:  Need to master the control of the diaphragm.  Change the breathing to very short inhalation from the nostril, and for exhalation, slightly longer exhalation from the nostril.  Repeat this in quick succession.  At first, you cannot do this fast, so take time to master this Short-Longer breathing technique.  As you inhale, the diaphragm should go up.  If you do not feel it going up, you are not doing right.  As you exhale, the diaphragm is doing down:  be aware of it.  If you feel dizzy or become afraid of going further, slow down or stop completely.  Relax and do it again when you are ready.  Do this for about 15-30.  For a beginner, do not over do this process.  But those of you who are serious, master this technique.

#3:  Once you are comfortable with #2 technique, take a short breath in from the nostril and contract the anal sphincter at the same time.  This is an essential technique for any sexual dysfunction.  This is how you move the sexual energy to the 7^th chakra.  Let go with a longer exhalation and relax the sphincter.  Do this exercise daily anytime you want while no one is watching.  Once you can keep the sphincter close for more than a minuet, you are mastering. 

#4:  Do the breathing and the sphincter contraction and try to bring the sexual energy along the spine to the top of the body. You need a great awareness of your body to do this.  You can undulate your body or curve your spine, but each breath and contraction, try to send the energy up.  After a few minuets of this, relax and become aware of your body.  Touch your Third Eye and the top of the head (crown chakra/7^th chakra) to see if they are softening up.  This really needs exercises.  Do not be disappointed.  Practice makes perfect.  Once you master this, you are on the way to healing and will see the reality in a totally different perspective.  Your eyes and visions become softer.  Your mind is more open because your Heart is opening up.  No more self constrains, rules, and limitations.  You experience your true Self.

#5:  Once you master #4, you can be in an orgasmic state anytime and anywhere you want.  But you will no longer do this for an intercourse.  You do this for an awakening and spiritual experience.  You will understand that this orgasm is not the orgasmic experienced through sex, but much stronger and deeper, and above all blissful (truly making LOVE).   You will float in the field that is timeless and selfless.  Here is what you do with your partner.  Once both of you learn to do the breathing technique, you copulate, but this time, one of you do the breathing and closing sphincter technique to bring the energy up, and take turns.  Once you are comfortable with it, you, two, can try at the same time.  Do not aim for an orgasm itself, but the pure sensation of it.  Orgasm and blissfulness are different.  After orgasm, completely let go.  At this moment, if I ask you “who are you?”  You will not be able to answer.  You are in a complete blissful field that is timeless and selfless.  There is absolutely no time or self:  just floating in a weightless field and for the first time in your life you experience that you ARE.

And when I say, “This,” you will know exactly what it is.

Namaste

Japanese Acupuncture, Arizona （日本鍼灸）

How Much Do You Honor Yourself?

Recovery from illness and pain totally depends on how much you honor yourself. On contrary to what many believe, it is not an acupuncturist or an MD who improves your symptoms. Ultimately, it is you who improve yourself. A health care provider is just a helping hand and real improvement comes from within you. You cannot be healthy when you are limiting yourself in your mind. If you are constantly rationalizing that you don’t have money and time, then, there is no solution. It is amazing to me that not many people know how to make time and how to spend money when comes to health.

Do you know how to create money like most of us do? Then, spending money on your health should not be a worry, and instead, it should be your top priority.

Before you call any health care provider, make sure you know your worth.

Japanese Acupuncture, Phoenix, AZ （日本鍼灸）

Living & Death-ing

From a few posts ago, I wrote about Experience v Knowledge, but I have not answered on a question that an astrophysicist asks:  What is the universe expanding into?  I mentioned that since he sought the Knowledge, he may never find an answer (please read the post first).  From spiritual perspective, the answer to the question is that the universe is expanding into the Beginning.  It is our folly, because of “time,” we believe that we must have a beginning and an ending.  From a spiritual point of view, they are one and the same. 

What is the beginning is the ending, and what is the ending is the beginning.  Notice I placed “ing” on the begin and the end.  They are not “ended” or “began.”  They are continuously beginn-ing and end-ing (from before the beginning of time and after the ending of time).

We are in the abstract field of potentiality*1 where all histories beyond time play out.  Physicists say that there are up to 11^th dimensions that fit mathematical calculations to possibly explain the universe (the string theory).  Beyond the 4^th dimension of spacetime, I know that soon or later they must include the potentiality (or probabilities) and the Consciousness.  We are seeing today that the dark matter*2 and the dark energy are real, and what we thought of the universe, once again, is radically changing. 

From spiritual perspective, what they call the dark matter is what I call the Pure Consciousness*3.  What they call the dark energy is the Intention behind the Consciousness.  The Energy comes from the undulating and sensuous field*4 (quantum fluctuation) of the Pure Abstract Potentiality*5. 

You might say, “how do you know all that?”  Remember, a spiritual person goes for the Experience.  When we are in the field of pure abstraction, we know exact what we ARE (Contradictory?  But it IS.).  No laws of any kind, nothing binds you to anything.  You are totally free and you are IT.

How do we apply the Experience to our lives?  When comes to death, for example, the true reality is that death is not an end.  It is an extension of end-ing and the beginning of the beginn-ing.  I quoted the last line from Elizabeth Browning’s famous poem, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways on my last post.  It is superbly noble to say that “I love thee more after death.”  From  spiritual perspective, we only do the best to living Life while our times last, and when so called death takes over, we only do the best to death-ing, for what is unborn never die.  Namaste.

*1:  Abstract Potentiality:  Dr. John Hagelin, PhD.

*2:  “a significant fraction of the dark matter must be in a different form from ordinary matter.”  Stephen Hawking

*3:  Maharaj Nisargadatta 

*4:  Note:  the “field” and not the “space.”

*5:  You may label this kind of thinking as “quantum mysticism.”  But quantum physics contains “imaginary numbers and time.”

Japanese Acupuncture Phoenix, AZ （日本鍼灸）

Slow Suicides:  Let Me Count The Ways

1:            Smoking a pack or more cigarettes a day will give you cancer almost 100% of the time.  Also gives you hypertension and others you already know.  You will shorten your life span for at least 3 to 5 years, and your family members are the ones suffer the most.

2:            Eating a large chunk of cheese every day will give you (almost guaranteed) cardiac problems.  Cheese is phlegm.  It will stagnate the entire circulatory system:  increasing bad cholesterol level is just a tip of an iceberg.  American cheeses are highly acidic with tons of preservatives and salts.  Do not deny in your head:  check your cholesterol level and change your diet, unless of course if you are looking for a sudden death.

3:            Excessive intake of alcohol will give you cirrhosis of the liver, and it will give you a not so pleasant death and also increase risks of cancer.  Do not drink alcohol without intake of foods:  drinking for hours and not eating will most likely give you colon cancer.

4:            High intake of sugar will give you all kinds of problems including the above three.  In our modern life, sugar is the mother of all evils.  Never to intake artificial sweeteners, and be careful with diet drinks and foods:  they are not that safe as you might think.  Add high sugar diet to high protein diet and it will give you a kidney failure or dysfunction.  Do not allow corporate giants to take control of your life span!

5:            Same is true with all junk foods and fast foods:  corporate irresponsibility to the maximum.  Do not become a victim to corporate greed.  Especially feeding kids with these substances is not doing anything good.  Most of us are sold out on the idea that we do not have time and money to feed ourselves right.  Remember, the demise of the Roman Empire is partially due to lead poisoning.  America is doing the same with food poisoning. 

6:              There are many more.  Will count as we go along.

“I shall love thee better after death.”  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

On Oneness: Knowledge v Experience （日本鍼灸）Phoenix, Arizona, USA

On Oneness:  Knowledge v Experience

A question an astrophysicist asks that “what the universe expanding into?” is similar to a spiritual person asking “what is it that becomes one with the Oneness?”  As we know that the universe is a runaway space expansion and galaxies are moving away from each other faster and faster.  We do not know if the universe has a boundary and what a purpose of the universe (if any).  On a smaller scale, within an internal dialogue, you might ask “what is the meaning of life?” 

Difference between a scientist and a spiritual person is that one seeks for knowledge (with great details, observational accuracies, and the simplest mathematical formulas) and the other seeks for experience (not a metaphysical, in our mind notion, but an actual experience).  I can write:  Knowledge v Experience. 

In quantum physics, we have become aware for the first time in scientific history that an act of observation influences an outcome (an observer v a see-er), and in the area of particle physics the velocity and the position of a particle cannot be accurately known both at the same time (Heisenberg Uncertainty).  Quantum physics is unveiling how “weird” the world of particle physics is (“weird” because it deviates from our daily and usual experiences), but the weirdness is quite real as the reality.  This knowledge has expanded our consciousness exponentially compared to that of the medieval era.  Such is the power of knowledge that frees us from conventional social norms and mores. 

Einstein once said that he wanted to know the mind of God*1 (he meant not the personal god but a harmonious perfection).  But he chose the wrong word, the “mind.” If one asks for the mind, he can glimpse on a fraction of the whole.  What he should have said was:  “I want to experience god.”  Then he had gotten the whole, 100% of what there was (and is).  Knowledge is great but Experience supersedes it.  There is one obstruction, a hurdle, we need to jump over on both cases:  that is about a “word.”   A word is an abstraction to explain and communicate easily with each other.  However, we need to understand that the true reality cannot be explained by words alone.  There is a limitation to words.  Joseph Campbell always said that words were second rate.  Why?  A minute we describe an emotional quality with words, they cheapen it*2:  for example, emotion and reverence we feel after seeing a beautiful sunset is not describable:  simply uttering “ah…” is all we can do.  Remember, the most important word on AUM (or OM) is the silence after the M.*3. 

Similarly, when we seek the meaning of life, we understand that the word “meaning” is a concept, and therefore, there is no “meaning.”  We made up the word to communicate, but since it is a word and is abstract, there are many interpretations of the same word:  if we search for it, we will never ever get an answer.  Right question to ask is:  “How do we experience the Life itself every single moment in our times?”

The answer to the astrophysicist’s question is that, since he seeks Knowledge, we don’t know what the universe is expanding into and we may never know forever since the universe is expanding so rapidly and the observable universe of about 14 billion years ago is so far away. 

Do we then have the answer to the second question?  In order to get an answer, we must know and experience the following.  What is the difference between an Observer and a See-er?  And, what is the state of mind of the See-er?   

Look at yourself in a mirror, I mean for a long time.  If you do so until your eyes and your eyes in the mirror merge, them you experience that you are no long certain who is an observer and who is a see-er.  An observer becomes being seen, yet you two are one and the same (same with a particle:  it behaves like a particle at the same time as wave).  At the deeper level of this experience we realize that most of us are not aware that our own ego makes us think that we exist.  Here is an example to ponder:  Do you look the sky and say “I exit?”  or do you realize that because the sky is blue, “you exist?”  Do you say a flag is moving or air is moving the flag, or the mind is moving? (Can you go beyond the mind?)

I give you another example:  when you look at a dying person, could be your parent, lover, friend, etc., what are you really thinking in your head and what are you experiencing?  Crying or being sorrowful is a very human response.  But what is behind the emotion?  Are you crying because your emotion (the realm of the egoic consciousness) making you or because of the past social behavioral pattern (we are all programmed)?  Are you an observer or a see-er?  Are you experiencing before the “ah” moment, something cannot be described by words?  And what is death? 

Answer to the question of what it is that we are really becoming one with the Oneness is in the Experience.  Since words cannot explain, I cannot write it down here for you.  You must experience IT.  When IT happens, you are no longer bounded by emotions and the egoic consciousness.  You look at a dying person as IT happens with pure compassion:  a true See-er, that IS.

Namaste.

*1:             I wanted to avoid word god as much as possible in my writing. 

*2:            Please do not misunderstand that words are often sacred such as in cases of poetries; making words more abstract and meaningful.

*3:            The true experience with the Oneness is THAT SOMETHING before we even utter “ah…” (before the “a” and once again after the “M.”).

Japanese Acupuncture （日本鍼灸）

Every morning before waking up, place your right hand over the heart, take a slow and gentle breathe, feeling the warmth of the hand, and tell yourself that "My heart is happy." This will creat a totally different reality than you might have without it. Namaste.