Finding immortality
-Daoist Bckrose (Independant)
The core foundation of all forms of cultivation whether righteous or demonic, is Qi. Understanding Its properties and intricacies.
The first thing you must know is the “Nine Key Phases of Qi Cultivation and Mastery”
1: Discover
2: Gather
3: Circute
4: Purify
5: Direct
6: Conserve
7: Store
8: Transform
9: Dissolve
Your aptitude for the first five steps will determine the strength of your Foundation, and will set the path for the rest of your cultivation into the higher realms.
Discover
The first step to Discovering Qi differs from person to person. Some have a natural perception for QI while others will struggle quite a bit to feel its presence.
But there are a few core concepts that will help anyone regardless of their talent or ck thereof.
1: clear your mind.
Feeling the Qi around you is not too dissimir to feeling the presence of wind, or simply listening hard for a distant sound. It first requires that you actually focus and take a moment.
No matter what it is you’re trying to sense, if you’re distracted by something else, you simply won’t be able to.
2: Look for Qi where there is a known abundance of it.
It may seem obvious, but noticing Qi is easier if there is more of it. Using the distant sound example, if you simply heard a faint sound once, you could perhaps brush it off as simply hearing things, but were you to repeatedly hear loud noises over and over again, there would be no doubt that you’re onto something.
And finally
3: Meditate without anything blocking you from the Qi.
You’ve likely noticed that Daoist's wear clothing of silk or other manmade fabrics instead of animal skin products.
The residual life force of the departed beasts greatly interferes with our ability to feel the surrounding Qi.
While it may be embarrassing, if you have no clothing of manmade fabrics, you should meditate in the nude in order to sense the Qi without interference.
GATHER
The method of gathering Qi differs between demonic and righteous cultivators. Demonic cultivators will take their Qi from other living creatures through ritualistic practices, while righteous cultivators will draw it directly from the air, which is noticeably much more difficult.
Once again, the best method for each individual will not always be the same as it is for others.
Qi is a natural resource, and it’s important to remember that it will take on affinities depending on where it is.
Areas with extreme natural phenomena will have an effect on the ambient Qi, and vice versa.
People also often have certain affinities of Qi that their body accepts best and for the greatest results, they should cultivate in an area rich in those affinities.
My suggestion is to seek out either an experienced Daoist, or an artifact that can determine your body's affinity so you know what to look for.
Now, onto the important part.
Once you’ve gotten to a point where you can sense the qi in the atmosphere around you, you will notice that it will follow some mental direction. It won’t be easy obviously, but once you can sense it you’ve already made the first giant leap towards controlling it.
Steadily and slowly guide the strands of Qi from the air around you to your sor plexus. If you move too quickly, you will easily lose your mental grip on the strands, and they will disperse.
Likewise if you try to move the Qi to anywhere other than your sor plexus you run the risk of destroying the bodily area you sent it to.
Common belief holds that the soul sits within the Liver, and that section of the body is the only pce that can sustain the power of Qi. at least at first.
Circute
Once you’ve gathered the Qi into your sor plexus, and given it time to acclimate to your body, you will now be able to move it throughout the body without blowing off a limb.
You will need to slowly but surely move the qi through your body to each of the Twelve Primary meridians.
Moving too quickly may rupture the meridians leading you to die an extraordinarily painful death, so moving slowly and stopping quickly if you meet a block is the key to success.
The 12 meridians are
1: The Lungs
2: The Large intestine
3: The Stomach
4: The Spleen
5: The Heart
6: The Small intestine
7: The Bdder
8: The kidney
9: The pericardium
10: The Brain
11: The gallbdder
12: The liver
In this order, you will move the Qi through your body slowly probing open each meridian allowing you to more efficiently take in Qi faster, and in rger amounts.
Now you will encounter blockages. This is natural. The impurities within the body often build up in these meridians. It’s the result of stagnant Qi mixing with the body's natural fluids like blood, spinal and cerebral fluid and other bodily liquids.
When you encounter such blockages then you will need the next step.
Purify
These impurities are essentially corrupted Qi, and it distinctly acts as such. If you try and simply force your way past without already having a solid foundation for the previous steps, you’ll die.
This is possibly one of the most important steps, and at least on paper, it isn’t all that difficult, but in practice it is much harder than you’d think.
You will need to carefully guide the Qi to the blockage and then hold it in pce against the blockage. Not pushing, instead, you will need to rotate the Qi within the meridian while ensuring that you only press against the blockage very softly.
Do it wrong, and you can easily erupt and destroy everything in several Li around you.
This fine control needs to be maintained perfectly in speed and in pressure against the blockage until it makes it’s way through fully. This process can take hours to even days, and grows harder the further through your meridians you go.
The closer to the final meridian the blockage is, the stronger it will be, and the harder it will be to remove
Removing blockages can be assisted with medicinal baths and teas designed to soften the blockages or even temporarily widen the meridians.
Once your meridians are all open, and are clear of blockages, you can move onto the next step.
