Become a Master Practitioner of 'lung'

'Lung', pronounced 'loong', is a Tibetan word with the literal translation of 'wind'. Get a pdf about it HERE

I thought you might want to learn more about 'lung' from a master practitioner. You cannot really know 'lung' via words as there are no words that really convey it properly, but once you experience it there is no mistaking it and you can never go back.

With this in mind, here are some pointing instructions so you too can gain a full experience of 'lung'.

DO:

1. make sure you can get good absorption on a chosen object (this may work with other types of concentration also) but preferably choose a complex and subtle object such as a mandala.
2. put every effort in making your chosen object stay right in front of YOU with extreme clarity and vividness without allowing any distracting thoughts or anything else to disturb your CONCENTRATION
3. go hard at your sitting meditation practice so YOU can become an excellent, unsurpassed master meditator! YOUR life depends upon it!
4. eat lots of sugar based products.
5. drink lots of sugar based products - plus expresso or high-energy caffene based drinks if possible
6. make sure to spend lots of time in front of a computer between sits.

Do NOT:

1. excercise of do any type of yoga/tai chi/energy balancing or energy expanding work, and never walk in nature
2. eat protein based foods, such as nuts, beans, pulses or meat - keep them out of your diet.
3. take any notice of physical symptoms such as a tightness or sharp pain in the chest (that lingers) or a tight band of pressure around the forehead. Especially if they appear to get worse during sitting meditation.

Obviously, if you are not interested in this highly popular mental stress inducing thing called 'lung' (also translated to mean "meditator's desease") you are quite welcome to do the OPPOSITE of the above lists.



If there are any other Master 'lung' practitioners here, feel free to let us know if there anything I forgot to put on the lists?

I have dabbled in lung in the past! I am a Caffeine Master, too. I never added the junk food diet. That would have made things very special.

But it is so easily treated!!

I still get a sort of raw head and glassy feeling if I do a lot of concentration or something else that raises a lot of energy (not necessarily sitting meditation on an object, but something like the several hours of funeral prayers in a row I did on Wednesday, which being in a foreign language and an intense context were very concentrationy; or taking part in hours-long religious activities; or going to a meditation workshop where we sit for several hours). Such events also tend to lead to waking up at 3am and being wide awake for a while.

I usually just shake it down by doing a half hour of qi-gong exercises or going for a nice 30 minute walk/jog along the waterfront. If I wake up at night I either write or cook. I've been known to make entire dinners for the next day during 3am bouts of high energy.