Using the Greek story of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, which outlines the progressive stages of spiritual development that spiritual practitioners in all spiritual traditions go through, this book presents full details on the step-by-step progression of the physical transformations that occur to practitioners. Whenever someone starts to consistently cultivate spiritual practice in a devoted way, there are physical changes that will occur to the human body. These physical transformations, called “gong-fu” in the eastern spiritual schools, are non-denominational signposts of spiritual progress. If you cultivate spiritual practice sufficiently then these phenomena will arise. If you don’t practice correctly, they simply won’t appear. Their appearance is a matter of proper devoted effort. These phenomena include such things as the awakening of kundalini (yang chi) within the body, the opening of the chakras and purification of the body’s energy channels, hormonal transformations, the calming of consciousness, the experience of refined mental states described as “emptiness,” and various other mental and physical phenomena. Normally people think these phenomena only occur to individuals following eastern cultivations traditions such as yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Vajrayana. However, these phenomena that arise are totally non-sectarian and non-denominational. They equally occur to devoted spiritual followers within Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. If you cultivate spiritual practices sufficiently, these purification transformations will occur and if you don’t cultivate meditation or other spiritual exercises, you will not experience them. Your religion has nothing to do with it. All genuine religious traditions employ cultivation practices designed to help you achieve a quiet mind. Because thoughts die down due to these practices, this resulting mental quiet is described as peacefulness, silence, cessation, calming, purity, and emptiness. Your mind empties of busy thoughts and so you begin to experience mental peace. When your mind quiets, proper spiritual practice requires that you remain aware during this experience rather than try to suppress thoughts from further arising. The practice of maintaining awareness while mentally quiet is called witnessing, observing, knowing, or introspection. As the mind quiets, you continue to watch your mental continuum but without attaching to it. The gradual calming of your mind results from successfully letting go of thoughts, and because your body’s life force (chi) and consciousness are linked, as you let go of thoughts you also drop the habit of clinging to the energies you normally feel in your body. With proper spiritual practice you learn how to detach from these energies and let them function without interference. Once you learn how to do this, your kundalini energies will arise and their natural circulation will start to transform your body. Those energies will open up your chi channels and chakras and transform your physical body, purifying it. As your chi purifies, so will your emotions and habit energies. As you progressively let go of your chi, it will also revert to its natural circulation which has been suppressed by errant thought patterns. Cultivating a quiet mind leads to your kundalini arising, those energies purify your channels and chakras, that purification leads to a greater degree of mental purity or emptiness, and the two components of body and mind reach ever increasing levels of refinement. This book presents full details on this step-by-step progression of transformations that occur to practitioners on the spiritual trail. It covers the meditation practices that successful adepts have traditionally used throughout history, and non-denominationally links the gong-fu experiences of these practitioners with the stages of the spiritual path and the ultimate quest for self-realization, or enlightenment.
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Using the Greek story of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, which outlines the progressive stages of spiritual development that spiritual practitioners in all spiritual traditions go through, this book presents full details on the step-by-step progression of the physical transformations that occur to practitioners. Whenever someone starts to consistently cultivate spiritual practice in a devoted way, there are physical changes that will occur to the human body. These physical transformations, called “gong-fu” in the eastern spiritual schools, are non-denominational signposts of spiritual progress. If you cultivate spiritual practice sufficiently then these phenomena will arise. If you don’t practice correctly, they simply won’t appear. Their appearance is a matter of proper devoted effort. These phenomena include such things as the awakening of kundalini (yang chi) within the body, the opening of the chakras and purification of the body’s energy channels, hormonal transformations, the calming of consciousness, the experience of refined mental states described as “emptiness,” and various other mental and physical phenomena. Normally people think these phenomena only occur to individuals following eastern cultivations traditions such as yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Vajrayana. However, these phenomena that arise are totally non-sectarian and non-denominational. They equally occur to devoted spiritual followers within Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. If you cultivate spiritual practices sufficiently, these purification transformations will occur and if you don’t cultivate meditation or other spiritual exercises, you will not experience them. Your religion has nothing to do with it. All genuine religious traditions employ cultivation practices designed to help you achieve a quiet mind. Because thoughts die down due to these practices, this resulting mental quiet is described as peacefulness, silence, cessation, calming, purity, and emptiness. Your mind empties of busy thoughts and so you begin to experience mental peace. When your mind quiets, proper spiritual practice requires that you remain aware during this experience rather than try to suppress thoughts from further arising. The practice of maintaining awareness while mentally quiet is called witnessing, observing, knowing, or introspection. As the mind quiets, you continue to watch your mental continuum but without attaching to it. The gradual calming of your mind results from successfully letting go of thoughts, and because your body’s life force (chi) and consciousness are linked, as you let go of thoughts you also drop the habit of clinging to the energies you normally feel in your body. With proper spiritual practice you learn how to detach from these energies and let them function without interference. Once you learn how to do this, your kundalini energies will arise and their natural circulation will start to transform your body. Those energies will open up your chi channels and chakras and transform your physical body, purifying it. As your chi purifies, so will your emotions and habit energies. As you progressively let go of your chi, it will also revert to its natural circulation which has been suppressed by errant thought patterns. Cultivating a quiet mind leads to your kundalini arising, those energies purify your channels and chakras, that purification leads to a greater degree of mental purity or emptiness, and the two components of body and mind reach ever increasing levels of refinement. This book presents full details on this step-by-step progression of transformations that occur to practitioners on the spiritual trail. It covers the meditation practices that successful adepts have traditionally used throughout history, and non-denominationally links the gong-fu experiences of these practitioners with the stages of the spiritual path and the ultimate quest for self-realization, or enlightenment.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent in both overview and detail
By Blake Conley
I had planned to begin this review by declaring “This is a GEM!” – and then, upon reading the previous reviews, discovered that choice of words had already been expressed. Indeed, it would be difficult to assign a base monetary value to a book such as this. It is as if there were so many hamlets of cultivation-culture situated in various valleys and the author is taking his reader into an elevated perspective that affords them a view of the broader encompassing landscape (which necessarily includes historical perspective as well).There is not a hint of condescension or self-aggrandizement in all the text – only the confident tone of someone giving their best in a sincere desire to edify. When all is said and done, I may not be as entirely convinced of the premise that the Labors of Hercules truly was consciously intended to serve as a record of cultivation progress, so much as I am impressed by Mr. Bodri’s brilliance of skill in mapping cultivation’s physical terrain onto that story and/or successfully employing expedient means in using it as a vehicle for conveying extremely valuable and rare information to his respected readers.As for what the text may lack, the author says, on a number of occasions, that more depth and further detail would have to be covered in future volumes. But, although (to my recollection) this is not brought up in the book (in striking contrast to those authors who seemingly design their books primarily as infomercials), if the interested reader were to visit the author’s “MeditationExpert” website they would find a wealth of additional, supportive, (and free) information – including references to recommended reading (and I agree with the previous reviewer who considered the lack of such references in “Hercules” to be a shortcoming), and links to the author’s eBooks. I especially recommend “How To Measure and Deepen your Spiritual Realization” which I currently consider to be probably the most useful book I have read in my lifetime (and is replete with numerous footnotes and references). Fortunately, I had just finished reading it before receiving “The Little Book of Hercules” and so, in a way, it served as a sort of footnote/text-reference backdrop/supplement to this book as I read it.I believe there are factors in life that Bill Bodri does not account for or include in his works (and I`ve never considered myself “a Buddhist” as such). I don’t look to him for all the answers – for which I trust my own individual internal guidance and path. But, for the broad territory that he does take on, I know of no comparative author with the experience, acumen and wisdom to bring such authoritative clarity to the overall arena of “cultivation.”I should note that “The little Book of Hercules” helped me to see what a real beginner I am in these matters. Most of what he describes I have yet to experience. So, in that sense, I may be in no position to judge, for others, the value or veracity of that information. For me, I intuit its value, and the correctness of many of its assertions, based on what experience I have had, what I’ve read elsewhere, and the confirmations and learning experience that took place while I was engaged with the book.For me, “The Little Book of Hercules” is, minor occlusions/inclusions (and exclusions) notwithstanding, a real gem. But, as mentioned, I recommend readers visit Mr. Bodri’s MeditationExpert site for material that will help expand and clarify what was given in this excellent, generous work.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent reference for stages of samadhi development
By Small Stuffed Monkey
Everyone who has meditated for some time knows that meditation results in transformation of the mind, but also that meditation transforms the body in various ways at certain stages of development. Different cultures explain these changes in various ways, but it is difficult for even very serious students to see connections between traditions and cultures, without extensive study and experience.Little Book of Hercules is not a book about Greek mythology, but its goal is rather to explain the various physical transformations that are the result of meditation practice. The outline for the book comes from the stories about the labors of Hercules, which are actually describing the path of spiritual cultivation. Indeed, quite a few of the stories contain elements that would make no sense outside the basic context of cultivation practice. This is the reason why in ancient Greece, there were religious groups that also connected the labors of Hercules with the spiritual path.For readers who are accustomed to meditation necessarily involving Indian or Chinese terms, this book also shows that western culture has had its own cultivation traditions. It becomes a glimpse into a time when the best of western culture had a firm grasp of both the material and the spiritual world. It also inadvertently raises interesting questions about our own future in the 21st century.The really special thing about this book, though, is that it clearly divides and explains all the basic steps of physical transformation. Are you going through a stage in which your big toe feels sore? Or what about a pinching sensation at the heels of your feet? Cutting soreness and cold throughout your legs and body? So many phenomena are explained very clearly by this book, including what they mean, and how not to become trapped or entangled by the different stages.If I could make one change to this book, it would be to change the basic format and layout. Although it is divided clearly by chapter, the nature of this book lends itself to being reference material. I would be very interested in seeing what this book would be like if it had more of a textbook / abhidharma type of approach. This is just curiosity, though, and the book is already an excellent and rare gem as it is.In all, I would highly recommend this book, especially for meditators with some experience, but who lack a full understanding of the path (99.999%). For those who are just beginning, I would recommend that they read the following book first: The Little Book of Meditation: The Way to Lifelong Vibrant Health, Peace of Mind, Spiritual Growth and Wellbeing. Without the full explanation that this book includes, they would probably be lost when trying to read “Hercules.”
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Thanks Bill
By Zinger
This book explains cultivation details not found anywhere. I have been searching for a long time for someone to explain what we experience during meditation. Many sources merely attempt to translate content from classic sources and claim to have secret knowledge. Yet, many do not have the experience to understand the content of the classics. Nor is the information coded in cryptic metaphors. Bill explains these cryptic metaphors of the ancients. Bill puts all the basic parts in one book. He does repeat the material more than I think is necessary. Yet, I also understand the purpose for this is to emphasis the important points. Thanks Bill.
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