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An intense, sustained orgasm produced by contraction of the head and neck. That is AEO. The contraction in the head and neck region is the key: you focus your awareness on a single point along the body's center line, roughly midway between the pharynx and the point between the eyebrows, and apply a subtle pressure toward it. This is fundamentally different from what the world calls "energy orgasm." With mastery, AEO becomes possible even when focusing on areas other than the head.

Whether it's dry orgasm or energy orgasm, there's a period where you think "I'm not sure if I'm doing it or not" — and that means you're not doing it. Dry orgasm and energy orgasm are straightforward physiological phenomena. When you actually achieve one, you unmistakably feel the orgasmic sensation. The key is whether you can persist until that moment.

Nobody says "I had a mystical experience!" after ejaculating. Because they know it's a physiological phenomenon. In exactly the same way, if you truly achieve Kundalini awakening, you can't call it a "mystical experience." Because you experience it unmistakably as a physiological phenomenon. In other words, anyone who treats Kundalini as mystical either hasn't actually attained it, or has some ulterior motive.

AEO naturally makes you a master of meditation. The meditation of Zen masters who have sat in zazen for decades is child's play by comparison. Shikantaza is the height of futility. Breathing in and out for hours is supremely inefficient. Hit AEO and you'll reach Samadhi in five minutes. Do it for an hour and you won't even remember anything in words. That's what good meditation looks like.

I keep insisting on altered states of consciousness, but if you ask "does something magical happen when you enter an altered state?" — no, nothing magical happens. If you go to a psychedelic trance rave or an underground techno party, you'll find nothing but people dancing in deep altered states of consciousness, and nothing magical is happening whatsoever. Obviously. But an altered state of consciousness does heighten your interoceptive awareness and enhance your ability to control your body. I don't know why. But it does. If you played sports, you might recognize it. It's what's called "the zone." Body-mind synchronization increases, related muscle groups flow and coordinate seamlessly, and irrelevant noise is filtered out. In this state, pinpointing the location of the lower tanden, the head-neck points to focus on for AEO, and the muscles to control all becomes much easier.

This may sound like an exaggeration, but for AEO attainers, the following is reality: 1. Redefinition of desire and pleasure AEO produces limitless pleasure independently, without reliance on external substances or other people. This causes the traditional pursuit of desire and pleasure to lose its meaning, and you naturally drift away from material desire and consumerism. You face the fundamental question of what human beings should seek. 2. Transformation of ethics By obtaining limitless pleasure, the attainment of pleasure and happiness no longer depends on relationships with others or social rules. Since AEO provides pleasure without affecting others, the conventional ethics premised on "relationships with others" must be redefined. New ethical challenges arise that cannot be addressed by traditional frameworks of "good and evil" or "consideration for others." 3. The ultimate realization of freedom and autonomy AEO liberates humans from external power and constraints, transforming them into completely autonomous beings. The possibility of self-contained, supreme pleasure pursuit forces a reconsideration of the true nature of human freedom. When supreme pleasure is available without limit, the meaning of freedom is redefined. In short, AEO overturns our fundamental understanding of desire, pleasure, ethics, and freedom, requiring new values and a new compass for living. Also — something that's hard to convey — the "pleasure" I'm talking about here is not some modest, token-level pleasure.

Whether it's the yawn in the pelvis or AEO, the practice is about sharpening interoceptive awareness: what happens when you stimulate what part of the body, in what posture, what kind of pleasure or energy sensation or unusual feeling arises from where and in what manner. And can these sensations be controlled by moving some part of the body? What's your current mental state? And so on — during AEO meditation, you should be in a state of extreme, laser-focused concentration on all of this. If you're truly doing this, there is no room for erotic thoughts to intrude. Conversely, if erotic thoughts creep in, it means there's a gap in your awareness — your concentration is not tight enough. Don't soak in the pleasure — observe it. You'll have all the time to soak in it after you've attained it.

Being able to read scholarly research on Tibetan Buddhism, Indian Buddhism, and Hinduism in your native language is a tremendous advantage. People attempting AEO should invest money in books and study. What is AEO? What kinds of people have seasoned it in what ways, turned it into what kinds of dishes, and served it up? Once that outline becomes clear, the concept crystallizes in your mind, and the history surrounding AEO becomes apparent. When AEO becomes clear, you know what you're aiming for, and your development speed increases. Should.

People say meditation must be learned over a long time under an experienced and capable teacher. That sounds very religious and I find it distasteful. I went from zero meditation experience to AEO attainment in ten months. That proves that with the right information (Kosatsuroku) and persistence (being crazy), that's all you need. The best meditation teacher in the world for you is yourself.

AEO is merely the release of neurotransmitters. There's nothing mystical about it. You're just dosing yourself. Metaphors and symbolism can stimulate the imagination all they want, but never forget the basics. The more you refine your practice, the more fundamentals matter. What separates top athletes from everyone else is whether they relentlessly drill the basics. The basics of AEO are the head and neck. Not below. Once you've experienced dry orgasm and energy orgasm, move on to the head and neck region right away. Also — don't soak in the pleasure. Observe it. In the third empowerment of the Kalachakra Tantra, the practitioner has sex with a Dakini and ejaculates, but the ejaculation must be performed very slowly. Do you know why? To observe and make it controllable. You can't do that if you're drowning in pleasure and lost in rapture.

Got a park nearby? If so, go ride the swings. They're great. I've been saying this forever. When you come down, your pelvis does this "whoosh" thing. At that moment, lock your awareness on the pelvis hard. And when you swing back up — "whoaaa" — at that exact instant when you stop and begin to descend, observe the state of your body very carefully. If you can reproduce that state during meditation, that could be good. Also, for example: the exact instant your body senses a yawn is about to come. The exact instant your body senses a sneeze is about to come. The instant emotion is about to stir. The state of the body at those moments. What you observe isn't the mind or the heart. It's the body. Remember what I posted before? "What matters is the space between." Between exhalation and inhalation. Between sympathetic and parasympathetic. Distance matters between people too, right? Jinsei Tsuji said it: "Between Calm and Passion." Observe the body calmly and continue the observation passionately. If you get passionate about pleasure and drown in it, calm observation becomes impossible. That's just being used.

It's not frisson either, to be precise. It's confusing, but frisson, like sexual sensation, is more of an expedient. Keep doing it and eventually it should merge with AEO. My latest view is that, just as there's a "yawn in the pelvis," there seem to be a "yawn of the belly," a "yawn of the chest," and a "yawn of the throat." What I achieved in August 2023 was probably the "brow point + belly, or chest, yawn." At that stage it was close to frisson, and since I was working with the brow point and chest, it was exactly the feeling of "rapture." So intense I blurted out "this is ecstasy." So it wasn't at all the thing where sexual energy rises up the spine from the pelvic floor — nothing got stuck anywhere, and it flowed smoothly to the head and the whole body. Then, that December, I had the experience I involuntarily named "Buddha Trip" because I honestly thought "I've become the Buddha" (laughs). From that point, quality and intensity jumped dramatically. The development of the brow point had crossed a threshold. After that, even without using the chest or belly, I could pour sensation from the head through the whole body through contraction and relaxation of the head-neck region, or keep it just in the head — freely (this is probably where I truly entered AEO). I think each person's body has a spot along the midline that's optimal for boosting, and for most people it's the lower tanden, but that too is an expedient. Once you've developed the brow point, you should be able to do combination boosts from anywhere.

First, on a fundamental level: distinguish between thoughts and distractions, and examine whether you hold the Zen-derived misconception that "you must not think during meditation." If you do, correct it — that idea is wrong. Distractions are bound to arise at certain brain states, so define them as "just part of the deal" and they stop mattering. As for thinking: deep, focused thinking about something while in an altered state of consciousness during meditation is legitimate meditation, and it's what the Buddha himself recommended. Thoroughly contemplating the twelve links of dependent origination that govern your actual, lived reality — that's what it is (though the prerequisite is that you must be in an altered state). And once AEO deepens meditation to the point where brain function begins to shut down, such conscious activity naturally ceases, leaving the mind like a perfectly calm ocean surface. It can't help but become that. Because the brain isn't working.

A person with high physical intelligence can understand what someone is thinking simply by mimicking their movements. They're not just copying the motion — they're reading the psychology. When that psychology is understood, application becomes possible for the first time. Without understanding the psychology, it's just monkey-see-monkey-do. Therefore, when doing mental imagery training, it matters who created that imagery. If you don't know, better not to do it.

Just go to a club or a rave. Then you'll understand what "single-minded devotion" means, and you'll understand how absurd shamanism is, and you'll understand why humans have been singing and dancing wildly since ancient times. Until you understand this, you'll forever harbor illusions and mystique about shamanism and the like. Go to an outdoor rave and you'll find shamans everywhere (laughs).

Even with AEO, you must always keep some distance. Since it's happening in your own body, there's no such thing as a "mystical experience." A mystical experience only becomes "mystical" because the person thinks it is. AEO can be a full-on mystical experience for certain types of people. Out-of-body experiences are just brain events, but some interpret them as mystical. There are genuinely many such people — probably the majority.

Spirituality and the occult aren't about what you believe or don't believe. It's a matter of attitude. "There are things science can't explain! Therefore, having faith in science is wrong!" — can you see what's wrong with that argument? At that point, you've already stepped into spiritual-occult territory.

Observation also comes in meaningful and meaningless varieties. Observing every fine detail inside your body isn't automatically useful. What you should observe depends on your purpose and the methods for achieving it. There isn't much you need to do for AEO training. My teacher once said, "There's nothing more to say on X. It's all in the book." I achieved awakening from Kosatsuroku alone. These facts speak for themselves.

When you meet people you don't want to see every day, when you're crammed into crowds you don't want to be in every day, you go numb. You start thinking it's normal. I usually don't leave the house and don't see people. When I mention this, they say: "Are you okay mentally?" But the thing is, I do meet the people I should meet, and I do encounter the people I'm meant to encounter. Can you see the difference?

When you explain something in detail, people often think "wow!" — but that's third-rate. First-rate people don't bother in the first place. For example, using AI to automate various tasks is all the rage. Sure, it makes things much more efficient. But think carefully. Aren't there things you don't need to do at all? So first-rate people do this: eliminate unnecessary work. Same applies to AEO. Don't do pointless things. Yoga and esoteric Buddhism are impressive, but full of waste.

When I say "ecstasy," I don't mean the low-level pleasure of "ahhh feels good" in a hot spring or sauna, or "ohhh that's so good!" during sex. This is a level of ecstasy you never encounter in ordinary life. That's why people whose ecstasy threshold is low end up going "BLISS! OH GOD!" and start blabbering about it shamelessly on YouTube.

Here's something completely obvious. If you want to attain AEO, rearrange the priorities of your entire life and go all-in on AEO. In ancient times, esoteric practitioners followed their teachers and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to sexual yoga with Dakinis. Considering that, to achieve yawn-type energy orgasm awakening on your own, and then advance on the AEO path, you have no choice but to go all-in. Obvious as obvious can be.

Japan is fundamentally an occult nation, so citizens are not permitted to trip. That's why only garbage like alcohol and tobacco is allowed. And everyone happily consumes the garbage. In the West, microdosing psychedelics is trending; celebrities are all doing it, convinced they're happy every day while making money. SHIRIN keeps its distance from all that and soaks in AEO. What a funny world.

The main focus of post-awakening practice is: how quickly can you produce intense energy orgasm on demand? The pinnacle of that is AEO. In the process, by combining your own preferred variable X, extraordinary things unfold (AEO x X theory). Before you know it, you'll have a body that makes you laugh (laughs).

Don't trust "ki/energy sensations" before awakening. The energy orgasm that occurs at awakening and the ki sensations you feel at that point are overwhelming. Conversely, "ki/energy sensations" before awakening are, in most cases — actually 100% of cases, I'd say — the product of wishful thinking, misperception, or unfounded assumptions.

Strike while the iron is hot. Your own heart and other people's hearts alike. Rather than training one hour a day for years, do five hours a day for a short, intense period. Fan the flames of your passion for AEO. Dragging it out for years is not practice. It's mere formality. A waste of time. You gain nothing of substance. People who never accomplish anything are people who can't ignite their own passion or anyone else's. It's that simple.

With hypnosis audio and dance music alike, most people need a phase of getting accustomed to listening. Listen to a ton of it and you'll understand the structure. When you understand the structure, the body starts responding more easily. "This is the moment, right?" it says. Which is to say: this is the structure of orgasm.

When you attain AEO, you gain such a massively thick axis in your life that you naturally and effortlessly arrive at a state of proactive indifference. AEO as a phenomenon is so extraordinary that you stop caring about most other things. The noise in your life drops dramatically. Of course your quality of life skyrockets.

When you study Tantra with the experience of AEO, you understand clearly that the affirmation of desire is not the essence. But 99.999999% of the world's understanding of Tantra is "the affirmation of sexuality" or "the affirmation of desire." Well, it's hard to find anything else out there, so maybe it's understandable — but the understanding is far too shallow.

Yogic techniques are useful for attaining AEO, but unless you understand that they are essentially self-hypnosis techniques (techniques for transitioning into an altered state of consciousness), you'll get completely sucked into yoga occultism and won't be able to get out. An altered state of consciousness is just a state. There's nothing sacred about it.

Nobody understands that when they make you do Vipassana without Samatha, they're essentially saying "you people couldn't do it anyway"... There's no point doing Vipassana without Samatha. You enter an altered state of consciousness through Samatha, and then you do Vipassana in that state. That's what gives it meaning.

Mantras have a clear effect. First, with each repetition your breathing naturally becomes deep and calm (because it's the same as deep breathing). Second, if you keep repeating the same word for an hour, you experience Gestalt collapse and enter an altered state of consciousness. These are the two effects. In other words, it doesn't matter what words you say. There are basically only five vowel sounds, so "a-i-u-e-o" works fine. The representative mantra in yoga is "Om," which breaks down to "o-u." Do it with awareness on the belly. What matters is exhaling all the way to the end. Voicing the sound helps you exhale smoothly. Anyone who calls mantras "spells" in full yoga-occultist fashion either has never felt the real effect of mantras, or has some ulterior motive.

If you practice meditation, all sorts of thoughts and concerns come up, but most of them will be resolved once you achieve awakening and attain AEO. Breathing, posture, mind-wandering, one-pointed concentration, staying still, entering Samadhi... etc. AEO naturally resolves and guides you through all of this. This is why AEO has been regarded as the supreme meditation technique in India and Tibet.

In yoga, if you feel suffering or pain, that means you're doing it wrong — but the pain is directly connected to the answer. Take that feedback of discomfort and ask yourself "what do I need to do to generate pleasure?" and experiment through trial and error. When you feel pleasure, ask "how can I amplify it?" and keep experimenting. Just keep doing this relentlessly, and the pleasure grows astonishingly. When you push pleasure to its limit, surprise — there's a mental state where pleasure itself stops mattering. There is a "far shore of pleasure." In this lies the essence of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sufism, shamanism, and all other religions. Or so I think. Reaching that far shore through meditation alone is heavily talent-dependent. The Buddha was the ultimate tripper. Normal people can't fly. Over the roughly 1,200 years after the Buddha's passing, through various painstaking efforts and coincidences, people discovered that "hey, if you control sexual sensation, it feels incredible and you feel like Shiva — heh heh." This technique was continuously researched and systematized. That is Kundalini awakening. In other words, it's an "orgasm extension technique." The foundational text of Kundalini awakening, the "Hatha Yoga Pradipika," is the crystallization of such painstaking effort, sweat, and tears. The reason it's written in such ornate language is the artistic sensibility of Indians, who have always loved poetry. But why have humans so persistently researched these body-transformation techniques since ancient times, harboring longing and ideals for the "far shore"? When I reflect on this and compare it with my own experience, what comes to mind is: "In the idleness of my days..." In short: boredom and too much free time.

"Body-mind dropping off" is not a concept — it's a state. A state in which an altered state of consciousness has deepened. In other words, a state in which the brain and body have responded physiologically. Buddhists themselves have sanctified "states" like "enlightenment," "nirvana," "samadhi," "jhana," and "Samadhi" by treating them as "concepts" rather than experiencing them, which leads to the mistake of talking about "the concept of body-mind dropping off" or "the teaching of body-mind dropping off." Why do precepts exist? To avoid bad trips. Precepts don't cause body-mind dropping off. Body-mind dropping off has no deep hidden meaning. Anyone who reaches that state experiences it.

Looking at the reactions to Kosatsuroku and Kosatsuroku 2, what strikes me is the widespread ignorance and misunderstanding about "altered states of consciousness." I remember discussing this quite a bit with Isuzu Amadake before publication. My view is that it's extremely difficult to attain AEO without utilizing altered states of consciousness, but most people have never experienced an altered state of consciousness and can't define it accurately. At that point, it essentially "doesn't exist" for them. Therefore, since they can't intentionally enter an altered state of consciousness that easily, AEO attainment will also be extremely difficult. That's my frankly pessimistic take. So then the question becomes: how can someone who doesn't know what an altered state of consciousness is come to know it and learn to enter it at will? This is an incredibly demanding task. Many people have probably worked on this problem in the past, but now it feels as though the very existence of altered states of consciousness has been forgotten. Even within hypnosis studies, there's a split between the "state theorists" and "non-state theorists" — "obviously altered states exist, how could they not?" versus "people respond to suggestion, so we don't need to assume any special state." It's a debate that doesn't quite connect. I spent a lot of time deep in the music scene, so I was surrounded by people who entered altered states of consciousness. It's not about being "spiritual" — when you're in the music world, altered states are just a familiar phenomenon. Music is a tool for blasting off. Of course, not everyone can blast off through music, but we could. For example, the woman singing energetically in this video is a friend of mine, and she says she's from Mars. Let me say it again — she's not being "spiritual." She's flying. https://youtu.be/OaUk8xBg1-M?si=71hBmX8nvsES2vyB After about 50 Earth years, this Martian turns out like this: https://youtu.be/bKuTonI-qV0?si=A71_9t7TZjOV6hcZ People with a sensitive sense of hearing have a high chance of being able to fly through music or audio. Kosatsuroku 2 includes original hypnosis scripts by Isuzu Amadake that you can listen to. By trying them over and over, you should be able to get a handle on what an altered state of consciousness is. Once you do, you're in business. Pon, kanchin pekepeke pon, kanchin pekepeke. Chant this mantra daily.

Reasons why mindfulness has spread: 1. It didn't define meditation. 2. It didn't explain how to do it in detail. 3. It didn't make people do Samatha. 4. It didn't set a purpose. 5. It claimed to remove religiosity but didn't actually do so. So basically, mindfulness spread precisely because "it didn't make people meditate." But what we're left with is "something called mindfulness that resembles meditation" — it's not meditation. It looks similar, but what's actually happening is fundamentally different.

For the past few days, I've been opening and closing my eyes during meditation (during AEO). I used to think opening the eyes during meditation was absolutely out of the question, but this technique is actually useful. The reasoning is simple: this is a legitimate hypnosis method. Even in the hypnotic induction script included as a supplement in Kosatsuroku 2, eye opening and closing is used. By repeating the opening and closing of the eyes, you descend into a deep altered state of consciousness. In my case, when I close my eyes, AEO activates. It's like coming up for air and then diving even deeper.

The most important thing when doing Shambhavi Mudra is to "gaze." In hypnosis, this is called the fixation method. Gazing doesn't mean looking vaguely. You look at the brow point with sharp intention and will. You gaze as if you're going to charge headfirst into the brow point with force. And you must never shift your focal point. If done properly, you will absolutely have an ecstatic experience.

There's a significant difference between whether pleasure crosses the threshold at the genitals, in the body, or in the head. That difference is less about the physical sensation and more about the mental impact, in my experience. Also, whether you do it supine or seated has a significant mental impact. This is why I treat AEO as separate from other forms of energy orgasm. Technically as well.

There's a meditation technique called breath counting (Susokukan), where you count each breath. It's quite a common technique, but most people seem to mistakenly think that "counting" is the purpose. So let me teach you the essence of breath counting. First, define breath counting as a self-hypnosis technique. Definitions are everything. Yet in meditation, barely anyone makes this definition. Because they don't understand what they're doing it for. In breath counting, you count your breaths, but what matters is the meaning with which you count. I defined it above as "a self-hypnosis technique." Therefore, the purpose of breath counting is to enter a hypnotic state or altered state of consciousness. I accept no disagreement. When meditation technique is half-baked, people start saying things like "the Buddha rejected that type of meditation, so in the end he just sat quietly under a tree observing himself." To see the upside-down world as it truly is, you can't be sober. When sober, the upside-down world stays upside-down. People who can't trip through meditation try to understand it intellectually. So they study the scriptures, but that takes them further and further from the real answer. Ironic. But natural. It's only by entering an altered state of consciousness that you realize the world is upside-down. "World" here doesn't mean the objective world. It means the societies, communities, nations, and groups that humans construct. Those artificially built frameworks. Humans are no good in groups. That's why everyone suffers. First, these must be stripped away. The quickest method for that is renunciation. It's a forced argument, but that's what Buddhism originally was. The Buddha was a master of self-hypnosis. Such a person enters a deep altered state of consciousness the moment they sit down and close their eyes. Returning to a state you've once experienced in meditation is easy. So from an ordinary person's perspective, it just looks like he sat down and closed his eyes, but in reality it's completely different. He's already deep below the surface. And from there, he observes the self and the world. So this is not what ordinary people think of as meditation — but this isn't understood. From the outside, it looks like he's "just" sitting. In hypnotic technique, there are methods that use counting numbers. Elevators or staircases are often used as symbols. Use these. What I recommend is counting breaths while imagining descending in an elevator, one floor at a time. Clearly visualize the number behind your eyelids. Inhale through the nose and hold the breath in the belly. Before it gets uncomfortable, slowly exhale through the nose while voicing the number mentally and directing it toward the number you're visualizing behind your eyelids. Perform this with the understanding that you go deeper into an altered state with each count. Most people probably can't make it to 100, but if you put genuine effort into each breath, by the count of 10 you should be at the threshold of an altered state. That's where meditation actually starts. Only in this state does observation become meaningful. Dogen compressed zazen down to shikantaza, which is a terrible thing to have done.

Concentrating on the brow point is correct, sure. But "between the eyebrows" doesn't necessarily mean the space between your eyes (though sometimes it does). It's just that when you try to express it in words, "between the eyebrows" is what you end up saying. That point is something you have to explore the inside of your skull and find for yourself. At first, it may be as small as a grain of rice. Try exploring the area around the sphenoid sinus.

I'll teach the Vipassana enthusiasts the ultimate insight and technique. When meditating, awareness tends to plaster itself to the front of the face. When this happens, the default mode network kicks in and observation becomes impossible. Your awareness is wandering somewhere. When awareness sticks to the front of the face, bring it back to the medulla oblongata. I'll say it again: When awareness sticks to the front of the face, bring it back to the medulla oblongata. If you can't understand this, your Samatha is insufficient, so stop doing Vipassana and do Samatha thoroughly. That is all.

Nobody knows. It must not be known. That, in fact, you can't do Samatha. So, I'll share a secret — just between us. A training method that will definitely improve your Samatha. Close your eyes, instantly gaze at the brow point, fix your awareness, and don't move for two seconds. During those two seconds, concentrate as if your life depends on it. Then open your eyes and rest for two seconds. Close your eyes again and concentrate with the same deadly intensity. Repeat this. The common approach is to close your eyes and try to do one-pointed concentration blindly, but normally that's absolutely impossible. Give it up. The people who succeed that way are fewer than one in ten — they have natural talent. In short bursts, repeat maximum-intensity concentration over and over. This engraves it into your body and brain. Samatha before AEO attainment isn't real Samatha. My own body reminds me of this every single day. You'll learn what real Samatha is after attaining AEO. You'll be astonished.

By the way, this "eye-roll" can be experienced even without having attained AEO. In fact, I knew about the eye-roll before attaining AEO and had been wondering about it for a long time. When I do the eye-roll, it's undeniable — my mental and physical state changes instantly and I experience light. In other words, even when you intentionally perform this "eye-roll" as a Mudra, it works. As proof, my pre-AEO meditation notes already include this "eye-roll." I discovered it through the process of practicing Shambhavi Mudra. If anyone wants the notes, send me a DM. Hiroshi Tamaki probably knows about it too.

Hear ye, all who would master Samatha. Gather round. I shall impart the essence of Samatha. The foundation of Samatha is one-pointed concentration. Everyone knows that. But merely concentrating on a single point is not enough. Take the brow point, for example. You gaze at the brow point, but there is a correct point to gaze at. What is this point? It's not a location. It's a state of the eyeballs. You draw the eyeballs upward toward the brow point with a fine force = you gaze at the brow point. Not vaguely looking. Gazing. Don't think you've understood just from this. Everyone does this much. But few people can smoothly enter an altered state of consciousness just by doing this. Why? Because gazing at the brow point blindly is pointless. It's not enough. You gaze at the brow point with your eyeballs, but there is a correct state of the eyeballs for gazing. So what is that correct state? The correct state of the eyeballs is one where gazing at the brow point causes the entire body to respond in concert — locking up, or dissolving, or generating a sense of floating, or generating pleasure, or producing a certain sense of emptiness. In other words, "Gaze at the brow point" actually means: "There is a specific state of the eyeballs that puts the entire body into a certain unified condition. This becomes possible by gazing somewhere around the brow point, but more precisely, it's a whole-body exercise. Find the spot near the brow point where the entire body enters that state, and once you find it, lock your consciousness, body, and eyeballs so that whole-body state doesn't change even slightly. Hold. Do not move." That's what it means. A sensation where body and consciousness seem to vanish. A sensation of awareness simply floating, vaguely, in the darkness behind your eyelids. A sensation of zero gravity, floating. An "I can't take it" sensation. Create the state of eyeballs and body that produces these sensations. Then lock it and hold. Gaze at the brow point. When you start seeing nimitta — that light — don't let it escape. Charge into the light yourself. Lean forward enough that your head tips slightly and charge in, forehead first.

When Shambhavi is properly locked in, you absolutely enter an altered state of consciousness and have some kind of ecstatic experience. Most often it's an energy orgasm. Yet when I look around, nobody talks about Shambhavi in those terms. Over the past few months I've finally come to feel it deeply myself: the key to Shambhavi is fixing the focal point, which is normally extremely difficult. In hypnosis, for example, Shambhavi is called the fixation method — a classical hypnotic technique. But normally, the hypnotist uses a finger or penlight to focus the subject's attention on a single point while guiding them with their voice to fix the subject's focal point and induce hypnosis. Fixation method reference video:

If you treat each breath as a work of art, then every moment becomes art. For example, right now, the sun is gradually rising from the east. Watching the ever-changing gradient of light through the window while treating each breath as a work of art. The scenery before you gets spontaneously imbued with positive meaning. Craft alone feels a bit lacking. What people really want is art. Art reveals itself in a single serving.

Not eating before training is extremely important. If you eat, the body begins digestion and absorption. The organs become active, digestion and absorption begin inside the body, and nutrients travel through the bloodstream throughout the body. Such vigorous internal activity becomes noise. That noise inevitably seeps into consciousness and interferes with finding or feeling pleasure, or concentrating on specific body points. In meditation, you must bring the body to a halt. "Body" naturally includes the organs. You should make every effort to halt the body. Not eating before meditation is a necessary investment. Just eat after you finish. Ideally, sit right where you are on the bed or futon immediately upon waking. That's the most valuable window for the highest-quality training. Why? Because at that moment, everyone is already in an altered state of consciousness. Don't turn on the lights. An eye mask is also recommended.

When you wake from sleep and consciousness returns, keep your eyelids closed, and check whether a subtle vibration is occurring throughout your body in the supine position. If you notice a vibration, focus all your concentration on it. What happens next — tomorrow morning should be exciting, SHIRIN meditation gang.

If you sit down to meditate and feel like your awareness and body aren't aligned, try alternate nostril breathing. It brings them into alignment. It's called Nadi Shodhana in yoga. You don't need to think about Ida and Pingala or any of that. This works by using the balance of breathing sensation between the two nostrils — breathing through the right nostril tends to activate the sympathetic nervous system, while breathing through the left tends to activate the parasympathetic nervous system — to harmonize the autonomic nervous system. Like mixing things together. For example, try opening and closing your eyes repeatedly. That alone creates a slight haze. You can manipulate the autonomic nervous system. By doing this, body and consciousness somehow click into alignment. If they go out of alignment, do it again.

Stick to the basics. Think simply. AEO is about manipulating the head and neck. You can orgasm through the head and neck alone. But developing AEO only through Shambhavi Mudra, which stimulates the head and neck, probably takes enormous patience and is extremely challenging. Therefore, you develop it in combination with points along the midline of the torso. Among those torso points, the most fundamental and the one that produces the most recognizable sensation for most people is the lower tanden. If your thing is the belly, or the chest, then develop in combination with those areas. In my case, it's Shambhavi Mudra and the belly/chest. That's why, in my case, from the very start, it wasn't sexual pleasure that exploded — it was pure pleasure.

Morning meditation, right after waking, is a practice that draws on everything you've ever been. Everything else during the day is the interval between sessions. Make various adjustments to prepare for practice. And the next morning, practice again with everything you've got. Once this becomes routine, you can't stop, won't stop.

If you don't have "correct purpose," "a method to achieve it," and "the principle behind that method," then "what," "how," and "why" remain vague, making it hard to reach your goal. In Buddhism, "avidya" (ignorance) refers to not knowing the true nature of reality (the Four Noble Truths, dependent origination, etc.), but even at the everyday level, if you lack "correct knowledge (understanding of principles)," "correct use of methods (specific techniques)," and "correct orientation (purpose)," you fundamentally lose your way. For example, in the case of AEO: 1. Correct purpose "Is this an extension of eroticism?" "Do I want to pursue pure pleasure?" "Am I aiming for a bodily revolution through deep altered states of consciousness?" "Am I pursuing awakening?" Depending on where you set the goal, motivation and approach change dramatically. 2. Methods to achieve it If body manipulation — focusing awareness on the pelvis or head-neck region — and methods for deepening altered states through meditation aren't concretely spelled out, you end up with nothing more than superficial mimicry. 3. Principles behind the methods If you don't understand how neurotransmitters are involved, how brainwaves and the autonomic nervous system change, or why intense pleasure can be obtained without anything erotic, then the rationale for continuing the practices becomes vague. When you have all three, you can see "why this works," "how long until results appear," and "what to adjust to break through a wall." Then you won't fall into "ignorance" — you'll be able to verify and adjust proactively as you progress. Ultimately, understanding "for what purpose," "through what mechanism," and "by what method" is what matters in any discipline or technique. So, SHIRIN meditation gang — how about your daily training? Can you call it a trinity?

I keep saying meditation is a sport, and this applies equally to the act of sitting itself. Many people agonize over sitting posture in meditation, but they're overthinking the details. They're thinking of the body in terms of modules. What to do with the arms, legs, spine, pelvis. This way, you'll never get the posture right. It has no versatility. They're missing the most important thing: gravity. Those who get it will get it. Sit and think about it.

Few people can enter an altered state just by sitting down. So start in the supine position with autogenic training or similar, and learn thoroughly what an altered state of consciousness is. Then give that state a name — anything will do. Let's call it "SHIRIN." Then stay in it as long as you can. Next time you meditate, inhale deeply through the nose, visualize the word "SHIRIN" in your mind while also mentally voicing it, and exhale through the nose. Do this several times. You'll find you can easily enter the level of altered state you named "SHIRIN." Humans are simple. Hack the system.

People who can't do Samatha don't know what Samatha means. But the people who can do Samatha are exceedingly few, which means most people in the world don't know what Samatha is. And yet, it tends to be precisely those people who think they can do it. In all things, it's the half-baked who think they've achieved something — that's what makes them half-baked. Those who truly can don't think they can, and that's why they keep growing. This is a constant of human nature.

Before yawn-type energy orgasm awakening, I had a few one-off explosive ecstatic experiences during meditation, but my daily meditation was something steady and unremarkable. These one-off explosive ecstatic experiences would be what most people call "bliss" or "divine ecstasy," and in some cases, people would idiotically claim to have "awakened" or "attained enlightenment." To such people I say: eat some mushrooms and come back.

AEO practice is useless if you can't enter an altered state. Try counting nasal breaths from 1 to 100. One inhale-exhale cycle counts as one. That's probably about 15 minutes. Whether you can enter an altered state through this is a good gauge. Most people will probably lose consciousness partway through.

The Buddhism you know isn't Buddhism. So if you want to experience SHIRIN meditation, first discard that so-called Buddhism. It's nothing but a hindrance. The yoga you know isn't yoga either. So if you want to experience SHIRIN meditation, first discard that so-called yoga. It's nothing but a hindrance. Furthermore, the meditation you know isn't meditation. So if you want to experience SHIRIN meditation, first discard that so-called meditation. It's nothing but a hindrance. Finally, the pleasure you've experienced is garbage. So if you want to experience SHIRIN's AEO pleasure, first discard that garbage pleasure experience. It's nothing but a hindrance. In other words: discard everything you think you know.

People do get carried away with meditation before awakening. These notes make that crystal clear. Real training begins after awakening. Meditation is a tightrope walk. It's easy to feel like you've accomplished something. Meditation is a dangerous world. It's not something everyone should do (seriously).

If you've done sports, you'll understand. Before a game, you form a circle. Slap your cheeks to get pumped up. Shout. These are a kind of "prayer" — not so much for entering an altered state, but for switching gears. Getting into battle mode. Getting in the zone. It's the same as an actor becoming a character. You might call these a kind of altered state too. But the "flow state" that arrives during the game is different from this "gear shift." When everything is executed perfectly — at that point, the state is no different from a robot.

Not just breathwork — in anything, you can't grow unless you realize "I'm really bad at this." If that realization breaks you, you lack experience. When exhaling, exhale slowly even if it hurts. The pain means it's working. It will get easier eventually. That's how everything works. You won't improve by taking the easy route. Push yourself. Despair is hope.

The drama of going from "-3 to 0" excites both the person involved and those around them, yet going from "+1 to +5" — numerically superior — gets treated as unremarkable. The latter is objectively more impressive, yet the former gets all the impact. This applies to corporate earnings and meditation alike. A delinquent gets praised just for saying hello.

When doing the Abs Wave, since it's called "Abs," you naturally move the abdominal muscles. But if there's a front, there's a back. Meaning you can stimulate the nerves not just from the front (abs) but from behind as well. When doing Abs, simultaneously draw the abs inward while pushing the spine forward. Use both the abs and the spine to sandwich and stimulate the nerves and organs between them. A sandwich.

Is anyone in SHIRIN doing Anapana? Let me teach you the secret. When doing Anapana, you normally focus awareness on the nostrils and watch the breath go in and out. But this is so boring that few people can sustain concentration. Therefore, entering an altered state through Anapana is normally difficult. For humans to stay focused and engaged, a slight difficulty is needed. Games work the same way. Nobody plays a game that's too easy. It's the right level of challenge that hooks people. Use this in Anapana. When doing Anapana, combine it with Nadi Shodhana. No-handed. Makes no sense, right? No-handed means you try to breathe in and out through only one nostril at a time without using your hands. Here's how: Make an effort to inhale through the right nostril only (no hands), and make an effort to exhale through the left nostril only (no hands). That's it. But this takes you far deeper than ordinary Anapana. The reasoning is simple. In regular Anapana, there's no hurdle to observing the breath. Any fool can do it. So it becomes mindless and habitual. Concentration doesn't last. On the other hand, breathing through only one nostril without hands requires considerable concentration. As you continue, you genuinely start to feel like breath is flowing through only one nostril. It's probably not actually flowing through just one, but when you focus awareness on one nasal passage, the sensation of the other one fades away. Here lies the game element.

The Abs Wave and Shambhavi are, when you get down to it, expedients. If you can't do yawn-type energy orgasm or AEO without doing Abs and Shambhavi, that's terribly inconvenient. Making the movements natural and minimal may be the real training for the awakened. And when you do that, it always comes back to the head and neck.

When starting something new, you often hear: "Just five minutes a day is fine." "Take it slow." These all have an agenda. It's to take your "time" and "money." Not to boost your motivation or consistency. To steal your time and money. Think about it — it's obvious. People who can't do something daily. People who can only do five minutes. People who need someone else to tell them to do it. People who can only do it with someone else. This type of customer is profitable. You can sell them worthless services and content, and they'll be grateful for it. Win-win — on the surface. But the customer gains nothing. They only lose time and money. Without realizing it. So how about SHIRIN? Would we ever say "5 minutes of meditation is fine!" or "Just do the Abs Wave five times a day!" or "Shambhavi once a week is enough!"? Absolutely not. Sit, sit, sit — just sit. Quit your job and sit. That's SHIRIN. Saying the obvious, plainly. That's SHIRIN.

In other words, getting sleepy means you've created a sleepy state. What kind of state makes you sleepy? One where the facial muscles are too relaxed. If the head goes too limp in a seated position, awareness plasters to the front of the head and eventually flies off. So tighten the muscles of the head, pulling everything generally backward. This puts awareness in a position as if looking forward from the medulla oblongata. This state is active, so sleepiness doesn't come.

I don't really know what other people mean when they say "pleasure," but in hindsight, the pleasure I felt during meditation before awakening was garbage. Calling it "pleasure" is too generous — it was garbage. That shows just how poorly I was observing my own body. So all pre-awakening ecstatic experiences are irrelevant, and they probably offer no technical hints either. Up to a certain point, progress is gradual, but the moment you awaken, you leap ahead all at once. Hence: awakening.

I'd like to share a meditation technique I've been getting into recently. Essentially, it's a method for creating an optimal physical and mental state for meditation. I'll explain using concepts from yoga for clarity. In yoga, there's a concept called "Sushumna" — a single tube running from the Muladhara Chakra at the perineum up to the Sahasrara Chakra at the crown of the head. In Tibetan Buddhism, this is called the Avadhuti (central channel). We use this. First, imagine a tube about five centimeters in diameter running from the perineum to the crown. Then imagine squeezing this tube from the bottom upward, gradually. What's crucial is that you actually contract the muscles — ever so slightly — along the way. From the bottom up, always feeling actual muscular pressure, squeeze all the way up to Sahasrara. Slowly, without rushing. Then, move your body subtly to increase the pleasure — arch your lower back (or push your chest out). Where is the angle of the lower back, the degree of spinal arch, that generates pleasure? Adjust based on the feedback of pleasure. Writing this, a serendipitous connection strikes me. In "Sennin Meisoho" (Immortal Meditation Method) by Soichiro Takafuji, the author says something like: when performing the Great Heavenly Cycle, don't just imagine it — you must actually move the muscles subtly. In his Taoist practice, you generate heat by moving the lower abdomen, then bring it up to the crown. The key point is that imagination alone is meaningless; you must engage real muscle. I don't have the book at hand, so I can't quote exactly, but when I read it I was deeply impressed and understood completely. Most people rely on imagery alone, but that cuts the effect in half. You must actually move the muscles. In AEO as well, you finely control AEO movements through muscles of the head and neck — facial muscles and so on. In my case, a quick upward flick of the eyebrows causes a pleasant, tingling somatic sensation to rise from below along with pleasure. If I feel the left side of my body is lacking in pleasure, a quick twitch of my left ear fills the left side with a pleasant tingling sensation and pleasure. During AEO, these kinds of physical movements are actively taking place, so in my mind, it's something like a sport. I played soccer in school, and the way I learned to direct awareness when moving muscles, plus countless experiences of entering altered states of consciousness, were hugely helpful for attaining AEO. I have a hunch that people who do serious weight training might have an advantage in attaining AEO. The key is precise control of targeted muscles. Conversely, once you attain AEO, the quality of your weight training improves astonishingly. In "Kosatsuroku 2" (A Study on Energy Orgasm, Vol. 2), Isuzu Amadake discusses Hida Harumichi's "Seichushin Rakusetsu" (Hida's pivotal experience). In Hida's case as well, he revered the center of the body and achieved it by actually engaging muscles. Concentrating force in the center of the belly and arching the lower back strongly. However, his movements were far more vigorous. This differs from the "yawn in the pelvis" approach, but the essence of the movement is the same. Similarly, the "Abs Wave" I introduced in Kosatsuroku 2 is also identical in its essential movement. Considering all this, it becomes clear that for "yawn in the pelvis" type energy orgasm, what matters is: imaging the body's center line, actually moving the surrounding muscles, establishing a continuous thread of awareness from perineum to crown, and arching the lower back. Once you can do this, AEO attainment may be close. Meditation is not something vague and floaty. It must be performed through concrete reasoning and physical action. The reason is simple: you're using your own body. Yet despite how simple this is, the focus drifts to the mental side, it takes on religious overtones, it becomes "spiritual." And then you can't achieve a quality trip. Through tight concentration, moving muscles at will, stimulating targeted nerves, releasing neurochemicals. That is correct meditation technique.

I want to write about "the eyes and meditation." Hardly anyone talks about this. In fact, to my knowledge, only Isuzu Amadake has. The state of the eyeballs indicates the depth of meditation. I can say that without reservation. There is something common between Shambhavi Mudra — a Kundalini awakening technique — and AEO. That is the movement and state of the eyeballs. The key point is "behind the eyeballs." This is something I noticed before attaining AEO, while practicing Shambhavi Mudra. When Shambhavi goes well, and when I enter a deep meditative state, my eyeballs feel like they've turned backward and locked into place. Of course they haven't literally turned backward, but that's how it feels. Roll the eyes upward until they're showing white, then try to rotate them further backward. You'll find a stable position. You can force your eyes into this state, but ideally it happens naturally. Conversely, if the eyeballs keep darting around and won't lock in place, the body won't harmonize and the mind will keep wandering — something you can easily verify through observation. In Kosatsuroku 1, the space behind the eyeballs is examined, but trying to explain this scientifically is extremely difficult. Based on direct experience, the area behind the eyeballs is clearly involved in altered states of consciousness and AEO manifestation. After attaining AEO, Isuzu Amadake and I filmed each other's head movements during AEO and shared the videos. What surprised me was that our eye movements were identical. You could clearly see the eyeballs rolling behind our closed eyelids. When you meditate, pay attention to the space behind your eyes. It might open a new door of perception.

Close your eyes for one minute (thirty seconds is fine). Gaze at the point between the eyebrows (direct intense awareness toward it). Your body, eyeballs (including focus), and awareness must not move at all. Count down from 60 to 0. This will typically bring you into a mild altered state of consciousness. It's a classical self-hypnosis method. But as you'll discover if you try it, keeping the eyeballs still is actually very difficult (most people end up shifting their focal point). That's why you do it every day without fail. Same as weight training.

Let me write about Nauli Kriya. Nauli Kriya is that thing in yoga where you roll and churn the abdominal muscles. A few years ago, the actor Tsurutaro Kataoka, who was into yoga, demonstrated it on TV. "Kriya" means "purification," and "Nauli" conveys an image of undulating or churning. Basically it's just what it looks like. But I'm uncomfortable with the word "purification." Because when someone says "purification" and you ask what its definition, its meaning, is — that is, "what physiological reaction does performing it produce in the body?" — the answer is completely unclear. Probably, when people hear "purification," most of them go "hm?" but then accept it without deep questioning — "oh, purification, right." And there lies the trap. Because they don't understand what they're doing it for. Even if it's for "purification," they don't know what "purification" actually means, so it doesn't exist in their world. Therefore, they can't notice anything. Under these conditions, you get zero benefit from Nauli Kriya. Absolutely zero. I recall a well-known yoga teacher saying "Nauli is purely performative," and I thought "I see — this is what happens when you practice yoga without thinking about cause and effect." The law of causality really does work. The deeper you get into yoga's essence, the more you realize it's physiology. Everything you do has a reason (I'm not talking about modern gymnastics-style yoga. The teacher mentioned above is from that world). "If you do this to the body or consciousness, this response occurs." Yoga has thoroughly investigated this. And this yoga physiology is all in service of entering Samadhi. The pinnacle of such yoga physiology is Kundalini awakening, and when Buddhism adopted it, it became late-stage esoteric Buddhism, which Tibet then inherited in its entirety and elegantly systematized as Tibetan Buddhism. Very roughly speaking, that's the lineage. If you understand yoga physiology, the idea that "Nauli is just for show" simply cannot occur to you. Because Nauli absolutely gets you high. Think about it logically. You're churning your abs like that and directly stimulating the solar plexus, which is laced with the vagus nerve. Just visualizing it makes me tingle. By the way, when doing the Abs Wave introduced in Kosatsuroku 2, pull from the solar plexus area. There's a pleasure point deep behind the solar plexus. Nauli is, in essence, "a method for directly stimulating the solar plexus to generate pleasure." Doing it immediately makes breathing easier and deeper, raises whole-body temperature, and envelops you in pleasant sensation as the body relaxes. This physical state is precisely the optimal state for meditation. In other words, you do Nauli to prepare for meditation, and it gets you high. Everything has a reason. Naturally, yoga also contains plenty of meaningless things. That's Indian embellishment for you. Discount by 80% and extract only the pure information to practice, and you can experience the madness of India. How about that? Much more understandable than being told "purification," I'd think. India is insane! (Limited vocabulary.)

I want to write about breathing, but the "breathing" I'm talking about isn't what people call "breathwork." "Making your everyday breathing perfect" — that is my idea of breathwork. But I only recommend this for people with serious resolve. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, you consciously attend to each and every breath while awake. Mentally and physically, this is quite grueling until you attain AEO. But after attaining AEO, your breathing approaches perfection at an astonishing pace, changing daily, and you reach a miraculous quality of breathing that ordinary people never experience. My breathing method is extremely simple. I make all my daily breathing Ujjayi breathing through the nose, always synchronized with slow movement of the lower abdomen (tanden), and consciously stretch the diaphragm with every single breath while awake. That's it. When people hear "breathwork," 99% naturally assume "breathing" is the main event. But that's wrong. You're not training your breathing — you're training your breathing muscles (especially the diaphragm). When you breathe, you inhale and exhale. But in my breathing, the goal is to stretch the diaphragm to its full extent. Inhaling and exhaling isn't the goal — it's necessary because you need it to stretch the diaphragm. Once you've stretched the diaphragm all the way, hold it there. Then exhale before it gets uncomfortable. Do this continuously while awake. Before attaining AEO, I was trapped and cursed by breathing. I couldn't achieve ideal breathing at all, just frustration. My chest felt tight, my head was foggy, and I even had intrusive thoughts like "if I exhale any slower my head might explode." I lost count of how many times I wished I'd never started paying attention to breathing. That's why this method is only for people with resolve. But after attaining AEO, you'll be glad you did it, and it will definitely help your training. Once you can freely control the diaphragm and the soft palate — both involved in breathing — you'll naturally gain free control of your breathing. This dramatically improves both everyday life and AEO quality. And the ultimate goal is to forget about breathing entirely.

For the purpose of AEO attainment, Shambhavi Mudra is essentially a training to keep gazing at the point between the eyebrows. In terms of hypnosis, it's a classical self-hypnosis technique. Since it's just continuous gazing at the brow point, it seems easy at first glance, but the more you do it, the deeper and more difficult you realize it is. Even now, having attained AEO, I observe myself gazing at the brow point and get frustrated that I still need more training. The reason I can't do out-of-body experiences is probably related to this, too. I can't fix and hold my focal point. What makes Shambhavi Mudra extremely difficult is precisely this "not shifting the focal point." Fixing the eyeballs is easy. But not moving the focal point at all is incredibly hard. The mechanism for moving the eyeballs and the mechanism for adjusting focus are separate, controlled by different muscles and nervous systems. Here's a brief explanation: 1. [Functional difference] • Accommodation function: adjusts focus by changing the shape of the lens (crystalline lens) inside the eyeball. • Eye movement function: rotates the eyeball via the extraocular muscles to direct the gaze. 2. [Muscle difference] • Accommodation function: involves the ciliary muscle (a muscle inside the eyeball). • Eye movement function: involves the extraocular muscles (attached to the outside of the eyeball). 3. [Nervous system difference] • Accommodation function: primarily controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system via the ciliary muscle. • Eye movement function: the extraocular muscles are controlled by cranial nerves (oculomotor, trochlear, and abducens nerves). The essence of Shambhavi Mudra is fixing and holding the focal point, and this fixation is truly excruciating. It's hard to put into words, but as you hold the focus, this "I can't take it" feeling builds up, and despite your intentions, the focus shifts. But here's the thing. If you endure that "I can't take it" feeling — endure and endure and endure — at a certain moment, you break through. You truly break through. What happens then? Try it with your own body and find out.

If I had to recommend a specific breathwork, it would be diaphragm stretching. When you inhale, stretch the diaphragm down as far as it will go. It obviously can't reach the lower abdomen, but stretch it down imagining that it does. Once it's fully extended, hold the breath there while keeping the diaphragm in its stretched state. Before it gets uncomfortable, slowly release the diaphragm. Don't think of it as inhaling and exhaling. Think of it as lowering and raising the diaphragm. It's a simple thing, but I suspect most people are preoccupied with breathing in and out. What matters is the action of the diaphragm.

AEO point development is possible because you've attained AEO. For non-attainers, the standard approach should still be to perfect concentration on that specific point in the head. To reach that point in the head, trace from the outer ear to the middle ear to the inner ear, then go forward and slightly upward from there. You'll find a spot where the tanden area reacts.

I wrote about this in the book too: I believe the movements and sensations in the pelvis during "elimination (works for both)" are very useful for developing the "yawn in the pelvis" and the lower tanden. Instead of letting it all out at once, you do it very gradually, refining your muscle control and sensations... but since I've gotten absolutely zero response from anyone, maybe it only works for me.

Before attaining AEO, my experience of dry orgasm and energy orgasm was just "this is gnarly masturbation." I didn't have the sensation of energy rising up through my body to the crown of my head. I thought "this is just erotic stuff" and only practiced it for about two weeks. After that, I went on to attain AEO, and at that point I experienced the "rising from below" firsthand and thought "ah, I see." Also, when the orgasm reaches the head, it's not erotic at all. It's more like a mental pleasure. The reason I feel uncomfortable about mainstream energy orgasm is that it's all erotic, erotic, erotic, erotic. Their heads are full of eros, like animals. Rather than being immersed in pleasure, they looked like they were drowning in it. Speaking as someone who practices AEO daily, I couldn't understand how people could sink into eroticism. The idea of AEO becoming erotic is inconceivable. But now I understand. Body-centered orgasm that doesn't reach the head — particularly the Alan B type energy orgasm centered on the lower tanden and genitals — has a strong erotic element. Naturally, it's impossible to talk about spirituality from that basis. However. If you use Abs Wave or AEO technique to smoothly draw that pleasure from the lower abdomen and genitals up to the head — surprise — it becomes an energy orgasm with absolutely zero erotic element. Right after attaining AEO, I filmed my head movements during practice and sent the video to Isuzu Amadake. The head movements I was making functioned as a pump. When I moved the muscles in my head, for some unknown reason it worked like a pump, and the energy sensation rose from below (these days I don't need to move that much). Amadake immediately pointed this out. If my observations are correct, the decisive difference between mainstream energy orgasm and AEO is whether you can raise the energy to the head, and the key lies in the manipulation of the throat, soft palate, nasal cavity, upper pharynx, the area around the ears and eyes, facial muscles, and other head-neck structures. Also, posture may simply be a factor. When you look at how energy orgasm is taught, 100% of the time they recommend the supine position. In my view, raising energy to the head in that position is extremely difficult. So inevitably, it becomes a body-centered orgasm that sinks into eroticism. AEO training should be done in a seated position — half-lotus, cross-legged, or similar. Therefore, Shambhavi Mudra is indeed the optimal training.

In the Yoga-based AEO Training Method in Kosatsuroku 2, I included absolutely no breathwork instruction. That's because breathwork isn't particularly necessary for AEO attainment. Picking up some strange breathwork that gives you bad habits or makes you obsessive about breathing would be worse. In that case, better to do nothing from the start. That said, I personally value breathing highly. From the very beginning of my meditation practice, I noticed how terrible my breathing was and resolved to fix it completely. From then on, I made Ujjayi my everyday breathing. With Ujjayi, controlling the breath and coordinating breathing muscles with the breath becomes much easier. And curiously, with each ecstatic experience, my breathing gradually moved toward perfection. After attaining AEO, the growth of my breathing has accelerated even further. What I want you to note here is that "breathwork" and "breathing" are different things. What I recommend is "breathing." Ujjayi breathing would fall under the category of "breathwork," but by making it part of daily life, it evolves into the supreme "breathing." So what I'm discussing here is "breathing." Ujjayi uses free manipulation of the soft palate to subtly change where the breath contacts the airway, varying the volume and speed of airflow, and subtly altering the sounds produced when the breath hits the upper pharynx and nasal cavity. It is deep and highly advanced breathing. Eventually you can achieve one- or two-minute breaths. For what it actually sounds like, please look it up on YouTube. Ujjayi is described as "baby's breathing" or "the breathing of sleep." For a quick way to experience it: inhale through the mouth, then midway through, close your mouth so you can't inhale through it. This naturally switches you to nasal breathing. When exhaling, direct the breath to the upper pharynx area to produce a sound. The soft palate rises and closes off the nasal passages. Simply put, that's Ujjayi. However, as I explained above, Ujjayi uses the soft palate to direct breath to various contact points — from the upper pharynx all the way down to around the Adam's apple. Furthermore, Ujjayi can directly stimulate the lower tanden in a pinpoint manner and can also create a single tube from there to the crown. The deeper you go, the more profound this breathing becomes. So what is the purpose of doing Ujjayi for AEO? It mainly comes down to these three points:

Control of the soft palate (complete suppression of breathing) There are other benefits too, but these three are especially significant. Soft palate movement is critical for AEO manifestation. The ability to control it freely connects directly to controlling AEO. Eventually, just two or three deep Ujjayi breaths can trigger AEO. That said, there are downsides to making Ujjayi your everyday breathing:

Less time zoning out (DMN time) — and zoning out is important for humans. Endure all of that, and eventually your normal breathing transforms into bliss. But the road there is quite rough (laughs). That's why I don't readily recommend it to others. Actually, the early draft of Kosatsuroku 2 included this Ujjayi breathing section. But after much deliberation, I deleted it. That's how weighty the topic is for me.

When people say "focus on a point" or "place your awareness there," they usually mean a point inside the body. But placing it at a point several dozen centimeters outside the body is also a technique. In the case of Shambhavi Mudra, if you can find a point about several dozen centimeters in front of the forehead where your eyes feel like they're being pulled upward with a "whoosh" — hold there. It's hard, but hold. Relentlessly hold. Keep your focal point as fixed as possible, endure it. Throw your entire consciousness into it. The pulling sensation draws you in. Do this every day, and eventually you'll notice that something deep in the area behind the navel or the lower abdomen is also responding.

Close your eyes and gaze at a single point on the inside of your eyelids. Hold the eyeballs absolutely still and the focal point absolutely fixed. Eventually, flickering lights will appear. Even then, keep the eyeballs absolutely still and the focal point absolutely fixed. Willpower. When this light stabilizes, the focal point locks firmly, the eyeballs settle, and you can feel your mental state shift with a clean "whoosh." That's when real meditation begins. Your internal body resolution is now 32K (laughs).

Try moving your eyebrows up and down and carefully observe what reactions occur inside your body. What matters is the difference inside your body between when you furrow your brows into a frown and when you don't. Also, repeatedly moving the eyebrows up and down is useful for using the head as a pump. A few seconds after moving the eyebrows, something may surge powerfully upward from below. If I had to offer one tip: you move the eyebrows, but the point of awareness should be the space behind the brow center. Imagine placing a small ball or something there, and move it in sync with the eyebrow movements. This engages deep areas of the head. This depth is what matters. So with practice, the obvious up-and-down movement of the eyebrows becomes unnecessary. Also, pay attention to the sound you hear inside your ears when you raise your eyebrows. When you raise them, you should perceive a somewhat higher-pitched, high-frequency sound compared to normal. Move the eyebrows up and down and observe how this sound shifts between low and high.

The most important thing in weight training is awareness of the targeted muscle and full range of contraction and extension. Shambhavi Mudra is weight training for the muscles around the eyeballs. So you should roll your eyes up as hard as you can. And hold them there. Once you're used to this, you'll develop subtle control over the muscles around the eyeballs, making it easier to control the eyeballs themselves. Once you can control the eyeballs, fixing them and fixing the focal point also become easier. Weight training is about logic and consistency.

In Kosatsuroku 2, Breath of Fire (= Kapalabhati) and Abs Wave are introduced as AEO training methods. These two are essentially the same thing. Kapalabhati is a yoga breathing technique that has traditionally been used specifically as a Kundalini awakening method. It's generally classified as a breathing technique, but it's not a breathing technique. Its purpose is to generate a sensation of "heat" or "energy" — a distinctive feeling — through stimulation of the lower tanden. The purpose is not hyperventilation or oxygen deprivation, nor is it the breathing itself. When stimulating the lower tanden, you move the lower abdomen back and forth. Coordinating your breathing with this movement makes it easier and more sustainable. That's why you match that kind of breathing to the muscle movement. The purpose is to move the lower abdominal muscles back and forth to stimulate the lower tanden and produce a warm, tingling sensation. The Abs Wave does exactly the same thing, with only the breathing being different. In the Abs Wave, you inhale, hold the breath in the belly, and perform the movement while holding your breath. The purpose of the Abs Wave is also to generate that warm, tingling sensation. Very slowly, draw the abs inward from around the solar plexus area down to the lower tanden, and from there, the sensation will begin to rise. Then, get this sensation up to the head somehow. Do Shambhavi Mudra, raise the corners of your mouth, raise your eyebrows, squeeze the Eustachian tubes upward — whatever it takes, just get it up there. That's all.

No matter how much you practice and master dry orgasm or energy orgasm, you won't attain AEO without training in meditation skill (the ability to transition into an altered state of consciousness) and specific AEO techniques. In terms of order, you should first thoroughly learn the technique of transitioning into an altered state of consciousness. This transition is achieved through sustained concentration on something, but this is extremely difficult for most people. Someone who has never been conscious of altered states of consciousness will have difficulty recognizing one even when they enter it. A person who has never seen a mountain and doesn't know the concept of "mountain" cannot distinguish a mountain from the sky even when looking at one. It's like the cognition of a baby or toddler. You must grow from that state to one where you can recognize an altered state of consciousness. You'll see how difficult sustained concentration is when you try Shambhavi Mudra. First off, you've never deliberately used the muscles around your eyeballs, so you can't fix them in place, and your focal point shifts constantly. So the first month is basically weight training for the eye muscles. This is entirely a cumulative process, but generally speaking, most people aren't good at cumulative work. If everyone could do cumulative work well, everyone would do well in school — but in reality, most people can't. This is no different. Other options include autogenic training as a technique for transitioning into an altered state. It works, but it's useful for opening the door. To go deeper from there, you need a more powerful technique for sustained one-pointed concentration. If an ordinary person tries AEO training while sober, probably nothing will happen and they won't feel anything. That just goes on and on, so they won't continue training either. So first, you must thoroughly learn to enter an altered state of consciousness. That means sitting every day with eyes closed, doing Shambhavi Mudra and autogenic training, carefully observing your awareness and physical state, and searching for changes. Find the differences between the sober state and the altered state, and define them in words. This will give your altered state clearer contours. Then you should assign numbers to those defined altered states. When meditating, project that number behind your eyelids while breathing. When breathing, inhale through the nose, and as you exhale through the nose, voice that number mentally. In this way, build a body that can transition to that altered state at will. Once in an altered state, interoceptive awareness skyrockets, so you can observe stimuli to the body and the responses with great precision. Training AEO in this state means you become sensitive to pleasure, and that sensitivity allows you to lock your awareness onto it, which in turn sustains concentration and takes you into an even deeper altered state. Then interoceptive awareness rises even further. This is the ideal loop. And one day, pleasure overflows. When that happens, you'll have an experience unlike anything before. An overwhelming experience. And you'll quickly gain control over it. The real training starts from there.

Before starting meditation, first sit down, close your eyes, inhale through the nose, and push the diaphragm down, down, down as far as it will go. Once fully extended, hold the breath and keep the diaphragm locked in its stretched state. Then, before it gets uncomfortable, slowly release the diaphragm. Do this over and over, pushing the diaphragm down as if you're trying to get it below the navel. Once the diaphragm is firmly pulled all the way down, your posture naturally falls into place. Now you're ready for meditation. Even now, throughout the day, whenever I catch myself, I'm stretching the diaphragm with Ujjayi. The stretch and contraction of the diaphragm directly affects breathing. The comfort of your breathing directly affects the comfort of your meditation.

People say "concentrate on your breathing," but if the quality of the breath you're supposed to concentrate on is poor, you can't maintain concentration — you can't stick your awareness to it. Hardly any teachers explain this. So what is "quality of breathing"? It's whether you can inhale at a steady volume and speed without any wavering, and exhale at a steady volume and speed without any wavering, freely at will. To achieve this, you need weight training for the diaphragm, suppression of the soft palate, and training of various other breathing muscles. It's an incredibly simple but incredibly hardcore endeavor of how far you're willing to push this. To do this, you first need to master Ujjayi, and you need to thoroughly train the tanden. And to begin with, slowly inhaling and exhaling for extended periods is sheer agony for a human being. So first you have to get over that wall — and this wall of suffering is extremely high.

The optimal time for AEO training is early morning, right after waking up. Both body and mind are refreshed, and it's easier to enter an altered state. Also, training should be done at the same time every day, following the same routine. Trying different training methods here and there is wrong. By sitting at the same time every day and following the same routine, you become better at noticing the differences between yesterday and today. Noticing the difference between yesterday's self and today's self helps in perceiving (noticing) the physiological responses you're hoping to achieve through training. Observe what the differences in body and mind are between when you're doing Shambhavi Mudra and when you're not. Observe the differences inside the body before and immediately after doing Nauli. This is what matters. If you do this, "monkey mind" — the wavering of consciousness — simply doesn't occur.

I just remembered: before attaining AEO, there was a period when I wore an eye mask during meditation. The human eyeballs are restless — even with eyes closed, they dart around and won't settle. This causes the images behind the eyelids to flicker continuously, creating noise that disrupts concentration. Wearing an eye mask eliminates this. It blocks external light, achieving true darkness. In this condition, even if the eyeballs move, the view behind the eyelids stays dark, so no noise is generated. It's also good for manifesting nimitta. Since it's pitch dark, nimitta is easy to recognize. With eyes simply closed, external light still gets through, so the space behind the eyelids isn't truly black, making nimitta harder to perceive. The restlessness of the eyeballs is the enemy of meditation. Defeat it with an eye mask! But eventually, you must discard the eye mask.

I think the light is a gauge of concentration depth. Also, if the light is moving, that means the eyeballs or eyelids are moving. When the light starts to stabilize, the eyeballs are also stabilizing. Eventually, concentrate on the light, charge into it, and you'll be able to hit intense AEO centered on the brow point.

What matters for AEO and meditation is "the space between." Between contraction and relaxation. Between exhalation and inhalation. Between sleep and waking. Between the upward force and the downward force. Between pushing and pulling. Between pleasure and suffering. Between the buttocks and the navel. Between the navel and the sternum. Between the sternum and the Adam's apple. Between the Adam's apple and the throat. Between the throat and the crown. Between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Between force and force. Between sanity and madness. There's a hint in there, I think.

How to Hypnotize: The Ultimate Induction Method — Fixation https://youtu.be/rZowNf2gaNM?si=LecI5rwxeQQk4fJ0 With this kind of other-hypnosis, the person being hypnotized doesn't need to put much effort into fixing the eyeballs or focal point. But with self-hypnosis — that is, meditation — it becomes very difficult. The reason is simple: the muscles around the eyeballs and the focal mechanism aren't accustomed to being fixed. So just do it every day and train them. That's all. Shambhavi absolutely produces results if you do it. It's purely weight training. And this weight training is far easier than bench pressing 100kg. Do it for 30 minutes a day for one month and you'll have an astonishing experience. There's nothing painful about this training. Once the eyeball fixation stabilizes, you'll immediately start feeling pleasure. Then just wait for the dam to break and something to overflow. Humans have been gazing at the brow point for over a thousand years.

Come to think of it — the early morning at the end of December 2023. I was doing AEO as usual, doing Shambhavi with intense concentration. Without shifting my eyeballs, focal point, or body by even a millimeter until the energy reached the brow point, overcoming the fear of "what's going to happen to me," enduring to the very end — my eyeballs rolled backward, I plunged into light, and involuntarily thought "I've become the Buddha" without a shred of doubt. It was such an intense ecstatic experience that I immediately emailed my teacher. Right after that extreme experience, both my AEO and breathing evolved dramatically. This made me recognize the importance of brow-point gazing, and I committed to it thoroughly. Gazing at the brow point while locking the entire body is apparently quite demanding physically — my neck would seize up and become painful. I remember applying anti-inflammatory cream frequently. It's stabilized now, but I was still getting neck pain as recently as two or three months ago. By now, that "Buddha Trip" is something I can do anytime, and I've gotten used to the experience so it's not such a big deal. But the fact that an experience that made me think "I've become the Buddha" a year ago now feels like "no big deal" shows how much AEO has evolved. And the prospect of further evolution is both exciting and a little frightening.

In meditation, the eyeballs are crucial. Normally, during meditation, the eyeballs are all over the place. So consciousness is all over the place. You can't fix the eyeballs through willpower alone. If you could, you'd already be doing it. So let me teach you a technique to immediately stabilize the eyeballs. The following is done with eyes open: 1. Look as far right as you can. 2. Return to center. 3. Look as far left as you can. 4. Return to center. Do this rhythmically several times, then close your eyes. The eyeballs should be stable. When they start wandering again, repeat. Some people think you must keep your eyes closed the entire time during meditation. There's no such rule.

There are countless breathwork methods, yet most practitioners achieve nothing. Why? Because they neglect the fundamentals. The fundamental of breathing is: how freely can you control the diaphragm? Specifically, it means the control of the diaphragm's contraction and relaxation. Controlling contraction and relaxation means: during inhalation, contracting the diaphragm at an appropriate speed in a slow, sustained pull; being able to hold it there comfortably; being able to relax it at your intended speed without discomfort; and maintaining unbroken awareness of this entire sequence without letting your attention slip for even a moment. If you do incorrect Kapalabhati and just huff in and out until you get oxygen-deprived, or if you do Nadi Shodhana with a knowing look while understanding nothing, without building this foundation of breathing, any breathwork you do is empty.

The link between the lower abdomen and the brow point. Don't forget to raise the soft palate. Ujjayi breathing is recommended if possible. Why? Because Ujjayi allows you to draw the soft palate upward more effectively. Along with that, the line between the brow point and the lower abdomen will respond more strongly.

Inhale through the nose directing the breath to the upper pharynx, deliver it to the lower tanden, engage abdominal pressure to expand the lower abdomen. While exhaling through the nose, further increase lower abdominal pressure. Perform this entire sequence using as wide a range of diaphragm motion as possible. Do this throughout the day whenever you notice. The next day, you'll be sore enough to feel like you did a workout. This is how I train the lower tanden.

When trying to raise it from the belly, a lot of people can't shake old habits and resort to imagining Sushumna or the central channel. But once you achieve yawn-type energy orgasm awakening, that channel snaps into place on its own, so you don't need to do that. So what should SHIRIN meditation gang do instead? Travel along the muscles. Abdominals → diaphragm → airway → throat → soft palate → nasal cavity. Simple. Train it with Ujjayi.

If you make Ujjayi your daily breathing and train it relentlessly, at first you'll feel like your head's going to explode, and it's genuinely rough in many ways — both physically and mentally. But with each ecstatic experience in meditation, your breathing evolves astonishingly. After yawn-type energy orgasm awakening, your breathing enters another dimension, and just when you think "this must be the final form!" — it evolves further. SHIRIN meditation gang members with grit and determination should start now. You'll be blown away. It's seriously tough, though (laughs).

Watching the questions that come in on videos, I honestly think many are too detailed. Take Shambhavi Mudra, for example. Shambhavi Mudra is about "eyeball state + where you place awareness." So there's no pinpoint answer to "this is the correct Shambhavi Mudra." Someone who says things like "point the eyeballs here, apply force here, place awareness around the center of the forehead, the posture should be such-and-such, the sacrum should be blah blah blah" in great detail might look impressive at first glance, but that's missing the forest for the trees. The combinations of eyeball state and awareness placement are infinite, and among them are combinations that "trigger altered states of consciousness" and combinations that "induce energy orgasm." Finding these is what practice is — and the answer is known only by your own body. It can't be taught, and it can't be learned from someone. So seeking the answer from others is already wrong. Moreover, finding this combination yourself is the cause of pleasure, and the effect — supreme pleasure — is obtained at the moment of discovery. Someone who can't balance what to explain concretely and what to abstract isn't worth learning from. Not just for AEO, but in general.

When it comes to breathing in meditation, you often hear "make the exhale long and thin" or "inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 3, exhale for 8." Breathing is discussed in the framework of "time." But this is the wrong framework, and SHIRIN meditation gang needs to know this. First, you must set the correct purpose. The purpose of breathing in meditation is: To change the state of neurotransmitters and enter an altered state of consciousness. That's it. With this as the fundamental purpose, meditation breathing should focus on "depth and quality of breath" — not "length of time." The length of the breath is a result of depth and quality, so there's no need to think about it. Thinking about what doesn't need thinking wastes brainpower. Eliminate reducible actions (counting numbers) and avoid generating noise in the brain. Most people who think about breath length are counting time in their heads. Some mentally voice "one, two, three, four..." Others might visualize numbers. Either way, this activates the brain. This disperses attention from the breath itself, taking you further from a "deep, high-quality" breath. "Deep and high-quality" refers to the degree of immersion in the breath. It doesn't mean "big breaths" like deep breathing, nor does it mean "abdominal breathing." Treat each breath as the ultimate self-expression or the ultimate artwork. Don't let awareness stray from the breath for even an instant. Maintain constant exhale volume, constant speed, don't move any muscle that doesn't need to move, keep the pitch of the breathing sound fixed, keep the eyeballs and focal point fixed, and don't let the sensations you feel change even slightly. When you do this, past a certain threshold, the breath disappears. You can't tell whether you're exhaling, inhaling, or stopped. At that point, consciousness has firmly entered an altered state (the state of neurotransmitters has changed). Whether or not you can do meditation breathing has nothing to do with whether you awaken. But it's a great tool for having a good trip. If you're a meditation gang member thinking "I should work on my breathing" or "I want to try breathwork," approach breathing as I've described and practice it daily.

To attain AEO, intellectual cultivation is essential. By cultivation, I don't mean being smart or having a vast store of knowledge. I mean the capacity to withstand self-negation — the destruction of your fixed ideas and preconceptions — and the perversion to actually find pleasure in that self-negation. With that kind of cultivation, you can achieve a Copernican revolution of orgasm. To trigger a paradigm shift, you must first demolish your assumptions.

The domains underlying AEO span an enormous range — religious studies, neurophysiology, hypnosis, psychology, philosophy, ethics, and more. To deepen your exploration requires an interdisciplinary approach, and this pursuit of knowledge is the supreme pleasure that AEO has given me. It is inexhaustible.

The following passage concisely explains how classical Indian philosophy was transformed in the modern era. For AEO practitioners, this kind of objective historical awareness is important. Many different agendas have been layered on top of each other. "" India's mystical thought was rediscovered by the Western world from the nineteenth century onward, and was then redefined as "Indian tradition" by elite religious figures who had reclaimed it via that Western detour. Indian nationalism sought to restore pride using this rediscovered tradition as its axis — overturning a situation where India held superiority in ancient spiritual culture yet was inferior to the West in material culture, and furthermore attempting to deploy the power of religion as a unifying principle. The role played by the Theosophical movement in this rediscovery of Indian philosophical tradition was decisive. Despite the mixed reception, it can be said to be the most effective example of spiritualism and occultism combined with nationalism. In the counter-culture that swept across Europe and America from the 1960s, interest in Eastern spirituality surged as a critique of modern rationalism, but tracing its source leads back to Madame Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society. Madame Blavatsky has been called the ancestral mother or godmother of the so-called New Age movement. The famous case of the Beatles' devotion to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was in that lineage, is well known. Maharishi had opened ashrams in America from the 1950s with great success and was counted alongside Jiddu Krishnamurti and Gurdjieff as one of the three great gurus of the world. In that flow, figures like Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi and Rajneesh (Osho) attracted worldwide attention, which in turn looped back to heighten interest in India itself. The primary focus there was union with God through "meditation," which had high affinity with Christian mysticism — a typical example of East-West fused mystical thought. Thus, Indian mystical and esoteric thought was in every case reevaluated after passing through the Western world. The mysticism and esotericism that originally existed in India gained enormous influence both domestically and internationally through this Western-mediated reevaluation and redefinition by India's elite nationalists. The role played by the Theosophical Society in this process was extremely significant. "" — "Theosophy and Asia," p. 91

Let me talk about meditation. "Being here and now" has been fashionable for a long time. But if you truly experience "here and now," there's no room left to think about religion, and religiosity disappears. Spirituality and self-help vanish too. Religion is about thinking about the past and the future, so it's fundamentally incompatible with "here and now." Have you heard of the Pirahã, an Amazonian indigenous people? Their language is unusual. They have no religion. No creation myths. Nothing mystical happens. They only believe in what they can actually see right now. Their world extends only as far as what is visible before their eyes. Their distinctive linguistic feature lies in their tense system: Their tense system: - They have no grammatical tense that clearly distinguishes past, present, and future. - Instead, they have an evidentiality distinction indicating whether an event was directly experienced by the speaker. In other words, they truly live in the "here and now." Their culture has the following characteristics: 1. Absence of supernatural beliefs: The Pirahã are generally reported to have no concepts of gods, spirits, or an afterlife. 2. Absence of creation myths: They do not possess the kind of origin or creation myths found in most cultures. 3. Emphasis on direct experience: The Pirahã tend not to believe in things they cannot directly experience, which is thought to contribute to the absence of religious concepts. 4. A culture of "here and now": Their culture focuses on the present moment, which may inhibit the development of religious thinking. These characteristics have sparked debate about whether religion may not be a universal human trait after all. What this tells us is the shallowness of those in modern times who casually talk about "being here and now." They are not in the "here and now."

If you're seriously pursuing AEO, you should learn the fundamentals of hypnosis. It will change how you see the world and how you meditate. I only started reading these kinds of books after attaining AEO, but looking back, if I'd read them during training, I probably would have attained it much sooner. Modern Theory of Hypnosis https://amzn.asia/d/iwz494i Self-Hypnosis (On-Demand Edition) https://amzn.asia/d/3MLoITZ Modern Hypnosis: The Theory and Practice of Suggestion and Hypnosis https://amzn.asia/d/c5bvE25

The occult presents 90% sound analysis and slips in 10% nonsense. That's why so many people get ensnared. But if you understand the history of how such occultism was "imported" into Japan and "turned into content," you can keep a proper step back and engage with it critically. And yet history repeats itself — through those who don't know history.

"" A person who can learn from seemingly unrelated things and apply them sees the underlying structure. Surfaces may differ, but structures share common points. If you can see those structural commonalities, you can abstract them and put them into words. That's because you can grasp the structure at one level higher of abstraction. "" — "Jukutatsu-ron" (On Mastery)

The flow of the river is ceaseless, and yet the water is never the same. The foam that floats upon the pools now vanishing, now forming, never stays the same for long. So it is with people in this world, and with the places where they live. [...] We know not whence the born come, nor whither the dead depart. Nor do we know for whom we torment our hearts over these temporary dwellings, nor what it is that delights our eyes. The master and the dwelling vie in impermanence — no different from the morning glory and its dew. Sometimes the dew falls and the flower remains. Remaining, yet it withers in the morning sun. Sometimes the flower wilts and the dew lingers on. Lingering, yet it will not last till evening. — Hojoki (An Account of a Ten-Foot-Square Hut)

In SHIRIN, there's both the path that involves insertion and the path that doesn't. When you think about it calmly, that's incredibly high-level. It means both left-hand-path Tantra and a stripped-down, ultra-condensed Hatha Yoga are available. If there's another meditation community at this level, I'd love to know about it.

I believe the intensity of the experiences gained through AEO is strongly proportional to the person's past experiences, but since we have so little data from AEO attainers, there's much we can't know. However, during the AEO training process, differences in past experience may show up prominently. What I mean is: how you think about "pleasure" — and where you set your satisfaction threshold — may be a fundamental prerequisite for whether you can achieve AEO. While working on Kosatsuroku 2 with Isuzu Amadake, I held these views: "Most people probably don't care about pleasure (or bliss) as much as we do." "The pleasure that most people experience is like a sparrow's tear — extremely low quality and fleeting." "For most people, the strongest pleasure they know amounts to crude, base sexual sensation. They believe that's the ultimate pleasure." These views haven't changed — they've only grown stronger. If you focus awareness on a specific spot in the body, pleasure arises. But this isn't AEO. Anyone can produce this right now. People just don't know about it, or haven't tried. This is one of the forking points for AEO attainment. Probably more than half of all people read Kosatsuroku, try focusing a bit inside their body, feel some pleasure, and think "this must be AEO!" And so more than half drop out. They never even reach the starting line. But it can't be helped. People who've had extraordinary pleasure experiences are rare, and most people walk similar paths in life. With society's systems this developed and optimized, that's natural. Everyone walks only the paths they can see. Obviously. The pleasure and bliss most people have experienced is laughable. Living in Japan makes it even worse. Drug culture is essentially nonexistent by global standards. So the pleasure threshold is low. Watching old men play casual soccer with barely functioning bodies and thinking "amazing!" Alcohol — literally poison — is sold cheaply everywhere, and people drink to relieve work stress, gradually destroying their minds and bodies. Living like that, there's no way you can break through the wall required for mind-blowing pleasure. To break through the wall, you need a certain madness — or rather, a certain sanity. Even now, I am convinced that "there is still much further to go with AEO." That's why AEO keeps changing daily. And that's what makes it fun. Altered states of consciousness keep getting deeper. The ultimate meditation is "death." The thrill of curiosity about the unknown makes even that the ultimate experience. Anyone attempting to achieve AEO must pursue pleasure endlessly. Not crude pleasure, but high-quality, pure pleasure. At the apex of that pursuit is AEO. AEO generates intense pleasure directly within the body. Without depending on anything external, intense pleasure arises spontaneously. AEO trainees must understand that there exists a supreme pleasure and state of mind they have absolutely never experienced. Therefore, claiming "this is AEO" before actually achieving it is wrong and logically impossible. If you experience a pleasure you've never known, you can't remain normal. It's not at the level of "oh, that's nice." It's the kind of thing that overturns your life from its foundations. Neither deep breathing nor stretching nor masturbation will change your life. You must think of whatever pleasure you currently feel as garbage. Thinking "AEO is amazing!" based on whatever you currently feel is completely wrong. Before attaining AEO, I never once thought "AEO is amazing!" Because I hadn't broken through the wall. Of course. You can't call something "amazing" when you don't even know what it is. I kept thinking "there must be more — what I'm feeling can't possibly be what Amadake described." Let me be clear. The pleasure that arises before breaking through the wall is garbage. Don't be grateful for garbage. Garbage is for throwing away. Then new things will come in.

SHIRIN. Whether the SHIRIN meditation gang grows or doesn't, what we do stays the same. What needs to be done doesn't change. It's already been laid out. Just do it steadily. Don't look at anyone else. Look only at your own body. I faced Kosatsuroku alone and kept sitting by myself. Feedback can only come from your own body. Don't lose sight of this obvious fact. Nobody else understands your body. Much less through text-only exchanges on the cesspool that is X. Don't lose yourself.

You often hear "within reasonable limits." But as SHIRIN meditation gang, you need to push past reasonable limits. This isn't making a yearbook — some nostalgic keepsake project. I told you: awakening is a way of life. AEO is not something that people who dance Para Para in sync and feel happy about it should be touching.

Everyone can join casual soccer. It's fun. Easy. But you can't join the Premier League, and you probably can't even understand it. That's the situation. And a great many people play casual soccer and think they're in "the Premier League." Because the level is so low, they can feel like they understand. But the people actually playing at the ultra-high level of the Premier League are constantly pushing each other. It's a tightrope. But in the end, who gets to seize glory? The Dunning-Kruger effect.

SHIRIN's awakened ones have nothing to flaunt in the world. Why? We don't show off possessions, we don't flaunt money. We have no intention of building a yearbook-making, let's-all-get-along community. No need to hold hands and be friends with everyone. What we have is a golden nervous system that generates bliss. With that, we walk alone like the horn of a rhinoceros. Most people can't believe in what they can't see. That's why we go unnoticed in the world.

Which internal sensation to focus attention on — it's the difference between being a tourist and living there. Most people tour various spots, have a good time, and that's the end. They just skim the surface and nothing remains. But SHIRIN meditation gang must plant their feet and live there. Living somewhere and visiting as a tourist are entirely different things. Get it?

Concepts and imagery are not "the thing itself." So they're efficient-seeming but actually inefficient, low quality, and they mess with your head. As SHIRIN meditation gang, you should locate "the thing itself," identify how to stimulate it, and then — only then — is it okay to play with concepts and imagery.

Khechari Mudra is the bizarre practice of inverting the tongue, inserting it behind the uvula into the throat, and then pushing it further upward into the nasal cavity. In the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, among the practices for Kundalini awakening, this is one of the most outlandish, yet it is considered the most important Mudra. I mastered this before attaining AEO and practiced it daily. When you push the tongue into the nasal cavity, the body relaxes and excess tension drains away, making it possible to sit still. Combined with Shambhavi Mudra, I could easily enter a state of complete mental quietude. After attaining AEO, I mostly stopped doing Khechari Mudra. But I've been continuously pondering why this Mudra is regarded as the most important one for Kundalini awakening. Here is my current view. The contraction (upward pushing) of the soft palate is important for AEO manifestation, but Khechari Mudra obstructs this. Even now, when I try to do AEO while performing Khechari Mudra, it's possible but extremely frustrating. There's this "I can't take it" feeling, where the energy stops at the throat and won't flow into the head. Without flowing into the head, it's difficult to circulate through the whole body, leaving you with an incomplete sensation. But here's the thing. This "I can't take it" feeling can be put to use. When you do AEO while performing Khechari Mudra, you get that "I can't take it" state. But when you release the Mudra, the energy rushes forcefully toward the crown and then fills the entire body. This can be useful as a pre-attainment training exercise. Build up energy, build it up, then release the valve in the throat. This lets you release the energy all at once with great force. It may allow you to experience the sensation of energy rising. That said, achieving Khechari Mudra itself is typically quite difficult to begin with... "Khechari Mudra" https://youtube.com/shorts/RqaSwxCbENI?si=uPstLzyg_9d5Psrn

Khechari Mudra is meaningless if you just insert the tongue into the nasal cavity. If a proper physiological response doesn't occur, you haven't actually achieved it. When I browse online, it seems quite a few people can get the tongue into the nasal cavity but don't get a physiological response. They simply brag about being able to insert their tongue. That is a meaningless act. After inserting the tongue into the nasal cavity, observe your entire body. Something must be changing. If you fail to notice that change, the act of inserting the tongue becomes meaningless. But if you can notice it, that change becomes increasingly apparent.

The difficult thing about yoga is that merely mimicking a Mudra or a breathing technique produces absolutely no effect. Yoga's representative Mudras and breathing techniques are for Kundalini — that is, for AEO. You must correctly understand yoga, correctly understand AEO, correctly understand the body's structure, correctly understand consciousness, and based on that understanding (knowledge), thoroughly monitor changes inside the body and consciousness. Only then can you feel the effects. Quite a few people can do Khechari Mudra, but almost none know its true purpose. So they get no effect. It becomes mere performance. Many people can do Nauli too, but almost none know its true purpose. So they get no effect. It becomes mere performance. Without knowing the true purpose, you can't perform the correct movement, and the expected physiological phenomenon won't occur. The point is: you cannot gain anything without reading the right texts, gaining the right understanding, and doing the right training. Most people focus only on AEO's technical side and pleasure side, but don't forget the acquisition of correct knowledge. With correct knowledge, what you're actually doing becomes crystal clear. When you know what you're doing, AEO's pleasure explodes. Your life is transformed. Physical pleasure alone is not enough. You need mental pleasure. Intense mental pleasure is born from wisdom.

Whether it's Khechari Mudra, Shambhavi Mudra, yawn-type energy orgasm, or AEO — since all of these involve using the body and consciousness, they are physical activities. And since they're physical activities, they should be approached rationally. Mindlessly mimicking the form is utterly pointless. Clarifying the purpose and pursuing a rational method to achieve it — that is practice. Practice is not a mental or spiritual activity.