The White Skeleton Kasina Meditation

To practice this technique it's best to first buy a little white model of a
skeleton or to download some pictures of a skeleton from the internet. Then you
must memorize what your bones look like from the pictures. You have to memorize
them because you have to know what they look like in your visualizations.

In the olden days people would go off into graveyards where they would see rotting
skeletons all around them, so they didn't have memorize anything. They looked, they
saw, they experienced detachment because of viewing rotting corpses and they were
then able to let go of their bodies and minds to enter samadhi.

So here's the basic meditation technique.

You visualize all your flesh, meat and organs rotting off your bones or simply
being given away to all the ghosts or other beings you owe debts to. Then, starting
with your LEFT TOE, you actually visualize all the bones of your body shining
bright white. You start visualizing your left big toe, then all the toes of your
left foot, then your right foot, then back to your left leg, then right leg and you
work your way all the way up your body.

After you can visualize your entire body as being just a white shiny skeleton, you
let the bones turn to dust so that only dust is left, which blows away to leave
emptiness.

You first visualize your bones, then let go of everything, and stay in that
emptiness to cultivate samadhi. From samadhi you go on to try and realize the stage
of non-ego we call "seeing the Tao."

The skeleton method is a powerful meditation technique because it does many things
simultaneously. It cultivates your chi, helps you cultivate detachment, teaches you
to let go of the image and concept of being a body, teaches joyful giving to
others, helps you pay back sentient beings you may owe and so forth.

Even the joy you're supposed to feel while giving away your flesh during the
visualization is a way to cultivate the joy and bliss of the first dhyana called
the "vitarka-samadhi" in Hinduism.

It's quite common for two things to quickly happen due to this meditation.

First, you can gain siddhis easily because you are cultivating your chi.

Secondly, because your vital energies rise it's easy to experience sexual desires
and excess energy. If you lose your jing because you give into your carnal nature,
however, then of course you are cutting short the road to a long life and won't
make much spiritual progress. That's a teaching of almost every genuine spiritual
school in existence.

Women also suffer a bit along these lines as well when they lose energy but not as
severely as men since the uterus and vagina reabsorb much of the energy they lose.
Their construction embodies the I-Ching principle that "yang offers and yin
receives."

Now the topic of sexual desire, which arises because your vital energies arise and
start circulating, brings up another meditation method.

One of the favorite meditation techniques, which many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have
used, is to imagine the body burning away and becoming dust, and accessing
emptiness from there. A similar variation is to imagine the body as becoming one
brilliant, shining sun and to stay in that one-pointed visualization to attain
samadhi.

This technique, which often works because it burns the body away and is like
staring into the face of one of the body's chakras, is also very powerful.
Vairocana Buddha and a number of other Bodhisattvas are associated with this
technique which can help you transform the five elements of your physical body.

Its advised to also use the mantra Vairocana's 5-element transforming mantra when
using this technique, and it runs "Ohm Ahh Bee Lahh Hong! Chit!" When you use this
burning technique and make the flames of fire burn everything, make sure they burn
away the sexual desire as well. That's why many people succeed using this
technique.

For instance, in the Surangama Sutra, one of Buddha's students, Usschusma, reported
that he was often tormented by greed and sexual desire and yet he succeeded in his
cultivation. Usschusma said that many aeons ago a Buddha called "The King of
Immateriality" taught him that lustful desires increased one's chances of hell
karma, and taught him to meditate on the bones of his body and warmth of his chi at
the same time.

This is equivalent to using some version of the skeleton method, along with anapana
breathing techniques and kundalini arousal through fire visualization, which is a
combination often used by talented students. He cultivated the effects of heat in
his body and mind, and burned away all vestiges of sexual desire by cultivating a
blazing nature.

You can do the same thing and transform your chi quickly by visualizing that
everything you are is burned away so that no body or anything else is left.

Despite his sexual desire, Usschuma stayed chaste and used this technique to reach
past the Taoist stage of jing to chi and then chi to shen and emptiness
transformations to get the Tao. None of it would have been possible, however, had
he not first conquered sexual desire. So when sexual desire arises and regular
emptiness meditation doesn't help, try using the nature of sexual desire against
itself by visualizing that fire (or a sun) burns away your body so that nothing is
left. Sexual desire will then having nothing upon which to take hold, and itself
will burn away.

Like everything else it takes practice, but this is another way of offering that
can help conquer the biggest obstacle for men in cultivation. For men the big
problem is sexual desire whereas for women the biggest hurdle is emotions. �
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