On Saturday night I counted from 0 to 500 at an even pace in the 46 degree cold plunge at the Banya.

A new record for me.

And I could have gone longer. It used to require a lot of will power and intentional breathing to push into the third and fourth minute.

No longer, it was all fresh, clear and simple like Rigpa.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigpa)

Friend: How do you do it?

Me: There’s no one thing. It is an expression of everything I do:
Diet, exercise, advanced meditation, supplementation and many other biohacks and lifehacks.

But Kundalini and Tummo are big parts of it. I activated it strongly within me in 2012. And it definitely was part of what took me on the crazy journey described in this article. I’ve only just now begun to fully and confidently stabilize it the last 2 months.

“Kundalini is a term that comes from the Hindu tradition and refers to a mysterious but dormant power within us that – once awakened – will facilitate higher spiritual states and even enlightenment. Buddhists, especially Tibetan Buddhists, most definitely work with kundalini, too. In Tibetan Buddhism, this practice of awakening is called tummo or ‘inner fire’ and it is often simplistically described as a method to warm one’s body in the icy Tibetan mountains. But tummo is much more than cheap heating! According to the famous Six Yogas of Naropa, it is the foundation of all higher spiritual realizations and can bring us unimaginable states of bliss, profound wisdom and the amazing power to achieve anything we set our mind on.”