see that which is.
Don’t go on listening to distant harmonies, and the music of the spheres, and the dancing steps of the atoms. Don’t befool yourself. As it is, you have already befooled yourself too long. No more. It is enough! Say: ‘It is enough’ – because unless you are freed from your wrong notions of eyes, and ears, and riches, the right cannot become available to you.
To be freed from the wrong is to be available to the right. To be freed from the false is to be on the path of that which is real.
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We are the ones to choose our way: The way of spiritual development or the way of spiritual jerk-off. The second way may also be pleasant but it will not bring you from the ignorance into the light, it will not solve the real problems…
The way of spiritual development is the practice of “silence” State. This practice requires 1 square metre of the space and the aspiration for practicing.
The way of spiritual jerk-off is the search for special clothes for meditation, “original” shoes “for T’ai Chi exercises”, some special swords, participating in different rituals and initiations – as if it were not possible to practice without it. There belong your “astral flying” and anxious attitude towards “vision” and”revelations”,your inscense sticks and candles, various religious artifacts. There also belong your feverish budgeting to satisfy just another acute need to visit Shaolin this year; your study of Sanskrit or Chinese language …
The way of spiritual development is the clear conscience and God inside your heart. When nothing is able to trouble your Spirit and prevent Silence from falling on you… Only for this purpose we are given The Commandments.
The way of spiritual jerking-off is when one collects different practices: the more exercise – the better… the more energy the better… the more, the more, the more…
As an ordinary jerking-off does not result in having children so the spiritual one does not bring fruit… even if you may be repeating the words “Immortal Embryo” or “the Immaculate Conception”, like a spell, ten times a day for ten years round …
The shortest way of spiritual development is the Way of Silence.Attachment to something hinders serenity and relaxation.Do not be bothered by any phenomena or even by extraordinary organs of perception starting to open. Miraculous abilities, – in India they are called Siddhas, – it is wonderful. But never the less, practicing is better. An increased perception and sensitivity may ease understanding of many things, lighten the way of development, but only in case you won’t get attached to these abilities, – if appeared – good!, if not, – “I do not care, I have not been thinking about it!…”.
There are not so many people who can stay indifferent to this issue, human nature is week. That is why, so not to lead the adepts into temptation, many world religions deny the development of super abilities declaring them manifestation of the vice and people who have them possessed by the Devil.
However, there is nothing bad in such abilities. What slows down the Way is an attitude towards them, the attachment.
In Wu Chan Zhong Qigong the “super ability” development is acquired independently from the basic practice; the whole practice is dedicated to rearing the State of Silence, “The Pause”. Do not be waiting for super abilities to come; say to yourself: this is not interesting to me, maybe in a hundred years or so it is to happen, now it is more important and necessary for me to be occupied with something different. For example, just to understand why my child and me are not able to find a common language. Or, how I can finally start living an adequate life and give up doing useless activities…How to heal my right leg… get married… change my job for more interesting and useful one… Decide how you may become more wealthy to be able to provide for your family and put it into practice now, in this lifetime… give up a bank account in Heaven and establish an account on earth.
To be continued…
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Mark Freeman.Wu Chan Zhong Qigong
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