Article by Mark
And your life will improve, real results won’t take the long time!
Perhaps, the instructors should pay a great deal of attention to this matter and, if necessary, be strict to the student if he starts shifting towards the way of “spiritual jerking-off”. If a student starts practicing less and talking more about his visions and abilities it is not good both for him and for people around him…
I mean, there is no such a thing as red hot ball. And all the other things like red snake-like lines, shining blue bands of “microcosmic orbit” and spheres between the palms: they do not exist…
People say: “They do! They do exist! My instructor sees them, my friend sees them and when I am relaxed I also can see them!”…
There is a story… Some man who had been practicing all his life was walking along the road and suddenly saw in the dust on the side of the road a half-dead dog, with worms were already swarming in it…
The man felt sorry for the dog and wanted to relieve it from the worms… But suddenly he felt sorry for the worms, too, and did not know what to do…
And suddenly it flashed in front of his eyes… He gained an Enlightenment and saw laughing Buddha on the place of the dog…
He put Buddha on his shoulder and they walked together…
Soon they met a group of people sitting around a tree and listening reverently to their clairvoyant Guru, who was preaching about good and evil, about the clue of practicing, about morality, personal development and the structure of the Universe…
The man approached the group and started to listen too…
None of the disciples paid attention to him and the Guru exclaimed: “Brothers! Look at this man! Can’t you see what is on his shoulder?”…
The disciples looked at each other in surprise and shrugged their shoulders. They saw nothing.
After the sermon the disciples went away, but our character came to their Guru and said: “Now I understand that the Truth has not been hiding from me all these years, I have not been able to see it, I used to be as blind as your disciples today… The problem is not with God, Dao or Buddha… They do not hide their faces from us… The problem is our blindness!”…
– Yes, it is true!, – exclaimed the clairvoyant Guru, – But explain me why are you carrying on your shoulder a dog eaten by warms?
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The level of your vision, the level of your understanding is only your level… 99 people of 100 delude themselves and the other people telling of their visions… But 1 of 100 does indeed see something…
Do not hurry to make conclusions… Your red hot ball, all your clairvoyance is only the dog eaten by worms…
The world resembles a giant… Once Shrek told the donkey: “Ogres are like onions… Onions have layers… Ogres have layers…” It seems to you that you can see, so you gather disciples around you… but everything you see is a dog…
Even the Enlightenment or enlightened vision has several levels… Do not get stuck on them… Relax and abstract your mind… Welcome to the World of Silence!..
Thousands of charlatans and those who believe in their hallucinations turn into spiritual “healers”. What Healers can they be if their Souls have not grown strong and have not grown their spiritual “instruments” (ability of real seeing-feeling-sensing- understanding-changing-creating)…
Image Therapy (Medical WCZ Qigong module) it is only an instrument, a tool… scalpel is also a tool… it may be in the hands of a genius doctor, saving people’s lives, but it may be in hands of Frankenstein or Hannibal Lecter… If you cut your patient with this scalpel… what will YOU see? Your own dogs with worms… What will YOU do then?.. So, we shouldn’t put our dogs onto the others shoulders… There are only a few of those who can really help… If you are reading these articles, you are not these people… for those who really Achieved… they are not reading anything especially in the Internet… they have left public places… They are Self-Sufficient…
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From time to time we meet sick or twisted people who call themselves Gifted… or it happens that they are called Gifted. The same old mistake… the same old story… Have you noticed that they are practically always ill? Poor little things with their faces “split”… They’d better not be paying attention to those “spots around”, as seeing these “spots” is not the real Being’s ability to see… they should still be eating, just eating… Find the teat and suck the milk… Seems to be, seems not to be… They should come back to the practice of the first fundamental steps.
People are eager to deceive themselves and always ready to believe in their newly open talents. And they should be explained their misconceptions while they are only half-blind wolf-cubs, who instead of opening the new clinics should keep practicing Yang-Qi for next 5-10-20-50 years…
And while practicing, find an interesting and well-paid job (or launch your own business if there is some disposition toward it) and always be a balanced person. The fact is, that if you are a real master you do not generate attention. If people point the finger at you whispering at your back or grinning with the thought that you are odd… then you are not a qigong practitioner… and these people are not fools… Definitely, there is something wrong about you…
The True Vision criterion is rather simple. In this situation my teacher says: “Count how much money is in my wallet in the back pocket of my trousers… See real things… through the clothes… see the banknotes, read the bank numeration on them”….
Do reality check periodically. If you cannot see real world, do not invent visions in spiritual world…
For particularly stubborn ones the following interesting test is recommended. Consider this: if your sober brain in a normal state behaves like this… how can you trust your vision being in altered states…
…And you should not get upset if you realize that you are not ready yet…This is wrong, too… Your development is happening right at this moment. When this awareness comes, it is already a good result because this awareness triggers the work, giving a long-awaited relaxation, or at least helping to draw you away from constant reflecting on the practice and to remember that there is a great world around and some important business in it.
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What else is important in meditation experience and the State practicing…
WCZ Qigong calls this State just “The State of Qigong” and is subdivided into 4 basic stages or phases: relaxation, silence, pause and stoppage.
Yoga calls this State “The State of Yoga”. Sometimes it is said that Yoga itself is the State. Sometimes they call this State cittavrirti nirodha.
To reach meditative states one should practice the process of meditation. Sometimes both the process of achieving this state (observing, meditation) and the result (silence, peace) are called the same -meditation, observing…
In Indian Buddhism it is dhyana (“observing”, Pali language).
Chán Buddhism calls it Chán (“observing”, Chinese).
Zen (Japanese variant of Chán Buddhism) calls this State Zazen (Zen also translates “observing” from Japanese).
Thus we can see that dhyana, chan, zen – are synonyms; they mean observing, meditation. And the states of chan, dhyana and zen – they are peace and silence, achieved by observing.
In Christian Hesychast Orthodoxy (Hesychast means “silence”) they call it Holy Spirit Eucharist. Entering this state Chtistian Saints achieve the Enlightenment, they call it Godness.About the development of Soul through this method you may read in the Life Thesises by Seraphim Sarovsky “About Holy Spirit Gaining”.
How to develop the State by the methods of Wu Chan Zhong Qigong?
The whole practice of WCZ Qigong is devoted to it. In exercise description you will read a bit more about it.
If we use the word meditation we mean two things: The State itself and the exercises helping to induce The State by means of different techniques for mind and consciousness.
Sometimes meditation is said to be the absence of thought and the switching off an inner dialogue. I would like to underline that The State is MUCH MORE then just an absence of thought. I would add to this an absence of emotion and any psychophysical tensions, of “wrong” energies and so on…Yes, I would express it this way, but it is again imprecise and incomplete…
That is why I would try to say it this way: Meditation as a State is the absence of everything that is not you. When everything “what is not you” is keeping silence, your True Nature may come into the light. Then, everything settles as it should be and there is no need any more in Yoga Sutras, the Korans, Bibles, Vedas, Tao Te Chings in order to BE, TO UNDERSTAND AND TO MOVE FURTHER.
All books like Yoga Sutras, Vedas, Bible, the holy Buddhist texts and so on, use different words to express one and the same thing – how to throw away the crutches and stand on your own two feet, how to achieve this particular State, that is called so differently in all the Great Spiritual Systems…
What the most people refer to as Yoga, in fact, often has no relation to Yoga. It is only practicing what could be called more correctly “Yogi exercise”.
The same case is with Qigong. It is usually perceived not as Qigong itself, as the State transforming our Being, but as workout or Shaolin Exercises…
It is not correct to understand exercises of any spiritual system – Yoga, Qigong, Hesychast, Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism – to be the system itself as well as practicing the State and Spiritual development.A Yogi makes his exercises (Hatha), say, for half an hour