tao stillness

The key point is, "how can you forget your body when in pain?" My teachers have taught that comfort in asana trumps the lotus posture. The goal of all these spiritual methods is to go beyond the surface level of the mind to reach the stillness at times called Pure Consciousness, Samadhi, Nirvana, etc. When our mind is distracted by discomfort due to the sitting posture, the mind is at the surface level and that is not where the benefits are found. The mind has to transcend the level of thinking to reach finer and finer levels of thought to then reach the source of thought, pure consciousness, the Tao. So comfort in meditation posture is a must. I reached temporary Cosmic Consciousness when instructed in a special advanced TM course and at the time I was not even meditating in my usual cross legged position. Instead, I was just sitting in a chair with my feet on the ground.

I also want to comment on Sifu Terry's reminder of the legend of how Flying Phoenix Chi Kung might have been passed on to the famous monk by a deity. I have mentioned this before but it bears repeating. When I read about that legend some years ago I thought of it as just that, legend since China is full of folklore like that and there is no way to document historical events or legends of that nature. However, as I have related previously, last year after giving my wife her first Oneness Blessing/deeksha, she had inner perceptions of a woman dressed in Chinese ancient dress demonstrating these unique movements as if she wanted my wife to start performing them. At that point my wife had never seen anyone perform chi kung so she did not have a name for these movements that she then demonstrated for me. I could not believe what I was seeing as they were definitely chi kung postures. I could see that some of them were especially working on the liver meridian and later we found out from Eric Isen that my wife has a very toxic liver due to years of taking Western medications. Also later when my wife described perceiving that Chinese woman in her mind's eye to Eric, he told her that it was actually a deity called White Tara and that this experience was so far beyond just something having to do with Tibetan Buddhism. It was then that I decided that the monk on Emei Shan being taught Flying Phoenix by a deity was not a legend, but a historical fact. I have since then met a few chi kung teachers whose methods were channeled. And I recall reading in the Falun Gong book that Master Li claims that chi kung did not originate on this planet at all. To paraphrase, "Horatio, there is more to life than meets the eyes." I think that can also be said of Flying Phoenix Chi Kung.

I would just comment on a few things about distinguishing Oneness from Flying Phoenix since Sifu Terry was not sure how accurate his understanding of Oneness is. Oneness of Sri Bhagavan is not derived from any previous lineage since this is a totally new energy that has never been offered on this planet before. Some of the deepening courses use some Bhakti things like dancing to get the kundalini moving but this Oneness is not part of the Bhakti tradition. It does not require any devotion or even belief. It is mainly a neurophysiological process that occurs spontaneously from energy of a deeksha giver making physical rewiring of another person's brain to support kundalini reaching and then remaining in the brain. That opens the higher functioning centers and quiets the endless chattering of those thoughts which are responsible for the ego, self-image. The result is that you stop reacting to current life situations unconsciously thru past social conditioning and previous experiences. Instead, you perceive life in the here and now. Negative feelings and bad happenings no longer stick with you. We do not meditate as such in Oneness. We have Oneness Meditations where a Oneness Meditator is sending out energy and the receiving person is merely sitting with eyes closed. So there is really nothing to do in that type of meditation. You either feel something or you don't. So by this description you can see many differences between Flying Phoenix and Oneness.

The essence of Emei is in Emei Qigong and no one has to travel to China to learn the method. There are manuals, dvds, and Qi empowered objects available for those who do not want to travel to China, California, or to NY or Connecticut to be taught from the lineage holder Master Fu. My medical clairvoyant recently declared the empowered objects to be the real thing.

I used The Kung Fu Exercise Book in either the 1970's or 1980's briefly but stopped doing them as the TM guru said TM is the only thing anyone needs to do. I eventually came to disbelief that statement. I have not done Frangrance Qigong as Eric tested it and for me it would not be good to do. I am now ordering Master Fu's Emei Qigong since I have been using his empowered Jade qigong healing disc, pendant and beads for years with healing success so I think it is time to add his qigong method.

Hi, I did SFQ when I led a qigong group at work 4 days a week for 8 years. I was taught in person by Chunyi Lin. I did Flying Phoenix for close to 2 years but it took too long to do all of those meditations or even one of them! I briefly did Pangu Mystical Qigong and healed a serious and bad virus/flu over night by doing it for over 3 hours per instruction from the Master's daughter. I gave that one up because it was so boring. I am always on the hunt for a qigong method that is easy to learn but you can feel strong Qi flow from it. If you know of any that you have tried that fit that request, I would appreciate hearing about them.

nI have read testimonials of people attending his lectures when there was no translator and they just sat there and had experiences without having to do anything other than listen to his voice. This is the guy who Master Chunyi Lin went to see in a soccer stadium when Lin was young and his injured knees from basketball were healed just by being there. It is too bad the Chinese government shut down his events. And Chunyi Lin is the real thing. I was in a training with him in Wash., DC 11 years ago when he demonstrated that he could see into other people's bodies using his third eye. He is modest and does not consider himself to really be a master.

Qigong bouncing up and down lightly on the heels is said to be one of the best things to do to strengthen the immune system.

Glad to hear about your success and progress Aeran! Some people get quick results from Eric, while for others it is a slow process. Just like how different qigong methods work for different people. And so the only thing that we can do is just what you posted: Just do it! And the IT turns out to be different strokes for different folks.

Question for Sifu Terry: why does going as slow as a shifting sand dune produce the sensation of chi during some Flying Phoenix meditation? I have not seen any other chi kung method which has you move that slowly. I find that when doing 60-70-40-5 if I do not go slower than slow, then I do not have that sensation of thick chi when my hands are in the Monk Gazing as Moon position. The slower I go while moving my hands and arms into that position, the stronger the chi is felt. My left brain wants to know the mechanics behind this process. The secret behind the secret. And from Transcendental Meditation I have experienced that being as still as Tao is the only way to enter Samadhi. The slower we do some of the Flying Phoenix movements, the more stillness we are creating somewhere. And with stillness comes the movement of chi. I am just thinking out loud here.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I just ordered his autobiography. The Oneness of the Vedas really sounds like the Tao. For a Muslim to be into the Vedic tradition is really unique.

I want to state there is no similarity between Oneness Deeksha and any form of chi kung. The proclaimed Avatar of the Oneness Deeksha has made it clear that this is a unique energy that has never before been brought to this planet. The Oneness Deeksha works by literally and physically rewiring the brain so that the mental chatter of the thinking mind, also called Ego, produced by the parietal lobes of the brain are quieted, while the higher consciousness is expanded by stimulating the forebrain. The result is that if a person attends the 3 week processing course at Oneness University, they leave having reached some degree of an initial Awakened state of consciousness. Once Awakened, it is permanent. And that means situations no longer stick with you for long periods of time, and you respond in the here and now thru clear perceptions instead of thru ages old social conditioning from the unconscious mind making all kinds of associations due to prior experiences from this lifetime and previous ones. As a TM meditator daily for 43 years, it was a real eye opener when I heard the Avatar state that repeating a mantra is not going to get you enlightened. He may have a point there since no one that I know of or have heard about has ever mentioned anyone in the TM movement who is said to have even reached the first stage of enlightenment which we refer to as Cosmic Consciousness. I was in that higher state for one day while on an experimental TM course but it was not permanent. If it is not permanent, then it is not Enlightenment. So I just put this out there to pass along the claim that Oneness is a unique energy. I have seen people come to our Oneness Deeksha sessions and come away thinking it was just like Reiki. This is why on the path we need teachers because intellectual understanding is needed to understand our experiences along the way in order to avoid being confused.

Circumstances once again led me to doing Flying Phoenix Meditation 60-70-40-5 around 2a.m. last night. Being that late I was not expecting to be feeling much from it but I wanted to stick to my daily chi kung routine regardless. I did the movements at slower than slow pace and was surprisingly rewarded with that much appreciated sensation of hands moving thru thick clouds of energy which offers subtle resistance sensation. When this is felt strongly, as it was last night, I always come away thinking how unique this Flying Phoenix Chi Kung really is when you can actually sense an energy field. A lot of chi kung forms have you visualize that you are tracing energy. No need to use such make believe tactics with Flying Phoenix. I think Riding the Ox offers a valuable tip for learning some of the more complex Flying Phoenix movements such as volume 4, the Long Form. Play the disc or you tube version at a slower speed to be able to pick up the nuances until your brain/body has memorized the form. I often also have to put the computer monitor facing a mirror so I do not have to get confused figuring out left and right. Some qigong and tai chi teachers have recently been making their dvds with mirrored teaching. Meaning that when they say go left, in reality they are going right so it matches your left, and vice versa. I learn best that way. No thinking needed, just follow along.

Going back to the post about the Cleary version of the Secret of the Golden Flower, I just realized that this is the edition that I have been reading for the past few years, I still find it too complex. I read the version with the foreword by Jung in the early 1970's but never finished it. I find that meditation from the Vedic tradition in India is very simple when taught correctly compared to all of this visualization required by the Chinese methods. I also found that all the Light that is referred to comes automatically when the right technique is taught.

Has anyone had any success doing Yadi's Nei Kung, level one?

As energy moves it releases blocks of old stress and in some people this can cause spontaneous bodily movements. I know of a friend who when doing the rapid breathing chakra clearing method done at Oneness events, her body spontaneously levitates up from her chair each time. She hops up quite far, actually.

Emil must have a photographic memory because I have never seen anyone post as many different demonstrations of different qigong methods as he has. He is like the Baskins-Robbins flavor of the month.

These are old outdated forms of seeking the Kundalini to rise. There has been now on Earth for the last several years a team of husband and wife Avatars who have brought in a unique energy called Oneness Blessing that in its latest version is now the Golden Orb Deeksha, and also Prana Deeksha. They both physically rewire the brain to produce Awakening. Anyone who now takes a 3 week course at their Oneness University in south India comes back at some level of permanent Awakening. They have 100% success rate in being able to do this. They also offer free 20 minute online Oneness Meditations daily where you just sit thre and look in the eyes of the Oneness Trainer as he does a transmission of deeksha. According to Sri Bhagavan, the Avatar, enlightenment is actually a very simple process of getting Kundalini to remain up in the brain rather than returning back down. No amount of repeating the mantra or watching your breath is going to do it for most people. I should know, I have done the Transcendental Meditation program daily for the past 43 years and on an experimental course held by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi I was in a temporary state of enlightenment for one night. But it never happened again from his version of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. So the goal is real, but most paths are a time consuming waste of time. I do chi kung for preserving my health, I do not expect spiritual benefits from it. I do TM now for release of stress, I do not expect enlightenment from it.I do Oneness Blessing for Awakening. But I am in the one percent of the population whom the Avatar says do not feel anything from Oneness Blessing. So quite a paradox. Yet I remain on the path. S

I have read at least one Thomas Cleary book and was pleased with him and I have others from him on my bookshelves waiting to be read. Awareness turning in on itself reminds me of the teachings of Transcendental Meditation when Maharishi taught basic physics and quantum physics and he would explain TM and how creation works in the Universe as the Self turning in upon itself. By the Self, he did not mean our individual ego/personality. He referred to the Self as Pure Consciousness, Pure Awareness without any thought to it, yet it is the basis of every physially manifested form in creation. In other words, the Pure Absolute. Which to me sounds like the Tao, the mother of 10,000 things, to quote the Tao Te Ching. The Self turning upon itself happens spontaneously during TM and when that does happen, research shows that all the brain functioning is at maximum coherence instead of the usual random brain wave activity associated with the non-enlightened usual state of consciousness. So regardless of the path we are on, the method is always to get to the source which is the Self reflecting itself. Some paths are just more complex than others. When I read the Secret of the Golden Flower my head spins with how complicated those ancient teachings have made such a simple process for transcending the Relative aspect of life in order to reach the Absolute. But Frederic you are certainly having some great experiences and you have reminded me to go back to reading my Cleary books on the Taoist path.

In TM we are taught that if one continually falls asleep during meditation it means that the body is needing that sleep and we should allow for that extra sleep. There is also something known as compensatory sleep that results from going for a period of not enough sleep and then the body wants to make up for that when it gets a chance by at some point making the person sleep extra hours.

Thank you Éclair for the Fan Teng Gong translation. It looks like a very good method to learn but, as I have written, I received an email from their headquarters in Germany warning me that the Fan Teng Gong that is shown on You tube by Emil is all wrong.

My medical clairvoyant found Yadi's Qigong for Serious Health Conditions to be very healing for me. However, as I stated elsewhere, it is the most amateur and poor quality dvd that I have ever seen, and none of the exercises that I saw demonstrated looked like anything I would want to even try to learn. A total waste of $200. But I enjoyed communicating with Yadi via emails and agree that he is a cool guy. I just wish that his Qigong dvd was as cool. Nothing cool about paying that high price.

For quite a long period I used to do the Big Sleeper FP before bed and never had any problems waking up and that was when I would go to bed at midnight and get up at 6:30am. More recently I was doing FP 60-70-40-5 before bed and also never had any problems waking from that one either. I have heard from astrologers that recently the Earth has entered a photon belt which effects the emotions quite strongly. The effect was noticed quite strongly the day after Xmas by 2 people that are close to me and I also felt it myself. Neither of us knew about the photon belt at that time.

Frederic, you make good sense since I have noticed many qigong teachers are now moving to digital downloads instead of selling dvds. Purple Player is the download service that Sifu Garry Hearfield uses for his digital downloads.

I believe some of those other styles may be learned via Skype private sessions with Sifu Terry.