Perfect Union

In Qi Gong class today, we talked about the origin of Qi Gong and Yoga; about their similarities.

Yoga and Qi Gong, in their classic state, are systems of healing, or methodologies for maintaining and developing health. In a Master's hands or your own, they both work to process tension, stress and trauma out of our bodies, minds and lifestyles . Both are systems of healing and grace that allow the full potential of ourselves to emerge.

In class today, we also talked about Qi Gong and the way we connect or unify the process inside of us, as well as connect to what is outside. We stand between heaven and Earth as the connected being. Qi Gong may be seen as a process of bringing union to what exists as discord or balancing what is out of balance--connecting the Universe within, as we connect the Universe without.

The outcome of Qi Gong and true Yoga are this: When fully in love, we exist to perfection in perfect union or in unison with all that is as who we are. We do this together with one another, not alone and apart. Both practices, Qi Gong and Yoga, can be seen as a process of coming together in consciousness and fact to a place of less and less reactivity, a place of peace, a place of not reacting but in union as complete beings or persons. Complete. Acting in union. Unison. As One Universe. Then, perhaps, we go out again into the Universe discovering ourselves.

Union and Forgiveness--Disparate questions that may have no meaning:
How do you do that? How do you do Union or Unison, which is it? Is it a state of being where actions are meaningless? If actions were meaningless, then what? Can all action be forgiven? If all actions have been forgiven, are they meaningless? In a state of complete forgiveness, what would you do? In a state of complete forgiveness where everyone is forgiven and not reacting, what do you do? Cook? Sleep? Roll over?

Everyone wants meaning, but meaning is the drug that prevents one from being, maybe. The human body is about being and not meaning, the search for meaning is a push away, a trauma reaction from being in your body..

If being with a capitol B is to be fully embodied, the search for meaning may be a push away from the perceived pain of the body. But when the body is fully experienced... pain vanishes. At the core of our being, is ecstasy... and it is physical. If God were God, a perfectly compassionate being, would God be a physical being: yes, no maybe? Could that be who we are? The physicality of God. If God were God, is all of God physical and right here. Did we invent death as a way to escape the kinks in our physical being. Does death lead anywhere but right back to where we are, to face the same problems again and again until we acept that we are physcial beings having a physcial experiece... that can be beyond all imagining of bliss, if we just live thru it. Life? Live through the pain of life, live beyond it completely and see what are bodies are like then? Is full embodimnet Christ... or Buddah... or something like that.

When we live fully within our bodies, we transcend pain. True transendance then would be full embodiment. Were Christ and Buddah body workers really. Immortal Taoist Masters... is that it? Basically body workers. Realizing their immortals souls as flesh... when that's what they were all along, what we are. We created death then as an escape from the terror, or horror we wrought, but successive misdeed... where eventually everyone in the world becomes a victem. Where those lucky enough to feel enough pain call out for a diffecent experience, a different creation that will do them good, save there souls... and we all slowly remember who we are and from where we came. That there is, in fact, no death, and there never has been... that's it's all an act... so convincing, so agonizing and true... yet not true, but an act. Just like where people are in pain by their own actions, where it is so obvious to others that they are creating their own situation of pain, again and again... and we all just watch... wondering when the poor folks will learn that sitting on a fork is the problem they create and they can end? How long does it take tio learn??? Or how may does it take to learn before the physics of Creation are changed to accurately reflect who we are again.

We are the genie living in the bottle of Creation and it grants all our wishes, beliefs, thoughts and imagination of neccessasry pain... when pain and loss have never been neccassay or even real... in vain.?

Ecstasy is physical. Love, compassion and forgiveness are physical. Is Nirvana physical, yes, no maybe? The Cosmos are physical. Everything that we think of, know or experience is physical, is it not? If we think of something that is not physical, we are thinking of it with our physical brains and bodies. So the thought of something not physical is a thought of the physical brain.

Explanation and justification may just be an excuse to not be who you are.

The con of death is the thought that there is somewhere else to be but here.

Perhaps the secret of the universe is a physical secret.

When you are fully integrated as a human being... you are in full unconsciousness: Union. You are in connection with, one, as one with the Universe. And then, only then can you experience who you are with accuracy. You can't experience who you are or what's really going on, if you are not fully, accurately integrated as the physical body of you.

How would God become a greater force of union by differentiating, by creating and becoming the Universe that we are. Or was it our yearning to be as God that created a Universe where that could happen.

There is so much fear around our true identity and power as human beings. Our abilities lay in shadow. To take control over a person or a people, you must convince them that they have no power... when in fact they do. It can work for a while, but you can't fool all the people all of the time, can you?

Or how would the Universe become a greater conscious of being by differentiating? How does differentiation, becoming different, create a greater union. Can it? Is that possible? If so, how and why. Answer in a meaningless way. Can an answer be authentic if it is meaningless.



The path to unified consciousness is unified being: we are who we are as a human body, that is step one, and there is only one step to being. So if there is only one step to unified consciousness, do you have to take it, or are you already there?

To be fully embodied... to be fully in your body. As you go deeper and deeper into your body to become who you are, the traveling reaches a state of critical mass, when or where you become all that you are in consciousness, you become the consciousness of all the universe within you as the body of you... the microcosm, the macrocosm. It ain't easy, but it happens.

Collectively, individually and historically; we have acted apart from our identity, lived apart and acted away from our true identity. Through pain and suffering, that suffering being the misuse of out being or body (same thing: being and body) we find our way back.

Something hurts, stop doing it and it does not hurt. But you can't just stop doing something that is wrong for you, wrong for your body... you have to discover, find out and do what is right for you. Finding out the right way to move, to have plasure in the way the body is designed to have pleasure, a way that creates long term strength... Qi Gong! Or dancing, maybe Yoga.

Class assignment: Design a Koan specific and meaningful to you... for you. But pay it no mind.

We are tied to delusion by meaning. Relax meaning and ease emanates from being who you are.

In contemplating an expression of no meaning, there becomes meaning that is infinite.

As soon as something has meaning, it ceases to exist. The true state of bieng is meaningless. The assignment of meaning is a trick of the mind that wants to cease to exist.

When we allow meaning to rest, to quiet down... there is no resistance.

A kō·an (公案; Japanese: kōan, Chinese: gōng-àn) is a story, dialog, question, or statement in the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet that may be accessible to intuition. A famous koan is, "Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?" (oral tradition, attributed to Hakuin Ekaku, 1686-1769, considered a reviver of the koan tradition in Japan).

Koans originate in the sayings and doings of sages and legendary figures, usually those authorized to teach in a lineage that regards Bodhidharma (c. 5th-6th century) as its ancestor. Koans are said to reflect the enlightened or awakened state of such persons, and sometimes said to confound the habit of discursive thought or shock the mind into awareness. Zen teachers often recite and comment on koans, and some Zen practitioners concentrate on koans during meditation. Teachers may probe such students about their koan practice using "checking questions" to validate an experience of insight (kensho) or awakening. Responses by students have included actions or gestures, "capping phrases" (jakugo), and verses inspired by the koan.

As used by teachers, monks, and students in training, koan can refer to a story selected from sutras and historical records, a perplexing element of the story, a concise but critical word or phrase (話頭 huà-tóu) extracted from the story, or to the story appended by poetry and commentary authored by later Zen teachers, sometimes layering commentary upon commentary. Less formally, the term koan sometimes refers to any experience that accompanies awakening or spiritual insight. (Thefreedictionary.com)

The Secret to Life

What will reveal The Secret of Life to you? Qi Gong may, yet other ways may do. If you just pay a little more attention, every day, to who you are, to what you are doing and how you do it--all will be revealed.