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Dropping the Mind - Week Five - Flowering - Giving is Receiving

Flowering or blossoming are the first signs of the seed of your intention. The intention of ripening from the roots to the tips.

Flowering releases the fragrance, the essence of the teaching. This fragrance inspires us to reach deeper with our roots and extend our outer limits just a little bit further.

As beautiful as flowering is, it is not the same as fully ripening. Flowering can wake us up a little. Awaken our sense of the divine within us and others, but it is short lived. There is a saying - “Happiness, in height, makes up for what it lacks in length”. It is a spike; a peak experience. If you seek only happiness you will never be fulfilled. There is an ancient Chinese curse that goes ‘I wish you only happiness”. Just think on that for a few moments…

A moment of flowering, of insight, or the outwardly expansive direction of this insight, is a vivid and colourful experience. On a deeper level this flowering of illumination is not for you; not something that you can claim. As soon as one grasps the flower and take it for oneself the flower has died. It is cut off from the source; the roots.

In the practice of Qi Gong we flower by dropping into the process of experientially understanding that receiving is giving and vice versa.

If you do not understand one, you do not understand either. The ego separates the process of giving and receiving as an act built upon ‘mine’ and ‘yours’. When we give and receive with our whole being the act of giving is a receiving, and the act of receiving is a giving. There may be subtle distinctions you are able to make but these are still just distinctions of the mind. Drop that. Enter the space where your Qi Gong is practice in embodying giving and receiving as a single action. In this way, when you blossom it will not only be for yourself it will be for others.

The juicy ripening of the fruit is yet to come… When it does, this ripening is the fully realised karmic energy of the seed of intention. The seed has completed its journey. It is now the seed within the fruit - an offering that will ultimately lead to being received by the earth to give again.

Qi Gong notes and videos below are a carry over from last week with the addition of the full Earth Cycle form of the Wuji Gong.

 
 

Qi Gong

  1. Standing Meditation - Dropping into the Dantien. Connect and check in with your feelings and energy levels

2. Warming and loosening up the joints - Shifting blocks, getting the internal juices flowing.

3. Clean Body Qi Gong - Mini explosions expelling of stagnant and sickness Qi

4. Golden Flesh - Consciously breathing/massaging and nourishing Qi activation in the flesh, tendons, fascia and bones (NB bone focus requires hitting with the hand or bamboo).

5. Posture and Alignment - Wu Ji Stance - Opening up to and connecting Earth and Heaven - Drop into the pelvis, breath with gravity.

7. Wuji Gong Earth Cycle - Week three - Four directions of form. Remember, a movement has its seeds in the state of stillness before it is seen. Before we rise, we sink our awareness deep into the earth to contact the roots.

7. Microcosmic Smoothing - Starting at the Thymus Gland perform the smoothing down the arms, front line of the body, moving down the outside of the legs, connecting with earth, smoothing up the insides of the legs, up to the perineum and under to the tailbone, up the back (spine), back of the head and over to begin the cycle again. Finish at the Dantien.

 

Want More to Explore?

Nada Yoga

The following drone can be used to support the beginnings of your Nada Yoga practice

  • Try deeply sighing

  • Slowing start to pay more attention to shifting tone and pitch of your voice and continue until you find a resonant note you want to explore

Explore the relationship between the shape of the sound using not only your voice shaped by your mouth, throat and vocal chords but also your entire body. Go with the flow.

“You cannot get directly from thinking to being. Thinking, feeling, being. Feeling is the bridge between thinking and being.” - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 

 

Introduction to Pashyanti in Seated Meditation

Paśyanti or paśyantī (Sanskrit: पश्यन्ति or पश्यन्ती), the Sanskrit term which means 'see' is derived from the word paśya meaning 'to see' and paśyat meaning - seeing, beholding a particular sound.

In Indian philosophy the notion of individuality, which is the third level of personality and the seed of all thoughts, speeches and actions is called Pashyanti , meaning 'that which witnesses'. Thus, Pashyanti refers to the visible sound which is experienced as a feeling or a mental picture.

  • After you have finished your Nada Yoga practice just sit with the after effects of the luminary resonance. What is there? What are you witnessing in mind-body continuum?