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“In 1972, during my early years in Tai-Chi Chi Kung training, in my room with my dog Blackie, in a silent meditation on stillness, I saw a fountain of joy appear before me. It was like looking into limitless layers and layers of smiles. (I was not under any kind of drug stimulation. It was not a visualisation exercise). Since then, many people and I have discovered this inner joyous river, lake, waterfalls and fountains can really help people to heal their wounds and hurts. Your whole being is bathed in tingling energy, beauty and joy. It is inside your body that this Eternal Tai-Chi Chi Kung dance begins .........through the blood veins, arteries and cells - naturally and effortlessly, you discover you are a Being of pure chi energy. You then grow within it, study how it relates to Nature and bring harmony, order and beauty to your daily life. You feel naturally inspired to create, to draw, to paint, to write and to play. Patiently over a period of some years, with perseverance and persistency, we can encourage this unique inner spark in you to flower step by step into creative action."
This is the main aim of the FTT/F3T Light Being Intensive Courses 1 and 2.
Choy
Cooperation between Earth, Humanity and Heavenly chi energy presences
Page 19 37 Steps to Happiness - Tai Chi with an Introduction to Aqua Tai Chi
Letter from my mother more than 20 years ago, always a source of my inspiration to carry on sharing the Light Being!
The Path of Self Knowledge is Circular
How is this mirrored in my teaching?
By
Heather Cardwell, 15 January 2008
To
embark on a path of circular self knowledge is a crucial part of teaching.
As my own learning has deepened and developed I am now being guided to
realise that the circular path is not simply letting go but it is learning to
embrace death. Everything
in my life and in everyone’s life is part of a cycle of death and rebirth.
We
are not static beings, we are in a constant state of motion and learning to
embrace change is the only way I can evolve as a human being.
These means being constantly exposed to new experiences and this also
means being exposed to the fear that change brings.
We
need to learn to embrace death as we become obsessed with trying to avoid it.
Having been ill I can relate to this being true. In the same way we hold on to
the good memories in my life, experiences of love and joy, hoping that we can
re-create those feelings by calling up the past.
An
example of this for me is remembering the joy and fulfilment of Alex being a
small dependent baby. Now that he is growing up and becoming more independent I
am anticipating the feelings of loss that will come when he leaves home and
trying to compensate by looking into the past.
I
know now that I must die to yesterday, to die to the memories and allow
something new and fresh to be born in my relationship with my son.
To
die to the past takes a great deal of courage; you need strength and
fearlessness to let go of something you may have been holding on to for most of
your life. But
we need to see as Choy said, that these images are only mirages, beautiful
images in the desert, they are not real.
I
can see this is the same with teaching my students.
For me personally I need to learn to die to any memories or
pre-conceptions I have of them and see my students in each minute of every class
as beings who are constantly being re-born – beings about whom I have no
previous knowledge.
I
can also help them to stop running away from their past events and start to face
them. Some students are still at the 1st and 2nd
dimensional stage of letting go of how they are feeling but others are ready,
with my support, to embrace death and allow the thinker to die.
My
role is as a guide and a supporter of SELF EDUCATION.
Most people have never had the chance to educate their “selves”
If I can make a difference and switch a light on for people so that they
realise that they can embrace death without fear in every part of their lives
and that the love they are seeking can then effortlessly multiply then I will
have played a small part in leading them back to themselves and in that role I
am proud to be a teacher.
There
is potential for the people I teach to become leaders themselves. The inner work
I do for myself will reflect back to my students as a mirror.
If I have truly embraced death of each passing experience then this will
be apparent to my students and enhance their experience in class.
When
I am able to allow the thinker to die voluntarily and willingly then I have
learned over this past month that an incredible purity and clarity enters me, a
peaceful place where my Light Being is able to exist. If I can show this
vulnerable part of myself to my students then I can really be a mirror to them
in showing them that it really is ok to be vulnerable and to open up their
painful experiences so that I can gently guide them into letting go of their own
thinker.
Each
fundamental exercise and movement of the TCF will be encountered in a fresh and
new way, as if for the first time.
I
have noticed this in the feedback I receive from my students sometimes when we
re-visit one of the Fundamental exercises, at first there can be some resistance
to “going over old ground”. If I can be the mirror which reflects to them
the ability to let old conceptions and memories of the exercise die then we can
all discover fresh and new
insights into each movement.
As
a teacher I must lead by example.
Because I am not strongly rooted in my life and in my connection to the
chi I can pass this on to my students. Because I have faced considerable
challenge and transformed them into positive experiences I can share these with
them and because I myself am going through the constant cycle of death and
rebirth then I truly am a reflection of each student and they are of me.
And
that is the joy of life and of teaching – both student and teacher constantly
reverse roles. Learning is circular too. We are enriched by what we learn and
then we are able to release the experience to be composted, ready to help new
opportunities grow.
I
am constantly growing as a teacher and I am proud to be part of my students
circle of life too.
THE ART OF SELF CORNERING 2008
BY
GUNN-BERIT KLIEVELAND
I
have been self-reflecting and in a kind of honest way- I believed myself- and
maybe others did as well- but without reason to be trusted really. The way I
have been honest and open has been more a way of trying to protect myself from criticism
from others - mostly by criticising myself before they could do it, in
case they wanted to. And the other side of the coin has been a way of bounding
that has also been a kind of self-protection - showing everybody else my weak
sides, but not letting them truly close. And the reason for not letting anybody
truly coming close has been because I wasn't with me- but that I didn't know
back then.
It
has been a hard- and also within the showing of my vulnerable sides, an
excluding quality in how this game has managed to play itself on my stage that
is me.
The
foremost reason to this is how my mind has been in charge. The mind has believed
that it has had it's right to analyse and that the 'honesty' that it presented
was true. When letting all feelings flow through me has been a way of justifying
or explaining myself- but also within that I have 'cornered' myself on the other
hand with the most critical judgmental point of view. Like cornering for the
sake of cornering in a way-----
One good example can be how I have been concerned about my mother and my sister. I have been so worried and full of self-complain and guilt because I didn't see them enough or helping them enough- worried about how they have been mistreating and hurting each other and feeling to tired to involve. And as the result I have enabled myself to be present with them when I was actually physically there. Mostly occupied with my own negative 'cornering' . I feel that cornering myself in this way is taking my energy- depleting me-- which the delay of this homework is an example of by the way.....
The
Rainbow way of self-cornering is totally different, and gradually I am
assimilating through experience what this is about.
Only
through truly facing, accepting and surrendering in a Heart Body Mind Spirit way
can I make myself able to find my vision and to be fully present.
What
touched me very much the weekend when this was the subject of the class, was
when Choy said: 'You don't have to beat yourself up. You can corner yourself
softly!' This feels like such a gift and revelation to me that tears are filling
my eyes when staying with that sentence and letting it sink into me. I feel that
the teaching about self-cornering is helping me in my relationship with Per. It
was very clarifying and helping me to accept the differences that man and woman
are from nature; Per and myself that means on the personal level.
I
am practising- when conflicts arise - to surrender my mind - my thoughts and
what I believe, from my mind into the heart-centre. When I manage I feel warm
energy spreading and acceptance in my heart. Like embracing. And then when I
surrender into the tan tien centre I feel very peaceful and safe. A lightness
and easiness that comes. Often humour. Also humour have grown as I have managed
to surrender my sexual energy into the centre. Now I can crack a sexy joke
together with Per (my husband) and also share my sexuality with him without any
other motive or expectations. Just for fun.
I
also feel that Per has opened his heart very much this spring and that we
connect much more in the tan tien centre than we used to.
I
now feel stronger than ever that my vision is found inside me. Not through
others opinions, but through trusting Light Being in my own centre. I feel that
is more important than anything and I also feel my ego going from being
scattered from fear to being really warm and cooperative
I
feel that when I am in my centre everything is going very well- that I have the
right energy needed and that sharing and supporting Per and Malin (my daughter)
as well is naturally flowing.
I
have a lot to learn about how I can corner myself better, but I know that the
answers are within and that they come when I surrender Heart, Body,Mind and
Spirit into my centre.
One
small step at the time with loving chi, Gunn-Berit.
25th December 2007
Thanks to Meileen Davanger's question, which I reprint it here for everyone's benefit, I have been able to add to this most important topic about the Light Beings.
Meileen (LBI Student 2008) - I want to understand more about "your" idea of lightbeings. (by the way, the Earth in your drawing doesn't have a smile in it?) .. It was quite easy to imagine (lightbeing, the feeling of the word) when I first heard of it, something close to angel and also to elementary beings. Dorothy Mclaine uses the word "spirits", did she inspire you to build your awareness of lightbeings? Is it the same? I recall seeing a photo of Roc in 1986 where I felt I knew him and I bought the "Findhorn Garden" to read about him. I didn't read the rest of the book, and was taken by awe today as I opened it and read Dorothy's original texts. This I will read for the next days. I'm 37 today. I'm satisfied with seeing the sun from a mountain top.
Choy - Firstly, Meileen, thank you for your question about Light Beings. Firstly, about the Colour Science Drawing above, it is only a representative of the real. There are infinite number of smiles within the earth nature presences that I have drawn about trees for example, in my first book '15 Ways to a Happier You' on page 110. The Earth Chi manifests through the elemental spirits in nature and our human interactive relationship can be one of joyous or choyous (my subjective experience) celebration!
Secondly, it is very interesting that it was BEFORE I WENT TO FINDHORN that this vision of my Light Being came to me, initially when I was a child, I often saw my Light Being as a radiant old man sitting beside this beautiful bamboo grove by a stream and every single strand of his long hair was filled with constellations, stars, universes and galaxies. And then, in 1972, the Light Being appeared in its pure essence, a smiling fountain of pure happiness that had infinite layers of smiles. Later, when I visited communities such as Scotland Findhorn, France Universelle Fraternite Blanche Universelle, India's spiritual communities such as Sai Baba Ashram, California communities such as Harbin Hotsprings Heart Consciousness Community and The Zhineng Chi Kung Centre in China, I felt my Light Being was also in the people's smiles and laughter! My drawings and paintings of these smiling presences did not come from Dorothy Mc Claine's inspiration. In fact, I did have an interesting walk with Dorothy Maclaine and we discussed my own experiences quite in depth and she shared that she feels that I already have got the connection.
Little Feathers2SpiritualPoetry presented The Story of The Light Beam from my book. To my happy surprise she had taken the initiative (with that beautiful painting of the Light Being) with other members of her group to present this story in her website. Enjoy!!
http://groups.msn.com/LittleFeathers2SpiritualPoetry/thestoryofthelightbeambypeterchinkeanchoy.msnw
SUMMER 2007 INSPIRATIONAL SHARING
News Report regarding the Thinker
By
Mike Toye
The
thinker has been caught deep in thought this week.
That
was until it was discovered that it was actually the thinker who had caught
himself.
How
clever is that.
Choy
founder and director of the Tai Chi School stated that the thinker could die
naturally just by being with it.
We
were all very confused.
I
searched everywhere for the thinker.
In
the compost toilets.
I
found only sawdust, thankfully!
In
the valley there was not a thought to be seen.
I
thought long and hard, but could not work it out.
Could
it be in Per's beetroot soup? Apparently it is world renown so surely a lot of
people would have heard about it?
I
even asked Leon who then pulled his hair out.
Well
at least had it cut by Frances only to discover
(sshh)
Lice!
So
I asked them but the T-Tree oil had knocked them out.
Could
the thinker have been lost in the river? We certainly all heard screams and Choy
performed a dashing rescue mission.
I
don't think he would have saved the thinker though!
It
then dawned on me, so I woke up, having forgotten about the thinker only to
discover it was a cunning plan by the thinker to hide himself away.
Just
as I had let go and given up I realised that I was the thinker and that I had
been harbouring the thinker unaware that the very thoughts that I was having
were indeed produced by the thinker.
Most
shocking is that I actually have to be with this thinker to let it reach its
natural end.
rest assured, I intend to Lighten Up!
Mike
LATEST FEEDBACK
Reviewed by Frances
Powell
March 2004
I have the book,
‘Touching the Void’, by Joe Simpson, would you like to borrow it?
How many dimensions did
I see? I am having some difficulties because Joe’s experience was SO physical
– he was literally at the edge of a huge bottomless precipice, void..
He had to go further into it, unaware of the outcome, 4th dimension?
Circumstances took over and Joe’s tremendously strong and determined
single minded inner father took over and saved his life.
Maybe that of his light being?
Joe goes through
delirium, hallucinating: attributed to dehydration, exhaustion and starvation.
He smells and hears
water and cannot get to it. He does
become a desperate abandoned body with just the essence of his being keeping him
going forward one tiny, excruciating step at a time. Knowing how long the
journey is, for him the base camp, he knows he cannot survive, but something
inside keeps him going, not to the end of the journey, but the next few yards.
The concept the end of the journey becomes for him just to reach his
friends in order to not die alone. Then
he realizes his friends will probably have gone, believing him to be dead
What puzzles me is that
Joe makes no tribute, (in the film at least, and I do not remember the book so
well (over 14 years ago)) to being spiritually aware.
He was bought up a Catholic and makes reference to this.
He said he did not believe in God, and in his darkest most desperate
moment he did not pray, so confirming to himself that he did not believe.
However in the film, script? He does cry out ‘God’ and does use
‘Jesus Christ’ in exasperation, but I feel sure he would put this down to
blasphemy. Sub-consciously, perhaps
he does. The fact that someone
denies belief in ‘God’ is a recognition that there is ‘God’ to
disbelieve in?
It’s like George and
Santa Claus. Yes he has worked out
that Andy and I are Father Christmas on Christmas Eve, we are his
helpers! But that there is a concept of Father Christmas, gives the essence of
Father Christmas. Perhaps his light
being is there for all of us, although not as a single physical entity, one man,
Mr Christmas. We all have Father
Christmas selves. Hey, this is out
of season?!
I will get back to the
dimensions: As a climber and
mountaineer, Joe will be working as one with the rocks, the snow, ice and
weather and I am sure he will have experienced this oneness and appreciated
this, dimension 7? But this maybe
does not come out in the film. I am
using my memories and feelings of being in the mountains and projecting them on
him.
There is the complete
joy of reaching his friends and the embrace of his friend Simon.
I can project a sense of pure joy of everything – but for Joe it is
physical, emotional, and heart felt. Spiritually?
Well, I would say yes, having been in Joe’s presence in the eighties,
but it is not recognized explicitly in the film.
So in conclusion: at
least 5 dimensions! Chi-rio for now,
Love Frances Powell
February 2004
FILM REVIEW
FROM CHRISTINE O’REILLY
School of Rock - It
Kicks Ass!
It’s funny, inspiring
and hugely creative. The main
character, Dewey Finn (Jack Black), an imposter of Ned Schneebly, finds himself
in the centre of a hotbed of Preparatory School rock talent.
He tunes in to each class member’s unique ability and hones it in a
very gut-centred, non-judgemental way. His
enthusiasm is infectious, his whole heart, body, mind, spirit is in the music,
and the creative energy is foot-tappin’, spine tinglin’, big grin fantastic!
What a great movie! I give it Four Stars for 4 Dimensions, go and see it!
The screenplay was
written by Mike White (the real Ned
Schneebly) who lived next door to Jack Black and wanted to write a story based
around him, rock music and kids. A
wonderful screenplay that really allows Jack Black’s genuine love of music
shine, together with his heart and belly centred humour.
Well done to all involved in making this great movie!
Christine O'Reilly
14 September 2003
Dear Choy,
I just thought of a film I had seen. It doesn't go very high up the
dimensional ladder , mainly staying in the first and second dimension, but
as an educational film about fear (and its manifestations) I thought it very
good. It is called "Bowling for Columbine" and is about the massive
murder
rate in America and in particular the murders of school children by school
children. It poses the question "why does this happen?" and interviews
many
and various people. The cause that clearly stood out to me, was fear plain
and simple on a individual and national level. The documentary is shocking
,sad and sometimes funny, the man who was interviewing people and visiting
places was, Michael Morre, was very good indeed in my opinion.
Anyway just thought Id mention it.
Have a
wonderful day
Michael Cooke
YES, whether we like it or
not, MOVIES DO INFLUENCE AND COULD EVEN EDUCATE US about the multi dimensional
aspects of our daily lives.
Thanks to the inspiring and wonderful
work of the Foundation Tai-Chi Teachers and Zhineng Chi Healing groups this
year, I feel excited about introducing a
whole section in the website ON MOVIES. The aim
of the column is to create Enlightening Film Society. The purpose
is to firstly, inspire the showing and recognition of films which educate
and uplifts the consciousness of humanity from the dimension of duality into the
higher and enlightening dimensions of learning and self-discovery. Secondly, I
want to to increase the inter exchange and sharing of Creative Chi to flow in
between Rainbow Tai-Chi students. I also hope to encourage the formation of an
Enlightening Group of Film Producers and Scriptwriters who will take the
initiative to make films of the fifth and higher dimensional kinds!! For further
descriptions of the 8 dimensions, please refer to my book, ’15 Ways to a
Happier You’.
Everyone loves movies, and
like food, movies can sometimes be quite inspiring and feed your soul or it can
be compelling evidence of what is the worst in you!! It mirrors where the public
consciousness is also. There are ONE DIMENSIONAL FILMS. What are they? For
example, B movies that are usually about monsters being the baddies and they
fill up the whole screen with blood and mayhem. You know that THEY ARE ONE
DIMENSIONAL because there is very little tension at all, you know soon who are
the baddies and it is really a matter of time before they are killed or
controlled in So, you get only one
dimension, and it leaves you stuck in the role of the frightened inner child or
a boring film goer who has got nothing better to do. But what about the sissy
and all sentimental ones, yes, they too can be completely lack of tension and
you get only ice cream, chocolate and more ice cream and more chocolate until
you realise your stomach is not too happy with only that for your dinner and
lunch!! Ok, so what are the TWO DIMENSIONAL FILMS? Ahh, now, we got the tension,
TITANIC? An ever lasting story of false and true love, tragedy, danger, courage,
tear jerking moments, feel the tension between the good and bad, the sweet and
sour dish coming out of the Cosmic Kitchen?? And what of the THIRD DIMENSIONAL
FILMS? Is it possible to go beyond all these YIN AND YANG swinging in the movie
industry? And Fourth Dimensional Films? See the films and then, report back to
us, what you understood to be Four Dimensions, Five Dimensions or Sixth
Dimensions, OR HIGHER! YOUR ENLIGHTENING COMMENTS WILL BE MOST APPRECIATED AND
SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS MIGHT BE REPRINTED IN THIS SECTION OF THE
WEBSITE. The list below is just a small start, we have had not the time yet to
update it with more titles. (You will notice that there is so far only one film
title under Six Dimension) as we review more titles.
Recommended Three
Dimensional Films - specifically
working with the inner Family: ABOUT THE BOY with Hugh Grant, POWDER with Mary
Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery and Lance Henriksen, MRS DOUBTFIRE with Robin
Williams
Recommended Four
Dimensional Films - THE MAN WHO SUED
GOD with Billy Connolly, ET - The Extra Terrestrial with Dee Wallace, Henry
Thomas and Peter Coyote, MR. DEEDS with Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder and Peter
Gallagher and AS GOOD AS IT GETS with Jack Nicholson.
MATRIX with Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne
Recommended Five
Dimensional Films - GREEN FINGERS
based on a true story with Clive Owen, Helen Mirren and David Kelly,
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE based on a true story with Jack Lemmon and Hank
Azaria, Fairy Tale based on a true
Story, BILLIE ELLIOT with Julie Walters, Jamie Bell and Jamie Driven, THE STORY
OF QIU JU with Gong Li.
Recommended Six
Dimension Films - CONTACT with Jodie Foster
We have been looking at
Money in the Foundation Tai-Chi Chi Kung Training and looking to see what is a
COGNITIVE AND a RECOGNITIVE understanding and application of the Tai-Chi
Principles to the relationship with money.
A re-cognitive
relationship with money is valuing money as a means to exchange goods and
services. Most of the inner and outer work focuses on learning how to use money
wisely, and even though the UK’s Chancellor is allowed to be 37 billions
pounds sterling in debt, the talk continues about how to use money wisely. The
joke is there is in actual reality NO MONEY there to spend wisely!! That is 37
Billion Pounds Sterling in DEBT! (U.S.A goes even one step further, TRILLIONS OF
US DOLLARS IN DEBT). t is like trying to practise the Tai-Chi Form 37 Steps
without any feet to stand on in the first place! So, no matter how wise the
money is spent, the first step shows that there is a serious default error here,
you cannot spend when you have no credit energy. You cannot physically lift up a
heavy object when your back pain does not even allow you to stand up. You could
say that you are in debit relationship with your body.
But, let us say, there
is a CREDIT situation, in your case, for example. You do have some money in the
bank or in your wallet, a plastic card or cheque book
or cash. The money you have is also subjected to relative valuation,
isn’t it? A loaf of bread costs differently 30 years ago from now. So, the
relationship with money is relative to the world’s current situation. That is
precisely the problem, ‘Relative’. We do not relate directly to money for
what it is, it is merely a means to an end. Like the way people use their
relatives and friends—sometimes, wonderful, caring, happy and sometimes
abusive, disrespectful and even back-biting with gossips and hurtful actions and
remarks. Money is being hated, loved, abused, hankered after and distrusted.
So, what is a cognitive
relationship with money? It is to sense that indeed that money in its origin is
from Mother Earth—whether we speak of paper cheques, coins, money
and even plastic. Some people will argue that they have internet banking,
you still need a computer to access it right? The computer is also made of
materials from Mother Earth. And sooner or later, you will also have to use cash
even if you do not believe in cards or cheques, right? To COGNISE money, you
really have to slow down, be still, let go your RECOGNITIVE judgements of what
money was and is. Hold a piece of your paper money or coin and feel receptive to
what it is. It will surprise you what emotions are contained within that money
you hold. People have been putting different feelings into those bits of coins
and money. For me, fresh out from school, in a bus one day, I experienced a
cognitive experience with money, and felt directly what the coins were and from
then onwards, realised one of my purpose in this lifetime was to help myself and
people transform our relationship with money. For further details, do check up
my book, ‘15 Ways to a Happier You’ Page
142—147.
I have been inspired by
some of the exciting and inspiring examples of students of Rainbow Tai-Chi
School who have worked with this topic in-depth. Please check this out in the
Education section of the website.
A MEDITATION OF MONEY by
Caroline Walshe
“It has taken
quite sometime to cognise my money, but today it happened! From a re-cognitive
view, my relationship with money has been a LOVE/HATE one, with plenty of hate
in the love! It has been such a mixed bag for me, I have so many negative
beliefs about money, all tied up with guilt and whether I deserve it or not.
Today, I felt money is none of these things. I began to feel the emotions, to
smell it also from the money, from a £10 note full of hope, to an anxious £5.
They heated up and became something else in my hand. And with the pound coin,
first I felt this feeling of fear, low down in my body, and a horrible pukey
smell. After allowing that to be, and taking the coin back to the AMAZING MIX OF
METALS that came from the earth. I began to fill it with LOVE, until it became
warm and tingled in my palm. When I looked down, it shone back at me, looking
for all the world like a part of my hand. AMAZING! This pound coin has had, is
having, along and carried life, has had so much emotion and ideas put on it and
in it, yet it is just this BEING that really never did anything to anyone, it is
just there! And it now glows with love and feels like a new friend! WOW!
I feel
like energising every piece of money and every card I have! It is such a new way
of looking at money. It makes me realise how truly EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE,
EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE is a living being, with an ability to be a vehicle
for everything that we put in it. Looking
at my relationship with money re-cognitively has enable me to see so much fear
in myself and so much mixed emotion, confusion, guilt—is it a good thing to
have money? Is it a good thing not to? I went home at one stage and wrote 3
pages of negative beliefs!! (And the same on positive ones). It tied in with a
lot to do with my relationship to art and the belief that ART SHOULD BE FREE.
Which is something I am looking at still. It also ties in to my attitude to
good! And since the last month or so I am only now really buying myself healthy
foods I want to eat more than ever before. But it ties in so much with the idea
I have had before, that I won’t have enough to eat. It is amazing to see these
negative beliefs all connected. But is so amazing to experience money in a
different and friendlier way! I have found a new friend.
THE ART OF LIVING AND DYING
Psychological Death and Life. Psychological Dying and Rebirth by Choy
Every moment can be a precious flow to allow death of the Thinker to take place naturally. The dying of the Thinker is as important as the dying of the leaves of trees in Autumn and Winter. For the budding leaves are coming and new pre birth energy flows up from within us.
From within our belly centre, we can feel this pre birth chi surfacing like a new born baby's pure eyes looking innocently. Then, a little smile comes up. There is a heartfelt warmth flowering and the face is radiant as a baby's face. This is the hope of our future.
The Thinker has created wonderful inventions in the world that are mechanically sound and provide convenient ways for us to do what we want to do. However, this Thinker is also responsible for creating a world of division, separation and fragmentation. We, like the computers, need DE-fragmentation!! The Thinker has to however be stopped in its path of worry, fear, hurt, pain, anger and terror. The Thinker creates the opposite of all that negativity and plays the game of opposites in the world. When the Thinker realises that it is the source of all this creations in human conflict, it has to accept the fact that it needs to die naturally. How to die gracefully?
Firstly, the Art of Dying can be as smooth as a flower offering her petals naturally, she dies. New seeds naturally come about upon death.
Secondly, the Thinker says to itself, 'I AM THE THINKER AND ALL MY THOUGHTS ARE FROM THE PAST AND THEREFORE DEAD. I ACCEPT MY DEATH RIGHT NOW'.
Thirdly, a state of quiet, peaceful and empty feeling follows.
Fourthly, from this peaceful place, this inner light, a sense of LIGHTNESS OF BEING is being borned.
You are a Light Being.
HOW RAINBOW TAI CHI PHILOSOPHY IS CONNECTED TO THE PHENOMENA OF NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE by Wendy Douglas, FTT, March 2002
The phenomena of Near Death Experience (NDE) has happened to millions of people and by practising Rainbow Tai Chi many people report similar experiences and also find their lives changing in many positive ways.
In a NDE the experiencer is aware of being outside his body, floating in the air and looking down on the activity below. He/she then leaves the lifeless body and may feel that he is going down a dark tunnel at the end of which he will see bright lights. These lights are described as unearthly and of an inconceivable brilliance which “makes the sun in the Sahara pale in comparison”. Some people hear beautiful melodic music and always they experience the most blissful feeling of love. Some meet up with deceased friends. This is where the individual consciousness returns to the spiritual dimension and is met by Light Beings who will deliver whatever messages are necessary for this particular individual. On returning to his body he will remember in detail the conversations and events seen while in this experience.
Rainbow Tai Chi philosophy is based on the belief that the heart is the governor of the inner flow of chi energy. When the heart speaks the mind is quiet. When practising Tai Chi one often starts with heart beat listening to tune into the inner silence and peace within. This helps to build a loving relationship within your body, bring you closer to your heart and find what you want to do with your life – your real purpose on earth.
On return to life from a NDE the experience nearly always reports on the brilliance of the light and colours seen and the love that is unlike anything felt on earth. It is this awareness of Light and Love that likens Rainbow Tai Chi to the Near Death Experience. With heart based practice one becomes aware of many different bright colours and lights (Light Beings) which one is not normally aware of in every day life. The feeling of oneness, peace, harmony and love is as close as one can get to a NDE on earth, without the help of drugs!
As one works through the fundamentals one is gradually taken through various dimensions of self awareness: Letting go into a sea of nothingness, finding balance and creative solutions, inner acceptance, living in the Now, accepting yourself as you really are to let the qualities of peace and clarity bring you closer to your real self, being non-judgemental. We are reminded that Light is the first step of consciousness in action.
“I am love, you are love, all is love” chant used in Rainbow Tai Chi is really the essence of the NDE where people feel filled with an overwhelming love which affects them deeply so that on return they live and think in a more caring, loving and spiritual way. Many change their lives completely and become teachers, healers, counsellors and help others to lose their fear of death.
Life is like going through a tunnel, searching for the Light. Tai Chi practice can bring us into an understanding of our Light Beings, our path, our uniqueness in a way that is not taught in schools and colleges. We do not need to go through a NDE to learn the lessons, enjoy inner peace and learn to love and appreciate ourselves and all things in non-judgemental way. The Yin, which is loving, kind, peaceful and the Yang, which is angry, rushing, materialistic melt together into oneness
One NDE survivor, said on her return to life that the message she had to bring back was “The key is LOVE”. The Rainbow Tai Chi philosophy teaches us so many lessons which can be summarised in two words: Light and Love.
When practising Tai Chi one can melt into another dimension, another state, where the colours are brighter, everything blends together and there is no past or future, only now. One is in the presence, one sees the Light and everything is infinite, unconditional love.
NEAR DEATH
EXPERIENCES By John Gunn
and the connection of this phenomena to RAINBOW T’AI CHI PHILOSOPHY.
I wish to focus on the light elements in NDEs, particularly as the Light is the key element of
NDEs.
“The Light is the one element of the near-death experience that brain
researches can’t even come close to explaining. The testimony of
children is clear on this point. “
[ extract from page117 in “Closer To The Light – Learning from
Children’s Near-Death Experiences]
Other quotes:-
The light is the core near-death experience and cannot be explained by any scientific theories. All we know is that at the point of death, a
brilliant, beautiful, loving and peaceful light awaits us. [p 132]
The children tell us that there is darkness, an end to the light we
experience every day. But then there is another light, one that
represents love … [p132]
Where does this light come from. The brain has nearly stopped
functioning.
One would assume that the bodily functions would cease, that there would be eternal darkness. [p118]
I do not know of any biochemical or psychological explanation for why we should experience a bright light as the final stage of bodily death.
[p117]
Using Freud’s model of the mind, some psychologists have attempted to explain the Light as merely the internalised parents – the superego
– coming to the rescue in the form of the being of light. This is as good
an explanation as I’ve heard but it still leaves much to be explained. If the Light is merely the product of superego, why is it sometimes
visible outside the dying person’s body? [p133]
If we assume that this experience of the Light is simply a spasm of
rigor mortis in the optic nerve, then how can we account for all the
higher order processing of unconditional love, total truth and feelings
of great peace and joy? [Then] ……. Patients would simply say:
“I saw a blinding bright light.” [133]
Perhaps this light somehow represents a birth into a spiritual realm.
[p118]
In “Transformations” volume 6 (Near Death Experiences and Mind-Body
Healing)
Dr Melvin Rose presents evidence that our energy fields are linked to
the earth’s and to non local reality. When our energy field encounters the Earth’s, we perceive that as remote viewing. When our energy field
encounters non local reality, we perceive that as a spiritual experience. When these occur in the context of nearly dying, we call
them near death experiences.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES related to NDE phenomena
During the Rainbow T’ai Chi Summer School of 2001 while being healed I experienced a floating sensation when my body seemed to be lifting off
the large cushions on which I was laid. Three fellow students were administering Zhineng Chi Kung healing. A very bright, golden, warming
light was approaching from behind and above my head. Unaccountably I was crying with the joy that was bubbling up from within. I wondered
whether Choy was playing with a very powerful torch. I knew the sun had set already and couldn’t be lancing through a window - as the source of
this light. I was being assured (not with spoken or heard words) that everything was going to be all right.
I have never before or since felt such comforting assurance and
unconditional love.
My intellect told me this could not be happening, it was an illusion or
hallucination. Fear of the unknown happened. I opened my eyes. The light faded but
the joy persisted. Later I felt disappointment and annoyance at my reaction and much later, when I knew about Light Beings, regret because
of the missed opportunity of an encounter/contact.
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One evening during a Zhineng session at The Albany Centre I started to feel light headed as though my head (consciousness / awareness) was
leaving my body and about to float upwards. After the class I dropped a fellow FTT student at his home. A few moments later I had to stop
the car as the sensation started to reoccur. This time I was wandering in my garden amongst enclosing trees on a warm summer’s day. After what I
assumed was about five minutes I came round, got out and walked round the car four times to ground and resumed my journey home. Later I
discovered I had lost an hour.
During a Zhineng Chi Kung learning session at the Rainbow T’ai Chi
School during the Summer School part 2 (while practising part 3 sitting down) I had an ‘action replay’ of my life with particular attention to
those events when a friend or relative had died. Every time I tried to accelerate this painful process it seemed to slow down. Painful because
I had regrets that, for instance, I hadn’t made the most of final chances to say more and really talk to those passing on – I knew what I
would have said and done had I known.
A life review is another characteristic of NDEs – seeing and
re-experiencing major and trivial events of one’s life.
(‘Frequently Asked Questions about NDE’ at http://www.near-death.com/faq.htmls )That life review experience was of
a different quality from the enjoyable “reverie” that occurs at times
when I am physically and mentally tired - yet comfortable – and I
“drift” away into my inner garden.
In February 2001 a fellow Rainbow T’ai Chi student, who had become a friend, died.
He had confided that asthma and bronchitis had kept him awake for several nights.
During one of those sleepless nights he had had an out of body experience and thought
he was dying. Unusually, John was not answering emails nor his phone. I had a premonition that he had died.
As I lived nearest (only 30 miles away) I was asked to check if he was O.K.
Two burly policeman refused to break into his first floor flat at 1 a.m.
The next day I discovered John was not involved with Social Services
(who might have authorised the police to break in) nor registered in any of his local hospitals.
Later I heard that the police had decided to break in and had found John dead.
For several nights around this time I dreamed about moving rapidly
through a tunnel towards a bright, golden garden. I seemed to be
approaching it too slowly for the speed at which I was moving. I felt excited anticipation and yet peaceful.
I’d often experienced this “dream” as a child and wondered if this time I might reach and enter the garden.
It was only after a few months I began to wonder whether this dream was connected with John’s death. Having now read Dr. Melvin Morse’s Book -
“Closer To The Light – Learning from Children’s Near-Death Experiences” I am wondering again.
“There are several ways to tap this spiritual energy. [ the Light]
My guess is that the psychic powers to do so exist in all of us and
that given time and desire we could see the Light without having to die for it.” [‘Closer To The Light’ page126]
Dr Melvin Rose in his newsletter “Transformations” presents the
hypothesis that human beings have a specific area in their brains [the right temporal lobe] that allow them to communicate directly with
timeless spaceless ‘non local’ reality. Mathematicians and physicists
tell us this reality exists and is an important part of the universe.
Children who have had near death experiences tell us what it is like to react with that reality. Paranormal abilities such as remote viewing,
premonitions and telepathy are right temporal lobe talents. Our right temporal lobe allows us to resonate with universal energy patterns and
thus everyone can benefit from learning these lessons of “The Light.”
“Whereas most of the traits of the NDE can be precisely located in the anatomy
of the brain, there is no explanation for what happens when the seat of consciousness travels through the tunnel and enters the Light. [Op cit;page118]
In conclusion a final quote from Dr Rose.
“When I accepted Dr Moody’s challenge to study NDEs scientifically, I felt certain that science would explain them. All these years later, I
accept what the ancients knew: All men must die and death is not to be
feared. There is a Light that we will all experience after death, and
that Light represents joy, peace and unconditional love. These children
have taught me that we each have the ability to experience the Light and
that the Light teaches us that we are each important in our own way. Our research
…… revealed that a genetically imprinted circuit in
the brain can generate the near death experience. The simplest, most logical way to explain our current knowledge of man’s
consciousness is the hypothesis that there is actually a soul within
each of us, independent of brain tissue.
Events such as floating out of the physical body and giving details of
one’s own cardiac arrest – things a person couldn’t see even if their
eyes were open – are virtually impossible to explain if we do not
believe in a consciousness separate from our bodies that could be called a soul. “ [Op cit; page169]
WHO IS YOUR TRUE SELF, YOUR LIGHT BEING?
10th March 2006
BY
PETER CHIN KEAN CHOY
Is your Light Being your Guardian Angel? Who is
your true self, your Light Being? You have tried talking to your Light Being, to
share that although your mind comes in with doubts and worries, you want your
Light Being to take charge.
When was the last time the majestic golden hills
walked with you into the sunset? The
leaves and bark of the trees shimmering with such intensity that a tear drop
spontaneously came from your moist eye? These eyes that have seen a thousand
battles and more, hurts and pains that know no refuge and hiding place. These
eyes that have felt regret and guilt of love lost and chances gone by.
And now, the loveliest of loveliest feelings
beseech you to SLOW DOWN, to allow the light from the greatest star in your
universe to speak unspeakable volumes of messages of LOVE to you. Will you
listen with all your heart right now or will your heart choose once again, for
the billionth time, go back to the past fleeting images and sounds of people and
what they said to you. They are ghosts on a misty night wandering, looking for a
glimmer of hope, only to find sorrow awaiting them in all their tomorrows.
How do we measure the beauty of your soul with
weights, such as ounces or is it another pounding in your brain and heart as you
toss to and fro on your bed, wondering how to get Love under your control? Can
this immense beauty that comes for no reason and flowers in your life giving you
power of gentleness and fragility? Can this immeasurable fact be registered in
every cell in you right now?
And where does this tear drop come from? This tear
drop that have been touched by billions of dew drops you have been witness to
every time you walk in the woods and allowed your whole being to be bathed by
the greatest show on earth. Freely these gifts from Nature, your
kaleidoscope of rainbow colours celebrating,
dancing just for you!
How can you not be silent before such majesty? Of
what manner can your mind comprehend the unknown breadth and width of the light
of lights, the intelligent fabric that spans and
scans through every thought and feeling you have ever conceived of? You
are transparent to who you are. Every where you go, you go with you.
Any unkind word and thought you have ever felt has
been washed away as easily as the raindrop glides, effortlessly down your cheek,
carrying that tear drop down to your feet, passing into tiny little streams,
snakes across the plains, disappears into rivers and oceans of loving chi.
Your doubt, desire and yearning is known and
embraced by your true self. The icy wind that howls and shouts out snow and
sleet shall make way for the pure piercing rays of the sun’s warmth. So, who
is this this being who have been touched by acts of human kindness and cruelty?
Such experiences have not changed it one iota, let the black clouds of
doom and gloom come and go. The radiance of your soul shines as clearly as the
dawn announces sunrise bird song.
This fantastic light
display you see before you has melted into your whole being and brought
home to you all you ever needed and do you still ask for more?
FEEDBACK ON THE LIGHT BEING INTENSIVE APRIL 2006
Stillness
Finding
peacefulness inside
Accepting
myself
Staying
true to who I am
Connecting
to others in silence
Frustration
Blocks
inside
Overload
and saturation
Self-doubt
Seriousness,
stiffness
Flowing
Melting
into chi
Ease
Self-confidence
Self-humour
Seriousness,
reverence
Subtlety
Understanding