Cognitive Education
This is a picture of the school’s valley of lily pond. When we meet for Summer School, sometimes, we all go down together as a group or someone goes down by herself or himself to this pond and sit there being with the flowers.
To cognize or know directly the flower, your mind need to understand that it cannot use its “re-cognitive” aspect. The Re-cognitive aspect of our daily lives are useful as a mechanical source of information, reaction and behaviour adjusted to meet the daily demands, like the postman needs to recognize the address to deliver the letters.
When you feel the flowering of your heart’s radiant warmth through heart beat listening, you are not “practising” heart beat listening, you can learn to FEEL DIRECTLY without the use of memory something that is utterly alive, fresh, new and of immense love. This can only happen when you look without the presence of the Thinker.
Is it possible to let go the thinker completely and BE in the flower? You are communicating with the flower without words through seeing and feeling. The flower is in you the communicator. Then, communion takes place. There is a melting into chi energy. Many people who know you might remark how youthful you look, your cheeks become as rosy pink as the flowers and you look so light and radiant.
Like learning to memorise in School when you were young, the Re-cognitive faculty was developed and perhaps OVER-developed and so, today, the Cognitive or Direct faculty also needs to be developed. You need to UN-LEARN the re-cognitive aspect in order to allow the unknown cognitive faculty to wake up.
Then, the true flowering of action in your daily life comes directly from intelligence without the tainting of fears, insecurities and worries of the past.
How do you practise this in relationship to your daily life, in terms of sensing your innate purpose of life, or dealing with a certain dangerous situation requiring you to immediately understand the solution with complete trust in the wisdom of that moment?
COGNITIVE ASPECT OF 'HOMEWORK' AT THE RAINBOW TAI CHI SCHOOL
HOMEWORK BY FIONA HOWARD
Homework as a way to work yourself home to you with peace,love, truth and joy
Rainbow Tai Chi Chi Kung homework is a way to get to know yourself better.
Sometimes there is resistance to the idea of doing homework which relates back to the old homework from school which was like a jail sentence when I really wanted to be outside after school in nature.
Perhaps 'assignment' would be a better word to use? However the two words 'home' and 'work' both have special significance. Work does not initially seem to be something you want to do, but rather something you have to do. Home is somewhere where we (hopefully) feel safe and relaxed and nourished.
Sometimes written Tai Chi homework can still be challenging. I don't often feel peaceful about doing it initially. Then over the month I find the questions are like seeds inside myself and something grows and can often keep growing long after the homework is sent in.
The resistance to written homework is another opportunity to let go of the ego which is the biggest obstacle to being home. So written homework provides yet another chance for us students to let go into the inner world which opens up when the ego lets go and humbles itself.
Then peace reveals itself, love unfolds and truth and finally joy – especially when you hit the send button and it has dissolved into the ether on its way to Master Choy.
So homework is also about the chance to grow yourself, to learn about yourself in a peaceful and loving way. To find the joy and freedom in truth and so to feel happier and more secure in your inner world.
The work is the work of an inner gardener – sometimes gardening can be quite arduous but then some months later you get to taste the goodness of freshly picked food. It's so nourishing.!