Last night at qigong class I talked a little about changing ones consciousness. I explained that most people view the world from a very left brained perspective. To me this means we look at the world with only one eye and never see more depth than what is directly put in front of us.

I made use of a few diagrams and tried to show the students that we have two distinct "realities" to play in. First and most common is Hun. Hun is the world of 10,000 things. It is the gross material world that also encompasses the wisdom mind that houses the ego and the personality. Hun is the "reality" most people play in the vast majority of the time.

Apart from Hun here is the "reality" of Po. Po is the energetic world of the Ancient Mind that is rarely accessible unless one has learned to access it OR Hun has dropped it's pre-eminence due to an extreme situation that is doesn't want to deal with, such as fear induced from a car accident or even extreme boredom.

I explained that students of the internal arts need to merge these two "realities" and then play in the middle ground. This middle ground is in fact a third "reality". Here we can use the awesome tools of the wisdom mind while benefiting from the considerable advantages of the Ancient mind.

By use of diagrams I went on to show how many ancient wisdom traditions have known about the advantages this change in consciousness brings to the player and even showed how many of todays corporations have implicitly taken advantage of this knowledge.

Some corporate useage

The intersecting circles for what is known as a vesica piscis. Within the vesica piscis lies an unbeliveable amout of information.

Learning forms and gaining the health benefits of qigong and Tai Chi will serve the student well but the true advantages of the internal arts are not based in physicality.

The true benefits of our modalities are that they are LIVING ARTS that can lead the adept out of the "realities" and on to actuality.

The Tao Te Ching (Chapter One)

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

Peace

Rod