Inner Alchemy

Traditional Chinese Medicine functions on the knowledge that everything is made up of energy and energy is what we have to work with in order to advance ourselves on our journeys.

As the student progresses in their knowledge and understanding of the internal arts they will become intimate with the  concept of Qi and the practicality of using various energies for enhancing health, increasing physical and non-physical abilities and furthering their evolutionary goals.

The inner alchemy practices taught are both traditional Taoist nei gong meditation as taught to me by Sifu Wing Cheung and non traditional practices such as dream recollection/interpretation, lucid dreaming and other esoteric modalities.

Our reality is a mysterious experience that can be tasted in many ways if you commit to seeking the truth of our existence.

 

Excerpt From a Discourse Upon Taoist Theory & Practice of Internal Alchemy—
By Xuezhi Hu
 
We find ourselves in a condition where desire and ideas persist….
Disabling the natural flow and development…………
Much like a sky filled with cloud……….
We should always strive to clean our heart of all desires and passions.
Seeking to find the True Heart.
 
Our world is much like a bubble; we look at it and it seems real.
Yet it is just a reflection.
The material world we perceive is much like a web that is created from passion and desire; everything in this realm which we perceive is created by passion and desire.
 
Our ideal aim in self cultivation practice is to break free of this web.
To completely realize our True Nature, and become the master of our own destiny.
 
Within this realm we find natural laws that govern over us.
These laws are the Five Elements and the Yin and Yang.
Through the governing law of the Five Elements with the Yin and Yang, this force will naturally control, suppress and destroy our efforts of self cultivation to break free of this web.
 
The Five Elemental laws also have a corresponding reflection within our being.
We may use this corresponding reflection in our self practice as a means of gaining reversal to return to the source.
We find that with much self effort in practice, one can truly break free of this web we find ourselves in – holding the universe in the palm of your hand - being the master of your own destiny - gaining complete transcendence and liberation - returning to complete and undifferentiated union with the source.
 
This realm is much like the reflection on a bubble.
We look at it and it seems real; but it is just nothing more than an illusory reflection.
Below the illusory bubbles of our realm and the many others, lies a vast expanse of Ocean……..
This vast ocean is the True Reality, the Root Essence - the True Heart.
 

Quote of the Week

"Second is mindfulness of feelings, it is at this stage that we work with the chi or fine material energy. The chi is most easily perceived through feelings and this path of practice helps one to bypass the common pitfall of relying on imagination and visualization of the internal energy as this can quickly become a fabricated fantasy rather than a direct knowing of reality in the present."

~Sifu Adam Mizner

 

 

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