Oct 18 Meditating on Broadband..

I love summer training………

The sunlight streaming through the Dojo windows and reflecting on the highly polished floor…….  The shrine deity, Fudo Miyoo and his guardians, the snake and the crane bathing in a shaft of sunlight as they face the door, protecting the Dojo from unwanted spiritual interference…………

The fire exit door open directly to the gentle breeze, wafting in the fragrance of the evening flowers and blossom……  The blackbird singing his heart out to raise the spirit of us martial artists meditating to understand our interdependence on the universe as opposed to the delusion of independence………….

The power of the aura within the Dojo, consecrated daily by our meditation, blood, sweat and tears……  It’s like time stood still and everything sharpened, I felt like I was standing on the edge of a cliff, just hovering between life and death with the ancients calling me over…..

“There is no life and death, they were saying……  Only a tear in eternity to create the illusion of time…..”

“Interdependence is like your hands under the tablecloth………  you can make many different shapes with the cloth, but underneath it is still you……….  Universal energy creates and inhabits many different shapes, forms and dimensions, but underneath it all it is still the same energy…….  Hurt any form and you only hurt yourself………”

“Still your body…..  still your emotions……..  still your mind…….  bring yourself to perfect peace…… are you dead?  No, then what remains?  This is the real you, transcending life and death with no individuality….”

“Wisdom, morality and concentration are the key to lightening the weight of mortality…..  knowing who and what you are and aspiring upward from the weight of negative emotions like anger and fear lead to correct speech, behaviour and spending your time doing things that are conducive to a peaceful environment……  sharpening your awareness and focussing your concentration help you to maintain these understandings………  these qualities are what make the difference between a martial artist and an egotistical thug……….”

I sat for a long time hovering on the precipice, keeping my mind alert and sharp…..  many wordless understandings came to me like a computer downloading from the astral internet at a massive speed ………….  It must have been from a site called astral internet.ancientmasters.com……..

Finally my mental software disconnected me from the astral internet as Sensei clapped his hands……….

“Mokuso yamee!”

“Taiki…..  Hajimee!”

We warmed up with the Taiki form, soft and slow beginning with the Chi Kung aspects concentrating on the posture, breathing, mental alertness, concentration, imagination, visualisation and technique.  All the time, my “download” was percolating through to my thinking mind…….

“Feel your ki rise through your crown chakra …….  Like you were being suspended by a rope from above…….  Your breath in the seiki tanden acts like the boiler to your ki, giving it power……..  your mental alertness makes it vibrant …….  your concentration collects and directs it………”

As I passed through the ritual shapes of the ancients it seemed to trigger more and more imagery……

 ”Lighten up……. Lighten up………  Allow the alchemy of ki to take place……  let it rise through the chakras………  allow your body, mind and spirit to become weightless……  use the power from the serpent to raise your spirit to the bird……..  let it grow an angels wings and soar……..  the chains of mortality are made of fear and anger…….  violence begets violence……..  compassion sets you free……  lighten up……. Lighten up……..”

I understood.  As I adjusted my posture and breathing, as my spirit rose it was as if my body became weightless……  I was not doing the movement……..  I was the movement!  No, hang on……….  There was no me!  No individual………….  I was “one with the universe!”………… 

Walking home, my mind was awash……..  Interdependence meant that I exist as I do only because everything else exists exactly like it does……  My body is composed of earth, air fire and water made up from the food that I eat from the earth, the air that I breath, the fluid that I drink from the rivers and rain, the heat that I absorb from the sun and fire…….  I am those elements!  We all depend on each other!

The mystical nature of the martial arts is an oral tradition handed down through generations by “direct experience” the ritual shapes and forms are a gateway to this astral internet at ancientmasters.com but can only be connected when we have demonstrated sufficient resolve and humility to obtain the connection frequencies!

Was that really a shaft of sunlight on the shrine deity or was it the light of the ancient masters smiling?

Steve Rowe

Steve Rowe is a highly successful Martial Arts instructor - an International Neigong, Qigong and Tai Chi Teacher and an 8th Dan Karate with many other senior dan grades in other martial disciplines.

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