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Monday, April 23, 2007
Merging into Wholeness
The gap in blog entries was due to a lovely extended travel around the world with time in SE Asia, India and Switzerland. Much has changed, and then again little has changed. I’m back teaching inside the various yards of New and Old Folsom prisons three days a week and starting up some spiritual support and study groups to compliment the movement classes.
My questions and observations of the group QiField, or the spiritual group dynamic are evolving with each experience. Here is a contribution I just sent off to the Tai Chi Chih publication, The Vital Force:
It’s not unusual for a Tai Chi Chih class to activate the QiGong state (Harmony) for both the individuals participating and for the group as a whole. In my experience it is unusual if it does not happen!
I have been exploring group spiritual energy for a number of years from a number of perspectives. (If you’re curious they are on the blog I keep regarding teaching QiGong in prison: http://chifully.blogspirit.com/qi-field_writings)
The intellect is a feeble instrument with which to articulate this dynamic. Experience, stories and poetry get us closer to grasping that which is seemingly beyond our grasp. Here are a few from class the other day:
And my poem from after that same class:
Best of all was a students sharing:
Aware that the harmonized state is always available, yet not something to be forced upon a situation, this student preformed the greatest of services simply by remembering, embodying, and invoking the harmonized state. Activating the Field in this way was all that was necessary, the rest evolved as best it could, with Harmony as a realistic and present potential.
My questions and observations of the group QiField, or the spiritual group dynamic are evolving with each experience. Here is a contribution I just sent off to the Tai Chi Chih publication, The Vital Force:
It’s not unusual for a Tai Chi Chih class to activate the QiGong state (Harmony) for both the individuals participating and for the group as a whole. In my experience it is unusual if it does not happen!
I have been exploring group spiritual energy for a number of years from a number of perspectives. (If you’re curious they are on the blog I keep regarding teaching QiGong in prison: http://chifully.blogspirit.com/qi-field_writings)
The intellect is a feeble instrument with which to articulate this dynamic. Experience, stories and poetry get us closer to grasping that which is seemingly beyond our grasp. Here are a few from class the other day:
“I’m going to say it even if you all think I’m crazy, but I felt us all move as one.”
“I feel the whole space of the chapel participating”
“It was as if we all were one heart beat.”
I felt it more when we slowed, I could be more mindful.”
And my poem from after that same class:
Currents of Consciousness
Drop in together --
You, me and the universe
Listening, feeling, finding
A movement
A stillness
Pulsing
Pulsing off the ceiling
Pulsing off the stars
Rising from the ground of being
Orchestrated by sinew and bone
Alive in the transfiguration of the moment
Perceptions peering
inside out
outside in
Finding no difference
Finding only flow
Best of all was a students sharing:
“When I am aware of tension escalating on the yard, or in our cells, I release this feeling we cultivate here in Tai Chi Chih class, this energy of harmony. It’s not that I send it to those fighting. It is more of a simple release. Usually things calm down.”
Aware that the harmonized state is always available, yet not something to be forced upon a situation, this student preformed the greatest of services simply by remembering, embodying, and invoking the harmonized state. Activating the Field in this way was all that was necessary, the rest evolved as best it could, with Harmony as a realistic and present potential.
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