Guān Xiang (观想)

Guan = Observing

Xiang = Thinking

Original principle is towards MEDITATION ABILITY.

Sifu Explanation

• Many times I see joyful lotus in the joint I can already see the energy run inside my body
• When I see a flower blooming it is so light and delicate feeling and I love that kind of feeling
• Through look at flower can aware and imagine feeling into my body
• I have good sense of our body Taiji to do this.
• Also wisdom 4 areas:
  • Muscle – – functional muscle development,
  • Tendon – feel tendon stretching and open -Yi Jin Jing about that so not just motion
  • Duan Gu – Awareness feel bone – sometimes feel spine and neck stacked
  • Energy –
  • So I can join and mix them so my awareness can go higher. But awaken mean aware more.
  • Imagination and thinking is brain power (6 consciousness) switches off subconsciousness
•  So not imagining I can really feel whole joint area, muscle joint ligament, energy through there.
• Eventually subconscious train directly to intuition sense and feel it.

How to Read Philosophy Like Sifu

• Have to clean out normal human moody ego doubt, or whatever nonsense feeling – whatever not neutral. Whatever heavy.
• Read philosophy or sing mantra.
• How to do this? Not just read and inside say to yourself yeah I know the words of Heart Sutra or I can sing it well. Or immediately judge I like this ornot
• take so slow
• Feel intention of the consciousness who wrote it
• Why they wrote it, how they wrote it, why this word here, this idea first and last
• Philosophy power is fewest words possible, cover system, melody and meaning of life
• Feel the idea what kind of consciousness they are
• What kind of ability they have developed
• What have they become aware of?
• What stage of being are they?
• Why life have to be that way?
• Then feeling becomes real, awakening awareness in the present
• Laugh – touch the heart
• Awaken start with Ahhhhh! 🙂

Example:

• Observing Self Being aware of all these how he live

Summary

• United force of discipline of senses into no-I
• Now sense become pure and open

Guan Xiang and 3 Energy Training

• In Tai Chi, laser-line means straight spine.
• But there are 2 other lines on either side of the spine.
• In order to open 7 chakra, we need these 3 open.
• Guan Xiang needs reality to practice
• Because Real karma is action
• Otherwise it is like a seed not put in the dirt yet – only potential.
• Subconscious is like ART, intuition

Exercise – Practice observing your feeling and turn it into words

• One type of wisdom development to practice in Buddhist philosophy class
• Help you develop intelligence
• Practice describe your feelings, where it comes from
• Eventually
• As quick as possible to turn feeling into description is where Guan Xiang feeling came from
• Make feeling become language, make language become feeling
• So when read Buddhism philosophy that will help you.

Example Practising Guan Xiang

• I watched the video
• I enjoyed watching video (why?)
• Seeing a video, where a Buddha, made of stars, appeared behind the Alps, gave me a feeling of:
  • Amazing and impressed – to see that force in action
  • Wonder – because of the surprising non-human feeling, made me feel there is more to life.
  • Inspiring – Because that power exists then I can develop  it which made me feel inspired to keep training.
  • Humble – compare my ability to that being so my self-importance reduces in a good way.
  • Touched – the phrasing of the philosophy words