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