Thursday, September 26, 2024

Can people be healed by Jesus? I am asked.

I agree with your insight that "everything is light" since physics has confirmed this - the article "Light is Heavy" by Nobel physicist Gerard 't Hooft and Martin van der Mark. There is a caveat to this that I will explain though. I do believe in spiritual master healers like Chunyi Lin http://springforestqigong.com and so it makes sense that there were spiritual master healers - probably more so back around the time that Jesus was said to be alive. Similarly to Pythagoras - and Buddha and Krishna - I agree with Ramana Maharshi that God can not be seen, as he explained to Poonjaji. 
Poonjaji used to play with the God Avatars but then Poonjaji traveled around India asking the masters to show him God. Poonjaji then saw Ramana Maharshi as a bilocated yang shen - just like Padre Pio would bilocate. I even asked Chunyi Lin if he had ever achieved the "yang shen" - and he said people had seen him walking around outside his house when he was meditating in China. But in the case of Poonjaji when he bilocated six different bodies on his birthday - he was not consciously aware that he did this! 
Mahayana Buddhism insists a spiritual master needs to be consciously aware as wisdom or prajna of their spiritual abilities but Advaita Vedanta insists that ONLY the Shakti or formless awareness does the healing and not any individual master. In contrast Mahayana Buddhism insists that if a master does not empty out their body as the rainbow body then at death the spiritual ego will not maintain awareness - and so the spiritual master's ego will not survive death since the body will be too sick. In other words the "yin qi" and yang qi blockages will still exist thereby blocking the Yuan Shen or original spirit from emptying out the ego of the Yang Shen back into the Yuan Qi or cosmic original qi - the united yin-yang as Shakti or formless awareness.
So when we read "Measuring Meditation" - the tome by Bill Bodri based on his studies of Master Nan, Huai-chin - he claims that when Ramana Maharshi's body got sick then the spiritual connection to God or Brahman was lost. The irony of Vedic philosophy is that it is based on this symmetric logic as taught in the West with God defined as "I Am that I Am" and so the I-I is said to resonate from the right side of the heart in Advaita - from beyond death - this force of the ether. In Buddhism this is called "emptying out the 7th level of consciousness" or the spiritual ego but it is still not the achievement of "emptying out the 8th level of consciousness" (which includes the first five levels of the body consciousness).
Sorry to be so long-winded about this but I guess in terms of Vichara or self-enquiry then no belief is necessary but rather just a fanatical logical fixation on the source of the I-thought that Ramana Maharshi says goes beyond all astral realms and perceptions. So only the formless awareness or Absolute Void aka the Yuan Qi that can not be seen is both the goal and the process of the practice
The irony is that once the spiritual ego is emptied out after death via the right-side of the heart - what Ramana Maharshi calls "eternal liberation" then any pain of the body is also emptied out with each thought and breath. So in this case Ramana Maharshi insisted if anyone was not healed around him that just meant the person's individual karma was not ready to receive the grace of the formless awareness - and nothing to do with his individual power.
In terms of Taoist Yoga, the spiritual ego as the "yang shen" is the golden immortal body but it can not be mature until the physical body is vaporized back into the Yuan Qi - otherwise the spirit in the body still has "yin qi" blockages manifesting as red light in the yang shen (golden immortal body). 
And also once the physical body is completely vaporized back into Yuan Qi then only the Yuan Qi alone decides if the Yang Shen immortal golden body manifests as new matter to heal someone else. Someone like qigong master Chunyi Lin explained in class one day, in 2001, that he had seen falling flowers in his recent meditation. The "falling flowers" is the sign of creating the golden immortal seed but it does not mean the golden immortal seed is mature yet. In fact at the stage of the "falling flowers" if you do not go off on your own to meditate in a pure place then it's called "keeping vigil over a dead body" because you lose that ability of creating the golden immortal body.
This is absolute voidness which is not empty. When snow
appears to dance in space while flowers fall in disorder from the sky,
this is the time for (the spirit) to come out of the foetus. If (the spirit)
does not emerge at this stage it is called ‘keeping vigil over a dead
body’.
p. 162
So we know from Near Death Experiences that people from different religious backgrounds see their own version of their own spiritual masters - in Hinduism this is called "Ishwara" and it is considered a projection of someone's spiritual ego. Meaning if you study Patanjali or Vivekananda they explain that the more advanced you get in your meditation yoga training the more you identify with your Ishwara - whomever that might be. 
In the case of Poonjaji he said he was an advanced yogi in his previous life and so he would "play" with Avatars as a youth - and then he saw Ramana Maharshi. Yet Ramana Maharshi taught Poonjaji that the Ishwara level was still not the final level and only the formless awareness remains.
The Westerner makes the error though of seeing the formless awareness as a static spatial realm. As Ramana Maharshi explains, "people want to see the Self as Light but it is not light." I had that disagreement with our Hard Times friend Arian - and so even though all matter is made of light there is still a deeper level that Ramana Maharshi calls "Mouna" or Silence Samadhi. In Taoism this is called "concentrated thought" as silence or Ting.
With the fire of positive spirit [yang shen] in the head, the
practiser should concentrate on it in silence so that the fire above will
descend and the fire below will soar up; and that the five vitalities will
converge in the head and break through the cavity of spirit (between
and behind the eyes) to reach the source (of the nervous system, pai
hui) from which the positive spirit [yang shen] will manifest. The brain will then be
like a pond full of golden nectar with silvery ripples....
  If it is not concentrated it will scatter, and he will miss a
rare chance for the light will not reappear.
So I consider any spiritual master with the golden immortal body like Babaji or Sri Yukteswar to be a projection of someone's own spiritual ego. Chunyi Lin said when he was meditating in the cave then he was visited by many spiritual masters - and in fact Lao Tzu physically appeared to touch Chunyi Lin's head. Yet if we study the scholarship from China the evidence is strong that "Lao Tzu" meaning "old man" never existed as an actual person.
So I think even in the midst of someone having the great spiritual perceptions and powers they are still deluded by their spiritual ego. I agree with Ramana Maharshi about this. On the other hand I think the Yuan Qi as unified yin-yang or what Ramana Maharshi called the "Undifferentiated Triad" is a process occurring as the truth of all matter - meaning the body can indeed be emptied out into pure Shakti or Yuan qi.
For this same reason Chunyi Lin emphasizes that anything can be a spiritual master for anything - they can have that rare experience of some kind of spiritual breakthrough for any kind of interaction. Nevertheless there is a method to the madness - and the specific yoga training in the Taoist Yoga book is a very specific training - just as the traditional training manual for the Brahmin priests required no eye contact with females or else three days of purification rituals was required. Ramana Maharshi refused to talk to even his own mom when he did his constant nine years of meditation before he finally achieved his "eternal liberation" of fifteen minutes of his heart stopping - and the formless awareness taking over.
Yet Western followers of Ramana Maharshi like David Godman insist that Ramana Maharshi never had to do that strict meditation training - rather when Ramana Maharshi had his first Nirvikalpa Samadhi experience at age 16 then that was the end of his training and nothing more was required. I completely disagree with this view and I think it's completely disrespectful of the ancient yoga training tradition. Can we achieve similar results now? Poonjaji said our modern world is too polluted to achieve the high level of spiritual powers now from yoga.
So can people be healed by praying to Jesus? I'm sure it happens yet to receive the grace of God is a reflection of the purification of the person asking for the healing. There is a holographic resonance to the energy healing. I would say most of the Christian healing is fake because as Poonjaji said the West lacks yoga. Whether Jesus physically existed is something we can never rule out similarly with Buddha and Krishna and Pythagoras and Lao Tzu. Yet patriarchal religion is based on a lot of lies - including in Buddhism as well.

2 comments:

  1. Dear Drew,

    Given our modern polluted world, how would you eat if you focused on practicing Taoist Yoga in your apartment? I'm aware of the concept of avoiding grains(bigu) in Daoism, and you've mentioned the fish and banana eating habits of people in the Amazon. Much like your university days, I find myself at a Swedish University right now and wish to do as much Neidan as possible, starting with Taoist Yoga. However, the diet choices here are narrow because of the prohibitive prices of most things, especially the good/nutritious things. Fish is surprisingly expensive, so are nuts and bananas. The only affordable type of meat are the cheapest type of eggs that are not free range, and some discounts of chicken breast/drumlegs. Sunflower seeds are affordable. Chia seeds are not. I am trying to come up with a diet that is affordable as a student and supports my practice, while avoiding grains. I also did a lot of bodybuilding over the past 3 years, so I'd like to not lose too much mass on the diet. What would you suggest based on your current knowledge? How can we eat in a way that supports Neidan, in our polluted world with inflated market prices?

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  2. thanks for the comment and question on a Neidan diet. Qigong master chunyi Lin apparently eats just one meal a day and then fasts one day a week. But qigong master Jim Nance told me that he has seen Chunyi "really pack it in" for food. So I'm guess Chunyi Lin's eating practice varies although he is now vegan - no dairy and no animal products. Chunyi said he slowly transitioned - so I think he was eating fish for a while. But then for intensive meditation a person needs to do "bigu" or fasting as "energy feasting."
    So first of all you want to make sure your colon is cleared out for proper meditation - so that's why eastern monks do not eat after noon. I also know Chunyi likes to soak beans for a bean soup - and that is an affordable meal obviously. Lentils and rice or beans and rice could be your mainstay for protein sources.
    Still diet is a personal choice and I really can't advise a diet for you. There are many factors involved. I know that qigong master Wang, liping prefers to eat raw tofu - and dofu or tofu is also a good source of lecithin (same as with eggs).

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