[WAG] How is everyone?

[clif at eugeneweb.com]

Hi Isac,

On the very very slim chance that you don't have Teacher Hu's addresss 
allready here is one of them:  	hu at damo-qigong.net

 	More later,
 	Clif

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Isaac Freeman wrote:

> Hey guys, haven't seen any emails from the group these days so I thought I'd
> throw one out there and see how everyone is.
>
> Here's my dub:
>
> My practise is as challenging as usual, although I have gained some serious
> insight into my life in the last few years.
>
> Thanks Jesse for the phone call with the thoughts on bringing practise into
> the active part of my life it is helping shift quite a bit of stuff in my
> life.
>
> Somehow out of my practise I have managed to develop a kind of a Yoga, It
> seems to stem from the void. Or what I've been reading is actually the Wu Ji
> stemming from the Dao.
> I'm not really sure how it happened, but one day I just started moving
> during meditation and I know now the state of emptiness that brings the
> movements.
> I seem to be able to inately know how my body is suppose to move to engender
> the flexibility of the muscles, into the tendons and even moving ligiments.
>
> Tapping the Wu Ji also seems to have brought on another interesting thing.
>
> One day when the nine year old kid live with told me his stomach was hurting
> really bad, I felt ready to help him. I'm not sure how to explain it but I
> rubbed my hands together and felt a sort of tingling in my hands and so I
> thought, well why not try to help the kid.  Quentin seemed very at ease with
> the idea of me trying to heal him this way, so I continued. I put my mind in
> the same void space that brings on the Yoga except I focused on love for
> Quenton with the intention to heal him. Sure enough my hands moved around
> his little body about half a foot above the surface.  I reconized the
> movements only slightly after the fact something like a bit of channell
> dredging and then some heat to clear the stagnation, and suddenly he looked
> up and said "Can you come play on the trampoline with me now?". I said
> "sure" and then he asked me how the treatment could work so fast.  I told
> him that it was only our love for each other that made it possible. I don't
> remember thinking about that answer it just happened. He asked me another
> time to treat him again another day and I went through what seemed like a
> complete Medical QiGong treatment all tapped from the wuji  and none
> consiously provided.  I remember most of it but in the end he was fast
> asleep. He didn't have asma problems for several weeks after that and he
> seemed to be healed of his stomach issues for at least the same duration.
> His outrageously unbalanced diet brought back the symptoms eventually but we
> have had a very strong connection to each other since and I think in time he
> will learn to eat well.
>
> Through all of this, I still cannot practise in a balanced fashion, nor do I
> know the gentleness required to engender the proper cultivation of any of
> these skills, but perhaps Emi will help teach me gentleness somehow.  She
> has visited me twice in Canada now and has plans to move to Canada to live
> with me.
>
> So here I am the man who had thrown down the meaninglessness of being a
> swinging bachelor and decided to be a single Monk, now in somehow what seems
> like a betrothal to a very skillful Japanese woman. Yes my friends I think
> for the first time in many years I have again decided to love. I believe my
> practise has taught me this in many ways as well.
>
> BTW Does anyone have Teacher Hu's email address still?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>