Wing Chun Journal: "The Awakening"
Thank you for the warm welcomes Keith P. Myers. I look forward to participating in future posts and also enjoy reading many of your interesting subjects related to Wing Chun Kung Fu. While on the topic of the previous post regarding "Chi Gung" from Gary Collins, I would also like to share with the forum members an article I wrote many years ago regarding me and my Sifu's Chi Gung experience:
"The Awakening" as experienced by Grandmaster Sifu Garrett Gee
~written by the perspective of private disciple Billy Lau
(Based on a TRUE Story)
Today I would like to share with all my Hung Fa Yi Kung Fu brothers and sisters from around the world on a topic that's significantly mysterious and yet the depths of exploring such research and inspirations can take an entire lifetime of practice and engagement with oneself and still not be able to attain success. This in particular is "The Awakening" of our Mind, Body and Soul. Why this topic, one may ask, as I'm sure we all at one point or another have read upon endless claims wheather through our religion, passed on experiences from our forefathers, or yet researched on the subject of "The Awakening" of our mind, body, and soul from somewhere. How does this relate to Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun? How does this relate to my Kung Fu practice? Why is this important? Read the entire article and you will find out why this is very important.
I would like to first start with a real life experience that I've not shared with anyone other than my immediate family, close fellow friends in my high school years such as Si Hing Ricky Chu and his Uncle just to name a few. As some of you know that I'm a spiritual Tibetan Buddhist Cultivator. Why do I continue so strongly in my belief's and withstanding all obsticles that occur beforth me and continue to practice Buddhist Cultivations for more than 17 years and continue so faithfully is because of one single experience that occurred. This experience has changed my life religiously forever. This brings me back to my 18th birthday when I was first brought into the Purple Lotus Society Temple. For the first time I followed the fellow dharma sisters, dharma brothers and monks and did my first Repentance Cultivation.. During this ceramonial practice, I opened up my heart and really repent all of the wrong doings of my past and ask for forgiveness. As the ceremony lead on to the meditation practice, I closed my eyes and recited the repentance mantra (short version) "Om Bet Ja Sa Do Ah Hum Pe". And the miracle started, my body started to move on it's own, slowly in a counter clockwise position. As I concentrated and focused on repenting all of my wrongdoings and ask for forgiveness and keep reciting the mantra, the spinning motion started to escalate, now not only did I feel a vibrasive constant spinning counter clockwise movement, but as I for the first time in my life witnessed and realized that I don't just have one pulse from my heartbeat. My entire body started pulsating, every micro nano-cell of my body started to pulsate like a heartbeat. My hands, fingers, arms, legs, facial cells, nerve endings from all over my body, billions of them all started to pulsate as this spinning movement continued to escalate more vividly and intensely as if I felt like my soul was going to burst out of my forehead. This feeling felt like a coiling chain of all my cells together. I have never experienced this before and as exciting and as frightened as I was, my mind triggered a thought, I said to myself at this moment in my head, "WOW, SPIN SOMEMORE, SPIN SOMEMORE", and the pulsating and spinning motion ended. What triggered this experience? Is it a sign or a message from a higher spiritual element that gave my body this experience? Is it the Awakening of my mind body and soul through repentance? Nonetheless I wanted more answers to how this came about. For the next 17 years I'm still cultivating and searching for ways how to replicate this awakening experience. In buddhism this is called "Tong Jong Muk" utilizing Hae, Muk, and Ming Dim to awaken our body through the 3 major Chakras. In Daoism they call it the 3 Dan Tin's. Is this "The Awakening" of ones mind, body and soul only attainable through religion such as Buddhist cultivations or through Daoist practices? I assert you not, as I have not shared this story with Sifu Master Garrett Gee in any shape or form, what was presented to me was astoundingly shocking. Please read on.
Today Tuesday, Dec. 15th 2009, 7:00a.m. I continued my normal Wu Tang Bak Kua Dragon Style broadsword training under the guidance of Grandmaster Sifu Garrett Gee. Before we started the training, Sifu Gee presented to me an unusual experience that he witnessed while practicing his Kung Fu training. Sifu Gee mentioned that recently he went back to training a few students in the areas of Tai Chi Chuan and maybe due to Sifu Gee's excessive tendon, muscle and bone training through Kung Fu, he experienced for the first time the opening of the "TIN Cheurng" (Heavenly Window) which is located near the forhead area of the body. Sifu Gee continued elaborating on this experience as he emphasized the details describing it as like a coiling chain pulling him on the bottom similar to a Spiral DNA chain causing a reaction at the top such like that of the opening of the "Tin Cheurng" (heavenly window). As the spiral formation pulls at the bottom, it tightens every muscle in his body through this coiling chain causing his bodily frequency to ignite a counter clockwise spinning motion. As the spinning motion grew stronger, every muscle fiber in his body sent out a pulsating frequency. This continuous spinning counter clockwise motion, tightens up his muslces and is of a Tornado like formation. Sifu Gee mentioned he can feel every one of his tissues in the deeper areas of his muscle fibers all chained up and connected. This experience intensifies as the spinning motion continues to tighten his muscles and as it pulls at the bottom, he felt his top like a window pop open. Then the window closed up again. For what was shared to me was invaluable information. Could what Grandmaster Sifu Garrett Gee experience be "The Awakening" of the mind, body and soul through Kung Fu practice?
When Sifu Garrett Gee shared this experience with me, I had not told him my experience yet and I was in utter shock. Much to my surprise after listening, I had to share my real life experience of when I had an awakening bodily experience as a young boy to Sifu Gee. What totally amazed me was the details that Grandmaster Sifu Garrett Gee mentioned was in fact very similar to the experience I had when i did my first repentance mantra cultivation. In fact, these two separate experiences are like identical in nature except I experienced a lighter version of it since I did not open the heavenly "Window", however, all the details Sifu Gee mentioned such as the counter clockwise bodily spinning, the tighting of the muscles through the coiling chain pulling, the pulsating frequency effect, etc, was all too familiar. It is not for me to analyze wheather or not this is the so called "The Awakening" of our mind, body and soul. However I can conclude that not only can you reach this state of experience of Awakening the mind, body and soul through religious means of Buddhist Cultivation or Dao practice, but it is also attainable with the mastery of rigorous internal Kung Fu training through tendon, muscle and bone training or even Chi Gong.
I hope I have enlightened you today to continue and train hard on your Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kung Fu training and practices.
Billy Lau