Memorizing His Image. Listening to and Memorizing Our Parents)
We need to practice visualizing our master and memorizing his image. Also, we need to listen to and memorize the image of our parents and be willing to be open to all these
connections and origins. We should seek to see our true selves and brighten our Heart (mind), especially three days before and during the Chinese New Year.
If you practice Yin Xian Fa, Zhi Neng Gong, Tai Yi Jin Hua Zhong Zhi or San Xian Gong or if your Qi and Shen are strong, you can practice these visualizations at any time. The exercises that follow may eliminate Karma and train the Ling (soul) to communicate with others.
Training to visualize our Master and memorize his image and also in listening to and memorizing our parents is training that exercises the mind. It requires discipline. If a would-be practitioner has a history of mental illness, this training may need to be approached with great caution.
1. Listening to and Memorizing Our Parents
Find a quiet place. Close your eyes and close your lips lightly. Your teeth should touch each other as the tip of tongue
touches the soft palate behind your upper front teeth. Sit with legs crossed on the floor and place your palms on your knees. If you have pain, sit on a chair.
Regulate your breathing with long and even respirations. Let your Shen expands outward and think about how much space you have in the practice area. What is the shape of space?
Where you are sitting? Are any people around? Slowly reverse your Shen to your inner self. Exercise the pores
breathing. Inhale and contract your body's pores and feel your body becoming smaller. Exhale and expand your pores and sense that your body grows larger. This concentrated Yi in the natural universe and Shen in the inner universe is for
communicating between the body's inner universe and universe of nature.
When your pores are moving, the edge of your internal
universe is connecting the external universe of nature. Reverse your vision to inward and listen to your inner sound. Relax anci empty the body; feel the pores moving and
communicating outward with nature.
Concentrate and visualize one of your parents. See him or her as young, middle-aged or elderly. Your parent may still be alive or may have passed away. Let your parent's image pass in front of your eye brows and memorize him or her. Ask for first name and last name. Be peaceful and quiet as you think about your parent for awhile. Complete his (or her) image in as much detail as you can. Think about what you learned from your parent during this practice. You may experience emotions such as anger as you communicate with them. Your origin and background influence what you experience. In this moment, you need to decide what is right or wrong. No matter what has happened, we can appreciate that our parent's gave us life and cared for us. When you see your parents in a different space, try to unite with them in a single space. Let the parental image into your Lower Dantian and use our Shen and Yang Qi to care for it.
2. Visualizing Our Master and Memorizing His Image Find a quiet place and close your eyes. Your lips are lightly closed. Your teeth are touching each other with the tip of
tongue on the soft palate and behind the front teeth. Sit with legs crossed on the floor and place your palms on your knees. Make your breaths long and even. Let your Shen expand outwards and think about how much space you have. What shape is your space while you are practicing? Are any people around in this area? Slowly reverse your Shen inward.
Exercise the pores breathing. Inhale and contract all the pores in your body; feel smaller. Exhale and expand the pores; feel bigger. This is concentrated Yi in the natural universe and Shen in the inner self for communicating between your body's universe and the natural universe.
As your pores move, they connect the universe of your body to the universe of nature. Reverse your vision from outward to inward and listen to your inner sound. Relax and empty the body. Feel only the pores moving.
Concentrate and visualize one of your Masters, someone such as Lao Zi, Lu, Dongbin or Buddha. Or see a scene from nature environment, a star, a tree, or an animal... and find the Master you would like to practice on. With humility visualize your Master and let the Master's space match your space until the Master's image and his light appear. Communicate with and listen to him. What can you learn from him? Does his method suit you? Answers to questions. What will be showing is depend on your own origin and background. You establish you are the designer, no matter what that you are the controller. Bring the Master's image and light inward to the Lower Dantian, and use Shen and Yang Qi to give attention to it.