BAGUA MASTERY PROGRAM

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MODULE 7
Circle Walking and
Taoist Meditation:
Meditation 5, Parts 1-2
{Intermediates)
BRUCE FRANTZIS
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Table of Contents
Meditation 5, Parts 1-2:
Spirit and What Does Not Change
(Intermediates} 5
Overview ..................................................................... 5
Part 1: Activate the Spirit ......................................... 6
Part 2: Changelessness Coexists
with Everything ......................................................... 6
Meditation 5, Parts 1-2:
Spirit and What Does Not
Change (Intermediates)
Overview
In Meditation 4, you worked with inertia and the ability not to become frozen in
the face of change-especially releasing the resistance to negative changes.
In Meditation 5, as you Walk the Circle and change direction, you will begin to
move into spirit, which can allow your awareness to go beyond your physical
body.
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Part 1: Activate the Spirit
1. As you twist and turn and move this way and that, let a very deep psychic
part of your mind that the Taoists call"spirit" move past your physical body.
This movement will go down toward the core of the earth and above
you, toward the heavens and stars. For a moment, forget your rational
intellect and simply focus on and feel within the psychic depths of yourself
whatever it is that you encounter. Simply be aware of what's there. As you
release your resistance to your psychic energy body emerging, your spirit
can begin to soar.
2. As your mind and spirit move away from your body-either down into the
earth or up toward the heavens-let the movement catalyze a sense of
moving deeper and deeper inside yourself, into the core of your being. See
if you can simultaneously get a sense of moving outward toward the stars.
In never-ending cycles, the movement drives your awareness deeper into
the deepest inner spaces inside yourself.
3. Again and again, you get a natural opportunity to start confronting the
basic nature of your spirit, wherein the awareness of that which never
changes exists, that which is always constant, that which neither can be
created nor destroyed, that which has neither a beginning nor an end, that
which can be called by no name, nor seen, felt or heard.
Part 2: Changelessness Coexists
with Everything
Your task is to allow your awareness to recognize and effortlessly rest and live
with this nameless entity, that which simultaneously resides inside and outside
yourself-and in everything you can and can't perceive.
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1. Let your mind begin to settle into perceiving what doesn't change. Then,
yet again, anytime your mind does notwantto settle into this, CHANGE the
direction of your circle. Continuously release the resistance to psychically
finding your spirit, as you move into this change again and again and
again-even if only after two to three steps.
2. Next, release a different resistance, the resistance between what does and
does not change. Begin to recognize this paradox while moving between
that which is always present and what allows you to move into the current
change in which you are involved. So no matter what is going on, whatever
you can see or feel in your body, mind or spirit, look for what changes and
what pervades it.
Through all the changes of direction as you Walk the Circle,
intuitively look for ways to internally explore and recognize
how to encounter the infinite number of potential variables
and qualities within your spirit. Although there are many
specific methods and techniques for finding out about the
spirit, ultimately as you repetitively recognize and release
your resistance, what is there will naturally emerge of its
own accord-without applied effort or special knowledge.
However, always return to and maintain a constant awareness
of that which does not change. Slowly but surely, you will be
able to stay present and aware of the changeless.
3. Your practice is to look inside and become continuously aware of that
which never changes, while concurrently recognizing, dealing with and
resolving the internal content of all which does change. Make free and fluid
the fixated changes that you individually must go through and resolve.
Eventually, you can simultaneously and effortlessly be comfortable with
that which changes and that which does not.
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