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2 Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation Intermediate Meditation 5 Part 3
2 Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation Intermediate Meditation 5 Part 3
2 Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation Intermediate Meditation 5 Part 3
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MODULE 8
Circle Walking and
Taoist Meditation:
Meditation 5, Part 3
(Intermediates)
BRUCE FRANTZIS
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Table of Contents
What Is the
Seventh Energy Body?
The seventh energy body is called the "Body of Individuality:' This difficult-to-
describe energetic quality cannot be understood purely through metaphor, but
rather must be consciously experienced. The process of discovering your essence
is a radically new concept for virtually all human beings.
When found, the answer will have nothing to do with the normal way most
perceive or define themselves such as: I am a man/woman, rich/poor,
intelligent/stupid, etc. The core of your spiritual individuality is different.
Your personal spiritual essence goes beyond any of the life changes you have
experienced, whether or not they have left a fixated residue inside you of any
kind.
• Anything you have done, has been done to you or you have
wanted to do.
• The sum total of all events, relationships and people you have
met during this or any other life.
You seek to uncover how you are capable of independent action yet, like that
which never changes, you are capable of staying seamlessly connected to and
complete within the whole.
Each piece will require you to go through at least the five phases of walking
meditation methods presented in this text and, most likely, quite a bit more. At
a minimum, you must lose your resistance to change in your fourth to seventh
energy bodies (mental, psychic, causal and essence) and stabilize the awareness
of that which is changeless within yourself.
Just as the course of life always changes, so does the content of your awareness,
which is also ever-changing. The awareness of awareness itself does not change.
The awareness of that which is beyond change, to honestly express itself, must
always be stable and fluidly interacting in a unified awareness with the interplay
of all that does and does not change simultaneously.
As your practice matures, both change and that which is changeless will always
be effortlessly present at once-neither distracting from the other and smoothly
co-emerging and co-existing in your relaxed awareness.
2. Change as you like until you clearly bring your chi down strongly into your
lower tantien.
5. If you so choose, when you finish walking and without missing a beat, sit
down. Wipe the sweat of your face and continue your meditation sitting.
Beginning from the crown of your head, dissolve downward (using Inner
Dissolving, if possible for you).