The Ocean of Unity Consciousness
I would like to discuss Figure 20-2 by again referring to Wilber's No Boundary. I have added three elements to his original figure. These are the Microcosmic Orbit method, the Macrocosmic Orbit method and the Transcendental level in qigong.'''' The persona is a facet a face adjusted to a society while the shadow refers to a hidden desire. When the two are separated by a boundary, they struggle regularly. Then various symptoms and inconveniences occur which are treated with counseling and...
Vibration of Mind Energy
The idea of a location's having memory may sound strange to you, but it is important to consider that a place may be deeply influenced by the deeds of people who lived there in the past or who live there today. Apparently, modern science has no room for this kind of thinking, and of course intuitive investigations of this sort does not allow for the kind of replicability or measurability of results that would make them acceptable to modern science. In Psychics and Mysteries, written by Collin...
How to Make Your Wishes Come True
I mentioned previously that physical qigong exercise was necessary to increase the volume of qi. This is true, but only to a certain level, until you master the Microcosmic Orbit method and the early stage of the Macrocosmic Orbit method. At later stages, the main emphasis is on mental training. I learned this by teaching medical doctors and business executives in qigong seminars. I opened their Chakras when I thought they were ready to practice on a higher level, so that they could learn what...
The Macrocosmic Ring
When you have mastered the Macrocosmic Orbit method, and all your Chakras are open, you will be able to sense the quality of qi. At that point you will no longer be exhausted when you release qi. Many people have experienced this change, and it is a replicable result of mastering the Macrocosmic Orbit method. Replicability and verification are important elements in proving any scientific theory, including the Macrocosmic Orbit method. It is necessary, however, to know objectively whether or not...
Message from a Psychic Performance
Toshihide Hisamura, whom I introduced as a psychic in the preceding chapter, gives concrete form to Inomata's theory. His performance is, one might say, the tangible expression of Inomata's theory. Hisamura has highly developed psychic abilities. He has at his disposal extraordinary paranormal abilities and he demonstrates his powers easily and without exhaustion. As I mentioned before, he can make objects float, bend spoons by throwing them into the air, change a spoon into a fork merely by...
What Is the A Nerve
Japanese pharmacologist Kosuke Oki has written extensively about the relationship between brain activity and stimulation received though the soles of the feet The activity of the A-10 nerve is worth noting, particularly in connection to healthy brain functioning and learning ability. The reason for this is that human creativity occurs at times of the A-10 nerve's overactivity. Creativity evolves by means of the A-10 nerve, through an excess of awareness and pleasurable sensations. Creativity...
Develop Your Own Paranormal Abilities
Since ancient times and in every part of the world, people with paranormal abilities far beyond the bounds of the ordinary have appeared, and today their teachings can be found everywhere. But what practitioners and martial artists need to know are not teachings so much as practical methods and techniques. In formulating my method, I have attached great weight to practical, rather than strictly philosophical or religious, concerns. In doing so, I have brought to bear my years of experience as a...
Mystic Verse The Mantra
Since the brain is protected by the thick cranium, the only way to stimulate it directly is through sound. But just how can this be done Kukai recited the mantra wholeheartedly in a cave. The cave would then have provided a high level of reverberation. The humming sound caused by this reverberation would have streamed into Kukai's brain. So, for the Grace of the Three Mysteries, you must visualize an object that is beyond yourself and keep sending sound from the oral cavity to the deep center...
Inomatas Theory
No one has yet succeeded in measuring qi energy on a strictly physical level. But qfs effect on human beings can be confirmed with the Reflection of Qi Muscle Power test or the breathing method. These methods are now effective and replicable. Qi training includes the Reflection of Qi Muscle Power test, hand-dowsing, and radiesthesia using pendulums. Releasing qi energy refers to training in the Macrocosmic Orbit method. However, the basic theory that would explain the phenomena of qi from a...
Space Is Full of Consciousness
Shuji Inomata, M.D., chief researcher of the Electric Technical Research Institute and president of the Japan Consciousness Engineering Organization, reports on qi from the viewpoint of New Age Science. He maintains that qi spirals clockwise. His basic proposition is Consciousness mind and mass matter do not reciprocate directly. But when consciousness controls the current of physical time, positive and negative Shadow Energy flow in. There are two kinds of Shadow Energy yin and yang. These are...
The Abdominal Breathing Method
If you are like most people, you are probably unaware of the extent to which the way you inhale and exhale affects your energy level. But breathing has long been considered essential to the exercises of the East. For instance, Yoga teachings include many different ways of breathing. One is Bhastrika, known in English as breathing of fire, whose aim is to stimulate the fundamental Kundalini energy. Likewise, Zen has its technique of Su Soku Kan Japanese meditating while counting the number of...
Wisdom of the Ancients
Kukai pronounced Koo-kai , the great Japanese qi master, lived about twelve hundred years ago. When he was fifty-seven years old, he wrote Treatise on the Ten Stages of the Development of Mind in response to a command by Emperor Junna reigned 823-833 , that the heads of all the sects in the land write and submit a description of their teachings. In this work, Kukai set forth all the basic principles of esoteric Shingon teaching. Some scholars have viewed the work as a thinly veiled effort to...
Shamanistic Healing
In this chapter I will explain how the qigong method is rooted firmly in the field of medicine. Early medicine included shamanistic elements that functioned like prayers to comfort and heal the sick. Cultural anthropologists have studied this and reported that even today modern medicine is not the only type of medicine which is used in tribal societies. The works of Carlos Casta eda and Lynn Andrews, for instance, note that the shaman is referred to as a medicine man, and of his or her having...
The Self Reflection of Qi Muscle Power Test
The Reflection of Qi Muscle Power test can also be performed alone. I discovered this possibility quite by accident. One day, a tester was about to perform the test on me, and I noticed a change in the strength of my fingers even before he touched my hands. When you master the following Self Reflection of Qi Muscle Power test, you can ascertain whether an object has positive or negative qi energy. 1. Form a ring with the thumb and the index finger of your right hand, and apply strength to it....
Straightening Your Spine
We human beings usually suffer from the gradual curving of our backbones, from the time we first begin walking upright, partly because our heads are so heavy relative to the rest of our bodies. The curvature of our backbones tends to damage the autonomic nerve system that branches out from the spine, and to cause various diseases. For example, patients with whiplash injury are likely to suffer for a long time from cervical pain, eye strain, buzzing in the ears, sensations of a stuffed nose or...
Positive and Negative Qi and Breathing
If at some time you are unable to do hand-dowsing because an object cannot be touched, try the following steps. Make qi balls between your fingers and on the Lao-Gong acupuncture point. Bring all the balls together to form a single qi ball. Bring all the balls together to form a single qi ball. Figure 8-2 Effects of positive and negative qi. Figure 8-2 Effects of positive and negative qi. 1. Relax and breathe normally several times, paying particular attention to your inhalation. 2. Become...
A Qi Tool You Can Make Yourself
Do you find it difficult, despite your regular practice of the Microcos-mic Orbit method, to make a qi ball Quite often, people ask me to recommend some effective and inexpensive supportive tool to help them succeed in this basic exercise. That was why I invented the Vital Ball. It's easy and inexpensive to make, and it releases qi of quite high quality. It stands up in comparison to many of the better supportive tools now on the market. If you have not succeeded in sensing qi yet, try this...
Womens Qi Flows in the Opposite Direction
One day while I was meditating, an idea about the qi flow of women flashed into my mind. I suddenly intuited that the direction of women's qi flow is opposite that of men. After mastering the Microcosmic Orbit method, I had begun teaching patients and students to use the qigong method I developed to let their qi flow smoothly. I found that men achieved satisfactory results, but that women did not. I was not helping to make qi flow more smoothly in women. So I followed my intuition and helped...
Making a Qi Ball
Perhaps the most important and basic element in the practice of qigong is your own experience of sensing qi. Even if you are able to impress others with the most spectacular movements when you perform qigong exercises, if you were unable to comprehend qi yourself, this would not actually qualify as qigong. This is probably the single biggest difference between qigong and the martial arts or other exercises such as gymnastics. The quickest way to learn how to sense qi involves learning to make a...
LaoTzu and Nothingness
As we near the end of our discussion of qigong, it seems appropriate to return to Lao-Tzu. While Confucius discussed mainly rules governing people's behavior in society, Lao-Tzu threw light upon the laws of the universe and the nature of all living creatures. The concept of Tao has always fascinated people. Tao gave birth to the One the One gave birth successively to two things, three things, up to ten thousand. These ten thousand creatures cannot turn their backs to the shade without having...
What Is the Cosmic Headband
As was mentioned earlier, qi flow is affected by the direction of any applied magnetic or ultrasound stimulation. The Reflection of Qi Muscle Power test has proved this to be the case. Based on this new concept of the meridians, I invented the Cosmic Headband as a device intended to facilitate mastery of the Microcosmic Orbit method Figure 4-1 . The badge should be centered over the forehead. The band should be centered over the top of the head. The badge should be centered over the forehead....
OM Qigong
Esoteric Buddhism is a complete and essential system of human evolution, and the Grace of the Three Mysteries is an effective method for focusing and sharpening brain functioning. The more you realize how powerful is the effect of the Grace of the Three Mysteries, the more you begin to want to learn and master the technique. It is possible to train independently, using techniques from esoteric Buddhism such as mudras, mantras, and meditation on the Buddha. But I was reluctant to try to...
The Three Mysteries as Qi Training
When we analyze the Grace of the Three Mysteries from the perspective of brain physiology, its powerful function is clear and reasonable. The brain can eliminate worldly thoughts when we simultaneously activate the motor center, of our fingers, the auditory and speech centers, the visual input center, and the ability to visualize clearly. At this stage the voluntary parts of the brain are almost completely occupied, and there is no room for worldly thoughts to enter. I think that the Grace of...
Washing Negative Qi Away
In the world of qi, human beings are still in the primitive stage, like babies who often stumble and fall when they start to walk. As you continue to practice qigong, you may see psychological and physical changes. As long as you are practicing the Microcosmic Orbit method properly, no particular change will occur. But when you begin to realize that you are communicating with the qi of the universe, you will start to change. Don't be afraid of this change, because it is a form of evolution. You...
What Is Standing Zen
In 1975, when I was a student and practicing Karate every day, qigong was still completely unknown in Japan. I was eager to improve in my martial arts ability and I spent a good deal of time each day reading books and trying all kinds of new techniques. I realized that mental training was necessary as well, so I was also studying Yoga and the mysteries of esoteric Buddhism. Then I read a book by Ken'ichi Sawai about a Chinese martial art that supposedly allowed people to maintain their physical...
Mastering the Macrocosmic Orbit Method
Mastering the Microcosmic Orbit method was for me the first step in beginning to sense and control qi. The next step was to master the Macrocosmic Orbit method, and so I spent a good deal of time and effort attempting to absorb external qi from nature. I remember the very moment that I succeeded. I had a strong feeling of qi on the crown of my head. I felt as if something was rising through my head with a pulsing sensation. Since then I have been able to sense external qi and to allow qi to...
LaoTzu and Ken Wilber
When Ken Wilber was a junior at Duke University, he happened to read Tao Te Cbing by Lao-Tzu, and his world view began to change fundamentally. The Way that can be told of is not an Unvarying Way The names that can be named are not unvarying names. It was from the Nameless that Heaven and Earth sprang The named is but the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures, each after its kind. These are the opening lines of Tao Te Ching. After Wilber read this book, he went on to read all kinds of...
Making a Qi Ball Through Your Arms
Make a qi ball that produces a tingling, or electric, sensation between your palms. Breathe in the qi from the qi ball from your left arm at the same time as you inhale. Visualize the qi ball moving through your left arm and into your right arm as you inhale, and you will experience qi sensations moving from your forearm to your elbow, and on to your shoulder Figure 3-1 . When your ability becomes more advanced, you will only need to inhale once to bring the qi ball through your left arm up to...
Changing the Taste of Food with the Qi Ball
Now you may want to try convincing others of the reality of qi. You can show them how the taste of food changes, for a demonstration of the use of qi at a physical level. When you make a qi ball in keeping with the principles of the Microcosmic Orbit method, you can change the taste of whiskey, wine, cigarettes, or anything that has a strong aroma or flavor. Experiment using your favorite drink. First, make a concentrated qi ball in your palms your aim will then be to fill the glass with qi....
Experience It Yourself
When you utter OM, the vowel sound resonates in the head, stimulating the brain. This is a method of concentrating the mind. Kukai discusses the mystery of speech in his Shoji jisso-gi The Meanings of Sound, Word and Reality . His thoughts can be summarized in this way All things revealed in the universe have sound that is, vibration. The vibration of a mantra is deep, universal, and basic. By reciting a mantra, you can resonate in synch with other existences and can can come to know the true...
Opening the Microcosmic Orbit
When you have learned to circulate a qi ball from your hands through your entire body, you are ready to try the Microcosmic Orbit method. Classical qi books ask you to gather qi in the lower Dan-Tian and let it flow around your body Figures 3-2 and 3-3 . But it takes too much time to gather qi there, and this fact discourages most people from learning the Microcosmic Orbit method. The method I have developed is actually a lot easier than the classic method. Make a qi ball between your palms....
The Heart Sutra of Kukai
Master Zhao Guang has said, The origin of qi is Nothingness. Nothingness is the only origin of reality that cannot be proven. In Buddhism, it is called Emptiness. I have always been concerned with finding practical methods and techniques. Since I am a long-time practitioner of qi, armchair philosophy on Nothingness or Emptiness has never satisfied me. In my research, I have investigated techniques, trying to find a level at which technique would give way to something more. And yet I also did...
The Whole Body as Chakra
OM qigong can also be used for the Microcosmic or Macrocosmic Orbit methods. To use OM qigong with the Microcosmic Orbit method, absorb qi from the top of the head Bai-Hui and circulate it along Ren-Mai and Du-Mai while uttering a pronounced ah . The direction in which to circulate it will depend on whether your qi flows in the male or female direction. Then say the rest of the vowels in the same way. To use it with the Macrocosmic Orbit method, absorb qi from Bai-Hui, allowing every cell in...
Dowsing
The principles involved in dowsing are not totally clear, but dowsing is now recognized as a replicable procedure. Dowsing is a method of catching vibrations with radiesthesia, using a tool such as the pendulum or the L-rod. During the course of my own work with dowsing, I learned that a pendulm or an L-rod magnifies minute movements of or subtle changes in the muscles. If you have an opportunity to try this procedure, use a pendulum with a fixed fulcrum or an L-rod with the handgrips fixed....
Judging Qi Direction
The flow of water as the second basic element in feng shui can be thought of as the same as the underground water which forms a part of the mountain ranges. The concept of the spiral is basic when it comes to reading qi flow. Qi rises from earth. Qi descends from space. Direction is the third element in feng shui. Feng shui masters judge the qi of the earth with a compass measuring device called Le-Jing Figure 18-3 , combined with the five natural elements, eight signs of divination, twelve...
Standing Zen as Qigong
Why does Standing Zen a standing position in which the waist is held low have such a great effect, despite being initially painful Standing Zen is not easy at first. Your thighs and your knees will hurt. Your arms may begin to feel like iron weights after a while, your abdomen or your back may start hurting at well. Many parts of your body will ache, and you will be inclined to stop sooner rather than later. But remember, even though it may seem like a constant struggle, in fact your...
How to Use the Cosmic Headband
Now you are walking through the unseen world of qi. You may sometimes wonder if the path you are on is the right one. Or you might feel uneasy because you are not sure where the path is leading. These worries are natural. But they are also stumbling-blocks that can impede your progress. Figure 4-2 gives you an overview of how you can determine your qi ability. In the visible world, you often know precisely where you stand. For instance, if you are a martial artist, a free fight will tell you...
Does External Qi Diminish When It Is Released
Qigong can be divided into two schools one concentrates on one's own health and the other on healing other people by releasing qi energy, or external qi. I of course tend to focus on the healing potential of qi. But a well-known teacher of the first school, Master Jiao Guo-Rui, advocates the qigong method solely as a means of promoting one's own increased vitality. While this master avoids making any particular statements about releasing external qi, he seemed, when I attended at lecture he...
Questions and Answers
I would now like to address some questions I have been asked by readers of my books and articles and by people who are using my video to practice qigong. Question I have been practicing the Microcosmic Orbit method to straighten and strengthen my back. Now I hear that men and women's qi flows in opposite directions but that some men's qi flows in the female direction, and some women's flows in the male. I am a man, and I have been practicing the Microcosmic Orbit method assuming that my qi...
Spoon Bending
You may have seen performances by people on television demonstrating their ability to bend spoons with the power of the mind alone, or you may have read about it. Why not try it yourself But be aware that you will need stronger powers of visualization to bend a spoon than you needed to change the taste of food. Using the Microcosmic Orbit method, gather qi energy at an acupuncture point Shan-Zhong, Jiu-Wei, or Qi-Hai. Alternatively, you can use the Macrocosmic Orbit method, if you have mastered...
Qi and Antiques
For people who have a well-developed sense of qi, an antique exhibition can be an interesting place to spend some time. Once I visited an antique show displaying all kinds of items from around the world. As soon as I entered the room, I felt that the air was thick and whirling with a mixture of positive and negative qi. Obviously, every item was radiating its own qi, and the combination was making the atmosphere very strange. I told the dealer that I could judge if an item was real or fake,...
Purifying a Site with Esoteric Buddhism
One of my friends has been practicing qigong for several years. He now has mastered the Macrocosmic Orbit method and is able to use external qi. When he decided to look for the piece of land on which to build a house, he first succeeded in finding a location with positive qi. A real estate agent then introduced him to a different piece of land, however, saying that it would be very convenient to school and shopping. But the second location somehow turned out to have negative qi, and the agent...
The Technique for Reaching Emptiness
According to Kukai's Hannya shigyo biken, training to gain wisdom leads to the gate for samadhi. The word samadhi is actually central to my method of qigong training, because it is key to understanding Emptiness. What is samadhi The Yoga Sutra speaks of eight limbs. These are restraint, observation, postures, regulation of the breath, drawing the senses inward for calming the mind, concentration, meditation, and superconsciousness. The last three are the sammaya inner limbs . The sammaya is a...
Past Life Therapy
In this chapter, in order to consider freedom, and especially inner freedom, I will explain the steps in the process of developing greater consciousness, as conceived by Joel L. Whitton, M.D, and by Kukai 774-835 , founder of Shingon Buddhism, an esoteric sect that became one of the major schools in Japan. Whitton has studied past life therapy for more than twenty years, and first introduced his hypnotic investigations of previous lives in his book Life Between Life Scientific Explorations into...
Kukais Experience
When Kukai was twenty-four years old, he wrote of his experience in his first work Sango-shiiki Indications of the Goals of the Three Teachings , in which he described the energy of sound and qi, and that of vision and qi. Let me quote from his description At eighteen I entered the college in the capital and studied diligently. Meanwhile a Buddhist monk showed me a scripture called Kokuzo gumonji no ho. It stated that if one recites the mantra one million times according to the proper method,...
Developing the Imagination
You do not need to believe in the existence of gods or the Buddha to practice the qigong method. Qigong as I describe and advocate it is based on physical and spiritual techniques from the martial arts, the medical arts, esoteric Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism but with any doctrinal elements removed. However, if you have studied Buddhism, you may understand the progress you make toward achieving the essence of qi in Buddhist terms or imagery. This may happen with Buddhism, or with any of...
The FingerCounting Method
Your ability to visualize will surely improve with this next exercise, the secret of which lies in your fingers. Known as the finger-counting method, it is one of the techniques of the Grace of the Three Mysteries more specifically, the first step Figure 23-1 . Toyoji Komura, a specialist in Japanese religion and Buddhism and an expert on pendulums, taught me a method for rapidly improving the ability to concentrate, which I then rearranged for my qigong method. This will not only improve the...
Endorphins and Qigong
You will notice that you begin to feel a pleasant sensation at a certain point in your practice of Standing Zen. I have experienced an amazing feeling of uplift on the last day of a tough Karate training camp after I practiced Standing Zen, despite being completely exhausted before. I was amazed at how much power I found that I still had. But the sensations that I derived from Standing Zen were qualitatively different than the simple uplift that I experienced in the Karate training camp. In...
Transcendent Qigong
The AMI machine is capable of measuring meridians electrically. I invented this machine to prove that external qi is not diminished by being released. Yet I still also hoped to find a master who would say that our external qi is not diminished when we release qi. Meanwhile I continued my own training and research, in an effort to improve my own external qi ability. In autumn 1989 I was in Peking to attend the first international Qigong Science Council. My presentation was titled The Different...