The Movements of the Heaven (3)

1 Yellow Emperor played his Xianchi movement in a wild and empty field. Beimen Cheng was charmed by the music.

2 After the performance, Beimen Cheng told Yellow Emperor, “In the beginning, I was horrified for the shocking notes. After a while, I felt relaxed, at ease. In the end of the performance; however, I was bewildered with your movement. My consciousness seems not to operate. I could not think and speak. I was shocked overall. What happened to me on earth?”

3 Yellow Emperor replied, “It is very normal for you to react as this. Don’t worry about it.”

4 Playing the movement of Xianchi is a musical way to arouse your Qi so as to make it more active in your body. The way is a rite in which a man of perfect practice uses his super power to enlighten the common people.

In fact, this movement has no fixed score. Its playing is in the light of different people. In considering of the background of the listener, the player arranges an unique notes and then it is played in terms of proper etiquette to arouse listener’s Qi, so that the listener restoring his natural ability of communication with the Nature.

6 After accomplishing this job, in the next movement, I try to communicate with the natural environment so as to make four seasons shift steadily, to make favorite weather and climate, and to give all things an appropriate environment generation after generation.

7 You look the Nature. Flowers bloom and wither; they prosper and wane. Peace and war shifts in human’s history, as do stability and turmoil in a country. Both the limpid and the muddy appear in rivers; prosperity and adversity shifts in life; Yin and Yang changes to each other too. Its goal is that all of them are done to the point.

8 Also, the pitch of music is played in fluctuation and cadence.

9 Your Qi hibernates in coccyx for long time. I arouse it by proper notes.

10 The Qi is a part of the Nature. It has no birth and death, existing forever. It is not like our flesh body that has birth and death and lingers in transmigration. The Qi is ‘ego’ in sutra and the flesh body is ‘non-ego’.

11 Common people only know the flesh body but they don’t know there is an ego of super power in non-ego. When I arouse your ‘ego’, you sense and find a stranger standing just before your face whom you know nothing about. Therefore, you are horrified.

12 Until you calm down and familiar with the Qi, my notes turn to lenitive and roam in the steps of Qi in your body. At this moment, the notes are moderate and stable; the long sound mixes with the short one; the hard sound mixes with the tender one. The changes are moderate and all to the point.

13 Your Qi operates in your body like this too. The Qi leads you to practice the slow and elegant poses of Yoga. Your body looks so tender and flexible. The Qi flows in each organ, filling it to full. It expels the old and waste things from the organs and replaces them with the healthy and vigorous ones.

14 Besides taking care of your non-ego, the Qi also benefits the ghost and god around you. The ghost and god enjoy the bliss of Qi in their shares.

15 Then my notes express plentiful achievements. They feel proud and satisfied with the accomplished work.

16 The ghost and god are comforted after absorbed these precious merits and virtues. They stay in deep valley to enjoy them in peace without going out to raise the devil.

17 The country is full of peace. The sun, the moon and the star run in their normal orbits, without disorder.

18 My music matches your Qi. They linger around between Heaven and Earth. You just sense the poses of Yoga but your consciousness can’t understand what it is on earth and why the actions come out. You can’t understand and see it, let alone seizing it. Then you sit like a Buddha, chanting Buddha’s slogan. Your accustomed consciousness now is invalidated.

19 You can’t think, see, and seize it, as if your body were vacated, nothing in it. All is so tranquil seems to be fast asleep.

20 In the utmost peaceful movement, I suddenly speed up the rhythm. The buoyancy and vivid notes represent the vigorous lives of Nature. My notes shuttles among the plentiful lives, which make your heart, teem with joy. However, you don’t flourish. You sit still with kind smile on face. The notes and Tao combine together to direct the operation of all things and make sure they are all on their tracks.

21 The notes themselves never try to be unique in idea and way to affect the operation of Nature, as does the Qi. According to its normal arrangement and operation in your body, it flows among birth, aging, illness and death, making them work smoothly. It is not the drawing power but the pushing power.

22 The activities that push lives are carried out in silence. It has no a certain blueprint and plan. The course of Yoga actions totally depends on your condition of body, objective change environment and inner operation of Qi in your body at that time.

23 When consciousness controls your body, the Qi recedes to its nether den. It is said that it died and vanished. Somebody said that it still is living, just in tentative silence.

24 Somebody said that it really exists while somebody said that it is vacant.

25 The different views can’t change its specialty that it flows like water and moves in transience.

26 Like a hermit in mountain, the Qi in body doesn’t come out without invitation and it doesn’t intervene in the worldly affairs. The Qi ignores people’s daily lives, letting consciousness dominates them.

27 Somebody experience it unconsciously so they feel skeptical. Thus they consulted sages about it; however, the so-called sages stand to sense and resign themselves to fate. Their explanation of the Qi is narrow because their Qi also dozes.

28 Though they all have five sense organs, they never have the experience that the real Qi wakes up and operates in their body. If you ask them about the Qi, it is like asking the way to the blind.

29 Come on, let me explain. The Qi in body is immortal. Now it just sojourns in our flesh body. It certainly expects that its living place be clear and comfortable. If the lease term is up or a place no longer is suitable to live, it will leave according to the natural arrangement. Under no conditions, it does intervene in the sovereign rights of the place. It however, can maintain and protect it when it lives there. It always tries its efforts to make the place joyful and warm.

來! 讓我告訴你。身體裡的氣是永生的，此時祂只是借用我們的肉身，暫時寄居在裡面，祂當然希望自己住的地方健康、清爽、乾淨; 可是萬一到了非遷移不可的時候，祂也不會勉強自己，繼續呆下去的。對屋子主權的事，氣從不干涉，但是在祂居住的期間祂會好好地維護，善盡保護，使住所充滿歡樂及溫暖; 在這方面，氣始終是會盡力的。

30 He who has a good communication with the Qi is silent all days; however, under the guidance of Qi his body and heart become tranquil, sound and peaceful and even his fate is so. In terms of music, the Qi is called Heaven Music.

31 On Heaven Music, You Yanshi had a proper ode: “Listen to it but hear no sound, watch it but see no form. It fills Heaven and Earth, and covers every part of them.”

32 The coda of Xianchi Movement is a soundless music. You heard no sound so you were bewildered.

33 The beginning of my Xianchi Movement was shocking. It knocked and waked the hibernated Qi. It brought an unprecedented experience to you. Therefore, you were afraid of going into devil way with god or ghost imposed on your bodies, which might bring disasters to you.

34 You come to understand that the Qi is an inherent and necessary condition. It doesn’t hurt but benefit you.

35 When you were intoxicated with its caress and slipped into sleep, you found that the music disappears. You couldn’t find it everywhere. You were afraid of losing it so you were all out to watch, listen to and touch it. However nothing was gained. So you felt puzzled.

36 Though you couldn’t see, hear and seize it, you clearly felt that it operated in your body and led you to the actions of Yoga you had never done before. So you knew that it is apart from consciousness.

37 To the Qi, consciousness is shallow and immature. Its realm covers no knowledge of the Qi, so we can’t understand it. However, what does it matter? We don’t know why our hair grows when we eat something; why our belly becomes fat when we eat more. We don’t know the true reasons.

38 We don’t know why we need sleep but we regain our vigor after sleep. We don’t know the true reasons why sleep helps to regain vigor but what does it matter? It is right that we go to sleep when we are tired and sleepy.

39 We know that practicing kundalini Yoga industriously endows us with good sight and listening, strong body and abundant vigor. Thus we keep practicing. Why not? Just do it.

40 In the realm of consciousness, we are totally foolish, as far as understanding Qi is concerned. We don’t flatter ourselves to change or invent the movements of Yoga.

41 In practicing Zen and sitting in meditation, we acknowledge that we are foolish and ignorant. We resort totally to the Qi to direct any slight action instead of using consciousness. If we could do it, we step further to Tao. Only if we resort totally to the Qi in Yoga, practicing Zen and sitting in meditation, would we bear a good fruit.”