Neigong Spiritual Work

Neigong (Inner Spiritual Work).
Spiritual Ignorance: On the Earth, our sense of self is predominantly based on our body, whether in the sense of brain activity producing thinking, hormone activity producing emotions or muscular activity producing movement. The body has appetites. We are driven to supply it with air, water, food, warmth, security and sex. An effective life provides it with a supply of these things without absorbing all our time and energy. Appetites are not the trouble. However the ego, operating through the superficial consciousness, identifies itself with the body, then becomes attached to its appetites, creating desires over and above the body's basic needs. Because the ego includes a component from the 3 Minds, this attachment enslaves the 3 Minds to a degree which grows over a lifetime if no effort is made to counter it. Then at death the Deep Mind Intelligence may be unable to disentangle the 3 Minds from the body's energy field and ego, so choose to abandon them leaving the person to suffer the fate of a 'remainer'. This internal confusion or ignorance is the main factor preventing awareness of our real Self. It is the usual human condition and few people escape it. As a result, people dedicate their whole lives to food, sex and money, social standing, or intellectual pursuits, depending on their dominant brain, only after death realising their terrible mistake.

Spiritual Freedom: The most practical, useful and direct approach to the spiritual path is first to see the identification with the body and the consequent attachment to its appetites, then to begin to struggle against the identification with self-suggestion (e.g. mantras or affirmations) and against the attachment by gradually freeing the thoughts and feelings from the needs and demands of the body. If this first step is not made truly, then the ego will quietly subvert later spiritual efforts and direct them back to the body. Looking for special states of mind, intoxicating emotions or energy powers are the usual indications of this happening. Drugs, harsh physical treatment, intense emotional situations and unusual sexual procedures along with attempts to strengthen everyday awareness (superficial mind) are often the methods used. Religions, sects and secret societies where people dress in special clothes, chant in exotic languages, claim secret knowledge, perform ceremonial initiations, seek visions or look for power based on contact with spirits (jinns), are all based on the body. While these may form a satisfactory crutch or temporary support for unbalanced people, stable personalities should look for something deeper if they wish to attain true spiritual freedom.


Daily Energy Cultivation

8 Paths - by Master Chao Pi Chen: Basic body energy is based in the perineum between the legs, rising during refinement to the abdomen (Lower Dantien). This energy circulates in a network of 8 special channels. Follow the paths with the Mind visualising a stream of golden light, while listening to the resulting body sensations.
1. Inhale; lift energy up the spine from its base to the centre of the head.
2. Exhale; sink energy down the front of the body and return it to its base.
3. Inhale; up the lower-back, dividing at the belt then up to both shoulders.
4. Exhale; down the outer arms, along the middle fingers to the palms.
5. Inhale; lift energy up the inner arms to each side of the chest.
6. Exhale; down across the nipples, join at the waist and return to its base.
7. Inhale; lift energy up in the centre of the trunk to the solar plexus.
8. Exhale; drop it via the base, front of the legs and middle toes, to the soles.
9. Inhale; raise energy via rear of the legs and base to fill the abdomen.
10. Exhale; return the energy to its base, completing one round of 5 breaths.

Sharing the Light
The Personal Energy Field is centred in the area between the solar-plexus and the breastbone (Middle Dantien) rising, during the process of refinement, from the Lower Dantien.

Take 3 deep breaths. Each inhale lift the light from the abdomen to the solar plexus, and each exhale expand and intensify a cloud of golden light around the body. From the cloud of golden light centred on the solar plexus - intensified and harmonised by the 8 Paths - send the light to those you choose to help.

Inner Teacher
The Energy rises further during the process of refinement, from the solar plexus to the area of the pituitary gland in the centre of the head (Upper Dantien).

Inhale deeply lift the light from the solar plexus to the centre of the head, then exhale to expand and intensify a cloud of golden light around the head. With the intention of contacting your inner teacher (Guide), intensify the light taking the Mind deeper until the body and breath are lost in the light. Visualise a figure within the light and ask any question you may have, then rest quietly and listen for the response. Withdraw with thanks and return to the golden light centred in the head.

Breathe in deeply, then with a long out breath, return the light to its centre in the Middle Dantien.

Lost in the Light
Breathe deeply, each out breathe expand and intensify the cloud of golden light around the body, taking the Mind deeper until the Mind is lost in the light. Then forget the breathing, gradually allowing the Mind to drift deeper while maintaining awareness of the light. Then recapture the sensations of the body within the light: warmth and fullness at every point; the beating heart and resulting pulse that radiates out; the ringing inside the head that is always present when the Mind is silent. Rest in this strongly aware state: I am a field of light, warmth and awareness with a body inside it.

5 Clouds - Based on the exercise from Master Ni Hua Ching:
1. Centre the Mind in the cloud of golden light in the solar plexus. Each out breath, intensify and expand the light taking the Mind deeper until the body and breath are lost in the light.
2. Allow the cloud to drift up to cover the lungs where it becomes white like the clouds. With each out breath, intensify and expand the light as the Mind goes deeper.
3. The cloud moves down to cover the lower abdomen and turns a deep blue like the ocean. With each out breath, intensify and expand the light as the Mind goes deeper.
4. The cloud moves to the region of the liver on the right side of the body and becomes a deep green like the forest. Intensify and expand the light as the Mind goes deeper.
5. Let the cloud float across to surround the heart and turns deep red like a ruby. With each out breath, intensify and expand the light as the Mind goes deeper.
After one or more cycles, return the cloud to the solar plexus and rest in the golden light.

Self-hypnosis:
First say a small prayer to direct the effects towards your Soul. Take 3 deep breaths, then say mentally "Go to sleep 'name'" (Use your own name). "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better". (Repeat 3 times). Count down to 7 to go deeper. Then silently "I'm going to make 'name' passive, the body obedient, and destroy the ego" (Repeat 3 times). Some 'current particular suggestion', e.g. affirmation or psychological mantra (Repeat 3 times). Then remain silent with Deep Mind awareness. Finish with the suggestion "In the next session when I say "Go to sleep 'name'" I will sink quickly to a deep level. I am about to wake up feeling refreshed and relaxed in body, Mind and Soul. 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Wake up 'name'".