Zen

[Tim]

Today was a very special day, a special day of Zen training and like many other courses Sigung has taught recently they are hard to convey in words to do them justice. Perhaps they need no justice but a clear account for others to read and say 'ahh, now I understand better, that's a course I would like to do next time'.

This was one of those courses!

On the drive home from London Mark and I sat mostly in silence, not because we had nothing to say but because nothing needed to be said, the course left us feeling very happy, nothing undone or left to do, spiritually fulfilled.

We tried to recount the day and it occurred to us that the secret of Zen had been answered in an excellent question by one of the students (sorry I do not remember your name right now), the question was why was practicing lifting the sky today so different from lifting the sky in the Cosmic Shower course, the answer Sigung gave was profound...

'That was a Cosmic shower course, this is a Zen course'.

And there was the answer right there. We can practice Lifting the Sky today and the intention is A. Tomorrow we practice and the intention is B. Intention A produces A result. B produces B result.

If the intention or thought is Merge with the Cosmos then in a Zen state of mind we Merge with the Cosmos.

It struck me that it is the same with Kung Fu: If I want my strike to hit with force it hits with force, if I want to flow I flow. This is why we have to be careful with our thoughts, they forge our reality.

It was simple, direct and efficient.

Thank you Sigung for the teaching, Fleur for organizing and Martin for the venue.

Best wishes

Tim

[Mark CH]

Tim Siheng, thank you for that brilliant post. Something just clicked when I read this, I can't say what clicked and maybe nothing needs to be said.

Best wishes
Mark

[Mark A]

Brilliant

Hey Tim,
Thank you for the post. It really resonates with me. My apologies to for everyone for not making it.


Mark

[Tim]

You are both welcome.

Something else Sigung said resonated well 'imagine you are like a tv set, once that set has been configured you can switch it to channel 1 and watch sport, switch to channel 2 and it is a drama and switch to 3 it is a concert. Once you are configured you do not need to find the channels, you are tuned in already, all you need to do is switch'.

Receiving the Sigungs broadcast though is more like having a 3D High def receiver, it is clearer and much more real.

Best wishes

Tim

[Matthew]

Zen

Siheng Tim,

Thanks for the post and great to meet you on the course. It may have been me that asked the question, and as always Sigung's answer was simple, direct and effective.

Another analogy came to me since the course. As someone that works with computers I thought that the configuration mentioned is like the installation of a program onto a computer. Before it's installed you can't access it, or use it to get the results you desire. However, once installed (and "configured"), you can load the program and use it to achieve the results you desire. It struck me that with any program, there may be basic users or power users, and power users (experienced users or masters) can do wonderful things with the capabilities of the program - with practice and developed skill. However, it's the same program. With our Chi Kung/Zen practice we can become power users by practicing diligently and developing the skills Sigung has kindly and generously transmitted.

I would also like to thank Sigung for teaching such a wonderful course, Fleur for organising and Martin for the venue. It was also great to meet many more of my Shaolin brothers and sisters and socialise in such fabulous surroundings.

Best wishes,
Matt

[gusty]

Thank you

Thank you all, you conveyed much....Warmly Gusty

[Paul Jolley]

So grateful

What an amazing course! It has done wonders for my health, I feel so privileged to have been there to participate. I think we are really blessed to receive these high level teachings.

Tim Sihing, it was nice to meet you and have a chat over lunch at the 'Bench Table'. I definitely agree that after the course I felt spiritually fulfilled.

Thank you Sifu

[Tim]

It was good to meet you to Paul, I especially enjoyed our mutual fondness to pudding (and food in general).

Best wishes

Tim

[Molly]

Receiving the Sigungs broadcast though is more like having a 3D High def receiver, it is clearer and much more real.

This put a huge smile on my face when I read it. Thanks Siheng Tim for the great account.

Molly

[Joel]

Zen Experience

Dear all,

I can only agree that this was a truly special course and one that I had the great privilege and blessing to be a part of.

For me personally a large part of this course was about clearing blockages, mental, emotional and more - so I must apologise that I wasn't quite my usual happy smiley self. Of course there were the wow moments - it is impossible to describe the incredible energy in the room when the entire class sat in meditation, it was not hard to believe Sifu when he said at one point;

"....actually we are already in heaven."

One of the beautiful things about this course was that if you can imagine having spent a lifetime finding all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle - this put them all together for me.

To try and illustrate this, at one point in the course we were invited to use a zen state of mind for solving a problem. Unlike many of my brothers and sisters who had the problem that they didn't have any problems - and so made one up, I had quite a few So I chose one the most pressing one. My partner and I had to move out of our current home and find a new place. There were a number of different options - each with various advantages and drawbacks making the decision making a little tricky. Anyway following Sifu's guidance I 'entered' this problem whilst sitting in silence awaiting the solution.

Many described how quickly they received answers and some in the form of images - which Sifu said could be events from the past or future. I had no obvious answer but I saw an image of a river... appear from the carpet - or what was formerly the carpet( I practised my meditation with a soft gaze, as I didn't hear an instruction to close the eyes) The image impacted on me enough to think that we should consider looking at one of the places we had been considering (York - which has 3 rivers meeting together).

So on the monday on returning from London we stopped off at York and visited some estate agents - but nothing felt quite right. The next morning I put the technique into practice again and entered the same problem. I then went downstairs and started to discuss this and the course in general with Parveen - I remembered that my phone battery had died on the way home from London so I switched it on...

...There was a message from my manager at work saying that he was moving house and thought we might be interested in moving into his old place - and guess what its right by a river! Even with such an obvious answer I found myself starting to intellectualise and consider possibilities - thankfully Parveen halted them - maybe it was my mini 'Sword of Manjusri' experience Anyway I was made of aware of how much energy I use on wandering thoughts and not being direct. She suggested I stop pondering and arrange a viewing - no sooner had that intention been set - my phone began to ring - it was my manager. To cut the story short we're now moving into the house in a month - quite literally everything fell into place.

Now how is this completing the jigsaw? Well I've had stark echoes and glimpses of this before and an understanding of phenomenal and transcendental realities. But this takes those pieces and puts them exactly where they belong.

There is so much more I could talk about but will have to leave it for now.

It was so lovely to be around Wahnam family again, those of you who have regular classes and can share each others company are truly blessed. It was uplifting and inspiring to be around you and share time after the course on the river Thames and enjoy some food (somewhere near Big Ben).

A special thanks to Sije Fleur and of course Sifu.

To all my other brothers and sisters it was a pleasure to be with you at the course and I look forward to seeing you again soon.

Best wishes

Joel

[Chiahua]

Sihing Joel, that was quite a story! As someone who may be on a house hunt I will have to remember your experience. I like Sifu's description "entering the problem". I just started a job that requires programming, and being a novice I find it difficult to devise elegant solutions. Maybe that's because I spend alot of energy "thinking around" the problem and not "entering it".

Thank you for sharing your experience,
Chia-Hua

[MaxP]

A Sublime Course

Dear All,

I feel very lucky to have attended this course. The skills imparted to us were and are extraordinary. It is like literally having the ability to communicate with the divine.

Some of the chi flows and expansive experiences I have had as a result of this course can only be described as exquisite. And the means Sigung has so generously given us to achieve these results are so simple, direct, effective, and profound.

I hope that everyone is enjoying their Zen practice, and can see more clearly now with their 3-D Hi Def reception.

Many, many thanks to everyone who helped to organize this course, with extra gratitude to Auntie Fleur for giving me the honour of assisting with the reception and the filming, and for preparing us for these high level teachings in her wonderful weekly classes.

Namo Da Bei Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa


Max

[Kevin_B]

An evening for the ages

Dear Shaolin Family,

Sigung’s Zen course in London last week was astonishing in its profundity, mesmerising in its beauty and amazing in its simplicity. Reflecting on it now, it could almost be the story of a wonderful dream: a journey to a garden of rich beauty (Regent’s Park) to receive profound and sacred teachings from a spiritual master whose magnificence shines like the radiance of the sun. It was an evening for the ages…

All the Chi Kung I have done with Sigung and my Sifu previous to last Thursday had as their principle objective the generation of an energy flow in the body. For this course the objective was different: to develop an enhanced state of mental clarity in our minds and use it for effective problem solving.

Problem solving in this course took the form of offering simple, direct and effective advice to the person sitting next to us after they had articulated a problem from their personal lives. Before the first of the three Mental Clarity Chi Kung exercises taught by Sigung on the night, some of the people paired together shared their problem and advice with the class. As the evening progressed more people offered their stories. It was truly astonishing at how our ability to perceive and analyse each piece of advice grew as we achieved a much greater and deeper state of mental clarity from Sigung’s continuous high-level transmission (which seemed to spike like a mountain during the Chi Kung exercises themselves).

The skills that I and everyone else gained from this course are mind blowing. Mental clarity is a fundamental life skill. Some of the biggest mistakes I have made resulted from a lack of it. Yes, mental clarity is of course a very welcome benefit of our Energy Flow Chi Kung exercises, but this course was like a super master class in developing it. Even already I can feel that it has enhanced my understanding of the people around me and the situations in which I find myself. My perception of life itself has changed. Somehow I am more sensitive to the all the Chi around and within me. Over the coming months as this new deeper awareness flourishes I know I will be able to think, move and act with greater clarity and greater awareness enhancing absolutely everything I do. How very blessed we are in Shaolin Wahnam!

I would like to offer my sincere thanks to Sikujie Fleur and Sisook Robin for making this wonderful course happen. Thank you both very much.

I would also like to offer my sincere thanks to Sigung for yet another truly life-changing experience. Sigung, from the heart, THANK YOU.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.

Best wishes to all the Shaolin Family (and especially those lucky enough to be in Brighton this week),

Kevin

[Mark CH]

Wonderful Kevin thank you for sharing.

Best wishes
Mark