My life changed with three words eight months ago: “We found something”
And now, it’s changed again, with two words: “do it”
My master started learning qi gong when he was 19 in China. Learning about his 24 years of experience in the last 2 weeks has brought about innumerable, unexpected lessons - in only two weeks! One of my favorite parts about it is getting to learn a very little bit of Chinese. My master sometimes says that his English is not so good, but then we remember my Chinese is non-existent, and what I can say has such a thick American accent, it might as well be a different language altogether.
The fact is, when you speak from a place of love, you can do no wrong. You may not get what you want, but at least it will be out in the universe. Sometimes it hurts others initially, but if it really is coming from a place of love, it will be in service to the recipient and he or she will hear you and love you anyway (at some point - hopefully in this lifetime).
My master is always coming from a place of love. He exudes it in the way he walks, talks, listens, even the way he eats. When we first started our lessons together, I had a zillion questions I wanted to ask. I want to know the answer to everything, and then I want to talk about it, and then talk about it some more, so when Master told me to “do it, do it”. There wasn’t much room left for debate. You can’t counter or argue with “do it”. “Do it” isn’t “just begin doing the practice and you’ll start to see results and then you’ll understand”. Can you imagine how many opportunities for questions I see out of that lengthy, softened message of just f-ing (my addition) “do it?”
Master: “Keep center, focus”
me: “Just like that? stay centered and focused?”
Master - “do it”. Simple. Erase 30 years of programming and retrain your brain now… “do it”.
Me: “how do you become aware of qi in your lower dan tien?”
Master: “do it”.
Me: “how do I focus on the qi when I do roufu?”
Master: “do it”
I won't belabor the point any longer. When I first heard him say “do it” it struck me that if it were an American teacher fluent in English, I would have thought him to be mean or insensitive. For someone sensitive, such as myself, this is a testament to the beauty of love. I understood he was coming from a place of love, which transcends all languages. He was, in essence saying, “do it; because you already know how, because it is within you, because you’re not broken and you can do and create anything you choose.”
So what are you waiting for? As my master says, “do it”.
A note: My master is very wise at a ripe age of 43 and to teach in English, he has to interpret theory from it’s original form in Chinese where one word requires a paragraph in English to explain and he does it simply and effectively.