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Direct moxibustion

Prof Ilchi Lee writes many of the informative content for his lover these lines are extract from his efforts. With direct moxibustion, the mugwort is burned on the surface of the skin. If allowed to burn out completely, the process may leave a small mark or blister. Although both methods are effective, direct moxibustion seems to bring the most immediate results.

The sensation of indirect moxibustion is much more subtle, delivering gentle warmth in the region to which it is applied. Direct moxibustion, on the other hand, delivers a more powerful surge of energy through the meridian channel, and therefore the effects are felt more readily. Additionally, direct moxibustion is very simple and economical, requiring only an inexpensive box of dried mugwort and some incense.

INDIRECT MOXIBUSTION WITH GINGER

1. Slice a 1/5-inch-thick piece of fresh ginger. Punch numerous holes in it and place it over a point.

2. Roll the mugwort or “moxa” into a cone shape approximately the size of a grapefruit seed or bigger.

3. Place this cone on top of the ginger slice.

4. Light it with incense and leave the moxa cone in place until it burns out.

5. Repeat this four more times on the same spot. As you repeat the procedure, you do not need to replace the ginger slice.

Performing Moxibustion

Here is another informative articles by Prof Ilchi Lee about moxibustion. There are several methods of performing moxibustion—directly on to the skin, using a barrier, or in conjunction with acupuncture needles, to name a few.

Moxibustion can be categorized as either “direct” or “indirect.” In both cases, an herb, usually dried mugwort, is burned on or near an acupressure point relating to a particular symptom.

With the indirect method, the flame does not make contact with the skin. The mugwort may be rolled into a densely packed cylinder, or a “moxa stick.” The stick is then lit and held briefly a few millimeters above the acupressure point.

Moxibustion can also be used in conjunction with acupuncture needles, in which case a tuft of mugwort is put on the needle and burned.

You can purchase moxa sticks in Oriental medical clinics or Chinese herbal stores and use them very easily. Licensed acupuncturists usually practice moxibustion in conjunction with needles.

A third indirect method is to burn the mugwort with a barrier between the mugwort and the skin. The barrier can be any non-reactive material, even something organic, such as a thin slice of ginger, garlic, or salt, which may add natural medicinal benefits.

A fourth indirect method is lighting a larger piece of mugwort and then snuffing it out with a damp cloth or picking it oft with tweezers when it gets too hot and the heat is close to the skin.

BACK TO YOUR BREATH AND BODY

Brain educator Prof Ilchi Lee said that it is easy to understand the system of meridians and acupressure points if you imagine the body as representing land. The meridians would be the main roads while the acupressure points are the bus stops. Just as goods and merchandise are transported across a highway system, our body can supply energy to the organs and different parts of the body through meridians. If energy flows well through the meridians, it is distributed evenly throughout the body, helping the body and brain to maintain their optimal conditions.

Our body consists of twelve main meridians and eight secondary meridians. The twelve main meridians are each associated with a principle internal organ and are named accordingly. These twelve meridians run on both sides, symmetrically on either side of the body. Energy flows constantly through them.

Meridian exercises are designed to open the meridian system of the body, and to balance the energy of their associated organs. Meridian exercises combine proper breathing with stretching movements. When breath is combined with body movement, metabolism can be influenced more effectively.

While there are hundreds of meridian exercises, as an HT tool this book will introduce several fundamental ones for maintaining our health. Whole Body Patting, Toe Tapping, Intestinal Exercises, and Abdominal Clapping are ideal for your morning and evening routine. I believe that consistent practice of meridian exercises can help maintain our health in the optimal state.

WHOLE BODY PATTING

This exercise consists of patting the body to help circulation, open blockages, and release stagnant energy throughout the whole body. By patting, cells are strengthened as they are stimulated and acupressure points are opened. All age groups can do this exercise. It is a very effective method for general health. Pat the body gently and comfortably to achieve the desired results. You can concentrate better if you allow your eyes to follow your movements.

1.    Stand with your legs shoulder-width apart. Form your fingers into stiff claws and lightly tap all over your head and face.

2.    Stretch out your left arm with your palm facing up. Take your right hand and starting from the left shoulder, pat rhythmically downward all the way to the left hand.

3.    Then turn your left hand over and with your right hand,pat your way back up to the left shoulder again.

4.    Repeat step 2 and step 3 with the opposite hand.

5.    Pat your chest with both hands.

6.    Starting from your chest, pat your ribs, abdomen, and sides.

7.    With both hands, pat the area just below the right ribcage where your liver is located and concentrate on radiating positive, clear energy to the liver.

8.    With both hands, tap the area just below the left rib cage where your stomach is located and concentrate on radiating positive, clear energy to your stomach.

9.    Bend over slightly from the waist, and pat the area on your lower back (on both sides) where your kidneys are located and move up, tapping as far as your hands can reach. Then tap your way down to your buttocks.

10.    Starting from your buttocks, pat your way down the back of your legs to your ankles.

11.    From the ankles, start patting your way up the front of your legs until you reach your thighs.

12.    From your upper thighs, pat your way down the outsides of your legs to your ankles.

13.    From the ankles, pat your way up the insides of your legs to your upper thighs.

14.    Finish up by striking your lower abdomen about twenty times. This exercise is most effective when done with the legs shoulder-width apart with the knees slightly bent.side, tapping the big toes together and the pinky toes on the floor. Keep your heels together throughout the exercise. Begin with one hundred times and increase to five hundred times.

What Is Ki, Anyway

These lines are copied from famous Prof Ilchi Lee’s book. Ki exists everywhere. Ki is light, sound, and vibration. Ki does not exist solely inside a conceptual fence defined by terms such as yin, yang, or the Five Elements, as in traditional Chinese medicine. Ki exists beyond theories and beyond philosophy. Ki is the life that enjoys absolute freedom and cannot be confined by anything; it is the flow of life itself. Ki is the sea that cannot be caught by a net. Ki may become an object, phenomenon, or life. Coming together and drifting apart in an endless flow, Ki is the medium of expression of all phenomena of life. Not only the objects that surround us, but you and I are all temporary phenomena expressed by a coming together of the Ki flow that will soon dissipate and be on its way again.

Although we live immersed in this grand flow of Ki, as long as our sensitivity is not awake, we are not aware of the flow and do not sense the vibration of everything around us. Only when energy forms a solid object, thereby entering into the realm of the five senses, can we recognize it. Then we start naming everything, left and right, eventually imprisoning ourselves in names of our own making.

Strictly speaking, these seemingly solid objects are but temporary phenomena of a tightly packed energy flow, which makes all physical and tangible experience a Ki energy experience. Therefore, awakening your Ki senses is like expanding the tuning range on a radio to hear stations not normally heard, to include a range not covered by the five senses. Everybody is sensitive to Ki energy; how much and with what quality depends on the width of the “tuning range” and the sensitivity of your “antennae.”

Humans have to change in a fundamental way

SUN does not indicate the birth of another organization, for our civilization will not change just because a new organization is registered, board members appointed, and by-laws adopted. Humans have to change in a fundamental way, or nothing will hap­pen. Our social values must change, our attitude toward life must change, and the basic nature of our desires and ambitions must change, from outer to inner, from external to internal, from win­ning to perfecting. Therefore, SUN, when it becomes a reality, will represent a new value system, a new character, and a new way of life for a New Human.

Ilchi Lee is founder of Dahn Yoga, he said, If only 1 percent of the Earth’s population will choose to live in the future and choose to undergo a personal civilization shift, then Earth’s destiny will change. Considering that most studies indicate that Earth’s population will reach ten billion in the near future, 100 million New Humans, 100 million Earth-Humans, 100 million strong healers of society and the world, can pioneer a shift in civi­lization, combining their strength focusing their power of enlight­ened vision on the SUN to effect a true change and kick the door to the future wide open. This is the future I envision in ten years. Now is the time to make the choice. You have to make the choice, for no one else will. The start of a new civilization begins with you.

However, the future is not always guaranteed to be always wide open. Our choices today may open up the future, but they can also close it. The reason we exist today is because our forefathers had the wisdom to make choices that left the door to the future open for us. The future is, therefore, not a right but a responsibility. We don’t have the right to close down the future; we have only the responsibility to keep it open.

Ilchi Lee’s words about Peace

“It is now time to acknowledge the ultimate and core value that is capable of encompassing and superceding the partial and prejudicial orientation of the current value systems of the world. It is the one that can become a fulcrum point that will allow balance, harmony, and peaceful coexistence of all people. This is the Earth. The Earth cannot be claimed by any one group or organization regardless of its size or power. If humanity can be said to share one collective vision, it would be peace on Earth. This collective vision may also be our hope for survival in the very near future. To realize that we are all Earth-Humans…this is the key.”

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Journey Starts with a Single Thought

When you first set out on a trip, you do so with the thought of returning. However, once you embark on a trip, you can never guarantee your return date. If you knew this, would you still be able to call birth a blessing? In fact, the best you can do in life is to return home. This is the break-even point. But since you are born, you have to work hard to return home because you want to cut the difficult journey as short as possible. Just in case you have forgotten your way back home or have lost sight of your destination, you need a guide, meditation technique, or spiritual training to help you remember. There are lot of ups and down to understand brain thought you can read Ilchi Lee’s experience.

Every trip begins with a single thought, hope, or desire. Where did this thought, the nucleus of the soul, come from? Whose thought is it anyway? Who should take responsibility for this thought? Isn’t it unfair, looking from the soul’s point of view, to have to take a long and arduous journey because of a thought that it had no part in creating?

If you look at this issue through the prism of your information pile, you might think it unfair. However, the soul will gladly undertake this journey as its responsibility and do its utmost to help the seed bloom, for a soul is purity itself, with no judgments or discrimination. The pure soul knows that this seed is the responsibility of the whole of existence. Have you ever seen a dandelion? When the plant is mature, it awaits the coming of a breeze to carry the seed away. The seed sprouts into another dandelion plant. The dandelion has just engaged in a process of realizing the information contained within its seed. The dandelion did not choose to be born as a dandelion; however, the dandelion would not complain about its existence, even if it could. The best you can do with your life, once you have taken a physical form, is to live to the best of your abilities and nurture the seed of hope that forms the nucleus of your soul.

Three Truths and Three Falsehoods

During this process of outputting, editing, and re-outputting, new information is added in layers until the original nucleus of the soul may become overshadowed. I am sure you have experienced something similar many times. After repeated editing, you lose sight of the original idea that you were trying to produce in the first place. You forget what the drawing was originally supposed to look like. As these shells of information pile up higher and higher, you run the risk of having this information pile act as master of the house. The writings of Ilchi Lee are really helpful to understand truths and three falsehoods.

Referring to this information pile, we can use the terms false self or ego. We can also use the term personality or character. When this pile of information tries to act as the owner, it is the same as a house guest pretending to be the master of the house while the real master is asleep in the upstairs bedroom. Since the soul has been effectively covered over and has forgotten its original purpose, the information that you generated becomes your substitute goal, the object of your pursuit. You thereby add karma to your already existing karma.

When you see the truth through this prism of self-generated shells of information, you don’t see it unadulterated. You don’t see the continuity, only the disparate components, like a ray of light broken up through a prism. You don’t see the nothingness, but only the patterns etched onto its surface: you don’t see the Life Current, but only the trace feeling of its flow. You don’t see the matter, but only the already constructed products. Because of the grand illusion called separateness. you don’t recognize the whole but only see a part under close-up inspection. We often call such recognition phenomena the mind.

Basic three factors that created the phenomenon

I have read some books by Prof Ilchi Lee and want to share with all . Say you were typing a document on your computer when someone turned off the power switch and the document you were working on disappeared without being saved. Something disappeared, but what? The power cord is still plugged in, the program is still on the hard drive, and the hardware is as solid as ever. What disappeared? In fact, nothing. Everything is as it was before. The only thing that disappeared is the phenomenon created in a collaboration of hardware, software, and electricity. The thing disappeared is the surface phenomenon created by the workings of these three factors.

However, the basic three factors that created the phenomenon in the first place are still extant and active. Your mind is the phenomenon, as are the words in the document. In other words, the mind is not a stand-alone, quantifiable phenomenon, but an expression of the workings of the energy and the soul that have come together temporarily in this physical manifestation called the body. Therefore, “mind” is just a reflection created by the body’s brain manipulated by the deeper reality of the soul and energy.

The nothingness that is the reality of your mind is forever and unchanging. However, the surface patterns on this sea of nothingness, our emotions and thoughts, are in constant flux. We grasp at one particular segment of a pattern among countless other patterns and declare it to be “mine.” These “mine” patterns gather to weave an identity called “me.” Try to dissect this “me.” “Me” is just a collection of “mines.” We would shed blood and tears to protect and secure what is ultimately merely information, because we think that these patterns are reality.

Wait for a propitious moment to bloom

How long does a soul have to undertake this journey? The length of the journey depends upon how quickly you achieve that one thought, desire, or hope that forms the soul’s nucleus. Some hopes are quickly realized while others take longer. Some hopes are simple enough to be realized quickly while others need more time. Some hopes need to wait for a propitious moment to bloom.

Go out, Ilchi Lee said to a field of flowers. Some are small, some are large. some are colorful, some are strikingly simple. Some wither quickly and some stay in bloom for a long time. The shapes and sizes of the flowers all differ, even among the same types. Which flower do you like? What color do you prefer? You can pick the flower that your taste prefers, but there is no good or bad.

A large flower just happens to be large while a small flower is just small. A long-lasting flower lasts long while others wither more quickly. There is a great diversity, but there is neither superiority nor inferiority. Although each flower is beautiful in its own fashion, there is a greater and more magnificent beauty in the whole of this picture, with flowers withering, blooming, sprouting, decaying, petals fluttering in the wind, such that the whole is much more beautiful than the parts. This is the Garden of God.