“The teaching focuses essentially on the purification of Jing-Chi-Shen into its final product: the elixir of pure-person.” – Door to All Wonders, Tao Te Ching
Your life’s ultimate journey and goal is soul enlightenment. – Master Sha
Even among all yogis, one whose inner self has come to me, who is full of faith, who offers love to me – that one is considered by me to be the most deeply absorbed in yoga. – Bhagavad Gita 6.47
A Commentary on the Journey to the West by Ricardo B Serrano:
Sun Wukong, Monkey King
The popular Chinese novel Zhang Jizhong, Journey to the West (2011) with 66 episodes in video format is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang, and loosely based its source from the historic text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and traditional folk tales.
The monk travelled to the “Western Regions” during the Tang Dynasty, to obtain sacred texts (sutras). Bodhisattva Kuan Yin, on instruction from the Buddha, gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of disciples — namely Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing — together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang’s steed, a white horse. These four characters have agreed to help Xuanzang as an atonement for past sins.
My favorite main character of this awesome Buddhist novel is the Monkey King Sun Wukong because he is the Chinese version of Lord Hanuman who is an ascended master of Kashmir Shaivism. The Heart Sutra mantra of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara is also the novel’s theme song and practiced by the warrior characters of the novel with devotion to their Sifu/Master Xuanzang and Bodhisattva Kuan Yin and Gautama Buddha which I believe are instrumental to their eventual enlightenment in the span of over 10 years along their perilous journey against demons, human robbers, gods and evil spirits.
This Chinese Buddhist novel is a metaphor to the ancient immortals’ inner quest for returning to oneness with the essence of true consciousness, called the Atma (Higher Soul) or the Original Spirit (Yuan Shen), which is fundamentally our illumined original nature.
This Chinese Buddhist novel reminded me of my spiritual journey of over 45 years as an immigrant from the Philippines to Canada with a three month Chinese Medicine internship stay in Zhejiang, China that I was fully grateful for learning from life challenges in healing and relationships, and from my Taoist and Buddhist Qigong and Chinese medicine teachers which have all been necessary lessons for my healing and spiritual growth and Self-realization (soul enlightenment).
Unfortunately, the spiritual journey has been difficult for most Chinese themselves in mainland China due to the fact that it’s political Chinese Communist Party as an evil cult suppresses freedom of religion – Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, and other spiritual paths such as (spiritual Qigong) for healing and Qi cultivation with spiritual growth.
“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” – Heart Sutra
An important spiritual message for me after finishing this long novel is that the truth about emptiness has to be experienced before believing “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form,” stated in the Heart Sutra, an important Buddhist sutra. The essence of all things is emptiness.
The Noble Eightfold Path is an important path to the Heart Sutra practitioners:
The Four Agreements are a set of guiding principles to help us live in harmony with ourselves and others:
The important questions: “Who am I? Why was I born? What is the goal of my life? What am I supposed to accomplish here?” are hopefully answered in this supplementary book to the “Return to Oneness with Shiva” with the help of my Siddha Guru Baba Muktananda‘s excerpts from his books and my Sadguru Nityananda’s grace which are based from the Self-realization teachings of Kashmir Shaivism. Who and what you meditate on, you become. When you meditate on the Self as the Self, you become one with Shiva, the Self of all. “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form,” states the Heart Sutra. The essence of all things is emptiness.
To become aware of So’ham, “I am That,” is to attain oneness with the Higher Self.
The result of the integration of the Siddha Guru and the awakened Kundalini is a meditation that is very powerful.
The subtle path to the Self is most easily attained through the Guru. Kabir said that the Guru makes one perfect; he unites the individual soul with Shiva. To feel the love of one’s soul is the goal of yoga, according to the Bhagavad Gita.
Unconditional love is the fulcrum of this universe, the original point of the universe. In the practice of Meditation on Three Hearts and Hanuman Qigong, efforts must be made to integrate the mind and heart, to feel the interaction between Love and Qi, restoring the experience of harmony in the world, in nature, and the Universe that may be understood as “being with higher Self” symbolized by Swastika or Yuan Shen (Original Spirit).
“The supreme state, which may be attained on some paths after extreme hardship, can be attained without great difficulty on the Siddha path.” – Yogashikha Upanishad 1.3
“God consciousness is the reality of everything.” – Shiva Sutra 1.1
“The subtler attainments come with birth or are attained through herbs (cannabis), mantra, austerities or concentration. Cannabis use allows for a quieting of the outside world, and the ability to focus more totally on the interior process of meditation.” – Patanjali Yoga Sutras 4.1
“The essence of all the prophets of God is one and the same.” – Baha’ullah
Guru is indispensable for the practice of Shakti yoga sadhana. He initiates the aspirant and transmits the divine shakti. – Shakti Yoga, page 36, Oneness with Shiva
“The healing compassion of Kuan Yin Bodhisattva is palpable by regularly chanting her small and great compassion mantras.” – Acharya Ricardo B Serrano
Hamsa-So’ham
According to David Twicken, OMD, author of The Eight Extraordinary Channels – Qi Jing Ba Mai: A Handbook for Clinical Practice and Nei Dan Inner Meditation, “The eight extraordinary channels are one of the most fascinating aspects of the acupuncture channel system. These channels are the bridge between prenatal and postnatal influences in our life. The eight extraordinary channel’s terrain is Jing, essence, and source Qi. These channels influence the yuan, or deep layers of our body, mind and spirit.
The jewel or pinnacle of Chinese medicine is that it enables us to work on the whole being, that includes body, mind and, spirit. One of the principal ways of achieving this is through the eight extraordinary channels, which are also called, the eight Psychic channels. These multi-dimensional channels can treat deep, chronic and old patterns that influences the three treasures of our life: the physical, emotional, and spiritual. These channels comprise the three dantiens and are the inner circuit system of communication between Jing and Shen (Zhi and Shen). The eight Psychic channels can release one from emotional and spiritual imbalances and realign one to their yuan shen – their original spirit. This experience can inspire and motivate a person to exert their will to live the type of life they desire, and they can apply their Zhi and passion to live from their spirit.”
“To really understand the Eight Extraordinary Channels, one needs to cultivate them with Nei Dan (inner meditation/inner cultivation).” – Master Li Shi-Zhen
Product Details
Paperback: 142 pages
Publisher: Holisticwebs.com (January 5, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0988050226
ISBN-13: 9780988050228
Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
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