Zhong Yuan Qigong: Fourth Stage of Ascent: Wisdom. The Way to Truth (Enter Your Own World)

Stage IV of Zhong Yuan Qigong system (ZYQ) is very different from the previous three. The goal of practice stage IV is to develop our Wisdom. To achieve this goal, we need to be well acquainted with fundamentally new approaches to learning, receiving knowledge and communication. These approaches are implemented in our life as well as in the lives of all sentient beings on our planet. We are used to learning in a certain way: we see and hear, understand, and then repeat. Later, we put what we have learned into practice by doing it ourselves. This is how we are taught from the day we’re born. Indeed, how could we have it any other way? Could we learn by “doing” first, and only afterwards understanding what we have done? It sounds strange, it seems illogical. However, it is possible. This is the way we learn and practice at Stage IV. This is the next level of studying and understanding the world; it is a method that lets you learn directly from nature, from various lifeforms, from many teachers. The first part of ZYQ’s system of self-development is divided into five stages, for convenience. These divisions are largely artificial, made mainly to facilitate learning and teaching. If we delve into these objectives and methods of practice, we can see that there is no clear per-se boundaries between the stages I, II and III. However, there is a very clear and definitive boundary between Pause of Stage III and Wisdom, the focus of Stage IV. All practice and learning in ZYQ can be divided into two types, or tiers, which are fundamentally distinct. Stages I, II, and III are part of the first tier, and Stages IV and V are part of the second tier. You are already familiar with the first tier, after studying Stages I - III. Stage IV is our first introduction to the second tier. At Stage IV, we will learn and practice in a fundamentally different way. We will be communicating with different lifeforms, such as animals and plants. We will be working to change our spirits, and we will transform ourselves into other lifeforms. We will learn to empty our minds, quiet our heads, and calm our bodies. Once we do this, we will realize what we are capable of learning by transforming our spirit into the spirit of another person or any lifeform. To do this we’ll open 10 important points on the Small Microcosmic Orbit and develop the Zhong-Mai Channel, extending it from our body into the Sky and into the Earth. This practice helps also to develop the so-called “image thinking” - the natural way of communicating predating languages. We will be able to receive images from outside worlds and our inner knowledge that is stored in our genes; we’ll learn how interpret them for better understanding their sense. We learn again Big Tree exercise, but this time with a special phrase, which are a kind of Mantras. They help us not only to imagine that we are a tree, but identify ourselves with a tree. Due to this we can receive the energy and spirit of a tree, and it becomes our guide into the Plant World. We will also learn the Penguin exercise, which is useful for improving our health and helps balancing Yin and Yang energy in our bodies. Through practicing “Penguin” with Mantra we’ll receive a guide into the animal world. Through this practice, we can communicate with different images and receive knowledge directly from different forms of life. We’ll learn how life forms interact with images, and how a human can receive and interpret these images using their channels of perception. We will receive images not only from this material world, but also from higher realms. For this we will learn how to enter into a trance-like state, and exit it after finishing practice. As a result, we’ll receive Wisdom directly, and understand the laws of the Universe. Thus, after mastering Stage IV, we will be able to use Wisdom learned from other lifeforms to improve our health, live longer, and improve the quality of our lives. Read more