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Cosmic Fusion
Through its meridians our body may be seen as a grid of light
channels through which it is connected with the light grid of the
universe and can tap its unlimited energies.
Learning to embrace ourselves and the universe:
The Fusion Practice may serve to visualize oneself as a network
of light and as a light body. Then the practice is not only one of
cleansing but also one of filling the meridians with light. Mutations
in consciousness start in the body visualization and turn into actualization.
But the transformation lies not in the visualization. It is
only a vehicle. Actualization is the real experience of the energy
transformation in the body, when its chemistry changes and energy
is transformed. One begins to sense the truthfulness and
miracle of being alive and one starts to feel that one is embraced
and pervaded by love and a sense of gratitude for the mysterious
ecstatic process taking place in the body arises.
But this is not an end term. It is always only a beginning, as the
love of the infinite has no limits neither in time nor space. In the
process matter turns into what is immaterial and the immaterial as
energy to continue its transformation waits again for a new form to
contain it and change its nature and composition. Words help to
create an image and when the image is there, the word loses its
function. The image serves to help us generate the energy and its
transformation. When the energy has come into being, the image
needs to be given up so that a new space arises for a new experience.
This is an unending process. How wondrous is it that our
organs, our body, that sacred vessel, as it is called in the Taoist
Canon, remembers its origins and longs to be fused and serve as
an instrument of the fusions which unceasingly take place in heaven
so that our intrinsically divine nature is realized and can be experienced.
For earthlings, the learning process starts from outside. In
the process of turning inward, the learning process increasingly
becomes internalized. We need the structures and the forms and
formulas to help us on our path. Then when we become still, it
becomes spontaneous and starts to move by itself.
Then our child has been born and just wants to play without end
to feel that they are welcome and loved so that they feel at home.
For this quality in us to arise, we need to learn to embrace ourselves
and the universe, as a mother her newborn child.
Written by: Joost Kuitenbrouwer
Universal Tao Instuctor
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