A book available at his monthly seminar for $10.
(These comments were compiled from notes taken at
Rasaji's Circle of Chi Seminar in January 2010)
As the world moves forward, there are those who eagerly embrace
evolution as it comes into their lives and some who stubbornly
resist it. There are many more who appear to believe that if
they just ignore it, somehow it won't affect them. While this
has always been the case throughout history, many people are
beginning to really wonder what is happening now. To the outward
eye, it appears that the world is more uncertain, chaotic and
unbalanced than ever before.
We're are in the midst of very, very rapid change. In the
1900s, it took a generation to accumulate tremendous wealth.
(Carnegie) Now, billionaires are created in just a few years
(Google). People are living much longer, (Centenarians are the
fastest growing demographic in the world by percentage), but
some are passing on in their 20s and 30s from maladies once
thought of only for those in their 60s. (heart attack, stroke).
Some people recover from "terminal" illnesses suddenly,
surviving for years, while others with the same malady succumb
to it in weeks or months. (cancer) How is that possible?
The age of rapid change we currently live in has been described
by some masters as the dawn of an accelerating transformation
that will impact every person on this planet and even the
ecology of the planet itself. It can be a smooth gradual
shift; or a serious upheaval on a global scale. How it
plays out depends a lot on how we react and deal with
the accelerating pace of change, both on a personal level and as
members of organizations and nations.
In the midst of this ongoing process, there are a now
individuals, soon to be counted in millions, who not only
recognize that something "out of the ordinary" is happening, but
are consciously looking for ways to harness this gift of
acceleration, take greater responsibility (response - ability)
for their own future and improve the well being of those around
them in the process. It can be exciting to know that rapid
change in a positive direction is just as likely as the
accelerating chaos that appears to threaten us.
Within this short book, you'll find references to masters who
not only predicted the conditions and character of the age we
are entering, but described its purpose and ultimate outcome.
They have written books themselves in some cases and they are
among Rasaji's teachers. You will also find a short history of
Tai' Chi Gung and a narrative of Rasaji's life and experience
with these masters here.
The Circle of Chi is a simple, practical guide to health and
abundance in every day life. It is based on the Tai' Chi Gung
system that was developed over 3300 years ago by the original
master Boganathar, a sage who mastered three yoga disciplines,
moved to China to immerse himself in nature, and onward to Tibet
to open a school of Tai' Chi Gung. Rasaji was asked to live and
train at the original school in Darchen Tibet by it's current
Master Bo-yang, who is the successor in an unbroken lineage that
extends to the founding of Boganathar's school established more
than 3 milleniums ago. Rasaji has been practicing the
principles of this Tai' Chi Gung system for more than 40 years,
and has been sharing them with students for more than 27 years.
A key element to developing profound health in the Tai' Chi Gung system is
to recognize that "nutrition" for the body goes far beyond just
the food that we eat on a daily basis. To bring true abundance
to one's life, it is important to move toward a more holistic
view of the human being.
We live our lives on three major levels simultaneously. These
are the "supernatural" level, the "natural" level, and also on
the "world" level. They are symbolized in an ancient fire
ceremony that places three horizontal yellow stripes across the
forehead to represent the three levels of existence. A magenta
dot is also placed between the eyebrows to reflect our constant
connection to the chi, or internal intelligence. Some would
call this connection their conscience, or natural intuition.
One reason it is important to bring the natural and supernatural
elements into our health on a daily basis is because the human
body itself is not just a collection of hoses and fluid. An
average healthy physical body has a magnetic field that
surrounds it seven feet in every direction. This energy field
carries the subtle vibrations of our thoughts and emotions, and
it has a profound impact on our health.
One might even say that our bodies continue for 70 or 80 years
in spite of our ignorance of how they truly operate. A Tai' Chi
Gung student learns to connect consciously to the energy in and
around their field, restore natural balance, and cooperate with
the natural regeneration process that sustains it.
An acupuncture physician deals with energy pathways or meridians
that invigorate all the different systems inside the body; from
circulation, to respiration, to assimilation and elimination.
They know that before a disease symptom appears in the physical
body, the imbalance has manifested in the meridians that connect
all the vital organs, blood stream and glands. A Tai' Chi Gung
master recognizes that before illness manifests in the
acupuncture meridians within the body, it manifests in the
magnetic field that surrounds the body. In fact, the chi moves
in an exacting method: from the etheric field into the meridian
system, and from the meridian system into the body; passing
through the least dense to the most dense systems in an orderly
process that supports our health.
So the physical body is connected to the outside world through a network
of meridians. And these are actually designed to connect us to
the forces of nature. If we are unaware, or separate ourselves
from the energy that sustains our bodies, and then also separate
our bodies from the forces of nature, we have a prescription for
imbalance. In many ways, this explains illness of any kind and
the resulting chaos it causes in our world around us. In Tai'
Chi Gung, it is recognized that we were given the gift of life
first and the gift of free will second. That being the case,
our lives and health are in a great part determined by our
ongoing choices in relationship to the life force that already
exists within our bodies.
In the orient, these forces of nature are the four primary
elements: earth, water, air and fire. It is in cooperation with
them that life can be extended with the Tai' Chi Gung system far
beyond "normal". The study of Tai' Chi Gung provides a student
with a working knowledge of how the body is truly designed to
function. There was a time in China when a doctor was paid if
he kept you well, and he stopped getting paid if you got sick.
There was a basic motivation to keep you healthy, and the body
of knowledge that grew from this mindset helped create a
foundation of true "health" care.
Medical science, perhaps even less than 20 years ago, was
convinced that 65% of the aging process was genetic. Now, it is
generally believed that only 35% can be blamed on our genes, and
65% is up to us. What we think, what we say, and what we do
makes a tremendous difference in our health. A Tai' Chi Gung
master goes beyond that, knowing that their mind and body can
embrace the abundant energy they had when they were 4 or 6 years
old, regardless of their present age. They can bring abundant
chi into their cells and genetic structure, altering the aging
process itself.
The masters of Tai' Chi Gung in Tibet have passed down the
knowledge and exercises for slowing down the aging process for
more than 3000 years. A serious student of the discipline is
aging one year for every two or three that pass on a calendar.
Cutting edge biochemists are convinced that the human body is
designed to live at least for 120 to 150 years, even without
something like Tai' Chi Gung. So if you tinker with those
numbers, you'll suddenly have a lot more life choices, and most
of them will probably make life insurance companies very
nervous.
The Circle of Chi is divided into two main sections. The first,
Tai' Chi Gung 101, addresses the physical body and the health of
individual human being in relationship to the chi, or life
force, itself. It includes four major aspects: the mind, the
breath, movement and nutrition. The second section, Tai' Chi
Gung 102, addresses our relationship to the world around us. It
includes four more aspects: work, money, friendships and nature.
Being such an extroverted society, most people in the western world are
looking for a way to improve the world around them first.
Generally, they want to fix something related their spouse or
family, something connected to their work or their financial
lives. "If only this or that problem went away, my life would be
much better." And while most people can find plenty of advice
from experts in each of these areas based on the world's
understanding of how they work, the Circle of Chi offers
solutions that are based on how the life force itself is
intended to move through them when they are balanced.
It is important to understand the flow of energy, because the body is not
just plumbing. As much as we appear to be confined by the
people and circumstances around us, our lives are not really
controlled by forces that exist only in the outside world. If
the fix comes only from a "worldly" perspective, regardless of
how "educated" it is, it runs the risk of missing the underlying
cause that gave rise to it in the first place; and the problem,
situation or malady can just reappear to be repeated once again.
Most often, the fastest way to improve something in our outer
world (Tai' Chi Gung 102) is to address or improve what is
happening with our mind, breath, movement or nutrition. (Tai'
Chi Gung 101), because that is the area of greatest imbalance.
When we take time for our health, we can restore balance to our
world.
n the Circle of Chi, Rasaji describes how to apply the three
core functions of the energy to the eight aspects of life that
have a major impact on health. When someone does the Tai' Chi
Gung exercises also, they bring these ideas to life in their own
first hand experience. They develop a conscious connection to
the life force that sustains the body, mind and spirit on a
daily basis, and the positive steps of self development that
grow out of this create a powerful wave of positive change into
their daily life.