Wesak Moon: A Cross-cultural Initiatory Perspective. (Free Bonus Video with 26 Video Set)

Description

In this class you’ll be introduced to making the enlightenment of the Buddha at Wesak Full Moon time into an entryway into cross cultural wisdom tradition practices. Wesak Full Moon time (full moon in Scorpio/Taurus) can not only be seen a a time of Buddha enlightenment under the Boddhi tree, but as a pathway to  esoteric teachings  of related themes in esoteric early buddhism, astrology, Qigong, Jewish mysticism, Sufism, Native American spirituality, Taoism and Greek healing traditions.

Qigong is not just physical movement. It is a full body-mind-spirit practice for turning emotional attachment into compassion, stagnation into energy, and ordinary movement into a pathway toward “enlightenment.”

Some specifics of what you’ll learn:

• Cross-cultural examples of Buddhist insights and teachings of how spiritual practice is about transforming attachment, emotional reactivity, and inner imbalance into awareness, compassion, and embodied light.

• The symbolic importance of the Wesak Full Moon astrologically: Scorpio/ Taurus Full moon. The initiates path to mastering emotional reactivity: the esoteric lessons of transforming the Scorpion of our emotions into an Eagle. Examples from our everyday emotional life with encouragement for students to find their own examples.
• The Buddha said there were four pathways of Enlightenment: lying, sitting, standing and moving. Did you know that the Buddha  and Bodhisattvas after him practiced Standing Meditation?
• What is the controversial idea about the esoteric purposes of Buddhist Standing Meditation Qigong practices? Is the Buddhist Bodhisattva Warrior tradition connected to Chinese internal arts practice?
• How can Standing meditation be used for transforming attachment, emotional reactivity, and inner imbalance into awareness, compassion, and embodied light?
• Is the Buddhist Standing Meditation connected to Standing Meditation Qigong practices in the Chinese internal martial arts.
• What are four purposes of Standing Meditation practice and how do these connect to the early Bodhisattva Warrior tradition?
• Hypothesized Standing Meditation lineage from the Buddha to modern Yi Chuan Qigong practices and other traditions of “postural initiation.”
• Yi Chuan Eagle Standing Meditation practices, Eagle Bagua circle walking movements and their use in embodying archetypal solutions to life issues—Bagua healing practices for the symbolic signs of the zodiac.
• Using Qigong/ Tai Chi/animal form practices to actualize and embody solutions to the attachments of life.
• Qigong Wounded Healer’s Prayer ritual
• Applying Wesak Full Moon wisdom to Bodymind Healing Qigong practices.