GOOD CIRCULATION OF ENERGY AND GOOD LUCK
Good circulation of energy means lucky
Question
If we practice the Shaolin Arts, we will get luckier as a result of good chi circulation. If all things were equal, would a person practicing exercise which focus on developing flowing energy be luckier than a person who practices exercises that develop consolidated energy?
How can we know that sometimes we are lucky even though we may not feel like being lucky about something, for instance, an event which seemingly causes bad luck, turns out much later to actually be a blessing in disguise?
Is it a fair assumption that you still need to work very hard in order to achieve things and that luck is something you should not rely on?
Sifu Roeland Dijkema
Answer
Yes, if we practice the Shaolin arts, or any art that deals with energy flow, we will become lucky as a result of good chi circulation.
Masters in the past discovered this fact long ago, and they used the term “hao yun qi” which meant being lucky. Literally, word for word, “hou yun qi” means “good-circulation-energy”.
The term “hou yun qi” has been in popular use for so long that most people, including most Chinese, have forgotten its original meaning. When you ask a Chinese who speaks Chinese – there may be many Chinese people in the West who don’t speak the Chinese language – what “hou yun qi” means, they will tell you that it means “good luck”.
Indeed, I was unaware of the morphological meaning of “hou yun qi” until some years ago a reader asked me whether practicing chi kung would increase a person’s luck. My natural response was “yes”, because it is well known amongst the Chinese that if a person’s energy is circulating well, which is a major aim of chi kung practice, he will be lucky, and no lesser spirits will dare to come near him. It suddenly dawned on me at that time that when energy is circulating well is “hou yun qi” in Chinese.
If all other things were equal, a person practicing exercises that develop flowing energy will be luckier than another person practicing exercises that develop consolidated energy, who in turn will be luckier than a person whose energy is not flowing.
It is worthy to note that the energy of a person practicing consolidated energy is also flowing, but not as much as the one who practices flowing energy. Similarly, when we accumulate energy at our dan tian, the energy at our dan tian is also flowing, just as when you save money in a bank, the money you save is flowing as the bank uses this money.
We know we are lucky although at the time we might not realize it, from direct experience. Indeed, I have always been lucky, though at the time I might not realize it, as you can read from my autobiography, “The Way of the Master”. This must be so because I have good circulation of energy everyday, or “hou yun qi” everyday, as I practice chi kung everyday to ensure my energy always flowing harmoniously.
This, indeed, is an invaluable piece of advice. Even if we leave aside other wonderful benefits of chi kung that we can enjoy everyday, like good health, vitality, longevity, mental clarity and spiritual joys, if we want to be lucky, we practice chi kung everyday.
Your assumption that one has to work very hard in order to achieve things is fair to most people. It reminds me that luck is when opportunity meets preparation. One has to work very hard for this preparation.
This principle applies to those who do not practice chi kung. If you practice chi kung, you generate good circulation of energy. Good luck will come to you, irrespective of whether you have made preparation.
But it is not a fair assumption to me, and also to many people in our school. I shall leave the other people in our school to speak for themselves, but for me I consider my work as my play. I also don’t work very hard for my play. To be an example of what I teach, just as when I practice chi kung, I don’t worry, I don’t intellectualize, and I enjoy my play.
Sometimes I have to prepare much for some courses, but I enjoy the preparation. I don’t call the preparation “work”, which implies labour, something you would like to do away if you can; but I call it “play”, which implies pleasures, something we would like to have.
The UK Summer Camp courses will provide opportunities for such play, and for good circulation of energy which means being lucky.
Practicing chi kung brings good luck
The above article is reproduced from the thread Applying and Deepening the Fundamental Skills of Chi Kung in the Shaolin Wahnam Discussion Forum.
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