TINKERING WITH MEDITATION

 

As a Muslim, I respect other religions as pointed out in Surah Al-Kafirun:7 still I like to gather more knowledge learning about others.

When I was transferred to my Selangor branch, there was this hard working Chinese staff (who was an assistant sifu in hope of eventually become a master himself) who  frequently took leave. I was told for meditation so curious, asked how? He respectfully clarified fundamentally, he releases bad energy(qi)  that disrupts the body's metabolism and brings in good energy. This brought about much relief to the point he profusely sweat as if he did some hard jogging. He said I could give it a try but WARNED not to fall into a trance without prior equipping myself with spiritual protection from my guru, he said his guru already gave him a talisman.

Why? He explained at the point of sliding into a trance, one is immediately greeted by bad spirits who are not keen with humans entering their spiritual domain so will try to disturb.

Explain! He said in the worse case, bad spirits possess one's body so the importance of getting early protection or else the assistance of a tok guru is needed to bring the victim back to his senses. I said OK understand so teach. 

After being taught, itchy me staying on my own couldn't wait and after dinner, I sat cross-legged resting against the wall. I started with some breathing: slow full inhale then double that time exhale, cleared my mind and concentrated on a powerhouse somewhere in the region of my belly.

It was not long maybe 10 mins then I felt a certain warmth in my belly. As I concentrated, that heat source appeared to move on it's own upwards along my gullet. That sensation was so noticeable and moved up to my chest then up to my nose. Suddenly I felt my nose getting warm. It felt like a bad pimple on my nose so I touched it with my right hand but there was no pimple there. It was there alright and the heat was getting stronger.

The heat sensation then wanted to go to my head and I could feel my head slowly going into a trance as if I'm about to fall asleep. Then remembering what my staff taught me not to go into a trance if not protected, I quickly force myself to wake up.

Saved! I remembered my staff telling me the head is the gateway to the spiritual world. I asked what do the bad spirits want? In his belief, he said they were just hungry and consumed our good deeds as if it was their food and satisfied would leave. He said it is okay because we humans can easily replenish ourselves by constantly doing more good deeds which is what he does.

I, being creative, asked what happens when the first batch contented left is followed by a second batch of hungry bad spirits also expecting "food" and behind them a long line of eagerly waiting bad spirits anxious too to fill their belly. Won't we run out of good deeds? My staff stopped and thought for a moment by my killer question and laughed. He said that was a good one, he couldn't answer and needed to consult his sifu. He never experienced that probably thanks to his talisman said he. I explained I haven't even seen my Tok Guru yet and we both laughed.

The End.