Article #346
Subject: Some 2014 methods of David Dorian Ross along with Hindu nada Yoga sounds
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 5/24/2018 03:35:54 PM

“A Sower went out to sow seed, and as he sowed, some fell along the travelled path and was trodden
underfoot, and the birds of the air ate it up.”
Luke 8:5
Genesis 15:1-6
“We rejoice at His arrival, for He is the ‘seed’ to whom the promise has been made, and He is our sure
hope.” Carol Kaminski Gordon-Conwell Christmas 2014 Devotional Booklet
The basic ‘seed sounds’ that underlie the Greek and later the Sanskrit Hindu language and religion of
these mantras are certain seed syllables

Sanskrit prayer mantras are prayer songs sung with meaningful prayer sound correspondences in our
spiritual bodies. Each has a syllabic meter or count, such as the five syllabic mantra: OM Namah Shiva,
the eleven syllabic count: OM Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya, and the eight syllabic count OM Namah
Narayanaya. When we sing all three mantras together in the order given above we have a three-fold
prayer song that helps raise the spiritual energy in our root chakra up from the Swadisthana (upright
self 2nd chakra), into the 4th heart chakra. As we repeatedly say and sing these songs they can
recursively generate themselves in our minds and be a part of our subconscious minds attempts to
solve problems and understand the world around. I have had this happen a lot after meditating on them
repeatedly over a long period of time. This process creates meaningful truth that exists independently
in all of us for us to understand together and can, as Jesus Christ, taught be a away to save us as we
save it together as a part of our devotional or wisdom spiritual teachings. Understanding this truth can
‘save’ itself in us and bring us peace and joy inside of our souls and spirits as a reward for our long term
practice and study of it.

A warning, mantras may be the ‘easiest way’ to reach enlightenment in this present age we live in. But,
this does not mean they are necessarily the best. When they don’t work we are left trapped in a
situation where these songs are still searching inside of minds for the solutions we want or are asking
God for help with. The Good News is that they all worth it in the sense that they all contain truth inside
of them. Its just that the particular truth inside of a particular mantra may not be the truth we need at
any given time to help others with or answer our prayers. That is why, the best teacher, in my opinion to
teach us about this knowledge is Jesus Christ, God’s only Son as we understand Him through Bible
verses in our lives currently and not someone trying to teach us their own particular brand of some
other religion.
My mother used to tell me, ‘Nothing that is not hard, is worth doing”. Obtaining enlightenment by
following the life Jesus Christ lived and trusting on his Holy Spirit as in comes into us as promised from
Bible verses to teach us how to live our lives, is the righteous foundation of all of what we can
accomplish as Christians and Jews.
From Meditation and Mantras by Swami Vishnu Devananda:
(listed in the divine order of the Lord Vishnu’s Sword of Truth…by which he controls nature and
individual people)
11) HAUM
22) DUM
33) KREEM
44) HREEM
55) SHREEN
66) AIM
77) KLEEM
88) HOOM
99) GAM
110) GLAUM
111) KSHRAUM In Swami Vishnu's book on Mantras and Meditation, if you study the Sanskrit letters
and forms for these English letters for a long time you will realize that they are to be meditated on from
the top chakra down and from the bottom up. This is the same Divine order of Mr. Freedoms 11 step
meditations using Bible verses and positive affirmations which I have posted in the Unity School of
Christianity prayer subdirectory at our website.
I

I In these ‘bija’ or seed syllables, first we will explain the consonants:
The letter ‘h’ is Shiva, ‘au’ is Sadasiva, the letter ‘m’ is the dispeller of sorrow, except in the bija KLEEM
where it brings both happiness and sorrow. ‘d’ means durga or she who controls worship,’sh’ means a
form of wealth or prosperity, also called ‘Laksmi’,’ is the ‘K’ is the letter of ‘Kali’ the goddess of eternal
empty space and hence an important player in the beginning or creation and end of time, ‘I’ means
Indra, the ruler of heaven and who controls the senses and that which pervades and has luster, ‘G’
means ganesha, the Lord of strength .


In the book “Seed sounds for tuning the Chakras” by James D. Angelo, Phd there is a different set of
material element correspondences (to assist in learning the placing of the Sanskrit semi-vowel sounds
in the chakras is given)
These are also given here in this book with their actual physical vibrational frequencies and sound
recordings to listen to. The sound frequency correspondences are based on the five-note pentatonic
music scale which is used in China. If one starts off with the F note as setting the fundamental tone to
begin the scale a the 1st (bottom) chakra, then one moves up a note at a time F G A C D five chakras
and starts again with F and G to be the vibrational frequencies that correspond to the six and seventh
(top) chakra.

Then the seed syllabic sounds that represent the materials elements associated with these chakras are:
Root chakra Lam earth
Sacral (2nd) Vam water
Solar Plexus (3rd) Ram fire
Heart (4th) AH air
Throat AY as in say space
Brow I as in eye mind
Crown EE as in see truth
Note that the correspondences in this part of the five-dimensional metaphysical scheme have the vowel
EE at the top chakra. The vowel correspondences are in one sheath of knowledge… subject, object and
a three-fold knowing occuring in the sheath of our knowing and our God knowing of ur salvation…and
subject,object, and a three-fold knowing of this. It is also important to understand that our knowing of
this and our God knowing[about knowing] of our redemption are something different. It is something
different which ultimately when we strive to reach heaven on earth and finally reach it as Souls and
Spirits dwelling in Eternity we must understand is the same. So there are some very easy ways to make
mistakes and very subtle errors here depending on what situation we find the instantiation of God’s Holy
Spirit Truth in us. It could be considered here both as a help to look down and redeem knowledge
located in the lower chakras and also a help to look up as the Holy Spirit starts a front to back rising
resurrection of itself and climbs Jacob’s ladder going up to heaven located at the top instead of at the
bottom of our spiritual bodies knowledge scheme.
In Sanskrit there are 16 vowels, you can sing them in the divine order of the powers of metaphysica
heavenly creation:
A, AA (Divine two-fold power of love)
I, II (Divine two-fold power of will)
E,EE (Divine two-fold power of acting, created by the sounds of the vowels A and I combined
together…usually directed downward in the Holy Spirit as it dwells in us..
It is with the vowel E that contemplative pray-ers consciously ‘anchor down’ their human/divine Holy
Spirit. The power of mind and breath acts positively helping us upward, as we both hold it down
encourage it in this heavenly direction and trying not to mis-understand or mis-interpret what is
happening.
For, if we do, fall short or misunderstand with our human minds Divine thinking it is very easy to get
caught and trapped, eternally and in space and time, at various points of the process. We need all the
Divine help we can get to reach the top of the mountain of God’s Truth as it prophetically dwells in us
through Bible verses and trying to hear God in the present moment and listen and believe in Him
faithfully. A group of Divine thoughts or affirmations ordered as we think downwardly, sequentially, from
top to bottom, Heaven to Earth organized in paragraphs of English (and not as mantra formulas of
prayer) given by my long time prayer partner James Freeman of the Unity School of Christianity can be
found in the prayer postings of the YHWH School of Christianity website.

The Divine Name of God’s Son, for instance, is understood as our consciousness looks and directs itself
downward from the top to lower chakras, healing us…the Buddhists worship this same Divine
consciousness as that of the Boddhisattwa Avaloka (Downward looking) Ishvara [Lord]). The Name of
God YHWH with the vowels A and E in it and thought but not pronounced, as YAHWEH means, starting
and dwelling at the top of Heaven in God’s Spiritual Body of Himself dwelling as a Tree of Life in us
looking down through the human heart toward earth, at the root chakra in us and becoming healing and
saving/redeeming knowledge or Spiritual Truth. As the Holy Spirit rises and resurrects itself from
bottom (earth) to top (heaven) it does not just simply go up. It goes up, then down (1st coming or
knowing of our salvation in Christ), up then down (2nd coming or redeeming Spirit of Christ), up then
down (3rd or final fulfillment and truth of the coming of our Christ).
The arms of God reach inside of this upward and downward movement forming a set of horizontal and
vertical crosses, or Jacob Ladders if the alternation of orientation on the steps upward are taken into
account.
So, in terms of Him, “The Logos or the Word of God”, becoming Truth, the three parts of the Logos are
like the three parts of an Aristotelean syllogism. The final part of God’s instantiation of Divine Truth is a
Goal-oriented or backward chained Truth reasoned from final cause . The 1st and second are more
object or factual oriented.
Jonathan Goldman has written two books (The Divine Name: the Sound that can Change the World and
Healing Sounds, the Power of Harmonics) which you can download on your Kindle cheaply:
He talks about how the brain waves frequencies that our mind associates with the conscious and
subconscious parts of thinking can influence these techniques of sound healing.

The human voice is a very complicated instrument producing not just single frequencies of vibration in
the vocal chords as it produces sounds but whole wave packets of energetic vibrations. The technical
book "Mathematics and Music" by James S. Walker CRC Press contains alot of computer programs that
you can use to synthesize and analyze these sounds.
The author demonstrates with recordings that are analyzed , for instance, that an opera singer can even
mimic the vibrational frequencies of the wooden musical instruments (and not those of her own vocal
chords) she is surrounded by as she sings her songs.

Also, there is a method I like a lot, after you have studied it and prayed with it for a long time, Bible
verses can be chained together logically and historically as parts of an Aristotelean syllogism in this
manner. My friends at the Upper Room living prayer site in Nashville, TN sell a promise box of Bible
verses at their gift shop which is helpful for doing this.

“The Word was with God, and the Word was God[God was with the Word]”
Gospel of John Chapter 1:1-5
“God shares Himself through the self-giving and the self-communication of language.” Gordon Isaac,
Gordon-Conwell Christmas 2014 Devotional Booklet
AE (Sandhi or combined sound A and E, which mixes and helps realize inwardly and downwardly, the
more fundamental vowel sounds inside of its combination)


O,OO (Divine two-fold power of knowledge)
U,UU (Divine two-fold power of created by the sounds of the vowels A and O combined
metaphysically and consciously)
AU (Sandhi or combined sound A and U, which mixes and helps realize outwardly and upwardly
metaphysically in the Holy Spirit)
R,RR (human two-fold power of intentions)
LR, LLRR (human two-fold power of completion and realization of intentions)
M (Divine and human power of individual consciousness)
AH (Divine and human power of objective consciousness)
The five powers together make up God’s five-fold power of heavenly natural and eternal creation
combined called Brahmin, or reality.
In the Siksa and Brahmananda Valli of the Taittiriya Upanishad [see the book by Swami Narayana Prasad
for an English translation], for someone
understanding Sanskrit words and sounds, a five-fold metaphysical scheme, and
the tantric spatial realization of

God's Holy Spirit dwelling in us. This is because the verses lay out in many
different settings a five-fold order of thought about them in five realms...

realm of physical matter, realm of divine life, realm of divine space, realm
of righteous action, realm of love. These groups of five-fold realms and four-
fold divisions are called vyahris throughout the rest of the Upanishads. The
four loka vyahri's dwelling in the space of the meditator's heart are called
Bhur, Bhuvah, Suvah, Mahah. the divine word A U M it is explained is all of
this. In the next chapter or valli, as we expand and deepen through
penetrating thought our understanding of this space, Brahman (or God as
creator of the material universe, having three attributes satyam (relative
truth), jnanam (spiritual wisdom or knowledge), anantam (infinite or eternal
existence)) manifest himself to us and everyone as the essence of food,
breath, mind,knowledge,bliss (the body and blood of Christ) in five the above
mentioned five sheaths. This is explained to be a five-fold inside of five-
fold metaphysic.

If you practice the Gayatri mantra prayers in morning for several years you can add 12 different names
of deities, corresponding to the 12 months of the solar year, that the prayer generates. These are found
in several advanced books on Hatha Yoga and Meditation published by the Bihar Yoga group, which is
an offshoot of the Sivananda Divine Life Society. So far, I have not found these to conflict in any way
with my Biblical prayer study liturgy and they are helpful in praying with the Hindu Saints.




five breaths 1)prana...in our heads, vyana...in our right side,apana...in the
space of our spiritual body, apana...in our left sides, and earth,Bhur is the
tail end or foundation



five parts of the righteous of Vedic scriptural or prophetic truth 1) Yajur
Veda is the head, 2) Rig Veda is the right side, 2) Sama Veda is the left
side,3) the teaching of it is its body, 4) Artharva Veda is the second coming
of it or its tail end.



3) five parts of the divine mind that understands this spiritual body of
truth 1)faith is the head, 2) manifested Truth, or Ritam, is the right side,
3) relative Truth, or Satyam, is the left side, 4) Yoga or unity with God is
the body, 5) the great maha is the tail-end as foundation of everything
underneath it.



4) five parts of eternal joy and happiness: 1) happiness is the head, 2)the
experience of joy,2) moda or the substance of joy is the right side 3)
pramoda is the left side 4) value or ananda is the body 5) Brahman or God
in the material spiritual universe is its tail end or foundation





For those who know some Tai chi* and Qigong** there is an even more complicated Energy body Tantra
which is explained in the Book: "Cosmic Fuson, the Inner Alchemy of the Eight Forces" by Mantak Chia.

The metaphysical viewpoint of Taoism and many other Eastern Religions, and also our own Christian
Scientist teachings on healing is that our health already exists inside of us and a already existing
Contingent Natural Harmonious Heaven on Earth and it is up to us to adjust our own understanding of It
to It.

As Christian's and Jews, however, we pray to our Father God Creator in Heaven that we be able to help
Him bring a Higher realm of Heaven (much of which already exists on Earth) by means of His prophetic
Truth which predicts a catastrophe falling apart and later recreation of the total independently existing
heavenly spiritual and human world around us... even more on this Earth.

“It is not true that the human spirit has no future. Our task is to, God helping us, become our future.”
November 2014 Twitter posting of @AndrewWHarrell

But, back to this scheme. In addition to the seven chakras, there are three energy collection points (Dan
Tien), one in the head (macrocosmic orbit bindu or point), the heart (individual's own soul's bindu or
point), and abdomen (microcosmic orbit).around which the symbol of the eight direction padua is
moved. Each copy of the padua that is created mentally uses the eight different tai chi energies.

Like the Sanskrit/Upanishad/Vedantic five-dimensional scheme this scheme has three levels of Truth
inside of it, just like the three levels of instantion of facts in God's Biblical Word as it is represented in
the Christian Aristolelian logical abstract computational language scheme.
which is based on 17 syllogisms. But, these three levels of metaphysical truth are not necessarily
syllogistic or similiar to any Western computational logic scheme but correspond to degrees of absolute
and relative meaning which the shared sounds and letters represent mystically.

* a good 24 lesson Teaching Company Great Course "The Essential so Tai Chi and Qigong has recently
come out authored by David-Dorian Ross. Also, in his book "Exercising the Soul: How Tai Chi connects
you to your Essential Self" Tai Chi standing meditation where you keep you eye open like in Buddhist
sitting meditation can be just as effective as Hindu Yoga sitting meditation where we normally keep our
eyes closed and withdraw the senses according to the teaching in the Pantajali sutras. Mr. Ross explains
the six healing sounds meditation that Buddhists and Taoists teach:

1) 'Hee' for the Lungs

2) 'Haw' for the heart This seed sound combines the basic all-pervading seed consonant sound 'h' with
the 4th chakra heart consonant and 4th chakra vowel heart and 2nd chakra vowel 'w' which is in the
Divine Name 'YHWH' to make 'aw' (remember that the consonant 'Y' represents God's energy of the air
material element proceeding from our lungs down the heart chakra into our spiritual understanding of
Tantric Truth at the root of bottom chakra of God's Divine Eternal Heavenly, Garden of Eden, Tree of Life
which contains our Eternal Souls in It.

3)'Hoo' for the spleen

4) "Shhh" for the liver


5) ""Chr-oo-see" for the kidneys

As Mr. Ross explains in his course, recently Tai Chi has been studied very extensively by the Harvard
Medical School. It hepls gives us practitioners an overall feeling of well-being and is very effective for
helping seniors with heart disease, cancer survivors with the after effects of cancer treatment, and
asthma sufferers to increase their lung breath capacity.

In Mantak Chuas book these sounds are correlated with the positions of eight trigram paduas placed at
the three spiritual body, Holy Spirit' gathering points mentioned above.


** Qi-gong is the earlier version of Tai Chi, created by the 12th century Chinese General Marshal Yue,
Fei to improve the health of his soldiers, in which standing and sitting alignment, breathing, and
meditative practices are more important than doing the complicated movement forms of Tai Chi. It is a
good practice to combine with Tai-Chi in order to understand the spiritual and religious aspect of
Taoism more. Mr. Ross explains the important and ancient "Eight Brocade" standing meditation of of Qi-
Gong in his Great Course Lectures. And, in one of the lessons he gives a reference to the book, "Simple
Qigong Exercises for Health" by Dr. Yang which also includes explanations of the sitting meditation
versions of the eight brocades. This book also includes fascinating in depth discussions of the
translations of the Chinese Characters involved in the Taoist Philosophy and Tai-Chi and Qigong
practices.

In both the Taoist Tai Chi and Qigong practice as well as the Yoga Sanskrit meditative mantra practice;
the key to success is learning to be still for long periods of time. Many Christian prayer groups refer to
this knowledge as referring to the "Be still and Know That I AM God". But, in addition to contemplating
the meaning of Bible verses, there are actual progressive physical steps one practices to learn it. In the
beginning, learning to be mindful of the breath, is primary as Buddhist teach. One can then learn how to
1) sit and to stand with proper alignment of posture, 2) to tense and relax the muscles in our face, arms,
chest abdomen, waist, legs. The purpose of the seed syllables of the mantras and the prayer formulas
in the longer mantras is like the energy points in Tai chi is in addition to revealing truth to our spiritual
souls, to give the meditator something to concentrate or think about while he or she is trying to "Be still
and know that I AM God". But, perhaps the most important first step of any is as Patanjali teaches in his
sutras is to get right ethically with our Father Creator in Our One Divinity who lives in Heaven and loves
us and cares for us as His children here on earth. If you don't emphasize this phase as a first step, as
Buddhists and Taoists don't, things can get really difficult for you if you get on the wrong side of a
good relationship with Our God who dwells (after we recognize Him or Her as such and Love each other
as our Self as Jesus Christ has taught us) as a Holy Spirit in all of us. Also, at the beginning we must to
accomplish our own part to bless and sanctify and concentrate our thoughts on blessing and
sanctifying God's Name, God's Name has a male part (the Four-fold Vakra as Hindus teach or the Tu or
diagram of the supreme ultimate as Taoists teach) and a female part (the One-fold Instantiation as
Unification of Variables in Meaningful Statements which can be understood by all of us objectively, as a
logical and Biblical Truth, the Oneness in the Trinitythat we Christians teach is important). This four-
fold ineffable presence and the one-fold shakti combine into a Trinity of three persons which we
understand as humans mentally to be Our Father who art in Heaven, His Son Jesus Christ, and their
Spirit dwelling mystically in us in a two-fold combination of The Holy Spirit. As I have argued elsewhere
in this blog, the mystical Truth of this Divine Arithmetic transcends any particular consonants and vowel
assignments for we believe that in some Transcendental Sense "Truth is invariance under change of
notation."



Assuming, as we mentioned above, that our health already exists spiritually inside of us and around us
and doesn't need to be added to by God's Holy Spirit, as the Chi rotates around the three paduas
representing a natural heaven, a natural soul, a natural earth its energy lifts itself up is emptied of itself
in us, and recreates itself or resurrects itself in us as Tantric (but not Scriptual Biblical syllogistic) Truth
in order to heal us.

I have found that the Qi-Qong part of the Tai-Chi Qi-Qong is more important and fundamental to
learning it.

If you are interested in learning more about these Q-Qong practices:

Qi-qong (cf. Chinese Health Association Book Wu Qin Xi)
Five animal frolics

Here are some simple starting Qi-Qong exercise which when combined with the standing like a tree
being still training outside in order to connect with the natural chi in the 5-element world around us and
counting in-and out breath with mindfully awareness of your posture, a 100 times, then 500 times, and
even a 1000 times can really help you.

David-Dorian Ross explains the A or first part of these sequences in his Great Course DVD, but I think
its really enjoyable to add the B ones too. They are explalned in the Chinese Health Association book.


Start out with opening sequence of adjusting breath then lifting hands gently, concentrating on the
Laoqong point in palms between second and third metacarpal bones, knees slightly bent, keeping
shoulders and elbows down

Holding your hands correctly hand in these exercise helps us channel our breath into what the Indians
call the vyana or neural component of the five Sanskrit breath energies 1)prana or heart in-breath 2)
apana or downward expelling out-breath, 3) samana all-pervading consciousness breath, 4) vyana
nerve energy breath, 5) udana or upward moving breath. As in doing all Hatha Yoga or Chinese Yoga
you will benefit thinking about on how these different types of breath are happening while you are doing
the exercises.

1) Tiger- Form a tiger paw with hands and fingers (see book for illustration) turn palms outward, lift
and stretch hands high above head, clench fists, return to starting position, do 3 times, keep posture
erect and immoveable, if desired, go into “seizing the prey routine” as explained in book. This exercise
improves the flexibility of the spine.
2) Deer- See the book illustration to form the deer hand and fingers, abduct (lift outwardly) and turn
the left hand out to the left side, with right hand following over it, repeat movement with right hand to
the other side. Go into the “running like a deer exercise as explained In book(coordinating this exercise
with the in out breath strengthens the waist and hips the house of the kidneys)
3) Bear- Make hollow fists to imitate a bear’s paw, rotate upper body clockwise with waist and
abdomen as the axis, after this you may want to step forward to the left and right and go into the
“swaying like a bear” routine as explained in the book (this exercise helps the lumbar joints and muscles
and can prevent muscle strain)
4) Monkey- Form a monkey’s paw with both hands lifted up to shoulder height and with palms facing
out in the front as explained in the book, quickly lift head and neck up and turn tacing to the left and
right, wobbling while doing this
Is caused by faulty weight shift. Go into the “picking the fruit” routine as explained in book.
5) Crane- The crane is considered a symbol of calmness and longevity in China. Start from a semi-
squatting position, with palms facing downward place one hand on top of the other. raise both hands
above head, the weight is shifted to the right side while the left leg is lifted and extended backward, at
the same time both hands are spread to the sides to imitate a bird’s wings, return to starting position.
Go into the “flying like bird” sequence B, lifting up one knee at a time to the left and right while again
spreading the arms out like wings. This part requires a little better balance


Finish this routine with the “sink the chi” winding down sequence of movements


Here are the Sitting Meditations:
They are explained in more detail in another Chinese Health Association book called Shi Er Duan Jin or
12-Routine Sitting Exercises (which comes with an audio CD as well as video DVD). The eight part
series is taken from the other reference given below.

For those of us who like to meditate in the lotus and half-lotus yogic sitting postures these exercises
are a wonderful series of
Qi-Qong routines
Eight Pieces of Sitting Brocade *

1) Sit still, close eyes to reach deep mind with deep breathing, holding hands firm think for 3 -5
minutes on 3 dan tiens , posture, alignment
2) Hands hold head, place fingertips in ears once or twice, tap click teeth 36 times
3) knock and beat jade pillow (beat heavenly drum 24 times)
4) turn head repeatedly, lightly swinging the sky post…red dragon tongue stires liquid saliva 36 times,
use 3 swallows to send it to the belly wheel.
5) Push and massage the essence door (jing mein)…seal breath, rub hands until hot, massage back 24
times, end with one mouthful of breath, feel the fire is entering the belly to unite yi (mind) and chi
(energy)
6) Rotating winches...With the feet still in lotus or half-lotus posture, and hands turned downward row
a wheel left and right. 1) bend forward with arms at sides and extend arms with palms facing down,
fingers curved inward 2) circle hands upward and backward as if rowing a boat, 3) continue rowing
motion, circling back downward and forward. This procedure unites the yi (mind) with the qi (energy)
in the six arm channels.
7) Bending to touch the feet...With the two feet extended reach forward and catch the toes. then bend
forward and catch the opposite toes with opposite hand, make a half-moon with the arms and hands
and switch hands and toes.
8) Propping up the sky and pressing the skull.. Continue from position of previous movement, and do
the lift hands above head, press them down on head, then hold feet. 1) interlock hands and hold them
palm up above head, stay there for 3 seconds 2) then turn palms down and press top of head, pushing
up with head, hold for 3 seconds 3) separate hands and b end forward using hands to pull back on toes
(this movement helps to regulate the “triple burner” that includes the upper (in the chest above the
diaphragm), middle (between the diaphragm and the navel) and lower (between the navel and the groin)
parts of your torso.
9) Massaging Jingmen on Back
10)Continue from Massaging Jingmen, then Caressing the belly and Abdomen.
11) Entire Sky slow Transportation—rinse and swallow mouth saliva three times, then again swallow
mouth saliva nosiliy keeping the attention on the lower dan tien, feel the chi circulating in the entire
body nine times.. then relax think that fire is burning in the whole body.

For more details see the reference mentioned above.

After completion of the entire series, sit quietly and and breathe evenly for about three minutes. You
may feel the Chi moving through the small circulation up the governing energy circulation vessel in the
back of the spine in the torso, and then down through the conception energy circulation vessel in the
center and front of the torso.



Note added by Andrew: If you are saved in Christ already and daring enough to not be afraid of what
might happen if you love others as your self and entering into and unifying your spiritual Holy Spirit
body and Christ mind into other religious believers in order to learn from them how to help and save
them inside of the mind of God’s Only Son, Jesus Christ. Think of a tracing a Yin-Yang symbol
movement … which is the same as a YHWH name of God two-fold, inside of four-fold energy body, Our
God consciousness meditation.. It is what is called the crossed Vajras meditation by the Buddhists, and
the four-fold “ OM Ekadantaya Vidmahe Vakratundaya Dhemahi, Tanno Danti Prachodayat” Gayatri
Mantra 1st in a series of 11 male female divinity generation mantras in a fundamental series of Sanskrit
sound, shared language meaning correspondence mantras . The 1st is the one which generates the
Ganesha, remover of obstacles, deva of the Lord Shiva (see Swami Vishnudevananda’s book Meditation
and Mantras).


· Some parts of the above also taken from the book “Simple Qiqong Exercises for Health” by Dr.
Yang, Jwing-Ming and also the book and DVD Ba Duan Jin (or eight section Qiqong exercise) by the
Chinese Health Association

Eight Pieces of Standing Brocade**
1) Reach up to the Heavens, start in starting position of cross hands with fingers intertwined, lift
hands up holding both hands high with palms up, continue to raise the palms until the arms are straight
, look striaight ahead, lower hands and arms down, repeat six times. This movement is used to regulate
the internal organs, to help back and neck problems.
2) Stretch bow left and right from center, after crossing hands in center, pointing two fingers out of fist
and looking far I that direction, shoulder of the bow arm down. This stimulates the Du Mai or
governor/controller meridian in back. Helps correct hunched back and shoulder and neck problems
3) Holding and lifting one hand first to the left and right..one arm aloft to regulate the functions of the
spleen and stomach.
4) Looking and turning backwards over shoulder left and right to prevent sickness and strain
5) Sway head, turning body to left and right…adopt horse stance, wagging the tail and shaking the hip
to drive the fire out of the heart to relieve stress pull in hips and buttocks and extend them in a round
and flowing manner stimulates du mai meridian
6) Brushing the sky..moving the hands down the back and legs and touching the sky, start with two
hands in front, then lift them up to sky, then bend forward and touch feet
Execute six times upward and downward

7) Assume the horse stance (knees bent at 90 degree angle, chi settled in lower spine and pelvis)
Punch with two fists with to left and right with glaring eyes to strengthen kidneys to enhance strength
Making ones eyes glares stimulates the liver according to traditional Chinese medicine

8) Raising and lowering heels, bouncing the toes seven times to drive away all illness…lift feet up on
toes and push (bounce) down 24 times, hold the waist bouncing 7 times and hold hands in front
bouncing 7 times to cure sickness try not to stiffen the shoulders. Tapping the toes on the floor
stimulates the du mai meridian. Stimulates joints of lower limbs and spine.

Closing of eight piece brocade form
Continue from previous routine, sink chi as in other exercises looking straight ahead this resettles
energy from exercises and helps us regain the state of calmness experienced before the start of the
exercises

Other Qi-gong
1)Princess steps up to the mountain: cross hands and step forward to left and right
2) Vertical and horizontal circles

** refers to their explanation as given in the Great Courses lessons on Qi-Qong and Tai-Chi by David-
Dorian Ross. This course also contains a very good step by step "walk through" of the basic 24 step
Tai-Chi martial arts sequence. The whole sequence starts out with "sinking the Chi" (lifting the hands
up with death and pushing the Chi downward) and then goes into a series of martial arts moves.
There are four basic Tai-Chi stances in it:

11) bow step with 60 per cent on front foot and 40 percent on back, feet are separated in contrast to
the Yogic warrior stance where they are together.
2) empty step step forward with weight on one foot
3) T-step step to the side with weight on stationary foot
4 4) Embracing the moon step . step forward and postion one hand and shoulder on top and one going
the opposite direction on bottom
You can practice these four basic forms by starting off with 4)
Then going to 3) then stepping forward with 1) The first move in the 24-step sequence “parting the
horse’s mane” is basically this practice sequence


24 step Tai Chi Form

We start off facing to the East and moving to the North:

T-step is Yin, Bow step, open or closed is Yang

1) Opening the door hold ball in hand, for vertical transition, just ease yourself down [its more difficult
to stay high] slide down 2 or 3 inches, the back stays flat. You can practice it by putting back against a
wall.

Before you try parting the wild horse you should practice just stepping forward according to Dr. Lam’s
instructions. Put hands behind back for balance, bend knees, step forward and back (twice) to the right
and left gently, placing toes and then heels on floor. After you finish practicing these fundamental
moves you can eliminate then from the continuous movement of the 14-step routine in order to get a
better flow of energy or chi.

2) Parting the wild horse’s mane keep same posture, from a T-step step into a bow stance 3 times
forward, T-step [ultimate yin position] forward or not [pause before it], going into a open [torso open]
not closed bow-step [hips squared away]. Make sure head is squared away.
3) White crane spreads its wings: There are two parts, shifting forward [bringing the back foot
forward] and shifting back to make the empty step, with feet and up with hands[spreading the wings] to
movement, both parts are matched in hands and feet.
Close hips, a rotation, to gather the moon, open body and close again to finish movement. A wind up, an
unwinding, a settle.
4) Brush knee 3 times forward, pull hands back to right [left] side as you turn, sit down…slide down
the wall and back up, slide left hand down while right hand is sliding up, step forward with left foot
(which is the foot without weight on it) and brush right knee with right hand while squaring up hips.
Stepping out and pushing forward, palms facing forward.
5) Play Pipa or Lute Start facing right, lean body open, step forward half step with right foot, opens
the body to the right drawing right hand in and up. Then draw weight back and bring left hand up to
where right elbow is almost touching.

We have now reaching the limit to moving to the North.

Before you start into the repulse the monkey part of the forms you might want to practice stepping
backward according to Dr. Lam’s instructions. With hands crossed together in front of chest, bend
knees balance in place and step back and forward gently (twice to left and right) lifting up left and right
heel. After you finish learning this you can eliminate it from this part of the forms.


6) Repulse the Monkey 4 times stepping backward, making a 45 degree, then 90 degree turn,
opening up the position to the right and turning as you do, separate hands [and only when you are
facing forward] start w/ left foot back, this movement presents a smaller target to the opponent. Check
to make sure your feet are staying close together but now crossing as you move back.

These next set of two grasp the sparrow’s tail movements are done first toward the North and East and
then toward the South.

7) grasp sparrow’s tail ward off left foot forward. This is the most important 4-step movement of Yang
style Tai Chi. Listening, resolving, gently pushing back to reach a win-win situation.

a) ward off left…step out, carrying a ball, and in slightly turning torso and hand gathering in the
energy for peng or expanding energy, It is an energy of “reaching out” grabbing the attacker’s arm and
listening to the energy [why the person is angry, why they want to tell us this, why they want to do
things a certain way]. Then it is much easier to re-direct the force.
b) roll-back two hands reach forward to grab then guide then down and rolling back hinging arm for lu
or soft pulling back energy
c) shift forward to press, [gently to push people away, just to give a little space for yourself] hands
down, carrying a ball, using body mainly, into a bow stance, the hands right hand and left hand join,
pierce and press forward into a small space lifting toes to come back a little farther, hands sink down for
last part
d) pushing up open up hands, palms facing downward, hands into chest, weight shifts back and left
toe up, and push up forward with palms.
For the transition to the left movement open up hands and shift weight back to lead to next grasping of
sparrow’s tail to right.


In between this last movement and the next use a double weight shift, turning around to the right and
stretching the arms out with left hand up to face and right hand below to the right to shift balance to be
into position to do the next ward-off movement to the right.

8) grasp sparrow’s tail ward off right foot forward

(same as last grasp sparrow’s tail to left but moving to the right with ward-off to the right, roll-back to
the right, shift up and press and then pushing up with open hands.)

The next sequence of movements is done toward the North.

9) single whip left foot forward as you move it to the right turn the right palm down at 2 o’clock to form
a hook hand, while the right hand is making the hook, the left hand circles up to the right wrist. In the
final position the left palm is facing up to 9 o’clock. Change hand positions the position of the body is
open relative to the bow step

10) wave hands like clouds 3 times to the left finish center
To start, first transfer weight to right hand with weight aback, turn a half turn, then bring right foot in
and 2nd part turn to left with right hand down, left heel up. Every movement in this is coordinated, the
change of hand position with the change of body position and waist turning. When the weight shift
occurs, so does the hand change. The waist turn and the step also go together.

11) Another single whip with left foot forward. ( facing toward the North)

12) High pat on horse – from single whip you will use the empty step [take a half step forward and
shift weight to right leg] forming an empty step turn the body slight to the left and curl the right hand
past the right ear and push it forward as you change and transition to the next movement

Before doing the kicking forms it is good to practice lifting up the knees, left and right, at the same time
after crossing hands and kicking easily to each side while maintaining balance on the one remaining leg.


The first high kick is done toward the North East, you then turn and do a second one toward the
SouthWest.

13) Standing up and kicking with heel- from this point start looking at the corner [you have looked
start ahead up to this point in all the forms], take a little step forward diagonally with left foot, into
corner, cross wrists, bring right foot to the side of left foot, resting toes on floor [T-step] open hip,
thrust the right foot gradually forward, looking to the right.

14) Boxing both ears- Pull back right foot, brush hands back and down in a curve, look straight
ahead and step forward with right foot and hands and fists punching and moving upward. Remember to
lift both hands up without lifting shoulders.


15) Step up and kick with heel left. Transfer weight back, open up, shift weight back to right, bring
left foot closer back to right. Then do movement 14) to the kicking to the left. End by making a hook
with left hand hanging next to the right.

This next movement is now done facing the South.

16) Snake creeps down in the grass to left
(squatting single whip)
Open hip joints, put weight of body, not in the middle, buyt to one side or the other. Bring left hand
down, turn palm out, turn left toe out. Keep weight on right side, step out, as you shift weight forward,
left right hand come back.

17) Grasp the rooster’s tail right. Move weight forward and bring right foot forward so right hand
brings right foot up.

Now turn to the left and do another snake creeps down facing to the South.

18) Snake creeps down in the grass to right- Turn abody to the left, At the same timeraise your left
handsideways and make a hook. The right hand follows and then moves to the right (as in the reflection
of movement 16).

Continue movement facing to the South.

19) Grasp rooster’s tail left

Now face to the West and then SouthEast.

20) Fair lady works the shuttles right and left: Step back to the left side slightly, carrying the ball,
and step forward bringing the right hand forward, block, pushing it and the left palm forward… then 45
degrees to the left, the other side. Step back to the right slightly, carrying the ball and step forward
bringing the left hand forward, block, pushing it and the right palm forward.

21) Reach down and pick up the needle at the sea bottom

Facing toward the SouthEast, take a half step forward left hand brushing past left knee, push the right
hand up 45 degrees to the right, turn back to the left with right hand down and left hand in front of you.

Now turn to the right and face to the West for the next movement.

22) Open arms like a fan- Turn and take a step forward to form a bow stance. Raise right hand up
with elbow bent until it stops just above right forehead. Raise left hand up slightly and push it forward at
nose levelwith palm facing forward. Look at left hand.

Now turn clockwise to the North and punch to the East for the next movement.

23) Turn to deflect downward and punch- This is a complicated move…1st turn left toe in and
transfer weight to the back , turn left hand over right as it moves back and push forward with right fist
down, into a left bow stance keeping right foot back and ending up facing to the East.

24) Apparent closing up [facing to the East], Cross hands and closing the door[ facing to the
East].- Bring left hand under right elbow, turn and open up to the front, pushing hand forward, palms
facing out. [now cross hands].


Here are some of David Ross’s tips for practice from his DVD
11) relax
2) float the head
3) align knees and head
4) use visualization as you move
5) square corners become round
6) check breathing frequently
7) have fun

Here are some of Dr. Yang's tips and key points for practical Tai Chi fighting from his book

Tai Chi Chuan Martial Arts Applications
and DVD
Tai Chi Fighting Set, 2 person matching set

1) Understand the application of the art to fighting.
(usually only taught after 3-years of initial study)

2)Master the skill of angling, trapping, yielding, and other techniques

3) Master stepping and sense of distance

4) learn how to trap and avoid trapping

5) Train your Jin, both offense and defense, in movements

6) Train your sense of enemy

Practical Applications to Wrestling throws:


Some simple Tai Chi wrestling take down moves involving :
1) grasp the sparrow’s tail right
2) grasp the sparrow’s tail left


grasp the sparrow’s tail right take down:

a) Initiate from cross hands in push hands start not parallel hands.
(in parallel hands person A is facing person B with both legs
facing in his direction and both hands on top of the opponent’s hands…from this position there is an
“open door” to each opponent’s groin area… but if one leg only is facing forward, with toe pointed
inward it protects against this,,, while you are in cross hands you should be aware of the opponents
ability to use his elbow and shoulder against you.)
b)Then A starts the move off with a “ward off” to the right and catching the back of B’s arm from
outside of the starting set up.
c) then angle and slide in with A’s left hand supporting the right hand doing the ward off.
d) bump with the leg against B’s front right leg again from the outside of the starting situation
e) A pushes off B with A’s right hand on the back of B’s right shoulder
and takes him down to the right while continuing to push on his shoulder.

If this is done correctly B will be off balance while it is happening and cannot kick back

grasp the sparrow’s tail left take down:

a) During this move A’s right hand balances his left hand. Start off with A and B right feet facing
forward against each other
b) A twists around clockwise to the back of B’s forward right foot which is facing him, while grabbing
and holding B’s right arm past A’s right side and coming up under B’s arm with his left elbow… making
sure to lock B’s arm away from his (A’s) chest.
At the same time, A’s left foot locks B’s thigh and forward foot away from him in order to keep B off
balance.
c) Then A turns outward while sealing B’s throat and neck with his arm and pushing B upward with his
shoulder and takes him down to the left while sliding the forward left foot into the take down to the left.
Make sure to not just use the arm but also your butt to do the twist, push up, and take down to the left.

Main References

Essentials of Tai Chi and Qigong Great Courses with DVD and lessons book by David Dorian Ross

The Tai Chi Companion [workbook] by David Dorian Ross

Tai Chi Wrestling by Dr. Yang, Swing-Ming

Tai Chi the 24 Forms by Dr. Paul Lam

Shi Er Duan Jin by Chinese Health Association



Vista overlook, Zion Canyon Christmas vacation 2005
The Jewish scheme of metaphysical syllabic seed sounds are given in the book
“Sefer Yetzirah” or Book of Formation (two-fold world of creation using speech and yes/ no rules to
classify or discriminate things)

For Jews the primary vowels with their metaphysical spiritual body correspondences given in the order
they are chanted and contemplated as existing in the top three ‘brahma loka chakras’ are:
1) O (pronounced ‘oh’) facing forward and up
2) A (pronounced ‘ah’) facing to the left shoulder
3) E (pronounced ‘ay’) facing to the right shoulder
4) I (pronounce d ‘ee’) facing down
5) U (pronounced ‘ou’) facing inward and out
After this sequence of vowel chants one should meditate on a six-directional , five-dimensional series of
Cross’s being engraved by the voice from its astral form (substance occupying some type of space
larger than our own present moment reality existing in four dimensions of space and time) and existing
in a higher polytope space (five dimensions).
The Hebrew consonants consist of five phonetic families generating themselves starting 1) in the back
of the neck at the throat (guttural), Aleph, Cheth, Heh, Ayin, 2) on the palate, gimel, yod, kaph qouth, 3)
tongue, Daleth, Teth, lamech, nun, tav 4) through the teeth, zav, samech,shin,rosh,tzadi 5) on the lips,
beth, vav.mem.peh.
In addition to the main 22 consonants embedded in this list, there are included some of five letters
which have different forms at the middle and end of words.
1) Mem
2) Nun
3) Tzadi
4) Peh
5) Kaf

Just like as in Sanskrit where the vowels thought of an existing in the throat chakra have doubled, soft
and hard pronunciations in Yoga mantras
These are five doubled letters, doubled as written consonants.
The seven doubled as spoken (spoke soft and hard just as certain doubled Sanskrit consonant families
are spoken soft and hard as Christian Hindus meditate on what is called the alphabet Matrika) They
are:
1) B. BB
2) G,GG
3) D,DD
4) K, KK
5) P,PP
6) R,RR
7) T,TT

In Chapter four of the Sephirah Yetzirah it is explained the importance of these letters for meditation as
we think about Chapter’s 1,2,3 of the Book of Genesis in the Torah containing the verses explaining the
seven days of God’s creation of the world as it takes place on Holy Prayer Days at the beginning and
end of time occurring for us during the liturgical year.

A “Sefer Binah” if it existed would be a Book of Unification of terms, or how the heavenly world (the
world of oneness) unifies conceptual definitions using language sounds.
As Christians, we believe in the Divine power of the Name of God understood as a personal Trinity, as a
Unity in Diversity (or two-foldness) of Divine and human creation.