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Tao lecture – 17th November 2001
Last month we spoke about energy, and about traditional healing in Cape Town. There are a lot of traditional healers in Cape Town. As traditional healers, we not only work with scientific medical research, but we are also connected with our spiritual side. To be a proficient traditional healer, these two must work side by side – we cannot separate them – if you shift either way, then that is not traditional healing.
From our ancestors until now, no-one has been able to say “I just have a spirit”, or “I am just a physical being, a physical body, nothing else”. We talk about spiritual things, but at the same time we have a physical body – we exist, here. We believe our physical bodies can do anything, but we must not forget what connects us to it. Without our spiritual side, how can we do anything? At the same time, our spirit is connected to our physical body. If we can understand this and combine the two things – our spirit and our physical – then we are truly a traditional healer.
People research cancer and AIDS from a scientific point of view, but they never do it from a traditional point of view – they forget to think about the spirit. Research is becoming more and more advanced, but they still find it difficult to cure these diseases and solve these problems. In Chinese culture, the Book of Changes says everything happens ‘just in yin and yang’ – it’s a simple thing. Scientific research, however, concentrates on finding the end result – what is the cause of this disease, what is this virus, what is the result? Their research, therefore, becomes empty, it has no substance, because it forgets to look at the spiritual side. If we can put this together, then it becomes simple – it is called yin and yang. Yin and yang must complement each other and work in harmony. When there is disease, there is an imbalance. You can cure yourself from disease by bringing harmony to body and spirit.
The disease is also often cured through Scientific research. We test your blood to find out what disease or virus you have. If the level on the test is below zero, then the result is negative – there is a negative reaction. If the level is above zero, then the result is positive – there is a positive reaction. Then we know the result and can treat the disease.
In the time of our ancestors, there were fewer diseases. We lived off the plants of the land and hunted for our meat. Then as man evolved, he grew cleverer and learned how to breed animals to keep as a supply of food – there was then no reason to hunt and there was a bigger supply. Before that, we hunted and ate just what we needed. With a bigger supply, we began to eat more and more meat. The result is that 100 years later, we have created heart disease – heart attacks. New medical technology says we need a bypass. Why do these things happen?
Our spirit can move the energy. The energy can cause action or a reaction in our body. This is one kind of energy – a moving energy. Another one comes from a long time ago – after the Second World War, a lot of western culture came to the Far East and to Africa. The United Nations introduced vaccines for babies. Suddenly the physical changes, the changes in our body, became very quick. The changes in our environment could not keep up with the changes in our body. Then came industrial development, which caused pollution. Pollution caused sickness and disease and for that we took medicine. The medicine introduced chemical substances into our body. Some of these chemicals worked their way out, but a lot are still accumulating in our bodies – more pollution.
All over the world, human beings are just looking in the one direction – on the physical side – but are not seeing what is happening spiritually. They don’t seem to care about this. This energy is also moving, but it is not moving in the right way. Now we have the HIV virus. We find this virus in Africa and it spreads very fast. Why is this happening? Why were our ancestors healthy? Why did they not have these diseases? Our hearts were healthy originally, then we began to eat badly and our structure changed. In the East, there were no heart attacks before. Why are there so many now?
We must learn how to use this energy to help fight the viruses, which are increasing and growing fast.
The energy that is moving follows our spirit. We think – and the energy starts to move. Sometimes we will only see the result in 1000 years, or maybe 10 000 years. We have a thought, plant a seed into the earth – it grows in the future and our next generation must take responsibility for this action.
The first thing I emphasise, though, is that we must know how to purify our soul.
Secondly, what is this energy?
When we refresh our physical bodies – when we eat and drink – our digestive system is working, our heart is beating, our blood is circulating, our metabolism is working, our cells are reproducing. Can we say, wait a minute – let’s stop our stomach from digesting, let’s stop our heart from beating? Who of us can do this? No one. We need to understand our physical bodies. We need to understand the action of our physical bodies when we eat and drink. We have survived from birth until now – how many of us think about how we have done this? It’s as though we live in a machine – like a computer, we look for instant answers – yes or no. We never really find out how or why we can do so many things. We want to tell our stomach that we are not hungry, but then we get even hungrier and we have to eat. What is happening inbetween? This action never stops. This is called energy. But a definition is just a definition. We must find out how energy exists in our bodies. I can use a mirror to check that I am really here. How can I check that the energy is here and how do I survive?
Many people never discover this energy or what energy is. Then they want to become a traditional healer and become even more confused. You want to discover what you are – look to see if your face is smiling or angry. Use this manner for communication – absorb another person’s anger. If they are angry, talk softly and gently to them, absorb their anger, bring it down. Use your energy to heal, discover what this energy is and use the right energy to heal correctly. A bypass is not going to cure someone of AIDS – you must discover how to use your energy correctly.
This energy moves and shifts – to what kind?
Today and tomorrow you might think of the same things. Time and space are different – the energy moving is also different. If we try and analyse this, it will take a very long time and you will be exhausted. If, however, you discover it, it will be as though a light has been switched on. Julian Barber, the author of “The End of Time”, says that from the big bang until now is the same time. I use this to compare.
How do we discover our energy? We need to use our sensations. First of all, we all have the same sensations – we hear, we see, we taste, we look, we smell. Sometimes, though, people create a different kind of sensation. We use eyes to see an aura, we use smell to sense an aura, we use our hearing to ‘see’ an aura. The convenient way of using our sensations is to see with our eyes, to hear with our ears. It is easier to do this, but other things can interfere with the sensations. Gradually, we must learn to hear just one sound, but at the same time, we must hear many sounds. We must learn to focus our hearing, but at the same time hear everything. When we hear many sounds, we become more open and suddenly it becomes quiet. When the hearing quietens, what is happening? The energy appears. Energy makes our sensations work.
Energy must find something to do.
If you are able to make all your sensations subside in your physical body, your circulation and your heartbeat will also slow down. Your energy then becomes stronger and suddenly you can see the light. It comes from within you. This is called transcendence.
You must discover energy before you can use it. We all possess it, but if we never discover it, how can we use it?