Ultimate answers
By Phil on May. 27, 2009.
So, through Ki training, I was able to see spirits, diagnose people without touching, sheath myself in a protective capsule of energy, manifest incredible physical strengths, and do other “miraculous” things. But I still couldn’t answer the simple question: Why was I born? Without the answer to this question, I would remain someone who could play around with energy, a mere technician. Nothing more. And what good is that? What good is knowing how to uproot trees without knowing what to use this power for? I was reminded of a story I had heard about Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism. He had a bright student who trained for ten years in order to be able to control the flow of Ki energy to such an extent that he could form an energy bridge over a nearby river. One day, he showed Lao Tzu what he could do and walked across the river on the invisible energy bridge, back and forth. Expecting high praise, the student was flabbergasted when Lao Tzu turned purple with anger and shouted at him at the top of his voice, “You stupid idiot. You spent ten years to do a stupid trick when, all this time, there was a cheap ferry to get you across the river at any time you wished!”
That’s exactly how I felt. Like the student, I was nothing more than a show pony.
I wanted the ultimate answers and not cheap thrills. Content has copied from Healing Society by Ilchi Lee.
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