Please read about the Catalan efforts to celebrate a referendum for self-determination and the response from the Spanish state, from the archetypal perspective of this observer.

A Breath of Fresh Air

In the last few years several events had made it clear to me that the gun powder factory was a blind spot in my life and that it would be advisable to find out more about it. I have the feeling that during the weekend of my visit I delved into deep roots of my life which give me strength and resistence and food for my spirit and my soul. While these roots were stuck in oblivion, they emanated emotions like shame, fear, anger and guilt. It was only when I managed to let go a bit of the fist in my stomach that has been holding on tightly since my early childhood, that it became possible to name those emotions, to question them, and to discover tracks leading back to the context of their origin. They would often come up without any apparent reason or would be set off  by circumstances that did not match the intensity of their onslaught. They belonged to a pattern that repeated itself again and again, with a negative impact on my health and wellbeing and making life difficult both in the work place and at home. The work with the patterns in my body revealed tracks that led me to the site of the gun powder factory, when I found out that my grandfather had been an officer of the guard there during WWII. From his behavior in later years it became clear that he had not been able to assimilate whatever it must have been like to fulfill that function. He repressed those feelings and I absorbed them on our walks directly body to body, mind to mind, automatically, without being aware...read more

Tension, Water and the Tracks of History

The last days of August… the poster about the excess of involuntary tensions and the water that keeps the tissues of our bodies supple and elastic is at the graphic designer’s… the exploration of the tracks of history in the body last weekend revealed to the participants roots that penetrate deeply into the Earth, nourish body and soul and help them to approach matters, personal and ancestral, that are awaiting some kind of resolution, and to let go of others that really are none of their business.

Before I go to Washington on September 17 to present my poster at the Fascia Research Congress, I will go to my home town in northern Germany, Geesthacht, to participate in a historical walk through the terrains of the gun powder factory that was there until 1945. The title: “German Gun Powder for the World”. It is organized by an organization for the promotion of an industry museum in Geesthacht, which I am a member of.

I am following some tracks that history has left in my body. A few years ago I discovered that my grandfather had been an official in the guard of this factory. It wasn’t voluntary. If he had refused, he would probably have been court martialed and executed for high treason. But until recently I hadn’t known anything about all this. I had seen the photo of him in his uniform some time before, but I didn’t know anything about his participation in the war, or rather, I had been under the impression that he hadn’t actually participated. It had been a blind spot. Luckily an aunt, based on some childhood recollections, was able to tell me why my grandfather was wearing that uniform.

From there on I started to understand a number of things that had happened in my family within a wider context and an image began to take shape, like when the pieces of a puzzle fall into place. I had often walked with my grandfather in the forest where the factory had been hidden. I don’t remember him ever telling me anything about the bombed out bunkers we saw there nor about any experience he had had on those very same paths some years earlier. Anyway, I was much more interested in the names of that tree, this herb, that bird… These things he did tell me. Probably I did not ask about the others because I felt that I would touch on something he was not willing to talk about. What I remember more than anything is the silence that was between us. It was not a comfortable silence. But that I didn’t know at the time. It was normal. It was a silence that was weighing tons.

As a matter of fact, as soon as I could I hit the road and went 800 km away to study applied linguistic sciences and, once I had finished my studies, 2000 km away. I needed distance to gain a perspective… and another profession that would help me to understand what was going on between me, my family, my country, and the world. It is thanks to this profession as a practitioner of the Duggan/French Approach (DFA) to Somatic Pattern Recognition that I am able to recognize the fist I can still feel right now in my stomach as the same fist my grandfather used to hold in and compress to the smallest dimension possible all the feeling he could not allow himself to feel as the guard of the forced labor of people who had been captured in the occupied countries and others who were inmates in the near-by concentration camp who were working there to manufacture the gun powder that was killing and injuring people all over the world. The powerlessness facing abuse and injustice traumatize a witness, probably not in the same way as the victim, but in a manner that is as lasting. And if it is not tended to effectively, it will become breeding ground for repetition.

The same is true in the realm of family life. The little girl, who sees her father beating up her brother and her mother too afraid to protect her son from her husband’s violence, feels the same kind of powerlessness and terror as any person facing the violence of organized terrorism of any kind: perpetrated by a state, fundamentalist groups, economic organizations, criminals, as extra-parliamentary opposition, on TV, in the movies, by children in school who have become bullies following the unresolved traumas of their elders and ancestors, or colleagues who mob others at the work place.           

Fifty refugees dead in a freezer truck, twenty suffocated in the cargo space of a ship, shipwrecks almost every day, thousands of refugees day by day… It is another war; it is other people who make it. But is it really another war, is it other people? I don’t believe anybody can watch the news without feeling the same fist in their stomach as my grandfather in the attempt to give as little space as possible to the feelings of powerlessness and terror facing the escalation of suffering manifest in all those people. It is in the nature of the living beings we are to be receptive for the emotional state of others. We are compassionate, gentle and supportive by nature. If people do not feel these things, it is because without knowing it they are tightening their muscles to interrupt the flow of sensations they do not tolerate. Underneath the threshold of consciousness the fear of these sensations grows and breeds more violence, more victims.

What can we do? No matter how powerless I feel facing all this, what I do know how to do is to relate to this fist:

-       Moment to moment, I try to find the position of my body where I can feel the ground underneath the fist so as to be able to show it that it is possible to be supported by a greater force (gravity, the force field of Mother Earth).

-       Following the direction of the exhale, I go into the tightest place within the fist and rest there in order to take in, without fear or resistance, the support of the ground which is available at all times, even in this tight place where a multitude of difficult feelings is crowded and compressed, so I can let them flow, one by one, and leave space for the next thing to come up.

-       With the support of the ground, I wait there for the movement of the inhale to begin in this place and expand it.

-       I give time to this movement of expansion during the inhale until I feel that it expands my whole body, from the tightest place within the fist all the way to the surface, from head to toe, in both sides and in the back as much as in the front.

-       As I let the air go again, I surrender my weight to the ground, the weight of my body as well as the weight of anything weighing me down… resting, once again, in the tightest spot within the fist, which by now already is a little bit less tight… and feeling the powerlessness facing the magnitude of the suffering, the anger with all those who create it out of ignorance and the terror facing their violence, because these are the things I need to let go. The powerlessness, the suffering, the anger, the ignorance, the terror and the violence, all these feeling I also have in me, and I can let go of them only if I feel them. Because, if I were to not feel them, how could I know what I have to let go of?

-       In communication with the Earth underneath my feet and my chair and the space around me that extends all the way through the whole universe, together with the air I exhale, I send out my wish that those who create the suffering of all these people become aware of the fact that they are hurting not only others but also themselves and that they stop doing it.

-       I put my being, my talents and my skills at the service of life in all its beauty to help create a world where every living being can enjoy the beauty of life to its fullest.

When I’ll be in Geesthacht in a couple of weeks, I would like to have the opportunity to find out what kind of effect it had to work deliberately in the gun powder factory, in terms of health of the workers themselves as well as their families. I have good health because in my adult life I have made sure to research in order to understand any discomfort and find out what I needed as a remedy, whenever it made itself felt. Now, in retrospective, I can see that many of my discomforts had their roots in the family situation caused by my grandfather’s emotional state within the context of the traumas caused by two world wars, the insanity of the regime and his participation in the manufacture of harmful substances. He was forced to participate. What must it have been like for those who were happy to have work and be able to sustain their families by manufacturing the gun powder that killed and injured so many people all over the world? As for my own health, if it hadn’t been for the inner work I did during all those years, I am sure that at this point I would be dead or very sick. And here I am: happy, grateful and enjoying good health.

The project of the poster about the excess of involuntary tensions and the water that keeps the tissues of our bodies supple and elastic will end on Tuesday, September 6, https://goteo.org/project/cristal-liquido?lang=en. After that day it will no longer be possible to make any contributions. But the page itself will remain open and accessible to anyone wishing to consult or make use of the materials I had the opportunity to elaborate for this project during the months of June, July and August, except for some images which I will have to withdraw after September 6.  

I thank you for your interest and support!

Sincerely,

Brigitte Hansmann

www.dfa-europa.com

An excess of involuntary tension dries out the body’s tissues –muscles, connective tissues and bones. When we manage to let go of some of it, they begin to rehydrate.

To follow the invitation to present the results of my research in this area at the 4^th Fascia Research Congress involved an effort that proved excessive for my economy. Therefore, I handed the decision whether to go or not over to destiny. I was willing to bring forward my knowledge, my work power, my time and my being but, due to the government decisions that during the last years have impoverished the working population in order to enrich the banks, my income was no longer generating enough cash flow to finance this endeavor. Therefore I decided to employ the Goteo Foundation in order to give the world a venue through which it could provide the means I needed to be able to attend this congress, if it considered it important that I’d go.

Drop by drop (that is the meaning of goteo), people from different parts of the world, people I know and others I don’t, have pooled the means for me to go to Washington next month. I feel deeply grateful and touched. The necessary amount to cover airfare, hotel, congress fees, commissions and taxes was reached in time. Therefore, automatically a second round started with the aim to reach the optimum amount. If that comes together, it will take my poster and me also to the 10^th Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water in Bulgaria in October. So, if you feel affinity with the project, it is still possible to contribute drops of cofinanciation in exchange for one of the rewards, and to share it with other people you think might feel affinity with it as well.  https://goteo.org/project/cristal-liquido?lang=en

Affinity

After all, it is all about affinity. It was due to affinity that certain substances moved together to form proteins, probably in water, because proteins are hydrophilic, they love water. It was due to affinity that the process went on and the proteins moved together in water to give origin to ever more complex forms of life. Today, millions of years later, new life is still coming into being due to affinity. If you feel it, let it flow. If protein and water want me to go to Bulgaria to describe the kind of relationship between the two which is most becoming for us, they will make sure the means to go will come.

If you feel affinity, due to the simple fact of feeling it, you already open a pathway through which possible means can flow. Even if you have no liquidity at your disposal to make a contribution of money, you contribute the energy of your affinity. Feel your body. More than 70% of its weight is water. Feel the relationship between the weight of your body and the material world. There is a continuous fluctuation in this relationship through the movements of your breathing. If you follow the movement of relaxation that takes place during the exhale, you can give yourself a moment of rest in the very depth of what you are as a living being, and in the material world you are a part of. This rest will make your inhale generous and expand the limits held in place by your pattern of habitual tension, if you also allow space and time for it to happen. Like this, you are already making a valuable contribution to my project.  

Letting go the excess of involuntary tension

We are all part of the same world, of the same life. The excess of involuntary tension does not let us appreciate this fact and rest within it. The problem is that we identify with this excess. We believe that this is how we are and that the world is how we perceive it through the filter of this tension. No matter how willing we are to let go of this tension that keeps us trapped in restrictive and sometimes even destructive patterns, deeply rooted in our organism there is fear that we will lose our lives if we let go.  

Annie B. Duggan and Janie French, the creators of the Duggan/French Approach (DFA) for Somatic Pattern Recognition developed a physical intervention that helps to let go of this tension in a secure environment. It gives the organism the opportunity to become aware of what it is like to move with less tension and more support, freedom of movement and responsiveness and to examine possible objections psyche might have. A good muscle tone, i.e. involuntary tension in the right measure, keeps us in good shape so that we are able to deal with the affairs the excess of tension kept underneath the threshold of consciousness. Many of them need nothing more than that the message that was retained by the tension be taken in and understood. Some may require a certain action or positioning in relationship to some event in the past, present or future.

DFA sessions offer a safe space where to release the excess of involuntary tension with the help of the physical intervention, to learn to understand the language of the body and to discover what you need to feel well. The tension also is a guide. When the truth is spoken, tension is released; things drop by their own weight. 

The traces of history in the body

Children feel in their bodies what adults struggle to keep underneath the threshold of their consciousness through the tension of their muscles. They don’t know what it is they are feeling, or that they are responding to something in their parents’ or grandparents’ body. They feel it in their own, as if it was a part of what they are. Like this, apart from genetic transmission, through sensation transmitted body to body, mind to mind, the traces of history are propagated from generation to generation. On August 21-23 in a workshop in ermie in Barcelona we explore the traces our parents’ and grandparents’ experience left in our bodies. There still are two places open.

Finding the inner compass

There are situations where it becomes necessary to check the course life is taking, be it to make sure you remain on course, to rectify or to change it. When you rest within what you are as a living being and in the material world you are a part of, you can find a compass that allows you to orient in relationship to your own inner experience and the outer world. On September 25-27, the weekend where Catalonia orients to mark the course its people want to follow, we will find our own inner compass during a workshop in ermie, Barcelona. There are still 6 places open.

Relationships in warm waters

The excess of involuntary tension keeps the small “I”, we created under the initial conditions of our lives, trapped in a continuous repetition of the same old dynamics, with different scenery and wardrobe, but always with the same emotional tone, the same results. When you manage to let go just a little bit of the excess, you can recognize the relationships between the different parts of your body and between your body and the environment. So to speak you can give the tissues of your body that have been dried out by the tension a bath in the warm waters of your loving attention and relax and get clean deeply. Literally it will rehydrate your tissues with more oxygenated water to renew the hydration water that has become acid due to the tension. We explore what this does to one’s relationship with oneself and one’s environment in the Midline Institute in Barcelona on November 20-23.

Sharing affinity

Thank you very much for your attention. If you have read on up to this point, it is because you feel affinity with the idea we can manage the piece of the world that is within our reach in a way that fosters communication and mutual help. In relationship with the very depth of what you are as living beings and with the material world you are a part of, small “I” finds its place where it can develop its skills and abilities and life a happy and satisfactory life.

It is a question of practice and of a deliberate decision to do it. I have been practicing for almost 30 years and it has become easy, but still I have to deliberately let go a bit of tension, moment to moment, in order to receive the support of the ground and to feel the connection with the planet and all the living beings that are a part of it just like me. If I don’t do it, the excess of tension separates me from the rest of the world, the effort is very tiring and the general feeling is not very satisfactory. I am never really up to notch of all that needs to be done, nor is anybody else.  On the other hand, all of us together… what a wonderful experience!

https://goteo.org/project/cristal-liquido?lang=en

Water hydrating the tissues of our bodies is exquisitely sensitive and responsive to the orientation of our attention. Most adults habitually function in an incisive mode that overrides perception of sensory information about their relationship to their inner and outer environment. An instantaneous shift in tissues responsiveness involving the whole body takes place, when attention enters a receptive mode that allows conscious experience of this relationship and enables individuals to modulate their postures, attitudes, movements and behaviors in a way that proves most suitable.

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This is a poster that was presented at the 9th Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water in Bulgaria in October 2014. It guides the reader's attention to experience water's exquisite sensitivity and responsiveness in his or her own body. 

The questionnaires I and II further guide your attention. They are divided in two documents, in case you wish to share your general observations without going into the detail of the shapes in your body. If you do send them to us, please protect the document with a password which you can communicate to us separately. It is important to us to treat any personal information entrusted to us with absolute confidentiality. Your observations may become a valuable part of a study to enhace the understanding of the way how experience is recorded in the body.

 Questionnaire II and a an extract of the book Respirar con árboles (Breathing with Trees) will help you align your body in the gravitational field of Earth. It is translated into English by the author.

III International Congress Body Wisdom Spain "Vital connections: the Essential Function of Fascia in Movement and Structure", June 6-7, in Benicassim, Spain

I will talk about

• Towards a fuller understanding of the interaction between myofascial tone and water – Working with beliefs reflected in liquid cristal

Hypertonic tissues keep wide areas of human experience underneath the threshold of consciousness. When they acquire an optimal resting tone, possible with efficient alignment in the gravitational field, the flow of sensory information is recovered. It becomes possible then to examine it and to discern to what extent experience belongs to a remembered present or actually reflects the present moment, because to an educated eye it becomes clear like a reflection on the surface of coherently ordered water. From underneath the threshold of consciousness, on the other hand, highly charged contents are usually projected onto others and one remains caught in repetitive cycles of reactivity. Experiences that seem utterly personal and intimate often turn out to have a collective dimension, linking the individual to all other living beings across space and time. With structural integration and somatic pattern recognition it becomes possible to find support within oneself as well as in the material world we all are a part of, and take on the task of recognizing the parts of our experience we tend to hide from ourselves as parts and representatives of the shadow side of the whole human race. In this way, one by one, every individual has the power to bring mankind a step closer to truly ethical behavior or to move us farther away from it.

The other day I found these words in my heart, wanting to be written:
Barcelona, May 1, 2014

In a few days it will be Buddha Sok Ga Mo Ni’s birthday. As this joyous occasion is drawing near, this year, Queen Maya keeps coming to mind. 

In my work as a DFA practitioner of Somatic Pattern Recognition and Archetypal Pattern Analysis, I have the chance to observe the patterns that evolve out of the early conditions of my clients’ lives. Since humans are born before gestation is complete, it continues in the womb of the family, as biologist Adolph Portman put it. During the first year of life, primarily the right hemisphere of the brain evolves. It organizes sensory perception and combines huge amounts of bits of sensory information into images that become the material we use to weave our life stories, even before we have words to associate meaning with the experience reflected in those images. During that time the infant’s nervous system continues entangled with that of his or her mother. The child depends on the mother’s ability to manage the flow of her sensations that help her to adequately take care of her son’s or daughter’s needs.

When there is a premature separation from the mother due to sickness, death or any other circumstance, the nervous system protects the infant against the full impact of the trauma to assure his or her survival, isolating the unbearable aspects of the loss of connection and keeping them underneath the threshold of conscious experience. In a manner of speaking, the parts of the organism occupied by these unbearable sensations do not participate in the development of the rest of the organism and, thus, these sensations remain forever underlying the experience and decisions for the rest of the person’s life. Sooner or later, they will surface in one way or another, giving the person a chance to integrate them later in life and recover those parts of the organism from the isolation they had been in. Invariably this is experienced as disruptive and human beings usually try to avoid it.

Supreme Matriarch of the Yun Hwa Denomination of World Social Buddhism, Ji Kwang Dae Poep Sa Nim, once said that Buddha Sok Ga Mo Ni had been quiet, very studious, and somewhat sad as a child. It seems undeniable that Queen Maya’s death shortly after giving birth to Prince Siddharta must have had a bearing on his decision to leave his life as heir to the throne and seek a solution to human suffering.
 
My father was separated from his mother for the first three years of his life, because she had to be hospitalized due to complications of a difficult birth. My father’s greatest wish had been to study to become a gynecologist or a forestry engineer, because he wanted to help make sure that women would not have to undergo the troubles his own mother had had in giving birth to him and he wanted to take care of nature. But he did not have the strength to resist his father’s command to take over the family business, as Prince Siddharta had had. He did bring up his daughter with the awareness of being one with nature, though. And his wish lives on in her. Not because he actively instilled it in any way; the only thing he ever told me he wanted me to do is to get clear on what I wanted to do in life and then go ahead and find a way to do it. It is a great joy for me that my work as a DFA practitioner of somatic pattern recognition and as an archetypal pattern analyst fulfills my father’s wish, including the one great wish he had not been able to carry out. Especially grateful I am for Sok Ga Mo Ni Buddha's example and teachings as well as my master Ji Kwang Dae Poep Sa Nim's and the great guidance they offer me in my personal and professional life.

We are told that on the morning when Sok Ga Mo Ni Buddha saw the morning star and became enlightened, he withstood the assaults of Mara who tried to distract him from his clear purpose. I am sure that the desire for fusion with the all-embracing feminine, born out of the premature disruption of the natural state of entanglement with the mother during the first year of life, and the terror resulting from this disruption were Mara’s main arms. But the Buddha did not let himself be carried away with desire nor did he recoil from the terror, but he remained quietly seated, watching the parts of his sensory experience that had up to then remained in the darkness of the unconscious unfold, so he could gain an understanding of his own nature and human nature in general. Like this he recovered the access to the experience of being a part of the whole he had lost when his mother died, but with a nervous system that was now developed enough to be able to integrate the parts that had been cut off. And he discovered how to relate to the whole in such a way that, instead of suffering, he would enrich it in every way he could.

That is what my father would have wanted.  In his life, the trauma of premature separation from his mother in 1928-30 in Germany was followed by others resulting from abuse of power, both on a personal and a collective level.

I feel truly fortunate to be able to follow the footsteps of Sok Ga Mon Ni Buddha and on the occasion of his 2558th birthday I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the guidance of Supreme Matriarch Ji Kwang Da Poep Sa Nim on this path. From the bottom of my heart, I would also like to thank Annie B. Duggan and Janie French for developing and teaching me their approach to DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition, and to Michael Conforti for developing and teaching me his approach to Archetypal Pattern Analysis. From all of them I am learning to relate to the whole in such a way that, instead of suffering, I can endeavor to enrich it in any way I can.

Many thanks to all my teachers, those named here and those whose names and faces remain silent in my heart.
Truly,
Gak Hwa - Brigitte Hansmann

The link below leads to an article published in the 2013 IASI Yearbook (International Association of Structural Integrators). It comes out of an ongoing attempt to understand how belief systems and complexes shape the body; and it is based on the author's experience in approaching psyche from the body as a DFA (Duggan/French Approach) practitioner to Somatic Pattern Recognition

Working with Beliefs Reflected in Liquid Crystal

I have received requests from people who would like to participate in a discussion of this article. So I am posting it here in the understanding that the Depth Psychology Alliance will allow access to anyone who would like to participate in such a discussion.

In amore recent article, published in the 2014 IASI yearbook I continue de research started in previous years with Towards a Fuller Understanding of the the Interaction between Myofascial tone and Water

In previous years I published two more articles in the same venue, the 2009 and 2011 IASI Yearbooks, which give some background on the Duggan/French Approach to Somatic Pattern Recognition, its relationship to Archetypal Pattern Analysis and its relevance to Depth Psychology.

DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition: DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition.pdf

and

DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition, Archetypal Field Theory and the New Sciences DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition, Archetypal Field Theory and the New Sciences

The 2014 IASI Yearbook will publish an article based on two posters presented at the 7th and 8th Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water in 2012 in Vermont, USA and 2013 in Samokov, Bulgaria: Towards a fuller understanding of the interaction between myofascial tone and water. It is a follow-up to the article that gives title to this post and I will post it here as well, when it becomes available, because I believe it might prove helpful, or at least interesting, for practitioners of depth psychology as well.

It has been almost a year now since Dae Poep Sa Nim bestowed on us the special energy writing painting, “The Balancing of Nature Energy Buddha”, which was distributed throughout the world. Reflecting on the past year we can see that all the countries where reproductions of the painting were hung, experienced a peaceful year, free of natural calamities. Also, there were the instances of countries experiencing hardships, such as the horrible earthquake in Japan, whose situations began to improve after receiving the painting, thereby avoiding potentially more catastrophic events.

This Year of the Dragon is known as a black or dark Water Dragon Year and historically is regarded throughout the Orient and other parts of the world as being difficult and often tumultuous. This is one of the reasons why there are currently numerous predictions in the media of possible adverse occurrences in the coming year.

Yesterday Dae Poep Sa Nim finished a very important painting for the Year of the Black Water Dragon. As with “The Balancing of Nature Energy Buddha”, whoever possesses the painting or its reproduction will benefit from the protection and prosperity which it brings because each brush stroke and detail is filled with Dae Poep Sa Nim’s energy and blessings. Dae Poep Sa Nim would like to offer this most precious gift to everyone who wishes to receive its benefits by making it available to download at our website. (see our website for further details, http://www.lotussangha.org/en/download.html).

We hear much negative speculation in the news without any solution for these gloomy forecasts. Dae Poep Sa Nim offers through this unique spiritual energy writing painting and the Daily Sutras the opportunity to turn this strong and difficult energy into one that is positive and calm so that we may have a peaceful and comfortable year. It is a great gift to give regardless of whether one is a practitioner or not, and irrespective of religion. The painting will bring virtue to whoever passes it on.

The painting depicts a Bodhisattva standing on the back of a black dragon in the midst of a vast ocean. Unlike common portrayals of dragons, this one has a happy countenance which looks up at the Bodhisattva. Its white crest indicates wisdom and the diamond in its mouth represents prosperity. Dae Poep Sa Nim explained that upon finding the diamond, the dragon has realized his wish and will attain enlightenment soon thereafter. While some flames do come out of its tail, they are tamed by the surrounding dolphins leaping out of the water. They represent love and harmony.

While riding on the back of the dragon, the expression of the Bodhisattva is secure and emanates positive energy and serenity. Wearing a most beautiful purple dress and adorned with exquisite jewels, She holds a bottle of golden liquid which She pours into the dragon’s mouth. In the other hand is a bright green herb, which represents good health. Facing the Bodhisattva is a toucan, known for speaking correctly and only when really necessary.

This work of art should be placed in a bedroom, living room or office. It is recommended to frame the painting in a gesture of respect, and for best results, to print it on photo paper of letter size or A4 format. The painting can be freely shared with family and friends, or whomsoever one wishes, who, in turn, can forward it to others. The intent is for as many people as possible to benefit from this very special energy. Dae Poep Sa Nim is using this painting and the reproductions downloaded from our website to send energy and blessings to you. The original painting is full of Dae Poep Sa Nim’s energy, helping to bless the whole world. Having the reproduction will help and benefit you by making you feel secure and settled.

Sincerely,

The  secretary monks of Dae Poep Sa Nim

Beliefs about who we are, what the world is like, and what we can aspire to in life, arise out of the continual flow of sensations in the body that are not reflections of present experience but of the initial conditions of our lives.  Although these sensations seem to inform about the present moment, it is actually a present that is remembered. It is engraved in interfacial water through the habitual tension of muscles and encoded in the nervous system through selective coordination of neuronal groups. Recognizing the physical shapes which hold these beliefs in place, makes it possible to identify the different ways in which they lead our experience in life along particular pathways. The greater force fields of nature, namely the gravitational and archetypal fields, offer a highly specific frame of reference for reorientation towards experiencing the present as it is.

Breathing: The Archetypal Motion of Life

http://www.bodywisdomspain.com/

Several weeks ago the Great Matriarch of the Lotus Sangha for World Social Buddhism Ji Kwang Dae Poep Sa Nim had an important perception and painted the Yin Yang Buddha painting. Shortly before the tragedy in Japan occurred, Dae Poep Sa Nim sent copies of the Buddha painting to the Sangha as a gift. Dae Poep Sa Nim explained that this painting helps to balance the energy of the world and helps to overcome difficulties and to regain prosperity.

The Buddha painting is now circulating well throughout the world  and especially in Japan. Many government officials, as well as private citizens, have received the picture of the Buddha painting and are placing it in their homes and offices. Dae Poep Sa Nim thanks the many students who helped to send the painting to Japan and throughout the world. The more this painting circulates all over the world, the easier it makes it for Dae Poep Sa Nim to do Dae Poep Sa Nim’s energy work.  

It can be downloaded from the Sangha website www.lotussangha.org.  Or if the system of this blog permits from the link at the bottom of the following text which I copied and pasted from the lotussangha website:

Nowadays most of us can feel and see that the energy of the world is unbalanced. Dae Poep Sa Nim purposely created a very special painting to balance the energy and to bring prosperity to whoever has this painting or a reproduction of it. In this painting Dae Poep Sa Nim put energy and blessings into each paint stroke to help balance the energy and for the wellbeing of the whole world. The more people there are who receive the benefits of this painting, the more it will help to bring balance to the world and to overcome all difficulties and tragedies.

In this painting, Buddha embraces the whole universe and balances out every little thing —yin and yang, good and bad, right and wrong. This balance is depicted with the sun and the moon in Buddha's chest, and the fast rabbit and slow turtle on either side of Buddha. Buddha’s stomach is made of water because feng shui-wise all of the emotions are in there. The representation of the calm ocean helps to bring peace and serenity. The diamond shows the great treasure that everyone can have and helps to bring great prosperity.

Because it is such an important painting for the whole world, Dae Poep Sa Nim gives all of us a great gift by offering everyone the opportunity to download and print it out for the purpose of hanging it in your home. If you would like to, you can share it with your family and friends. They can also share it with whomever they would like to and those people could pass this gift on to others, so that as many people as possible may benefit from this very special energy. During this difficult and unbalanced period, it is a great gift to give to anyone, regardless of whether they are practitioners or not. It will bring you virtue and help them to make virtue when they pass it on to others.

For energy reasons it is important to place the picture above the door of the main entrance to your home, office or any other room where you would like to hang the painting. If it is not possible to place it above the door of the main entrance, you may place it above the door of the next important entryway into your home or office. The painting should only be placed above one doorway and not above every single doorway of your home. To show the proper respect for the painting, it is also good to place it in a frame. For best results it is advised to print “The Buddha Painting” on photo paper.

Just click HERE to download the painting as a JPEG (better quality), or HERE as a PDF. (The painting should be printed out on letter size paper or A4 format)