Help Love Ron Diana Into a New Body; Solstice

For those not on the elist, this should have been posted two days ago.
But still plenty of time if you choose to help Ron.
Michael

Inside Chi Flows Naturally:

1. Story on the Rebirthing of Ron Diana into a new body. Ron is a
Healing Tao Instructor who is bravely facing an aggressive
asbestos-caused cancer using natural therapy – and can use our
heart and belly-laughing assistance during this Summer Solstice
to get him over the Death Hump.

2. Notes on doing a Summer Solstice ceremony. Exact Solstice is
Monday June 20, at 2:46 am EST, but consider it a three day event
for ceremonial purposes (sun-tues).

3. Sincere apologies to all who have had difficulty registering
for summer retreats or had delays in getting products shipped.
Our fantastically efficient registrar and one person fulfillment
office Karin Sorvik suddenly had to become chief care-giver for
her partner Ron Diana. Combined with technical problems on new
duplicating equipment recently purchased (now solved), and phone
line transfer delays, we’ve been passing through a temporary
slowdown in our response time.

All phones and emails are now going direct to Tao Summer Retreat
team Sue (Su-hyun) and Rob Renahan. Most backorders will be filled
shortly. The chi at Dao Mountain is sizzling and invites anyone
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answered to try again. Don’t let a few speed bumps stop the
Journey of Transformation!

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Dear Seekers of the Highest Natural Truth,

We are already deep within (in the northern hemisphere) that time
of change when the Sun reaches its Highest Point in the sky and
we experience the Longest Day: Summer Solstice. For the Taoists
this was a moment when the Sun magnetically pulls the hidden
Earth Dragon into the full light of Day where it dances with the
celestial consciousness of the Light side.

For many modern people no longer in touch with natural yin-yang
fluctuations of Nature, this is an fairly abstract cosmic event.
Many can’t feel the Dragon of Light rising up within their body;
our level of vibration may be too scattered and weak from monkey
mind games. But Solstice still plays out on a personal level for
each of us. I wish to share a few personal details of a drama of
Light and Dark and the Primordial Beyond being played out by my
dear long time friend and colleague, Ron Diana.

Ron Diana is one of the oldest and most respected Senior
Instructors of the Healing Tao. I met him in 1980 at Mantak
Chia’s first workshop in a tiny room in New York’s Chinatown. We
instantly hit it off, as he has an irreverent laugh that
instantly melts all human pettiness. What a gift! It seemed he
was born to deliver the punch line to the cosmic joke.

Today he is justifiably famous as a powerful healer who has given
over 50,000. treatments using a variety of chi nei tsang (deep
organ massage) and other chi-healing methods which he refined to
very simple yet profound levels. He did a lot of the writing on
Mantak’s Chi Nei Tsang book. He has shepherded untold numbers of
people through healing crises and potentially terminal illnesses
including cancer. He was the healer of many wounded healers and
energy workers who needed his magical touch.

But much more important than Ron’s record of achievement is his
personal Presence. Ron embodies a combination of deep
earth-rootedness and inner smile that is totally unique. He
taught Iron Shirt rooting and tai chi chi kung for decades and
was literally strong as a horse. Through his many phases of
transformation, what I loved most about Ron is his huge grin,
followed by a friendly deep laugh that hit you deep in your
dantian (belly center). He is a master at transmitting chi
through his belly laughter. I have never met anyone else with
this ability. As his laugh vibrates in your belly, personal
problems scurry for cover and suddenly veils begin to lift.
Spontaneous revelations of being deeper in your bones unfold, and
you settle deeper into being your True Body.

Last summer Ron visited an old friend in the hospital dying from
cancer. Immediately afterward, he developed a persistent cough
that would not go away, and a feeling of dizziness. Then his car
rolled over the day after he finished teaching at Dao Mtn. last
summer. He miraculously walked away from it, but it shocked his
chest. This winter he found fluid forming in his lungs that had
to be drained. A few months ago an MRI finally revealed the
cause: a rare form of asbestos-induced cancer that is very
aggressive called mesothelioma.

Ron comes from a working class background of Czech-Dutch/Irish
emigrants and a great grand mother that was Native American.
Thirty years ago he spent five years working in a Boston shipyard
and later in construction jobs that exposed him to high levels of
asbestos. Its as if the virus sat there dormant for 30 years, a
karmic trojan horse waiting for the signal from Ron’s friend
dying of cancer and the car accident. For a healer who has been
on the front lines in helping thousands restore their health,
this is a powerful shock and needless to say, a bit dismaying.
But Tao is about endless change, that we can only surrender to.

But the intense self-examination and “Why me?” question faced by
every wounded healer pales beside the Life and Death urgency of
the immediate
prognosis: there is no known cure for this virulent form of
cancer. None of the modern medicine treatments
(chemo/radiation/surgery) has ever been able to even appreciably
slow it down. It has a 100% fatality rate.

Despite this, Ron chose to overcome the overwhelming odds and
believes he can change the paradigm, the death-spell held by this
cancer. He chose to pursue a course of natural therapy based on
the work of Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer. Dr Hamer believes that most
metastases or secondary tumors are caused by the cancer-fear or
death-fear resulting from the patient given the cancer diagnosis
or a negative prognosis. However, the resulting conflict and
shock may not be fear of death but rather anger, resentment or a
separation conflict from partner or children, which cause tumors
to appear in different places.

Generally hopelessness, despair and meaninglessness create
chronic stress, which prevent the healing from cancer and other
diseases; but they are not the cause. According to Hamer the real
cause of cancer and other diseases is an unexpected traumatic
shock for which we are emotionally unprepared. The following list
shows some of the relationships between conflict emotions and
target organs, that matches closely the Taoist importance placed
on the vital organ spirits as the functional centers of the
“heart-mind” (xin):

Lung / Chest = Any attack to the chest (triggered his
Mesothelioma)

Liver Fear of starvation = Not being able to be a provider

Kidneys = Not wanting to live, water or fluid conflict, fear for
your own life

Adrenal cortex – Wrong direction taken in life, wrong partner
chosen

More info: http://www.newmedicine.ca <http://www.newmedicine.ca> <http://www.newmedicine.ca>

Ron is at a critical stage of healing and needs support from the
collective chi field ú which we can give him.

With Ron’s permission I began working in his inner chi field
(energy body) to see if I could support his process. What I
discovered was quite amazing. From having worked as a qigong
therapist over many years with a variety of cancer patients, I am
familiar with the smell of death and its energetic markers. It is
totally absent in Ron’s case at this moment. Despite Ron’s
physical weakness ú barely able to walk, thinned face, belly
swollen from fluids ú there is total peace and clarity in his
inner space. It is like stepping into the vast field of the
formless heaven with a few wispy white clouds. There is no inner
fear of death or struggle with death or darkness.

My conclusion is that there is only a struggle with the form of
Ron’s rebirth. He has already attained a kind of spiritual
immortality from his decades of Tao cultivation that ensures the
integrated continuity of his consciousness whatever the outcome
of his process. The cancer virus is an agent of change, a part of
the inexorable balancing of the whole. Ron has made friends with
the virus, forgiven it and released whatever unconscious space it
held within him. His father died from a rare disease when he was
two years old; he has released the need to recapitulate that
death.

But Ron’s challenge is the challenge we all face: can we SHAPE
THE CHANGE that is unstoppably happening, can we in each and
every moment shape shift the chi field to re-manifest a new
body-mind in the physical plane? The spirit is vast,
but the physical plane is the tiniest part of the chi field. Its
hard for spirit to stay in the body if the link is too fragile.
That is why we are all only one breath away from death.

It is a question of inner will bridging the gap between spirit
and matter. That is a deep challenge, because of the time zone
gap in communication between our high frequency field of
spiritualawareness and the slow-vibrating physical body particle.
Its like the shower of neutrinos and cosmic rays that bombard the
earth from stars and distant outer space: can we capture the
spiritual message that so fleetingly passes us by, even if it is
our spiritual self sending it to our bodily self?

The summer Solstice represents a unique moment of stillness in
the vast cosmic turning of the Earth, and humanity’s Great Body.
The 6 month cycle of Great Yang/Light ends, and we begin
contracting towards a six month cycle of Great Yin/Darkness,
culminating in winter solstice. “Solstice” is derived from two
Latin words: “sol” meaning sun, and “sistere,” to cause to stand
still.

The stillness arises from the reversal of yin and yang. They both
shift into neutral gear (yuan) for a few days during this
changing of the yin-yang guard. The primordial force (yuan chi,
or neutral clear light) is important because it has not yet taken
a particular direction of flow into light and dark. On solstices
the vast portals of cosmic potential are flung wide open. Those
who can tap into it are free to do so.

But it is hard for Ron to tap into that cosmic reservoir when he
is weakened by disease, and his chi is tied up in just remaining
physically present. That is his main complaint: he feels too weak
to work on himself as deeply as he would like. But he knows that
no later than this Tuesday June 22 is the crucial moment of
rebirth for him. NOW is the time his soul will choose the
direction of rebirth, into the physical or into the spiritual.

So I am inviting each person reading this email to take a moment
and become part of a powerful collective healing chi wave focused
on Ron Diana. I invite you to open your inner heart and simply
ask the Life Force, “Please help Ron Diana immediately grow a
healthy physical body. I open my heart to loving Ron back into
his body!”. Then smile, and connect your inner heart to Ron’s,
and feel your belly laughing and vibrating with his.

He doesn’t need your pity or empathy; he needs your grounded,
silent belly laugh to magnetically help keep his soul centered in
the physical as he goes through his transformation and rebirth.
He doesn’t want to re-incarnate in a different physical body ú he
wants rebirth here and now. That would really do something to
break the old paradigm of Death and cancer. I suspect you will
receive more from the exchange than Ron, but that is for you to
explore.

Ron is living right at the portal between light and dark, at the
border of the Primordial Beyond, the Supreme Mystery (wuji).
That is a gift Ron can share with us right now. And that is what
Summer Solstice is about ú another fantastic opportunity to grow
by leaps and bounds, to harvest another of Nature’s endless gifts
by leaping into the Unknown and growing something anew. Join Ron
in breaking an old paradigm. Ron’s shift may be greater than
ours, but his shift will make Death an easier shift for all of
us, a choice with more freedom in it. So shall we meet in the mid
planes of loving Ron back into his body?

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Suggestion for Summer Solstice Ritual.

The following is modified version of spring equinox directions,
with modified intention for fire element/Solstice.

The Power of Physical Movement in Ritual

I feel the most powerful ceremony includes a ritual chi kung
(qigong) form. The movement of the physical body invokes your
deepest soul essence (jing) if you are deeply centered while
moving. When you combine a movement ritual with specific
intention, it becomes nei kung (neigong), or “internal skill in
cultivating the life force”.

My favorite ceremonial form is one developed by the Taoist sage
Chang San Feng, the creator of the original tai chi form and its
esoteric sister, wuji gong. Wuji gong I translate as Primordial
Chi Kung or Tai Chi for Enlightenment. (For more about its
origins and efficacy, see http://www.taichi-enlightenment.com <http://www.taichi-enlightenment.com>
<http://www.taichi-enlightenment.com> . Its available in dvd or
video, and has an optional audio training as well).

My Deep Healing Chi Kung form (available on dvd) is also very
ceremonial in nature. It faces all the directions and harmonizes
the center of the Sun with the deep center of the Earth Being.
Doing just one of its six movements – the three part mandala of
Sun-Earth exchange
– transports me into an altered state. It’s called medical chi
kung simply because it was developed with that intention. But it
could be directed to any other goal, or used to add power to an
equinox ceremony.

You don’t have to know a chi kung form, although doing the same
one every solstice/equinox is more powerful. Using the same form
“programs” and empowers your energy body to contact the yuan chi
at those times. It helps to capture/embody the elusive yuan chi,
which our polarized egos don’t want to notice because it
threatens our illusory belief that we are an island. Original Chi
is boundary-less, so it challenges our belief that the energy we
feel is uniquely ‘mine”, under “my” control.

The truth is no one owns the chi field, and it is not controlled
by any one deity or external agent/God. It just IS. It is
self-generating and self-regulating. Everyone can use its
abundance if we have the skill to do it. We use it unconsciously
all the time. But if we consciously use it to promote harmony and
balance in our life, the Tao will give us more chi to play with.
If we abuse it or over control for selfish ends, a natural
contraction occurs. We will face increased resistance in our life
and chi flow, resulting possibly in suffering, disease, or death.

Suggestions for an Equinox Ceremony

1. SACRED SPACE. keep it simple. Find or create a sacred space
where no one disturbs you, indoors or out. The more neutral the
better – if any element (wind, noise) is too strong, it will
distract you. Turn off all phones. Face all the directions, and
smile or tone to all beings in that direction, and ask them to
help you purify your ritual space. Don’t forget to smile to the
inner space of your body, and attune to its highest, most core
divinity. Invite in the Tao Immortals, your personal guides, and
any other beings/teachers from any tradition you feel are
important.

During the actual ceremony I invite the Beings of All Directions
and All Dimensions into my ceremony. Don’t exclude the dark side
– it is holding part of the balance. It is important to align
yourself with the whole field of the Life Force, as it carries
your greater self – including the good, the bad, the ugly and the
beautiful. If we embrace the whole within our personal self, then
our ceremonial intention will come out balanced.

If you light a candle, put a red one in the south to symbolize
Summer and Fire,
or put five candles – one in each direction and the center.
Timing: High Noon
is perfect mini-solstice moment that matches summer, with the sun
at its peak. But any time can work. Its a big event, the chi is
flowing strongly for three days at least.

2. FOCUS INTENTION. Get a clear intention as to the ONE thing
that is most important to EXPAND OR TRANSCEND in your life in
this moment. Fire element/phase is about RAPID TRANSFORMATION. Do
not attempt to wish something for other people or even your own
children – let them unfold their own nature. (Do not do your
solstice ceremony for Ron Diana). Be specific, be concrete as to
what you want to change and allow to expand in yourself NOW. Do
not use language delaying anything into the future. Receive it
NOW.

Don’t feel guilty about asking to EXPAND or RAPIDLY TRANSFORM
material things if they truly would serve you best at this moment
(new car, a different job, a
lover). It is not selfish to ask that your material needs be met.
Or ask that your needs expand beyond or transcend your physical
needs. Just ask inside what it is you most need to transcend or
lighten up.

Harmony and balance arrives from each individual completing their
destiny, their soul desires. Just make sure they are authentic
needs, not the idle desire for a million dollars. Do not ask for
money except for the exact amount needed for a specific purpose –
you risk growing unconscious greed or vague fears of not having
enough money.

So you would say, by example, “I need to grow expand my wealth by
a thousand dollars for this specific retreat I want to attend”.
Or “I need to receive $200,000. IN ORDER to expand my new life
and buy a house in Hawaii”. You don’t need to focus on the
selling of your old house, just whatever it is you want to
expand.

Or expand a specific spiritual quality in your inner body-mind
space, such as a greater capacity for self-acceptance,
other-acceptance, abilty to heal a disease or a broken
relationship, deeper power of meditation, deeper service to
humanity, or deeper movement practice.

3. RITUALLY COMMUNICATE WITH CHI FIELD. After you have
established your clear intention, face SOUTH (direction of
Summer, sun bringing new life). Open your heart, share your
sincere need to merge more deeply with the Life Force and all
beings. Do your movement ritual, which may involve facing and
gathering chi from all five directions, as well as above and
below. If you don’t have a chi kung or a short piece of a tai chi
form, do spontaneous movement, song, dance, or poetry. After you
finish, face south again.

4. RELEASE PERSONAL INTENTION TO FIELD OF YUAN CHI. Infuse a
booster shot of yuan chi or Original Breath from the Equinox chi
field into your specific desire. Simply feel and mentally focus
on your desired goal of RAPID TRANSFORMATION very strongly, with
all the personal chi you can muster. Your specific desire
polarizes the chi field. Then release it into the
larger chi field. This acts like a cosmic lube job, as the field
of yuan chi at Equinox will spontaneously attempt to balance your
desire. Nature now knows EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED has an easy path
with little resistance to delivering what you truly need.

5. BE PREPARED TO ACCEPT CHANGE. A lot of people forget about
this part of the deal. You want something expanded or
transcended, and you do a powerful
ceremony at a powerful fluctuation in the chi field. But that
means YOU have to change in order to receive what you asked for.

If you ask for more power in your life, it brings greater
responsibility as well. This can come as a nasty shock to some.
You get the new lover you asked for, but s/he makes a lot of
demands on your old comfortable way of life. Change is not just
external — it must be matched by internal changes.

I wish you a powerful ceremony and the power to digest what you
invoke!

May the Five Inner Tones of the Tao Sing in our Heart,
Michael Winn

“Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
the Tao as his door, and who becomes change – is a Sage.”
— Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters

“The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”

– Taoist Sage, 200 B.C

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