Instruction in Level Two: Meditation
Current Schedule of Level Two Trainings and Retreats
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Jack Risk has recently returned from ten weeks in Penang, Malaysia training with Master Yap Soon Yeong.
Level Two will be taught to persons who have been practicing CFQ Level One for several months and who have derived healing benefit from a stable and committed practice.
Each scheduled event provides a total of twelve hours of training.
Jack Risk provides ongoing support to CFQ Meditation students in the form of weekly practice groups and occasional retreats or refreshers.
What You Will Learn in a CFQ Level Two Training Session
How to Meditate: A Practical Approach to Succeeding in Your Meditating
Four Classic Postures of Meditation
- Sitting Meditation: Left-Right Lotus
- Standing Meditation:
- Basic Position
- Hand Postures
- Heels
- Walking Meditation: Lotus Walk
- Reclining Meditation
Using Qigong Movements for Meditation
- The internal dimension of the movements
- Additional movements for establishing meditative presence
Principles of Meditation
Bases of Meditation
- CFQ virtues and criteria
- Levels of consciousness
The Healing Dimension of Meditation
- An understanding of karma and how to liberate the body
- Managing karmic releases
Presence and Insight
- Making the switch to the inner world
- Investigation of the self
- Liberated mind: working toward emptiness and suchness
Practical Aspects of Meditation
- Skills of detachment and equanimity
- Dealing with thoughts and emotions
- Dealing with resistance
- Dealing with confusion and false expectations
- Advanced techniques
Helpful Information on Integrating Meditation into Your Life
- Ordinary mind
- Stages in advancement
- Establishing and maintaining a daily meditation practice
Advantages of CFQ Meditation
Many people encounter frustration when they try to learn to meditate. CFQ provides a satisfying route to meditation by getting you there faster and more reliably. To begin with, you will have spent a period of time doing Level One movements before learning Level Two. Your healing will have been under way already and you will have made progress in resolving emotional and physical barriers. The mind will have calmed somewhat. As a result, learning to meditate becomes easier and more effective.
Secondly, CFQ provides a range of methods and techniques that are direct and practical. By being taught to use body awareness to anchor your meditation, you will make quick progress in achieving Presence. This will allow you to shift out of the thinking mind, into the spiritual realm.
Other schools of meditation teach various forms of concentration or focused awareness. However, such methods are unlikely to help your mind free itself from dominating thoughts and emotions. Following the breath or monitoring awareness, as is taught in many approaches to meditation, can provide only limited access to the noumenal. With CFQ, on the other hand, you will be able to explore the truth of what lies deep within.
CFQ meditation works directly with the connection between the spirit and the mind-body. You will learn a powerful means of karmic cleansing—the releasing of memories or stored information that have accumulated within the body as a result of prior experience. You will gain skill in identifying the sources of disharmony and clearing disease-causing blockages on the physiological, psychological and spiritual levels. By learning the skills of deep relaxation and detachment your mind will become less reactive and more responsive. You will begin to enjoy the benefits of equanimity.
Eventually, one is able to calm the mind and achieve meditative stillness. One perceives things as they really are ("suchness") and begins to appreciate the boundarilessness and freedom of all things ("emptiness"). The path to peace and insight is opened up.
CFQ meditation has the potential to bring about real changes in your self and to free the mind from habitual or conventional patterns of thought. You can expect that your life circumstances will begin to alter as a result of your meditation practice. Becoming a meditator will help you sort out difficulties in the rest of your life.
CFQ is not religion. It does, however, root itself within the teachings of the historical Buddha along with the best schools of Buddhist philosophy and meditation training. In particular, Master Yap's immense knowledge and experience as a healer and an enlightened meditator are made available to us directly through his teachings on meditation.
Combining the dynamic qigong movements (Level One) with quiescent qigong meditative practices (Level Two) will provide you with everything you need to advance in health and spiritual awareness.
For additional information on CFQ Meditation view the Level Two Practice Aids page.
Level Two Manual
Qigong Healing Meditation by Chok C. Hiew and Yap Soon Yeong. See Resources.Continuing Student Policy
Students are always encouraged to repeat levels they have previously taken — the benefits are tangible. As a continuing student you are offered a 50% discount when you repeat any level.
Private Instruction and Healing
To inquire about private instruction and healing Contact Jack Risk.