21 1.21: Gathering Chi and The Bug Eyed Monster (1/2)
Upon arrival at the entrance of the settlement, Ding stopped at the stall where the residents there traded with others with food and other homemade wares. Upon seeing the lady that helped us before; Ding and Eun gave the lady a wrapped banana package. Cheng showed his appreciation to her for her deed that she had given us last time.
”Auntie, please accept this little gift from us. Even though we didn't prepare this ourselves but this gift was actually from Stone Village.”
”Yes, we had a feast yesterday and we got the blessings from theChief's great-grandson.”
”Auntie, please accept it.”
”Even this is a small gift, but we hope that you and your family would enjoy it.”
We all spoke gently to the lady and she at first refuse such a gift as what she did before for us was from the bottom of her heart. However, after much persuasion, she finally relented.
” Thank you so much, you all are good children.” she praised as she took the wrapped banana leaf and gave to a child that looked around 6 years old and told him to bring it back home.
The boy took the wrapped banana leaf and skipped his way back home which was some meters away from the stall.
” Are you here to meet the old Master?” she raised her eyes at me and I nodded in acknowledgment. ”Alright, off you go then. Its almost lunchtime,” she advised and we waved at her direction and headed towards the old Master's house.
Upon reaching the old Master house we greeted with a salutation and his head poked outside the door and gestured us to wait at the gazebo just ahead of the house. We made a beeline to the gazebo and found our spots again and had me sitting at the circular spot where it was made of rough and prickly coconut material.
After a short while, the old Master and his wife came out of the house and greeted us. His wife had brought out a tray with an earthen jug with several cups in it and served us tea from it. We solemnly took a cup each and sipped on the hot steaming tea with our cupped hands.
”Ah yes, time now for Gathering Chi, I suppose?” he nodded at my direction. ”Progress you make good. Good student you make.”
”Hungry you? Snacks I make... ” gestured the wife as she headed back to the house. We all nodded in acknowledgment as we were feeling a bit hungry at that time.
”Old Master, what will I do before I reached Gathering Chi as you mentioned,” I queried anxiously as half expecting that the experience I am going to get would be different this time.
”Soon you know. Drink you first, snack eat later. Gathering Chi I open for your first.” the old Master replied casually as he took a drink from his cup. He took some tobacco from Chang and rolled himself a cigarette with the ear of the dried corn.
After lighting it he took a long pull and blew it on my face making me swatting at the air to clear the smoke automatically.
”Gathering Chi begins now...” after he stubbed his cigarette and went back to his house to retrieve 3 incense stick. ”Yourself do this every upgrade. No need come here anymore,” he said as he lighted the 3 incense stick and placed each one on my sides and one at the front.
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”Now you meditate.” old Master instructed as I closed my eyes, sat in a lotus-like position and cleared my mind. The smell of the burning incense emitted a fragrant scent, a mixture of jasmine, rose, and frankincense. Each fragrance represented a different kind of fuse within my soul as I slowly absorbed each different distinctive scent.
In my meditated and empty mind, I saw 3 dancing flames on both of my sides and my front. These small bluish flames were flickering and hopping around in midair. I subconsciously wanted to reach out to them but I restrained myself.
As the flickering blue flames were dancing around in mid-air, I felt my body slowly raise a few inches off the ground and somehow felt that I had levitated and rotated anti-clockwise. It was a slow yet subtle movement that I felt no resistance to it.
Then the vortex that I felt during Losing Self that was in the center of my forehead began to release and this time it was twirling like a small typhoon outside and encircling my body. It was twirling clockwise while my body was levitating and moving anti-clockwise.
If anyone could see this it's like a whole new image of some kind of divine power source that emitted around my surrounding.
In my lotus sitting position, I heard sounds that resembling something like a vault being opened. It started from the center of my abdomen and moved diagonally towards my right arm and shoulder.
”Kaching... Kaching... Kaching... Kaching” sounds that was felt by me as it unlocked and moved from my shoulder to the center of my throat and then went to my forehead and traveled down to my left shoulder this time and back to my abdomen.