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The reading notes on the
Path of Life below are written by Willow Calm,
Vincent Chu, and Donna Selby; and finally edited by Robert Anderson. They have read the entire book for many
times and written down some valuable reading notes to share with other
readers. If you have any question and feedback on their opinions, please
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and Pan Gu Shengong.
The book The Path of Life for our understanding -- Reading Notes
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The book
The Path of Life lays the philosophical foundation of Pan Gu Shengong
(Pan Gu Mystical Qigong); in fact, Pan Gu Mystical Qigong originated from
The Path of Life. For us students it is very important to study
The Path of Life extensively, once we have learned Pan Gu Mystical
Qigong. Following are some reading notes for The Path of Life,
which represent our shallow and limited personal understanding of this
important book. Of course, all of our understanding comes from the
creator of Pan Gu Mystical Qigong, Master Ou Wen Wei and his enlightening
lectures. Master Ou has taught us that by reading time and again The
Path of Life, our gradual understanding will suddenly arrive at
moments of insight, like lightning.
If
one takes merely a simple glimpse at it, The Path of Life in its
outlook seems like a fairy tale. But by getting into its depths, by
reading it many times and pondering deeply, we realize that The Path of
Life is really the most—most—important book in the world since
the beginning of human history. Later we will explain step by step how we
came to this conclusion, but before we do, in order to attract wider
attention to the book, we would like to raise few points by way of
introduction to the study of The Path of Life.
The subtitle
of The Path of Life is “Reality and Mystery,” and you should not
ignore the hint that the subtitle carries to enlighten us. Although when
the book first appeared the story in it seemed like some kind of fairy
tale, actually it is true and can be proved by the reality of human
history or by science. Here is just one example.
The
Path of Life
was originally written in Chinese. The author is Master Ou Zhi Jin, whose
pen name is Ou Wen Wei. He finished the manuscript in 1987, and the first
Chinese version of The Path of Life was formally published in Hong
Kong in 1991 by the Asia Publishing Company, with International Book No.
ISBN 962-7547-01-8. In Volume One of The Path of Life, Chapter 10
is entitled, “In Search of the Chaos and the Future World.” Within this
chapter The Path of Life first reveals a secret of human history,
namely, the incident known as 9/11, ten years before the actual disaster
of the World Trade Center happened in New York on September 11, 2001.
This chapter
starts with the beginning of the chaos, then goes to describe the future
world. The future human world is a wonderful place full of golden
chrysanthemums. Then from the future world it reverses to describe
present-day times. Here the chapter goes:
“Yes,
the scenes I just unfolded were flashbacks from the future golden world to
the present day. The future world will be developed in accordance with
this path.” He spoke in a solemn way.
It had escaped
my attention, but now I noticed in the dim light that the towering
buildings were being transformed into low ones and that war was breaking
out and now fires were rising from a place far away where there were many,
many houses, most of which were destroyed. I felt too much pity to watch
any longer and asked miserably, ”Is it modern war?”
He did not
reply at once, but his deep, heavy, rapid breathing could be detected
clearly, and I felt his answer to be an affirmative one. “Yes,” he
finally said, “this scene refers to the tragedy of mankind that had
happened before.”
I understand
the “towering buildings” to refer to New York’s World Trade Center. Here
is why: he says, “it had happened,” instead of, “it will happen,” because
he is standing in the future world looking back to present-day times, so
from that viewpoint the disaster of September 11 in 2001 had already
happened. “Modern war” refers to those wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The
Path of Life
tells us that both materialism and idealism are correct but that neither
one is perfect; only by combining these two world view, materialism and
idealism, can we explain everything completely and arrive at a final and
correct solution for the whole world. The above 9/11 example serves as
one of the proofs of this new, absolute world view. The concept of 911
comes first and then the real event materializes as proof in human
history.
The
Path of Life
was written in the style of a dialogue between the author and Pan Gu; in
the book, ‘I’ represents the author, ’he’ represents Pan Gu. In China,
Pan Gu is the name of the creator of the universe.
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