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Analyzing and
Understanding the Two Centers of the Chaos
in Connection with the Present World Situation
The chapter “There Are Actually Two Centers in
the Chaos” in The Path of Life, Volume I, tells us that Pan Gu
dismembered himself after he had twice destroyed the human world and after
making up his mind that, if he could regenerate himself, he would create a
wonderful eternal human world. After dismemberment, his flesh-body
separated from his soul; there then came into being two centers of the
chaos. His flesh-body formed one center; his soul, becoming a light pole,
formed the other center. In another chapter of The Path of Life,
“Oh China, Center of the Chaos,” it clearly points out that China is the
center of the chaos. Another chapter, “The Relationship between Me and the
Two Centers,” further points out that Guangzhou is the center of the
chaos. We know that this center, Guangzhou, is contained within the larger
center, China. In the entire book the location of the second center is not
pointed out.
Here we present our shallow understanding and
study concerning the two centers of the chaos, with reference to the
lectures of our teacher, Master Ou.
When Pan Gu dismembered himself, his body
separated from his soul. The human body belongs to the realm of the
material, and the soul belongs to the realm of spirit; if we notice
carefully, we see that this phenomenon is reflected in the present world,
and we may discover that the present world is derived and organized
according these two realms, the material and the spiritual. Speaking in
specifics, the present human world is in fact shaped like a taiji
diagram.
The taiji diagram has two “fish”
halves, one of which, the yang (male, positive), white part, refers
to the material; the other, yin (female, negative), black part,
refers to the spiritual. Within the head of the white, yang part
there is a small black circle reflecting the negative, the spiritual.
Within the head of the black, yin part there is a small white
circle reflecting the positive, the material. What is the relationship
between this diagram and the present real world? Upon extensive pondering
and studying, we have found that the structure of the present world is
shaped according to the principle behind this diagram. We all know that
the Earth is divided into two hemispheres, Eastern and Western; these two
hemispheres express two different kinds of civilization. People usually
acknowledge that the West represents a material civilization and that the
East represents a spiritual one. In fact, if we study carefully their
origins, we would find that Western material civilization originated from
the flesh-body of Creator Pan Gu (the flesh-body being material); Eastern
spiritual civilization originated from the soul of Creator Pan Gu (soul
being spirit).
The separation of the flesh-body and
spirit-soul after the dismembering of Creator Pan Gu is the origin of the
West’s material civilization and the East’s spiritual civilization of the
present day. Keeping these two kinds of civilizations in mind, people
would discover all sorts of behavior connected with this historical
source.
The origin of the West’s material
civilization lies in the part of Creator Pan Gu that is his human body,
this being the part of a person showing on the outside. Thus Western
civilization emphatically focuses on seeking the truth of the universe in
the external objective world. This is expressed in the fact that people
from the West are attracted to navigation; they like to discover new
continents across the ocean. Even at the continent they like to move
their residence from place to place. And all we know the whole America is
an emigrant country. Regarding their character, Westerners are fond of
taking risks, of exploring the outside world—especially young Westerners
who like to travel around the world when they finish their education.
Regarding their science, a typical expressive behavior is using the
electron microscope to study hereditary genes in the search for the
origins of mankind in the microcosmic world; also, using in a vigorous way
the telescope to seek the origins of the universe in the macrocosmic
world.
The origin of the East’s spiritual
civilization origin lies in the part of Creator Pan Gu that is his soul,
soul and spirit being the internal parts of a person. Thus Eastern
civilization emphatically focuses on the inner world in seeking the truth
of the universe. An example of this is China’s famous Taoist saint Lao-tzu,
who in his meditations sought the harmony between man and the universe and
between man and the enlightened spiritual world; he then wrote his
philosophical classic, the Tao De Jing. While meditating he
saw the beginning of the cosmos, the big bang, and thus wrote that wuji
created taiji. Wuji means the infinite and refers to the
chaos; taiji means extreme polarity and refers to the cosmos. (In
Chinese philosophical concepts the chaos is much bigger than the cosmos;
the chaos contains numerous cosmoses. The chaos has no limits of time and
space while the cosmos, even though it is very large, still has
limitations of time and space. Today’s science has proved that the present
cosmos was created by the big bang and that it has limits of time and
space.)
The source of Eastern and Western
civilizations and all kinds of their expressions can be derived from the
historical event of Creator Pan Gu’s dismemberment, from the separation of
his body and soul, from material separating from spirit. Such as in the
medicine: Western medical science emphasizes searching for causes in the
material body, preferring to supplement material with material, inclined
to use the microscope and various equipment and biological and chemical
testing to examine the blood, muscle, bone, nerves, blood vessels, down to
the level of cells, even molecules.
Eastern medical science, including Chinese
medicine, emphasizes studying the spirit, the qi, and the essence
of human beings. By using the five elements—wood, fire, earth, metal,
water—representing the interior organs of the human body, and their mutual
relationships, by using yin and yang—exterior and interior,
cold and heat, deficiency and excess, the eight principles—to analyze
disease, and then according to the symptoms to use medicine to adjust the
relations of the five elements to a state of harmony so as to cure the
disease. It appears to be using philosophy to treat disease, yet history
has proved its effectiveness.
Chinese acupuncture uses needles inserted into
the meridian channels of the human body; in practice it is effective, yet
these channels cannot be found by using the anatomical methods of Western
medicine. The reason is that a channel is actually the life-force
running-track within the human body; there is a kind of energy that flows
within the body. When a person’s life has ended, the flow of the life
energy stops; by using anatomical methods to try to find it on a corpse,
of course one cannot find the channels. This life-force flowing-track, or
channel, used in acupuncture was found by ancient Chinese Taoists during
deep meditation. They discovered the energy of the life force flowing
within the body by turning their attention inward to their own bodies;
they didn’t use any equipment or instruments.
Chinese qigong, such as Pan Gu
Shengong, emphasizes the relation between the life force and the body.
This kind of study is concerned with the interior spirit and life force;
up to now, problems like these are not able to be solved by the
instruments of modern science. Pan Gu Shengong (Pan Gu Mystical Qigong)
relies on body actions coordinated with the regulation of great nature; it
relies on steeling a steady mind by cultivating one’s morality; then one
can absorb energy from the universe directly to strengthen one’s health as
well as to use the energy to treat others’ illnesses. What’s more, a
practitioner can issue this kind of energy from thousands of miles away to
diagnose a patient’s health condition and to cure disease. Many patients,
even those in very serious condition, have received new life by practicing
diligently and improving his/her morality after learning Pan Gu Shengong.
Long-distance energy-issuing, powered by
the mind, mobilizes the energy of the universe to reform the physiological
conditions of patients far away; it neither depends on any objective
material or medicine nor uses any equipment or instruments. From the point
of view of Western medicine this is absolutely impossible, as Western
medicine is used to considering problems from a physical and chemical
point of view as well as with radiation-material treatments. But qigong
can cure disease by using only the mind to absorb energy from the
universe. It is fact. This is a typical explanation of the East’s
spiritual civilization.
All these issues we will discuss further
afterward; now we turn back to concentrate on the practical matter of the
location of the two centers of the chaos.
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Of the two centers—proceeding from the
above discussion—one is the material center, the other is the spiritual
center; both originated from the dismembering of Creator Pan Gu. Referring
to the real world, the representative of Western material civilization is
America, America being its center; the representative of Eastern spiritual
civilization is China, China being the other center. There were two
centers mentioned in The Path of Life but in fact the book in the
chapter “Oh China, Center of the Chaos” points out only China as a
center. The book doesn’t mention America. Why? In our understanding,
The Path of Life was written and first published in China; at that
time the situation in China was not suitable to pointing out America as a
center. In our premature view, in studying The Path of Life we
should ponder more than one way, then the right answer becomes available.
Then, why is Guangzhou a center? As we have
said before, Guangzhou is within China. China is the center of Eastern
civilization; in the taiji diagram Guangzhou is the eye of the
black fish. It is the small white circle on the head of the black fish; it
is positive within negative, yang within yin. If we say
China is the center of Eastern spiritual civilization, then the positive
within the negative is the place which absorbs more of Western
civilization than any other place in China. Going back in Chinese history,
we see nearly everything from the West starting from Guangdong, and
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province. Western missionaries
coming to China landed first at Guangzhou, bringing Western civilization
to Guangzhou. Near the end of the Qing Dynasty two reformers of Guangdong,
Liang qi-chao and Kan you-wei, accepting Western political conceptions,
intended to set up a constitutional monarchy in China; even though they
failed, the ideas fired people’s hearts. Then Dr. Sun ye-xiang, an
overseas Chinese from Guangdong, used Guangzhou as a base to mobilize the
democratic revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, China, by
studying modern Western science and technology to implement economic
reform and open up to the outside world so as to hasten modernization, is
still initiating changes from Guangdong and Guangzhou.
Taking Guangzhou as the center of the chaos,
we find an interesting thing: because the center itself has no direction
to face, so the houses and streets in Guangzhou also seem to have no
direction to face. Sometimes you can’t tell which direction your house is
facing; suppose a house or a block of houses is facing one direction, the
neighboring house or the neighboring block may face an entirely different
direction; there is no fixed order. And many streets in Guangzhou are not
straight but crooked; you can’t tell which direction the street is facing.
People might find this phenomenon strange; yet upon studying The Path
of Life and by knowing that Guangzhou is the center of the
chaos and that the center has no direction to face, we get the answer.
Then, where is the other center of the
chaos? Now it is easy to understand that corresponding to the East’s
spiritual-civilization center, China, the West’s material- civilization
center is America. But corresponding to Guangzhou, the white eye of the
black fish in the taiji diagram—where is the black eye of the white
fish of America? In our understanding, in America the city that has
absorbed the most of Eastern civilization is San Francisco, where one can
access all sorts of things connected with Chinese culture and
civilization. Just as the streets in Guangzhou are sometimes not straight
but crooked and seem to be facing no direction, so the streets in San
Francisco are also rarely straight as they go up and down across the many
hills of the city. And just as Guangzhou is a city where the houses and
streets are confusing horizontally, so San Francisco is a city where all
the streets and houses seem disordered vertically. This shows opposition
and unification of the two centers, does it not?
More important, it is worthwhile to point
out that the headquarters of Pan Gu Shengong was located in Guangzhou at
Guangzhou University, and that after 1995 it was transferred to San
Francisco: from the center of negative yin to the center of
positive yang. Of course this was not by coincidence, having been
intentionally arranged by Creator Pan Gu and by the creator of Pan Gu
Shengong, Master Ou. Pan Gu Shengong originated in China, center of
spiritual civilization that emphasizes the internal, but Pan Gu Shengong
could not confine its propagation within China. The material civilization
of America emphasizes the external, so in America it is easier to
propagate and develop Pan Gu Shengong, an important affair connecting the
fate of all mankind. At the same time it is easier to propagate The
Path of Life, a treasure of a book that reveals the gospel of Creator
Pan Gu, throughout the whole world. Thus the headquarters of Pan Gu
Shengong moved from Guangzhou to San Francisco. If we read The Path of
Life extensively, we will find that the above-mentioned chapter, “The
Relationship between Me and the Two Centers,” hints that Master Ou and his
headquarters for Pan Gu Shengong would be relocated from Guangzhou to San
Francisco, an arrangement made long before by Creator Pan Gu.
The above analysis is about the real situation
of China and America, about their central positions in spiritual
civilization and material civilization; then it proceeds to an analysis of
Guangzhou and San Francisco and their positions as the positive white
circle in the black yin fish and the negative black circle in the
white yang fish; then we go back to study the fact of the
dismembering of Creator Pan Gu and find out that the separation of his
human body from his soul is the original source of the present world and
its societies.
Will the separation of these two kinds of
civilizations, the West’s material and the East’s spiritual, last forever?
The Path of Life tells us that although the separation of
Creator Pan Gu’s body and soul will remain for a certain period, it is a
temporary event compared with the unlimited time of the chaos. Finally
these two parts will combine, and Pan Gu, regenerated thus, will create a
wonderful future eternal world. Take a look at the present-day real world.
Now China is intentionally studying science and technology from Western
civilization; from a lunar calendar it has adopted the solar
calendar—while acupuncture, qigong, taiji quan, and Chinese
medicine, one after another of these products of Eastern civilization are
propagated in America. America has put the Chinese birth years on postage
stamps; the Western world knows that this is the year of the dog. Not a
few Western countries sponsor a Chinese cultural year, and many schools in
the West have begun to offer Chinese language courses. Western
civilization and Eastern civilization are accelerating in combining
together, a course that has been pre-arranged by Creator Pan Gu so that
mankind will enter the splendid future eternal world in our time. We wait
and see. Our duty is to accelerate the work of propagating Pan Gu Shengong
and The Path of Life.
All of this explains what? As we discussed
before, because this world is created by Creator Pan Gu, every question
regarding this world can be found answered in the treasure of a book
called The Path of Life. This is only one example; hereafter we
will continue our discussion
Whether it is right or not, it is just for
your reference.
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