Aloha miriam,
I responded to your email to Master Lin, but thought I'd check what else was posted after the first three posts you shard in it.
Nice Hawaiian metaphor Jeff. You some Akamai! - I'm mentally adapting it to some Moke coming across da street wen take my fruit snocone!"
As for people who, in whatever training they come from, look to absorb energy from another, Chunyi doesn't stress shielding one's self, etc. As you may find in other modalities, which almost sets their students up to be worry about who might be taking their energy. If you look at it from Level Two's perspective, coming from fear drains your kidney's - isn't that what they are trying to protect? It's similar to students during a Level Two class getting all worried about pointing sword fingers at others, or others not being careful and point them at them. We can get so used to being careful and doing things "right," rather than listening to what Chunyi is actually saying (P.S. pointing sword fingers at the heart from the front of the body doesn't hurt it. The heart just shifts it's energy so it doesn't, but his it can make opening and clearing the heart during your healing work a little tougher)
He's not saying people aren't out there trying to get energy from others, it's rare (unless you hang out with that type of group), but one doesn't need to go into fear about it - If one takes time to re-listen to what he talks about in Level One, not the technique discussions, but the philosophy, it will make sense.
A similar thing happened a long time ago in one of his Level Four retreats. This was back at one of his first Level Four retreats when my wife noticed a couple's energy that didn't quite "fit" the rest of the group and during the class felt someone trying to take energy from her kidneys. She looked up at Chunyi to make sure he was aware of it, and he was. Chunyi will tell the story of how their eyes would change colors as they were absorbing energy from him and other specific people in the room. It was either the next day or the day afterwards that they both came up to him and shared and apologized about what the were doing. They said that even with the energy they were taking, they weren't feeling better - they were feeling sicker and sicker and needed help. Chunyi explained that what they were doing was taking energy - not purified energy, but blockages, and anything else that the body was willing to release. (think of a water pump with a hose stuck into a lake. You'll get water...and frogs, and bugs, and mold, and gravel, and, and... in the end, Chunyi helped them start healing and they became very good students and people.
Jeff's mudra reference from Level Two is a simple option, but when taught, Chunyi talks about it helping conserve energy when you're stuck in the cold, or assisting in other situations where you find yourself being draining energetically,
and using it to protect their energy in other situations, but not in the "look out for this or that because it or they may be talking you're energy!"
More like - If something like that does show up, okay, here is something easy to do without skipping a beat.
I like the confidence perspective you bring up Zakryus, but seeing that people are here to learn Spring Forest Qigong and can get confused whether something someone posts is actually what Chunyi teaches just because it's put out there with confidence... let's keep it to that and keep it simple, use our consciousness, non-fear based (no shields needed), and go into the emptiness. Okay for you miriam?
If you spend some time reading old posts by a member named gallen, you'll find that even with his pretty deep background in other qigong forms, the martial arts, and native American modalities, he shared examples from them to clarify the concepts Chunyi teaches in SFQ regarding whatever the post was about. Not that Spring Forest is the end al of end alls when it comes to healing and qigong, but in 95% of the time we can get what we need by either just doing the exercises, mediations, and life philosophy, or listen again to what we think we've already heard Chunyi say in the Level One home study course - rather than look for a different technique.
Chunyi would say to you miriam "Oh, you have some friends that need more energy?" (big loving smile on his face) "Okay, just relax and say the password like this - I am in the Universe, the Universe is in my body, you are in my body, the more you take, the more I receive, thank you very much."
No shields, no worries. Connecting with the universe you tap/are unlimited energy. They want some, great, take some. It's the same principle and reason you don't lose energy, but have more after doing a healing session as taught in Level Two rather being wiped after working on a just a couple people.
Much Love,
Shawn
