Theory 4: Mental Objects & Space

We are talking about six senses. Not five. The five senses you know. Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling. What is the sixth sense? The sixth sense is the mind dealing with mental objects. It is the mind dealing with mental objects. This is the sixth sense. What is for example such an mental object? Your emotion is a mental object. Your thoughts are a mental object. Your attitude is a mental object. Your intention is a mental object. Energy is a mental object. And now we're here for Qi Gong. We're here for Qi Gong. Practising a skill in feeling with Qi.

Many of us have grown up in the world and this world for many many years at long time always base our experience on the things that we see. We're basing our experience on things that are around us. We're basing our life experience on what we call form. Our whole life is dominated by form. A male has a form. A female has a form. The tree has form. The stone has a form. The plant has a form. Everything has a form. But is this world that we are living in only based on form?

When tonight is getting dark, you look up in the sky. What are you going to see? Many many stars. Many many planets. Many things that are shining. What are these shiny things? Suns, planets. Matter. The earth is one, one of these dots. If you look in the sky, there are many more. If you take all these dots together, in complete universe, then I think the scientists are saying: It is zero point zero zero zero zero zero one percent of what the universe actually is made out of. What is the ninety nine percent, the rest of it? Things we cannot see. It's space. It's space into it. The greatest things of existence are the things that we cannot see.

How does this apply now to you and us all feel? Let's assume you know everything. What do you know? In case you really know everything, you know zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one. This it what you know. The bigger part is not knowing. The bigger part of existence is not knowing. And this is why an attitude which really helps you in order to get deeper into this type of topic, into the Yi Jin Jing, into the Qi Gong, into healing with energy, is observe yourself, look inside yourself, and correct that mistake in the mind, that you think you know everything.

You want to experience space, you need to create space. If you stay with the things that you know, this is what I know, this is, I know this all, everything knowledge, all about knowledge, all of this knowledge is in the head. How do you want to be open for something new now, when your head is already full? How should any type of experience enter into your life, when already in here you are knowing everything? How should that happen?

(Master Shi Heng Yi 释恒義 - Shàolín 少林)