Jonathan in Standing Meditation durng the Intensive Chi Kung Course in Malaysia in December 2001
Learning Chi Kung from you was the best thing that ever happened to me. Chi Kung has benefited me on all levels of my life and in ways I could not have imagined.
Jonathan O'Donoghue
Dear Sifu
My name is Jonathan O'Donoghue (South Africa); I did the Intensive Chi Kung Course with you in Malaysia last December.2001.
Let me get to the point... Learning Chi Kung from you was the best thing that ever happened to me. Chi Kung has benefited me on all levels of my life and in ways I could not have imagined.
During a recent standing meditation, I felt as if my whole body disappeared, and I was one with the flow of energy around me. When I came to, I felt more energised and relaxed than I had ever felt in my life!
Even though I have done no physical training, or martial arts since the course in December, my legs feel stronger and I can jump further than I ever could before! I just want to take this opportunity to say thank you very much!
If you do not mind, I would like to ask you a question. There is a small chance I might be able to make the Kung Fu course you are going to hold in Cape Town, South Africa this month. Do you think it is a bad idea for me to do the course?
The only thing I can think of that may count in my favour is that I do have a little martial arts experience, so I may pick up moves quicker than a raw beginner. But, to be honest, since training with you, I feel that all my previous martial art training was a misguided waste of time. If I do any martial art training in the future, I want to learn from you, or an instructor you would recommend!
If you think I should give the course a miss, then do you think I would be able to learn from the people you teach on the course?
Yours truly,
Jonathan O'Donoghue
Email :jonood@hotmail.com
April 10, 2002
Sifu Wong's Reply
Dear Jonathan,
It is nice to hear from you. In fact I just arrived at Bogota from Cape Town via Madrid. I have been travelling almost non-stop the last two days. I flew from Penang to Sangapore, then to Johanesburg and Cape Town. Leslie met me in Cape Town and we had lunch together. From Cape Town I flew back to Johanesburg, then to Madrid where I changed plane to fly to Bogota.
I am very glad of your chi kung progress. Your feeling that your body had disappeared was a very spiritual experience -- it confirmed the teaching of masters that our physical body is an illusion and that we are actually energy. In Zen terms, yours was a satori, or a spiritual awakening. At that awakening, you had a glimpse of cosmic reality.
I would like to put up your e-mail in my Comments page. Your experience will be an inspiration to many people, and will assure them that what the masters have taught can still be achieved today, thought many people would consider it myth. But if for any reason (which you need not tell me) you do not wish to go on the internet, please let me know and I shall respect your wish.
It is a good idea that you come for my Intensive Kungfu Course in Cape Town. I wanted to train Shaolin Wahnam kungfu instructors in this course, and I hope you will one day become one. The course will be tough, and you have to work very hard.
Please contact Sifu Leslie James Reed, 082-7722122, to tell him that you have learnt from me, and you are attending the kungfu course. The course will be held on 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st April at 8.00-11.00, 2.00 to 5.00, and 8.00 to 10.00. I shall arrive at Cape Town from Bogota on 17th April, and shall give a talk on kungfu organized by Leslie.
I look forward to see you soon.
Best regards.
Sifu.
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