My Heartfelt Gratitude to Master Ou — by Jason Chen (Yisheng Chen), January 2021

Introduction: I was a licensed physician and surgeon in China prior to my immigration to the United States. In 1997, when I was working as a physician in China, I began to study Master Ou’s teachings and practice his Pangu Shengong. In this article, I would like to share with you my journey of maintaining good health and spiritual growth with the guidance of Master Ou and Pangu Shengong.

Fourteen years ago, I noticed blood in my semen and I was starting to lose weight. My primary physician preliminarily diagnosed me with prostate cancer and suggested that I have a biopsy to confirm the cancer diagnosis and to determine if my prostate should be surgically removed.

That year was my tenth year of practicing Pangu Shengong and I believed that Pangu Shengong could cure all diseases. As for doing the biopsy, I thought it was unnecessary because it would damage organs and tissues and increase my psychological and social stress. What was more important was that no matter whether the test result was positive or negative, I would practice this Qigong to maintain my health. I assumed the biopsy would confirm cancer, and this motivated me to practice more Pangu Shengong daily. Later, one of my brothers was confirmed to have prostate cancer, and my father was also suspected of having this disease. Since this disease is usually inherited, I was fairly certain that I too had this disease. As I practiced harder, I kept reminding myself to continue my rigorous practice, even when my health improved. Throughout my life during difficult times I reminded myself to practice even harder.

As I began to practice harder to resolve my prostate problem, Master Ou came to Boston to give a workshop. He kindly encouraged me, “As long as you can keep practicing Pangu Shengong diligently, you will be able to keep your body healthy.” I kept his remark to heart and worked diligently at doing more Pangu Shengong practice every day.

After about two months, my symptoms gradually disappeared, and my body returned to normal. Through this experience, my belief in Pangu Shengong was deepened. However, I now believe that despite all the benefits I received I was not sufficiently grateful for all that Master Ou and Pangu Shengong had given me. At that time, I had not recognized the true blessing that had entered my life.

Twenty-four years ago I was very fortunate to be able to join the Pangu Shengong family. At first, I didn’t fully understand the Pangu Shengong maxim of 32 Chinese characters. My Pangu Shengong instructor had informed us to think of the maxim as a switch to initiate communication with the universe. By using this simple little switch, I never thought that I would receive such valuable information and such an immense energy of love from Pangu, guiding me to embark on the optimal path of life. Besides this small episode in my life fourteen years ago, I have been very healthy and my colleagues for many years have often commented that I look fifteen years younger than I was.

For more than twenty years, the knowledge of scientific materialism, in particular the principle of seeking truth from facts, had helped me accept the miraculous effects of Pangu Shengong and believe in its existence because of all the amazing experiences and results I had achieved with the practice of Pangu Shengong. On the other hand, scientific materialism made me doubt Pangu Shengong, because it did not match the knowledge that I had previously learned. This contradiction had always hindered my proper understanding of the principles of Pangu Shengong and had shaken my firm belief in Pangu Shengong.

To eliminate my doubts about Pangu Shengong, I decided to work harder to practice Pangu Shengong by following one of the doctrines of materialism – “the only criteria for testing the truth is through practice”. Through feeling the sensation of qi when practicing Pangu Shengong, seeing the remarkable healing effects on others, and participating in group activities to communicate with other students, I knew that Pangu Shengong had saved a lot of lives. Gradually, I eliminated my doubts about Pangu Shengong and considered it to be a set of simple yet highly effective exercises.

With the foundation of preliminary practice, I began to pursue a theoretical understanding. Finding the book, that Master Ou wrote, “the Path of Life” was like a treasure. I found answers to some of my questions immediately. I was also drawn to the chapters in the book describing Pangu’s existence, scientific materialism, and idealism. For some mysterious reason this book had miraculous effects and made me not be able to read it smoothly and carefully, but I was already very satisfied with the compelling teachings from this profound book. I realized that I must study it carefully in the future.

After immigrating to Boston, I was extremely fortunate to meet with Master Ou and to be able to frequently interact with him. When I met him for the first time we shook hands, I was touched by his warmth and kindness. He asked, “Are you Chen Yisheng?” Immediately, my conviction grew towards Master Ou, Pangu Shengong, and The Path of Life.

Since then, I have continued to work harder to participate in the practice of Pangu Shengong. I have never let go of the opportunity to be with Master Ou and to attend his workshops, hoping to find a way to resolve the contradictions that I continued to struggle with. Like a first grade student, I eagerly began to accept the spiritual guidance from Master Ou. Every time I listened to his lectures, I learned more about the principles of being a human being. By observing how Master Ou conducts his daily life with love and kindness, I felt more and more unworthy when compared to his noble character.

With the in-depth study of Pangu culture, I had fewer and fewer doubts about the profound value of Pangu Shengong. But, I struggled with fully comprehending the deeper philosophies that are offered by Pangu Shengong which affected my practice of Pangu Shengong, and annoyed me!

The advanced retreat classes in 2018 brought my life to a new starting point. Master Ou’s lectures shocked my heart and soul, a stubborn student like me was finally touched by his broad heart. He carefully guided me on how to walk my path of life, taught me the detailed methods of heart-and-soul transformation, and shared his difficult life experiences with me. Thus, the knots in my heart were untied by Master Ou. All of a sudden, I felt like I had just woken up from a dream state and everything became much clearer. I realized that if I think about problems similarly to how Master Ou did, then perhaps my doubts about Pangu Shengong could be eliminated? I thought, “Why can’t I always think rationally like Master Ou?”

I calmed down and thought about it carefully. Scientific materialism is incomplete in its understanding of matters, so it will naturally lead to contradictions when it is used alone to resolve life’s contradictions and dilemmas. Despite this understanding, when it came to daily life situations, I still defaulted to the scientific materialism principles to resolve dilemmas. To make matter worse, when a contradiction appeared, I did not calm down to reflect. This stemmed from my own serious self-righteous thinking, and my unwillingness to give up my inherent wrong thinking. Why can’t I calmly deny myself when faced with the dilemma of contradictions, and then simply use the method of rational thinking advocated by the Pangu culture to calmly resolve the dilemma?

Although twenty years are precious in the journey of life, I am still fortunate that I have been able to understand and resolve this conflict through the hard work of these twenty years to eliminate my doubts about Pangu Shengong. After all, I crossed a big obstacle in the path of life and have taken a small step forward. Now, I have a firm and clear goal in life, and I will work harder to practice Pangu Shengong according to the guidance of Master Ou.

Living in this world is to go through the agonizing trials of the agonizing heart and soul, until the evil elements in my soul are transformed. I know that I am far from Pangu’s requirements, but I am willing to continue to work hard to improve the quality of my heart and soul under Master Ou’s guidance. I hope that before the arrival of the eternally beautiful world, the state of my heart and soul will be as close as possible to Pangu’s requirements, so that I am qualified to enter the eternal beautiful world.

Regardless of the effectiveness of my practice, I am sincerely grateful to Master Ou’s broad heart and to Pangu Shengong for bringing me to a healthier and happier life even when I was not respectful to him, not understanding him, and doubted him. I am grateful to my spiritual mentor for working hard to guide me through the agonizing trials of the agonizing heart and soul.
I earnestly implore Master Ou’s acceptance of my belated appreciation. I further hope that the eternal beautiful world will come soon!