THE ALCHEMY… OF KINDNESS – by FRANCESCO DE MICHELE

FIRST MEETING WITH PANGU SHENGONG

It was November 2004 when during a taijiquan workshop, Vincent Chu, taiji master from the yang lineage, informed the group of practitioners about a session where he will teach a special qi gong.

I was already excited practicing the original taiji, since I practiced different martial arts, I found Vincent’s method genuine and original, therefore I have attempted the lesson of Pangu Shengong with trust and an open mind. Well, I cannot describe the emotion when Vincent started to describe the Pangu Shengong method, when he started talking about “the Sun and Moon combined…” I could not believe my ears and my eyes! The reason? Because, I had spent years reading any sort of book or tale describing Western and Eastern alchemy. I travelled, looking at symbols and paintings in churches and castles in Europe. The mystery of the golden flower, the Tao te ching, il Pimandro of Ermete Trismegisto… wonderful books arising curiosity about the “human transformation”, the human evolution into a “superhuman”, the path to the immortality.

And then arrive Vincent with Pangu Shengong, talking about Master Ou, the creator of this special qigong. And, he suggested to read a book, “The path of life” written by Master Ou, which connected the life of Master Ou to the future human world. When I am writing about this event, my first meeting with Pangu Shengong, I can still feel the wave of happiness and positive emotions of that special day.

HEALTH STATUS IN 2004

At that time, I was 30 years old. And I was not as healthy as I would have wished to be at the age of 30. My immune system had been very weak since I was born, with frequent herpes simplex on my lips, eyes, and sometimes also on my cheeks. I had constant cold infections during the winter, quite a fastidious irritable bowel syndrome that caused hemorrhoids, which worsened every time I drank alcohol… and I am a beer lover! (Italian, but living in Czech, where they have the best beer!). A couple of years later, I also developed a hernia.

THE FIRST YEARS OF TRAINING PANGU SHENGONG

So, back to my excitement having learned Pangu Shengong, I drew myself into a daily training routine, which included both the moving and non-moving forms, once a day. And I read Master Ou’s volume 3 book in 1-1.5 nights. It was unbelievable reading Path of Life for the first time. It’s like if someone (Master Ou) knew what I was looking for and what I always believed that humanity was created for. Of course, certain parts of the book are still incomprehensible for me, but after reading Path of Life there was no need for me to read any other book related to alchemy or history or science. I mean, it’s everything there, volume 3 together with the more recently published volumes 1 and 2 (which are for me even more mysterious).

What else could I wish for? I had the super method, I trusted fully in the method, I trusted fully in Master Ou and Vincent…. Wow, I said myself I will be a super master, healthy and probably immortal soon. Are you smiling?? Sure, you are, but that is what I really thought at that time… I am smiling too! Ahaahh…

I was not totally wrong because Pangu Shengong was somehow working positively on my health even if I was not practicing properly. What does properly mean? It means practicing the password in daily life. Unfortunately, because of my old habits and my character(personality), it was not easy to deal with the advice from the password. The password in the Pangu Shengong exercise is like to set the antenna to catch the right waves. And I wasn’t able to set the antenna properly. However, the issue of herpex simplex and winter flu improved despite my poor practice. I was doing the exercise once or twice every day.

THE TRIP TO CHINA WITH MASTER OU FAMILY AND HIS STUDENTS

In 2008, I decided to join Master Ou’s group on a trip through China and a qigong conference in Beijing. It was so important for me to meet personally Master Ou, the creator of Pangu Shengong.
The trip deserves an entire book, however, in this article, I will mainly focus on what touched me during this trip and what could help any new student to understand the meaning behind practicing the password. At least from my understanding.
Travelling with Master Ou and his group of students was for me like a “taste” of the future human world described in the Path of Life. In the beginning I admit, despite my trust, I was skeptical about the enjoyment of this trip because of the busy schedule, but at the end It was something unbelievable I was not used to. Every day was a joyful day, everyone was smiling and enjoying every single moment, we did not have any issues during the 2 weeks of travelling through China, visiting so many places. On the bus we enjoyed singing songs composed by Master Ou and other songs. Thanks to this experience I realized how important it is to practice the password and how important it is to sacrifice our personal wishes for a common sense of harmony and balance. Understanding this does not mean to be able to perform it, but at least it is a starting point to learn how to perform It more and more during daily life.
The trip in China was a kind of dream I wish everyone could experience. During this trip I learned the advanced form from Master Ou and Mandy (Master Ou’s wife) which helped me to improve my health condition in the following years.

2010 NEW JOB, LEARNING CALM MIND AND DEALING WITH STRESS

2010 was quite a difficult year for certain reasons and I made the decision to jump into a new job adventure. Considering that my wish was a downshifting, for certain inexplicable reasons I did exactly the opposite. A job position of sales manager travelling through Europe with difficult and precise goals to achieve.

Anyone who’ll read this can’t probably believe that the Pangu Shengong exercise helped me a lot to succeed in this specific job position. I was required to travel 3 to 5 hours by car, then fly to another capital and then arrive back at night. Attempting stressful meetings that required difficult preparation. Almost every week. And the most challenging thing was dealing with the stress of a long wait (6 months to 1 year) before achieving one single sales deal.

Pangu Shengong exercise helped me dramatically with the following:
– To have enough energy to accomplish any task and challenge (of course also financial motivation helped me!).
– To manage the stress during meetings at C-suite level or director level.
– To improve relations with colleagues.
– To increase my business volume thanks to the aforesaid achievements.
– DID NOT GET SICK. MEANS ZERO SICK DAYS AT JOB IN 10 YEARS (doesn’t mean to go to the office with flu, means to not get the flu)

2010 TO 2021 HEALTH STATUS

If you, reader of this article, love good food as I do, and like to enjoy the taste of a good beer or wine without healthy issues, then you should definitely give this exercise a try.

Is this a motivating sentence? Well, food is an important part of our daily life, if we cannot enjoy It freely, how can we enjoy life and be happy?

Thanks to the advice from Master Ou and taking time to read Master Ou’s articles and experiences of other students, and of course thanks to the possibility of practicing more forms daily, through learning the advanced form, I did significantly improve my health status.

A couple pieces of advice (from Master Ou) that I think made a great improvement into my practice are the following:
– Forget about your disease, calm your mind and practice more.
– Being happy is even more important than being calm.
– Do not get angry, try to keep calm, and do not rush with reactions.
– Avoid speaking or acting in ways that are harmful to others around. (It’s part of the password, “speak with reason..”)

My health status has improved so much during the last 10 years that I never again had a herpex simplex problem, no winter flu even when people in my family got It and we spent winter days together. No irritable bowel syndrome, no hemorrhoids. And, the hernia has almost disappeared.

I can eat everything, and I can drink a good beer without any issue, free to enjoy the food caring more about the taste and not much if It is healthy, if it is vegetable or pasta… what I like I do eat and enjoy with proper moderation.

During these years of health improvement, I nearly forgot about my first interest in alchemy or whatever transformation or superhuman ability. I am more involuntarily focused on the pleasant condition of a healthy body and ability to better control my stress and behavior. This reflects positively on the relation with my partner, with my son, with people around me. And allows me to fully enjoy the small treasures and pleasures that every day offers to us.

Having said that, I am only covering part of the path, and I know there is still a long way to go, to improve and practice more and more the password.

Dear Master Ou, if you are also reading this article, I wish you to know that I don’t have enough words to thank you for this amazing exercise but at the same time I wish you to know that still many things remain unrevealed to me. And probably is the same for many other practitioners. But one time Vincent told me: “there are many things in our life that we do and we don’t know much about … we cannot know everything”. I wish that sooner or later everyone will start to practice Pangu Shengong. Probably only in this way, can we reveal together the path to the future human world…