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MODULE 8
Circle Walking and
Taoist Meditation:
Meditation 5, Part 3
(Intermediates)

BRUCE FRANTZIS

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Table of Contents
Meditation 5, Part 3: Engaging Your
Seventh Energy Body of Individuality .... 5
What Is the
Seventh Energy Body? .............................................. 5
Accessing the Seventh Energy Body ..................
The Final Meditation ....

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Finishing a Meditation Practice

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Meditation 5, Part 3:
Engaging Your
Seventh Energy Body
of Individuality
What Is the
Seventh Energy Body?
The seventh energy body is called the "Body of Individuality:' This difficult-todescribe energetic quality cannot be understood purely through metaphor, but
rather must be consciously experienced. The process of discovering your essence
is a radically new concept for virtually all human beings.
The seventh energy body answers a central question posed by philosophers,
mystics and many a tiny child trying to understand their place in this giant
universe: Who Am I?

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When found, the answer will have nothing to do with the normal way most
perceive or define themselves such as: I am a man/woman, rich/poor,
intelligent/stupid, etc. The core of your spiritual individuality is different.
Your personal spiritual essence goes beyond any of the life changes you have
experienced, whether or not they have left a fixated residue inside you of any
kind.
Fixated residues could include:
Anything you have done, has been done to you or you have
wanted to do.
Any place you have been or wished to go.
Your personal beliefs, judgments and character flaws/strengths.
The sum total of all events, relationships and people you have
met during this or any other life.
Anything you can think of or imagine that relates to your selfimage and perceptions.
In their process of self-discovery, practitioners come to know who they are
spiritually, simultaneously as an independent actor and a connected piece in the
larger flow of the Tao. Like each human cell (i.e., Body of Individuality), we have
independent functions related to ourselves and, equally, the ongoing workings
of the entire body (i.e., the universe or Tao).
You seek to uncover how you are capable of independent action yet, like that
which never changes, you are capable of staying seamlessly connected to and
complete within the whole.

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Accessing the Seventh Energy Body

Through Part 3 of Circle Walking Meditation 5, the door is open for practitioners
to get intermittent glimpses of their seventh energy body.
Somewhere between the two ways of relating to everything
in life-i.e., what does and does not change-you are in the
position to spontaneously begin to glimpse your seventh
energy body. Stay awake to and aware of the possibility.
When the forces of the universe are so kind as to give you a
glimpse of your personal essence, simply relax into the core of
your being (or soul) and stay there as long as you can. Do not
try to hold onto or prolong the experience. Don't be tricked
into grabbing onto the exerpience and overexaggerating the
often inflated meanings you think it may have. Remember this
is just a glimpse, rather than a permanent situation as of yet.
As glimpses come and go (and they will), just be clear that in
the grand scheme of the universe there is no longer any need
for you to be or not be anything, to do or not do anything.
So as time passes, somehow the nature of your spiritual
individuality can fully begin to emerge and manifest.
Allow these spiritual progressions to relieve you of intellectual
burdens. You do not need to incessantly second guess yourself
as you intuitively seek to become capable of remaining
balanced while colloquially "going with the flow" of the
spiritual forces of the universe. This fundamental Taoist
principle goes much beyond what it is normally interpreted by
the phrase that has been glibly printed on the back of surfing
t-shirts.

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By definition, intermittent glimpses are not stable. Yet each

time you get an intermittent glimpse of your personal essence,
it can move you a step closer to having an unbroken, stable
and continuous awareness of it. Moreover, in order to move
from intermittent to stable awareness, first certain other pieces
of the puzzle must be filled in.
Each piece will require you to go through at least the five phases of walking
meditation methods presented in this text and, most likely, quite a bit more. At
a minimum, you must lose your resistance to change in your fourth to seventh
energy bodies (mental, psychic, causal and essence) and stabilize the awareness
of that which is changeless within yourself.
This process presents very unique and extremely worthwhile challenge.
However, you truly need direct and significant exposure to a genuine master.
Resolving the energies of your sixth (causal) energy body and recognizing and
stabilizing the space beyond karma is the bridge to actualizing the seventh
energy body.

The Final Meditation

The final meditation involves concretely recognizing your essence, whether you
are Walking the Circle or engaging with passing changes that weave through
and intertwine with your life. You must have a continuous awareness of your
essence until it never leaves you and ultimately becomes the door through which
in timeless time you arrive at being one with the Tao.
Just as the course of life always changes, so does the content of your awareness,
which is also ever-changing. The awareness of awareness itself does not change.
The awareness of that which is beyond change, to honestly express itself, must
always be stable and fluidly interacting in a unified awareness with the interplay
of all that does and does not change simultaneously.

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As your practice matures, both change and that which is changeless will always
be effortlessly present at once-neither distracting from the other and smoothly
co-emerging and co-existing in your relaxed awareness.

Finishing a Meditation Practice

1. Slow down your walking speed and smoothly relax your breath, step by
step.
2. Change as you like until you clearly bring your chi down strongly into your
lower tantien.
3. Let the sense of your awareness-of that which permeates everything,
that never changes-become as awake as possible
4. Slow down and finish at your own pace.
5. If you so choose, when you finish walking and without missing a beat, sit
down. Wipe the sweat of your face and continue your meditation sitting.
Beginning from the crown of your head, dissolve downward (using Inner
Dissolving, if possible for you).

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