Experiences from the Green Commune in China
Rodak ( from Holland)
Today I realized I ask more to other people what solution they have for a problem and accept it. Usually I like to tell how I think something should be done. I think it is part of commune life to share the problem and the find the solution. Here in the commune people share their lives and happiness together. Problems are solved together by using the energy of the people together. The special part is that it is a meditation commune where people live in harmony by not using their mind but by connecting their life energy together. This way you do not need to become angry, because you do not stick to some mind idea but accept other peoples ideas and together choose the best one. For families this is a good environment because raising children takes a lot of work. If you can share the work with other people and for more children it leaves also more time for parents to do their own things during the day, for example meditation for which you otherwise would have no time. With only two parents taking care the children and parents can easily develop habits in their behavior that are not good for either. Here you can see changes in your habits and find out what you changed, so you do not need to do it again.
In green commune the people are flowing. Because so many people are here, as a visitor you can join the flow and do new things that you normally would not do or even could not do. I have experienced from the first day here that this energy was helping me to do my meditations, to help fix body problems (foot, spine) and during the day in my activities. Before coming I had a problem to walk in the airport to the airplane, here I have made long walks in the mountains. By experiencing every day what is happening in my body, I am more aware of what I need to do to overcome a problem and stay healthy.
My body has become more flexible, walking is more natural. I can let my body correct itself for a bad posture, if I let it do it. I write my diary every day, I have found again that I wake up cleaner the next morning, and that I am more flowing. In the morning in laughing I can feel my body opening and become flexible. After laughing when I walk back I do not use glasses and can see the plants very well and shining next to the street. I than enjoy the nature around very much.
The daily activities and walks in the mountains help me to feel if I am using my body correctly especially when I get tired. Usually something goes wrong or my thinking is not correct if I am not in the flow and tired. So when I notice something goes wrong I know what to do to get back in the flow.
I thank green commune for taking good care of us and trying many things to make our stay better and sharing their lives and energy with us.
Fleur (from Holland)
Change foot
In group do mandala, keep running while watching partner across me into eyes, then suddenly heavy pain in foot. Before never had this pain, can not go on. Sandesh push some, I feel heavy pain and need to cry. Some later I relax more when feel energy Sandesh and Mira, can handle the pain and some later can walk. Sandesh tell me it is some old pain, from an accident when I was a child, then I ignored the pain and now it come out. Can do group for next day while using some medicine on foot and ancle. The day after group I can climb mountain and walk more than 3 hours, I enjoy and feel peace. The past three months I could not walk more then one half hour without pain. Some days later, pain come back, and while working foot get fat. Very difficult to walk, no way can bend foot or move hip easily. Do more walks with group, feel heavy pain and afraid that I break my body. Same time my mind is making me crazy and I go thinking too much about insecurities and other so called worries. I tell myself it is because of the pain. But now I see it is the other way around, I forgot to take care of myself after group with using medicine fot foot. I just did not use because I keep telling myself to be a strong young woman. It is a mind habit that I still have and which is forcing me doing things I can not do. Actually taking care of myself and my body makes me a more happy and loving person and that I experience is most important in life. Sandesh and the commune gave me some advice to get more energy flowing. I followed and yes my energy is more flowing, mind is more quiet and foot is less fat and less red. Some pain still there but I try, every time I need to walk, to find a way to walk without too much pain, it is walking with awareness what is happening inside, how my body is changing and my mind keeps quiet. Then and only whyen life energy is flowing, I can walk and sometimes feel like dancing with not too much pain.
Laughing
Now I am in commune for 3rd time. And yes, can do laughing again in mornings all together. Alone at home it is very hard to do, maybe can keep going on 10 minutes. In group I feel energy flowing, when I hear other persons,we share energy and it is like I take over others laugh. So waking up now even at 5 in the morning is no problem at all. I feel stiffness in body sometimes and difficult to come out of bed. But after laughing I always feel more flexible, some blocks of muscles and joints relax while laughing. And again I have some pain in mouth and jaw, my teeth change so much that I can not bite my upper and lower jaw together like before. So the dentist is maybe not happy but I feel more happy and relaxed. It is a wonderful start of every bright new day with this exercise to make the mind more silent and changes my attitide during daily life.
Kundalini
Running in life for my job and friends, feeling bodypain and much tension many times and finally get sick, that was my life till one and a half year ago. Then a friend introduced me the kundalini meditation. First time I felt very relaxed afterwards. I kept doing daily one hour for some weeks and noticed that I just felt better when I finished. Then I felt this was something which can help me in life. So I just came to experience commune. Every day kundalini meditation in group, around 4 or 5 o’clock. The time in the day people naturally feel their energy level go down. Then we do shaking, dancing, sitting and lie down. In the beginning shaking was very difficult, I could not shake my feet or ancle, many bodyparts were so stiff. So much sweat come out of body because energy is blocked some where. Dancing gives me most of times a very free feeling to move my body from inside, it feels as a massage to all bodyparts. In sit I can reach peace when sit without tension in body, however this requires a lot of awareness. In lie down I feel some blocks open and then energy goes flowing more and more, I relax fully. Afterwards I feel like a new day can begin. New energy, more light and joy again.
Now I do almost one year daily kundalini. It has become a way of life for me. Everywhere I go, I take the music and make time for kundalini, even on holiday in Nepalese Himalaya’s. Kundalini is coming back to myself, feel what is happening and watch my body and mind. It is the time my awareness grows and this is exactly that which make change in life possible. Because of kundalini I now feel my own energyflow and can keep it more flowing. That makes life more pure from my inner being. This life energy which flows inside of me, makes me more free, more creative and more open to to anything what happens to me on any moment.
Same time kundalini makes my body stronger. So I feel more energy and have more power, physical but also being to keep following my flow and just doing my thing, whatever it is, whatever I feel like doing. Kundalini in the commune goes more deep; we share our energy which makes me easier flowing and happy.
Lin Ying(from China)
3 years old and 33 years old
Lin Ying
When I am 3 years old, I was scald seriously in an accident. It’s lucky that I was wearing pants with open crotch, so the buttocks is ok. But the left leg is scald seriously. I thought that the meat was cooked. A piece of skin was cut from the right leg to be grafted on the left leg. I stayed in the hospital for very long. My legs are even hung in my memory (in case the wound is covered after medicine being applied. Also in case that I move ) At last the wound recovered.. My father always said very luckly :’The child survives in disaster.’ Later I never walked well. I often fell to the ground when 3 years old. When I was some elder, I woudn’t fell, but the way of walking is very ugly. The tiptoes point to the outside. The buttocks is turned up. I know it when I am very young. I always want to modify. But no way!
I am terribly bad at sports related to running. I have good height and length of leg. What a pity! I like dancing, Kongfu and gymnastics. But my postures are always very strange. Teachers sais that my coordination was not good, which makes me to be weighed down.
Later, I escape from these sports, although I like them very much…
When I am 33 years old, I met Sandesh. When he saw me at the first time, he felt that my way of walking was very strange. He knew that I was blocked. The bone of leg and Pelvis mismatched. So the place that they should fix together now is hole. (When I went to have injection, the doctors always told me to relax. They said that you are so nervous to have a hole in the bottocks). Now I know that everything comes from that disaster of 3 years old—-Because the legs were hung, the soft bone distorted. I didn’t know before… I had many explanation for my problem — lack of Ca，bad body quality, bad co-ordination.
Shit! They are not the reason.
After 2 groups, my left leg is better and better. The blocked part is recovering gradually. Unimaginable! During 2 groups in 2 months, after feet blistering, heel cracking, the front part of sole aching when touching the ground, I can walk one morning suddenly!
Now, I really understand from my body. The body sincerely records your past life. It’s sickness tells you about the problem of the concept in your mind. It continues telling, but I never understand. O! I never well feel my body. I am just busy, busy with chasing what the mind want—money, love, desire, beauty- then the heart is still empty!
Now, I begin live with myself really. I feel everyday that I exist. I feel the joyance that the body-mind connect. The joyance is so simple! My life is so broad! The power hidden deep in my body is awakened- I don’t feel weak any more!
I bless my self: power, power, more power!
With love,
Green commune
绿土地健康社区
回归自然，享受成长
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