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Haedong Kumdo Feedback 12/2014
written down by Christoforos Christodoulou,HK Rep of Greek HK Association.
place : Athens, Greece
date : 19th to 27th Dec. 2014
A few days ago another seminar ended under the guidance of the great grand master Kim Jeong Seong. After 21 months we met him again and we were delighted to experience everything he taught us.
We are blessed that we have this huge opportunity to receive this knowledge straight from the source, and that there are no third party people to stop or misinterpret this information according to their limited knowledge.
Truth is simple, master empersize over and over. That is the reason why we trust and follow him, me and the other colleagues at the Greek Haedong Kumdo Union.
I want to warn you that in the future more Haedong Kumdo Unions will show up in our country, as with all kind of martial arts. These people will hold Dan titles (I am not referring to old members that for personal reasons stopped, but deserve every Dan earned through participating in every examination- we should congratulate them again and again).
Maybe they will appear again, old members with Dan earned with honor- written in their diploma- leaders of the union with 3,4,5 or 6 and 7 Dan.
We are at the right place, the right time. We accept all kinds of living experiences from an experienced teacher who has stepped and walked the path of knowledge. He knows and feels, as we all understood at the seminar, who speaks the truth, who is not, who copes and who fools himself/herself. He knows more than any of us the principles of nature and universe that he taught us with his attitude and behavior.
Maybe some people who believe they know more, will state that he knows nothing. We thank them for this belief.
But like our teacher gives knowledge, there are people among us who think they do the same. We must recognize them and continue our education for our own good. There are many milestones as we walk forward, this is written in our life routine, this is the only way through which we can change our level.
The pick in this year's education is to think out of the box. Master Kim made an introduction the previous day of the seminar with the aim for us to think seminar's subject. He tutored for three milestones in our evolution during the process of recognition and energy use.
These are:
1. Relax and feel the energy
2. Focus and see it
3. Realize and do it
The next day he put us in the process of the first level and some of us experienced it. These were Claudia, Anastasia, Ilias, Yiannis.
He explained that if we overthink we might complicate more our thoughts with no positive results. He continued by telling us to realize our position towards time and place and understand that we are a simple dot at the WHOLE. He gave us some faqs in order not to step into traps, not to get excited with our wants and not to get tempted with our EGO.
This is the reason the seminar was called think out of he box- step out of the logic of your thought, think without logic. It is difficult but not impossible. It is simple and not complex and it depends on the education that we had at the past from our teachers family etc.
If our will for change is strong we will find the way, master argues. Here are the personal experiences of our classmates.
The people mentioned above told us that they felt their hands burning,others more others less. Some felt it more at the one hand than the other.
When master Kim went close to them and touched them, he whispered to them that this is the force, this energy balanced on their hands and then they felt as if they were holding a fire ball, others felt it big, others small.
Claudia said master Kim was a unique experience and before she did the exercise, she was feeling tired but later on she was relaxed, full of energy. "I tried to focus on my mother's face as master Kim told me to".
When she managed to have her mother's face on her mind, she felt IT. She felt the energy pouring inside her. At the same time her hands became warmer. "This was one of the most exciting experiences of my life, she claims. I couldn't do any if these without the help of my master Kim".
Anastasia saw a firing light in front of her eyes and said:" when I closed my eyes I saw the building we are in, not as it was supposed to be, but it looked like an energy field as in movies, but in a transparent way, and on its surface it had waves. Besides the building I saw the rest of us there, and I felt them. My right hand was burning in its middle and i felt like I was holding something in my hands, something that I could not describe until master Kim asked us about it. This was regarding the light that I saw.
Some among all the students felt heat, cold breeze, some thought they saw something.
At exactly that point master said not to give importance on it, and to surpass what we felt at that specific time!! If we won't do it as our fellow student stamatis did in the past this very energy would affect us for a long time. This is what stamatis said to the master and the master would like to share it with us.
Stamatis in the past implemented the respiration exercises that our master taught him, before doing a demonstration of wooden surfaces breaking. He indeed achieved his goal with surplus of strength as he mentioned " I could break a wall" . yet, stamatis for that very day and all the following he was experiencing augmented heart breat as well as high blood pressure and he could not fall asleep easily.
In that part, the master teaches us not to use the power with no reason and if we do, we need to release it afterwards as it is not ours, like our body; otherwise we would do it whatever we wanted.
Like our fellow student john , the energy should flow and not be collected , if it does, someone can not hold it for long and will get sick or even die. Imagine us wanting oxygen and not breath it out; in the end we will die. this is the principle of nature. We need not to be foolish to do the opposite.
Another hint for us in order to successfully graduate from the first level is to avoid 3 things:
1. not to get angry
2.not to be greedy and
3.not be foolish.
If we let ourselves fall in those traps, the energy will get blocked and strange things will happen I.e. bad life ,problems or even sicknesses.
This is why we always need to do the best we can and love and help the others. Via the training of the sword we are lucky to be taught the principles of life first and foremost helpful for ourselves and then for the others.
In the end, the master highlights that the goal is through the training of the haedong kumdo "heavy and long sword " to pass from our natural capabilities onto respiration exercises named ki mu, through the energy that we will develop over the years, we will be able to use small and light swords "needles", and after that, we may not need the neadles at all.
everything is interconnected to each other in the very same way. Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to transact to you everything I know and I hope that I will see you again in the next seminar and be able to teach you more. Till then enjoy the training.
Today we build tommorow.
Haedong!!!