Forget-I 忘我 (Wàng Wǒ) and No I (無我 Wú Wǒ)

Most masters can make meditation difficult.

But who can make it simple?

In this class, my Shifu explained his 50 years of training concisely.

In the six realms of existence, there are 2 Kinds of Meditation.

Meditation in reincarnation: Human-level to the highest Empty Gods.
Meditation out of reincarnation: Bodhisattva and Buddha level

So now we know where all our meditation techniques fit in.

So what's the first level?

The First Level of Meditation: Forget-I (忘我 Wàng Wǒ)

This is explained in many places through Daoist Philosophy as well so I will summarise:

Thinking takes a lot of energy. Thinking is not the highest level of any activity. For example, no professional sportsperson has time to 'think.'
By not thinking, we can concentrate more deeply.
Then in that activity, we create a possibility for a moment when we forget ourselves.
Forgetting the self will also cause us to forget anything connected to the self: our problems, desires, and worries.
Time and space can also vanish.
This further reduces and I and issues related to either time or space.
Anyone practising a very high skill and concentration can reach this:

Many examples: Cooking, sports, art, dance, martial art, and writing.

This is not the highest level of meditation. But why?

Because we forget-I, we forget about the body and create both bad posture and strange motion, which causes tension. Tension will prevent the level from increasing unlimitedly.

The harmony inside and outside is out of balance.

The Second Level of Meditation: No I (無我 Wú Wǒ)

Explained in many places through Daoist and Buddhist Philosophy. There are different explanations from different teachers to different levels of students.

'No' here refers to 'no-personal-blind I.' This means the personal I is replaced with a "harmony I." The blind here refers to the level of awareness that is incomplete or still in a developing zone.
Where Forget-I was creating bad posture and motion, No-I remains aware of the posture and motion. Creating beautiful moving meditation poses.
When we value harmony over our ego (what we want), we develop a new skill in the present. This increases our wisdom and allows us to see new angles of life.
Harmony inside: physical tension, mental worry, psychological fear/anxiety, emotional heaviness.
When we feel light, we are in an internal harmony zone. We can call this inner peace. This zone is out of thinking. This zone appears when thinking slows down.
And harmony outside: Harmony external: other people and our surroundings, 風水 Fēng shuǐ, the environment in balance. This zone makes the space comfortable to stay in indefinitely.

Ways To Improve Your Practice

After we train our meditation ability, we can observe which level we have reached. Observing my own meditation skill while in meditation will usually give me a headache.
Start a journal to record your meditation practice and see how you can improve it through Wang Wo and Wu Wo.
For most of us, rather than trying to make our meditation 'better', we can improve physical conditioning.
- Less tension, better posture, deeper breathing, better diet and sleep;
- Reducing alcohol, anger and frustration;
- Find ways to make your relationships less stressful; and

Increasing time in beautiful nature.

I hope you enjoy reading this pose as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Finally, Here Are The First Two Levels of Meditation

Forget-I 忘我 (Wàng Wǒ) and No I (無我 Wú Wǒ) Most masters can make meditation difficult. But

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