Chin Kon Pai Meditation is an accumulation of Dr. Daniel Kalimaahaae Kane Pai’s many years of meditational study.  These studies included a varied list of disciplines such as Chinese Buddhist, Japanese Zen, India’s Vedic and Vipassana teachings, Hawaiian and Native American principles. The principles are simple and easy to follow and with a few minutes a day anyone can enhance their life.  As a basic practice one will become a better person.  If the practitioner wishes to continue to study the several levels of Chin Kon Pai Meditation they will quickly see that the studies will become more complex and challenging and with these elevated challenges will come heightened rewards in their development.

   Practicing Chin Kon Pai Meditation techniques allows your mind to settle inward beyond external thought where one will experience the center of thought.  This is our most peaceful level of consciousness — our innermost Self.  Your body will experience a state of deep rest while your mind becomes increasingly alert.  At this level your brain begins to function in a highly orderly and coherent manner.  This is level one: the introduction to yourself and to the peace that you possess and that exists all around you. 

   You now may move to the next stage of consciousness, level two.  Chin Kon Pai’s level two teaches self-transformation through self-observation.  It focuses on the deep interconnection between mind and body, which can be experienced through a focused attention to the physical sensations that form the life of the body, and that continuously interconnect and condition our mind.  It is this observation-based, self-exploratory journey to the root of our mind and body that dissolves mental impurity.  Once our impurities are diminished we can start to enjoy a more balanced mind full of love and compassion.  The scientific laws that operate our thoughts, emotions, judgements and sensations become clearer.  Through direct practice, the nature of how one grows or regresses, how one produces suffering or frees oneself from suffering is understood and life becomes clearer through increased awareness, self-control and a greater peace within.

   Most people seek peace and harmony simply because these may be the very things we lack in our lives.  From time to time all of us experience irritation, agitation, disharmony or suffering and when one suffers from agitation, one does not keep this misery limited to themselves.  This negative energy will quickly be spread to others as well.  The agitation creates the atmosphere around the miserable person.  Most people who come into contact with them will feel the irritation and agitation as well. 

   If one lives at peace with themselves, they can live in peace with others around them.  It starts with the individual because they have the choice.  After all, human beings are social by nature, and we should not go against our nature.  We live in societies and we are meant to live and deal with others.  We must remain harmonious with ourselves and maintain peace and harmony around us, so that others can also live peacefully and harmoniously with us.

   If one is negative or agitated it is because they have chosen to be negative or agitated.  One must realize the basic reason or cause of the energy and choose to do something to overcome it.  If one investigates the problem, it will become clear that whenever one starts generating any negativity in the mind, one is bound to become agitated.  A negativity in the mind - a mental impurity - cannot exist with peace and harmony.  It is a cancer of a sort, eating away at our power and strength.  It will weaken us and if we allow this cancer to continue to manifest it will feed on our energy until it overcomes us.

   Wise enlightened persons throughout history and around the world have studied the problems of negativity, human suffering, anger and hate, and  they found a solution.  If something unwanted happens and one reacts by generating anger, fear, or negativity they will only feed the very bad energy they wish to avoid.  As soon as possible one should divert one’s attention to something else, and then let their own good energy begin to overtake the bad.  One way is to start repeating a word or a phrase, or some mantra -  perhaps the name of a saintly person to whom you have devotion.   The mind will be diverted and you will begin to think of a positive image that represents purity, strength and healing.  Positive will overtake negative and you will feel the results immediately thereafter.

   With this the mind feels free from anger and agitation.  One should be aware that this solution works only at the conscious level.  The anger, negativity and agitation have been driven deep into the unconscious area of the mind.  At this level one continues to generate and multiply the same emotions.  At the surface level there is a layer of peace and harmony, but in the depths of the mind there is a sleeping volcano of suppressed negativity which sooner or later will explode in a violent eruption.

   This does not mean to run away from your challenges.  The practice of Chin Kon Pai teaches us to control that which is around us with our thoughts and energy.  Experience the reality of mind and matter within yourself, recognize that the problem is still there and that you are merely controlling it with your positive energy and power.  This is the basis of controlling thought through intense meditational exercises.  Escape is no solution: one must face the problem.  Whenever negativity arises in the mind observe it, face it, and control it.  As soon as one starts observing any mental defilement, they must begin to control it by casting it out, destroying it or temporarily sending it elsewhere.  Keeping the negativity in the unconscious will not eradicate it; and allowing it to manifest in physical or vocal action will only magnify the problems.  If one observes and lets a natural action take course, however, the negativity passes away and one has eradicated the bad energy. 

   The direct experience of one’s own reality, our self-observation, is at the very root of Chin Kon Pai Meditation.  One will practice what has become known as ‘seeing with open eyes’; the practitioner is observing things as they really are, not just as they seem to be.  Truth has to be penetrated and this journey continues until one reaches the ultimate truth of their entire mental and physical being.  When one experiences this truth they learn to stop reacting blindly and to stop creating corruptions.  Naturally the old corruptions gradually are eliminated and one will come out of the negativity to experience joy and happiness.

   There are three steps of ‘virtue’ training that were passed on by Dr. Pai.  First, one must abstain from any physical or vocal actions which disrupt the peace and harmony of ones self or others.  Therefore, a code of morality is the essential first step of the practice.  One must not  kill, steal, commit sexual misconduct, tell lies, deceive or consume intoxicants such as drugs or alcohol.  By refraining from such action, one allows the mind to quiet down and find it’s calm center.    

   The second step is to develop mastery over our undisciplined mind. Start off by training the mind to remain fixed on a single object.  The first target of concentration should be one’s own breath.  Try to keep one’s attention for as long as possible on the respiration patterns.  One starts by observing natural respiration as it is, as it comes in, as it goes out.  Do not try to alter or regulate the natural breathing patterns; this is not an exercise.  Calmness overtakes the mind so that it is no longer overpowered by negative distractions.  At the same time, one is concentrating the mind, making it sharp, acute and insightful. 

   The third step is the one that keeps the first two active and developing.  One must practice purifying the mind of negativity and corruption by discovering one’s own nature.  Experiencing one’s own reality by observation of their ever-changing mind and the sensations within.  This is the culmination of self-purification by self-observation.

   Everyone faces the problem of suffering and anyone can practice Chin Kon Pai Meditation to alleviate their suffering.  When one suffers from anger they become agitated, negative, pessimistic and distrustful.  This will cause dismay in their relationships and an unhappy life with no peace and joy.  This malady is universal and it knows no national boundaries. The remedy must also be an universal one: peace, love, understanding, tolerance with ones self and then with others.

   Chin Kon Pai is a good remedy.  It teaches a code of living which respects the peace and harmony of others.  One will learn to develop control over the mind and one will also develop insight into their own reality, through which it is possible to free the mind of negativities. 

   We can observe reality as it is by observing our truth inside — we do this by getting to know who we really are at the actual, experiential level.  As one practices, one journeys out of the misery of defilements.  One will transcend experiences and truth which is beyond mind and matter, beyond time and space, beyond the relativity: the truth of total liberation from all impurities, all suffering.  The name given to this ultimate truth is irrelevant; it should be the final goal of us all. 

   Go deep within yourself and discover who you really are.  Search for that beauty and pureness that God blessed us all with.  You will be excited when you see the truth and moreover, you will learn and be enlightened by the journey. 

 

 

“Truly, wisdom springs from meditation;

without meditation, wisdom wanes;

having known these two paths

of progress and decline,

let one conduct oneself

so that wisdom may increase.”

Dhammapada