Huixing
Name : Wang Dingding
Dharma name: Huixing
Education: : Master of Music from the University of Maryland
Occupation: Professional violin performance
Meditation Center: Portland Huilin Temple
Date of taking refuge: 2009
My spine was corrected while practicing Heart Center meditation.
During my retreat, which I had just taken refuge in Buddhism on my first day practicing the Heart-Center Mantra meditation, I noticed a force pulling on my neck, causing it to move slightly. This force grew stronger, pulling my neck in circles and stretching it in different directions, causing considerable soreness. Suddenly, I snapped it around and heard a "crack" from my bones. Gradually, my body also began to rotate, forming larger and larger circles, even rotating clockwise while my head rotated counter-clockwise!
On the third day, I was so dizzy from spinning so vigorously and so fast. I said, "Master, I'm so dizzy I feel like throwing up, I can't take it anymore."
Master smiled and said, "Oh, very good, your spine is almost straightened. Your original spine was S-shaped. Master will pat your head three times now, and it won't move so much in the future." After saying that, he patted my head three times hard and gave me a sweet dew pill.
I casually mentioned, "My stomach is also hurting from all the turning." Master looked at me and asked, "Have you had surgery?" I thought for a moment before saying, "Yes, does childbirth count as surgery?" Master said, "That's right, your internal organs have been repositioned. They were displaced after the surgery."
I forget which day it was, but that force pulled my body backward, and my whole body was about to fall backward. It turned out that it was stretching the meridians in my neck and back. For someone like me who needs massage, cupping, scraping, and acupuncture regularly, it felt like a good massage therapist was hitting all the acupoints. It was really comfortable.
In the last two or three days, my hands started to move! At first, they moved very stiffly, but sometimes they were very powerful, like punching a boxer. My master said, "Dingding, why is there so much stagnant energy in your joints?"
I asked, "If I didn't have this karmic connection, what would happen if I started practicing to expel these impure energies now?" Master said, "Then ten years later, you will experience pain all over your body, and no examination will be able to find any cause. You will only be able to take painkillers." I broke out in a cold sweat when I heard this.