Different situation in Conferences, Guo Baiting bravely show affection in international conference
Chen Hongbin 2011-08-29
To foster the principle of “the world is one family”, the founder of the world's largest school - City Montessori School referred to as CMS, Jagdish Gandhi, invites judges and UN NGO members from around the world to attend a conference every year. He has also invited Tai Ji Men Zhang-Men-Ren Dr. Hong Dao-zi to attend many times, giving Tai Ji Men Dizi Guo Baiting the opportunity to participate this event. The 11th International Conference of Global Chief Justices and the global consciousness seminar of 2010 was held from December 10 to December 14 in Lucknow at North India; bringing together more than 200 judges and NGO members from 63 countries to join the festivities. The event hosts a wealth of activities; in addition to several international justice conferences, there are global consciousness seminars. Each day of the conference, at any given time there are plenty of seminars to suit a broad array of participant interests; generally with four seminars held at the same time, each of which being crowded with people. In addition to judges and NGO members, CMS students also attend the event. The participants focus on global issues and the atmosphere often becomes heavy due to the gap between idealism and reality; one room had a different tone, seminar room 3 was always full of non-stop laughter.
"The Seminar of Love and Peace" in Room 3 was hosted by the UN / NGO Association of World Citizens and the Federation of World Peace and Love (FOWPAL) and co-organized by the Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy. During the seminar, Guo Baiting from Tai Ji Men led the participants to yell I LOVE YOU! Many people joined in and the atmosphere suddenly picked up. In the modern world, it is not easy to express "affection", Guo Baiting took real action to create Love & Peace. He said, "Over the years, my greatest achievement from practicing Tai Ji Men Qi-Gong is to learn ‘Joy.’ Whenever I feel tense, the brothers and sisters in Tai Ji Men would smile at me and make me feel more relaxed. Therefore, I wanted the participants in the meeting to relax as well. When we say “I LOVE YOU”, everyone would unconsciously smile regardless of if they are shy or outgoing. The most important thing is that everyone laughed. Guo Baiting hoped that the conference would not only focus on discussion of love, but also to show love.
Before joining Tai Ji Men, Guo Baiting had trouble expressing his emotions. Without a way to vent his anger, he pile pillows and quilts and punched them. He recalled an episode of embarrassments in his third grade, "In the third grade, my angrily made a girl cry, so my teacher wrote to inform my parents and request for their signature and stamp. Of course, I didn’t dare to tell my parents, so I imitated my father’s signature and stamped with his seal”, but his actions were discovered. His mother yelled at him and so he slammed the door to his room. His mother insisted for him to say sorry to the door, which made him more indignant. So once again he piled up pillows and quilts and gave them a beating. Later-on, his mother took him into Tai Ji Men to practice Qigong, and then he gradually learned how to communicate with himself. Guo Baiting said:”Shifu taught me to think with my inner heart to solve problems. Thus I’d analyze why I felt angry and identify the source of the emotion, recognize it, understand it, and not seek to overcome it, but instead to communicate with the emotion as if with good friends." Guo didn’t need the cotton pile anymore because he learned to use wisdom put into action.
Guo Baiting particularly emphasized that "Action is love and energy! Love & Peace is not achieved by discussion, but out of action." The sessions in each meeting room in the conference were different, but room 3 often ran over the allotted time because so many people were competing to take the stage in order to freely share their impassioned ideas. The Brazilian President of the Environmental Protection Agency, Divino Roberto Verissimo said “This Tai Ji Men organization has changed the entire conference, so that all participants can relax and understand the meaning of happiness.” Tai Ji Men Dizi who grew up in the ancient martial arts Menpai demonstrated the special Energy dance to pass along happy energy. They invigorated the audience with the energy coming out from their performance, and enabled the guests to let down their guard and freely promote love and peace for the world together.
