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and inside there are one or two or three tools and you just
take them out and you use them. You use them and you
can literally take yourself down the path of happiness.
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But, they re just tools. No one can use them for you. You
have to do it for yourself.
Without a doubt in my heart, Spring Forest Qigong will
work for anybody who consistently puts forth the effort
to do a little Spring Forest Qigong meditation, a little
exercise for themselves. You may not always feel like
doing it, but, by golly, you go ahead and do it and it will
pay you ten-fold.
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HO JUN KIM
Houston, TX
From Alcoholism to Enlightenment
I wasn t looking to change my life. I wasn t looking to
study Qigong, but I did and it changed my life. I didn t
even want my life to change but it did.
I like to drink. I ve always liked to drink. I like to drink
beer, wine, and hard liquor. I started drinking when I was
in high school. Even then I would have a couple of shots
of liquor every day before going to school. I like to drink
a lot.
I also love hot, spicy food, the hotter the better. I m
Korean, born in Seoul and grew-up in south Texas. So, I
love hot food. I also love salty food. I d salt everything. I
had a girlfriend once who tried to get me to use this light
salt. I went out and bought her real salt. I couldn t eat that
other stuff.
I loved to eat and loved to drink. For me it wasn t
uncommon to get together with my friend Marshall and
spend the day barbecuing and drinking. We d barbecue
like a brisket and chicken and something else and start
with a 12-pack of beer on ice and then go out for more
beer. We d eat and drink all day and all night. That was
common. I never thought it was a problem then but I was
an alcoholic. There were a lot of times I can remember
blacking out and not knowing what happened. Nothing
bad ever happened but I was an alcoholic.
I also used to have a short fuse with people, especially
on the road. In Houston, traffic s bad and people are
always cutting you off on the road. Everyday, it happens.
I m the kind of guy that wouldn t just let that go. If some-
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one cut me off I d curse them and call them names or tail-
gate em and made sure they knew about it. One time, my
friend Marshall was following me and saw a guy cut me
off and he pulled up in front of me because he knew what
I was like and he didn t want anything to happen.
Once I started doing the Qigong all that started to
change. I wasn t looking for it. I didn t even want it to
change but it did. I hadn t even planned to learn the
Qigong.
I took a double major in college and have degrees in
chemistry and philosophy. After college I decided I want-
ed to go into the health field but I knew I didn t want to
become a western doctor.
When I was little I went to see an Herbalist/Acupuncturist
who really helped me a lot with my severe asthma. So I
was already familiar with it and decided to go back to
school and study oriental medicine.
One of the courses the college requires is in Qigong. I
started taking the class and then some friends told me
about Master Chunyi Lin and Spring Forest Qigong and I
decided to go to Minneapolis and take one of his classes.
Almost immediately, within a few months, things
started to change. One day I had about nine beers on an
empty stomach and a couple of shots of whiskey while
watching a movie over the course of about three hours
and I got sick. For normal people everyone would say
that sound s normal. Drink that much on an empty stom-
ach and you get sick. But, for me, that wasn t normal.
When the friend I was with called my friend Marshall
and told him what happened, Marshall said something s
wrong there. Either he drank a lot more than you think or
something s wrong because Ho Jun can drink a lot more
than that and he never gets sick. And Marshall s been my
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friend since high school when I d drink every day. And,
then in college, I was in fraternities and stuff and I would
power drink.
Then, a couple months later, Marshall and I went to a
Super Bowl party and I had like five beers and was eating
food and I got sick. That s when he and I both knew
something was definitely, definitely wrong.
And, after that incident, I just couldn t drink. I would
drink maybe one beer and I would feel sick. And, I really
do like to have wine with my dinner or a couple beers
and I can t do that anymore. That s the biggest change.
But, everything has changed.
Everything that I used to do to excess, eat meat, eat hot
food, use lots of salt, I can t do anymore. Now I don t salt
anything and I can t eat hot foods either or meat. I can eat
a little bit but there s just no desire for that stuff anymore.
My body just won t accept it. All the vegetables and
things I used to hate, now, let me tell you, vegetables taste
really good and I eat lots of vegetables.
The way I react to things has changed, too. Over time
it s all changed. Looking back on it I realize it s been a
progression. At first, I d be driving along and somebody
would cut me off and I would still call them a name but I
wouldn t make as big a deal about it. Then, as time went
on, someone would cut me off and instead of shouting at
them I d say Well, maybe they didn t see me, when I
knew they did. Then, it became, Well, I hope they don t
get in an accident. And, then, instead of getting upset,
I d send them a blessing and say to myself, I hope they
get where they re going safely.
So, over time, studying the Qigong, I ve gone from get-
ting totally irate to now I m shooting them some good
energy and love, kindness and forgiveness and wishing
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them well. I m just much calmer now.
Those are just some of the obvious things that have
happened and started happening almost immediately.
Now, it s been over two years and my whole personality
has changed. My whole life has changed.
I ve come from alcoholism to, like Master Lin says,
self-enlightenment. And, don t get me wrong, I m not
saying I m self-enlightened, but I know I am a much bet-
ter person now. And, I wasn t looking to do this.
I was not looking for self-enlightenment. I was not
looking to change my character. I was not looking to quit
drinking. I was not looking to quit eating fatty foods. I
was not looking for any of that. All of that was just kind
of thrust upon me by doing the Qigong. The more Qigong
I did the more I changed.
What I know now is that by doing the Qigong, once
you start doing this, you just naturally have to become a
better person. You just can t do Qigong healing on people
with a bad heart or thinking bad thoughts. It just doesn t
work. The Qigong won t work.
Because of that as I started doing more and more
Qigong I just became a better and better person. It just
came as kind of a by-product. Now, I think it s great. I
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