One teaspoon of a neutron star weighs 50 billion tons.

Heavergizing empoweration crunchergizing voidizing enviorment unto personalities and forms over extending pulling back, self binding/regulating/entraining the win/win.

Gathering irrutiable gravity causing spontaneous complisant. Ambrosial attatck, repeentance,

spiraling, electromatizing, graviating, configuring, setting orbiting.

SGR 1806−20 is a magnetar, a type of neutron star with a very powerful magnetic field, that was discovered in 1979 and identified as a soft gamma repeater. SGR 1806−20 is located about 13 kiloparsecs (42,000 light-years)[1] from Earth on the far side of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius. It has a diameter of no more than 20 kilometres (12 mi) and rotates on its axis every 7.5 seconds (30,000 kilometres per hour (19,000 mph) rotation speed at the surface). As of 2016, SGR 1806-20 is the most highly magnetized object ever observed, with a magnetic field over 1015 gauss (G) (1011 tesla) in intensity[2] (compared to the Sun’s 1–5 G and Earth’s 0.25–0.65 G).

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All Qigong flows from connectivity with Three Powers which cultivates The Three Treasures:

In Taoism, shenming is a term that refers to the ability to see and understand those outside of one’s own measure. It is made up of the characters for “spirit,” “god,” or “numinous” (shen) and “shining,” “intelligent,” or “evident” (ming). Some translations of shenming include: “Godlike intelligence, “Gods, “Superhuman knowledge, and “Mental resources. The term shenming is often used as a phrase, but it should be treated as a single term. In Chinese philosophy, the term shen can refer to a god, a person with supernatural powers, or the spirit of a deceased person. In acupuncture, shen is a spiritual energy that resides in the heart. The term ming in ancient Chinese thought was used to evaluate an object and assign it a place in a hierarchical universe. The Three Treasures (sānbǎo) are jing, qi, and shen, which are often referred to as the “essence, breath, and spirit”.

These three concepts are shared by Taoism and

Chinese culture, and are cornerstones in traditional Chinese medicine. (Google AI)

The 3 Powers

3 parts of the biological biography battery

Tian =

Cosmic energy, each animal vigor, each element, Ren = Substance of the battery

Nature is your true body.

How many can you feel at the same time? Increase your threshold by attention you attention span into these

Dih = The negative pole

Touching earth grounding thru…

Most of your time grounding. Grounding is a superpower. Touch down and break ground right here where you are and grow a more extensive root structure. Reverse our search and find the earth. Find your body to find your mind. Find the earth to find your body.

“Water the root to enjoy the fruit.”

ITS ALL SUMMED UP IN CONNECTING AND CONDUITING THE

TRANSMISSION FROM THE MASTER.

This causes the unbounding of perception to unite with The 3 Powers of Nature. The energy in the air, the various feelings of Darshan (the energy of the master, the texters of the cosmos, heaven (sky), earth and body all are the miracle streams causing inner, personal transfiguration into greater coherence. And, coherence is the luck factor of life.

The Three Powers (San Cai) tu hui 三才圖會encyclopedia is one of approximately 120,000 volumes of stitched-bound Chinese books. Most of the books were printed in the Ming (1368-1644) and early Qing (1644-1911) periods.

San cai tu hui literally means “Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Three Powers,” which are Heaven, Earth, and Man.

San Cai

The 3 Powers of Qigong

Three Realms/Powers (三界) of reality, with the upper realm being heaven/sky (Tian), the middle realm occupied by Humanity (人, Rén),^[2] and the lower world occupied by Demons (魔, Mó) and Ghosts (鬼, Guǐ).

1.

Tian

(Heaven/Sky/God/Gods)

Positive Electro-Magnetism in

Tian Ming=A mandate from Heaven.

Do you have a Tian Ming?

Literal=Heaven

Synonymous with Sky (Blue Sky) and God.

Tian is one of the first Chinese terms for heaven in the most ancient writings.

Tian became synonymous with the word for God (Shangdi)

Shangdi (Chinese: 上帝; pinyin: Shàngdì; Wade–Giles: Shang Ti), also written simply, “Emperor” (Chinese: 帝; pinyin: Dì), is the Chinese term for “Supreme Deity” or “Highest Deity” in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tian (“Heaven” or “Great Whole”) of Zhou theology.[1]

Although in Chinese religion the usage of “Tian” to refer to the absolute God of the universe is predominant, “Shangdi” continues to be used in a variety of traditions, including

certain philosophical schools,[2] certain strains of Confucianism,[3] some Chinese salvationist religions (notably Yiguandao) and Chinese Protestant Christianity. In addition, it is common to use such term among contemporary and secular Chinese, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwanese and Overseas Chinese societies typically for a singular universal deity and a non-religion translation for the God in Christianity.[4] FROM WIKIPEDIA

TOUCHING THE SKY

‘Look up’-Things are looking up. Take a few moments now and then and just look up. Please merge with/breathe with The Sky/Cosmos.

Ionization increases with altitude:

Bring the cellular tendrals of your awareness to ingraft with the sky above the earth around and your biological biography with endless improvements.

Once you make great contact with the sky heavenly ‘dew.’ Is dropped down.

The semantics of tian developed diachronically. The Hanyu dazidian, an historical dictionary of Chinese characters, lists 17 meanings of tian 天, translated below.

1. Human forehead; head, cranium. 人的額部; 腦袋.
2. Anciently, to tattoo/brand the forehead as a kind of punishment. 古代一種在額頭上刺字的刑罰.
3. The heavens, the sky, the firmament. 天空.
4. Celestial bodies; celestial phenomena, meteorological phenomena. 天體; 天象.
5. Nature, natural. A general reference to objective inevitability beyond human will. 自然. 泛指不以人意志為轉移的客觀必然性.
6. Natural, innate; instinctive, inborn. 自然的; 天性的.
7. Natural character/quality of a person or thing; natural instinct, inborn nature, disposition. 人或物的自然形質; 天性.
8. A reference to a particular sky/space. 特指某一空間.
9. Season; seasons. Like: winter; the three hot 10-day periods [following the summer solstice]. 時令; 季節. 如: 冬天; 三伏天.
10. Weather; climate. 天氣; 氣候.
11. Day, time of one day and night, or especially the time from sunrise to sunset. Like: today; yesterday; busy all day; go fishing for three days and dry the nets for two for “unable to finish anything”]. 一晝夜的時間, 或專指日出到日落的時間. 如: 今天; 昨天; 忙了一天; 三天打魚,兩天曬網.
12. God, heaven, celestial spirit, of the natural world. 天神, 上帝, 自然界的主宰者.
13. Heaven, heavenly, a superstitious person’s reference to the gods, Buddhas, or immortals; or to the worlds where they live. Like: go to heaven [“die”]; heavenly troops and heavenly generals [“invincible army”]; heavenly goddesses scatter blossoms [a Vimalakirti

Sutra reference to “Buddha’s arrival”]. 迷信的人指神佛仙人或他們生活的那個世界. 如: 歸天; 天兵天將; 天女散花.

1. Anciently, the king, monarch, sovereign; also referring to elders in human relationships. 古代指君王; 也指人倫中的尊者.
2. Object upon which one depends or relies. 所依存或依靠的對象.
3. Dialect. A measure of land [shang, about 15 acres]. 方言. 垧.
4. A family name, surname. 姓.

Tiān is one of the components in hundreds of Chinese compounds. Some significant ones include:

• tiānmìng (天命 “Mandate of Heaven“) “divine mandate, God’s will; fate, destiny; one’s lifespan”
• Tiānwèn (traditional Chinese: 天問; Heavenly Questions
• tiānzĭ (天子 “Son of Heaven“), an honorific designation for the “Emperor; Chinese sovereign” (Tiānzǐ accounts for 28 of the 140 tiānoccurrences in the Shī Jīng above.)
• tiānxià (天下, lit. “all under heaven“) “the world, earth; China”
• tiāndìh (天地, lit “heaven and earth”) “the world; the universe.”
• Xíngtiān (刑天) An early mythological hero who fought against Heaven, despite being decapitated.
• Tiānfáng (天房) Chinese name for Mecca, the Islamic holy city. (Tiān is used as translation of Allah)

Can you make Heaven/Sky Contact? If so how?

The weather is called Tian chi as it indicates the weather of the heavens (Sky).

Atmospheric electricity involves both thunderstorms, which create lightning bolts to rapidly discharge huge amounts of atmospheric charge stored in storm clouds, and the continual electrification of the air due to ionization

from cosmic rays and natural radioactivity, which ensure that the atmosphere is never quite neutral.

The electric potential gradient of the atmosphere

On an ordinary day over flat desert country, or over the sea, as one goes upward from the surface of the ground the electric potential increases by about 100 volts per meter. Thus there is a vertical electric field EE of 100 volts/m in the air. The sign of the field corresponds to a negative charge on the earth’s surface. This means that outdoors the potential at the height of your nose is 200 volts higher than the potential at your feet! You might ask: “Why don’t we just stick a pair of electrodes out in the air one meter apart and use the 100 volts to power our electric lights?” Or you might wonder: “If there is really a potential difference of 200 volts between my nose and my feet, why is it I don’t get a shock when I go out into the street?”

We will answer the second question first. Your body is a relatively good conductor. If you are in contact with the ground, you and the ground will tend to make one equipotential surface. Ordinarily, the equipotentials are parallel to the surface, as shown in Fig. 9–1(a), but when you are there, the equipotentials are distorted, and the field looks somewhat as shown in Fig. 9–1(b). So you still have very nearly zero potential difference between your head and your feet. There are charges that come from the earth to your head, changing the field. Some of them may be discharged by ions collected from the air, but the current of these is very small because air is a poor conductor.

There are about 40,00040,000 thunderstorms per day all over the earth, and we can think of them as batteries pumping the electricity to the upper layer and maintaining the voltage difference

The Earth surface is negatively charged.

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The current—caused by the electric field we have just been describing—passes from the sky down to the earth ionization increases with altitude

Enough about a subject is think your right but not enough about a subject to know your wrong.

Heaven/God/Sky worship was the orthodox state religion of China.

Heaven (Tian) confers upon the child of heaven

(tianzi) the power and skill to rule.

This mandate depends upon the personality and behavior of the one in charge. Yi (righteousness) and ren benevolence were the requirements. If the ruler becomes immoral or tyrannical they are to be removed by a revolution from the people and the mandate moves into and through another person.

Therefore we should fear sin (immorality)

What are the types of nourishments in the sky and heavens you could become connected with today?

Carefully list each one

BECOME MORE AWARE OF THE SKYIN YOUR DAILY LIFE IN THE TANGIBLE TENDRALS OF YOUR AWARENESS

2.

Dih

(Earth)

Bristling your connectors

You have tendrals of connectivity in your body that are bound up in fearful clinging. Stretch these out to reunite with the Atma of every person and the vast expanse of natures nourishing.

Get some mud on you again and again…rub it in.

Negative Ions/electromagnetism in the soil

Become constant lightening connecting sky and earth.

BOUNCING STRETCHING BENDING

*Palm symbiosis with the earth. Swirl and swallow, core compressions and kegals,

• Smelling- the soil. Touching the earth. Palms on the earth
• Gorilla bouncing/slapping, Bull wipes its feet, Eagel eyes soaring, screeming Tigers roaring/Monkeys screetching, Dolphin and animal petting, Snake slithering, Elephant walking, Mouse nosing, Bat ears, Shark sensing, Whale swimming and blowing,

Define your Animal Frolic Personalized Form-

Choose 3 of your favorite animals to merge with the feeling.

The experience of O’Sensei (the founder of Aikido) where a golden midst came up from the earth.

Can you make Earth Contact? If so how?

When we can really get in touch with the earth the root essence of physical Qi then comes up into our bodies. Like heavily sleeping where our bodies stick to the mattress yet we are awake.

There is a saying in Qigong: ‘Pick up the magic herb.’ This means to touch the earth and pick up its gift of nourishment.

A personal experience of heaven/Sky touching earth…i.e. lightening:

I was walking into the living room and looking directly out of the window when lightening struck. That was an amazing instant transformation of the atmosphere. Our bodies are like lightening rods.

A giant crash happened I thought something fell…like a chandelere…big glass of some sort..There was an explosion of white light right in front of me. It blew out the super $400 internet router I bought-wew….very fun but forever changed my experiencing of lightening. It was awe and reverence inspiring.

Allow your awareness to move down from your head space, through your body space as you settle down and touch the earth.

• The Earth is negatively charged – The sky is positively charged – There is a weak electric current (fair weather current) that flows from the sky to the Earth – The atmosphere is weakly conducting because of ions, which is why we get the current – The fair weather circuit is disturbed during thunderstorms
• The charge separation sets up a potential (like a battery) with a value of about 100V/m. – The strength of the potential decreases with altitude. – At an altitude of 50,000m the voltage across the expanse from the point and the ground is about 400,000 V – When a 2-m (6 ft) human is standing on the ground, you can expect a potential difference of 200V from head to toe, but locally the human is distorting the field, because he/she is a good conductor.

Slowing down to join with subconscious and super consciousness

All the gained ‘etherial energy’ is then invested into our own bodies and ‘minds.’ In Chinese the word for ‘mind’ is Hsin which actually means the heart and mind together as one.

Here is the process of transferring what you’ve gained from the 3 powers.

Levels of connectivity with nature iyf unbounding breathing

BECOME MORE AWARE OF THE EARTH IN YOUR DAILY LIFE IN THE TANGIBLE TENDRALS OF YOUR AWARENESS

3.

(Ren)

Virtue in the body

Virtue is the cause of miracle power. Substitutionary virtue comes from the gift of grace by the transmission of the teacher.

Can you make Contact with the virtue in your body?

Also there is the tangible movie reel of your biological biography? If you can see how all is working together for your own healing then you can evolve your biological coherence.

Our biological biography is the fuse connecting above/below and around.

Spine and brain is alter of nature, the universe and God.

Each of our cells have tendrils which either retract in fearful clinging or grow outwardly to engraft themselves into greater connectedness. Learn to let nature and the cosmos breathe through the bellows of your own body.

The body is the ground wire of the brain. The body downloads and digests the energy and information of the mind.

Only if we are aware of our biological biographies can we introduce the sky and earth into our systems. Usually we are given to so much worry, fear and shock that all’s we do is objectify reality.

Qigong enlightenment, healing and empowerment is based much on dropping our defense mechanisms and let life back in.

Pay attention to the body and include nature’s vast nourishments into every nook and cranny. Continue finding and revealing shut off areas. Keep potential predators

grounded at an ever safer distance.

The spine, brain and nerve is our electrical chords connecting us to the universe and beyond. Attaining ‘the marrow’ of life is basically the process of purification and self reinvention.

Each nerve, gland, organ, bone, joint, sinew, ligament, muscle, fat, fascia, muscle is based on cells. Our cellular nature is where qigong really charges up and discharges energy. In the process the informational energy is decoded and influences our genes.

Our cellular awareness is suffused by fresh energy by the witnessing of an unforgettable sunrise and every nourishing moment. Qigong is not about the forms of exercise it is about the inner teachings applied to embodiment of wonderful moments. To do this we have to be aware of our natural biofeedback systems sending us information. All the materials of our bodies is real time biofeedback delivering impeccable wisdom to our minds far greater than thought.

If we have a moment of honest admission we notice that we are hardly ever aware of our bodies. We are ‘always’ lost in thought. We are ‘always’ lost in prey/predator shock and attempting to adapt without real insight.

By taking a few moments now and then to come down from our heads into our bodies then touch the earth we begin grand heavenly circulation. This is where we transfer feeling from the sky/cosmos/deity into our bodies, into the earth then up from the earth in the reverse flow. Loops of circulation are created and perpetuated.

What are the types of nourishments in your body and you could become connected with today?

The key missing ingredient here is that when spirit touches and filles the body and we ground it clear and energizes all our roots giving us more personal gravity and magnetism this magnetism then is used to work on our bodies, minds and lives.

San Bao

The 3 Treasures of Qigong

As you are in contact with the 3 powers you are changed and the 3 treasures are building in your body/mind/spirit.

BECOME MORE AWARE OF THE BODY IN YOUR DAILY LIFE WITH THE TANGIBLE TENDRALS OF YOUR AWARENESS INTEGRATING WITHIN NATURES VAST NOURISHING.

1.

Jing

Core vitality

The essence of your core physical energy present in your kidneys and primarily expressed in your sexuality

Gu Jingathon (Firm your foundation)

Conception power is the greatest physical empowerment there is-

Know well this secret formula wondrous and true: Spare and nurse the vital forces, this and nothing else. All power resides in the semen/egg (Even if the glands are not present) this area is the same for condensing Qi. (It is the core storehouse of Active Qi. The deeper storage is in the bones.)

[jing], the breath [qi], and the spirit [shen]; Guard these with care, securely, lest there be a leak. Lest there be a leak! Keep the Jing, Chi and Shen within your body.

Master Li The Greatest Living Qigong Master….7 Immortal Wudang Temple on Wudang Mountain; the home of Qi power.

Keep it within the body!

• For the woman the practice of

cultivating vaginal orgasmic feeling and female ejaculation instead of just surface/external clitoral orgasm is foundational.

• For the man the practice of cultivating orgasmic feeling and internal instead of surface external orgasm is foundational.

There is much to understand about these topics and western medicine has no idea yet. This is not repression which can cause illness but rather a natural key to building your ability to transmute energy causing better overall health.

HOW ARE THE 3 POWERS BUILDING YOUR 3

TREASURES TODAY? ‘Take 5’ to experience it. Then, through time say to yourself ‘Take 5’ and do it again.

Endless repetition is the real way developing real skill.

Take 5

To experience the 3 treasures pouring and building up your 3 treasures. Endless repetition is the real way developing real skill. Just say ‘Take 5’ look at the clock and get it done. In a detailed way evaluate your results according to these 3 factors:

Please rate your current ability 1-10

1. Deep Relaxation
2. High Stimulation
3. Transcendence

SHOONG

TOUCHING EARTH AND GROUNDING THROUGH

Shoong means ‘Emoweration/heavergizes/crunchergizes’

Meaning as personal gravity increases in us in a coherence way the shared mutual disease dynamics we experience with others become crushed and that released fuel transfigures the one who accepts the process into better alignement and conduition of the 3 powers.

Empoweration is the combination of relaxation and empowerment. Heavergizes means that as you realize more levels of relaxation and empowerment your bodymind gains gravity and coherence. It becomes Heavier yet with the lightness of being energized. You must return to these contemplations again and again to realize their meaning in a practical way. Your field of energy become thicker and more dense yet quicker in vibration.

Empoweration and heavergizes and

Thicker and quicker-Make all your energies thicker, more condensed and quicker in vibration.

Jelly steeling

Graphene nano fiber jelly steel threading

The super slow down (Qigong/Tai Ji movements), receiving the nourishment of nature, animals, mammals and birds.

Once your turned on…then you have energy (qi)

Faan jieng guu nao

Return the jing to nourish the brain

2.

Qi

Pronounced ‘Chee’

Animal magnetism

Sexual Vitality Digestive Strength

Magnetic union, Natural and Cosmic. The expression of energy to ‘oil’ the body and establish your personal field.

Two catagories: Managing Chi and Guardian Chi

“We discovered the so far largest ordered magnetic fields in the universe, extending over 5-6 million light years”

A magnetar (a contraction of magnetic star) is a neutron star with an ultra-

strong magnetic field. At ~1015 gauss, themagnetic field is a thousand trillion times stronger than the Earth’s, and between 100 and 1,000 times stronger than that of a radio pulsar, making them the most magnetic objects known.

These are all physical locations in the body that express psychological qualities:

Go to the head of the class, Heart, Heartfelt, Warmhearted, Guts, Balls/Ovaries, Backbone, Roots that go deep.

These are phrases that relate to ‘the chakras’ or ‘the meridians’ in Qigong. Languages around the world have come to associate particular psychological states with particular body locations.

This means that each of these areas has strong and healthy bio- magnetism and physical material. There is a correlate emotional/wisdom quality resulting.

Magnetically attracting is how to draw energy into yourself.

Just continue accepting and receiving for the healing of your inner issues. This way you are given permission by ‘the field’ to receive ‘all’ the energy and become a leader in the field.

“Keep a little air underneath and inside”

Rimpoche

3.

Shen

God, Spirit, Soul, Supernatural Shen Gu=Spirit Valley

“The negative spirit (kuei) and positive spirit (shen) are the spontaneous activity of the two material forces (yin and yang),” has become the generally accepted definition. Wiki

Shen means Sky also and came to be a word that meant God and immortality as well.

The Spirit Valley is in the brain in front of pineal gland. When the magnetite bearing tissue at the root of the nose is activated because of accepting the streams of nourishment being projected to the senses there is brainstem convergence. Then golden pollen or ‘Amrita’ (A nectorous saliva) begins to flow and a super sweet saliva and electro magnetic feeling in the mouth and forehead begins.

Relaxing downwardly as in going to sleep only this is ‘conscious sleeping’ it travels down through the body and touches the earth then earth nourishment automatically cycles up and grows your energy body to expand out into symbiosis with nature and the cosmos.

This is the effect of Shen (Spirit) on the senses and body.

The purpose of Chi (electromagnetism/energy) is to refine your insides and mature psychologically/behaviorally. This is Qi fueling transformation resulting in more Shen.

The most important consideration in Qigong empowerment is Shen.

Contacting Shen then allowing our bodies, minds and environments to be touched by it causes the greatest quality of energy in our lives.

All of Wudang mountain, Taoist mysticism, Qigong, Tai Chi, Bagua, Hsing Yi etc depend on the primary cultivation of your 3 powers and your 3 treasures. This is one of the straightest paths known to produce health and enlightenment!

The Huangdi Neijing (“The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine”, circa 2nd century BCE) is historically credited with first establishing the pathways, called meridians, through which qi circulates in the human body.[21][22][page needed][23]

In traditional Chinese medicine, symptoms of various illnesses are believed to be either the product of disrupted, blocked, and unbalanced qi movement through meridians or deficiencies and imbalances of qi in the Zang Fu organs.[23] Traditional Chinese medicine often seeks to relieve these imbalances by adjusting the circulation of qi using a variety of techniques including herbology, food therapy, physical training regimens (qigong, t’ai chi ch’uan, and other martial arts training),[24][page needed] moxibustion, tui na, or acupuncture.[23]:78

The nomenclature of Qi in the human body is different depending on its sources, roles, and locations.[25] For sources there is a difference between so-called “Primordial Qi” (acquired at birth from one’s parents) and Qi acquired throughout one’s life.[25] Or again Chinese medicine differentiates between Qi acquired from the air we breathe (so called “Clean Air”) and Qi acquired from food and drinks (so-called “Grain Qi”). Looking at roles Qi is divided into “Defensive Qi” and “Nutritive Qi”.[25] Defensive Qi’s role is to defend the body against invasions while Nutritive Qi’s role is to provide sustenance for the body. Lastly, looking at locations, Qi is also named after the Zang-Fu organ or the Meridian in which it resides:[25] “Liver Qi”, “Spleen Qi”, etc.

Further information: Traditional Chinese medicine and Acupuncture

A qi field (chu-chong) refers to the cultivation of an energy field by a group, typically for healing or other benevolent purposes. A qi field is believed to be produced by visualization and affirmation. They are an important component of Wisdom Healing’Qigong (Zhineng Qigong), founded by Grandmaster Ming Pang.[26][27][28][page needed]

The devotional life is the only kind of life you will ever be offered. Better for us to realize that sooner rather than later

Touchy feely Heartfelt

“The smile inside is the number exercise in the Tao.” Mantak Chia

1. Smile first in the eyes
2. Lift the corners of your lips
3. Next, feel into your physical heart space.

GET HORNIFIED GET CONNECTED

REACH THE BONES SOAKING THE BONES

BONE MARROWING AND NICK PLATING SMBH FEET PAINTING

EARTH SWIMMING

GRABBING THE GROUND WITH YOUR FEET BULL WIPES ITS FEET AND SNORTING MONKEY BOUNDING/GORILLA SLAPPING

Shen Ming

Enlightened Spirit Person

Shen Shian

God/immortal

Support = Catharisis and Reconfiguration. Find Great Contact

The summary and core routine of Qigong Empowerment: Frequency and coherence is more important than amplitutde. Permeability is receptivity. Blend with all that is ‘on’ you. Connectivity is power:

Cellestial communication The Cosmic Download, Rooting and Blooming (Running Energy), Embodiment in Daily Life. Finger squeezing, Hands on breathing, Stancing, Movement Integrations, Soles and Palms, Fingertips on the floor, Finger tip hoses and lasers, Reverse breathing, Core compressions and kegals, Animal invigorator (Scratch, growl, wipe the feet on the ground), the coordinators (rolling hands, index fingers, belly and head top)

*Three tongue positions, Fire (Conscious mediation) 45 Water (spinal

chord front and back and rub…salivation, connecting in, Back Wind…Reverse circulation. Unconscious meditation.

The supernatural level of Shen is called Ling RE-AWAKEN YOUR SENSE-UALITY

Jing for Shen-We need to create a greater sensual relationship with nature to create more jing. Do so by ‘unbounding breathing’ and naturally you will soak up the nourishments in the environment.

Have a sort of healthy sensual nourishment breakthrough that causes you to live with an entirely new and better level of stimulation

Shen resides in third eye and forehead.

A natural spiritual awakening.

After some time of ‘seeding’ you will sprout

up in your awareness just like awaking from a

deep sleep and stretch out into nature and the cosmos. Then receiving from the cosmos than nature on the way back down. This is a key practice in qigong that is natural as well but may require some teaching…it is called Grand Heavenly Circulation.

Things are looking up.

Lighten up

When we are scattered and confused it is called Shen buh shoou sheh

(The spirit is not kept at its residence)

The excess Fire in Head and Heart

Water in kidney’s and sex

= The magic steam chi

Water in pre heavenly chi (union with Tao increase it) and post heavenly chi (sexual energy its essence is water)

Grants more magnetism for configuring destructions and creations.

Within the human body there is the qi that we’re born with, called Yuan qi, pre heavenly chi, or a ancestral qi. The qi that we absorb during our lives from food, water, air and qigong practice is called Hou tain qi or post-natal qi. The qi that flows at the surface of the body, as a protective sheathe, is called Wei qi or protective qi.

JING CHI SHEN WUJI

San Huea Jiuh Diing

Three flowers (Jing, Chi, Shen) reach the

top

An important note: First you have to

‘pour and store’ the 3 powers.

This is dependent upon continuously opening new areas of genetic and biological biography need.

This means that Jing, Qi and Shen have naturally filled the body to overflowing then they rise to the top of the head. This lifts the body creating ‘levity.’ “Want to ride the winds of heaven? How about having a light and sensitive energy at the headtop.” This energy then flowering above the head empties into vast void.

Qigong scripture

Xian

An immortal, an alchemist, a wizard, a spirit, an inspired sage, a person with super powers, a magician, or a transcendent being.

“Xian are immune to heat and cold, untouched by the elements, and can fly, mounting upward with a fluttering motion. They dwell apart from the chaotic

world of man, subsist on air and dew, are not anxious like ordinary people, and have the smooth skin and innocent faces of children. The transcendents live an effortless existence that is best described as spontaneous. They recall the ancient Indian ascetics and holy men known as rishi who possessed similar

traits.” – Victor Mair, Wandering on the Way

Supernatural Conception

The path to physical transformation is found when Void, God, Sages and Saints, Cosmos and Sky come down into the body then the earth comes up into the body; nature coming in as well. These call combine and mix into an inner orgasmic creation; the Holy Embryo.

Conceive and grow the Holy Baby

Birth and Raise the Holy Baby

Shian Tai

Turbo stars evolution quantum transfiguration at a safer distance.

Heaven drops down its dew. Earth offers up its strength. These two meet in the belly for Divine conception.!!! Key Qigong Practice

Bring the positive heaven sky down into the torso and bring the negative earth up into the torso…meeting like a mutual orgasm magical conception of chi power occurs

Fire of head and heart into water of kidneys and sexual essence that are both brought to the torso.

Bring all the yin energy and all the yang energy

into a tiny spot…the center of physical gravity.

‘A little magic air’ is the inner convergence of

awareness for the practitioner of Qigong.

Create the advantage then take it and occupy the superior position of psychic entraining+

Omentum bursa

• Xin Yi
• Kan Li
• Chi
• Xing
• Ming
• Xing and Ming

Cong Nei Zhu Ji

(Build the foundation internally)

Xing Ming Shuang Xin

(Character and body cultivation together.)

Build the character and the body together simultaneously.

Yuan Xin Zhi Wai Gong Yun Dong

(Distant mind external exercises)

This means that exercise while distracted without embodiment nature results in dissipation.

San Gong

Energy dispersion because of excess intellectualizing or externalizing

Shen Jya Buh Ching

Spirit and will (generated from Yi) are not clear It is very important to training wisdom (Yi)

Large heavenly circulation

(Rooting and Blooming)

性命双修 Xing Ming Shuang Xiu: Do Xiu Lian to develop intelligence and body together. 明心见性 Ming Xin Jian Xing: Enlighten your heart to see your Yuan Shen.

The purpose of Xing (Xing Gong) is to reach ming xin jian xing – to enlighten your heart to see your Yuan Shen – true emperor. The purpose of Ming (Ming Gong) is to fulfill your body with complete jing qi shen to reach the baby state. To meld with Tao, you must have xing ming shuang xiu – practice Ming Gong and Xing Gong together. Jin Dan Da Tao Xiu Lian does this. You cannot meld with Tao without both.

Xin

The Heart Mind

Xin is your emotional self. Neglecting this all important aspect of Qigong is a common error.

Go through this list and feel each emotion.

Balancing the

And the emotional mind/Xin-Intuitional-emotional-feeling With the-

Wisdom mind-Yi Rational-Logical-Thinking (Yi) Intention (Yi)

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your

seafaring soul.

If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.

For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Kahlil Gibran-The Prophet

Closer to home, Ben Franklin, expressed similar views much more succinctly: “If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”

Yi The intention

mind

“If you have your attention on energy you’ll only remain confused. If you have your attention in Spirit and allow it to touch energy all trust, insight and power is yours. Your energy will spontaneously adapt and manage every situation well.”

If you have you yi on your chi you will only be confused if you have your Yi on Spirit Embodied then your chi will be invincible and adapt to each circumstance.

Yi is the wisdom mind and Xin is the Heart (Emotional) Mind. These two regulators of chi can be improved.

Xin and Yi: Two Minds

by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

January 1, 2008

If you are interested in learning Taijiquan, you must understand Yin and Yang, and their relationship with Taiji. Without knowing the theory and the Dao, your Taijiquan practice will be limited to the external forms and movements.

In this case, you will have lost the real meaning of practicing Taijiquan. Before the action of Taijiquan movement, the Xin (emotional mind) is peaceful and the Qi is harmonious, the Xin and Yi (wisdom mind) are at the Real Dan Tian and the Qi stays in its residence. This is the state of extreme calmness and is the state of Wuji. However, when the Xin and Yi begin to act, the Qi circulation begins, the physical body’s movement is thus initiated, and the Yin and Yang accordingly divides. From this we can see that Xin and Yi are what is called Taiji in Taijiquan. That means the Dao of Taijiquan is the Dao of Xin and Yi, our two minds

The Wuji state exists inside each of us. It is the state from which all creative impulses grow. Taiji is generated out of Wuji and is the mother of Yin and Yang. Thus, Taiji is the cause of the Yin and Yang division, and is itself neither Wuji nor Yin and Yang, but the cause of the separation of Yin and Yang. In this sense it is a part of the divine aspect of the Dao. All things can be classified as either Yin or Yang. Taijiquan was created according to this theory. In the beginning posture of the Taijiquan sequence, the mind is calm and empty, and the weight is evenly distributed on both feet. This state is Wuji. When your mind starts to lead the body into the posture of Grasp Sparrow’s Tail , internal (Yin) and external (Yang) aspects of Taijiquan features start to be discriminated. Moreover, the hands

and feet are differentiated into insubstantial (Yin) and substantial (Yang). This is the state of Two Polarities. Through interaction of substantial (Yang) and insubstantial (Yin), all of Taijiquan’s fighting strategies and techniques are generated. From this, you can see that the Taiji (i.e., the Dao) in Taijiquan is actually the mind. It is the mind that makes the body move and divides the Wuji state into Yin and Yang two polarities. We can conclude from this that Taijiquan is actually a martial art of the mind. Taiji means “grand ultimate”. In the body, the mind is the grand ultimate that initiates movement, Qi circulation, and discrimination between yin and yang.

Xin and Yi are able to reach anywhere in the universe without being restricted by time and space. From Xin and Yi, the Yin and Yang are initiated and continue to move into unlimited variations. This is the theory of millions of divisions and creations of Taiji.

Therefore, those who practice Taijiquan must begin from the training of Xin and Yi. Though our physical bodies are restricted by our three-dimensional reality, our minds are free to travel and reach anywhere in the universe, unrestricted by time, or even beyond this universe. All human creations, from shovels to airplanes, arose first in our imaginations.

From our thoughts, new ideas are created. It is the same for Taijiquan. It was created from the mind, and its creation will continue without an end. Since it is an active, living, and creative art, Taijiquan is a product of spiritual enlightenment and an understanding of life.

The emotional mind and wisdom mind are contained internally, which belongs to Yin. The movements (actions) of Taijiquan are manifested externally, which belongs to Yang. When the functions of Xin and Yi are applied to our spiritual feeling, they direct us into the correct Dao of cultivating our human nature, through efforts toward strengthening the mind, raise up the spirit, and comprehend the real meaning of human life, and from this, further to comprehend the meaning and relationship among humans, between humans and objects around us, and also to search for the truth of nature in heaven and earth. When the function of Xin and Yi is applied to our physical body, it is the great Dao of cultivating the physical life for self-defense, nourishing the physical life, and strengthening the physical body. This is the foundation for extending our lives and establishing a firm root of health.

When Xin and Yi are acting on internal spiritual feeling, it serves to cultivate our human temperaments and helps us to understand the meaning of our lives. When Xin and Yi are acting and manifested externally, it promotes physical health and self-defense. Therefore, when we practice Taijiquan, we should cultivate both our spiritual beings (Yin) and train our physical bodies (Yang). Taijiquan originated from the Daoist family. Its ultimate goal is to reach enlightenment and so as to achieve the Dao of unification between heaven and human. Therefore, the final goal of practicing Taijiquan is to reach the unified harmonious Wuji state of heaven and human. From practicing Taijiquan, we are able to further comprehend the meaning of human life and the universe.

Chi’s Yin and Yang

(Kan and Li)

Water and Fire

Theories of Yin-Yang and Kan-Li 陰陽、坎離之理論

by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

March 4, 2019

To practice qigong accurately, you must not only understand the theory but also the correct methods of practice. Knowing the theory correctly places a clear and accurate map in your hands leading you to your goal in the shortest time. Without this map, you may take many years to find the correct path.

To practice qigong accurately, you must not only understand the theory but also the correct methods of practice. Knowing the theory correctly places a clear and accurate map in your hands leading you to your goal in the shortest time. Without this map, you may take many years to find the correct path.

Two of the most important concepts in qigong practice are the theory of yin and yang and of kan and li. These two concepts have been commonly confused in qigong society, even in China. If you are able to understand them clearly, you will have grasped an important key to the practice of qigong.

What Are Kan and Li?

Kan and li training has long been of major importance to qigong practitioners.To understand why, you must understand these two words and the theory behind them. The terms kan(坎) and li(離) occur frequently in qigong documents. In the eight trigrams, kan represents “water,” while li represents “fire.” However, the everyday terms for water and fire are also often used.

First, you should understand that even though kan-li and yin-yang are related, kan and li are not yin and yang. Kan is water, which is able to cool your body down and make it more yin, while li is fire, which warms your body and makes it more yang. Kan and li are the methods or causes, while yin and yang are the results. When kan and li are correctly adjusted or regulated, yin and yang will be balanced and interact harmoniously.

Qigong practitioners believe that your body is always too yang, unless you are sick or have not eaten for a long time, in which case, your body may be more yin.

When your body is always yang, it is degenerating and burning out. It is believed that this is the cause of aging. If you are able to use water to cool down your body, you can slow down the process of degeneration and thereby lengthen your life.

This is the main reason why qigong practitioners have been studying ways of improving the quality of water in their bodies and of reducing the quantity of fire. I believe that as a qigong practitioner, you should always keep this subject at the top of your list for study and research. If you earnestly ponder and experiment, you can grasp the trick of adjusting them.

If you want to learn how to adjust them, you must understand that water and fire mean many things in your body. The first concern is your qi. Qi is classified as fire or water. When your qi is not pure and causes your physical body to heat up and your mental/spiritual body to become unstable (yang), it is classified as fire qi. The qi that is pure and is able to cool both your physical and spiritual bodies (make them more yin) is considered water qi. However, your body can never be purely water.

Water can cool down the fire, but it must never totally quench it because then, you would be dead. It is also said that fire qi is able to agitate and stimulate the emotions and from these emotions generate a “mind.” This mind is called xin (心) and is considered the fire mind, yang mind, or emotional mind. On the other hand, the mind that water qi generates is calm, steady, and wise. This mind is called yi (意) and is considered to be the water mind or wisdom mind. If your shen is nourished by fire qi, although your shen may be high, it will be scattered and confused (a yangshen). Naturally, if the shen is nourished and raised by water qi, it will be firm and steady (a yin mind). When your yi is able to effectively govern your emotional xin, your will (strong emotional intention) can be firm.

You can see from this discussion that your qi is the main cause of the yin and yang of your physical body, your mind, and your shen. To regulate your body’s yin and yang, you must learn how to regulate your body’s water and fire qi, and to do this efficiently you must know their sources.

To understand kan and li clearly and to adjust them efficiently, you are urged to use the modern scientific, medical point of view to analyze the concepts. This will allow you to marry the past and present and give birth to the future.

Kan and Li in Breathing, Mind, and Shen

1. Breathing’s Kan and Li

In qigong, breathing is considered a “strategy” that enables you to lead the qi effectively. For example, you can use your breath to lead the qi to your skin or marrow. Slow orfast breathing can make the flow of qi calm or vigorous. When you are excited your body is yang, and you exhale more than you inhale. This leads the qi to the skin so that you sweat, and the excess dissipates into the surrounding air. When you are sad, your body is yin, and you inhale more than you exhale to lead the qi inward to conserve it, and you feel cold. You can see that breathing can be the main cause of changing the body’s yin and yang. Therefore, breathing has kan and li.

Generally speaking, in the normal state of your body, inhaling is considered to be a water activity (kan) because you lead the qi inward to the bone marrow where it is stored. This reduces the qi in the muscles and tendons, which calms down the body’s yang. Exhaling is considered a fire activity (li) because it brings qi outward to the muscles, tendons, and skin to energize them, making the body more yang.

When the body is more yang than its surroundings, the qi in the body is automatically dissipated outward.

Normally, yin and yang should be balanced so that your body will function harmoniously. The trick to maintaining this balance is using breathing strategy. Usually, your inhalations and exhalations should be equal. However, when you are excited, your body is too yang, so youmay inhale longer and deeper to calm your mind and lead the qi inside your body to make it more yin.

In qigong practice, it is very important to grasp the trick of correct breathing. It is the exhalation that leads qi to the five centers (head, two laogong cavities at the center of the palms, and two yongquan cavities near the center of the soles) and the skin to exchange qi with the surroundings.

1. The Mind’s Kan and Li

According to Chinese tradition, a human has two minds: xin (心) and yi (意). Xin istranslated literally as “heart” and is considered as the mind generated from emotional disturbance. Therefore, xin can be translated as “emotional mind.” The Chinese word for yi is constructed of three characters. The top one means “establish” (立), the middle one means “speaking” (曰), and the bottom one is “heart” (心). That means the emotional mind is under control when you speak.

Therefore, yi can be translated as “wisdom mind” or “rational mind.” Because the emotional mind makes you excited and emotionally disturbed, which results in the excitement of your body (yang), it is considered as li. The wisdom mind that makes you calm, peaceful, and able to think clearly (yin) is considered to be kan.

In qigong training, the mind is considered the “general” whodirects the entire battle. It is the general who decides the fighting strategy (breathing) and controls the movement of the soldiers (qi). Therefore, as a general, you must control your xin (emotional mind), use your yi (wisdom mind) to judge and understand the situation, and then finally decide on the proper strategy.

In qigong, your wisdom mind must first dominate the situation and generate an idea. This idea generates and executes the strategy (breathing) and is also the force that moves the qi. Generally speaking, when your mind is excited, aggressive, and energized, the strategy (breathing) is more offensive (emphasizing exhalation), and the qi circulation is more vigorous and expansive. This aggressive mind is then considered a fire mind because it is able to make your body more yang. However, when the strategy is more defensive (i.e., emphasizing inhalation), the qi circulation will be more calm and condensing.

Therefore, a calm or depressed mind is considered a water mind because it can make your body more yin.

You can see that the kan and li of the mind are more important than those of breathing. After all, it is the mind that makes the strategy. Regulating the mind and the breathing are two of the basic techniques for controlling your body’s yin and yang. Regulating the mind and the breathing cannot be separated. When the mind is regulated, the breathing can be regulated. When the breathing is regulated, the mind is able to enter a deeper level of calmness.

1. The Shen’s Kan and Li

Now, it is time to consider the final and most decisive element in winning a battle: the shen (神). Shen is compared to the morale of the general’s officers and soldiers. There are many cases throughout history of armies winning battles against great odds because the morale of their soldiers was high. If a soldier’s morale is high enough, he can defeat ten enemies.

It is the same in qigong training. It is the shen that determines how successful your qigong practice will be. Your yi (wisdom mind), which is the general who makes the strategy, must also be concerned with raising the fighting morale (shen) of the soldiers (qi). When their morale is raised, the soldiers can be led more efficiently, and consequently, the strategy can be executed more effectively.

You can see that knowing how to use the yi to raise the shen is the major key to successful qigong training. In qigong, shen is considered the headquarters that governs the qi. As a matter of fact, both yi and shen govern the qi. They are closely related and cannot be separated.

Generally speaking, when the wisdom mind (yi) is energized, the shen is also raised. You should understand that in qigong training, you want to raise your shen but not let it get excited. When the shen is raised, the strategy can be carried out effectively. However, if the shen is excited, the body will become too yang, and that is not desirable in qigong practice. When you are practicing qigong, you want to keep your shen high all the time and use it to govern the strategy and the qi.

This will enable you to readjust or regulate your kan and li efficiently.

Shen is the control tower that is able to adjust the kan and li, but it does not have kan and li itself. Nevertheless, some qigong practitioners consider the raised shen to be li (fire) and the calm shen to be kan (water).

Now, let us draw a few important conclusions from the above discussion:

1. Kan (water) and li (fire) are not yin and yang. Kan and li are methods that can cause yin or yang.
2. Qi itself is only a form of energy and does not have kan and li. When qi is too excessive or too deficient, it can cause the body to be too yang or too yin.
3. When you adjust kan and li in the body, the mind is the first concern. The mind can be kan or li. It determines the strategy (breathing) for withdrawing the qi (kan) or expanding it (li).
4. Breathing has kan and li. Usually inhaling, which makes the body more yin, is kan. Exhaling, which makes the body more yang, is li.
5. The shen does not have kan and li. Shen is the key to making the kan and li adjustment effective and efficient.

The above is an excerpt from Meridian Qigong Exercises Combining Qigong, Yoga and Acupressure By Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming, publishing date November 1, 2018, by YMAA Publication Center, ISBN: 9781594394133.

The two attitudes that influence our attitude:

• Naturally slower breathing brings more

‘water’

• Naturally longer inhale increases water

The going to sleep breath is wonderful for internalizing your awareness. Water

But we must be safe and not in danger of getting sick because of weather or external influences. When withdrawing out attention from the outside world we draw energy and this process must be protected. If protection does not exist we are called to externalize our attention to ground predation.

Naturally longer exhale increases fire

Naturally faster breathing brings more

‘fire’

Water and Fire. It is considered in Qigong principle that we are all too

‘hot’ with disordered, scattered activity.

Large heavenly circulation

(Rooting and Blooming)

The energy of the head transfers down through the roof of the mouth into the tongue relaxing it and moving into the body down to the feel then into the earth. Touching into the earth and making more contact with the whle living hearth.

Breathing with the earht. The entire body getting heavier cleaving to the earth and sucking up the life offering of the earth into the body. Animating the body causing the sense/senses to open up/peak out/sprout into awareness of the immediate environment. As the body draws in more of the earth there is more exaplansive uniion and absorption of the elements in the vast expanse of nature. Finally touching the cosmos and allowing the cosmic download to break further ground into the earth and create greater rooting and blooming circulation.

Fillling up the meridians: Body filling. Filling up the body balloon

• • Xing & Ming in the Dao De Jing

Chapter 16 of the Dao De Jing mentions Ming in this context of inversion and returning to an earlier more natural state.

夫物藝藝‡

Fu Wu Yi Yi

All things flourish

各復歸其根。š ••

Ge Fu Gui Qi Gen

Each returns again to its root.

歸根曰靜。

Gui Gen Yue Jing

Returning to the root means stillness

是謂復命。

Shi Wei Fu Ming

This is called reverting to one’s fate (Ming)

復命曰常

Fu Ming Yue Chang

Reversion to fate is called constant.

Richard John Lynn translates this as follows All things flourish, but each reverts to its roots To return to the root is called quietude,

Which means to revert to one’s destiny

Reversion to one’s destiny is called constancy. [3]

He Shang Gong’s version of the this passage is:

All things together rise, We thereby see their return

Now the full bloom of things, everything returns to its roots To return to the root means to rest

This is called return to life

The return to life is called lasting eternally [4]

He Shang Gong’s commentary on this passage adds:

Everything without exception withers and dies. Everything returns to its root and then revives. Rest is called the root. The root is peaceful and pliant. Modestly it remains below. Therefore it does not return to death. To be quiet and peaceful, this is called to return to life and thereby not to die. If one is able to know how to walk eternally in the Dao, then one is illuminated. [5] Over the course of time Daoist Internal Alchemy developed two main emblematic modes of self-cultivation. The first, related to Xing, is based on cultivating the mind, with the intention of removing the blocks that prevent one from seeing one’s True Nature. The second, related to Ming is based on purifying various components of the body, increasing one’s life force (Jingqi) in order to extend one’s life. Part of this focuses on cultivating the mind and spirit. [6]

Understanding and cognition emerge from the mind: with thoughts and cogitations, the mind yokes the Xing. Responses and reactions emerge from the body: with speech and silence, with sight and hearing, the body burdens the Ming. It is because Ming is burdened by the body that there are birth and death. It is because xing is yoked by the mind that there are coming and going.

Therefore, according to [Daoist] Li Dao Chun, Xing is harmed by mental activity—thoughts and cogitations—and Ming is harmed by physical activity—perceptions and responses that occur through the physical body and the senses. [7]

Some Daoist authors assert the superiority of Xing, feeling that by cultivating Xing, Ming is automatically also cultivated. This is achieved through practices that focus on emptying the mind and “entering into stillness” in order to understand one’s Inner or True Nature. Others feel that Ming should be cultivated first through practices that refine and transmute the fundamental energies of the body. This involves refining Jing (Essence) and transmuting it into Qi, refining Qi and transmuting it into Shen (Spirit) and refining Shen and transmuting it into Emptiness (Dao). As Ming is fulfilled, Jingqi flourishes and the energies of the body are refined and purified one automatically cultivates Xing.

Practitioners of the internal martial arts generally begin by focusing on Ming, and in the course of strengthening the body and refining it energies engage with Xing. With time, the mental, spiritual component of the arts assumes equal importance.

Daoist and Ba Gua Practitioner Lu Zi Jian, has a unique take on Xing and Ming. Transforming Qi into Spirit, involves connecting two acupoints:

Shenque (Gate of Spirit) and Mingmen (Gate of Vitality) acu-points (both acu-points are diametrically opposed, one located in the middle waist and the other in the middle of your lower back. Practice daily just one time in the morning. Shenque is an acupoint related to sexual functions (“Xing” in Chinese) of any human being while Mingmen is defined as is the master of the twelve channel networks. This exercise connecting two acu-points is called “Xing Ming” cultivation. Shenque acupoint belongs to the Ren Mai meridian (called also Conception Meridian), Mingmen to the Du Mai meridian (called as Governing Meridian). Ren Mai belongs to Water element; Du Mai belongs to Fire element. By combining these two acu- points, the Water and Fire elements are helping each other: Sex and Vitality are merging. [8]

However, in general, Xing and Ming are considered to be two aspects of the same practice and each leads to, and is dependent upon, the other.

Chen Ying Ning, a Daoist from the Dragon Gate School summarizes this interconnection Xing and Ming succinctly: Xing and Ming are like an oil lamp. Ming is the oil and Xing is the brilliance of the flame. Without the oil, there could be no flame, but without the flame, the oil would remain unused. [9]

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The Blood

The Fluids

Cerebral spinal fluid.

The spinal chord is highly conductive electrical material

THE THRUSTING VESSEL

• The fire path
• The wind path
• The water path

The nerve cords. Untangle knots Recognize burnt

disconnects

Focus on frequency more than amplitude. Find areas of chaotic energy and bring to them coherence.

Thicker cords for more ampliltude

The biochemistry of Qi

Embryonic Breathing

Tai Hsui

“Still breathing?” John Milton

How does embryonic breathing happen?

“It’s a natural consequence of a deep love affair with nature.”

John Milton

Tai Hsui

A feather taped on the end of the nose

Two brains function as one

As far as you transcend-Just that much you have to successfully engage conflict.

Find the two polarities of the body then of the environment

• Slow down your experience of life unto a full stop.
• Let life go without your participation for a while.

Center of ears, eyes, nose.

Not your smelling but by which your smelling is occurring…

Brainstem convergence…Spine and Nerve convergence…

Lip smacking, golden pollen, amrita (Yoga- sweet saliva sexual invigoration)

Again two polarities.

SWALLOWING POWER…

Natural lip smacking, burping

The Devotion Emotion and Qigong for Embryonic Breathing Note: You cannot Hold your breath it must be completely natural.

Sitting quietly the grass grows by itself.

Time Dilation and Embryonic Breathing

Slow down your experience of time. Establish timelessness.

Practicing Death and Embryonic Breathing (Extricate yourself from the field of psychic magnetism to gain insight which is then applied to

making more coherence in the relationships and environments of your lives. Death is one of the highest practices of meditation masters. Of course, death is a myth so the experience of death even while the physical body is still alive gives us a prelude of things to come.

Time passing without any notice nor concern. Completely separate from the external goings on of life.

Coming out of Embryonic Breathing Time=Powering

up by soaking up the earth and cosmos to animate the blood, flesh and bone.

The inner ear secret and energy. Binaural beats

The enlightened person regards all people including him/herself as Straw Dogs. Simply food for the cosmic cake.

Why? When you get into the more profound regions of Qigong realization your weaknesses and distortions come to the surface and others including yourself can be consumed by that void.

As you ‘power up’ engage ‘Darshanically safe ambrosial attack’

Stay connected to God, God’s, Guru’s, Nature spirits and nourshing, and Mentor’s Exposing the bad seed in meditation and enduring ambrosial attack.

Retreat into Profound Devotional Meditation is the greatest practice of Qigong. Physical measures are not the way of Qigong only a Catalyst to true Qigong which is found in Embryonic Breathing.

It all starts here!!! The forehead kiss

The forehead is the place where we first upgrade the software.

Usually the cortex is involved in objectifying reality. However, When an person is upset all around the world, people will kiss the forehead, and drop there forehead onto the shoulder of a loved one as a tender gesture of trust. We can do the same by choosing to interpret current

reality in a constructive fashion.

Also, in virtually every enlightenment tradition various substances are rubbed on the forehead. Holy objects are touched to the forehead. Why?

When the forehead calms the miracle streams of scent, sight, sound and intellectual interpretation are all welcomed in.

Chapter 2

The Scriptures of Qigong

The True Person

Zhuangzi

“There must first be a True person before there can be true knowledge. What do I mean by a True person? The True person of ancient times did not rebel against want, did not grow proud in plenty, and did not plan his affairs. A person like this could commit an error and not regret it, could meet with success and not make a show. A person like this could climb the high places and not be frightened, could enter the water and not get wet, could enter the fire and not get burned. Their knowledge was able to climb all the way up to the Way like this.

The True person of ancient times slept without dreaming and woke without care; he ate without savoring and his breath came from deep inside. The True person breathe with their heels; the mass of people breathe with their throats. Crushed and bound down, they gasp out their words as though they were retching. Deep in their passions and desires, they are shallow in the workings of Heaven.

The True person of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. Emerged without delight; going back in without a fuss. Came briskly, Went briskly, and that was all. Never forgetting beginnings and didn’t try to find out where would end would be. When received something and

taking pleasure in it; then forgot about it and handed it back again. This is what I call not using the mind to repel the Way, not using humans to help out Heaven. This is what I call the True Person. …

This was the True person of old: the bearing was lofty and did not crumble; appearing to lack but accepting nothing; delighting in correctness but not insistent; vast in emptiness but not ostentatious. Mild and cheerful, seemed happy; reluctant, just had to do certain things; annoyed, he let it show in his face; relaxed, rested in virtue. Tolerant, seemed to be part of the world; towering alone, checked by nothing; withdrawn, seeming to prefer being cut off; bemused, never forgot the important things to say.

Therefore liking was one and not liking was one. Being one was one and not being one was one. In being one and acting as a companion of Heaven. In not being one and acting as a companion of people. When people and Heaven do not defeat each other, then we may be said to have the True Person.

The Zhuangzi (ca. 3rd-2nd centuries BCE)

“Shoong means “to relax, “to loose, “to give up,” “to yield.” It is a term that has been adapted and incorporated into the specialized terminology traditionally used by T’ai Chi masters. It is said that when the famous T’ai Chi master Yang, Chen-fu was training the late master Cheng Man-c’hing, Master Yang reminded his student daily to “be shoong, be really, really shoong.” “If your are not shoong, ” Master Yang would say, “even just a little bit

not shoong, you are not in the stage of shoong. Your are then in the stage of a loser of T’ai Chi; you will be defeated.”

– Waysun Liao, The Essence of T’ai Chi, 1995, p. 56

Jade Emperor’s Mind-Seal Classic

“The sages awaken through self-cultivation;

Deep, profound, their practices require great effort. Breathing nourishes youthfulness.

The Shen depends on life form;

The Ching depends on sufficient Qi.

If these are neither depleted nor injured

The result will be youthfulness and longevity. When the distant winds blend together,

In one hundred days of spiritual work

And morning recitation to the Shang Ti,

Then in one year you will soar as an immortal.”

Let’s get started:

Back to childhood breathing

Say Void, Life,Sky, Earth Nature Body Breathing. Be freed and protected in your freedom

As you can see each culture has a name. Merging with this life force is the best catalyst to health, wisdom and problem solving.

Here’s a few other quotes:

“I have food to eat you know not of”…Swallowing power. Becoming supernatural. Conceiving the supernatural transfigured bodymind.

“Believe on me and from your belly will flow rivers of living water” “As I meditate the fire burned in my heart”

The Bible

It’s all about first creating the inner space. That is called WuJi in Qigong

Wuji is the void. From this void all matter and sounds are

consumed and then come forth again. The black hole is WuJi.

Nothing escapes it, not even light. Then the digested

material spans new galaxies. This destruction and creation principle is mirror.

We are overly obsessed with energy therefore we are challenged to create the inner space first.

Energy-Look at me look at me.

The way to get back to spaciousness is be subject to The Atmic Attack of taking energy and projecting energy

We can study everything and become a master of knowledge. We can learn the key forms and demonstrate them with high skill but the real challenge is quieting the mind.

The body is the ground wire of the mind. The body downloads and digests the energy and information of the brain. True relaxation we make contact with the earth and

live with earth and nature. This animates our field wheras we expand into natural and cosmic living as well. All this comes from feeling peace of mind, relaxation, nourishment, trust…

Zen and Taoism are close companions. The greatest organizer and trainer known to Qigong is Ta Mo; the creator of Zen.

Chinese text of the Heart Sūtra by Yuan dynasty artist and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322 A.D.)

Zen and Taoism are considered partners in enlightenment.

Bodhidharma, the creator of Zen is also the greatest

synthesizer of Qigong theory and practice. Qigong is unique because around Bodhidharmas time all the inner practices of Yoga and Tibetan Budhhism were included in the development of Qigong.

The Heart Sutra is the main scripture of Zen chanted every day in Zen monastaries worldwide.

The Heart Sutra

Maha Prajna Paramita Hridya Sutra

Commentary by Zen Master Seung Sahn

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva when practicing deeply the Prajna

Paramita perceives that all five skandhas are empty and is saved from all suffering and distress.

Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form. That which is form is emptiness, that which is emptiness

form. The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness.

Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness; they do not appear or disappear, are not tainted or pure, do not increase or

decrease. Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness.

No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness.

No ignorance and also no extinction of it, and so forth until no old age and death and also no extinction of them.

No suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path, no cognition, also no attainment with nothing to attain.

The Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita and the mind is no hindrance; without any hindrance no fears exist. Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in Nirvana.

In the three worlds all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita and attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi.

Therefore know that Prajna Paramita is the great transcendent mantra, is the great bright mantra, is the utmost mantra, is the supreme

mantra which is able to relieve all suffering and is true, not false.

So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra, proclaim the mantra which says:

gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

gate means gone, gone. Paragate means gone all the way to the other shore.

Another translation-

The Buddha of compassion once said to a student of ‘The Way’. The body with brain and nerve does not really have substance; even though it appears as substance. The body is mostly empty space. Science tells us that all matter is 99.999 empty space. Contemplate this for a few moments at least. The matter that you see around you is actually not solid. This is science fact not science fiction. This body that we can touch and feel is exactly spacious. The same is true for our feelings, our consciousness, our thoughts and each sensation. Everything is spacious and not polarized against other things and are not static, solid things as we once perceived in ignorance.

In true spacious being the Nose, ears and eyes all comfortably abide in spacious timelessness. Indeed every perception is more spacious than polarized. People places and things only appear polarized against each other; perceiving more deeply we discover the inherent spaciousness supporting and cushioning all appearances. Every scent, sight, sound and touch is all much more spacious then ‘solid’ or ‘polarized’.

In this spacious timelessness there cannot be a defined separate perception; something existing independent of something else. Non lo In this true quality of awareness we can see something constant in the midst of all changes. there is no disease nor death, no non death, no suffering, no non suffering, no path nor wisdom. Indeed all is in flux but there is a constant reality that never changes. Pure Aweress, just observiation, the current animating all living and dying.

Being only, contented. Allowing time to pass without notice nor concern. Worlds come into existence and disappear yet I am unmoved; just enjoying like a grandparent watching children play, learn and evolve. The only success in life is enjoying the passage of time and all events.

Simply put, enlightened people are beyond myopic duality. These people are in direct contact with the Big Picture of life thereby granting them many special priveledges. The truth existing behind the scenes of environment is wonderful to make contact with and embrace. This truth itself is beyond commentary as we are established in ‘Spacious Timeless Awareness.’

Living here the enlightened onjes have no fear and experience profound insight into all matters.

This is the greatest truth in life because from it is birthed all.

This Matra ‘Spacious Timelessness Awareness’ is the greatest way to enlightenments power and ability transforming all suffering. Say it to yourself again and again; become it.

Buddha once said something to point us in this direction.

Gone, gone, gone over above it all, completely transcended throughout. Awakened

And So It Is W.F.M.

“To know the self is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand teachers.” Dogen Zenji

“Do not invite

Suzuki

thoughts to tea”

Time flowing without any notice nor concern.

Sitting quietly the grass grows by itself. Eons pass and I hardly notice.

Jǐngdé Records of the Transmission of the Lamp, presented to the emperor in 1004, records that Bodhidharma wished to return to India and called together his disciples:

Bodhidharma asked, “Can each of you say something to demonstrate your understanding?” Dao Fu stepped forward and said, “It is not bound by words and phrases, nor is it separate from words and phrases. This is the function of the Tao.” Bodhidharma: “You have attained my skin.” The nun Zong Chi ^HYPERLINK “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma” \l “cite_note-46” [note 6] HYPERLINK

“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma” \l “cite_note-48” [note 7] stepped up and said, “It is like a glorious glimpse of the realm of Akshobhya Buddha. Seen once, it need not be seen again.” Bodhidharma; “You have attained my flesh.” Dao Yu said, “The four elements are all empty. The five skandhas are without actual existence. Not a single dharma can be grasped.” Bodhidharma: “You have attained my bones.” Finally, Huike came forth, bowed deeply in silence and stood up straight.

SUCKING THE MARROW OUT OF LIFE

Bodhidharma said, “You have attained my marrow.”

One of the fundamental Chán texts attributed to Bodhidharma is a four-line stanza whose first two verses echo the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra‘s disdain for words and whose second two verses stress the importance of the insight into reality achieved through “self-realization”:

A special transmission outside the scriptures Not founded upon words

and letters; By pointing directly to [one’s] mind It lets one see into [one’s own true] nature and [thus] attain Buddhahood. whose basic thrust is to emphasize “the inner HYPERLINK “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi” \o “Bodhi” enlightenment that does away with all duality and is raised above all distinctions”.

One of the recurrent emphases in the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra is a lack of reliance on words to effectively express reality:

If, Mahamati, you say that because of the reality of words the objects are, this talk lacks in sense. Words are not known in all the Buddha- lands; words, Mahamati, are an artificial creation. In some Buddha- lands ideas are indicated by looking steadily, in others by gestures, in still others by a frown, by the movement of the eyes, by laughing, by yawning, or by the clearing of the throat, or by recollection, or by trembling.

The Lankavatara Sutra addressed these questions: If there is no self, how can an individual accumulate karma, and where is that karma stored?

“storehouse consciousness” (alaya vijnana), which contains the karmic seeds of all past experience. When engaged, these karmic seeds provoke deep memories, and stimulate the process by which sentient beings are reborn. If one can break through at the root of consciousness, at this storehouse level, to grasp the emptiness of all categories and things, then the cycles of rebirth and dependent origination can be broken. This idea of a breakthrough realization of the true nature of mind was appealing to Chan thinkers.

Note: These are the actual Qigong scriptures venerated on Wudang Mountain the home of the greatest living historical and current Qigong masters.

Jade Emperors Embryonic Breathing

Classic

The embryo comes from hiding the breath and congeals in the center of the body, the breath comes from the center of the living embryo, breath enters the body and is the reason for life, when the spirit separates from shape, this is the reason for death. knowing how to breathe with the spirit, one may life forever, know how to protect quiet and emptiness and you will nurture the spirit’s energy. when the spirit moves, so does the breath, when the spirit rests, so does the breath. If you want to live for many years, the spirit and breath need to reside in each other. the heart does not stir the emotions. nothing comes and nothing goes, nothing exits and nothing enters, rest in nature as long as possible. persistence and progress are the true road of the Dao!

Methods for Ingesting Original Vital Breath During the Sui and Tang Dynasties

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Daoist concepts of Ingesting Vital Breath ( 服氣 Fuqi ) placed a strong emphasis on the Ingestion of Original Vital Breath ( 服元氣 Fu Yuanqi ), Internal Vital Breath ( 內

氣 Neiqi ) and Internal Original Vital Breath ( 內元氣 Nei Yuanqi ). They stressed that, in order to live a long life, people should not dissipate their body’s Original Vital Breath and should retain their Vital Essence. Original Vital Breath was considered to be the root of life; only by guarding this root carefully could Dao be attained. The method for preserving that root was Ingesting Original Vital Breath and Internal Vital Breath. According to Perfect Man Yin’s Art of Ingesting Original Vital Breath ( 尹真人服元氣術 Yin Zhenren Fu Yuanqi Shu ), “the body’s Original Vital Breath is released through the mouth and nose. If exhalation of Original Vital Breath is stopped, the Elixir Field ( 丹

田 Dantian ) will be filled. If the Elixir Field is full, you will not feel

hunger or thirst, and you will become a Divine Man ( 神人 Shenren ). This is why people begin their life as embryos, without eating, nor drinking, nor breathing, and have Original Vital Breath in abundance. To have an abundance of Original Vital Breath is the way of longevity”. If, just like an embryo, you can prevent your Original Vital Breath from leaking outside the body, you have attained the means of attaining

longevity. In short, the basic principle of Ingesting Original Vital Breath is to preserve one’s Original Vital Breath and prevent its dissipation outside the body.

Concretely speaking, the methods for Ingesting Original Vital Breath are the following:

The methods for Ingesting Original Vital Breath

-The first requirements-

The first requirements for Ingesting Original Vital Breath are to purify one’s heart, eliminate thoughts and action, and to remain in a state of simple tranquility.

Exhale naturally. After half the breath, gently continue exhaling with the nose closed. As Vital Breath rises upward, raise your head and swallow forcefully. Raise the head to the left and lower it to the right. Mentally direct the Vital Breath to the abdomen, until it flows into the Elixir Field, and then recommence the cycle by swallowing. The swallowed breath joins the Elixir Field, and from there penetrates the four limbs. This form of mental dirigation of Vital Breath is called “Dissemination of Vital Breath” ( 流布 Liubu ). Take caution not to allow the Vital Breath to leak out of the Obscure Orifice (perineum) ( 玄

牝 Xuanpin ), but to make it circulate evenly through the body. You should not gasp or breathe irregularly. If the Vital Breath does not reach the Elixir Field, it is difficult to force it to do so, no matter how much you try. Thus it is difficult for beginners, and they must eat less and make a strenuous effort. With persistent effort, Vital Breath will circulate naturally and ability will accrue. This is called to drink from Spontaneity ( 自然 Ziran ) in order to resist this world, and to approach Divinity in order to enter subtlety. It begins as Three-Five ( 三五 Sanwu

) and ends as Seven-Nine ( 七九 Qijiu ). Lie down on your back, with your head on a low pillow. Contract both knees and shoulders, and stretch both arms. Lie down on your stomach, with a folded quilt under the chest, and stretch out the arms and legs. Inhale with the head raised, making the breath descend on the left, then inhale with the head lowered, making the breath descend on the right. When swallowing Vital Breath make a sound, but do not swallow saliva, and

exhale. Beware of allowing wind to enter as you inhale breath. While swallowing Vital Breath, do not rest at will. Wait until the heart is completely tranquil before starting again. When beginning the exercise, you should have a clear mind, without any worries; this will allow the Vital Breath to circulate freely. If the heart is burdened with worry, Vital Breath will not flow. Beginners may feel fullness in their abdomen. If they eat less, they will feel Vital Breath flowing through their organs and into the Elixir Field, and then they will feel it flowing smoothly and freely throughout the body, leading to the spontaneous awakening of the spirit.

The second requirements

Ingesting Original Vital Breath into the Sea of Vital Breath ( 氣海 Qihai )

The Sea of Vital Breath forms when the spermatozoon and the ovum first combine. It lies three inches under the umbilicus. When the baby is born, only the umbilical cord is connected with the mother. Hollow as a pipe, it permits the flowing of the Vital Breath to form the embryo. He who wants longevity must cultivate this root; otherwise, pursuing outer cultivation, he can achieve nothing. The Sea of Vital Breath is connected with the kidneys and thus belongs to the water of Ren and Gui ( 壬癸水 Rengui Shui ). It is named “Sea” for water flows into the sea. Vital Breath has water, which is Yin, as its mother. Yin must combine with Yang for it can’t exist alone. The Mind, belonging to the Fire of Bing and Ding ( 丙丁火 Bingding Huo ) in the South, is the lord of Yang. Concentrate the mind in the Sea of Vital Breath, and Yang will come down into Yin and Yin up into Yang. It evaporates into clouds which steam the bones and holes all over the body. He whose Vital Breath doesn’t flow well will have diseases in his body. Those whose diseases are incurable by medicine must concentrate, without any other thoughts, on the Sea of Vital Breath. Put one hand under the umbilicus and wait for the Vital Breath. When the Vital Breath comes, it moves under the palm, giving a feeling of breathing, touching, aching, sounding, and pulling. One must wait quietly and concentrate on it with the eyes. Thus, Yang shines on Yin and yin rushes upward and transforms into a vital liquid. After a long time, the breath through the nostrils minimizes under the throat and one only feels one’s breath moving in the Sea of Vital Breath. Every time one exercises Vital Breath, one must regulate it slowly to disperse it; otherwise it will become a tumor or a gall.

The third requirements

The Wise Man of Mt. Mao’s formula for Ingesting Inner Vital

Breath ( 服內氣 Fu Neiqi ).

Lie on your right side, draw both legs slightly, face the east with the head turned south, and hold both fists by the chin. Shut the breath in, swallow it seven times, and then exhale once. The sick first exhales once after inhaling one or two times, and then exhales once after inhaling seven times. Then regulate the breath evenly, inhale 40 times, and sit up to practice. Embrace both erect knees with both hands crossed, hold your breath and bloat your belly fourteen or twenty-one times, and puff when your breath is full. Regulate the breath to keep it from being coarse. Then hold your breath and bloat your belly again until the belly is regulated. When you sweat or feel hot, it means that your breath is full all over your body and all your joints have become comfortable. The old scriptures all prescribe visualization, which is too troublesome for the mind to practice. Ingesting Vital Breath originates from Embryonic Breathing and accords with the function of mysterious creation only if one doesn’t have any other thoughts. The law goes as follows: treasure your Essence, hold your breath and swallow your vital water (saliva) : your Vital Breath will transform into blood, your blood into Essence, Essence into liquid, and your liquid into bones. Practice it often without sluggishness, and you will become extremely vigorous.

The fourth requirements

Gentleman Huanzhen’s formula for Ingesting Inner original Vital Breath ( 元氣 Yuanqi ).

The essence of ingesting Vital Breath lies in swallowing breath.

Ordinary people swallow their Outer and Inner breath in confusion, while true practitioners distinguish them without fault. Man is born with Original Vital Breath forming his body, and his body with full Original Vital Breath is healthy. Every time one swallows and exhales breath, the Inner Breath corresponds with the Outer Breath. It naturally comes up from the Sea of Vital Breath to the throat. When one exhales completely at the throat, one immediately closes one’s mouth and swallows down with a sound. The breath goes down, along the left for man and along the right for woman, just like water through the backbone’s 24 joints. The Outer Breath and Inner Breath are thus differentiated clearly while closely related. Send it with the mind and massage it with the hand to make it quickly enter the Sea of Vital Breath.

As for Ingesting Breath and cultivating the body, one enters a quiet room in leisure and undresses, lies facing upward, and stretches one’s arms with one’s hands open, combs one’s hair and spreads it on the bedsheet, and then regulates the breath and ingests it. After ingesting, hold the breath to full capacity and extinguish any thought. Let go of the breath and exhale when one stifles, and regulate it when one pants. Practice again when the breath is even and stop after ten times. A beginner’s breath cannot pass through for some time; he can practice holding his breath gradually for one to ten seconds. When it is through, he can gradually add 20 to 50 seconds. Sweating all over is the effect. Pacify the mind and harmonize the Vital Breath, lie and don’t rise in wind. This is a good way for the aged to prolong their lives.

The way to let go of Vital Breath ( 委氣 Weiqi ): pacify the body and the breath as well as the mind, then one can practice whenever one walks, stands, sits or lies. Leaning against the door, stretching on the bed, sitting alone, one just makes one’s mind thoughtless, quiet and empty as the sky. Then hold and regulate the Vital Breath ( 調息 Tiaoxi ) ten to twenty times, letting go of the Vital Breath without any deliberate struggle with the breath. After a long while, breath will come out from the pores in one’s body instead of one’s mouth.

While emphasizing Ingesting Vital Breath, Sui and Tang Daoism stressed Embryonic Breathing ( 胎息 Taixi ), which is closely related to Ingesting Breath. Vol. 58 of The Seven Slips of a Cloudy Satchel ( 雲笈七籤 Yunji Qiqian ) contains the texts On the Essential Subtlety of Embryonic Breathing ( 胎息精微論 Taixi Jingwei Lun ), Essential Formulas for Embryonic Breathing ( 胎息根旨要訣 Taixi Genzhi Yaojue

),Sundry Formulas for Embryonic Breathing ( 胎息雜訣 Taixi ZaJue ), and Oral Formulas for Embryonic Breathing ( 胎息口訣 Taixi KouJue ). Vol. 60 contains the Formulas for Embryonic Breathing by Ingesting Vital Breath ( 服氣胎息訣 Fuqi Taixi Jue ) and the Book of Embryonic Breathing ( 胎息經 Taixi Jing ), which are especially about Embryonic Breathing. In addition, the arts of Vital Breath scattered in many books contain skills of Embryonic Breathing. This is an important feature of Daoist Ingesting Vital Breath.

Embryonic Breathing

What is Embryonic Breathing? The Yanling Sovereign’s General Treatise on Cultivation and Nourishment ( 延陵君修養大略 Yanling Jun Xiuyang Dalue ) says, ” Guarding the One and holding fast to one’s

own Inner Vital Breath, just as an infant in the mother’s embryo, is thus called Embryonic Breathing “. The Oral Formulas on Embryonic Breathing says, “After long practice, the breath, instead of flowing through the mouth and nostrils, flows through the umbilicus just as in an infant. So it is called Embryonic Breathing.” Sundry Formulas on Embryonic Breathing says, “Not confusing the Inner Breath with the Outer Breath is called Embryonic Breathing.” The Essential Formula on Embryonic Breathing points out, “The ancients’ books about Embryonic Breathing seldom reach the Gate of Mystery. Their statements all contain some mistakes or shortcomings. Some say no breath is the embryo; others say holding one’s breath is Inner Breath. All, clinging to a single way far from the ultimate truth, confuse later learners.” “Embryonic Breathing is the Vital Breath formed when Yin and Yang of Heaven and Earth first combined. This Vital Breath concentrated into form. Then the light of this Essential Breath concentrated as two eyes, which are the essential breath of the father. As pure Yang breath, it is able to reflect all things. The Mysterious Female formed with the mother’s Yin breath becoming the mouth and nostrils. Thus we can know that form is the basis for receiving Vital Breath and Vital Breath is the root of form, and two kinds of Vital Breath are the root of forms. Since there is the root of form, it can grow with the mother’s breath into an embryo and body in ten months. Thus, practitioners imitate it. Recovering one’s root is the essence of Embryonic Breathing.” So, we know that Daoism has different explanations of Embryonic Breathing with the same metaphor of infant’s breath in the embryo.

There are various concrete methods of Embryonic Breathing. On the Essential Subtlety of Embryonic Breathing says, “Embryonic Breathing and Ingesting Vital Breath should be conducted by swallowing seven times in the later half of the night. After each swallowing, regulate the breath seven times and swallow it again like water with a sound of “kan” indicating the flow of breath. Curdle the Vital Breath in the Sea of Vital Breath and make the belly full as a pregnant woman’s. Achieve Embryonic Breathing through having an embryo (the Sea of Vital Breath is filled with breath and then it is the way of Embryonic Breathing). The Vital Breath completed, the pure breath condenses as an embryo and impure breath disperses out (through the limbs and hair). The embryo completed, all diseases are naturally cured and one can communicate with Immortals and spirits. Only when the joints are smooth and the sea of the stomach open, can one inhale the Original Vital Breath through Ingesting Breath. After Ingesting the Breath, one must close the joints and exhale slowly through the nostrils. Ingest this way, and the Inner Breath and Outer Breath will not be separate, and

embryonic breath will not escape. Count silently from 10 to 100, 200 or

300. After this little achievement, one’s senses will become very acute and all diseases will be cured. It is very unreasonable to learn Embryonic Breathing through restraining one’s breath. Holding one’s breath harms the organs. The secret of great effect and little effort in Ingesting Vital Breath lies only in pacifying the mind. With worries and thoughts extinguished, the Vital Breath channels become fluent, the joints open, and harmonious breath gathers inside all the day. After swallowing seven times at midnight, keep the Inner Breath from flowing out, inhale and exhale slowly through the nostrils, and do not confuse the Inner Breath with the Outer Breath. Ingest seven times at 4 o’clock and again in the early morning. Stop after ingesting 21 times in total. He who restrains from grains is not limited to this number. Swallow the Inner Vital Breath whenever the stomach is empty, and you will not feel hungry. He who finds it a little difficult at first will get used to it after long practice. The Inner Breath and the Outer Breath will not be confused and gradually the joints and pores will open. The Vital Breath comes and goes by itself, and one needn’t exhale and inhale slowly through the nostrils. This is all the subtlety of Embryonic Breathing.”

Sundry Formulas for Embryonic Breathing introduces two methods

Inhale and exhale slowly and the Original Vital Breath will not leak out. After closing the Inner Breath, exhale and inhale through the nostrils slightly. Make the Inner Breath return at the throat. The Inner Breath, after filling up, will rush upward. Let go of it slowly without any restraint. After the breath is regulated, close it again and breathe through the nostrils slowly, and keep it from the throat. After some great efforts, breathing will suddenly become easy and the body comfortable all over. Then even thousands of breaths will not make one tired.

The essence of Embryonic Breathing is to extinguish thoughts.

The mind is like ashes, the body like wood, one will conform to nature with all his Vital Breath channels and joints open.

If worries and thoughts

succeed themselves, one’s efforts to pursue Dao will be in vain. Only those who renounce the world can conduct this subtle method; otherwise all efforts will be wasted.

After inhaling fully, visualize flowing water with successive waves. The opening of joints and pores depends on this visualization. Inhale slightly through the nostrils and let the breath out through all the limbs, channels and pores. When the later breath comes, hold it from exhaling. Do this slowly; hold the breath from exhaling while keeping from swallowing it. It will disperse slightly and slowly, and the Inner Breath will not disperse.

The Oral Formulas of Embryonic Breathing says, “He who wants to learn Embryonic Breathing should first sit alone in a quiet room. Sit upright with the left foot crossing the right. Loosen your clothes and belt and then massage your limbs slowly. Hold your hands on your legs, then inhale and exhale three or five times to regulate the breath evenly. Clarify the mind leisurely and then swing the body slowly to spread the organs. Then, beat the Heavenly Drum ( 鳴天鼓 Ming Taingu ) 36 times and visualize the Bright Hall ( 明堂 Mingtang ) one inch deep between the two eyebrows, the Pervasive Chamber ( 洞 房 Dongfang ) two inches deep, and the Upper Elixir Field ( 丹

田 Dantian ) (also named the Mud Ball Palace ( 泥丸宮 Niwan Gong )) three inches deep. Then visualize in turn the Middle Elixir Field, the Lower Elixir Field, and the Five Organs starting with the heart.

Visualize each of the Five organs giving out the Vital Breath of its direction to combine with the white Vital Breath of the three Elixir

Fields into one breath. The unified breath comes out from the back of the head, shining with nine colored rays of about 10 meters’ length.

While visualizing the body in this Vital Breath, shut the mouth and nostrils and visualize Embryonic Breathing only in the umbilicus. Feeling out of breath, exhale slowly and slightly through the nostrils. When the breath recovers its evenness, visualize it as before.

Sweating indicates one has finished and there is no limit to the times of practice. Feeling hot, visualize Vital Breath all over the body like steam in a rice pot. This is called Full Breath. Ingest again and visualize all the organs and bowels in the body. Practice slowly without hearing the sound of your breath. After 30 years’ practice, one can breathe in the umbilicus and thus easily bear a rope tight around one’s neck. Also, one can sit under water for 15 days.

The Book of Embryonic Breathing says,

The embryo forms through taming the breath; breath is tamed through forming the embryo. Vital Breath coming into the body is life; and the spirit’s leaving the body is death. Grasping the spirit and Vital Breath, one can achieve longevity; holding to emptiness, one can nourish the spirit and Vital Breath. The Spirit moving, the Vital Breath moves; the Spirit staying still, the Vital Breath stays still. If one desires longevity, one must concentrate the Spirit and Vital Breath on each other. The mind not arousing any thought, it will stay naturally without coming or going. Practicing this diligently is the true way.” This method is different from all those cited above in its emphasis on holding to emptiness and the non-moving of the mind. So, there are different ideas about Embryonic Breathing and consequently different methods of practice.

Also, Embryonic Breathing is the same as Ingesting Original Vital Breath in its fundamental method, and so it was natural for Sui and Tang Daoism to stress Embryonic Breathing while emphasizing Ingesting Original Vital Breath.

The Daoist Art of Vital Breath is one of the finest flowers of Chinese Life-Nourishing culture. With a deposit of fine heritage from Chinese traditional culture and in spite of some unscientific contents, its main part may as well be the crystal of primeval life science. This great contribution of Daoism to Chinese ancient science still has great value to contemporary human life science and medicine. It deserves our deep study and development. Sui and Tang Daoism, emphasizing Ingesting Original Vital Breath and summarizing a system of methods, became an important period in the history of Daoist cultivating arts.

Absorbing Daoist achievements in Breathing Arts of the Han, Wei and Northern and Southern Dynasties and developing to a higher stage, it prepared a basis for the rise of the Inner Alchemy of the end of the

Tang, Five Dynasties and Song dynasties. This was an important transitional period in which External Alchemy became Inner Alchemy. Sui and Tang Daoist ways of Ingesting Original Vital Breath are an invaluable treasure in the treasury of the Chinese culture of Nourishing Life.

Qigong Meditation: Methods of Stopping Thought (Zhi Nian)

by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

January 21, 2013

Before you start, you should understand that there are no techniques, which are absolutely effective for everybody. It depends on the individual. It may also depend on the situation and timing.

Remember that the final goal of regulating your thoughts is to reach “the thought of no thought.”

Before you start, you should understand that there are no techniques, which are absolutely effective for everybody. It depends on the individual. It may also depend on the situation and timing. Remember that the final goal of regulating your thoughts is to reach “the thought of no thought.” In other words, to regulate your thoughts without thinking of regulating. Therefore, you must continue practicing until the regulating happens naturally and you do not need to consciously regulate your thoughts. Only when you reach this stage will your mind be free and neutral.

Stop and Look Method (Zhi Guan Fa)

“Zhi” means “to stop” and “Guan” means, “to look after,” “to investigate,” and “to take care of.” This means that after your Yi has controlled your Xin, you should concentrate on watching the thoughts as they appear. When one comes, you should stop it immediately, not allowing it to grow. You should keep your consciousness aware of what is happening and use your Yi to stop each new thought. This process is called “Zhi Nian Fa” (stopping thought method).

You will often find that, once you have stopped one thought, another one appears immediately. You stop that one, but another one pops up as if there is no end to the cycle. In order to stop this negative cycle, you must wait until your mind is clear, calm, and peaceful, and then put your Yi there before any more thoughts come up from the Xin. If you can keep your mind in this neutral state, further thoughts will be stopped. The following are methods commonly used by meditators to stop the new thoughts from appearing.

Generally, there are three steps to stopping the Xin and Nian:

1. Tie to the Origin and Stop Method (Xi Yuan Zhi). “Xi” means “to tie,” “to bind,” “Yuan” means “relationship, origin, and cause,” and “Zhi” means “to stop.” In this training you bind your Xin and Nian to one place in the same way that you would tie an ape to a

post. If you can keep your Yi centered in a particular spot, you can control your Xin and Nian, but if your Yi is weak, your Xin and Nian will run wild.

There are two places, which are commonly used to center your Yi. The first place is your nose. Place your Yi on your nose and pay attention to your breathing. Gradually, the generation of new Xin and Nian will stop. The second common place is the Lower Dan Tian. Concentrate your Yi at the Dan Tian and feel and sense the generation and movement of Qi. Gradually your Xin and Nian will become quiet.

1. Restrain the Xin and Stop Method (Zhi Xin Zhi). Once you have tied up the ape, you still have to calm it down, or it will continue to run around the post. This is the taming process. Once you are able to bind your Xin and Nian in one place, you must stop the thoughts from being generated by the Xin. You need to understand the reason why the ape is still running wild, whether it is due to hunger or some disturbance, and you need to understand why your Xin is still generating distracting thoughts. If you are taming an ape, in order to keep the ape in the cage without running wild, you must understand the feelings of the ape and try to solve the problem in order to calm it down. Once the ape realizes that he will not be able to escape and will not be harmed, and furthermore, that he will be taken good care of by the master, he will gradually get used to it and calm down.
2. To Comprehend the Real and Stop Method (Ti Zhen Zhi). This is the last step in stopping thought. In this step you analyze how Xin and Nian are being continually generated. Like dealing with an ape, once you understand the cause of its wildness, you can determine how to calm it down. Only after you have calmed it down are you able to lead the Xin to understand and comprehend the nature of reality. Finally, the new disturbances of your Xin will be stopped. It is like educating the ape so that he understands that when he is staying with the master, he will have plenty of food and a nice place to stay. At this point you will not need to keep the ape tied up. Only when you are able to untie the ape (your mind) and have it stay calm and peaceful have you reached real regulation. Then the Xin and Nian, which are generated, will not run wild, and the Yi will be able to direct them effortlessly.

Three Looks to Calm the Mind

There are also three ways of looking at or investigating your thoughts. They are called the Three Looks. When your mind is calm and peaceful, pay attention to your thoughts and learn how to analyze them.

1. The Empty Look (Kong Guan). When you use the Empty Look you look at and investigate everything in this universe: how it is generated, and how it grows, changes, and finally dies. As you look at things, you discover why they happen and what their causes are, and you learn the effects they cause. Everything that happens is ultimately empty. Your experiences are vain, illusory; they gain you nothing but a feeling, which is false and temporary in comparison with the existence of the universe. When your Xin understands this principle, it will not continue to think. Buddhists believe that all motivations and desires generated from the emotional mind do not last long, and ultimately accomplish nothing. If you can see this, you will be able to stop the generation of new Xin and Nian.
2. The False Look (Jia Guan). “Jia” in Chinese means “false, imaginary, not real.” In this method, when you find yourself in a bad situation, perhaps stuck in traffic, you look into the past to see how the traffic jam may have come about, and you look into the future to see how it will surely clear up. You look into the past and future to help you control your Xin in the present. However, since the past and future are not the now, they are false. In

this method, you are looking at false things and using them to help yourself let go of unsettling feelings and control your Xin.

1. The Centered Look (Zhong Guan). After you have used the other two Looks and your Xin comprehends the nature of emotional disturbances, you will have seen through every emotional feeling and desire, and you will understand that they are all only temporary. Since your physical life is so short, you should not be bothered by empty emotional feelings. Once you have realized this, you will keep your attention on (look at) only the here and now. Your mind will now be centered and neutral. All of these Looks use your Yi to lead the Xin to understand the truth about emotional feelings. Then Xin will not bother the Yi again.

For example, if you are driving somewhere and suddenly get caught in a traffic jam, do you get upset? Most people would, but if you stop to think about it, what do you gain from getting upset? Will the jam disappear or will the cars start moving faster? What do you gain from getting upset, and what do you lose? If you understand all of this, you will see that there is no benefit derived from getting upset, and you will use the time more gainfully, perhaps by just enjoying the music on the radio. If you can do this, then your mind is centered and regulated.

The Behold and Think Method (Guan Xiang Fa)

“Guan” in Chinese means “to admire, to look up to, or to view someone or something” as an example. “Xiang” means “to imagine, to think, or to meditate.” In this method, when you meditate to regulate your Xin you hold an image or idea in your mind of a person, such as Buddha, or something, such as moonlight, which occupies your attention. If you concentrate on this image, your Xin will be steady and calm, and, consequently, your mind will be regulated. The person or thing upon which you concentrate is the source of the power, which encourages and enables you to conquer your emotional mind.

The Guan Xiang method is widely used by Buddhists. When Christians meditate on the image of Christ to lead their minds into a steady, calm state and finally regulate their minds, they too are using the Guan Xiang method. In Daoist and Buddhist meditations, a Buddha is usually used as an image, and a poem or verse written by the Buddha will be read to help the Xin be steady and peaceful. People use other things as images too.

Sometimes people will use the moon, because it is peaceful, gentle, and calm, and can help you to lead your mind into a deep meditative state.

The One Point Spiritual Enlightenment Method (Yi Dian Ling Ming Fa)

“Yi Dian” means “a point.” “Ling” is “the supernatural part of the Shen.” “Ming” means “enlightenment.” In this technique you focus on the highest, most refined level of your Shen. You are looking to enlighten the supernatural Shen, or Ling, and focus it on a tiny point in your Upper Dan Tian (i.e. the third eye). When you are doing this, your thought will have a target. This effort will regulate your Xin and redirect it into a peaceful and calm state.

The Large Hand Stamp Method (Da Shou Yin)

“Da Shou Yin” literally means the “Large Hand Stamp.” Large Hand means the fingers, and Stamp means pressing the fingers together. The Large Hand Stamp meditation method originated with the Indian Buddhists, and was later widely adopted by the Tibetan Buddhists. After a thousand years of study and practice, this method has become a major meditation technique in Tibetan Qigong practice.

In this practice, you press your fingers together in specific ways. The fingers of one hand may press fingers on the other hand, or on the same hand, or the fingers may be interlocked in certain ways. Your mind concentrates on where you are pressing, and at the same time your concentrated mind leads your Shen to a higher state.

Leading your Shen to a higher state is the key to success in regulating. When your Shen is raised, your Yi is strong and the Xin will be controlled. Frequently people will generate a sound or else shout to awaken and raise the Shen and stop the generation of distracting thoughts. For example, when you meditate you may discover that your emotional mind bothers you and you cannot stop it. If you open your eyes and look fiercely and utter the sound “Ha”, you will stop the emotional thought and lead yourself to a new stage of meditation.

Religious meditators will often regulate their minds by raising their Shen. Another method is to concentrate the Shen, rather than raise it. When the Shen is focused, the Yi will naturally also be focused, and the Xin will be controlled. Often a gong is used to help the mediator focus his Yi and Shen.

(This excerpt is from The Root of Chinese Qigong: Secrets for Health, Longevity, & Enlightenment, by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming)

Li Ching-Yuen 250 year old man

Born Li Ching-Yuen

The article “Tortoise-Pigeon-Dog”, from the May 15, 1933 issue

of Time reports on his history, and includes Li Ching-Yuen’s answer to the secret of a long life:[3]

• Tranquil mind
• Sit like a tortoise
• Walk sprightly like a pigeon
• Sleep like a dog

Li Ching-Yuen or Li Ching-Yun (simplified Chinese: 李清云; traditional Chinese: 李清雲; pinyin: Lǐ Qīngyún; died May 6, 1933) was

a Chinese herbalist who supposedly lived to be over 256 years old.[1][2] He claimed to be born in 1736, while disputed records suggest 1677. Both alleged

lifespans of 197 and 256 years far exceed the longest confirmed lifespan of 122 years and 164 days of the French woman Jeanne Calment. His true date of birth was never determined. He was reported to be a martial artist, herbalist and tactical advisor.

Whereas Li Ching-Yuen himself claimed to have been born in 1736, Wu Chung-chieh, a professor of the Chengdu University, asserts that Li was born in 1677 in Qijiang County, Sichuan province.[citation needed] According to a 1930 New York Times article, Wu discovered Imperial Chinese government records from 1827 congratulating Li on his 150^th birthday,[3] and further documents later congratulating him on his 200^th birthday in 1877. In 1928,

a New York Times correspondent wrote that many of the old men in Li’s neighborhood asserted that their grandfathers knew him when they were boys, and that he at that time was a grown man.[4]

One of Li Ching-Yuen disciples, the Taijiquan Master Da Liu told of his master’s story: when 130 years-old Master Li would have encountered in the mountains an olderhermit, over 500 years old, who taught

him Baguazhang and a set of Qigong with breathing instructions, movements training coordinated with specific sounds, and dietary recommendations. Da Liu reports that his master said that his longevity “is due to the fact that he performed the exercises every day – regularly, correctly, and with sincerity – for 120 years.”[5] Returning home, he died a year later, some say of natural causes; others claim that he said to friends: “I have done all I have to do in this world. I will now go home.” After Li’s death, General Yang Sen investigated the truth about his claimed background and age and wrote a report about his findings that was later published.[citation needed]

He worked as an herbalist, selling lingzhi, goji berry, wild ginseng, he shou wu and gotu kola along with other Chinese herbs, and lived off a diet of these herbs and rice wine.[6] Li had also supposedly produced over 200 descendants during his life span, surviving 23 wives.[7][8]

Da Liu reports that his master said that his longevity “is due to the fact that I performed the exercises every day – regularly, correctly, and with sincerity – for 120 years.” He was referring to Bagua exercises:

Walking in a circle in both directions while twisting and curling each joint.

He worked as a herbalist, promoting the use of wild reishi, goji berry, wild ginseng, he shou wu and gotu kola along with other Chinese herbs

Chi by any other name:

ki – the Japanese (and Korean) equivalent of chi

rLung – Tibetan – inner ‘winds’ of life force

Ruach Ha Kodesh – ‘Hebrew for Breath of God’

Nafs and Ruh – the Islamic terms for a kind of ‘Soul breath’ Spiritus Sanctus – the (Catholic) Latin term meaning ‘Holy Spirit’ Pneuma – (Greek) ‘vital breath’

Élan vital – the term for ‘vital life-force’ in classical European Vitalism

Natura medica – the inner healing power of Nature – from the early Greek Hippocratic tradition

Aether, (ether) and quintessence – European alchemical terms for life force in its more refined form.

Od or Odic force – terms used in von Reichenbach’s theory

Orgone – revolutionary psycho-biologist Wilhelm Reich’s term for vital life force

Nilch’i – the Navajo term for ‘sacred life-giving wind or life-force’

Ni – the Lakota Sioux term for life-force

Mana (a Oceanic-Polynesian term – and more recently also adopted as the term for life-force by several fantasy role-playing games

Ha – a more-specifically Hawaiian (Huna) term for ‘breath’ or sacred life force

La – the Ancient Egyptian idea of a vital essence or life energy

and of course the modern (Star Wars) classic term for bio-energy

‘the Force’.

– and don’t forget

‘The Glow’ – from 1985’s unforgettable martial arts-musical The Last Dragon.

– and there are a variety of other closely-related

terms to be found throughout the world – such as:

Seiðr a the Norse mythos term for magical energy and the practices centered around it

Ichor – Greek mythic term for the ‘holy blood of the gods’,

Wakan – the Indigenous Sioux term for the sacred-holy life force in all things.

Maban – the Australian Aboriginal term for an invisible ‘magical life force’

Awen – the energy behind poetic inspiration in Welsh mythology,

Inua and Sila – Inuit terms for the universal Spirit or Soul and breath of life

Manitou and Manetuwak – Indigenous NE American Anishinaabe and Leni Lenape peoples’ terms for spirits in particular and life-spirit or force in general.

Numen – ancient Roman term for a mysterious force of potential

Ojas, Bindu and Amrita – (East) Indian terms for invisible ‘fluids’ of deep life-energy and bliss

Tigle – Tibetan term for relatively dense and fluid ‘drops’ of life-force (comparable to biological Shen in Qigong.)

– and Jing and Shen – subdivisions of Chi from the (Chinese/)Taoist perspective

Ankh– Ancient Egypt

Animal Magnetism- Mesmer

Arunquitha- Aboriginal

Bioenergy- US/Europe Biomagnetism- US/Europe Dunanis- Ancient Middle East

Gana- South American Mgbe- Pygmy

Mulungu-Ghana

Mumia-Paraclese (The founder of democracy) Ntoro-Ashanti

Ntu-Bantu Oki-Huron

Orenda- Inoquois Pnema- Ancient Greece Prana- India

Tane- Hawaii

I have food to eat you know not of…Jesus

Amrita battery mouth Flow Soma Flow The Golden Pollen

NECTAROUS BODY/MIND

Get to the place where swallowing power comes naturally.

Carefully, slowly feel into meaning of the phrases! When certain places in the body are energized it has profound psychological benefits.

The Shamans Touch from What the bleep Transmissions:

O’Sensei Master Lu Yang Cheng Fu

HEAD

Come back to your senses Go to the head of the class Head honcho

Get a sense about it

They have their head on straight Through the roof

Out of this world Raise the roof On top of it

Can you top that?

*Whats all this talk about being ‘On top’. And why is the head referenced to ‘being

on top of things’?

HEART

Golden Heart Heartwarming Soft Hearted Happy hearted

Straight from the heart

A heart centered approach Follow your heart He/She’s got a lot of Heart Straight from the heart Heartfelt

Take heart

A change of heart A heart of gold

A heart to heart

Absence makes the heart grown fonder A heart of gold

Light hearted Be still my heart All heart

I know it by heart Cross my heart Does the heart good Follow your heart

From the bottom of my heart Straight from the heart

Get to the heart of the matter A heart of gold

Have a heart

My heart goes out to you Light hearted

Take heart All heart

Young at heart

Back

Backbone Backing

I’ve got your back I’m going for backup Back at it

Back off

Back to basics Fight back

GUTS

Intestinal Fortitude -‘Somethings left in the basement… ‘Rocky motions and runs his fingers over his intestines.

The intestines and belly are the active battery places in the body. Fasia and water carries a negative bioelectric charge and muscle carries a positive…these two are sandwiched primarily in our midsection

Have you got the guts? Can you stomach it?

Do you have intestinal fortitude?

BALLS/OVARIES

In many ancient traditions of energy medicine the balls/ovaries are the root of male/female physical power.

Brass Balls Big cohones Bulls Balls

Why not say ovaries?…Same thing-In a man or woman even if these glands are removed this is still the biomagnetic area of deep energy storage in the body.

*The only reason we’ve come to say ‘Balls’ and not ‘Ovaries’ is because of the myopic world view that has all too often denied the strength of woman.

Why has ‘balls’ become synonmous with great strength and courage? Because this is a/the core production and storage place of energy in the human body. Whever we are honestly ‘turned on’ there’s a lot of power flowing through us. The value of healthy sexual energy is talked about in vitually every energy medicine and enlightenment system. For example, Mr. Hill, hired by Andrew Carnegie the richest man in the world, to study the most successful people in the world. He studied Edison, Bell, etc. all the geniuses and most powerfull men and women of the world. Mr. Hill wrote a book about his findings and there’s a whole chapter talking about how each of these people shared a strong sexuality and a healthy relationship with their sexuality.

STANDING STRONG GROUND STRENGTH

Whats your stance on this subject?

Hitting Pay Dirt

Come down to ‘Earth’ this is the first place to look for solutions. A practicle, reasonable person is a GROUNDED person.

Settle down Grow some roots

Landmark Presentation Earthshaking Earthshattering

Touch down

Land the agreement/deal/sale Roots that go deep

Breaking new ground Earthy

Get back to your roots

Whats your stance on this issue? Touch Base

Grounding

Build a foundation A strong foundation Can you stand it?

What do you stand for? A firm stance

Make a stand Stand Off

In good standing

If you don’t stand for something you’ll end up falling for anything.

On sacred ground On level ground

Rooting and Blooming

*Central Initiations

The body downloads and digests the information of the mind Downward Digestion unto Breaking ground.

*The body is the ground wire of the mind. The body downloads and digests the energy and information of our minds. The earth disgests the energy and information of our bodies. Then we grow up…sprout and bloom into the vast expanse of nature.

Soak up some deep nourishments then…grow up and out expanding your attention into the vast expanse of nature. Breathe unboundedly including nature in your breath. In the same way as if you were alone in a beautiful nature setting. Our senses become boundless?

Two people in love don’t have an inner world and an outer world. Just one perception at its source. The source of whats going on within us this is

where all perceptinos are taking place. Objectified dualistic perception lacks ‘the big picture’.

As we awaken we learn to perceive reality on a feeling basis from the inside out. Notice a master of any art they often have the same sort of attention.

The big picture in view and the details revealed.

BREAK NEW GROUND RIGHT HERE WHERE YOU ARE

Break ground right here where you are and grow an extensive root structure. After that…grow up and out into a feeling relationship with the vast expanse of

psychic space and nature. Breathe freely. These are the rooting and blooming cycles of personal evolution.

Electricity grounds down into and through the earth spreading down and around.-All buildings have a ground wire that leads the excess electricity down to and through the earth for discharge.. When we are properly relaxed the negative energy in our bodyminds goes down into the earth dispersing.

From Shentherapy-Reprinted with kind permission

Ancient Philosophical Correspondences Relating to Biofield

Chinese

Qi (PinYin transliteration, 1979+) Ch’i (Wade- Giles transliteration, prior to 1979) Pronounced “chee” (Lower part of pictogram = fire; upper = steam from cooking rice) Cosmological

Personal

Prior to the Han Dynasty: ‘breath’, animating fluid [1] Hylozoistic vapors, the activating fluid, vital energizing fluid [3]

The life force, breath, energy [2]

Emits from the hands, used in healing (wei-qi) Vital energy [5] Vital energy, life force {6}

Πυέω

Egyptian Ankh Hieroglyph for ‘Life Force’ Cosmological Shown b rays of the Sun to Pharaohs and others

Personal

Pottery representation s of the ankh carried in hands of healing priest/healers

Pictograms show life force emanating from hands and flows between hands

Greek

Pneuma Spirit, wind, breath, (derives from pneo, meaning breathing) [2]

Cosmological

Cosmos composed of pneuma; rhythmical variations in its tonus [3]

Personal

Vital force in man (Stoic, Epicurean), Breath of life [1] Ether, corporeal vital energy [4] Breath, life, energy [5]

Hindu

Cosmological

Prana

Essentlife force [2]

Dictionary of Yoga

A few equivalents for ‘Biofield’ Ankh

Ancient Egypt Animal

Magnetism

Mesmer

Arunquiltha Aborigine (Aus.)

Bioenergy US/Europe

Biomagnetism US/Europe

Dunamis Ancient Middle East

Gana South American

Ki Japan

Life Force

General Usage Mana e

Polynesia M’gbe

Hiru Pygmy Mulungu

Ghana

Mumia Paracelsus

Ntoro Ashanti Ntu Bantu Oki Huron

Orenda Iroquois

Pneuma Ancient Greece

Prana

India Qi (ch’i)

China Subtle Energy US/Europe Sila Inuit

Tane Hawaii

Sensations noted when sensing the biofield between the palms

“A pulling feeling”

“It prickles” “Feels like magnetism” “A cushion”

“There is something stretchy” “A static-like feeling”

“I feel tingles”

“It feels like electricity” “Outward pressure” “Rubbery feeling”

“A spongy feeling”

“Something sticky” “It’s like elastic strings” “Heat”

“Something pushing” “Coolness”

Antecedents to Current Practice

The ability of certain people to heal through proximate or direct touch using the biofield has been known and accepted since the earliest of times. The earliest Eastern term identifying the biofield, “Qi”1 dates from ca

2500 BC and is still in use to describe aspects of the biofield. The oldest known Western term for the biofield, b transliterated as “Life Force” and pronounced Ankh, dates back to at least 2900 BC. There is extensive pictorial evidence showing that therapeutic application of the biofield through proximate touch was the essential activity in the Asclepiums (early Greek “incubation” chambers) and the Per Ankhs ¯i (Houses

of the Life Force)i that were associated with many Egyptian temples.

b

Hierogl yph represe nting

The Life Force

¯i

Hieroglyph representing

House of the Life Force

The Egyptian Healer, Imhotep, ca

2700 BC

Imhotep, Grand Vizier to King Zoser and the architect of the step pyramid, was revered as the greatest of all healers. So much so that centuries after his death he was elevated to status of a demi-god. Often mistakenly said to be a physician, the title physician was not used with his name while he was alive. Little is known of how he healed, however images that portray him as a healer show him grasping the loop of an b in the manner of Osiris, the Egyptian God of medicine, and the priest-healers. This would appear to signify that he held the power to heal (the life force) in his hands. (Physicians were never shown holding an b.) The healing temples dedicated to him used the same procedures as used in the Greek Asclepiums.ii

1. qi is the pinyin (current) transliteration, ch’i is the older Wade-Giles transliteration, they are pronounced the same: chee

Biofield Therapeutics in the Greek Asclepicieia (Healing Temples) 400 BC — 600 AD

Tablet of Asclepius healing. 4th or 5th century BC. From the Asclepieion at Piraeus, Museum of Piraeus

Tablet ca 4th century BC. From the Asclepieion of Amphiaraus

In the Museum of Athens

Sites of the Asclepiciea

There is evidence of more than 367 Asclepiciea. Not all were in Greece – others were in Italy, France, England, Spain, Egypt, Cyprus, Sicily, Judea, Samaria and Africa.

Historians differ as to the procedures used in the incubation (sleep) chambers.

Sigerst states the tablets are

depictions of “Asclepius healing.”iii Ligorous identifies the upper tablet as “manipulation of the spine;iv” the British Museum says it is “a primitive form of chiropractic adjustment” however manipulation is not possible the

way the procedure is depicted. Ligorous identifies the lower tablet as a “venesection,” but no knife or catch basin is present. These interpretations are unlikely as the records indicate that few Asclepiciea had physicians in attendance and those held subordinate positions.v The procedures shown are identical to those used by present day ‘energy healers’ and 100 years ago, the ‘animal magnetizers.’

Alternative Medicine at the Asclepiciea

Healing through proximate touch, prayer and ritual were the central activities in the Asclepiums. However, diet, fasting, imagery, cleansing baths, mineral water, herbs, incense, the practice of cheerfulness, massage, and physiotherapy were used as well. The Asclepiciea were Alternative Medicine spas with facilities for extended stays, much like today’s health spas, operating alongside the conventional Greco- Roman medical practitioners. Apparently it was a reasonably friendly association as information was often exchanged between the healers in the Asclepiciea and conventional physicians. According to Pliny, (Natural History, 29.2) Hippocrates went to the Asclepieion at Cos to learn what they knew of herbs.vi The fact that the temples existed for over a thousand years attests to the effectiveness of their methods.

Early Scientific Investigations of Biofield Therapeutics

Prior to the 18th century no attempt was made (in the West) to understand the process as a natural one, as all healing through proximate touch was attributed to magic, pagan influences, or to God acting in concert with or through the healer. Early records show that investigations of healers were by one or another ecclesiastical authority, usually to determine whether the healer was a witch or possessed powers of the devil. When secular authorities did investigate these healers, it was for impersonating royalty, as it was understood that God had given certain kings and queens the

power to heal through touch.

Valentine Greatrakes

The earliest recorded medical investigations of the process began in August 1665 when Dr. Thomas Sydenham and other noted physicians investigated and confirmed the ability of Valentine Greatrakes, the famous ‘Irish Stroaker,’ to eliminate pain, cure the King’s evil (scrofula), reduce other swellings and alleviate a wide range of other disorders by lightly stroking his hands either on, or proximate to, the physical body. The following year, the eminent physicist and chemist Sir

Robert Boyle (Boyle’s Law) observed Greatrakes’ healings on some sixty occasions and gave him a testimonial.vii Boyle postulated that, “perhaps some salubrious streams or spirits” were induced from Greatrakes’ hands into the patient’s body. To investigate his postulation, Boyle experimented with the stroking himself. Using Greatrakes’ glove turned inside out as a vehicle for the supposed effusions, he was successful in eliminating pain on at least one occasion.viii

Valentine Greatrakes, a deeply religious man, did not consider

that his ‘gift’ was a process of nature; he described his ability to heal as, “Greatrakes strokes, God heals”.

Franz Anton Mesmer

The first to clearly place the biofield in physics as well as to associate it with electromagnetism was Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician who established a practice in Paris, France. In 1766, Mesmer postulated that a “fluidium” (field) – which he termed “animal magnetism” differentiating it from “metal magnetism” – existed as a force of nature subject to the laws of physics. His aphorisms associating animal magnetism with influences from the stars were then and now considered ludicrous; however, many of his observations about the nature and characteristics of the biofield were valid.

Most importantly, he unequivocally established that the phenomenon was a natural one, rather than one bestowed by God on select individuals, when he and others successfully taught large groups of ordinary people in the therapeutic procedures he devised.

Class notes from his trainings referred to polarities within the biofield. “ You should likewise oppose one pole to the other, that is to say, if you touch the head, the heart, the stomach, &c. with the right hand you must oppose the left to the hind part. You may easily form the poles by opposing one hand to the other.”ix Polarities were also evident in the downward passes in front of the body producing “magnetic sleep” as the light trance state was then called, and the upward (opposite) passes that terminated the trance.

Mesmer’s work and flamboyant manner infuriated most of the French medical establishment as it threatened their dominant paradigm. Eventually the King’s Minister appointed a commission headed by the American scientist Benjamin Franklin to investigate Mesmer’s medical claims. The

commission reported they could find no evidence of the fluidium. Failing to understand the medical and psychological worth of the cathartic emotional releases (referred to as ‘convulsions’) that frequently ensued during Mesmer’s process, the committee declined to comment on any medical value of his work, except to offer the opinion that these events could easily be produced by “imagination.” The unfounded notion that it is only an effect of imagination – mind affecting matter – or belief in the process, continues to this day in medical circles and is the major reason why there has been little serious investigation of the biofield as a discrete force in physics.

The spread of Mesmerism

Mesmer’s work spread rapidly throughout Europe and later in America. By the late 1830’s New England had “hundreds of animal magnetizers”x including many who performed “mesmeric anesthesia” for dentists, who had not yet the benefits of chemical anesthesia. About this time the Scotsman, James Easdaile, published “The Second half-yearly report of the Calcutta Mesmeric Hospital” detailing his use of Mesmeric anesthesia for major surgical procedures in his hospital. Aside from the complete lack of pain during amputations, removal of scrotal tumors, etc., what was most remarkable was that mortality dropped to 5% from the 50% that was the norm at other surgeries. xi Mesmeric anesthesia was used for surgery in Boston, Buffalo, St. Louis, and Charleston in the US. (In 1989 I personally witnessed a thyroidectomy at the Shanghai Medical Hospitalxii where the only anesthesia was the qi from the qi kung master’s hands.)

Baron Karl von Reichenbach

About 1850, Karl, Baron von Reichenbach, discoverer of paraffin (1830) and creosote (1833) confirmed polarities in animal magnetism (which he renamed ‘odic force’) and established its velocity thorough various substances; the velocity through copper was determined to be about four meters per second.xiii

Doctor John Kearsley Mitchell

From 1847 to 1852, John Kearsley Mitchell, then Professor Emeritus at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, conducted a lengthy series of carefully blinded experiments that firmly placed the biofield in physics.xiv Mitchell demonstrated that the strength of the biofield decreased exponentially as the practitioner’s hands were moved farther from the patient’s body (p. 267 item 14) this is consistent with changes in field strength between components in electrostatic (capacitive) circuits when separated. He confirmed that stroking from the pain site out the extremities (see Greatrakes)

drew out pain (pp 182-3), that downward passes induced mesmeric sleep and upward passes ended the state (p 165). He described the process as ‘induction,’ analogous to electromagnetic induction (pp .150-151). “The mesmeric influence is the effect of what the natural philosophers call induction2. As to whether healing was by effort of will – which was a subject of much debate – he concluded, The will of the operator acts solely on himself; his altered system reacts by proximity on the subject of the experiment, by an unexplained power, analogous to the equally inexplicable induction of the mechanicians and the presence of the chemist.3” (p. 270 item 26). His conclusion echoes the ancient Chinese dictum, “Qi is the horse, and mind is the rider” which clearly implies that the biofield is not will, but may be influenced by effort of will. Mitchell confirmed Mesmer’s statement that the process was useful with “affections of a nervous (emotional) character” (p.271

No. 20).

S. A.

Weltmer

By the end of the century, medical mesmerism had spread from coast to coast. For a time the practitioners who had called themselves “Professors of Animal Magnetism” changed the appellation to “Doctors of Magnetism”, or “D.M.”s to dissociate them selves from the “M.D.”s. The

most influential school of magnetic healing in the United States was in Nevada, Missouri. Begun ca

1892 as the American School for Magnetic Healing, it became the Weltmer Institute for Suggestive Healing following a Supreme Court decision upholding the Institute’s right to postal service previously denied by the local postmaster.

1. Elsewhere he describes induction as “when an excited body (i.e., electrostatic body) without transmission of any known fluid in either direction, disturbs the electrical repose of adjacent bodies.”
2. “Presence of the chemist” refers to the action of a catalyst in a chemical solution.

The Institute’s principal text, The Practice of Suggestive Therapeuticsxv, specifies polarities of the hands and describes the slow passage of the effect; “The hand with which he “sends” the current is called the

“positive” hand and one with which he “receives” the current back again from the patient’s body is the “negative” hand. … The operator will usually feel that at first the maneffluvial

current4 does not fully penetrate the patient’s body, reaching from one hand to the other, but after a greater or less length of time he will feel the complete penetration has been affected. When this occurs the patient often speaks of feeling a heated zone through his body between the operator’s hands, he will often experience relief from the painful symptoms

simultaneously with the apparent establishment of the “circuit.” (p. 412). In practice the hands are usually placed with the painful region between them, if possible (p. 330). The positive hand is usually placed higher on the body, and when over the spine, at a somewhat higher location than the position of the negative hand on the front of the body (p. 331).

“Mesmeromania” and the demise of Animal Magnetism

The Weltmer Institute ceased operating in 1926. (In a curious twist of fate, the building that housed the Institute is now a mortuary.) Medical mesmerism or ‘magnetic healing’ as it was known,

became such a threat to allopathic medicine that a major effort was mounted to discredit it. The term: “Mesmeromania: the insane devotion to mesmerism,” was a standard medical term until the

1974 edition of Dorland’s Medical Dictionary. (Fortunately, DSM-V does not continue the classification with the pejorative: ‘Energymania’ although the assumption that we who believe are mildly delusional persists among many.) From then on, interest in medical mesmerism waned under the

continuing onslaught of medical disapproval and the legal disenfranchisement of alternative medical practitioners. When it rose again it had lost its identity and its association with physics and acquired Eastern, Theosophical connotations. ‘Medical mesmerism’ and ‘animal magnetism’ were replaced by ‘charkas’ and ‘energy’ and the emphasis on healing shifted from the specific towards the supportive. The importance of specific hand placements for specific disorders as a therapeutic essential was superseded by a single imperative – the intention to heal. The importance of learning how the process worked in order to give better treatments reverted to a belief that some ‘cosmic power’ worked through the healer. In a reversal of the usual progress of science, physics gave way to superstition and the ship of science moved backwards, awash in

such magical thinking as: “I just put my hands on their body and the energy knows where to go and what to do” – Hardly the stuff of science.

1. Maneffluvial current. Synonym for “magnetism”, “odic force”, “animal or human electricity”. (p 327-328).

L. E. Eeman

But physics was not entirely lost. In 1947 L. E. Eeman showed the polarity through the arms and through the spine with his as ‘Eeman screens’ which produce a light mesmeric state trance state.xvi In so doing he

unknowingly reaffirmed Reichenbach’s discovery that the qi traveled through copper.

The Eeman Relaxation Circuit

The screens were not connected behind the body; the flow of qi from the right hand entered the base of the spine, moved upward and exited at the head, resulted in relaxation and light trance.

Reversing the connections resulted in tension and wakefulness, instead of relaxation

1. Paul Ghalioungui, The House of Life Per Ankh; Magic and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt, B. M. Israël, Amstersam, 1973
2. Jamison Hurry, Imhotep, the Egyptian God of Medicine, Oxford, 1926
3. Henry Sigerst, A History of Medicine: Early Greek, Hindu, and Persian Medicine, Oxford, 1961
4. Kleanthes Ligeros, How Ancient Healing Governs Modern Therapeutics,

Putnam, 1937

1. Alice Walton, Asklepios: The Cult of the Greek God of Medicine, Cornell, Ithaca, 1894
2. James Longrigg, Greek Medicine form the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age,

London, Duckworth, 1998

1. Flora Masson, Robert Boyle; A biography, Constable, London, 1914, p.265.
2. Caoimhghin S. Breathnach, “Robert Boyle’s approach to the ministrations of Valentine Greatrakes” History of Psychiatry 1999 p. 92
3. M. Caullet de Veaumore, Mesmer’s Aphorisms and Instructions, London, 1785, p5
4. S. Weir Mitchell, Five Essays by John Kearsley Mitchell, M. D., Philadelphia, J. B.

Lippencott, p 151

1. The Second Half-yearly Report fro the Caluctta Mesmeric Hospital, reprinted in the Zoist, January 1850, London
2. Lin Houshen, A Clinical and Laboratory Study of the Effect of Qigong Anaesthesia on Thyriodectomy, Proceedings of the First World

Conference for Academic Exchange of Medical Qigong, Beijing, 1988, pp. 84-85

1. Karl von Reichenback, Psycho-Physiological Researches on the Dynamics of Magnetism, Electricity, Heat. Light, Crystallization and

Chemism, in Their Relation to the Vital Force, New York, Clinton-Hall 1851

1. Animal Magnetism in, Five Essays by John Kearsley Mitchell, M. D., ed. S. Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippencott, pp. 143-274
2. E. Weltmer, The Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics. The Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics Company, Nevada, MO. 1913
3. L. E. Eeman, Cooperative Healing, London, Fredric Muller, 1947.

Lives begin water bases.

Bigu (avoiding grains)

Paracelus had visionary insights on the role of energetic forces, including magnetism, in healing. he believed that magnetic force could energize the body and promote self-healing. His work greatly influenced Mesmer.

Until relatively recently, scientists believed that life was mostly a biochemical process. The idea that magnetic fields could significantly influence living systems seemed far-fetched. Perspectives have shifted rapidly, however, and many scientists now believe that at some level we are fundamentally electromagnetic creatures.

*Repeatedly contemplate these forthcoming scientific facts. In time it helps us have a closer relationship with our lives on a feeling basis.

James Oschman

All matter is made of atoms. All atoms have an electromagnetic charge.

We are living in and from a sea of electromagnetism…Got it? That is irrefutable science fact.

Life is all about what we believe…Since these are facts. May I ask what happens if we believe them. Well, our consciousness is now aware that we are living in a sea of magnetism thats one thing that happens. Why? Because its true. Now our perception is more open to feeling magnetic fields. Magnetic fields are everywhere and they contain a lot more information that we are able to

understand just yet.

Organisms are capable of sensing the intensity, polarity and direction of the geomagnetic field because of magnetite bearing tissues which are within boidies; this accounts for the sixth sense.

Medical Definition:

Magnetic bones have been found in the human nose, specifically

the sphenoidal/ethmoid sinuses[26] Beginning in the late 1970s, the group

of Robin Baker at the University of Manchester began to conduct experiments that purported to exhibit magnetoception in humans: people were disoriented and then asked about certain directions; their answers were more accurate if there was no magnet attached to their head.

A 2007 study found some other evidence for human magnetoception has been put forward: low-frequency magnetic fields can produce an evoked response in the brains of human subjects.[29]

Magnetoception in humans has also been achieved by magnetic implants and by non-permanently attached artificial sensory “organs”.[30]

Additionally, a magnetosensitive protein, cryptochrome-2, has been found in the human eye.[31] Given the lack of knowledge as to how cryptochrome mediates magnetosensitivity in Drosophila, it is unclear whether the cryptochrome found in humans functions in the same way and can be used for magnetoception

4% Salt in oceans and our bodies – Is there some connection between our bodies and oceans

28 days skin to create new skin, 6 months for new liver, 3 months for new stomach

Brain cells 12 times more oxygen/energy then all the other cells in the body. 50 Trillion Cells – Each one a magnet. Each cell has a north and south pole

of magnetism exactly like a bar magnet. Can you imagine the energetic information?

Its now science that we can consciously upgrade our genetic code wheras before we all thought that our genetic code is fixated in a set of values. Not true, genetic code, just like brain chemistry can be upgraded no matter who the person or what the cirucumstance.

Different magnetic fields applied in some hospitals to the body are used to heal:

15 Hrz for Capillary 10Hrz Ligament healing 7Hrz Bone growth 2Hrz

nerve regeneration

These fields change from moment to moment in relation to events taking place inside the body.

These fields give a more clear representation of what is going on in the body than classical electrical diagnostic tools such as the electrocardiogram and the electroencephalogram.

*A cut leaks a 3 meter stream of biomagnetism

The connective tissue fabric is a semiconducting communication network that carries the bioelectric signals between every part of the body and every other part.

The superior person strengthens themselves unceasingly Like refining steel a thousand times over

Take the advantage and occupy the superieor position.

All animal senses. MAGNETITE BEARING TISSUE EYE NOSE PINEAL GLAND

Rethink possible

Conceive the supernatural

Its all about Greater Contact and Greater Grace

Extraordinarily large biomagnetic fields emanate from the hands of practitioners of musicians and practitioners of a large variety of healthing techniques including: Qigong, Yoga, Meditation, Zen etc. The fields have been measured with a simple magnometer. These fields all pulse from .3 30 Hrz with an average centered around 8-10 Hrz. ?These experiments have been done by many leading universities and medical institutions with results duplicating.

Their fields were 1000 times stronger than the field of the heart and 1,000,000 times stronger than the fields of the brain.

The magnetic fields of people almost always entrain each other.

Every blood cell has a dipole magnetic field generated by the cell and has the capacity to store and release bio-magnetism for certain functions.

Biomagnetism activates the pituitary gland releases human growth hormone.

High level hormonal nectar=Increased cell replacement=longevity…!!! This has correlates in all the sciences of longevity:

In all systems of ‘Energy Medicine’-Historical and Modern create a sweet saliva. A very special saliva that is ‘the nectar of immortality’…Certainly this is the activation of the pituitary and penial glands and consequent supercoherence of brainwaves.

In Yoga Amrita is said to come from there…The nectar of The Gods. Decreased resistance in a wire create more power to flow through

The Schumann resonance is made from the lightening strikes going on around the world in between earth and atmosphere. …from 1-40 Hrz with the average of 7-8 Hrz. The same frequency we need to have healthier brains. The same frequency emitted from the hands of healers.

Magnetic Field and homoglobin…Iron filings and a magnet. What makes blood red is Iron. The magnetic field of the heart arranges these ‘iron fillings’ in a pattern representing the health of the hearts field. The heart create the bioeclectricmagnetism that literally runs the functions of the body.

Earthing

Here’s a scientific model of how healing happens by James Oschman Revised by William Martino

1. Connection with The earths magnetic field and (The Cellestial Field…both cushioned in space.

1. Bio magnetic pulsations in harmony withh the earth magnetism Shumann Resonance and (/Nature/Cosmic/Void/Spirit resonance )

(Shuman energy is a major electromagnetic energy that is in the air caused by the accumulative lightening strikes occuring around the world.

1. Pineal gland secretions and magnetite bearing tissue increasing the coherence and amplitude of biomagnetism.
2. Perineural system
3. Projected biomagnetic field
4. Injury repair

That is a strong 6 point outline that can help anyone seeking enlightenment, meditation and energy medicine and is for repeated contemplation.

The History of Qigong Development

Qigong begins, as do most enlightenment paths in the ancient shamanic techniques for feeling better. Virtually all religions and enlightenment paths can be traced back to merging with the nourishments of nature, animals and cosmos until being in a deep trance. Then, coming back to ordinary consciousness applying the power gained to help self and others.

7000 B.C.

Qigong has been widely known to exist from 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, yet evidence suggests Qigong has much older origins.

Archaeological objects suggest that the earliest evidence of Qigong practice is from the discovery of the Neolithic vessel found in the early 1980’s in Northwest China. The pottery is identified as a Shamanic vessel. The image on it is nearly 7000 years old.

Archaeologists suggest it represents a priest-shaman individual practicing Qigong.

The image of the body posture on the pottery is identical to the posture of the essential (Dantien) Qigong practice. Qigong historians contend that the priest-shamans were the earliest Qigong masters.

5000 B.C.

Years ago we have inscriptions of Qigong exercises on Shamanic vessels. Wu Xi-The priest shaman that embodies both feminine/earth and masculine/sky energies within.

Bearhead 4 eyes. Dance through village exorcising bad spirits of disease, negative violence and bad attitudes. Da Wu, The Great Dance had a healing effect. All forms of medicine became the job of the tribal shamans. Their job was clearly to commune with the subtle powers of Heaven, Earth and Man for the benefit of their tribe.

3000-2000 B.C. The book of change-I Ching. Here the 3 powers are again mentioned and other concepts of Chi which are later incorporated into Qigong.

2000 B.C Peng Tzu

From about 2000 B.C. we see references to various methods of Qigong.

Dao Yin,” which means ‘guiding and pulling’ to influence a more harmonious body/mind. The Five Animal Frolics and Eight Pieces of Brocade are well

known Dao Yin practices. History said he was alive for about a thousand years. A god of longevity. As a mortal, he was said to have lived longer than any of his nineteen wives or his fifty-four sons. He is credited with creating Dao Yin. Long slow extensions of the limbs combined with deep abdominal breathing. Often thought of as the father of Qigong as a method for longevity.

2696-2598 The Yellow Emperor-Huang Ti

The Yellow Emperor is credited with having invented Chinese medicine and various religious practices, including worship of the sun, moon, and five planets.

“In the past, people practiced the Tao, the Way of Life. They understood the principle of balance, of yin and yang, as represented by the transformations of the energies of the universe. Thus, they formulated practices such as Dao-in (Qigong), an exercise combining stretching, massaging, and breathing to promote energy flow, and meditation to help maintain and harmonize themselves with the universe.

“They ate a balanced diet at regular times, arose and retired at regular hours, avoided overstressing their bodies and minds, and refrained from overindulgence of all kinds. They maintained well-being of body and mind; thus, it is not surprising that they lived over one hundred years.”

“Health and well-being can be achieved only by remaining centered in spirit, guarding against the squandering of energy, promoting the constant flow of qi and blood, maintaining harmonious balance of yin and yang, adapting to the

changing seasonal and yearly macrocosmic influences, and nourishing one’s self preventively. This is the way to a long and happy life.”

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During his reign, Huang Di had discussions concerning medicine, health, lifestyle, nutrition, Taoist cosmology with his ministers, including Qi Bo, and others. Their first conversation began with Huang Di asking, “I’ve heard that in the days of old everyone lived one hundred years without showing the usual signs of aging. In our time, however, people age prematurely, living only fifty years. Is this due to a change in the environment, or is it because people have lost the correct way of life?” Qi Bo replied, “In the past, people practiced the Tao, the Way of Life. They understood the principle of balance as represented by the transformations of the energies of the universe. They formulated exercises to promote energy flow to harmonize themselves with the universe. They ate a balanced diet at regular times, arose and retired at regular hours, avoided overstressing their bodies and minds, and refrained from overindulgence of all kinds. They maintained well-being of body and mind; thus, it is not surprising that they lived over one hundred years.” “These days, people have changed their way of life. They drink wine as though it were water, indulge excessively in destructive activities, drain their jing – the body’s essence that is stored in the Kidneys – and deplete their qi. They do not know the secret of conserving their energy and vitality. Seeking emotional excitement and momentary pleasures, people disregard the natural rhythm of the universe. They fail to regulate their lifestyle and diet, and sleep improperly. So it is not surprising that they look old at fifty and die soon after.” “The accomplished ones, of ancient times, advised people how to guard themselves against disease-causing factors. On the mental level, one should remain calm and avoid excessive desires and fantasies, recognizing and maintaining the natural purity and clarity of the mind. When internal energies are able to circulate smoothly and freely, and the energy of the mind is not scattered, but is focused and concentrated, illness and disease can be avoided.” “Previously, people led a calm and honest existence, detached from undue desire and ambition; they lived with an untainted conscience and without fear. They were active, but never depleted themselves. Because they lived simply, they knew contentment, as reflected in their diet of basic but nourishing foods, and clothing that was appropriate to the season but never luxurious. Since they were happy in their position in life, they did not feel jealousy or greed. They had compassion for others and were helpful and honest, free from destructive habits. They remained unshakable and unswayed by temptations, and they were able to stay centered even when adversity arose.

They treated others justly, regardless of their level of intelligence or position.” Huang Di asked, “I’ve heard of people in ancient times, spoken of as the immortals, who knew the secrets of the universe and held the world in the palm of their hands. They extracted essence from nature and practiced Qi Gong and various stretching and breathing exercises, and visualizations, to integrate body, mind and spirit. They remained undisturbed and thus attained extraordinary levels of accomplishment. Can you tell me about them?” Qi Bo responded, “The immortals kept their mental energies focused and refined, and harmonized their bodies with the environment. So they did not show typical signs of aging and were able to live beyond their biological limitations. “Not so long ago there were people known as achieved beings who had true virtue, understood the Way of Life, and were able to adapt to and harmonize with the universe and the seasons. They too were able to keep their mental energy through proper concentration. “These achieved beings did not live like ordinary humans, who tended to be hard on 3 themselves. They were able to travel freely to different times and places since they were not governed by conventional views of time and space. Their sense of perceptions were supernormal, going far beyond the sight and hearing of ordinary humans. They were also able to preserve their life spans and live in full health, just as the immortals did.

This appeared in written form about 300 B.C.

Martino Martini, a seventeenth-century Jesuit who, based on Chinese historical records, calculated that the Yellow Emperor’s reign began in 2697 BCE. Martini’s dates are still used today.

2356-2255 B.C

Emperor Yao

Various records indicate that Qigong was likely practiced over 4300 years ago. During this time period, a legendary figure named Peng Zu was known as a Qigong practitioner. Peng Zu supposedly lived approximately 800 years spanning numerous Chinese dynasties including the reign of emperor Yao. Peng Zu is viewed by many as one of the pioneers of Qigong.

Also during the time of the Yao Dynasty, some documentation indicates that in that time, people used to dance to strengthen their body and also to regulate breathing, energy (Qi), and blood circulation in order to be healthy.

1200 B.C.

Winds of the four directions

770-220 B.C. During the warring states periods 770-220 B.C. An ancient form of fitness exercise called Daoyin, was very popular.

“Take a deep breath and sink it to dantien. Hold the breath there for a while and then exhale it like the sprouting of grass until it goes to the top of your head. In this way, the yang vital energy goes up and the yin energy down. Those whose yang or yin energy goes its own way will live, otherwise they will die.”

In ancient times, one of the terms used to denote what we, today call Qigong was Tui Na; the literal meaning of Tui Na is ‘push and grasp’ or ‘pinch and pull.’ The famous philosopher Zuang Zi, in his book nan Hua Jing (third century B.C.) explained that Zhenren “The true mans food”

“The immortal persons food is plain, but his breathing is unfathomable and tranquil. While the breathing of the masses is through their throats, the breathing of the true man is

through their heals.” Swallowing power!!!!!!!!!!!!11111 naturally Shower drain heals

	Laozi by Zhang Lu; Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Born	Unknown, 6th century – 4th century BC Chujen village, state of Chu
Died	Unknown, 6th century – 4th century BC

Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching is primary for this time.

Here’s are a few passages from my poetic translation of The Tao Te Ching

What of words? Feeble tools. Relax and observe thats the rule. Get behind the screen and dream. One white projection light yet many scenes. As physics says-The act of looking takes a picture in time. Discovering truth without senses possibilites we find..

Without looking we fully unwind.

Trust the trance, here’s your chance. No comment to make is the mystic gate. 2.

In being so sure we loose the core. A synthesis of this and that is our profound

truth. Just relax, this we choose.

How to conclude for all’s in flux…right and wrong, pleasing and pain… Let’s be quieter to find our way.

3.

Guiding herds a subtle art. Parental ruling from the heart.

Soothing thoughts… Quieting seas…

And we are hereby filled with all we need.

The enlightened person regards all people as food for the cosmic cake… Chuang tzu’s teacher heals…up through the heals…shaman

(Return to this quote test the current your level of integrated realization.

551-479, Mencius,

200 B.C. To 500 B.C.

400 B.C.

The Xíng Qì, or Circulating Qì, is a succint treatise of cultivating the Vital Breath, or Qì. Engraved on a dodecagonal block of jade in what appears to be Seal Script, the inscription dates to a conjectural 400 BC, before the establishment of Daoism as an institutionalized corpus of political and personal influence.

行氣 Circulating the Vital Breath,

深則蓄 (breathing) deeply fosters its accumulation,

蓄則伸 once accumulated it expands,

伸則下 upon expanding it reaches below,

下則定 (being) below it becomes concentrated,

定則固 concentrated it becomes steadfast,固則萌 steadfast it germinates and sprouts,萌則長 sprouting it grows,

長則退 once grown it then returns,

退則天 returning it becomes heavenly.

天几舂在上 the liminal heavens are ascended above,地几舂在下 the liminality of earth is located below.順則生 compliance with this begets life,*

逆則死 Opposition with this begets death.

*Compliance begetting life implies a knowledge of and adherence to the architectural scaffolding that creates the conditions of life itself, which includes:

1. An orientation to and alignment with a three-tiered cosmology: 人 Rén, humanity, is situated between the celestial and telluric realms, 天 Tiān and 地 Dì.
2. That 陽 Yáng, which is heavenly, descends to meet 陰Yīn, which is earthly (“heaven bestows the image, Earth completes the form”), and
3. That Yīn and Yáng are commanded to one another, and that their coupling produces a pressurized system through which 氣 Qì, or Vital Breath, emerges.

This cosmogony is later narrated numerically by the 道德經 Daòdé Jīng, “One (Daò) begets two (Yīn/Yáng), two begets three (Qì), and three begets the 10,000 things, the material world). Qì, then, is the dynamic expression of heaven (Yáng) and earth (Yīn) merging with one another in the realm of humanity, and respiration is the microcosmic reminder that the macrocosm is breathing through us… In remaining steadfast to the root of Qì via circulating the breath the neophyte strengthens the alignment of the body and clarity of Spirit (神明 Shén Míng). This is the art of nourishing life, 養生 Yáng Shēng. This is the essence of Chinese medicine.

Disease and death, as eluded to in the final stanza, is simply the deviation from the harmony of Yīn and Yáng and the overwhelm of 整齊 Zheng qi (upright or ordered Qi) by 邪氣 Xié QÌ (off-kilter or chaotic Qì).

The first textual references to “avoidance grains / cereals” are found in Chinese classics from

the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), Qin Dynasty (221 BCE-206 BCE), and Han Dynasty (206 BCE- 220 EC).

A (c. 3rd century BCE) Zhuangzi chapter describes a shenren神 人 “divine person” who does not eat grains but mysteriously helps them grow.

Far away on Mount Kuyeh there dwells a spirit man whose skin is like congealed snow and who is gentle as a virgin. He does not eat any of the five grains, but inhales the wind and drinks the dew. He rides on the clouds, drives a flying dragon, and wanders beyond the four seas. His spirit is concentrated, saving things from corruption and bringing a bountiful harvest every year. (1, tr .: Mair 1994: 6-7)

In this passage, Maspero (1981: 417) Recognizes the main Daoist Practices That Were current During the Six Dynasties period: “(1) abstention from Cereals, (2) respiratory exercises, and (3) concentration and meditation The.” Journey beyond the Four Seas “(4) corresponds to a manner of directing ecstasy,” resembling astral projection .

In the Taoist tradition, the writings of Lǎozǐ (“Lao Tzu”, ca. 400 BCE) and Zhuāngzǐ; (“Chuang Tzu”, ca. 300 BCE) both describe meditative cultivation and physical exercises as means to extend one’s lifespan, and to access higher realms of existence.^{[9][10][11][12][13]} The Taoist inner alchemical cultivation around the Song Dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝; pinyin: Sòng Cháo; Wade-Giles: Sung Ch’ao; IPA: [ sʊ̂ŋ tʂʰɑ̌ʊ̯ ]) between 960 and 1279, continued those Taoist traditions.

Chuang Tzu (369-286), Xun (298-238)

Daoyin tu 導引圖 (168 B.C.)

The Mawangdui Silk Texts (168 BCE) shows a series of Tao Yin (導引) exercises that bears physical resemblance to some of the health exercises being practiced today.

[14]The physical exercise chart; a painting on silk depicting the practice of Daoyin Tu (Guiding and Pulling); unearth

Province, China, from the 2nd-century BC “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Han”Western Han burial site of HYPERLINK “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui”Mawangdui, Tomb Number 3.

“When Yin is inert and Yang is obstructed, the human body’s Chi remains unable to flow and the bones and muscles become contracted. Thus they need strengthening and relaxing through dance. This has been the case since ancient times.” Lue Buwei

Some of the Guodian Chu slips, found in the 1990s. These bamboo strips contain the earliest known version of the Daoist text Dao de Ching, along with some early Confucian texts. They date to the 300s BCE, and have helped scholars understand early Confucian thought before it was altered by later philosophers like Mencius.

186 B.C. Yin Shu-Han Bamboo strip Exercises for cures; animal imitation…the movements of bears and birds

168 B.C. Exercises for specific cures; animal imitation…the movements of bears and birds. Again we see the emphasis on animal imitation and Qigongs roots.

This is often forgotten in today’s modernized Qigong methods. Yet, we all know the benefit that comes from truly connecting with: Animals, birds and mamals. This invigoration is meant to fuel the process of spiritual meditation which is about mentorship from genuine sage/saint types.

The philosophical and religious arts that serve as the primary source for Qigong development. Basically, Lao Tzu and his book The Tao Te Ching. Also, Chuang Tzu is elemental to the inner functioning of Qigong beliefs. These beliefs serve as the great and primary source for Qigong Energy.

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Chuang Tzu noted

“If you want longevity sway like a bear and stretch like a bird.”

“To blow out and breathe in slowly, to inhale and exhale, to puff out the old breaths and draw in the new, practicing bear-hanging and bird-stretching, longevity is the only concern. Guiding and pulling, cultivating and nourishing the body favored by those who wish to live as long as Peng Tzu.”

“Unify your attention, rather than listen with the ear, listen with the heart. Rather than listen with the heart, listen with the qi. Listening stops at the ear, the heart stills at following the circumstances. Chi is void, thus it is all

encompassing. Only the Way amasses the void, so the void is the fasting of the heart.”

“To guide the qi, allow it to enter deeply [by inhaling] and collect it [in the mouth]. As it collects, it will expand. Once expanded, it will sink down (swallow). When it sinks down, it comes to rest. After it has come to rest, it becomes stable. When

the qi is stable, it begins to sprout. From sprouting, it begins to grow. As it grows, it can be pulled back upwards. When it is pulled upwards, it reaches the crown of the head. It then touches above at the crown of the head and below at the base of the spine. Who practices like this will attain long life. Who goes against this will die.”

In 221 B.C The first unified empire in Chinese history

Zhuanggzi 3rd century B.C. Book title-Nan Hua Jing

A woman warrior Yueeh Nue said “The art of warriorship is extrememly subltly and elusive; its principles are most secret and profound. The Tao has its gate and door, it is Yin and Yang. Open the gate and close the door; yin declines and yang rises. When practicing the art of hand to hand combat, concentrate your spirit internally and give the impression of relaxation externally. You should look like a modest person and strike like a ferocious tiger. As you assume various postures, regulate your Chi, moving always with the Spirit. Your skill should be as obvious as the sun and as startling as a bolting hare. Your opponent endeavors to pursue your form and chase your shadow, yet your image hovers between existence and non-existence. The breath moves in and out and should never be held.

206BC-500 AD Han Dynasty

Above is the actual, original drawings then a modern rendition of the origininals.

During the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), Buddhist and meditation methods were imported from India, which brought qi-gong practice and meditation into the religious qi-gong era. The religious practitioners cultivated their qi to a deeper level, worked with internal functions of the body, and strove to control their bodies, minds and spirits in order to escape the cycle of re-incarnation.

ONE of the outstanding features of the traditional Chinese martial arts is imitating animal movements. This is because, Chinese martial artists believed in the past — and still do today —

that we humans have lost or have never developed certain natural instincts, senses and fighting abilities that other animals possess in order to survive in the wild.

By imitating animal movements, martial arts practitioners intend to regain or develop certain animal fighting techniques and spirit to fight against other men.

The first set of animal-imitating exercises came into being about 2,000 years ago. It was called Wu Qin Xi or Five-Animal Frolics, created by Hua Tuo (circa 140-208 AD) as a form of therapeutic qigong or chi kung.

Hua was a famous physician in the later years of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD). He is widely known as the first doctor in the traditional Chinese medicine to invent some anesthetic herbal formulas and the first surgeon to conduct abdominal operations.

420-589

Liu Zi Jue

The 6 Healing Sounds

Making particular sounds have always been part of deeper qigong. Here they are as referenced in Wikipedia.

噓 XU [pronounced like ‘she,’ with the lips rounded] – ‘deep sigh’ or ‘hiss’ – Level the Liver Qi

呵 HE [pronounced like ‘huh’] – ‘yawn’ or ‘laughing sound’ – Supplement the Heart Qi

呼 HU [pronounced like ‘who’] – ‘to sigh,’ ‘to exhale,’ or ‘to call’ – Cultivate [or Shore Up] the Spleen/Pancreas Qi

呬 SI [pronounced like ‘sir’] – ‘to rest’ – Supplement the Lung Qi

吹 CHUI [pronounced ‘chway’ or ‘chwee,’ depending on locale] – ‘to blow out,’ ‘to blast,’ or ‘to puff’ – Supplement the Kidney Qi

嘻 XI [pronounced like ‘she’ with tongue high, and well forward, in the mouth] – ‘mirthful’ – Regulate the Triple Burner Qi HYPERLINK “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Zi_Jue” \l “cite_note-1″[1]

500 A.D. Da Mo-Daruma/BodhiDharma-Founder of Zen

and Kung Fu

He was an east Indian prince. Da Mo is the greatest overall synthesizer of Qigong methods. Bringing together skills from India and Tibet into one system of inner healing and empowerment. Many believe that Daruma went to Japan after China.

The crowning achievement of Ta Mo

YiJing Jing…Shii Soe Ching–

In Japanese. Ekkin–kyo, muscle-tendon changing, and Senzui–kyo, bone marrow washing, are what gave martial power to their techniques

The Yi Gin Ching dealing with the cultivation of energy through connecting with nature, merging with animal movements and natures nourishing each, exercises of gentle repetition stretching all joints, dynamic tension and running energy.

And

The Shii Shoe Ching concerns the refinement of the connected energy of nature. Bringing it to transmute, emotion and thought, Going into the most subtle nooks and crannies of the body; particularly the marrow of the bones which is the battery material of the body/mind.

The Japanese and Korean term mu or Chinese wu, meaning “not have; without”, is a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions.

618-905 A.D. Xu Xuanping. His art was transmitted by Song Yuanjiao and others to Song Shuming in today’s Taiwan Chung-li Ch’uean, creator of “The Eight Pieces of Brocade”-Chi Gong. Chung-li Ch’uean was the teacher of Ancestor Lue who founded the Taoist Complete Reality School

1226 A.D.

The brass man 1026 A.D. the famous brass man of acupuncture was designed and built by Dr. Wang Wei-Yi. Before that time, the many publications which discussed acupuncture theory, principles, and treatment techniques disagreed with each other, and left many points unclear. When Dr. Wang

built his brass man, he also wrote a book called “Tong Ren Yu Xue Zhen Jiu Tu” (Illustration of the Brass Man Acupuncture and Moxibustion).

He explained the relationship of the 12 organs and the 12 Qi channels, clarified many of the points of confusion, and, for the first time, systematically organized acupuncture theory and principles.

In 1034 A.D. Dr. Wang used acupuncture to cure the emperor Ren Zong. With the support of the emperor, acupuncture flourished. In order to

encourage acupuncture medical research, the emperor built a temple to Bian Que, who wrote the Nan Jing, and worshiped him as the ancestor of acupuncture. Acupuncture technology developed so much that even the

Jin race in the distant North requested the brass man and other acupuncture

technology as a condition for peace. Between 1102 to 1106

A.D. Dr. Wang dissected the bodies of prisoners and added more information to the Nan Jing. His work contributed greatly to the advancement of Qigong and Chinese medicine by giving a clear and systematic idea of the circulation of Qi in the human body.

1247-1358 A.D.

Tai Chi Scriptures

Chang San-feng. Known as the “Founder of T’ai Chi Ch’uan”. One legend is that he invented T’ai Chi at the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming dynasties.

T’AI CHI CH’UAN CHING

Attributed to Chang San-feng (est. 1279 -1386) Memorize this one and apply it to daily movement repeatedly.

In motion the whole body should be light and agile, with all parts of the body linked as if threaded together.

The ch’i [vital life energy] should be excited, The shen [spirit of vitality] should be internally gathered.

The postures should be without defect, without hollows or projections from the proper alignment; in motion the Form should not become disconnected.

The chin [intrinsic strength] should be rooted in the feet, generated from the legs, controlled by the waist, and manifested through the fingers.

If correct timing and position are not achieved, the body will become disordered and will not move as an integrated whole; the correction for this defect must be sought in the legs and waist.

The principle of adjusting the legs and waist applies for moving in all directions; upward or downward, advancing or withdrawing, left or right.

All movements are motivated by I [mind-intention], not external form.

If there is up, there is down; when advancing, have regard for withdrawing; when striking left, pay attention to the right.

If the I wants to move upward, it must simultaneously have intent downward.

Alternating the force of pulling and pushing severs an opponent’s root so that he can be defeated quickly and certainly.

Insubstantial [empty; yin] and substantial [solid; yang] should be clearly differentiated. At any place where there is insubstantiality, there must be substantiality; Every place has both insubstantiality and substantiality.

The whole body should be threaded together through every joint without the slightest break.

Chang Ch’uan [Long Boxing] is like a great river rolling on unceasingly.

1763-1795 Wang Tsung-yueh introduced T’ai Chi Ch’uan in Honan Province. He was the first known successor to Chang San-feng and he probably wrote

the T’ai Chi Ch’uan lun.

THE TREATISE ON T’AI CHI CH’UAN

Attributed to Wang Tsung-yueh [Wang Zongyue] (18th Century) as researched by Lee N. Scheele

T’ai Chi [Supreme Ultimate] comes from Wu Chi [Formless Void] and is the mother

of yin and yang. In motion T’ai Chi separates; in stillness yin and yang fuse and return to Wu Chi.

It is not excessive or deficient; it follows a bending, adheres to an extension. When the opponent is hard and I am soft, it is called tsou [yielding].

When I follow the opponent and he becomes backed up, it is called nian [sticking].

If the opponent’s movement is quick, then quickly respond; if his movement is slow, then follow slowly.

Although there are innumerable variations, the principles that pervades them remain the same.

From familiarity with the correct touch, one gradually comprehends chin [intrinsic strength]; from the comprehension of chin one can reach wisdom.

Without long practice one cannot suddenly understand T’ai Chi. Effortlessly the chin reaches the headtop.

Let the ch’i [vital life energy] sink to the tan-t’ien [field of elixir]. Don’t lean in any direction; suddenly appear, suddenly disappear. Empty the left wherever a pressure appears, and similarly the right. If the opponent raises up, I seem taller; if he sinks down, then I seem

lower; advancing, he finds the distance seems incredibly long; retreating, the distance seems exasperatingly short.

A feather cannot be placed, and a fly cannot alight on any part of the body. The opponent does not know me; I alone know him.

To become a peerless boxer results from this. There are many boxing arts.

Although they use different forms, for the most part they don’t go beyond the strong dominating the weak, and the slow resigning to the swift.

The strong defeating the weak and the slow hands ceding to the swift hands are all the results of natural abilities and not of well-trained techniques.

From the sentence “A force of four ounces deflects a thousand pounds” we know that the technique is not accomplished with strength.

The spectacle of an old person defeating a group of young people, how can it be due to swiftness?

Stand like a perfectly balanced scale and move like a turning wheel.

Sinking to one side allows movement to flow; being double-weighted is sluggish.

Anyone who has spent years of practice and still cannot neutralize, and is always controlled by his opponent, has not apprehended the fault of double-weightedness.

To avoid this fault one must distinguish yin from yang. To adhere means to yield. To yield means to adhere. Within yin there is yang. Within yang there is yin.

Yin and yang mutually aid and change each other.

Understanding this you can say you understand chin. After you understand chin, the more you practice, the more skill.

Silently treasure knowledge and turn it over in the mind. Gradually you can do as you like.

Fundamentally, it is giving up yourself to follow others. Most people mistakenly give up the near to seek the far. It is said, “Missing it by a little will lead many miles astray.”

The practitioner must carefully study. This is the Treatise

EXPOSITIONS OF INSIGHTS INTO THE PRACTICE OF

THE THIRTEEN POSTURES

by Wu Yu-hsiang (Wu Yuxian) (1812 – 1880) sometimes attributed to Wang Chung- yueh as researched by Lee N. Scheele

The hsin [mind-and-heart] mobilizes the ch’i [vital life energy].

Make the ch’i sink calmly; then the ch’i gathers and permeates the bones.

The ch’i mobilizes the body. Make it move smoothly, so that it may easily follows the hsin.

The I [mind-intention] and ch’i must interchange agilely, then there is an excellence of roundness and smoothness. This is called “the interplay of insubstantial and substantial.”

The hsin is the commander, the ch’i the flag, and the waist the banner. The waist is like the axle and the ch’i is like the wheel.

The ch’i is always nurtured without harm.

Let the ch’i move as in a pearl with nine passages without breaks so that there is no part it cannot reach.

In moving the ch’i sticks to the back and permeates the spine. It is said “First in the hsin, then in the body.”

The abdomen relaxes, then the ch’i sinks into the bones. The shen [spirit of vitality] is relaxed and the body calm. The shen is always in the hsin.

Being able to breathe properly leads to agility. The softest will then become the strongest.

When the ching shen is raised, there is no fault of stagnancy and heaviness. This is called suspending the headtop.

Inwardly make the shen firm, and outwardly exhibit calmness and peace.

Throughout the body, the I relies on the shen, not on the ch’i. If it relied on the ch’i, it would become stagnant.

If there is ch’i, there is no li [external strength]. If not focused on ch’i, there is pure steel.

The chin [intrinsic strength] is sung [relaxed], but not sung; it is capable of great extension, but is not extended.

The chin is broken, but the I is not.

The chin is stored (having a surplus) by means of the curved.

The chin* is released by the back, and the steps follow the changes of the body.

The mobilization of the chin is like refining steel a hundred times over. There is nothing hard it cannot destroy.

Store up the chin like drawing a bow.

Mobilize the chin like drawing silk from a cocoon. Release the chin like releasing the arrow.

To fa-chin [discharge energy], sink, relax completely, and aim in one direction! In the curve seek the straight, store, then release.

Be still as a mountain, move like a great river.

The upright body must be stable and comfortable to be able to sustain an attack from any of the eight directions.

Walk like a cat.

Remember, when moving, there is no place that does not move. When still, there is no place that is not still.

First seek extension, then contraction; then it can be fine and subtle.

It is said if the opponent does not move, then I do not move. At the opponent’s slightest move, I move first.”

To withdraw is then to release, to release it is necessary to withdraw. In discontinuity there is still continuity.

In advancing and returning there must be folding. Going forward and back there must be changes.

The Form is like that of a falcon about to seize a rabbit, and the shen is like that of a cat about to catch a rat.

* Scholars argue persuasively that the use of the word li that actually appears here in ancient documents is a mistranscription and the passage should read chin.

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SONG OF THE THIRTEEN POSTURES

by Unknown Author as researched by Lee N. Scheele

The Thirteen Postures should not be taken lightly; the source of the postures is in the waist.

Be mindful of the interchange between insubstantial and substantial; The ch’i circulates throughout the body without hindrance.

Be still, when touched by the opponent, be tranquil and move in stillness; changes caused by my opponent fill him with wonder.

Study the function of each posture carefully and with deliberation; to achieve the goal is very easy.

Pay attention to the waist at all times; completely relax the abdomen and the ch’i rises up.

When the tailbone is centered and straight, the shen [spirit of vitality] goes through to the headtop.

To make the whole body light and agile suspend the headtop. Carefully study.

Extension and contraction, opening and closing, should be natural.

To enter the door and be shown the way, you must be orally taught. Practice should be uninterrupted, and technique achieved by self study.

Speaking of the body and its function, what is the standard?

The I [mind-intent] and ch’i are king, and the bones and muscles are the court. Think over carefully what the final purpose is: to lengthen life and maintain youth.

The Song consists of 140 characters; each character is true and the meaning is complete.

If you do not study in this manner, then you will waste your time and sigh with regret.

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SONGS OF THE EIGHT POSTURES

Attributed to T’an Meng-hsien as researched by Lee N. Scheele

The Song of Peng

What is the meaning of Peng energy? It is like the water supporting a moving boat. First sink the ch’i to the tan-t’ien, then hold the head as if suspended from above. The entire body is filled with springlike energy, opening and closing in a very quick moment. Even if the opponent uses a thousand pounds of force, he can be uprooted and made to float without difficulty.

The Song of Lu

What is the meaning of Lu energy? Entice the opponent toward you by allowing him to advance, lightly and nimbly follow his incoming force without disconnecting and without resisting. When his force reaches its farthest extent, it will naturally become

empty. The opponent can then be let go or countered at will. Maintain your central equilibrium and your opponent cannot gain an advantage.

The Song of Chi

What is the meaning of Chi energy? There are two aspects to its functional use: The direct way is to go to meet the opponent and attach gently in one movement. The indirect way is to use the reaction force like the rebound of a ball bouncing off a wall, or a coin thrown on a drumhead, bouncing off with a ringing sound.

The Song of An

What is the meaning of An energy? When applied it is like flowing water. The substantial is concealed in the insubstantial. When the flow is swift it is difficult to resist. Coming to a high place, it swells and fills the place up; meeting a hollow it dives downward. The waves rise and fall, finding a hole they will surely surge in.

The Song of Ts’ai

What is the meaning of Ts’ai energy? It is like the weight attached to the beam of a balance scale. Give free play to the opponent’s force no matter how heavy or

light, you will know how heavy or light it is after weighing it. To push or pull requires only four ounces, one thousand pounds can also be balanced. If you ask what the principle is, the answer is the function of the lever.

The Song of Lieh

What is the meaning of Lieh energy? It revolves like a spinning disc. If something is thrown onto it, it will immediately be cast more than ten feet away. Have you not seen a whirlpool form in a swift flowing stream? The waves roll in spiraling currents. If a falling leaf drops into it, it will suddenly sink from sight.

The Song of Chou

What is the meaning of Chou energy? Its method relates to the Five Elements. Yin and Yang are divided above and below. Insubstantiality and substantiality must be

clearly distinguished. Joined in unbroken continuity, the opponent cannot resist the posture. Its explosive pounding is especially fearsome. When one has mastered the six kinds of energy, the applications become unlimited.

The Song of K’ao

What is the meaning of K’ao energy? Its method is divided into the shoulder and back technique. In Diagonal Flying Posture use shoulder, but within the shoulder technique there is also some use of the back. Once you have the opportunity and can

take advantage of the posture, the technique explodes like pounding a pestle. Carefully maintain your own center. Those who lose it will have no achievement.

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SONG OF PUSH HANDS

by Unknown Author as researched by Lee N. Scheele

Be conscientious in Peng, Lu, Chi, and An.

Upper and lower coordinate, and the opponent finds it difficult to penetrate.

Let the opponent attack with great force; use four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds. Attract to emptiness and discharge; Zhan, Lian, Nian, Sui, no resisting no leting go.

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FIVE CHARACTER SECRET

by Li I-yu as researched by Lee N. Scheele

CALM

The hsin [mind-and-heart] should be calm. If the hsin is not calm, one cannot concentrate, and when the arm is raised, whether forward or back, left or right, it is completely without certain direction. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a calm mind. In beginning to move, you cannot control (it) by yourself. The entire mind must also experience and comprehend the movements of the opponent. Accordingly, when the movement bends, it then straightens, without disconnecting or resisting. Do not extend or retreat by yourself. If my opponent has li [external strength], I also have li,

but my li is previous in exact anticipation of his. If the opponent does not have li, I am also without li, but my I [mind-intent] is still previous. It is necessary to be continually mindful; to whatever part of the body is touched the mind should go. You must discover the information by non-discrimination and non-resistance. Follow this method, and in one year, or a half-year, you will instinctively find it in your body. All of this means you use I, not chin [intrinsic force]. After a practicing for a long time, the opponent will be controlled by me and I will not be controlled by him.

AGILITY

If the body is clumsy, then in advancing or retreating it cannot be free; therefore, it must be agile. Once you raise your arm, you cannot appear clumsy. The moment the force of my opponent touches my skin and hair, my mind is already penetrating his bones. When holding up the arms, the ch’i [vital life energy] is threaded together continuously. When the left side is heavy, it then empties, and the right side is already countering. When the right is heavy, it empties, and the left is already countering. The ch’i is like a wheel, and the whole body must mutually coordinate. If there is any uncoordinated place, the body becomes disordered and weak. The defect is to be found in the waist and legs. First the mind is used to order the body. Follow the opponent and not your own inclination. Later your body can follow your mind, and you can control yourself and still follow the opponent. When you only follow your own inclination, you are clumsy, but when you follow the opponent, then your hands can distinguish and weigh accurately the amount of his force, and measure the distance of his approach with no mistake. Advancing and retreating, everywhere the coordination is perfect. After studying for a long time, your technique will become skillful.

BREATH To Gather the Ch’i

If the ch’i is dispersed, then it is not stored and is easy to scatter. Let

the ch’i penetrate the spine and the inhalation and exhalation be smooth and unimpeded throughout the entire body. The inhalation closes and gathers, the exhalation opens and discharges. Because the inhalation can naturally raise and also uproot the opponent, the exhalation can naturally sink down and also fa-

chin [discharge energy] him. This is by means of the I, not the li mobilizing the ch’i.

INTERNAL FORCE The Complete Chin

The chin of the whole body, through practice, becomes one unit. Distinguish clearly between substantial and insubstantial. To fa-chin it is necessary to have root.

The chin starts from the foot, is commanded by the waist, and manifested in the

fingers, and discharged through the spine and back. One must completely raise the shen [spirit of vitality] at the moment when the opponent’s chin is about to

manifest, but has not yet been released. My chin has then already met his, not late, not early. It is like using a leather (tinder) to start a fire, or like a fountain gushing forth. In going forward or stepping back, there is not even the slightest disorder. In the curve seek the straight, store, then discharge; then you are able to follow your hands and achieve a beautiful result. This is called borrowing force to strike the opponent or using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds.

SPIRIT Shen Concentrated

Having the above four, then you can return to concentrated spirit: if the spirit is concentrated, then it is continuous and uninterrupted, and the practice

of ch’i returns to the shen [spirit of vitality]. The manifestation of ch’i moves with agility. When the shen is concentrated, opening and closing occur appropriately, and the differentiation of substantial and insubstantial is clear. If the left is insubstantial, the right is substantial, and vice-versa. Insubstantial does not mean completely without strength. The manifestation of ch’i must be agile. Substantial does not mean completely limited. The spirit must be completely concentrated. It is important to be completely in the mind [I] and the waist, and not outside. Not being outside or separated, force is borrowed from the opponent, and the ch’i is released from the spine. How can the ch’i discharge from the spine? It sinks downward from the two shoulders, gathers to the spine, and pours to the waist. This is ch’ifrom up to down and is called closed. From the waist the ch’i mobilizes to the spine, spreads to the two arms and flows to the fingers. This is ch’i from down to up and is called opened. Closed is gathering, and opened is discharging. When you know opening and closing, then you know yin and yang. Reaching this level your skill will progress with the days and you can do as you wish.

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ESSENTIALS OF THE PRACTICE OF THE FORM AND PUSH-HANDS

by Li I-yu as researched by Lee N. Scheele

Formerly people said: “being able to attract to emptiness, you can use four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds.” Not being able to attract to emptiness, you cannot deflect a

thousand pounds. The words are simple, but the meaning is complete. The beginner cannot understand it. Here I add some words to explain it. If someone is ambitious to learn this art, he can find some way to enter it and every day he will have some improvement.

Desiring to attract to emptiness and deflect a thousand pounds, first you must know yourself and others. If you want to know yourself and others, you must give up yourself and follow others. If you give up yourself and follow others, first you must have the correct timing and position. To obtain the correct timing and position, you must first make your body one unit. Desiring to make the body one unit, you must first eliminate hollows and protuberances. To make the whole body without breaks or holes, you must first have the shen [spirit of vitality] and ch’i [vital life energy] excited and expanded. If you want the shen and ch’i activated and expanded, you must first raise the spirit (pay attention) and the shen should not be unfocussed. To have your shen not unfocussed, you must first have the shen and ch’i gather and penetrate the bones. Desiring

the shen and ch’i to penetrate the bones, first you must strengthen the two thighs and loosen the two shoulders and let the ch’i sink down.

The chin [intrinsic strength] raises from the feet, changes in the legs, is stored in the chest, moved in the shoulders and commanded in the waist. The upper part connects to the two arms and the lower part follows the legs. It changes inside. To gather is to close and to release is to open. If it is quiet, it is completely still. Still means to close. In closing there is opening. If it is moving, everything moves. Moving is open. In opening there is closing. When the body is touched it revolves freely. There is nowhere that does not obtain power. Then you can attract to emptiness and use four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds.

Practicing the Form every day is the kung fu of knowing yourself. When you start to practice, first ask yourself, “Did my whole body follow the above principles or not?” If one little place did not follow them, then correct it immediately. Therefore, in practicing the Form we want slowness not speed.

Push hands is the kung fu of knowing others. As for movement and stillness, although it is to know others, you must still ask yourself. If you arrange yourself well, when others touch you, you don’t move a hair. Follow the opportunity and meet his chin and let him fall naturally outward. If you feel someplace in your body is powerless, it is double- weighted and unchanging. You must seek the defect in yin and yang, opening and closing. Know yourself and know others: in one hundred battles you will win one hundred times.

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YANG’S TEN IMPORTANT POINTS

by Yang Cheng-fu (1883 – 1936) as researched by Lee N. Scheele

1. Head upright to let the shen [spirit of vitality] rise to the top of the head. Don’t use li [external strength], or the neck will be stiff and the ch’i [vital life energy] and blood cannot flow through. It is necessary to have a natural and lively feeling. If the spirit cannot reach the headtop, it cannot raise.
2. Sink the chest and pluck up the back. The chest is depressed naturally inward so that the ch’i can sink to the tan-t’ien [field of elixir]. Don’t expand the chest:

the ch’i gets stuck there and the body becomes top-heavy. The heel will be too light and can be uprooted. Pluck up the back and the ch’i sticks to the back; depress the chest and you can pluck up the back. Then you can discharge force through the spine. You will be a peerless boxer.

1. Sung [Relax] the waist. The waist is the commander of the whole body. If you can sung the waist, then the two legs will have power and the lower part will be firm and stable. Substantial and insubstantial change, and this is based on the turning of the waist. It is said “the source of the postures lies in the waist. If you cannot get power, seek the defect in the legs and waist.”
2. Differentiate between insubstantial and substantial. This is the first principle in T’ai Chi Ch’uan. If the weight of the whole body is resting on the right leg, then the right leg is substantial and the left leg is insubstantial, and vice versa. When you can separate substantial and insubstantial, you can turn lightly without using strength. If you cannot separate, the step is heavy and slow. The stance is not firm and can be easily thrown of balance.
3. Sink the shoulders and drop the elbows. The shoulders will be completely relaxed and open. If you cannot relax and sink, the two shoulders will be raised up and tense. The ch’i will follow them up and the whole body cannot get power. “Drop the elbows” means the elbows go down and relax. If the elbows raise, the shoulders are not able to sink and you cannot discharge people far. The discharge will then be close to the broken force of the external schools.
4. Use the mind instead of force. The T’ai Chi Ch’uan Classics say, “all of this means use I [mind-intent] and not li.” In practicing T’ai Chi Ch’uan the whole body relaxes. Don’t let one ounce of force remain in the blood vessels, bones, and ligaments to tie yourself up. Then you can be agile and able to change. You will be able to turn freely and easily. Doubting this, how can you increase your power?

The body has meridians like the ground has ditches and trenches. If not obstructed the water can flow. If the meridian is not closed, the ch’i goes through. If the whole body has hard force and it fills up the meridians, the ch’i and the blood stop and the turning is not smooth and agile. Just pull one hair and the whole body is off-balance. If you use I, and not li, then the I goes to a place in the body and the ch’i follows it. The ch’i and the blood circulate. If you do this every day and never stop, after a long time you will have nei chin [real internal strength]. The T’ai Chi Ch’uan Classics say, “when you are extremely soft, you become extremely hard and strong.” Someone who has extremely good T’ai Chi Ch’uan kung fuhas arms like iron wrapped with cotton and the weight is very heavy. As for the external schools, when they use li, they reveal li. When they don’t use li, they are too light and floating. There chin is external and locked together. The li of the external schools is easily led and moved, and not too be esteemed.

1. Coordinate the upper and lower parts of the body. The T’ai Chi

Ch’uan Classics say “the motion should be rooted in the feet, released through the legs, controlled by the waist and manifested through the fingers.” Everything acts simultaneously. When the hand, waist and foot move together, the eyes follow. If one part doesn’t follow, the whole body is disordered.

1. Harmonize the internal and external. In the practice of T’ai Chi Ch’uan the main thing is the shen. Therefore it is said “the spirit is the commander and the body is subordinate.” If you can raise the spirit, then the movements will naturally be agile. The postures are not beyond insubstantial and substantial, opening and closing. That which is called open means not only the hands and feet are open, but the mind is also open. That which is called closed means not only the hands and feet are closed, but the mind is also closed. When you can make the inside and outside become one, then it becomes complete.
2. Move with continuity. As to the external schools, their chin is the Latter Heaven brute chin. Therefore it is finite. There are connections and breaks. During the breaks the old force is exhausted and the new force has not yet been born. At these moments it is very easy for others to take advantage. T’ai Chi Ch’uan uses I and not li. From beginning to end it is continuous and not broken. It is circular and again resumes. It revolves and has no limits. The original Classics say it is “like a great

river rolling on unceasingly.” and that the circulation of the chin is “drawing silk from

a cocoon ” They all talk about being connected together.

1. Move with tranquility [Seek stillness in movement]. The external schools assume jumping about is good and they use all their energy. That is why after practice

everyone pants. T’ai Chi Ch’uan uses stillness to control movement. Although one moves, there is also stillness. Therefore in practicing the form, slower is better. If it is slow, the inhalation and exhalation are long and deep and the ch’i sinks to the tan- t’ien. Naturally there is no injurious practice such as engorgement of the blood vessels. The learner should be careful to comprehend it. Then you will get the real meaning.

1812-1880 Wu Yu-hsiang wrote the Expositions and Insights. Li I-yu wrote the Essentials of Form and Push-Hands and the Five Character Secret.

1883-1936 Yang Cheng-fu, a grandson of Yang Lu-shan, was the foremost T’ai Chi boxer of his day.

“Be Shoong, Shoong…completely shoong. If you are not really shoong you are asking for a beating.”

Yang Cheng Fu on the Qigong of Tai Chi

Shoong song

Invest in loss

APPLY THESE POINTS TO EVERYDAY MOVEMENTS

1949-1976 The Cultural Revolution of China

The elimination of religion and all things esoteric. Chi concept reaccepted yet stripped of its religious connotations.

1950’s Liu Guizhen coined the phrase Chee Gung (Qigong) Yan Xin Qigong

The gymnastic exercises were available to all for general health and cures

The meditative exercises kept secret for super cures and the increase of emotional/intellectual health (enlightenment)

1980’s Accepted by government. 1985 China Qigong Science 1990’s Worldwide recognition

1993 Bill Moyers. Healing and the mind. First public awareness. Since then Qigong worldwide recognition and adoption of methods.

Begin with Connectivity, Stancing, Integrating Movement. This is the core Qigong physical exercise responsibility. Continue redesigning how you can accomplish this better and better and better.

As we are progressively aware of our bodies in conjunction with nature our biomagenetic coherence and amplitude improves.

Super Coherent Magnetization of our entire sphere of being.

This feeling that comes with neuroplastic transformation The scent, the sight, the sounds, the places,

Sexual/Sensual stimulations come naturally as we feel better and in qigong/Zen/Yoga/Taoism/Tibetan Buddhism and science this is the root/important strength influencing our overall psychological and physical health.

Awareness of the belly, The bodies center of gravity: (Dan Tien-the cinnabar field-the sea of elixir)

The joining of deity and awareness of the body is another great opportunity of Qigong.

Conceiving of immaculate psychology and physicality is how our imagination can cause actual, biologically measurable transformations.

When we have the conception of a supernatural, miraculous person this influences biochemistry in the greatest possible ways. There are such people. Mostly these people are not known in the world because they are not the same as ordinary individuals there is a separation. It takes a lot of faith and personal

transformation to realize relationship with such people for we are transforming in leaps and bounds that are not discussed nor believed in by ordinary society.

Here are a few Taoist/Qigong scripture to ponder. Its not about the accuracy of each belief its about the overal idea of joning divinity with physiology.

The Red Child resides precisely in the ducts of the stomach, the Great Granary. He sits facing due south on a couch of jade and pearls, and a flowery canopy of yellow clouds covers him. He is clothed in garments with pearls of five hues. His mother resides above on his right, embracing and nourishing him; his father resides above on his left, instructing and defending him.

Laozi zhongjing (Central Scripture of Laozi)

With the Huangting jing (Scripture of the Yellow Court), the Laozi zhongjing 老子中經 (Central Scripture of Laozi) is the main early text devoted to meditation practices on the HYPERLINK “http://www.goldenelixir.com/taoism/inner_gods.html“inner gods. Most scholars agree in dating this work to the early 3rd century. It contains descriptions of loci of the inner body, visualizations to be performed on certain days and hours, and invocations addressed to the inner and outer gods. These practices are combined with the visualization of nutritive essences that adepts circulate through the body and deliver to the gods in the five viscera, the

three HYPERLINK “http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/dantian.html“Cinnabar Fields, and other inner organs and loci. The speaker of the text is the deified Laozi.

The Lord of the Dao (Daojun 道君)

The Lord of the Dao is the One (Yi). He is the Emperor on High of the August Heaven (Huangtian shangdi) and is the central star of the Northern Asterism of the Central Ultimate (zhongji beichen). He resides above the Nine Heavens, ten thousand zhang on high, within the Palace of the Purple Chamber (Zifang gong) in the Great Abyss (taiyuan). He is clothed in five-colored garments and wears the Headgear of the Nine Virtues (jiude zhi guan). Above him is the five-colored glow of the cloudy pneumas of Great Clarity. Underneath a nine-layered flowery canopy, Laozi and [the Lord of] Great Harmony attend upon him at his left and his right.

Laozi zhongjing (Central Scripture of Laozi), sec. 5. Translation published in Fabrizio Pregadio, “Early Daoist Meditation and the Origins of Inner Alchemy,” in Benjamin Penny, ed., Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts’un-yan, 122 (London: Routledge, 2006).

The Red Child (Chizi 赤子)

The self is the son of the Dao; this is what he is. Human beings also have him, not only me.(1) He resides precisely in the ducts of the stomach, the Great Granary. He sits facing due south on a couch of jade and pearls, and a flowery canopy of yellow clouds covers him. He wears clothes with pearls of five hues. His mother resides above on his right, embracing and nourishing him; his father resides above on his left, instructing and defending him.

Therefore constantly think of the True Man Child-Cinnabar residing in the Palace of the stomach, the Great Granary. He sits facing due south, feeding on yellow essence and red pneuma, drinking and ingesting the Fount of Nectar.(2)

Child-Cinnabar, Original Yang, is nine tenths of an inch tall, but think of him as equal to your body. When his father and mother nourish him, you obtain divine immortality.

1. The initial part of this passage defies a proper translation, for Laozi (the speaker of the Central Scripture) refers to himself in both the first and the third person. He introduces himself as “I” (wu) and says that he resides in every human being (“human beings also have me,” i.e., “him”); he is, therefore, one’s own “self” (wu) represented by the Red Child.
2. Fount of Nectar is a name of saliva.

Laozi zhongjing (Central Scripture of Laozi), sec. 12. Translation published in Fabrizio Pregadio, “Early Daoist Meditation and the Origins of Inner Alchemy,” in Benjamin Penny, ed., Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts’un-yan, 138 (London: Routledge, 2006). This quotation is expanded.

The Great Grace-Tendral Connectivity-Grace trumps law.

Qigong unbounds our inner fearful clinging’s (stuck spots) and we reuinite with the vast expanse of natures nourishing. Breathing freely our senses are boundless and we are connected; connectivity is power.

The Default Position

I have a problem. I do not have the solution. I need your help please. She or He…is my only hope

Everyone is the teacher except me.

Ambrosial attack

Bowed head in prayer Bended knee in prayer

Xin and Yi-Emotion and Will Rooting and Blooming

Meditations: Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Roll the belly

Celestial Contact, Cellestial Communitation and The Cosmic Download

The Cosmic Space Ship Ride

Prayer hands up and above hold on head behind head

Profound relief: Discharge/impose our toxic stuff into the field as fertilizer for the field. The earth wants our dis-ease.

The crowning achievement of Ta Mo-A great contributer to the science of Qigong.

Ta Mo wrote The YiJing Jing and The Shii Soe Ching–

The Yi Gin Ching dealing with the cultivation of energy through connecting with nature, merging with animal movements and natures nourishing each, exercises of gentle repetition stretching all joints, dynamic tension and running energy.

And

The Shii Shoe Ching concerns the refinement of the connected energy of nature. Bringing it to transmute, emotion and thought, Going into the most subtle nooks and crannies of the body; particularly the marrow of the bones which is the battery material of the body/mind.

Tumo raise temperature of skin but keep internal body temp normal Rainbow body

The inner life coach

Find a chosen mentor/source and suck the life out of them; stick, connect, adhere, follow-not resisting, not letting go.

How stepping carefully can improve your life

Growling gestation The smell of pp

Smelling the earth, scratching the earth Feet wiping

Bone marrowing Heavergizing empoweration

soaking up the good atmosphere Skeletal Breathing

Earth Swimming

Tiger Bones-Super Heavy Rich Bones

Moving through mud…The Mud Palace and The Mud Pill

BBB Body Bellows Breathing Fill up the body baloon

Packing Condensing into The Bone

Darshan Natural Support

Physical transfiguration gristly the new neurology tendrality the new

Make contact, exposure your disease/distortion and let life back into to repair and

upgrade…uncomfortable to comforting

Soaking up the atmosphere Phatening up

• Antiicpatory growling salivation

Reverse growling

Moving the belly in and out, turning the belly

• Ihalping
• Baby phat
• Filling up the body balloon
• Jelly steel
• Star Crust
• Thickening quickening
• Star friend reconfiguring

This comes from a unique experience I had high in the mountains outside of Aspen Colorado.

Chen electric light over

Sensuality over sexuality. Sexuality over orgasm Not focusing

on orgasm.

Gu Jingathon

An entirely new level of stimulation transmuting/transfiguring/changing your ways. Dicipline cures

Heavergizing Empoweration

IHASP

Heavergizing Empowerationing

Fearful clinging keeps us separate from the nourishments and intelligent present in vast awareness both internally and externally. Fearful clinging doubting who you are, what you’ve done is not awareness in grace. Grace is more powerful than assessment/Occam’s razor. Grace is the fuel of discernment not the other way around. Believing we are eternally graced is the way to refine particular ‘fearful clinging’s’ we have contracted. Shuman Coupling…Unbound yourself be free and let discernment freely function.

The skin of the cell interprets the signals from its outside environment to the DNA.

Sensorizing Animal Invigoration

By giving quality time to observing various interplays in nature we are further energized.

Totally absorbed:

What 3 animals do you relate too? Pretend you have become them for a time to get a deep feeling of their particular ‘vigor.’ It is natural to our lives to have such merging experiences with Nature and the different kinds of animals, birds, mammals, insects.

Lion Stalking, Elephant Walking and trunk swaying, Eagle screaming, looking, seizing, shark smelling/ripping, whale swimming talking, Dolphin swimming in herds then moving nad talking above water, Big bear walking, ant gathering, humming bird ‘floating.’ Gorilla chest pounding, Bull wipng his feet,

Pick three and imitate them-Merge with the physical feeling,

become them

Optional: The world of prey predator in nature is part of reality and must be embraced as well to realize Qi power. Lion tearing at newly killed flesh, Bird seizing rodent, snake striking,

‘Tigers roaring monkeys screeching.’

Covered/Protected exposure: Holing, allowing full expression of the distortion, smelling your own stink, imagined surgery and restructuring, growing new tendril associations, destroying unhealthy tendril associations.

Who wants your healing and has the strength to give to it both energy and guidance? Isolate your inner life with these. Strategize/voidizing the md of all else.

is your md dis-ease is the only transformation. Belief Threshold

Gathering sky, nature, earth, cosmos, void Yi and Xin

The mud palace

Mudding

Pick up the magic herb

Touching earth…earth symbiosis breathing and the mud pill

THE MUD PILL AND THE MUD PALACE

Have a thorough experience of Merging: Insect, Animal, Mammal, Bird Make a thorough list heres mine for now:

Ants, Dophins, Whales, Sharks, Blue Birds, Crows, Foxe’s, Worms, Snakes

Eagle screeming,

Expert Qigong: The inner teachings

Gu Jingathon

Pouring your foundation of chi power

Sensual nourishment with nature wherever you are with the powers of Qigong upon which all Qigong is based. The 3 powers produce the 3 treasures. Experience how they interact for superior Qi power results.

Are you aware of the nourishments in the air or are you lost in worry only?

Kan (Water) and Li(Fire)

*Emotional Support

*Clear you mind

Xin and YI (Emotion and Thought)

The 3 types of Qigong Enlightenment, Healing, Martial

The idea is to accept/create enough coherent magnetism to break the blockages and redefine neurology/tendral associations in new and improved ways. Doing this we evolve becoming someone totally different; better.

INNERVATION PRECEDES ACTIVATIONS…BE WORKED UP INTO A WHITE HEAT OF DESIRE

Wipe clap shout dance, shaking, bouncing, spot stretching, yawn stretching ihasping! Animal vigor.

The body gym

“If you have your Yi (Intention) on chi (energy) then you’ll only be confused. If you have your Yi on Spirit your energy is invincible and adaptive to meet every circumstance.

Wudang mountain (The birthplace of Qigong)

“Doing nothing nothing is left undone.” Lao Tzu

• Trapped shock in your biological biography is keeping you in a nightmarish prison of your own creation. Attempting separation from the vast expanse of natures nourishing and the field of psychic magnetism is tiring and cannot work for long term results.
• Reconnecting with more of natures nourishing requires the discomfort of stretching out: psyche, cellular tendrals, physical stuck spots and allowing the elements to move through you. Endure the awkward discomfort of moving through your stuck spots. Realize the vigor of all animals birds and mammals by merging with nature and moving like them from time to time.
• Touch earth and Pick up the magic herb. Why do phrases about touching the earth have to do so much with gaining? Touch down, land the deal, grounded, breaking ground, groundbreaking, earth shattering, trailblazing, touching base,

Safe Covered Pre Entered and Applied

*Keep removing the covering more

Buddha touches the earth upon enlightenment

Sticky substance at roof of mouth Embryonic breathing

Naturally bated breath, suspended animation, time off, no energy…

When pure spirit touches energy spontansouly beomes more coherent and more powerful.

Filling up the body balloon. Keep receiving by keep removing the covering.

Body puffying. Skeletal breathing. Thicker/Quicker, Jelly steeling nano threading. Heavergizing empoweration.

Mortal rooting

Experiencing their c absorption

Keep a little magic air in your center of gravity.

Thinking is now and then. Feeling peace of mind and digesting information is more.

Look for the signs:

An ‘lit up, tingling, salivating mouth’ like what happens with a beautiful kiss, a delectable bite of food, a breathtakingly beautiful scene in nature…etc.

Healing feelings: Tingles, sexual heat wave, heavy body yet energized,

–A change of atmosphere felt within and around the body. Air and magnetism.

-Feeling peace of mind rather than thinking thoughts

A heavily relaxing body mind

If you want to learn then there is no better learning that from The Classics. That is the body of education to continuously refer to- Thinking about it yourself and having endless commentary is not the way of real students. Just listen-

Squeeze the fingers together Touch the soles and palms Hold prayer hands

The cleansing breath

The devotional approack, reverence

The Cosmic Download…Rooting and Blooming Savassana

Animal Imitation

Heavergize the intestines, each organ and gland, each bone

More Grounding Out Gravity Voidizing all forms and personalities

The enlightened person has realized that all forms and personalities shall dissolve into the One.

All leads to super landing soaking up the atmosphere

Look into your feet Look into the sky

Bone Marrowing

Skeletal breathing

Reach the bones to soak

Tiger bones

Embryonic breathing while conscious of body, mind and environment. Swallowing power

How to keep accepting, receiving, building greater coherence and undetectable, inviable amplitude.

The truest method of Qigong is progressive feeling relationship with your body; physically and your body as nature. Through this connectivity with the field of

psychic magnetism and nature we gain more gravity, levity and synthesis perception see through the illusion of duality returning to the mystery and The Trust of Atmic Compliance.

This build a higher quality bone marrow condensing into the bones.

This creates super squiggling. Sexual area turn on.

This creates inner lubrication, heavy relaxation, karmic cleaning,

Heating up and Cooling Down

Extremes:

Mouthtingling Mouthwatering Body tingling Body watering Swallowing power

Bone Marrowing/Steaming

Break Open ‘the bad seed’ and cause it discharge. Build new neurological/cellular coherence

ITS DRIPPING OFF OF HIM

All these yield-

Physical Transfiguration

WITHOUT GREAT CONTACT AND FOLLOWING DIRCTIONS WE CANNOT EXPERIENCE GREAT TRANSFORMATION FOR THE CREATION OF THE INNER AND OUTER COHERENCE

“Believe on me and from your belly will flow rivers of living water.” Jesus Christ

The belly area has 6 layers of muscle and fat. Muscle carries positive electricity and fat carries negative electricity. Along with the watery content and muscular movement of the intestines this area is indeed a big bio battery.

We have issues in our tissues. If you do not have a problem you cannot have a solution. It is our psychological and physiological dis-eases, bad habits, trauma, distortion, lack of skills etc. that is the raw material to fuel transfiguration. Darshanic Acceptathon Self Re-Inventing becoming an entirely different person. The way you sit, stand, walk, sleep, rise, listen, speak, act, eat, eliminate, listen, speak…all completely new and different.

So- – – If the greatest brain scientist in the world who knows the most about mental healing, mental health, brain injuries and other types of trauma to the brain, creative genius, etc said that the greatest thing in medical science is meditation then we should stop a moment and pay attention. Now this is not the meditation you see popularized in the world of new age bullshit; we are talking here about natural meditation; the spice of life and how it can heal, educate and empower us. This is the real deal. The kind of meditation that happens with falling in love, breathtaking scenes in nature, great food, friends and family, nourishing hugs, the anticipation of sports goals. There are similar feelings and absorption of our attention with all of these events. Meditation is the art of creating these kinds of vibes and better from the inside out by pure feeling alone.

Different magnetic fields applied in some hospitals to the body are used to heal:

15 Hrz for Capillary 10Hrz Ligament healing 7Hrz Bone growth 2Hrz nerve regeneration

A MAGNETIC HEALING GENERATOR HIGH

SCHOOL PURE VISION SENSORIZING

Drawing glass and living metal for repair like a black hole drawing in matter.

• Their fields were 1000 times stronger than the field of the heart and 1,000,000 times stronger than the fields of the brain.
• The magnetic fields of people almost always entrain each other.
• Every blood cell has a dipole magnetic field generated by the cell and has the capacity to store and release bio-magnetism for certain functions.
• Biomagnetism activates the pituitary gland releases human growth hormone.
• The earth is spinning at 1,000 miles per hour
• The earth is traveling around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour.
• The Sun is moving towards Lambda Herculis at 20 kilometers per second or 12 miles per second. Or in units “per hour”: 72,000 kilometers per hour or 45,000 miles per hour.
• Our galaxy is moving through the universe at 1.3 million miles per hour
• You can fit a million earths inside the sun
• All the planets, stars and orbits are spinning

High level hormonal nectar=Increased cell replacement=longevity…!!!

This has correlates in all the sciences of longevity:

In all systems of ‘Energy Medcine’-Historical and Modern create a sweet saliva. A very special saliva that is ‘the nectar of immortality’…Certainly this is the activation of the pituitary and penial glands and consequent supercoherence of brainwaves.

In Yoga Amrita is said to come from there…The nectar of The Gods.

• Decreased resistance in a wire create more power to flow through
• The Schumann resonance is made from the lightening strikes going on around the world in between earth and atmosphere. …from 1-40 Hrz with the average of 7-8 Hrz. The same frequency we need to have healthier brains. The same frequency emitted from the hands of healers.
• Magnetic Field and homoglobin…Iron filings and a magnet. What makes blood red is Iron. The magnetic field of the heart arranges these ‘iron fillings’ in a pattern representing the health of the hearts field. The heart create the bioeclectricmagnetism that literally runs the functions of the body.

The heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body. The electricalfield as measured in an electrocardiogram (ECG) is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the brain waves recorded in an electroencephalogram

Organisms are capable of sensing the intensity, polarity and direction of the geomagnetic field because of magnetite bearing tissues which are within boidies; this accounts for the sixth sense.

These are qualities inside every magnetic field. I like the phrase psychic magnetism. Do you think there could be any truth to that or is it just fantasy?

Sexual stimulation and conscentration both produce an immediately measurable incrrease in biomagnetism. Divine sensuality is the path of sexuality.

Organisms are capable of sensing the intensity, polarity and direction of the geomagnetic field because of magnetite bearing tissues which are within boidies; this accounts for the sixth sense.

Magnetic bones have been found in the human nose, specifically

the sphenoidal/ethmoid sinuses[26] Beginning in the late 1970s, the group of Robin Baker at the University of Manchester began to conduct experiments that purported to exhibit magnetoception in humans: people were

disoriented and then asked about certain directions; their answers were more accurate if there was no magnet attached to their head.

A 2007 study found some other evidence for human magnetoception has been put forward: low-frequency magnetic fields can produce an evoked response in the brains of human subjects.[29]

Magnetoception in humans has also been achieved by magnetic implants and by non-permanently attached artificial sensory “organs”.[30]

Additionally, a magnetosensitive protein, cryptochrome-2, has been found in the human eye.[31] Given the lack of knowledge as to how cryptochrome mediates magnetosensitivity in Drosophila, it is unclear whether the cryptochrome found in humans functions in the same way and can be used for magnetoception.

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Magnetic protein in the eye

• • *A cut leaks a 3 meter stream of biomagnetism
  • 4% Salt in oceans and our bodies – Is there some connection between our bodies and oceans
  • 28 days skin to create new skin
  • Morphongentic fields
  • Brain cells 12 times more oxygen/energy then all the other cells in the body.
  • 50 Trillion Cells – Each one a magnet. Each cell has a north and south pole of magnetism exactly like a bar magnet. Can you imagine the energetic information?
  • Its now science that we can consciously upgrade our genetic code wheras before we all thought that our genetic code is fixated in a set of values. Not true, genetic code, just like brain chemistry can be upgraded no matter who the person or what the cirucumstance.
  • Different magnetic fields applied in some hospitals to the body are used to heal:
  • 15 Hrz for Capillary 10Hrz Ligament healing 7Hrz Bone growth 2Hrz nerve regeneration
  • These fields change from moment to moment in relation to events taking place inside the body.
  • These fields give a more clear representation of what is going on in the body than classical electrical diagnostic tools such as the electrocardiogram and the electroencephalogram.
  • The connective tissue fabric is a semiconducting communication network that carries the bioelectric signals between every part of the body and every other part.
  • Extraordinarily large biomagnetic fields emanate from the hands of practitioners of musicians and practitioners of a large variety of healthing techniques including: Qigong, Yoga, Meditation, Zen etc. The fields have been measured with a simple magnometer. These fields all pulse from .3 30 Hrz with an average centered around 8-10 Hrz. ?These experiments have been done by many leading universities and medical institutions with results duplicating.
  • Their fields were 1000 times stronger than the field of the heart and 1,000,000 times stronger than the fields of the brain.
  • The magnetic fields of people almost always entrain each other.
  • Every blood cell has a dipole magnetic field generated by the cell and has the capacity to store and release bio-magnetism for certain functions.
  • Biomagnetism activates the pituitary gland releases human growth hormone.
  • High level hormonal nectar=Increased cell replacement=longevity…!!!

-This has correlates in all the sciences of longevity:

All systems of ‘Energy Medicine’-(Historical and Modern) create a sweet saliva.

A very special saliva that is ‘the nectar of immortality’ ‘Golden pollen in Qigong)

‘Amrita in Yoga’ ‘Dutsi’ in Tibetan. This is the activation of glands and consequent supercoherence of brainwaves.

In Yoga Amrita is said to come from there…The nectar of The Gods.

• • Head coherence, heart coherence.
  • Decreased resistance in a wire create more power to flow through. More relaxation means more power can flow through us.
  • Synchronous pulses in the brain
  • The Schumann resonance is made from the lightening strikes going on around the world in between earth and atmosphere. from 1-40 Hrz with the average

of 7-8 Hrz. The same frequency we need to have healthier brains. The same frequency emitted from the hands of healers.

The auto protect field. Meissner magnetism

Magnetic Field and homoglobin Iron filings and a magnet. What makes blood red is

Iron. The magnetic field of the heart arranges these ‘iron fillings’ in a pattern representing the health of the hearts field. The heart create the bioeclectricmagnetism that literally runs the functions of the body.

Here’s a scientific model of how healing happens:

From James Oschman (Reprinted with kind permission)

• • Connection with The earths magnetic field and (The Cellestial Field…both cushioned in space.
  • Bio magnetic pulsations in harmony withh the Shumann resonance (A major electromagnetic energy that is in the air caused by the accumulative lightening strikes occuring around the world.
  • Pineal gland secretions and magnetite bearing tissue increasing the coherence and amplitude of biomagnetism.
  • Perineural system
  • Projected biomagnetic field
  • Injury repair

That is a strong 6 point outline that can help anyone seeking enlightenment, meditation and energy medicine and is for repeated contemplation.

History

Paracelus had visionary insights on the role of energetic forces, including magnetism, in healing. he believed that magnetic force could energize the body and promote self-healing. His work greatly influenced Mesmer.

Until relatively recently, scientists believed that life was mostly a biochemical process. The idea that magnetic fields could significantly influence living systems seemed far- fetched. Perspectives have shifted rapidly, however, and many scientists now believe that at some level we are fundamentally electromagnetic creatures.

This radical paradigm shift has profound medical implications because modern medicine has focused on biochemical processes. If these processes are influenced by our electromagnetic nature, any healing approach that focuses exclusively on them will ultimately be limited.

In America, magnet use soared after the Civil War. People could even order the devices through the Sears Roebuck catalog. Turn-of-the-century medical texts devoted chapters to the subject. However, as pharmaceutical approaches revolutionized medicine, magnetic therapy lost its appeal – until recently when the limitations of these approaches became more evident.

The magnetic healing renaissance has been remarkable. Millions of people throughout the world now use magnets, sales total more than $2 billion a year, and cost-conscious, some health-insurance companies cover the therapy.

James Oschman

All matter is made of atoms. All atoms have an electromagnetic charge.

We are living in and from a sea of electromagnetism…Got it? That is irrefutable science fact.

Life is all about what we believe…Since these are facts. May I ask what happens if we believe them. Well, our consciousness is now aware that we are living in a sea of magnetism thats one thing that happens. Why? Because its true. Now our perception is more open to feeling magnetic fields. Magnetic fields are everywhere and they contain a lot more information that we are able to understand just yet.

WORCESTER, Mass., June 21 (UPI) — A protein in the human eye may have the ability to sense the Earth’s magnetic field in the same way migrating animals do, U.S. researchers say.

While migratory birds and sea turtles are known to have the ability to sense the planet’s magnetic field as an aid to navigating the long-distance migratory voyages they undertake, humans are widely assumed not to have an innate magnetic sense.

However, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have found that a protein expressed in the human retina can sense magnetic fields when implanted into Drosophila fruit flies,

reopening an area of sensory biology in humans for further exploration, a UMMS release reported Tuesday.

In many migratory animals, the light-sensitive chemical reactions involving the flavoprotein cryptochrome, or CRY, are thought to play an important role in the ability to sense the globe’s magnetic field.

To test whether the human cryptochrome 2 protein, hCRY2, has a similar magnetic sensory ability, researchers created a transgenic Drosophila model lacking its native cryptochrome protein but expressing hCRY2 instead.

They showed that these transgenic flies were able to sense and respond to an electric-coil-generated magnetic field.

These findings demonstrate that hCRY2 has the molecular capability to function in a magnetic sensing system, the researchers said.

“Additional research on magneto sensitivity in humans at the behavioral level, with particular emphasis on the influence of magnetic field on visual function, rather than non-visual navigation, would be informative,” researcher Steven Reppert wrote in an article published in the journal Nature Communications.

EPI GENETIC CONTROL

We now know scientifically that we can transform the switches of our genes. In fact we are doing it all the time according to our interpretations. What we believe and how thoroughly we believe it determines many of these controls. Therefore the believing itself is an action we should practice for the upgrade of our paradigm.

Faithing is another way of believing…hoping etc. The idea is to ‘faith’ our way into a great transformation of atmosphere felt within the body around it and through psychic space.

The biological rhythm resonates inside the body and together with everything else in the universe!

The circulatory system is an excellent conductor of electricity. This current generates a magnetic field. The heart field is the most powerful field and can be measured 40 feet from the body using a SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device*).

The field generated by the hands can be increased 1000 fold through intention and can become

stronger than the heart’s field. Hands also emit light and infrasound.

* SQUIDs are very sensitive magnetometers used to measure extremely small magnetic fields, based on superconducting loops. The extreme sensitivity of SQUIDs makes them ideal for studies in biology.

Just as there are electrocardiograms (ECGs), electroencephalograms (EEGs) and electromyograms, the corresponding magnetocardiograms, magnetoencephalograms and magnetomyograms can be measured.

Keep in mind that magnetic fields are not attenuated by tissues as electrical fields are.

Let’s remember that every organ in the body has a resonance.

The heart electrical-magnetic signature:

is conducted to every cell in the body through the circulatory system, extends from the body inducing energy flows in people around and

is conducted via the cellular matrix.

The Enteric Nervous System: The Brain in the Gut

The gut has a mind of its own, the “enteric nervous system”. Just like the larger brain in the head, researchers say, this system sends and receives impulses, records experiences and respond to emotions. Its nerve cells are bathed and influenced by the same neurotransmitters. The gut can upset the brain just as the brain can upset the gut.

The gut’s brain or the “enteric nervous system” is located in the sheaths of tissue lining the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon. Considered a single entity, it is a network of neurons, neurotransmitters and proteins that zap messages between neurons, support cells like those found in the brain proper and a complex circuitry that enables it to act independently, learn, remember and, as the saying goes, produce gut feelings.

The gut’s brain is reported to play a major role in human happiness and misery. Many gastrointestinal disorders like colitis and irritable bowel syndrome originate from problems within the gut’s brain. Also, it is now known that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium not by hidden anger at one’s mother.

Details of how the enteric nervous system mirrors the central nervous system have been emerging in recent years, according to Dr. Michael Gershon, professor of anatomy and cell biology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He is one of the founders of a new field of medicine called “neurogastroenterology.”

The gut contains 100 million neurons – more than the spinal cord. Major neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, glutamate, norephinephrine and nitric oxide are in the gut. Also two dozen small brain proteins, called neuropeptides are there along with the major cells of the immune system. Enkephalins (a member of the endorphins family) are also in the gut. The gut also is a rich source of benzodiazepines – the family of psychoactive chemicals that includes such ever popular drugs as valium and xanax.

In evolutionary terms, it makes sense that the body has two brains, said Dr. David Wingate, a professor of gastrointestinal science at the University of London and a consultant at Royal London Hospital. “The first nervous systems were in tubular animals that stuck to rocks and waited for food to pass by,” according to Dr. Wingate. The limbic system is often referred to as the “reptile brain.” “As life evolved, animals needed a more complex brain for finding food and sex and so developed a central nervous system. But the gut’s nervous system was too important to put inside the newborn head with long connections going down to the body,” says Wingate. Offspring need to eat and digest food at birth. Therefore, nature seems to have preserved the enteric nervous system as an independent circuit inside higher animals. It is only loosely connected to the central nervous system and can mostly function alone, without instructions from topside.

The new neurology/tendrality. Connectivity is power. Destruction and Creaction unto supercoherence Growing new nerves

Reshaping the energy field Reshaping physiology

Reshaping our quantum energetic presence…………………………..

The Great Qigong Routine

NOW IS THE TIME FOR BEING TRAINED

Please contact me or a qualified instructor to actually be able to apply these teachings!

THE LONGING, SEARCHING NEED TO IMPROVE, FOLLOW DIRECTIONS, OBEY

*Innervation preceeds action. Drop your defense mechanisms attmtping to mask, hide or repress: Personal disease, distortion, sinful behavior, physical dysymetry. Faithing the miraculous introduction of Darshanic Grace (Great Contact and Gallons) through your physical/quantum experience (karma).

What can you do today to really feel better? What can you reject and enforce the boundary? Where can you go? Who can you call? What book could you read? What could you clean? Getting your personal life in better harmony is the first step to practice.

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The cleansing breath from Yoga

Shanking bouncing Stancing

Stancing each toe, massage the ground with your feet. Hands on breathing, Kegals, belly rounds, Stomp, bull wipes its feet and snort, one legged bird standing merging.

The Form of Natural Reunion (The need to connect with more nourishment)

3 each: Sky (Levels of the sky), Earth ( squat palming the ground) Insects, snakes, magma, moving rocks, solid metal ball, Body (biological biography), stars, voids, the enlightened group.

‘It all starts here’ touch the forehead for

Inner smelling, listening, looking brain stem convergence sweet kiss amrita Lip smacking

Swallowing down Wiping down

CAREFUL-THOROUGH MERGING:

Insect, Animal, Mammal, Bird

Make a thorough list here’s mine for now:

Ants, Dolphins, Whales, Sharks, Blue Birds, Crows, Foxe’s, Worms, Snakes

Eagle screaming, Gorilla chest pounding, Bull wipng his feet,

Anticipatory growling salivation

Wash the field

!Stirring up

Baba walking stirring and hand stir to position and ecstasy

Pushing the car reverse breathing

Finger hoses (fingerspitzungaful) Trickle, garden, fire

One finger Zen

Ba Dua Jing/Five Animal Frolic Ta Mo Palm Fist

EVALUATE HOW YOU COULD DO EACH EXPERIENCE BETTER METHODICALLY

Sit down for celestial communication and the cosmic download physically/quantumly transfiguring

Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Sounding-Wew, Shh, Mmm, Ahh, Ohh, Ha

Embryonic Breathing

Natural no thought…Feeling peace of mind…Calming down more. GET BEYOND ALL PERSONALITIES AND FORMS

Huc Chunging a clearly defined mutual dynamic

Embryonic breathing, umbilical, turtal, all from sheer nourishment. So quiet you can hear a pin drop

Don’t make a sound

Yawning, Sighing, Laughing, Crying

Excitement bounding in your seat. Jumping for joy.

Wipe and clap.Blow on the field.

Gtummo Neck circles

Neck up and down Pointing down the belly Holding the breath Swallowing

Shout-Bleeder

Express your true voice

Clean every bone, every organ and gland

Thread the 9 bead pearl

Shoong: Yang Cheng Fu: One of the greatest legends of Qigong Tai Chi said “ Be shoong, shoong.

Heavergizing Condensing breathing

Bone steaming Bone marrowing Bone coating

Bone wrapping Bone Squeezing

Golden Pollen

Darshans Protection for Unbounding Breathing

Animal Mergings-Pick your animals

The Cosmic Download begins through Cellestial Communication Rooting and Blooming begin through The Cosmic Download

Opening up, stretching out to the vast expanse of nature’s nourishing

I.H.A.S.P. Ing.

Power popping

Palm earth symbiosis Bull Wipes its feet

Monkey bouncing Gorilla chest beating Grfiffen flying 37,000

Elephant swaying Insect gathering

Shake it off Bouncing

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The “Jade Emperor’s Mind-Seal Classic,” added to the Taoist Canon around 1200 CE, is often quoted by Daoists:

“The sages awaken through self-cultivation; Deep, profound, their practices require great effort. Breathing nourishes youthfulness. The

Shen depends on life form; The Ching depends on sufficient Qi. If these

are neither depleted nor injured The result will be youthfulness and longevity. When the distant winds blend together, In one hundred days of spiritual work And morning recitation to the Shang Ti, Then in one year you will soar as an immortal.” (11)

It all starts here

A magnetic feeling Access and absorb

Brain stem convergence. The ingredients to coherence

Combine and mix into Amrita Sweet taste in the mouth Mouth tingling

Mouth watering…lip smacking. Getting turned on

The [morally] noble person guards himself against 3 things. When young, his xue–qi has not yet stabilized, so the guard is against disturbed sexual passion. When in prime, his xue–qi is not easily subdued, so the guard is against combativeness. When age is old, his xue–qi is already depleted, so the guard is against acquisitiveness.

— Confucius, Analects, 16:7

The East Indian monk; founder of Zen and greatest contributer to Qigong.

Therefore, real Zen is elemental to advanced Qigong. I say real because the real is always different than the general public presentation.

He brought the internal practices of Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism along with tranditional Qigong theory into one set of instructions.

The art of boring repetition Only endless repetition of the same ideas and practices creates transformation!!!

The fundamentals of qigong are based on:

Gujingathong

Small Heavenly Circulation

The energy comes down from our senses and brain, into our center, with relaxing, and drops down in front of our coxyx then circulates up, outside and around our spinal chord to the top of the head and drops down to the roof of the mouth. Then a sweet saliva appears in the mouth, the tongue relaxes and circulates down the front of the body back into our center.

Back to childhood breathing

Greater imagination

After greater innervation and compression TA MO Palm/Fist set.

All nature harmony opening movement and pose Pushing without muscle

Moving in mud

Grand Heavenly Circulation

Mudding

The Mud Palace

The Mud Pill

Golden Pollen/Amrita/Superfine hormonal secretions/lip smacking/hornified Put it into your bodymind rather than spend.

Threading nano fiber jelly steel condensing breathing level of

cellular concentration

into voidizing.

Get harder, body condensation. Pressure to build.

Transfiguring flesh and bone

The Cosmic Fire

The Cosmic Fire, where all returns, has touched my s oul.

Impurities burn.

Living fire, inspirations best. Test

Who are you?

Just a mortal body confined ? A worried mind?

Within is boundless truth, miraculous fruit.

Ambrosial taste that does not cease. Contented bliss,

Eternal peace.

A gentle nod, admit it’s true, Pure Spirit is You.

Find This first, then feel the peace, The spiritual bloom of our human seeds.

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The solution has always been

In a secret kingdom deep within. From dark to light, disease to health Clear your mind now listen well.

There’s more to us than this bag of bones, Aha,

You’ve always known.

Happy endings do come true… When your ready go on to part two-

The Cosmic Fire

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Part 2 Now

May I give a gift to you? Ecstatic conception ignites; Birthing life.

If you want help Find your way

Listen to what real sages say. People who bless with a glance… A once in a lifetime chance.

Reverse the search, Find the time:

Journey… DE

-stress Unwind.

You may ask-How can we rest with unpaid bills? Duties unmet

Left unfilled?

The greater the challenge The more the need

To center within and clear the weeds. Past and future

Are not here

Why do we insist on keeping them near?

Do we hold on to ills for the attention they create

?

Better it is a Heaven to make.

After all one person has caused history to change Your puzzle piece remains.

Un

written pages yet unstained. From such questions ween… First get behind the screen… n’

Dream…

This magic garden place

The safe space… GRACED

Grace does brush the canvas of our lives…again and again

unto the prize.

Nowhere to go, not much to say This is the way.

The one you’ve sought has been right here Where else are things made clear?

Dear

May I ask what is this prize you seek? Isn’t it to-

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Fulfill my needs?

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Washing waves Suspended time Soul enshrined… Rest your mind…

Sigh

This is the moment of History Annals

Heart transferring through the bodies channels. Notice the nerve chords?

Breathing freely Without a care

We now live in The Genius’s Lair

This place of rarefied air

The life of soul.

From whence we’ve come we all will go.

Bow with me- Above, Below.

l.com

Reach the bones to soak the bones:

Time off. Emergency separation. Unavailable. The nightmare is over.

Its all been scripted.

I’m not waiting anymore. Sighing relief for days on end.

DSMII

Thickening/Quickening Phatening up

Taking it all in

Soaking up the atmosphere

Smbhg

Bear

According to the number of scent receptors, the bear has the best sense of smell of all terrestrial mammals. Black bears have been observed to travel 18 miles in a straight line to a food source, while grizzlies can find an elk carcass when it’s underwater and polar bears can smell a seal through 3 feet of ice. It’s not all about food, though

— male polar bears have been known to trek a hundred miles following the scent of a sexually receptive sow.

Develop super senses by repeatedly attempting to imitate these abilities. This gives us the spot, point, line and associated psychological weaknesses defining the polarity of weapon, weapon and sequence to strike.

These qualities in animals we can all cultivate. Ponder over them carefully.

Electrical Bill

The platypus hunts for small invertebrates at the bottom of rivers and ponds. While diving its eyes, nostrils, and ears close against the water. The bill of the platypus is packed with sensory cells able to detect the weak electrical fields put out by animals as they move. As well as the electrical sense the bill contains cells sensitive to disturbances in the water. Together these two

senses, electroreception and mechanoreception, enable the platypus to locate their prey with stunning accuracy.

Echolocation

While bats are proverbially said to be blind the real animals do have sight. If bats eyes are small and rather less powerful than other predatory animals it is because some have developed the ability to hunt using sound. Echolocation in bats is the use of high pitched pulses of sound and listening for the return of that pulse to judge the distance and direction of objects in their environment. They judge their target not just on the length of time it takes the pulse to return but also the Doppler shift of the sound which reveals the speed of the insect. Being nocturnal and hunting mostly for small insects they need a sense which does not rely on light.

Humans have a very rudimentary form of this sense (we can judge where a sound comes from) but some individuals have developed it into true HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation” echolocation.

Infrared

When police chase criminals at night or rescuers search for people trapped under rubble they often turn to imaging devices. Most of the thermal radiation emitted by objects near room temperature is in the form of infrared so detecting this can be used to judge surroundings on the basis of heat. In several groups of snakes which hunt for warm blooded prey there are pits on their heads which can detect infrared light. Even snakes which have been blinded can still hunt accurately using just their ability to sense infrared. Interestingly the molecular basis of infrared detection in

snakes is completely different to the sensing of visible light and must have evolved separately.

Ultraviolet

Most people agree that flowers are pretty. While they are mere adornments to us they are vital to the plants themselves and to the insects which feed from them. The flowers are there to encourage pollination by insects so it makes sense that they should stand out in some way to help insects find them. In the case of flowers pollinated by bees there is far more to their appearance than meets the (human) eye. Such flowers viewed in the HYPERLINK “http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128261.700-crittervision-see-like-a-bee.html”

ultraviolet spectrum often reveal patterns designed to draw in the bees. Bees do not see the world as we do. They have a different range of visible light (blue and green) than we do and have a set of cells specifically for the detection of ultraviolet. As my botany professor once said “Plants use flowers as whores use lipstick; to draw the punters in.”

Magnetism

Bees have a second sensory trick up their furry little sleeves. For a bee finding the hive again after a busy day of flying about is a matter of life or death. For the hive it is important for a bee to remember where a source of food can be found. Bees may be many things but they are not blessed with an overabundance of brains. To navigate they must use a variety of information and one of those sources seems to rest inside their abdomen. A small ring of magnetite particles, magnetic granules of iron, inside the bee can detect the magnetic field of the Earth and help a bee define its location.

Polarization

Light can oscillate in many directions but when all light is moving on the same plane we call it polarized. Humans cannot detect the polarization of light without equipment to help. This is because the detection cells in our eyes are randomly positioned. In octopuses the cells are regimented and so will see polarized light as most bright when their cells line up with the direction of oscillation of the light. How does this help octopuses hunt? One of the best forms of disguise is to be transparent, and a number of animals are nearly invisible to visible light in water.

However underwater light has a polarized component which some octopuses can detect. When this light travels through the body of a transparent animal its polarization will be changed and the octopus can see that and capture the prey.

Sensitive Armor

Humans can feel all over their body because the skin has touch sensitive cells distributed all over it. If you clad us in a suit of armor however we would lose much of that sensitivity. That would not be much more than an inconvenience to us but to a hunting spider it would be disastrous. Spiders, like other arthropods, have a tough exoskeleton which protects their bodies. But how are they to sense what they are touching, how much it is moving, or what the stress is on their legs? They have small slits in the exoskeleton which allow for stress to be measured by the deformation of the slit by force. This allows spiders to get a much better sense of their world than would otherwise be possible.

Tasteful

n most societies it is polite to keep one’s tongue inside your mouth. Unfortunately for catfish this is impossible because their entire body is covered in aste sensitive cells. Using up to 175,000 of them they can taste in all directions from the water which flows over them. Their amazing sense of taste gives them the ability to detect the presence of prey from far away but also to locate their position when close by in the muddy waters they typically live in.

Blind Light

Many animals which have evolved in dark environments have either only rudimentary, vestigial eyes or have lost their eyes entirely. In the very near pitch black of a cave there is no advantage to species in maintaining organs of sight. The cave fish Astyanax mexicanus has entirely lost the use of its eyes and yet has developed a method of sensing the very small decrease in light given by being under a rock. When young this ability gives them the ability to flee predators and hide. The pineal gland in animals responds to light to govern an animals sense of day and night. In these fish the translucent body allows light to reach the pineal gland directly and it is this the fish use to find shelter.

Dot Matrix Eye

There are a huge variety of eye forms to be found in nature. This makes the evolution of eyes surprisingly easy to understand, despite creationists raving about its impossibility. Most eyes which are more than simple light sensitive cells are composed of a lens, to focus light, and a patch of sensitive cells onto which the image of the world is projected. To focus the image the lens can change shape, as in humans, or move back and forth, as in octopuses, or in a variety of other ways. So while sight is common there is a type of crustacean, Copilia quadrata, which has a novel solution to imaging the world around them. Their eyes use two fixed lenses and a mobile sensitive spot. By moving the detector cells the Copilia builds up an image with a series of dots as it measures light levels in a number of positions.

20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Animal Senses

Discovery magazine FROM THE MAY 2014 ISSUE

From super-sniffers to electricity detectors, animals have an array of impressive sensory capabilities.

They’re not nature’s cutest critters, but star-nosed moles are among the most sensitive.

Dembinsky Photo Associates/FLPA/Minden Pictures

1. Think of the term alligator skin as a compliment: It’s extraordinarily sensitive to

minute changes in vibration, which helps locate prey.

1. Alligators are touchy, but the platypus is more the feely type. The only mammal with electroreception, it uses sensors in its bill to detect electrical impulses sent out by prey in murky water.
2. Researchers believe electromagnetism may help red wood ants sense imminent earthquakes in time to evacuate their mounds. Someday these creatures may be part of geologic threat-detection systems.
3. Elephants, too, are acutely aware of vibrations. They use seismic activity generated by their trunks and feet to communicate with one another about predators, territory and mating preferences.
4. Star-nosed moles have 22 tiny trunks containing a total of nearly 100,000 nerve fibers — six times as many touch receptors as on a human hand. As the mole burrows, the tentacles sweep ahead like a high-speed broom, faster than a human eye can detect.
5. Above ground, wolves have a sense of pitch. Not wanting to lose their voice in a howling chorus, they pick their own unique note.
6. Seals are notable for their whiskers, which can detect the hydrodynamic trail of fish swimming up to 600 feet away.
7. Sensing dinner is one thing, but animals from white-crowned sparrows to deer can sense if their diet is lacking in important nutrients. They’ll crave food containing amino acids that can’t be produced or stored by the body.
8. On the topic of bodies, a catfish’s is wrapped in taste buds. It’s like a swimming

tongue that helps detect the flavor of potential prey from all directions.

1. Back on terra firma, chemoreceptors that detect chemical changes and provide a

sense of taste cover an earthworm’s entire body.

1. Snakes’ tongues do more than taste: They help track prey. Their forked tongues pick up scent molecules that the animal transfers, via specialized ducts in the mouth, to the Jacobson’s organ, which can detect where the scent’s source is located.
2. Rats and common moles can smell in stereo with independently acting nostrils. Researchers are putting their talents to use in Africa detecting land mines and other explosives.
3. Up to 40 percent of a shark’s brain is dedicated to sense of smell. No wonder some experts believe they can sniff out prey that’s a third of a mile away in the open ocean.
4. Parasitic worms also use scent to find hosts. By identifying odors attractive to these parasites, researchers may one day develop traps for worms that pose major health risks.
5. Sight, not smell, is a raptor’s key sense. Even while diving at speeds of 100 mph or more, falcons can spot prey thanks in part to a reduced number of blood vessels in the retina. Since the vessels scatter light, having fewer of them creates extremely sharp images.
6. Scallops are no falcons, but some scientists believe they’re able to distinguish between light and dark with as many as 100 eyes on the edge of their mantle. A reflective surface on the back of each eye focuses light onto two retinas to form an image.
7. “Four-eyed fish,” Anableps anableps, really have just two eyes, but each one is partitioned: The top keeps a lookout for above-surface predators while the bottom watches underwater.
8. Not only do jumping spiders have eight eyes positioned to create nearly 360-degree vision, but some species can detect ultraviolet radiation, which facilitates mating. (Mood lighting, anyone?)
9. Worker honeybees navigate using rings of paramagnetic iron oxide in their abdomens that swell or shrink depending on outside magnetic changes, allowing the insects to find their way home by following changes in the Earth’s magnetic fields.
10. Jewel beetles have sensors that detect infrared radiation from forest fires as far as 50 miles away. The beetles use recently scorched areas for mating. Now that’s putting the “sense” in sensual.

What are you saving graces?

Who are you saving graces?

Mouthwatering Mysty eyed

Heavergizing…More and more personal gravity

Special grace Graced Saving grace

Tmi Tmc

Supercoherencing Only superglow

Only first total field popped transfer Stsp mgl

Outwaiting outstrategizing

Holding prayer hands Soles of feet touching Ggg warring

Circling n shout down Ghost-Goyeeei

First of all it is necessary to try to understand that the Chinese culture has it’s own representations, sometimes radically opposed to the concepts of other cultures. Taoism, and especially alchemy of immortality in Chinese traditions are well-known everywhere, however, I shall dare to say that they have not been perused at all.

Especially it concerns the most ancient stratum of Taoism and so-called the doctrine of shenxian’s (the teaching of shengxian’s (taoists, taoists saints)). It’s not surprising because it’s wide-spread even in China. So the achievement of immortality is not a desire to leave the memory about oneself to descendants and not a desire to live on earth forever (and physical immortality and longevity, although considered realistically achievable, but have never been the supreme goal of Taoism), it’s realization of the supreme freedom which lives in every man, although he usually doesn’t know about it. This is described very well in Zhang Bo-duan’s “Chapters of

Understanding Truth”. Thus, Taoism is not a philosophy or religion but the Way of Freedom. Of course it’s very difficult to find the essence of Taoism among temporary accretions and distortions, but even nowadays there are people in China who keep that most ancient tradition of Taoism.

Taoist alchemy is the Doctrine about finding THE UNITY. And it is not about physical or life consciousness (as they understand the spirit), but the achievement of the particular state which is the Highest Possible Human Achievement In the Realm of Spirit. The purpose of Immortality in Taoist alchemy is more aimed at the spiritual immortality rather than the physical immortality. In practice there are certain stages which are characterized not by phenomenon of qigong but by physiological changes and transformations (notably 人 仙, 地 仙, 神仙, 天仙, 金 仙 and some others). Not all schools of Taoism call the same levels with identical names. It’s important to emphasize that the Chinese Spirit has nothing to do with the concept of consciousness which is expressed in hieroglyph 神.

As is known, in past the Alchemy was known as NEIDAN and WAIDAN (which is usually translated as the internal and the external alchemy). The DAN hieroglyph denotes a crucible in which the melting occurs. However, only few people know (and Taoists insist on this) that this doctrine existed from time immemorial and is known in China since at least Huangdi. This teaching is called HuangLaoSyue – i.e. teaching Huangdi – Laozi. This doctrine has also other names. And the terms NEIDAN and WAIDAN appeared much later, at the beginning of our era. Actually, alchemy can only be named WAIDAN as the doctrine of external melted elixir. The internal alchemy (which in science is considered as derivative from external one) had higher and ancient status in tradition. They call it Alchemy because of more accustomed standards rather than meaning. Let’s stop on the classification in more detail:

1. Phantom-immortal or ghost-immortal – Gui Xian ( 鬼仙 ) Gui Xian. Literally – the immortal among devils or the immortal devil. It was believed that this achievement is a characteristic of shamanic practices, the late Chan Buddhism, the pseudo-Taoism, different meditations. Withdrawal of Yin spirit in a state of no breath and palpitation. The practitioner remains mortal, despite the practice of spirit withdrawal and possible capabilities. Moreover, he may not be reborn after his death and stay a ghost forever. This was not practiced in Taoism, it was forbidden (meaning the serious study, not just jingzuo).
2. Human immortal or immortal among people – Ren Xian ( 人仙) Actually – one is not immortal. Moreover, each man in his life passes through this period. This is the age of majority, the peak of the blossoming physiology. During this period people have especially sublime state (in a sense of fullness, activeness). If to start practicing alchemy in this period, it will be possible to quickly complete the second stage – the Earth immortal. If the time has passed and the energy dissipated, the old age and infirmity had come, it is necessary to return the body to this stage of physiology. Otherwise, it’s impossible to move on. Thus we see that this still is not immortality, but only achievement a high fullness of the primordial energy, ie Ming.
3. Earth immortal – De Xian ( 地仙) This is something that everyone understands as immortality – the immortality of living of physical body on Earth. Although such body can exist indefinitely on Earth, it can be destroyed by external destruction. Therefore, even this achievement was not considered high and all practitioners were seeking to rise further, considering it only as an intermediate stage. It is necessary to add that this achievement – is the ultimate goal of the external alchemy.

However, in the previous phase and at this stage it is possible to perfect various qualities of your level, although it’s not the main way but the side paths. At this stage Ming merges with Xing in a one whole which is why the immortality is possible. Here is comes some similarity to the thermonuclear eternal engine in the body amidst Earth conditions. That’s why there are such capabilities. From this stage the achievements are irreversible in a way of returning transformation (the exception is the phase of Jen Xian where it’s easy to become an ordinary person again after having wasted Ming). But if due to external conditions or because of the body destruction the practice is not completed, it may be needed to revert to the previous level.

4. Spiritual

immortal

–

Shen

Xian ( 神仙)

Spiritual fetus – Yanshen goes out of a human head (is born in the spiritual world) but it still needs to be educated and developed. That looks like a mother (body) takes care of her child (spirit). After its strengthening and implementation of this phase this spirit can move anywhere in the Universe – primarily to understand its structure and subsequently for execution of spiritual work. It’s impossible to kill it, it’s immortal. But there’s still a body which requires attention. At a certain stage of its development the yang spirit Yanshen gets the opportunity to divide, reproducing the same doubles. Their number gradually can grow to a huge multiple. They can do various spiritual works in different worlds. That is when the complete understanding of the Universe laws and the sense of the further development come. If a practitioner wishes, this phase can be stretched to a very long time. For example, it is possible to sit in a cave for a millennium and to practice in spiritual bodies.

5. Heaven

immortal

–

Tian

Xian ( 天仙)

Let me remind you that even the previous stage can be stretched on endlessly. But the immortal spirit still has not- transformed body. Therefore there remains the possibility of realization of the highest stage which is possible on Earth according to alchemy – the transformation of this body in the body of light. This is the most difficult task because it requires about 9 -10 years of immobility. It should be provided either by faithful pupils and adherents, The Teacher, or by concealment by having immured in a cave according to certain rules. After its implementation the body and the spirit merge together in the “body” of light and when the achiever leaves the world nothing is left (except for remaining things as in case of with Bodhidharma’s shoe). If due to some reasons the practitioner does not reach the highest stage, he may either himself at his will or under certain circumstances “get rid of the corpse.” Depending of the achieved level his left body may not be susceptible to decay but self-mummify or even burn from the inner fire.

This scheme is based on the study of tracts on the one hand and precepts of the Teacher on the other.

Innervation preceeds action

The scourging, ambrosial attack…grrrmdmaa for innervation

Spot work The innervation

Outervation preceeds condensing and requires a fight Condensing naturally fueld in the body gym

yi gin ching

:

Finger tip push ups Wipe hands clapping

Squeeze the fingers together

Touch the soles and palms

Allowing, facilitating, forcing physical and quantum transfiguration.

Touch and Absorb Touch and black rock

PLACING ATTENTION ON THE THIRD EYE THE LONG FULL CYCLE JOURNEY

Great Contact and Innervation Faithing the miraculous Touching Earth and Sky

Heavergizing Empoweration Thicker and Quicker Mudding

Stretch out your

You feel so good it makes you want to laugh…..

Where does this chi come from it comes from Love, laugh a little, the love of the universe.

3x form to The Super Slow Down Start with squat palming the earth

• Interspersed with The Heaven and Earth Drop the qi and wash the organs
• And
• Grand Standinng

Wipe hands Clap

Jump Shake it off

Bounce around

Open and close hands in front of lower belly

Heart tapping Ahh Wave patterns

Imitate animals. This is fun, silly and extraordinarily effective because a big element of

physical strength is connecting with nature’s insects, animals, mammal and birds.

Shamanism which is the basis of all religions has its roots here.

INTO THE NAVAL THROUGH THE FEET

EXTEND YOUR ATTENTION SPAN BECOME TOTALLY IMMERSED

ABSORBED TO THE DEGREE THAT YOUR AWARENESS OF OTHER PEOPLE, PLACE AND THINGS IN ALL MANNER OF CIRCUMSTANCES IS DISSOLVED.

INNERVATION PRECCEDES ACTION. THE 3 STEPS PRECEED EFFECTIVE PRACTICE

1. BREATHE DEEP INTO YOUR ISSUES
2. SLOW DOWN AND ACCEPT IN SOME GREAT CONTACT
3. ALTERNATE BETWEEN SIGHS OF RELIEF AND NATURAL PAUSES OF BREATH AND THOUGHT…

APPLY WHAT YOU’VE GAINED TO ROOTING, BLOOMING AND ENGAGING YOUR

LIFE TO MAKE GOOD CHANGES HAPPEN.

Merge with the ‘Animal Vigor’ of each of these:

Insects crawling Tiger scratching

Lion growling/stalking/seizing…unto dead

Tearing at newly killed flesh.killing eating Gorilla pounding

Bear walking Dear gentleness

Eagle soaring Fish swimming

The quick change movement of Ken Cohen The flapping on the ground movement

Tickling the naval and sides

Twist and Curl Kumar

Ken Cohen quick changes whip Daisy Lee curling down from heaven

Palms and Back of Hands and Fingers patting the earth

Hold prayer hands

The cleansing breath

LONG BOUNCING

bouncing in your seat.

Jumping out of your seat Christmas break. Jumping for joy.

Intersperesed with Stancing

Shake it off full Circle it up Twist and curl

THE MOVEMENT REFINEMENT PRACTICE

Turning around Picking up objects Shaking hands Hugging

Opening and closing doors

The Form of Natural Reunion (Threshold evolutions) Palms on earth heavergizing smbh. Bow to each 3

Inner looking listening smelling face shining inwards swallow down Dutsi, golden pollen, Amrita

Flying Phoenix Heavnely Healing: Hold palms in front. Bring them close open and close to the universe.

Animal nourishment: Pick three feel and merge Aminal imitation: Bull wiping its feet.

SMILE: START MY INTERNAL LOVE ENERGY

Master Lin rolling hands, waving hands

One Finger Zen Wash the field Finger Hoses Pushing the cart 3x

Tao Mo Palms Fist Set

Psychic push hands with a person of conflict; yourself.

Tummo Practice by Lama Garchen Rinpoche

The Tummo is our fire of wisdom. Naturally we have this warmth in our interior, in the area below the navel chakra,

but normally we are not aware of it and we do not use it. When we generate adequate concentration and begin to work with our internal fire, we can transform completely.

Using visualization, breathing techniques and movement, we connect with our internal fire and generate it bigger and bigger. We work with our breathing, raising it level, and this changes our blood. This warm blood in turn affects our hormones. We do not talk much at an academic level, but we can experience the profound changes that result when we grow the fire of the Tummo and distribute it throughout the body. This is not only visualization, but something real.

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Aye Carumba Cosmic Man

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Bob Lehnberg © 2007www.qihum.comEmbryonic Breathing in the Omental BursaThe omental bursa, a membranous sac of tissue in our belly, invites us to descend our breath down into the belly, the dantian or “sea of qi.”As we invite the breath (qi) more deeply into the membranes of our belly, we release adhesions in our abdominal membranes, enhance our immunological basis for health, and calm our “gut brain.”We can continue to sink the breath (qi) down and into marrow of our coccyx, legs, feet and ultimately into the earth where it will rebound and resource our energy.The inbreath and the outbreath balance and “becomes one” with effortless fluidity.This quality of breathing is different than abdominal breathing (“organ breathing”) or “reverse

breathing.”In a sense, it is acombination of the two which results in an integration and strengthening of the organs and tissues of our dantian, our reservoir of energy.As we release and integrate the membranes of our abdomen we more fully embody the understanding statedby Lao Tsu: “The mill stone turns but the axle does not turn.”The millstone (as in grinding grain) is the waist and the axle is the bag of qi.This clarity, in stillness or movement, brings us more fully into relationship with ourselves, with the planet, and our energy as channeled through our deeds on earth. Anatomy of the abdomen and the omental bursa: The greater omentumis an apron of tissue in the abdomen and lies between the abdominal muscles and the small intestine. This apron is folded to forma bursa (flattened sac). The sac is called the omental bursaand extends over the majority of the belly. It drapes from the greater curvature of the stomach and the transverse colon and extends down to an area a few inches below the navel. The greater peritoneal saclies between the parietal peritoneum and the visceral peritoneum.It is essentially the entire abdominal cavity and is the space containing the abdominal organsas well as the greater omentum.The lesser peritoneal saclies behind the stomach and the liver. The epiploic foramen(the foramen of Winslow) is the connection between the greater peritoneal sac and the lesser peritoneal sac.The epiploic foramen is the “mouth” of the lesser peritoneal sac lyingjust behind the bile duct of the gallbladder and liver, and connects to the greater omentum. Bob Lehnberg © 2007www.qihum.comBenefits of accessing the omental bursa: The bursal space in the greater omentum is generally closed in part. Using breath, we can encourage movement of fluid and re-establish this The omental bursa is rich with lymphoid tissue; inviting movement here has immunological benefit. The greater omentum has a rich neurovascular supply; movement here brings nutrients. Finding ranges of peritoneal pressure tones the organs and the membranes (lesser omentum, greater omentum, and mesenteries) in the

abdomen. Accessing the omental bursa supports peristaltic action. Our mind becomes profoundly centered in stillness and in movement. As the apron comes alive and our Sea of Vitality grows, we gain organic and energetic integrity.Breathing into the omental bursa: Initiate the breath behind the stomach and in front of the pancreas.Let this grow to include the space behind the liver.Soften the belly and intestines and allow the “breath” to move down and slightlyforward.Allow this to grow gradually.“Gradually, gradually, gradually.”With time, this grows down to an area slightly below the navel to encompass the entire omental bursa. Encourage an inbreath that is “thin and deep” and an outbreath that is “longand quiet.”Eventually the inbreath and outbreath become one. Release the sacrum long (“drop” the sacrum if standing); do not tuck the

coccyx. Allow a feeling of fluid movement in the belly; the sense of a tide. Disregard diaphragmatic

breathing. Do less(much less to begin with) than your maximum inbreath and your maximum outbreath. With

ongoing practicethe lesser sac fills, then the greater sac fills, then the breath enters the coccyx, down the legs

to “Bubbling Spring” (Kidney 1) on the sole of the foot. (Note here that this point may be used when “sponging” on the earth).Qi rebounds up the legs, up the Governing Vessel through the Three Gates: the

coccyx, the base of the skull (Jade Pillow), and the crown of the head (bai hui).From here, qi flows down the Conception Vessel in front of the body for another cycle.Connections with some Asian views: The acupressure point, qi hai (Conception Vessel 6) is called the “Sea of Qi” or “Ocean of Qi” and is located “1 ½ inches below the navel.” Qi is the leader and director (yang) of the blood, the blood is the mother (Yin) of qi. Bob Lehnberg

© 2007www.qihum.com When we are still and calm (yin), we are nourishing our qi.When we move (yang), we are using our qi.The mind can be still when the body moves and we find stillness in movement and movement in stillness. From the Classics; “The millstone turns but the axle does not turn.”Explorations with the omental bursa: Initiate movement from the muscles of the belly (the waist).Initiate movement from the organs of the belly.The omental bursa lies between these two areas.Initiate movement from the omental bursa. In

partners:“A” lie supine.“B” hands on stomach of “A” and gently “push and pull” the stomach to stretch and release the greater omentum. In partners:“A” lie supine.“B” hands on belly of “A”.Contact the greater omentum and allow it to guide the movement.Acknowledgement:I give deep thanks to Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen for her work and ideas on breathing in the omental bursa which form the basis for this understanding. From-

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Initiation Ritual Q&A

by Derek Lin

The Initiation Ritual

In Chinese, this is known as the Qiu Dao ritual. Qiu (pronounced like chio) means request,

and Daois simply the Pinyin transliteration of Tao. Together, these characters denote a ritual where the seeker requests the Tao, which is then transmitted by the ordained Master of I-Kuan Tao. The ordained Master (Dian Chuan Shi), is someone who has received the Heavenly Decree (Tian Ming) to perform this ritual and carry out the sacred task of Tao transmission.

Q: Are there any vows associated with joining I-Kuan Tao?

A: In the initiation ritual, you have to affirm that you seek the Tao of your own sincere free will ！

i.e. you are not being forced into it, have not been brainwashed into it, and you are not harboring

deception or hidden agenda. You also affirm your intention to be respectful of the teachings and the avatars of the Tao (Buddhas, Taoist immortals, etc.).

Q: What are the further instructions initiates receive and how do they receive them?

A: They receive the Three Treasures of I-Kuan Tao during the initiation ritual. These are powerful tools to help you with your own spiritual cultivation. The ordained Master performs the ritual of transmission of these Treasures, then either the Master or a lecturer will explain their meaning and help you practice them a few times so you can start applying them in your life immediately.

Q: Are there prerequisites and/or period of time an initiate must complete before initiation into I-Kuan Tao?

A: The short answer is no. The long answer is that it all depends on yuan, the Chinese term for karmic affinity. If you have this affinity with the Tao and the temple, then you will sense a positive energy associated with the ritual and yourself. When that is the case, you should go with the flow and ask for the ritual. It can be conducted for you right away. There is no waiting period necessary.

What if you wish to go through initiation but you are far away from the temple? If you have a powerful affinity to the Tao, you will find yourself at the temple one way or another. If you cannot go to the temple in the immediate future, it may be that the time isn’t right yet. Keep your eyes open to watch for the right time. An opportunity may present itself sooner than you expect.

Q: What is the Tao?

A: When you go through the initiation ritual, you are said to have received the Tao. But what does that mean? What exactly is this Tao that you have received?

The word “Tao” can have many different meanings, depending on context. In one particular sense, the Tao is already a part of you, just as it is in everything, so it isn’t something you can receive.

In yet another context, the Tao is a path of spiritual cultivation. It is a never-ending process and a journey of discovery. In that sense, the Tao that you have received from the Initiation Ritual is a direction. It is a path that has been illuminated for you.

What are some of the other meanings of Tao? We can speak of the Tao as the source of everything that exists. In that sense, the Tao can be seen as the creator of the universe, also known as God.

The Tao can also be the unifying force that underlies all forces, or the ultimate principle that give rise to all natural laws. Or, we can say that it is the progressive power that drives the march of time, the proliferation of life, the progress of evolution, and the cosmic movement of celestial bodies.

From a spiritual perspective, perhaps we can describe it as the totality of all the souls in the metaphysical realm where we are all connected at a fundamental level. Or, we can call it the ultimate spiritual truth that gives rise to all the religions of mankind.

The most important concept in I-Kuan Tao is that all of the above are in fact one and the same. This realization is what gives I-Kuan Tao its name – the Tao that unifies everything as one.

Q: What is the meaning of the I-Kuan Tao shrine?

A: The meaning of the shrine starts with the recognition of oneness. The idea is that we human beings may have many different names for the divine, but all these names are ultimately varying descriptions of the same thing – the one great spiritual truth – that which we cannot comprehend fully, and yet makes us resonate so powerfully in the deepest core of our being.

The most important thing in the altar is the flame. It can be called Buddha Light or Mu Light. Either way, it’s a representation of the Tao. Because the Tao is the ultimate force or principle rather than a father-figure supreme being, I-Kuan Tao represents it with fire instead of some human visage. No human likeness or material symbol can capture the essence of the Tao. Fire, the ethereal manifestation of energy, is a far better symbol than anything human beings can craft.

There is a small metal plate behind the flame, inscribed with the Chinese characters wuji, which literally means “without boundary” or “without limit.” We can translate it as “infinity.” When the flame is lit, it casts a shadow through this inscription, thus reminding us that the infinite variations of creation are but myriad reflections of the Tao.

The central text in Chinese behind the flame can be roughly translated like as:

The Clear and Brilliant God Unlimited and Tranquil

The Ultimate divinity of the Utmost Reverence True Ruler of the Universe and All Living Things

In a typical I-Kuan Tao shrine, there are also figurines arrayed in front of the Mu Light. The Maitreya Buddha is always in the center position. He may be accompanied by Jigong, the Living Buddha; Guan Yin, the Bodhisattva / Buddhist Goddess of Mercy; Guan Gong, the God of War.

The Mu Light is the central focus and the most essential part. Indeed, senior masters of I-Kuan Tao have remarked that when it is not possible to create the shrine completely, the Mu Light alone is sufficient to serve as the representation of Lao Mu / God / the Tao.

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DAOYIN TU – The silk scroll of Mawangdui 186 – 160 BC

The Qing Dyansty printing of the Weisheng Jieyao, a manuscript of qigong. One of the seated postures of Baduanjin (Eight Pieces of Brocade) Qigong.

• No sex in the first 15 days of practising this set of routines.

The vision of the body, or better, the thought that underlies the vision and the image of the human body, is very different from civilization to civilization. What every civilization sees of the body, or that it believes to see of the body, goes beyond what the senses are able to perceive. Every civilization is united by the interpretative capacity of this body image that is always linked to the conception of life, to its vision of the universe, to the projection of this image in its systems of government as well as the language it uses to do this.

In Chinese thought, man is the product of the fusion between the Original Breath of Heaven and the Essence of the Earth: “… the being whose nature is the most precious … is the result of the virtue of Heaven and Earth …” ( LIZI). From this union between the Yang, the Sky, and the Yin, the Earth, the embryo takes shape and life is organized following the principles that are established.

The body, as a manifestation of Heaven and Earth, has a high part, celestial and a lower part, terrestrial. The upper part is the region above the waist, the lower part is the region below. Symbolically the head, round, is linked to the Sky, the feet, squares are tied to the Earth.

The body, as an image of the cosmos, is divided into three parts: an upper, a lower and a median where the exchanges between Heaven and Earth are realized.

If we consider the body as the result of the work of the Soffi, it can be divided into Five Parts (WU TI) each of which manifests the Breath of the Five Movements (WU XING) each controlled by one of the Five Organs (WU ZANG).

This vision of the body implies that the constitution of man is a unique and coherent reality and that the laws that govern it are superimposable to those of the universe. We are in solidarity with the lowest

of living organisms as to the farthest star; every thought, act and word … affects the whole universe and returns to us.

To distinguish and describe the fundamental elements of man, from the perspective of MTC five different ideograms are used: REN, man; TI the body structure; QU the body territory; XING, the body shape; SHEN, the person.

The ideogram REN (人 JEN – Ricci 2426) represents a standing man, between Heaven and Earth, firmly on his legs. Its meaning goes beyond that of the person it represents all peoples, the whole Humanity.

The Dictionary Ricci of the Chinese language also presents the ideogram REN (仁 JEN – Ricci 2427), written differently, and defines it as “the virtue of humanity”, or the disinterested benevolence towards the other, the participation of man in the Virtue of Heaven which also translates as “love of neighbor”; the Confucian ideal.

Thus through benevolence, Man, standing between Heaven and Earth, integrates their virtues in the Heart. “Benevolence is the Heart of Man … the Heart of Man is the Heart of the universe” (LIZI).

The ideogram TI (體 T’I – Ricci 4865) represents the body as a whole of limbs and parts of the body itself, the form, the appearance, but also a model, a system as well as its essences and its principles. Therefore TI defines the essential characteristics of the human body, its form and its essence; the uniqueness of the body structure of being through the multiplicity of the parts that constitute it.

With the ideogram QU (軀 CH’U – Ricci 1358) one identifies a body in flesh and blood, but with the concept of a well defined “zone”, an administrative circumscription, a map (TU) of the territory. This character recalls the representation of the human body typical of the alchemical Taoist vision; a “ritual”, “talismanic” body, where it is more important to describe the ideal model and its cosmic function, which faithfully reproduce reality.

The XING ideogram (形 HSING – Ricci 2010) indicates a form (XING 型 is the clay mold, the model), the “materiality” of the physical appearance, the appearance, what makes beings different from each other. The character therefore refers to the morphology of the person, but also evokes his behavior, his attitudes and his expressions.

Each individual is unique, singular and his form manifests its originality. XING is “the visible trace of something that is invisible”, and this brings us directly to the concept of XIANG, the symbol, the image. With XING the potentiality of the One is determined through the manifold different forms of the ten thousand beings.

The SHEN (身 SHEN-Ricci 4323) ideogram represents a body seen in profile where the vertebral column, the spine and the abdomen can be identified. SHEN is the body as the seat of life, the person in his existence, himself, integrated in the whole of all its elements, in all its physical, psychic, energetic and spiritual expressions (神 SHEN).

And ‘the person present here and now, who perceives what surrounds him through the senses, suffers and feels pain through the body, that body that will disappear forever at his death. But SHEN also represents a pregnant woman, so life in its path from birth to death, life with its dark and luminous sides, our experiences, “the beautiful” and “the ugly” … Yin and Yang in their profound harmony .

Bibliography used:

Ricci Institute – “French Dictionary of Chinese Language” – Kuangchi Press;

ER de la Vallée – “The 101 Key Notions of Chinese Medicine” – Red Editions Milan

C. Despeux – “Taoism and Human Body” – Riza Editions;

JM Kespi – “L’homme et ses symboles en médecine traditionnelle chinoise” – Albin Michel

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I DANTIAN and the practice of QIGONG

edited by Paolo Raccagni

DANTIAN literally means “field of cinnabar” or according to other interpretations “field of the elixir”. The word consists of two ideograms:

DAN (丹 TAN Ricci 4671) the Ricci Dictionary translates it as cinnabar, vermilion and pill; TIAN (田 T’IEN Ricci 4944) the Ricci Dictionary translates it as a field, cultivated land, land.

The cinnabar or mercury sulfide, is a mineral that in nature can be found in the form of bright red crystals. Highly toxic due to its high mercury content, it is the basis of all Chinese alchemical thought, including internal alchemy (NEIDAN, 內 丹). These ancient practices set themselves in search of the elixir of eternal youth by elaborating and purifying plant and mineral products of which cinnabar was the main ingredient.

Considered by practitioners of the TAO “source of life”, the Book of the Center of Lao Tzu describes DANTIAN as “… the root of Man and the place where his Life Spirit is guarded. The Five Blows ( of the Five Movements: Wood Fire, Earth, Metal and Water ) originate in it … Located at three distances ( CUN ) below the navel, next to the vertebral column, it is located at the root of the kidneys. It is red inside ( color of the Fire Movement ), green on the left ( color of the Wood Movement ), yellow on the right ( color of the Earth Movement ), white on the top ( color of the Metal Movement ) and black on the bottom ( color of the Movement) water). It has a circumference of four distances. Three distances are placed under the navel to conform to Heaven, Earth and Man. Measure Four distances because the Sky corresponds to the One, the Earth to the Two, the Man to the Three and the seasons to the Four. It is of Five Colors because it takes the Five Movements as a model “. This description, taken by K. Schipper and C. Despeux, considered to be the most exact, concerns the DANTIAN Inferiore (XIA DANTIAN, 下 丹田) and traces it back to the period of the HAN Back troops (947-950).

In the QIGONG practice it is admitted the existence of three Cinnabar Fields: a DANTIAN Inferiore that we have just described, a Median (ZHONG DANTIAN, 中 丹田) and a Superior (SHANG DANTIAN, 上 丹田). As for the Lower Cinnabar Field the localization of the Median one has undergone several variations over time: under the heart, at the level of the stomach and the spleen, in the Cavity of the Yellow Court; most commonly in the central point of the chest.

The DANTIAN Superior remains consistent with its location in the various classical descriptions: ” The Niwan is the Upper Cinnabar Field … When one enters the head from the inter-superciliary space this court is situated right in the center ” (C. Despeux cites the Shangqing ).

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the “Three Treasures” of the body (the Essence JING, the Breath IQ and the Spirit SHEN) are stored in the DANTIAN Inferior, Mediano and Superiore respectively.

In the practice of QIGONG, usually, attention is drawn to DANTIAN Inferiore because it is considered as the foundation of our home; therefore it is necessary to carefully prepare a solid base, then move on to the construction of the walls and finally to the roof.

QIGONG practitioners often speak of the need to “bring QI into DANTIAN” during practice. With this statement it is actually meant that through deep abdominal breathing you can consciously make the diaphragm go up and down a lot. In this way, a sensation of fullness in the lower part of the abdomen will be achieved, respiratory capacity will increase and the increase in diaphragmatic movements will result in a massage of the internal abdominal organs and a consequent improvement of the functions of the digestive, reproductive, urinary and endocrine.

Keeping the focus on DANTIAN is a technique of fundamental mental concentration in the practice of QIGONG. More than any other part of the body, the Cinnabar Field becoming the center of attention behaves like a catalyst capable of increasing our concentration thus inducing a profound state of mental tranquility.

Bibliographical sources:

Kenneth S. Cohen – The Art and Science of QIGONG – Erga Edizioni Cen Yuefang – The Fundamentals of QIGONG – Ubaldini Publisher Catherine Despeux – Taoism and Human Body – Editions Riza

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The Cult of the Ancestors

edited by Paolo Raccagni

Chuang-tzu was about to die. And his disciples wanted to make him a sumptuous funeral, but he said, “I have Heaven and the Earth as a coffin, the sun and the moon as funeral symbols, the stars and the stars as pearls, the ten thousand creatures like sore relatives. maybe my funeral is perfect? What else do you want to add? ” (from The funeral of Chuang-tzu).

In many Chinese houses there is an altar of ancestors, to whom are offered gifts such as incense, rice, fruit or objects dear to the deceased. During the anniversaries or on certain particular dates of the Chinese calendar, the relationship with the deceased family is renewed by burning incense or offers that in some cases can also be simulacra in paper that represent objects of common use (household appliances, cars, bicycles or facsimiles of banknotes and ingots) considered useful also in the afterlife.

To understand this religious expression, it is first of all necessary to free oneself from the usual way of Europeans to see religion as something lived outside of society and even isolated from one another.

Altar dedicated to the Ancestors

Religion in China

The Chinese religious landscape can be understood as “a coherent system” in which forms of individual religious practices (meditation, body techniques, trance, …) and collective forms (cult of local saints, cult of ancestors,

funeral rites, etc.) coexist. they fit into the Chinese cosmological framework. The Chinese religion exists without having a proper name, without an ecclesial and dogmatic structure.

There are three forms of institutionalized religion: Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism (state Confucianism disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century) that can only be found in training centers in their most formal sense. We must not forget the other three religions of foreign origin: Islam, Judaism and Christianity who, claiming an exclusive adhesion, had to develop completely original forms to interact with the traditions of this people.

The most widespread form is the “cult community” that is neither Buddhist nor Confucian, nor Taoist. It is closely linked to representatives of all three religions and is based on oral traditions and autonomous structures; they have a temple consecrated to a local saint and count “specialists” (mediums, healers, soothsayers, …) that are not organized on a national scale.

The Cult of the Ancestors

First of all it must be said that the transition to the “land of the ancestors” is never merited in advance. The main categories in which the “supernatural” beings of this popular theology are subdivided, are structured on a model characterized by the number Three and which takes inspiration from the real society of the living: the ancestors, the deities and the ghosts or demons. layers that the dead can achieve according to their life paths, their qualities, the circumstances of their death and the funeral rites that have accompanied them in the afterlife.

Chinese family to the ancestor of the Ancestors (HUNAN)

Ancestors, Divinities and Ghosts

The ancestors are the “dead good”, who died in old age and in peace, after having given birth and who received rites that separated them from the living and placed at the “right distance” between the two worlds.

The deities or saints, are generally the dead, without descendants, even if victims of violent death or suicide, or people who could not receive the appropriate funeral rites. But their nature of exceptional beings that manifested itself through their actions and in their qualities, allowed him not to dissolve with death and to access the bureaucratic organization of the afterlife becoming “orthodox deities” (ZHENG SHEN).

The ghosts or demons (GUI), are people “badly hurt” and because of the circumstances of their death or their personality, they could not access the afterlife; suffering, without their own abode and vindictive, constitute a permanent danger for the living.

For some national ethnic minorities (the Chinese government officially recognizes fifty-five), such as the YI of SICHUAN, there are additional prerogatives to limit access to the status of an ancestor. People, men or women, unmarried, men who are over forty and have no offspring, women who have transgressed sexual taboos, will be able to access them only after specific rituals. People, even living, suffering from mental illness (about twenty demons are linked to these diseases), or people who have lived too long can be considered demons.

In the imperial age, important figures such as the mandarins representing the emperor and the empire became gods, the oldest members of high-lineage families became ancestors, while foreigners, bandits and beggars were destined to become dangerous and despicable spirits .

We can say that the ritual that concerns the cult of the ancestors can be interpreted as the “cosmological place”, located between Heaven and Earth, between Yin and Yang, in which individuals, families and communities renew their bond with the deities and with the ancestors and affirm their distance from those spirits that in everyday life, can cause disorder or damage.

Evocative tablet

Summon the Ancestors

To evoke the ancestors, you need to get used to the contact! A psychic entity must be created and to do this one must list the names of the ancestors, as in a genealogical tree, place them on the altar and add, if necessary, a portrait of them and honor them with gifts and incense. Then you need to spend some time in meditation to try to make contact. When you think you’ve got contact then you can ask to go back to the previous generation and so on.

Generally the ancestors appear in dreams and at this point it is possible to ask him some advice or what can be done for them. Let us remember that the ancestor should not be disturbed, it takes a valid reason to question it. As for YIJING, it should be questioned only when the question is crucial for our life.

Being reborn is not always that easy. Therefore the year of the Phoenix, for those who want to embark on a spiritual journey of transformation, is a year in which it is important to become aware of themselves. Maintain a simple lifestyle, remove all that is “useless” and that can weigh us down (it’s the perfect time to “cleanse” the Liver, practice Qi Gong, Yoga, … and all those useful practices to rebalance our energy) in this phase of change. A moment of hard work, of discipline, of realistic perspectives. You need to choose your battles wisely because they could be very challenging this year.

“Shoong means “to relax, “to loose, “to give up,” “to yield.” It is a term that has been adapted and incorporated into the specialized terminology traditionally used by T’ai Chi masters. It is said that when the famous

T’ai Chi master Yang, Chen-fu was training the late master Cheng Man- c’hing, Master Yang reminded his student daily to “be shoong, be really, really shoong.” “If your are not shoong, ” Master Yang would say, “even just a little bit not shoong, you are not in the stage of shoong. Your are then in the stage of a loser of T’ai Chi; you will be defeated.”

“The most important point of t’aichi is relax. Relaxation helps your body repel illness; it allows your ch’i and blood to flow smoothly; it harmonizes the sinews and vessels, balances the Five Internal Organs, and opens the Triple Burners – how can any disease invade your

body? The ancients said that the best doctor cured those not yet ill, and t’aichi is the finest medicine of the best doctor.”

– Professor Cheng Man-ch’ing, Taijiquan Master and Doctor of Chinese Medicine,

Cheng Man-ch’ing: Master of Five Excellences.

“The rigid person is a disciple of death;

the soft, supple, and delicate are lovers of live.”

– Tao Te Ching, Chapter 76

“The essence of collecting body and mind is in openness and

calm. Empty and open the mind, and spirit and essence join. Calm the body, and vitality and sense are still. When the will is greatly stabilized, the three bases – vitality, energy, and spirit – merge into one. This is called “the three flowers gathering on the peak,” “the five energies returning to the source,” and “the spiritual embryo

congealing.” Refining vitality into energy is the first pass – the body is not agitated. Refining energy into spirit is the middle pass – the mind is not agitated. Refining spirit back into openness is the upper pass – the will is not agitated.”

• The Book of Balance and Harmony: A Taoist Anthology of the 13th Century, Translated with an Introduction by Thomas Cleary, 1989, p. 27

“To develop listening energy in accordance with t’ai chi ch’uan principle you must first rid yourself of the hindrances of external muscular force. Loosen and relax the waist and legs; meditate on stilling the mind; accumulate the ch’i and concentrate the spirit, otherwise you cannot develop listening.”

• Chen Kung, Intrinsic Energies of T’ai Chi Ch’uan

“Sung [Relax] the waist. The waist is the commander of the whole body. If you can sung the waist, then the two legs will have power and the lower part will be firm and stable. Substantial and insubstantial change, and this is based on the turning of the waist. It is said “the source of the postures lies in the waist. If you cannot get power, seek the defect in the legs and waist.”

• Yang Cheng-fu (1883-1936), Yang’s Ten Important Points

“Harmony is itself paradise. The “miraculous” element is the way that relaxation, well-being, and harmony allow the heart-mind to take control of and focus the greatness of the ch’i, the power of thought, and the effect that this can have in ourselves and in the world.”

– Wolfe Lowenthal, Gateway to the Miraculous, 1994, p. 14.

“The whole body relaxed, the spirit focused.

Apply intention to circulate chi, the whole body coordinated. Relaxation better for chi flow, relaxation better for blood circulation. Relaxation better to transmit the intention, relaxation better for the mind.

Nimbleness produces understanding, relaxation produces buoyancy. Release from one touch, relaxation produces chi growth.”

• Tai Chi Classic, Translated by Vincent Chu

“When you train, free yourself from distracting thoughts: Keep your hear buoyant, your body buoyant, too.

Do not forget the principle of “return to the center”: Strive and strive, with single-minded devotion.

This is the true path of softness. This is the true path of softness.”

• Kyuzo Mifune (1883-1965), Judo Master, The Song of Judo

Budo Secrets: Teachings of the Martial Arts Masters, p. 30

central equilibrium (zhongding)

“In all qigong practice it is very important to be rooted. Being rooted means to be stable and in firm contact with the ground. If you want to push a car you have to be rooted; the force you exert into the car needs to be balanced by the force into the ground. If you are not rooted, when you push the car you will only push yourself away and not move the car. Your root is made up of your body’s sinking, centering, and balance.

Before you can develop your root, you must first relax and let your body “settle.” As you relax, the tension in the various parts of your body will dissolve, and you will find a comfortable way to stand. You will stop fighting the ground to keep your body up and will learn to rely on your body’s structure to support itself. This lets the muscles relax even more. Since your body isn’t struggling to stand up, your yi won’t be pushing upward, and your body, mind, and qi will all be able to sink. If you let dirty water sit quietly, the impurities will gradually settle to the bottom, leaving the water above it clear. In the same way, if you relax your body enough to let it settle, your qi will sink to your dan tian and the bubbling wells (yongquan, K-1, 湧泉) in your feet and your mind will become clear. Then you can begin to develop your root.

To root your body you must imitate a tree and grow an invisible root under your feet. This will give you a firm root to keep you stable in your training. Your root must be wide as well as deep. Naturally, your yi must grow first because it is the yi that leads the qi. Your yi must be able to lead the qi to your feet and be able to communicate with the ground.

Only when your yi can communicate with the ground will your qi be able to grow beyond your feet and enter the ground to build the root. The bubbling well cavity is the gate that enables your qi to communicate with the ground.

After you have gained your root, you must learn how to keep your center. A stable center will make your qi develop evenly and uniformly. If you lose this center, your qi will not be led evenly. In order to keep your body centered, you must first center your yi and then match your

body to it. Only under these conditions will the qigong forms you practice have their root. Your mental and physical centers are the keys that enable you to lead your qi beyond your body.

Balance is the product of rooting and centering. Balance includes balancing the qi and the physical body. It does not matter which aspect of balance you are dealing with; first, you must balance your yi, and only then can you balance your qi and your physical body.”

• Grandmaster Yang, Jwing-Ming

“The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. … One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.”

• Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969), The Art of Peace

“According to the Tai Chi Classics, “the root is in the feet; issued through the legs; controlled by the waist; and expressed through the fingers. From the feet through the legs to the waist forms one harmonious chi.” If just one part is not synchronized, there will be confusion. So when the hands, waist, and feet move, your gaze needs to follow in unison. This is what is meant by harmony of the upper and lower body. If one part of the body is not in concordance with the rest, it will result in chaos. When you first learn Tai Chi, your movements are larger and more open than those of a seasoned practitioner. The larger movements ensure that your waist and legs are moving in concordance, and all parts of the body are in harmony. The Unity of Internal and External What T’ai Chi Ch’uan trains is the spirit. “The spirit is the leader and the body is at its command.” I.e.: When You open and close in the movements, You must also open and close in the mind.”

– Tai Chi Theory, attributed to Grandmaster Chang San Feng

The five colors blind eyes. The five tones deafen ears. The five tastes blur tongues.

Fast horses and breathtaking hunts make minds wild and crazy. Things rare and expensive make people lose their way.

That’s why a sage tends to the belly, not the eye, always ignores that and chooses this.

THE NEW NEUROLOGICAL TENDRALITY

STEAM CLEANING THE QUANTUM BODY MIND

Bring it in.

Face shines inwardly…inner looking listning smelling

Brain stem convergence Amrita

Swallowing power

Ihasping ground scratching/mudding

Touching Earth, Touching Down, Settling Down, Calming Down, Grounding Down, Prostration, Savassana Heavergizing each system methodically.

3 day prep

Moral Rooting through absorbing cum into the root of your penis/vagina They must cum firsts then rest then they can make you internally orgasm. Growl not to cum.

Build a greater and greater level of personal magnetism

Let her fully rest after she cums…take breaks…super slow, slow, fast, superfast. Lay on back hold hands…

Hands turning in back Hands wiping chest Standing antenna Waving and bouncing Gathering into groin Actually injuring

Actually healing Mortal rooting

Thicker Quicker Phatening up

Body Cleaning Sucking

DON’T TRY TO REFORM THIS WORLD/OTHERS OTHER THAN TRYING TO REFORM YOURSELF

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• Muscle-Tendon Change Classic (Yì Jīn Jīng 易筋經).[44][45]
• Five Animals (Wu Qin Xi 五禽戲).

[46]

• Six Healing Sounds (Liu Zi Jue 六字訣

).[47]

• Eight Pieces of Brocade (Ba Duan Jin 八段錦).[48]

In 2010, the Chinese Health Qigong Association officially recognized five additional health qigong forms:[49]

• Tai Chi Yang Sheng Zhang (太極養生杖): a tai chi form from the stick tradition.
• Shi Er Duan Jin (十二段錦): seated exercises to strengthen the neck, shoulders, waist, and legs.
• Daoyin Yang Sheng Gong Shi Er Fa (導引養生功十二法): 12 routines from Daoyin tradition of guiding and pulling qi.
• Mawangdui Daoyin (馬王堆導引术): guiding qi along the meridians with synchronous movement and awareness.
• Da Wu (大舞): choreographed exercises to lubricate joints and guide qi. Other commonly practised qigong styles and forms include:
• Soaring Crane Qigong[50]
• Wisdom Healing Qigong[51]
• Pan Gu Mystical Qigong[52]
• Wild Goose (Dayan) Qigong[53]
• Dragon and Tiger Qigong[54]
• Primordial Qigong (Wujigong)[55][56]
• Chilel Qigong [57]
• Phoenix Qigong[58]
• Yuan Qigong[59]

Techniques[edit]

Whether viewed from the perspective of exercise, health, philosophy, or martial arts training, several main principles emerge concerning the practice of qigong:[3][35][60][61]

• Intentional movement: careful, flowing balanced style
• Rhythmic breathing: slow, deep, coordinated with fluid movement
• Awareness: calm, focused meditative state
• Visualization: of qi flow, philosophical tenets, aesthetics
• Chanting/Sound: use of sound as a focal point Additional principles:
• Softness: soft gaze, expressionless face
• Solid Stance: firm footing, erect spine
• Relaxation: relaxed muscles, slightly bent joints
• Balance and Counterbalance: motion over the center of gravity Advanced goals:
• Equanimity: more fluid, more relaxed
• Tranquility: empty mind, high awareness
• Stillness: smaller and smaller movements, eventually to complete stillness The most advanced practice is generally considered to be with little or no motion. The cleansing breath

Bouncing and Turning Leaning the head back Scratching

Pizio effect series…Yi Jin Ching

*Chest pounding

AMMA ENLIGHTENMENT STORY

Amma’s anguish reached a pinnacle. Her prayers had been said. In her own words,

Each and every pore of my body was wide-open with yearning, each atom of my body was vibrating with the sacred mantra, my entire being was rushing twoards the Divine Mother in a torrential stream…

In unspeakable agony she cried out,

O Mother… here is Your child about to die drowing in unfathomable distress… This heart is breaking… These limbs are faltering… I am convulsing like a fish thrown on shore… O Mother, You have no kindness towards me… I have nothing left to offer You except the last breath of my life…

Her voice became chocked. Her breathing completely stopped. Sudhamani fell unconscious. The Will of the Mother designates the moment. The Divine Enchantress of the Universe, the Omniscient, the Omnipresent, the Omnipotent Being, the Ancient, Primal Creatrix, the Divine Mother, appeared before Amma in a living form dazzling like a million suns. Amma’s heart overflowed in a tidal wave of unspeakable Love and Bliss. The Divine Mother beningly smiled and, becoming a Pure Effulgence, merged in Sudhamani.

What followed is best described in Amma’s own composition “Ananda Veethi” or “The Path of Bliss,” wherein she has tried to make intelligible that mystical union which is beyond mind or intellect.

Once upon a time, my soul was dancing In delight through the Path of Bliss.

At that time, all the inner foes such as Attraction and aversion ran away hiding

Themselves in the innermost recesses of my mind. Forgetting myself, I merged in a golden dream Which arose within me. As noble aspirations Clearly manifested themselves in my mind,

The Divine Mother, with bright, gentle hands, Caressed my head. With bowed head, I told Mother that my life is dedicated to Her.

Smiling, She became a Divine Effulgence And merged in me. My mind blossomed, Bathed in the many-hued Light of Divinity And the events of millions of years gone by Rose up within me. Thenceforth,

Seeing nothing as apart from my own Self

A single Unity, and merging in the Divine Mother I renounced all sense of enjoyment.

Mother told me to ask the people To fulfill their human birth.

Therefore, I proclaim to the whole world The sublime Truth that She uttered,

“Oh man, merge in your Self!” Thousands and thousands of yogis Have taken birth in India and

Lived the principles visualized by the Great Sages of the unknown past.

To remove the sorrow of humanity, How many naked truths are there! Today I tremble with bliss Recollecting Mother’s words,

“Oh my darling, come to Me Leaving all other works.

You are always Mine.” O Pure Consciousness O Embodiment of Truth, I will heed Your words

O Mother, why are You late in coming? Why did You give this birth?

I know nothing, O Mother, Please forgive my mistakes.

At this point Amma developed a strong aversion toward everything. She would dig big holes to hide herself in so as to escape from the diverse world and sensuous-minded people. She spent her days and nights enjoying the perennial Bliss of God-realization and avoided all human company. If anyone had considered her mad before, they would stand firmly convinced of her insanity now. Who among these fisherfolk could conceive of the plane of consciousness in which the little one was established? Though internally, Amma had crossed the threshold into the Absolute, externally she was the same crazy Amma who was possessed three nights a week by Krishna as far as the family and villagers were concerned. The only recent change, if they had noticed any at all, was that instead of rolling in the sand she was now digging big holes.

One day Amma heard a voice from within her say, “My child, I dwell in the heart of all beings and have no fixed abode. Your birth is not for merely enjoying the unalloyed Bliss of the Self but for comforting suffering humanity. Henceforth worship Me in the hearts of all beings and relieve them of the sufferings of worldly existence…”

It was after this inner call that Amma started manifesting Devi Bhava, the Mood of the Divine Mother, in addition to the Krishna Bhava. At these times she revealed her incessant oneness with the Divine Mother…

“From that day onwards I could see nothing as different from my own Formless Self wherein the entire universe exists as a tiny bubble…”

RAMANA MAHARSHI’S ENLIGHTENMENT STORY

It was about six weeks before I left Madurai for good that the great change in my life took place. It was quite sudden. I was sitting alone in a room on the first floor of my uncle’s house. I seldom had any sickness and on that day there was nothing wrong with my health, but a sudden violent fear of death overtook me. There was nothing in my state of health to account for it, and I did not try to account for it or to find out whether there was any reason for the fear. I just felt “I am going to die” and began thinking what to do about it. It did not occur to me to consult a doctor or my elders or friends; I felt that I had to solve the problem myself, there and then.

The shock of the fear of death drove my mind inwards and I said to myself mentally, without actually framing the words: “Now death has come; what does it mean? What is it that is dying? “This body dies,” and at once dramatized the occurrence of death. I lay with my limbs stretched out stiff as though rigor mortis had set in and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry. I held my breath and kept my lips tightly closed so that no sound could escape, so that neither the word “I” nor any other word could be uttered.

“Well then,” I said to myself, “this body is dead. It will be carried stiff to the burning ground and there burnt and reduced to ashes. But with the death of this body am I dead? Is the body I? It is silent and inert but I feel the full force of my personality and even the voice of the “I” within me, apart from it. So I am Spirit transcending the body. The body dies but the Spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. That means that I am a deathless Spirit.”

All this was not dull thought; it flashed through me vividly as living truth which I perceived directly, almost without thought-process. “I” was something very real, the only real thing about my present state, and all the conscious activity connected with my body was centered on that “I”.

From that moment onwards the “I” or Self focussed attention on itself by a powerful fascination. Fear or death had vanished once and for all. Absorption in the Self

continued unbroken from that time on. Other thoughts might come and go like the various notes of music, but the “I” continued like the fundamental sruti note that underlies and blends with all the other notes. Whether the body was engaged in talking, reading or anything else, I was still centered on “I”. Previous to that crisis I had no clear perception of my Self and was not consciously attracted to it. I felt no perceptible or direct interest in it, much less any inclination to dwell permanently in it.

The consequences of this new awareness were soon noticed in my life. In the first place, I lost what little interest I had in my outer relationships with friends and relatives and went through my studies mechanically. I would hold an open book in front of me to satisfy my relatives that I was reading, ,when in reality my attention was far away from any such superficial matter. In my dealings with people I became meek and submissive. Going to school, book in hand, I would be eagerly desiring and expecting that God would suddenly appear before me in the sky. What sort of progress could such a one make in his studies at school!

One of the features of my new state was my changed attitude to the Meenakshi Temple. Formerly I used to go there very occasionally with friends to look at the images and put the Sacred Ash and Vermilion on my brow and would return home almost unmoved. But after the awakening I went there almost every evening. I used to go alone and stand motionless for a time before an image of Siva or Meenakshi or Nataraja and the sixty- three Saints, and as I stood there waves of emotion overwhelmed me.

The soul had given up its hold on the body when it renounced the “I-am-the-body” idea and it was seeking some fresh anchorage; hence the frequent visits to the temple and the outpouring o the soul in tears. This was God’s play with the soul. I would stand before Iswara, the Controller of the universe and of the destinies of all, the Omniscient and Omnipresent, and sometimes pray for the descent of His Grace upon me so that my devotion might increase and become perpetual like that of the sixty-three Saints. More often I would not pray at all but silently allow the deep within to flow on and into the deep beyond.

I stopped going out with friends to play games, and preferred solitude. I would often sit alone and become absorbed in the Self, the Spirit, the force or current which constituted me. I would continue in this despite the jeers or my elder brother who would sarcastically call me “Sage” or “Yogi” and advise me to retire into the jungle like the ancient Rishis.

When Nagaswami, Sri Bhagavan’s brother remarked, “What use is all this to such a one,” the meaning was obvious; that one who wished to live like a sadhu had no right to enjoy the amenities of home life. Venkataraman (Ramana) recognized the truth in his

brother’s remark. Making the excuse that he had to return to school, he rose to his feet to leave the house then and there and go forth, renouncing everything. For him that meant Tiruvannamalai and the Holy Hill or Arunachala. Unconciously providing him with funds for the journey, his brother said, “Take five rupees from teh box downstairs and pay my college fees on the way.” Calculating the distance in an old atlas, he found that three rupees should suffice for the fare to Tiruvannamalai. Leaving behind a note and a balance of two rupees he started off for the railway station.

With quick steps, his heart throbbing with joy, he hastened straight to the great temple. In mute sign of welcome, the gates of the three high compound walls and all the doors, even that of the inner shrine, were open before him. He entered the inner shrine alone and stood overcome before his Father. Embracing the linga, in utter ecstasy, the burning sensation whih had began at Madurai vanished and merged in the linga of light, Arunachaleswara. There, in the bliss of union, was the journey ended.

Immediately upon leaving the temple, someone called out to ask whether he wanted his head shaved. Taking it to be the injunction of Sri Arunachala, he consented and was conducted to Ayyankalum Tank where a number of barbers plied their trade. There he had his head completely shaved. Then, standing on the steps of the tank, he threw away his remaining money—a little over three rupees. He never handled money again. He also threw away the packet of sweets which he was still carrying.

Discarding the sacred thread and wearing only a loin cloth, thus unintentionally completing the acts of renunciation, he returned to the temple. Hindu Scriptures enjoy a bath after a head shave. Although there had been no rain for a very long time, Sri Arunachala Himself came in the shape of a single cloud, which hovered directly overhead. Immediately there was a short, sharp shower so that before entering the temple he was given a bath.

Entering the thousand-pillared mantapam he sat in silent absorption, but being subjected to the pranks of local urchins he did not remain there long. Seshadriswami, a revered ascetic who had arrived at Tiruvannamalai a few years earlier, attempted to protect Brahmana Swami, as he was now known. These efforts were not very successful; in fact, at times they had the opposite effect. So Brahmana Swami sought refuge in the Pathala Lingam, an underground vault in the thousand-pillared hall.

The sun’s rays never penetrated this cave, which was inhabited by ants and vermin. So absorbed was he in meditation that he was completely oblivious when he was bodily carried out of the Pathala Lingam vault to the Subramanya Shrine. For about two months he stayed in the shrine absorbed in samadhi. Paying no heed to nourishment, food had to be put into his mouth, an he remained immersed in the effulgence of Bliss, barely

conscious of his body, not speaking or moving, so that to onlookers it appeared to be the most intense tapas. It was not really tapas at all. He was simply ignoring the body he had ceased to need. He was already a Jivanmakta (liberated while alive) in unwavering consciousness of identity with the Self and had no karma left to wipe out, no further goal to attain.

BODHIDHARMA

JUNE 7, 2014 ENLIGHTENEDPEOPLE 2 COMMENTS

“The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.” — Bodhidharma

• Samadhi, by Paramahansa Yogananda

“I a tiny bubble of laughter have become the sea of mirth itself.”

Vanished the veils of light and shade, Lifted every vapor of sorrow,

Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy, Gone the dim sensory mirage.

Love, hate, health, disease, life, death:

Perished these false shadows on the screen of duality. The storm of maya stilled

By magic wand of intuition deep.

But ever-present, all-flowing I, I, everywhere. Planets, stars, stardust, earth,

Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms,

Creation’s molding furnace,

Glaciers of silent X-rays, burning electron floods, Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come, Every blade of grass, myself, mankind,

Each particle of universal dust,

Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust,

I swallowed, transmuted all

Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being. Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditation Blinding my tearful eyes,

Burst into immortal flames of bliss, Consumed my tears, my frame, my all. Thou art I, I am Thou,

Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!

Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever-new peace. Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss! Not an unconscious state

Or mental chloroform without willful return, Samadhi but extends my conscious realm Beyond the limits of the mortal frame

To farthest boundary of eternity Where I, the Cosmic Sea,

Watch the little ego floating in Me. Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard,

The dark earth, mountains, vales, lo! molten liquid! Flowing seas change into vapors of nebulae!

Aum blows upon vapors, opening wondrously their veils, Oceans stand revealed, shining electrons,

Till, at the last sound of the cosmic drum, Vanish the grosser lights into eternal rays Of all-pervading bliss.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

Ocean of mind, I drink all creation’s waves.

Four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light, Lift aright.

I, in everything, enters the Great Myself.

Gone forever: fitful, flickering shadows of mortal memory; Spotless is my mental sky, below, ahead, and high above; Eternity and I, one united ray.

A tiny bubble of laughter, I

Am become the Sea of Mirth Itself.

Sadhguru: One afternoon, I rode up Chamundi Hill in Mysore city and went to a particular rock – a huge rock which was my usual place – and sat there with my eyes open. After a few minutes, I didn’t know where I was. Till that moment, like most people, I always thought this is me and that is someone else. But for the first time I did not know what is me and what is not me. What was me was spread all over the place. I thought this madness lasted for 5 to 10 minutes but when I came back to my normal way of being, four-and-a-half hours had passed. I was sitting right there, fully conscious, eyes open. I sat there at around 3:00 in the afternoon. It was 7:30 in the evening when I came out of it. For the first time in my adult life, tears were flowing to a point where my shirt was completely wet. I was someone who had never allowed a single teardrop to come out of my eyes. But now suddenly, tears were flowing to a point where my shirt became wet.

I had always been happy, that was never an issue for me. I was successful with what I was doing. I was young and had no problems, but now I was bursting with another kind of ecstasy which was indescribable. Every cell in my body was just bursting with ecstasy. I had no words. When I shook my head and tried to ask my skeptical mind, “What’s happening to me,” the only thing that my mind could tell me was, “Maybe you are going off your rocker.” I didn’t care what it was but I didn’t want to lose it because this was the most beautiful thing that I had ever touched. I had never imagined that a human being could ever feel like this within himself.

The next time this happened was very significant because there were people around me. I was sitting with my family at the dinner table. I actually thought 2 minutes had passed but actually seven hours had gone by. I was sitting right there fully alert but I had no sense of time. This happened many times. Once, this experience happened for 13 days. In about six week’s time, it became like a living reality and everything about me changed in those six weeks. My voice changed, the shape of my eyes changed. If you see photos of me during that time, you can clearly see something changed dramatically in the body. I knew I had to do something, but I didn’t know what. All I knew was the blissfulness that was simply bursting within me; and I knew it could happen in every human being.

Every human being has the same inner ingredient. This is possible for every human being.

It is my wish and my blessing this must happen to you. Whether you climb Mount Everest or not, whether you become the richest man on this planet or not, your experience of life on this planet should be pleasant. You must live blissfully and go. This much should happen to every human being. Everyone deserves it and everyone is capable of it.

I have food to eat you know not of Then he breathed on them

Believe on me and from…

The effects of actions in this life, whether good or bad, remain lodged in the subconscious, and those brought over from past existences are hidden in the superconsciousness. These effects are like seeds, ready to germinate under the influence of a suitable environment.

All effects or seeds of your past actions (karma) can be destroyed by roasting them in the fire of concentration, meditation, the light of superconsciousness, and by right actions — actions free from the selfish desire for the fruit of action.

The problem of knowing. Are you addicted to being revealed as the knower Do you use teachers to augment your ego?

You cannot meditate. The idea of you meditating is absurd and antithetical to what meditation is-

You can only meditatine from the transmission intercessing through you. This can only come from a qualified teacher.

The last thing the human psyche wants is exposure for being ignorant, inept, incompetent… people would rather choose death than face exposure, deformity, their own cause for disease and poor circumstances. Rather than admit to the need for being a follower people will go their own way and rather choose death. The enemies name is arrogant pride.

An empowerment/enlightenment experience from the founder of Aikido

“Suddenly the earth trembled. Golden vapor welled up from the ground and engulfed me. I felt transformed into a golden image, and my body seemed as light as a feather. All at once I understood the nature of creation: the Way of a Warrior is to manifest Divine Love, a spirit that embraces and nurtures all things. Tears of gratitude and joy streamed down my cheeks. I saw the entire earth as my home, and the sun, moon, and stars as my intimate friends. All attachment to material things vanished.” O’Sensei

Sadhguru: One afternoon, I rode up Chamundi Hill in Mysore city and went to a particular rock – a huge rock which was my usual place – and sat there with my eyes open. After a few minutes, I didn’t know where I was. Till that moment, like most people, I always thought this is me and that is someone else. But for the first time I did not know what is me and what is not me. What was me was spread all over the place. I thought this madness lasted for 5 to 10 minutes but when I came back to my normal way of being, four-and-a-half hours had passed. I was sitting right there, fully conscious, eyes open. I sat there at around 3:00 in the afternoon. It was 7:30 in the evening when I came out of it. For the first time in my adult life, tears were flowing to a point where my shirt was completely wet. I was someone who had never allowed a single teardrop to come out of my eyes. But now suddenly, tears were flowing to a point where my shirt became wet.

I had always been happy, that was never an issue for me. I was successful with what I was doing. I was young and had no problems, but now I was bursting with another kind of ecstasy which was indescribable. Every cell in my body was just bursting with ecstasy. I had no words. When I shook my head and tried to ask my skeptical mind, “What’s happening to me,” the only thing that my mind could tell me was, “Maybe you are going off your rocker.” I didn’t care what it was but I didn’t want to lose it because this was the most beautiful thing that I had ever touched. I had never imagined that a human being could ever feel like this within himself.

The next time this happened was very significant because there were people around me. I was sitting with my family at the dinner table. I actually thought 2 minutes had passed but actually seven hours had gone by. I was sitting right there fully alert but I had no sense of time. This happened many times. Once, this experience happened for 13 days. In about six week’s time, it became like a living reality and everything about me changed in those six weeks. My voice changed, the shape of my eyes changed. If you see photos of me during that time, you can clearly see something changed dramatically in the body. I knew I had to do something, but I didn’t know what. All I knew was the blissfulness that was simply bursting within me; and I knew it could happen in every human being.

Every human being has the same inner ingredient. This is possible for every human being.

It is my wish and my blessing this must happen to you. Whether you climb Mount Everest or not, whether you become the richest man on this planet or not, your experience of life on this planet should be pleasant. You must live blissfully and go. This much should happen to every human being. Everyone deserves it and everyone is capable of it.

Common Qigong Phenomena

by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

September 24, 2012

There are common phenomena experienced in qigong practice. These “rules” have been passed down for hundreds of years to help beginners to find the right path in their qigong and meditation practice.

There are common phenomena experienced in qigong practice. These “rules” have been passed down for hundreds of years to help beginners to find the right path in their qigong and meditation practice. Improper posture, timing, or training methods causes some phenomena. Since most beginners cannot generate significant Qi (energy), these issues are usually harmless. But if you ignore them and continue to train incorrectly, you build bad habits which may eventually bring you harm. It is important to attend to them and understand their causes.

1. The Mind is Scattered and Sleepy

The Daoist Ni Wan Zu said: “For one hundred days, banish sleepiness. Sleepiness and confusion make the mind scattered and disordered, and you lose the real practice.” Having a scattered and disordered mind is one of the most common experiences of beginners, with their Yi (wisdom mind) unable to control Xin (emotional mind). Though Yi is strong, Xin is even stronger, so first strengthen Yi and regulate Xin, and analyze the causes and possible results of the disturbance.

If sleepiness is the result of fatigue, it is best to stop practicing, and relax or take a nap. Lie down comfortably, and pay attention to deep breathing as you bring your mind to the deep places of your body. Smoothly and slowly release the carbon dioxide, and every time you exhale, relax deeper.

Breathing and heart rate slow down, and you feel rested, with your mind clear and your spirit fresh. Now raise your spirit, and keep it at its residence, centered, and balanced.

Sleepiness can also result from relaxation and a scattered mind. Keep your mind inside and observe your inner self. Bring your mind back to the third eye, and raise your spirit. After a few minutes, bring your mind back to the Real Lower Dan Tian (center of the abdomen) for Embryonic Breathing. If you are sleepy, do not use your mind to lead the Qi, which can be as dangerous as driving a car in that condition.

1. Feeling Cold

Feeling cold during still meditation is very common. In moving Qigong you energize your body, so it is warm and more Yang. But in still meditation you calm your mind and slow your breathing, reducing your heart rate and making your body more Yin. In the winter, your body releases energy into the surrounding air more quickly than in the summer, and feeling cold can be more of a problem. So when you meditate in the early morning or in the winter, wear warm clothes and cover your legs, especially your knees, with a blanket.

Sometimes you feel cold even when warmly dressed and with the room at a comfortable temperature. This is most likely caused by your mind, which significantly influences Qi circulation in your body. Sometimes you may feel cold when nervous tension, emotional upset, or fear send a sudden chill through your body. Since your mind has such an effect on you, it is important to regulate it through meditation. You may also feel some part of the body suddenly colder or warmer. This is a common experience as Qi redistributes during deep relaxation, so do not be too concerned about it.

1. Numbness

Numbness is very common in Qigong still meditation. When you sit for a long time, your circulation slows down, reducing the blood supply to your legs. This is very common with beginners. You should not continue your meditation once concentration is affected. Stretch your legs and massage the bottom of your feet, especially the Yongquan in the center of the sole of the feet, to speed the recovery of circulation. If you meditate regularly, you will find you can sit longer and longer without your legs becoming numb. Your body adjusts the blood supply to fit the new situation. After six months of regular practice, you should be able to sit at least thirty minutes without any problem. If your lower back feels stiff, adjust your posture by sitting on a higher cushion or a chair with back support.

1. Discomfort (Soreness and Pain)

Discomfort is frequently caused by incorrect posture. Common places are the lower back, hips, and shoulders, caused by wrong sitting height or posture. Correct the problems before they affect your concentration or cause injury, and regulate your body to a comfortable and natural state.

1. Part of the Body Feels Hot

Sometimes part of your body may feel hot, or just one portion feels cold while the rest feels hot. This usually happens when you are emotionally upset, sick, or recovering from illness. When you circulate unbalanced Qi, you may interfere with the body’s efforts to achieve Qi balance. Simply relax and meditate on your Real Lower Dan Tian, and be aware of your body and emotions.

1. Headache and Eye Ache

A common cause of headache during Qigong practice is failure to breathe smoothly. You may hold your breath without noticing it, causing Qi and blood flow to stagnate, which reduces oxygen supply to the head.

Eye ache is also common, for two main reasons. “The eyes watch the nose, and the nose watches the heart.” To keep your mind inside without being distracted by what is going on around you, restrain

your vision. Focus your mind in your heart and regulate Xin, your emotional mind. You do this with your mind, not your body. Don’t actually stare at your nose, a major cause of eye ache.

Your eyes may also ache when you focus the spirit (Shen) at its residence. Do this without using force. Lead the spirit back to its center firmly but gently. Mental force will cause not only eye ache but also headache.

1. Trembling Body

Body trembling occurs spontaneously, mostly in the limbs, though sometimes also in the torso. During deep relaxation, extra Qi flows easily to activate muscles and causes them to tremble. Your upper body may sway by itself, following your breathing. These are good signs, indicating success in regulating your body, breathing, and mind, but you should not make it happen intentionally.

1. Warmth and Sweating

In still meditation, even though you are not moving externally, you are exercising internally. When Qi increases significantly, it will manifest at the surface of your skin as warmth, even making you sweat. Be sure not to expose your sweaty body to a cold draft.

1. Fright

This is one of the worst things that can happen during Qigong meditation. It generally occurs for two reasons. Sometimes your mind is very clear but you cannot center it, and it may start to generate fantasy or illusion. This is called entering the demon, or being bewitched. You may feel a cold draft and think it is an evil spirit, as your imagination generates thoughts to disturb you.

Unless you regulate your mind right away, you may start to believe the illusion and become very scared. The danger is that Yi no longer leads your Qi, disturbing your Qi circulation. If this happens during very deep meditation, it may cause you serious injury, so it is very important that your mind should be clear and calm, with emotions completely controlled.

If you experience this kind of fright, your Yi is too confused to lead your Qi correctly, so you should discontinue practice. There are several ways to help you collect yourself. The first is to cover your ears with your palms and tap the back of your head by snapping your index fingers off the middle fingers. This is called beating the heavenly drum (Ming Tian Gu) and is one of the most common ways for your mind to find its center. You may drink some hot tea or coffee, wash your face with warm water, or take a shower. Alternatively, generate an “An” sound in your brain, vibrating in the Spiritual Valley. This can often lead your mind into the spiritual center and stop the illusion. This is called righteous sound (Zheng Yin), commonly used to stabilize the spirit and keep it at the Mud Pill Palace.

The second type of fright happens when you realize your Qi has been led into the wrong path. For example, suddenly your heart starts beating very fast or your head starts aching seriously. When this happens, your mind is usually disturbed, and you are confused or scared. If this happens, do not stop, calm your mind and move it away from the troublesome spot. The more you keep your mind on the area of concern, the more Qi will flow there and become stagnant. This will worsen the situation instead of help it. Once your mind is calm, use it to lead the Qi to your Lower Dan Tian. Sit still for a few minutes and gradually bring your mind back to your surroundings. Do not resume practice, but instead wait until the next session.

1. Difficulty Sleeping

It is common to have difficulty sleeping for a while, because when you practice Qigong, your mind is energized and your spirit raised. This keeps you from falling asleep. Pay attention to your breathing, thinking every time you exhale that your body is becoming more and more relaxed. Inhale longer than you exhale to make the body more Yin. Don’t use Yi to lead Qi, but just breathe and relax, and soon you will fall asleep. You may also practice Embryonic Breathing, leading excited Qi down from your head to the Real Lower Dan Tian. Then the mind becomes calm and the body relaxes.

1. Coughing

Beginners sometimes cough during practice. The most common reason is that breathing is not being regulated smoothly. You may be breathing too fast or holding your breath. Use Yi to regulate the breathing until it is no longer necessary.

The second possibility is that your body is not regulated correctly. For example, if you push your head too far back, the front of the throat will tense and cause you to cough.

The third possibility is that when you are in deep meditation, your heartbeat slows, and body temperature drops. You feel cold, which may also cause coughing, so keep your body warm during meditation. Drink a little water.

1. Sexual arousal

It is normal to have sexual feelings and even to become aroused during meditation. Abdominal breathing increases Qi circulation in your lower body, stimulating the sexual organs. While this increases sexual desire, remember you are practicing Qigong to increase production of hormones to raise your spirit. You need to regulate your mind and not waste this extra supply through sexual activity.

Standing southwest of Danjiangkou City, Mt.Wudang is one of the famous mountains to the Taoists. It is 400 km in circumference and has such natural sceneries as 72 peaks, 24 ravines, 11 caves, 9 springs, 3 pools, 9 wells, 10 rocks and 9 terraces.The ancient architecture complex is also famous in China and abroad, including 8 palaces, 2 Taoist temples, 36 nunneries, 72 temples, 39 bridges and 12 pavilions. Since the Tang Dynasty, Mt. Wudang has become a centre of Taoism and a famous scenic area.

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WARRING STATES AND HAN DYNASTY (475 B.C. – 220 A.D.)

The earliest exclusive texts that deal with the meditative practices and the gymnastic exercises are the recent archaeological text discoveries.

Circulating Qi Inscription

Xingqi ming 行氣銘 (475 B.C. – 206 B.C.), scholars consider this text to be from the earlier Warring States Period. This is the earliest available text on the meditative practice solely. It appears to be an esoteric text, short but complete. According to Li Ling’s study, the text is identified as a complete “Rendu Channeling Micro-orbit Qi Gong 任督二脈小周天氣功,” and the much later concept of upper and lower dantian 丹田 was also indicated in the text. (Li, 342-346)

Gymnastic Book

Yinshu 引書 (186 B.C.) is a gymnastic text, a detailed manuscript that includes five sections of health and longevity related techniques. (Li, 359-368)

Gymnastic Chart

Daoyin tu 導引圖 (168 B.C.) is a colored manuscript that shows forty-four moments in a series of sketches accompanied by commentaries on their therapeutic features. (Li, 356-359)

Abstaining from Cereals and Consuming Qi

Quegu shiqi 卻穀食氣 (168 B.C.), the text is a detailed manual of fasting from cereals, taking herbs, and consuming of Qi (breathing practice) techniques. The manual indicates the breathing methods and the herb formulas clearly in several sections: the time of breathing in the day; the volumes of breathing each

practice; the qi should be avoided for breathing practice in each season; the qi should be avoided for practice in the day; the six type of beneficial qi of nature; (Li, 346-353)

THREE STATES, SIX DYNASTIES, AND SUI DYNASTY (221–617)

After the Han dynasty, the most obtainable texts have been transmitted in the Taoist Cannon, or Daozang

道藏, which was edited in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).

Methods for a Lasting Life of the Persons of Greatest Purity

Taiqing zhenren looming jue 太清真人絡命訣, from the 3rd or 4th century.

The manual emphasizes the techniques of visualization of the spirits of body by means of visualizing the Five Beasts (cun wushou 存五獸) and traveling through the Viscera (lizang 歷臟). (DZ 2:871)

Exposition of the Tao

Xiandao jing 顯道經. 3rd century.

This is an ancient manual of Tending Life practices that focuses on Fasting (duangu 斷穀). (DZ 18:644)

Treatise of Great Purity on Gymnastics and Nurturing Vitality

Taiqing daoyin yangsheng jing 太清導引養生經 from the 4th century.

This work consists of a collection of gymnastics and breathing techniques, including those of Daolin (i.e., Zhi Dun 支遁, 314-366), representing the schools of various immortals of antiquity (Chisong zi 赤松子, Ningfeng zi 寧封子, Pengzu 彭祖, Wang Ziqiao 王子喬). (DZ 18:401)

Precious Book of the Exterior Landscape of the Yellow Court

Taishang huangting waijing yujing 太上黃庭外景玉經. Before AD 255.

This is the original Huangting jing, the oldest copy of the present text is made by Wang Xizi 王羲之 (303- 379). (DZ 5:913)

Records Concerning Tending Life and the Prolonging of Life

Yangxing Yanming lu 養性延命錄. Attributed to Tao Hingjing 陶弘景 (456-536).

This is a collection of instructions for healthy living, food, and breathing exercises for meditative healing, gymnastics and sexual therapy. The respiratory techniques including liuqi jue, 六氣訣, or “the oral transmission of the six type of (therapeutic) breaths” was introduced in this work, which follows the sound of the words xu 噓, he 呵, xi 呬, chui 吹, hu 呼, xi 嘻, each sound has a therapeutic effect associated with one of the five inner organs. (DZ 18:474)

Treatise on Tiantai Sitting Meditation for Beginners

Xiao zhi guan 小止觀 by Tiantai Zhiyi’s 天臺智顗 (538-597)

This work is fundamentally Chinese Buddhist, especially Chan/Zen Buddhist, meditation manual. The concepts and techniques such as tiaoshen 調身, or regulating and positioning the body, taioxi 調息, or regulating and focusing on the breathing,tiaoxin 調心, or regulating and empty the heart/mind; and the concept of the characteristics of breathing patterns, such as feng 風, or rasping and noisy, chuan 喘, or restricted and choppy,qi 氣, xi 息, fine and deep, were borrowed by Taoist and other meditative practices, which still play the fundamental role in the modern Qi Gong practices. (Fang, 357)

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

Master Hidden in the Havens

Tianyin zi 天隱子 6 fols. By Sima Chengzhen 司馬承禎 or Bai Yunzi 白雲子(647-735).

This manual deals exclusively with the meditative practices through five stages to attain liberation or awakening. Fasting, faith, and nourishing/cultivating qi attain the first stage. At the second stage, one empties the mind by retreating in the light-conditioned room, and at the third stage, one fixes the spirits by the heart/mind (xin) visualization on the body through knowledge. Next comes the stage of seated meditation, “sitting and forgetting” (zuowang 坐忘) through which one attains tranquility and finally forgetfulness both of oneself and one’s surroundings. The last stage leads to the spirit of deliverance, the One, or immortality. (DZ 21:699)

Treatise of Sitting and Forgetting

Zuowang lun 坐忘論.

The expression zuowang has become synonymous with meditation. This manual is attributed to Sima Chengzhen. The same terms denote the fourth and next to the last stage of the spirit, or “liberation through concentration.” (DZ 22:891)

Commentary on the Book of Fetus Breathing

Taixi jingzhu 胎息經註. Commentary by Huanzhen Xiansheng 幻真先生 (late ninth century?).

This commentary explains that the practice of fetus breathing enables one to keep the Primordial Qi (yuan qi 元氣) and the spirits (shen 神) within the body and thus to attain immortality. (DZ 2:868)

Master Huanzhen’s Oral Transmission of Consuming Primordial Qi

Huanzhen Xianshen Funeiyuanqi jue 幻真先生服內元氣訣.

The contents of this work can be grouped under three sections; dietary and general recommendations, the fetus breathing Embryonic, and respiratory techniques including liuqi jue, 六氣訣, or “the oral transmission of the six types of (therapeutic) breaths.” (DZ 18:440)

Most High Scripture on Fetus Breathing and Tending Life

Taishang yangsheng taixi qijing 太上養生胎息氣經.

This manual emphasizes the Shangqing techniques for the absorption of astral concretions, corresponding to the viscera and to particular periods of the calendar cycle. Each of the viscera and periods is put in correlation with a specific type of expiration. (DZ 18:401)

Inscription on Concentrating the spirit and Refining Breath

Cunshen lianqi ming 存神練氣銘 Attributed to Sun Simo 孫思邈.

The text is divided into three parts: a general introduction on breathing practices, in four-character verse; five preliminary steps for attaining the Tao; and seven subsequent grades for the advanced adept. (DZ 18:458)

Chart on the Procedures for Increasing and Decreasing the Six Receptacles and Five Viscera According the Inner Landscape of the yellow Court

Huangting neijing wuzang liufu buxie tu 黃庭內經五臟六腑補瀉圖. By Hu Yin 胡愔, 848?

This is an illustrated treatise on the Five Viscera and their corresponding directions, animals, and qi; therapeutic breath-swallowing, seasonal taboos, and gymnastics. (DZ 6:686)

Chart on the Four Qi for Conserving the Health

Siqi shesheng tu 四氣攝生圖. Late Tang.

This work describes and depicts the viscera and their functions, linking them to the seasons and to the rules to be observed to keep in harmony with their changes. (DZ 17:224)

Book of the Hidden Period and Causal Body of the Yellow Court

Huangting dunjia yuanshen jing 黃庭遁甲緣身經. Tang dynasty.

This work combines the meditation and invocation practice of the Book of Yellow Court, the inner landscape and dunjia method, which consists of writing Talisman of the Causal Body of the Six Jia (liujia yuanshen fu 六甲緣身符) and swallowing it. The repertory technique of liuqi jue, 六氣訣, or “the oral transmission of the six type of (therapeutic) breaths” was elaborated with descriptions of the Six Receptacles and Five Viscera in the work. This is a typical Taoist esoteric practice involving magical talisman. (DZ 18:706)

Scripture of the Most High for the Protection of Life through the Elimination of the Three Corpses and the Nine Warms

Taishang chusanshi jiuchong baosheng jing 太上除三尸九虫保生經. Late Tang Dynasty?

This manual presents the agents of decay and death as well as various apotropaic and medical methods and breathing methods for expelling them. The three corpses are identified as demons of human and animal

morphology, the nine warms are given shapes similar to insects and germs, which has led scholars to propose that the existence of harmful bacteria was known to the Chinese of the time. (DZ 18:697)

Copy of Diagrams of Attested Method for the Cultivation of Perfection

Xiuzhen liyan chaotu 修真歷驗鈔圖. Tang dynasty.

This inner alchemy manual describes the formation of an elixir, which under natural conditions would require 4,300 years. The alchemist, however, using the yin and yang components of his body as ingredients, accelerates this process within himself. The procedure emphasizes emptying and fixing hear/mind. The diagram illustrates changes and transformations. (DZ 3:110)

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

Essays on the Awakening to Truth

Wuzhen pian 悟真篇, by the “Southern Patriarch” Zhang Boduan 張伯端 (984-1028); commentaries by Ye Shibiao 葉士表 (dated 1161), and Yuan Gongfu 遠公輔 (dated 1202).

This is one of the most important Taoist works with many commentaries. Written in the same obscure fashion as the famous Zhouyi cantong qi 周易參同契, the manual is open to manifold interpretations, namely the facet of I Ching, neidan, and sexual techniques. Moreover, each master, to express his own ideas, could use it. Like almost all the Taoist classics, the concise or poem style writings were used as individual koujue 口訣 (oral transmission) for close up teacher-student lineage transmissions, which pose an impossible task for (the outsider) scholars and practitioners alike to reply. (DZ 4:605)

Alchemical Formula for the Inner Purification of the Gold Treasure; Secret Writings from the Golden Box of the Jade Purity, transmitted by the Immortal Qinghua

Yuqing jinsi qinghua biwen jinbao neilian danjue 玉清金笥青華祕文金寶內練丹訣, by Zhang Boduan. This text explains in detail inner alchemical theory and practice using pseudo-philosophical terminology.

The main emphasis is on “circulation of the inner light,” and the “fire timing” or the various breathing

topics. (DZ 4:362)

The Cloud Bookcase with Seven Labels

Yunji qiqian 雲笈七籤. Complied by Zhang Junfang 張君房 (fl. 1008-1025).

This work is one of the major Taoist anthologies. The sections 12-26, covering volumes 29-86, which is almost half of the entire anthology, deals with the techniques of meditative and gymnastic practices, medical healing, and alchemy. (DZ 22:1)

Explication Concerning the Elixir of the True one

Zhenyi jingdan jue 真一金丹訣. By Wang Chang 王常, Song (960-1279).

The text comprises the three methods of Yinfujing 陰符經 on the circulation of qi through various points of the body, and methods of “Essentials of Fetus Breathing” Taixi jieyao 胎息節要. (DZ 4:328)

Commentary on Master Cui’s mirror on the Admixture of Ingredients

Cuigong ruyaojing zhujie 崔公入藥鏡注解. Attributed to cui Xifan 崔希範, commentaries by Wang Jie

王玠, or Hunranzi 混然子, ca. 1331.

The most common version of this work is in three-character poem line. Wang Jie interprets the poem as a guide to the Inner Alchemical process to be performed every night from 7 pm to 5 am. The first stage is breath control, then interaction of yin yang, Five-phases and Eight Trigrams, and finally the fire timing and the formation of the elixir. (DZ 2:881)

The True Immortals Secret Transmission of Fire Phasing Techniques

Zhenxian bizhuan huohou fa 真仙祕傳火候法. Late Song (960-1279).

The main methods described in this manual are those of breathing timing and volumes, or “macro orbit fire-phasing” (zhoutian huohou 周天火候), and restraining the seminal essence to increase (the power of) brain (huanjing bunao 還精補腦) techniques by circulating qi. The macrocosmic and microcosmic correspondences accompanied by the I Ching. (DZ 4:932)

Secret Transmission of Master Zhengyang’s Complete Methods of the Sacred Jewel

Bichuan Zhengyang zhenren lingbao bifa 祕傳正陽真人靈寶畢法. Attributed to Zhongli quan 鐘離權, or Yunfang 雲房, Zhengyang zhenren 正陽真人; transmitted by Lu Yan 呂嵒, or Lu Dongbin 呂洞賓, Chunyang zhenren 純陽真人.

This work is ascribed to the legendary Han dynasty Taoist Zhong Liquan; it has been transmitted to Lu Dongbin, a semi-legendary figure of Tang dynasty. They both were acknowledged as patriarchs of Taoist schools that emphasized Inner Alchemy, such as Quanzhen jiao 全真教. Zhongli classified the manual in three sections, representing the Three Vehicles (sancheng 三乘), or the Three Stages of Accomplishment (sancheng 三成). The first stage comprises four sections describing methods of breath control and gymnastics. The next stage, in three sections, deals with methods of circulating qi and inner fluids of the body. The final stage, in three sections, concerns methods of meditation and transfiguration of the sage- hood. (DZ 28:349)

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

Clear Directions on the Great Elixir

Dadan zhizhi 大丹直指. Attributed to the Quanzhen Patriarch Qiu Chuji 丘處機 (1148-1229), or Qiu Changchun 丘長春.

The techniques described in the text are based on the theory and methods of Secret Transmission of

Master Zhengyang’s Complete Methods of Sacred Jewel. It indicates the Primordial Qi (yuanqi 元氣) is

found in the center, which is, the navel. Through breathing exercises the center is activated leading to an unhampered natural circulation of the qi and body fluids. (DZ 4:391)

Shortcut to the Tao: A Miscellany

Zazhu jiejing 雜著捷徑. Yuan dynasty.

This is a collection of meditative and gymnastic practices, including breathing, physiological treatises on Five Viscera, descriptions of body. Baduan jinfa 八段錦法 or Eight Lengths of brocade Method was illustrated with the text ascribed to Zhongli Quan 鐘離權. (DZ 4:605)

Master Chen Xubo’s Central Directions

Chen Xubo guizhong zhinan 陳虛白規中指南 . By Chen Chongsu 陳沖素 (ca. 13th century), or Xubozi

虛白子.

This detailed and clarified treatise on Inner Alchemy is characteristically blending elements from the Southern tradition with that of the Quanzhen School. The term guizhong is borrowed from the Zhouyi cantong qi 周易參同契, or Concordance of the Three According the Book of Change. According to Xinshangbian 賞心編, or Chapter on Recognizing the Heart by Wang Xiangjin 王象晉of the Ming dynasty (1338-1664): “In the studies of human body, the distance between heart and kidneys is 8’2” inches, in which, 3’6” inches below heart is yang, 3’6” inches above kidneys is yin. The inch in the center where

fire and water is copulated and named guizhong.” (DZ 4:384)

Clarified Directions on the Words of Tao

Daoyan qianjin shuo 道言淺近說By Zhang Sanfeng 張三豐 (ca. 13th century).

This short but unique manual describes the practical key concepts in the process of the Inner Alchemy. Unlike most of the Taoist Classics, the work gives a great deal of details on terms like xuanguan 玄關, “the mysterious gate, or the level of the mysterious qi lair;” xiaoxi 消息, “the news, or the time, when one acknowledges the gate of the mysterious qi lair;” ningshen 凝神, “the emptied mind/heart;” tiaoxi 調息, “the regulated breath.” The work indicates: ”When the heart/mind stills and goes below the navel is called the emptied heart/mind, when the breath gathers and goes below the navel it is called the regulated breath.” (Fang, 723)

MING AND QING DYNASTIES (1368-1911)

From the Ming dynasty to the 1911 revolution, many meditative and gymnastic practices have flourished and been widely developed from the Song synthesis of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, however, their original foundations have remained largely untouched. The Ming and Qing meditative and gymnastic texts are essentially commentaries and reinterpretations of the Han, Tang, Song, and Yuan classics.

The Imperative Doctrines for Cultivations in Human Nature and Longevity from the Ten Thousand Gods, (The Imperative Doctrines for Human Nature and Longevity)

Xingming shuangxiu wanshen guizhi 性命雙修萬神圭旨 (性命圭旨)

Although this work is a typical later Inner Alchemic synthesis of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, its essential approach is Taoist. The manual is divided into nine sections accompanied with illustrations and great details for the inner alchemic or meditative practices. (Fang, 734)

Chen Xiyi Twenty-four Seasonal-division Illustrated Gymnastics

Chen Xiyi ershisiqi daoyin zuogong tushi 陳希夷二十四氣導引圖勢.

Attributed to Chen Xiyi, or Tunan 圖南, a semi-legendary figure of the Song dynasty, transmitted by Gao Lian 高濂 (ca. 1341-1424) or Qi Jing 啟敬, Long Yangzi 龍陽子.The manual shows twenty-four positions in a series of sketches accompanied by commentaries on their healing and therapeutic features. Each of the two positions is associated with two seasonal divisions of every month. Every position is practiced at a given time of two hours with each of the main meridians that links to an inner organ of Viscera. The time of the practice and Viscera in turn are accompanied by the five elements in their nature of male and female; dry and wet; and cold and warm. (Fang, 255)

Clear Treatise on the Original Truth of Heavenly Immortal

Tianxian zhengli zhilun 天仙正理直論, Wu Shouyang 伍守陽, or Chongxuzi 沖虛子 was born in 1574. He found wuliu pai 伍柳派, the Wuliu School, one of the most influential inner alchemic school in Ming and Qing times.

This manual is one of the most important works of the Wuliu School. The text emphasizes the micro-orbit channeling, and combines Buddhist meditation techniques. Unlike most meditative or inner alchemic texts, the descriptions in the present work are lucid, direct, and vernacular. (Fang, 791)

The Eight Ways of the Divine Chamber

Shenshi bafa, 神室八法 Liu Yiming 劉一明 (1734-1821), or Wu Yuanzi, 悟元子. He is also known as the transmitter and commentater of Zhang Sanfeng’s Inner Alchemic work Wugen shu 無根樹, or Rootless Tree.

This text is another example of the Inner Alchemic synthesis of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. However, the author elucidates the Taoist Inner Alchemy in the light of Neo-Confucianism, which is unique and rare. It also shows how profoundly the thoughts and practices of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are interwoven by the late Chinese imperial time. (Fang, 847)

The Heart Transmission of Heavenly Immortal’s Gold Elixir

Tianxian jindan xinfa 天仙金丹心法, written by Liu Shouyuan 柳守元between 1813-1815.

The methods in this text belong to Quanzhen Northern School. What makes this text interesting is that the text was written in codes—the order of the words was arranged in a completely nonsense way.

Accordingly, no one could have read the text until Zhao Songfei 趙松飛 decoded the text in 1988.

REPUBLIC AND PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC (1911- Present)

After the fall of the Qing dynasty, there has been a hope for China to create a new synthesis of government that would transform China into a modern nation-state. This hope largely depends on the

ideology of moving China away from its “feudal” past, and releasing China from its “economic backwards” into a new and advanced level of development without the ills of the capitalist system. Under such a social and political background, the meditative and gymnastic practices along with other traditional cultural practices are inevitably considered as superstitions and anti-science. Regardless of the different ideologies of the Chinese Nationalism (1911-1949) and Communism (1949-present), there has been a great attempt to divest religious and cultural contexts so that the meditative and gymnastic practices can be scientifically proved, accessible to everyone, and undertaken collectively.

The Way of Sitting Meditation by Yinshizi

Yinshizi Jingzuo fa 因是子靜坐法, by modern Qi Gong master JIang Weiqiao 蔣維喬 (1872-1958), which was significantly important at the time. Jiang’s manual made a great impact on the backlash of traditional practices since the 1911 revolution, and revived the traditional meditative and gymnastic practices. (Wang, 523)

The Essential Secret for Sitting Meditation from Mr. Yuan Laofan

Yuan Liaofan Xiansheng jingzuo yaojue 袁了凡先生靜坐要訣, commentated by Buddhist monk Xing Huai 性懷 in 1929. In his preface, Yuan expressed the danger of learning meditation without a master or teacher. Yuan states that his transmission was given by two great Tiantai adepts. (Wang, 90)

The Essential Meaning of Sitting Meditation

Jingzuofa jingyi 靜坐法精義, the manual was written in 1920 by the Buddhist scholar Ding Fubao 丁福保 (1874-1952). In the preface, Ding indicates the importance of oral transmission. He claims that the accumulated and secret transmissions in his manual were edited from innumerable meditation books. (Wang, 137) The methods and techniques described in the above three texts are all based on the theory and methods of Tiantai Zhiyi’s 天臺智顗 Treatise on Calming and Discernment 止觀法, in which case, expression of “four kinds of samãdhi” is described as four ways of posture and physical activity, they could conceivably incorporate any form of spiritual discipline or techniques of mental discernment. The descriptions in the present works are lucid, direct, and vernacular.

Principal Secrets for Long Life

Changsheng zongjue 長生總訣, by Li Qingyuan 李慶遠 (1679-1935). Li was born in Sichuan province, the most long-lived person in modern time (256 years). Li lived most of his life as a hermit and herbalist. According to the local historical documents, he served in the Qing Army under General Yue Zhingqi 岳鐘琪 in 1749, and he was invited to a social function by the National Revolution Army General Yang Sen 揚森 in 1928. The manual states Ten Ways to prolong life and stay healthy. The essential method, however, is the synthesis of Taoist and Buddhist. One leads a simple and rustic life by emptying the mind/heart, and staying away from the physical and social desires. This tranquility of life will bring about the ultimate wisdom. According to Li, the true meditative practice is more a way of life style and a state of mind than the body posture and breathing method. (Wang, 151)

Experiences in Healing with Qi Gong

Qi Gong liaofa shiyan 氣功療法實驗, wrote by Liu Guizhen 劉貴珍 (1920-1983) in 1957. Liu’s central method is called the Inner Nourishment, which focuses breathing and concentration on the lower cinnabar field or xiadantian in the lower abdomen, had been transmitted in the Hebei area, especially in his family

since the end of the Ming dynasty (ca. 1644). By divesting religious and traditional cultural contexts, Liu made his practice “scientific,” thus, he achieved acceptance and popularity under the new Chinese Communist regime. Liu’s practice and work not only established Qi Gong as the widely accepted

terminology, but also established the legitimacy of the Qi Gong practice in People’s Republic China. (Tao,

1)

The Book for the Revitalization of Tendons and the Purification of Marrows

Yijin xisui jing 易筋洗髓經, was attributed to the first Chan patriarch Bodhidharma, written in 1624 by Taoist Zinin Daoren 紫凝道人, based on the Han gymnastics and the Yuan Eight Length of Brocade, commentated by Zhou Renfeng 周稔豐 in 1989.

The Way of Circulating True Qi

Zhenqi yunxing fa 真氣運行法, by Li Shaopo 李少波, transmitted by his grandfather, the manual is based on the traditional “Rendu Channeling Micro-orbit Gong 任督二脈小周天功,” “the oral transmission of the six types of (therapeutic) breaths 六氣訣,” and the “Five Animal Plays 五禽戲.”

References:

DZ, Taoist Canon, Daozang 道藏. 1988. Beijing: Wenwu Chubanshe.

Fang, Chunyang 方春陽 ed. 1988. The Great Anthology of Chinese Qi Gong Classics, Zhongguo Qigong Dacheng 中國氣功大成. Jiling: Jiling Science and Technology Press.

Li Ling 李零. 2001. A Study on Chinese Occult Arts, Zhongguo fangshu kao 中國方術考. Beijing: Eastern Press.

Li Shaopo 李少波. 1999. The Way of Circulating True Qi, Zhenqi yunxing fa 真氣運行法. Lanzhou:

Gansu People’s Press.

Tao Bingfu 陶秉福. 1987. An Outstanding Collection of Qi Gong Treatment, Qigong liaofa jijin 氣功療法集錦. Beijing: People’s Health Press.

Wang, Maohe 汪茂和. 1998. Commentaries on Selected Historical Treaties on Tending Life and the Original Nature, Lidaiyangsheng yangxing lunxuanyi 歷代養生養性論選譯. Beijing: Chinese Youth Press.

Wang, Xiping 王西平. 1993. The Collected Essential Secrets of Sitting Meditation, Jingzuo fajue huiyao 靜坐法訣匯要. Huhehaote: Neimenggu People’s Press.

Zhao, Songfei 趙松飛. 1997. The Heart Transmission of Heavenly Immortal’s Gold Elixir, and the Decoded Secret Qi Gong Texts, Tianxian jindan xinfa, fuqigong miwen poyi 天仙金丹心法附氣功秘文破譯. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju.

Zhou, Renfeng 周稔豐. 1989. The Book for the Revitalization of Tendons and the Purification of Marrows, Yijin xisui jing 易筋洗髓經. Tianjing: Tianjing University Press.

Web reference: literati-tradition.com

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This listing, chronological, is excellent; it is rare that one would create such a document. Too often, people just accept what is said or recorded. Qi-gong [chi-kung] ‘breathing exercise’ as it is generically called today for all types and at all times of Chinese history which is technically incorrect.

There is a timeline, within what dynasty, there is a parallel of need and methodology to

philosophy, there is also simple observations [huffing and puffing], there is Ridicule of its purported benefits [qi retching] and there is a competition between ‘from this mountain’ or ‘from this teacher mythical or real’.

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WARRING STATES AND HAN DYNASTY (475 B.C. – 220 A.D.)

The earliest exclusive texts that deal with the meditative practices and the gymnastic exercises are the recent archaeological text discoveries.

Circulating Qi Inscription

Xingqi ming 行氣銘 (475 B.C. – 206 B.C.), scholars consider this text to be from the earlier Warring States Period. This is the earliest available text on the meditative practice solely. It appears to be an esoteric text, short but complete. According to Li Ling’s study, the text is identified as a complete “Rendu Channeling Micro-orbit Qi Gong 任督二脈小周天氣功,” and the much later concept of upper and lower dantian 丹田 was also indicated in the text. (Li, 342-346)

Gymnastic Book

Yinshu 引書 (186 B.C.) is a gymnastic text, a detailed manuscript that includes five sections of health and longevity related techniques. (Li, 359-368)

Gymnastic Chart

Daoyin tu 導引圖 (168 B.C.) is a colored manuscript that shows forty-four moments in a series of sketches accompanied by commentaries on their therapeutic features. (Li, 356-359)

Abstaining from Cereals and Consuming Qi

Quegu shiqi 卻穀食氣 (168 B.C.), the text is a detailed manual of fasting from cereals, taking herbs, and consuming of Qi (breathing practice) techniques. The manual indicates the breathing methods and the herb formulas clearly in several sections: the time of breathing in the day; the volumes of breathing each practice; the qi should be avoided for breathing practice in each season; the qi should be avoided for practice in the day; the six type of beneficial qi of nature; (Li, 346-353)

THREE STATES, SIX DYNASTIES, AND SUI DYNASTY (221–617)

After the Han dynasty, the most obtainable texts have been transmitted in the Taoist Cannon, or Daozang

道藏, which was edited in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).

Methods for a Lasting Life of the Persons of Greatest Purity

Taiqing zhenren looming jue 太清真人絡命訣, from the 3rd or 4th century.

The manual emphasizes the techniques of visualization of the spirits of body by means of visualizing the Five Beasts (cun wushou 存五獸) and traveling through the Viscera (lizang 歷臟). (DZ 2:871)

Exposition of the Tao

Xiandao jing 顯道經. 3rd century.

This is an ancient manual of Tending Life practices that focuses on Fasting (duangu 斷穀). (DZ 18:644)

Treatise of Great Purity on Gymnastics and Nurturing Vitality

Taiqing daoyin yangsheng jing 太清導引養生經 from the 4th century.

This work consists of a collection of gymnastics and breathing techniques, including those of Daolin (i.e., Zhi Dun 支遁, 314-366), representing the schools of various immortals of antiquity (Chisong zi 赤松子, Ningfeng zi 寧封子, Pengzu 彭祖, Wang Ziqiao 王子喬). (DZ 18:401)

Precious Book of the Exterior Landscape of the Yellow Court

Taishang huangting waijing yujing 太上黃庭外景玉經. Before AD 255.

This is the original Huangting jing, the oldest copy of the present text is made by Wang Xizi 王羲之 (303- 379). (DZ 5:913)

Records Concerning Tending Life and the Prolonging of Life

Yangxing Yanming lu 養性延命錄. Attributed to Tao Hingjing 陶弘景 (456-536).

This is a collection of instructions for healthy living, food, and breathing exercises for meditative healing, gymnastics and sexual therapy. The respiratory techniques including liuqi jue, 六氣訣, or “the oral transmission of the six type of (therapeutic) breaths” was introduced in this work, which follows the sound of the words xu 噓, he 呵, xi 呬, chui 吹, hu 呼, xi 嘻, each sound has a therapeutic effect associated with one of the five inner organs. (DZ 18:474)

Treatise on Tiantai Sitting Meditation for Beginners

Xiao zhi guan 小止觀 by Tiantai Zhiyi’s 天臺智顗 (538-597)

This work is fundamentally Chinese Buddhist, especially Chan/Zen Buddhist, meditation manual. The concepts and techniques such as tiaoshen 調身, or regulating and positioning the body, taioxi 調息, or regulating and focusing on the breathing,tiaoxin 調心, or regulating and empty the heart/mind; and the concept of the characteristics of breathing patterns, such as feng 風, or rasping and noisy, chuan 喘, or

restricted and choppy,qi 氣, xi 息, fine and deep, were borrowed by Taoist and other meditative practices, which still play the fundamental role in the modern Qi Gong practices. (Fang, 357)

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

Master Hidden in the Havens

Tianyin zi 天隱子 6 fols. By Sima Chengzhen 司馬承禎 or Bai Yunzi 白雲子(647-735).

This manual deals exclusively with the meditative practices through five stages to attain liberation or awakening. Fasting, faith, and nourishing/cultivating qi attain the first stage. At the second stage, one empties the mind by retreating in the light-conditioned room, and at the third stage, one fixes the spirits by the heart/mind (xin) visualization on the body through knowledge. Next comes the stage of seated meditation, “sitting and forgetting” (zuowang 坐忘) through which one attains tranquility and finally forgetfulness both of oneself and one’s surroundings. The last stage leads to the spirit of deliverance, the One, or immortality. (DZ 21:699)

Treatise of Sitting and Forgetting

Zuowang lun 坐忘論.

The expression zuowang has become synonymous with meditation. This manual is attributed to Sima Chengzhen. The same terms denote the fourth and next to the last stage of the spirit, or “liberation through concentration.” (DZ 22:891)

Commentary on the Book of Fetus Breathing

Taixi jingzhu 胎息經註. Commentary by Huanzhen Xiansheng 幻真先生 (late ninth century?).

This commentary explains that the practice of fetus breathing enables one to keep the Primordial Qi (yuan qi 元氣) and the spirits (shen 神) within the body and thus to attain immortality. (DZ 2:868)

Master Huanzhen’s Oral Transmission of Consuming Primordial Qi

Huanzhen Xianshen Funeiyuanqi jue 幻真先生服內元氣訣.

The contents of this work can be grouped under three sections; dietary and general recommendations, the fetus breathing Embryonic, and respiratory techniques including liuqi jue, 六氣訣, or “the oral transmission of the six types of (therapeutic) breaths.” (DZ 18:440)

Most High Scripture on Fetus Breathing and Tending Life

Taishang yangsheng taixi qijing 太上養生胎息氣經.

This manual emphasizes the Shangqing techniques for the absorption of astral concretions, corresponding to the viscera and to particular periods of the calendar cycle. Each of the viscera and periods is put in correlation with a specific type of expiration. (DZ 18:401)

Inscription on Concentrating the spirit and Refining Breath

Cunshen lianqi ming 存神練氣銘 Attributed to Sun Simo 孫思邈.

The text is divided into three parts: a general introduction on breathing practices, in four-character verse; five preliminary steps for attaining the Tao; and seven subsequent grades for the advanced adept. (DZ 18:458)

Chart on the Procedures for Increasing and Decreasing the Six Receptacles and Five Viscera According the Inner Landscape of the yellow Court

Huangting neijing wuzang liufu buxie tu 黃庭內經五臟六腑補瀉圖. By Hu Yin 胡愔, 848?

This is an illustrated treatise on the Five Viscera and their corresponding directions, animals, and qi; therapeutic breath-swallowing, seasonal taboos, and gymnastics. (DZ 6:686)

Chart on the Four Qi for Conserving the Health

Siqi shesheng tu 四氣攝生圖. Late Tang.

This work describes and depicts the viscera and their functions, linking them to the seasons and to the rules to be observed to keep in harmony with their changes. (DZ 17:224)

Book of the Hidden Period and Causal Body of the Yellow Court

Huangting dunjia yuanshen jing 黃庭遁甲緣身經. Tang dynasty.

This work combines the meditation and invocation practice of the Book of Yellow Court, the inner landscape and dunjia method, which consists of writing Talisman of the Causal Body of the Six Jia (liujia yuanshen fu 六甲緣身符) and swallowing it. The repertory technique of liuqi jue, 六氣訣, or “the oral transmission of the six type of (therapeutic) breaths” was elaborated with descriptions of the Six Receptacles and Five Viscera in the work. This is a typical Taoist esoteric practice involving magical talisman. (DZ 18:706)

Scripture of the Most High for the Protection of Life through the Elimination of the Three Corpses and the Nine Warms

Taishang chusanshi jiuchong baosheng jing 太上除三尸九虫保生經. Late Tang Dynasty?

This manual presents the agents of decay and death as well as various apotropaic and medical methods and breathing methods for expelling them. The three corpses are identified as demons of human and animal morphology, the nine warms are given shapes similar to insects and germs, which has led scholars to propose that the existence of harmful bacteria was known to the Chinese of the time. (DZ 18:697)

Copy of Diagrams of Attested Method for the Cultivation of Perfection

Xiuzhen liyan chaotu 修真歷驗鈔圖. Tang dynasty.

This inner alchemy manual describes the formation of an elixir, which under natural conditions would require 4,300 years. The alchemist, however, using the yin and yang components of his body as ingredients, accelerates this process within himself. The procedure emphasizes emptying and fixing hear/mind. The diagram illustrates changes and transformations. (DZ 3:110)

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

Essays on the Awakening to Truth

Wuzhen pian 悟真篇, by the “Southern Patriarch” Zhang Boduan 張伯端 (984-1028); commentaries by Ye Shibiao 葉士表 (dated 1161), and Yuan Gongfu 遠公輔 (dated 1202).

This is one of the most important Taoist works with many commentaries. Written in the same obscure fashion as the famous Zhouyi cantong qi 周易參同契, the manual is open to manifold interpretations, namely the facet of I Ching, neidan, and sexual techniques. Moreover, each master, to express his own ideas, could use it. Like almost all the Taoist classics, the concise or poem style writings were used as individual koujue 口訣 (oral transmission) for close up teacher-student lineage transmissions, which pose an impossible task for (the outsider) scholars and practitioners alike to reply. (DZ 4:605)

Alchemical Formula for the Inner Purification of the Gold Treasure; Secret Writings from the Golden Box of the Jade Purity, transmitted by the Immortal Qinghua

Yuqing jinsi qinghua biwen jinbao neilian danjue 玉清金笥青華祕文金寶內練丹訣, by Zhang Boduan. This text explains in detail inner alchemical theory and practice using pseudo-philosophical terminology.

The main emphasis is on “circulation of the inner light,” and the “fire timing” or the various breathing

topics. (DZ 4:362)

The Cloud Bookcase with Seven Labels

Yunji qiqian 雲笈七籤. Complied by Zhang Junfang 張君房 (fl. 1008-1025).

This work is one of the major Taoist anthologies. The sections 12-26, covering volumes 29-86, which is almost half of the entire anthology, deals with the techniques of meditative and gymnastic practices, medical healing, and alchemy. (DZ 22:1)

Explication Concerning the Elixir of the True one

Zhenyi jingdan jue 真一金丹訣. By Wang Chang 王常, Song (960-1279).

The text comprises the three methods of Yinfujing 陰符經 on the circulation of qi through various points of the body, and methods of “Essentials of Fetus Breathing” Taixi jieyao 胎息節要. (DZ 4:328)

Commentary on Master Cui’s mirror on the Admixture of Ingredients

Cuigong ruyaojing zhujie 崔公入藥鏡注解. Attributed to cui Xifan 崔希範, commentaries by Wang Jie

王玠, or Hunranzi 混然子, ca. 1331.

The most common version of this work is in three-character poem line. Wang Jie interprets the poem as a guide to the Inner Alchemical process to be performed every night from 7 pm to 5 am. The first stage is breath control, then interaction of yin yang, Five-phases and Eight Trigrams, and finally the fire timing and the formation of the elixir. (DZ 2:881)

The True Immortals Secret Transmission of Fire Phasing Techniques

Zhenxian bizhuan huohou fa 真仙祕傳火候法. Late Song (960-1279).

The main methods described in this manual are those of breathing timing and volumes, or “macro orbit fire-phasing” (zhoutian huohou 周天火候), and restraining the seminal essence to increase (the power of) brain (huanjing bunao 還精補腦) techniques by circulating qi. The macrocosmic and microcosmic correspondences accompanied by the I Ching. (DZ 4:932)

Secret Transmission of Master Zhengyang’s Complete Methods of the Sacred Jewel

Bichuan Zhengyang zhenren lingbao bifa 祕傳正陽真人靈寶畢法. Attributed to Zhongli quan 鐘離權, or Yunfang 雲房, Zhengyang zhenren 正陽真人; transmitted by Lu Yan 呂嵒, or Lu Dongbin 呂洞賓, Chunyang zhenren 純陽真人.

This work is ascribed to the legendary Han dynasty Taoist Zhong Liquan; it has been transmitted to Lu Dongbin, a semi-legendary figure of Tang dynasty. They both were acknowledged as patriarchs of Taoist schools that emphasized Inner Alchemy, such as Quanzhen jiao 全真教. Zhongli classified the manual in three sections, representing the Three Vehicles (sancheng 三乘), or the Three Stages of Accomplishment (sancheng 三成). The first stage comprises four sections describing methods of breath control and gymnastics. The next stage, in three sections, deals with methods of circulating qi and inner fluids of the body. The final stage, in three sections, concerns methods of meditation and transfiguration of the sage- hood. (DZ 28:349)

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

Clear Directions on the Great Elixir

Dadan zhizhi 大丹直指. Attributed to the Quanzhen Patriarch Qiu Chuji 丘處機 (1148-1229), or Qiu Changchun 丘長春.

The techniques described in the text are based on the theory and methods of Secret Transmission of Master Zhengyang’s Complete Methods of Sacred Jewel. It indicates the Primordial Qi (yuanqi 元氣) is found in the center, which is, the navel. Through breathing exercises the center is activated leading to an unhampered natural circulation of the qi and body fluids. (DZ 4:391)

Shortcut to the Tao: A Miscellany

Zazhu jiejing 雜著捷徑. Yuan dynasty.

This is a collection of meditative and gymnastic practices, including breathing, physiological treatises on Five Viscera, descriptions of body. Baduan jinfa 八段錦法 or Eight Lengths of brocade Method was illustrated with the text ascribed to Zhongli Quan 鐘離權. (DZ 4:605)

Master Chen Xubo’s Central Directions

Chen Xubo guizhong zhinan 陳虛白規中指南 . By Chen Chongsu 陳沖素 (ca. 13th century), or Xubozi

虛白子.

This detailed and clarified treatise on Inner Alchemy is characteristically blending elements from the Southern tradition with that of the Quanzhen School. The term guizhong is borrowed from the Zhouyi cantong qi 周易參同契, or Concordance of the Three According the Book of Change. According to Xinshangbian 賞心編, or Chapter on Recognizing the Heart by Wang Xiangjin 王象晉of the Ming dynasty (1338-1664): “In the studies of human body, the distance between heart and kidneys is 8’2” inches, in which, 3’6” inches below heart is yang, 3’6” inches above kidneys is yin. The inch in the center where

fire and water is copulated and named guizhong.” (DZ 4:384)

Clarified Directions on the Words of Tao

Daoyan qianjin shuo 道言淺近說By Zhang Sanfeng 張三豐 (ca. 13th century).

This short but unique manual describes the practical key concepts in the process of the Inner Alchemy. Unlike most of the Taoist Classics, the work gives a great deal of details on terms like xuanguan 玄關, “the mysterious gate, or the level of the mysterious qi lair;” xiaoxi 消息, “the news, or the time, when one

acknowledges the gate of the mysterious qi lair;” ningshen 凝神, “the emptied mind/heart;” tiaoxi 調息, “the regulated breath.” The work indicates: ”When the heart/mind stills and goes below the navel is called the emptied heart/mind, when the breath gathers and goes below the navel it is called the regulated breath.” (Fang, 723)

MING AND QING DYNASTIES (1368-1911)

From the Ming dynasty to the 1911 revolution, many meditative and gymnastic practices have flourished and been widely developed from the Song synthesis of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, however, their original foundations have remained largely untouched. The Ming and Qing meditative and gymnastic texts are essentially commentaries and reinterpretations of the Han, Tang, Song, and Yuan classics.

The Imperative Doctrines for Cultivations in Human Nature and Longevity from the Ten Thousand Gods, (The Imperative Doctrines for Human Nature and Longevity)

Xingming shuangxiu wanshen guizhi 性命雙修萬神圭旨 (性命圭旨)

Although this work is a typical later Inner Alchemic synthesis of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, its essential approach is Taoist. The manual is divided into nine sections accompanied with illustrations and great details for the inner alchemic or meditative practices. (Fang, 734)

Chen Xiyi Twenty-four Seasonal-division Illustrated Gymnastics

Chen Xiyi ershisiqi daoyin zuogong tushi 陳希夷二十四氣導引圖勢.

Attributed to Chen Xiyi, or Tunan 圖南, a semi-legendary figure of the Song dynasty, transmitted by Gao Lian 高濂 (ca. 1341-1424) or Qi Jing 啟敬, Long Yangzi 龍陽子.The manual shows twenty-four positions in a series of sketches accompanied by commentaries on their healing and therapeutic features. Each of the two positions is associated with two seasonal divisions of every month. Every position is practiced at a given time of two hours with each of the main meridians that links to an inner organ of Viscera. The time of the practice and Viscera in turn are accompanied by the five elements in their nature of male and female; dry and wet; and cold and warm. (Fang, 255)

Clear Treatise on the Original Truth of Heavenly Immortal

Tianxian zhengli zhilun 天仙正理直論, Wu Shouyang 伍守陽, or Chongxuzi 沖虛子 was born in 1574. He found wuliu pai 伍柳派, the Wuliu School, one of the most influential inner alchemic school in Ming and Qing times.

This manual is one of the most important works of the Wuliu School. The text emphasizes the micro-orbit channeling, and combines Buddhist meditation techniques. Unlike most meditative or inner alchemic texts, the descriptions in the present work are lucid, direct, and vernacular. (Fang, 791)

The Eight Ways of the Divine Chamber

Shenshi bafa, 神室八法 Liu Yiming 劉一明 (1734-1821), or Wu Yuanzi, 悟元子. He is also known as the transmitter and commentater of Zhang Sanfeng’s Inner Alchemic work Wugen shu 無根樹, or Rootless Tree.

This text is another example of the Inner Alchemic synthesis of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. However, the author elucidates the Taoist Inner Alchemy in the light of Neo-Confucianism, which is unique and rare. It also shows how profoundly the thoughts and practices of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are interwoven by the late Chinese imperial time. (Fang, 847)

The Heart Transmission of Heavenly Immortal’s Gold Elixir

Tianxian jindan xinfa 天仙金丹心法, written by Liu Shouyuan 柳守元between 1813-1815.

The methods in this text belong to Quanzhen Northern School. What makes this text interesting is that the text was written in codes—the order of the words was arranged in a completely nonsense way.

Accordingly, no one could have read the text until Zhao Songfei 趙松飛 decoded the text in 1988.

REPUBLIC AND PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC (1911- Present)

After the fall of the Qing dynasty, there has been a hope for China to create a new synthesis of government that would transform China into a modern nation-state. This hope largely depends on the ideology of moving China away from its “feudal” past, and releasing China from its “economic backwards” into a new and advanced level of development without the ills of the capitalist system. Under such a social and political background, the meditative and gymnastic practices along with other traditional cultural practices are inevitably considered as superstitions and anti-science. Regardless of the different ideologies of the Chinese Nationalism (1911-1949) and Communism (1949-present), there has been a great attempt to

divest religious and cultural contexts so that the meditative and gymnastic practices can be scientifically proved, accessible to everyone, and undertaken collectively.

The Way of Sitting Meditation by Yinshizi

Yinshizi Jingzuo fa 因是子靜坐法, by modern Qi Gong master JIang Weiqiao 蔣維喬 (1872-1958), which was significantly important at the time. Jiang’s manual made a great impact on the backlash of traditional practices since the 1911 revolution, and revived the traditional meditative and gymnastic practices. (Wang, 523)

The Essential Secret for Sitting Meditation from Mr. Yuan Laofan

Yuan Liaofan Xiansheng jingzuo yaojue 袁了凡先生靜坐要訣, commentated by Buddhist monk Xing Huai 性懷 in 1929. In his preface, Yuan expressed the danger of learning meditation without a master or teacher. Yuan states that his transmission was given by two great Tiantai adepts. (Wang, 90)

The Essential Meaning of Sitting Meditation

Jingzuofa jingyi 靜坐法精義, the manual was written in 1920 by the Buddhist scholar Ding Fubao 丁福保 (1874-1952). In the preface, Ding indicates the importance of oral transmission. He claims that the accumulated and secret transmissions in his manual were edited from innumerable meditation books. (Wang, 137) The methods and techniques described in the above three texts are all based on the theory and methods of Tiantai Zhiyi’s 天臺智顗 Treatise on Calming and Discernment 止觀法, in which case, expression of “four kinds of samãdhi” is described as four ways of posture and physical activity, they could conceivably incorporate any form of spiritual discipline or techniques of mental discernment. The descriptions in the present works are lucid, direct, and vernacular.

Principal Secrets for Long Life

Changsheng zongjue 長生總訣, by Li Qingyuan 李慶遠 (1679-1935). Li was born in Sichuan province, the most long-lived person in modern time (256 years). Li lived most of his life as a hermit and herbalist. According to the local historical documents, he served in the Qing Army under General Yue Zhingqi 岳鐘琪 in 1749, and he was invited to a social function by the National Revolution Army General Yang Sen 揚森 in 1928. The manual states Ten Ways to prolong life and stay healthy. The essential method, however, is the synthesis of Taoist and Buddhist. One leads a simple and rustic life by emptying the mind/heart, and staying away from the physical and social desires. This tranquility of life will bring about the ultimate wisdom. According to Li, the true meditative practice is more a way of life style and a state of mind than the body posture and breathing method. (Wang, 151)

Experiences in Healing with Qi Gong

Qi Gong liaofa shiyan 氣功療法實驗, wrote by Liu Guizhen 劉貴珍 (1920-1983) in 1957. Liu’s central method is called the Inner Nourishment, which focuses breathing and concentration on the lower cinnabar field or xiadantian in the lower abdomen, had been transmitted in the Hebei area, especially in his family since the end of the Ming dynasty (ca. 1644). By divesting religious and traditional cultural contexts, Liu made his practice “scientific,” thus, he achieved acceptance and popularity under the new Chinese Communist regime. Liu’s practice and work not only established Qi Gong as the widely accepted terminology, but also established the legitimacy of the Qi Gong practice in People’s Republic China. (Tao, 1)

The Book for the Revitalization of Tendons and the Purification of Marrows

Yijin xisui jing 易筋洗髓經, was attributed to the first Chan patriarch Bodhidharma, written in 1624 by Taoist Zinin Daoren 紫凝道人, based on the Han gymnastics and the Yuan Eight Length of Brocade, commentated by Zhou Renfeng 周稔豐 in 1989.

The Way of Circulating True Qi

Zhenqi yunxing fa 真氣運行法, by Li Shaopo 李少波, transmitted by his grandfather, the manual is based on the traditional “Rendu Channeling Micro-orbit Gong 任督二脈小周天功,” “the oral transmission of the six types of (therapeutic) breaths 六氣訣,” and the “Five Animal Plays 五禽戲.”

References:

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Fang, Chunyang 方春陽 ed. 1988. The Great Anthology of Chinese Qi Gong Classics, Zhongguo Qigong Dacheng 中國氣功大成. Jiling: Jiling Science and Technology Press.

Li Ling 李零. 2001. A Study on Chinese Occult Arts, Zhongguo fangshu kao 中國方術考. Beijing: Eastern Press.

Li Shaopo 李少波. 1999. The Way of Circulating True Qi, Zhenqi yunxing fa 真氣運行法. Lanzhou: Gansu People’s Press.

Tao Bingfu 陶秉福. 1987. An Outstanding Collection of Qi Gong Treatment, Qigong liaofa jijin 氣功療法集錦. Beijing: People’s Health Press.

Wang, Maohe 汪茂和. 1998. Commentaries on Selected Historical Treaties on Tending Life and the Original Nature, Lidaiyangsheng yangxing lunxuanyi 歷代養生養性論選譯. Beijing: Chinese Youth Press.

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Zhao, Songfei 趙松飛. 1997. The Heart Transmission of Heavenly Immortal’s Gold Elixir, and the Decoded Secret Qi Gong Texts, Tianxian jindan xinfa, fuqigong miwen poyi 天仙金丹心法附氣功秘文破譯. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju.

Zhou, Renfeng 周稔豐. 1989. The Book for the Revitalization of Tendons and the Purification of Marrows, Yijin xisui jing 易筋洗髓經. Tianjing: Tianjing University Press.

Web reference: literati-tradition.com

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Poetic translation of The Tao by W.F.M. Number 73.

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Coherent Will

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A brave and calm person will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful? Some things are not favored by heaven. Who knows why? Even the wise are unsure of this.

The Tao of heaven does not strive and yet it overcomes. Its actions are precise and the mission is won.

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It does not ask, yet all its needs are met.

With your acceptance, successful patterns are hereby set.

It seems to have no aim and yet every purpose fulfilled. This cannot come from ill will. Heavens net is cast wide. Though its meshes are coarse, nothing slips through nor cast aside.

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The Chinese word “Qi” translates in English to “energy”. Qi is the energy or natural force which fills the universe. The Chinese believe in Three Powers (San Cai) of the universe: Heaven, Earth and Human.

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In China, Qi is also defined as any energy which demonstrates power and strength, be it electricity, magnetism, heat or light. Electric power is called electric Qi (Dian Qi), and heat is called heat Qi (Re Qi). The weather is called Heaven Qi (Tian Qi) because it indicates the energy state of the heavens. When a person is alive, his body’s energy is called Human Qi (Ren Qi). Qi also expresses the energy state of something, especially of living things. When something is alive it has Vital Qi (Huo Qi), and when dead it has Dead Qi (Si Qi) or Ghost Qi (Gui Qi). When a person is righteous and has the spiritual strength to do good, he is said to have Normal Qi or Righteous Qi (Zheng Qi). The spiritual state or morale of an army is called its Energy State (Qi Shi).

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Intervention into your circumstance can happen in a moment. Can you be receptive?

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-Gathering energy in the psychic world to better position yourself.

-Going beyond your body into the Spirit world without integrating what you have gained into behavior change…

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Receiving the transmission of an authentic master of life with a real lineage Accepting the Grace of God/Tao/Nature in a position of egoic surrender.

In Qigong: Embryonic breathing, bone marrowing and the regulation of Kan and Li represent the same aspects of meditation found in all traditions of enlightenment. ‘Embryonic breathing’ is the happy soulgasm resulting from receiving the special graces found in great contact leading to EMBODIED ENLIGHTENMENT. bone marrowing means that you face the field of conflict and gravity and your whole body becomes ‘Song’ Chinese Empowerment, stimulation, relaxation, you ‘reach the bones to soak the

bones.’ Usually the mind is too distracted to do this especially with the ‘dissociative meditation’ practiced by most. The regulation of Kan and Li means to bring your excessive fire thought/strategizing with psychic

energy into your water that you have built up through sexual/sensual/digestive activation and purifcation. then the steam of chi is born and moves through the channels and into the nerve material.

SILENCE IS MENTAL ANTISCEPTIC GIT SOME.

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The 10 Second Series

You need to say ’10-The Super Slow Down’ within yourself and see just how much transformation you can psychologically and biologically experience inside of 10 seconds. Since, ‘one moment can change everything’ I guess we need to accept more and more transformation in less and less time. A lot can happen inside of 10 seconds. Keep evolving your ability. Test yourself, try again, again-again…AGAIN.

After your done accept the relationships and circumstances upon you to develop internal speed and meet the rhythm of what is present. This can make you go super fast as necessary.

Feeling the water

Opening and closing doors When just going outside Posturing in your car

• Savor your drinking and eating

Say ‘10’ within you and for about ten seconds really taste what you are drinking or eating.

• Rest your eyes

Drop your head into your hands and rest your eyes. Put your phone down, close the laptop lid and rest your eyes right now for at least the next 10 seconds. This can be your first experience and help encourage you to keep going with this program. Sometimes the best thing we can do to really test something is to immerse ourselves.

Once may years earlier I had worn glasses then lost them and just went without for some years. I went in for an exam to get glasses again as I thought it would be helpful for driving and viewing the board in classrooms. I had, in recent years experienced a new interest in resting my eyes. Upon getting the results of my test they said “ You have 20/20 vision.”

REST YOUR EYES

Many years later I failed the eye exam for my drivers license renewal and went to go get glasses again. I asked the ophthalmologist ‘Can a person heal their eyes through any of those programs that are out there? He said “no, that’s all pseudo-science.” So, I got the glasses and then I practiced resting my eyes as I had some weeks before the exam and I passed the eye exam easily without them. That’s two times I healed my own eyes and defied ‘science’ even though the ophthalmologist told me its impossible. Lot’s more amazing transformations have happened in my life. Now, it’s your turn!

*Also, when you can’t read something back off and do 10 seconds of closed eyes relaxation and natural refocusing then try again. This is the proper way to address failing vision not just glasses. It is a signal that you should slow down and give more careful attention.

• Hands on Breathing

I was teaching the official trainers of the Olympic Ski team and once a again a ‘professional’ said “Do you really need to teach us about breathing.” I had heard this with Yogi’s, doctors and fitness professionals for years. Finally, because yes, they needed to learn I developed this hands on system to insure measurable and immediate results. There is a video on my YouTube where a young lady improved here breathing capacity by over 30% in 5 minutes. The naturalness and ease improved as well. You can breathe easier now through this system.

Place your hands on your ribs and feel your breathing. Then, place the back of your hands on your lower back. Bring your attention down and focus on diaphragmatic breathing. By placing your hands on different places front and back of your ribs you can learn proper breathing and influence mental states. In just one short week of practicing now and then when you can you’ll find yourself breathing easier in daily life.

• Look Up

Look straight up. It does a lot more good for you than you know. Just take a few seconds (10 seconds is a doable and repeatable amount of time. As with the other options here just do one of these as you like. By saying ‘10’ in within yourself you can cue youself in to actually experiencing some refreshment. It is this repeated action that over the time may have amazing, cumulative benefits. Why? Because we have so much stuck stuff in our necks.

When was the last time you really looked at the sky? Leaning the head back and looking up relieves neck and shoulders tension. There is so much trapped up stress in our necks and shoulders that the medical world now has a definition called ‘text neck.’ Just look up now and then-

If you are not exactly specific about the training by saying ‘10’ you will not continue for the long term. Training only happens by being specific and accountable. That’s it. If you know of a way to not be specifically accountable to your own experience and practice then this program is not for you.

• Breathe easily

Utilize these natural transformation of your breathing patter to influence your biology as needed.

-Progressive Sighs of Relief.

The best one is to have some sighs of relief naturally by choice. How can you enjoy some real sighs without and technique? Work on that- Nearly every name for God has Ah as a Key syllable; why?

Or-JUST PRETEND. Act out these states of mind and the breathing pattern will follow. Note: This is far more effective than breathing exercises alone that are forced and not naturally occurring.

-The Going to Sleep Breath-Long inhale/quick exhale and the bodymind releases tension.

-The Slow and steady concentrating breath?

Like when you are concentrating steadily on some project.

-The sighing relief breath

Have some sighs of relief and mean it.

-The psyching up breath? Rapid breathing in and out.

Open mouth? Closed and just through the nose? What do you like?

Note: Naturally created transformations of breathing patterns as needed according to the emotional need of the individual is a core way common to all people when they are influencing who they are and how they are interacting.

I know its getting boring at this point but just trust and keep going.

You will certainly be glad you did get through it.

• Connect with some wonderful memory

Say 10 within yourself and connect with some memory were you felt safe and being nourished. Make your treasure chest list and begin tangibly combining the feelings into one supercharging, turbo charging system of self healing. It’s a feeling we are looking to gain a relationship with-Making such a list and referring too it is just a necessary, methodical, boring process. Just trust and start your list. We cannot always understand the why. But, all I can say is can you imagine the feeling change you’ll have in your life if these kind of vibes are more felt in your body and mind? Just imagine-

• Sky and Earth

Connect with sky and earth 10 seconds. Engage each level ‘improving.’ How many different kinds of nourishing feelings can you contact right now? I can assure you its only a fraction of what is being offered to you every day. Therefore, keep changing to improve your experience of union with nature’s nourishing.

-What is your personalized 10 second list?

Please write about it below. Where and when are the places that you can ingrain some 10 second practices. Hint: Begin to transform all your duties into rejuvenating experiences not ones you stress about, rush through and ‘Have to get it done.” Your common duties are offered by life as a respite from other challenges.

10 seconds is the rule for specific homework during your 7 Session program.

If you want to do more that’s fine but it doesn’t take the place of saying ‘10’ and ingraining some of these as lifelong ‘10’ habits.

Here are other 10 second options. If you are bored with these options and just want to read on then skip forward for now.

• Adjust your standing posture

When standing at the sink, in the shower or waiting in a lines. adjust your weight distribution. Continuously refining your stance and posture goes a long way to improve your mind/body relationship.

This saying ‘10’ within yourself may seem unnecessary but accepting that you will do it is a way to enjoy the benefits for a lifetime.

• Core Compressions and Kegals
• Darshan

Say ‘10’ within yourself and lock on to receiving from your Darshan List. The form, the voice. The sound, The sight, the scent, the person, the place in nature, the clip, the words…etc.

• Start the car practice

Say ’10’ within yourself and just settle into your seat refreshing your posture and breathing before you start your car.

• Positioning and Movement

Say ‘10’ and ‘Sky and Earth’ within yourself then begin connecting with your environment, the energy in the air, the sky and cosmos all around and nature’s nourishing. Then carefully position your feet and do the movement for:

Opening and closing doors Picking up and moving objects

Point your toes toward where you are moving towards and whom you are talking with.

When you are opening and closing doors pay attention to the integration of your joints connecting with nature’s nourishing into the movement. The Movement Refinement Series is a series of movements that imitates daily movements all in one flow but super slowed down.

Putting your shoes on and taking them off, posturing when laying down or sitting. Carefully stepping. Grabbing the ground with your feet. 3x stepping.

Post this lists somewhere and between now and tomorrow just say 10 now and then and enjoy some ordinary physical action in a more super slow embodied way. This is odd, yes, so you can do it when no one is watching. Be sure that this is one of the great keys to developing more embodiment and health in yourself.

Note: The problem in life is not really speeding up, keeping up and how to getting more done. Thinking that is your challenge is a delusion. Because, if you have solid restoration time then your productivity automatically improves.

The problem we have is to be able to slow down, center and refresh ourselves. The people who get the most done are calm, cool and collected, focused, present and engaging. So to get more done you actually have to give more time to slowing down, stopping and reversing your search. It is the devotion of the masters. I know it doesn’t make sense. Great wisdom often does not.

You’ll need to go back over the list to memorize what to do. Its not as simple as it seems. You certainly will forget. Ask yourself once per week:

Ask yourself how can these next ten seconds be a better experience of rejuvenation?

Here’s some proof about why taking some time to refine who you are on the inside is your best possible skill to develop:

• Harvard Gazette: “Eight Weeks to a Better Brain” For the first time, MRI images captured measurable changes in human brain structures after only 8 weeks practicing meditation (Self balancing, centering, focusing, relaxing…etc.
• Dr. Eric Kandel who is often considered the greatest brain scientist in the world said in a documentary about meditation and neuroplasticity:

“It is without doubt the last frontier.”

“To understand how you work. To understand how the inner parts of your psyche operate is fantastic.” “Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to change its behavior as a result of experience.” Here, in this program we are experiencing wonderful moments that are independent of our current challenges and circumstances. This automatically fuels changing circumstances for the better.

“The genes are the servants of experience.”

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*This was all said by him in a documentary about the wonders of how meditation can change the brain, enhance the hormones and boost immune system response naturally.

And that’s just what we are doing in this course. How to influence our own systems on deep levels. We are learning this step by step, slowly and steadily.

Please remind yourself everyday that we are intentionally perpetuating bad beliefs and behaviors and for some unknown reason we want to continue these pain causing nightmares keeping us in prisons and hells of our own making.

Admit it: We cannot trust, we cannot follow directions and we cannot truly calm down. This is how masters of life often think of themselves. They perceive themselves as having tremendous personal growing edges and personal mountains to climb. They are not trying to be above it all; ever. Yet this happens for them more than the rest. Start again on your plan for self mastery.

Begin yet another experience for starting fresh to perceive how personal enlightenment and life mastery really happens. It is no through control but rather it is through surrender and trust with the great courage to face your inner energies through accepting the vast sea of psychic magnetism and all people as your primary authorities. The enlightened sage perceives life flowing through each personality and form and it is their duty to evolve their beliefs to realize this-

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How much change can happen in mere moments? Ok, lets look at it: The really good news, a negative test, a good grade, money out of nowhere, a great healing scene in a movie, the mutual look of falling in love, an orgasm, an amazing scene in nature, a job well done. You see, all these events happen in mere moments. Have you devoloped your ‘Moments That Ripple’ List. Doesn’t remembrance give you the ability to have a similar internal, personal experience? Not being able

to have steady attention is much the problem. But, with 10’s, 5’s and The Customized your ability to concentrate will improve over the years. This method is doable and repeatable and based on what works for you as an individual. Do you think it can be any more clear? Of course, it is your choice.

If you want to go forward then keep going back to the theory “One moment can change everything.” Keep training yourself to have moments that ripple and transform your life from the inside/out. This is not new age dissociative bullshit that just strokes your ego and give you fuzzy feelings that attempt to ignore the raw and difficult elements of our lives. So much in self help and spirituality does this and bring you trouble in the long run. This class that we are doing is firmly based in factual science. Get grounded, face your own psyche and dont let anyone lead you to the delusion of not facing life on life’s terms. Get stronger, have purpose and meaning by touching lives. Be happy because you choose to be not because of the constant changes. Need support?

Need relief then stoop down and give someone in true need some food. Nothing resolves the issues of the human psyche other than selfless service. The crown of human life is servanthood and brings the greatest joy possible. Now, you have 10’s, 5’s and Customized. You have the tremendous grace that can come to you from stopping time, reversing your search and feeling Great Contact. And you have a clear understanding of where your ‘Qi’ is blocked. (The scribbles map.) In 10 seconds of feeling the texture of water, in 10 seconds of connecting with nature, your breath, your God, your song. you can get the help you need to grow a new neurology and new

tendrality. EMBODIMENT IS HEALING Real Qi power comes to use when we are vulenerable and

let life back in from the environment all around paying careful attention to postures, stances, stepping and moving. Over time your personal magnetism builds in your bones and nerves. Your personal gravity improves as well so people won’t mess with you as much. With more coherence biomagnetism you will be able to enjoy your life more fully. We are interrupted by life whenever we are stuck on go without any flow. The challenge is you doing life or making the choice to be a conduit of life. In Qigong terms letting the 3 powers in and through which builds sexual, digestive root vitality. The resultant Qi power has one main purpose to mend your neurological traumas and mature psychologically. We have a wonderful opportunity with 10’s, 5’s and The Customized. The Customized is your longer routine. And certainly, these things are more important and beneficial than sleep so you cannot legitimately say you have no time. In the 5 minute routine you have 3 steps 1. Remove the covering to your own felt suffering, dis-eases, distortions 2. Slow down and humbly receive from the sun, moon, stars, cosmos, wise friends. Your my favorites list will bring you to these. and 3. Sighs of relief and natural pauses- Remember “The path advancing appears retreating” So all your frenetic anxiety is wasting you. Please just relax and you will always get more done in less time. In the 3rd step you can evolve in your ability to have split-second ‘moments that ripple’ as mentioned in the beginning. See you Sunday. With Love, William

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Do you remember The Form of Natural Reunions? This is where with prayer hands you give some

respect to The 3 Powers and all that is in them- By opening up to specific nourishements that are

offered to you now you have measurable personal benefits: Flowers, Sky, Stars, Mountains, Rivers, Fur, Friends, Divine People, All people, Trees, Soil, Magma and more…You see each of these is a ingredient the the miracle mixture offered to you. But, if you don’t specifically connect how will

you receive? Shen or Spirit is the ultimate becasue if you have Good Spirit come into your by Great Contact then you naturally are boundless like when alone in a magestic scene in nature.

Have this same connectivity when you are communicating with people. The Spirit atmosphere and

Nature is the proper container wherein all your relating with people, places and things is taking place. Remember that and interrupt your mental obssesion. With Love, William

Touch Down, Ground Down, Settle Down, Calm Down. Find contentment, satisfaction and satiation ‘Within You.’ “The Kindgom of Heaven is Within You.” J.C.

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Send questions. Ohhmmm Ahhhh Hung.

As stuff comes up it natural to have the temptation to go into more anxiety. But, with all your learning you can go into grounding instead.

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Practice remembrance of the main principle of Qigong. Connecting with Sky, Earth and Body in improving ways. Prayer hands and bow to the source of your physical life, Sky levels/stars/space, earth/trees/animals and within your own amazing body.

Practice your stance, weight distribution, posture, each toe smells the earth underneath and around the earth. Standing practice is considered the single most important practice physically in Qigong. So much is influenced by how you stand. Discover it with endless refinements.

Bounce, Turn and Shake it out.

Waving Qi-Start with your palms facing each other then wave your hands back and forth. Get connected with your hand magnetism.

Wash the field

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I admit to myself constantly that: I cannot calm down, I cannot trust, I cannot live with blessed silence and contentment and I cannot follow directions. Each and every single person should, yes should recite this-then and only then do we have the chance to start over and deepen our own wellspring of internal resilience by being receptive, teachable and the conduit of life rather than the maniacle attempts to be the one in control. If and when we dont give that up chaos an…

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Experience is not an objective one unless the intellect has endless commentary and burns the body in the process. Experience is a subjective one;; filled will rich feelings and the mystery of a child. This is not possible when we have endless commentary with no sense of authority or

mentorship. It is said in the Tao “If you try to take the toolbox and become the governor of the universe you will hurt yourself.” The Tao Te Ching

Experience results in calming down and being more centered.

Is that your result?

That depends on what my experience is or was as my experience relates to practicing Qigong so far, I do feel calmer and less affected by the energy of society.I’m less reactionary, or drawn into others energy. No. Experience of life.

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If you would like to resolve more issues and get more done then you’ll have to slow down and go about things more carefully; thoroughly.

Make your stand, take your place.

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After the super serious school of hard knocks and loss I became a Zen monk then the head of security for a main retreat center in the U.S. founded by the guru to the Beattles. I have authored 12 books and have a program for self healing and actualizing that customizes itself to the needs of the individual.

Paying Attention: a learned skill and just like going to the gym is most effective when done on a daily basis. If you fall out of the habit, pick it up again at any time. When learning or reengaging in Mindfulness, it’s normal

for the first few times to be uncomfortable, but just like physical exercise, in a few days the rewards will return with greater ease and enjoyment. I have found meditation to be one of the most profound tools in my journey to not only survive but to thrive. Like anything, at first it is challenging, but with practice, gets easier until eventually it becomes a complete joy. Meditation is best done on a daily basis or even multiple times a day. The goal is to calm the mind and find clarity so that you can better sense what you know is

right. You can carry this mindful awareness with you after, into each moment of your day, and use it to recharge yourself.

Rx: good for those who are anxious and constantly in their heads. Paying attention is incredibly healing and allows you to enjoy life through the ups and downs. Notice your thoughts, let go of them and enjoy the present moment.

It is actually a program of measurable advanced meditation and morphing personally and socially.

AWARENESS STILLNESS SILENCE SPACIOUSNESS TIMELESSNESS MAKES YOU EXTRAORDINARILY RESILIENT COHERENT INTELLIGENT AND DYNAMICALLY/EFFECTIVELY ENGAGING

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“It is said in the Qigong scriptures: If you have your attention on energy your lost. If you have your attention in Spirit your energy is invincible and you are guided and protected automatically.” Wudang

Here is something I got in my email box this morning. Yogananda wrote a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, out of the 1,000 or so books I read this is the best. Here is something his master said.

“Sri Yukteswar was reserved and matter-of-fact in demeanor. There was naught of the vague or daft visionary about him. His feet were firm on the earth, his head in the haven of heaven. Practical people aroused his admiration. “Saintliness is not dumbness! Divine perceptions are not incapacitating!” he would say. “The active expression of virtue gives rise to the keenest intelligence.”

Virtue is the quality in the body of the 3rd power Ren/Human being/Body. Do you remember the 3 powers and how qigong inner empowerment works? Let me know Sunday. To get your certificate for teaching under me you will be tested and I do fail people.

Did you know Qigong originally came from India? Zen, the greatest Qigong understanding and training and Tibetan Buddhism all came from India are were created by East Indians that moved from India to China then to Japan and from India to Tibet.

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Gu Shen Bu Si, Shi Wei Xuan Pin. Xuan Pin Zhi Men, Shi Wei Tian Di Gen.

Mian Mian Ruo Cun, Yong Zhi Bu Qin.

“The Valley Spirit never dies.

It is named the Mysterious Female.

And the Doorway of the Mysterious Female

is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang.

It is there within us all the while; Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry.”

Tao Te Ching 6

(World Scripture, International Religious Foundation, Paragon House Publishing, 1995 p.

95.)

The Spirit in the Void never dies.

It is called The Mother-Deep.

The opening of The Mother-Deep is called the Root of Heaven and Earth. (*)

Ceaselessly, ceaselessly, It nourishes and preserves:

Inexhaustible, without effort.

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‘The lotus grows from the mud’

Great Support and AA Who’s in touch and why? Reverse flashing, Forward flashing

Reach the bones to soak the bones. We have to face our biological psychology to reach our bones NOT DISSOCIATE. Give it a try.

One moment can change everything.

Accept, invoke and create: game changer moments. One moment of good news can clear the atmosphere

A change of atmosphere is felt within and around the body; the key is within your own psychology and neurology. The new neurology and tendrality.

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It’s all in the transmission from the teacher. If you are not being mentored then your ego is in narcissistic control of you.

Obviously there are people in the world and in history that literally eclipse your ability and intelligence in the field of wisdom. Are you connected with them, accepting them which requires sacrifices and obediences. Or, have you got this covered?

Pure Relationalistic Honoring is ultimately the only key to transfiguration of body, mind, spirit and life.

Make Great Contact

Great contact @ a sacrifice:

• Touch and Absorb
• Touch and Black Rock Discharge

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Thank You Jesus! Baby Jesus Save Us! Praise You Jesus!

Plenty of Time! No Time Left!

What does it mean to be a student?

Receptivity, austerity, submission, obedience, sacrifice to God, Guru and primary relationships.

Being receptive means being a student. Are you the teacher or a student. I am only a student the teaching just happens. If we are transparent then we see something different about ourselves. We that most often we are not receptive at all. We play energy chess with other people to control them and keep them out, to always be on the hunt to get something from others or find ways to keep life and people out and under control. This is the collective consciousness self imposed hell and prison of our own making. We just cannot honor others because we think we are better than or different than; we are not. All life is ‘God’ wearing a mask. To survive and thrive we must be connected with Life and the only way to do that is to be receptive to all Its forms.

We are all so stuck in shock that we do not trust life at all. There is no one on the planet that can gift us with profound grace and education; we trust no one. Therefore, loss and pain must come to us in these aspects of egoic self obsession. By the simple fact that our senses are externally oriented rather than internally oriented this is all true. The certain elements of behavior when not to trust is a matter of discernment not judgement. People in love, people empowered by blending with the life force present in the universe, nature and all life forms do not objectify perception. The do not endlessly comment on external matters but listen more than they speak. There is the sense of blended participation they are not stuck control as the only tool to manage people and circumstances. Einstein said “The sole

determining influence of the particle is the wave” In quantum physics this is the proof that all possibilities are perceived with observation then action (the particle), the act of looking or acting is

more precise. Certainly boundaries and controls are necessary yet they function more effectively when we have clear perception instead of frenetic anxiety.

If we would like to avoid loss, pain and misfortune repeating itself in the ways they always have from our dis-eased elements of character and personality then we then would have to go on the journey of no return with self-reinvention. The only species that survive and thrive in nature are those that adapt and change; the rest are recycled.

Where are we static, in shock and not open to instruction at all? I would say most places. Lol. But, by honoring other people, not being different from them, better or special the floodgates of blessings come into our lives giving us special graces, protections and providences.. In Qigong Wei Qi is our shield but this shield that protects us psychically and physically is the subtle expression of an overflow of internal coherence not the result of gathering energy like an addict then using the energy to be separate from the others. Actually, others are the only hope for it is life expressing itself. The ‘electricity’ is one thing behaviors is another. Use discernment not judgment and separatism to navigate your relationships.

Then, your Wei Qi protectedness is much better: Psychically, energetically, and physically. Whenever we drop the defense mechanisms to life and let life back in we are free. In this moment of freedom everything changes like someone suddenly has turned on the lights in the darkness of your life. Let’s have transparency by starting over from scratch again then and only then does life (Qi) rush into us to wash away all the negative residues of our false egoic obsessions, faulty beliefs and behaviors. The key to energy is not energy at all. In the scripture of Chinese medicine it is said. “If you have your attention on your energy then you are in hell and confused. But, if you have your attention on Spirit, in your body with your relationships primarily Life and Yourself, then your energy is more invincible and adapts to every situation. We can talk about this more tomorrow in class. Please prepare some questions. Think carefully, slowly. Be a student not a teacher.

Now, just forget all that and please just relax.

ITS LIKE SUDDENLY SOMEONE HAS TURNED ON THE LIGHTS IN THE ROOM OF YOUR LIFE.

THE AIR IS CLEAR THE WAY IS CLEAR

THE BAD KARMA IS DISSOLVED

THE GOOD KARMA IS PATTERNED OUT IN ALL TIME FRAMES

ITS ALL IN THE TRANSMISSION

ACCEPT IT IN AND THROUGH

Life itself then makes for you a better future giving you all you could ever want or need. Drop your defense mechanisms that are ever attempting to keep life out and under your control then Life itself rushes in to help you.” W.F.M.

Only ‘the transmission’ can help you. Only accepting ‘Great Contact’ ultimately allows you to feel safe enough to be with your exposed personal issues.

This means you have to be receptive and make the sacrifices of bad habits and the repetition of ingraining better ones. Are you receptive to life or attempting to control it and design it? Isn’t that silly of us? Why not merge with the larger vast expanse of life and see what designs It has for us. More managing ability happens when we blend with the sea of Chi/ The sea of psychic magnetism and be accountable for what it exposes in us.

We can be receptive when alone in a nourishing scene in nature but as soon as we make contact with others we practice being separate rather then face and engage the conflict and challenge to adapt.

Therefore, Qi healing and empowerment is dependent upon pure relationalism. Pure relationalism means you consistently return to the process of interpreting relationships in terms of how the other person or event is teaching and guiding your evolution into more personal coherence. Otherwise, we cannot get beyond the limited scope of subject/object relationship and contact with nature is lost.

As we trust and let life back in ‘spot healings’ happen in our biology, in who we are on the deepest level granting us more coherence. -0+ is automatically applied from this field of coherence therefore discernment and boundaries function best this way naturally. – is grounding the mutual disease dynamic when it is revealed in a relationship. 0 is neutrality and + is facilitation.

What does it mean to be a student; An apprentice?

Usually, people learn in such a way that they gather energy and information from teachers then discard them. That is the norm in all spheres of education.

This cannot happen if you contact teachers of extraordinary wisdom; not me by the way. But, I can direct you to such individuals.

When we do not have such people in our lives it simply means we are not ready, willing and able. Yet, this kind of instruction may be the only thing to help the us and the human race save itself from itself. Also, it is the quickest possible route to transforming personal circumstances. Deep seated in our biological biography, belief and behaviors exist, misconfigurations that require acceptance of ‘the masters touch’ and congruence with guidance.

We must ask ourselves again and again throughout our entire lives “Am I teachable?” “Can I follow expert guidance?” If this is not present in our lives, regardless of your level of enlightenment we cannot succeed because we are shut off to the flow of transformation naturally prompting us to mature and change as all life self adapts to evolve. To be shut off to true mentorship means we believe that there is not one person on the entire earth more wise than us that can be trusted? Could that be true? Please note that self directed enlightenment is the manifestation of grandiosity and escapism. It is not possible. As we accept the guidance of life then, yes, we realilze more It in ourselves but we are never beyond such guidance that primarily has its expression from connecting with truly masterful people

that eclipse our understanding and abilities. If you think that does not exist in relationship to you I would suggest you choose once again to let life in more fully and you will thereby naturally discover such people. Along the path of human evolution one may actually meet such people and be extraordinarily benefitted.

Now is our chance…again.

Who entrains who? Whoever dominates get the energy and facilitation of their agenda. Well, should we always try to be in that position? There is our problem, never being a follower of anyone or anything. Only attempting to lead and dominate with no sense of authority nor humility. I think this is both your and mind biggest problem in life.

‘Get the transmission’

Let’s support each other to encourage ways and means to transform our entire lives into a rejuvenating experience

Over the next few months, we will explore various things written in your certification document. You certainly do not need to understand it all. But rather, a basic understanding with practice will gain you your teacher’s certification. All given here is for ongoing reference to reduce stress in your life. I’m not meaning to add more ‘stuff’ to your already busy life. What we are doing together is a return to naturalness of being, so take it easy. Learn principles and experiences which you can repeat for a lifetime that actually improves your quality of life-measurably- And help you to transform deep-seated issues, field conflict, and repair the damage from things gone awry. Finally, design today with experiences to improve your own personal coherence for that is the luck factor in life. It is the best way to help yourself, your loved ones and our world. With love, William

Welcome. I hope this 37 page document can serve you for years to come. William

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You cannot learn, you cannot give up bad habits, you cannot follow directions, you cannot ingrain good habits, you are not teachable,

Obedience is greater than understanding

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What is Qi?

On a physical level it is electomagneteism. Every cell in your body is a little battery that receives and emits informational magnetism.

The planet is the same

Galaxies are the same.

That is all hard science not grandiosity.

THE PRECISE ACUPOINT FOR GROUNDING- OR HEALING

Live with your point, spot, area, connected areas and associated psychology safely exposed and attacked and reconfigured by life. In the sensing hands psychic dynamism.

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The 3 treasures are: 1. Jing (Essence Pre and Post along with how to cultivate it) 2. Chi (Energy along with how to cultivate it) 3. Shen (Spirit along with how to cultivate It.

Class 1: Course overview, getting to know each other practice the basic form. A brief yet comprehensive history of Qigong. Take home notes.

Practice the form and learn more about-

The 3 Powers Powers pour The 3 Treasures

And build more 3 Treasures materials into the flesh, blood and bone.

As is fasely taught in Chinese medicine The 3 treasures are not the source of Qigong Healilng. The 3 Powers are- 1. Tian (Heaven/Sky/Deity) 2. Dih (Various Earth/Nature’s nourishing’s 3. Body (Virtue in the body)

Our routine we will practice throughout the course includes:

Our Qigong Practice form is:

1. Squatting, Stancing (each toe, grabbing the ground) (hands on abdominal breathing-), Shake it off, bouncing, The Body Gym, Stancing, Core compressions and kegals, careful walking (Bagua circle walking switch), stepping and refining integrated movement

IHASP…Inhale, Hold, Accumulate, Swallow, Press.

1. The 3 powers pouring The 3 Treasures form. ‘Drop the Qi , wash the bones and ground down, out and through.’
2. Forms of Nature’s nourishing (co process more) Natures elements (5 element Qigong) (Five animal Frolic Qigong), wash the field (Making psychic contact. Who’s in touch with you and why?)
3. Reverse breathing and energy pressurizing (Push the cart and car)
4. Waving Qi, Qi balls 3x pressure increasing condensation. (tiger bones-marrow activation)

(Pulling silk)

1. One Finger Zen
2. The body gym and core compressions and kegals, Ta Mo Palm/Fist set
3. The Original Temple style Tai Chi with inner Qi Flow instructions.
4. Go inside for seated meditation ending with flat back meditation.

Heavenly Circulation

Ifluencing Kan (water and fire) and Li, CREATING THE IMMORTAL EMBRYO (In daily life keep your mind in your naval) Water Qi comes up from sexual area and kidneys Qi enters into the torso and Fire Qi comes down from the head and heart Together they make the steam of physical Qi enlivening the immoral self from conception through raising. This great vibe then enters into the thrusting vessel (the spinal chord) to then begin Grand Heavenly Circulation through the Major Yin and Yang rivers of Qi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naMPKTc9d6I-reverse breathing for

embryonic breathing / turtle breathing… the

natural pauses and slows of relief. Flat back palms up with music, incense, eye pillow.

An entirely new level of stimulation transmuting.

Connecting your biocircuit to nature.

1. Pre viewing, entrance and establishment into your relationships and circumstance prior to your next engagements.

Class 2

A brief history of Qigong:

Medical-4,000

Scholar-2,400 Confucius 551-479 B.C.

Lao Tzu for human morality 600-400 B.C.

Religious-2,000

Martial 500 A.D.

Shaman vessels 7,000 5,ooo –

I ching

Yellow Emperor Turtle Shell

….Various forms of dance, animal imitation Dao Yin

Bodhidharma Chang Seng Feng

Qigong and Bill Moyers 90’s Qigong Made illegal Global Qigong phenomenah

Only in the last 30 years or so is the secret Shaolin teaching become available to the general public

Two brains…Guts and Head 96 Jan 23rd

The enteric nervous system

Two brains connected by spinal chord. The Thrusting Vessel. Highly electrically conductive material.

Yin Jiou=Inch below belly button

Thrustin vessel and Conception Vessel unite in a sea

Qi Hai (Medical society) two inches below belly button

Dan Tien in Taoist Society Elixer field Center of physical gravity in motion.

Real Dan Tien, False Dan Tien.

Hands on Breathing then bring the attention into the real Dan Tien

The abdominal pump baby Baby suck

Sipping, sucking, pulling, Normal abdominal breathing

True abdominal breathing helps hormones massages adrenal and pancreas.

Reverse breathing:

Pushing something heavy

More inhale more Yin More Exhale More Yang

Conception vessel and Governing Vessel distributes to the

Original essence stored in kidneys

External kidneys: Testicle and Ovaries THE 3 STEPS FOR INNER UPGRADES

DOWN FROM SKY AND UP FROM EARTH

6 layers of muscle and fascia active battery, condense into sexuality overflow to start grand heavenly circulation

ITS ALL DEPENDENT ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WRONGNESS, GREAT HELP AND CHANGE.

Why?

BECAUSE ENERGY FIELD DEVELOPMENT IS DEPENDENT ON FREQUENCY COHERNECE NOT AMPLITUDE. AMPLITUE IS AUTOMATED.

(LIKE WE THINK) BUT FREQUENCY

WE HAVE WRONGNESS IN PSYCHOLOGY PSYSICAL DISEASE AND BEHAVIORS. If

we do not continuously address such personal issues then these are the holes in our boat were we ‘get got’ and have repeating and further bad circumstances manifest.

Cells are in obsession, predation, fear

How can we be free like when alone in nature yet relationally?

PERSONAL COHERENCE SELF SOURCING

Fertility and Conception power

Sense-uality

Genetic editing

Stretching the attention…10’s 5’s customized of complete concentration forgetting all else: Everyone, everything, everywhen, everything

Becoming totally absorbed with

Precise focus Penetrating focus Puzzling focus

Dynamic responsiveness. Is he or she responding?

Intuition Singulet Cortex

THE SACRAL PUMP THE PELVIC THRUST

MORTAL ROOTING ABSORPTION

Class 3

The Deeper Dive. Long alternations between Profound relief casuing sighs and natural pauses.

‘Sighing relief for days on end.’

Wu Ji, Tai Chi, Xin (Heart mind) and Yi (Intention/intellectual mind) Yin and Yang, Kan and Li (the bodyminds water and fire essence), Yi(Intention) and Chi(energy),

The precise acu points for healing or grounding- If you had to pick one point on your body where would that be?

THE SWALLOWING TUBE

I felt your vibe. Its your turn to win the lottery. The universe. Class 4

Form practice and-

Zuang Gung-Various methods of standing practice.

Along with ‘The Movement Refinement Series: The body is an interconnected web of materials supplied by 3 powers connected awareness. Learn how to sit down, stand up, lay down, pick something up, turn around, move objects, open and close doors all as a primary Qigong rejuvenating experience.

Smbh painting, Feet/toes weight distribution, grounding through earth connect points (In and down), body alignment, connectivity with sky, earth and your biological biography. Positional stepping precision.

Class 5- The Mudd Pill and The Mudd Palace from ancient Chinese scriptures Reinterpreting your life experience and what is in the air for brain stem nourishment. The more inwardly inner spacious we are the better our external insight.

The personalized key acupoint (psychologically related to the biological biography) third eye, feet, earlobes,

Venting diseased Qi- The direct relationship of letting out diseased qi and being assaulted.

Grounding and upgrading the mutual disease dynamic. What goes out tries to come back in. The new neurology/tendrality a physically gristly process.

Absorbing ‘the magic garden’ ‘fully housed flash transfigures physically/quantumly/historically.

Form practice and-

Developing X Ray Vision and Opening the 3rd eye (The Mud palace and the mud pill) Reading The Field. Transparency is key. Making the map of self and client

What is Embryonic Breathing? The most advanced accomplishment of Qigong masters. Includes ancient Qigong scriptures.

Baby fat, jelly steeling, noodle body

Class 6-

Form practice and a further look into the the inner accomplishment of true Qigong masters:

Qigong Meditation (Embroyic breathing improvements including the methods of feeling peace of mind with downloading/rooting energy further for psychological healing)-Bone Marrowing- reach the bones to soak the bones, bone wrapping/squezing. Naturally longer inhale than exhale for calming down and internal repair/reconfiguration-developing inner immunity. Naturally longer exhale for fighting off predation and developing outer immunity.

Class 7- Customizing/Personalizing your understanding and practice and a look at what long term measurable improvement means for you as an individual.

Articles to help your understanding and practice of Qigong.

Theories of Yin-Yang and Kan-Li 陰陽、坎離之理論

by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

March 4, 2019

To practice qigong accurately, you must not only understand the theory but also the correct methods of practice. Knowing the theory correctly places a clear and accurate map in your hands leading you to your goal in the shortest time. Without this map, you may take many years to find the correct path.

To practice qigong accurately, you must not only understand the theory but also the correct methods of practice. Knowing the theory correctly places a clear and accurate map in your hands leading you to your goal in the shortest time. Without this map, you may take many years to find the correct path.

Two of the most important concepts in qigong practice are the theory of yin and yang and of kan and li. These two concepts have been commonly confused in qigong society, even in China. If you are able to understand them clearly, you will have grasped an important key to the practice of qigong.

What Are Kan and Li?

Kan and li training has long been of major importance to qigong practitioners.To understand why, you must understand these two words and the theory behind them. The terms kan(坎) and li(離) occur frequently in qigong documents. In the eight trigrams, kan represents “water,” while li represents “fire.” However, the everyday terms for water and fire are also often used.

First, you should understand that even though kan-li and yin-yang are related, kan and li are not yin and yang. Kan is water, which is able to cool your body down and make it more yin, while li is fire, which warms your body and makes it more yang. Kan and li are the methods or causes, while yin and yang are the results. When kan and li are correctly adjusted or regulated, yin and yang will be balanced and interact harmoniously.

Qigong practitioners believe that your body is always too yang, unless you are sick or have not eaten for a long time, in which case, your body may be more yin. When your body is always yang, it is degenerating and burning out. It is believed that this is the cause of aging. If you are able to use water to cool down your body, you can slow down the process of degeneration and thereby lengthen your life. This is the main reason why qigong practitioners have been studying ways of improving the quality of water in their bodies and of reducing the quantity of fire. I believe that as a qigong practitioner, you should always keep this subject at the top of your list for study and research. If you earnestly ponder and experiment, you can grasp the trick of adjusting them.

If you want to learn how to adjust them, you must understand that water and fire mean many things in your body. The first concern is your qi. Qi is classified as fire or water. When your qi is not pure and causes your physical body to heat up and your mental/spiritual body to become unstable (yang), it is classified as fire qi. The qi that is pure and is able to cool both your physical and spiritual bodies (make them more yin) is considered water qi. However, your body can never be purely water.

Water can cool down the fire, but it must never totally quench it because then, you would be dead. It is also said that fire qi is able to agitate and stimulate the emotions and from these emotions generate a “mind.” This mind is called xin (心) and is considered the fire mind, yang mind, or emotional mind. On the other hand, the mind that water qi

generates is calm, steady, and wise. This mind is called yi (意) and is considered to be the water mind or wisdom mind. If your shen is nourished by fire qi, although your shen may be high, it will be scattered and confused (a yangshen). Naturally, if the shen is nourished and raised by water qi, it will be firm and steady (a yin mind). When your yi is able to effectively govern your emotional xin, your will (strong emotional intention) can be firm.

You can see from this discussion that your qi is the main cause of the yin and yang of your physical body, your mind, and your shen. To regulate your body’s yin and yang, you must learn how to regulate your body’s water and fire qi, and to do this efficiently you must know their sources.

To understand kan and li clearly and to adjust them efficiently, you are urged to use the modern scientific, medical point of view to analyze the concepts. This will allow you to marry the past and present and give birth to the future.

Kan and Li in Breathing, Mind, and Shen

1. Breathing’s Kan and Li

In qigong, breathing is considered a “strategy” that enables you to lead the qi effectively. For example, you can use your breath to lead the qi to your skin or marrow. Slow orfast breathing can make the flow of qi calm or vigorous. When you are excited your body is yang, and you exhale more than you inhale. This leads the qi to the skin so that you sweat, and the excess dissipates into the surrounding air. When you are sad, your body is yin, and you inhale more than you exhale to lead the qi inward to conserve it, and you feel cold. You can see that breathing can be the main cause of changing the body’s yin and yang. Therefore, breathing has kan and li.

Generally speaking, in the normal state of your body, inhaling is considered to be a water activity (kan) because you lead the qi inward to the bone marrow where it is stored. This reduces the qi in the muscles and tendons, which calms down the body’s yang. Exhaling is considered a fire activity (li) because it brings qi outward to the muscles, tendons, and skin to energize them, making the body more yang. When the body is more yang than its surroundings, the qi in the body is automatically dissipated outward.

Normally, yin and yang should be balanced so that your body will function harmoniously. The trick to maintaining this balance is using breathing strategy. Usually, your inhalations and exhalations should be equal. However, when you are excited, your body is too yang, so youmay inhale longer and deeper to calm your mind and lead the qi inside your body to make it more yin.

In qigong practice, it is very important to grasp the trick of correct breathing. It is the exhalation that leads qi to the five centers (head, two laogong cavities at the center of the

palms, and two yongquan cavities near the center of the soles) and the skin to exchange qi with the surroundings.

1. The Mind’s Kan and Li

According to Chinese tradition, a human has two minds: xin (心) and yi (意). Xin istranslated literally as “heart” and is considered as the mind generated from emotional disturbance. Therefore, xin can be translated as “emotional mind.” The Chinese word for yi is constructed of three characters. The top one means “establish” (立), the middle one means “speaking” (曰), and the bottom one is “heart” (心). That means the emotional mind is under control when you speak. Therefore, yi can be translated as “wisdom mind” or “rational mind.” Because the emotional mind makes you excited and emotionally disturbed, which results in the excitement of your body (yang), it is considered as li. The wisdom mind that makes you calm, peaceful, and able to think clearly (yin) is considered to be kan.

In qigong training, the mind is considered the “general” whodirects the entire battle. It is the general who decides the fighting strategy (breathing) and controls the movement of the soldiers (qi). Therefore, as a general, you must control your xin (emotional mind), use your yi (wisdom mind) to judge and understand the situation, and then finally decide on the proper strategy.

In qigong, your wisdom mind must first dominate the situation and generate an idea. This idea generates and executes the strategy (breathing) and is also the force that moves the qi. Generally speaking, when your mind is excited, aggressive, and energized, the strategy (breathing) is more offensive (emphasizing exhalation), and the qi circulation is more vigorous and expansive. This aggressive mind is then considered a fire mind because it is able to make your body more yang. However, when the strategy is more defensive (i.e., emphasizing inhalation), the qi circulation will be more calm and condensing. Therefore, a calm or depressed mind is considered a water mind because it can make your body more yin.

You can see that the kan and li of the mind are more important than those of breathing. After all, it is the mind that makes the strategy. Regulating the mind and the breathing are two of the basic techniques for controlling your body’s yin and yang. Regulating the mind and the breathing cannot be separated. When the mind is regulated, the breathing can be regulated. When the breathing is regulated, the mind is able to enter a deeper level of calmness.

1. The Shen’s Kan and Li

Now, it is time to consider the final and most decisive element in winning a battle: the shen (神). Shen is compared to the morale of the general’s officers and soldiers. There are many cases throughout history of armies winning battles against great odds because

the morale of their soldiers was high. If a soldier’s morale is high enough, he can defeat ten enemies.

It is the same in qigong training. It is the shen that determines how successful your qigong practice will be. Your yi (wisdom mind), which is the general who makes the strategy, must also be concerned with raising the fighting morale (shen) of the soldiers (qi). When their morale is raised, the soldiers can be led more efficiently, and consequently, the strategy can be executed more effectively.

You can see that knowing how to use the yi to raise the shen is the major key to successful qigong training. In qigong, shen is considered the headquarters that governs the qi. As a matter of fact, both yi and shen govern the qi. They are closely related and cannot be separated.

Generally speaking, when the wisdom mind (yi) is energized, the shen is also raised. You should understand that in qigong training, you want to raise your shen but not let it get excited. When the shen is raised, the strategy can be carried out effectively.

However, if the shen is excited, the body will become too yang, and that is not desirable in qigong practice. When you are practicing qigong, you want to keep your shen high all the time and use it to govern the strategy and the qi. This will enable you to readjust or regulate your kan and li efficiently.

Shen is the control tower that is able to adjust the kan and li, but it does not have kan and li itself. Nevertheless, some qigong practitioners consider the raised shen to be li (fire) and the calm shen to be kan (water).

Now, let us draw a few important conclusions from the above discussion:

1. Kan (water) and li (fire) are not yin and yang. Kan and li are methods that can cause yin or yang.
2. Qi itself is only a form of energy and does not have kan and li. When qi is too excessive or too deficient, it can cause the body to be too yang or too yin.
3. When you adjust kan and li in the body, the mind is the first concern. The mind can be kan or li. It determines the strategy (breathing) for withdrawing the qi (kan) or expanding it (li).
4. Breathing has kan and li. Usually inhaling, which makes the body more yin, is kan. Exhaling, which makes the body more yang, is li.
5. The shen does not have kan and li. Shen is the key to making the kan and li adjustment effective and efficient.

Qigong exercises

PetarSmiljana Qigong

One of the first things to balance the Water element is that you start practice Qigong daily. There are many Qigong sets which were designed with a purpose to balance the energies of Five elements and many of them are simple enough that are suitable for beginners as well. For example different forms of Five elements Qigong, Four seasons Qigong, Five animal sports…

\During a winter time, the season connected with Water element, you can do more repetitions of exercises related to the Water element to support its energy.

If Water element is out of balance

The same method can be used if you already have issues with your Water element but in this case I recommend you to put more emphasis on exercises for Water element through all the year. However if there is no significant improvement after some time, this might mean that your Water element is already too weak. Try to work more with the Metal element which is the element which supports Water.

If your Water element is considerably out of balance it may take some time to restore the balance. Maybe you will need additional help of Qigong healer, acupuncturist etc. And as you will see later on you should probably also change your life style, but that requires patience and time.

Tapping and massaging

To keep the balance of Water element, especially in the winter, Qigong massaging and tapping techniques are very effective. Massaging Kidneys area and ears can be used also by beginners which are not yet familiar yet with human energy system.

Very effective to stimulate the Water energy is tapping along the pathways of Kidneys and Bladder meridians. Those of you who are more familiar with meridian paths and acupuncture points on them can of course use these points; massaging them, use moxibustion where it’s opportune or opening them by using the mind in meditation if you are familiar with this approach.

Some of these exercises you will find soon in a video form on our YouTube Channel. (Subscribe (free) if you don’t want to miss new videos.)

Cold and Water element

Even if your Water element is in balance, I would recommend you to take special care of it when it is cold. To have a smooth transition to winter time start with Water element exercises (for example Four season Qigong) or increase the number of Water exercises (Five elements Qigong…) starting in the last two weeks of autumn and then along all the winter season.

Organs related to the Water element, Kidneys and Bladder, are sensitive to cold, so keep them warm. Make sure that the areas of the body where they are located are covered and warm.

Make sure that also your soles of the feet (where energy gates Yongquan points, KI-1, are located) are warm so that cold from surrounding can’t enter the kidneys meridian and cause imbalances.

As you remember Kidneys open in ears, so keep your ears and head covered as well.

Taking care of the Essence

As discussed in the blog Water element – part 1 your Essence is connected with

Kidneys. I will only reassume in short what are the things that you shouldn’t do if you

want to preserve your Essence.

Don’t deplete the Essence with excessive sexual activity (this concerns especially males). Avoid excessive physical work or extreme exercising over longer periods of time because they weaken the Essence. Also physical and mental overwork without rest have detrimental effects on Essence. Especially if accompanied with irregular eating, stress and emotion of fear.

In order to maintain your Water element in balance you should adapt your life style so that you have enough rest, quiet and sleep.

Silence

Kidneys love silence. Make sure that after a day full of noise or constant talking with people you spend some time in silence to balance the Kidneys energy. It is ideal if you practice meditation daily; even a short one will help you.

Diet

If you want your body to function well it needs in the first place to be hydrated. It needs enough of pure water of the best quality possible. And it needs also water contained in a fresh fruit and vegetable (“structured water”).

In general avoid all refined and processed food which is dead and rich with additives harmful for your body. Water element is related with the salty taste and too much salty food can affect kidneys. So use salt in moderation. Use only unrefined natural salt and not commercial table salt.

Avoid refined sugar in any form. Rather use in moderation natural sweeteners (for

example moderate amount of soaked dry fruit…).

You will support your Water energy also if you arrange your life in the way that you can eat regularly, without hurry and in a calm atmosphere without thinking or worrying about overwhelming things. Eat slowly, try to be present while eating and learn to appreciate your delicious and healthy food which gives you the energy to live and create wonderful things.

Fear – emotion which drains your Water element

Fear is according to TCM and Taoist practice the emotion related with Water element. Experiencing fear (paranoia, phobia…) often and for prolonged periods of time can seriously damage the energy of your Water element and Kidneys and in time also

health of your physical organs and mental health. If your Water element is already weak it is common that you are more easily scared and you are afraid of many things in your life.

The emotion that can replace fear is according to Taoists clarity. Fear is an emotion produced by a distorted view when you can’t see things in their real nature because your mind is foggy and scattered.

This is very interesting topic if you are aware that our modern civilization is based on fear, fear in many different forms. I will discuss this more in depth in some other blog.

Today I will suggest you only two things which can help you on the path of balancing the excessive emotion of fear and slowly regain the clarity of your mind. The first is to practice meditation every day, even for a short period of time such as 15-20 minutes. The second one is that you start to avoid highly negative mass media.

By using these two approaches you will be able to slowly regain the clarity of your mind and to start breaking the vicious circle of fear. You will find the harmony within you and with the Heaven and Earth.

Li Ching-Yuen 250 year old man

Born Li Ching-Yuen

The article “Tortoise-Pigeon-Dog”, from the May 15, 1933 issue of Time reports on his history, and includes Li Ching-Yuen’s answer to the secret of a long life:[3]

• Tranquil mind
• Sit like a tortoise
• Walk sprightly like a pigeon
• Sleep like a dog

Li Ching-Yuen or Li Ching-Yun (simplified Chinese: 李清云; traditional Chinese: 李清雲; pinyin: Lǐ Qīngyún; died May 6, 1933) was a Chinese herbalist who supposedly lived to be over 256 years old.[1][2] He claimed to be born in 1736, while disputed records suggest 1677. Both alleged lifespans of 197 and 256 years far exceed the longest confirmed lifespan of 122 years and 164 days of the French woman Jeanne Calment. His true date of birth was never determined. He was reported to be a martial artist, herbalist and tactical advisor.

Whereas Li Ching-Yuen himself claimed to have been born in 1736, Wu Chung-chieh, a professor of the Chengdu University, asserts that Li was born in 1677 in Qijiang

County, Sichuan province.[citation needed] According to a 1930 New York Times article, Wu discovered Imperial Chinese government records from 1827 congratulating Li on his 150^th birthday,[3] and further documents later congratulating him on his 200^th birthday in 1877. In 1928, a New York Times correspondent wrote that many of the old men in Li’s neighborhood asserted that their grandfathers knew him when they were boys, and that he at that time was a grown man.[4]

One of Li Ching-Yuen disciples, the Taijiquan Master Da Liu told of his master’s story: when 130 years-old Master Li would have encountered in the mountains an olderhermit, over 500 years old, who taught him Baguazhang and a set of Qigong with breathing instructions, movements training coordinated with specific sounds, and dietary recommendations. Da Liu reports that his master said that his longevity “is due to the fact that he performed the exercises every day – regularly, correctly, and with sincerity – for 120 years.”[5] Returning home, he died a year later, some say of natural causes; others claim that he said to friends: “I have done all I have to do in this world. I will now go home.” After Li’s death, General Yang Sen investigated the truth about his claimed background and age and wrote a report about his findings that was later

published.[citation needed]

He worked as an herbalist, selling lingzhi, goji berry, wild ginseng, he shou wu and gotu kola along with other Chinese herbs, and lived off a diet of these herbs and rice

wine.[6] Li had also supposedly produced over 200 descendants during his life span, surviving 23 wives.[7][8]

Da Liu reports that his master said that his longevity “is due to the fact that I performed the exercises every day – regularly, correctly, and with sincerity – for 120 years.” He was referring to Bagua exercises:

Walking in a circle in both directions while twisting and curling each joint.

He worked as a herbalist, promoting the use of wild reishi, goji berry, wild ginseng, he shou wu and gotu kola along with other Chinese herbs

Do you think this is real? What are the ways that you know of to enhance your health: Mental, Emotional, Physical, Relational, Financial. Please write your comments below.

The Qigong ‘Take 5’ meditation

1. 2 minutes bbss 1^st minute shake it off, spit out the bad taste (the cleansing breath) 2^nd minute some kind of exercising.
2. 2 minutes Get the feeling

3. 1 minute natural bated breath and sighs of relief

One longer routine once per week custom designed with Mind, Body Spirit element creating a platform and springboard to the experience of naturally: bated breath and sighs of relief.

Send out this note on day 3

“Take a deep breath and sink it to dantien. Hold the breath there for a while and then exhale it like the sprouting of grass until it goes to the top of your head. In this way, the yang vital energy goes up and the yin energy down. Those whose yang or yin energy goes its own way will live, otherwise they will die.”

Why is it important to make a break for it today with the 3 steps of advanced Qigong?

With 10 second, 5 minute (the fully cycle) and Customized as an alone way of life. Get alone to get back together. Utterly withdraw from the sea of psychic magnetism now and then until you are separate yet in an embodied way. Then begin your journey to re- engage in a better way. This is the full cycle of training and when we re engage know that we cannot get it all right so there is the aspect of humility and honoring others as the true teacher to guide our way

Look for these changes:

A sweet taste in the mouth, heavy relaxation, breathing easy, the quantum air of your relational experience is cleared, getting hungry, horny yet self contained and self sourcing, being calm, cool, collected and content.

Amrita, Dutsi in tibet, Golden pollen.

Its all dependent upon the transmission of the teacher

Entering Wudang Mountain Meditation

10, 5’s Customized

Methods for Ingesting Original Vital Breath During the Sui and Tang Dynasties

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Daoist concepts of Ingesting Vital Breath

( 服氣 Fuqi ) placed a strong emphasis on the Ingestion of Original Vital Breath ( 服元氣 Fu Yuanqi ), Internal Vital Breath ( 內氣 Neiqi ) and Internal Original Vital Breath ( 內元氣 Nei Yuanqi ). They stressed that, in order to live a long life, people should not dissipate their body’s Original Vital Breath and should retain their Vital Essence. Original Vital Breath was considered to be the root of life; only by guarding this root carefully could Dao be attained. The method for

preserving that root was Ingesting Original Vital Breath and Internal Vital Breath. According to Perfect Man Yin’s Art of Ingesting Original Vital Breath ( 尹真人服元氣術 Yin Zhenren Fu Yuanqi Shu ), “the body’s Original Vital Breath is released through the mouth and nose. If exhalation of Original Vital Breath is stopped, the Elixir Field ( 丹田 Dantian ) will be filled. If the Elixir Field is full, you will not feel hunger or thirst, and you will become a Divine Man ( 神人 Shenren ). This is why people begin their life as embryos, without eating, nor drinking, nor breathing,

and have Original Vital Breath in abundance. To have an abundance of Original Vital Breath is the way of longevity”. If, just like an embryo, you can prevent your Original Vital Breath from leaking outside the body, you have attained the means of attaining longevity. In short, the basic principle of Ingesting Original Vital Breath is to preserve one’s Original Vital Breath and prevent its dissipation outside the body.

Concretely speaking, the methods for Ingesting Original Vital Breath are the following:

The methods for Ingesting Original Vital Breath

The first requirements for Ingesting Original Vital Breath are to purify one’s heart, eliminate thoughts and action, and to remain in a state of simple tranquility.

Exhale naturally. After half the breath, gently continue exhaling with the nose closed. As Vital Breath rises upward, raise your head and swallow forcefully. Raise the head to the left and lower it to the right. Mentally direct the Vital Breath to the abdomen, until it flows into the Elixir Field, and then recommence the cycle by swallowing. The swallowed breath joins the Elixir Field, and from there penetrates the four limbs. This form of mental dirigation of Vital Breath is called “Dissemination of Vital Breath” ( 流布 Liubu ). Take caution not to allow the Vital Breath to leak out of the Obscure Orifice (perineum) ( 玄牝 Xuanpin ), but to make it circulate evenly through the body. You should not gasp or breathe irregularly. If the Vital Breath does not reach the Elixir Field, it is difficult to force it to do so, no matter how much you try. Thus it is difficult for beginners, and they must eat less and make a strenuous effort. With persistent effort, Vital Breath will circulate naturally and ability will accrue. This is called to drink from Spontaneity ( 自然 Ziran ) in order to resist this world, and to approach Divinity

in order to enter subtlety. It begins as Three-Five ( 三五 Sanwu ) and ends as Seven-Nine ( 七九 Qijiu ). Lie down on your back, with your head on a low pillow. Contract both knees and shoulders, and stretch both arms. Lie down on your stomach, with a folded quilt under the chest, and stretch out the arms and legs. Inhale with the head raised, making the breath descend on the left, then inhale with the head lowered, making the breath descend on the right. When

swallowing Vital Breath make a sound, but do not swallow saliva, and exhale. Beware of allowing wind to enter as you inhale breath. While swallowing Vital Breath, do not rest at will. Wait until the heart is completely tranquil before starting again. When beginning the exercise, you should have a clear mind, without any worries; this will allow the Vital Breath to circulate freely. If the heart is burdened with worry, Vital Breath will not flow. Beginners may feel fullness in their abdomen. If they eat less, they will feel Vital Breath flowing through their organs and into the Elixir Field, and then they will feel it flowing smoothly and freely throughout the body, leading to the spontaneous awakening of the spirit.

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Qi in Traditional Chinese Medicine

By Marty Eisen, Ph.D

In Traditional Chinese Medicine the concept of Qi is used primarily in two ways. The first is to describe the activities of bodily organ. For example, Heart-Qi indicates the complex of the functional activities of the Heart, such as governing the Blood, controlling the Blood vessels, etc. Thus, there is Liver-Qi, Heart-Qi, Lung-Qi, etc. In a sense, it is also used to indicate disorders of the organ’s function – for example, “Qi Bi” (Qi constipation) and “Qi Liu” (Qi tumor).

The second use of Qi is to describe vital energy. This is better understood from the Chinese character for Qi (氣) which is composed of two radicals: “vapor, steam or gas” and (uncooked) “rice” or grain. This implies that Qi can be as immaterial as

vapor, or as dense and material as rice. It also implies that Qi could be just a subtle substance (vapor) produced from a coarse one (rice), just as cooking rice produces steam. Thus, sinologists generally agree that Qi is the energetic foundation of the universe, analogous to the matter-energy theoretical constructs of modern physics.

Qi is the physical and spiritual substratum of all human life. In Chinese medicine, the terminology employed depends on the state of the energy-matter. Energetic

material, ranging from less dense to denser, is termed: Spirit (Shen 神), Energy (Qi 氣), Essence (Jing 精), Blood

(Xue 血), Body Fluids (Jin Ye 津液), Marrow (Sui 髓), and Bone (Gu 骨).

The three most important energetic substances for the function of the body are Jing, Qi and Shen, representing different stages or phases of life phenomenon. These are known as the “Three Treasures” or “San Bao” (三宝). Jing and Qi are the material foundation for Shen (Mind) — This postulate is used in Chinese medicine because Jing, Qi and Shen represent three different states of the condensation of “Qi”, from coarse, to rarified, to subtle

and immaterial, respectively. If Jing and Qi are healthy and plentiful, the Mind will be happy. If both Jing and Qi are deficient, the Mind will suffer.

Jing (精)

The simplest definition of the “Jing” is “essence.” Its Chinese character (精) implies that it is a refined substance derived from a coarser one. In many senses, Jing could be the internal sources or structure base of Qi. Jing itself can be divided into different types or be looked from different angles. If Qi is used in the sense of function, Jing would be understood as the physiological structure. If Qi is considered as vital energy, then Jing would be the physiological systems that support the energy. For example, endocrine system is frequently referred as “jing” in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Keep it in mind that there are disagreements on what can and cannot be called “Jing.”

There are three different types of Jing:

1. Prenatal Jing (Pre-Heaven Essence). At conception, Prenatal Jing passes from the parents to the embryo. This essence, together with nourishment derived from the Kidneys of the mother, nourishes the embryo and fetus during pregnancy.

Prenatal Jing determines basic constitution, strength, vitality, and so individual uniqueness. Some say once inherited from the parents, Prenatal Jing cannot be altered. Prenatal Jing is conserved by balance in all life activities – moderation in diet, work/rest, and sexual activity. Irregularity or excess in these areas wastes Prenatal Jing. Certain exercises help conserve Prenatal Jing, such as Tai Chi and Qigong. Tortoise breathing may also positively influence it.

1. Postnatal Jing (Post-Heaven Essence). Postnatal Jing is the complex of essences extracted and refined from food and drink by the Spleen and Stomach. The Lung gets Qi from the air. These essences form the material basis for the functional activity of the internal organs and metabolism of the body. The Kidneys store any surplus Jing to be released when required. Postnatal Jing is continually being used by the body and replenished by food

and drink. The Prenatal Jing is enriched and functions optimally only through the action of the Postnatal Jing. Without the function of the Prenatal Jing, the Postnatal Jing cannot be transformed into Qi.

1. Kidney Jing arises from both Prenatal and Postnatal Jing. It is hereditary, like Prenatal Jing and determines ones constitution. However, it is partly replenished by the Postnatal Jing. Kidney essence is stored in the Kidneys, but has fluid-like nature and circulates all over the body. Kidney Essence is said to have the following functions:
   • It is the basis for growth, development, sexual maturation, and reproduction. It moves in long, slow developmental cycles (men’s Essence flows in 8-year cycles; women’s in 7-years) and presides over the major phases of development in life. Kidney Jing declines naturally, producing the signs of aging, such as loss of hair and teeth, and impairment of memory.
   • Kidney Jing because it is fluid-like may be considered as an aspect of Kidney Yin. Kidney Yin when warmed by Kidney Yang and the heat from the Ming Men produces Kidney Qi.
   • Kidney Jing produces what is called “Marrow” in TCM — (there is no exact equivalent of this concept in western medicine). This “Marrow” produces bone marrow, as well as the brain, and fills the spinal cord. If Kidney Jing is weak, the brain may be undernourished, leading to poor memory or concentration, dizziness, a feeling of emptiness in the head, etc.
   • Jing and Qi are the material foundation for Shen (Mind) — This postulate is used in Chinese medicine because Jing, Qi and Shen represent three different states of the condensation of “Qi”, from coarse, to rarified, to subtle and immaterial, respectively. If Jing and Qi are healthy and plentiful, the Mind will be happy. If both Jing and Qi are deficient, the Mind will suffer.
     • Qi (氣)

Different Types of Qi. Qi is more of a multi-meaning or multi-component concept than a specific matter, energy or function. Here are some examples of the definitions of various Qi to think of this abstract concept in a more concrete way:

Prenatal Qi (Yuan Qi 元气)

Yuan Qi is said to be Jing (Essence) in the form of Qi. Yuan Qi has its root in the Kidneys and spread throughout the body by the San Jiao (Triple Burner). It is the foundation of all the Yin and Yang energies of the body. Yuan Qi, like Prenatal Jing, is hereditary, fixed in quantity, but nourished by Postnatal Jing.

Yuan Qi is the dynamic force that motivates the functional activity of internal organs, and is the foundation of vitality. It circulates through the body in the channels, relying on the transporting system of the San Jiao (Triple Burner). It is the basis of Kidney Qi, and dwells between the two Kidneys, at the Gate of Vitality (the Ming Men, GV-4). It facilitates transformation of Qi described below, and participates in producing Blood.

Center Qi (Zhong Qi 中气)

Energy generated from the Spleen and Stomach, whose function is to transport the Qi from food into the chest where it is combined with the Qi of the Heart and Lungs.

Food Qi (Gu Qi 谷气)

Food entering the Stomach is first “rotted and ripened”; then transformed into a usable form by the Spleen. The energy derived from this food essence is divided into Pure Yang Qi and Impure Yin Qi by the Spleen. The Pure

Yang Qi is sent upward to the chest by the Center Qi via the Middle Burner. First, it goes to the Lungs where it combines with the Heavenly Qi to form Gathering (Zong) Qi. Then, it is transported to the Heart, where it unites with the Yuan Qi from the Kidneys to produce Blood. The turbid Yin Qi of Gu Qi is sent down by the Spleen via the Middle Burner to the Lower Burner to be further refined and excreted.

Clear Qi (Qing Qi 清气)

This is the pure energy from the Gu Qi sent by the Spleen to the Upper Burner and chest via the Middle Burner, also known as Yang Qi.

Turbid Qi (Zhuo Qi 浊气)

This is the impure energetic essence of Gu Qi transported by the Spleen via the Middle Burner to the Lower Burner to be further refined and excreted.

Gathering Qi (Zong Qi 宗气)

The Spleen sends Gu Qi to the Lungs, where with the assistance of Yuan Qi and Kidney Qi it combines with air and transforms into Zong Qi.

Zong Qi nourishes the Heart and Lungs, where it forms the basis of the pulse and respiration. If weak, the extremities, especially the hands, will be weak or cold. Zong Qi gathers in the throat and influences speech (which is under control of the Heart) and the strength of voice (under control of Lungs). It is affected by emotional problems, such as grief and sadness, which disperse the energy in the chest and weaken the Lungs. The Lungs and Kidney mutually assist each other via Zong Qi and Yuan Qi. Zong Qi flows downward to aid the Kidneys while Yuan Qi flows upward to aid in respiration (and the formation of Zong Qi). The chest area where Zong Qi collects is called the “Sea of Qi.” Zong Qi and the Sea of Qi are controlled by the acupuncture point Shanzhong Ren-17.

True Qi (Zhen Qi 真气)

Zong Qi originates in the Lungs. It is transformed into Zhen Qi with the catalytic action of Yuan Qi. Zhen Qi is the last stage in the transformation and refinement of Qi. It is the Qi that circulates in the channels and also outside the body and nourishes the organs. Zhen Qi has two different forms, Ying Qi and Wei Qi.

Ying Qi (Nutritive Qi 营气)

Ying Qi nourishes the internal organs and the whole body. It spends two hours in each channel, moving through all twelve channels in a twenty four hour period (termed the Horary Cycle). During these periods, the corresponding organs are nourished and maintained by the Ying Qi.

It is closely related to Blood, and flows with Blood in the vessels as well in the channels. Ying Qi is the Qi that is activated by insertion of an acupuncture needle. It is closely related to the emotions, since it can be directed by thought.

Wei Qi (Protective Qi 卫气)

Wei Qi is fast moving, “slippery” and more Yang than Nutritive Qi. It flows primarily under the skin and in between the muscles, especially in the Tendino-Muscular meridians. Wei Qi protects the body from attack by exogenous pathogenic factors such as harsh weather conditions, microorganisms, harmful emotions, and evil spiritual forces. For example, a deficiency of Wei Qi can make someone prone to frequent colds.

There are three Wei Qi fields extending several feet from the body. All energetic forms of the body, including organs, blood vessels, nervous system, etc., can be accessed and treated through these fields.

• • Wei Qi warms, moistens, and aids in nourishing skin and muscles. For example, a person with a deficiency of Defensive Qi will tend to feel easily cold.
  • Wei Qi adjusts the opening and closing of pores; thus, regulating sweating and the body temperature. It is controlled by the Lungs, which regulates its circulation.
  • Deficient Wei Qi can lead to spontaneous sweating. When an exogenous pathogen (e.g., Wind- Cold) invades the exterior, the pathogen can block the pores, inhibiting the function of the Wei Qi, and blocking sweating.
  • Defensive Qi has its root in the Lower Burner (Kidneys). It is nourished by the Middle Burner (Stomach and Spleen) and is spread outwards by the Upper Burner (Lungs).
  • Wei Qi in the daytime circulates in the Exterior, but at night it goes into the Interior to protect the Yin Organs.
  • It is said that sleeping under an open window at night gives exogenous pathogens a better chance for attack than during the daytime, since the Exterior of the body is less well protected. Hence, it is easier to catch a cold at night than in the daytime.
  • Wei Qi can become thicker and extends farther out during Qigong practice. Therefore, it may take longer to move inward at night, causing some Qigong practitioners to have difficulty falling asleep after evening practice.

Upright Qi (Zheng Qi 正气)

Also is known as Righteous Qi. This is not another type of Qi but a general term to indicate the various Qi protecting the body from invasion by Xie [pathogenic] Qi.

Postnatal Qi (Hou Tian Zhi Qi 后天之气)

The energy from food, drink and air cultivated after birth. Postnatal Qi depends on Prenatal Qi for development. Both form the foundation for the body’s vital energy.

Organ Qi (Zang and Fu Qi 脏腑之气)

This is the energy responsible for the functioning of the internal organs. The Yang-Fu, hollow bowels, produce Qi and Blood from food and drink. The Yin-Zang, solid viscera, store vital substances. Each organ has its own energy corresponding to one of the Five-Element energies, which respond to the universal and environmental energy fields. Thinking, feeling, metabolism and hormones can influence the Organ Qi.

• Jing (Essence)
  • Source:
    • Derived from parents, supplemented by Acquired Qi (Gu Qi & Wei Qi).
  • Function:
    • Responsible for growth, reproduction and development.
  • Distribution:
    • Stored mainly in the Kidneys.
  • Relevance:
    • Weak Jing in children may lead to poor bone development, slow learning a/or poor concentration.
    • Weak Jing in the elderly may lead to deafness, osteoporosis a/or unclear thinking.
• Yuan Qi (Original Qi)
  • Source:
    • Derived from Jing.
  • Function:
    • Promotes and stimulates functional activities of organs.
    • Provides the foundation/catalyst for the production of Zhen Qi.
  • Distribution:
    • Originates in the ming men, circulates via the TH, pools in the meridians at the Yuan Source points.
  • Relevance:

Deficiencies in Yuan Qi may lead to poor development of Acquired Qi.

• Gu Qi (Essence of Food and Grain Qi)
  • Source:
    • Originates from the action of the Spleen on the food in the Stomach.
  • Function:
    • Combines with Kong Qi to form Zong Qi.
    • Some aspects are also transformed into Blood.
  • Distribution:
    • Arises in the ST/SP and is moved to the chest where it is further distributed.
  • Relevance:
    • Good quality food and a strong ST/SP are important to generate energy.
    • Weaknesses in the SP may lead to bloating, distention, fatigue, loss of appetite, etc.
• Kong Qi (Air Qi)
  • Source:
    • Originates from the air received by the Lungs.
  • Function:
    • Combines with Gu Qi to form Zong Qi.
  • Distribution:
    • Distributed from the chest.
  • Relevance:
    • Good quality air and good breathing practices are essential for the formation of energy.
• Zong Qi (Gathering Qi)
  • Source:
    • Combination of Gu Qi & Kong Qi.
  • Function:
    • Nourish the Heart and Lungs.
    • Aids the Lungs in their role of respiration and circulating energy throughout the body.
    • Assists the Heart in circulating Blood through the vessels.
  • Distribution:
    • Stored in the chest.
  • Relevance:
    • With a deficiency you will see the HT and LU most effectted.
    • Low energy, weak voice, poor circulation in the extremeties, etc.
    • Can be treated with CV 17 and the yuan source points of the HT (HT 7) & LU (LU 9).
• Zhen Qi (True Qi)
  • Source:
    • Derived from Zong Qi when acted upon by Yuan Qi.
  • Function:
    • This is the form of Qi that circulates in the meridians and nourishes the organs.
  • Distribution:
    • Originates in the chest and is distributed throughout the body by respiration. – Composite of: Ying Qi & Wei Qi.
  • Relevance:
    • Deficiencies indicate either an imbalance in the functioning of the creation of acquired Qi or in a declining amount of Yuan Qi.
• Ying Qi (Nutritive Qi)
  • Function:
    • Nourishes the organs.
    • Helps to produce Blood.
  • Distribution:
    • Circulates in the main meridians.
    • Flows with the Blood in the main meridians and within the Blood vessels.
  • Relevance:
    • This is the aspect of Qi that is needled with acupuncture.
• Wei Qi (Defensive Qi)
  • Function:
    • Helps to protect the body.
    • Warms the surface of the body.
    • Regulates body temperature by opening a/or closing the pores.
  • Distribution:
    • On the surface of the body and within the muscles and skin, but not within the meridians.
    • Circulation is dependent on the Lungs.
  • Relevance:
    • People who catch colds easily/often have Wei Qi deficiency.
    • Deficiency may also make it difficult to regulate body temperature.

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   • 2. The Form of Natural Reunion

• Connecting with Sky, Earth and Body in improving ways. Prayer hands and bow to the source of your physical life, Sky levels/stars/space, earth/trees/animals,

underearth soil, teaming life, magma, metal ball in the middle and within your own amazing body.

• • 3. Stancing and Movement Refinement

(Practice conscious walking to a specific desination and back or walk in a circle/line/box) Practice your stance, weight distribution, posture, each toe smells the earth underneath and around the earth. Standing practice (Zhuang Gung) is considered the single most important practice physically in Qigong. So much is influenced by how you stand. Discover it with endless refinements while waiting in lines when cleaning up give careful attention to ‘Stancing’, ‘Carefully precise stepping,’ and the way you move to integrate more of nature into your body and more of your whole body in each movement. ‘Embodiment is healing.’

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• • 6. Wash the field-

Wave your hands first in front of your body then around all the way to back left and back right like washing windows. This will help you clear your field and develop spherical intuition.

• • 7. Finger Hoses:

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Basic Concepts of Qi and Qigong – Part 1

by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

March 23, 2009

The Chinese word “Qi” translates in English to “energy”. Qi is the energy or natural force which fills the universe. The Chinese believe in Three Powers (San Cai) of the universe: Heaven, Earth and Human.

The Chinese word “Qi” translates in English to “energy”. Qi is the energy or natural force which fills the universe. The Chinese believe in Three Powers (San Cai) of the universe: Heaven (Tian), Earth (Di) and Human (Ren). Heaven Qi is the most important of the three, consisting of forces exerted by heavenly bodies, such as sunshine, moonlight, gravity and energy from the stars. Weather, climate and natural disasters are governed by Heaven Qi. Every energy field strives to stay in balance, so when Heaven Qi loses its balance, it will rebalance itself, through wind, rain and even tornadoes and hurricanes. Earth Qi is controlled by Heaven Qi. Too much rain forces a river to flood or change its path, but without rain, vegetation will die. The Chinese believe Earth Qi is made up of lines and patterns of energy, as well as the earth’s magnetic field and the heat concealed underground. These energies must also be in balance, otherwise disasters such as earthquakes occur. When Earth Qi is balanced and harmonized, plants grow and animals thrive. Finally, each individual person, animal, and plant has its own Qi field which always seeks balance. Losing Qi balance, an individual sickens, dies and decomposes. All natural things, including mankind and our Human Qi, are determined by the natural cycles of Heaven Qi and Earth Qi. Throughout the history of Qigong, people have been most interested in Human Qi and its relationship with the energies of Heaven and Earth.

In China, Qi is also defined as any energy which demonstrates power and strength, be it electricity, magnetism, heat or light. Electric power is called electric Qi (Dian Qi), and heat is called heat Qi (Re Qi). The weather is called Heaven Qi (Tian Qi) because it indicates the energy state of the heavens. When a person is alive, his body’s energy is called Human Qi (Ren Qi). Qi also expresses the energy state of something, especially of living things. When something is alive it has Vital Qi (Huo Qi), and when dead it has Dead Qi (Si Qi) or Ghost Qi (Gui Qi). When a person is righteous and has the spiritual strength to do good, he is said to have Normal Qi or Righteous Qi (Zheng Qi). The spiritual state or morale of an army is called its Energy State (Qi Shi).

Qi can represent energy itself, or the state of the energy. It is important to understand this when you practice Qigong, so your mind is not channeled into a narrow understanding of Qi, limiting your future understanding and development.

But now we will discuss the narrower definition of Qi that people today are most familiar with. Among the Three Powers, the Chinese have been most concerned with Qi affecting human health and longevity. After four thousand years emphasizing Human Qi, when people mention Qi they usually mean the Qi circulating in our bodies.

In ancient Chinese medical and Qigong documents, the word Qi was written “ ”. This character consists of two words, “ ” on top, which means “nothing”, and “ ” at the bottom, which means “fire.” In ancient times, physicians and Qigong practitioners attempted to balance the Yin and Yang Qi circulating in the body, so there was “no fire” in the internal organs. Each internal organ needs a specific amount of Qi to function properly. If it receives an improper amount, usually too much which makes it too Yang or over-energized, it starts to malfunction, in time causing physical damage. The goal of acupuncture and the ancient qigong precursors, Dao-Yin (guiding and leading) and Tu-Na (utter and admit), was to attain a state of “no fire,” which eventually became the word Qi.

But in more recent publications, the Qi of “no fire” has been replaced by the word “氣” again constructed of two words, “气” which means “air,” and “米” which means “rice.” Later practitioners realized that post-birth Qi is produced by breathing in air and consuming food. Air is called “Kong Qi”, literally “Space Energy.”

For a long time, people debated what type of energy circulates in our bodies. Many believed it to be heat, others electricity, while others again assumed it was a mixture of heat, electricity and light. This debate continued into the 1980s, when the concept of Qi gradually became clear. Today, science postulates that, with the possible exception of gravity, there is actually only one type of energy in the universe, namely electromagnetic energy. Light and heat are also manifestations of electromagnetic energy. The Qi in our bodies is actually bioelectricity, and our bodies are a living electromagnetic field. Thus, the Qi is affected by our thoughts, feelings, activities, the food we eat, the quality of the air we breathe, our lifestyles, the natural energy that surrounds us, and also the unnatural energy which modern science inflicts upon us, such as radiation from cell phones and many other frequencies.

The following scientific formula represents the major biochemical reaction in our body: glucose + 6 O2 > 6 CO2 + 6 H2O

∆G0’= – 686 Kcal (energy content)

—-> Heat Light

Bioelectricity (Qi)

As you can see, rice is glucose, oxygen is air, and bioelectricity is Qi.

In China, the word “Gong” is often used instead of “Gongfu” (Kung Fu), which means “energy and time”. Any study or training which requires energy and time to achieve is called Gongfu. It can be applied to any special skill or study requiring time, energy and patience. Qigong is a science which studies the energy in nature. The main difference between this energy science and Western energy science is that Qigong focuses on the inner energy of human beings, while Western energy science pays more attention to the energy outside the human body. When you study Qigong, it is worthwhile to consider the modern scientific point of view, and not restrict yourself only to traditional beliefs.

The Chinese have studied Qi for thousands of years, recording information on the patterns and cycles of nature in books such as the Yi Jing (The Book of Changes, 1122 B.C.), which describes the natural forces of Heaven, Earth, and Human. These Three Powers manifest as Heaven Qi, Earth Qi, and Human Qi, with their definite rules and cycles. The rules are unchanging, while the cycles return to repeat themselves. The Yi Jing applies these principles to calculate changes in natural Qi, through a process called The Eight Trigrams (Bagua). From the Eight Trigrams are derived the 64 hexagrams. The Yi Jing was probably the first book describing Qi and its variations in nature and man. The relationship of the Three Natural Powers and their Qi variations were later discussed extensively in the book, Theory of Qi’s Variation (Qi Hua Lun).

Human Qi has been studied most thoroughly, encompassing many different aspects. The Chinese believe Human Qi is affected and controlled by Heaven Qi and Earth Qi, and that they in fact determine your destiny. By understanding the relationship between nature and people, and also Human Relations (Ren Shi), you may predict wars, the destiny of a country, a person’s desires and temperament, and even their future. However, the greatest achievement in the study of Human Qi is in regard to health and longevity. Since Qi is the source of life, if you understand how Qi functions and know how to regulate it correctly, you may live a long and healthy life. As a part of nature, you are channeled into its cycles, and it is in your best interest to follow the way of nature. This is the meaning of Dao (Tao), which can be translated as the Natural Way.

Many different aspects of Human Qi have been researched for over 4,000 years, involving massage, herbal treatment, meditation, and eventually acupuncture and Qigong exercises. Their use in adjusting Human Qi flow has become the root of Chinese medical science. Meditation and moving Qigong exercises are used to improve health and cure certain illnesses. Daoists and Buddhists also use meditation and Qigong exercises in their pursuit of enlightenment. To be most accurate, the study of any of the aspects of Qi including Heaven Qi, Earth Qi, and Human Qi should be called Qigong.

Basic Concepts of Qi and Qigong – Part 2

by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

March 30, 2009

In modern times, we mainly use only the narrow definition of Qi, which refers to the energy circulating in the human body.

In modern times, we mainly use only the narrow definition of Qi, which refers to the energy circulating in the human body. Qigong practitioners study and train the Qi circulating in the body. Qigong includes many aspects, from how our bodies relate to Heaven Qi and Earth Qi, to the overlapping fields of acupuncture, herbal treatment, martial arts Qigong, Qigong massage and exercises, and ultimately spiritual enlightenment.

In ancient times, Qigong was called Tu-Na, which means to “utter and admit,” namely focused breathing. Qigong depends on correct breathing. Zhuang Zi said, “Blowing to breathe, utter the old and admit the new. The bear’s natural movement, and the bird’s extending (of the neck), are all for longevity. This is favored by those living as long as Peng Zu, who practice Dao-Yin, and nourish the shape (cultivate the body).”

Peng Zu was a legendary Qigong practitioner during the reign of emperor Yao (2356 B.C.), said to have lived for 800 years. Qigong was also called Dao-Yin, meaning to use the mind and physical movement to guide and lead Qi circulation. The movements imitate natural movements of animals such as bears and birds. A famous medical Qigong set passed down for nearly 2,000 years is called The Five Animal Sports (Wu Qin Xi), which imitates the movements of the tiger, deer, bear, ape, and bird.

Qigong and acupuncture view the physical body as having twelve major energy channels (Shi Er Jing) in the body, branching into many secondary channels (Luo), similar to the blood circulatory system.

The primary channels are like arteries and veins, while the secondary ones are like capillaries. The Twelve Primary Qi Channels are also like rivers, while the secondary channels are like streams flowing into and out of the rivers. Qi is distributed throughout the body through this network which connects the extremities to the internal organs, and the skin to the bone marrow. The internal organs of Chinese medicine do not necessarily correspond to the physical organs as understood in the West, but rather to a set of clinical functions related to the organ system.

The body also has Eight Vessels (Ba Mai), called strange meridians (Qi Jing), that function like reservoirs and regulate the Qi circulation. The famous Chinese Daoist medical doctor Li, Shi-

Zhen described them in his book, The Study of Strange Meridians and Eight Vessels, “The regular meridians (12 Primary Qi Channels) are like rivers, while the strange meridians (Eight Vessels) are like lakes. When the Qi in the regular meridians is abundant and flourishing, they overflow into the strange meridians.”

When Qi in the eight reservoirs is full and strong, so is that in the rivers. Stagnation in any channel leads to irregularity in the Qi flow to the extremities and organs, and illness may develop. Every channel has its own particular Qi flow, its strength affected by your mind, the weather, time of day, food you have eaten, and even your mood. In dry weather, Qi in the lungs tends to be more positive, or Yang, than in wet weather. When you are angry, the Qi flow in your liver channel will be irregular. Qi strength in different channels varies throughout the day in a regular cycle, and at any particular time one channel is strongest. For example, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. the Qi flows most strongly in the heart channel. The Qi level of the same organ differs from one person to another. When Qi flow in the twelve channels is irregular, the eight reservoirs regulate it back to normal.

A qigong practitioner should become familiar with the energetic circulatory system of the body, which is the same as used in acupuncture, though some channels or points have different names depending on their usage. The body also has several energy centers, called Dan Tians (elixir field), which act as a battery for storing energy to a higher capacity. It is important to be familiar with the energy centers, vessels, meridians, and channels, and to develop a physical sensation of them through practice. In this way, you can make subtle adjustments in your behavior, diet, or exercise and keep your Qi balanced to avoid illness.

A sick person’s Qi tends to be either too positive (excess Yang) or too negative (deficient Yin). A Chinese physician would prescribe herbs to adjust the Qi, or else insert acupuncture needles at various points to adjust the flow and restore balance. The alternative is to practice Qigong, using physical and mental exercises to adjust the Qi. This would be considered Medical Qigong.

In Scholar society, Qigong is defined differently, focusing on regulating disturbances of the emotional mind into a state of calm. This relaxes the body and enables Qi to rebalance and circulate smoothly, so mental and physical health may be attained.

In Daoist and Buddhist society, Qigong is the method to lead Qi from the Lower Dan Tian to the brain for spiritual enlightenment or Buddhahood. This place in the abdomen stores Qi in abundant quantity, and this Qi is used to eventually reopen the third eye. Religious Qigong is considered the highest and most rigorous level of Chinese Qigong training.

Martial Arts Qigong practitioners manifest their Qi to energize the physical body to its maximum efficiency and power. Martial arts Qigong originated from religious Qigong, especially Muscle/Tendon Changing and Marrow/Brain Washing Qigong (Yi Jin Jing and Xi Sui Jing) which was derived by Bodhidharma, the 28th patriarch of Buddhism, during his time spent teaching at the Shaolin Temple.

The most profound level of martial arts Qigong training is the same as that of religious Qigong, namely

spiritual enlightenment. This involves a lengthy process of regulating the emotional mind, while simultaneously refining the body, breath, qi, and spirit, until the third eye is reopened.

The most basic Qigong, in which the practitioner doesn’t need to know any qigong theory, uses mostly physical effort and the mind is not involved very much. This can be aerobics, dancing, walking or jogging in which the mind is just relaxed and harmonized. This does not need special training, and is classified as secular Qigong. In intermediate Qigong, mental and physical activity are combined in equal measure. This would be the slow-moving Qigong commonly practiced, in which the mind is used to lead Qi in coordination with movement. With slow, relaxed movements, the Qi led by the mind may reach deeper into the ligaments, marrow and internal organs. Deep internal feeling can lead Qi there significantly. Taiji, White Crane, Snake, and Dragon are typical systems of Qigong, cultivated intensively in Chinese medical and martial arts societies.

At a deeper level of practice, the mind becomes critically important. It is actively involved while you are in deep relaxation. This is cultivated primarily by scholars and religious Qigong practitioners. There may be some physical movement in the lower abdomen, but the main focus is cultivating a peaceful and neutral mind, and pursuing the final goal of spiritual enlightenment. This practice includes Sitting Chan (Zen), Embryonic Breathing (Tai Xi Jing Zuo), Small Circulation (Xiao Zhou Tian), Grand Circulation (Da Zhou Tian), and Brain Washing Enlightenment Meditation (Xi Sui Gong).

Different Qigong practices aim for different goals. For a long, happy life, you need health of mind and body. The best simple Qigong for health is the intermediate level, regulating both body and mind. You may practice the Yin side through still meditation, and the Yang side through physical activity. This balances Yin and Yang, and abundant Qi may be accumulated and circulated.

To conclude:

1. Any activity able to improve Qi circulation is Qigong.
2. Qigong which emphasizes the physical more will improve physical strength and Qi circulation, conditioning the muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
3. Qigong activating both physical and mental can reach deeper, enhancing physical strength and Qi circulation. By coordinating the relaxed physical body with the concentrated mind, Qi may circulate deep inside the joints, internal organs, and even the bone marrow.
4. Qigong which focuses on achieving a profound meditative state may however neglect physical movement, causing physical health to degenerate. It is important to maintain harmony and balance of both body and mind.

Lion growling Tai Chi fist

Touch stuck weakness/disease substitutioning t and a t and br

Dump your stuff on them…ship constant locked pumping out.

Lion growlilng antipiating salivating satalking pouncing/killing ripping eating

Kali tounge strike/the cleansing breath Tiger sratching+++ adance stalk, sieze, eat.

Deer looking, liking berries Gorilla bouncing and slapping Earth palming

Mudding, smelling the ground, scratching the ground Ihasping

Core compressions and kegels Grab the ground with your feet

Swallowing power

Pull belly in and out circling

Shee whoo

Monkey form from wudang mountain 1-

Grab and look to the side right and left.

2.

• 1. See the fruit
  2. Push branches aways
  3. Grab it
  4. Appreciate and eat
     • Work with Meridians. Sushumna, Chitrini, Zhen-Mo,

the Microcosmic Orbit, and the Middle Meridian

Upon mastering all exercises described above, it would be appropriate to put the main meridians of the body to rights.

The whole human body, as well as the bodies of animals and even plants, is being run through by numerous canals, invisible with regular eyesight, which channel energies of various levels of refinement around the organism. These canals, called meridians (or nadi) were discovered and utilized in ancient Chinese medicine (Zhen Tsyu therapy).

The meridians can be discovered, in particular, because of their increased — compared to adjacent body tissues — electroconductivity (but one should keep in mind that electric current, even the weakest one, is inadequate for them; therefore the methods of punctate electrodiagnostics and electropuncture can be used in the extraordinary cases only).

The meridians can be seen by people whose range of perception was expanded through a system of training similar to ours.

As a result of inflammatory processes in the body tissues, a contaminating type of nutrition, or external negative energetic influences, the meridians can lose their conductivity. In this case, lingering disorders of the organs, deprived of proper energy supply, may develop. Such diseases usually cannot be completely cured by using drug therapy. In cases like this, acupunctural methods and similar healing techniques (laser, vibration, and other kinds of influence through “biologically active points” of the integument) turn out to be efficient. These methods work, because they restore conductivity of the meridians by means of sending currents of energy through them.

But it is more effective to cleanse the meridians on one’s own using the methods described in

this book.

Let us talk about several meridians that can be successfully used in psychic self-regulation.

All the chakras are connected with one another by large meridians that run along the spine, as well as the front and the middle part of the body.

A wide canal called sushumna (tu-mo or du-mo in Chinese) runs along the spine from muladhara to sahasrara. One of its functions is to distribute the energy extracted from food to the chakras.

Within sushumna — in its back section — there is a significantly narrower canal (its diameter is about 2 centimeters), called vajrini, through which the energy of svadhisthana (called udana) flows to other chakras.

The third of the spinal canals — chitrini (Brahmanadi) — is located behind sushumna. It begins at the end section of sahasrara, passes under the occipital bone, and runs down the back part of the

neck and then — down the backmost part of the spinal column, coinciding with the spinous processes of vertebras and the skin.

Chitrini is an extremely important structure. It will serve us as a standard for one of the subtlest states, to which we can attune the emotional sphere.

On the G.Gurdjieff’s scale of hydrogens [62], the state of chitrini is assessed as H-3. This is the Holy Spirit’s level of subtlety. Upon learning to concentrate in chitrini, one can easily “dive” as a consciousness through this canal into the eons of the Holy Spirit and directly communicate, embrace, and then merge with Him there. This is how religious truths turn from abstractions into reality.

The system of the chakras is also communicated by the front channel (zhen-mo). It begins from the upper end of sushumna, forks into two branches that turn around sahasrara and join in the forehead area to split into several small canals that run down the face and join again in the vishuddha region. One more branch of this canal goes through the middle of the head, reaches the chin coming through the palate and joins the other branches at the neck. After that the canal runs down the front side of the trunk, branching off to every chakra, passes the share bone, and heads for the coccyx.

We should pay special attention to the upper part of this canal, which unites the four chakras of the so-called emotional center [62] — anahata, vishuddha, manipura, and ajna — into one functional block.

Anahata and vishuddha play the leading role in this complex. The intensity of emotions depends to a certain extent on the manipura chakra, while the ajna chakra serves as a liaison for interaction with hypothalamic-pituitary complex, which plays an important role in coordination of the emotional and behavioral reactions of the entire organism through the endocrine system.

Only those people whose front canal is well developed and who know how to use it are able to experience truly exalted positive emotions in communicating with other people and with nature. But such people are extremely few: only a handful per thousands. Most people do not have a developed front canal, and it takes special efforts to develop it.

In Chinese tradition, the system of the spine and the front canals is called microcosmic orbit*.

By means of circulating energy around the microcosmic orbit, one can perform transformation of energies within the organism. The aim of this work is to produce and accumulate Golden Elixir within the organism; the subtlest energy obtained as a result of such transformation was called by this term in ancient alchemy.

Performance of exercises with the microcosmic orbit produces a strong emotional effect.

On one of the subtlest planes, the system of the chakras is communicated by one more canal — the middle meridian. This wide meridian connects the developed chakras, running vertically through the middle of the entire body. It forms along with the development of the chakras: it cannot be found in people whose chakras are undeveloped. Its width corresponds to the diameter of the chakras. This is also a very important energy structure of the organism.

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Let us begin with sushumna. The easiest way to cleanse it is to use an image of a “bottle brush”. In order to do this, we need to imagine ourselves moving back from the body out of anahata and becoming a little bigger then the body. Then we start to scrub sushumna with this “bottle brush”. An important detail to keep in mind while doing this is that we need to cleanse also the passage from sushumna to muladhara, which goes not just down from the sacrum in a straight line, but down and forward.

The next in turn for cleansing is the middle meridian. It is convenient to work with this structure at special places of power, which are auspicious for moving the concentration of the consciousness below the body. This implies that by this time the consciousness of the practitioner must be developed by performing the previous exercises to such an extent that allows moving as a consciousness below the body without losing the subtle state.

Upon entering the middle meridian from below, we have to “wash” its walls with an image of a

wet rag with soapy foam for example, or in any other appropriate manner.

After that, it is quite important to cleanse the partition between sushumna and the middle meridian. In order to do this, one has to be in both meridians at the same time, coming into sushumna from above and to the middle meridian — from below. In this case, the partition between these meridians and possible dark spots on it become visible. Elimination of these spots brings the next stage of purification of the body.

When sushumna is cleansed, we may start working with the microcosmic orbit. For this purpose, we enter the two lower chakras and bring their energy up the sushumna, move it over the head, and bring it down through the front canal back to the two lower chakras. We repeat this exercise several times. During this process, coarse energies, including those causing diseases, get transformed into subtle ones in the zhen-mo meridian.

After the first few times of working with the microcosmic orbit, one must perform a deep relaxation in shavasana.

In the future, we may learn to change the trajectory of the energy moving around the microcosmic orbit — so that the energy flow will pass through the diseased regions of the body (if there are any). This will enable us to heal them.

We begin to learn to rotate energy around the orbit which includes the sushumna meridian. But then we have to learn to do the same through chitrini and within the energy cocoon that surrounds the body. All this will bring yet other levels of health improvement and refinement of the consciousness. In the practice of our School, this is usually performed quite easily at the corresponding places of power — areas that have a special energetic significance for a human being. You may well find them somewhere around the place you live in.

In conclusion of this chapter I want to mention that there are methods of Chinese Qi Gong that got into Europe, which involve work with the microcosmic orbit without preceding thorough

cleansing and development of the chakras and meridians. In such cases the entire work is performed only at the level of visual images, while purifying, healing, and refining effects are not obtained.

Vladimir Antonov, Ph.D. (in biology) (chapter from the book Ecopsychology)