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Mantis -- the 4 hour full-lotus training was when Wang, Liping was 9 years old if I remember correctly. It's the start of the book "Opening the Dragon Gate." As for the secret training -- well there's probably not enough bulls in China to transfer all that life force into us Westerners. haha. BTW -- just saw the movie "Up the Yangtze" -- excellent on how the common peasants and shopkeepers are getting beat up and flooded so that China can be big and strong with dams and Western tourists, etc. Amazing movie.

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Hey Qigong Boy -- did you take classes from Spring Forest Qigong? You probably get this already? Anyway...sans images (neo-luddite with really full bladder). SFQ logo The Spring Forest Qigong Energy Connection Issue 9 July 2008 In This Issue * Healing Meditation Concert Planned * Welcome Back, Master Nance! * Ask Master Lin * International Guild Update * Guild Reachout Program * Guild Traveling Team at Dragon Festival * Next Instructor Certification Class * Summer Special * Services Available at SFQ Helpful Links The SFQ Website Classes International Guild Online Store SFQ logo Master Lin had the SFQ logo designed to show tender new leaves of spring-time, symbolizing growth, optimism, and excitement. The leaves may also be seen as hands or arms cradling a small red energy ball, representing hope, healing, and new life. What is Qigong? "Qigong (pronounced "chee-gong") is one of the cornerstones of traditional Chinese medicine. 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In Spring Forest Qigong breathing, you concentrate your mind in your skin and, when you inhale, visualize universal energy coming into every cell of the body and collecting in the lower dantian (deep behind the navel). Draw the lower part of the stomach in just a little. If you draw it in too hard, you are not relaxing yourself. Energy coming in through inhaling is yin--hold this energy in the upper part of your body so that the yin and the yang energy have a chance to communicate. Energy going out through exhaling is yang. When you exhale, visualize the sickness as extra energy changing into air or smoke and shooting out from every cell of the body to the end of the universe. Loosen the lower stomach and let the qi move there, allowing the yang energy and yin energy to join together. 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Here's my contention 1) In the two Master Nan books I recommend (Working Towards Enlightenment and Realizing Enlightenment) which are much more indepth than Tao and Longevity -- Master Nan states that sitting in full-lotus demonstrates that the body channels have been transformed. Master Nan states that you CAN transform the body using the mind only but that it's much harder. Master Nan then goes ON and ON about how the problem with Japan is that Zen became ONLY conceptual -- or mind yoga -- with no emphasis of transforming the body. 2) Qigong master Chunyi Lin states that 20 minutes of full-lotus equals 4 hours of any other practice. 3) Wang, Liping had to sit in 4 hours of full-lotus as the FIRST step in his training -- so painful that he had to be tied down. 4) the lineage of Yogananda ALSO relies on full-lotus -- Ok my right foot is numb but more importantly I have to take a leak so I just went out of full-lotus.

The spiral is how sound creates light which bends spacetime through consciousness or "empty awareness." In the West we separate everything -- you can't visualize consciousness but you can listen to it. There's no need to reinvent anything -- the c.d. "Healing Dance Music of the Kalahari San" is the REAL thing -- the alchemical trance music that was the dominant human culture from 10,000 BCE to 80,000 BCE. So just order that from the Smithsonian -- the liner notes, which I posted here, a Pdf file -- explain how the alchemy works. This is where Gurdjieff got his stuff -- it's the same as tantra and qigong -- it all comes from the Bushmen. I just sit in full-lotus all the time -- shooting light out of my pineal gland, focused through my eyes, which in turn pulls up my sex hormones, ionizing the serotonin and chemicals in my stomach, via the vagus nerve, thereby creating bliss and mutual climaxes with females around me. If I built up the ionized serotonin to further levels of resonance then the stronger electromagnetic fields stored internally would create more precognition, telepathy, telekinesis, longevity, etc. It's all from the same basic 1-4-5 resonance which spirals beyond sound into ultrasound thereby creating blissful heat and then further ionizes the love into light. What enables this is the formless awareness or consciousness -- which, because it's from complementary opposites, is female -- the Cosmic Mother will never be Unveiled. That's why males can't figure this stuff out -- modern males that is. haha. You have to LISTEN -- not fixate on visual patterns. You listen to FEMALES singing nonwestern harmonics. You practice the small universe and tai-chi and then work into the full-lotus. You read Mantak Chia and the book "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" -- for how the 12 notes of the scale, built from nonwestern fifths, creates alchemy as 12 nodes along the outside of the body. The 7 to 9 note scale is the central channel of the body and the 1-4-5 as the tetrad 1:2:3:4 is the tetrahedral full-lotus. So I recommend the small universe c.d. from http://springforestqigong.com -- it's $11 -- the level 1 sitting meditation. That will teach you how to create SPIRAL music -- how sound resonates into light and then into consciousness. I listen to the Bushmen c.d. all night long -- it's awesome.

See in the West (science) time is defined as geometric distance -- when in fact the secret of the full-lotus is that the tetrahedral geometry collapses as complementary opposite resonance (2:3 is Yang and 3:4 is Yin). The full-lotus is a tetrahedron made up of 4 equilateral triangles, each made up of two 2-3-4 triangles. So we think of the full-lotus as "lower" or physical when in fact it creates the Harmony of heaven and earth -- the transcendence of the Moon and Sun -- to resonate with the formless awareness. Ok try this out: Last night I got THE LOST LECTURE OF RICHARD FEYNMAN -- it's call something like "planetary motion around the sun." "Feynman's Lost Lecture: The motion of planets around the sun." So the kicker is that it comes with an audio C.D. that has information NOT in the book (even though the book contains a long explanation of Feynman's lecture with an epilogue as well). The difference is that the audio lecture ends with the students at CalTech going up and questioning Feynman -- all caught on C.D. So the lecture is all about how to derive the inverse square law (which comes from music theory). It's been proven that Newton got the inverse square law directly from PSEUDO-pythagorean analysis of Archytas. So you stretch a string 4 times its length to get the doubling of frequency: Inverse square. Now then -- my whole argument is that overtones are not determined by using weights as mass tension (since this goes against the law of Pythagoras). In other words frequency is inversely proportional to string length -- but Archytas used string tension to get the inverse square law. It's supposed to be that half the string length is the octave -- not 4 times the string length. But the half the string length then violates time as geometric symmetry since the overtones with 2:3 as the perfect fifth and 3:4 as the perfect fourth are complementary opposites, (i.e. C to G is 2:3 and G to C is 3:4). This creates the infamous "comma of Pythagoras." Greek geometry (and Western science) is based on symmetry with a one-to-one correspondence of distance as letter and number as length. Now then as I said there's a secret at the end of Feynman's Lost Lecture. Feynman made as PSYCHOLOGICAL error -- he labeled the radius as "subprime v" and therefore the students associated the radius with velocity. So then one of the CalTech students asks about this and Feynman gets mad and says he can just change the symbol which he then does. So then the students start talking about the concept of "infinite velocity" -- vis a vis gravity as attraction and electrostatic force as repulsion -- both using the inverse square law. So then a student -- the final question -- asks: Yes but what's the pinnacle of the significance of the radius as velocity? To which Feynman responds -- (because Feynman's big point was the Newton deduced from Kepler that the force attracts to the sun) -- It's not velocity it's just radius -- based on conservation of angular momentum. So then the student says O.K. but what if it was an "equilateral hyperbole." Feynman says: What the hell is that? You mean 90 degrees? So then Feynman says you mean the radius is determined by 1/2? He then states -- now the radius is not multiplied by 1/2 but by the square root of two. Now that's EXACTLY the same point I'm making -- the "pinnacle of the significance of the radius as velocity." All this geometry is based on measuring time as space distance with the sun as the center (in contrast to using the CHAOTIC nonlinear resonance of the lunar-sun-earth dynamics based on a complementary opposite vortex). So if you use the inverse square law then you lose the octave as 1/2 and you get the new octave now converted to the tritone (half of the string length) -- so that 9/8 (the major second) cubed equals the square root of two (tritone) -- derived from converting 2/3 as frequency into 3/2 as geometric distance (3/2 squared as 9/4 with halving the double octave, 9/4 to get 9/8, the major second). In other words the physics concepts of attraction (gravity) and repulsion (electromagnetics) have ALSO been based on symmetry, from the geometric-based math with time as space. In fact the weak force has been determined to violate the symmetry, thereby creating alchemical transmutations which supposedly do not change mass (but mass itself is just defined by the symmetric-based math)

Patrick that's your "lower" energy -- or as qigong master chunyi Lin states -- ringing in the ears is the kidney energy. So you're building up the kidney energy -- sublimating the sex energy -- or ionizing the serotonin from the sex hormones -- through the vagus nerve, along the inner ear. The inner ear nerve then connects to the pineal gland.

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Thanks for pointing that out -- hilarious and amazing. I think this is featured in a "Deadly Avengers" movie -- where they go to this brothel and the lady puts her hand down there only to be shocked.

Yeah it's one thing to kill a bull using a karate chop and a totally other thing to suck the bull's life-force in and then transmit it into your students.

As I sit in full-lotus... flexing my pineal gland. No, no, no, no!

OK so I assume you're reading Nan, Huai-chin's "Cultivating the Tao" book? That's where he gives all the different postures. The books of his I emphasize are his dharma lectures -- Working Towards Enlightenment and Realizing Enlightenment. Two books -- I read them each 3 times before I felt I grasped his basic concepts. Most importantly Nan says that the body MUST be transformed and that full-lotus is the easiest sign that this transformation has taken place. Of course Nan states that consciousness is formless or "empty awareness" but to achieve that through mind yoga is just emptying out the sixth (conceptual) and seventh (ego) level of consciousness which are relatively easy to empty out. "Supreme complete enlightenment" only happens when the 8th level of consciousness is emptied out (the universe) which happens WHEN the first five levels of consciousness are emptied out (consciousness of the body). This is the same as what the book "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" teaches and is the same as the concept of the "rainbow body." In contrast -- mind yoga on its own is the focus of Advaita Vedanta and western buddhism. This means left-brain meditation, using logical inference -- repeating I-I-I over and over until NO THOUGHTS arise (after the heart stops for 10 minutes). So quite literally you practice until you transcend your own death but then your body restarts and afterwards every thought automatically empties out past the first 5 levels of consciousness as per Mahayana Buddhism. The difference being that in mind yoga you just let the body do whatever since your awareness is already united with the consciousness that created your body. Mind yoga is practiced based on a strict caste system -- the Brahmin priest had to do 3 days of ritual cleansing if any female was just seen -- so strict male priest isolation was necessary for successful mind yoga. Western followers of this ignore the actual cultural context and use mind yoga as a convenient means of thinking the world is an illusion, thereby escaping responsibility for the fallacies of Western logic. I had this conversation with an old friend of mine whose sister studied with H.W.L. Poonja. He believes he achieved self-realization and now he goes out drinking and smoking and feasting every night (while getting free room and board as a psychotropic patient). He says the psychotropic medication has no effect on him and previously he was getting free room and board while claiming he was depressed but then he said advaita vedanta cured him (threatening his free funds).... Anyway H.W.L. Poonja complained how westerners would come to study with him and then they would just shack up making it a free love site -- just like the same problem with Aurobindo's ashram. So in mind yoga you still have to sublimate the sex energy -- but ONLY full-lotus successfully does this while living in the context of the horny, materialistic commodity-fetish, sex-driven West. As qigong master Chunyi Lin states: 20 minutes of full-lotus is worth 4 hours of any other practice. Qigong master Chunyi Lin also states if you want to find out who is a real master just see how long they can sit in full-lotus. In closing keep in mind that Master Nan, Huai-chin also states that practicing meditation seriously is probably not even a good idea in this time of the dharma being destroyed. Master Nan, Huai-chin states that a serious question of the sixth level of consciousness (conceptual) is why humans were created in the first place. haha.

From the spring forest qigong forum July 17th: Susan - I've studied various sorts of martial arts, mostly Tae Kwon Do and Vietnamese Kung Fu, for about 15 years. I've some acquaintance with Tai Chi, and IMHO Qigong is very much like Tai Chi. People have been doing these sorts of exercises for (hundreds of? thousands of?) years. It's difficult for some of us with Western attitudes towards exercise and fitness to understand the Eastern methods; especially the "soft" styles. "Hard" styles of martial arts are things like boxing, karate, tae kwon do, and so on, that involve punching and kicking. "Soft" styles are the ones like judo and aikido and yes, tai chi, that involve turning and deflection. As it turns out, the hard styles tend to be relatively easy to learn but (IMHO) are somewhat 'crude'. The soft styles take a lot longer to learn, but are highly sophisticated and very, very subtle. I free-sparred two of my different Tai Chi instructors, one of them after I had earned my 2nd degree black belt in tae kwon do. Both times, it was like fighting smoke. The point I'm making is that there are depths to the soft styles, especially Tai Chi that are not readily apparent to the casual observer. They are very subtle but immensely powerful. Think of the difference between jackhammers and water. Jackhammers might be able to tear up concrete very quickly, but it was water that carved the Grand Canyon, albeit very slowly. Now, I know that Qigong is not a martial art, but it is related to Tai Chi in that it is a system of body movements that, like Tai Chi, produces an effect on those who practice it. On a practical note - a fairly obvious advantage of the Qigong exercises is that they are not stressful. Like Tai Chi, if they are done correctly the practitioner should be more rested at the end of the exercise than they were at the beginning. With Qigong, we're not engaged in any "dark arts". We're not messing around with ouija boards or summoning up demons. This is not about gaining some unholy advantage over other people. It's about exercise, and fitness, and health, and healing. Just my 2 cents. /lecture

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Raw tomatoes? That's pretty cool. Also his fight story sounds just like my favorite Jet Li movie -- what's that called?.... Lu Zijian never tires of reliving his past. He fought foreigners on two occasions, and before each of the competitions he signed a waiver that said no one was responsible should a death occur during the fight. The first foreigner was an American named Tom, who was over six feet tall. The two men battled for more than an hour and still there was no clear winner. Lu's hands were badly scratched when one of his disciples called out, "Master, use Eight Trigram Palm!" Lu recalled, "I was in a hell of a fight and had become confused." When his mind became clearer he began to walk around Tom, using Eight Trigram, and finally hit Tom's chest with his palm. Tom stumbled backward a few steps then fell to the ground, blood gushing from his mouth. The second fight was with a Japanese Tae Kwon Do master in Shanghai. He was simply no match for Lu and ended up in worse shape than Tom. In 2006, The martial arts film epic Fearless, was released world-wide. Although he will continue to make martial arts films, Fearless is his last Wushu epic. In Fearless, he played Huo Yuanjia, the real-life founder of Chin Woo Athletic Association, who reportedly defeated foreign boxers and Japanese martial artists in publicized events at a time when China's power was seen as eroding. Nope -- not the same name. Still same story. http://www.essortment.com/all/healthbenefits_rbdh.htm

Well I wear glasses too, but that doesn't mean I'm some super divine mega-healer. Dr. Yan Xin wears glasses but they're not prescription -- it's just to refract his laser eyes so he doesn't accidentally burn a hole through your head. And Dr. Sha? Can't heal his eyes?

Yeah apparently qigong master Jim Nance tore both his knee ligaments from slipping on ice (here in MN) -- and he had to have surgery himself. He's now back doing long distance healing http://springforestqigong.com -- so.... beats me.

Qigong master Chunyi Lin can heal it -- by phone: http://springforestqigong.com

And for those of you who don't want to fly to Miami and pay Santiago to beat you up! haha. There's plenty of his videos on youtube. Thanks Santiago!

Actually I consider this the best book out there. The book presumes that a trainer actually has depleted energy or jing. So, as is traditional, it's taught that 100 days of no loss of "precious bodily fluid" is required to restore the body's kidney energy. Then the book focuses on the small universe or heavenly orbit. The thread on that topic has a new article posted saying it takes THREE YEARS to open the small universe orbit and also that to do so requires celibacy. Then after that you can do spirit travel, etc. I would say that the levels of spirit travel depend on to what extend the brain channels are opened up. The book "Taoist Yoga" does into detail about these issues.