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Hello Maybe, First, thanks to Earl Grey for providing an accurate answer to your questions. Here are my similar responses: In Bending the Bows, should I only inhale as I raise my arms and exhale as I lower them, or does that not matter in this system as much? (This is how I've been doing it, with resting breaths between as needed, as mentioned in the DVD) No, breath naturally as you perform the movements of BTB as slowly as you can. Do NOT attempt to coordinate any breath cycle (inhalation or exhalation) with any particular movement. That is NOT done in FP Qigong and doing so will only lessen and degrade the health benefits of each exercise. In the other static exercises, it seems clear that breathing in any specific way (other than deeply and relaxed and through the nose following the breath control sequence) is unnecessary. Yes, clear and correct. Enjoy your practice, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

IronMarshall, I am certainly open to asking GM Doo Wai again--and as many times as necessary on an ongoing basis into the future to demonstrate all other interested parties that there is no coercion or manipulation going on here whatsoever--for the purpose of fulfilling some personal agenda that you imply that I have. Isn't that considered "leading" when you take control of a situation with a brain dysfunctioned individual and pressure them into answering and responding the way you want? For your information, other than a speech impediment, GM Doo Wai is NOT a "brain-dysfunctioned individual" as you groundlessly stated in your attempt to accuse me of trying to force answers from him that you allege I wanted. He did not suffer any permanent brain damage from his debilitating strokes 10 years ago. GM Doo Wai presently has no problems with cognition, processing information, forming thoughts on his own, answering questions, or memory recall. While he could not remember the percentage breath control sequence of a particular Qigong exercise that I wanted him to confirm for me, he didn't have any problem remembering details from 25 years ago of what Bok Fu Pai arts he had taught different members in our Los Angeles class from 1991 through 1997. For example, as seen and heard on the video recording of our July 3 Skype conversation, when I made a statement in passing that I had been steadily practicing the advanced Qigong system called "10,000 Buddhas Meditations", he acknowledged that he remembered the fact that he had taught this art only to Jeffrey Roth, Tino Baguio and to myself. Without me asking any question, he just interjected "Right" when I mentioned the three of us who had learned this art form him. (He even remembered that he had taught each one of us a different set of the three sets of 18 meditations that comprise this system, totally 54 meditations. And once each of us had learned "our" first set of 18, he had us teach the other two in an exchange, so that in the end, each of us had learned 54 Meditations.) GM Doo Wai has trouble only on certain occasions in finding the words in English to express himself. On some days he is able to express his thoughts in words very clearly and articulately; on other days he has trouble speaking in complete sentences and struggles to find the right word(s). And he gets very frustrated on those days when he wants to speak but cannot find the words. However, over the past 2.5 months after he started contacting me again regularly, when we spoke via Skype, he was very lucid and mentally alert on every occasion. On almost every occasion, it was I who had to excuse myself and ask to end the conversation because I had to get back to my work and other obligations, while he wanted to continue talking. Sure, it can be used to keep someone focused on conversation, but it's also used to illicit a specified response. Quite the contrary, for when I explained in this morning's posting of GM Doo Wai's approved audiotaped (July 1) phone conversation with me in which he laughed out loud when I told him that some persons claimed to have learned from him as private students within the last 9 years (such as "ausar", who has been banned from this blogsite), I was prompted by moderators of Daobums to get GM Doo Wai to pronounce and publish a list of certified Bok Fu Pai instructors for the purpose of protecting unsuspecting and indeed gullible beginners from falling prey to a couple of very tenacious crews of scam-artists selling performance videos of GM Doo Wai that were originally stolen from him by an outlaw student, which he never wanted published or distributed, let alone sold at exorbitant and predatory prices by fake "masters"--and with none of the monies going to him. Every time a new set of fake screennames (called sock-puppets by the moderators) are ferreted out by the very IT-capable moderators , they get instantly banned from the Daobums site. My purpose in getting this list of authorized Bok Fu Pai instructors from GM Doo Wai is solely to get his wishes accurately published and into the public domain to set the record straight. And so have the mass-innoculating effect that would protect innocent and earnest students of Flying Phoenix and other Bok Fu Pai arts from being duped and victimized by charlatans and fake masters claiming to be private students of GM Doo Wai, who unfortunately have shown of late that they are more determined than ever to foist their scams on the unwary and gullible. They most recently reached new highs in disrupting and derailing the central discussion of this thread--by fleecing a good number of people of a lot of money by selling them video programs showing GM Doo Wai demonstrating Bok Fu Pai Meditations that he had publicly denounced eleven years ago as having been stolen from him by a james lacy. (See his Youtube video below.) But your post did make me realize that GM Doo Wai's list is actually incomplete. I was so focussed on following the advice of the Daobums moderators to clear the air of the present flotation of lies and absurdities tainting this thread that were foisted by one particular scam-site and it operators, and debunking the ridiculous lies this person has posted, stating that he was a present private student of GM Doo Wai--which every student of GM Doo Wai over the past 10 years knows is absolutely impossible because they know that he has been incapacitated and bedridden since 2008 when he suffered a series for four strokes, that I forgot that one of GM Doo Wai's earlier senior students, Sifu Kevin Ulmer, a top-notch breaker of everything from icebergs to coconuts, is still around, healthy, potent and a good teacher. We had lunch in L.A. about 4 years ago and caught up after he returned to California from a long stay in the southeast because it was Kevin Ulmer and the late Bob Eberhart who came to L.A. with GM Doo Wai almost every week for 6 years to help him teach the circle of students that I had formed for him from 1991 to 1997. So I will naturally ask GM Doo Wai about one of his most senior students, Kevin Ulmer (not that there would be any question of whether he is qualified). As for "Dennis", I thought I had heard him mention a name like that but we were talking at the same time and I didn't hear it clearly. Do you know Dennis's last name? And do you--or anyone out there-- happen to know the last name if Sifu "Nick" who was a one-time student of Tom and Joel Rizzo? GM Doo Wai clearly mentioned his name to me. I never put anyone's name in the mouth of GM Doo Wai as far as authorized Bok Fu Pai instructors go. (a) I mentioned the Rizzo brothers because he had regularly mentioned them and their school in Westwood, CA to me in recent years. (b) And of course I knew Garry Hearfield was authorized because GM Doo Wai publicly acknowledged him some 10 years ago on his Myspace page, calling for everyone to "go support Garry Hearfield in Australia". Sifu Hearfield, a good friend, was a fully certified master of Yau Kang Mun Kung Fu before he learned Bok Fu Pai, and as a result of this great background (and because he trains like a beast), Garry received all of GM Doo Wai's most powerful family kung fu arts: Bok Fu Pai, Ehrmei Mountain Bak Mei, and Tibetan Burning Palm, as well as other more compact arts. I compare notes with Sihing Garry constantly and know his level of kung fu is high ever since we started Skyping in 2009 after meeting on this FPCK thread. (c) Since GM Doo Wai mentioned Sifu "Nick" I am looking forward to meeting "Nick" (...although the Rizzo's have not yet returned my phone call from 3 ago asking for his last name.) At any rate, not mentioning Sifu Kevin Ulmer to GM Doo Wai was a definite oversight on my part and I will correct it. And again, the reason for the oversight was that I was all-out busy getting verbal and video proof from GM Doo Wai that he has NOT taught anyone anything substantial over the past 9 years because of his tragic health situation, in order to debunk the fairy tale that "ausar" had spun of being GM's private student most recently. Because GM Doo Wai has been Skyping me on the average of every other day for the past 2.5 months, the next time I Skype with him, I will mention to him the names that you listed at the top of your post--but only those who have no ties whatsoever to james Lacy, whom GM Doo Wai has publicly disavowed and condemned for more than 27 years (i.e., since I first started training with the Grandmaster in 1991). One name I will NOT mention--because I know with absolute certainty that this particular person has NEVER been authorized nor would EVER be authorized to teach the Bok Fu Pai system by GM Doo Wai in a million life times--even if he were versed in it--is Carl Totton. First of all, I received a black sash instructor's certification from Totton in Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu and So. Sil Lum 5 Animals Kung Fu in 1983. (At the time of my certification, the only other other instructor he gave a black sash to was Sifu Steve Baugh who runs the excellent Lohan Shaolin School in Las Vegas. And witnessing my certification test in 1983 and participating in the final fight against multiple attackers was Bill Helm, Vince Black, and my classmate Hugh Morison, plus a good sized audience of students and friends.) While Totton is extremely well trained and lethal in Mok Gar, Sil Lum 5 Animals Kung Fu, and Tao Tan Pai Internal, and in Yau Kang Mun, he is not versed in Bok Fu Pai. In fact, after I blew the whistle on him to Ed Parker, Ron Chapel, Doug Wong, AND GM Share K. Lew (with the support and of a separate stand-alone complaint by Hugh Morison) and other martial peers in LA, in October of 1986 (3 years after I had left his school) when 3 young students in their early 20's (Adrienne Matthews, Michael Franklin, and Vincent Chin [who I believe was only 19]) wound up physically on my doorstep with true and verified (and still verifiable) stories of sexual abuse at the hands of totton while he was doing "psychotherapy" on them inside the "Taoist Institute" in North Hollywood, CA, I filled GM Doo Wai in on this nasty scandal soon after I began training with him in 1991. I was there when GM Doo Wai told totton's teacher in Tao Tan Pai (and my teacher also through 1992), Share K. Lew, point-blank: "I don't like that"--just for starters. For all the years that I learned from GM Doo Wai, every student in our group knew about totton's crimes as directly reported by these 3 victims. And GM Doo Wai would regularly say, let's call them, non-flattering things about his character. So you can strike that one of your list, IronMarshall. You can check with Sifu Douglas Wong, my senior classmate in Tao Tan Pai, Sifu Todd Takeuchi, and my classmate Sifu Hugh Morison who actively teaches Tao Tan Pai in L.A., Bill Helm, Director of the San Diego Taoist Sanctuary for the past 35+ years, and of course, Master Ron Chapel to confirm that everything I have stated here about Carl Totton is true. So to set the record straight, Totton does not have Bok Fu Pai KF knowledge. In fact, he had expressly told Doug Wong when Doug was playing an early super-8 color film at his Van Nuys studio of GM Doo Wai doing the Bok Fu Pai "Big Cross" form that GM Doo Wai's teachings didn't impress him and that he had no interest in learning from GM Doo Wai. Not only because he dissed GM Doo Wai's Kung Fu on that one occasion in Sifu Doug Wong's studio in Van Nuys, he has no chance of ever being positively regarded by GM Doo Wai --to this day--let alone be authorized to teach his system. And then at my invitation, Prof. Ron Chapel attended our weekly or bi-monthly classes with GM Doo Wai for more than a year to learn some of his self-healing methods. So everyone in Doo Wai's Los Angeles cadre of students--including Ron Chapel in the same room with us-- knew about Carl Totton, and the Grandmaster himself was actually thee most savage and vocal in lambasting, mocking and belittling his behavior. And GM Doo Wai also made his sentiments clearly known to a couple of students from the Taoist Inst. who wound up visiting our class through Warrington Hudlin. One was a known tv actor named Vondi. So I don't know where in the world you could have gotten the notion that Carl Totton was ever or could ever be designated a Bok Fu Pai instructor. Hosting a visit by GM Doo Wai at his school in the 70's or 80's doesn't make him a lineage holder. And as you probably know, along with Garry Hearfield and every other experienced student of BFP, the BFP Internal arts are totally different in methodology and alchemy from those of all other martial arts like Shaolin, Tao Tan Pai and Tai Chi. There is not even the remotest similarity. But the next time Grandmaster Doo Wai Skypes me (it will be soon, a matter of a day or two), I will make it a point to ask him about adding to the list: 1. Kevin Ulmer 2. "Dennis" 3. and also Garry Hearfield's certified student in Sweden, Sifu Wretfors. I will let you and this thread know a soon as I have another conversation with GM Doo Wai ans whether he updates his expressed list of authorized Bok Fu Pai instructors. When he calls or Skypes me next, I hope that he will be fresh and more easy in his speech. It fluctuates. Sometimes he can barely get a word out; other times, he is fluent and pretty articulate. ***BUT ONE THING I WILL REPEAT HERE MOST EMPHATICALLY IS THAT I WILL NOT DISCUSS WITH GM DOO WAI nor discuss in any manner on any Daobums.com thread or any social media platform is anyone who has proven or admitted connections to the late james lacey. This is at the direct request of GM Doo Wai expressed to me all the way back in 1996. I obliged him with a promise that I would never bring up his name or anyone related to him to the Grandmaster ever again. I have continued to abide by my agreement to his request on this matter ever since that time--and redoubled my commitment when I saw this public denouncement and disavowal of this fore-mentioned outlaw student that GM Doo Wai issued in 2007: Respectfully to the Bok Fu Pai tradition and its sole 6th generation lineage holder. Sifu Terry Dunn P.S. FP Practitioners, don't worry, we will soon get back to the purpose of this thread, which LLoyd McClelland started 9 years ago. But as this year is a 20 year return of a victory cycle that manifested in Perfected Justice in December of 1998, now happens to be a perfect time to shed the Light of Truth everywhere, especially upon dark places that weaklings try to sweep under the rug and hope that everyone else will forget about. Open your eyes, everyone...and rock up. www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

To all FP Qigong Practitioners and subscribers to this discussion thread: I just got back to my base in Lenox, MA after spending four days in Cambridge during which I gave a talk at a salon of eminent Chinese scholars affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and Harvard's Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies. My presentation of both Tao Tan Pai and Bok Fu Pai as ancient Taoist monastic traditions of martial-yogic-healing-spiritua art to top Chinese cultural historians and one eminent lineage holder of a TCM tradition went very well. Details forthcoming in separate post. All that is to explain the reason for the lag in posting what I had promised to post on July 9 in the above posting. Well, after extensive hours spent laboring on Final Cut Pro, here finally is the promised audio recording of my conversation with Grandmaster Doo Wai on July 1, 2018, in which I asked him to confirm whether he has taught any students within the past 9 years or authorized anybody claiming to have been his private student within the last 9 years to teach Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu arts. He answered several times with an emphatic "NO!" because he states clearly that he has been incapacitated, bedridden, and unable to speak. When I told him about a person apparently named "ausar" with the ausar.org website claiming that he had been authorized by GM Doo Wai to teach advanced Bok Fu Pai arts to "enlighten the world", GM Doo Wai (starting at approx. 3:00 min. on the Timecode) guffawed and laughed heartily in wonderment--no doubt as if he was hearing this for the very first time). Then GM Doo Wai continues to make fun of it and says in a jocular tone laughingly, "OK...meaning "OK, whatever"--and continues to laugh. I hope this published conversation will clear up any questions and delusions anyone might have about the authenticity of claims made on the ausar.org site that "ausar" is a high-level private student of GM Doo Wai who has been encouraged, authorized, and charged by Grandmaster Doo Wai to "enlighten the world" with his advanced knowledge. As I have told several persons apparently duped by this ausar.org site and taken for a lot of money (upwards of $1,999--which I first learned from a moderator who sent me a copy of the "LOC's" price list on the ausar.org site) for its media program that promises enlightenment transcendence of innumerable LOC's ("level of consciousness"). But now I am truly head-spun and now still shaking my head in amazement after reviewing "Maybe"'s earlier post on July 10 at 3:08 PM, and am reminded that the products advertised on that site (which I assume Maybe has accurately reported) tallies up to $10,000. This is the name of the program to be aware of and to avoid--as forwarded to me by a moderator in response to my forwarding a complaint filed to me by "Jamie" from the UK who explained that some friends of his had paid "big money" to collect GM Doo Wai videos from the "ausar" site. This descripition was written by another DB subscriber--outside of my correspondence with "Jamie"-- who used it to inform moderators of the scam: RASA's (Ramaji Advaita Shaktipat Attunements) to increase LOC (level of consciousness) via transmission of cosmic light, and best of all, a whole bunch of levels to gauge progress by...These levels are numbered 30 to 1000. Thus I took the time that I don't actually have to spare--42 hours in total--to make these Youtube postings of 2 videos and one audio recording of my July conversations with Grandmaster Doo Wai as a public service as advised to do by the moderators. My hope--along with that of the mods-- is that with these clear pronouncements by Grandmaster Doo Wai of his list of five Bok Fu Pai instructors authorized to teach the throughout the world, the fairly warned subscribers to this thread will no longer be attractive or easy marks for the same scam-artists and others trying to palm themselves off has being enlightened and possessing miraculous spiritual powers allegedly transmitted to them by GM Doo Wai that in turn enables them to charge you what they will--in the most recent case, $1,999 to $10,000--for a guaranteed path to bliss and enlightenment. Pulleez. And PLEASE, everybody be on guard and keep your critical minds turned on at all times--except when you sleep and when you do non-FP Qigong meditations. And I say "non-FP Qigong meditations" to bring this posting back to the topic of FP Qigong training: bear in mind that all of the FP Qigong meditations--except for just a couple fo the seated MSW meditations (e.g., "glued palms" on MSW #3 [90 80 50 20]-- do not require any form of visualization whatsoever. And this feature thus enables the practitioner to engage in any type mentation while doing the FP Qigong meditation. So you can keep critical mind razor sharp while in FP Meditations and think through all the scams that you may have encountered in your lifetimes and unfortunately on this thread...and reconstruct those encounters...and acknowledge how you handled the deception either correctly or incorrectly, by either seeing it coming or getting bit by it. If you do this once in a while while in FP Meditations, you will still derive the same salient health benefits as you would through any other correct practice session. And you will be wiser. Sifu Terence Dunn

Hi Maybe, My experience over many years has has been that after I teach my standard two-hour Flying Phoenix Qigong class, that everyone in the class has a very good appetite and rush to go either home or to a restaurant to eat. (btw, as reported in the early years of this thread, many students who to to restaurants after a Qigong class or their personal practice report that their energy precedes them and that the second they walk in through the doors of an eating establishment, many people automatically turn to look at them out from all parts of the room in a way that's out of the ordinary.) Now two hours is a solid FP Qigong practice and common sense will tell you that just the duration of doing any physical activity for 2 hours --let alone FP stationary and moving meditations-- will steadily deplete one's energy stores, especially if you practice starting 3 to 5 hours after your last meal. But FP Qigong practice indeed does whet the appetite. Not only that, food tastes better because all sensory organs are "reset" to a pristine level. But I also recall in my earlier years of practice (the 90's) that FP Qigong's perfectly holistic, systemic regulatory effects also resulted in reducing my unconscious cravings whenever I was working frenetically in a super-focussed-and-perhaps-stressed-out mode with not enough sleep and eating too much to put more energy (chi frumentarium) into my system. Any one else experience increased appetite and/or better natural regulation of unconscious over-eating? Thanks. Sifu Terry Dunn

As an excellent and powerful complement to FP Qigong training, I recommend Tao Tan Pai Basic 31 Nei Kung Exercises ("Taoist Elixir Method"), which about eight or more former senior students of the late Taoist priest Share K. Lew (all residing in the western states) are fully versed in (along with the higher levels of Tao Tan Pai). GM Lew was a high-level, equal peer and friend of my teacher, GM Doo Wai. As GM Doo Wai put it, "he's a good Kung Fu man." In exactly 2 weeks, I am giving a 22-hour immersive workshop in the Tao Tan Pai 31 at the Eastover Estate in Lenox, MA. This is my description of the 8-session course, starting Thursday evening and ending Sunday July 29 at noontime: Tao Tan Pai 31 Meditations is the basic health and self-healing Qigong training of the Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu system, an authentic Taoist monastic system of hygienics that originated during China’s Tang Dynasty and is attributed to Lu Deng Bin, the leader of the Eight Taoist Immortals (saints) and was preserved for 23 generations mostly at the Ancient Temple of the Yellow Dragon ( 黃龍古殿 Huanglong Guguan ) near Mt. Luohu in China’s Guangdong province before Taoist priest Share Lew brought the art to America in 1968. Tan Pai Qigong traditionally has been the secret engine that develops the natural body mechanics and tangible superabundance of energy that empowers the Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu. Thus it is the perfect complement and support for any athletic activity besides martial arts. During this weekend workshop, you learn the 15 standing and 16 seated meditations known as the Tao Tan Pai Basic 31. You will also learn what is known as the Short Form Power Yoga, consisting of five of the 31 meditations, which is an essential distillation of the 31 meditation system, handily designed for daily practice of approximately 35-40 minutes. As Joolian, Earl Grey, Tao Stillness and other FPCK practitioners have verified for themselves and had confirmations from Eric Isen, Taoist Elixir Method Kung Fu and Nei Kung--the entire system-- is fantastic foundational catalyst that supports and enhances the health benefits imparted by Flying Phoenix Qigong training. Registration info is here: http://www.eastover.com/workshop/tao-tan-pai-with-master-terry-dunn.html btw, this TTP-31 workshop coming up will be an absolute hoot, because attending will be my biggest fan and booster in China who came to my FP Qigong Workshop at Eastover last year: the genius architect-poet Haim Dotan (Israel-born and USC-educated) who teaches out of Shanghai, and who built the breath-taking Zhengjiagie glass pedestrian bridge in Hunan province that opened in the spring of 2017 (with a budget of $40 million euros). If you want to see the phantasmagorically organic creations of a natural-born Taoist, Google "Haim Dotan images." Enjoy. Hope to see lots of you in 2 weeks at Eastover. Sifu Terry Dunn.

TO THE FLYING PHOENIX QIGONG COMMUNITY AND TO THOSE INTERESTED IN OTHER ARTS UNDER THE EHRMEI MOUNTAIN BOK FU PAI (WHITE TIGER) KUNG FU UMBRELLA: Coming next (and soon) on the heels of this posting will be a long audio recording that I made on July 1, in which Grandmaster Doo Wai replies in detail to my questions of whether he had (A) taught anyone named "ausar", (B) taught anyone as a private student in the past ten (10) years, (C) encouraged, empowered, or commissioned any student of his in particular to teach "enlightenment to the world" by teaching Bok fu Pai and/or by selling DVDs of the grandmaster's demonstrations of various arts, and (D) whether he had ever heard of Kriya Yoga or condoned the blending or combining of Bok Fu Pai arts with anything having to do with Kriya Yoga. Here's a slight foreshadowing with a spoiler alert: GM Doo Wai's reaction to my questions was ASTONISHMENT and LAUGHED A LOT in answering me several times. And then he thanked me for making and publishing his statement. Be careful of what you wish for; you may get. Sifu Terence Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

TO THE FLYING PHOENIX QIGONG COMMUNITY AND TO THOSE INTERESTED IN OTHER ARTS UNDER THE EHRMEI MOUNTAIN BOK FU PAI (WHITE TIGER) KUNG FU UMBRELLA: After receiving disturbing news from a gentleman from a DB subscriber living in the UK that he and a circle of friends had each spent thousands of dollars purchasing DVDs of various GM Doo Wai performances of advanced Bok FU Pai meditations from a website operated by a person named "ausar" with URL "ausar.org", and then debunking for this British person the claim on that website that "ausar" currently is or was recently a private student of GM Doo Wai, which I (along with Sifu Garry Hearfield, and Sifu's Tom and Joel Rizzo and their student Sifu "Nick" in Los Angeles) knew to be absolutely impossible, since GM Doo Wai has been 100% retired and physically incapacitated for the past ten (10) years and has had the use of only one arm and can not speak well at all throughout this 10 year period, I took a good look 3 weeks ago at the ausar.org website. Then I proceeded to contact GM Doo Wai to ask him if he had ever taught somone named "ausar" and had authorized him to teach any aspect or part of Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu or its internal energy arts. GM Doo Wai answered with a laugh and said that he couldn't remember and moreover stated emphatically that he could not teach anyone since he was bedridden 10 YEARS AGO. That said, it is obvious that any person claiming to have been a private student of GM Doo Wai within the past 10 years is a fraud and a brazen liar. After discussing this troubling information brought to me by "Mr. X" from the UK with moderators at Daobums, and after reviewing the incredible amount of my time and energy already wasted in the past spent on identifying similar trolls (called "sock puppets" by the moderators) attempting to divert subscribers of this FPCK practice thread to the site of a "scammer" and getting them banned, the moderators advised me that I should try to get an official statement from GM Doo Wai as to which persons have been authorized by him to teach Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu arts, and to publish this list for the benefit of all interested in legitimate and ethical practice of Bok Fu Pai, so that they can readily avoid being misled by trolls and fraudsters cynically trying to fleece the unwary, the unsophisticated, and the overly-idealistic by selling them very expensive programs promising instant enlightenment and bliss. So, here for starters, is a 4-minute video recording of the Skype conversation I had with Grandmaster Doo Wai on June 3, 2018, during which he confirmed for me that he has authorized only the following five (5) persons to teach Bok Fu Pai arts throughout the world--Sifu Garry Hearfield, Sifu Tom Rizzo, Sifu Joel Rizzo, the Rizzo's former student "Sifu Nick" , and myself, Plus a sixth person mentioned by GM Doo Wai named "Dennis" (I think) who I am in the process of trying to dentify and then hope to contact. * Please excuse the lack of picture on GM Doo Wai's end. As you can see, he had trouble pointing his computer camera at himself. But I also sensed that he did not want to be captured on video for the duration of our conversation and be seen unshaven, in his hospital nightgown and with earbuds on to hear the Skype audio. Sifu Terry Dunn

Hello Maybe, Greetings again to the FP Qigong community and thank you for bringing the conversation back to the topic of practicing Flying Phoenix Qigong. I am very happy and thrilled for you that you are experiencing such solid salient health benefits from practicing this art using the first DVD volumes for only three weeks. Many practitioners have reported verifiable health benefits from less than 3 and even 2 weeks of practice, but there have only been a handful of FP Qigong practitioners/Daobums subscribers who have reported such a broad range of health improvements. The order by which you've described the noticeable health benefits from your FP practice is very telling and very typical of the "roll-out" or onset of FP Qigong's healing effects. 1) My mental focus is back. Congratulations. I'm very glad to hear that FP Qigong practice has restored our mental focus and you have greatly command of your multi-faceted and challenging job in aquaponics. Mental clarity and acuity is often instantly experienced with the very first practice session and steadily builds and ratchets upward in terms of maintaining clarity and acuity. As I think I explained in a post in 2016: When I gave a workshop in NYC on November 12 that year, one of the women attending that 4-hour afternoon workshop loudly and excitedly exclaimed at the two-hour mark: "Oh my God, my eyes just cleared up...and I never even noticed that they had clouded over right after the presidential election took place four days ago (and Trump got elected)!" With two hours of FP Qigong practice, this woman recovered from severe psycho-somatic symptoms and was utterly amazed that they suddenly and completely disappeared. Welcome to the Cloudless Mind Club! 2) My stomach health is greatly improved. Wow! This is stellar news. I have not heard many reports of FP Qigong practice improving serious alimentary problems to the extent that you have described. I know how painful and distressing stomach problems can be and hwo they alone can make life miserable. I've been diagnosed with acute gastritis, which had made life even worse with constant bloating, diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal pain. It was very rough for a little while, and I'm still recovering. Flying Phoenix has accelerated my recovery time significantly. I can eat things that I couldn't eat at all anymore without consequences (like cheese, yogurt, tomatoes, etc.) about once or twice a week without having problems. My elimination process has normalized. Things are moving along very well in terms of strengthening my stomach and intestines. There's still more to be done. I'm fairly certain I'll be needing to see an acupuncturist and getting some Traditional Chinese Medicinal herbs to fully rectify and balance the system. Flying Phoenix seems to have laid an excellent foundation for healing. 3) My strength is improving. Again, I'm so glad to hear that about the very interesting false alarm you went through that turned out actually be a symptom of your strenthening process. I realized that the sensation I'd been feeling was just a strengthening of my intercostal and pectoral muscles. Most of the movements in Flying Phoenix 1 seem to strengthen the pectoral, neck, shoulder, core, and leg muscles. Yes, FP Qigong is the epitome of CORE exercise. Because of its sure-fire ability and power to induce the relaxation response coupled with its constant imperative to move as slowly as possible--i.e., to "move at the speed of a shifting sand dune", the Fp Qigong art almost perfectly coordinates the use of the body's core muscle to transfer that strength to the muscles of the extremities in a natural wave form. Besides noticeable strength increasing from greater respiratory power conditioned by the FP Qigong, the efficiency in movement from the great postural, balance, flexibility and agility benefits of the FP moving meditations will result in the feeling of even greater increase in strength and energy levels. This is the meaning of integral strength. 4) My Anxiety and Panic have subsided greatly. As I've stated year after year, many times a year on this thread, the FP Qigong works by bringing all the organ systems of the body under the regulation of the subconscious mind--thereby activating the body's self-healing properties. By regulating the orbs of the body through the central nervous system and returning the body to homeostasis (its natural state of pristine functioning), soothed nerves, emotional calm accompany the physical strength and comfort from the reduction of friction and pain brought on by the practice. First comes bodily health and physical comfort combined with emotional calm and greater and greater sense of well-being. Then comes deeper relaxation and blissful states of consciousness or "absorption", mapped out and celebrated by the sages of all ancient yogic cultures. (As "Virtue" so eloquently stated in his posting above, such higher states of consciousness cannot be bought at any price but depends totally on the quality of one's practice of any authentic yogic or meditative system, how hard and disciplined one works in his yogic-spiritual practices,, one's natural genetic talents, along with one's predilection and karma.) I would recommend reading Daniel Goleman's "The Buddha and Meditative States of Consciousness, Part I" as an accessible excellent roadmap to recognizing where one is on the path of attaining At=Onement with the Infinite Event or Ultimate Reality or Godhead. It is a translation of the a scripture expounded by the Buddha defining the states of Consciousness facilitated by Yogic practice, which in Sanskrit are called the 8 Jhanas--or levels of absorption/concentration. (I highly recommend this reading to FP practitioners because one will realize what an excellent yogic vehicle FP Qigong is because it soars one through the first 2 jhanas and for many through the third right up to the threshold of the fourth t jhana. so that one can more quickly dispense with obstacles to progress which at first seem not to be obstacles but are often mistaken for the desired end: bliss and rapture. http://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/Goleman1972.pdf Bliss and rapture--while commonly promised as cheap marketing hooks to entrap depressed and unhappy and thus more gullible-than-normal people, by profane hucksters and quacks selling instant enlightenment as New Age Snake Oil--are to be experienced and then dispensed with as soon as volitionally possible if one wants to progress further in one's spiritual growth and experience the FORMLESS JHANA'S -- which the Buddha defined as four states of highest consciousness. Another invaluable map that is most rigorous and challenging to use--but which brings immeasurable mental health and powers is Polish-American mathematician-philosopher Alfred J. Korzybski's "Science and Sanity", the seminal tome of General Semantics. Taken 6 pages a night, this 2,000 page thesis cleanses the nervous systme of semantic distortions and makes one conscious of the Structural Differential which are the physiological and cosmological realities that potentially block the evolution of human consciousness to directly know and be AT-One with the Ultimate Reality/ Infinite Event / Godhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics Yes you can know God through a math model. LOL And then there's G. Spencer-Brown's "The Laws of Form", that one can read simultaneous with Goleman and Korzybski--or afterwards. Then you will have mastered a substantial level of the closest thing the West has developed to Zen, and also have in place a most powerful language structure to understand and describe and articulate the yogic experiences that you experience through your practice of Flying Phoenix Qigong--let alone recognize when someone is trying to sell you new age snake oil or a bridge in Brooklyn but is calling it something else. Congratulations again on your splendid health transformation!! May your improvements continue with no end. You are most welcome. It is an absolute pleasure and joy to teach FP Qigong...especially when results such as yours are reported. Sincerely, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

DSC, To answer our question: Yes. He is bedridden. In this photo you posted GM Doo Wai is in a hospital nightshirt here, wearing th same white earbuds that he wears when he uses his computer to communicate with people via Skype. And as you can see in both the video recordings of my Skype conversation with GM Doo Wai that took place the evening of July 3--which I posted above with my post of July 8, GM Doo Wai is confined to a hospital bed and has been in this unfortunate state for the past 9 years. Sifu Garry Hearfield just recently corrected me and informed that GM Doo Wai has been incapacitated and bedridden for ten (10) years because Sifu Garry remembers distinctly that his son was two years old when GM Doo Wai was struck by four strokes. His son Hayden is now twelve years old. And anyone may confirm that Sifu Hearfield made such a confirmation--of GM Doo Wai being incapacitated for the past ten years) by contacting him. Also, although I don't now what their responsiveness level is because I'm not well-acquainted with them, the duration of GM Doo Wai's incapacitation and being confined to convalescent bed can be confirmed by contacting Sifu Tom Rizzo and Sifu Joel Rizzo, and also Dennis Wood, who I recently learned teaches at the Rizzo's "White Tiger Kung Fu School" in Westwood, CA. For your information, GM Doo Wai has been Skyping me for the past 4 weeks (calls initiated by him on the average of every other day) and what I have posted as his reaction to "ausar" is absolutely true and will be backed up by the videos of the audiotape recordings of other conversations. Taking a photo with GM while he is in an incapacitated state as he is seen in the photo he posted does not mean that he has been authorized to teach any part of the BFP system. Even if GM Doo Wai had taught him anything prior to when he was incapacitated ten years ago, that does not make him an instructor. You can believe what you want based on a photo--and be his shill for the rest of your life. I don't know who this person is in this photo that you say goes by the name "ausar". But anyone can tell from his age in this photo you posted that he has not mastered anything except how to get banned from www.thedaobums.com by its moderators. The fact that he and all his known aliases (called "sock puppets" by the two DaoBums moderators, who felt it necessary (with no input or prompting from me whatsoever) to take action in response to complaints of trolling and diverting of subscribers of this discussion thread to a notorious scam site ) have been banned from Daobums is here for all to verify: But the truth about GM Doo Wai as of last week confirming that he has authorized only the above mentioned 5 Sifu's (including yours truly) to teach Bok Fu Pai will be further proven and documented with the forthcoming videos and audio recordings. Also to be proven and documented is Grandmaster Doo Wai's 100% confirmation that "ausar" is NOT an authorized instructor of Bok Fu Pai. And you can also confirm with the moderator "Dawei" that all "sock-pockets" --or avatars/screennames donned by those trolling the FPCK thread because of its large subscriber base--and others on Daobums--and leading the unsuspecting and gullible to "ausar.org" HAVE BEEN BANNED and will continue to BANNED whenever they are ferretted out. I don't have time for this totally disgusting and pathetic low-level con-artistry. Please direct all future questions about FP Qigong or any Bok Fu Pai art to the other four authorized instructors: Sifu's Hearfield, Tom Rizzo, Joel Rizzo, and their student, Sifu Nick. Other doing my part to present to the public GM Doo Wai's expressed and unassailable authorization of those persons that he wants to teach Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu arts, you will not waste any more of my time about this matter again. Ever again. Sifu Terry Dunn

NOTE TO ALL FP QIGONG PRACTITIONERS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THIS THREAD: Pay no attention to the above posting by "PGQ" because he or whoever is behind the PGQ name has recently been banned by the able and astute Daobums moderators who discovered that this account "appear to be sock puppets of past scammer or such vices to play out on the site." Thus the message he posted is a snide and disrespectful parting shot at FP Qigong, this FPCK thread, the Daobums.com site, and the Daobums Moderator who has banned him. But if you must try to make sense of the 8 lines of the posting, here is how I look at it: As one may have noticed: none of PGQ's 8 lines above are comprehensible English except one: the one that says "snake slithers on the ground," which given the fact that he has been banned, may lead one to conclude that it is his identification of himself. As for the rest of that post, it is a combination of the demonstrably wrong statements all purposefully bundled up to make iritating nonsense. But since it's posted and cannot be taken down, in the spirit of democracy and free speech in this open forum, the meaning of this "poetry" and the intent of its author can be easily examined: A snake only climbs by coiling up a tree...Understand. Wrong: a snake doesn't have to coil up a tree to elevate, as snake-charmers have demonstrated for centuries. And maybe Mr. Black Snake here will pay you a visit to show you how wrong you are. UNDERSTAND THIS, GENIUS: A dragon flies by coiling for it is of heaven... Wrong again, as those who have done enough of the Wind Above the Clouds FP Meditation all know through mastering this BASIC FP Meditation, the dragon (you) after gathering its energy by stretching to the right, stretching to the left, and stretching to the right again just ONE TIME, launches itself into flight by straightening the body and then keeping the body straight and perfectly still when it flies through the Heavens. Hint: this is knowledge is physiologically experienced--not believed in nor imagined--when (advanced) practitioners do the FP Meditation "Wind Above the Clouds" (50 40 30), a so-called "basic" FP meditation on Volume One of the DVD series. For only a phoenix is truly of the people for it is of earth but points the way to heaven as is a birds nature. NO. WRONG AGAIN. IT IS NONE OF THAT BECAUSE IT IS NO LONGER A BIRD. FLYING PHOENIX IS AN ENERGY, WHICH IS BORN IN THE HEAVENS AND STAYS IN THE HEAVENS. It is channeled to man/woman on earth through FP Meditation practice in order to transform man/woman and him/her into a holy and then ultimately heavenly being, but for it to abide in man-on-earth, that mundane being must be following the Dharma--as defined by any of the great three world religions. Any FP Qigong practitioner who has experienced the inner blue light (with eyes closed) while in meditation knows that this BLUE LIGHT is not of this earth--and cannot be generated by any earthly means known to man. And anyone so firmly convinced of--and fervently attached to--such hysterically wrong and delusional belief about "Flying Phoenix"--obviously based on no experiential foundation of having practiced any of the Flying Phoenix Qigong correctly--so as to so arrogantly command everyone to "UNDERSTAND (it)" might be deemed by even the most non-judgemental FP practitioners as having a severe mental disorder, for this person is preaching as if he were living in a parallel universe where sages are blind and deranged from having a meth habit. I will paraphrase a powerful contemporary female European mystic so as to more more graciously and insightfully support my condemnation of the poisonous drivel purplegoldqilin just posted: “the spheres of [the Flying Phoenix] are not accessible to such persons as have allowed their spiritual body to wither away and to make their spiritual poverty into an arrogant omniscience, denying all that in their spiritual blindness they cannot see, in their cowardice do not dare to believe, in their egoism have not the strength to love.” In other words, the holiness of SPIRITUAL ENTITIES such as the FLYING PHOENIX is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. This mystic also accurately observed: “When the devil cannot prevent the appearance of a noble and pure soul, he revenges himself by distorting the picture of this soul in the minds of others." Hence the venal coward behind the purplegoldqilin sock-puppet, who the moderators have just banned from us all, in spewing a final parting cheap-shot, passes himself off as some sort of spiritual genius, started out by obfuscating the obvious TRUTH: "No. This has not always been true." OH YES, THIS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN TRUE. Understand. Indeed, people should UNDERSTAND ONLY: (A) how to detect deceptive fruitcake trolls trying to siphon (steal) low-level psychic energy by arrogantly writing nonsense designed to confuse, distract and make eyes roll. (B) how to quickly dismiss such flimsy lint balls (blow them out the window with 1/10 of an exhale and let a passing moth eat it) without wasting an ounce of energy on it. And as was explained to me by the Daobums moderator who banned PGQ sock-puppet, he was banned because he was determined to be a troll who lured the unsuspecting through this chain of links to an obviously bogus website titled (on its homepage) 'THE SPIRITUAL HEART CENTER', featuring a guru of "Celestial Kriya Yoga" named "Ausar", who reportedly sells supposedly advanced teachings by Grandmaster Doo Wai on DVDs for thousands of dollars. When I first saw this website, I saw it as obviously bogus because Kriya Yoga is the sacred art of Paramahansa Yogananda, the great Indian master, guru, and holy man ( 1893-1952). Being a resident of Los Angeles since the age of 6, I have, as an adult, visited the Yogananda's Self-Realization Centers on Mt. Washington overlooking downtown LA, in the Pacific Palisades, and in the beach town of Encinitas dozens of times and have meditated there and practiced my Qigong arts there. I have a good appreciation and deep understanding for the Yoganada tradition. Thus, just the idea that any substantial art from GM Doo Wai's tradition could have been transmitted to anyone in the Kriya Yoga tradition--other than Yogananda himself--is ABSURD AND IMPOSSIBLE. That these two traditions--so vastly different--could be somehow conjoined is ridiculous horseshit. Unfortunately, as reported to me in PM by a FPCK subscriber from the UK who asked to remain anonymous but whose existence and complaint about the extortionate ausar.org site ("The Spiritual Heart Center") can be verified by the DaoBums moderators, he and quite a few unsuspecting and gullible Daobums subscribers in his circle of friends were seduced, hoodwinked, and bamboozled out a lot money, thousands of dollars, by claims made by "ausar" that has been a recent private student of GM Doo Wai and has been endorsed, encouraged and commissioned by GM Doo Wai to "enlightenment to the world" by selling what turns out to be a hodgepodge of videos of GM Doo Wai performing advanced Bok Fu Pai meditations, which were (as explained by GM Doo Wai in his 2007 Youtube video) all stolen from him by an outlaw student (now deceased) whom he thoroughly disavowed and vehemently condemned in that 2007 video. Well, first of all, here is a link I have just posted on Youtube, of a conversation I had about 10 days ago with GM Doo Wai, in which he laughed, guffawed, and then laughed again that anyone has claimed taht he has been a private student of GM Doo Wai AT ANY TIME DURING PAST 9 YEARS, because GM Doo Wai has sadly been incapacitated, is bedridden and cannot speak easily. Therefore he laughed loudly when I told him that an "Ausar" claims to be his private student at present. Furthermore, GM Doo Wai expressly announced (with the help of my framing questions) that there are only five (5) persons in the world authorized by him to teach Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu: Sifu's Tom and Joel Rizzo in Los Angeles, their former student Nick whose last name GM Doo Wai could not tell me (and whom the Rizzo's ahve not told me), Sifu Garry Hearfield in Australia, and myself. Only five. No one else. And because Grandmaster Doo Wai showed in the above video that he was having obvious difficulties throughout much of the Skype conversation keeping his computer camera trained on himself, this is the follow-up call I made to the Grandmaster about 20 minutes later to get a stable picture and to get RE-CONFIRMATION from him that he wanted me to publish far and wide the names of the five instructors that he has authorized to teach Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu arts (that includes all meditative and energy arts under the Bok Fu Pai "umbrella") and to make it absolutely clear and undeniable that this was his wish. Note the emphatic thanks that he expressed to me in both videos, but especially this second one for helping him carry out his wish. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." --John 8:32 Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

A Fourth of July sentiment to share with my fellow Americans and all FP Qigong practitioiners around the world who love and honor the Spirit of Freedom to perhaps deepen your commemoration of this day, the 242nd anniversary of the start of the Masonic American experiment. As I posted on Facebook earlier today: "There is power in the 8. Pray for the preservation of the Republic today!" ...Thou was born with the Spring; and July set its seal of gold upon thy forehead. The sun himself coloured thy hair; and Mars and Venus blended their rays to gild thine eyes. Fearless and free wast thou, and knewest not thy destiny. For when thou wast come to hours of knowledge, thou didst find thy sacred land in the power of a monster. Dolt, oaf, nob, assailant, lapdog, dunce, traitor, undisciplined, malignant, polymorphously perverse. Beneath thy holy mountain, the fair springs, fringed with their ashen aspens, were befouled. Sorrowfully brooding, thou didst seek light and life and liberty and love--not upon earth but in the Heavens! Thou didst call, and the Lord answered thee, a Lord eternal, invisible, strong tower, eternal refuge, crowned radiant, omnipotent, white lion, eternal youth! Thus vision after vision came upon thee; Saint Francis saw the heavens no clearer; the angels themselves surprised thee not, folding their wings upon their faces before the Glory of the Lord. Soon or late, thou must take up thy burden; the monster must be slain; the fair land must be freed. And so dist thou, as it was given thee to do. Victory sat upon thine helm; the land was free. I have no heart to say more. Must it ever be thus that treason and superstition and tyranny should have force to destroy the vehicle of the Spirit of Freedom? Nay, it shall not be so. America, answer it! Whether in this great city, where the Atlantic thunders, the vision come upon us, or in Chicago where the wide waste of Michigan is the silence of the tameless waters, or in Buffalo where Niagara roars his battle-slogan, or where the pines of Oregon answer the palms of California, "Skyward to sun and light" (yea! or even to Canada, from Erie to Vancouver), let it inspire us to preserve and to enlarge that liberty--of which thou, Jeanne, wast the protagonist of thine age. This wreath of green and white speak to us of freedom and of purity; a talisman consecrated by almighty power; a symbol of the victory she won for us not only over tyranny, but over time. And these letters of crimson, be they our sacrifice, that man should not more have to die--as did this maid--for what should be his heritage unchallenged. JEANNE, golden rose of earth, white lily of heaven, Jeanne, a true sister and true bride of every poet's and every free man's heart, I salute thee. I bid thee not farewell; nay, be thou ever with me till the hour of death bring me to that greater freedom that flowers not upon earth. Eulogium upon Jeanne d'Arc by Aleister Crowley "The Revival of Magick and Other Essays - Oriflamme 2" (©1998, O.T.O.)

Hi A_B, Glad to hear that your daughter is beginning Kung fu training at the nearby wushu school. But six years old is just a tad young, unless the parents are masters and are doing the training. Make sure that the school you are taking her to is excellent and has excellent, highly experienced trainer of young children. I believe that China begins the evaluation and selection of its potential national wushu team members only when the children reach age seven. But to answer your question: Yes, it is perfectly fine for your daughter to do "Wind Above the Clouds"--even without the breathing formula. But when she does do the meditation with the breathing formula, make sure that she is clear and aware o how to the breathing correctly. If there's any hint or tell-tale sign that she might do it incorrectly, then don't have her do the breathing. Hold off on the breath control formula until she is older. Just have her go through the movements and postures slowly. Good luck to you and your daughter! Sifu Terry

Hi Charlie, 37 minutes. That is still awesome time achieved for the Long Form Standing Meditation. I know this off-thread topic, but I hope you find solace and comfort and some path to constructive action to end this atrocious policy at your Friends Meeting. I have been aghast from the second I heard about this atrocity committed against asylum seekers and their poor helpless children. I defer to the full gravity of David Bowie's lyric from the 80's--that "This is not America." As for me, I rarely vent my frustrations publicly. But when they reached such an extreme level with this child separation at the border fiasco, I let loose on Facebook to whoever is following. And then I quickly got on with my work. Besides praying that the deplorably ignorant, blind and wickedly gleeful haters in our government somehow find their moral compass, common sense and the minutest sense of decemcy. compassion and understanding of the Golden Rule--let alone the Constitution--when it comes to dealing with illegal immigrants, I vented my anger at the pure stupidity of the policy--let alone the diabolical cruelty of separating children from their parents without a reliable plan or system to reunite them after the parents are forced to sign voluntary deportation orders: "GOP QUIZLINGS in Congress--all pious fakes with your family values, you should be very proud of yourselves. Not just are you standing by and enabling your Lord Commander Marmalade to traumatize children needlessly during all stages of childhood and adolescent development--with lasting and in many cases irreparable damage, but a few of these separated from their parents and perhaps lost to them will grow up to become terrorists with raging hatred against America and Americans--not to mention what their parents might be transformed into. And the science is in--as explained by Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of American Academy of Pediatrics. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/pediatric-doctor-says-separating-families-at-border-is-a-form-of-child-abuse/ Your karmic retribution has been well-earned, you vicious cowards. Have fun trying to find your own accursed children in this lifetime and all future incarnations...because karmic kickback for this type mass infliction of life-long pain is an aeonic BITCH, you pathetic monkeys." STD

Hi Maybe, I'm sorry to say that I don't have digital versions of my programs for downloading. I'm teaching lots of workshops in the northeast and writing 3 books, including the one mentioned here on this thread about Fp Qigong. I've just starting to build a destination website that will provide streamable videos by subscribers. But this is still a long ways off before it goes online. In the meantime, DVD players are dirt-cheap and dime a dozen--almost. More like $50-$60. Might be worth biting the bullet on one. Regards, Sifu Terry

Hi Astral B., I'm so glad to hear that you discovered the gym and I presume the world of aerobic exercise, which has strengthened you, taken weight off, made you more fit and agile, and given you lots more energy enabling you to do much more and come back to FP Qigong practice. As I always tell my students in L.A. and now all over through Skype, "Continue with your seaonsal sports and aerobic exercise activities and keep doing them as much as you can." Jogging, cycling, swimming, weight training, golf, tennis, sailing, skiing, etc. I do a lot of cycling, hiking, and trail running whenever I can--in addition to Tai Chi, LHBF, 8 Sections, Tao Tan Pai, and Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu forms(!). And as I presently am in a rural area, I do lots of hiking. And I'm very glad to hear practicing the basic standing FP Qigong meditations have led you to do "contortions" and unique stretchings that you've found on your own. Every FP practitioner sooner or later--normally sooner by all accounts (relative to other healing arts)-- enters that deep meditative "zone" where the FP meditations activate the natural, intrinsic self-healing faculties of the body. It begins with the little vibrations and shakes that each standing meditation induces. Then those spontaneous little shakes and shudders will increase to big gyrations, tossings, and what you call "contortions." They are all part of the FP healing process. I used to be guided into a weird contortion when doing Monk Holding Peach, targeting my ailment. --And excellent that you experienced that the spontaneous contortions addressed your ailment. Every practitioner responds differently to each of the FP Meditations, standing and seated. But one universal "contortion" that most people experience when they practice "monk Holding Peach" --because the feet are spread far apart and the legs are straight with the knees locked--is the deep bending forward and folding over at the waist and bobbing back up to and past vertical As I've described very early in this thread a bout my classes over the years, after about 10 minutes of Monk Holding Peach, at least half the class is in "full bobb": bending torso forward to the horizontal and whipping back up so that it looks like they are vigorously praying in front of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem (western wall of the Temple Mount). Again, congrats on your breakthrough gained through your fitness regimen and the enhanced health benefits accruing from your FP practice. You are most welcome! Remember: If a little bit goes a long way; then a little bit more goes a way long way! All Best, Sifu Terry

Hi Joolian, Normally I keep such experiences to myself. But because Tao Stillness (Steve Mehl) is a dedicated FP practitioner and a staunch ally who has contributed to this discussion for many years and has seen a lot in his lifetime... I decided to share. To answer your question: I met my very blessed and highly commissioned friend through a student of mine, a well known actor-director, in Los Angeles during the early 1990's. Since then, this person who leaves lasting positive energy and good karma wherever he goes has been my best friend and guide in all things supramundane and mundane. Because the Taoist and Buddhist monastic arts that I preserve and teach are holistic yogas that actually work and effectively support and facilitate the evolution of consciousness (besides ensuring good health and longevity) that prepares one for spiritual edification, he helps me to clear my path whenever major obstructions rise up---i.e., when strong evil is encountered, which is not very often, thank God. Greetings, Sifu Terry

Hi Blue Phoenix, Correct, with any of the FP standing meditations, you can hold stationary some or all of the intermediate positions for however long feels right to you. especially when you're doing the movement sequences at the "speed of a shifting sand dune." As a matter of fact, about 6 months ago, I gave instructions to three of my private students in Asia that I teach via Skype to do the Vol.5 90-second "flash" meditations as slowly as possible, taking up to 4-5 minutes. In FP Qigong, the rule of thumb is SLOWER IS BETTER. Thanks for sharing your " blessing water" focus the Vol.5 meditation's mudras that you say you do naturally. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Charlie, I missed this posting earlier. Glad to hear that you've experienced similar rejuvenation from your FP Qigong practice with the same visible signs. I got over all my the allergies of my first 25 years of life when I completed training in the entire Tao Tan Pai Nei Gung system around 1982 and had practiced its three capstone meditations solidly for about 8 years from 1982 to 1990. I remember that I used to be allergic to horse piss (because during horse trips in Utah and Colorado, in the mornings when we'd saddle up (and the horses would always piss on their ropes overnight), I was just wheezing and tearing and almost going blind. But by the 1990's, during horse trips in the same region with the same friends and outfitters, no problem whatsoever with horse piss. Now that's what I call evolution. Then when GM Doo Wai came into my life and taught me the FP Qigong starting in 1991, as I think I've mentioned several times on this thread, the effects were FAST and profound because I had the Tao Tan Pai already established PLUS he personally initiated each of us (at least 2 others that I witnessed) with a personal transmittance of energy that raised or "stretched" the energy capacity of our bodies to an indescribable degree. Then we would still have to do the FP and other practices to "fill" and mantain that capacity to carry Qi to peak levels. Yup. From 1990 through 2010 (when i was age 45 to 55), my hair remained jet black even though many friends my age--even those who practiced Chinese internal martial arts and qigong--started getting a lot of gray hair, dry skin, joint problems, muscle atrophy, and other more subtle signs of aging when they hit about 53. But then I encountered major, major with a big litigation against a film studio from 2010-2014, my normal work hours, sleep, and Tai Chi/Kung Fu/Qigong practice routines, got disturbed and became very, very irregular. (see this link for the ugly background details/facts: http://www.kungfupandalawsuit.com/Timeline_Hotspots_New.html ). As result of the high stress day to day for 4+ solid years, I got lot of gray hair and beard that i considered to be way too sudden and pre-mature. So I would intensify my FP Qigong practice each time there was noticeably new gray hair, and that would "beat back down" the gray level on a cyclical basis. But 2015 was a big turnaround year of practice for me because the stress of the litigation started to lift. I did FP Long Form Standing an average of every other day, at least 3 MSW seated meditations each time I practiced, and I would do 9 of the 54 Meditations from the 10,000 Buddhas' Meditations System every other day, plus 4 to 5 Eight Sections of Energy Kung Fu Forms at least 4 times a week. Certain days I would practice all 8 BDG (8 Sections) forms, which would take 3 hours. Fortunately, over the past 3 years, hair growth all-over has been restored to its natural color--through regular daily practice of FP Qigong levels, related Bok Fu Pai arts like 10,000 Buddhas Meditations, Tao Tan Pai Nei Kuing-- ranging between one hour to 3 hours a day--no including time spent teaching. There's just one tiny stand of hair that stays gray, which is the spot where the very first greying started about 8 years ago. And just today, I was talking to a young police officer (2 years on the job) watching over the weekly Farmer's Market in Lenox, MA and after talking about police training for a while (one of my favorite civic-minded topics) he was gobsmacked when I told him how hold i was. He said he thought i was in my early 40's. I said "bless your soul." and "Hey, my stuff works." In general, on any day when I practice either Moonbeam or the FPHHCM Long Form, and 2 or 3 MSW seatedl meditations, I actually feel that my body is getting younger, or let's say fresher, more pristine. And skin, especially on the face gets smoother and wrinkles (that appear from lack of sleep and oxidants like alcohol--I still like a good glass of wine with dinner sometimes ) disappear just over the period of practice. The same has been reported by students in my 120-minute FP Class for beginners that I teach at various venues in the Berkshires and in L.A. Anyway, Charlie, enjoy your marrow cleansing. And keep those toe- and finger-nails growing super-fast! Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

You're most welcome. I figured it was time to relate my experience of one. Best to you, Sifu Terry

Hi Charlie, I'm so glad you've figured out how to play the training footage at different slower speeds and work your Long Form practice up to 45 min.! -- and that the results you are describing are powerful. Excellent that your "normal" style and speed is 30 min. I work on doing the entire Long Form meditation with emphasis on relaxation relaxation, relaxation where I don't feel my body during the meditation. While the FP Healing Energy is distinctively and exclusively a healing energy, the depth of relaxation also is enhanced and facilitated by the same principles of body mechanics/movement taught by high-level Tai Chi Chuan masters. Glad you are enjoying the capstone cultivation. Best, Sifu Terry

http://www.eastover.com/workshop/master-terence-dunns-flying-phoenix-qigong-ii.html

And again, since it's Throwback Thursday, these are the two movements in the first third of the intermediate FP Meditation, "Moonbeam Splashes On Water" (90 60 50 20). Footage taken last August at Eastover workshop. Y'ALL SHOULD THINK ABOUT PRACTICING THIS MOVING MEDITATION MUCH, MUCH MORE--AND AT THIS SPEED-- AND DERIVE ITS TERRIFIC BENEFITS, WHICH ALSO MAKES LEARNING THE VOL.4 LONG FORM STANDING MEDITATOIN, "FLYING PHOENIX HEAVENLY HEALING CHI MEDITATION" MUCH, MUCH EASIER.

...AND THIS IS ONE OF THE ADVANCED FLYING PHOENIX MEDITATIONS DONE IN A SET OF 18 REPETITIONS THAT WE GET TO ON THE THIRD DAY. (FOOTAGE IS FROM WORKSHOP LAST AUGUST). NOTE THE COUNTENANCES OF THE PRACTITIONERS AS THEY DO THIS MOVING MEDITATION:

35 days until my first Flying Phoenix Qigong Workshop this year at Eastover Estate and Eco-Village. • AND THIS IS THE SPEED THAT YOU SHOULD BE PRACTICING "BENDING THE BOWS" MEDITATION. http://www.eastover.com/workshop/master-terence-dunns-flying-phoenix-qigong-ii.html

Hi Steve, I have seen one angel in my lifetime--fortunately on a recurring basis-since 1994. It happened to be in human form. No wings. But with an energy field and aura extending beyond 8 inches from all surfaces of his body (it was a he on this plane), And this energy field was so dense in that particular moment when he allowed me to experience it that I would have burned myself irreparably had I moved my hand closer to his skin. No, he was not Chinese. On occasions when I sat in a chair right after he did, or laid on a mattress that he had been using for days before, my body was infused by a deeply sweet energy that is best described as "divine" and in the case of the mattress, dreams of absolutely unique and new content came, lucidity in dreamstate was enhanced to levels never experienced before, the simplest of foods shared at the same table with him tasted better than anything I had had before, and the wine (of brands and vintages that I knew well) each time tasted like incomparable heavenly nectar, and in watching him help and heal others, I felt the "passion" in compassion on a cellular level. Once, on the streets of New York City, where trouble comes looking for you, a couple of very destructive and demonic spirits automatically carom'd off the sidewalk at an angle and went across the street each time they came within 25 feet in front of us and that occurred only because I was with this person. STD