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I would like to ask the FP community if anyone can recall or find the posting on this thread on which someone had shared a link to a webpage that had a version of the oral history about the spiritual origin of Flying Phoenix Qigong and Bok Fu Pai. Thanks very much to all for your help. Sifu Terry Dunn

SandroFV, Please get a good English interpreter to explain the Guidelines to you. They are quite clear and accurate. No English-speaking practitioner of FP Qigong over the past 20 YEARS has ever suffered the high level of confusion from reading the Guidelines that you have reflected in your postings here nor has any other person ever complained about the Guidelines, which, btw, were first published and copyrighted in 1998 (as seen below). Again, I simply attribute your confusion to your less-than-perfect understanding of the English language. Sifu Terry Dunn

Thanks for your input on this "Kundalini syndrome" question, Steve. I just want to say that you should come up to Lenox, MA if possible this winter while I'm here so that you can learn the Tao Tan Pai 31. Every Monday, night I teach a 90-minute class in the Tao Tan Pai 31 Basic Meditations. Tonight, in 90 min. plus an extra 15, I led the class the fifteen standing meditations of Tao Tan Pai 31's, and then we did the first three (Meds. # 16, 17, and 18) seated meditation. A jolly, energetically juicy good time was had by all. Best, Sifu Terry

Hello Jack of Hearts, Thank you very much for your very clear summary interpretation of the training guidelines for SandroFV...and your subsequent comment about finding it odd that he should be searching for a logical critera or framework by which to select what FP Meditations to practice. It helped me to form my replies to him, most of which boil down to the old Nike slogan: "JUST DO IT." I think much of the confusion, as I said, was due to English being not his first language and his admitted shortcomings in writing in English. Thanks again for your help here. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

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Hello SandroFV, I think the fact that English is not your first language may have led to your confusion about the FP Qigong training guidelines. Here are my answers to your questions: About Guideline No. 7 on webpage and on brochure: 7. Now begin another cycle of practice starting with a new standing meditation (Number #4) and new seated meditation (Number #4) everyday for two weeks, and repeat steps #3 through #6. Steps 3 through #6 to be repeated in the "Next Cycle": 3. For an intensive start: practice one standing and one seated meditation everyday for two weeks. After two weeks or longer of practice, add the next standing and seated meditation appearing on the video, while continuing practice of the first two meditations. Then after two more weeks of practicing two standing exercises and two seated meditations every day, add the next standing exercise and the next seated meditation. After you have increased your practice to three standing meditations and three seated meditations, practice this combination daily for at least two months. This can take between 50 to 70 minutes a day. This training time can be broken up into several sessions spread-out throughout the day. 1) This means what exactly? It means just what it says: after you have practiced for 6 weeks or longer, you then practice 3 standing + 3 seated mediations daily for 2 months. After that 2 month period, you can stop doing the first 3 standing + first 3 seated meditations, and then start a second cycle by practicing a fourth standing and fourth seated meditation for 2 weeks, then add a 5th new standing and seated meditation for 2 weeks, and then add a 6th new standing ad seated meditations for the next 2 weeks. Then after you've practiced 3 standing plus 3 seated meditations of this new cycle, you practice the 6 meditations for 2 months. Thus, after two "cycles" which span: 6 weeks + 2 mos. + 6 weeks + 2 months = 7 months of practice, you will have thoroughly practiced 6 standing FP meditations and 6 seated Monk Serves Wine seated meditatios. Note: this is a rather rigorous schedule, but one that will ensure you master each FP meditation and become saturated with each one's effects. One can shorten this schedule. If one has the time and doesn't want to ramp up gradually, one can do 3 standing FP meditations plus 3 seated FP Meditations "right out the gate" everyday for 2 months ( and skip the 6 week ramp up period). 2) I can not understand if this “until you have practiced” means: ---a)-“until you are practicing all of them daily” ---b)-or “ until you have some past experience in all of them” > It means through your practice, you want to attain even coverage of all the FP Meditations in the DVD series equally on a daily basis if possible--where you have practiced all of them equally over the long term. In general, as I've stated many, many times on this thread, the goal is to practice all the meditations on all the DVD volumes 1 through 5, and Vol.7 until you are intimately familiar with the energizing, healing, and brain activating effects of each of them. You want to start from Volumes 1 and 2 because the entire series presents the FP Qigong meditations in the exact order in which GM Doo Wai taught them to me and my classmates starting in 1991. How you achieve coverage and a "saturation" of all the FP MEditations in the DVD series is really up to you. You don't have to strictly follow the Guidelines that I published. They are based on how I rotated the FP Meditations after I had learned them from GM Doo Wai. As highlighted years ago here, "ridingthe ox" was able to jump right into Vol.4 's Long Form Meditation because he had 25+ years of Tai Chi experience. Then he went back and picked up all the shorter standing FP Meditations in the earlier volumes, and found that their practice was quite profound. •The Guidelines I suggested are not hard and fast rules. They are just suggestions for those who have no Qigong, martial arts, or meditation experience and don't know how to structure a practice routine. 3) So I will practice only two of eleven ( 1 standing and 1 seated) and remain without to practice all the others nine exercises for six months? > No. I don't know where you got this interpretation. As stated above, over 6 months you will have practiced at least 6 standing + 6 seated FP meditations. >>This is my answer to both your questions No. 4 and no.5: Practice each and everyone of the FP MEditations on the DVD series until you instinctively know which ones you can do less of or discontinue altogther. That is up to you. 6) The DVD3 have two moving meditations, none of them is it. I suppose that you make a mistake, should be written "Volume four"? >What are you talking about? Just practice volume 3 until both are memorized and you can do them with eyes closed. So, If I was able to understand something, I suppose that: 7) When I begin to learn the DVD4, I should be training daily: ------a)1 from DVD1+1 form DVD2+ 1 from DVD3 AND Maybe practicing a “second best exercise” only once a week? or ------b)-1 from DVD1+1 from DVD2+ DVD3 complete AND Maybe practicing a “second best exercise” only once a week? ? You are creating confusion where there is none to begin with. No one has posted such confused and abstruse questions in the 8 years and 3 months of this discussion thread. I will attribute the confusion to your unfamliarity with English. My best advice is to just practice the DVDs from Volumes 1 and 2 and move forward until you have practiced everything and memorized Long Form Standing Meditation called "FLying Phoenix Heavenly healing Chi Meditation" taught on Vol.4. 8) AFTER learn DVD4 should I abandon completely the practice of the DVDs 1,2,3 ? Or should continue practicing them once a week? That is totally up to you. I have advised every student of mine and every person following this forum that for shortage of time, the practice of Vol.4's Long Form Standing Mwditation (FPHHCM) can subsume practice of all the preceding standing FP Meditations--but not the seated ones. If one practices FPHHCM alone on a daily or regulary basis, one will maintain peak immunity and continually perfect one's control over one's internal energy and involuntary organ functions. But if one has unlimited time, one should practice all of the FP Meditations as regularly as possible. **Nothing in this Flying Phoenix Qigong art is to be "abandoned" or jettisoned and never practiced again. 9) The next DVDs are “extras” to the main system? I suppose that the DVD5 don’t replace a practice of the DVD4, right? It should be quite obvious that the five 90-second standing FP Meditations taught on Volume 5 cannot replace the Volume 4 capstone exercise. Nor DVD7 replace DVD2? Correct again. That the Vol. 7 meditations do not supplant the practice of the Vol.2 Meditations becomes obvious to you when you become familiar with each one of the seated meditations on Vol.2 and with each one on Vol. 7. 10)By the explanations it seems that the correct steup training schedule to the DVD1+DVD2 should be like this, but I don1t know where put the two meditations of the DVD3: You can put the Vol.3 Meditations, "Wind Through Treetops" and "Moonbeam Splashes on Water" anywhere that you care to in your training schedule. Just do them. Good luck with your training. Just work your way through the DVD series from start to finish, Vol.1 through Vol.7 and practice all the Meditations thoroughly and equally. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html P.S. Please read "Jack of Hearts'" very nice and very clear interpretation of the FP Training Guidelines in his posting above: ******************************************************* From point 3 to point 6, we can see that: - you should start practicing one standing and one seating meditation for two weeks at least, then add another standing and seating meditation and then again adding one standing and seating meditation until you practice: 3 standing and 3 seating meditation per day. You should do this for at least 2 months. From point 6 to point 8, we can see that: - once it is done you set aside these 6 meditations and follow the same process with all the others meditations of all the DVDs from volume 1 to 3. Which means that you should always pratice no more than 6 meditations per day. So it is not about practicing 8 hours a day. From point 9 and 11, we can see that: - after learning all the meditations from wol 1 to 3, you can choose the meditations you like most and practice them daily for 6 months; then rotate with other meditations. - you may also add the long standing meditation from vol 4 (there is probably a typo about this in the training schedule).

Hello Sulo Eno, Yes, anyone can practice Flying Phoenix Chi Kung solely for its health benefits. While it was created by a Taoist and preserved through a Taoist martial arts tradition, Bok Fu Pai, any of the arts under the Bok Fu Pai umbrella can be practiced by anyone of any religious faith or spiritual path. I myself was raised a Protestant Christian and I've never encountered any conflict between my Christian faith and the Taoist and Buddhist religious philosophies and spiritual traditions that I am initiated in as a result of my level of attainment in the Tao Tan Pai and Bok Fu Pai martial, yogic, and healing arts--as well as in Tai Chi Chuan and Liu he Ba Fa. I would say that all the arts that I teach, including FP Qigong, are "non-sectarian." You don't have to subscribe to any religious belief and philosophical tenets from any culture or appropriate any belief system whatsoever in order to derive the maximum health benefits from FP Qigong. I certainly don't want any negative Kundalini syndrome-like effects. FP Qigong is extremely safe and is virtually foolproof. As I've stated many times, one has to really try hard and be truly bent to give oneself any type of energy sickness from practicing FP Qigong! What you call "Kundalini syndrome" cannot be contracted from FP Practice because FP Qigong does not concentrate on cultivating the Kundalini energy to any extent like other Qigong arts, such as Tao Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method.) Sifu Terence Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikng_catalog.html

Hello Shortstuff, Sorry to take so long to get back to you. My classmate Sifu Garry's Sunn Yee Gong training is authentic and powerful. I know that it empowers our Bok Fu Pai kung fu. FP Qigong i different in that it cultivates a purely healing energy that cannot be used for martial art at all. You can certainly start with the seated meditations of Vol.2, But know that the all the standing FP Meditations are more powerful than the seated ones, and they are essential to mastering the system. I would advise you to try the standing meditations on Vol.1 and do the stationary standing ones for short durations to start and slowly work you way up to longer durations. FP Qigong adds no stress the to system--given that the practitioner has no serious structural damage. I am trying to find a system that will aid my meditation, by sending energy from my body to my brain for use during meditation, or ojas as it is known. Practitioners of numerous other meditations and yoga have found that FP Qigong enhances, stabilizes and makes more comfortable their meditative practice. You don't have to worry about sending energy from your body to the brain. FP Qigong perfectly regulates the energy of all the orbs/organs through the central nervous system. You do not want to willfully, consciously direct energy from the extremities to the brain. I don't advise projecting that process nor entertatining it. The basic holistic principle in. let's say Tui Na acupressure to make the body healthy and strong, is to "push" [better word is to "direct"] the energy from the heart to the extremities, and to mentally or physically "push" ONLY the blood back to the heart. Start doing Vol.2 , but do as much of Vol.1 as you can. Good luck, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

I would like to share with everyone my experience yesterday of doing just part--one third-- of the FP Standing Long Form meditation (vol.4)--in a pubic place,even-- to extinguish the early symptoms of a cold that was coming on. Yesterday, I had nice lunch with a FP student at a Japanese restaurant in town and then spent the rest of the afternoon Christmas shopping. Shortly after the lunch and after walking my dog, I decided to have a latte at a nearby coffee house and downed a few oatmeal cookies as chasers. About 3 hours later--I guess after the protein in the lunch had been digested and the sugar, dairy and caffeine hit my system--while in a department store I felt heavy, stagnant energy and had sniffles starting in one nostril. After walking around a few more minutes and noticing that the symptoms weren't going away and that a cold was definitely setting on, I went to a corner of the dept. store (in front of the candle section) and subtly did 1/3 of the Long Form Standing Meditation by making the most minimal general gestures for each moment--barely doing the movements. I did the 90 60 5 50 40 breathing sequence, and the moment I completed the sequence, I felt the penetrating healing energy light up and steadily spread throughout my system--while simultaneously feeling the congestion, stagnation, and "inner dampness" suddenly disappear/clear up/vanish. I didn't need to even mentally do the next arm floating up and down movement (like Tai Chi form opening). So I took 3 breathes to end the meditation right then and there. I did the gestures of the movements while mentally performing the form to its fullest. By the time I finished the extension of both arms to shoulder level form the palms at the solar plexus position facing downward (that follows the 3 opening and closing movements in the big-frame wuchi position), I felt all the cold symptoms completely extinguished and my head was crystal clear and dry--without a sniffle. "Extinguished" isn't best word because it connotes a firefighter putting out fire with water or retardant. "Eradicated" is accurate because the restoration was thorough and speedy, but it doesn't capture the sublimity of the healing. I can also say that I felt the restoration to homeostasis on a cellular level. So that's my report. I felt a cold definitely coming on. I walked around with its starting symptoms for about 5 min. until I knew it would manifest into a full-blown cold if I didn't do something. Then I did 1/3 of the FPHHCM Vol.4 exercise--with good mental concentration and only schematic/abbreviated movements. No cold symptoms whatsoever from the time I took the terminating 3 full breathes onward. Happy Holidays. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Earl Grey, Sorry to take so long to answer your question. I just completed a 4-day FP Qigong workshop at Eastover Estate followed by an evening Tai Chi class. No. the last Meditation on Volume 5 is done "one round of the pre-choreographed movements with one breath-control sequence." If you want to do multiple rounds of the movements, preface each round with usual 3 deep breathes plus the breath control sequence (80 70 50 40 30). And then count your self out of the meditation after one round of movements with 3 deep breathes. To reiterate In other words: do repetitions of the movement sequence just like you would do more than one round of "Wind Above the Clouds": do one breath control sequence with each round of movements. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

hello Frederic, Answers to your questions in blue: During Bending the Bows itself and Wind Above the Clouds the hands move along a narrow egg like shape upward towards Monk Gazing at Moon. The premise of your question is wrong: It is in Bending the Bows and and Wind through Treetops that the "hands move along a narrow egg like shape upward towards Monk Gazing at Moon"--but not in "Wind Above the Clouds." The hands do move in a wide horizontal circle and at throat level, but they do not move towards the Monk Gazing At Moon (or "hugging the egg" configuration of the arms and chest). But while demonstrating Wind Through the Treetops on the DVD, the hands move along a wider circle like pattern towards Monk gazing at Moon. Is this purposefully different? And does it matter? I think you are confused: the wider circle in Wind Through Treetops is NOT towards Monk Gazing At Moon. it is horizontal and stays at throat level. Call this "Part A". The second circling of the arms in WTT is vertical towards the "hugging the egg" shape of Monk Gazing At Moon position. Call it "Part B." I'm planning to play Bending the Bows until I can do 18 repetitions (relatively) effortlessly. What is a good practice time and speed for this task? I was thinking 2 minutes per Bending the Bows for a total of 36 minutes. 2 minutes per repetition is a very good speed to practice BTB. In my classes and workshops, I tell students to take a minimum of 12 breathes to riase the arms in Part A and a minimum of 12 breathes to lower the arms in Part A; minimum of 12 breathes to raise the arms towards Monk Gaziing At Moon shape in Part B, and a minimum of 12 breathes to lower the arms from that position. If I go as slow as possible for BTB how many rounds do you advise? Up to 18 is standard practice. Do as many as as you have time for. I have taken as much as 70 minutes to do 18 rounds of Bending the Bows. Good luck and enjoy your practice. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Steve, Here are some of the best books that explain the Crowley deck: 1) A very good manual for understanding and using the Crowley deck (and the first one my mentor told me to get in the early 90's) is Mirror of the Soul by Zeigler. https://www.amazon.com/Tarot-Mirror-Handbook-Aleister-Crowley/dp/0877286833/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0877286833&pd_rd_r=RA111PMWFMAAEX3FT7E0&pd_rd_w=GjUEr&pd_rd_wg=CKIEz&psc=1&refRID=RA111PMWFMAAEX3FT7E0 2) Perhaps the best is Understanding Crowley's Thoth Tarot by Lon Milo DuQuette. Just excellent: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Aleister-Crowleys-Thoth-Tarot/dp/157863623X/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=157863623X&pd_rd_r=W6GTSVZGZ7EA3SYNKW2J&pd_rd_w=j3p1B&pd_rd_wg=G7dq5&psc=1&refRID=W6GTSVZGZ7EA3SYNKW2J 3) Another very popular manual on the deck is New Age Tarto by James Wanless, who created the New Age Tarot deck: https://www.amazon.com/New-Age-Tarot-Guide-Thoth/dp/0961507918/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512631356&sr=1-1&keywords=new+age+tarot+james+wanless 4) And another good reference is Crowley's own book about his deck: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Thoth-Short-Egyptians-Equinox/dp/0877282684/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=G4FA6A7MD8MB8Y6PFD97 How i was taught to use the Crowley tarot was to take the time and energy to meditate visually on every card until one has memorized all of them in detail and is able to visualize each card with eyes closed. it takes a long time and great concentration to accomplish this. But is well worth the eye-brain-spirit exercise if one wants to make maximum use of this oracle. Crowley, Israel Regardie, and Lady Frieda Harris put their differences aside (they didn't like one another much) and collaborated to create this deck per Crowley's vision, and created a deck that is used by high level white magicians to uproot corruption. That's what it's designed for. If one is called to do works and is versed in the Crowley deck, the progress of one's operations in undoing black magick is revealed in one's waking visions or nocturnal dreamstates with the elements, tools, animals, and persons in the cards animating. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

This evening's 2-hour FP Qigong Workshop session at Eastover Estate covered these thirteen FP Meditations practiced for these durations as indicated (no breaks), and in this order: Moonbeam Splashes on Water - 3 rounds - 20 min. Wind Above the Clouds - 3 rounds: 12 min. Bending the Bows - 15 min. Monk Gazing At Moon - 10 min. Monk Holding Peach - 15 min. Wind Through Treetops - 2 rounds - 15 90 second standing Meditation (70 40 30 20) 3x = 10 min. 90 second standing Meditation (90 50 40 20) 3x = 10 min. Monk Holding Pearl (Supine) - 10 min. Preparatory Seated Meditation 50 10 50 = 5 min. Preparatory Seated Meditation 5 60 80 40 30 = 8 min. Monk Serves Wine #4: 80 70 50 30 - 7 rounds - 20 min. Monk serves Wine #7: 20 40 90 10 - 7 rounds = 20 min. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Dyspraxia in children is treated a number of ways, depending on its severity. While there is no known cure, there are treatments to improve a person's planning and execution of physical movement, basic everyday skills, specialized skills, etc. Without knowing the age of the person with dyspraxia nor the severity of the condition, I would say that (A) Zhan Zhuang practice may help; but that (B) Tai Chi and other holistic martial arts and movement therapies are probably more effective as treatment. Zhan Zhuang is an essential component in Tai Chi postures and therefore Tai Chi form practice--as well as Xing-I practice as a function of Zhan Zhuang's origin and evolution. As you may know, the general categories of treating dyspraxia are: Speech and language therapy Perceptual motor training Equine therapy for dyspraxia Active Play ** BTW, Over the past 3 weeks, I had substantial discussion and practices with Baguazhang and Sheng Zhen Qigong Master Li Junfeng (former coach of the Chinese national wushu team throughout the 1980's and 90's) and with Grandmaster Wang Rengang of Da Cheng Chuan about Zhan Zhuang. All the Flying Phoenix Qigong standing meditations, starting with "Monk Gazing AT Moon" and ending with the five 90-second meditations (as taught on Volume 5 of the CKFH DVD series) incorporate all the postural and neuro muscular principles of Zhan Zhuang, but redirects those classical principles to cultivate the distinctive and unique FP Healing Energy with each one of its unique breath control sequences (e.g., 60 40 20 for Monk Gazing at Moon). Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Last night was the first session of my fourth 22-hour immersive workshop in FP Qigong at Eastover Estate in 2017. 7 more sessions ending at noon on Sunday, Dec. 3 Last night's gentle and easy two hour session was also quite dynamic: it covered these meditations in this order with not more than a 2-minute break between each one. 1. Moonbeam Splashes on Water: two rounds -- 20 minutes 2. Wind Above the Clouds: -- two rounds -- 10 minutes 3. Bending the Bows: 7 rounds -- 30 minutes (Taking 12 breathes to raise arms + 12 breathes to lower arms. In other words, each repetition book a minimum of 48 breathes.) 4. Monk Gazing At Moon -- 10 minutes. 5. Monk Holding Peach -- 10 minutes 6. Wind Through Treetops -- 2 rounds: 10 minutes 7. Monk Holding Pearl: done in supine position for 15 minutes. Happy Holidays. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Winston, I didn't know that you were a cello-ist on top of being a man of medicine. Wonderful that your training in Eastern orchestral music enabled to tell that there were discrepancies in high pitches between Western equal-temperament notes (which are like averages) and the sharp-precise tones of Eastern music. Thank you for your explanation of how western music and eastern music differ by octaves when it comes to higher pitches, and your observation that western music tends to "mathematicize" and average. Kind of similar to how modern scientific thinking is all about "categorizing", "averaging" and calculating, whereas Eastern philosophy is about moving along with nature and harmony. The natural-born musical genii that I have the good fortune and privilege to know just channel in gorgeous melodies from another plane (as per their own words) that seems heavenly to me. There is no construction, no calculation, no averaging. just a spontaneous outpouring of original, natural aural beauty. That type of creative process is represented by the Ace of Cups and the Star (XVII trump) card in the Crowley Tarot. [Yes, I am once again citing Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot deck because his collaboration with Israel Regardie and Lady Frieda Harris to create that deck--designed for master alchemists to identify and uproot evil, by the way--is itself a work of spiritual genius left for the new Aeon. And if anyone takes issue with this like whoever that was back around Year 3 or so of this thread, you can go back and read my long refutation of that simple-minded false belief that Crowley was a black magician.] There are, of course, great composers who have a mathematical approach. I am certainly not saying that those who calculate, average, and "mathematicize" do not make beautiful works of art and music. One of my favorite mathematical musicians is Steven Sondheim. ' But am relating the spontaneous creation of a song to the alchemy represented by the Ace of Cups and the Star cards in the Crowley Tarot: Happy Holidays, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Steve, Thanks for sharing this reading. I will put it on my list because Eva Wong is one of the most reliable and authoratative translators of Taoist canons, scriptures, poetry, and prose. She herself is a feng-sui expert and I have her early books on feng-shui tradition. Happy Holidays. Sifu Terry

I'm with you on that note, Steve. new age type music doesn't do much of anything for me. Just like "new age prose", as Harold Bloom put it, new age prose "has a vapidity that's not to be believed". Remember all that new age music in the 80's?--where is it now? It was like bad Chinese food, once is passed, it's forgotten about except as a must to avoid. Just my two bits, imao. I appreciate the Marconi Union's "Weightless" piece for what it is, and it being the product of the group's scientific approach to creating "relaxation music". But beautiful melodies don't come from the left brain alone. I'm friends with several genius musicians (one made list of Time magazine's 100 most influential Americans 2 yrs ago--when he was 25 yrs old)_ and I know from being in their presence--just hanging out-- how infinitely their creative consciousness's reach. I just looked up Oliver Shanti on Youtube and the first piece on this music video is one that I've been using for past 5-6 years in my Qigong and Tai Chi classes. I found it back then in a Wudangshan documentary. Maybe it's an Oliver Shanti original--I don't know. But it's one of my favorites. Enjoy if you haven't heard this already. Sifu Terry P.S. Remember: my next and final east coast FP Qigong workshop is in 6 days at Eastover Estate: http://www.eastover.com/workshop/flying-phoenix-qigong-with-master-terence-dunn.html

SORRY FOR THIS EXTREMELY LATE NOTICE...BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. - DELAWARE AREA: I am giving a full-day Flying Phoenix Qigong Workshop tomorrow, FRIDAY, from 10 AM to 9PM in Bear, Delaware at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Hall: Venue: St Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Hall 345 Bear Christiana Rd Bear, DE 19701 Contact:Dr. Emil Mondoa [email protected] register Phone: (302) 293-3904 Registration: $108 Lunch included Also see info at my Tai Chi For Health Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213061563685464&set=a.2881146959481.132753.1584272222&type=3&theater

Hello 9th, So how is this an example of SYNCHRONICITY?! -- Just last night I turned this 3 card spread (!!!) over a situation that I shall disclose next spring: 7 Wands Universe Fool

Hello Centertime, For cough, I suggest any of the Flying Phoenix Qigong exercises--but before you practice put a nice slice of raw ginger in your mouth and chew it thoroughly, and then continually hold it in your mouth as you practice. There have been a number of subscribers to thei thread who practiced the ginger cleansing meditation for up to 108 days as suggested by GM Doo Wai in one of his videops. Can anyone of you folks give 9th some further advice? If you don't want to go the Flying PHoenix PLUS ginger route, there is always the Chris Rock remedy: Robitussin! Cheers, Sifu Terry Dunn

And here for all you music lovers out there is nice video of B.J. Cole explaining what fascinated him about the pedal steel guitar and how he likes to play it. His sound, at least on Transparent Music, is clearly flavored ancient Celtic, which means it's close to Druids, which makes his sensibilities and way of expressing (sound) energy Taoist!

Hi Vajra Fist, I'm glad you were able to visit Stonehenge, discern the energy, its significance, and hopefully get some good FP Qigong practice in while you were there. Beautiful photo, by the way! I hope that the stones were not roped or chained off as it had been in the mid- and late 90's and that you were able to get down close "and personal" to the stone formations. I first visited Stonehenge in 1995 and unfortunately, the govt. had just cordoned off the stone formation because that summer some pathetic monkeys tried to haul down some of the raised horizontally placed stones with chains and tackle and pick up trucks. I could sense a unique 'turning qi' of the place. It was like the vibration you get from turning one of those large prayer wheels in Nepal. It was somewhat faint, but I imagine in the past the turning would have been a roar. The impression I got from it was that it is some sort of energy mechanism that still serves a purpose in the world even today. Perhaps when it one day fails, there will be changes to our society or even natural disasters. I understand what you call "turning qi" present at Stonehenge and would agree with thematic description. If you were able to get inside the circular formation and spend time at the center of the stone circle, you can feel the energy of the portal with more intensity. Outside and at a distance, the energy is indeed faint. However, even at a great distance, I found, so long as I was able to see the formation, I felt the wide, turning energy. "Portal" is the best word in English that I can find that closely describes the "geomantric" power and function of Stonehenge. Powerful portal. And I will say this: the design of the stone circle is congruent with Chinese 5 Element Theory. Hint: study the 5 of Disks in the Crowley Tarot deck...and see if it connects you to the Stonehenge energy. Many alchemic unions and operations were consummated at Stonehenge by the ancients there. btw, my deepest intuition, furthered and affirmed by oracular devices, is that women Druids also led and conducted divinations--and fertility rights-- by drawing down the energy of the heavens to the earth--to the literal ground at Stonehenge...conducted by massive wands as long as military spears. Thanks for inspiring me to look into ancient function of Stonehenge. And thanks very much for sharing with the thread the "Weightless" by Marconi Union--and the online article describing the intresting research conducted by the British Academy of Sound Therapy. I listened to the full 8 min. version several times, and practiced both Tai Chi form and FP Qigong to it. It is indeed very, very relaxing and conducive for meditation and FP Qigong--but I wouldn't go so far to say (and I don't know how the British Academy of Sound Therapy or any persons can definitively declare) that "Weightless" is the most relaxing in the world or the most relaxing song ever composed. I understand they have their "scientific" parameters and applied them to lots of songs. But I strongly disagree with their theory that not having a repeating melody relaxes the mind more because the mind isn't stressing itself out anticipating the repeated pattern of notes. I believe that there are melodies, with repeating combinations of musical notes that optimally relax the human organism. For example, one of the most relaxing songs that I fortuitously discovered at random in 1987 was an instrument by composed by Vangelis in 1977 called, "Reve" (means "dream" in French), which does have a beautiful melody with repeating "riffs". I instantly loved "Reve" and a couple of years later licensed and used as background music behind my final flow of the Yang Short Form and Yang Long Form on my two top-selling instructional Tai Chi DVD's. This is "Reve", although it has more treble and less bass than the original vinyl recording on the Vangelis 12' album "Opera Sauvage", and thus sounds "tinny" to me: And my Tai Chi For Health dvd's (all-time best-selling in the English language from 1991 to this very day, btw) are available at my website: www.taichimania.com/taichi_catalog.html Another favorite collection of music that I find most relaxing and great to practice Qigong to the album "Transparent Music" by English pedal steel guitarist B.J. Cole. The album contains his interpretations of classical to contemporary music that have a strong Celtic flavor--and not just suggested by his artwork on his DVD case. His music is utterly transformative and super-relaxing because the brain is induced into relaxation/somnambulism because it recognizes the traditional renditions of these songs and the comfort of the familiar plus the expansive, extended duration of every note created by the pedal steel guitar--PLUS the unique and exclusive ability of that instrument to "bend a harmony like toffee" and to slide a chord enables him to make a beautiful song more beautiful, an eerie song more eerie and yet even more relaxing--e.g., Satie 's Gnossiene Nos. 3 and 5. I found on Youtube only 2 of the 10 or so tracks on the album: 01 Clair De Lune: 03 Pavane Pour Une Enfante Defunte : Try to find the rest, or purchase the album. It's worth it: 02 Window On The Deep 04 Slight Rhapsody 05 Gnossienne No.5 (Eric Satie like you've neve heard) 06 Ely Cathedral 08 Gnossienne No.3 (Eric Satie like you've neve heard) I had corresponded with B.J. Cole many years ago when I discovered Transparent Music and he said back then that he was up for composing new music as accompaniment for Tai Chi ad Qigong practice. I will soon revisit the idea of a collaboration with him. But thanks very much again for that article, for I am now exploring the "Top Ten" most relaxing songs listed in it--and I advise all FP pracittioners who liked to practice to music to check out this list of TOP 10 MOST RELAXING TRACKS: 1. Marconi Union - Weightless 2. Airstream - Electra 3. DJ Shah - Mellomaniac (Chill Out Mix) 4. Enya - Watermark 5. Coldplay - Strawberry Swing 6. Barcelona - Please Don't Go 7. All Saints - Pure Shores 8. AdelevSomeone Like You 9. Mozart - Canzonetta Sull'aria 10. Cafe Del Mar - We Can Fly Best Regards, Sifu Terry P.S. 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Hi Charlie, Thank you for giving sage advice to the FP Community to "JUST KEEP DOING IT." "IT" being the capstone meditation to the FP Qigong system called "FLying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditation" taught on Volume 4 of the DVD series. The Nike athletic shoe/apparel company might have the ad slogan "Just do it", which others on this thread and I have referred to in the past, but "JUST KEEP DOING IT" is an even better slogan/watch-phrase/mantra for FP Qigong practitioners. In fact, I shall now coin the abbreviation: "JKDI" to use in my future advisories on this thread. , "JKDI", as many of you know, tacks on one more letter to name of Bruce Lee's fighting style. Cheers, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html