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DSCB57, It's taken me much longer to reply to your post than perhaps any other reply I've written on this forum because this is the first time I such questions have ever been posted in the 8 years of this thread. Thus with every question that you posted, I had to figure out how or where you came to each premise for each question, which is extremely time-consuming and mentally taxing. After I started answering the first 4-5 question in the order that you had posted them, I remembered your statement that you were learning the capstone meditation of the FP Qigong system, called "Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditation" --aka, "Long Form Standing Meditation"-- from my Youtube videos and, I presume, not from the Volume 4 Chi Kung For Health DVD. So i scrapped them and started over. So the first strategy to make your practice easier is to purchase the Volume 4 DVD and to practice to it, learning each section of the meditation slowly. The instruction is slow, detailed, and systematic. And you will learn the Long Form correctly. Another important "strategy" is to go back and practice all the FP meditations on Volumes 1 and 2 of the CKFH DVD series and once you are totally knowledgeable of the specific energizing effects of each meditation, then proceed to Volume 3 and learn "Wind Through Treetops" and "Moonbeam Splashes on Water." By the time you have become proficient in "Bending the Bows", "Wind Above the Clouds," "Wind Through Treetops", and "Moonbeam Splashes on Water", then you should have no problem with any part of Volume 4's Long Form meditation.. Once you have all of the FP system taught in Volumes 1 thru 3 under you belt, you won't have any problem whatsoever doing the entire Long Form Standing Meditation at a slowest even speed. I've taught this system long enough to know this. In fact, I have several students that I teach by Skype who are improving their Long Form Standing practice by working harder and perfecting their practice of "Moonbeam Splashes on Water." Again, I DID NOT design the FP Qigong system to work this way. That is just how it works--as created by Feng Dao Deh. I will now reiterate this advice as part of each answer to the questions that you posted: First, you general question to the forum at large: Have any of those currently learning/practicing the Volume 4 long form meditation reached a point at which they find it impossible to maintain the same very slow pace in specific parts of the form? If so, what strategies are you using to surmount these temporary difficulties? Doing the Long Form Standing and a constant slow speed CANNOT be "impossible" if you have conditioned yourself internally by practicing the preceding exercises in the FP Qigong system slowly as they are presented on the DVD series. The exception, of course, is if you have a neurological disorder. Sifu Terry: Do you advocate speeding up the rest of the form until the difficult parts can be performed at the same pace when the entire form is slowed down, NO. Practice the form at the slowest speed possible as you improve upon the "rough parts". or is it preferable to practice the part which presents difficulties in isolation from the rest of the form, and would you advise doing so with the eyes open until sufficient strength, stamina, equilibrium and confidence are acquired? Yes, isolate the parts of the form that you have difficulty with over and practice the repeatedly and separately (without the breath control). Yes, do the difficult movements with eyes open unti you can do them with eyes closed. Then put them back into the form practice done with eyes closed. Given that the section of the form with which I am experiencing the most difficulty seems to be caused by trying to maintain balance while standing on one leg (Crane stance) at such a slow pace, keeping the eyes shut, what strategy do you recommend to enable one to overcome this difficulty and move smoothly through the entire form? Same as above. Isolate the parts of the form that you have difficulty with over and practice the repeatedly and separately (without the breath control). Then put them back into the form practice. Is it perhaps a better idea to narrow the stance further in the previous movement, in order to make it easier to come up into the cat stance? Yes, you can bring the left foot in close to teh supporting right foot before you lift the left knee to the crane stance. Many people do that naturally. The most difficult movement for me is the series of movements which begin in cat stance, raising the left leg in crane stance with snake hands then blocking downward with the left hand and striking forward with a palm strike, presumably to the chest. So my questions are: 1. How did you go about practicing this series of movements in order to achieve the same pace as the rest of the movements of the form? I never had trouble doing any of the movements in the entire the Long Form Standing Med. at the slow speed that I desired. That is because I had 16 years of extensive Kung Fu (So. Shaolin 5 Animals, Tao Tan Pai, some Yau Kang Mun), Tai Chi Chuan, Liu He Ba Fa, the complete Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung system, and Tai Chi Ruler prior to starting FP Qigong. And I also learned all the preceding FP Qigong meditations prior to the Long Form--in the order that GM Doo Wai had taught them to me, which is the order in which I presented them on the DVD series. So I started out able to do all the movements in all of the FP moving meditations at a uniform, constant speed. Over the past 26 years, I gradually became able to do the Form slower and slower and slower. 2. Is it better to perform the entire form at the pace at which you are able to manage the movements with which you are experiencing difficulty, or just persevere until the pace of those movements can keep up with the pace of the rest of the form? I feel sure that my difficulties arise from maintaining balance while the eyes are shut at this point in the form, as I have no difficulty achieving the required pace with my eyes open. So how do you suggest overcoming this particular hurdle? Same answer: do with eyes open until you are stable at slowest speed. Then do with eyes closed. 3. Another movement I find difficult to perform at that pace is the section in which you bend down and grasp the earth Qi and raise it to chest level. I find that I simply do not have the physical strength to perform this movement at the same pace as the rest of the form without shaking, despite the fact that this does not occur in performing Bending the bows, however slowly I do the form. I imagine that eventually practicing Bending the bows will provide the necessary strength and stamina? Keep doing it until overcome the weakness and the shakings. And yes, practicing Bending the Bows will provide strength and stability to enable one to do the other FP movements. --Or , because you say that you simply don't have the physical strength to do this movement, don't do it at all if you find it disconcerting. Instead, go back and practice the preceding Volume 3 moving meditations to strengthen yourself. Then come back to the Long Form Med. later. grasp the earth Qi : btw, there is no part of the Vol.4 Long for Meditation where you visualize "grasping the earth Qi." There is no such visualization in the Long Form Meditation nor is any type of visualization necessary in the entire FP Qigong System--with the tiny exception of one or two of the seated MSW meditations. Empty yourself of this "grasping the earth Qi" imagining if you want the full benefits of FP Qigong. Finally: In the penultimate movement of the form: Currently I believe that the now refined Qi is condensed between the two hands, then as the left-hand crosses over the right and forms the Earth mudra over the LDT the process is completed. I don't know what you are talking about here. What do you mean by the "penultimate movement of the form"??? "as the left-hand crosses over the right and forms the Earth mudra over the LDT the process is completed." The "process"--if you mean Flying PHoenix cultivation-- is certainly NOT completed when "the Earth mudra is formed of the lower tan tien." There are two movements of the arms after the hands come to the tan tien. And even after the arms are lowered in the final movement, the FP Qi cultivation process is still not completed. ••> Can anyone out there help out and state when the FP Qi cultivation process is completed in the Long Form Meditation? Flying Phoenix Qigong cultivation has absolutely nothing to do with "belief". As Werner Erhardt repeatedly taught and demonstrated in his EST seminars in the 70's and 80's: "we believe in most what we know the least." And the "refined Qi" that you say is "condensed between the two hands" -- is something you have carried over from some other Qigong practice or literature, or, as you say, something you BELIEVE IN. However I am unclear whether one needs to swallow the saliva in three gulps beforehand, as in other Neigong systems, and if so, precisely at which point in that series of movements? Or am I mistaken, and the saliva should only be swallowed at the very end of the form, before the third and final exhalation? The swallowing of saliva is not in part related to this level of FP Qigong practice. It is totally irrelevant. So you can swallow saliva at any point that you care to. If you wish to learn FP Qigong properly, my suggestion is that you follow the DVD instruction carefully and attend one of my workshops in Lenox, MA for corrections. But whatever you do, first empty your cup of extraneous beliefs and irrelevant ideas garnered from other systems. FP Qigong is a very simple practice. As this very astute and gifted practitioner put it in his review of the DVDs back in 2007: "This is a great practice for body, mind and spirit. It is holy; it is healthful; it is scientific. Yet, there are no words. Just do the movements, memorize the movements, do the breathing exercises before. Do not argue, do not think. Just do, and you will see results. How did the ancient Chinese discover this?" — Four Tusk Njoku "Njoku" (Philadelphia, USA) May 11, 2007 Please keep it simple and follow the Nike advertising slogan: "JUST DO IT." Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

Hi BluePHoenix133, I am very late with this: Thank you for posting this. It is one of the most beautiful and powerful expressions of Cosmic Compassionate Healing Love I've heard since the 70's. It is on par in terms of its essence--but is far more elegant--in comparison with this bottomed-out insight that always follows the effective completion of Primal Therapy with Arthur Janov--or an equivalent coming to consciousness: "Cosmic Love is totally ruthless and highly indifferent." (i.e., IT will make you REAL whether like it or not.) "I've come down from the violent skies to save the day I'm about to reveal the tales of your life Too many secrets are locked inside your minds But you're all equal in life, equal in love...'' Once one meditates enough in any yogic system, and has sufficiently cleaned one's doors of perception, so that one can see, one realizes this very simple fact: There are no secrets. And then you know the full meaning of Jackson Browne's classic 70's song, "Doctor My Eyes." Thank you again, BP. Heal on, everybody. Sifu Terry Dunn http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

Hi Aeran, Earl Grey has provided the correct answer. I have been doing it the same way since I learned the meditation. After you bring the hands up the centerline with back of the hands touching and turn the palms clasped in the final position in front of the heart, you want to end and demarcate that exercise by floating the palms down to the knees. When Grandmaster Doo Wai taught this too me (and I just checked the video of his demo in 1991), the last movement of floating the palms down to the knees is just as focussed and at the same speed as all the preceding movements. Then to start the next round of the meditation, bring the palms back up to the centerline and at heart-level. **Also, I will give a nuanced teaching for this particular meditation, "the Sleeper" (50 20 10) so as to encourage all serious FP practitioners to try to attend my workshops at Eastover: A) This meditation starts with the palms in front of the heart. B ) When one brings the palms up the centerline with back of the hands touching and turn the palms clasped in "prayer" position, you actually bring the fingertips up to the third eye (brow chakra) for a split second, and then slowly lower the palms back down to the heart level. See what that does for you. You are all very welcome!! Sifu Terry Dunn http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

Hi Taoguy, Answers to your questions: One thing I realized was that the clinging habits or tendencies became weaker after the entire session (FPQG + quiet-sitting). FPQG helped to establish that very serene-mind which made quiet-sitting much easier. Since both of them were not 'cognitive' in nature (ie. requiring some kind of conceptualizing) I thought they worked pretty well together as well. Yes, you've experienced what practically every serious meditator who tries FP Qigong--especially the seated MSW meditations--discovers: that quiet sitting (emptiness) is so much more easier and so much more comfortable and enjoyable than doing it before having experienced the FP Qigong integrative and energizing effects. I wanted to clarify though - I think Sifu terry mentioned that the quiet sitting in FPQG was the warmup meditations in vol 2 - Is this much different from sitting in emptiness meditation? --No, that's not what I meant with this sentence. Just take my sentence literally: The contrast between quiet sitting meditation and any of the 3 Warm-up Meditations--and certainly with the 3 Monk Serves Wine meditations in Volume 2--is most profound and usually quite a revelation to anyone who meditates. I meant to say that the first three Monk Serves Wine preparatory meditations or "warm-ups" on Vol.2 when they are first experienced by meditators, their experience is revelatory and a sublime boost to their practice. Sifu Terry Dunn http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

Hi Charlie, Thanks for your excellent report on your progress of approaching the speed of the shifting sand dune in doing the Long Form Standing Meditation (FPHHCM on Vol.4). I'm glad the videos from the Eastover workshops served you well as the standard reference for speed of moving meditations in the FP System. I hope you get your wife sufficiently hooked on FP Qigong soon! Note: one doesn't have to practice the Long Form Standing Meditation approaching 40 minutes every time. But as long as you continually and gradually stretches your practice to longer durations, you will be developing greater total body relaxation and attaining higher (deeper) absorption-jhana. I was not exaggerating nor kidding when I posted that FP Qigong can serve as the meditation vehicle to carry one right up to the threshold of the Formless or Immaterial Jhanas. Reminder and suggestion to all: try moving at such super-slow speeds while doing the seated Flying Phoenix meditations as well--i.e., the "Monk Serves Wine" series (first 8 of which are on Volumes 2 and 7 of DVD series). ***And come to October 6-8 Flying Phoenix Qigong Workshop at eastover to get corrections and perfect your meditations to maximize the health, longevity, and spiritual benefits of this art. 12 Days before it begins. Info here: http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html Cheers and happy travels. (--I'm also equipping my vehicle for a long cross-country drive in a few days). Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

DSCB57: https://www.thoughtco.com/star-of-david-2076778 The Star of David (also "Shield of David") is universally known as a hexagram composed of 2 equilateral triangles. Known perhaps not to occultists and hermeticists--but to the general public for most of my 6 decades of life. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-hexagram-96041 The "Seal of Solomon" also often denotes a pentagram but also can be composed of a triangle, also a square, also heptagram, 2 squares, almost any type of polygon it seems...and often denotes other non polygonal talismans: https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrTcYMMy8FZwaQADAo2nIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsZ29xY3ZzBHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEc2xrA2J1dHRvbg--;_ylc=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--?gprid=fRHVOQMnSXGUVpFpLUZmbA&pvid=K5AY4zIwNi4IeoSHWNapoQTANjkuNwAAAABMjHzE&p=seal+of+solomon&fr=yhs-Babylon-opti&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt&hsimp=yhs-opti&hspart=Babylon I prefer to continue to use the name "Star of David" as the popular name of a hexagram that can be seen as being composed of two equilateral triangles or can be seen as two inter-penetrating cones, a flattened sectioned version of the Tai Chi Tu, or Yin Yang diagram--because it is more precise. Sifu Terry Dunn P.S. I will get to answering your questions about speed of practicing Standing FP Long Form (vol.4) shortly. My apologies. I have been traveling a lot and am still catching up with earlier postings.

Hello Phil, Sorry for taking so, so long--all this time to finally see your post. I had missed it when you had first posted it. I am posting the following excerpts from a (copyrighted) draft of my forthcoming book on FP Qigong because I feel it's about time to make this point because you have posted David Sorensen's transcription of Grandmaster Doo Wai's oral teaching about the source of Feng Do Duk's knowledge of FP Qigong. I had read this transcription a long time ago. It conforms to the verbal account that GM Doo Wai gave me in 1991--except that his account was more general back then. Lacking were details such as the gold and silver throne that carried the goddess down to earth and how close the deity was to Feng Do Duk. GM Doo Wai told me that Taoist monk Feng Do Duk received a visitation from a heavenly goddess while he was meditating. (Of course, an advanced yogin like Feng Do Duk is of such high consciousness that he was probably always in meditation--whether he was walking, standing, seated, or sleeping.) He was told that this group of meditations would greatly benefit the health of mankind. She also told him that these are sacred meditations, and it was not for everybody. She told him that people that were evil, sinful, or dishonest would be rejected by the meditations, and they will not be benefited by them. Assuming that David Sorensen's transcription is an accurate one: I found this part of the grandmaster's account most interesting and significant because it states fundamental characteristics or operative features of the Flying Phoenix Qigong system that have been proven out by my experience over now 24 years of teaching it. FP Qigong indeed does not work for (will not impart health and healing to) those who are evil, wicked and who do harm to others. Over the course of teaching FP Qigong starting in 1993 (to the study group of advanced martial artists that I had organized around him and at first GM Doo Wai's supervision), I have definitely observed that indeed FP Qigong does not work for everybody. And those for whom FP Qigong have no salient effect are not just evil-doers: I can say with absolute certainty that those who are so ego-centric, selfish, dishonest, and ungodly in their worldview--or so given over onto increasing their mundane sensual pleasures--such that they cannot exhibit universal or brotherly love, are, first of all, not interested in FP Qigong, and should they somehow experience the Flying Phoenix Healing Qi through a little practice or through a healing infusion of the Qi, they are at first temporarily "de-lighted" by the Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Qi, but then they quickly shirk it off because they feel on the cellular level how fine and sublime and penetrating the energy is and their coarsely sensual, dense, greedy nature and "all-about-me" neuro-linguistic program (mentality) simply finds it contrary to them and so causes them to consciously ignore IT. Interestingly, they don't poo-poo it or scoff at IT. But they do spurn It. Even the most dense ego-maniacs cannot help but take note and acknowledge the very strong instance of real and deep healing they've experienced, but then they quickly ignore it and move on to something else that suits their ego-structure and that does not threaten it. This incongruence or SPLIT in their personality is always interesting to see! And I've seen a good deal of it. (B) The yogic or alchemic-cultivational mechanism of Flying Phoenix Qigong AUTOMATICALLY SCREENS OUT and GETS RID OF evil people or borderline evil people. if you are right for FP Qigong, you become a better person. If you're not spiritually fit for learning FP Qigong, you quit and run away. Evil people will not come near the FP Heavenly Healing Energy because they are either too dense and too stupid to recognize that tied to this tangible FP healing blissful energy at its very root is Universal Consciousness, or At-One-ment with the Infinite Event, or the Godhead, and out of subconscious fear of its viscerally enlightening, transformative power, they see no use for its practice. Or else they are have dedicated themselves to Darkness, rebellion against the Light, and the destruction of humanity and of God's or Heaven's gift to mankind. [Yes, there is very destructive evil in this world, and FP Qigong practice will fine tune and calibrate your radar to detect it in all its forms.] However, if the person were good, the meditations would provide them with Mystical Heavenly self-healing positive energies so powerful that if he or she has a terminal illness the meditations will teach that person's body how to heal itself. If the person is good, the meditations would not only heal them and provide them with perfect health, but it would allow them to have such positive energy within them that they could lay their hands on and heal others. I would concur with these statements because after about 2 years of practicing FP Qigong, and after learning 3 powerful advanced FP Qigong Meditations (not part of the 9 Advanced FP standing meditations) and also perhaps catalyzed/ accelerated after learning another set of 3 advanced Bok Fu Pai meditations, one of which cultivates "the vacuum palm", I (accidentally at first) discovered that the tangible reserve of FP Healing Energy I had cultivated would at unpredictable times spontaneously jump off of me and into a person I was in proximity to for whom I had positive regard and concern. I didn't have the volition to help and heal, I didn't have to focus or concentrate on healing the person at all. The energy JUMPED OFF on its own accord via the slightest (accidental) touch and the recipient was instantly lit-up and discharged of pain, tension and many other symptoms, and would continue to radiate a healing glow for hours afterwards. BTW, one of my missions with FP Qigong is to mount rigorous scientific and medical research into its yogic mechanism in order to understand how it works in terms of western physiology. So as to de-mystify the "Mystical Heavenly self-healing positive energies" that FP Qigong cultivates. The Goddess explained to Fung Doe Duk that the human body is linked with the universe and every living thing on the Earth, including plants and animals and non-living things such as boulders, mountains, rocks, sand, and dirt. The clouds, skies, and the universe are linked to all of these things on Earth. Heaven provided us with the solution to perfect health and longevity within our universe, within the plants, animals, and minerals that we share on this Earth. This linkage to the Universe is actually FELT--DIRECTLY EXPERIENCED--through FP Qigong practice. This isn't a philosophical concept or a mental construct but an actually experienced continuity of Self with all life forms and forms of energy in the Universe. Tied to this Qigong's healing blissful energy is Universal Consciousness; it is a discipline to maintain constant At-One-ment with the Infinite Event, or Godhead...that enables one to live in harmony with all life on earth with an ecological wisdom cultivated on a cellular level. ALL ONE HAS TO DO IS MEDITATE ENOUGH. Based on my experience, I know with absolute certainty that Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditations is indeed a gift from Heaven to mankind. May you all continue to prove to yourselves this sublime, awesome and humbling fact as you continue to enjoy this Qigong's healing effects and the expansion of your sense of Self. Sifu Terence Dunn Copyright 2017. Terence Dunn www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

Songshou, Thank you for your beautiful 12-pointed matrix with Purple Rose of Virgo at the center and your explanation of how you came to create this lovely Power talisman. And thank you for sharing your inspired I Ching correlations to your practice of Flying Phoenix Qigong and your explanation of Hexagram 42 Increase and 55 Abundance focussed on proliferating the teachers of FP Qigong through not just me and my workshop programs and the DVD series, but by a new generation of teachers that is developing nicely. And at a good rate of progress, I am pleased to say. One of my remote Skype students in the midwest is about to start learning the first of 9 advanced standing Flying Phoenix meditations. At any rate, I am taking your casting of Hexagrams 42 and 55 as prophecy. The timing of which can be understood as starting in the time of the Gentel and the Arousing, or Winds and Thunder (42)--5 hurricanes, duh-- and culminating in a time of Clarity and the ArousalLight (or Fire) and Thunder (55). Your discussion of how you created a twelve pointed star is a good reminder to all of the exponential power when one meditates upon and operates through the Star of David, which is in actuality--for those who have not figured this out yet-- the flattened 2-dimensional version of the Tai Chi Tu (Yin-Yang Diagram. This identicalness is a lesson I teach graphically towards the end all my workshops at some point to prove that the Ultimate Reality is perceived as the same thing by all yogic cultures but only expressed and represented differently. And it also definitively explains why Jewish people love Chinese food! For those who have resonance with the I Ching, note the basic Judgment of Increase is premised on clear self-awareness. Wind and thunder: the image of INCREASE. Thus the superior man: If he sees good, he imitates it; If he has faults, he rids himself of them. Flying Phoenix Qigong can be in invaluable discipline to help one stay on one's "Path with Heart" (a la Castaneda) throughout a lifetime. A discipline to practice to exorcise oneself of "faults"... ...which will prevent error and thus manifest "Abundance" (Fullness): ABUNDANCE has success. The king attains abundance. Be not sad. Be like the sun at midday. --i.e., enjoy the fruits of practicing FP Qigong and radiate with FP energy, as you claim more and more of the Totality of Oneself. Note also that the moving lines causing (42) Increase to change into (55) Abundance are the third, fourth, fifth, and top positions. Good practicing to all. Sifu Terry Dunn www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Indeed, it is a fabulous work of functional art. This is nice article about Haim's creation of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/building-the-worlds-longest-glass-bridge This is a beautiful video of people enjoying this footbridge for the first time after its opening last spring: • So pleased to have visionary architect-poet Haim Dotan as a Flying Phoenix Qigong workshop initiate and latest devotee!! Sifu Terry Dunn www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

Hi Winston, Glad to hear that you're enjoying the expansive effects of FP Qigong and that you are feeling an infusion of divine energy each time that you practice. Flying Phoenix Qigong has the potential to make one very high-functioning in many respects and dimensions. Here are some comments, questions, tips and advice in response to the various statements in your posting (in bold): Devas (of desire or form heavens) possess bodies composed out of Shen (therefore called Shens or "Demi-gods"), and Shen can control "lesser bodies" beneath the "Yin-Shen" body. What is the "Yin-Shen" body? Therefore, devas or Brahmas or Buddhas all have the power to influence our "lesser bodies". ONLY if we let them by asking/inviting them to do so. ( btw, "deva" in Sanskrit is the root for both English words "divine" and "devil.") There are many ways to describe the expansion of human consciousness and development of spiritual potential. Be careful in using the language and terms of another, especially if you have not experienced the phenomena and realities represented by those specific terms. Remember: words are NOT things; only the thing is thing. The map is NOT the territory. Therefore in meditation, we open up channels and then these beings with "higher bodies" help out by infusing divine energy into our bodies. You can describe your general meditative experience beyond the physiological effects-- in terms of this “higher” aspect. You are certainly free to believe in this process that you’ve described. But belief in this process of spiritual intermediaries facilitating the infusion of divine energy and delivery of health benefits is not necessary. As I’ve stated throughout this discussion thread, Flying Phoenix Qigong works without any form of visualization, mental imaging, or any kind of thought-process whatsoever. As long as one does the breath-control sequences and the exactly corresponding posture or posture-and-movements of the FP Qigong System, one will derive the full healing and lasting health benefits and spiritual attunement of this Qigong system, regardless of what one does or where one goes with his mind. They also raise the yin or yang chi in the body by making us hallucinate. For example, fear reactions are induced to bring up the yin chi, while inspirational reactions like seeing the image of a Buddha are induced to bring up yang chi. If you wish to believe this, beware of abrogating your responsibility to maintain imperturbable focus and supreme concentration in meditation and responsibility for one's own cultivation and development--by attributing experiences as being caused by as yet unexperienced and therefore abstract entities, "beings with higher bodies.” THE ONLY REAL TRUTH IS THE EXPERIENCED TRUTH. The many 'delusions' are the devas doing "experiments" on us. What did the highly cultivated source say and write were the kinds of “experiments” that these devas are doing? "Deva experimentation" may be true for a minuscule, infinitesimal percentage of meditators experiencing “delusions”. The vast majority of delusions experienced in meditative state and carried into waking life are egomaniacal, have only to do a person’s psychology, his/her ignorance of the self, his or her false and perverse beliefs, and have nothing to do with devas. Some Tibetan exorcistic hygienists, on the other hand, believe that 400+ demons within the body give rise to a myriad of delusions and diseases. I don’t subscribe to that system and it does not overlap with either of the two Taoist monastic traditions that I preserve--and one of them, Tao Tan Pai , is a complete exorcistic-martial tradition. So there are five attainments in total: Human eyes, Deva eyes, Prajna eyes, Dharma eyes and Buddha eyes. Corresponding to the eyes, we have the bodies. So Buddha-kaya/Xian-tian-qi/Sambhogakaya > Hou-tian-qi body > Mental Body > Sensation Body > Physical Body in the hierarchy of influence. If you or the source you are quoting say so. Five stages of spiritual evolution is what this highly cultivated source expounds. This a spiritual map that he finds useful to guide others. It is not absolute reality. To understand that the map is not the territory, read Alfred J. Korzybsky’s “Science and Sanity” (1931) two times. It will condition you to keep your mind attentive to the reality of the Infinite Event and not to attach to --believe in-- lower and lower and lower levels of linguistic abstraction that get farther and farther and farther away from Reality they are trying to describe. Then you will never confuse symbol with reality…and you can open and lead your own Zen (Chan) monastery. (I personally operate with two levels of spiritual development: mortal and immortal.) You are free to use this 5-stage framework of "hierarchy of influence" if it pleases you and helps you understand the yogic development rendered by the FP Qigong. Just make sure that the map fit the territory. fyi, I do not believe in nor operate in terms of a “Mental Body” or "Sensation Body”. Those terms are arid abstractions to me and totally meaningless based on my experience. Nor do I know what the Hou-Tian-Qi Body is. Post-Heaven Energy. Tell me what that is and I will tell you if that energy has a Body that I’ve experienced it and is thus something I can utilize or connect with. I suspect FPQG deals with the building of the "Sensation Body" to create a 'heaven on earth' by creating a deva body within our physical flesh, which is stream-entry. What do you mean by "stream-entry”?! or what does your source mean by this term? Feeling FP Qigong’s transformative effects can be described as experiencing a divine energy within one’s body and that blissful transcendent feeling can be described as experiencing "heaven-on-earth". Or sensing divinity within the body. Or what early Buddhist scriptures described as “touching nirvana with one’s body." Please correct me if I'm wrong. We need the hou-tian-qi to really pry our mental body from the physical flesh that is made out of Shen, which is when a person becomes an Arahant (8th bodhisattva brume). Wrong in on two counts: A: You are subscribing to a semantic construct that has nothing to do with FP Qigong practice and its yogic development. I have no idea what you are talking about in your “We need the hou-tian-qi…” sentence: hou-tian-qi doesn’t pry mental body from physical flesh. [But a good psychotherapist might.] physical flesh is not made of Shen in my book of experience or in my speculations. B: NO. You only need to the FP Qigong meditations correctly and then use its healing energies do enough Good Works in your lifetime through personal sacrifice and devotion to the good or to God in order to become an Arahant or 8th bodhisattva, a teacher of men and gods. I'm really grateful to have stumbled on these teachings and it does feel like some power is infusing divine energy into me while I practise. What did I do to deserve this?? So blessed, and wishing fellow FPQG practitioners well. I wish you well. But keep it simple!! Do NOT attribute what you do not understand yet (but are feeling) to external symbolic abstractions created by someone else. Because the divine power is inherent within you. But you will miss this simple and all-essential TRUTH if you get lost in the symbols of someone else's ramblings that you have no experiential basis for understanding. The vitalities of heaven and earth, sun and moon, Are fundamentally inherent in our bodies. If reality and consciousness do not stray from each other, Creation is always in the palm of your hand. —Chan Po-Tuan Sifu Terry Dunn http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hello Songshou, I can't thank you enough for posting such thoughtful, insightful and intuitive correlations and "not-so-free" associations! I just love this suggestion to meditatively channel Xi Wang Mu as the "Purple Rose of Virgo", citing this rare, super-brilliant type 1a supernova, SN 2007af, that occurred in the NGC 5584 galaxy in the direction of Virgo constellation eleven years ago. And since we have gone into Virgo astrologically, I'll share this astronomy photo, which is actually called the "Purple Rose of Virgo." The nebula actually radiates that color as photographed by observatories, it has not been altered. And since "Virgo" means the "Young Woman", I think this Purple Rose might make for an awesome meditation on Xi Wang Mu who is so often depicted as a beautiful Young Woman. (Of course, I'm partial because I'm born under Virgo!) You probably don't know this, but I happen to be Virgo. (And a wood Horse.) And I only yesterday did I finally get clear of the fall-out and last bit of magnetic reversing drag of the Aug.13 - Sept.5 mercury retrograde, which was a real nasty one--and finally get my physical rhythm and psychical acuity back. Hence, I am today able to write with unimpeded faculties--finally. And now, as I finally "grok" the cosmic correlations you've suggested between Flying Phoenix Qigong, it's most probable if not definite source, Xi Wang Mu, and the SN 2007af, I see it as prophecy for the current expansive cycle that is just beginning after this retrograde fades, one in which I will be teaching more and more FP Qigong than ever before--and teaching it more intensively--especially on the east coast this fall, as I will be a teacher-in-residence at the Eastover Estate and Retreat in Lenox, MA. Thank you again from bringing to everyone's attention the most likely spiritual source of Flying Phoenix energy, "The Ninefold Numinous Grand and Realized Primal Ruler of the Purple Tenuity from the White Jade Tortoise Terrace." (I will let you and all know if I encounter Xi Wang Mu in meditation--and if I learn that it was her Gift Waves that caused Taoist monk Feng Dao Deh to create the Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditations.) Sifu Terry Dunn http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

My experience of the Flying Phoenix Healing Energy in my personal practice (over many years) and from seeing it manifested by Grandmaster Doo Wai on several occasions is that its color is a bright fluorescent sky blue. This is not to say that someone will not experience a deep violet or purple color while in FP meditation. Chinese folk art and spiritual iconography renders phoenix's with a blue color along with others. And Xi Wang Mu is adorned and accompanied by deep violet/purple. Deep violet is the color of the energy channeled through the crown chakra as it relates to spiritual wisdom and Universal consciousness. Fluorescent sky blue is the visible color of the FP Healing Energy. Sifu Terry Dunn http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

Hi Songshou, Thank you for your I Ching correlations with the Twin Immortals and now with Xi Wang Mu/Western Queen Mother. I Ching Hexagram 46 can be easily understood by looking at the elemental meanings of the two trigrams. #46 is Wood underneath Earth, which Wilhelm Jaynes translated as "Pushing Upwards", which the same as "ascending". The imagery is one that I use quite often in teaching a particular spine-alignment exercise that is part of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Exercises that I learned from Master George Xu of San Francisco: (from the bent forward "pike"position with feet in cat stance position with the legs straight [knees locked] and hips facing forward, and arms extended downward with wrists crossed the and backs of the hands touching) "Raise you back to the vertical, one vertebrae at a time with each breath...visualize time-lapse photography of a sprout breaking soil and reaching towards the sky." Hexagram 46 connotes the early growth phase of a seedling before it breaks soil. Hence, "Pushing Upwards" through the earth--through the mundane-- is the what your energy and consciousness is doing. " (Way back in the late 70's and early 80's, a small group of us at the Taoist Sanctuary in Los Angeles learned a method of I Ching divination created by a gifted Taoist in Oregon that was based entirely on memorizing the 8 trigrams and their interrelationships in all the possible pairings of the 8. This enables one to cast the I Ching without use of any written commentary). Sifu Terry Dunn http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

Hello to the FP Qigong community. I just got back from the east coast FP Qigong workshop. Over the rest of this week and weekend, I will get to responding to the past 2 weeks of postings with questions addressed to me. Thanks for your patience. I'm also very glad to see on this thread that the FP Community is welcoming beginners/newcomers and answering their questions in great detail and with experiential knowledge. Sifu Terry Dunn http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

MY NEXT FLYING PHOENIX QIGONG WORKSHOP AT EASTOVER IS OCTOBER 6, 7, 8. Besides getting 22-plus hours of immersive training in this authentic monastic Qigong art from Ehrmeishan that was created 7 generations ago by the renowned Taoist yogin-sage Feng Dao Deh, you will practicing in the Berkshires when all the leaves on all the trees in all the forests are going from verdure to flaming orange and gold. So bright that when we do our afternoon Flying Phoenix Meditations behind the Eastover main mansion with eyes closed because only one meditation (the one called "Monk Gazing At Moon") in the entire basic system of 30 meditations is done with eyes opened, you will still be seeing the orange and gold! And if you practice correctly, at some point during the workshop, that outer vision of orange -golden leaves will be overtaken and become saturated with an INNER VISION of florescent sky blue, the color Flying Phoenix Healing Energy repeatedly and verifiably induced by practice of this particular Qigong system. Nothing else, in the yogic world, as far as I know, is like it. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW and book your travel NOW: http://www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html See y'all there! •••>> Please SHARE THIS REVIEW BELOW with ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS WHO CARE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT QIGONG, TAI CHI OR ANYTHING MEDITATIVE, OR WHO KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT HOLISTIC HEALTH AND YOGIC ARTS--AND WHO WOULD RATHER READ A BOOK THAN DO THE MILDEST AND MOST GENTLE OF ALL EXERCISE!! For me, Corinne's report below on the last Flying Phoenix Qigong Workshop I gave at Eastover Estate & Retreat in Lenox, MA is perhaps the most enjoyable and delightful response I've received yet! --a fine and surprising testament to the healing power of Flying Phoenix Qigong to facilitate the sublime Samadhic state, what the Tibetans call "NATURAL MOOD." LOL: Hellooo Terence, I would like to add my grain of salt to the comments on the seminar in the Berkshire. First of all, I was not really interested in the Flying Phoenix meditation. My husband was. I had the options to stay home for the WE or , tag along . And so I came . I was prepared, I brought with me a 300 pages book, in case I got bored. Everything changed on the first night . When I told you I was just an accompaniment, you nicely included me right then and there. From that moment on , my fate was sealed . I went to all the classes, barely reading 4 pages of my book. Yes , sometimes I got dazed and confused with the breathing, sometimes I messed up the sequences, but that did not stopped me. I really enjoyed it . What I appreciated the most during those 3 days : the relaxed schedule. What I found delightful: the free form "moving hands like clouds " Sunday morning. ( Thank you Haim to show us that we are all spirited dancers. And Agnes your infinity moves will be forever in our minds ). Most of all Terence , I cherished your Flying Phoenix magic to bring us happiness together. Thanks to you and all my partners in crime for that Week end. Corinne Arcuri Page 175 has videos and still photos of the very successful and enjoyable July workshop. This is the link to a video clip of last week's workshop with a smaller morning class:

Hello TaoGuy, Here's my answer your question. Traditionally--i.e., for centuries--the Flying PHoenix Heavenly Healing Chi meditation capstone form (Volume 4) is done with one round per one breath-control sequence (90 60 5 50 40). That is how i have always practiced. I have never done two or more rounds of the form after one breath-control sequence. So I have no comment on the experience of doing multiple rounds of the Form following one breath-control sequence. I suppose that if you were to continue into a second round (or more) of the exercise, you can maintain the inner stillness attained during the first round and continue at that level of absorption. Since you've stated that you "could feel a huge difference in energy levels...", I might give your method a try and see what doing more than 1 round of the Form does based on one breath-control sequence. I am always open to sensible experimentation. And this one doesn't seem like a dangerous one--especially since you are still alive and well to talk about yours!! I will get back to you with my findings in a few days. I am presently teaching a 3-day immersive FP Qigong workshop in Lenox, MA. Thanks for sharing your experience. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hey hey, Songshou--I mean He He, Thank you for your further exposition of the "Taoist Twins" Harmony-Union Twin Immortals--and for the range of tonal meanings of their sobriquet, He He, all of which are auspicious and delightful. The Twins are a charming and heart-warming to gaze upon and a riot to meditate upon. Who knows? Maybe the twins were indeed two Buddhist monks in their past incarnations who were very close friends. And they simply evolved into even more pure and perfect embodiments of Tao. Their spiritual progress is obviously awesome since they went from a mundane past life and lifestyle entirely spent on foot to one where they are transported by chimerical steeds whoses heads look more like dragons than anything else, and so are probably able to fly (imho). Since Qi-lin are thought to presage the auspicious coming or going of a great sage or great ruler, I would say that the Twins are real movers and shakers--and prodigies to boot. At any rate, regardless if they were Buddhist monks and close friends in their previous incarnations or not, all signs point to the fact that the twins are highly evolved spirits--riding high in High Heaven. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Dear Songshou! Thank you so very much for sharing your meditation experience with MSW and connection to Xi Wang Mu! Very beautiful art posted and very useful and effective mantra/invocation that you have gifted to us. Thank you for this GIFT! I felt powerful mind-shifting effects the first two times I voiced it: ""Shih Yao Fei Feng Hsi Wang Mu". Especially powerful--and perfect--during the present retrograde period. The "Immortal Twin Boys", He-He Er Xian, are just my cup of tea--a tonic tea. Their smiles and countenances are infectiously fill one with delight, and they being twins are harmonizing. I also go into joyful trance studying the faces of their mighty-magickal-comical steeds and figuring out the each twin's relationship with his respective steed. Well, regardless of what others might think, your healing invocation to Xi Wang Mu is wonderful an effective as far as I'm concerned. And these icons of the "Immortal Twin Boys" sure as Heaven interests me! They are incredibly evocative. My wildly mantic mind likes to visualize these statuettes in different configuration/postures...but I see them always morph back to these originals as being PERFECT!! Many, many thanks, Songshou! Sifu Terry Dunn

Songshou, Thank you so much for making the connection between Xi Wang Mu ("West Queen Mother") and her flying phoenix with Flying Phoenix Qigong; she may quite possibly be-- and probably is--the Source of the Flying Phoenix Qigong knowledge . Over all these years after learning the FP Qigong system from GM Doo Wai in the early 1990's, I just stayed within the confines of his oral history that Taoist monk Feng Tao Teh (Feng Do Duk) received a visitation from--or channeled in the Flying Phoenix Qigong knowledge from a reportedly female Taoist deity. This oral history jibes with his statement that the FP Qigong is a purely Taoist art. But I was not aware of the name of the Taoist Queen Mother of the West, even though long ago I had obscure glimpses of her images in Taoist and Chinese folk art. But no direct sightings yet while in meditative states of consciousness. Now that I know the name and have visual depictions of Xi Wang Mu, I will see if an invocation might work--especially when I am in immersive teaching and meditation mode. Thank you again for sharing your keen intuition! Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-3.htmo

Hi Taoguy, I'm not familiar with the term "immortal fetus" or Yang Shen --not even within the context of Secret of the Golden Flower. There is in Taoist literature the Spiritual Embryo or Immortal Embryo (sheng tai), which is the core or essential energy of the human being that starts as a small embryo and through yogic cultivation is enlarged to an energy body. If that's what you're referring to, then yes, both FP Qigong and Tao Tan Pai cultivate the energy body of the human starting with its embryonic form. I think you mean manomayakāya or manomaya-kaya, if you referring to the Buddhist term for "a body created by the mind." The term -kaya as in "dharma-kaya" does not mean a physical body. It is often used to mean a collection or group of something. I don't think that this term, manomayakāya, lliterally means a physical human body created by the mind. My hunch is that the term means the Buddha's perfection. While I know what this sanskrit term manomaya-kaya translates into in English, I am not familiar with this term in any yogic context. I have never heard it and any similar term used used in Tao Tan Pai practice nor have I heard it or any similar term used in Flying Phoenix Qigong practice. Although many have reported seeing images of Buddhist iconography while practicing FP Qigong, my teacher, GM Doo Wai, told me that FP Qigong is a pure Taoist system. Tao Tan Pai is a particularly Shen-driven Qigong system and is a syncretic Taoist-Buddhist system. Flying Phoenix applies and cultivates Shen-Qi quite differently than TTP. But both systems cultivate the energy body, which can be referred to as the Spiritual Embryo. Both Qigong systems can be powerful catalysts in transforming the practitioner into the dharma-kaya. Sifu Terry Dunn

To all FP Qigong practitioners: Please share this report just in about the last Flying Phoenix Qigong workshop at Eastover Estate (July 27-30) with ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS WHO CARE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT QIGONG, TAI CHI OR ANYTHING MEDITATIVE, OR KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT YOGIC ARTS!! For me, Corinne's report below is perhaps the most enjoyable and delightful response I've received yet! --a fine and surprising testament to the healing power of Flying Phoenix Qigong to facilitate the sublime Samadhic state, what the Tibetans call "NATURAL MOOD." LOL: Hellooo Terence, I would like to add my grain of salt to the comments on the seminar in the Berkshire. First of all, I was not really interested in the Flying Phoenix meditation. My husband was. I had the options to stay home for the WE or , tag along . And so I came . I was prepared, I brought with me a 300 pages book, in case I got bored. Everything changed on the first night . When I told you I was just an accompaniment, you nicely included me right then and there. From that moment on , my fate was sealed . I went to all the classes, barely reading 4 pages of my book. Yes , sometimes I got dazed and confused with the breathing, sometimes I messed up the sequences, but that did not stopped me. I really enjoyed it . What I appreciated the most during those 3 days : the relaxed schedule. What I found delightful: the free form "moving hands like clouds " Sunday morning. ( Thank you Haim to show us that we are all spirited dancers. And Agnes your infinity moves will be forever in our minds ). Most of all Terence , I cherished your Flying Phoenix magic to bring us happiness together. Thanks to you and all my partners in crime for that Week end . Corinne Arcuri Next 3-day FP Workshop at Eastover starts in 13 days!: www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-3.html

And I just received this nice note of thanks from a couple, Tony and Corinne Aecuri, who attended the Flying Phoenix Workshop at Eastover in July. announcing a longer review still to come: Hi Sifu Terry, Thank you for the email and your kind words. Corinne and I throughly enjoyed the workshop material, your insightful teaching style, the group comraderie and the beautiful location. The synergy created by all of that made for a truly unforgettable weekend. My experience with you last November in NYC was a great introduction but, the weekend at Eastover was a true immersion; a baptism by fire! I'm taking a personal day tomorrow and plan to work on a review of the workshop as you requested. I'll incorporate some of this email and elaborate a bit. In addition I will post something on Facebook and the Dao Bums (for the first time). Regarding the videos on the web; no problem as Corinne and I are flattered. She is telling her friends that she is "almost famous". Just an idea about putting the word out in NYC; have you heard of the Open Center? https://www.opencenter.org/ They host various new age events and programs. Some chi kung, meditation and Tai chi are always included. If you taught a workshop there it might help create interest beyond their venue. I'll send you my review soon. Until then best wishes! Tony & Corinne Registration info for Aug. 29 - Sept. 1 FP Workshop: www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html

This review just came in today from another Eastover workshop attendee, Spencer Lawrence from NYC, who is seen in the above photo standing third from the left: Hi Sifu Terry, Please use the following testimonial as you'd like: I was truly excited and grateful for the opportunity to learn and practice the Flying Phoenix Qigong system with Sifu Terry Dunn at Eastover Estate, and the experience exceeded my expectations. To receive teachings and personal instruction directly from the master and sole preserver of this remarkable art was invaluable. The unique healing energy of Flying Phoenix was amazingly tangible from the start and only got stronger as the days passed. By the end of the workshop, I was so saturated with the energy that the first comment my girlfriend made upon seeing me was that I looked younger. As a teacher, Sifu Dunn provides clear directions and personal attention. He is personable, open and approachable, and happily willing to share the impressive amount of knowledge he holds of a variety of internal and martial arts. We were even fortunate enough to learn some movements and meditations from other rare and unpublished systems he has mastered. I had only practiced Flying Phoenix Qigong sparingly for a couple months before attending the workshop. The three day immersive program not only confirmed the potency of this system for me but also boosted my practice as I've noticed a significant difference in my ability to sense and generate its unique energy. Whether you have little or no Qigong experience or are an advanced practitioner, I highly recommend attending this transformative workshop at the idyllic Eastover Estate. Feel free to remove the comment regarding the unpublished systems if you prefer it not be mentioned. Also, thank you for your comments about my performing BTB. It's definitely one of my favorite meditations, and I find that even when I try to speed up (2-3 min per round) for time's sake, there comes a point when the movement/energy automatically takes over and slows me down to 4-5 minutes per round. I'll also be sure to continue making my way through the forum. It's an unbelievable resource. I've registered for the next workshop, and I'll be attending the third in October with my girlfriend as well. Thanks again, and see you soon! Best, Spencer www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-3.html

Hello Flying Phoenix Qigong Enthusisasts: Here is another review/critique of the July 27-30 that I received on Saturday from an attendee, Sam Weng, who is from Pennsylvania. I hope this and other reviews will encourage more people to "cross the great water" (figuratively or literally) and attend my FP Qigong workshops so that they will feel first-hand the undeniable truth from time immemorial that "perseverance furthers" . And realize that this judgement from the I Ching (Book of Changes) is especially so when it comes to a 22-hour immersive FP Qigong training: Received August 12, 2017: Dear Sifu Terry Dunn, here's a review; let me know if you have any editing suggestions for length, content, grammar, etc... Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditations is an authentic system created in the 17th century by the legendary Taoist kung fu master, Feng Tao Teh (Feng Do Duk) and faithfully preserved across seven generations. As a strictly medical qigong, with little to no potential for abuse or misuse, the keepers of this art have deemed it unnecessary to keep the breath control sequences secret, as in other types of qigong and martial arts. It is the breath control sequences which ignite and catalyze the unique energetic healing properties of these meditations. The specific breathing formulas are a crucial element that make FPHHCM a rare and powerful system of transformative movements and postures accessible to the beginning student. Sifu Terry Dunn, in addition to being the 7th generation lineage holder of FPHHCM, is also a great teacher. He is able to patiently guide students through all the movements, postures and breathing formulas with clear and concise language while performing the meditations in great form for students to mirror. He also makes himself available to answer students' questions in a thoughtful, compassionate manner. To get a sense of his teaching persona, read through a few pages of this blog with a thread dedicated to FPHHCM, where Sifu Terry Dunn has been answering students' questions and providing hints and gems and great stories regarding the practice of qigong and martial arts and life in general for 8 years and counting: https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/12639-flying-phoenix-chi-kung/While the Chi Kung for Health DVDs are an excellent resource for learning and practicing FPHHCM at home, having the opportunity to practice in a group setting under Sifu Terry's guidance provided a solid foundation to continue my path in integrating FPHHCM into my life. Spending some time with like-minded individuals, enjoying the beauty of Eastover, enjoying the healthy food, and basking in the peaceful calm and heightened sense of wellbeing that practicing FPHHCM imparts was also a wonderful experience. Sam Weng [Sam is the dapper Chinese gent seen in the photo below, fourth from the right:]

Hello to the Flying Phoenix Qigong community: I wish to share this lovely and lively review/critique that I just received today from a recent workshop attendee, Haim Dotan, an Israeli architect and poet who was educated in the U.S. (went to USC) and now works in Shanghai teaching design, poetry and creativity, and who recently attained worldwide fame for building the world's longest and highest glass-bottom bridge--across a fantastic gorge in Hunan mountains that has dramatically changed and boosed the local economy by attracting 3 million tourists a year to that relatively non-affluent part of China. It's also the highest bungee jumping platform in the world--at 300+ meters! http://www.haimdotan.com/?CategoryID=274 Haim got a solid taste of the FP Qigong Qi Healing process and worked off stress and came to a solid, deep standing of healing with internal energy along with the rest of the merry crew at Eastover. Oddly enough, his wife in NYC, who really didn't know much about me or FP Qigong other than what she had read on the Eastover website, just signed him up for the workshop. He says it's all due to his good karma that his wife sent him to the FP workshop(!) I'm posting Haim's review because he honestly reported that the immersive training 3 sessions a day of 2.5 to 3 hours is not easy. Because, as I told the workshop class: "You are experiencing the meaning of the "Kung"(Gong) in "Chi Kung" (QiGong). If you want "stretch and tone and tea and sympathy", go to your local Mac-Yoga studio." [No disrespect to traditional Indian Yoga traditions whatsoever, for I respect all yogic traditions from all cultures that impart verifiable and repeatable health and spiritual benefits and are truly transformative. But, as I have made clear on this thread from early on, I have no respect for downstream hokum or flotsam from broken traditions stitched together with made-up stuff into "modern" programs by hucksters or dilettantes and palmed off as "Qigong" that are actually quite useless and time-wasting.] So that's how I teach the Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Qigong. And the results you can see on the videos that I posted on Page 175. This last workshop group has unanimously chimed back that it's well worth the effort--well worth the KUNG. I will post the other reviews shortly. But I wanted to start off with Haim's. So for those of you might be "on the fence" in considering whether or not to attend one of my 3-day immersive workshops and receive 22+ hours of training, please read: Received August 14, 2017: Dear Terry, Your emails are wonderful and naturally full of positive energy (it's you). I have been away on vacation in the mountains and lakes of the Adirondacks NY with my family, about 15 people. No internet or very little and I did my best to refrain from work and emails. Now I am on the way to Mongolia to participate in the World Congress of Poets in the Gobi Desert. I thank you again for being you, Master Qi-gong and a wonderful friend. Your Phoenix Qi-gong, 3 day Healing Meditation in the Eastover Retreat in Lenox Massachusetts, was a life breath in our 21st Century crazy world of information, money, stress and in many cases, unhappiness. First and foremost it is because of you, your inner beauty, your spiritual energy, personal care and friendship, your love of nature and people. The group of twelve of us, although so different in age, personalitiy, physique, gender, and capability, were loving and warm hearted people. The Retreat settings in the green forests and wetlands, beautiful views, birds singing, fresh air and delicious organic food, were simply incredible. Your teachings, 3 daily sessions, although long and not easy, uplifted the spirit and taught us healthy breathing techniques. At the end I felt like a dancer again. I started feeling my rhythm, feeling like in the flow of water or light moving winds. I have already recommended your wonderful Qi-gong healing Meditation to many friends. Although I am in China, I hope to participate in future sessions. Big hug, Sincerely yours, Haim Prof. Haim Dotan Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts Fudan University Shanghai Beijing DeTao Master Academy https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEViSV5LhZDN8ASw4PxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=haim+dotan&fr=yhs-Babylon-opti&hspart=Babylon&hsimp=yhs-opti Thanks for your attention: Sifu Terry P.S. Here is a most interesting article about Haim's creation of the fabulous Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/building-the-worlds-longest-glass-bridge www.eastover.com/terence-dunn-2.html