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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! --AND AS INSPIRATION FOR PROPER KUNG FU AND QIGONG TRAINING AND GOOD WORKS IN 2016: Here is 91 year old Huashan priest Master Kuan Saihung performing a healing and Taoist blessing. Master Kuan was raised and trained at the Huashan Monastery prior to WW2 and is one of the few remaining priests of his sect. His student Deng Ming Dao (Mark Ong) wrote a very nice biography about his life in the 80's titled "The Wandering Taoist." Master Kuan's temple- trained kung fu and spiritualism (San Da) is awesome and profound--in the fullest sense of those words. To my knowledge, he is the only Taoist priest living in America after the passing of Tao Tan Pai Master Share K. Lew two years ago. I do not search the internet for footage of energy healings, but in terms what I have seen over the years, this footage is the only energy healing work I have seen that is comparable to the effectiveness of the methods taught my two Qigong teachers, GM Share Lew (Tao Tan Pai) and GM Doo Wai (FP Qigong). I use similar method of energy healing based on Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung and the Ehrmeishan internal arts...with the extra added counseling facility of John Davidson's (Master Lew's senior student of 25 years) called "Symbol Linking Therapy". XIN NIAN KUAI LE! Sifu Terence Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikug_catalog.html
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Shazan, Yes, the "mirror image long form" is performance of the Long Form Standing Meditation of Vol.4 in the opposite directions relative to how the original is taught on the dvd. (e.g., first movement would be to the left instead of the right, etc.) I honestly don't know from experience what the benefits are of doing the Long Form Standing Med. in fashion. Since I learned the system in 1991, I have never practiced the meditations in mirror fashion. GM Doo Wai never mentioned or suggested doing any of the FP Qigong meditations or any other complex or non-symmetrical form-like moving meditation in the opposite directions. The implication is that practicing the FP Qigong system in the traditional manner is sufficient to derive maximum health benefits. My guess is that doing the mirror image can't hurt. But I wouldn't venture to guess that mirror practice would lead to "super-normal" benefits. For the sake of research to possibly expand horizons, I will give mirror forms a try soon. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikug_catalog.html
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Hi Raven, There should be no problem in practicing FP Qigong in any natural setting that is quiet, secluded, clean, benign, and with level surfaces on which to comfortably stand and sit. A quartz crystal cave would not be contraindicated. I would especially love practice the FPHHCK Long Form Meditation in a crystal cave! Thanks for asking the question and giving me that very appealing idea. Best, Sifu Terry Dunn
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Thank you for your observations, JinlianPai. He does his taichi too much like a contemporary wushu form... Exactly: that's what beginners and 25-year posers do: they portray an internal art as an external one for appearances' sake and because they haven't learned the internal art but think that they "have it". I too am well aware of what Maoist communism did to the Chinese people and culture on a personal level. Despite my Irish-sounding anglicized name, I am full-blooded Chinese. My father's side of the family dates back 26 documented generations to a physician in the court of the first emperor. My 19th generation ancestor was a Kung Fu master. We have an ancestral village in Pingshan, New Territories of Hong Kong that had its key structures rebuilt by the British in the early 90's even though they were giving it all back to China in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_Shan_Heritage_Trail http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/see-do/culture-heritage/historical-sites/chinese/ping-shan-heritage-trail.jsp My mother's side of the family for generations owned and operated the famous organic vinegar and soy sauce factories, Zhenjiang Ciancu, until the communist took it all in 1950. (It is still owned by China's princelings). During Mao's cultural revolution, my maternal grandmother was sent to the countryside do hard-labor at age 64 to reform her bourgeois ways. I still have many cousins living in the city of Zhenjiang. In the 80's the central Chinese govt. started giving them little preferential treatment in selecting what type of public housing they wished to live in. To this day, tens of millions of soy sauce and vinegar bottles with our family's pre-revolution logo are distributed every year throughout China and worldwide. Of course, not a penny of reparations has ever been paid to my family members. btw, I have been practicing Prof. Cheng Man-Ching's manner of Yang Tai Chi Chuan since 1980. My first teacher for 12 years was (ret.) General Abraham Liu. During that same time, i attended twelve consecutive week-long summer workshops with the terrific Master Benjamin Lo of San Francisco in La Honda, CA. For the last four years, I have been training closely with my dear friend and great teacher, GM William C.C. Chen. Besides teaching Tai Chi Chuan, I preserve two other ancient monastic martial arts traditions: Tao Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method) created during the Tang Dynasty and attributed to Lu Deng and taught by Taoist priest Share K. Lew who passed away 2 years ago; and Ehrmeishan White Tiger Kung Fu (Bok Fu Pai), preserved by my teacher, GM Doo Wai, the sixth generation lineage holder of this secret family art. The Bok Fu Pai system is vast and I preserve but a fraction of it: three internal arts, each one vast: Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Qigong (Fei Feng San Gung), Ten Thousand Buddhas Ascend to Heaven (an extremely rare health-martial Qigong system consisting of 54 moving meditations), and the most rare, Eight Sections of Energy Combined (Bot Dim Gum), a complete and truly esoteric internal martial art that my teacher acquired outside of his family lineage that he is certain has roots in Wudangshan. BDG kung fu cultivates a martial energy that can be transmitted through organic matter such as wood and cloth (--a legendary feature that one Chinese film has ever alluded to, to my knowledge). My classmate, Sifu Garry Hearfield in Australia, who studied with GM Doo Wai years after I completed my training, preserves the bulk of the Bok Fu Pai martial tradition: Ehrmei Mountain Bak Mei Kung Fu, Red-Haired Taoist Bok Fu Pai, Tibetan Burning Palm, Sunn Yi Gung, Golden Mantis Nei Kung, and much more. Best Regards in spreading the truth. Terence Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL! --Peace and Health to all our brothers and sisters.-- And here is a favorite holiday hymn that speaks of one western saint's most highly evolved spiritual energy:
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Hi Astral B, Answers to your questions: how do you know your posture is correct? A. It helps to have a visual reference of good Qigong posture. Besides the Chi Kung For Health dvds, it helps to look at a lot of videos or films of high-level masters practicing Chinese internal martial arts such as Tai Chi, Bagua, Xing-I, Liu He Ba Fa, and some other forms of kung fu. Here are links to several of my favorite demonstrations on Youtube by my teachers: • William C.C.Chen's Tai Chi Chuan: • Master York Why Loo's 6 Harmonies/8Methods (Liu He Ba Fa) **Unfortunately, I don't have video of GM Doo Wai's Qigong form that I can show publicly at this time, although there are Youtube clips of him demonstrating Bok Fu Pai kung fu (which • or view any of my Flying Phoenix and other demo's on this Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=terence+dunn+flying+phoenix B. Practice in front of a mirror or stand sideways to a mirror and occasionally open your eyes and take a peek at your posture. (it breaks the cultivation slightly, but won't kill you :0) ) Visually compare your posture to mine on the DVDs. C. Persevere in your practice of the FP standing meditations and in Bending the Bows in particular -- as Cihan nicely and appropriately suggested. Do BTB as slowly as you can and you'll feel a wide variety of muscles get worked out. The goal is to do Bending the Bows and all the moving meditations of Volumes 3, 4, and beyond so that you don't feel the body at all when you are moving. Such a high level of yogic practice takes years of practice but it comes faster with FP qigong. Also, practice of a related internal martial style helps accelerate that process greatly. D. Also, you can get an online lesson with me in FP Qigong via Skype to correct your posture and form. I have been doing this most successfully with FP Practitioners worldwide over the past 3+ years. Some of the many positive critiques of my online lessons have been posted by folks like Joolian in Germany, crunchy chocolate in Canada and Peru, Pitisukha in Italy, ridingtheox and Fu_doggy here in the U.S. (who have both come to L.A. for in person lessons many times), and others. I also have several online students in different parts of the world (ranging from Taipei, to Wisconsin, to Canada, to France) who I teach Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu and Nei Kung to provide them with a solid kung fu foundation, which enhances and accelerates FP Qigong development. If you are interested in a private lesson to check and correct your form, just contact me by PM and we will set it up. Good luck in your practice. Happy Holidays, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikug_catalog.html
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Hello Cihan, Excellent guidance and encouragement that you have offered Astral Butterfly. Indeed, Bending the Bows is the most important moving FP Meditation for beginners because it develops correct posture and physical and energetic strength and mobility--what you call "horse power". BTB also utilizes a universal pattern of transforming energy. Best, Sifu Terry Dunn
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Dear Raven Fire, Thank you for sharing your positive healing experience with Flying Phoenix Qigong. I'm glad to hear that your pain level from your rheumatoid arthritist has been dialed down the scale from 4-5 to 1-2 in this very short time. For certain chronic deteriorative conditions, it's quite common for FP Qigong's pain management effects to kick in in very short time. Keep up the practice and you should get to 0-1. Your experience is yet further proof that FP Qigong activates the body's self-healing faculties in a most profound, systemic manner. And the profundity of the Flying Phoenix alchemy (effected by he breath control sequences plus postures and movements) is that one's health is restored and strengthened by emulating the perfect balance of the Universe. The universe is much more incredible than we sometimes allow it to be. I have to remember that I am a part of that universe, and my practice in this system of Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Qigong is helping to see that. (Yes, the legally blind man said "to see that "... LOL) Last night I gave an intake/orientation session (no charge) to FPCK subscriber Yuyumonk (who is starting online FP lessons with me through Skype--something I have been doing actively and very successfully over the past 3.5 years), and he reported that after doing the exercises on DVD volumes 1 and 2 for only two weeks, everything in his life--starting with his body-- just FEELS more real, more present, more vibrant, and more connected to the works. That's the way any medical Qigong system worth its salt should work: One first feels the healthful integration of mind and body and the perfect regulation of the organ systems by the subconscious mind. That is a lot of healing felt as "tingling" both in the extremities and in the internal organs that gets deeper and more sublime. Once one's health is vibrant, continued practice of FP Qigong enables the direct experience of feeling that this healthful vibration of the microcosm is no different than that of the macrocosm. Thanks again for your report. Happy for your healing. Best, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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Hi, For weaker patients, can the basic standing stationary meds (Monk gazing moon, monk holding peach, monk holding pearl) be done in sitting or lying down position? Thanks Hi Shazan, Only Monk Holding Pearl (50 40 30 20 10) can be done in seated position and supine position. But not the other two. For your relative who has chronic health issues and cannot do the standing mediations for long, there are plenty of seated FP meditations (in vols. 2 and 7) that he/she can do. Again, Monk Gazing At Moon and Monk Holding Peach should NOT be done lying down because they were very specifically designed by the genie that created FP Qigong to be effective in relationship to gravity in a vertically standing posture. Also, I have extensive experience in meditations done in the supine position found in the Tao Tan Pai system to know that there are no benefits to be gained by doing MGM or MHPeach lying down. No upside. But the downside is that you will dampen and dilute the effects of doing MGM and MHPeach when they're done regularly. Take heed and good luck. Sifu Terry Dunn
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Hi Astral B, Sorry to take so long to reply to your question. It's been a busy holiday season and I just got back from a second retreat/workshop with my Tai Chi teacher up in northern California. I understand your tight and exhausting daily schedule which must handle without help. Given that you no longer have time to practice during lunch hours until the new year, just practicing FP Qigong upon waking in the morning is best. Yes, it's ideal to practice FP Qigong at the same time every day, if one schedule allows that. In more recent years, I have not been practicing the same time from day to day. I do have a few days during the week when I teach scheduled classes, but I get my personal practice in whenever and wherever I find time and the right space. The rule of thumb to progress--or "succeed" as you put it--with FP Qigong is to practice at least 35 minutes continuously so that you feel its effects accumulating from day to day. It doesn't matter which FP Meditations from the DVD series that you start off doing (most people start with Vols 1, 2 and 3)--so long as you ultimately get around to practicing all them. Again, my suggestion for beginners is to pick 2 basic standing and 2 basic seated MSW meditations that resonate with you the most and practice them all as a minimum daily practice. I hope your FP practice will bring comfort and peace to your pressureful life. Sifu Terry Dunn
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Hi Charlie, Glad to hear that you're enjoying the last seated MSW Meditation on Volume 7 and have discovered that the relatively simple sequence of only 4 arm movements can impart wonderfully intense and profound energizing effects. Here's a new FP mantra: 20 40 90 10 Leads (To) the Way! Why don't we start a haiku chain where every haiku must express some delightful experience or discovery in FP Qigong practice?! Best, Sifu Terry
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Hello Yuyumonk: My answers to your questions are in italic blue below: How does FP clear out blockages and stagnant energy in the traditional sense of TCM? As I've explained many times on this thread, FP Qigong does not work according to model of TCM and the meridian theory used in acupuncture. Acupuncture meridians is just one model or map of the body that was known to be devised by men through trial and error. FP Qigong heals by bringing all the body's organ functions under the regulation of the subconscious mind and creating allostasis, where the body's self-healing and immune properties (which are different) are activated. How it does this through the esoteric breathing formulas specific to each FP Meditation and that meditation's posture and movements is a true wonder. For every advanced practitioner I've taught at some point has said to me: "I cannot believe that a human being created this art." Thus in contrast to the origins of acupuncture theory, FP Qigong came down to man through a spiritual medium (Feng Tao Teh) from a spiritual source, according to the oral tradition. I used to use the terms "blockages" and "stagnant energy" when I was practicing healing with Tao Tan Pai energetics (starting in the mid-70's), which is very powerful monastic system. But after I learned FP Qigong in 1991, I have no use for those terms. For as GM Doo Wai explained and as I have found out for myself to be true over the years--especially the last 15 years or so: "We don't manipulate energy (as in acupuncture or acupressure), we just pass our hand over to heal." As a result their forms often have breathing synchronized with various hand movements. As all FP Qigong practitioners have experienced, Flying Phoenix works without any synchronization of breath cycle to any particular hand or body movements, and without moving hands. Dragon & Tiger Medical Qigong is a perfect example of this synchronization where each hand movement is actually tracing a major meridian. So is Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung system that I also teach--ranging through all its levels: from the Basic 31 Exercises known as "Cloud Hands", to each and every one of the many Animal Kung Fu Forms in the system (Tiger, Dragon, Monkey, Crane, Snake), to the very powerful Nine Flowers, the second most powerful Six Stars, and the most powerful yoga in the system, the Fjve Dragons. I am not familiar with Tiger and Dragon medical Qigong. But I do know all about tracing meridians (major and minor) as well as the psychic meridians with hand movements, because I have practiced Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung and healing since 1974. Flying Phoenix Chi Kung does NOT work on the same principles as any other Qigong that coordinates hand movements with breath cycle or has hand movements that trace meridians. But so far with my training in FP, the postures are primarily static and when the hands do move they don't necessarily follow the main meridians of the body. I was hoping you would be able to elaborate on how FP accomplishes healing. HANDS DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW THE "MAIN MERIDIANS OF THE BODY" IN ORDER TO CULTIVATE SUPERNORMAL LEVELS OF ENERGY. ONE EXAMPLE IS THE BULK OF TIBETAN YOGA. WITHIN THAT SYSTEM, THE YOGA OF PSYCHIC HEAT DOESN'T REQUIRE SUCH MOVEMENTS AT ALL. YET TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONKS FOR CENTURIES DEMONSTRATE THEIR YOGIC ABILITY BY DRYING OFF SHEET AFTER SHEET OF WET BURLAP WHILE IN SEATED MEDITATION IN A HUT OR A CAVE BURIED DEEP IN HIMALAYAN SNOW. There are only 3 standing FP Meditations that are done in static postures and they are 3 of the five basic exercises in Volume 1 of the DVD series. As I have explained in this thread, the Level One course of practicing FP Qigong requires practicing all the 3 basic static standing Meditations, the one seated static warm-up meditation (50 10 50), 24 seated "Monk Serves Wine" (seated moving) Meditations and then learning and perfecting all the five standing moving meditations, each one successively longer and more complex than the preceding one: Bending the Bows Wind Above the Clouds Wind Through Treetops Moonbeam Splashes on Water --and finally practicing the capstone Moving Meditation known as: The Flying Phoenix Heavenly healing Chi Meditation ("Long Form Standing Meditation" on Vol.4) This is a moving meditation done 3 times slower than typical Tai Chi form speed. Again, Flying Phoenix Chi Kung does NOT work on the same principles as any other Qigong that coordinates hand movements with breath cycle or has hand movements that trace meridians. Yet it is one of the most fast-acting and profoundly HEALING AND TRANSFORMATIVE QIGONG SYSTEMS in existence. You will understand its method of energy cultivation and healing by practicing it and experiencing its effects. Talking about how it works beyond what I've stated here and earlier on the thread does not lead to proficiency nor understanding, especially since your only model of explaining how a qigong system works is based on TCM. As the old Nike advertising slogan goes: "Just Do It." Thanks for your questions, for it gave me the opportunity to recapitulate what FP Qigong training entails and the fact that approximately 10% of thE system are sedentary meditations, while 90% are moving meditations. I hope this clarifies a bit. Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn
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BEWARE OF KAMMTTHANA!! MORE DANGEROUS THAN DAESH! “We do believe that Kammaṭṭhāna currently possesses the means to inflict widespread balance in the collective subconscious of an American city. However, we are doing absolutely everything in our power to prevent that from happening.” -- Sec. of Homeland Security Rand Beers “The danger of total enlightenment is very real,” Beers added. “And we must be prepared.” This extremist Buddhist sect is truly "extremist" because of its extreme confidence and faith in its power to spread higher consciousness through the most invasive and virulent weapons known to man: meditation, also known as quiet sitting. These radical meditators have threatened to "bring about the end to all Western pain and anxiety, to all destructive cravings, to all greed, delusion, and misplaced desire", and most ominously, Kammatthana has singled out the United States for its “blatant disregard of karmic balance within the universe” and vows to bring the "entire United States to its knees in deep meditation.” SO BEWARE OF TIBETANS IN OCHRE-COLORED ROBES AND SANDALS CARRYING A SINGLE PINK LOTUS FLOWER!!! IMMEDIATELY REPORT ANYONE FITTING THIS DESCRIPTION TO THE POLICE, FBI, AND DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY--OTHERWISE YOU WILL SUFFER PERSONAL APOTHEOSIS ("DIVINIZATION") OF THE MOST THOROUGH KIND!!! But never fear: President Obama has already dispatched a fleet of Predator drones to bomb their sanctuary in Tibet. We'll see how their samadhic state and higher jhana's deal with Hellfire missiles homing in (courtesy of Raytheon) on their incense, bells and chanting. http://www.theonion.com/article/buddhist-extremist-cell-vows-to-unleash-tranquilit-34623
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Aaron, "...just hoping to gain a deeper understanding of the exact function of the breath sequences and role that they play in distinguishing the FPCK system and the unique energy/effects it creates from other yogic systems." This type of understanding that you hoping to gain through asking questions is what can only be had by becoming proficient and developing real healing capabilities through diligent, persevering practice of the FP Qigong-- aiming towards mastery, AND then also becoming proficient in "other yogic systems" so that you can personally experience and naturally know the difference--instead of taking someone else's word for it--even mine. "The only real truth is the experienced truth." --one of my teachers somewhere along my Path. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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Hi Blue Phoenix, I can only answer this part of your question: i was wondering if practicing the FP in anyway can protect you from such entities. I myself have been having to deal with some rather negative entities the last few years, they have probably been with me my whole life but i only came to be fully aware of what was going on two years ago. Answer: It all depends on what you mean by "such entities". And it all depends on how strong or weak that entity is. Just as there are strong human beings and weak human beings (physically and emotionally), there are strong and weak spirits, or to use a technical term, discorporated or disembodied entities--ghosts, in other words. Some are relatively harmless in their negativity; others can be very dangerous and even deadly to unaware humans. If you are certain that negative or malevolent entities are following you around and have been for the past two years, as you say, you should find a priest or a spiritualist and see about having those entities dismissed or exorcised, if indeed they are actual verifiable entities, and not a product of delusion or paranoia (not to say that yours are either). The only thing that I will say about Flying Phoenix Qigong's protective effects is quite basic: Practicing FP Qigong--because it promotes excellent health and strong immunity and freedom from common illnesses-- will certainly protect you against low and lowest-level negative spirits who prey on humans with diseases, addictive personalties, and weak immune systems, and the usual depression, low-self-esteem and negative attitude towards life that comes with relative sickness--as opposed to confidence, positive attitude and expectations in life that come from being healthy, seeing Reality for what it is, and having a productive life-style. FP Qigong training taken together with Bok Fu Pai Training as Sifu Garry Hearfield teaches it--or any complete and legitimate kung fu system--will certainly increase your natural defenses to a substantial degree against "negative discorporated entities." Completing training in the Tao Tan Pai system (Taoist Elixir Method) --which is a formidable undertaking--will not only protect you against many types of entities but also train one to dispel, dismiss, banish, and exorcise. BP, since you say that you've become aware of these trailing entities over the past 2 years and believe that they've been following you for a longer period, I would recommend reading Dion Fortune's book "Psychic Self-Defense". It's a seminal primer on the title subject. And the advice given in that book works on many, many levels. Good luck. Keep up with your FP Qigong training, stay strong, and don't let any low level demons (in the flesh or off-the-earth get you down. They can be dealt with. Regards, Sifu Terence Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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No, it totally depends on the individual. FP Qigong's "seeing through its energy" can set in quickly or take years. I have a student in her mid-sixties who was already a very receptive, experienced and clear medium and channeler. She saw human energy in colored auras even before she started FP Qigong. Starting FP Qigong reportedly trebled her faculty to see far beyond the consensus reality and gave her clairaudience, which she had never had before. So Congrats! Isn't it a sublime experience--to see blue?! Keep with the practice and you'll see blue wherever the energy is--even internally with eyes closed. And sometimes clear and sensitive people in proximity to you will "catch" a glimpse of your blue. Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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Me, too. this is what I posted on my personal and Tai Chi for Health Facebook pages. Per affrontare le sfide della nostra epoca l’umanità deve sviluppare un più grande senso di responsabilità universale. Ognuno di noi deve imparare a lavorare non solo per se stesso, per la sua famiglia o la sua nazione, ma per il bene di tutta l’umanità. Oggi siamo così interdipendenti, tanto strettamente interconnessi gli uni con gli altri, che, senza un senso di responsabilità individuale, un sentimento di universale fratellanza e sorellanza, e la comprensione e la convinzione che veramente siamo una parte di un’unica grande famiglia umana, non possiamo sperare di superare i pericoli che minacciano la nostra stessa esistenza, né tantomeno credere di poter creare pace e felicità. DALAI LAMA * To meet the challenges of our time humanity must develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not only for himself, for his family or his nation, but for the good of all mankind. Today we are so interdependent, so closely interconnected with each other, that, without a sense of individual responsibility, a sense of Universal Brotherhood and sisterhood, and the understanding and the belief that really we are a part of one big human family, not We can hope to overcome the dangers that threaten our very existence, nor believe to be able to create peace and happiness. Dalai Lama
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Greetings to all FP Qigong practitioners, I just want to interject at this time my apology for my slow response this past week+ to several postings--and my promise that I will catch up with answering all postings as quickly as I can. I hope to be caught up by this weekend. I am "on the road" tending to urgent business matters, fulfilling official college alumni duties, and also undergoing intensive training with my Tai Chi teacher. Regards to all, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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Hello Astral Butterfly, No, as far as I know and have observed over the years, the practice of FP Qigong is not countra-indicationed for pregnancy, except perhaps during the last month and very close to delivery. I have had many women Tai Chi students practice Tai Chi forms throughout their entire pregnancies. But you should show the FP Qigong exercises to your obstetrician and get a professional medical opinion. Best Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn
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Hi Aeran, Answers to your questions: Regarding the spontaneous "jump healing," is this an effect that can also be initiated at will and focused to provide a more specific or intense healing process. ie. if someone has a problem in a specific organ, can you direct the FP Chi with intention to heal this specific organ, or will it naturally diffuse throughout their system to provide the overall "whole system" healing/balancing as it does when cultivated through the FPCK? More generally speaking, I'd love to hear more about how you heal with the FP Chi. I can't say anything more about how the FP Healing Energy works beyond what I've already written on this thread or can I discuss how I heal. That is only to be witnessed by my students and experienced by my clients. How does the practice of the FP Chi Kung and the cultivation of the FP Chi effect the pre-existing energy and energetic anatomy? it depends if the practitioner has any yogic background. For an absolute beginner, the FP Qigong works as I and others have described here: it integrates mind and body, brings all the organ functions under the regulation of the subconscious mind and creates the state of allostasis, where the body's self-healing faculties are activated at a most profound level. (btw, "energetic anatomy" is not a phrase that has meaning to me) A lot of the postures and movements in FP are similar to what I've seen in other Chi Kung systems - does this mean that the "regular" Chi will increase in quantity to some degree on top of tapping into and cultivating the FP Chi, just by the act of undertaking a yogic/meditative practice? In my personal experience here is no "regular chi" outside the very tangible FP Healing Chi while one is practicing the FP Qigong correctly. After one has practiced FP Qigong correctly there will be a noticeable and tangible higher level of energy in the body. Where that increased energy is FP Healing Energy or "regular chi of the body" will be up to each practitioner to discern for himself or herself. Note: Just by doing the FP Qigong system or just by learning any legitimate kung fu system, the body is conditioned to function and move more efficiently, and that alone liberates a great amount of energy. What effect does FP Chi have on the regular Chi within the body? Does it remain something separate to a degree, or is the FP Chi, to use a poor analogy, "soluble" with the regular Chi? If one just practices FP Qigong, "the regular Chi of the body" is transformed into the FP healing energy, and one has awareness and facility with the FP Healing Energy. And to be technical about it, there is no more "regular chi of the body" because you're changed forever. Unless one is trained another Qigong systems (within the Bok Fu Pai system or outside of it), one will not have awareness of the "regular Chi" of the body and may not have any experience of "normal chi." Regarding the FP "stem," would I be correct in thinking of this as something akin to the Western concept of an Egregore (I'm not sure of the Daoist terminology, sorry)? Does it have some kind of active, unique consciousness of it's own (akin to a spirit, deity, etc), or such an entity related to it? I had to look up "Egregore." No, the FP "stem" is not an Egregore, vague as Victor Hugo used it. And it is not an occult consciousness that influences the thinking of a group of people. It is a trunk of energy. And once that energy is experienced, consciousness and the healing capacity of the person is changed forever. The FP Qigong art was channeled and inspired from a divine source. The same way Leonardo da Vinci breathed in his genius as an infant that led to his works of genius. In that sense, the FP "stem" can be said to be related to an originating spiritual entity or group of entities. You state that the FP Chi in the body only connects to the main "stem" after a certain amount has already accumulated in the practitioner - just to make sure I fully understand the process, does this mean the process of cultivating the specific FP Chi is an internal, alchemical process triggered by the breathing percentages and movements, and once a sufficient quantity of it occurs in the system it kind of "magnetizes" the practitioner to the main stem, which further energizes them and speeds up the expansion of consciousness? "Magnetizes" is not quite the right word. Perhaps "attunes" the person to the greater FP Healing Energy Stem. Once you experience the "stem" and have it flow through you and feel yourself channel into other people for healing, you will find the appropriate words. What would happen if someone performed the breathing percentages without the movements, or vice versa, or matched the wrong percentages to the wrong movements? I assume nothing good, as you warn against it i answered the first part of your question early in this discussion. It is not to be done. This is my answer to the second part: If one purposely matched the wrong breath-control sequence with the wrong exercises, one might fuck oneself up--as I have warned in this thread-- by creating a serious energy sickness. To anybody who afflicts himself with such reckless experimentation by not following the simple directions on the DVD series and not heeding the warnings on the DVDs and as i have written on this thread: I have no interest in fixing the fallout from such stupidity. **Similarly, when GM Doo Wai noticed that a few of us were horsing around right after he had taught us how to use an "amplifier" to project the martial energy of BDG (8 Sections of Energy Combined) onto a person without touching, he said to us: "I you guys dim muk yourselves, I'm going to heal you." I get the impression that the breath percentages are the catalyst in the meditations which connect the practitioner to the FP "stem." Yes, the breath percentages are only a catalyst that helps connect the practitioner to the FP Stem. They alone are NOT enough to connect. To what extent are the other Bok Fu Pai meditations similar to the FPCK system, in the sense of using breath percentages (I believe Sifu Hearfield's Sunn Yee Gong does), tapping into a unique macrocosmic energy as opposed to inherent/internal/local/environmental energy, etc? That is simply for you to find out for yourself by practicing these systems! The other Bok Fu Pai Meditative Arts (there are many--each one is vast with many meditations) are similar only in the general structure of the breath-control formulas: varying percentage exhalations, each one separated by a full breath. Everything else is different: postures, movements, eyes opened or closed. I prefer to answer questions based on your practice of FP Qigong or other Bok Fu Pai Internal arts--and not questions based on curiosity and speculation. Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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Thank you, Bud. I appreciate the compassionate intent of your words of reflection very much. Please just call me "Astro"! Everyone is human in their reactions to physical harm done to them. This person whom I've made subject of this thread--besides being a noxious self-inflated "Tai Chi and Zen master" and retarding influence technically and spiritually on any beginner of Tai Chi or Zen practice (in my subjective bias who I personally detest)--very cleverly and diabolically lied under oath for almost 5 hours in 2001 to enable the owners of two corporations, one small and one huge, to steal from me millions of dollars in royalties from the sale of my Tai Chi For Health videos from 1999 through 2003 ($2.4 million as documented by a professional accountant and a damages expert). On a spiritual level, the theft of money in any amount is equivalent to a physical assault...because it deprives one of physical necessities and comforts. Most people do not realize this unless they have experienced poverty and want for basic necessities, which I have (briefly). How one reacts to or deals with a physical assault is a function of their nature and level of spiritual consciousness. Very, very few people on this planet can INSTANTLY turn the other cheek or forgive and love their enemies as Christ taught. Most people require a period of time. I am one of those people and I've required 14 years to forgive: I have lived with the memory of this physical assault since 1999 and the derailment of justice in this matter in the Calif. court system since 2003 (primarily due to the failings of my own lawyers). While I lost much inner peace when this corporate thievery and derailment of justice in court of took place from 1999 through 2003, since then I got on with great learning, productivity, passionate creativity, and growth in many dimensions. I NOW consciously choose to forgive this tool of my assailants, the corporate heads who bought his soul, by making more public on this forum the public record of his lies. As for inner peace, I have my resilient and generous nature due to my family heritage, my life-long adherence to the tenets of Christianity (that i was raised with), the Taoist and Chan Buddhist spiritual teachings that I was later initiated in that I teach others and activate for myself through the arts of my culture, my ongoing Work of teaching and healing since 1983, and 42 years of practice in the high martial, healing and meditative arts that I have been blessed to learn and master to sustain it and to share with others. One basic spiritual truth that I learned from dealing with the great obstacles of karmic enemies, is that inner peace can be preserved so long as one does not hate. That means that one can hold one's enemies in the highest contempt and if one knows how to pray to and commune with God, one can witness Universal Justice brought down upon evil. My spiritual path has been filled with wondrous and glorious demonstrations of Divine Justice--completely outside of man's religious and legal institutions. Another basic spiritual truth I learned the hard way in dealing with the great obstacles of karmic enemies is that once one has done all that is humanly possible to bring man's justice to any crime scene, one can invoke Universal Justice by giving the matter up to the Love of the Universe. Then and only then can it be invoked--unless the loss of innocent life is imminent. My mounting this expose´ of david dorian ross on this forum, again, is done as a public service, and is indeed my ACT OF COMPASSION to spare innocent others from walking down perverse paths, for it follows the martial Zen maxim that I live by: "Do that which causes the least pain." This is how I choose to complete my healing and to forgive myself for naively getting into bed--in 1991, actually--with vipers to further my business of teaching. Most Sincerely, Terry Dunn P.S. Finally, I never stated that I believed this deponent had "disgraced my culture." He only disgraced himself by lying under oath in front of a camera for some 5 hours, and continues to do so with how he purveys his alleged "mastery." There are those who are so incorrigible in living a life of outward lies founded in their personal delusions that they can learn the truths of the spirit only through extreme paradox. www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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Hi Growant, Definitely not optimum and not advised. I wouldn't advise practicing any type of Qigong in a public restroom--even in a pinch for space and privacy. --Nor anything other health activity. Unless the restroom is immaculate and spotlessly clean with great ventilation-- like at the Lanesborough Hotel in London. But then again, who wants to be exposed to other people's energies associated with their excretory processes?! A public restroom is full of germs trudged in by people's shoes, then mixed with liquids spilled from sink, soap dispensers, towel dispensers. And then, of course, there's spillage out of the urinals and toilets. Plus any extremely foul smell in a restroom is airborne bacteria. Ever walk by a homeless person who hasn't bathed in a week? Breathing that in can make you instantly ill if one's immunity isn't at peak. Public restrooms contain similar contagions that you don't want to relax and open up your system to! Good luck finding better places to practice FP during breaks at work! Sifu Terry
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Hi BP, Yes, if you've practiced a lot of Flying Phoenix, other natural movements such as Tai Chi can trigger the "ignition" and circulation of the FP healing energy. Also at some point, when one's practice highly developed, one can just do the breathing sequence of a moving meditation or a posture without doing it physically and get the same health benefits. Before when i have practiced allot just relaxing or lying in bed the energy activates, i already had quite an active kundalini energy but this is different and i often start to make those grumbling noises that i make when i practice. Where is the grumbling noises coming from in the body? I have been doing mostly DVD 2 and sometimes DVD 1 as well as the sleep in DVD 7 but i want to start doing DVD 3 and 7 now...i cant keep doing DVD 2 every day. Good. proceed with Intermed. Standing meds--Wind Through Treetops and Moonbeam Splashes on Water on Vol.3, and the others on Vol.7 Btw what would it take to become a teacher of flying phoenix? Another FP Practitioner just asked me about instructor certification yesterday. Here are the requirements--they are traditional: A. Demonstrate proficiency in the practice of Level I of the Flying Phoenix Qigong system (as taught in the DVD series), especially the Long Form Standing Meditation of Vol.4, which is the capstone of the system. B. Learn the 22-movement seated Monk Serves Wine Meditation from me and demonstrate proficiency. C. Be able to heal animals and humans with the FP Healing Energy. D. *Specifically, with regards to people, be able to balance the internal energy of any person using a couple of methods. One method is applied to the subject lying supine, the other is done with person seated in chair. E. *Learn 4 Advanced Healing Meditations from me in person and demonstrate proficiency and healthy personal cultivation through their practice. F. *Learn the herbal medicine associated with Flying Phoenix Qigong from me in person and demonstrate healing ability. G. *Demonstrate the ability to teach the FP Qigong system accurately and to correct all Form and breathing errors in any student. H. *Demonstrate ability to teach other FP practitioners how to heal with the FP Energy. I. **I prefer that all students aspiring to become FPCK instructors also be a competent practitioner or instructor of any Chinese martial art. But this is not a hard and fast rule. When it comes to healing, anyone with the right spirit who has practiced FP Qigong diligently and has the heart to heal others can become certified by me. It is just as much a spiritual recognition as it is a demonstration of the instincts and facility with the Flying Phoenix Qigong art. Fulfilling Requirements D, E, F, G, H, requires studying with me in person for some duration of period of time, up to a year or more--but not necessarily daily or even weekly apprenticeship. But it would be a similar, closely supervised process (but perhaps not as long) as certifying an instructor in Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu--about which you can ask Sifu Garry Hearfield: Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html
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