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The 90 min. private lesson that I taught earlier today consisted of this sequence of FP Qigong Exercises (after warming up with Tao Tan Pai cane form): 1. Wind Above The Clouds. (2x) 2. Monk Gazing At Moon 3. Monk Holding Peach 4. Bending the Bows - 18 reps done at sand dune speed (!) - 25 min. 5. Wind Through Treetops - 2x 6. Second Monk Serves Wine seated meditation on Vol. 2 (50 40 30 10) 7. Third MSW seated meditation on Vol.2 (90 80 50 20) - "The Waker-upper" 8. Lesson in the first movements of "Moonbeam." Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Standing / seated / standing is a good routine, especially in the mornings. In the evenings, after teaching and after completing my own practice (Tai Chi, LHBF, and 8 Sections Combined), I like to wind it all down with a seated session of at least 2 seated FP, Monk Serves Wine Meditations. More recently, I've been doing 3 MSW's at a sitting: One from Vol.2 + two meditations from Vol.7. Best, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Ox-riding Charlie, I agree with your criticism of Mehmet Oz regarding some of his on-air representations and counseling about diet. He's had a good number of nutrition experts on his show besides expounding his own views. He even had Mao Xing Ni on, I recall, who did a demo about healthy Chinese cooking. But I didn't watch his show with any consistency to register a batch of objectionable ideas. But I take your word for it, Charlie. I had brief email communications with Dr. Oz in 2000 when he was busy with the start of his new Oprah-backed tv show. He really didn't have the time or interest to take my advice and 1.5 bag primer that would have enabled him to he present a clear and accurate overview of Qigong to the masses through his tv show. Thus I was disappointed but not surprised when he repeatedly used the term Qigong during the first several seasons of his tv show in the most general and generic sense and also as if it were a homogeneous exercise. Oh, well Andrew Weil's material was just plain basic to me and unremarkable. Again, I haven't read or seen enough of his materials to I support or oppose your criticism of his theories. But I do agree with your inference about being under the Tucson sun. Too much sun and blue sky will gradually split one from reality. I agree with your thumbs-up for Kabat-Zinn's and Siegel's respective works. Dean Ornish, of course, has been around for long time and is one of the early pioneers in "lifestyle medicine" aimed at preventing and reversing heart disease. But as you may have gathered from my posts, Daniel Goleman is one of my favorite psychologist-authors, whose early writings on "Buddha and Meditative States of Consciousness" ( in 2 parts in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology" in the late 70's I think--late published as a book, The Varieties of Meditative Experience (1977)) is required roadmap reading for all my Qigong students. His serious study with Indian gurus and exploration of meditation, brain function and consciousness in the 70's imparted to him a holistic view of the human process that jibes with everything that I've experienced through the Chinese meditative arts. --Moo. Of course dogs have souls. My English beagle named Obie-One, has, as his name implies, has a soul far, far wiser and more noble than that of the average mere mortal. Sifu Terry P.S. Plus Obie-One's beagle nose is the second best in all of dog-dom, which, blended with his superior intellect and survival instincts makes him one of best Weird-Shit-O-Meters ever to talk this planet. Thinking of Obie-One's impeccable sense of smell has just reminded tme to that I should now remind all you Daobums of what I consider to be this particularly profane and obnoxious stink polluting the greater spirit of Tai Chi in North America: http://thedaobums.com/topic/39553-tai-chi-zen-master-david-dorian-ross/?hl=%2Btai+%2Bchi+%2Bzen+%2Bmaster+%2Bdavid+%2Bdorian+%2Bross https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ/videos

Hi Steve, Don't mention it. Yours is a one of the most difficult, agonizing and tragic situations that any human can experience. I wish you and your wife peace and strength ongoing. Indeed, living in or adjacent to neighborhoods gripped by violence and crime causes one to be become consistently and totally mindful and also take inventory of all of one's greater survival faculties. Question: was there no other option than to move to Baltimore for your daughter's treatments? If you you feel you need a higher-level view beyond FP Qigong energy-fueledawareness to deal with the dangerous elements near your new home, let the know and I'll give you a referral by PM. Best, Sifu Terry

Hi Steve, Thanks for sharing your experiences in and thoughts about Baltimore. I'm so very sorry to hear that your young daughter is terminally ill. I know how difficult it must be for you to lend comfort and care for a loved one for whom there is no hope of recovery. I was with both of my parents when they were on their deathbeds and was alongside other family relations and close friends when each was on his/her deathbed at the very moment when they realized that all medical procedures were exhausted and the body was too far gone so that not even a miracle could save them. That tragic revelation of no hope for survival is the one situation that puts a priest's or therapist's or any person's strength, compassion and "pastoral counseling" to the test. It is even more tragic, as you know when, when that revelation and visceral feeling of hopelessness is reached by someone in their youth such as your child or some one like my friend Jamie who was just beginning to hit her stride. Yes, you are quite right. A western-trained physician with an M.D. who is proficient in higher meditative arts, is able too teach proper meditation, and can institutionalize their practice is a great boon for society. I have sought out , karmically run into, and worked with a few of these eclectic visionaries throughout my career and I can count them all on one hand. As I stated in my tribute above, Jamie Zimmerman's sudden passing at such a young age is a tragic loss of our society and the world. After teaching my Tai Chi class this (Sat.) afternoon in Santa Monica, I traveled up the coast and found a quiet secluded clear view of the Pacific Ocean. I then sat down and practiced 3 advanced seated "Monk Serves Wine" Meditations (found on Volume 7) for one hour, during which I prayed for my friend's soul over the waters, telling her that she can take either a fast and direct route to the Bardo or a slower one for the sake of seeing her mother and closest relations in mourning here in L.A--and how to take the second option. I will include your dear daughter in my prayers. I do not know Baltimore, having never spent any meaningful time there. Although my paternal grandfather, Franklin Dunn, earned his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1910--as he was sponsored by American missionaries in China. That's where he met my grandmother, who was also sponsored by missionaries and studied nursing at Cornell and then got her Master's degree in Nursing at Johns Hopkins. I only drove through during a spring break road trip from Connecticut to Florida during my first year in college. Thus my only knowledge of Baltimore comes from the very excellent and realistic TV series "The Wire". If you have to be in Baltimore for an extended period to be with your daughter, I still wouldn't advise hanging out on either the rough two sides of the city as depicted in the TV series. Remember that you're retired! I'm sure Dr. Jamie would have loved the program at the Transcendental Meditation University in Iowa, but her training in meditation and mindfulness had to fit in and around her formal medical education. She was also tops in her undergraduate class at UCLA (an anthropology major) and she received the Charles E. Young Award (Young was one of UCLA's better chancellors). Take care and stay in touch, Steve. Sifu Terry P.S. On the subject of Baltimore and Jamie's documentary film, Quite Revolution, here pasted is copy of an email from Jamie in September 2013 right after we met in L.A., in which she explains the film project. She truly was a dynamo doing good works. Jamie Lauren Zimmerman 9/6/13 @gmail.com> to me Hi Terry, I'm so impressed with your background - and would love to talk with you about "meditation medicine." Your DVD's look wonderful! Good for you for following your heart and choosing a path that suits your passions and talents! Turning down med school sounds like it was a great decision! Also, FYI, having finished my last medical school exams, I'm now completing a fellowship in global health & media and using this year to catalyze a project I believe in deeply: Quiet Revolution, a documentary on the potential of mindfulness to promote physical and mental health, with a focus on underserved communities. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said: “If we taught all 8 year olds to meditate, we would eliminate all violence from the world within one generation.” (this is the actual photo in her email...I have to attach it here as thumbnail per thedaobums' software.) And, as you may know, neuroscience is aligned with this assertion. (Meditation has been shown to increase density in the prefrontal cortex, a region associated with emotional regulation, empathy and morality!) Quiet Revolution is a documentary film about meditation in an inner-city school in Baltimore. I will follow the work of Ali, Atman and Andy of the Holistic Life Foundation (www.hlfinc.org), who take students labeled as “problem kids” in one of the worst neighborhoods in America, and immerse them in an after-school program with breathing exercises, yoga and meditation. The results are profound: in a neighborhood where many young men tragically end up in prison or dead, their oldest students are now graduating college and returning to mentor the next generation. Over the coming academic year, we will intimately follow several of their young students – showing their challenges at home and on the streets, introduction to yoga & mindfulness practices, and eventually how these practices transform their lives. These powerful stories will be coupled with interviews of neuroscientists and visionaries in the field, including: 175]· Dr. Mehmet Oz, physician and host Dr. Oz 175]· Dr. Richie Davidson, friend of Dalai Lama and neuroscientist who studies the brains of Tibetan monks 175]· Congressman Tim Ryan, author Mindful Nation 175]· Janice Marturano, founder, Institute for Mindful Leadership 175]· Dr. Dean Ornish, physician and bestselling author 175]· Dr. Andrew Weil, physician and bestselling author, Spontaneous Healing 175]· Dr. Dan Siegel, child psychiatrist and author of Mindsight 175]· Dan Goleman, bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence 175]· Dr. Amishi Jha, contemplative neuroscientist at University of Miami 175]· and more. This film will be coupled with social media campaign designed to catalyze mindfulness programs in thousands of additional schools across North America and beyond. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Dan Siegel, and ABC’s Dan Harris serve on the project’s advisory board. Additionally, ABC will collaborate on a 1/2 hour episode of Nightline, using footage from the documentary. As someone who's focused on integrative modalities of healing, as well as filmmaking, I'd love to hear your suggestions/advice. Plus, I'd love to connect in general. Unfortunately, I'm already headed back to NY (otherwise, I'd come to your Saturday AM Tai Chi session), but please let me know when you're free to Skype or chat. Hope all is well, and talk soon! All my best, Jamie

More spontaneous, forthcoming testimony under oath by the self-proclaimed Tai Chi Master and Zen Master, David Dorian Ross, take by Terry Dunn's attorney William Ford on Aug. 1, 2001: 1.) Here, Ross explains what Tai Chi means to him: 2.) Self-proclaimed Tai Chi master and Zen Master David Dorian Ross states that he is performing "Fair lady Works at Shuttles", a Tai Chi posture, in video frames excerpted from "Lower Body Chi For Beginnersi" DVD produced by Gaiam, Inc. put before him by Dunn's attorney, Bill Ford. Ford then has him look at a page excerpted from Terry Dunn's "Tai Chi For Health" video showing Dunn performing a Tai Chi posture that is labeled on the video footage as "Fair Lady Works the Shuttle", and asks Ross if that image depicts Dunn performing "Fair Lady Works the Shuttle". Ross takes 25 seconds to confirm that the exhibit shows Dunn doing a posture that is labeled "Fair Lady Works the Shuttles." Dunn's attorney, Bill Ford, then asks Ross if the image shows that Dunn's body is in a position consistent with what Ross knows to be "Fair Lady Works At Shuttle"( ).Ross takes 49 seconds to finally answer "Yes" (at ). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ/videos

Hello TF, Aside from, of course, allowing himself to be publicized on tens of thousands of DVDs by Gaiam, Inc. (Living Arts) as "the coach of the Chinese National Martial Arts Team, " this person is not a total pretender. From what I understand, he actually has put in many years of training in Tai Chi under a some teachers, whose identities I am not aware of. But it is the dishonest labeling and self-promotion of himself of a "Tai Chi master" and a "Zen master"-- --that I find so stupid and detestable...because it insults the Tai Chi tradition and all of Zen Buddhism, a 2,000 year old spiritual tradition. I point this out only as an object lesson in karma---for there most definitely is negative karma (repercussions) and spiritual fall-out from claiming such false titles in order to make money. And speaking of spiritual fall-out and bad karma, I'm also just dumbfounded that anyone who has seen how David Dorian Ross appears in this particular video would actually want to learn Tai Chi--or anything , for that matter--from him!: Again: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ/videos Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/bio http://thedaobums.com/topic/12639-flying-phoenix-chi-kung/?hl=%20flying%20%20phoenix%20%20chi%20%20kung www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

My deepest condolescences to the family and friends of young Doctor Jamie Zimmerman. I'm still stunned and heartbroken from news earlier today of her tragic death in Hawaii while on vacation. Jamie was a doctor, humanitarian, and passionate advocate of "meditation medicine" and mindfulness practices, and a medical expert for ABC-News. Rescue workers said that she had lost her footing while crossing a river on the north coast of Kauai and was swept out to sea and drowned. She was just 31. I had met Jamie in September 2013 at the Starbucks coffee shop near my home on Montana Ave. and 7th Street in Santa Monica when I was seated at an outdoor table, plugged-in giving an emergency online Qigong lesson to a student in Germany, I recall. Jamie was at a table to my right and had seen/overheard my Skyping. After I finished the Skype session, she asked me if I was a Qigong teacher and I said yes and we proceeded to get acquainted. She told me that she was a physician and a meditation teacher working at the nexus of the art of meditation and neuroscience. She was working in NYC at that time and was very active in promoting meditation medicine and completing her documentary film called "Quiet Revolution" about a meditation program for the inner city "problem kids" in Baltimore, which was to be a media centerpiece for a national social media campaign in coordination with ABC Nightline and a host prominent mind-body medical experts and social engineers. Jamie was inspired to do this project after taking this teaching of the Dalai Lama to heart: “If we taught all 8 year olds to meditate, we would eliminate all violence from the world within one generation.” I was instantly impressed by the fact that Jamie was not a New Age dilettante but truly walked the walk of teaching and advocating integrative mind-body medicine. Being a practitioner of ancient Chinese yogic, healing, and martial arts, and a preserver of several ancient monastic traditions of Chinese Yoga (Qigong) for 39 years at the time we met, I was naturally interested in her work, so I explained my past work in pioneering the practice of Tai Chi and Qigong in modern medicine and professional sports, including the implementation in 1999 of my Qigong and Taoist Meditation protocol at Cedars-Sinai Hospital's Dept. of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery headed by Dr. Greg Fontana, close friend of and counterpart to Dr. Mehmet Oz at Columbia Presbyterian. That led to me sending Jamie copies of my two popular DVD series. We stayed in touch by email and Facebook over the next 2 years and we regularly exchanged notes on our respective projects and looked off and on for areas of collaboration. Jamie was a natural-born healer and teacher on a personal and social level. This is obvious from the passion, compassion, intelligence and versatility that she applied to every cutting edge project that she undertook. One of my favorite little educational projects she did is her short video consultation teaching "8 Steps to Bravery", which I consider to be one of the best in this genre: --not-so-little at all in terms of its beneficial impact on many people, including myself, a tested 61- year old Chinese kung-fu master! Her job as medical expert and journalist for ABC News resonated perfectly with her past experience as globe-trotting humanitarian physician who had aided Congolese refugees, an impoverished hospital in India, schools in Uganda, and indigenous peoples in Peru. She was also part of an activist group in NY working for peace between Gaza and Israel. I saw Jamie as a rising star of an advocate for meditation (mind-body) medicine who had the right approach of backing up her advocacy with hands-on teaching of professionals, well-thought-out social media campaigns—all backed by her academic rigor in neuroscience. At 31, she had knowledge of East-West integrative medicine that was far beyond her years and was just beginning to get that valuable Knowledge outside of herself to have far-reaching impact. Beyond the terrible loss to her family and loved ones, Jamie's passing is a most tragic loss to the world because there is no telling what she might have accomplished given her trajectory on her visionary path. Not too many physicians with her kind of ecumenical awareness come around each generation. Her genuine compassion and missionary zeal to transform medicine on an industry level and society itself in so many ambitious, realistic and promising ways was most inspiring--especially to an old warhorse and survivor of the New Age/holistic health barnyard like myself. My prayers go out to her dynamic soul for a peaceful passage and ask that she comes back soon--even more equipped to complete her mission of healing and enlightenment. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2507691&fref=ts Sifu Terry Dunn

last night I taught the third class in a 10-week course of FP Qigong. The class consisted of: 45 minutes of Tai Chi warm-up exercises involving wu-chi, bow stances, and cat stances. This was followed by these FP exercises in this order: 1. Monk Holding Pearl - 10 min. 2. Monk Holding Peach - 10 min. 3. Monk Gazing At Moon - 8 min. 4. Bending the Bows - 20 minutes. 5. Monk Serves Wine #1 (90 50 40 30 10) 7 times - 20 minutes. All my 8 students were visibly vibrating from head to toe by the time they were doing Monk Gazing At Moon and Bending the Bows. At the end of the 2-hour class, one student reported a very pleasant lightness feeling in the upper body and head and what she described as "a near-blissful feeling of actual rejuvenation." This is a reminder that beginners should practice each of the basic FP Qigong Meditations for 8-10 minutes each. And it is most important Bending the Bows 18 times per set, as it is the most important of the basic standing and moving FP Meditations. To be done very slowly--approaching "the speed of a shifting sand dune"! Enjoy your practice. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hello Blue Phoenix, Thanks of sharing your FP Qigong experiences of late with an eye on numerology. And sorry to hear that you are still suffering from the IBS and am trying to heal yourself. I watched your demo of the 5 Tibetan Rites (henceforth, 5TR) carefully. I recall that you explained this system to me when we exchanged P.M. around year or so ago. My assessment is that: (1) they look more Indian than Tibetan to me. (2) these 5 exercises are okay for calisthenic exercise, but they ar not relevant at all to optimizing the effect of FP Qigong practice. (3) I don't see therapeutic benefits being imparted by this system that would be anything close to the cultivation of the FP Healing Energy. (4) While I've said above that these 5 Tibetan Rites exercises will NOT further FP Qigong practice, I can't say that it would hinder or degrade the effects of FP Qigong practice. My advice is to play it safe and practice the FP Qigong at a different time of day--a good number hours away from the time when you practice the 5TR exercise. I hope you find an effective cure for the IBS. Sincerely, Sifu Terry Dunn

Hello Bubbles, Thank you for your post inquiring about Flying Phoenix Qigong workshops in Europe, reminding us of the false-start with workshops in the U.K. (that Adrian Pengelly (Jeremiah Zeitgeist) said he would sponsor only to suddenly disappear), and your recent find of Sjaak Terwindt's advertised teachings of FP Qigong in the Netherlands. For your information and the European community of FP Qigong practitioners, Sjaak Terwindt in the Netherlands only purchased my Tai Chi for Health and Chi Kung For Health DVD's (from 2008 to 2011) but has had no personal instruction from me whatsoever. I do recall having a cordial exchange of emails with him around the time that he purchased some of my instructional DVD's. It's a shame that he's decided to teach FP Qigong without consulting with me first. My main objection is that I haven't a clue of whether he is doing them correctly or teaching them correctly, has sense of their energetic and rejuvenatory effects, or is any sort of positive agent or catalyst to teach the FP Qigong system. He certainly would have no understanding of the underpinning relationship that FP Qigong has to the entire body of Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu, including numerous other internal systems (such as Sunn Yi Gung) that are just as vast as FP Qigong. Over the last 3 years, I have been actively teaching online Qigong lessons to students in the U.K., France, Germany, Russia, and even Peru, and of course to students all over the U.S. But Mr. Terwindt has not received any lessons from me. So to answer your question: he is not my student and is not authorized to represent himself as a teacher of the Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditation system. But only as John Reinhard, his countryman, has just put it, a "dvd master". Best Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

No problem!

Am long over it. I just have an energetic style of doing expose´s of deep-seeded, long-hidden, incorrigible corruption--when the timing is right and the inspiration takes hold of me. For I started this thread as a Public Service Announcement because I believe that this person--with whom I had direct dealings with in 2001 and assembled all the evidence (104 exhibits) that my lawyer used to depose him--is a noxious and slimy joke. And as I just explained to dustybeijing above, the lawsuit surrounding this david dorian ross's atrocious testimony under oath inn 2001 started in year 2000. And that case was birdsquirt compared to the most recent and ongoing litigation I have against an American film studio over the theft of intellectual property that I had originated and worked 9 years on before they allegedly stole it and turned it into that teeming pile of mediocrity known as, "Kung Fu Panda". http://www.kungfupandalawsuit.com/Danica%20to%20test/timeline-hotspots.htm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83iB8wGWMa8fgqWS8qFD-w Yours Truly, Sifu Terence Dunn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ/videos

Hello Dustybeijing, Oops! You're absolutely right. The end of the Qing dynasty was 1912 and the nominal formation of the Chinese Republic under the KMT was 1928. But I'm excused because I'm old and it's been a long time since pre-school in Hong Kong, and I never took a course on Chinese history in college after coming to the U.S. when I was 6. But no, you're mistaken about your second point: This is the very first time that I have posted or discussed on social media anything about david dorian ross and my case against Gaiam, Inc. in 2000-2003. (case BC 244453 styled as "Terence Dunn and Interarts Productions, Inc. vs. Gaiam, Inc., Gaiam Holdings, Inc. Steve P. and Elizabeth A. Adams Holdings, Healing Arts Publishing, LLC, steven p. adams, andrea lesky, david dorian ross, ted landon and Does 1-100," filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in January 2000.) The videos I have posted on this blogsite from the new Youtube channel are of a deposition taken on August 1, 2001. What you are referring to as something I was "up in arms about some time ago" was my 5-year litigation against Dreamworks Animation, SKG, Inc. (2009 - 2014) over the alleged theft of my "Adventures of Zen-Bear" properties that I had spent 9 years working on with 19 contractors, before they allegedly stole it from a pitch that I made to them, and which they turned into that teeming pile of mediocrity known as Kung Fu Panda. Like my expose´ of David Dorian Ross, I created a Youtube channel dedicated to the videotaped deposition of Dreamworks' employee Michael Lachance who transparently lied under oath in claiming that he had created the idea for "Kung Fu Panda." That Youtube channel is I what I had posted on TDB to discuss. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83iB8wGWMa8fgqWS8qFD-w (these two are most telling about who is doing all the lying throughout the Dreamworks case: ) All these are public records. I have simply posted them on internet channels and blogsites to let people who come upon them know the truth about these two matters. I've long gotten over what this self-proclaimed "Tai Chi master" and "Zen-master" did in 2001. I just woke up last Thursday morning with the certain feeling that now is the appropriate time in the Universe to make his publicly-accessable testimony under oath more public and allow karma to accelerate. Regards, Sifu Terence Dunn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ/videos

Hello Charlie, I consider the fact that I sat on these deposition videos of david dorian ross for fourteen years a test of "REN", a cardinal virtue in the Chinese martial arts. Yes, I was enraged and incensed for years over what I thought was 5 hours insidious lies crafted by him and the lawyers of Gaiam, Inc. (His testimony helped Gaiam, Inc. pretty much get away with breaching an 8-year standing contract I originally had with another video distributor, Healing Arts Publishing Inc., which they took over in a hostile take-over in the spring of 1999 and thus became successor-in-interest. The lawsuit I filed against Gaiam in 2000 was settled in Sept. 2003 on terms that I did not find optimal, to say the least. But I got the rights to my Tai Chi for Health videos back.) But letting this guy eat his karma over the past 14 years--only to check in now to do this expose´ with the deposition videos is satisfying and a valuable affirmation of the wisdom of Sun Tzu. "Ren" means to perservere, forbear, and tolerate--with a special, emphatic connotation of self-restraint, self-control and sacrifice. The Chinese character is composed of the "heart" with a "knife" over (meaning through) it. My apologies to the FP Community for interrupting the discussion on FP Qigong training to give notice of this expose´ of "Tai Chi master and Zen master" david dorian ross, whose influence on Tai Chi education I consider to be a virus--a very unctuous virus. But now at least, all you soldiers of the Tao have opportunity to have your "Ren" exercised and tested as well! Good practicing! Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Rob, You'll welcome. I'm glad that you never heard of the guy. And I think it's because you're not a resident of the U.S.--fortunately, in this respect. He's not at a level of skill (in my opinion) that would put him on the radar of serious practitioners of the Tai Chi and other Chinese internal arts that attend workshops worldwide given by real masters such as the one's I've referred to and celebrated in this discussion thread (e.g. GM Doo Wai (of course, with respect to FP Qigong), the late GM and taoist priest Share K. Lew, Tai Chi GM William C.C. Chen, Master Bow Sim Mark, Master Tung Kai-Ying, and others). Last Thursday morning I woke up and suddenly felt it that was my timely duty to put everything I have about this self-proclaimed "Tai Chi master" and "Zen master" out on the worldwide web as a PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT---after 14 years of keeping this recorded pile of crap--i.e., the deposition videos--to myself. ("7 and 7 is.") It's just incredible to me how stupid and foolish people can be in giving themselves the false martial arts title/honorific of "Master"--when they clearly are not, and even worse, giving themselves false spiritual titles (e.g. "Zen master") --all in order to deceive people to make a buck. (A) There is naturally bad karma and negative repercussions when someone calls himself a Tai Chi master (or a master any Chinese martial art) when one clearly is not. For one's title always gets tested. Vainglory and false pride will get you your ass kicked--usually repeatedly until one learns his lesson from the Universe. (B ) Even worse--in terms of being ground zero for spiritual fall-out--is calling oneself a Zen master--when one clearly is not. Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China dates back 2000 years and Zen Buddhism in Japan go back approx. 1500 years. You think some of those guardian spirits won't be waiting for the asses of those who are perverting and prostituting their respective traditions? Or even crossing over to pay a little corrective visit? 7 and 7 is. At any rate, if you want to see my expanded comments about the extremely bad karma associated with the above two acts of hubris--specifically with regards to "Tai Chi master" and "Zen master" david dorian ross, please visit this new discussion thread and participate: http://thedaobums.co...id-dorian-ross/ For I do want to keep this thread on track with discussion of FP Qigong training. Best, Sifu Terry Dunn

For the complete reference of the not-so-wise sayings of "Tai Chi master" and "Zen master" David Dorian Ross given under oath for 5+ hours on August 1, 2001, visit this Youtube channel dedicated to him and his corporate sponsors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ/videos Sifu Terence Pang-Yen Dunn http://thedaobums.com/topic/12639-flying-phoenix-chi-kung/?hl=%20flying%20%20phoenix%20%20chi%20%20kung www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ/videos

Throughout David Dorian Ross's entire deposition lasting approximately 5 hours on August 1, 2001, he consistently testified under oath (and in detail) that four (4) "Chi For Beginners" videos distributed by Gaiam that he appears in-- "A.M. Chi," "Energy Chi," "Upper Body Chi", and "Lower Body Chi" --do NOT have Tai Chi as their subject matter because he did NOT have the "internal intent" to do Tai Chi despite the facts that he names the exercises on the videos using classical Tai Chi names that have no meaning in any other art or context and that each exercise appears similar and arguably identical to still photos of exercises bearing the same Tai Chi names abstracted from ten popular Tai Chi books (!!!) However, Ross's contentions that none of his exercises in any of the four Gaiam "Chi" videos are Tai Chi exercises were flatly contradicted--exercise by exercise on three of the four videos--by Gaiam's very own outside Tai Chi expert and consultant, Master Mao Xing Ni, who testified in his deposition that the subject matter of three of the Ross videos was indeed Tai Chi (Energy Chi, Lower Body Chi, Upper Body Chi). These attachments are the notes that Master Ni produced at his deposition in 2002 that explained how he determined that 3 of the DVDs had Tai Chi subject matter, thus making Ross out to be liar: As seen in this transcription of his handwritten notes, Master Mao Xing Ni determined that the following exercises in the Ross videos were Tai Chi exercises and postures: I. "Chi for Upper Body" "13:50 parting horse's mane - Tai Chi move" "15::45 white crane spreads its wings - Tai Chi move" "17:15 Repulsing the Monkey - Tai Chi move" "24:44 Wave Hands Like Clouds - Tai Chi move" II. Energy Chi For Beginners "11:40 wave hands like clouds - Tai Chi move" "22:20 Rooster Standing on one leg...opening its wings - Tai Chi move" III. "A.M. Chi For Beginners" "OK (no Tai Chi)" "mix of 8-brocade and crane style and other chi kung forms" IV. "Lower Body Chi For Beginners" "7:01 Tai Chi Walk 7:01 O.K. though makes reference to "Tai Chi" "14:15 Open Arm Like a Fan" and "15:00 Fair lady works like shuttles" -- "Both are Tai Chi movements" "15:40 Grasping bird's tail - Tai Chi moves" "18:00 Snake Sticks Its Tongue out – questionable - enough similarity" "20:00 playing the pipa" - Tai Chi moves" "22:00 Rooster Stand on one leg" - Tai Chi moves" "23:00 crane spreads wings + needle at the sea bottom - Tai Chi moves" "24:50 kick with heel + box both ears - Tai Chi moves"" "27:30 wave hands like clouds - Tai Chi moves" "28:15 Single Whip - Tai Chi moves" "30:00 snake creeps down - Tai Chi moves" Again, my lawsuit ag. Gaiam, et. al. was settled in September 2003. However, this self-proclaimed "master" of Tai Chi and Zen Buddhism, who is demonstrably capable of lying for almost five hours under oath in front of a video camera, is still, in my opinion, one of the most noxious and insidious viruses plaguing the world of unsuspecting, beginning-level enthusiasts in Tai Chi, Qigong, and meditative arts in general and of Zen Meditation and Zen practice in particular----especially given his temporal influence through the media, as he has been long promoted by Gaiam, Inc. as their Tai Chi poster boy. He is a danger as a retarding obstacle to the physical and spiritual progress of all unsuspecting beginners and enthusiasts in Tai Chi and Qigong, and to all practitioners of Zen Buddhism. Period. https://www.youtube....r4vI0pRQ/videos Yours truly, Sifu Terence Dunn http://thedaobums.com/topic/12639-flying-phoenix-chi-kung/?hl=%20flying%20%20phoenix%20%20chi%20%20kung www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

To all Flying Phoenix Chi Kung Practioners and followers of this discussion thread: To keep to the subject of FP Qigong practice, I have started a new thread, which will be an ON-GOING PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT dedicated to the matter that I posted above: the self-proclaimed "tai chi and Zen master" david dorian ross. The new discussion topic and PSA is here here: http://thedaobums.com/topic/39553-tai-chi-zen-master-david-dorian-ross/ Please chime in and contribute to this Public Service Announcement whenever you have time, and start spreading clips through social media from the "Honey Badger Doesn't Care" Youtube channel in this suggested order: 1) Hey, he's the COACH of the Chinese national martial arts team!!! Woohoo--Oh, my. Very impressive!! 2) 4.5 hours after swearing to tell the truth, ross swears himself in again!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoaZafA6M8 3) Hmmm, Ross here claims that his A.M.Chi video here is NOT a Tai Chi video, and swears under oath that he never once mentioned the term "Tai Chi" to Healing Arts Publishing LLC president Steve Adams. But, but, but, but lookee here, at his own Youtube post of "A.M. Chi": The caption reads: "This calm, serence sequence flows through and explains beginner-level moves and patterns for learning and practicing Tai Chi." !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqontvqGkQI Hmm, I wonder if david dorian ross might have told any other lies during the five hours of this deposition? 4) david dorian ross states that he is doing "Fair lady Works AT Shuttles", a Tai Chi posture, in video frames printed from "Lower Body Chi For Beginners" DVD produced by Gaiam, Inc. and put before him by Dunn's attorney, Bill Ford. Ross then verifies that other video frames excerpted from Terry Dunn's "Tai Chi For Health" videos show Dunn doing "Fair Lady Works at Shuttles." But throughout the five-hours of testimony under oath, ross said that neither "Lower Body Chi" nor "A.M. Chi" videos were Tai Chi videos...because he did not have the internal intent to do Tai Chi (!! !!) 5) d.d.r. testifies that any "master" would say that his "Lower Body Chi" video was NOT a Tai Chi video!: Enjoy the humor of this steady expose´ on the new thread ! There will be lots more coming. For I have fourteen years of postponed excoriation and condemnation of this person to catch up on. Now back to FP Qigong! Sifu Terence Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

To all Daobums Subscribers: Please chime in and contribute to this PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT whenever you have time, and start spreading clips through social media from the "Honey Badger Doesn't Care" Youtube channel in this suggested order: 1) Hey, why he's the COACH of the Chinese National Martial Arts Team!! WOW--Oh, my. That is very impressive! Wait, what was that? Oh it was a "misprint"! A misprint that nobody caught? Oh, okay. http://thedaobums.co...enix chi kung Hmmm, the COACH of the Chinese National Martial Arts Team!! I think my good friend Master Li Junfeng, the REALl former COACH of the Chinese National Wushu Team (who trained Donnie Yen, btw, when his mother Master Bow Sim Mark [with whom I trained in 1980] sent him to Beijing to broaden his horizons beyond Boston) might have something to say to mr. ross when the Universe causes their paths to cross with me present so as to teach "Mister Misprint" a lesson of extreme paradox where the fake coach of the Chinese National Martial Arts Team gets dressed down even more than he already has been.

Hello to all Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Chi Kung practitioners and followers of this thread: Today is Double Ten, the National Day of the Republic of China, as it commemorates the start of the Wuchang Uprising of October 10, 1911 (10-10 or double ten), which led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China and establishment of the ROC on January 1, 1912. (Nominal formation of the Chinese Republic under the Kuo Ming Tang (KMT) took place later in 1928). At any rate, Double Ten is traditionally an auspicious day for all Chinese cosmologically to start new businesses--or to launch benevolent uprisings! The karmic settlement of debt accounts held by tyranny is naturally the goal and outcome of revolution. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ This post is notification of the accelerated, spiritually catalyzed collection of a karmic debt that I believe was incurred by certain corporate money-changers and their minions trying to exploit the the novice marketplace for Tai Chi instruction starting in 1999 by deception--and coming to a head with me personally in 2001, fourteen years ago. As a public service I have started this discussion thread to expose one particular person and his work, which I consider to be awful and disgusting in every respect, characterized (I believe) by fundamental dishonesty, lack of integrity, transparent corruption (as seen in the videos mounted on the linked Youtube Channel below), and therefore no respect for the arts that he claims to have mastered nor the Chinese masters, traditions and martial lineages that have preserved them through the centuries. Therefore, in my opinion, this person and his temporal influence represents one of the most noxious and insidious viruses plaguing the world of unsuspecting, inexperienced, beginner-level enthusiasts of Tai Chi Chuan and internal martial arts in general. I therefore ask everyone who seeks and respects truth, authenticity, physical and spiritual health, and all things the honorable in our martial arts to carefully consider the material presented on this new Youtube channel (link is below), and then strongly consider boycotting and advocating BOYCOTT of EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that this person has put his name to. For it is my studied opinion that there is no better example today of the following ancient Chinese saying than the self-proclaimed "Tai Chi and Zen master, David Dorian Ross": "When the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way." Also most pertinent here with regards to this person, in my opinion, are these (negative) conditions warned about in the form of "Elegant sayings" in the classic tome, "Tibetan Yoga & Secret Doctrines", translated by W.Y. Evans-Wentz (Oxford Univ. Press, 1935): Meditation without Knowledge, though giving results for awhile, Will, in the end, be devoid of true success; One may melt gold and silver completely, But once the fire be gone they grow hard again. Although a cloth be washed a hundred times, How can it be rendered clean and pure If it be washed in after which is dirty? -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ25_amAVNCszW7r4vI0pRQ Happy Ten-Ten-Fifteen to all! Sifu Terence Dunn P.S. if any daobums subscriber wishes to discuss any of the materials that I've mounted in the new Youtube channel, "Honey Badger Does Not Care", please feel free to start a new thread and I will be glad to participate. www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

This is part 2 of 2-part posting about Chapter 21 of the Tao Te Ching, which I was inspired to recall when FP students here in L.A. --along with Taobum Cihan in Turkey chimed in to describe their experiences while doing FP seated meditations, Monk Serves Wine. This follow-up post is from my Facebook product page: btw, the 21st chapter from the Tao Te Ching posted previously is not "mystical philosophy." It is a description of Physical Reality and an expression of phenomenology in high meditative states of consciousness. Lionel Giles (the son of Herbert Giles) was an English sinologist and a Taoist at heart and he was one of the few, in my humble opinion, who came closest to translating Chapter 21 of the Tao Te Ching accurately for the west. But because he had limited or no meditative and yogic experience, he missed the phenomenology discernible in the higher states of consciousness (HSC) cultivated by Taoist Yogas (or any high Yoga), even though he translated the classical Chinese characters accurately and the open secret were staring at him point blank: Tao in itself is vague, impalpable, — how impalpable, how vague! Yet within it there is Form. How vague, how impalpable! Yet within it there is Substance. How profound, how obscure! Yet within it there is a Vital Principle. Tao Te Ching: Chapter 21 translated by Lionel Giles (1905)

Cihan's post #3403 and his account of the "Watcher" during his FP Meditations is in perfect synchronicity with my posting last night of Chapter 21 of the Tao Te Ching on my Facebook product page, "Terry Dunn's Tai Chi For Health": https://www.facebook.com/Terry-Dunns-Tai-Chi-For-Health-236579434951/timeline/ ...which I will post again here in two parts: Tao Te Ching: Chapter 21 translated by Lionel Giles (1905) The mightiest manifestations of active force (Te) flow solely from Tao. Tao in itself is vague, impalpable, — how impalpable, how vague! Yet within it there is Form. How vague, how impalpable! Yet within it there is Substance. How profound, how obscure! Yet within it there is a Vital Principle. This principle is the Quintessence of Reality, and out of it comes Truth. From of old until now, its name has never passed away. It watches over the beginning of all things. How do I know this about the beginning of things? Through Tao.* *James Legge poetically translates the last passage: Its name — what passes not away; So, in their beautiful array, Things form and never know decay. How know I that it is so with all the beauties of existing things? By this (nature of the Tao). https://33.media.tumblr.com/a5d2523e8a4fc92e1629ae9937d870f6/tumblr_nl4lm8O73g1u93xcqo1_500.gif

Hello Cihan, Thanks for reporting in on you practice! Good the you're practicing the seated FP Meds. I enjoy your description of "closed eyes mode"! Keep doing those meditations longer and the feeling will not be of an overclocked processor. Sense of time/ pace of life is dependent upon my remembering, ie recognizing the feeling, pulling out words, forming a sentence, and looking at my creation... During the meds, many times The Watcher sees through an hour of the meditation(from beginning to end) in an instant, then I lose it again. These are good indications that you get out of Time in your meditation. If by the "Watcher" you mean your pure unattached Consciousness, wonderful, isn't it that it can see amour of meditation from beginning to end in an instant...thus proving that Time is a construct. It is my pleasure to introduce Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Chi Kung to those with the interest, mental capacity, and compassionate heart to tread this path to the Tao. Good practicing. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

To all FP Practitioners: My morning practice was a review of all the standing moving FP meditations as taught in Vols. 1, 3, and 4: A) Bending the Bows - 9 slow repetitions. B ) Long Form Standing Med. done in 20 minutes. C) Wind Above the Clouds done twice, a D) Wind Through the Treetops done twice, each 7 minutes. E) Moonbeam - 2 rounds. As I had many times in recent years, I experienced several durations of "automatic movements" in each of the above 5 FP Moving Meditations where after I ended the exercise with three deep breathes, of course, I had no memory of doing the specific movements and no memory or sense of the time that had elapsed--e.g., like those of Wind Through Treetops. But yet I knew with absolute certainty that I had done the Form correctly and at a perfectly slow speed. I've decided to finally coin this verified phenomenon in the Flying Phoenix Meditative Experience as "Stopping the World While Moving." Has anyone had any similar experiences? Carry on! Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html