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Hello An Yongle, Right offhand, I have concrete evidence of marked healing of one of the diseases you mentioned: Last April, a female student of mine named Alaina who has multiple sclerosis and who had taken my weekly 2-hour Qigong course for approx. 7 months informed me that when she had a routine MRI brain scan done, her doctor told her that (1) there were no new lesions that had appeared since her last scan (which was a first--because every previous scan had shown the formation of up to 50 new lesions) and that (2) six lesions had disappeared completely. Her doctor was naturally very impressed and told her to continue doing whatever she was doing! Attached below is the April 24 email I just dug up that I sent to Delfin, who I believe is a Daobums member and subscriber to this thread, in response to his inquiry about FP Qigong and M.S. Thank you for your post. For it caused me to remember this evidence of FP's efficacy in stabilizing and (slightly yet definitively) reversing M.S. symptoms. And to all FPCK subscribers who have friends or relations with multiple sclerosis: please pass on this information. Thank you! Sifu Terry Dunn

To All FP Practitioners: Last evening I practiced Advanced Seated Meditation No.1 (on the Vol.7 DVD: 50 20 10 ), aka, "the Sleeper" and again confirmed the appropriateness of its nickname that I coined. I took 30 minutes to do the 7 rounds at very slow speed and smooth movement, hitting every nuanced hand position that GM Doo Wai had taught. The mediation induces deep, restful sleep with a profound activation of brain matter towards the back and top of the skull--as opposed to the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain that the other, "waker-upper" FP Mediations activate. And one can feel the movement of energy in the brain directly in sync with the movements of the hands. Woke up just 5 hours after doing the meditation fully rested and with a great sense of well-being. Compared with Tao Tao Pai Nei Kung, however, I would still say that FP Qigong does not replace sleep, but requires adequate sleep to be most effective. But I will offer these rock lyrics from 70's (Kansas) to inspire y'all to plumb deeper into "The Sleeper." Carry on my wayward son, There're be peace when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest... Don't you cry no more. Then I went to my favorite park and practiced one round of Liu He Ba Fa and one round of 60-posture Yang Tai Chi Short Form (GM William Chen's). And all day thus far, I feel more absorbed with--viscerally aware of--everything that I see. Flying Phoenix Qigong is exactly the disciplined experience that John Blofeld described in his excellent book on Taoism, "The Secret and the Sublime." Fortunately for the world, this art isn't as secret as it was just 12 years ago. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi B.P., here are my responses in bold & blue: Yes that does help, i actually tried doing both of those things when doing the meditation. As for the pins and needles, i cycle allot, probably too much. I do know some hip and leg opening exercises maybe i should try practicing those more often, its annoying because when i do the sleeper by the 3rd or 4th round its pretty bad so i do 3 rounds then stop and resume again later on. • Keep trying to do 7 rounds of the Sleeper. You'll eventually get there. Also i recall you mentioning that after each meditation it is best to wait 10 minutes before doing another, just wanted to know if this is so. • For beginners, this is not necessary. Since all the FP Meditations (standing and seated) are synergistic, my purpose in getting people started is to get the to feel the complete synergy of every part of the system and to get them to feel the effects of the FP Healing Energy. Waiting five minutes between FP Meditations is quite adequate to be able to discern the effects of one FP exercise and to different them from those of another exercise. Throughout most of my 24 years in FP qigong, I almost always have time constraints on weekdays because of my busy schedule. Therefore I tend to do one FP Qigong Meditations right after another. As for the saliva thing, i have noticed a bit of saliva when meditating but that could also be because i have recently stopped smoking. When i was practicing wood element form two years ago i built up all that saliva and my then instructor said it was a sign of my parasympathetic nervous system being activated... ... however it is interesting that you mentioned i might be weak in earth element because if my astrological profile is anything to go by then i am extremely deficient in earth. I Looked at one website, i lost the address, said i had 42 bodies in fire, 7 in water, 6 in air and only 1 in earth. •I just arrived at that using 5 Element Theory based on what you described as your symptoms with he salivation. Astrology aside i am pretty ungrounded as a person, day dreamy, not good with finance and not very materialistic. Maybe i need to find a nice Virgo woman to sort me out haha Taurus woman will ground you a good deal too and keep you ploughing the earth with oxen. And a nice Capricorn woman might turn you into an investment banker. haha I really do appreciate your feed back and i want to get back into elemental qi gong soon and learn about it as much as i can. Thankyou You Are Welcome. Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

After teaching a very long and slow class on "Moonbeam Splashes on Water" last Wednesday night, I am prompted to share: NOTE TO ALL FLYING PHOENIX PRACTITIONERS: It takes some concentration to learn the choreography followed by a lot of practice... but once you master "Moonbeam Splashes On Water" (Vol.3 of the CKFH dvd series), you will cross the threshold of moving meditation. All the preceding standing FP meditations are building blocks to develop good posture, relaxation and different sub-circulations of the FP Energy in different parts of the body. Once you seriously practice "Moonbeam" and the Long Form Standing Med. of Vol.4, you will begin to cultivate the FP Healing Energy in a more powerful way and experience total-body mobilization and circulation of the FP Healing Energy. Once this cultivation begins to be felt, you will then naturally know when you have developed the capacity to heal others with the FP energy. So get to it, everyone. I can tell from the lack of comments on this thread about the practice and the effects of "Moonbeam" that practitioners out there have not "broken through" in terms of doing it correctly and long enough. Just a little prod. Regards to all, Sifu Terry Dunn

Hello Blue Phoenix, A. Answer to first question as to what to do with the hands between repetitions of the 5th seated med. on Vol.2, aka MSW #2 (50 40 30 10): You can keep the hands at the tan tien and take as many resting breathes as you feel like and then bring the hands up to the first position (palms clasped in "prayer position" in front of heart). Or, you can also move your hands to the tan tien and rest them on top of the knees. And then from there bring them up to the first position for the next round. B. Pins and needles sensation and the left falling asleep during MSW mediations in half lotus position is common. One general solution is to get better circulation through the legs by increasing your level of any type of athletic sport (running, cycling, swimming, tennis, etc.) as well as stretching a lot using gymnastics or any form of yoga, and then, of course, doing holistic Chinese martial arts like Tai Chi or kung fu. C. Build up of saliva can be caused by a variety of factors, including keeping the tongue on the roof of the mouth during meditation. But a couple of glasses full is a heck of a lot of saliva. Are you saying that MSW #2 meditation (5th exercise on Vol.2) triggers and amplifies that output? Whatever the cause, applying basic 5 Element Theory (I prefer to call it 5 Phases Theory) would suggest that you are deficient in the earth element (stomach, spleen) because that element is not keeping the water element in check. Or perhaps if you have a serious problem with your liver (wood element), the excessive water is being generated to support it, but is not being used. These are very general applications of 5 Phase Theory and need to be confirmed by finger-toe pulse diagnosis to be certain. But that's a coarse first cut at a diagnosis. (I'm not sure how your elemental qigong teacher is connecting the wood element (liver) to the voluminous salivation.) Hope this helps. Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Gary, Fingertips at eye level for Monk Gazing At Moon. You're welcome. Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

You're very welcome, Charlie. You are wonderful living testament of the efficacy of FP Qigong, enabling you to enjoy and enrich your retirement years as a gentleman rancher! Best, Sifu Terry

Happy Summer to all, Yesterday in my weekly private Tai Chi class, instead of leading the class through Qing dynasty Imperial exercises (that I learned from Master George Xu in San Francisco through workshops he gave in San Diego at the Taoist Sanctuary way back in the 90's)and Chen style Chan su jin exercises (that I learned from Master John Fey in the 80's), I started with FP Meditations: A. One round of Wind Above the Clouds (always a nice stretch) B. followed by 20 minutes--ten slow rounds--of Bending the Bows - probably the most important of the basic moving FP meds. and the one with benefits most transferrable to any internal martial art system. C. Then I taught the first four 90-second "Flash" Meditations on Vol.5. Including learning/memorizing each meditation, their practice took less than 15 minutes. D. Then to segue from the FP healing energy cultivation to martial cultivation, we practiced the "Six Stars" (standing meditation) of the Tao Tan Pai system, which Master Lew had once told us (but which no one could believe was the 2nd most powerful in the TTP system, just below the 5 Dragons. Tao Tan Pai Monkey Form Tao Tan Pai Crane Form (everyone slowly learning this one) E. Then the final hour was spent practicing GM William Chen's 60-posture Yang Form 3 times and his straight sword form 3 times. That was an atypical Tai Chi class where the first 90 minutes was devoted to FP Qigong and TTP Nei Kung and Kung Fu forms. Best to all, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Charlie, Great that you are doing more Qigong, concentrating your Qigong practice to aid your recovery from the surgery. You've demonstrated that "Necessity is the mother of invention" as you are finding new synergies and syntheses in coupling AdvMSW #5 with AdvMSW #3 and AdvMSW#4 (Vol.7). The most basic, rudimentary effect of any legitimate Qigong system is increasing awareness of the body and the respiratory function...that is the start of the mind-body integration process brought about by Qigong. Congrats on finding the blissful intensity of MSW #5, which is felt in feeling the connection between the mind and the breathing process. Yes, MSW #5 is so short and yet so powerful. Just 4 movements! But if you hold the 2nd position for a few extra breathes as prescribed (before lowering the forearms) and then do following movements very, very, very slowly at the speed of a shifting sand dune. The level of absorption is indeed "INTENSE"--and not just with the mind, but is with the TOTAL involvement of the MIND-BODY. The mind-body visualization created by the super-slow movements returns you to the state of ONENESS--before you separated in terms (the symbols, sentences, thoughts of the mind) what was always One to begin with. Actually, what you've described as (tangible) "Energy flow" and "Cellular respiration" is simply the natural state of the human being. This is your basic natural condition. It's always been there. Now you are finally "stopping the world" enough via the FP Qigong to feel it on a cellular level. Your reported experience is further proof that sooner or later, if you just practice the FP Qigong exercises as presented in the DVD series, you will experience the body intensely...especially if one has been conditioned and educated to live high up on the brain stem and thus mentally filter the body's reality in agreement with the consensus reality. Because FP healthful, powerful and complete meditation system, your dedicated practice of FP Qigong has enabled you to safely "Go out of your mind in order to come to your senses." The ancients described this state of pristine consciousness as "Listening with the breath." And FP Qigong practitioners who have a relative frame of reference from practicing other Qigong systems can attest that FP Qigong training gets you there very, very quickly! It seems you've crossed a yogic threshold--what you call a "renewal" on your spiritual journey: now you may begin to recognize, understand and appreciate what the ancient Taoist philosophers and alchemists--Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Chan Po-Tuan--are talking about in their "mystical writings." It's kind of a gas to get precise corroboration of what you're feeling in the meditative state from the writings of the ancient metaphysicians. Enjoy the Silence and the Bliss. Best, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Rob, You're welcome. Aleister Crowley has been much maligned and mis-colored ever since he was alive and had streaked through the highest ranks of the Society of the Golden Dawn and then formed his secret society, the O.T.O, Order of Oriental Templars, and expounding his philosophy summed up in his Law of Thelema. But his prolific writings speak for themselves and speak to millions on different levels. And more yogically evolved one becomes, the more Truth one sees in Crowley's teachings. One of his works that I've referred to for years for its meditation instruction is his gem-packed, decoded manual that he humorously titled in self-mockery, "The Book of Lies". In it, for example, Crowley gives clear and detailed instructions as to how to visualize in meditation a sectioned Yin-Yang symbol (Tai Chi Tu) in order to effect the interpenetration of man's devotion to God with God's grace. Another excellent manual is in a Question & Answer format, called "Magick Without Tears". And in it are two chapters on the Tao--which to me are the most lucid, insightful, and compelling explanations of Taoism in the English language. Besides his genius in spiritualism and in expounding his knowledge of alchemy in the written word, Crowley as a passionate libertine and ingenious poet (who often came across as a loon) was a tremendous contributor to art and culture by force of his poetry that brilliantly codified occult teachings. In his "Book of Lies", one finds the first ever teachings in English using "Layla", the arabic name for "night" or "dark night"--i.e., the night/feminine principle celebrated by the 8th century Persian poet Qays. Crowley died in 1947. In 1970, of course, Eric Clapton came out with his great song, "Layla", which is about his unrequited love for Patti Boyd, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison. Also, the great guitarist Jimmy Page was an admirer of Crowley's teachings after his passing (but, like Clapton, was not an initiate of Thelema or the O.T.O.), and even bought Crowley's Boleskine house near Loch Ness, and it was the Crowley influence that somehow led to, as far as I know, the first significant infusion of spirituality into rock & roll--via the Led Zeppelin song and album both titled, "Houses of the Holy" in 1973. Later, the Beatles would put Crowley's photo on the cover of their legendary album of psychedelia, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band." Best, Sifu Terry

Hi Rob, I'm glad that you found the fourth Advanced MSW meditation on Vol.7 to be galvanizing importance. If one practices the short 90-second FP meditations on Vol.5 after gaining proficiency in the Long Form Standing Meditation of Vol.4, or is advanced in frictionless Tai Chi or Tai Chi-like natural movement, one will realize and appreciate the full power and importance of these amazingly short meditations. They are more than "bon-bons". Different FP Meditations (standing or seated) will have that effect of pulling everything together--and making alchemic sense of the whole FPCK system--for different people, depending on their yogic background, physical conditioning, and spiritual nature. I have had students who "get it" almost instantly from their first lesson in FP Qigong and who then completely dedicate themselves to practicing it. Several of these long-term practitioners and friends took a workshop I gave in 1997 at the Benedictine Center in St. Paul, MN. (Maybe it's timing or environment, or how i was channeling the FP Qigong at that particular time in my life, or the fact that Minnesotans are hard workers and serious about their meditation). Then I've had a student or two that I've trained weekly for 7+ years who don't get it at all--don't appreciate what they are feeling--even though the yogic effects of FP Qigong are manifest and working full-tilt. [such resistance to and ignor-ance of Inner Truth (as per hexagram 61) is a measure of ego, which I define as the misindentificaiton of one's being and true self with what one's idea of oneself--ilel, what one thinks or believes one is. • Yes, Aleister Crowley actually wrote an exceptionally good translation of the Tao Te Ching, which has been reviewed most favorably by contemporary Taoists from long traditions such as Eva Wong (and myself). In my opinion and assessment after reading practically every book authored by him and written about him, Aleister Crowley was a towering genius in spiritualism (not to mention effective agent for MI-5 during WW1 in the U.S.) who left a vast trove of practical instructions in western hermetic philosophy and an invaluable spiritual legacy, who I believe (as stated a couple of years ago on this thread) got a very bad rep from his jealous and envious Edwardian era detractors and secret society rivals, and the dangerous black magicians that he undid after attracting them into his spiritual killing field by putting himself out there in the world with the moniker, "The Beast, 666". (For no black magician that I have had the misfortune to come across--or had to ferret out and give up to the Universal Power--had blatantly advertised himself as such, but rather kept himself/herself secretly hidden and cloaked in disguise--in order to do their evil undetected.) Most Britons have recognized and embraced Aleister Crowley as one of their greatest citizens and spiritual assets in all of history: in a poll taken by the BBC in 2002, Crowley was ranked No.73 as one of the "100 Greatest Britons"--right between Henry V (72) and Robert De Bruce (74): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons Personally, I don't believe that the negative characterizations attributed to Crowley in the past such as "black magician," "the most evil man in the world," or "satanist" have any validity because a black magician/satanist does not write about the sanctity of man's free will, define evil and wickedness as any taking way of man's free will to any degree, clearly define the Ego as the enemy-obstructor to the development of Divine Will, and celebrate Jesus Christ's Will-to-God (more accurately and reverently since the Gospels were written) as powerfully he has: "...It cannot be too clearly understood that such is the nature of things: it does not depend upon the will of any persons, however powerful or exalted; nor can their force, the force of Their great oaths, avail against the weakest oath of the most trivial of beginners. The attempt to interfere with the Magical Will of another person would be wicked, if it were not absurd. One may attempt to build up a Will when before nothing existed but a chaos of whims; but once organization has taken place it is sacred. As Blake says: "Everything that lives is holy"; and hence the creation of life is the most sacred of tasks. It does not matter very much to the creator what it is that he creates; there is room in the universe for both the spider and the fly. It is from the rubbish-heap of Choronzon (a demon of dispersion, the last temptor/obstacle to enlightenment) that one selects the material for a god! This is the ultimate analysis of the Mystery of Redemption, and is possibly the real reason of the existence (if existence it can be called) of the form, or, if you like, the Ego. It is astonishing that this typical cry--"I am I"--is the cry of that which above all is not I. It was that master whose Will was so powerful that at its lightest expression the deaf heard, the dumb spake, the lepers were cleansed and the dead arose to life, that Master and no other who at the supreme moment of his agony could cry, "Not my Will, but Thine, be done." -- Aleister Crowley, Book Four (Please feel free to contact me by PM if you want further references to Crowley's very Christian writings.) Regards, Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Steve, Nice description of what i call the transcendental experience of Ultimate Reality, what others describe as "Divine At-Onement", or Cosmic Consciousness, and what Alfred J. Korzybsky refers to as awareness of the Infinite Event. Indeed, the truth is universal and it has been described by enlightened beings throughout the ages and around the world in pretty much the same way. Alan Watts said in one of his lectures in the 70's: that Cosmic Consciousness is quite ineffable. I very much agree: it can't be "eff'd"--i.e., words are inadequate to "map" that experiential "territory". Also, words and talking about the experience, outside of providing inspiration for one to meditate, are not necessary to attain it. Only proper meditation is required. But since we are all creatures of thought, and like to talk about things, especially to celebrate our human experience, if I had to describe the transcendental experience of Ultimate Reality for the western reader, i would defer the French philosopher Voltaire's definition of meditation, especially for his completeness and brevity: “Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” (Voltaire was France's greatest free-thinker and natural philosopher, who, btw, was initiated into Freemasonry at the Lodge of the Nine Sisters in Paris by Benjamin Franklin and other distinguished masons.) Thanks for your reference to the Hu Hua Ching. Please send me by PM the pages that you like that are congruent to Sri Bhagavad's sayings on Oneness. I am familiar with parts of the HCC and its history but have not spoken on it over the years because: 1. I have not read but one translation of the HHC (Ni Hua Ching's)--and that only partially a long time ago--and need (am waiting for) other translations by notable academics such as Robert Kendricks of Dartmouth to be published, in order to "triangulate" and get a better handle on its probably meanings. In contrast, I have the studied the Tao Te Ching for 43 years in all its translations (ranging from D.C. Lao's to Robert G. Kendricks to Aleister Crowley's), and have had the Tao Te Ching explained to me by my early Tai Chi master who knew classical Chinese language...all the while comparing its verses to my meditative experiences. Thus I am very comfortable to discuss Cosmic Consciousness, high samadhic states, or the transcendental experience of the Tao, Ultimate Reality, in the terms of the Tao Te Ching. 2. Because of its tone, pedantic voice, and rather obnoxious honorific title, Taishang lingbao Laozi huahu miaojing (太上靈寶老子化胡妙經, "The Supreme Numinous Treasure's Sublime Classic on Laozi's Conversion of the Barbarians" (meaning "conversion of the Buddhists"), I have my own very strong suspicions that the HHC is not an authentic work of Lao Tau but a later forgery produced for political reasons to declare the superiority of Taoism over Buddhism (as the 2 religions competed against each other to be China's state religion for many centuries)...and which is such a totally un-Taoist and unspiritual purpose to begin with. As Derek Lin accurately points out in his article, the term "Hu" meaning barbarian or outlander is quite a derogatory in Chinese culture. https://sites.google.com/site/taoismnet/home/articles/hua-hu-ching Also, btw, my first Tai Chi master in 1980 used the term "hu" long ago in another term, "jiang hu" to warn me against getting caught up in the phoney and useless "underworld" of made-up, superstitious malarkey and downstream hokum palmed off by charlatans as authentic Chinese internal martial art. "Jiang hu" generally means the fictional world of wu-xia (Kung-fu) movies. 3. While a few parts of the HHC were found in the Dunhuang texts and date back to the 4th or 5th century, because the HCC is so politically divisive, having Lao Tau during his "journey to West" advising a prince (insinuating that Prince to be Gautama who would ultimately become Buddha), and because HHC's authenticity and origin are questionable, I never paid that much attention to it over the years, nor did it ever come up much (if at all) in my studies or training. My suspicions and prejudice aside, please do send me the HHC 's pages about Oneness. Because regardless of its origins, authors, or their intent, Truth is Truth. And the Tao works in mysterious ways. Best, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Charlie, I'm glad that you've developed an effective schedule of FP Qigong training to facilitate your recovery. 2 selections from Vols. 1 thru 4 and 2 rounds of the Long Form Standing Meditation is an excellent routine. That nicely synergizes with the combination of Tai Chi and other arts that you're teaching in Cascabel. Don't worry about or be put off by my celebrations of experiencing another meditation tradition's brain activation (Oneness Meditation Movement). The only real truth is the experienced truth. The more you practice and master FP Qigong, the more you will be able to feel and discern the quality, depth, and "spiritual frequency" of other practitioners' meditative arts, and directly know how other Yogas work on the human body. Peace out. Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

To use the words of Taiji_cat way back in June 2013, whose posting I somehow missed and only recently discovered: WOW!!WOW!!WOW!! As a teacher of FP Qigong, I'm just as thrilled and affirmed as Taiji_Cat was when he/she first felt the brain-activating effects of the Monk Serves Wine Meditations on Volume 7 (And for the record, Volume 2's MSW's will also do the same thing, btw.)--but my gratification and enthusiasm at the moment is over the fact that I just found perfect corroboration and a clear and precise analogous description of the Flying Phoenix Qigong's heavenly brain-activating effects in the words of Sri Bhagavan in a 30-minute talk seen in the video that I posted above in reply (#3359) to Aeron's post, in which he describes how one deeksha experienced in the Oneness Meditation movement opens the brain centers--as opposed to the common experience (as per the by research at the Univ. of Pennsylvania) of spending years of meditation in traditions such as TM (as Tao Stillness has attested to several times on this thread) that results in no activation of brain centers and thus no expansion of consciousness towards enlightenment. First, here is Chapter 16 of the Tao Te Ching (Legge translation), which is the Taoist expression of Oneness and Zen No-Mind: Take emptiness to the limit; Maintain tranquility in the center. The ten thousand things – side-by-side they arise; And by this I see their return. Things come forth in great numbers; Each one returns to its root. This is called tranquility. "Tranquility " – This means to return to your fate. To return to your fate is to be constant; To know the constant is to be wise. Not to know the constant is to be reckless and wild; If you're reckless and wild, your actions will lead to misfortune. To know the constant is to be all-embracing; To be all-embracing is to be impartial; To be impartial is to be kingly; To be kingly is to be like Heaven; To be like Heaven is to be one with the Tao; If you're one with the Tao, to the end of your days you'll suffer no harm. These are the words of Sri Bhagavan [20:50 to 21:54 in video] that I am taking the trouble to transcribe because he is essentially saying the same thing as the Tao Te Ching chapter above--as seen in the lines in the two passages that I've color-correlated with sienna, black and green. This synchronicity--of finding the corroborating words of Sri Bhagavan about the Oneness experience--makes my job of teaching much easier, while paying respects to this fine and authentic guru: "So anger may come, jealousy may come, anything may come, let them come. So what. ...as the river flows by carrying dead corpses, the Ganges, all kinds of things are floating in the river, so it keeps floating and you keep witnessing. that's all! Even when you are awakened when you are enlightened, all these thoughts will be traveling, There are times when there are no thoughts & there are times when there are thoughts but you have nothing to do with them. They are just coming and going. The only difference is: you will be Pursuing those thoughts, you will be running after those thoughts. The enlightened man would not pursue them. they came...they went...Ready for the Next one!! That's all! But you are not doing that. You keep chasing them. << Then Shri Bhagavan humorously segues into commenting on deeksha (initiation into cosmic consciousness, bestowing of divine grace) and the concomitant activation of brain centers, which is precisely what FP Qigong so sublimely effects, as Taiji_Cat, so many others on this thread and I have given accounts of on this thread: >> **So all these things are very beautiful to hear, but unless we awakened your Kundalini and activated your chakras, [you'll just keep chasing after your thoughts!] They (chakras) have to rotate at the particular speed, they are like Switches to the brain, each chakra controls the particular part of the brain. So as we activate this, that part of the brain is activated or it is toned down. Ours is Neuro-biological work, we work directly on the brain through the chakras and using Kundalini The University of Pennsylvania was working on this and they found that even years of meditation doesn't open up some parts of the brain. But a single deeksha can open up these parts of the brain... Just a single deeksha. So that is how it works. Similarly, as I have described numerous times in this thread, but now here describe comprehensively: Flying Phoenix Qigong imparts health, healing and longevity by bringing all the organ systems under the regulation of the subconscious mind, inducing a perfectly body-mind integrated state known as allostasis, in which the body's natural self-healing faculties are activated and whereby very specific brain centers are activated, which is felt as a "washing" or "silent swooshing" sensation in actual the brain tissues (my words) and as "pushing the brain back" (to use the words of Grandmaster Doo Wai) . Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Mediation is a remarkable Yoga and true spiritual art--by which one can attain deeksha, if one has the predilection and karma--without having it bestowed by a guru. Sifu Terry Dunn P.S. See [20:50 to 21:54] in clip below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTbAmBilAmw www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hello Taiji Cat-- Somehow I think that I missed your posting No. 1074 way, way back in June 2013 (page 130). My apologies. But as I am now going back and reviewing this entire thread to make sure that I have not missed anyone's questions posted, I am most glad that I found your post and glad to read that you found the Advanced Seated Monk Serves Wine Meditations on Volume 7 to be as powerful in its very specific brain-activations as I have described in this thread. As mentioned several times and confirmed by several practitioners, a couple of the Vol.7 Meditations will rejuvenate hair on top of activating brain centers, and return hair to its natural color, reversing the graying/whiting/drying-out process. I relayed on this discussion sometime early last year how my experience with FP Qigong over the previous 23 years enabled me to tangibly discern the fine brain activation imparted by other authentic Meditation/Yoga traditions. One such tradition that I acknowledge and pay respects to--after directly feeling and merging with their Consciousness energetically is the lovely and healing Oneness Meditation Movement of Sri Bhagavan and his wife Amma, which is a tradition that has its roots in a monastic community in India. Since you have experienced the sublime brain activation of Flying Phoenix's advanced Monk Serves Wine meditations hopefully for some 2 years since your posting, I would suggest that you simply look at any of the Youtube videos showing the deeksha meditations of the Oneness Meditation movement featuring Shri Bhagavad. --Not the videos of his lectures, but of the silent meditations.-- You don't have to get deeply into it; you don't need to subscribe to Vedanta, etc.; just meditation a few seconds after having opened that channel by simply bringing up one of their Youtube videos. You may be profoundly surprised as to how FP Qigong has conditioned and fine-tuned your Consciousness and overall energy system. (As I had explained during my many exchanges with Tao Stillness when he had introduced medical clairvoyant Eric Isen's work to the thread, I was able to feel the full sublime force of the Oneness Meditation's macrocosmic stem (trunk) of energy from just reading and thinking about an email that Eric Isen had written to Tao Stillness. It was the first clean and pure spiritual channel that i had tangibly experienced outside of the Flying Phoenix "stem" and outside of that of my wonderful Tai Chi master, William C.C. Chen. 'Glad I finally found your posting and your exclamation of how FP Qigong is THEE REAL STUFF. All the Best, Sifu Terry Dunn P.S. btw, over the past 2+ years, I have been giving very successful online (Skype) tutorials in FP Qigong and also Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung. I am working with a number students all over the world at present on perfecting their practice of the Standing Long Form Meditation on Volume 4, which is the capstone of the FP Qigong system. Once that key form is mastered, it subsumes the practice of all preceding standing FP Meditations. Then I teach, as needed, other FP Exercises, such as the long, 22-Movement seated MSW meditation, and then the 5 Advanced Bok Fu Pai meditations from the old Vol.6 videocassette. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you are interested in private online instruction. www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Aeran, I'm glad to hear that you've recently felt more of the unique qualities of the blue Flying Phoenix Healing Energy and I'm especially glad to hear that you were able to discern that the FP Healing Energy is not the same type of Chi that one might become aware of from doing meditation, or basic forms of Indian Yoga, or from doing Tai Chi Chuan. As I've stated throughout this thread, the FP Healing Chi is a distinctive and unique healing energy with amazing and profound properties, such as the "awareness and volition" that you described, which, as I've described in the past on this thread, is demonstrated in its spontaneous "jumping off" of one's body to heal another human nearby for which one has concern and the even slightest positive regard without having any focussed intention to heal). My answers to your questions follow: I was wondering if you could explain a bit more about where this energy comes from? As I stated in Year One of this thread, the FP Healing Chi is both cultivated within one's body through the Chi Kung and it is then magnified when the practitioner's consciousness merges with and taps into the celestial "stem" (or macrocosmic "trunk") of the Flying Phoenix Healing Energy and spiritual consciousness. Is it something which exists dormant in the body and is activated by the combination of breath sequences and movements? No, the FP Healing Energy does not exist in a dormant manner in the body. It is not inherent nor intrinsic to the human being. As you yourself had stated in your post, FP Healing Energy is not an "excess" of the "regular chi" that circulates throughout one's body and which one can feel and become aware of in natural postures such as Wu-chi. If one never practiced FP Qigong, one would never experience the FP Healing Chi and its healing and rejuvenating benefits. For if the FP Healing Chi is inherent or intrinsic part of the human process, one would not need to do the FP breath sequences and movements to activate it...one's aura would naturally be blue and have healing effects without requiring any special FP Qigong exercises to manifest it. The potential to cultivate the FP Healing Energy through practice of the FP Qigong, of course, exists in every human being. The Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Kung (Fei Feng San Gung) is the gift from Heaven to mortal man to heal mind, body and soul and raise human consciousness to Heaven. Is it brought in from some external source? Something else entirely? It is both: (A) created within the body by way of the FP Qigong and ( B ) at some point, spontaneously merged with the external macrocosmic trunk or stem of FP Heavenly Healing Chi through the sudden consciousness that the FP Energy within is the same as that which exists without. When a practitioner becomes aware of this connection between his microcosmic energy with the macrocosmic "trunk" of FP Energy varies from person to person. At this point in my life, the only popular Meditation tradition in the West that I know of, which has some similarities to the consciousness and structural sensitivity facilitated by the FP Qigong is the Oneness Meditation Movement conducted by Sri Bhagavan and his wife Amma, for when Steve Mehl ("Tao Stillness") introduced the Oneness Meditation's consciousness to me via this thread through the remote readings of FP Qigong exercises by medical clairvoyant Eric Isen, who is a deeksha (and initiate who has the yogic -psychic power to serve as a battery and distributor of Oneness Meditation Consciousness) in the Oneness Movement, I instantly and then repeatedly felt Oneness Meditation's very specific activation of certain brain centers, which affects a different configuration of specific brain centers than the one that FP Qigong activates. As I had stated earlier in the thread, I somehow channeled and experienced the Oneness Meditation's brain activation from simply reading an email written by Eric Isen that Steve Mehl had forwarded to me containing Eric's most accurate remote reading of the health-and-spiritual benefits of several FP Qigong exercises plus a few others that I suggested that Steve have him check out. The origin and source of the Oneness Meditation Movement's energy channel is created and upheld by a monastic community in India. Similarly, the celestial "stem" conducting the FP Healing Energy was created at the Ehrmeishan monastery in 1644 according to the Bok Fu Pai oral tradition, which can be accessed by anyone practicing the FP Qigong correctly. The Oneness Meditation Movement / tradition is very different from the FP Qigong tradition in terms of their respective Yogas, but the supramundane consciousness of Oneness Meditation is very similar to the Flying Phoenix spiritual consciousness that was originally channeled or created by Feng Tao Teh and Ehrmeishan spiritualism (involves saintly sacrifice/devotion/compassionate action) and then access to it was impeccably preserved and transmitted down through the ages by GM Doo Wai's ancestral line. FP Qigong, as a powerful and complete system of Yoga and meditation, if properly practiced, very quickly liberates all the senses by bringing all the organ functions under the regulation of the self-conscious mind. In other words, practice of FP Qigong naturally dissolves the control of the senses by the conscious mind, which is something that Sri Bhagavan extols as a highly desirable goal of meditation in the video clip below. Other people call it the dissolution of the ego. Similarly, you can describe FP Qigong's integrative effects as thoroughly cleansing the "doors of perception"-- to borrow the phrase of Aldus Huxley, or as turning off one's "internal dialog" (as coined by Carlos Castaneda)--the internal dialog being the conscious critical mind that names everything that one experiences according to one's cultural upbringing, education, religious conditioning, etc. As Castaneda explained as the fruit of meditation, pure consciousness: when one has turned off the internal dialog, one has succeeded in "stopping the world", the opposite of which is that undesirable human condition that Sri Bhagavan describes below as constantly "chasing after one's thoughts." Good questions, Aeran. I hope this helps. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Charlie, I hope you are recovering nicely and are are more comfortable. If you're not up and around as much as before yet, a good recuperative Qigong exercise is Monk Holding Pearl done lying on your back (with hands held at the tan tien, as usual.). This is one of the exercises that I wrote into a medical protocol for a major medical center in L.A. in year 2000 (--the first Qigong protocol every established in a major American hospital...so it's been thoroughly vetted and approved by this hospital's Investigative Research Board (IRB)). All the Best, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi John, No. I did it in the late morning around 10 am. 3 rounds of the Long Meditation probably would be fine in the evening before sleeping...although it would naturally be quite invigorating. Best, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hello FP practitioners, I've been slow to post some recent FP meditative and healing experiences due to 2 weeks of searching for a new residence. I. A week ago Thursday, for a variety of reasons I had to work very late into the morning, had to get up early, and wound up getting less than 3.5 hours of sleep. Instead of catching up on the sleep as soon as possible, I took the opportunity to test the Long Form standing meditation (taught on Volume 4) to determine whether it in particular and FP Qigong in general can replace sleep or heal the effects of sleep deprivation on a 1 hour of practice : 1 hour of lost sleep basis--or on a more efficient ratio. So I practiced three consecutive rounds of the Long Form Meditation (officially called "Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditation" [Fei Feng San Gung]), moving more slowly in each successive round. The result: After practicing three rounds of the Long Form Meditation (taking 8 min. 10 min. and 12 min. to practice each one, respectively, I confirmed Grandmaster Doo Wai's explanation in 1991 that this FP Meditation--and therefore the FP Qigong system as a whole-- does not replace sleep in the least. I did confirm, however, when one does sleep, having practiced 3 rounds of the Long Form induces tremendously deep, sound and restful sleep--at least in terms of my personal experience. I woke up 10 hours alert completely rejuvenated and feeling pristine and mildly euphoric. II. Practicing three of the Monk Serves Wine seated Meditations in one sitting is an invaluable yogic experience because of no less than six different benefits, which I will disclose at a later time, and that I've begun to explain in the classes and private tutorials that I teach. *I know it takes a substantial investment of time, energy and shen-focus, but my recommendation for guaranteed penetration into the effects of FP Qigong is to practice the Standing Long Form Meditations 3x in a session, and to practice any 3 of the Monk Serves Wine meditations also in one sitting (which will usually not take more than 70 to 90 minutes). Good Practicing. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Shri Chi, Sorry for the long delay in replying to your post; I had a long and laborious past 2 weeks looking for a new abode. Answer: I do plan to produce a new Vol.6 of the Chi Kung For Health DVD series, but it will provide instruction in meditations different from the original ones that I produced in 1995 in the Stonehenge version. I haven't decided exactly what exercises will go into the new Vol.6. But I will produce a new one that will be authentic and original material not found in any of the other volumes. Best, Sifu Terry

A Mercury-going-direct Greeting and Invitation to all FPCK practitioners: If you have worked through the the Flying Phoenix Meditations on Volumes 1 through 5 and Volume 7, and feel that: (1) you have gained proficiency in all the material, (2) feel that your meditative movements are relatively frictionless--such that they do themselves, and (3) have reached the "saturation" point on each FP exercise--i.e., have reached what you feel is a maximum plateau of energization from each exercise through diligent practice (have practiced "Bending the Bows" enough times with sets of 18 repetitions, know from direct tangible experience the specific energizing effects of all the other basic Standing Meds. on Volume 1, 3, (Monk Gazing at Moon, Monk Holding Peach, Monk Holding Pearl) and (4) have done all the Monk Serves Wine meditations regularly for one year or more in sets of 7, (5) are interested in learning the 22-movement Monk Serves Wine meditation form... ...and feel that you are ready for more advanced teaching as to how to use the FP System as taught on the DVD series, please contact me for either in-person or online private lessons. For example, there are training formulas for the MSW meditations besides the basic "7 reps per set" that enables one to practice more of them at one sitting. As per my previous postings: for practitioners who have learned the Long Form Standing Meditation of Volume 4, I am giving corrections and remedial lessons in that capstone exercise and once that Form is corrected, I am starting to teach the five very powerful Bok Fu Pai Meditations that were on the old Volume 6 videocassette (now off the market). For critiques/reviews of my private lessons, please contact Fu_doggy, ridingtheox, MelloMarques, CrunchyChocolate555, or Joolian. Enjoy Your practice! Sifu Terry Dunn PM here or email: [email protected] www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Everyone, I just posted on Youtube this preview clip of Volume 4 of my Chi Kung for Health dvd series teaching the capstone meditation to the FP Qigong system, which I produced in 2004. I'm only about 7 years late with this Youtube clip...but those close to me know of the many obstacles over the years that have kept me from promoting this wonder art to the fullest extent. Well, I'm finally getting around to it. At any rate, enjoy! --and I hope that this inspires everyone to progress through the art and master this capstone form. As per my early postings and postings by FP practitioners like ridingthrox in Arizona: once this form is learned, practice of all the preceding FP Qigong exercises are subsumed, and they do not have to practiced to maintain peak immunity and vitality. Thank you for sharing this link with all your students, friends, and loved ones. Sifu Terry Dunn Available at: www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Growant, In general, it's okay to practice FP Qigong before doing any other form of meditation or yoga, including mantric yoga--in that FP Qigong will not interfere with other practices. The only reason to wait a spell after completing an FP Qigong practice is to allow its healing effects to run their course and have maximum effect. Practice of proper meditation may enhance or prolong the healing effects of FP Qigong. However, lesser practices or martial arts practice, of course, will shut down the effects of the FP Qigong. As stated in previous posts, the FP Healing Energy is a pure healing energy that is incompatible with and cannot be used to empower martial art. As for practicing FP Qigong right after doing mantric yoga: in general, I don't believe that one needs to wait. (I'm assuming, of course, that your mantra work is of the positive and spiritual nature. (If otherwise, of course, there really is no point in--i.e., no lasting benefit from--practicing FP Qigong per my post citing Nagarjuna.) Best, Sifu Terry www.taichimania.com_chikung_catalog.html

Hello Backwards (and all FPCK subscribers--'good to be back after major tech glitches on TDB side kept me locked out of my account for 2+ weeks). My answers to your questions are below in bold blue: 1). Is awakening a normal happening with­ this system? I'm not sure what you mean by "awakening"; many different secular meditative movements use that term. Do you define "awakening" to mean "enlightenment"? 2). FP is a healing system, is there a r­ecommended way to use the energy generat­ed to heal others? As I've described in earlier posts, depending on one's background and training in Chinese holistic healing methods, TCM, and one's predilection as a healer, the FP Healing Energy will spontaneously apply itself through your body as an instrument to help and heal others for whom one has any positive regard for. If healing is one's calling, then one will acquire through apprenticeship or naturally discover or create the methodology to apply the healing energy to help others. In my case, as I described in earlier posts, I had already learned the complete Neikung system of Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu including its Tui Na Acupressure methods (13 of them) and basic herbology by 1983--before I learned FP Qigong from GM Doo Wai and his Tui-Na healing methods using FP Energy and herbs starting in 1991. In southern California, GMDW's reputation as a master herbalist preceded his reputation as a Kung Fu master despite his being featured in numerous cover articles in all the leading national martial arts magazines. Or yourself in speci­fic areas? Other than practicing the FP Qigong Meditations as instructed on the DVD series (and then as corrected in classes or tutorials with me or GM Doo Wai and then learning the advanced levels of the art) there are no specific ways to use the FP Meditations to heal oneself. You just practice the FP Meditation system to see how and if it heals oneself. 3). Is it necessary to practice a martia­l art along with FP? I used to be invol­ved with a few different arts but I have­ stopped actively practicing any for abo­ut 8 years now. If it is a Doo Family/ Bok Fu Pai - related martial art, then it most definitely helps for it greatly accelerates the process of mastering the healing art. Having proficiency in other internal arts such as Tai Chi Chuan definitely will accelerate one's progress in mastering FP Qigong. 4). Besides the three main storage areas­ that I've seen in the two first DVDs (e­ye and heart chakras, dan tien area) is ­there more work with chakras later on? Yes. (Although I wouldn't refer any chakra except perhaps the stomach chakra (tan tien) to be "storage areas"). To use the ayurvedic chakra model, FP Qigong activates all 7 chakras including the crown chakra or thousand pedaled lotus. And this activation of all energy centers does not occur "later on" but immediately in one's practice of the basic seated FP Meditations taught in Volume 2 of my DVD series. If you look carefully at the first and second Monk Serves Wine meditations (the 4th and 5th exercises taught on Vol.2), you can see--at least intuitively if not directly-- that the energy circulation involves all 7 chakras. btw, GM DooWai never used ayervedic terms of symbolism in teaching FP Qigong. But he often described the effects of FPCK in terms of activation of brain centers and "pushing the brain back". So that right there means that the brow chakra (third eye) and crown chakra are activated. 5). Are there any specific practices tha­t you recommend to help with the healing­ energy generated that aren't specifical­ly chi kung related? Technically speaking, no. Because every Tui-Na system that I've heard of is a holistic art integrated with a Qigong method. 6). What is the blue aura? Is it just v­isible chi/prana? This one is just pass­ing curiosity lol. The aura doesn't mea­n a whole lot to me, although it would b­e neat. I already know FP is amazing ju­st from feeling the energy from the stat­ic meditations. The last seated meditat­ion on disc 2 I absolutely love the feel­ing you get from moving the energy down ­the center. The blue aura is a by-product of proper FP Qigong practice, which does NOT take that long to manifest consistently. It is the same as the FP Healing Energy that I've described as having "spontaneous" properties. I've hinted in prior postings as to how the blue FP Energy can manifest. It is up to each FP practitioner to become the blue aura. I hope you are well and I would apprecia­te any help you can provide. If there a­re any questions that might relate that I am just unaware of I would appreciate ­a heads up. Thank you for your time and­ know that I give anyone with even a bit­ of curiosity about energy work or esote­ric practices a recommendation to get yo­ur DVDs. They really are amazing Thanks for your good wishes, backward. I'm glad you are finding the FP Qigong exercises to be effective and "amazing." Each person finds different FP Meditations as being most effective and enjoyable. Enjoy your continuing exploration! Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Hi Ace, Although on the DVD's I clearly recommend not eating 30 minutes before or 30 minutes after practicing FP Qigong, the "30 minute abstinence rule" generally applies more to the period prior to FP Qigong practice than the period following practice. This is primarily because if one has eaten a full meal, the body's natural digestive functions shouldn't be interrupted or complicated by any type of vigorous exercise--let alone internal energy exercises. It's fine to wait 30 minutes after a FPCK practice session before bathing or eating. But it really depends on what each FP practitioner wants to do with what he or she is feeling after the practice. I had posted earlier in this discussion that whenever one feels that the FP Qigong's rather blissful self-healing processes are somehow getting too affective, one can simply eat something and that will greatly dampen or shut down the cultivation of the FP Healing Energy and bring one out of any meditative state of consciousness induced by this Qigong. I hope this clarifies and conforms to what all FP Practitioners out there have been experiencing. Enjoy your practice. Sifu Terry Dunn www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html