ChiDragon

Please don't worry, nobody will believe what it says. Everybody has a different definition of dan tian. Let them live with what they think that have! Peace!

Likewise to you too. Cobie. Are you having fun?

If you don't know how to breathe, your body definitely don't. Why do people practice Chi Kung? It is because they had lost their ability to breathe normally. Chi Kung will help them to correct their bad breathing habits.

Yes, however, you must observe the tu na(吐納) breathing procedure as laid out by the ancient Taoists.

Yes, It is the whole circumference of the abdomen below the navel.

Dan Tian is the abdomen. I am sorry that the Taoist called it Dan Tian to confuse the whole world. Dan Tian breathing is the same as abdominal breathing.

Energetic body is a physical thing. Is your body imaginary?

The Dan Tien is an actual objective "thing" that exists only in the mind of the beholder. Might as will make good use of it.

Perhaps 吐納 (tu na ) was the original 气功 (chi kung) in China.

IMO Breathing should be just inhale and exhale with a little gap in between. It is a matter of the amount of oxygen intake that affects the human body. Alternating the breathing sequences should not have any beneficial influences. It might do less more harm than good. Why make it so complicated to distract oneself in focus?

Based on what I have read the definitions online, I disagree with the former but agree with the latter. The latter is more like acupressure.

I think it is. Ref: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Diagram-of-meridians-and-acupuncture-points-or-acupoints-that-have-been-studied-with_fig1_45199092

FYI The radicals make up the characters. Each character has its meanings depends on context. The compound character has different meanings completely as oppose to the individual character. Many non-natives do make this kind of mistakes by interpreting them separately.

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I believe that is your understanding and opinion. I will not argue about that. I can only tell what it is, other than what it is not. Peace!

Don't always but sometimes?

There is no argument that. 氣海(sea of qi) is just a name of an acupoint. It has happens to be located below the navel. I wouldn't translate the name to make something out of it. The nomenclature 氣海 is just pointing out where the location of the acupoint is. It really has no significant meaning. PS That applies to all of the nomenclatures. They are just names of the acupoints.

Déjà vu: 似曾相识 丹田 is compound character and is one term. We do not translate it separately. It is just a description for a place holder in the human body. If the interpretation was done separately, then, its original meaning will be lost. Peace to all!

The native scholars do not ignore the compound characters like the non-natives do.

If you believe that Qigong is about breathing, yes. Somehow, I had an impression that when Dharma went to China, he introduced Yoga to the Shaolin monks. It seems that Qigong is the derivative of Yoga.

Oh! One of those things again!

Where is this idea come from? It makes me wonder! Now, this dantian thing is really tangent off to never-never-land.

I don't think people in India ever practiced Taoism. There would be a greater chance to find a Buddhist in India. I think!

Don't you know what IF mean?

Should he go to China then. Other than seeking it within India? He could have done yoga breathing.