ChiDragon

Hi... What make you think it is the qi in your brain that was causing the burnig pain....???

In that case, be sure that no one will interfere with its present natural habitat.

Hi, yi ming... Yes, I can type or paste any character on this post. Please let me know what subject or interest that you would like to related the characters to. I think it is more interesting to start with the characters that are connected to something that you are fond of. Let's start with your nickname here. Yi Ming can be written as: 意明: Understand the actual meaning or 易明: Easy to understand.

It was not a contest. Fortunately, let's say that our blood pressure readings are well within a normal range.

Good day, joeblast.

What bothers me the most is that I was forced into too personal in the arguments. I don't see any impartial justice. It is really meaningless when personal involvements were used as part of any technical reasoning.

There are lots of misconception about the terminology "dan tian" in the west. "Dan tian" is just a location on the body for the convenience of identifiaction. There was no such thing as outer nor inner dan tian. People were misinterpreted the phrase "sink chi to the dan tian". They thought it was meant to store energy to the dan tian. However, it was not the case. In Chi Kung, it was meant to breathe and send the breath(chi) deep down to the abdomen. People cannot stay away from thinking that Chi is always meant "energy". "sink chi to the dan tian" simply means "abdominal breathing" in Chi Kung or martial arts. Your body cannot and does not store energy, it can only generate the energy as long you will used it. If not, it will be gone in few seconds. Your energy will not build up until you take another breath again. Another words, as long you hold your breath deep down in your dan tain, then the energy will be started to generate. As soon you release the breath in the dan tian, your have loss the ability to generate more energy. Unfortunately, there are not many people understand this concept. To understand this concept, you may observe the weight lifters. The weight lifters always take a deep breath and hold before they lift any weights off the floor. I'm sure that you have noticed they always have a belt around the waist to help them to hold their breath. The idea was to keep the energy going to lift the weights for few seconds. Actually, they were using the basic concept of "sink chi to the dan tian". Under the condition of "sink chi to the dan tian", your body muscles will generate the energy holistically. The energy was not from the dan tain as one might thought.

You welcome...!!! I thought that is what you had in mind. Yes, from a Taoist perspective, it was considered to be interfering with the natural habutats of the animals.

While doing slow deep breathing(sink chi to the dan tian): 111 over 67, heart rate 57

Are you any different from that....???

It sounds very specious.

精化氣, 氣化神, 神化虛 神還虛 The character 化(hua4) was translated as "transformed". Hence, Jing was transformed to Chi; Chi was transformed to Shen; Shen was transformed returned to Void. However, based on the logic of these translations, we have the following conditions: 1. When Jing was changed into Chi, then, we have no more Jing left. 2. When Chi was changed into Shen, then, we have no more Chi left. 3. When Shen was changed into void, then, we have no more Shen left. There is a big fallacy in these translations. How should we translate these three phrases to make it logical and correct....??? Hint: The key relies upon how do we handle or translate the character 化(hua4). Note: 神還虛 will not be discussed because it is outside the scope of this thread.

"hua" 化 is 化育; it is more like a chemical reaction rather then "sheng" 生. "jing IS NOT maintened" When you say "jing" which jing do you mean, postnatal or prenatal....??? Are you saying that postnatal jings do not maintain prenatal jings....???

My blood pressure at the present moment is 120/67. PS.... If you are proud of your blood pressure reading; please post it here once awhile. Maybe someone would like to have you to share your practicing experience in maintaining the blood pressure in such good condition.....

FYI only 知(zhi1): to know; knowing; knowledge 智(zhi4): wisdom; smart; tricky in a smart way.

Chapter 5 1. 天地不仁， 2. 以萬物為芻狗。 3. 聖人不仁， 4. 以百姓為芻狗。 Chapter 5 1. Heaven and Earth have no mercy, 2. Treat all things as straw dogs. 3. Sages have no mercy, 4. Treat people as straw dogs. Wu Wei was hidden in these classic text. BTW The Chinese classic were written in codes like a riddle. In this Chapter, Wu Wei was implying the notion of "being impartial". There are two things here which are given the clues about Wu Wei. The two clues are "no mercy" and "straw dogs". 不仁(bu ren): The 仁(ren2) here is 仁慈(ren2 ci2) mercy. Thus "bu ren" is no mercy. 芻狗(chu gou): straw dog In the ancient, a straw dog was used just as a sacred item for sacrificial offering. It was valueable only when it was placed at the altar. Otherwise, people just toss it in a filthy strorage, stepped on or even burnt it. Lines 1 and 2 set an example that Nature has no mercy which was being impartial. Line4 3 and 4 show that an able person(sage) shall follow the principle of Nature by ruling the people impartially. Hence, these four lines had given us a hidden message about Wu Wei.

How can we do spell check...???

Owning a pet is not "interfering". Only when harm was done to the pet is not Wu Wei.

James Liem.... I won't ask you about the nose part....!!! I know it is true with a good understanding on focus on the Dan Tian; but why....???? Do you think you can explain why focus on the Dan Tian would decrease blood pressure....???

No, from the literature I had been reading books and online, AB will not lead me to hypoxia. As I type right now and every second, I am doing abdominal breathing. I know I have abundant supply of oxygen for my body. I believe that is what Chi Kung is all about as my native Chi Kung Practitioners say. Indeed, I feel wonderful as my breaths are going through my respiratory system. I feel great by the minute 24/7....

Hypoxia cause the blood vessels to constrict which cause high blood pressure also.

It was not "Mind your own business" but "Mind my own business". It was not "DO NOTHING" but "NOT DO UNNATURAL THING"

15.Let things be with no interference; 16.Grown without possession. 17.Sustain without domination. 18.Success without dwelling. To you... Line 15 is not "let Nature take its course".......??? Line 16 is not "let Nature take its course"............??? Line 17 is not "let Nature take its course"............??? Line 18 is not "let Nature take its course"............??? BTW You are reading the Chinese Classic, not English. The TTC is given you all the definitions but not for you to create your own definition to cause yourself to misunderstand the meaning of the TTC. Please do not apply your English thinking into to TTC thinking.

12. Always keeping the people innocent without desire, 13. Presumptuous people cannot commit their acts. "by promoting ignorance and encouraging fear." Most people misunderstood this phrase, in line 12, I said most people which include the modern native Chinese also. Keeping the people innocent without desire is simply means: 1. Innocent was meant not to be full of malice thoughts in cunning others. 2. Without desire was meant to be more self contained.

Coldness can be caused by the lack of oxygen(hypoxia) for your metab0lism to generate the body heat to resist the external cold temperature. Hypoxia will cause the heart to pump faster to deliver more oxygen to the body cells to generate the body heat.