ChiDragon

Sorry, I don't mean to be silly. My intention was to find out what are the basic fundamentals have you learned from your teacher, within the 8 years, about Tai Ji chuan. Did you know Tai Ji is a form of Chi Kung. If you had practiced for 20 years, then you should be able to feel the chi sensation in your body to understand the chi kung principles. If you had practiced Tai Ji for 20 years, you should have been developed your chi spontaneously already. I don't see that in you by your line of questioning. Do you see why I am asking all these silly questions...???

When we are talking about "duality", it has to be one is the complement of the other. In this case, ugly is the complement of beautiful. However, a rose does not have a complement. Thus a rose can be thinking in the singularity but not a dualistic singularity. By the definition of duality, "what is" and "what isn't" are not necessary a duality. It is a duality, only, if the "what is" is the complement of "what isn't", then it would be considered to be a valid duality.

Windows XP will not let you display the characters. 同謂之玄。 玄之又玄， 眾妙之門。 同(tung): the same; alike; similar 謂(wei): to call; to say; 同謂: said to be the same; also said to be alike 眾(choong): all; more than one; 妙(meow): this character was used to express a kind of feeling that is when you see something wonderful, strange, mysterious, unfathomable. However, in the classic text, it means changes. 同謂之玄。 They are said to be mysterious. 玄之又玄， Mysterious and even more mysterious, 眾妙之門。 The gate of all changes.

One of the basic rules for a Buddhist monk to follow was to be ascetic. It means no contact nor associate with any woman. Period.

IMO You have poor blood circulation, you may practice any isotonic Chi Kung with slow movements and deep breathing. That will help you to generate more body heat to resist the outside cold temperature.

Chapter 1 1. 道可道，非常道。 2. 名可名，非常名。 3. 無，名天地之始。 4. 有，名萬物之母。 5. 故常無，欲以觀其妙。 6. 常有，欲以觀其徼。 7. 此兩者同出而異名， 8. 同謂之玄。玄之又玄， 9. 眾妙之門。

1. 意(yi) when combined with 明(ming); then 意 is "meaning". So, to understand a character, then you must understand its 意(meaning). 2. Can you use it for easy to eat or easy to kill? Were you referring to 易...??? Yes, in that case, you may use it for easy to eat or easy to kill.

In the ancient Chinese thinking, the features of a woman were considered to be soft, quiet and calm. It was considered that anyone who has the patience like a woman was actually a very nice compliment at the time.,

7. Love the people and rule the country, 8. Can it be natural and Wu Wei(benevolent)? "Benevolent" was the intended meaning for Wu Wei, linking to line 7, with an implication that a ruler was caring and loving his people by running his country with benevolence. It was another principle of Wu Wei which was advocated by LaoTze in the TTC. I think John Wu was using another version of the TTC which line 8 says: 無知(wu zhi) instead of 無為(wu wei).

If you had trained tai Chi (Wu style) for around 20 years and after training under a great teacher for around 8 years, I am just curious and surprised why do you still asking questions about Chi Kung.

Wu Wei: let Nature take its course; be natural, take no unnatural action; unintentional action. You Wei: take unnatural action, interfere with the course of Nature, intentional action.

The duality counterpart for Wu Wei(無為) is You Wei(有為). You Wei(有為) is undesirable which is the opposite of Wu Wei. LaoTze left out "You Wei" most of the time and almost put all his emphasis on Wu Wei throughout the TTC. The natural manner has no intend. So, a spontaneous action which was considered to be natural. An action that was in a premeditated manner and expected a predictable result was considered to be unnatural. The duality of Wu Wei and You Wei only happened one time literally. However, the only intend of the TTC was You Wei by expecting all else to be Wu Wei. Hence, the final expectation of the TTC was to be a singularity natural manner(Wu Wei).

There is a bug in the new software. The editor do not go away after you click the "POST" button. Please do not hit the "Post" button more than once to prevent double entry.

What is Chi in "Chi Kung" to you....????

Pinyin (Lines 1 - 12) 01. zai ying po bao yi, 02. neng wu li hu? 03. tuan qi zhi rou, 04. neng ru ying er hu? 05. di chu xuan lan, 06. neng wu ci hu? 07. ai min zhi guo, 08. neng wu wei hu? 09. tian men kai he, 10. neng wei ci hu? 11. ming bai si da, 12. neng wu zhi hu? Chapter 10 1. 載營魄抱一， 2. 能無離乎﹖ 3. 專氣致柔， 4. 能如嬰兒乎﹖ 5. 滌除玄覽， 6. 能無疵乎﹖ 7. 愛民治國， 8. 能無為乎﹖ 9. 天門開闔， 10.能為雌乎﹖ 11.明白四達， 12.能無知乎。 Terse English 1. Soul and body as oneness, 2. Can they not separate? 3. Concentrate the vital force(chi) to its extreme softness(calmness), 4. Can it be like an infant? 5. Cleansing the deep reflector(mirror), 6. Can it be flawless? 7. Love the people and rule the country, 8. Can it be natural and Wu Wei(benevolent)? 9. Opening and closing the heavenly gate, 10.Can it be feminized(focus on stillness)? 11.Understand the four directions, 12.Can it not be relied on wisdom?

Yiming... I am a Cantonese also, a real Chinaman.... Anyway, the reason you cannot post any Chinese character is becuse you have not set up the language feature in your windows. I am assuming that you are using Microsoft Windows 7. BTW I am using the Windows Vista Home Premium. You need to go into the Control Panel under the "Region amd Language" To select "keyboards and Languages" to "Change keyboard" then add Chinese(Traditional, Taiwan) then add The input method for the characters. After you have done the Chinese language setup, then we can go from there, OK....???

GeoBall... I was as curious as your are about Chi Kung. I have the same type of questions as you have. I had found some scientific answers to my satisfaction and always wanted to share them with an open-minded person. I am glad that this person has emerged and that is you. I am glad to discuss the items you have listed in the OP.

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.