ChiDragon

hmmmmmm.... Now, people say alchemy is emotional. What else can someone couldn't imagine?

This OP is confused as hell. I just don't know how to start nor how to respond to it.

How would you go about doing the spiritual/metaphysical experiments with the levels of consciousness? If it can be done, is it only done by mental processes? That would only lead to the conclusion of one's thought or imagination as what the ancients always had done.

Again, the innate qi is not internal qi. The TCM definition for it is the basic unit that comprises the human body. It was originated from the parents.

Regarding to 后天之氣, the acquired Qi, the Qi here is a substance other than people thought it was an energy. It is acquired from outside the body, such as the food we eat and the air that we breathe. Mainly, it is the oxygen that we needed for the decomposition of the glucose to produce the ATP energy. The glucose is from the foods we eat. The glucose was broken down from the food and stored in the liver as glycogen. To learn more about ATP is best to study Cell Respiration.

This would be involved with modern science by looking into cell respiration inside the body cell(Google it). However, most people do not like to look into that. They rather stay with the simple traditional concept macroscopically.

In regard to you understanding, you got the right idea. However, just to be clear, horse stance is the main part of Standing Meditation. With breathing, your body is generating its inner energy. The idea of "its main goal is to guide acquired qi to clear and activate the body’s entire energy network" is an traditional concept that was what most people were told. In other words, your energy was not acquired, rather, it was generated by your own body. Most people only have the macroscopic view of it. If we're looking at it microscopically, then, it would be a different story.

Horse Stance(马步）is the name that was given to a stance. Zhan Zhuang（站桩）is the name that was given to a method of being standing at a horse stance.

Yes, that's how it is. 歡迎妳來到这一个历史悠久的社区!

If you are practicing Qigong for several decades. your libido should be increased tremendously already by now. It comes with the package, whether you like it or not, only if you did it right. It doesn't matter what Qigong you practice, you will have the same effect on your body. Please note that I didn't say what type of Qigong, it is they are the same; but only differ in name. You just stay away from that unwelcome practice! Just stay away and don't bother with it to waste your time.

Isn't textual support is somebody else's words without textual support to begin with?

Welcome to TDB! If you are practicing Qigong for several decades. your libido should be increased tremendously already by now. It comes with the package, whether you like it or not, only if you did it right. PS It doesn't matter what Qigong you practice, you will have the same effect on your body. Please note that I didn't say what type of Qigong, it is they are the same; but only differ in name. You just stay away from that unwelcome practice! Just stay away and don't bother with it to waste your time.

Well, I would say that feeling is a sensation in the the nervous system.

What you are saying that is your chest is stronger than your abdomen! How did you come to that conclusion?

MCO stands for Microcosmic orbit(小周天) and Macrocosmic orbit(大周天). If it is not a breathing exercise, then, there would be no such thing as MCO. It would be a myth to think that moving substances through the Du and the Ren meridians. However, the old concept of MCO was only a legendary concept was passed down from century to century. The same old story was always repeated with no proof. There are no living reference. It was only told by the word of mouth. The story comes out differently each time depends on who told it. I had challenged these ideas about MCO on a Chinese Qigong site. So far, no one has taken the challenge with contradiction but just took it silently. I will go find my post and place it here with translation.

I don't know what are you really asking. If you practice Qigong, the chi(氣) goes into your lung, then, the heart pumps the blood into the lung to collect the oxygen. The first organ that uses the oxygen is the lung, then, the heart is the second organ to use it. Both organs uses the oxygen to convert energy for muscle contraction. However, in order to acquire the ultimate goal of Qigong is to sink chi into the lower dantian(LDT), 氣沉丹田. Under this condition, the more oxygen that the lung can give to the heart, the heart will be more healthier. Regardless of what Qigong style that you practice, your body will have the same effect. In your terms, chi will flow all over inside your body. Whatever you would like to define what chi is.

What was your point? What do you want to say? "Zazen gets up and walks around?" I don't get it. Do you actually know what Zazen is all about? I understand that Zazen is a sitting position in three lotus styles. Zazen is not a thing that walks around. However, after the practice and getting up from the lotus position, it is hard to walk for awhile until the legs are returned to the normal walking condition.

Wu Wei is nothing that cannot be done.

Some people are trained to believe the statements originated from "Science." Perhaps some might be believing it blindly like believing in God. Some are believing in Science with reasoning to support it. Some believed it was because it was proven by scientific method proofs. In the other hand, believing in God is a spiritual belief. It requires no proofs but faith. Finally, believing in the TCM or any martial arts system is like believing and having faith in God. Believing them require no proofs as long one thinks it works. Hence, one can explain it any way that one wants to and make belief for those who wish to believe it. These beliefs may spread out faster than the speed of sound. However, people with different education level will believe them in a different way for granted. Something works may be good enough for the sake of one's satisfaction. Some may be happy to believe what they had been told. Some might want to believe it with some proofs. Some might want to believe it by experiencing with one's own conclusion. At last, some might want to experience it and research to get some facts convincing oneself to believe it. IMO There should be no doubt believing in Science with reasoning proofs by the scientific method. Believing is wise to believe in something by logical reasoning without any doubt or preconceived ideas. We should always consider what we are reading or told with an open mind.

If it doesn't do healing, then, how does it keep the body in good health to become an immortal.

I don't know about Qigong is improving my eyesight or not. I know Qigong will keep my body in good health from getting worse! Qigong is Qigong, no matter what name one wants to call it. It has the same effect on the body. It is not how you breathe to determine which organ was benefited. Qigong practice will benefit which organ is the weakest that needs attention. The body is a self healing machine and it will take care of itself on its own. There is no need to see what Qigong one practice. It is because it was only the given name is fooling you.

Yes, that is a good thought. As long the practice was done correctly reached to the realm, who cares how it works. Only I do! I like to investigated and told what I think and speak out. However, some people don't know and have no idea what I know with denial. That is okay, it is because we are at a different comprehensive level.

It was your personal opinionated translation.

Well, we cannot put a blanket definition for chi as oxygen. Chi means breathing in Qigong that the west has never tell it like so. It was a poor translation of Chinese masters to snow everyone. They just make that up so that can tell their story. That is why the west got stuck that Chi is energy, nothing but energy, and ignored the rest of the vast definition. We have lots of newcomers saying that they practice Qigong. I believe that they don't even know what Qigong means. I do not have any reason to believe that someone could give me a good definition of Qigong. BTW Qigong(氣功) was only known as "energy work" in the west. Sigh, it was assumed that Chi is energy again; and gong(功) translated as work. However, gong really means the effect or efficacy. I believe in the scientific method to prove things since I had learnt that in high school. Especially, I was an electrical engineer and become more close to modern scientific approach to look at things. I can only deal with whatever people say as beliefs without proof. In another site, I was talking to a biochemist about cell respiration which he knew nothing about and said that is not his field. I was surprised. Since that is related to his field, he doesn't even bother to look it up or curious about it. He was just blindly believes the non-scientific stories about Qigong that is speculating around the world. Sigh!

It is because it works without proof. Besides, the Qigong and TCM are only beliefs also. All the Meridians lies on all the nerves, but the TCM practitioners do not think so. Thus they had only made that as beliefs. If one follows all the acupuncture points, one will see they are on all the nerves in the body. Even in the book that they use as Bible say so. The title of the book is Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion. I have both Chinese and English versions on my bookshelf.