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Sifu Terry's above comments are a spiritual treatise in itself and a roadmap that echoes the guidance of many masters who have reached the goal. I recall how simply my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, used to condense the Vedic Science teaching in one statement: "Always do what you know is the right thing, and be regular in your practice of Transcendental Meditation." That is how to deal with the karmic situation of finding ourselves on this challenging planet Earth. In other words, engage in the highest form of behavior and daily perform a spiritual practice that is going to raise the vibration of your mind/body/spirit by getting you regularly to the quantum physics state of least excitation of consciousness, the Vacuum state, the Absolute, Sat Chit Ananda, Tao, Satori, Nirvana, the Rapture, etc. As I have written previously, my favorite term for my personal experiences of reaching this state temporarily is from Lao Tzu: "the Mother of 10,000 things." To have at least an intellectual understanding of what the quote symbolizes, just read the quantum physics description of the qualities of the vacuum state and you will realize why Lao Tzu chose those words and that in those words you can find the reason why the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali result in actual manifestation in consciousness when performed correctly. Movement in stillness/silence, Be still and know that I am God, is another name for introducing a thought in that deepest state of stillness and then you have learned the mechanics of Creation. And to my way of thinking, the Taoist term, the formless form, stands for the same state of consciousness where the wave and the particle are One and the same. All things exist as a potential state in the Unmanifest state of consciousness, Stillness, Silence. Be still and know that I AM. All this is That. In other words, all manifested objects have their original source in the silence or perfect stillness of the state of least excitation. Then excite that state of perfect rest with a bit of consciousness, or intention, and the stillness then moves and takes shape. Think Book of Genesis. In other words, my experience is that we need meditation methods to reach that state of consciousness and Masters who live that state of consciousness. The blind shall not lead the blind. To validate the reality of Sifu Terry being taught from the Spiritual realm, just search online for that article attributed to statements from Grand Master Doo Wai describing how the Flying Phoenix Qigong methods were originally given to that monk on Ermei mountain. My own validation comes from my wife. Last year after I gave her the Oneness Blessing deeksha/energy for the fist time, she then had a deity appear to her mind's eye who demonstrated a series of movements to her. My wife at the time had no background or understanding of any of the energetic arts or spiritual knowledge. She showed me the movements and it was obvious that they were chi kung. Later my medical clairvoyant saw that the deity that taught my wife chi kung was White Tara. So Sifu Terry has reminded us that when we are on the path, we are taught from different sources at different levels of life. What is that quote? There is more to life, Horatio, than meets the eyes? Thank you Sifu Terry for sharing such a profound and personal spiritual experience. And I apologize to this group of readers for rambling on. I tend to do that on Sundays even though I was never in a church so I was not exposed to any sermons but some of my sudden sharings sure sound like a sermon, LOL. '

Update. I had my second Skype Yi Ren Qigong lesson but with a different teacher who said that they do not do qi transmissions, rather there is an energy support going on between teacher and student. I find this confusing. The first teacher said the energy is transmitted by him by intending that. The second teacher said she does not do that. So who knows?

Enlightenment means different things in different spiritual lineages. In the Vedas, the oldest roadmap for enlightenment, enlightenment is when there is no more stress left in the nervous system and then we have the full potential of the brain and there are stages to this, Cosmic Consciousness, God Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Brahman Consciousness, Krishna Consciousness. There was a small book written about this called The Seven Stages of Consciousness. The Oneness simplifies all of this and just sees it as when the kundalini reaches the brain centers and stays up there, you are Awakened. Awakened is more like Cosmic Consciousness. And their concept of Enlightenment is more like God Consciousness. In those higher states suffering might just last seconds because there is no feeling stronger than bliss. Once again, you have to have had some even temporary experience of this to understand it.

I want to underline the above points by Sifu Terry from my own experience with meditation. Many of us who learned Transcendental Meditation for various personal reasons eventually continued with it not for the release of stress to have a more normally functioning nervous system, but to achieve the purpose of all human life, enlightenment. So in the first several years of meditating twice a day many of us would start the meditation that day wondering if this was the day that we would pop into the first stage of enlightenment called in TM terms, Cosmic Consciousness. We were focused on the goal. Eventually I let that go and stopped wondering when the goal would be reached and instead just enjoyed the daily benefits that come from sustained practice. We will get there when we get there. It is recorded in the ancient Vedas of India that every soul's exact date of Awakening is already known. There is a movement in India that actually has access to these dates. And I know of a very gifted lady who also has access to these "records" and she has the ability to find out this same information but the risk is that knowing that special date could result in a seeker getting off the path by stopping doing what he/she needs to be doing to get to that destined date. In other words, a person could just stop carrying on. And with more maturity some of my long term TM meditator friends and I have realized that TM is not the quickest path to enlightenment and we have added something else to get us to our destination. One of the things that I have added for my journey is chi kung. The other major method that I have added for the past 10 years works great for others but has done nothing for me, yet I keep carrying on with it because it makes sense to do so. I will get there when I get there. I think there is no greater purpose in life than carrying on. All the rest has been enjoyable but seems superficial in comparison to walking the pathless Path. I remember being on various dates when the woman would just want to spend time together watching a TV program and I would be wishing that I was home alone so that I could be doing more qigong. There is a difference between an obsession and a passion. As Sifu Terry pointed out, the obsession has the element of pain.

I recently stumbled upon an authentic qigong method claiming to come from 600 CE and brought out to the public in the 1990's in the Seattle, WA area by Dr. Sun, a molecular genetics engineer. It is called Yi Ren Qigong. On their web site they state why this qigong is different than other qigong methods and the video testimonials are pretty inspiring. So I arranged for a Skype lesson. From this you immediately can experience which energy centers are blocked. I experienced tremendous chi sensation when doing what in Spring Forest would be called Breathing the Universe where you spread your palms apart and then bring them together. At one point the chi field in between my hands was so strong that I had to use effort to get my hands to move closer together. Then when I went to separate my arms it was as if they moved out on their own. The reason this chi was so strong is because Yi Ren teachers do energy transmission to open things up for you which other wise would take years and years on your own to try to generate this much chi. There is much to this method. And that movement that I was doing was done all without using any qigong breathing! It is considered to be authentic qigong which they claim is extremely rare to find as most qigong does very little except for cleansing. Yi Ren claims to get you to the state of consciousness that Lao Tze described. Your internal organs improve communication between each other and then healing of the body automatically takes place. It is worth at least reading about at their website.

From my own experience I can say it is not good to try to learn multiple different qigong methods at the same time. If you do learn Flying Phoenix Chi Kung there are so many exercises to do on that one it is unlikely you will have any time left to do any other method. So I would suggest first thinking about how much time per day you have to devote to doing qigong, that will narrow your choices in which method you go after. There are some methods that take one hour or more to do. There are some very powerful methods that take 15 minutes to do.

I don't think that wanting to see the blue light from doing Flying Phoenix Chi Kung would prevent it from happening. I think these abilities happen due to the energy opening up energy centers, especially in the brain. So wanting or not, they will happen on their own. No one can deny their true desires.

I disagree with the above about feeling no results from sumyama. When the siddhis are done with the missing correct instructions, they work and the kundalini rises to the brain and you experience unlimited bliss. People have been accepting lack of experiences from their practice because their teachers have not been taught how to correctly do samyama. The missing part of the correct practice is not contained in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras book unless you know how to decipher it. Only one saint that I know of in this modern era was able to teach the siddhis in their correct method, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. No need to settle for less, find a teacher who can give you the expected experiences during the practice itself. Don't be satisfied with alpha brain waves when you can reach theta and delta.

Adyashanti because he writes from his Awakened state of consciousness. Knowledge is structured in Consciousness --- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Anyone who tells you to just drop enlightenment seeking and drop spiritual traditions cannot possibly have experienced even a taste of enlightenment which is our true state of natural mind but few experience it due to stress in the nervous system. To reach enlightenment is the whole purpose of creation and only a human nervous system is capable of making the changes to the brain which can create enlightenment. Zen crap again, to drop everything. They are very misguided people. The blind shall not follow the blind. Find a teacher that is enlightened and practice he method. The highest teaching and most powerful and quickest method is now from an actual avatar, Sri Bhagavan of Oneness University. Awakening comes before enlightenment. Listen to a just one of his short teachings on video clip at onenessuniversity.org and then decide if this is real or not. When someone tells you to drop the search for enlightenment you can bet that person is not enlightened and thus is not at a high enough level of consciousness to be offering any spiritual advice to anyone.

I had my medical clairvoyant test Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong and he found that the Longevity Qigong is already changing the brain and therefore he saw no reason for me to learn Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong. He also saw that Longevity Qigong results in more benefits in other areas than Kwan Yin MQ offers. Jenny Lamb is now teaching the higher levels of Yi Gong in person.

I would be remiss not to mention a health enhancer that I discovered for some of you who are concerned that qigong is not enough for your health concerns. Royal Rife was a scientist who created a sound wave vibrational healing machine that he used to heal many illnesses including at least 30 cases of stage 4 cancer successfully until the A.M.A. shut him down. There have been modern versions of his machine but they can be expensive and have some limitations in terms of technical functioning. However, I just discovered a model of Rife type machine that you just download to your computer as software and it is not expensive and does not have the technical problems that other Rife machines have and it is super easy to operate. I ordered it days ago after my medical clairvoyant found it to test well and he saw that it should work. It is called the Rife Pro X2. I had successful results after just one session for a lingering condition that I have been trying to deal with by ayurvedic herbs for the past several years. Just passing this on because I know there are many who read this blog who turn to qigong to improve your health.

Hi Bruce, I have asked myself that same question about health and longevity related to qigong and I have been on both sides of the street when it comes to how I answer myself. My mother will be 91 years old next month and has never exercised once she graduated from high school and then smoked for about half of her life. She never ate organic nor did she watch what she ate. She lives alone the past few years after my dad died and health is fine except for arthritis effecting her back the last few years and now a hernia. When I read the passing of a martial artist or tai chi master they seem to die off in their 80's these days which does not seem that old, it seems average. My aunt died last year after being about a 3 pack a day cigarette smoker most of her life and compulsive coffee drinker. She was 93 years old and also able to live alone. The other side of it is that a few years ago I was very sick with a virus that I could not shake and at the time I recently learned Pan Gu Mystical Qigong. I was told to do that qigong for several hours and then I would be well the next day. So I did that very simple but boring method for 3.5 hours and did not feel any better. However, I woke up the next morning feeling 95% better and was outside after a snow storm chopping ice to try to get my car out to return to work, I had that much energy and felt so much better. So I am convinced by that experience that qigong benefits health. Also, my medical clairvoyant always sees which organs of the body are currently being helped by qigong. I also think our health is to a large extent governed by ancestor karma which for me also can mean our genetic inheritance/DNA. Astrological configurations are also a factor, but that too falls under the category of karma. I think Sifu Terry is more qualified to address this question. I know that he has personally healed his own colds doing a lot of qigong. Speaking of Master George Xu, I have learned his Dragon Gate Qigong but stopped it because I soon discovered Flying Phoenix Chi Kung at that time. A few years ago I tried Master Xu's Wu Wei Qigong which tested as more powerful and easier to do than it's almost identical system, Falun Dafa. I have been in touch in the recent past with one of Master Xu's senior students, Susan Matthews. George Xu is part of the China's Living Treasures dvd series. I saw an interview of George Xu recently where he discusses his greatest regret in martial arts as being that he can find no one who can point out his faults. He said it is not good to not have a teacher, he wishes he had one. He also has a sense of humor. I was glad to hear that Grandmaster Doo Wai is still alive since I had assumed he was deceased by now considering the strokes I had heard about a few years ago.

Hello Sifu Terry, Those are impressive reported experiences from your qigong class. I compare your class to the qigong class I have been taking thru an adult education class from a local community college. There is a world of difference. Your warmups are probably advanced compared to the super simple basics we are being taught and never advancing beyond that level. My question is, what are the Qing Dynasty Imperial Exercises?

I have not attended any retreats. The Yigong method is part of Sifu Lamb's qigong dvd and is very easy to learn but the dvd does not explain what Yigong is really about or how or why it creates spontaneous movements. That is why I would like to take the online class to gain an understanding of this method and to take it deeper. It does not always result in movements. It is like doing meditation, you have to be well rested, not fatigued when you do the method.

I have done at least 30 different qigong and neigong methods during the past several years but only the Yigong method of Sifu Jenny Lamb has created such strong chi flow that spontaneous body movements of the limbs occurred. This experience ends all doubts about whether or not chi really exists. It is a wonderful feeling when it happens.

Sifu Jenny Lamb on 4/4/2016 announced that she will do an ONLINE Yigong weekend course in the near future if enough people are interested. Contact her if you are interested so she can get a head count. My medical intutive tested her Yigong method and found it to be one of the most powerful things he has ever tested in his career. It has produced the strongest chi flow I have ever felt from the over 30 chi kung and neigong methods I have done. The chi flow is so strong at times that it results in spontaneous body movements.

Dr. Love has many videos on you tube and his skill in qigong is obvious regardless of the name that he goes by.

I have the Qigong for Serious Health Concerns. First of all, this $200 DVD is the worse visual quality of any qigong dvd I have viewed. It is stricly homemade, nothing about it looks professional. Even $14.95 qigong dvds look better than this one. As far as the qigong methods presented, they are not the style I would want to do. They are more physical than the slow moving postures I enjoy doing. Therefore, I viewed the 4 hour dvd and did not resonate with the exericses at all so I did not even try to do any of them. This does not mean that they are not effective, it just means that there are many powerful and beneficial qigong dvds to choose from that are more enjoyable to perform and more enjoyable to watch. I was not surprised by unprofessional quality of the dvd since all the video ads for this dvd looked homemade, so I expected this dvd to be homemade, and it is! At the cost of $195 he sitll charges shipping at $15!

Taoist Monk videos are available as download by emailing Yadi, he does not advertise them. Whether or not he still has Cloud Hands on this series of downloads is unknown, you could ask him, he will reply. My medical clairvoyant recently tested Yadi's advertising for his dvd called Qigong for Serious Health Conditions because I thought the advertisement for it seemed to be hype. The testing showed that this is authentic and will be very good for my overhealth and especially my liver. The above mentioned DaoDe Qong offered from Russia also tested as a good system but not much for health benefits.

Comments withdrawn, once again due to further research I found what I was asking about.

earlier commentary withdrawn due to investigating further and discovering positive results

to lump millions of people who practice Falun Dafa as being involved with politics is an incorrect generalization.

I would like to hear from people who have done these exercises for the 5 elements that are taught online from the Dao De group in Russia. Interesting how everyone claims that the qigong or neidan that they do is the most authentic or most beneficial. Reminds me of the different religions claiming they are the only real lineage, such as the Catholic Church. So much ego involved in this.

For those seekers on the path who do Flying Phoenix Chi Kung or another ancient Chinese method for evolution of Consciousness or just plain old well being and who might not know which opinions to accept as valid concerning the dangers or non-danger of mindfulness meditation, I want to share just a tidbit of my own experience. When the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, conducted an experimental one month course at the completion of our teacher training course in 1976, almost all of us, as predicted, went into temporary states of higher consciousness which were the same experiences that mystics, yogis, adepts, Taoist, Buddhist, Zen, Christian saints and others around the world at different times throughout history have written and spoken about. My own experience and conclusion at that time was that it was without doubt the most natural state of mind anyone could ever be in. It was the experience of one's own True Self. Only those who have had this state of consciousness could possibly understand how this is our real nature. It is the furthest experience from a hallucination that anyone could possibly have. Therefore, the Oxford professor created his treatise from an unnatural state of mind which is the same condition that everyone else is experiencing the world from unless they have been awakened from a physiological change in brain functioning which produces normal states of consciousness. I have worked with brilliant, well educated psychiatrists who are considered to be experts of the human mind just because of their training. Yet they are some of the most closed minded people I have met when it comes to educating them about higher states of normal human functioning which they have no clue about. The rare exception is David Hawkins, MD who is a psychiatrist now living in Arizona. As a youth he spontaneously went into higher states of consciousness which he has described in all of his enlightened books. Clients who sought him out in New York City were at times healed just being in his presence because of the energy that he spontaneously emitted which was the vibration of love, the greatest healing agent of them all. He had to hire a staff of over 20 therapists to handle the clients that sought him out and he had to eventually give up his practice to escape from the huge demand for his services. But he is someone who teaches from his experiences, whereas the Oxford professor seems to be teaching from his opinions. My teacher used to say, "knowledge is structured in consciousness." And knowledge comes from direct experience plus intellectual understanding.