tao stillness

OK Sifu Terry, I will be glad to comment on this. I am trained as a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation programme. I have been doing this meditation for the past 42 years. It has more documented scientific research than probably all other types of meditation combined, and in my experience it leads to the deepest possible states of meditation. I am also a recently retired clinical psychologist. I have to wonder if the author of that book has ever done any meditation himself or what kind of research he has done on the benefits of meditation. I am only going to make two main points. Number one, in 1975 on the Merv Griffin show he devoted one show to Transcendental Meditation and one of his guests was Dr. Bernard Gluck, Jr., head of the Institute for Living which is the oldest private psychiatric hospital in the United States. Dr. Gluck stated that Transcendental Meditation was taught to a number of the hospital's patients who were all considered to be severely mentally ill, schizophrenic. All of them significantly improved and their medications dosages were able to be decreased as a result. My other point is that I totally agree with Ridingtheox. If someone becomes psychotic as a result of meditation, the chances are, in my opinion, that they were already psychotic before learning mindfulness. I also discount the article because I find mindfulness meditation to be the most superficial type of meditation so it would be hard for me to believe that it could cause any damage. It usually only produces alpha waves which is the same state of mind as when one daydreams. Therefore, daydreaming might also lead to psychosis if we follow this kind of logic. Like Sifu Terry, I too wonder about a brilliant, well educated professor who writes nonsense. Such a case happened not that many years ago when a professor at prestigious Northwestern University wrote a book claiming that the Holocaust never really happened in history! I think this shows that even highly educated professors can be psychotic. I would enjoy writing more about this but it is time for me to do my meditation for tonight. I forgot to mention that the last mental health center that I worked at for 9 years had a mindfullness meditation group every day. Our patients were at the level of state hospital care and not one of them ever had a bad experience from meditation. Enough said.

The hands and arms getting charged with energy was my experience also. It was then hit and miss, it would not happen each time I did a FP meditation. I find there is more chi to feel late at night, but only if I am not fatigued.

Learning Flying Phoenix and tai chi at the same time?

You have discovered a valuable and misunderstood key to correct human functioning. Being aware of what is. If it is suffering, then that is what we feel to the fullest ability and the mind will eventually lead back to the sources of the original pain. Fully accepting what is, regardless. That is part of Oneness teaching/experience.

Sifu Terry said he is in awe of the technology allowing him to teach someone on the other side of this world. What I too am in awe of is his student in Taiwan who was able to learn a 94 movement set in just 3 lessons! I marvel at that because I have a short term visual memory learning disability so I have to look at something over and over again in order to recall what it looks like. I suppose that student must have a photographic memory. Such people are at the opposite end of the spectrum from me.

Thank you Sifu Terry for all that you shared about TTP. A few years ago or last year when I learned just the first movement from TTP it was immediately obvious that it resulted in feeling the strongest chi sensations in my hands when I would do my other qigong forms. So I thought, if just doing one exercise from that method increases the sensation of chi flow that much, how much more chi would be felt by doing the rest of that short form? I am finding that I am no longer feeling so much of that cloud of energy that I reported earlier when doing 60-70-40-5 from volume 5 of Flying Phoenix. I believe this is the case because I have been having to stay awake until 2-3am most nights and then when I do FP the next morning, it is just sort of flat instead of that cloud of energy that used to be felt. Same thing happens when I do my daily meditation, if I went to bed very late the night before, I just do not go very deep in relaxation the next morning. Makes sense, lack of sufficient sleep is stressful to the nervous system.

I have since found another Tao Ahn Pai teacher, it translates as Taoist Elixir Method and is neigong. Those who have done it for 30-40 yrs claim it is amore beneficial than any qigong method. Master Carl Totton sells a DVD that includes the short form of this method taught by Lew K. Share. If you know who he was,then you know this DVD is priceless. Only one other teacher from that linege has sold a video of this method, Bill Helm. However, a few yrs ago he updated the video but only included one of the five movements of the Cloud Hands short form.

Having reached the age of 68 today I asked myself, what's it all about, as I shoveled snow last night at 2am during a blizzard that has Baltimore paralyzed. The answer to my existential question came to me yesterday and confirms what I have been seeking since age 25 when I was initiated on the path: “Golden Elixir is another name for one’s fundamental nature. There is no other Golden Elixir outside one's fundamental nature. All human beings have this Golden Elixir complete in themselves: it is entirely realized in everybody. It is neither more in a sage, nor less in an ordinary person. It is the seed of the Immortals and the Buddhas, the root of the worthies and the sages.” Liu Yiming (1734-1821) I find the above to be of personal interest for various reasons. One of which is that in 1977 when I was initiated in the correct way to perform Patanjali's yoga sutras which resulted in an immediate experience of Cosmic Consciousness/Awakening, I did experience brilliant, golden yellow light inside of myself from Kundalini exploding in my brain. Also, when Eric has tested qigong methods, some of them, including a few Flying Phoenix volumes, and Doo Wai advanced methods, were seen by him to be filling me with golden light, and for some other FP or Doo Wai meditations he has seen me filling with a beautiful white light that he described as blessing me and making changes in my brain. So therefore, I have to conclude that Flying Phoenix and other profound methods of chi kung involve the Light, whether we can see this ourselves, or not, it still is there working for us. And of all the gifts that I have been given during this sojourn on this planet, I consider chi kung to be the greatest gift of all.

In addition to wanting to hear about experiences with Volume 7, I think that Volume 5 of the Flying Phoenix Chi Kung series is overlooked in terms of being discussed on this blog and I would welcome hearing about experiences. I recently have gone back to doing Flying Phoenix and my time constraints have resulted in just being able to focus on a few that I previously learned such as meditation 4 on volume seven, and the entire volume 5 of 90 second meditations. I chose those ones based on rereading years of test results from Eric on different qigong methods. I recently obtained a dvd that includes the Cloud Hands short form from the Taoist Elixir Method but it is too time consuming because it includes a 10 minute Shen candle meditation followed by a 20 minute Zen type meditation that are to be done after the movements are done.

Would anyone like to comment in detail about their experiences doing meditation 4 on Volume 7 of FP? 60 70 40 5

As a teacher of Transcendental Meditation and having been instructed in the TM Siddhi program in 1977 and having went into a temporary state of Cosmic Consciousness as a result of doing Patanjali Yoga Sutras for the first time, as that is what the TM Siddhis are based on, I can state what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi taught the Siddhis to be. They are sutras, sutures, to sew up coordination of the mind and the body which results from full functioning of the brain. You have a desire, then things happen to bring it about in consciousness. Those are the siddhis. The powers that come with it are not for the powers themselves. But doing them makes the mind body coordination stronger and this brings about higher states of consciousness which is our natural state of mind, bliss, lack of ego and inner peace. Once it is experienced, then these teachings make perfect sense. Until then, people are just guessing at what the siddhis are for. The teachings of the sutras/siddhis in the book, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras has the most important part of the method to make it work not included in the text because the secret has been lost for centuries. Maharishi restored that very simple method so that the sutras once again produce results. So anyone trying to just say or think the sutras without the method that makes them work is just wasting time and will think there is nothing to do this method or that it is only for the most advanced yogis to do. That is so far from the truth. To be on the path without an enlightened master to guide one is like walking blindly down the road. But the ego makes one think they can reach the goal on their own.

"Mirror image", what timing, so funny!

I have done Reiki for the past 24 years and I can state that there is no such think as a Reiki transmission from a book. If you have received the transmission in a Reiki workshop you would know that this cannot be do from a book. Amazes me what people will believe and also what people will put on the market to sell.

Helpful hint. After 9 years of difficulty learning from some qigong dvds because of mirror images where the teacher's right hand is my left hand, or when he moves right, I am supposed to move left, I took someone's advice and placed my laptop in front of a mirror to view the video from the mirror and this got rid of moving in the opposite direction of the demonstrator and it made previously confusing movements easier to start learning.

All good experiences. One of the things I used to find unique about the FP meditations was when I would wear a long sleeve cotton fabric shirt and when doing some of the really slow motion seated postures when the arms would move I could at times feel an energy sensation between my arm and the inside space of my shirt. That confirmed that FP produces a tangible energy field around the body. I just have never felt that sensation from any of the many other chi kung methods that I have tried. And I have also never felt from any of the other methods the Flying Phoenix resulting sensation of my hands on the downward movement landing on a cloud like substance of energy that offers a slight resistance to the motion of my hand that I can rest the hand on like a pillow made of energy and I have to eventually push through that strong energy field that feels sort of like a big marshmallow in order to get my hand to end up back on my lap. Always was a thrill to feel that happening, and when it did, you just knew this was a very unique method of chi kung.

Has anyone here done any of the Wu and Yeung dvds from Master Teresa Yeung of Toronto, Canada? I have tried some of them and the chi is really strong in the hands from the 7 Style Tai Chi Qigong download. I can only do the 12 minute first section which is mostly very simple qigong movements of hands and arms and a little bit of simplistic tai chi. They call this the warmup. The rest of the movements are mostly tai chi which I cannot learn from a video so I gave up pretty quickly on that part since I have no tai chi experience. But when I do the warm up I feel really strong chi from those simple hand movements. The chi is felt more in the hand that is stationary while the other hand and/or arm is moving. And even the simple leg movements of shifting the weight from leg to leg produce some strong sensations in the stationary hands. Very powerful stuff from a fairly unknown master, at least in the USA.

That is so impressive, learning chi kung with such limited vision, wow! I have said this in the past, it sometimes is not so much a matter of which chi kung method a person is doing, when it comes to results, it just might be due to who is doing the practice since our nervous systems are all wired so differently, and who has less blocked energy channels, and who did the most energy cultivation in past incarnations, etc. Looking forward to hearing about your continuing experiences.

The psychic powers would naturally develop since most qigong methods at some point have the qi reaching the upper chakras. So I think most if not all qigong is for health and spiritual purposes regardless of the intention of the method or the practitioner. I know that some qigong methods result in self-directed chi where the chi goes to the areas that need to be healed without the person directing it there. Then it moves onto somewhere else needing healing.

All of the above has nothing to do with Enlightenment. The above is watered down misinterpreted, misunderstood Buddhist stuff. The current Avatar, Sri Bhagavan of Oneness movement states that Enlightenment is when the kundalini rises to the brain and remains there. That is where the bliss from it comes from. It takes a rewiring of the brain to do this and that is what the methods from Oneness Blessing is all about. I refer you to Onenessuniversity.org to read some of the teachings about this or watch video clips of the teaching on you tube.

I was impressed with Master Chen's website so I had my medical clairvoyant test his Shen Gong dvd against a few qigong dvds from other masters. Chen's dvd was not that effective according to the testing. And before that I wanted to learn the 5 Animal Form from Master Bing so I had that dvd tested and the results came back that it was to be avoided since the clairvoyant saw it would produce some kind of black spot of energy in the brain which he could determine what it was, just that it was not good. Granted this testing is only for the effects each of those dvds would have had on me, not necessarily other people.

The mentioning of the light as not circular but torus shape would correspond with David Wilcock stating that the universal energy in space is torus shape and is part of the process of creation. Let there be Light and there was light. He supports this with physics.

The doubts about emitting light might be due to the ego/mind having the natural tendency to doubt whatever it cannot directly experience. So if a few people have their brow chakra open enough to see Light but most others do not, then the phenomenon to them does not exist and vice versa. When my medical clairvoyant has tested various qigong methods before I order the dvds at times he has told me that certain qigong methods will produce light in me. Some he has seen as golden liquid like, others he described as just light. In the Vedas of ancient India they described different levels of Consciousness. And in God Consciousness a person can see that every living thing does indeed have a gold aura around it. Some people doing Qinway Qigong have reported seeing golden Buddhas in their practice. On an experimental Transcendental Meditation course created by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi using Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the night I was initiated in the practice I saw internal golden light brighter than the sun inside of me. It corresponded with using the sutras correctly in a secret manner which resulted in kundalini rising to the brain, reaching the higher chakras and spinning them at a faster vibration, hence light and energy and bliss all went together. So there is a very valid reason why we see paintings of Buddhas and saints with light around them.

The crystal cave brings to mind that various cities now have a Himalayan Salt room where people go to meditate in the natural negative ion environment, I wonder how doing chi kung in a Salt room would be for those who do not have access to a local crystal cave? I have what is claimed to be way beyond any negative ion machine. It is supposed to cancel all electromagnetic frequencies by turning them into positive energies and hooks into the entire electric circuit of your house and claims to even protect you from the power wires outside of your house. Clears Wifi, microwaves, tv and radio waves, underground water ley lines, etc. Called the GeoCleanse. No moving parts, just plug into your wall socket, does not use any electricity. I believe it works on orgonite technology. What I mean by cancel frequencies is cancellation of the harmful radiation of the EMFs, not the signals themselves.

I agree with the above. I know someone who is a teacher of Shengong and he strongly recommended the method to me but I found it to difficult to learn so it was one more method that I quickly disgarded. It was not so much the difficulty level of learning, but more a case of not having the time or motivation to learn all of the movements.

I want to add that this is a much needed new thread since so many of us are seeking qigong methods that are most beneficial but we really don't know what they will really do for us until we try them and like I said in the previous post, that could turn into a waste of time and money. So if anyone wants to avoid the trial and error method of finding the right method for your particular mind/body system, you are welcome to contact Eric Isen about his testing services. I have worked with him since 1998 and one session with him will make you a believer. I forgot to mention what may be the gem of all the qigong methods, Wu Wei Qigong by Master George Xu. It looks exactly like Falun Gong but it has been tested to be more powerful than Falun Gong. Like Falun Gong it also installs automatically an etheric level wheel which spins and takes out bad chi and then puts in good chi, so it is like you are doing chi kung 24/7. When I first learned Falun Gong I did actually feel the wheel enter my lower dan tien one night as I was drifting off to sleep. It was hard to miss, it was like being kicked in the stomach by a horse yet it was painless. My clairvoyant later saw it in me and described accurately what the wheel looked like. He said the wheel produced from doing Wu Wei Qigong looks different than the wheel from Falun Gong. I stopped doing Falun Gong after just 3 months because it would take over an hour to do and much longer because you can hold the static postures for longer as you go on and they want you to hold those postures for as long as you can. However, Wu Wei just wants you to hold those postures for 5 minutes. But that still takes an hour to do that routine and I have yet to motivate myself to spend that much time at one sitting. Another good one just popped into my awareness. Pangu Mystical Qigong. Very simple method but it takes a transmission from the master to work. That can be done via the dvd and CD. Almost 2 years ago I could not make progress recovering from some kind of flu like symptoms so I was advised to do as much Pangu as I could and the illness would be gone the next day. So I did it for over 3 hours but there was no improvement in my condition. However, when I woke up the next day I felt 95% better and had so much energy I went from a week in bed to outside trying to chop ice away from my car tires so I could go back to work. I stopped doing Pangu because it was so boring doing the simple method. But if I get sick again, I will be doing marathon sessions of Pangu once again. The book that goes with the method is very strange and makes no sense but they encourage you to read it anyway. I could not get thru reading it and I think that it is a common reaction to the book. But in terms of the qigong method itself, I have only read good things about it. As for the Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong that I already mentioned, I have only seen one guy on Taobums writing about it. He says good things about it but no one else has anything to say about it. I hope that someone has not taken parts of other methods such as Jenny Lamb Yi Gong, Max's Kun Lun and Pangu Shengong and mixed them together and call this brew Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong. I will soon find out. Another method that tested to be more powerful than most other qigong methods is The Three Treasures. I ordered the dvd from the female Chinese master in New York City and her book but it looked too difficult so I did not attempt to learn the method, but there is a video clip of it online and it looks beautiful. I think I hesitate to take the time to learn the more complicated movements because of my senior citizen status. I now feel like taking it easy in this last stage of the journey. I almost forgot to mention Tristan Truscott's 2 qigong methods called Satori Qigong Flow, and Good Morning-Evening Qigong. The latter tested too powerful for me at this time. Too bad because I really enjoyed doing the 10 minute routine for the few months that I did it. I then ordered the Satori Qigong Flow because it tested as the right one for my wife but for me it would cause energy imbalances in mind, body and energy bodies. The online website ads are slick and at first you think it is just hype. But it turns out to be true and Tristan is as joyful as he appears. I have exchanged emails with him and he is a really nice guy who is sincere about his love for qigong and how it healed him. My wife is psychic sensitive and new to chi kung but she can feel the chi strongly from the Satori Qigong Flow. She is one of those people who feels chi not just in her hands but in other parts of her body and the main energy channels. She also feels the chi coming off of me when I do qigong in the same room as her. So I use her as my guinea pig for this stuff. If you are short on time but want the most benefits from qigong, I would recommend Tristan Truscott's methods.