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Aeran's appraisal's I find to be very accurate depictions of the "masters" behind the systems. As readers of zenbear forum on Taobums know, I use the services of renowned medical clairvoyant to test beforehand any qigong method that I am interested in. Saves tons of money and time from being wasted on methods that might be great for some but not my individual nervous system. I tried Jenny Lamb's qigong, it was mediocre and did not test well. However, her Yi Gong on the same dvd tested to be one of the most powerful things that my clairvoyant has experienced in his career. And I found it produced so much chi flow from a simple static sitting position that my body parts would move spontaneously at time. The downside is that when the limbs are not moving, it is a very boring method and that is why I stopped doing it regularly because the results were hit and miss. If I did not get a full night's sleep, it would not work. The dvd is the best bargain. The rest of Jenny Lamb is as Aeran explained, expensive. I have communicated with Gary Clyman who turned out to be a neighbor of mine in the Chicago suburbs but we never met then. Anyone interested in working with him should first talk to him on the phone to see if you resonate with that kind of super intense personality with a big ego. I found him to be very funny but knowledgeable. He rightfully has given a warning about a total scoundrel, thief who sells dvds and whose name I will not mention. Terry Dunn and Flying Phoenix are great, as is Garry Hearfield whose methods are definitely more martial arts energy and reflect that side of his Grandmaster Doo Wai lineage. From the 30 or so different qigong methods that I have tried so far, there is no doubt that the most unique and pleasant sensation of chi has come from the Flying Phoenix Chi Kung dvd series. I have had a few private lessons with Terry Dunn to start to learn the first few movements of TTP, I cannot recall what those initials stand for in Chinese. He is very intelligent, gentle and a great teacher on his dvds and live. My clairvoyant found TTP to be very powerful and to give great benefits. It has a lineage from one of the only true Taoist priests who has lived in the United States, Lew K. Share who recently died but was travelling coast to coast still teaching while in his 90's. His annual workshop on the East coast was always already sold out by the time I would hear about it. His wife now does the teaching and I communicated with her and found her to be rude. I know of 3 teachers teaching TTP, 2 in Los Angeles, one in Tampa, Florida. The one in Tampa is an Awakened person from the Oneness movement out of southern India. He has free Monday night online sessions where you can experience his deeksha. He recently split off from the Oneness movement to do his own energy movement called Flowering Heart. In a few days my clairvoyant will be testing Chris Matsuo's Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong and Justin Stone's Tai Chi Chih. There are some great teachers in Australia besides Garry Hearfield. Kellen Chia has a series of qigong dvds. The most powerful one is his most recent release called The Immortal Ten. Very easy to do but powerful. My favorite qigong method is also taught in Australia and is called Longevity Qigong on the dvd Absorbing the Essence by Simon Blow. He learned it from the abbot of the Purple Cloud Monastery on Wudang Mountain. The movements are tai chi like and the routine takes 10 minutes but is very powerful so one is warned not to over do this one. Just a really great feeling doing these few flowing movements. I have not done any tai chi so this is the closest I have gotten to that style. Master Teresa Yeung of Toronto, Canada had an accomplished Chinese master and she has some interesting but very simple qigong dvds. I currently am using her Wu's Eye Qigong dvd. I tried her Wu's Anti-Cancer Qigong DVD but did not stick with it. I was using it with the idea of providing protection from ever getting cancer which is one of the uses for it. Wudang 8 by Arnold Tayem is great for the 5 elements and organs. My best friend who does this one feels light/energy shooting out of his feet whenever he does the routine. I used to do it and really enjoyed it but later it tested to be enlivening my left brain and that is not what I need more of. Celestial Chi Kung dvds did not test as beneficial as the others that I tested them against but the movements looked pretty interesting and I did level one for a brief time. Ken Andes' Ba Duan Jin is the most interesting and simple 8 Sections Brocade that I have seen. I really enjoy doing that 10 minute form and it adds for me a much needed physical exercise component which the other gentle qigong methods do not have. In sum, if you want to feel the chi strongly and enjoy the interesting movements, then it would be Flying Phoenix of Terry Dunn, and any of Garry Hearfield's dvds. I no longer do either of them because they are time consuming and have many levels to them. So I now limit my choices to brief, simple to learn, but powerful benefits type qigong methods.

I am considering ordering Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong and recently, Dec. 2015, I asked Sifu Matsuo if Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong video has an energy transmission on it. He replied that it does have a transmission and he named two locations on the video for that depending on which version of the video you have. One location was during the lecture part. The other location was during the meditation section, if I recall correctly. In any event, there is now no need any longer to conjecture whether or not this video uses a transmission.

You want to be authentic? The mind cannot change the mind or get rid of the ego. But energy can. Hence, literally rewire the brain to quiet the parietal lobes of the brain and enliven the forebrain. The energy to do that in the Vedic system is Kundalini. The method to do that cannot be man made. It comes thru a current Avatar and his system is called Oneness Blessing. Very simple teaching. Enlightenment is when Kundalini reaches the upper chakras and remains there. But it takes a unique energy to get that to happen. And that energy is now called Oneness via the Golden Orb Deeksha. No longer is it necessary to meditate lifetimes or to do decades of tai chi or chi kung. This is the age of instant happenings. We need enlightened people in society now. The Universe always takes care of itself. Just get that ego out of the way and tune in.

Ego driven intellectual, left brain, pedantic and ostentatious is what I derived from this page. Drop the verbiage and my teacher is better than your teacher, and instead practice someone's method for energy cultivation and then maybe in a few lifetimes from now you will then know what you are talking about.

John, it sounds like your Sifu is Christopher W. for Sunn Yee Gong. He composed a great piece of chi kung music called Misty Mountain which I enjoy playing while doing chi kung.

You are in luck. One of the most healing in all areas is Falun Dafa. It is totally free, can see the complete instructional video and the book online. This is the most unique of all the powerful and real qigong since it installs spontaneously an etheric Falun Wheel which spins in your lower dantien getting rid of bad chi and generating good chi 24 hours each day, seven days a week as long as you do Falun Dafa each day to keep the wheel at full force or else it will fade away. The downside is that this method takes over an hour to perform.

In my experience Kwan Yin in terms of the method is not similar to Kunlun. I have been taught Kunlun in a private session with Max. Kwan Yin just looking at the promo video on it does not look anything like the Kunlun method.

I forgot to mention that if you want qigong that is easy, safe, does not take a long time to perform, feels wonderful doing it and is powerful for healing and creating energy, then I would suggest you read about Longevity Qigong from Simon Blow. It is my favorite and I have tried about 30 different qigong methods so far.

Jenny Lamb qigong is weak, but her Yi Gong is very powerful. There is no need to work with her in person, the dvd has the simple Yi Gong method. I have only heard great things about Kwan Yin Magnetic Qigong which I hope to order as soon as my medical clairvoyant tests it to see what it would do for me.

Really enjoyable question and I look forward to the answer from Sifu Terry. I recall more than once on this thread Sifu Terry stating that Flying Phoenix does not follow the precepts of TCM, it works differently.

To astral butterfly, in one of my previous posts months ago I talked about times when I was only able to get a few hours of sleep but had this chi infused tea from a chi kung master calling her system Qinway Qigong. When I drank that tea I did not feel any tiredness during the work day and I felt lots of energy. So in your situation, I would get up earlier to do the FP if I had that tea since I would not be tired at work, so I could afford to give up one hour of sleep. I have also mentioned in previous posts that FP takes more time to do than other methods of chi kung that I have done and therefore I have not had the time to continue with it. There are other chi kung methods that are powerful and healing and take very little time. I suggest this in case anyone would think that if they cannot do FP, then they would not be able to do chi kung at all. The other side of the coin is that with the other chi kung methods I have not felt that unique envelope of chi that surrounds the hands and arms and feels like I am cutting through water on some of the movements, or my hand when moving feels this resistance of a cloud of energy which I have felt regularly from FP. I recently retired from my career and thought I would now have hours a day to devote to chi kung. I was very wrong about that since I now have a family for the first time and therefore my time is not my time due to the demands of a household. Feel free to PM me for details if you so desire.

To Astral Butterfly, I have been instructed in Jenny Lamb's Yi Gong and years later I have been instructed during a Skype session with Max for his Kunlun version of Yi Gong. Max has changed the hand position and thus it is not the same as Yi Gong and I never had any spontaneous movement from his Kunlun method so I gave it up quickly. I also found that Yi Gong worked almost 100 percent of the time when I did it while sitting in my Ken Edwards/Patrick Flanagan Nubian pyramid. But when I would do it over the years without the chi from the pyramid it would be hit and miss. The nice thing about Flying Phoenix Chi Kung is that the strong chi flow can be felt usually each time it is done, no hit and miss with that method.

In my career as a transpersonal type psychotherapist I have treated people with addictions who did have negative energy entities which effected all the areas that Sifu Terry described in a previous post above. The drugs and alcohol create openings in the aura and that is where the entities enter, I have been told. Some of the entities were addicts before they died, so in the astral realm they are seeking to get high again, this time by entering someone else's energy field, once again, this is what I have been taught. I also have first hand experience with this from over 40 years ago when I was just doing Transcendental Meditation for a few days and I ignored the warning from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of TM, when he said never meditate when you have just smoked marijuana. Soon after that one experience of pot plus meditation my thinking changed and there were some things about me that just had not been part of me before. However, at the time I did not recognize this had any connection to entity attachment until 3 years later when some friends told me about this psychic in Nebraska who did Mercy Release to get rid of entities. I mailed my request and the service was done and I experienced all of the changes that she told me would happen. I experienced the positive changes before I read her report on my situation. There is a well known Qigong master, Jenny Lamb, who offers entity removal. The problem is that she is expensive and at times she recommends the person needs to come in person to her home in Colorado for a week of treatment. I just throw this out there. I do not know anyone personally who has tried her service but the testimonials are good. I sporadically have done her Yi Gong method and it is one of the most powerful things my medical intuitive ever tested in his career. A static position that results in so much chi flow that your body parts move on their own. As some readers know, I am not very sensitive to most subtle energies so I do not usually have experiences from energy work. But in the case of Yi Gong, I was shaking and baking!

I want to respond to Sifu Terry's Facebook posting on post 3471 on this Taobums site, I refuse to change over to Daobums nomenclature. This attitude of one for all and all for one really cannot be achieved in the unawakened individual as it would be merely on the level of wanting to be connected to all, or at best, to make a mood of being in this state of not being separate. I have been taught that the world's problems will continue and have continued as long as the populace remains in an unawakened state of consciousness which produces a feeling of being an individual instead of being connected to everyone else. The Vedas describe very accurately this state of connection and it has been called Unity Consciousness or Brahmin Consciousness. It is not experienced on the level of the intellect, it has to do with a major physical change in the brain functioning that used to take literally lifetimes of mediation practices. Now it is said to be achieved eventually thru the Oneness Blessing energy. All relationship problems are caused by this feeling of separation and not being able to recognize the Self in the other person. This is on the level of individuals and nations. That is why the goal of mankind is now called Oneness. Some state that this is the only thing that can save this insane planet as no one who is not Awakened is in their right mind. We spontaneously see everyone and everything in creation as part of our Self when in Unity Consciousness. The ego is pushed to the side when the parietal lobes of the brain are quieted and the frontal lobe is more fully activated. It is that simple. All is takes is the right energy for this to happen. So I applaud all who currently cultivate energy. And seeing blue from doing Flying Phoenix Chi Kung certainly is tangible proof that special energy is being cultivated.

Sifu Terry just answered this same question a few days ago on this thread.

I thought Halloween was over?

We all have heard about the healing effects of Flying Phoenix and most other forms of chi kung, tai chi, etc. But when I notice the ages of some of these masters of these lineages of the healing arts, whether it be chi kung, tai chi or kung fu, I do not see any great longevity with few exceptions, T.T. Liang, for example, lived to be 102. But most of the other known teachers seem to die in their 80's which I don't think is any older than most of the population lately. My grandmother was in her 90's when she died, my mother is 90, her sister died at 95, but none did any exercise or engage in any health promoting activity, nor did they eat in a healthy way. I throw this out there because I would think at least the masters of these energy arts should make it to age 100. I would like to hear from the Flying Phoenix community how FP has noticeably improved or safeguarded your health. We have heard how Sifu Terry has nipped colds in the bud via FP and I would like to hear more people share their experiences. I am wondering where Dr. Oz came up with his quote, "if you want to live to be 100, do qigong."

Most of the books that I have read about qigong consider meditation an essential part of cultivating energy. I recently posted about how doing Transcendental Meditation immediately following qigong has reignited a daily meditation practice that just totally stopped going to states of deep relaxation 4 or 5 years ago. My direct experience is that proper meditation gets you to the wuchi state of emptiness, stillness, the source of thought, the mother of 10,000 things, the Absolute, etc. No method of qigong that I have done has ever come close to taking me to the deep levels of relaxation that I obtain from a typical 20 minute session of TM. One of my qigong teachers has told me that meditation done immediately following qigong stabilizes the Qi. I recall in a post on this thread that Sifu Terry mentioned that GM Doo Wai used to stress the importance of meditation.

I think the environmental concerns about negative energy might be addressed by the oldest system of healthcare on this planet, Ayurveda, the Science of Life, cognized, not invented by the great Rishis of India at the birth of each of the cycles of the Earth. There are certain vibrations in the form of specific Sanskrit hymns intoned in the precise manner to dispel the above mentioned concerns about negative energy. Proper balanced energies in the Vedas is called Vastu. Instead of spending a fortune to have this proper positioning of the rooms of a house, etc., for $5.00 I obtained a Vastu chanting CD which claims to align the household energies to proper balance for 24 hours. So I try to remember to play this each day in my living space and I would guess that this would help to some extent the practice of chi kung. On to a different subject. Have other people noticed that the chi feels stronger when doing chi kung after 11pm?

Aeran's questions and Sifu Terry's replies remind me of traditional master-disciple discourses that are recorded in ancient Buddist and Taoist texts. Profound wisdom has been extolled. Sifu Terry has provided a nice summary of the Oneness Blessing energy which does not include any exercises, it just involves a passive reception from a Blessing Giver whose brain has been rewired to carry and transmit this unique transformational energy to promote Awakening and/or Enlightenment. The suspension of perceiving/reacting thru the ego, or as Sifu Terry aptly referenced back to Castenada's term, "stopping the world", is Awakening. This cannot be understood on the level of the intellect without the actual experience. I was blessed to have been in this state temporarily at least in 1977 while on an experimental meditation course created by Transcendental Meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This is what allows me to understand the teachings of Sri Bhagavan and other enlightened sages to some degree. The really good news is that this Awakening state of Consciousness produced by the PHYSICAL rewiring of the brain is permanent and "easily" obtainable within 4 weeks! What seekers have spent lifetimes working for can now be had in a matter of weeks. That is the astonishing good news. The bad news is that for this to happen one must go to the Oneness University in India to attend the course where it is claimed that 100% of the people of every one of these courses now leaves with some degree of permanent Awakening. I was privileged to hear first hand what it is like before and after Awakening when my best friend took the course a few years ago. His experiences have been confirmed by other people that I have met in the Oneness movement. Awakening or no Awakening, I still plan to do chi kung for the rest of my life to safeguard my health and to experience whatever spiritual benefits come with this energy cultivation. One of the first Americans to become Awakened is Michael Milner of Tampa, Florida. He is one of those seekers who has great spiritual experiences from whatever energy method he tries. His biography is amazing to read. In spite of being highly Awakened he continues to do a chi kung method that he learned at the age of 18, Tao Tan Pai, which Sifu Terry has practiced for 42 years. So in spite of reaching the elusive human goal of Awakening, people still crave the experiences and benefits from chi kung. I think that says it all.

For those of you Bums who like to find some of your own direct experiences from chi kung and deep meditation chronicled in ancient Taoist texts, I have recently stumbled upon a section from one such text called Kuan Tzu which has a chapter called, Nei-yeh, which translates as Inward Training. Twenty six verses which are similar to the Tao Te Ching, yet more detailed, lucid and less symbolic. As if Lao Tzu was expounding on his own work. In a nutshell it is about vital energy, vital essence, and Oneness. Or in modern day terms, getting to the state of Pure Consciousness/Oneness/the Tao beyond thinking and beyond the 5 senses where the source of Harmony and inner Vital Essence/Chi can be found. There are descriptions of the methods to achieve this which sound like chi kung and deep meditation. Harold Roth's book, The Original Tao, is all about this Inward Training chapter. These ancient Taoist verses are particularly of interest to me at this time since I only recently found a way to finally have my practice of Transcendental Meditation once again work for me after a completely dry spell of at least four years where it just stopped going to deep levels. I recently began doing TM immediately after doing a certain chi kung method and as soon as I did that I was able to spontaneously reach the deep levels of relaxation and consciousness that TM is known for taking people beyond thoughts to the source of thought, the transcendent. Before this I spent 4 years trying energy healers, herbs, subtle energy instruments, Oneness Blessing, Reiki, many different chi kung methods, none of which improved my meditation one iota. So the truth of Nature's secrets remain the eternal truth, chi kung plus meditation is a proven path. And so fulfilling to see this verified in ancient Taoist texts.

Thank you Sifu Terry for as always, your kind words, compassion and consideration. I have seen the first few episodes of the Wire and I have been on the west side of Baltimore where most of the episodes take place. I have the first 2 seasons on dvds but have not had the time to watch them yet. Those neighborhoods and karmic lifestyles makes me so grateful for the blessings I have had this lifetime allowing me to be initiated into the lineage of Transcendental Meditation, Oneness Blessing from an avatar, and what I am most passionate about, chi kung. Baltimore looks like it could be my last destination for this time around so I will be mindful of what comes my way. Here I am practicing daily the energy arts alongside my wife while just two row homes away is a very busy drug dealer. The irony of it all. Such is life. I am hoping that the good chi being generated will someday drive him out of the neighborhood and back into his home away from home, Baltimore County Prison. LOL

Hello Sifu Terry, Whenever someone with a medical degree is an advocate of the energy arts it is a great boon for society. This afternoon as I was on my way to Johns Hopkins Hospital to visit my terminally ill 5 year old daughter I had to drive past blocks of deplorable looking row homes in Baltimore where I now live since a few weeks ago. Some of my reflections about that neighborhood and similar ones throughout Baltimore were that not many have a chance to get out of that lifestyle of poverty, crime and violence. Then while stopped at a red light I spot a corner lot where a row home obviously had been demolished and it contained an Asian looking trellis with garden and there was a center spot that I thought would be a great place to practice chi kung. I then began daydreaming about just doing chi kung there regularly to get the interest of people in the neighborhood to ask what I was doing and then invite them to join me in the hopes that somehow it would elevate their state of consciousness and lead to something better than the ghetto choices. So I read with interest that Dr. Jamie was working on a documentary set in Baltimore. I think the research coming out of the Transcendental Meditation university in Fairfield, Iowa would have interested her. At one time that fully accredited institution offered a Ph.D. in the neurophysiology of consciousness.

As always, buyer beware! We are still in Kali Yuga according to Vedic Science. Falsehood abounds in the age of darkness before there is Light. So this is typical for people lacking the state of Consciousness that these energy arts are derived from to be claiming to be teachers of the art. The blind shall not lead the blind. Dorian David Ross has branched out to the Netherlands?

I would have to disagree with Desert Eagle's statement that Zhineng Qigong is similar to Spring Forest Qigong and Falun Dafa. I did Spring Forest Qigong and taught it for 8 years on an inpatient unit for the severely mentally ill and I was taught in person by Chun Yi Lin. I also did Falun Dafa. I find no similarities between any of these three methods of qigong. My own opinion based on my experience is that Spring Forest is fantastic for beginners who want to feel chi so they can realize there really is some kind of energy going on. Falun Dafa and Zhineng Qigong are great as medical qigong, as is Pangu Mystical Qigong.