Flying Phoenix Chi Kung

[Earl Grey]

1 hour ago, Zouina said:

I would like to know too if earphones are not ok to use while practising. Is this what Sifu Dunn teaches? 

I know earplugs are fine, though in my experience, earphones are not ideal because the bliss states of Flying Phoenix tend to make the entire body sensitive, especially the hearing.

 

 I will clarify with Sifu Terry.

[Earl Grey]

Clarifying with Sifu Terry brings this: earplugs are fine, ambient music or sound in the background is fine.

 

Earphones, however, due to radiation in them, are probably not a good idea due to structural sensitivity when doing Flying Phoenix.

[zen-bear]

23 hours ago, Earl Grey said:

Clarifying with Sifu Terry brings this: earplugs are fine, ambient music or sound in the background is fine.

 

Earphones, however, due to radiation in them, are probably not a good idea due to structural sensitivity when doing Flying Phoenix.

Hi Earl Grey,

Thank you for your good answers to Zouina's question about wearing earphones while practicing FP Qigong.

 

In general, it's best to practice in silence when one is learning the FP Qigong meditations.  Once one has memorized the breath control sequences and can perform the postures or choreographies of the moving meditations with eyes closed and has become "saturated" and familiar with the specific energizing and rejuvenating effects of each FP meditation, then it's fine to have ambient noise or music in the background or coming in through earphones.  However, it's not optimal to be wearing earphones and filling your auditory channel with info while learning FP Qigong and feeling its effects at the onset.  One of the effects of any form of meditation is to "clean the doors of perception" as per Aldous Huxley (which, btw, is how the 60's rock group The Doors got its name), and FP Qigong is one helluva cleanser that you don't want to obstruct.

 

Another reminder of the warning that I've posted throughout the years of this thread:  be sure to practice in a quiet and secluded space free of any forms of interruption in any form.  But by all means, do not ever practice in a space and time where you can be bumped, knocked, physically impinged upon in any way, for being jolted while in the deeply relaxed allostatic state induced by the FP qigong where every organ system is sensitized will damage your body's internal energy system and cause serious internal injury and disabilities.

 

Also, while we're on the topic of earphones filling the human auditory channel--and as a basic healthcare tip:  remember NOT to have an active smartphone next to your head or on your body for any extended period.  While there has been no definitive science that has proven any trends of increased head and neck injuries due to cell phone use over the past 20+ years, I believe,  based the science I've read to date, that smartphones today emit more low-frequency non-ionizing radiation than ever before because they are transmitting and receiving more complex data than ever before.  So to be safe, always turn on the speaker mode of your smartphone when conversing or use wired or Bluetooth earphones or  headsets instead of putting the phone next to your ear.  If you have to talk directly into a smartphone, tilt the phone away when you speak and bring it closer when you listen.  That's because a phone emits more radiation when its transmitting data than receiving date.  And every millimeter counts; the emitted radiation  decreases logarithmically the farther away you hold the phone.  [Flashback:  moreover, my accidental research in a Las Vegas hotel casino  back in the early 1990's had me observing hundreds of people coming out of a huge cellphone manufacturers' convention put on by Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Apple, etc....and practically every single person with a visible phone was wearing wired headphones.  I figured then that that  industry knew something about dangers of cellphones that we consumers didn't. ] I still feel the same way today.

 

At any rate, to play it safe, make sure that you practice FP Qigong free of any radiation-emitting electronic devices.

Also, do not practice FP Qigong in any location that is spiritually active--unless you know with absolute certainty that the place is sacred!

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

 

Sifu Terry

 

http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

 

 

 

Edited December 12, 2021 by zen-bear

[Felecula]

Hi! Today I was doing FP and my legs were feeling carbonated. It was like energy was bubbling in them, if that makes sense. I'm hoping it's a good sign! 

 

This was the practice I was doing: https://youtu.be/JlVGrCW0QqI

[zen-bear]

7 hours ago, Felecula said:

Hi! Today I was doing FP and my legs were feeling carbonated. It was like energy was bubbling in them, if that makes sense. I'm hoping it's a good sign! 

 

This was the practice I was doing: https://youtu.be/JlVGrCW0QqI

Hi Felecula!

"Carbonated" sounds good to me! --i.e., you experiencing good results from the capstone Long Form Standing Meditation.  You're the first practitioner in all the years I've been doing and teaching FP Qigong (since 1991) to use the word "carbonated" to describe the allostatic energization.  Thank you for that contribution!

Keep on practicing the Long Form capstone (eventually, no pressure, try doing 2 rounds back to back with any duration of a break in between).   That will accelerate your cultivation so that you'll eventually feel carbonated form head to toe.  He carbonation of the ALL the matter inside the skull, as described in previous posts over the years, is absolutely sublime and blissful.  GM Doo Wai accurately described it as a "washing" sensation.  I can attest that it's a deep, gentle cycle.

 

Happy Holidays.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

[zen-bear]

Hi Everyone,

 

I just answered a question posted by someone in a forum about Carlos Castaneda's teachings on Reddit (which I most recently joined) about whether "mirror gazing" was dangerous or hazardous. This is the expansive min-dissertation  I posted in reply, which also contains some esoteric info about "seeing" that I may not have yet shared on this thread:

 

Question:   I am being pushed to introduce mirror gazing into my practices.

My memory is vague, and I cannot find the comment since I delete my posts after the discussion is over.

But I think dan (or someone else) said it was avoided for some reason. I really can't remember.

Are there any dangers I should be cautious about when it comes to mirror gazing?

 

 

Answer:   No, in my experience, there is no serious hazard or danger in doing mirror meditative gazing (as described in the Castaneda books...during those hours that he or don Juan described as the "crack between two worlds")--unless: (a) one is abusing drugs or alcohol and/or (b) one has a severe personality disorder or borderline psychosis or worse, to begin with.I have been practicing Chinese martial, yogic, and healing arts for 49 years and teaching them since 1983. My 3 specialties are Yang style Tai Chi Chuan and 2 authentic and complete Taoist monastic systems of martial, yogic and healing arts. In one of them, called Tao Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method), after one has learned all the 5 animal kung fu forms (different from Shaolin 5 animals) and have mastered 4 increasingly powerful systems of Taoist Yoga, the 5th level meditations called the "9 Flowers" permanently relaxes and transforms the way that the person has been conditioned to see and uphold the consensus reality. I will give a partial spoiler: in the midst of this Taoist Yoga, while doing 9 exercises in front of a mirror, sooner or later, one suddenly sees one's karmic past lives change on one's face with every breath. One also begins to see any person's karmic past lives (and sometimes even progressive lives ) change on their face with every breath. One also is able to "see" the psychology of a person, and also his/her spirit. In high-level Chinese and Indian yogas preserved in warrior and priestly traditions, one also regularly sees discorporated entities. Yes, there are entities and there are possessions. This 9 Flowers Yoga is so power that if one were to practice it between the hours of 5 to 7pm standard time, one will die. Simple as that. The part of the "shift" into "seeing" that I'm not spoiling is describing how the colors that normally sees day to day transforms when one is in the mode of "seeing."

Also, btw, should one's vision ever shift to soft, gray-pink spongy finely black mottled cloud with no depth-of-field whatsoever, you are in serious trouble with organ failure having begun and will die if not treated by a great and saintly healer. Hong Kong kung fu films since the 60's ACCURATELY depict the hero's POV as he is dying in the scene defending his cause or protecting innocents or whatever. I can attest that that special effect in the 60's and 70's Run Run Shaw movies from Hong Kong accurate depict one's vision when one is in systemic alarm during one's death throes. Complete and authentic Chinese martial arts traditions will initiate an advanced student to the next level of Power by letting the student slowly experience his very own process of dying--brought on by an internal energy blow (using pure Qi and not physical force or "li") that gravely unbalances the energy system of the body, normally by infusing an organ or orb with a quanta of externally cultivated energy. That is how, in Chinese martial arts, a striving student is subtly compassionately bush-whacked into "using Death as an advisor." Like any near-death experiencer, once one feels one organ system shut down after another...and see the lights literally slowly go out--but then is brought back by a true master's Qi and Shen, one's island of the tonal is significantly cleaned, to say the least.

The other system of Taoist hygienics I preserve (solely, btw) is called Ehrmei mountain Flying Phoenix Qigong and it is a completely different system of hygienics with different yogic methodology. it also induces "seeing" at higher levels of practice. But the shift in seeing is not as dramatic as that brought on by the TTP 9 Flowers. http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

This is a very long-winded way of telling you that, based on my experience, there is absolutely nothing dangerous about mirror gazing as described by Castaneda. We in Taoist traditions do it in a seated meditation position (half lotus normally) with a white candle placed between us and the mirror. Enjoy using Castaneda's methods of the polishing of your doors of perception. Once one's will or psychic focus ("Shen" in Chinese) is developed, one can hold a karmic past self in focus and commune with it, or one can talk to the spirit that stands behind another person--whether that person knows he/she has one or not.

 

Happy Holidays to all.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

 

http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

 

 

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by zen-bear

[Felecula]

3 hours ago, zen-bear said:

Hi Felecula!

"Carbonated" sounds good to me! --i.e., you experiencing good results from the capstone Long Form Standing Meditation.  You're the first practitioner in all the years I've been doing and teaching FP Qigong (since 1991) to use the word "carbonated" to describe the allostatic energization.  Thank you for that contribution!

Keep on practicing the Long Form capstone (eventually, no pressure, try doing 2 rounds back to back with any duration of a break in between).   That will accelerate your cultivation so that you'll eventually feel carbonated form head to toe.  He carbonation of the ALL the matter inside the skull, as described in previous posts over the years, is absolutely sublime and blissful.  GM Doo Wai accurately described it as a "washing" sensation.  I can attest that it's a deep, gentle cycle.

 

Happy Holidays.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Thank you for responding so quickly! 😺I didn't know how else to describe it except for carbonation. I tried it again this afternoon and rather than the bubbling feeling, I heard what sounded like chimes in the distance. They were very pretty sounding, but I'm unsure of where they came from. 

 

I'll keep practicing and give updates, ask for advice, and so on! Thank you for the pointers and for the thread! 🐱

[Miffymog]

Just watched one of Sifu Terry's Monk Serves Wine meditations so I can learn from it, and the quality of the energy I feel when following him is so much higher than when I perform them just by myself.

 

It gives me much more motivation to carry on practicing, and to join him in one of his Zoom lesson 

[zen-bear]

On 12/19/2021 at 8:49 PM, Felecula said:

Thank you for responding so quickly! 😺I didn't know how else to describe it except for carbonation. I tried it again this afternoon and rather than the bubbling feeling, I heard what sounded like chimes in the distance. They were very pretty sounding, but I'm unsure of where they came from. 

 

I'll keep practicing and give updates, ask for advice, and so on! Thank you for the pointers and for the thread! 🐱

Felecula,

Congratulations!--hearing sound(s) that one isn't certain of their source(s).  That is one of the sure signs of correct meditation and that the body is truly relaxing.  All meditation / yoga traditions have side-effects of telepathy and clairvoyance.  My experience in Taoist and Buddhist monastic Qigong systems is that clairaudience is also an occuring and most interesting side-effect.  I believe that you are the first to report this phenomenon.  So congrats!

Not only does FP Qigong facilitated clairaudience enable one to hear sounds and human conversations that are at a great distance and tnat are normally not audible, but it may also open the channel to auditory dreams--i.e. dreamstates where information channels in only through sounds.  I myself have had only one auditory dream in my lifetime so far;  it came in 1980 and was extremely prophetic, to say the least.

About your experience of "carbonation" and the bubbling feeling:  that bubbling feeling that's like a churning or roiling is normally first felt in the tan tien, which is a great and mighty milestone to achieve in any system of Qigong.  But if you are feeling "bubbling"  in other parts of your body or throughout your body in general, that's a phenomenon I have not experienced.  And that is not to question nor invalidate your experience of the FP Qi cultivation one iota.  Everybody responds to the FP Qigong in their own unique way--on top of the common phenomena that FP practitioners have experienced and reported on this thread.

 

Continue to enjoy your carbonation and let us know your FP practice evolves especially as  you practice the Vol.4 Long Form Standing Meditation ("FPHHCM")--auditory channeling and all!

 

Happy New Year!

 

Sifu Terry

 

http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

[zen-bear]

On 4/24/2021 at 3:08 AM, BluePhoenix133 said:

Hi Terry, i was still slightly confused because the presses are going to be a different number to the palms facing each other so i watched the DVD again in the break down i think you do 3 presses and 2 palms facing each other but when you do the whole thing after the breath percentage you do 4 presses and 3 palms facing each other followed of course by 2 pushes and 2 flat palm to clenched fists.

Also i think when you explained the presses you meant left palm on right wrist instead of left palm on right palm. Anyway i hope i am not being too pedantic, i really do love this meditation and i wonder why its called moonbeam splashes on water... got to call it something i guess.

Hi BluePhoenix,

 

Again, my apologies for taking so long to see your post and to reply.

 

In Moonbeam Splashes on Water, you do 3 presses (left palm on right) and the 2 rolling pushes (with the hands in light fists with rolled back and hands opening when shifted forward with right knee over the vertical line of the toes.)

 

Yes, I might have said "left palm on right palm."  That's a mistake--carried over from my then 24 years of  Tai Chi instruction in Cheng Man-Ching 37-posture  Yang style Short Form, where he presses palm on palm instead of left palm on right wrist done by everyone else in the Yang Cheng Fu lineage.

 

I'm glad your this perspicacious about this meditation.  And I'm glad you love it.  So do I.  And in my opinion, not enough FP people are practicing it because over all these years, there have not been enough questions posted about it.

 

The name of the meditation is more accurately translated as "Moonbeam Reflects On The Water".  But "Moonbeam Splashes On Water" is the name that GM Doo Wai always used for it.  So that's the name my peers from that era and I used.  As Sifu Hearfield had indicated years earlier on the thread and I've confirmed, FP Qigong and all the Ehrmei  Mtn. Bok Fu Pai internal arts are NOT based on the principles or the "map" of TCM but  are based on a different cosmology.  And in that applied cosmology, the positions of the sun and the moon are most important to the practices.  Not to get off-topic too far here:  but how one positions oneself and onto what, when, and where the moonbeam is allowed to "splash" (illuminate)--if not water--is relevant to high level occult practices in different magickal-spiritual traditions--the dark side of which, would literally scare the bejeesus / shit entirely out of the unitiated. 

 

But to stay on the Light side, practice Monk Gazing At Moon and "Moonbeam" and the other standing FP Meditations while gazing at or facing (with eyes closed) the moon--the fuller the better!

 

Happy New Year.

 

Sifu Terry

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

terencedunn.substack.com  (for info on my weekly 2-hour Zoom classes)

Edited February 28, 2022 by zen-bear

[zen-bear]

Happy fifth day of Christmas for those who celebrate the birth of the Great Syrian Sage.

 

Here's a very beautiful performance of a favorite carol.  Besides its inspirational message about charity and helping the poor,  it's a favorite because the last verse gives an alchemic account of the latent power of healing Qi abiding in the saintly.   I've had the great fortune and good karma of training with four high-level Chinese masters of internal energy arts over the past 49 years , each of whom could (without moving a hand) envelope-imbue a person at a short distance with a restorative and blissful healing Qi that elevates one's physiological function to an entirely higher level of wellness.  [My friend, author and martial arts historian, the late Robert W. Smith, wrote in one of his fine books on Tai Chi Chuan of how, upon their first meeting, Prof. Cheng Man-Ching "lit up" Bob's wife Alice with a touch, infusing her with a rejuvenating Qi that made Alice's eyes widen in wonder and delight.]  Similarly, King Wenceslas of old did this with his footprints in the snow.  This isn't Christian myth.  It's a reverent, Christmas-time celebration of real yogic and spiritual power.

 

Sire, the night is darker now,
And the wind blows stronger.
Fails my heart, I know not how.
I can go no longer.
Ark my footsteps my good page,
Tread thou in them boldly:
Thou shalt find the winter's rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly.
 

In his master's step he trod,
Where the snow lay dented.
Heat was in the very sod
Which the saint had printed.
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find blessing

 

 

Happy Holidays.

 

Sifu Terry

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

terencedunn.substack.com  (for schedule of weekly 2-hour Zoom classes)

Edited December 30, 2021 by zen-bear

[centertime]

Interestingly, with this method, I have never felt bubbling... but only with Tai Chi many years ago.

But I do sense all kind of energies...

Something is not clear. Couple years ago when I was doing Flying Phonix. a lot.. This happened.

During the night...

Suddently, a lot of images came into my mind... So fast that I could not discern them.

My theory I received some kind of fast telepathic transmission but I do not know why.

I remember one image...  Wooden monastery..where there were students in really rough bad quality clothes..

The road was just earth... As if this was from the past. Eastern setting and buildings.

If it was a transmission, not sure what it was about.

 

 

 

[Arkhion]

36 minutes ago, zen-bear said:

Happy fifth day of Christmas for those who celebrate the birth of the Great Syrian Sage.

 

Here's a very beautiful performance of a favorite carol.  Besides its inspirational message about charity and helping the poor,  it's a favorite because the last verse gives an alchemic account of the latent power of healing Qi abiding in the saintly.   I've had the great fortune and good karma of training with four high-level Chinese masters of internal energy arts over the past 49 years , each of whom could (without moving a hand) envelope-imbue a person at a short distance with a restorative and blissful healing Qi that elevates one's physiological function to an entirely higher level of wellness.  [My friend, author and martial arts historian, the late Robert W. Smith, wrote in one of his fine books on Tai Chi Chuan of how, upon their first meeting, Prof. Cheng Man-Ching "lit up" Bob's wife Alice with a touch, infusing her with a rejuvenating Qi that made Alice's eyes widen in wonder and delight.]  Similarly, King Wenceslas of old did this with his footprints in the snow.  This isn't Christian myth.  It's a reverent, Christmas-time celebration of real yogic and spiritual power.

 

Sire, the night is darker now,
And the wind blows stronger.
Fails my heart, I know not how.
I can go no longer.
Ark my footsteps my good page,
Tread thou in them boldly:
Thou shalt find the winter's rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly.

In his master's step he trod,
Where the snow lay dented.
Heat was in the very sod
Which the saint had printed.
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find blessing

 

 

Happy Holidays.

 

Sifu Terry

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

terencedunn.substack.com  (for schedule of weekly 2-hour Zoom classes)

 

Sifu Terry,

I hope you are very well these days, I am very grateful for the details transmitted in the zoom classes, they have helped me a lot to improve the long form meditation.

And thank you very much for sharing these verses, especially the stories related to your teachers, these are always impressive and inspiring!

Have a Happy Holidays Sifu,

 

Jonathan Tapia

[zen-bear]

19 hours ago, Arkhion said:

 

Sifu Terry,

I hope you are very well these days, I am very grateful for the details transmitted in the zoom classes, they have helped me a lot to improve the long form meditation.

And thank you very much for sharing these verses, especially the stories related to your teachers, these are always impressive and inspiring!

Have a Happy Holidays Sifu,

 

Jonathan Tapia

 

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for your holiday greetings.
You are most welcome to the benefits from refining your FP Qigong practice in the Sunday afternoon classes and the Wed. night (EST) intermediate classes on Zoom.  I'm glad to hear that after getting a few corrections through the Zoom lessons that  your Long Form meditation practice has been improved--by your own diligent efforts.   Starting January 2 of the new year, the combined Tao Tan Pai 31 + Flying Phoenix Qigong course continues on Sundays from 4pm to 6pm EST on Zoom, and the Wed. night Intermediate class continues at 6pm to 8pm EST.

 

As a teacher, I'm always trying to make my experience and knowledge of Qigong relatable to people through all cultural and historical contexts...and the carol about the Good King Wenceslas is a good example.  For its telling of warming Qi left in footprints in the snow is typical of the residual energy or aura of a saint or Boddhisatva, whose bed if one were to sleep in after he/she slept, would imbue one with a  healing- enlightening energy.  Thus I do not doubt that the authentic relics of saints preserved by their disciples and later religions established upon them are indeed holy and imbued with spiritual power-- "power objects", as dubbed by Carlos Castaneda.  My story:  in 1994, after I used the futon that my best friend and mentor (a non-Chinese spiritualist and master healer) had slept in while staying with me in L.A.,  I experienced five days of nothing but multiple lucid dreams every single night.  (e.g., dreams in which I had "pre-programmed" to visit friends in different parts of the country, dreams in which I met a close friend in the dreamstate after agreeing to do so beforehand, dreams in which I chose to halt at a certain point and then re-enter my physical body with my dream body,  a dream in which I saw the illustrated artwork that I had commissioned a close friend of mine in San Francisco to do for a book cover, etc.)

 

At any rate, in Buddhism, which heavily influenced the Tao Tan Pai tradition, heavy emphasis is placed on teaching others the Dharma, as reflected in the "vows of the Bodhisattva":

 

The second set of vows is original to Zhiyi's corpus:^[6]

• Sentient beings, limitless in number, I vow to ferry over.
• Passions (klesa) which are numberless, I vow to extinguish.
• The Dharma-gates without end (in number), I vow to know.
• The supreme Buddha Way, I vow to actualize.

The first  translation I read decades ago goes like this:

 

No matter how innumerable the sentient beings, I vow to liberate them all.

No matter how innumerable, I vow to extinguish all obscuring passions.

I vow to find a thousand gates to the Law.

I vow to actualize supreme Buddhahood.

 

I look forward to working with you in the new year, so that you get closer mastering the Long Form Meditation and then start experiencing more of the FPCK's unique and wonderful healing Qi.

Have a happy and safe new year celebration in Chile!

 

Cheers,

 

Sifu Terry 

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

terencedunn.substack.com  (for schedule of weekly 2-hour Zoom classes)

Edited December 30, 2021 by zen-bear

[centertime]

6 hours ago, zen-bear said:

 

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for your holiday greetings.
You are most welcome to the benefits from refining your FP Qigong practice in the Sunday afternoon classes and the Wed. night (EST) intermediate classes on Zoom.  I'm glad to hear that after getting a few corrections through the Zoom lessons that  your Long Form meditation practice has been improved--by your own diligent efforts.   Starting January 2 of the new year, the combined Tao Tan Pai 31 + Flying Phoenix Qigong course continues on Sundays from 4pm to 6pm EST on Zoom, and the Wed. night Intermediate class continues at 6pm to 8pm EST.

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

terencedunn.substack.com  (for schedule of weekly 2-hour Zoom classes)

Hi,

Could you have a morning session as well? For me, being in Europe, the current times of the session are the worst.

I tried to go..but I was too tired...to follow.

 

 

Edited December 30, 2021 by centertime

[Felecula]

On 12/28/2021 at 8:50 AM, zen-bear said:

Felecula,

Congratulations!--hearing sound(s) that one isn't certain of their source(s).  That is one of the sure signs of correct meditation and that the body is truly relaxing.  All meditation / yoga traditions have side-effects of telepathy and clairvoyance.  My experience in Taoist and Buddhist monastic Qigong systems is that clairaudience is also an occuring and most interesting side-effect.  I believe that you are the first to report this phenomenon.  So congrats!

Not only does FP Qigong facilitated clairaudience enable one to hear sounds and human conversations that are at a great distance and tnat are normally not audible, but it may also open the channel to auditory dreams--i.e. dreamstates where information channels in only through sounds.  I myself have had only one auditory dream in my lifetime so far;  it came in 1980 and was extremely prophetic, to say the least.

About your experience of "carbonation" and the bubbling feeling:  that bubbling feeling that's like a churning or roiling is normally first felt in the tan tien, which is a great and mighty milestone to achieve in any system of Qigong.  But if you are feeling "bubbling"  in other parts of your body or throughout your body in general, that's a phenomenon I have not experienced.  And that is not to question nor invalidate your experience of the FP Qi cultivation one iota.  Everybody responds to the FP Qigong in their own unique way--on top of the common phenomena that FP practitioners have experienced and reported on this thread.

 

Continue to enjoy your carbonation and let us know your FP practice evolves especially as  you practice the Vol.4 Long Form Standing Meditation ("FPHHCM")--auditory channeling and all!

 

Happy New Year!

 

Sifu Terry

 

http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

Zen-bear! Thank you!

 

Today I practiced more Flying Phoenix Qi Gong and felt extreme warmth in my arms and legs, later on almost overheating in my core. No chimes this time (something like distant chanting happened after), it seems like I'm feeling auras? I can feel my own at least, and parts that hurt (my joints) feel cold. I can't tell if those are energy blockages or just stored up trauma. There was a buzzing feeling in my hands during the practice. Maybe some blockages, I dunno! (It also made me very hungry.) Thank you for explaining clairaudience!!

 

Felecula

[searcher7977]

Sifu Terry,

 

Thank you very much for the gift of FPCK, I hope these holidays have found you well! I have two questions I'm hoping you will be able to answer!

 

Quick background: I am currently somewhat bedridden, suffering from chronic fatigue that has plagued me for a decade, and completely disabled me for the last 2 years. This is likely due to both enormous amounts of stress and improper/unguided buddhist meditation throughout the last decade. I was diagnosed with "zen sickness" at one point by a legitimate rinzai zen monk. I have decided to give up seated "stillness" meditations for the time being and instead try to heal myself with more yang, moving, physical practices. I used to be a very active athlete, and cumulatively have about a year of experience with various qigong practices and (Wu-style) Tai Chi before I got to this almost bedridden state. 

 

 My questions are: 

 

Would it be okay to use the circling blocks warm-up in DVD Vol. 3 as a beginner (to FPCK)? I ask because it incorporates shifting weight back and forth, which seems to have a healing effect on me. 

 

How can I approach Flying Phoenix Chi Kung when it is difficult and sometimes impossible to do the breathing sequences? I can do them some days, but other days my will-power and awareness completely disappears, and its impossible for me to control my breathing. On those days sometimes I can only do the warm-ups in Vol. 1 for a minute or two at a time before I have to lie down.

 

My plan was to just do the warm-ups or even the just the forms in DVD Vol. 1, one minute at a time for months if necessary, until I was healed and strong enough to be able to do the proper breathing sequences. 

 

 

Thank you very much for your time!

 

-Aaron

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Earl Grey]

On 12/31/2021 at 6:14 AM, searcher7977 said:

Sifu Terry,

 

Thank you very much for the gift of FPCK, I hope these holidays have found you well! I have two questions I'm hoping you will be able to answer!

 

Quick background: I am currently somewhat bedridden, suffering from chronic fatigue that has plagued me for a decade, and completely disabled me for the last 2 years. This is likely due to both enormous amounts of stress and improper/unguided buddhist meditation throughout the last decade. I was diagnosed with "zen sickness" at one point by a legitimate rinzai zen monk. I have decided to give up seated "stillness" meditations for the time being and instead try to heal myself with more yang, moving, physical practices. I used to be a very active athlete, and cumulatively have about a year of experience with various qigong practices and (Wu-style) Tai Chi before I got to this almost bedridden state. 

 

 My questions are: 

 

Would it be okay to use the circling blocks warm-up in DVD Vol. 3 as a beginner (to FPCK)? I ask because it incorporates shifting weight back and forth, which seems to have a healing effect on me. 

 

How can I approach Flying Phoenix Chi Kung when it is difficult and sometimes impossible to do the breathing sequences? I can do them some days, but other days my will-power and awareness completely disappears, and its impossible for me to control my breathing. On those days sometimes I can only do the warm-ups in Vol. 1 for a minute or two at a time before I have to lie down.

 

My plan was to just do the warm-ups or even the just the forms in DVD Vol. 1, one minute at a time for months if necessary, until I was healed and strong enough to be able to do the proper breathing sequences. 

 

 

Thank you very much for your time!

 

-Aaron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will nudge Sifu Terry to address this when he can. We will also post this in the AG thread where it will be visible for non-members.

[Earl Grey]

Major announcement:

 

 

You may now purchase digital copies of the CKFH and TCFH dvd programs, which are available at the same price as the DVDs!

 

Just place an order on the taichimania website and note when paying that you would like them in digital format instead of DVDs.

 

Stay tuned for more details about upcoming releases too...

[Vajra Fist]

5 hours ago, Earl Grey said:

Major announcement:

 

 

You may now purchase digital copies of the CKFH and TCFH dvd programs, which are available at the same price as the DVDs!

 

Just place an order on the taichimania website and note when paying that you would like them in digital format instead of DVDs.

 

Stay tuned for more details about upcoming releases too...

 

 

Thanks for this. Is it region locked? I tried to buy a copy of vol 2, to replace one that got lost in a house move, and I still only have two options for international shipping - no digital download yet.

[Earl Grey]

6 minutes ago, Vajra Fist said:

 

 

Thanks for this. Is it region locked? I tried to buy a copy of vol 2, to replace one that got lost in a house move, and I still only have two options for international shipping - no digital download yet.

Nope. It will be available for your region specified.

[Earl Grey]

On 1/23/2022 at 5:02 PM, Vajra Fist said:

 

 

Thanks for this. Is it region locked? I tried to buy a copy of vol 2, to replace one that got lost in a house move, and I still only have two options for international shipping - no digital download yet.

Additionally, use VLC media player and you don’t need to worry about regional lock out!

[Vajra Fist]

Thanks, I emailed Sifu Terry, I think it's an issue at the checkout, but he's been using a workaround. Thanks tor sharing the news.

 

I've been reading a lot about heart rate variability recently, and I noticed some interesting parallels with the breathing percentages of flying phoenix.

 

 

I'm still getting my head around it, but scientists have effectively reverse engineered shamatha states displayed by spiritual practitioners they observed, by using a specific breathing pattern. Namely, slow breaths, under seven per minute, with a slightly longer exhale than inhale. Apparently the pronounced variation in heart rate from the in and out breath, activates the dorsal vagal nerve. 

 

I've been playing around with it recently, and it reminded me a lot of the near immediate relaxation effect of the FP breath percentages. 

 

Now, I'm sure there's a lot more going on in the specific percentages of each of the FP exercises, but I found it an interesting start to explaining physiologically why variable breathing has the stress-busting effects that people here have noted. 

 

Edited January 27, 2022 by Vajra Fist

[tao stillness]

That's great news about the digital downloads since we all know that they have stopped making laptops that have DVD players.

I recently read that the next thing to eliminate will be the jack for earphones, they want you to buy Bluetooth earphones. 

[BluePhoenix133]

You can buy dvd players with a usb cable to plug into your comp.