daoist breahting techniques

[roger]

sagebrush,

 

I've smoked pot a few times, and the effect on my perception the breathing technique has is similar to it.

 

Meaning is a difficult concept, but ultimately, I think the meaning of things is simply love. Or, you could put it a number of different ways, as long as the One Reality, the Dao, the Universal, is what you mean. I'm saying that that one thing is all there is, and is meaning itself.

 

So in terms of content, as opposed to form, love, Dao, truth, or however you want to put it, is the meaning of breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth.

 

Why is that the case? There's an innocence, a naturalness, a divine nature to it, much like Qigong techniques.

 

I think it's important to distinguish between content, and form. Content is either love, or fear (the apparent absence of love); form is whatever particular way those two things happen to manifest in a situation.

 

The breathing is a form of love, which is why it's effective.

 

 

 

edit: Btw, I prefer to breathe out through both the mouth and nose, and I think anyone who tries it will probably find it easier and more natural.

Edited November 8, 2016 by roger

[awaken]

故未得丹时，须借武火以凝之，既得丹时，须藉文火以养之。文火者。结实之火也。其养之法，节其寒温消息是也。

 

In this paragraph, 丹means 黍米，a small point of light.

 

Before 黍米 appears, it says that we must use big fire to gather the energy.

 

The big fire means more concentrate in breath.

 

But this breath method is not any skill to breath.

 

It means just more focus on breathing.

 

This kind of breath can let energy more powerful.

 

It works like bellows to make the fire bigger.

 

 

 

After the 黍米 show up, we don't need big fire. We need small fire to let our consciousness deep down to raise the Ying.

 

After we have enough Yang in Ying, our consciousness will wake up and show some special inside view.

 

陰盡陽純一陽生

 

Ying ends and Yang gets pured , so one Yang show up.

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玄牝之門世罕知，休將口鼻妄施爲。饒君吐納經千載，爭得金烏弱兔兒。

 

要知煉養還丹法，須向家園下種栽。不假吹噓並著力，自然丹熟脫靈胎。

休施巧僞爲功力，認取他家不死方。壺內旋添延命酒，鼎中收取返魂漿。

 

Chang bo duan criticize the breath skills for many times.

 

 

 

 

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[Kodoninja]

Hello

 

Is there a good book about daoist breathing techniques ?

 

 

Kind Regards

 

Frederick

Hey Flanneau, 

 

Qigong Empowerment by Grandmaster Shouyu Liang is a good book. It covers quite a few taoist qigong techniques not just reverse breathing. In the beginning stages, I recommend not learning from a book though. You can set yourself up for future health problems and also failure in progression without proper guidance. The safest and best practice in my opinion is starting with Standing Post(Zhan Zhuang) and not to worry about breathing just yet. The reason why I say that is because breathing will occur naturally and it is best no to force these things. The concept of Wu Wei, comes to mind. Doing without doing, or non-doing.  

 

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Hello everyone!

Can I ask about the difference between big and small fire?? And how is it corresponding to breathing.

Rgrds, Ilya