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    Good Day every one! Special to you Aaron (beggarsu)!

    I have read the book A Complete Guide to Chi-Gung by Daniel Reid !

    And I found some interesting facts, that I don't found in other books!

    To example that:

    There are some Clinic in china: Wahzhan Zhineng Chigong Clinic uses not drogs, herbs, diets, surgery etc, one offers only a kind of medicine: Chi!

    And that, since the yellow emperor there have been genuine Taoist adepts who kept the true traditions of Huang Lao alive ( Aaron well you have right when you said before to me that Chi Kung was practiced before Lü Dongbin) and continued to develop chi gung and others natural health and longevity techniques, like Dao Yin etc!

    Wei Po-Yang wrote one of the most important texts on Taoism alchemy ever produced: Tsan Tung Chi ( the union of the triplex equation)

    Ko Hung wrote Pao Pu Tze ( He who embraces the uncarved block) Still regarded as one of the most influential texts in the development of Chi Kung practiced and the first book to clearly explain that immortality of the physical body could not really be achieved but that the ultimate, goal of practice´was spiritual immortality, which could only be achieved by ultimately abandoning the corporeal body! - So once again Aaron my friend: Your Master's favorite and as far as your single favorite: Ko Hung's inner chapters to The Sage Who Embraces Simplicity, as it has grown a lot on me from my teacher's admiration! Well thats a perfect choice because it seems to be the book mentioned above Ko Hung wrote Pao Pu Tze ( He who embraces the uncarved block)!?

    And Aaron you have choice very wise when you said that:Secret of Youth is one of your favorite Chi Gung books!

    Because in this book of Daniel Reid he said that these 2 classics texts : Yi Chin Ching " Tendon Changing Classic" and Hsi Sui Chin " Marrow Cleansing Classic" are probably the most influential written texts in the entire history of Chi Kung!

    Daniel Reid explain the 10 celestial steme and 12 earthly branches that which energies of the 10 planets and earthly energies in nature goes inside the human body through meridians etc, and that in every hours and months are associated to internal organs!

    And that pivotal of peak of energy are in the summer and winter solstices ( which are the longest and shortest days of the year) and the spring and autumn equinoxes ( when the earth equator come closest to the sun making day/night exactly equal length, full moon and new moon are also favorites times to meditated prolonged periods!

    And that: Eclipses of the moon and sun and when a comet are sweeping through the sky are extremely inappropriate time to practice Chi Gung!

    And in the planet there are few power spots that produced remarkably powerful effects, to example Mountain are good but some ones are more powerful due to their specific location relative to the sun, moon, planets, stars and various constellations, and these are the few power spots, they are to example the 5 sacred Mountain in china Omei Shan, Wu Tai Shan, Tai Shan, Hua Shan and Chun Shan - these are called the Dragons Veins that run through those hallowed peaks anothers power spots are Mount Shasta in California ( Well I hope Sifu Stier and others Friends of mine of this forum and that live in USA visit this Mountain some day!) and other power spots are Red Rock Mountain in Central Australia, Mount Ararat in Iraq and some peaks in the Himalayas!

    I learned too from Daniel Reid book that the are 6 ways of spelling breath by the syllables: shü, he, hoo, sss, shway and chee. And that Chi can be working whit light, color, aroma and sexual energy!

    That one should avoid extremes weathers or natural disasters and even avoid talking during and immediately after practicing Chi Kung, some times when you practiced wrong you can faint, and if you heat your head to a hard object you can be kill" any way I don't read any kind of training of Chi Kung that can kill a person"! Do any one know?!

    I read too that the have been Yogis through Himalayas that have a 200 day fast Chi Gung training!

    And that according to Hindu, Buddhism and Taoism the fundamental state of the universe as well of every being in every dimension of existence has three esential natural qualities: Empty - Luminous and Energy !

    I read too that the fifth Dalai Lama said if people practiced spiritual work with as much energy and enthusiasm as they devote to sexual pursuits, every one would become a fully enlightened Buddha in this very lifetime!

    And I read too in this book that, Energy is the most precious commodity and Chi Gung shows us how to manage our personal energy while also yielding spiritual devidends, or like the Tao Te Chin said: Draw on it as you will, it never runs dry!

    I finish the comments of this book for now whit the words in the book of Lü Dongbin - the mind is primordially pure and calm completely free and infinitely
    vast!

    Have a nice day every one and thanks for reading, if you have any comments or questions about this book - you are welcome!

    Bye

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    Good day HugoDarien ,

    I am glad to see you got your book and have posted comments on it. Yes, Qigong was practiced much longer before Lu Dong Ping. For instance, the Taoist Master who helped Duke Chi in ancient times (1100s bc), Kiang Tzu Ya, was very adept with Qigong. He for instance could change his appearance into anything he wished such as other people, animals, or inanimate objects. I would think he knew the method and was capable of practicing immortality qigong, but I don't know of any references to him doing that. Another Qigong Master who lived before Lu Dong Ping and who did practice immortality qigong was An Chi. It's said the families and generations where he lived would see him throughout the ages and generation to generation when he would sell medicine by the Eastern Shore. People called him Thousand Years, because their parents spoke of him, parent's parent's, and so on, and thus figured he had been around for so long already. Ko Hung says in Pao Pu Tze that An Chi was never recorded as dying, and was last seen at 3,000 years of age! I would have to disagree with the author's interpretation of the Pao Pu Tze. The text is in the format of a interview where Ko Hung lets himself be questioned by interviewers who don't believe in immortality, and he responds defending the existence of such people, citing all kinds of cases and using very clear reasoning. It is written in code though, as Ko Hung frequently states that although he has the method for it, he is too poor and unhealthy and sick (in his autobiography he makes frequent references to his military career commiting feats of strength such as beheadings and very difficult bow and arrow shots) to go through with it. So I can understand how many can mistake it. That certainly does sound like a complete book though, with even details about geographic energy.

    Aaron
    "The nine energies are necessary for immortality, but they are not something for any person to be allowed to come in contact with or hear about. The populus common, in their unending worry, their concern is only with riches and honors. They may well be called walking corpses." - Ge Hong

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    • #3
      A Complete Guide to Chi-Gung by Daniel Reid

      Originally posted by beggarsu
      Good day HugoDarien Kiang Tzu Ya, was very adept with Qigong. He for instance could change his appearance into anything he wished such as other people, animals, or inanimate objects.

      Ko Hung says in Pao Pu Tze that An Chi was never recorded as dying, and was last seen at 3,000 years of age!

      I would have to disagree with the author's interpretation of the Pao Pu Tze. The text is in the format of a interview where Ko Hung lets himself be questioned by interviewers who don't believe in immortality, and he responds defending the existence of such people, citing all kinds of cases and using very clear reasoning.

      in his autobiography he makes frequent references to his military career commiting feats of strength such as beheadings and very difficult bow and arrow shots) to go through with it.

      That certainly does sound like a complete book though, with even details about geographic energy.Aaron
      Good day Aaron thanks for your answer and information! But I don't belive that a Spirit can change the appearance into anything he wished such as other people, animals, or inanimate objects, because I belive that the Spirit have a Human form and Animals and Plants have their forms just like the forms they have in this earth!

      I belive that An Chi could be seen 3000 years of age! And I belive, that he still live right now, because I know that there are peoples that never died thanks to God, like the 3 peoples of the Book of Mormon like the other one too that Jesus Christ knew I don't remember the name, and many others Jesus have said that there are many of such kinds of people in this earth and that they live until the they he comes back! They are here to help people, and they don't need to eat and drink, can travels to any part of the world, they work whit high influence peoples even when those peoples don't know them, who they really are, etc!

      For me committing feats of strength such as beheadings and very difficult bow and arrow shots, are only things that sometimes is need it in wars! But to do so whit innocents people like the terrorist do nowadays, is a unforgivable sin in my eyes and in the eyes of God, because they kill innocent peoples!

      Well this book of Daniel Reid is a good complete guide book, but I prefers the Chi Kung Books of Sifu Wong Kiew Kit special right now when I know about Chi this book: Chi Kung for Health and Vitality ! Because it have so many training that I can train home and I hope some day I have train all those in my hometown! So if you ask me which book do you are going to have about Chi Kung in your life then it would be this one: Chi Kung for Health and Vitality by Wong Kiew Kit and if Wong Kiew Kit right the other book of Chi Kung that he want to right in the future I'm sure it be that one too!

      Have a nice day, Bye! may your Chi be strong!

      Hugo

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        Diferent qigong

        Hugo,

        I am a Zhineng practitioner but most of it is grounded in modernity and it is an amalgam of other qigong methods. It is not thousands of years old.
        Zhineng dong gong actually, is an updated version of a former system called Soaring Crane, that had many problems associatd with it and Panming "reformatted" Soaring Crane so that it has lesser adverse experiences (known to civilians as 'qi effects' and similar jargon) but it has certain benefits providing the person teaching is familiar with what a specific system can accomplish.

        An older system (and I am sure it has changed) is Dayan (Wild Goose) Qigong by the late Yang Meijun. I am only saying that many systems noted as being thousands of years old are new (since 1980's).
        Only Dayan qigong (amongst the few) has a long history.

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        • #5
          A Complete Guide to Chi-Gung by Daniel Reid

          yeniseri - good day!

          thanks

          Well I started a new thread about Zhineng Qigong see:



          Thank you very much yeniseri for the information, a very deep one, I felt!

          Have a pleasant; agreeable and comfortable NIGHT !

          Bye!

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