This life is all about relationships. It’s about love – expecting love and giving love. It’s about our relationship with Tao, family, people, pets, nature Love is the best thing for the quality of mankind, but is the worst thing got attaining immortality – a lethal poison. Love is a major attachment.

What is your wisdom for giving and getting love? What is your need for giving and getting love? We hunger, we crave, we grieve, we hate. It’s all about love and need.

To deal with love we have the three treasures of the Tao: Conscience; Mercy; and Forgiveness.

Heal yourself to heal your relationships.

Love is the best quality and the worst nectar and poison. Nurtured by love and killed by love. You must balance love with the Three Treasures.

Are you making a truthful effort? You must go into the original spirit and apply conscience, mercy and forgiveness. You need to make a 100% truthful effort.

The ultimate goal is the selfish Tao and doing what is needed to walk the tightrope. You must be focused. You can only go forward on the narrow path which is full of reward and full of danger. You must have no baggage.

Love is a poison arrow that can distract you from stillness and detachment from need. Detach/attach – that is how we balance. First though, we must produce the best quality of human life and love. Only then can we move beyond to practice immortality. At some point we must give up love. We must take off our shoes when we go inside; that is equal to love. Then the home is completely clean and life is pure.

The Tao and Virtue are behind the Three Treasures. Use the Three Treasures. First you must apply the best conscience for yourself before you can apply it to others. Decide who you want to be. Be merciful about anything that detracts or distracts. Forgiveness is the tool for getting back on track.

Every day we are in the triangle game. How can we play and not play? Detachment is the key. Play the game joyfully and playfully. Don’t crave the chocolate, take it lightly. When you do have it, enjoy it.

Celebrate diversity. Don’t force yourself into the game, celebrate the game. Don’t try to force others to be like you. The more you push or persecute, the harder they kick back. Others will fight to protect their spirit. Softness overcomes hardness, mercy is water, water is soft. The unique character of Wu Dang is softness. Softness is the application of the Tao. Water can carry, flow, or flood. Celebrate different manifestations of the Tao.

Can you find a single reason to forgive yourself? You can always find 100 reasons to forgive others.
You have unlimited potential for a successful life! You must believe “I CAN DO IT!”

What is the connection between grief and happiness? They are two sides of the hand. To appreciate happiness you must have grief. Just flip the coin.

Victims lose their motivation to flip the coin. Don’t be a victim of any situation or for anyone, especially yourself. It is very simple to find the root – it only took me 30 years…

Bubble Meditation

For this meditation, seat yourself comfortably in meditation pose (cross legged or in a chair) and visualize yourself covered by a large bell. Visualize your mind as the sun, and your Dan Tian is the water.

Let the sun shine and boil the water.

Allow Qi to rise up the inner face of the spine – the Du channel – (red line) and around to below the nose with the inhalation. With the exhalation allow the intention to drop down the front of the body and back to the Dan Tian. (light blue dashed line). This circuit is the small circulation. Once Qi flows on the small circulation there is no more sickness.

Eventually you will achieve longevity and immortality.

Degree of concentration determines heat of the fire.

Do not practice when you are emotional.
Repeat the circuit beginning with 36 breaths and building up to 108 breaths.

When you are done, cover the belly with both palms (females right hand underneath, males left hand) and rub the belly three times in each direction. Then rub the palms until they are hot and dry wash the face and head 3 times.

Practice for 100 days and observe the changes within.

What is Qi Gong

My mission is to translate the ancient wisdom and healing ways. From the first civilization of China, people with no technology, to cure the self, had to turn inside or turn to nature to look for healing or guidance. Man united with cosmos as one – very similar to American Indian culture.

When people feel helpless or weak they go inside to search in their soul to connect with the divine. Touching is the beginning of healing. Dao Yin – stretching and self-massage, meditation, looking inside, breathing, stretching, movement.

Ordinary ancient Chinese people invented Qi Gong. Those wise people put it into a system. Hua Tuo – Five Animal Play, for example, mimics the movements of the animals.

Qi Gong works on different levels. The mind is the driver, the Qi is like gasoline or substance and the body is the car. We need gas or Qi to run the car. In order to run we must produce energy or power. If we produce energy or power the healing driver must “burn” gas to produce power to run the car.

The power runs on the twelve primary meridian channels. Each channel runs for 2 hours (of high tide) in sequence. Qi is like the General of an army – it cannot be seen, but directs the action. The blood is like the soldiers that go out into the body. The Qi directs the blood.

If one of the twelve channels has a problem it causes problems in the subsequent channels. The energy channels must be like a smooth tunnel – with no debris. If there is debris we must flush it out, then we must command the Qi to flow through the channel to clear the debris.

So how do we do it?

Gong is work. The driver conducting action to gas to drive the car. A new element has to be produced, effort that results in an alchemical change. How do we produce this fifth element (Gong) to produce healing? Qi cannot create a miracle without the mind’s participation.

The Art of the Mind is Qi Gong. The art is to produce or achieve a higher degree of stillness. The degree of stillness predicates the degree of success. The breath leads to calmness, calmness leads to peace, peace, ultimately, leads to stillness. Look inside. It requires that we empty the garbage out of the head. We must be willing to give up projects in the head. Be the worst host to your thoughts.

Man United With Cosmos As One.

Follow What is Nature.

When you give up the need to know, then you have reached the stage of emptiness, the Void. Then you can connect with stillness, with the Tao.

Void is the physical body of the Tao.

Stillness is the root of the Tao.

To participate fully in life you must preserve stillness. We treat our emotions as devils and try to punish ourselves, rather than accepting them as natural. We entertain them and thereby our spiritual base is disturbed. Emotions are like decorations of our house; accept them rather than punishing yourself for them. It is our choice how we deal with our emotions. We only allow ourselves to be victims. Instead every morning get up and say to yourself: “I am beautiful, successful, healthy, happy, lucky…” Project your message to the cosmos.

Returning is the motion of the Tao. If you throw a ball at the wall it will bounce back.

Trust.

Whole-ism is the basic philosophy of Taoism. I and all are one.

Always go with the flow. Regulate the mind.

Qi Gong has a 3000-5000 year history in China. Wu Dang Taoist Qi Gong for health dates from the Tsung Dynasty – around 700 years ago. (24 generations). The term Qi Gong came into use around 1980 bringing together diverse but related practices: Dao Yin is the first form of Qi Gong which is physical exercise, stretching and self-massage; Jing Zhuo is sitting in tranquility or meditation; Nei Guan is to look inside; and Tu Na is to breathe in and breathe out. Together these are included in Qi Gong. Qi is vital or mystical energy. Gong is practice or training of the energy.

There are three sets or levels. The first level of Qi Gong practice is for self-healing, the second is for intuited healing of others and the third is for internal alchemy transformation. We each need to heal 3600 others in order to progress. When we achieve ultimate health, we become immortal. There are over 360 different styles of Qi Gong: Taoist, Buddhist, Traditional Chinese Medical, Martial Arts, Confucian, and more.

There are three Qi in the body: Wei Qi – defensive Qi, Yin Qi – nourishment Qi, and Zhong Qi – which protects the heart and lungs.

As I mentioned in last week’s blog, there are the three regulations of the body: mind, breath and body. The levels of breath regulation include: natural or abdominal breath, reverse breathing which massages the organs, Womb breath or auto reverse, and immortal breath. Regulation of the body has many styles but with the same principle – to relax the body. The regulation of the mind is to go beyond reality and go beyond learning and perception of the five senses.

The primary Qi Gong traditions of Wu Dang are Shen Dian and Zhong He. A third key tradition is Wu Xing (Five Element).

The first movement of Shen Dian is to collect Qi. You see yourself as inside an eggshell. Go beyond your imagination and beyond the ordinary five senses of sensing, knowing, seeing and feeling. Try to see you internal body, go to the ethereal body. Clean out toxins in the ethereal body by washing out the body with fresh Qi – put the “dirty” energy into the earth. The Aura or “Chang” or field is the ethereal body. The Qi Chang + me is Qi is Tao.

To let go of the self you must first feel and become aware and heal the self. Then you lose the self, extend the self, the field becomes the self. Intuition, or the 6th sense becomes activated and sound, color, vision and other experiences manifest. Once you can intuit and move into the field self on a regular basis you are at the intermediate level.

To heal you create a better internal environment. Bring in fresh energy, fresh “water” to cleanse and push toxic cells or energy. Refined oxygen is the killer of bad cells, it makes order in the cells. Increasing oxygen in the blood improves the immune system.

The Chong channel is the most important channel of the body. It regulates people’s pre-heaven energy. The channel begins to shrink around menopause. It is in charge of the aging process. Qi Gong helps to regulate the flow of energy in the channels and to reverse the aging process.

Stillness is the key to open the gate to the mystical world. With stillness, the mind and body fall in love, yang and yin. The enemy of stillness is motion. How do you deal with motion in the right way? You must learn to deal with it in a philosophical way. Physical motion is the first test for everyone. You need a very wise mind to not attach to it. Once you attach to it, you are back at square one.

Wu is the character for Enlightenment or Breakthrough and has the inner radicals “heart ”on the left and “self” on the right representing the relationship between you and the cosmos.

To meditate bring the mind back to look for tranquility. Do nothing and leave nothing undone. Move into “Ting”, stop, be still, frozen, have no need to move. No one can distract you unless you want or allow yourself to be distracted. Withdraw the senses.

Regulate your body:
A. Seal your hands
B. Eyes on the tip of the nose
C. Arms rounded
D. Sit cross-legged, females with the right leg outside, males the left leg. If you must sit on a chair then sit on the front 1/2 – 1/3 of the chair with your feet shoulder width apart and facing ahead.
E. Let your armpits be empty and the belly soft
F. Wear no jewelry, no watch, be natural
G. Wear loose clothes, nothing binding

The usual pain sequence for the body to follow when you start sitting is:
1) Legs ache
2) Kidney/low back aches
3) Shoulders ache
4) Neck aches
5) Forehead aches
This is a natural sequence as the energy starts to move up. Just take it, do not attach.

Sit for 20 minutes initially and then gradually add time in 5 minute increments over 1-2 months. Be regular! Do your practice at the same time every day – for example at 11:00 pm every night. Twice a day is recommended for your meditation practice: Mornings between 5 and 7 and evenings between 11 and 1, even when you travel. Twenty minutes of good quality meditation equals 2 hours of sleep.

Regulate your mind:

Kill the self – let go of your self-concept: ego, desire, self-identity, stress and go back to the innocent stage. Desire and emotion are the leading causes of mental motion – monkey mind. The wild horse is the intention, jumping monkey is the heart.

1 replaces the 10,000

Focus on the 1.

Focus on the tip of the nose. The tip of the nose is the pole to tie the wild horse to. When you focus on the tip of the nose during meditation then you bring the consciousness to the Dan Tian. That’s called caging the monkey.

When you focus on the 1, that is the beginning stage of stillness; when you let go of the 1, that is the intermediate stage.

To achieve stillness you must practice self-cultivation of your virtue: remove the masks, be true to your heart, and seek the purity of your own heart. The goal is stillness. You must preserve the root in order to achieve stillness. Practice self-examination. The source of stress is from your own heart. You cause your own stress and you must take responsibility.

Regulate your breath:

Tu Na Gong Fu is the art of regulating the breath. In pure meditation you do not even regulate your breath. It simply falls away.

This is a basic method for regulating breath.

1. When you inhale, gently contract the anus in and up beginning with the intention just under the tip of tailbone (Wei Lu point) and leading it up the inner face of the spine, up the Du Channel, around the skull to just below the nose.

2. When you exhale, gently relax the anus. Allow the intention to lead the Qi down the front of the body to the perineum (Hui Yin point between the privates).

When beginning, practice 36 breaths or rotations and then let go of intention. Then do nothing, keep the mind in the belly, on the Dan Tian. Focus on the third eye; see and not see.

Females can focus the intention on the heart center for around 15 minutes and then bring the intention back down to the Dan Tian.

When you begin this will be a dry river. Use intention to see the path until one day water comes, and energy goes up and down by itself. After 100 days of practice you will achieve results.