For instance, you can use yin and yang to mean feminine and masculine but NOT good and bad.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Qigong Practice: #1
Don’t assume that Qigong starts with deep breathing or lightning bolts shooting out of your fingers. Start by just standing there for a minute. Qigong begins when you Tiao Shen (control your body). Start with your feet apart about shoulder width. Slightly bend your knees. Relax your hands at your sides. Let your shoulders...
What Makes a Qigong Master?
Actually the answer to this is simple: adversity; same as with any practice. Take the example of Wen Mei Yu. At 13 she started practicing under the 73 year old teacher, Yang De Shan. Naturally dedicated she eschewed comfort for her art staying outside when others went indoors to warm up, lying on cold...
The Most Radical Health Program
No one should feel bad that the Chinese did it first. After all, they’ve had 5000 years to noodle with these things. But before we go on we have to take a simple test. If you still believe that the quality and kind of health care we have is dependent only on the attempt...
Beneath the Personal
There are two great endeavors which require us to leave our personalities aside. By this I mean social endeavors, not individual efforts. In the West this is science which at least aims at an objective sense of the universe. In the East this is meditation which aims at an objective sense of ourselves. Of...
Baskin Robbins 3000
The Chinese government has estimated that somewhere around three thousand (yes, 3000) forms of Qigong still exist in China. It’s true they may be disappearing faster than the rain forest but, as of now, there is still a great inheritance. Martial arts fans of Kung Fu may know that Kung Fu used to boast...
