Dr E is clearing out the AlexandriaofEngbeck Librarium from FB "Spiritual Liberation" page-group and then over to the web page. This one has about 48 entries.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LionSpiritKeep/permalink/2662510820699758
THE ROOT OF CHINESE CHI KUNG
The Secrets of Chi Kung Training
Dr Jwing-Ming Yang
New Book arrival and section! Dr E's research has lead him into Chi Kung via QiGong. This is "Grounded Research" which intends that the research follows the clues that present rather than an assumption, hypothesis, or SWAG (Navy acronym for "Scientific Wild Ass Guess."). In this way, the investigator has a basis in reality...since the clues found are "real" not imagined as may be the case with other forms of scientific research paradigm and methodology. Additionally, Chi Kung has provided Dr E with such clues that it begs him to drop all other research paths and give ultimate focus to this one. It is ...possible. Yet, Dr E keeps his genuine identity and purposeful path in tact by working across paradigms. The key may be to be able to capably reduce abstractions to material realities ...and Chi Kung is just that! Thank you.
The Upper Burner ~ (Heart = Fire) and The Lower Burner ~ (Kidney = Water) are mutually interdependent and provide balance to one another as well. The Human Conscious is emanating and ruminating from this Cooperative Alliance, its current state reflective of the balance state twixt them (Jwing-Ming, 1946).
About Dr Yang Jwing-Ming. Taiwan. Cheng. White Crane. Tai Chi Chuan. Taipei. Forms of Tai Chi. Internal Power development! Physics at Taiwan University. Chinese Air Force. Master Li. Northern Style Wushu. Kung Fu. PhD from Purdue in Mechanical Engineering. Yang's Martial Arts Association (YMAA). Wushu, Tai Chi Chuan, Shaolin White Crane, ...chi kung.
Cultivating the body's internal energy. Improve health and cure diseases. Western struggles with some diseases that Chi Kung resolves. Weak to strong, depressed to happy, sick to healthy. Four thousand years of previously secret training. Interdisciplinary treatment and technologies can enhance the view of the Power of chi Kung in The West. Needs finance to capture the western mind. Chi Kung in US universities.
Nixon opened China to the west. The inscrutable orient. Oriental healing. Chi. Tai Chi Chuang. Getting better with age through Tai chi. Physiologically unchallenged but "scientifically' unproven. GATING where some nerves scientifically proven to lose resistant charges. Hypnosis, suggestability? Public Mind. Understanding opposing forces. Physical fitness. Link between mind and body. Mental clamness. Companion to physical improvement. Explanation that defy western science such as "weakness of the liver." Metaphor defies western thought. ROOSTER STANDS ON ONE LEG vs Side Deltoid stretch. Ancient field of Learning. CROSS CULTURAL ILLUMINATION.
Chi Kung - Health and Martial Arts. More publications in China. Tai Chi and Shaolin. Limited. Experimenting from many ancient texts. New field. WHAT and WHY. 5 years, 8 books. Songs. Knowledge and experience. Light. Long concealed Chi Kung knowledge. 4,000 years of Chi Kung research in 8 books. 8 books by Jwing-Ming. Volume 1: 4 parts: 1. History. 2. Theory and principles. 3. Chi Circulatory system. 4. 4. Unanswered questions. Marrow washing is a depp practice...both Buddhist and Taoist traditions. Liang Dynasty. (Sex Organ Use). YMAA instructional books and videotapes. Self Improvement Books and Tapes.
Introduction. 7,000 years of Chinese Spiritual History. Experience in human suffering. Pain. Chinese culture is like an old man who has experienced all of the pain in life and acquired great knowledge. The chinese culture ranks on very high as its literature and art are great human spiritual achievements. Human Joy-Grief, pleasure-suffering, peace and strife, vitality, sickness, and death. Bettering and uplifting the self. Destiny. Resisting the apparently inevitable sickness and death of human existence. SELF STUDY & SELF CULTIVATION,. CHI. the energy within the human body. Chi in Nature as well. Deep understandings of chi. Maintaining health, curing sickness, and Chi Research within Chinese Medicine.
Chinese culture has been heavily influenced by Chi Kung. Chi Kung has also been influenced by meditation. Traditional scholarly Taoism and Buddhism integrations and Chi Kung. Peaceful Spiritual Mind. Mystery of Human Life and Destiny. Healthy and happier life... eternal spiritual life after death. Spiritual Life. Eastern and Western cultures differ in terms of Spirituality vs Materiality. The balancing of the internal Energy. Spiritual Calmness. Distant Mind's External Exercises. Illnesses are caused by imbalances inn the mind. Heathy body mind and Chi flow. Fear and worry tend to harm the spleen and stomach. Also, kidneys and bladder. TRUE GOOD HEALTH IS BOTH EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL. Too much exercise makes too much Yang positive. Too little is Yin, negative. Internal health may not be reflected internally. Old weight lifters can lose fluidity in the constantly overstressed muscles. Energy Dispersion requires not too much and not too little. Building the foundation internally. The mind's internal exercise. SHING MING SHUANG SHOU which means "double-cultivation." Cultivate character internally and build strength externally. Health...even supernatural powers. John 14:12. All western religions had branches or sects similar to Chi Kung. Build Up and Circulation of Chi. Stigma kept this type of research from happening. China and india have more emphasis. Acupuncture. CHI.
Inner for Outer, Outer for Inner... ~ One.
Definition of Chi and Chi Kung. There is no one definition of Chi and Chi Kung. Much variance in understanding of Chi. Depends in angle of perception, experience, needs, etc. Some say its electrical, some say its magnetic. Some say its Heat. Some say its Energy However, a wise learner will not classify Chi narrowly at all. hi Kung may not be suitable to simple definition either. It does cure sickness and improve health ...but also...much more. Specifics in the body... can apply. CHI IS THE ENERGY OR NATURAL FORCE WHICH FILLS THE UNIVERSE.
GENERAL DEFINITION OF CHI. The energy or natural force which fills the Universe. The Sky - Universal Chi (Tian Chi) is called "Heaven chi." The field strives to stay in balance. Weather, climate, natural disasters. Sunshine. Moon Light. The wind must blow, the rain must fall...when Heaven Chi is out of balance to correct. EARTH CHI is influenced by Heaven Chi. Example: Too much rain will cause a river to overflow. Too little, to starve the creatures and foliage. The Chinese believe the Earth Chi is made of lines and patterns of energy, as well as the heat beneath the Earth's surface, and the Earth's magnetic field. CHI BALANCE. Human Chi is different than animals and plants Chi for the most part because humans concentrate it differently. The NATURAL CYCLES OF EARTH AND HEAVEN CHI. Chi demonstrates power and strength... and each being has its own field which will strive for balance as the other hi fields do as well. Chi - electric Chi. Ren Chi - Heat. Chi is also a state. Tian Chi = Weather = Heaven Chi. Hwo Chi- Chi of a Living THING. Syy Chi - Chi of a dead thing. Goe chi - Chi of a Ghost. JENG CHI is righteous Chi or "normal" Chi. CHI SHYL is energy state of an Army. Chi has a broad definition and function. Chi is the manner of state and the state itself at once and can also express Chi. IN CHI KUNG, THE MIND IS NOT CHANNELED INTO A NARROW DEFINITON.
GENERAL definition of CHI KUNG. Chi is Energy. Found in HEAVENS, EARTH, PEOPLE, & EVERY LIVING THING. Kung means Kung Fu which means Chi-based capabilities derived from diligence, time, and effort. The Chinese studied Chi for thousands of years. The I Ching. Calculating Chi. Natural Power. The Three. The 8 Trigrams. THEORY OF CHI VARIATION. Study of.
THREE CHI'S OF HEAVEN, EARTH, & MAN. Nature repeating herself and accumulation of experience makes tracing patterns possible. Understanding of rules and cycles " TIAN SHYR " " HEAVENLY TIMING " Natural changes can be known and understood such as seasons, climate, weather, rain, snow, drought, and all others come into view. Rebalancing the Chi Fields ALLOWS A VIEW OF THE ENERGETIC PATTERNS that create natural phenomena. Day, Month, year, 12 and 60 year cycles. EARTH CHI & HEAVEN CHI. Earth is part of Heaven. Knowledge of how REARTH STRUCTURE RULES. Rivers and Mountains are formed. How plants grow, how rivers move, where to live for a geomancy point of view. DIH LII SHY are Chinese Geomancy teachers. WIND-WATER character and location. GEOMANCY WITH THE I CHING.
CHI NEEDS GEO MAN SEE ~ Chinese Geomancy
Three Chi's called Heaven, Earth, and Human Chi. The Practitioners and Masters herein regard these as determinates if one's Destiny. By understanding its Nature, we can have long healthy lives. The relationship between Nature and Human understood, the Heaven and Earth Chi determining the Human Chi... and its Destiny...where the Human Chi is channeled into (Ren Shyh) allows the Human to coincide with Nature. FOLLOW THE WAY OF NATURE = The Tao. The Root of Chinese Medical Science. The Natural Way. Acupuncture, acupressure, herbal treatment, Chi Kung, meditation ...all ...are practices that regulate and adjust the flow of Chi, as does The Spiritual Quest for Enlightenment. NEI KUNG = INTERNAL KUNG FU. building up Chi within first then practices INTERNAL KUNG FU. Many styles of Chi cultivation practice. Wai Kung - External Kung Fu. Some muscle development in the limbs with Chi cultivation in Wai Kung. Styles of Wai Kung include PRAYING MANTIS, TIGER, EAGLE, WHITE CRANE, DRAGON. These may often have derived and originated from The Shaolin Temple.
ABOUT CHI KUNG and THE BOOK. theoretical foundation. How, Why, What about the book, Chi Kung, and their usage. The book covers more than 4000 years. It was secret until 20 years ago. Western scholars ... medical society... now become involved in the newly realized science. CRISS CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS. THE PATH OF STUDY vs some final authority claim. Opening the mind and releasing habituation... although our human habit is to frame all new information in the old network...which dooms it for us. Like tourists who blast their radio in the forest... the true history is a foundation to create FROM not to. The fascination and challenge of the new fortified by the old, not stalled by it! The cultures may call us traitors but we are the opposite in the eyes of The Universe. Finding the ROOT of the entire science. To forget the root though is to study only the flowers and leaves and branches and forbids use of the thousands of years of experience. Careful experimentation. Course of study...patient and persevering. STRONG WILL, Knowledge nor wisdom suffice alone, one must also have MORALS & ETHICS. CHARACTER. MORAL VIRTUES ARE REQUIRED FOR ANY TRUE SUCCESS. cannot lose our humility. Always continuing to learn... TAKING THE PASSDOWN AND CREATING IS THE WAY. The Creativity to New must also revere the old and have a clear awareness and knowledge of it. OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYS. 4 parts to the book...1. HISTORY. 2. MAJOR KEYS TO CHI KUNG. 3. CHI CIRCULATION, VESSELS, AND CHANNELS. 4. QUESTIONS...
Ch2 : History of Chi Kung. chi Kung can be roughly divided into 4 categories which are time periods. I: The inception by way of The I CHING, the BOOK OF CHANGES, around 1122BC and until the Han Dynasty. Buddhism then entered the equation as an import from India. II The religious Chi Kung time period which lasted until the Liang Dynasty around 555AD. III The martial Chi Kung time period where Buddhist and Taoist martial philosophies were merged and augmented vigorously. IV. In 1911, The Ching Dynasty was overthrown and the new era of chi Kung proceeded and exists today as it merges forms of itself from world wide into the new and contemporarily found form of :World Chi Kung"...now mixing Japanese, Indian, and other countries' forms of Chi Kung.
BEFORE THE HAN DYNASTY: (Pre 206BC) The I CHING - The Book of Changes 1122 BC. It spoke of CHI... and 3 Basic Energies Heaven, Earth, Man. Natural Powers. CHI KUNG and NATURAL POWERS ... as One. Turtle shells and bones with etchjngs back in 1766 BC! The writings there were religious. JEA GUU WEN. Chi circulation adjustments. Breathing techniques. Breath training became used more and more. Nan Ching to change and increase ...Chi circulation ... GOLDEN CHAMBER. RELATIONSHIP OF HUMAN BEINGS TO NATURAL FORCES. Scarce documents, CHI KUNG for Health Maintenance (Tao and Confucians) and for MEDICAL MAINTENANCE using exercise and/or needles to adjust Chi circulation. FOLLOWING THE NATURAL WAY TO MAINTAINING HEALTH.
Fropm the Han Dynasty to the Beginning of the Liang Dynasty ( 206BC - 502 AD ): The Han Emperors were Wise and Intelligent ... and their the Han Dynasty was glorious and peaceful. The Emperor at this time became deeply Buddhist and pulled in wisdom and wise counsel from India. Chi Kung was practiced in India for thousands of years and became integrated into Chinese culture. The STILL MEDITATION ( Zen aka "Charn" ) is a prominent one. ATTAINING BUDDAHOOD. Chi Kung was secret and for thousands of years was not exposed to the lay people. Tao Jiaw was formed which was Buddhism, The Tao, and Chi Kung ...integrated...by Chang Tao-Ling. Tibetan Buddhism was imported to hina as well. These religious forms of Chi Kung practitioners were said to form their Chi at a much deeper leevel. The intenrnal functions of the body...giving contyrol of the body, mind, and Spirit to them. The goal was escaping the cycle of reincarnation. The secret pass down of CHI KUNG within monsteries, traditonal scolars, and doctors was amplified in research. Taoist Jiun Chiam invented 5 animal sports using the movements of animals. NOURISHIBNG THE BODY ... EXTENDING THE LIFE. Many Chi Kung techniques are comprising the Chi Kung form: 1. Indian, Tibetan, and The Tao were the three legs of the table. 2. Secrets were kept from lay people , 3. Escape from reincarnation cycle was the goal, 4. Harder training and deeper philsophy and meaning than non religious Chi Kung. 5. New efficiencies found over time and implmented in keeping with the ancient secrets.
MORE PROFOUND SUBJECTS THAT DR YANG COVERS WITHIN:
History of Chi Kung
Chi and The Human Body
Scholar, Medical, Martial, and Religious Forms of Chi Kung
Chi King Theory
Wai Dan/Nei Dan ~ Outer/Inner
Chi Kung Training
Regualtion of The Body, Breath, Emotional mind, Essence, Chi, Spirit,
Chi Channels and Vessels
Study, Practice, and Research Guides
AVOID PREJUDICE
BE OBJECTIVE IN DISCERNMENT
BE SCIENTIFIC
BE LOGICAL AND SENSIBLE
DO NOT IGNORE PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Bibliography and References 101 Questions Pp 245
Photo Credits Sources (In Text)
Notes-Maps-Tables ( Throughout Text )
Index Pp
Characters and Diagrams Chinese Glossary of Terms Pp 258 -268
