Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Dao is Qi: The secret of the Mudra of closing off, holding or gripping the thumbnail (making a ring with the index): The Fuqi jing from 5th Century A.D.

For Level 3 qigong to open the third eye then the mudra is taught to hold the index finger against the thumbnail - to STORE up the qi and prevent the qi from leaving the body. What causes this?

The Fuqi jing 服氣經 (Scripture on Ingesting Qi) says:303
303 Possibly a work from before the fifth century, to do with ingesting qi. See Textual History for more details. 
The Way is qi. 

Protecting qi, one attains the Way. Attaining the Way, one is thus well-preserved. Spirits
are seminal essence. Protecting seminal essence, one’s spirits become intelligent/bright.
Illuminating one’s spirits, one lives long. Seminal essence is the river-flow of the blood
vessels, and the numinous spirit which protects the bones. Discarding seminal essence,
one’s bones become brittle and brittle bones result in death. It is true that the business
of the Way is treasuring one’s seminal essence. From midnight to noon is the qi of life,
from noon on till midnight is the qi of death. Just at the beginning304 of the qi of life
period, one ought to lie flat and square on one’s back,305 close the eyes and practice 

clenching the fists.306 (Clenching the fists is like the way a child curls up its hands, using the four
fingers to grasp the thumb.) 
Close off the qi and stop breathing, mentally count to two
hundred, and then exhale through the mouth. Repeat this practice daily, and in this way
the body and spirits become complete, and the five viscera become peaceful. If you can
hold your breath for a count of two hundred fifty, the flowery canopy becomes
luminous.307 If the flowery canopy becomes luminous, then eyes and ears become
bright and clear, strengthening the body so it is without illness and immune to pathogens. 

The end point of the lung meridian is located at the proximal lateral corner of the thumbnail (lung 11
shaoshang 少商 [minor transaction point]). In addition to closing the mouth and nose to cut off circulation of lung qi, holding the thumbs presumably would have been thought to seal off the meridian, preventing all outlets of circulation. 
This method is well known and frequently refered to. It is mentioned in the fourth fascicle of Zhujia
qifa bu 諸家氣法部 YJ59, the Mozi biqi xingqi fa 墨子閉氣行氣法 (Mozi’s methods for Holding the Breath and Circulating Qi), and in the Zhengao which say:
行氣名煉氣，一名長息。其法正偃臥，握固，漱口咽之三。
Qi-circulation is called ‘refining the qi’and another name is the ‘eternal breath.’ Its methods are as
follows: lie square on one’s back, hold the thumbs, gargle and swallow it three times. – Zhujia qifa
bu YJ59.4.9a5-6.
君曰。昔在莊伯微漢時人也。少時好長生道。 常以日入時，正西北向，閉目握固，想
見崑崙。 積二十一年，後服食，入中山學道。猶存此法。
The lord said: In the past, Zhuang Bowei was a man of the Han dynasty. While young he was
fond of the methods of longevity. At dusk he would always squarely face the northwest, close his
eyes, grip his thumbs, and think of seeing Kunlun mountain. At the age of twenty-one he left the
eating food behind, entered the central mountains and studied the Dao. He is still practicing this
method. – Zhengao 5.6b9-7a




Whenever circulating qi, inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth,
drawing the breath softly – this is called the Breath of Eternity. There is one kind of
inbreath, and six kinds of outbreath: The one kind of inbreath is called xi 吸 (inhalation).
As for the six kinds of outbreath they are chui 吹 (blowing), hu 呼 (exhaling), xi 唏
(sobbing), he 呵 (huffing), xu 噓 (sighing), and xi 呬 (panting).308 They all expel the qi.

 Shao: immaturity shang: one of the five sound pertaining metal
In the term shaoshang , shao means less. The lung pertains to metal in the five elements and to the shang sound in the five sounds. This is the last point of the lung meridian, where Qi is less.

Erroneous View Number 8:

1 hour ago, Desmonddf said:

 
 There's so much stuff here that's wrong...
 
But I'll focus on Qi, just to make an example. 
 
Qi indeed isn't physical, but it moves and heatens the body. If you generate Qi without generating fluids, then you'll create false fire in your body.

That, and fluids also are needed to generate Qi. The pathway to Qi generation is as it follows:
 
Food and Drinks ---> Stomach ---(pure substances) ----> Spleen ----> Chest ---- air enters through the lungs ---> Kidneys ---(Yuan Qi) ---> Zheng Qi ---> Ying Qi + Wei Qi. --- (Ying Qi) ---> Blood stream ---> Yin Organs ---> Yang Organs ---> Yin Meridians ---> Yang Meridians ---> Extraordinary Meridians (Post Natal Jing).
 
Without increasing both the amount and quality of your foods and drinks (which will also increase the amount of other substances in your body), it is impossible to produce more (as in quantity) Qi. You can only increase the quality of the Qi you produce regularly.

That's why athletes and people which need a lot of Qi in general need to eat and drink a lot. They also have more blood (even as much as 30% more than a regular person), more fluids and so on.
 
There is no such thing as producing more of one substance without increasing the amount of the others. That's not to mention shaking of the muscles is a sign of Internal Wind in the Liver affecting the Tendons. It means you have already depleted the Qi you had in the "meats" (muscles), and now are generating Wind in the Liver due to excessive reactiveness to the fatigue, which means your Liver is burning on it's Yin in order to keep the body in place. You're not only depleting your Qi way further than you should, but also depleting your post-natal Jing and generating false-fire in the Kidney for two reasons: 1 - due to depletion of the pre-natal Jing in order for that to be transformed into Qi (to mantain your muscles where they are) and 2 - due to excessive use of willpower (Zhi).
 
The "emptying" of the Mind and Bowels is a reaction to Yang deficiency brought by Qi depletion. The Pi (spleen soul), which is responsible for thought, will be unrooted, and your mind will blank - as your Po soul will be harmed and the Lungs will lose control over the Lower Bowell due to the Spleen deficiency in retaining the pure substances and transforming them.
 
You're basically fucking yourself all over, while also pretending to get results out of diseases.
 
I would recommend getting a phone healing from qigong master Chunyi Lin http://springforestqigong.com
He does long distance healing - he was first healed by qigong master Yan Xin who calls this healing "virtual information healing."
So yes it is without "fluid" - contrary to your claim. Qigong master Zhong Hongbao calls it the "Golden Key" as "yin matter" that is "superluminal."
Chunyi Lin did 49 days of full lotus meditation in a cave at Mt. Qingcheng - no food and no sleep.
You can also try qigong master Wang Liping or qigong master Robert Peng.
Good luck in your studies.
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I am referring to this practice:

See also Eskildsen (Asceticism, 44-51) for a discussion of ingesting primordial qi in extreme fasting regimens such as that in the Taiqing zhonghuang zhenjing 太清中黃真經 HY816 (Central Yellow True Scripture of the Grand Purity). He dates this regimen to the “fourth century or earlier” (44), placing it within the date-range of many source texts of the Yangxing yanming lu. Switkin also describes the ingestion of primal qi as a stage of purification, gradually replacing the unpurified qi of the body until the practitioner attains immortality. He cites the main method for doing so as foetal breathing (Immortality, 16 ff, 25 n.22).
 

Fu yuanqi 服元氣: The practice of imbibing qi either on its own or in medicines, and circulating it through the body goes back at least to the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi, dated to about 320 B.C.E.. An extensive range of practices and terms arose, of which this is one, including: daoyin 導引 (see note 9 and Chapter Five below); ingesting qi (shiqi 食氣); circulation of pneumas (xingqi 行氣); expelling and absorbing (tuna 吐納) and foetal breathing (taixi 胎息). (See Introduction and Campany, To Live, 19-22). 

In this case, the ingestion is of primordial qi (yuanqi 元氣). Primordial qi, on the one hand, refers in Daoist ritual contexts to one of the triune qis of Mystery (xuan 玄), Origin (shi 始) and Primordiality (yuanqi 元), breaths of the Dao which constitute the body of Lord Lao (Loajun 老君 and the universe (Schipper, Daoist Body, 118, and Strickmann, Chinese Magical Medicine, 288 n.18).
If one can let the heart/mind roam in emptiness and stillness,111 cease thought112 and
not act,113 ingest primal qi114 in the early morning,115 regularly practice daoyin 導引116
A Preface to the Records of Nourishing Inner Nature and Extending Life
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