this is what my account tells me on the http://springforestqigong.com
Good to have that reminder - official acknowledgment - because it's been 25 years!! hahaha. Actually I retook Level 3 and Level 4 a couple times. But in terms of my actual experience level....
And yes I just ordered qigong grandmaster Chunyi Lin's new book! The Enlightenment Promise.
“My dear friend, do you want to have true freedom, happiness, and an abundantly blessed life of peace and joy? Do you want to be healthy and strong again? Do you want to have a loving and happy family, to enjoy supportive and long-lasting friendships? Is it your desire to be surrounded by good fortune and sweet blessings every day? Do you wish to be extraordinary — wise, righteous, and enlightened, like the spiritual masters of ancient and present times?… If you truly desire all these priceless jewels of life, search for and find them in the Heart Sutra. The Heart Sutra is your guide to life’s true treasures.” –Chunyi Lin
Wow - the book sample looks impressive. He said this book has been 15 years in the making - indeed Chunyi has a video from 10 years ago on the Heart Sutra
Deeply absorbed in fetal breathing, they can let their digestive system stop operating.
Second is the ability to live without sleep, which appears at six or seven
months. The yang spirit being in a state of perfection, there are no more yin
aspects in the body, which can function without getting tired or requiring
sleep.
Another effect is the ability to stop the heart beat in a state not unlike sus-
pended animation. Due to continued absorption in embryo respiration, after
eight or nine months, practitioners will no longer breathe through the nose or
mouth nor will they have a pulse or heartbeat. Instead, they exchange spirit
with the greater universe through the pores.
Last but not least is the emergence of the six supernatural powers (liutong
六 通 ): unlimited vision, the ability to understand all, multilocation,
knowledge of past and future, mind-reading, and clear spiritual awareness.
(2018, 120; see also Eskildsen 2004, 120)
The Zhong-Lü texts closely match this description. Thus, the Chuan-
dao ji notes,
Spirit and material souls no longer wander about, and there is no more need
for sleep and dreams. Spirit luscious and essence strong, one functions equally
well night and day. One’s body entirely made up of yang essence, the spirit res-
idence is strong and stable, the four limbs no longer fear cold and heat, and
one no longer thinks of life and death as opposites. . . .
One can shift shape and location at will. One’s secret powers fully devel-
oped, one starts to look like an immortal. Like a tree of jade, one consists of
strange bones and issues a golden glow.
In practice, the two contain their opposite, so that qi is refined into
the water of perfect oneness (zhenyi zhi shui 真⼀之⽔) and fluid brings forth
the qi of rightful yang (zhengyang zhi qi 正陽之氣).1 If left untended, on the
other hand, the two devolve into body secretions (jin 津), defined as mucus,
tears, phlegm, saliva, and sweat.
Perfect yang descends as it follows water.
After birth, primordial yang resides in the kidneys and there generates perfect qi. Perfect qi moves to the heart and there generates perfect fluid. This in turn reverts back to the prime. It keeps on moving up and down, back and forth.
The heart and kidneys in the human body are 8.4 inches from each other. Between them yin and yang keep ascending and descending, no different from heaven and earth. Fluid
arises from qi; qi emerges from fluid. Qi and fluid generate each other
along the very same path as the sun and the moon
Primordial yang ascends and generates perfect water; through creative transformation perfect water generates perfect qi; through creative transformation perfect qi generates yang spirit.
Now, the kidneys are water, which contains fire and ascends as qi to move to the heart.
The heart is yang [shen], and yang fuses with yang [yang qi]. When it reaches its great ulti-
mate, it again generates yin [Green Dragon]. The accumulated qi then generates fluid,
which naturally descends from the heart and reverts to the kidneys.
The liver is originally the mother of the heart and the child of the kidneys; it transfers kidney qi to the heart. The lungs are originally the wife of the heart and the mother of the kidneys; they transfer heart fluid to the kidneys. Qi and fluid in the body keep on ascending and descending just like yin and yang between heaven and earth. Liver and lungs transfer qi just like the sun and the moon keep on coming and going.
Now, the liver is yang, yet it resides in a position of yin. For this reason,
kidney qi transfers to liver qi: following the mode of mother and child, wa-
ter generates wood. When kidney qi is sufficient, liver qi is generated, and
once this happens, it is possible to eliminate excess yin in the kidneys and
allow the qi of pure yang to ascend.
Similarly, the lungs are yin, yet they reside in a position of yang. For this
reason, heart fluid transfers to lung fluid: following the mode of husband
and wife, fire controls metal. When heart fluid reaches the lungs, lung flu-
id is generated, and once this happens, it is possible to eliminate all excess
yang in the heart and allow the fluid of pure yin to descend.
Qi ascends while fluid descends, but normally they cannot fuse. How-
ever, when the water of perfect oneness in the qi encounters fluid, they fuse
with each other. When the qi of rightful yang in the fluid encounters qi,
they spontaneously gather.
At the heart qi reaches its great ultimate and generates fluid. This fluid contains the qi of rightful yang; what we call cinnabar is none other than heart fluid. Mercury, then, is
the qi of rightful yang within heart fluid.
What we call blood in this context is originally generated by the heart,
but it contains no qi of rightful yang; essence in contrast is originally gener-
ated by the kidneys, and it does contain qi of rightful yang. This qi of right-
ful yang is the foundation of mercury. When it fuses with the water of per-
fect oneness and enters the yellow court, mercury uses lead to heat up and
steam while lead uses mercury to fire and boil. If lead never obtains any
mercury it cannot develop the water of perfect oneness. If mercury never
gets any lead, it cannot turn into the qi of pure yang.
The heart generates fluid, which contains the qi of rightful yang. As adepts
get this qi to revert to the middle elixir field, qi nurtures the source of the
life force and spirit is spontaneously generated. As they gather life force into
spirit, they can merge with spirit and enter Dao. As they revert it to the up-
per elixir field, they can attain liberation.
Similarly, when yang reaches its ultimate, it generates yin. This contains the qi of rightful yang, which follows yin and descends: this is called reversion to the elixir field from yang to yin.
the flesh is moistened with yang cream
One’s bones become light and turn more into yang spirit, allowing one to move smoothly and run as fast as a horse, walking and stepping as if flying. ...Able to infuse perfect qi into other beings, one can heal people’s ailments and diseases, while in inner observation, one illuminates all and remains free from darkness.... As yin and yang continue to change and transform, one can predict the success or failure of people’s affairs and can foretell disasters
and misfortunes.
heart fluid [DS: born at Li and moving toward Kan] reaches the kidneys, it fuses with its water, reaches its great ultimate, and again generates qi. This means that the generation of qi comes from the water that originates in the heart. Within water, there is perfect qi, which is formless. At Kan [midnight], it reaches the kidneys and connects with its
water, reaches its great ultimate and generates qi. This is the process.
The water of perfect oneness that is in the kidneys fuses with the qi of rightful yang that is in the heart. As they join together, they give birth to a new human being. If this happens within a person, they produce a spiritual power called the internal elixir. Once it
grows over three hundred days, it affords an extension of life.]
when perfect yang accumulates, it forms spirit,....Perfect yang is like the perfect qi in heart fluid;
Contract the yang barrier and gather the qi, thereby to turn lung qi into gold, which
then flows down into the elixir field near the kidneys.
work on contracting the yang barrier beginning at Dui [2nd point of microcosmic orbit] and ending at Qian [top of skull].
Full of perfect qi and pure yang, you can dry out all outward mercury. All these manifest after you revert golden fluid to the elixir field. ...Then yang spirit can gather and perfect qi coagulate.
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