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ayúdame a olvidarte

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a no extrañarte.

a borrar todo eso que eras y no resultaste.

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ayúdame para volver a ser el de antes.

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ayúdame a crecer.

a saber qué es mejor,

a poder apreciarte.

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sin importar un sí o  un no

o un ‘no debes esperarme’

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ayúdame a entenderlo

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a que juntos crezcamos

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ayúdame,  y ayúdate

que igual y para ti tampoco

resulta fácil

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y yo te ayudo, claro

no lo dudes ni por un instante

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es más…

te sugiero algo,

volvamos a ser los de antes.

The first introduction of the TAO Metaversity and its newly announced  campus @ Kayenta, Utah came to fruition on the 19th of November. Many of those who attended have commented on this blog, facebook, through e mails and over the phone. They are expressing their sincere excitement about this “Sanctuary in the Desert”.

All that  attended this meeting, whether physically there or through the reading of this blog, mirror  the “Running Ambassadors” of the Mayan civilization. The “Running Ambassadors” were those who after receiving   new understanding, would then run to the villages delivering the new knowledge through personal conversation from one person to another. Each  of us have the choice to become a clear vessel to what has been introduced.  Referring to a past and present linage of  ”Running Ambassadors”, those attending this meeting received an image of the TAO Metaversity and  can now begin to share that knowledge by giving it voice. Through each Running Ambassador’s sharing, the TAO Metaversity keeps on gaining strength thanks to the help of other people’s thinking.

After the meeting, one of the present day Running Ambassadors recognized , “The statement you made about, ” The TAO Metaversity is already here”, was so true. It lives in all of us and what a beautiful place to have it.”  Another Running Ambassador stated, “I’ve got the folder telling all about the TAO Metaversity right here on the table with me. I’m so excited about what is already in action.” And  an exerpt from another Running Ambassador, who’s comments in their entirety are shared under recent comments on this blog, “I applaud the vision and energy- keeping the fire lit and gleaming brightly. Congratulations on this latest Development.”

Wendy Mendenhall
Founder

TAO Metaversity, Kayenta Campus

http://www.taometaversity.wordpress.com

Some years ago, I began working on my own version of the Daodejing (certainly I do not claim to having any substantial knowledge of classical Chinese!  I had several other translations and other resources I was using, making it effectively a “version” rather than a “translation”).  The very first line of the first chapter of the Daodejing has an interesting word: ch’ang. A few samplings of how this first line is typically translated:

The Tao that cannot be told is not the eternal Tao. [Gia-Fu Feng and English]

The way that becomes a way
is not the Immortal Way. [Red Pine]

The Way that can be told of is not an unvarying way… [Waley]

The word ch’ang is typically translated into English as “eternal,” “immortal,” “everlasting”—something along those lines.  But  as I dug around various books and internet resources, I discovered that the word also can mean “everyday,” in the sense of “ordinary”—that is to say, “the norm.”  Personally, I thought “eternal” or “immortal” sounded far too abstract for the down-to-earth philosophy of the Daodejing.  If the way is so ordinary yet ever-present, why make it sound so elevated?  And so in my own version of the Daodejing the first line went like this:

the way prescribed is not the everyday way

If anything, haiku also is about the ordinary, the everyday.  I have been thinking more and more of haiku as a form of thanksgiving.  How can one be thankful for those simple things that we too often fail to notice every day?  The best haiku focus on those very things.  And so, with Thanksgiving coming up in the U.S., I thought this poem by Issa being  appropriate:

A good world,

dew-drops fall

by ones, by twos.

~ ~ ~

Kobayashi Issa, Lucien Stryk (translator), Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa, Athens: Swallow Press, 1991, pg. 55.

what is your want with me?
to know if wounded Love
still shines on you discrete
from my betraying eyes?

that you will surely see
no plainer sight in view
no matter whom you’re with
my Love will stay with you

you said – there’s always Hope
and oh how right you were
i was your maiden probe
now she is always there

for me I will have Faith
(word “Hope” feels nauseous now)
my Faith that someone else
will complement my Tao

—

Tuesday, November 24, 200

Para pembaca yang telah sering membaca buku-buku kuno tentu mengetahui bahwa energi seks amat penting untuk kesehatan, energi, dan khususnya untuk mempertahankan diri kita agar awet muda. Teknik-teknik rahasia dari berbagai kebudayaan seperti Mesir dan Cina Kuno membahas secara terperinci cara untuk memanfaatkan energi seks dan tidak memboroskannya dengan sia-sia . Dalam berbagai buku kuno dikatakan bagaimana orang-orang yang pandai menghemat energi seks mereka dapat mencapai umur 150 tahun dengan kesehatan yang masih tetap prima.

Malahan, banyak legenda kuno bercerita mengenai kaisar Cina Kuno—yaitu Kaisar Huang Ti, yang sering juga disebut Kaisar Kuning—yang berhasil mencapai keabadian, karena keberhasilan latihannya dalam menghemat energi seks. Terlepas dari kebenaran legenda apakah Kaisar Huang Ti benar-benar mencapai keabadian atau tidak, beberapa ahli sejarah terkemuka, seperti misalnya Suma Chien, mengatakan bahwa Kaisar Kuning bertahta 100 tahun lamanya!!

Kepercayaan ini tidak hanya dikenal oleh orang-orang kuno saja. Napoleon Hill dalam bukunya Think and Growing Rich (download E-Booknya disini) membahas pentingnya penghematan energi seks untuk mencapai kesuksesan yang lebih besar dalam hidup. Banyak pelatih olah raga yang melarang para atletnya untuk berhubungan seks—untuk ejakulasi—satu atau dua hari sebelum pertandingan.

Pada wanita, energi seks paling banyak disia-siakan saat menstruasi atau saat pelepasan sel telur. Jadi seorang wanita dianjurkan untuk menarik kembali energi yang telah memasuki system reproduksi agar tidak terbuang saat menstruasi. Energi yang ditarik ini dapat dipergunakan untuk menyembuhkan berbagai organ dan kelenjar tubuh, memperbaiki daya pikir, menyehatkan tulang, system syaraf, menambah vitalitas dan membantu membuka jalur utama energi (sushumna).

Pada pria, energi seks —yang terbanyak terdapat dalam sperma— paling banyak disia-siakan saat ejakulasi. Jadi menghemat energi seks pada pria berarti juga mengurangi ejakulasi. Perhatikanlah bahwa disini yang dianjurkan adalah untuk mengurangi atau meniadakan ejakulasi, dan bukan meniadakan hubungan seks. Pada kenyataannya, orang-orang yang dapat berlatih teknik penghematan energi seks akan mempunyai gairah dan kemampuan seksual yang jauh lebih baik daripada orang biasa. Dan janganlah khawatir mengenai peniadaan ejakulasi tadi, karena anda akan mempelajari teknik ejakulasi lain yang lebih canggih daripada yang anda kenal. Perbedaanya hanyalah bahwa anda tidak ejakulasi keluar, melainkan kedalam tubuh anda sendiri!

Perhatikanlah bahwa saat melakukan hubungan seksual anda lebih bersemangat daripada biasanya. Pada umumya pria akan mejadi lebih bersemangat, -kecuali bila ada alasan-alasan khusus, baik secara psikologis maupun secara fisiologis. Tetapi setelah ejakulasi, anda akan cenderung menjadi lebih lemas. Memang dalam pandangan umum, pria akan menjadi lemas setelah hubungan seks, karena dua sebab. Yang pertama adalah karena setelah ketegangan psikologisnya dapat dipuaskan, ia cenderung menjadi lebih santai. Penyebab kedua adalah gerakan-gerakan selama hubungan seks sendiri menyebabkan keletihan sehingga pria menjadi lebih lemas.

Bagian pertama—dimana seseorang akan menjadi lebih relaks setelah ejakulasi—memang benar. Tetapi, ada banyak saat dimana anda menjadi relaks tanpa menjadi lemas. Dan anda menjadi lebih lemas bukanlah karena tambahan keletihan oleh karena gerakan-gerakan selama berhubungan seks itu. Anda menjadi lemas, karena memang anda telah mengeluarkan banyak sekali energi saat anda ejakulasi.

Memang setelah anda istirahat, anda dapat pulih lagi dan siap untuk melakukan hubungan seks lagi, tetapi anda perlu tahu satu hal. Bila energi untuk energi seks belum cukup, maka energi seks ini akan ditarik dari bagian-bagian tubuh lainnya. Akibatnya adalah bahwa, bagian-bagian tubuh yang ditarik energinya ini menjadi lebih lemah dan mempengaruhi reproduksi sel-sel anda, sehingga reproduksi dan regenerasi sel itu menjadi lebih lambat.

Sebaliknya, apabila anda tidak melakukan ejakulasi, anda tidak akan menjadi lemas. Tetapi hal ini tentu saja menimbulkan masalah besar bukan?  Dalam melakukan hubungan seksual anda tentu saja ingin mencapai ejakulasi. Nah, itulah sebabnya teknik penghematan energi seks harus dipelajari dan dilatih karena tidak cukup hanya sekedar diketahui saja. Dalam teknik penghematan energi seks, pria diajar untuk ejakulasi ke dalam tubuh, dan bukan keluar tubuh sbagaiman biasanya.
Teknik penghematan energi seks ini memang berhubungan sekali dengan aktifitas seksual pria, yaitu tepatnya mengubah ejakulasi dari “membuang sperma anda ke luar tubuh”  menjadi  “menariknya ke dalam tubuh sendiri”.

Pada wanita, penghematan energi lebih berkaitan dengan penghematan energi yang biasanya keluar saat menstruasi. Lalu sebenarnya, istilah yang lebih tepat untk teknik ini mungkin Teknik Penghematan Sel Reproduksi ataupun, Teknik Penghematan Sari Tubuh. Tetap istilah yang dikenal secara umum untuk teknik ini memang adalah Teknik Penghematan Energi Seks, karena teknik yang lebih banyak dikenal oleh umum adalah teknik untuk pria, dan baru pada akhir-akhir ini teknik untuk para wanita dikenal oleh umum.

Untuk mempelajari tekmik penghematan enegri seksual ini, anda dapat membaca buku karangan Master Mantak dan Maneween Chia. Uraian yang ditulis cukup jelas sehingga ada buku khusus untuk wanita, yaitu Healing Love Through the Tao, dan untuk pria Taoist Secret of Love (download E-Booknya disini). Kedua buku ini telah diterjemahkan kedalam bahasa Indonesia sejak beberapa tahun lalu.

Halangan paling utama biasanya timbul setelah seseorang membaca buku mengenai teknik ini, karena kelihatannya cukup rumit, termasuk segala teknik khusus untuk melatihnya. Memang teknik-teknik khusus ini dibutuhkan oleh orang-orang awam yang jalur energinya masih belum terbuka sama sekali, agar dapat berhasil dalam waktu yang cukup singkat. Tanpa teknik-teknik khusus ini, orang-orang  akan membutuhkan waktu bertahun-tahun sebelum dapat berhasil, apabila langsung mencoba penarikan energi seks ke dalam tubuh mereka.

Tetapi , bagi sebagian orang teknik-teknik khusus ini dapat dianggap sebagai teknik tambahan untuk dapat berhasil dengan lebih cepat dan lebih baik lagi. Ingatlah bahwa jalur energi utama adalah sama untuk energi Kundalini, energi Rei Ki Tumo—(energi Rei Ki Usui umumnya mengalir dari Caktra Mahkota ke kedua telapak tangan saja, jadi hanya mempergunakan setengah jalur Sushumna bagian atas saja)—maupun jalur penarikan energi seks.  Orang-orang yang telah mendapat attunment Rei Ki Tummo Tingkat Kedua maupun telah bangkit Kundalininya dengan sendirinya dan Api Kundalininya telah mencapai Cakra Mahkota secra otomatis telah terbuka jalur energi utamanya (Sushumna). Dengan demikian, teknik penarikan energi seks dpat dipelajari dengan jauh lebih mudah karena yang tersulit sebenarnya adalah untuk membuka Jalur Utama tersebut.

Jadi sebenarnya Teknik Penghematan Energi Seks, Teknik Lima Gerakan Awet Muda Tibet, Kundalini, maupun Rei Ki Tummo saling Bantu-membantu untuk lebih membersihkan dan memperlancar aliran energi di jalur Sushumna untuk berbagai manfaat positif.

Sekedar catatan untuk istilah-istilah teknis Kundalini: Api Kundalini tidak sama dengan Inti Kundalini. Api Kundalini adalah bagian luar dari energi Kundalini yang bekerja dalam proses pembersihan untuk membersihkan jalur Sushumna. Sebelum api Kundalini mencapai Cakra Mahkota, Inti Kundalini biasanya belum naik sama sekali.

Halangan Kedua dalam penghematan energi seks ini mungkin berhubungan dengan informasi yang salah dari orang yang tidak tahu ataupun dari para pria yang pernah mencoba melatih tehnik ini dan berhenti sebelum menjadi mahir. Mereka mungkin mengatakan bahwa usaha untuk menghemat energi seks dengan ejakulasi kedalam mengurangi kenikmatan yang dapat diperoleh. Hal ini benar hanya bagi pemula yang belum mahir. Bagi yang sudah dapat melakukan ejakulasi kedalam dengan benar, kenikmatan yang diperoleh malahan lebih besar, karena energi yang mengalir keseluruh tubuh hingga ke kepala memberikan sensasi yang sangat luar biasa!

Bagi wanita pun, teknik-teknik yang yang diajarkan akan membuat otot-otot vagina lebih dapat dikontrol dan lebih kencang. Dari penelitian secara ilmiah, semakin baik pengencangan otot vagina, akan semakin maksima seseorang wanita dapat menikmati sebuha hubungan seks. Secara teknis, pengencangan otot vagina mencapai 17mmHg atau lebih. Dan sebaliknya, wanita-wanita yang tidak pernah mencapai orgasme adalah wanita yang pengencangan otot vaginanya hanya mencapai 7.43 mmHg.

Dari Buku LIMA GERAKAN AWET MUDA TIBET Bab 8
By Irmansyah Effendi (Founder Yayasan Padmajaya dan Reiki Tummo)

Credit goes to Titiek Murniaty yang menunjukkan artikel ini pada admin Annunaki.WordPress dan Rahasia Otak

 The ancient Taoist sages who mastered mind and body had many different insights and techniques to have a healthy life and as a plus Self Realization.  It is said that some of the teachings of Taoism originally come from India. This all makes sense if one investigates into the nature of Sanatana Dharma (hinduism) and Taoism. One can see the similarities between them. In particular I want to note is the use of energy in both systems. Not only this but both systems aim at Self Realization.

 With that said breath work has been very instrumental to healthy living and enlightenment in both sciences. Many are familiar with the Yogic use of breath and energy work. The same thing is found in Taoist Yoga. What is deeply interesting to me is the technique of no breath. In Taoism this is called Embryonic Breathing. In Sanatana Dharma and Yogic paths one can achieve such a state in which no breath is necessary and yet the practictioner is able to control energy throughout his or her body and remain healthy and ALIVE!

 In Taoism and in particular the practice of Qi Gong (sometimes spelled as Chi Kung) there is a use of Embryonic Respiration.  It is the breath of no breath. This is possible when both the mind and body are fully relaxed. The mind and body must be relaxed and filled with Qi (Qi is life force, in yoga its called prana).  Focusing on breathing is an easy way to relax not only the body but also the mind. A great method is focusing on the lower abdomen or the dan tian.

 The lower dan tian or abdomon is about three inches below the naval. This is natural respiration. If you observe an infant you will notice that the infant breaths from this region. Overtime due to stress on the body and on the mind we forget this form of breathing. This breathing is very instrumental to good health and also mental clarity.

 In order to begin Embryonic Respiration start breathing naturally. Just let the air come in and out. Watch the rise and fall of the lower dan tien (you dont have to look down). Have your eyes closed gently. You can sit in a chair (preferably on the edge of the chair with feet firmly on the ground and back straight but not rigid). You can sit cross legged if you like just make sure the spine is straight yet not in a rigid way. You are not trying to be a tough guy or woman let it be natural. Your right hand should rest gently on your lap and your left fist gently closes on the thumb of the right hand. This is a special mudra or hand gesture called the yin-yang mudra.

 Let the breath be very natural. Have a few minutes to relax into simply allowing the rise and fall of the lower abdomen. After you have done this for a few minutes begin to visualize Qi (life force or energy) entering your body entirely. Let every part of your body be fused with this life giving Qi. Let no cell be without this Qi. The Qi pervades every part of your body. Every organ, vessel, cell, everything. As you breath out visualize stale Qi leaving your body. Do this set 9 times.

After you have completed the above cycle move on to visualizing Qi entering the upper dan tien or heart area of your body. Allow Qi to pervade the entire heart area of your body. As you breath out imagine this energy or Qi moving down into your lower dan tien or lower abdomen. Let this Qi pervade the lower region. Return again with another inbreath visualizing Qi entering into the heart area, then breath out vizualizing the Qi going down into the lower abdomen. Do this also for 9 times.

After that simply vizualize the Qi in the heart area as you breath in, then imagine the same energy staying inside your body and moving down into the lower abdomen. Then as you breathe in again vizualize that energy in the lower abdomen rising up to the heart region. Do this for 9 sets.

 After the above cycle simply visualize the Qi staying in the abdomen. See it rising up in the abdomen with each in breath. Watch the Qi fall to the lower abdomen with each out breath. Do this 9 times.

Gently as you complete these cycles you will notice your breath getting quiet. It is getting very deep. Deep and slow. Breathing in you know that you are breathing in a long gentle compassionate breath. Breathing out you know you are breathing out a slow breath. Soon the breath will be without effort and you will not even know you are breathing! Don’t panic your still alive just enjoy this simplicit natural embryonic breathing. A gentle peace will definately come over you.

 Never rush this or expect anything. Simply let the Dao or lot God or Emptiness or the Universe do it for you. Don’t let your ego parade over what is happening or what is not happening. Don’t let the ego tell you when you should be experiencing this stillness. When you find that your ego is trying to rush the process simply say to yourself “I will let the Dao do it for me”.  The Dao is the Formless Reality or your Deepest Nature. It is Siva, it is God, it is ULtimate Reality. Allow this life force or the One Life to do it through you. So don’t beat yourself up. In Taoism a let of emphases is on NON EFFORT!

Enjoy be healthy and be love

Peace and love for eternity always

-Juan

NOTE:

 Much of this technique was taken from the book “The Way of Qigong-The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing” by Kenneth S. Cohen a western Taoist. I have worded the technique in my own wording.

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I heard a soft gong sound in the distance, once, then again, on the third ring my sleepy brain caught on to what was happening, it was 4:30 am and time to get up. I reach out for where the clock should be, unable to see in the dark and felt for the curve of the meditation timer. Not only was it dark it was cold, yuk. I was not into this, but it had to be done, and it was on me to do it, my Giri. My Chan brother had said, you must be special to be the one to help, I guess I replied, better to be the helper than the helpee ( a madeup word).

I was glad I went to bed on the early side to prepare for the trip, it was a beautiful sunset the night before. I was able to get a full night sleep, even though it was chilly in the morning once I got out from under the warmth of the down comforter, and away from the soft warm legs of the sleeping Lady Z, I was good to go.  I had time this morning for a short meditation before gathering myself and getting on the road to LA. Most of the trip down to LA was cold. I had disconnected the heater in the truck, due to the heater core leaking and I have not had the money to repaired. So therefore no heat until the sun came up and I reach a more moderate latitude. I was glad I took my gloves with me for the trip, a couple of sweaters and my jacket and hat. It was cold and the air vent being open did not help matters. One really is grateful for the warmth of the sun, after being in the cold of darkness. I mean this on a couple of levels…

My youngest brother was back in the hospital from the nursing home. I needed to go down and find out what was going on, not only at the hospital, also at the nursing home. We wanted him transferred at some point closer to family. For now I was the closest some 6-7 hour drive. I needed to know what was involved with that process and could it be done. Also his roommate is moving out of their Apt and I need to pack his stuff, music instruments, electronics, clothes, book whatever was there. There was some issues about back rent, what to do with his stuff, etc. At this point he could not even recall who I was, so getting an inventory was out of the question as well as asking what was important. I just had to go for it and hope that if he recovers I picked the right stuff.

It was weird going through my brother’s things and having to decide what to keep and what not to keep. It is unsure if he will recover and what he will be able to do when he does. Going through personal items, gathering data, sad and weird. This is what people do when a family member passes, but in this case he is still around…

I could not help but wonder about his karma to have this happening in his life, as well as mine being the one to have to do it. Him being the youngest and me being the eldest, yet, he is the one in the hospital most of the time lost in non-reality, and having a machine, for the most part keep him alive. Without being hooked up to it, three times a week, he would be gone. While packing and sorting, I think about the many faces of karma, the ripples in the force that both of our karma touch, the other lives as well as our own. Even now maybe his purpose is being filled or both of ours. The turns life takes, I come across some of his childhood pictures and think I never ever dreamt I would be doing this or he would be in this in this space. It also think… it could have been me. Living alone , the lone musician, still trying for a break, playing from time to time, writing, hoping…getting burnt out. Life is interesting, the turns, the twist, the hills and valleys. It can also be very scary. One needs to not only be strong, but I really see the need for some kind of faith, belief in a purpose, or be cold and Jaded, which is more of my lil bother’s path. He wanted so much not to get the family involved with his problems, but in the final stages, it is his family even with great distance between us, it is his family who has his back. His friends, did what they could, but as they fade…family. Of course, and sadly , that is not always the case, sometimes friends are there when family is not. Hmmm, maybe to do with the Karma of those around us, the compassion…we give and take. Some are not so lucky, blessed to have family or friends…

I am up until 3:00 am packing his stuff, some clothes, mostly stuff, he spent more on things, than clothes. Finally I sack out. Sat, will be loading the truck and I’ll see how all this will work.

The next day after 4 hours of sleep I am up packing the truck. I’m good at this and so a couple of hours later I have every thing, stuffed in everyplace that something can fit. I only ended up leaveing two boxes of stuff I had not planned on taking anyway, but was for the most part forced on me by the roommate. It was left for charity with the rest of the stuff. There were a few expendsive things that were missing, I am hoping his friend sold them at my brother request. Anyway, I did what needed to be done there at the Apt. The next stop was at the hospital.

I had brought along my Kyudo equipment hoping to get some Kyudo in while in town. However due to waiting , packing, waiting, waiting, travel that never happened. So around three in the afternoon, I had had it, and hit the road again.

Another long ride back north with the chill of winter creeping into the truck cab as I ride higher into LA mountains. I start adding layers of clothes as the sunsets off to my left and the road dims with shades of darkness. I pop a record cassette tape of my brothers favorite tunes from the 70 & 80 into the tape deck.  I reflect…life, what a long strange trip it is…I say a prayer for the suffering.

What’s all this about career, relationships and the toilet! How about my wealth corner is missing – what can I do!

How much fear is generated when people apply the extremely simplistic formula of the black hat sect, and find that their wealth corner is in the toilet or their relationship sector is in the garage? Does that mean that their financial capacity is being flushed into the drains. Does that mean that when your relationship area is in the garage that you will be plagued by relationship problems related to movement – love and no laughter in the car!

If you have such a fixed model then there is little or no movement or flexibility. No yin and yang and no seasonality.

Traditional Feng Shui uses the underpinning assumptions of the BaGua but there is so much more to it.

First we look at the magnetic bearing of the house. Where, of the possible 360 degrees is the main door facing? Indeed there are some formulas that are calculated down to 0.5 of a degree.

We then look at the flow of universal energy in the larger physical environment.

The tricky part of the debate (if we could call it that) is that there is some basis for the BaGua school but they do not go deep enough. They just take ONE of the foundations (The BaGua) and then build their recommendations based on that static picture. Kind of like doing the excavations for a house and then saying well we are not going any further. That’s enough the house will build itself now. Another example is someone who wants to understand brains and their chemistry and physiology. They think because they have read a few books and magazines that they can now perform brain surgery. I don’t think so! If someone tells you they started with Traditional Feng Shui and then switched because they found it too difficult or confusing then you should go woa – this person has just jumped on the decorating with Feng Shui bandwagon.

Traditional Feng Shui is a whole system that shares a kinship with Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is a scientific / mathematical model, it is an aesthetic model, it is a cosmological system.

Its foundation is not the BaGua but The Tao, Qi, Yin and Yang and the movements between them.

It is not possible to take a bit of the model and then say that is an entire system of its own. Everything must come back to the integrated model. If you want to explore more about aspects of the integrated model then check out Feng Shui Vibrational Healing – Understanding Qi.

If you like controversial and full hearted editorial then do check out Cate Bramble’s site and this article.

For more information about Traditional Feng Shui you can check out the information on my web site.
Enjoy
Vicki

UC Irvine’s brand-new Taiwanese American Organization held a fun tea workshop this past Thursday! We were graciously invited by TAO President, Amy Lee, to attend and give an announcement about the ITASA 2010 WCC.  It was great to see a newly created Taiwanese American student club doing so well with such a great turnout and enthusiastic members. The tea presentation itself was awesome as well; tea expert Thomas Shu, who we have also invited to speak at ITASA 2010 WCC, captivated the entire audience with his songs about Taiwanese tea and culture.

We look forward to having Thomas Shu and members of UCI TAO attend the ITASA 2010 WCC at UCSD!! [photos courtesy of UCI TAO]

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It had to happen sooner or later. Tsing Tao beer, the only Chinese beer to have made it in the international market, is either ripping off the Starbucks chain or else has taken some advice from the British breweries and is starting a chain of its own. This is the first venue. Local hotel escapees are forming the customer base and will be supplemented, no doubt, by fans from the local football stadium. The beer on offer includes some premium brews as well as barrels of the standard stuff.

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Qi Foto: omomom.com

Qi ist Energie, ist Lebenskraft, aber auch das „Prinzip, das Gewebe“, das diese Energie verursacht.

Gong heißt Arbeit, Mühe, Übung. Diese Übungen haben eine mehr als 2000 Jahre alte Tradition in China.

Im 13. Jahrhundert hat der Legende nach der Krieger Zhang Sanfeng im Wudang Gebirge in China den Kampf zwischen einer Schlange und einem Raubvogel beobachtet. Er sah, wie die Schlange den Angriffen des Vogels auswich und der Raubvogel darüber ermüdete. Die Philosophie des Tao umschreibt das so: Das Weiche überwindet das Harte. Yin überwindet Yang.

Aus seinen persönlichen Beobachtungen leitete der Mönch Zhang Sanfeng spezielle, allgemeine Methoden ab, die er in verschiedenen Körperbewegungen zum Ausdruck gebracht hat. Die Praxis dieser Abläufe bildeten sich zu einer früher nur geheim überlieferten hochkultivierten Kampfkunst aus.

„Und was sagt das 20. Jahrhundert dazu?“

Nils Bohr: „Das Qi ist das Äquivalent des modernen Quantenfeldes.“

Im Qigong werden Übungen in Ruhe und Übungen in Bewegung praktiziert. Die Übungen beschäftigen sich mit den Prinzipien des „Streckens, des Dehnens, mit Bewegungsabläufen“, mit mentaler Energie-Entfaltung, mit dem „Auspusten des Alten und mit der Aufnahme des Neuen“.

„Nur der Wandel hat Bestand.“ Diese Gewissheit führt zu Reflektionen und zu Erkenntnissen.

„Zu welchen?“

„Auf Unwesentliches verzichten ist wesentlich.“

Diese Gesichtspunkte und weitere Facetten des Qigong werden in zahlreichen Systemen kombiniert und sind Bestandteil der TCM.

„Ist Qigong also weitaus mehr als Wellness und  Gesundheitsgymnastik?“

„Ja. Im Qigong harmonisieren die taoistische Yin-Yang-Lehre, die buddhistische Meditationsgrundlage und die konfuzianische Philosophie. Die Energieimpulse fließen im Einklang mit den Sphären der Schöpfung.“

Hier geht es zu Blätter aufgelesen Nr. 040.

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