Return to Spring - Huí Chūn Qìgōng
Huí Chūn Qìgōng can be directly translated as - Return to Spring Energy Skill – the word Spring here is a metaphor for youth, health and vitality - for easy understanding we can call this practice - Longevity Qigong. In the above video, we demonstrate the complete form practice of Hui Chun Qigong - please enjoy to follow along and learn the movements.
Hui Chun Qi Gong was developed to build up and fill the body with the life force energy (Qi) and to rebuild the vitality (Jing), Bringing the body and mind into balance - helping to extend life, build health and develop inner harmony.
The original name of Hui Chun Qi Gong is known as - Hua Shan Yang Sheng Hui Chun Qi Gong - 花山 养生 回春氣功. This Qigong was developed sometime during the Jin-Yuan period (1115 - 1368) by Hao Datong 郝大通 (1140-1213) the founder of the Hua Shan school of Taoist Practice. Throughout the history of its practice, Hui Chun Qi Gong was always taught under very strict, hidden and secret conditions...
Heaven is my Father - Earth is my Mother...
Foundations of Taoist Inner Alchemy – Neidan -
The Firing Process of Taoist Inner Alchemy -
with its advance and withdrawal, extraction and addition, increasing and decreasing -
concentrates a year into a month, concentrating a month into a day, concentrating a day into an hour, concentrating an hour into one breath.
From the Ages of the World on the Macrocosmic Scale - down to a Single Breath on the Microcosmic Scale, everything has a Cyclic Movement.
Those who understand this Principle shall gain the Essence of the Active and Passive Phases of the Alchemical Process...
--- Li Dao Chun, The Book of Balance and Harmony
In the above practice session - Jesse will guide you in the Foundation Methods of Taoist Inner Alchemy. Taoist Inner Alchemy Practice is often called - Nei Dan - in the Chinese Language, and can be translated to mean - Inner Elixir Method - we may understand that Nei Dan Practice is an esoteric doctrine, which contains physical, mental, and spiritual practices that Taoist Adepts use to prolong thei...
Unify with Nature
The True Human unifies with Nature and equalises all things.
The True Human is empty,
yet is also everything.
The True Human is unconscious,
yet is also everywhere.
The True Human of old slept without Dreaming,
and woke without anxiety.
The True Human ate without concern, and breathed deeply.
The breath of the True Human arose from the depth of the feet,
while the Common Human breathes in a shallow manner from the throat.
The True Human of old knew neither to love life, nor to hate death.
They offered no resistance.
The True Human of old received with delight anything that came into their life,
and let go of anything that had been lost or forgotten.
The True Human’s mind was free from all thought.
Their way was one of stillness and Silence - shining with Simplicity.
The True Human was in Harmony with all things –
without any mind of knowledge.
~ Chuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu - 莊子 - was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century ...
Emptiness - travel across the times....
I was originally like a Seed from pure emptiness…
delicate and free , traveling across the times…
Tired of being entangled by fame and fortune…
I shall rest myself for a while in dirt and dust...
~ Li Qing Temple
Emptiness....
Emptiness is a theme of Taoist thought and also practice - it is often said that Emptiness is what gives things their value and usefulness - the value of a cup, lies in it's empty space - but perhaps in our modern world, we focus more on materiality, form, and the gaining of objects with obvious form..
Yet Emptiness is also a thing, or a state, is it not...?
When Emptiness is contrasted with form, the opposite of Form is the Formless or the Empty State.
what is Emptiness exactly...?
It is nothing....!
What is No Thing...?
In Taoist thought we often refer to the 'Mind' as the "Heart, or sometimes we refer to the Heart/Mind...
The Heart is something that may accommodate both Being and Non-Being. We may understand that we identify wi...