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Moon Gate Info

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Moon gates have in China a very special meaning.

Going through a moon gate is entering a different world.

Even nowadays moon gates are very often used

as a gate for a garden.

You are entering a different world – a garden.

Looking through a moon gate to the outside of a

garden, is a look into the world of daily life.

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The Chinese Embassy in Berlin you are entering

by a moon gate.

It means:

You are in Germany but you are entering China.
The laws and rules apply to the Republic of China.
It needs no explanation, the Chinese know it.

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In a city

Moon gates are separating districts of a city. You leave your home district and enter a foreign district of the city.

Entering by a moon gate a house or going through moon gate of a wall surrounding the house you are going from the public to the private part.

In general

It is always a symbolic change, a change you have not to explain, if you know about it.

Going through a moon gate in mind or real, could be the occasion for transition or to improve something.

Zhineng Qigong

Practising Zhineng Qigong you may handle in the same way, leaving the world around you and entering the world of practice and meditation.

Moon Info

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New Moon

The New Moon is not visible, in line between Earth and Sun.

The light reflected by the Earth is not sufficient, to make the Moon visible.

The Sun behind the Moon. The gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun are combined.

The high tides are very high at the coasts and called spring tides. The combined forces of Moon and Sun are tremendous.

The ratio Sun to Moon is about 200 to 1.

If you want to use these forces for Zhineng Qigong practising, it makes the most sense to do it at New Moon. Then you have not only the forces of the Moon but the forces of the Sun, too.

Full Moon

The Full Moon is fully visible

The Earth is between Moon and Sun. The light reflected from the Sun makes the Moon visible.

From the direction of the Moon we only have the gravitational forces of the Moon.

Behind the Moon is the Universe. There are only the forces of the Moon.

In the opposite direction, not visible, is the Sun.

If we have the ratio of 200 to 1 for Sun to Moon how much can the forces be, not being more than balanced or superimposed by the Sun ?

Do we use by Full Moon practicing of Zhineng Qigong the forces of the Moon or the ones of the Sun ?

Zhineng Qigong - Nature Taiji - open Qi exercises

2013-06-19T13:51:00.004+02:00

Qigong Guide e-book

The up-to-date digital version as e-book of this very special guide.

There are two headings under which all existing traditional or new qigong forms can be classified.

Moreover, the guide also includes other informationas well as an interview with Dr. Pang Ming.

This is no guide to which qigong for which health problem. This would contradict the holistic view, too. A body in which Qi flows freely and is evenly distributed is healthy.

Qigong Guide e-book

Nature Taiji

The authors of the Qigong Guide are personally acquainted with the founder of Nature Taiji, Hu Xilong, the best student of Dr. Pang Ming who created Zhineng Qigong.

However, at the time of publishing our Qigong Guide we did not yet know the details about the Nature Taiji Qi exercise and thus could not include it in the book.

It is another open qi exercise that combines elements from Taiji and Zhineng Qigong.

Special characteristics of the

Nature Taiji exercise are the following aspects:

Practice with open eyes, movements not only static in the centre but to the front, to the back and to the sides, rotations in the movements with lifting and sinking.

Elements from level 1 to 3 of Zhineng Qigong can be found in Nature Taiji. Further added are the softness of the movements as in Taiji.

Missing are movements that consciously interrupt the qi flow to achieve special effects.

Qi always flows unhindered. This form moreover stimulates in particular the opening of all meridians and acupuncture points of the body and has very intense effects.

Our body absorbs qi through the acupuncture points, similar to the exchange between the body and the surroundings through the pores of the skin.

Journey: Nature Taiji in the Wudang Mountains in China

Info: Nature Taiji from Master Hu Xilong

Info: Master Hu Xilong

The Journey from Zhineng Qigong to Nature Taiji

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Beforehand you should become aware of some things.

Qigong

The basic idea in China in this respect is a long life.

Qigong already exists for many thousand years and

has changed continuously.

Gong = Practice

Taiji

Martial art to defend against attackers,

qi powers are used within the martial art.

Taiji exists less than a thousand years.

Modern Medicine

Originally, the aim was the healing of diseases and

indirectly connected to this a long life.

The Journey from Zhineng Qigong to Nature Taiji

Zhineng Qigong was developed by Dr. Pang Ming to make

the qi powers immediately available to sick persons for healing.

Shortly before the Huaxia Centre was closed Dr. Pang Ming published as last exercise his version of Taiji Ball.

Hu Xilong, his best student, worked in the research department and of course knew about this development.

Nature Taiji contains the elements of rotation from Taiji Ball as well as other elements from Taiji and is thus a logic further development of the thoughts that were considered in the background to the Taiji Ball version of Dr. Pang Ming.

It is therefore not surprising when the best student of Dr. Pang Ming, Hu Xilong, nowadays presents the Nature Taiji exercise as result.

Who wants to know more, will find an article in the book „Zhineng Qigong, the form is only the beginning – Level 1“ which will come out in the year 2016.

Good Practice Tip 8 – to practise entirely in the here and now

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We practise in the here and now.

What does this mean?

Important during practising is an inner state

of calmness and harmony.

The thoughts do not stray,

they are with the practice and with the movements.

The thoughts thus accompany our movements.

We relax and let go.

Cramps and tensions are dissolved.

After the practice we feel refreshed.

We do not recharge our batteries,

to spend them in everyday life.

We free ourselves from everyday burdens

and dispose again of all the energies that are ours.

Therefore, after practice we feel refreshed and stronger.

Good Practice Tip 7 – the practice begins after the 8 verses

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Before the practice there are the 8 verses.

They call Qi to come to us,

they organize the Qi field,

they remove us from daily surroundings,

they help us to find calmness and harmony

and to pay attention to the practice.

After that we can begin with the practice.

Good Practice Tip 6 – always choose the same spot for practising

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Why is it so important always to practise on the same spot ?

Just like the large common Qi field of a group there is the personal Qi field.

The Qi field is created by the daily practice on the same spot for practising.

Therefore, you should carefully choose the spot for practising

where you can practise every day.

After some time a personal Qi field is created by practising there.

If you do not use the spot for practising any more,

the Qi field is thus not activated every day,

then it will no longer exist after about 3 months.

As long as a Qi field exists,

everyone who does not practise himself benefits from this Qi field, too.

If a group always practises on the same spot for practising

a Qi field of the group can be created there.

This Qi field then enhances the effects when the group is practising.

Good Practice Tip 5 – to choose the right speed for practice

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What is the right speed for practice?

In a course with many practitioners an average speed is selected for practice allowing all present to follow.

For teaching purposes you can choose a very slow speed.

This is to check whether an exercise is already done as flowing movement

or where you have to make improvements.

The slower an exercise is done,

the stronger is the effect of Qi,

where you have to be capable of enduring it.

If all blocks have been eliminated,

you can also do an exercise very quickly

and nevertheless not lose contact with Qi.

If you practise on your own, you will arrive at your own biorhythm.

This is then the best speed for practice for this day and point in time

as you are practising on your own.

Good Practice Tip 4 – practising daily and regularly

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Zhineng Qigong is no sport

where more practising can help to reach the target more quickly.

Excessive practising can also be wrong for sports.

If you have a chronic problem

3-4 hours of daily practice may be the right thing.

In general 30 minutes every day are sufficient.

Courses often take 90 minutes with a break in between.

Of course, you can also practise the whole day long

if, for example, you want to learn the form of a new level.

Then courses may last several days

as they also include teaching in theory.

Then you also practise the form every day.

The target is to practise the form without instructions

as you then can pay attention to the interpretation.

It is more important to practise every day than many hours on the same day.

Qi has to be activated again within 24 hours.

If this is not done, you always stay on the very first day of practice.

Three days of practice, interruption and then again practice

is like the first day of practice – advances are not achieved in this way.

Good Practice Tip 3 – good preparation by suitable clothing

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Beginners often turn up for practice in wrong clothing.

Here applies in principle:

comfortable clothing which does not restrict is right.

The drawings of Zhineng Qigong already show this.

It is clothing that does not restrict.

In China there are even women

who consciously practise without bra in order not to interfere with the qi flow.

Even if you do not have to sense qi,

how it flows through the body.

Modern sport shoes very often support the foot,

they are out of place here.

Narrow jeans do not belong here, too.

We are in no beauty contest.

Electronic devices like

quartz clocks, smartphones

or other gadgets should be taken off.

The vibrations or magnetic fields may interfere.

Good Practice Tip 2 – not every exercise is for daily practice

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Zhineng Qigong has like many qigong styles a long history.

Many exercises originate in former qigong styles.

There are also Zhineng Qigong exercises

that are not practised every day.

They are for special cases.

A good instructor or teacher will know some of them.

They are only needed for chronic problems

or in case of special blocks.

In principle the basic exercises of levels 1 to 3 are sufficient.

If these are practised every day, it may take a bit longer,

but the aim is thus achieved, too.

It is also valid here that this is about quality and not speed.

Good Practice Tip 1 - do not mix different qigong styles

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There are many qigong styles.

Most of the time the practitioners do not know

whether these are open or closed exercises.

Out of ignorance different qigong styles are practised side by side.

They think that they can achieve more.

Zhineng Qigong is no sport or language,

where you can proceed in this way.

There are many closed traditional qigong styles.

You can practise Zhineng Qigong and practise Tai Chi side by side.

Qigong exercises in Tai Chi are also open exercises.

Qigong Guide - e-book

2012-06-27T07:04:00.003+02:00

Qigong Guide

Qigong, Zhineng Qigong and more....

An Orientation Help for Beginners.

It is for those who still haven't
found their Qigong and are looking
for information and to help them
to make it easier and to shorten
the time to find the suitable Qigong
version.

As a bonus you find in the annex
the interview with Dr. Pang Ming,
in English language.

The new structure for e-book now
makes it easier to read it.

An index makes it possible to find certain parts or chapters of
interest. = only in ePUB version possible =

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A pocket book version may follow at a later time.

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Qigong Guide - e-book - Sample Texts

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Qigong Guide - e-book

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e-book - General Information

2012-06-25T07:13:00.001+02:00

It doesn't matter in which form a book appears,
printed on paper or as an e-book:

The most expensive item is
the work done by the author of a book.

The efforts for a report, a story or a novel
vary from little to very much.

In a report you only talk about something
you have seen or heard.

A search from one or more sources may be
or may be not necessary before you print it.

You do not only write something down.
You need a thorough knowledge.
If you don't think so, you are wrong.

The reader will notice it at once,
will lose interest.

Travel, studies, consulting and much more.
A special training or course may not be avoidable

Perhaps some consulting of experts will follow.

Therefore a book or e-book of high quality
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Every work is worth a wage you have to pay.

There are different formats for e-books

We use only ePUB, with manual and automatically
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An e-book may contain both indexes or
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It depends on the hardware, what is possible
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We have tested the e-book with an
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The Universe - “Dark Power“ - “Dark Matter“

2012-05-23T14:08:00.001+02:00

„Dark Power“ means not visible power or energy.
„Dark Matter“ means not visible matter.

The Universe - „Dark Power” - „Dark Matter“

Terminology of physics and cosmology.
Who does not know them

The Universe is today general knowledge.

The other two terms perhaps are less well known to most of us.
This may change and will be different in the future.

The knowledge of mankind is changing continuously.
We all know visible matter, visible power or energy.

It is the matter, which is around us.
It is the power or energy, which we all know.

Things being not visible may exist.
Let us only think of radioactive radiation or similar.

Who wants to know more about these terms,
will find descriptions in the internet

For comparisons in this blog I need
these terms and therefore I do mention them.

How many teachers are needed, to learn “'Zhineng Qigong“

2012-05-23T08:54:00.001+02:00

In general one teacher.

Very often I have the impression: Many people don't think like it.

You attend a course and learn the form, i.e. the movements.
You repeat this many times and each time it is the same.
You only learn and practise the form - and nothing else.
Do you really want to learn more and go further ?

Well, I have been lucky, my first teacher came from China.
You may think this is nothing special, but she taught in German.
This was and still is something special.

How will you understand something, if it is new knowledge and
teaching is done by spoken words and it is not in your own language ?

If the cultural background is unknown, misunderstandings are programmed.

Then words are empty words, no contents, only word shells.

No wonder, if you then only learn the form and
the form will not be filled with contents.

Ten courses only learning the form and it will only be the form.
Then it will stay the gymnastic practice.

Not everything can be found in the human genes

2012-05-22T21:04:00.001+02:00

Science has meanwhile decoded the human genes.

Does it help us and explain all about our talents
or our abilities or is it once again only a part of everything ?

Very important occurrences leave traces in our mind,
a so called trauma from an accident, from an earthquake, from a war,
or something similar and even the next generations are suffering.
They inherit it and this you cannot find in the genes.

The genes are the same as without it.

If the genes have to be changed always, we would nearly have
no chance for development as human beings.

Actually scientists talk of so called “switches”,
to be switched on or off, changing our abilities.

The scientists are looking for the “switches” and how to use them.
Perhaps we already have the ability to use the “switches”,
and do not know, because no one taught us how to use them.

The other point is, why do human beings change ?
Are there people which know how to use the “switches”
and use the ability or is the use only accidentally ?

To see, how different can it be ?

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If you want to understand or recognize something,
it is vital, to think freely.

What is seeing ?

People see with their eyes and need light for it.
Cats or owls need less light to see.
Snakes are able to see the thermal heat.
Bats use for orientation sounds of the ultrasonic range.

What is a picture ?
Something two- or three-dimensional ?
Is a picture, what human beings see with their eyes ?
Is a sound picture that, what human beings hear with the ears ?
Is a thermal picture, what an infra-red camera is showing
or what is made visible for a person.
Does it look similar for a snake ?

Which view is the right view ?
The view of a human being ?
The view of a cat, an owl, a snake, a bat or what view is it ?

What do we need to see ?
Is it light ?
Or sounds and if yes, which ones ?
Is it thermal heat or energy or what else is it ?

What is a view ?
Is a sound picture perhaps a different kind of view ?
Is a thermal picture, seen by a snake or insect no kind of view ?
Is it only a different kind of view or impression ?

The orientation
Pictures created by light, sounds or thermal pictures
are three-dimensional pictures.
With it a creature is able to orientate
or see and is able to find a path.

Too much light dazzles, makes light orientation impossible.
Too much sounds or noise, makes sound orientation impossible.
Too much heat or energy, makes heat orientation impossible.

Is a blind human being not able to see ?
What is about creatures using the magnetic field of the earth
to orientate and find their path ?

Conclusion
There are different methods to recognize the world you live in
and to orientate or in other words: to see the world.

To accept only one kind of seeing and accept this as the only valid view,
makes it impossible to discover the other views, which exist.

Placebo - Effect - Real - Is it difficult, to see the truth ?

2012-05-22T01:14:00.002+02:00

Again and again you can read something about placebo.

Actually the latest knowledge tells us that you will find
placebo effects where you don't expect to find them.

Drugs act worse, if you are convinced they will not help you.
Drugs act better, if you are convinced they will help you.

Recovery will speed up or injuries are healing faster, if it is your will.

The human mind is able to do something.
The human beings own self-regulating forces
and are able to activate or enforce them.

The self-regulating forces act better,
if you are able to mobilise them.

You do not need always a medicine to improve your health.
Even good medicine needs positive surroundings to work best.

Nowadays we have methods or equipment
to measure the activity of the brain.

The different activities in different parts of the brain confirm this.

The reality is:

It is not difficult to see the truth, but do want to see it ?
Nowadays it is often possible to see or measure it.

Is it important that you don't know, if it is placebo or effect or real ?

No, the most important is, that it helps you. - Then it is right.

The human memory - the storage, how does it go ?

2012-05-21T01:26:00.002+02:00

It is already well known: the filing, the storage is done in pictures.

New knowledge is: it is done in holographic pictures.

You should know:

If you have a small part of a holographic picture,
you have the information of the whole picture.
A small fraction is sufficient and is all you need
for the reproduction of the whole picture.

Nobody knows why it is like this, but we are able
to produce holographic pictures and do so.
We only know the method of production.

I also know:

In the French language a drunken person is “black“.
In the German language the same person is “blue“.

The idea suggests itself:

Two people see the same picture.
Do they get the same information ?
Do they get different information and if, why ?

In China there are many different languages,
but the characters are the same
The different language doesn't matter.

The text, the written characters,
everyone is able to read.
If the speech is Cantonese or Mandarin.
They do not understand each other
but are able to write and read letters and
exchange of information is possible.

We know something similar, the dead language Latin.
The pronunciation in German, French or English is possible.

It depends which language is your own language.

It sounds very strange to a person from Germany,
hearing Latin with English pronunciation.

If we would be able to see the pictures in the brain of a person,
we would not have the whole information and would need
the information of his surroundings, how important
the information is and how to use it and many other things.

Most important is:
If you have a little part of a holographic picture,
you have the information of the whole picture
and that is a little bit of how the human mind
is able to work so efficient with such high speed.
It is extra high speed storage.

Monkey Trainer

2012-05-11T09:57:00.003+02:00

The lowest level of learning is copying.

Many teachers are able to teach the forms, i.e. the movements.

The next level of learning is the speech, are the words.
Spoken, written, printed, audio-recording or what it is.

But there remains one big problem - who speaks all the languages ?
Of course, nobody and who in the western world speaks Chinese ?

In most cases nowadays we use therefore the English language.
A language is not only the spoken words, it is expression of a culture.
If you have already learned a foreign language, you know it.

I speak German and pardon me, but German is more precise.
A description of goods will give you more precise information,
if written in German language.

Nevertheless I try to explain something in English.

Teachers and practitioners need a thorough knowledge of English.
Very seldom this is the case - but only then, understanding is possible.

The third level of learning is through the “Qi Field“.
But please excuse me, I have my doubts, that it will work.

Do we have all we need, to read the information of the “Qi Field“?

“The human memory - the storage, how does it go ?“
Another post in this blog will tell you more.

My opinion is:

We need teachers or masters building bridges between
the cultures and knowing something from the different past.
Then perhaps we will understand each other and
be able to learn from each other.

Even in the western hemisphere we have problems
to understand each other. Similar history, sometimes
same language but different thinking and problems
between America and Europe.

Actually the teachers and masters are only Monkey Trainers.
Sometimes they only speak a Chinese language and
need a translator or only speak English and again:
only know the own culture and the own past,
unable to build bridges.

The result is:
level 1 - We learn the movements
level 2 - We only understand parts and often misunderstanding
level 3 - No information from the “Qi Field”.

Many practitioners know the movements of different levels
but haven't understood more and are unable to make progress.

Teaching and learning is at the lowest level - level 1.

Quantity is not quality – We need no more Monkey Trainers.

"Zhineng Qigong" - Level 1 - What's the reason for this practice ?

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Every human is born, with "Qi", but needs the information,
how to activate "Qi". Without knowing how to use the "switch",
it is like, you know nothing about your possibilities.

"Zhineng Qigong“ Level 1: "Lift Qi Up, Pour Qi Down"

Sense and purpose of these practices is to open and prepare
body and mind for "Qi", release used "Qi" and absorb fresh "Qi“.

"Zhineng Qigong" Level 1: "Three Centers Merge"
Absorb, merge and storage of "Qi" in the lower Dantian.

We learn how to use the "switch", on and off.

We learn how to lift „Qi“ up, pour "Qi" down,
absorb or release or merge "Qi".

If this has not be done, the practices of Level 2 are useless,
because we are not ready for "Qi".

"Zhineng Qigong" - Practising in the right speed

2012-05-02T14:24:00.004+02:00

The "Zhineng Qigong" practice can be done in different speeds.

You can practise as a group of beginners at a medium speed.
You can practise as a group of advanced students at a higher speed.
You can practise as a single practitioner in your own biological rhythm.

Last but not least the practice can be done in a very slow teacher speed,
so that it is possible, to see more from the movements for learning.

A beginner often has problems to make flowing movements.
A slow speed makes this nearly impossible for a beginner.
A high speed often has the result in losing contact with "Qi".

Therefore medium speed for beginners or
groups of students mostly is the best speed.

The very slow teacher speed is there only to show
the movements to students. A teacher should
be able to do that as flowing movements.

How shall "Qi" flow without flowing movements ?

Another mistake is if you want to feel "Qi" flowing.
Even advanced practitioners do not feel very often "Qi" flowing.

We use the very fine "Hunyuan-Qi" of the universe,
not the own personal "Qi" which is much thicker and tougher
and in most cases we feel the own personal "Qi"
not "Hunyuan-Qi" because it is too fine.

This is "Zhineng Qigong" with open not closed Qigong movements.
Even if "Qi" is more intense in slow movements, we do not feel the
flowing of "Qi", because we use "Hunyuan-Qi". We only feel that it works.

Slow motion speed for daily practising is wrong.

"Zhineng Qigong" - What can we achieve and what not ?

2012-05-02T14:23:00.001+02:00

It is the attempt, to make available "Qi Power", to learn,
to use it consciously and to do something with it.

Dr. Pang Ming studied and changed Qigong practices in the intention,
how to use "Qi" to influence body and mind, to use this power
for the healing of sick people without any delay.

"Zhineng Qigong" is the result of these attempts.

Instead of closed practices and movements of the ancient Qigong,
he used only open practices and movements and the result is
„Zhineng Qigong", the system of open practices.

The open Qigong practices already did exist, but not
as a special Qigong style of open practices and
movements and using the "Qi Power".

In the Center in China the effects have been proven and confirmed.

It is similar to the Placebo-Effect.

Negative surroundings have influence on the effects
and are able to change the result.

People having doubts about the effects, say this confirms it.
They feel they are right.

If you compare thoroughly, you will see the effects.

"Zhineng Qigong" works.