Earl Grey

Hi Earl Gray,

Welcome to the FP Qigong thread and thanks for sharing your background with everyone.  There's a lot of support available here on this forum from many FP practitioners besides my responses to questions and comments.

 

I hope you have great exploration of Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditations.  I kind of envy you as you're starting FP Qigong at such a nice young age.  I learned the system from GM Doo Wai when I was 37 to 41 years old.  But it feels like the timing and progression of all my personal training was pre-destined.

 

All the Best,

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

And I have often been reprimanded for believing I started late at the age of 28 in serious Taoist practice four years ago (or six if you include the two years my teachers made me sit before agreeing to teach me) compared to my peers who started as teens or prepubescents. Then I learned T.T. Liang I believe barely started at 40 and he became quite skilled and mastered Northern Mantis.

I tried the first standing meditation the other day and already saw some blue light on my fingertips. Wow. Haven't been able to continue unless at a friend's house because I live in front of the train station and my headphones are inadequate at canceling noise. Wow, I didn't realize how sensitive and irritable i can become at noise as has been mentioned here many times when doing form.

Hi from Manila, everyone.

I waded through this entire thread in about two-ish weeks, and it was worth it.

I spoke privately with Sifu Terry via email, and as I await the arrival of my contact this Sunday to bring me the six DVDs with FP, I feel Christmas is coming early for me as I add more knowledge to learn. Currently, I'm a young professional who did his time in the Peace Corps and in various NGOs in Southeast Asia. Naturally, the easiest way to stay grounded and to serve people beyond programs and funding was speaking to the heart through qigong. I am a private medical qigong therapist here and do Liuhebafa with Yi Quan (combined as Xin Yi) and Yang 108 Taiji, and have other skills such as Pranic Healing and Reiki, multiple practices in tarot and Sanskrit mantra, and am eager to learn alongside you, fellow students.

This reminds me of Zhuangzi saying that "a frog in a well can not conceive of the ocean". Poor Dr. Farias. Hope he works through his own issues before making his own psyche that which he projects onto us all.

Thanks for sharing this; gives me insight into possible future rhetoric from disinterested critics of the Way whom we may have to deal with soon. I will plan to prepare counterpoints, but hopefully, I can keep my patience and compassion because it irks me, but not as much as it saddens me to see this perpetuated through his authority.